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06-03-2009 13:29

Around the campaigns Friday 6th March 2009

Asylum man in rooftop stand off
A Nigerian asylum seeker staged an eight-hour rooftop protest after immigration officers turned up at his family home early yesterday. Steve Umoru, 43, clambered through a skylight window and then scrambled along the roofs on Dodworth Road.
Full article: Adam Civico and Kate Pickles, The Barnsley Chronicle, Friday 06/03/09
 http://www.barnsley-chronicle.co.uk/news/2,0000,2606.html

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05-03-2009 14:16

Blacklist of building workers seized

Data raid seizes 'blacklist' of 3,200 construction workers

5 March, 2009

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05-03-2009 10:52

ant the police bullshit meter just keeps on rising

""Still think that if you're innocent, you have nothing to fear from surveillance and control laws? Have a look at this news-video about Stephen Clarke, a man who was accused to taking pictures of sewer-gratings in Manchester and arrested. Though the police couldn't find any photos of sewer-gratings on his phone (and even though "what a sewer grating looks like" isn't a piece of specialized terrorist intelligence), he was held on suspicion of planning an act of terror, imprisoned for two days while the police searched his home, his phone and his computer. When they couldn't find anything suspicious, they released him, but kept his DNA on file, as the biometric of someone who had been accused of plotting a terrorist act. ""

 http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/manchester-man-arres.html

also read down about the what happen to me peace at the bottom

 http://ministryofparanoia.com/2008/my-arrest-story/

the double police bullshit story, just who are they employing !!!.

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04-03-2009 19:29

Update on Shell's plans in Mayo, Ireland & how you can help

We can win but we need you! Shell will attempt to lay the offshore pipe this Spring and preparation work both on land and at sea is due to start in the next few weeks. We are determined to stop this preparation work and so people are needed from mid-March - May. We expect Shell to begin putting up security fences and building the compound very soon, possibly in the next days/ weeks...updates to follow

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03-03-2009 19:48

Students highlight Fruit of the Loom connection to death threats

Students outside Fruit of the Loom Today students from across the UK gathered outside the entrance to Fruit of the Loom’s UK headquarters in Telford. They were protesting about worker repression at a Honduran factory where trade unionists face death threats, targeted dismissal and the eventual closure of their factory.

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03-03-2009 16:27

Students at The University of Birmingham hit Natwest again

students drawing their message Just a week after the last action on campus, students at the University of Birmingham protest outside Natwest again, continuing their campaign against the dirty investments which the bank are addicted to.

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03-03-2009 16:23

W. Mids coach transport to World Day for Animals in Laboratories

To mark World Day for Animals in Laboratories, campaigners from all over the UK & beyond will be gathering in London on Saturday 25th April to call for an end to animal experiments. Following a march from Hyde Park through the centre of London, we will hold a rally at Parliament to protest against the government`s pro-vivisection policies.

This is expected to be the biggest anti-vivisection demo in the UK for many years. See  http://www.wdail.org for full details.

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02-03-2009 16:27

Crufts Arrangments

6 Days to go

Here is The Plan

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02-03-2009 13:47

Irish Women Campaign forTruth & Justice

Public Meetings - Justice for the Ballymurphy 11

Birmingham Trade Union Council Thursday 5th March 7.30pm
Council House, Victoria Square, City Centre B1 1BB

Coventry Trade Union Council Saturday 7th March 1.00pm
Four Provinces Social Club 19 Allesley Old Road CV5 8BU

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02-03-2009 09:45

Irish Women Campaign for Truth & Justice

Public Meetings - Justice for the Ballymurphy 11

Birmingham Trade Union Council Thursday 5th March 7.30pm
Council House, Victoria Square, City Centre B1 1BB

Coventry Trade Union Council Saturday 7th March 1.00pm
Four Provinces Social Club 19 Allesley Old Road CV5 8BU

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28-02-2009 10:52

Maqbool Butt Day

Maqbool Butt A public meeting commemorating martyrdom of Maqbool Bhat, a socialist Kashmiri freedom fighter and leader and screening of a short documentary, Che of Kashmir, based on his life and cause.

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28-02-2009 08:12

Action Against Judicial Corruption & Institutional Failures in the UK

Demonstration against Judicial Corruption, Unlawful Imprisonments, Convention Rights Violations, Institutional Failures and unaccountability in the UK; weekly every Saturday outside HMP Wormwood Scrubs, Du Cane Road, London W12 0AE; commencing from 12pm until 3pm.

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26-02-2009 16:12

Cowley ~ LDV - Things Likely To Get Awkward For The Awkward Squad

Picket with some of the sacked Temporary workers Carworkers – Sackings, layoffs and closures
A contrast between the state of art, modern BMW Cowley plant at Oxford and Birmingham’s dilapidated LDV plant at Washwood Heath

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25-02-2009 14:34

Further blows to Togmocracy!

Magistrates acceptance of YouTube shy Police deleting pictures from citizens mobile phones and cash strapped Celebrity togs head down the 'Nobs We Like' pawn shop.

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23-02-2009 19:40

BMW Workers Self-Organising Against Bosses and Sellout Union

At 6 am this morning there was a small picket in response to the lay off of 850 agency workers, outside two gates of BMW's mini car plant in Cowley, Oxford. We were expecting a mass picket of laid off temp workers. These workers have been self-organising against their bosses and the corrupt union leaders who've essentially sold them out.

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23-02-2009 13:33

Film & Short update on outcomes of Birmingham University occupation

This article has been reposted because the original film wasn't entirely uploaded via ftp. The full film should now be viewable.

The occupation at the University of Birmingham ended on 20th January on the same day it started when the occupiers decided to leave after two shifts of university security and 30 police besieged the building that evening.

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23-02-2009 12:08

PHILIPPINES: Scrap the Visiting Forces Agreement now!

The secret Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) document exposed by Sen. Joker Arroyo is the latest in a string of arguments to hang the iniquitous agreement. The secret document is an insult that adds to the injury of Daniel Smith’s contempt of our justice system.

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21-02-2009 08:19

Public Action Against Judicial Corruption & Institutional Failures in the UK

Demonstration against Judicial Corruption, Unlawful Imprisonments, Convention Rights Violations, Institutional Failures and unaccountability in the UK; Every Week outside HMP WORMWOOD SCRUBS, DU CANE ROAD, LONDON W12 0AE; Commencing 12pm - 3pm.

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20-02-2009 21:10

Viva Palestina caravan has reached Morocco.

“Just driven at 40mph through the streets of Tangier. Crowds of people lined the route cheering, giving victory signs and waving. Amazing!” - george galloway

A fellow pilgrim adds:

“The feeling is immense peace, love, respect and humbleness. The people here are true brothers welcoming us with food, love and hospitality. When the convoy got off the ferry from Spain to Tangier the whole convoy group joined together in one big Jummat.”

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20-02-2009 20:50

The Roots of Hatred in the Zionist Ideology


In 1939 Europe turned a blind eye to the rise of Nazism. The British foreign minister Neville Chamberlain believed that a policy of appeasement would work with Hitler; it did not. Hitler attacked Poland, giving the world a costly lesson - a policy of appeasement does not work with fascism. The outcome is well known: Europe was ruined and around 50 million lost their lives. Yet thanks to the Norwegian "home front" resistance, Hitler was deprived of the heavy water needed for manufacturing the nuclear bomb; had he acquired enough material to do so, the history of humanity might have been dramatically different to that which we know.

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