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Israel: “How Goodly Are Thy Tents”

07-08-2011 20:25

FIRST OF all, a warning.

Tent cities are springing up all over Israel. A social protest movement is gathering momentum. At some point in the near future, it may endanger the right-wing government.

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Trouble sparks in Enfield tonight

07-08-2011 19:55

Around 7pm this evening reports are coming in that there has been trouble in Enfield, North London continuing on from last nights disturbances in Tottenham. A police car and shop windows have been smashed up. Police in riot gear are around the area and talk of a large crowd hanging around.

This is folowing some incidences in Brixton after the Splash festival was ending, where there was a strong police presence.

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Indignados Demonstrate in Madrid Against Police Violence

07-08-2011 18:55

The "indignados" movement in Spain continues. In Madrid's Puerta del Sol, the police last week evicted an information stall that remained in the place where the first Assemblies took place. In response, up to 800 people concentrated there and faced a violent police charge.

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Further disturbances in London

07-08-2011 18:45

Shop windows and police car attacked in Enfield

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Urges For Fair War Crimes Trials in Bangladesh

07-08-2011 18:27

I am very much concern about the accused the right to the presumption of innocence, a fair and public hearing with counsel of their choice and the possibility of bail.



Recently the British barrister Toby Cadman has been refused by the Bangladesh government to enter into Bangladesh that raises a question about the impartiality of the government towards the free and fair trial.



I highly condemn regarding autocratic attitude of the government towards the human rights lawyer Toby Cadman.

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UG#562 - Our Biggest Enemy is Ourselves (Deschooling Society 1)

07-08-2011 18:20

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This week we look at the need to deschool ourselves both as individuals and collectively, by relying more on our own wits and those of our personal contacts and less on the dying impersonal centralised institutions which dominated 20th century developed life. The title is a quote from an extended interview with John Taylor Gatto, which we follow by reading the first chapter of Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society.

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EF! Summer Gathering Site Number

07-08-2011 17:24

The Gathering set up has begun, if you can come down and help before Wednesday that would be grand.

Site phone number 1 is 07551689365 or try number 2 on 07866797016.

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Gaza Children's Artwork on Display in Chester: 'Loss of Innocence'

07-08-2011 16:15

'Loss of Innocence: An Exhibition of Children's Art from Gaza' was on display in Chester city centre on Saturday 6 August as part of Palestine Day events. This report includes photos of some of the children's pictures on display in the exhibition.

More information and photos of the day here:
 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/08/483081.html

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Solidarity demo at Colnbrook

07-08-2011 15:55

Anti-detention campaigners on Friday held a small, but noisy, protest at Colnbrook immigration prison, near Heathrow airport, where two migrant prisoners apparently killed themselves in less than a month. With a megaphone, whistles, a vuvuzela and pots and pans, they made themselves heard to the migrants locked up in Colnbrook, as well as in the adjacent Harmondsworth. Detainees shouted back 'freedom, freedom' and other angry, desperate slogans.

On 31st July, a 25-year-old man in Colnbrook reportedly killed himself. No details or hard facts are known yet. The Home Office is claiming that he died of 'natural causes' but fellow detainees told campaigners he committed suicide after becoming “very distressed.”

Less than a month before, on 2nd July, another Colnbrook detainee, Muhammed Shuket from Pakistan, died on the way to hospital after he apparently tried to hang himself. Again, the Home Office refused to reveal any details and promised “an inquest in due course.”

Earlier this week, on 2nd August, a 35-year-old man locked up in Campsfield immigration prison in Oxfordshire was also found dead. According to other detainees, the Moldovian national was about to be deported and hanged himself in the toilet. (see  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/02/asylum-seeker-dead-campsfield)

The three deaths bring the number of people who have died in UK immigration prisons over the last few years to 16. These crimes should stop and the only way to do that is to close down all immigration prisons and stop forcibly deporting people who have come here to seek refuge and safety.

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ATOS Worker - Sick are "Parasitical Wankers"

07-08-2011 12:57

Anthony Treasure (Tony Treasure) from Castleford, Wakfield speaks out about his job de-benefitting the sick and disabled.

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Nottinghamshire Pride 2011

07-08-2011 09:55

On Saturday July 30th, Nottingham’s LGBT community and others gathered for Nottinghamshire (no longer merely Nottingham) Pride. This year, the march preceding the main festivities went from Market Square to the Forest Rec.

On the newswire: Nottinghamshire Pride 2011 | Notts Uncut Newsletter – The Pride Edition!

