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PEACE ACTIVISTS NOW TARGET WAR PROFITEERS

06-08-2003 08:58

Leading anti-war groups and prominent activists sign on to campaign
challenging "second invasion" of Iraq by corporate interests

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Is Local Government Oppressive?

06-08-2003 08:35

Council officers, housing assosiation officers, consultants, regeneration administrators, senior Government Office for Merseyside civil servants, regeneration agencies, property developers and private-public sector agencies are the “dominant culture” at local and central government level.

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pResident Bush & his Dad are both card carrying cowards. It's in their blood.

06-08-2003 03:36

Papa Bush, like his stupid, monkey-faced son, was also a coward. Now we know
where pResident George got his yellow streak: it's in his genes.

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ISM reports: List Of 45 International Activists Detained

06-08-2003 03:24

latest info on mass detainees of non violent activists in the west bank

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Impeach Bush

06-08-2003 01:27

Impeach Bush
Impeach Bush (and remove Blair).

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Killings continue in DRC

06-08-2003 01:03

Killings continue in the Congo!
And for those of you “between actions” or “just resting darling!” there’s an online petition to sign about the Democratic Republic of Congo at  http://web.amnesty.org/pages/cod-040803-petition-eng

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Life is Cheap In indonesia

06-08-2003 00:39

Major General Adam R. Damiri convicted on charges of crimes against humanity by a Jakarta human rights court, has been sentenced to 3 years in prison and remains free pending appeal. “A sham” says Human Rights Watch.

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Get into the Hutton inquiry - demand the truth.

05-08-2003 23:39

Get into to the Hutton inquiy.

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Man jailed for linking to bomb sites

05-08-2003 22:39

A US federal judge sentenced a man to a year in prison on Monday for creating an anarchist Web site with links to sites on how to build bombs.

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Placanica

05-08-2003 21:16

do you remember the policeman Placanica?

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Arms dealing

05-08-2003 16:37

The arms trade has disastrous impacts the world over, and has even managed to show its ugly head in Oxford in the guise of the Said Business school. Oxford Universities new Business school opened in 2001 was mostly funded by Wafiq Said, a Syrian with links to arms dealing who fronted £20 million of the £45 million needed to build the school.

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Barclays Bank - The Sons of robbers & mass murderers still reap the rewards

05-08-2003 15:42

The Barclays brothers who established the bank - made their first millions out of the slave trade - shipping millions of Africans from the west coast of Africa to the caribean and the Americas - they were chained to the walls and floors of ships, the journey alone cost the lives of a third of them. Working the rest on plantations until they died of exaustion. These people should be exposed. Now they run Liverpool Littlewoods. see below.

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In the City of Culture - the poor get sacked

05-08-2003 15:26

AS well as the most thriving industry for locals being The modern sweatshop - 'Call centres' now we see more and more workers losing their jobs. As if council repairs are not needed

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki Remembered

05-08-2003 15:12

On Wednesday the 6th of August and Saturday the 9th August, CND will be commemorating the 58th anniversary of the tragic events at Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively) across the UK (details listed below).
The spectre of a nuclear holocaust is today again a reality, not known since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. The possibility of a nuclear disaster occurring has escalated following the War in Iraq. The US policy of pre-emptive strikes has resulted in even more states attempting to acquire nuclear weapons, and US plans to build a new generation of nuclear weapons, such as 'bunker busters' and 'mini-nukes' marks a step towards nuclear escalation, not elimination. Relations between India and Pakistan are at a very fragile and tentative stage, adding to the possibility of Armageddon.

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The BBC's Pound of Flesh

05-08-2003 14:55

If the Board of Governors is so confident that the BBC is universally adored by viewers and listeners, let it vie for subscriptions in the open market.

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Weekend Linux Workshop for Activists

05-08-2003 14:33

** A Weekend Linux Workshop for Activists in the UK **
- Still using Micro$oft? one of the world's richest corporations, a major backer of Dubya Bush and globalisation.

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Turkish Kurd family loses UK asylum battle

05-08-2003 14:06

(from  http://www.guardian.co.uk/Refugees_in_Britain/Story/0,2763,1012761,00.html)

A family of Turkish Kurd asylum seekers was today deported to Germany after losing a long-running battle to stay in the UK.

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40+ arrested protesting Israel's Apartheid Wall

05-08-2003 13:51

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As of early this morning the IDF illegally arrested over 40 internationals, Palestinians and Israelis that were gathered at the Mas'ha peace camp trying to peaceably block the building of the Apartheid Wall
report 1) 2:30AM 5min 13sec
report 2) 6:54AM 6min 8sec

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Bush gives legal immunity to Oil Corporations operating in Iraq

05-08-2003 13:19

Some short extracts from an article on a pro-war, pro-military site:

"Most did not know that during the initial assault on Baghdad, soldiers set up forward bases named Camp Shell and Camp Exxon."
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