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Zaoatista orisoner suffering political persecution

25-08-2012 15:58

This article from Mexico's La Jornada newspaper summarises a report released by a Human Rights centre cataloguing political persecution.


see  http://sanmarcosavilesen.wordpress.com/francisco/

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From Bristol With Love #25

25-08-2012 08:35

From Bristol with Love is a showcase for local music, local news and new forms of local thinking.

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Free Soup for the Revolution - FnB gig

24-08-2012 19:53

Free Soup for the Revolution
Food not Bombs benefit gig @ Ort Cafe, Basall Heath Saturday, 1 September, 19:00 until 23:00 Entry: Suggested donation £2.00

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Worldwide Declaration in support of the Zapatistas

24-08-2012 15:48

WORLDWIDE ECHO FOR FREEDOM AND JUSTICE FOR SAN MARCOS AVILÉS AND FRANCISCO SÁNTIZ LÓPEZ: DECLARATION IN SUPPORT OF THE ZAPATISTAS IN CHIAPAS, MEXICO

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Oven Ready Humans

24-08-2012 14:55

Earlier today, activists from Derby Animal Rights engaged with Saturday shoppers outside the Guildhall meat and fish market in the centre of Derby, discussing the controversial issue of animal agriculture. In addition to an information stall, two activists were naked, wrapped in meat packaging and labelled up as "oven ready humans", drawing attention to the often overlooked reality that trays of sanitized and unrecognisable flesh in a shop chiller were once living, feeling individuals. There was a blood spattered butcher wielding a cleaver to highlight the inherent violence of the industry and a hard hitting narrative delivered over a megaphone.

Earlier today, activists from Derby Animal Rights engaged with Saturday shoppers outside the Guildhall meat and fish market in the centre of Derby, discussing the controversial issue of animal agriculture. In addition to an information stall, two activists were naked, wrapped in meat packaging and labelled up as "oven ready humans", drawing attention to the often overlooked reality that trays of sanitized and unrecognisable flesh in a shop chiller were once living, feeling individuals. There was a blood spattered butcher wielding a cleaver to highlight the inherent violence of the industry and a hard hitting narrative delivered over a megaphone.
The veggie campaigners distributed leaflets from various animal rights organisations such as Animal Aid (www.animalaid.org.uk) and Viva (www.viva.org.uk), whose undercover investigations have revealed widespread malpractice and brutality in the farming industry.

In the UK alone, 850 million animals and hundreds of millions of fish are killed every year to put meat on tables - that's more than three million animals a day. Before they are slaughtered, hundreds of millions lead desolate, disease-ridden lives on factory farms.
Rainforests are cleared for grazing; methane from livestock causes global warming; soil is eroded by cattle; slurry poisons waterways; and the seas are laid to waste by overfishing. The global appetite for meat and the industrial techniques of the meat industry are destroying the Earth.
Further, while 750 million people go to bed hungry every night, one-third of the world's grain is fed to farmed animals... A typical Western meat-based diet can only feed 2.5 billion people: a plant-based diet will feed every one of us.
Also worth noting is that Vegetarians live longer and suffer less from diseases such as hypertension, obesity, coronary artery disease, certain kinds of cancer and diabetes...

It was Sir Paul McCartney who first observed "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian" (see www.meat.org for more from this British music legend). On the evidence of today's Derby Animal Rights initiative, it seems he was right. The response from the public was generally very positive, several pledging to permanently give up meat after seeing pictures from behind the scenes of its production.

There were also petitions against the selling of kangaroo meat by Lidl, and of course against the widely hated plans to build the biggest factory farm the UK has yet seen, in Foston, just up the road.

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Breivik the Masonic killer & his EDL mentor Paul Ray protected by Norwegian cops

24-08-2012 12:22

Breivik in his Masonic religious cult outfit
Don't mention the freemasons! Seriously though not a single of the 2.5 thousand or so English language mainstream media articles today mentions the fact that Breivik was a member of this religious cult.

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anarchist POW Gabriel Pombo da Silva on Operation Ardire (Germany, Italy)

24-08-2012 11:05

letter from prison of Aachen, Germany, from anarchist prisoner Gabriel Pombo da Silva on the anti-Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI) "operation ardire" conducted by Bologna prosecutor Manuela Comodi, for which he is investigated // more info on operation ardire here:  http://325.nostate.net/?tag=operation-ardire // more letters from Gabriel here:  http://325.nostate.net/?tag=gabriel-pombo-da-silva

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Letter from Mario "el Tripa" Lopez, captured anarchist fighter (Mexico)

24-08-2012 10:54

viva la anarquia
letter from Mario Lopez, anarchist insurrectionary prisoner, Mexico // more info here: http://325.nostate.net/?tag=mario-antonio-lopez-fernandez and here:  http://solidaridadmario.espivblogs.net/ (SPANISH LANGUAGE) // fire to the prisons

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Man who armed Black Panthers was FBI informant, records show

24-08-2012 10:40

The man who gave the Black Panther Party some of its first firearms and weapons training – which preceded fatal shootouts with Oakland police in the turbulent 1960s – was an undercover FBI informer, according to a former bureau agent and an FBI report.