Previous Coverage: Pride 2010 | Pride 2009 | ‘My Big Gay’ LGBT Nottingham photo | Pride 2008: 1 | 2 | Nottingham Gay Rainbow Heritage Exhibition | Pride 2007: 1 | 2 | Pride 2006: 1 | 2 | Pride 2005: 1 | 2 | Pride 2004

Prevented from marching down Mansfield Road by the ongoing gasworks, the march made its way through various back streets. Despite the bizarre route, the procession was well attended and colourful, with the usual mix of drag queens, young people and marching band supplemented by assorted local dignitaries.

Despite its obvious popularity, the event has clearly had the same problems with funding affecting so many of Nottingham’s cultural events (see also carnival, now reduced to one day, and Mela which has been assimilated into the Riverside Festival). This may go some way to explaining the prominence of corporate sponsors including EOn.

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Anti-cuts stall in Chester

07-08-2011 09:21

A few photos from the Cheshire West Against the Cuts' stall in Chester on 6 August.

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Palestine Day and Hiroshima Day in Chester

07-08-2011 08:52

Palestine Day poster
A Day for Palestine was held in Chester Town Hall Square on Saturday 6 August. Taking up most of the square, three large gazebos housed film screenings, an art display and a stall for Palestine as well as an anti-nuclear stall for Hiroshima Day and, for the hour or so I was there, the whole event was attracting lots of interest from both locals and tourists.

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EDF gets green light to trash 400 acres of greenfield land in Somerset

07-08-2011 07:04

The land EDF plans to trash (D. Viesnik)
EDF Energy (the UK subsidiary of Electricite de France) has been granted permission by West Somerset District Council to trash over 400 of acres of beautiful greenfield coastal land at Hinkley Point, which sits within the Bridgwater Bay National Nature Reserve, overlooking the Severn Estuary RAMSAR site.

EDF plans to uproot all the trees and vegetation, which provide important habitats for birds, bats, mammals and other precious flora and fauna. It also plans to dig up more soil and rock than was done for the preparation of the London 2012 Olympic site. And all of this before EDF has even submitted an application to the Infrastructure Planning Commission for its planned new nu-killer power station. But worry ye not, because EDF says that if it doesn't get permission to build its new nu-killer reactor (or if it changes its mind for economic or other reasons), then it will restore the land to its former glory.

More photos of the beautiful land EDF wants to trash here:  http://tinyurl.com/44e8vow

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Comic strip against violence

07-08-2011 04:40

5 page comic strip that looks at levels and attitudes towards violence in the UK and USA, comparing with Japan.

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Tottenham Burning

07-08-2011 02:55

Tottenham riot photos

Non-corporate/eye-witness photos from the Tottenham riots tonight.

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Tottenham rioting after police shooting demo

07-08-2011 00:55

Tottenham broke out in riots this evening after a protest of 150 people outside the police station against the police shooting of local man Mark Duggan on Thursday night near the Broadwater Farm estate. The riots went on for some hours and have now moved off the main road into the side streets as locals gather to watch and join in the trouble. The area is now swarming with police vans with riot cops trying to clear the area but general confusion reigns about what is going on. A few shops, a bus and a bank were set alight and talk of some cop cars set alight.

Police horses chasing kids up and down Seven Sisters Road, 25 years to the day from the Tottenham riots of '85. With a Carnival in Brixton tomorrow there is talk on twitter of this spreading. More to come

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Free 'Give and Take' stall in Chester now open every day

06-08-2011 23:01

back in January, just one counter
Visiting Chester on Saturday for Palestine Day and the anniversary of Hiroshima, and what turned out also to be anti-cuts day, I paid a visit to the Free Stall in Chester indoor market which in just a few months has grown from one counter to a full size stall and is now open all week. Every market should have one!

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LUC Skill Share Report

06-08-2011 22:03

A report of the first Lincoln Underground Collective Skill Share at the Jolly Brewer, Lincoln on 31st July 2011.

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Frack Off! 500 ft high Banner Drop Off Blackpool Tower

06-08-2011 10:43

Blackpool Tower 1
Early Saturday morning anti-fracking [1] campaigners climbed 500 feet to hang two banners [2] from the iconic Blackpool Tower raising awareness about the dangers of hydraulic fracturing for shale gas spreading to the UK. The two climbers was were later arrested by police when they descended, but not before having their lives risked by Blackpool Tower workers who attacked them with a pressure washer while they dangled hundreds of feet above the ground.
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