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National Vegetarian Week - Nottingham

17-05-2009 13:25

Eat like You give a Damn

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EFSA's Review of Ramazzini's Second Aspartame Study Shows Sellout

17-05-2009 04:36

Influence and corruption by industry influencing the European Food Safety Authority's reviewing of damning research on aspartame? Read on and decide for yourself. Read what the real experts have to say!

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SHAC: Mad Science May - Week of Action

16-05-2009 19:38

www.shac.net/action/demos/MadScience/index.html
MAD SCIENCE MAY!
Monday 25th May - Sunday 31st May 2009

Mad Science May is all about protesting against companies who are funding cruel and unnecessary experiments inside HLS.

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Swine Flu and the Working Class

13-05-2009 21:57

Two weeks ago came the first news about an epidemic, known as "swine flu", appeared in Mexico; according to statements by the Mexican Minister of Health, it was a "highly contagious mutant virus” which had moved from pigs to humans.
The alert triggered in the U.S. and Europe was accompanied by the information that it was already responsible for 20 "confirmed" deaths with forty still being “verified”. Day after day these news have made the headlines in newspapers and on television.

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Proper Investigations into the Deaths of Mental Health Patients

12-05-2009 19:38

The Coroners and Justice Bill is currently going through Parliament. Inquests into the deaths of prisoners are currently automatically heard before juries, yet the new Bill seeks to abolish this. Inquests concerning the deaths of all people held in custody or state detention should be held before juries.

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Protest outside Indian Embassy in London 14th May 2 pm - on Civil Rights Record

12-05-2009 15:07

Since May 2007 award winning paediatrician and human rights activist, Binayak Sen has been held at Raipur Jail on false charges. Protest outside the High Commision of India, Aldwych.

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Busy Week for SHAC UK Demos

12-05-2009 04:35

Tuesday-Saturday last week (5th-9th) saw demonstrations in; Horsham, London, Portsmouth, Birmingham, Worcester, Cambridge, Luton and Birmingham. Targeting customers, investors and suppliers of HLS; Novartis, Legg Mason, Barclays (x9), Axa, Boicair, Staples, Sigma Aldrich and BNY Mellon.

The special occasion? Closing down HLS!

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Veggie Pride UK press release

12-05-2009 00:09

This coming Saturday (16th May 2009) a totally unique event will take place in Birmingham City Centre. Veggie Pride UK will be a celebration of vegetarian and vegan lifestyles and will feature a fantastic festival and vibrant carnival procession. For more details, see  http://www.veggiepride.org.uk or see our press release below.

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Swine Flu - Could it be a synthetic creation?

11-05-2009 08:58

Swine flu panic is spreading accross the world and soldiers are patrolling the streets in some countries after it was confirmed that human to human transmission is occurring and that the virus is a brand new strain which is a never-before-seen intercontinental mixture of human, avian and pig viruses from America, Europe and Asia. Clues that the virus may be a synthetic creation are already manifesting.

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The Philippine Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is not safe.

08-05-2009 01:55

The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is not safe, not economically sound, not insurable, not sustainable. It is tainted with corruption.

Statement Calling for Rejection of the Proposal to Recommission the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant

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Eleven Bridges by Which Flu and Other Pig Diseases Can Walk Fly Or Swim To Human

02-05-2009 20:49

exposing the Roche Glaxo World Health Organization disinformation
campaign which attempts to obscure the disease generation of factory
farms

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An Alternative Explanation for the "Health Emergency" in Mexico

01-05-2009 05:39

A virus is a terrible thing to waste.

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Dialect - Swine flu media frenzy - WHO's snouts are in the trough?

01-05-2009 01:20

Audio
plus this week - "A Sustainable home is one you can afford to stay in".
Dialect Radio is a Bristol (UK) internet broadcasting Co-operative run by volunteers. Our main activity is our weekly current affairs and arts magazine programme Dialect, which is recorded at our Queen's Square studios and posted for download every weekend. Want to volunteer? Volunteering Bristol, Royal Oak House, Royal Oak Avenue, Bristol. BS1 4GB Tel: 0117 989 7733. Listen on air: 93.2 FM (BCFM), Saturdays 9pm & Sundays 7pm  http://www.bcfm.org.uk/

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ALF Bomb Hoax for World Week for Laboratory Animals

30-04-2009 19:17

Communiqué from the Animal Liberation Front
Date: April 29, 2009
Institution Targeted: UCLA Primate Vivisection

Received anonymously:

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Legendary Ska@ the Navi Nottingham for Prisoner support, nr the Irish centre

29-04-2009 12:16

Skaville UK present a benefit for the Vegan Prisoner Support Group (VPSG)@ The Navigation, Wilford Street, Nottm
Inner Terrestrials, 4 support bands & DJ's.
""A 4 year old boy, who survived the illness, has emerged as Mexico's earliest known case of the never-before-seen virus. He lived near a factory pig farm run by a U.S.-Mexican company, Granjas Carroll, in the municipality of Perote, in Veracruz.""

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Abseil blockade of nuclear waste train in Germany

29-04-2009 12:13

An abseiling 27-year-old female activist from France held up a train carrying over 1000 tonnes of 'depleted' uranium through a densely populated region of Germany for two hours on Monday 27 April, the day after the 23rd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster - the world's worst ever civil nuclear accident.

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World Day for Lab Animals March in Chile

28-04-2009 17:25

Saturday, 25th April: About 500 people marched in the centre of Santiago against vivisection. The march started with a performance that represented a person wounded by vivisectors, expressing how people and humans suffer and feel the same.

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Capitalism and Public health

28-04-2009 14:17

The industrial production of disease in a globalised economy is the result of competing economic priorities. Efforts toward the privatisation of Water in Mexico and the Industrial Waste Habits of Multinational Swine Producers join up with cheap air travel to promote global ill health.

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Sick Factory Farming and The Flu Pandemic

28-04-2009 08:50

The sickening conditions for animals reared in factory farms are yet again implicated as the being at the festering center of the rapidly spreading fatal flu pandemic.
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