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insurrectionary news (global)

24-08-2012 10:36

aftermath of ccf/fai-mexico attack
fifth communique from "Conspiracy of Cells of Fire / FAI - Mexico" claiming responsibility for coordinated arson attacks in Apodaca, Nuevo León, and Puebla, State of Puebla, against Plásticos Viga company and the Museum of the Mexican Revolution // claim by "Friends of the Earth / FAI" for arson attack on FIAT car showroom in Buenos Aires, Argentina // "FAI/IRF - Unit: ‘Fire to sweatshops’" claim for arson of headquarters of Trastor real estate investment company, Athens, Greece // windows of olympic sponsors Lloyds TSB and Thomas Cook smashed in Bristol, Uk // many tires slashed in solidarity with Pacific North West (USA) grand jury resisters, Paris France // imprisoned eco-anarchist Marco Camenisch declares hunger strike, Swiss

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Another secretive European police working group revealed as governments remain tight-lipped on other police networks and the activities of Mark Kennedy

24-08-2012 10:01

Research by Statewatch has reveal the existence of a previously unknown international police working group geared towards discussing and developing covert investigative techniques. At the same time parliamentary questions in Germany have seen further details of other police networks emerge - although many questions remain unanswered - in particular on the work and activities of former policy infiltrator Mark Kennedy

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Urgent! Russian antifascist arrested in Madrid!!

24-08-2012 08:47

Russian writer and antifascist Pjotr Silajev is still arrested in Madrid. Silajev had been granted a political asylum in Finland early this year. The Finnish embassy in Madrid has said that Silajev can be kept arrested for 40 days!

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Manufacture of components used to fire cluster munitions challenged in court

23-08-2012 22:45

Two anti-militarist activists were found guilty of aggravated trespass in Brighton today. The pair had glued themselves to the gates of the EDO MBM factory in the early hours of 27th April 2011 in protest at the sale of umbilical cables for use in Afghanistan and also to the Israeli military.

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Is West Nile Virus In The US Really Mad Cow?

23-08-2012 20:32

Stanley Prusiner, Nobel winning discoverer of Mad Cow prions
Pictures are of Stanley Prusiner, Nobel winning discoverer of the prions in Mad Cow and of Howard Lyman, who was twice sued by the Texas cattle industry and twice won in court.
The article describes the conspiracy of silence in the US re Mad Cow, Mad Pig and the other spongiform encephalopathy diseases.

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UK media lines up behind campaign to extradite Assange and silence WikiLeaks

23-08-2012 19:47

The British media has played a venal role throughout the ongoing efforts to witch-hunt and silence WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. But it has plumbed new depths following the decision by Ecuador to grant his request for political asylum.

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Smash EDO blockaders found guillty, appeal planned

23-08-2012 18:10

Smash EDO Press Release

Two anti-militarist activists were found guilty of aggravated trespass in Brighton today. The pair had glued themselves to the gates of the EDO MBM factory in the early hours of 27th April 2011 in protest at the sale of bomb rack umbilical cables called Field Replaceable Connector Systems (FRCS) for use on US warplanes and also to the Israeli military.

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The pursuit of Julian Assange is an assault on freedom and a mockery of journalism

23-08-2012 18:01

The British government's threat to invade the Ecuadorean embassy in London and seize Julian Assange is of historic significance. David Cameron, the former PR man to a television industry huckster and arms salesman to sheikdoms, is well placed to dishonour international conventions that have protected Britons in places of upheaval. Just as Tony Blair's invasion of Iraq led directly to the acts of terrorismin London on 7 July 2005, so Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague have compromised the safety of British representatives across the world.

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News from the Squat frontlines,Law change comes in Sept 1st

23-08-2012 17:23

News from the Squat frontlines,Law change comes in Sept 1st

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Tory Cllr & Cameron Balloons Boss' Leaked Letter Detailing Party Corruption

23-08-2012 10:07

Don Cameron says what others dare not - Corrupt Tory disciplinary procedure
The other Cameron, Don Cameron of Cameron Balloons fame, says something is rotten at the heart of the Tory Party and he explains why in detail.
This letter was sent to all members of Liam Fox MP's Constituency party, the North Somerset Conservative Association (NSCA) and was not reported by Northcliffe owned Bristol local paper The Post or their regional Western Daily Press. The owners of these newspapers are Tory party loyalists so perhaps this is why no reporting from thenm on this deadly serious matter of public interest and democratic accountability. However Northcliffe editors and managers work to different criteria of Economic Determinism.
The BBC however did report on the letter: 21st August 2012, Portishead Conservative councillor labels party untrustworthy  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-19331985

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Badger Trust public meeting

23-08-2012 08:55


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