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11-09-2006 22:11

Personal Experience of the Climate Change Camp

The article gives impressions of what the climate change camp was like as a performer, workshop leader, and participant of workshops.

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11-09-2006 05:23

Inquests into 3 deaths in Immigration Detention

Manuel Pereira Bravo, from Angola - found dead at Yarl's Wood, 15th September 20 There have been 10 deaths in Immigration Removal centres in the last six years.

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10-09-2006 12:38

Local Exchange & Trading Schemes (LETS) Across the UK

The local exchange and trading systems or schemes operate all over the UK, generating goodwill and revitalizing communities while offering services to those in need regardless of circumstance.

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08-09-2006 17:27

12 Deaths in Immigration Custody

NCADC has obtained the information below under the Freedom of Information Act.

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08-09-2006 14:20

Children Calling Yarl's Wood IRC 'Home'

The Bikounga family Children calling Yarl's Wood IRC 'home' - Are Britain's Youngest Prisoners becoming Institutionalized?

When children behind the wire start to call Yarl's Wood IRC 'home' it clearly shows that their perception of living in Yarl's Wood, is that they have lived there a long time.

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07-09-2006 16:23

22 Iraqi Kurds detained today

Today, 22 Iraqi Kurds were detained at mainly reporting centres across the UK with plans to forcibly deport them next week to Northern Iraq in another high profile, media event. This follows the forced deportation two days ago of 32 Iraqi Kurds. The government is clearly now going for it big style on mass deportations.

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07-09-2006 02:47

BEYOND PROPAGANDA: Climate Change, BP Greenwash And The Press

On May 25, one of us spent several minutes laughing on the phone with a friend of ours, an environmental journalist. We were looking at the homepage of the Independent website - a newspaper that has made huge efforts to present itself as a radical campaigning force for action on climate change. A February 17 news report, for example, was titled: 'Greenhouse gases are already past threshold that spells disaster.' A May 4 article read: 'Global warming fastest for 20,000 years - and it is mankind's fault.'

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06-09-2006 18:41

Malik Must Stay Campaign

At sentencing the judge imposed a term of imprisonment for the offence but also recommended that Malik should be deported, as his presence in the UK was 'not conducive to the public good'. Malik accepted and served the prison sentence for the offence but does not accept the recommendation to deport and is appealing against it.

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06-09-2006 08:56

Home Secretary resumes forced removals to Iraq

John Reid's vow to get tough on unwanted asylum seekers become a reality for 32 Iraqi/Kurds, who were forcibly removed from the UK yesterday. Amidst what one national paper reported as "carnage with blood on the walls" as 15 of those to be removed self-harmed in a desperate attempt to remain in the UK.

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04-09-2006 14:36

Birmingham, Alabama Food Not Bombs faces Termination in U.S.

This is the email sent to the Food Not Bombs list

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02-09-2006 11:27

Mikey Powell 3rd Anniversary event

3rd Anniversary event in memory of Mikey Powell, who died in police custody September 7th 2003.

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31-08-2006 14:52

NO DEPORTATIONS TO IRAQ! LEAVE TO REMAIN NOW!

PICKET OF THE HOME OFFICE - TUESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER, 12-2 PM

Called by COALITION TO STOP DEPORTATIONS TO IRAQ and INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF IRAQI REFUGEES

Show your opposition to Blair and Reid’s policy of deporting vulnerable people to dangerous countries! Support the efforts to stop forced removals to Iraq!

The Home Office has detained many Iraqi Kurds, perhaps 60, and some have been told they will be removed on 5 September. We believe there are also some Arab Iraqis in detention. All over Britain Iraqis are living in fear of a dawn raid on their home, or of arrest at their place of work or when they go to report at the Home Office signing centre. They fear losing even the precarious position they have found in British society.

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31-08-2006 13:23

The So-Called Voluntary Return

1,900 asylum seekers were removed under Assisted Voluntary Return schemes (1,635 principal applicants and 270 dependants), 38% of the 5,070 total removed in May/June/July 2006.

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30-08-2006 15:15

Events around Palestine

Important public meeting on Palestine

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29-08-2006 13:52

How to Organise a Major Terrorist Scare

How easy is it to organise a major terrorist scare like the one that’s currently gridlocking the world’s airports? Dead easy. If you follow a few simple points you can panic the populace and stampede the media with virtually no risk of getting caught. All it takes is a little confidence.

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29-08-2006 01:03

LOOK WHAT 'THEY' DID! JUST LOOK AND DON'T BREATHE!

The once beautiful Lebanon Look at it! Look at it! Look at it! What? The map of Lebanon. 'They dump the old weapons and test the new weapons'...

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27-08-2006 21:12

Urgent: 40+ Asylum Seekers to be Deported Back to Iraq on 5 Sep

40+ Iraqi Kurds, locked up in Colnbrook detention centre near Heathrow, have received letters from the Home Office saying they will be forcefully removed to Northern Iraq on 5th September, 2006. Unconfirmed reports have it that there will be a 'charter flight' from Stanstead airport on that day.

The letters, in Kurdish, said that, when returned, deportees will receive a $100 'assistance' as well as accommodation for one month only. The faild Iraqi asylum seekers had been asked to sign 'voluntary return' agreements with the IOM but had refused to do so. There is also unconfirmed news that other Iraqis will be deported tomorrow, August 28th.

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27-08-2006 12:33

Fred Grove - victim of redevelopment

Fred Grove WRONG SAID FRED – CAMPAIGN LATEST
22-07-2006

Bizarre goings-on in Birmingham this week as pensioner Fred Grove stepped up his campaign against eviction.

Fred has been served with a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) on his canalside cottage in the Vauxhall area of the city, because he stands in the way of “progress.”

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26-08-2006 15:44

Wholesale of Community Spaces Continue as Construction of New Buildings Halt

Birmingham City Council have auctioned and sold community buildings all over the city, while the number of newly built community and social buildings has dropped to a shameful zero.

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26-08-2006 06:09

Anti-Deportation Picket in Solihull

Like on every last Friday of the past few months, a picket was held yesterday at the immigration reporting centre in Solihull. The 'theme' for this month was "stop racist deportations!" Many of the 'usual faces' could not make it down (was it due to the Climate Change Camp, the newly occupied Cottage Social Centre or, perhaps, summer holidays?), so the turn-up was less than in previous month and the demo less lively. But the 'pitch' still looked crowded as bigger-than-normal numbers of asylum seekers had to sign on on that day due to the Bank Holiday on Monday.

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