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11.06.05 Sheffield Dissent Critical Mass

11-06-2005 16:08

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Sheffield cyclists take over the roads in protest to the g8 and pending meetings in the city this coming week.

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exclusive F#ck the G8 rap track to download

11-06-2005 16:04

Check this exclusive track:  http://www.soundclick.com/mrmanageftsyanyde recorded this week to coincide with the resistG8 movement against the G8 summit. This track is an exclusive. pass it on. support the movement.

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£30bn debts write-off

11-06-2005 15:13

"£30bn debts write-off agreed"

"G7 package brokered by chancellor will benefit 18 of world's poorest countries immediately."

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200,000 people evicted in Zimbabwe

11-06-2005 15:02

200,000 people evicted in two weeks and another million threatened in Zimbabwe, appeal for urgent action.

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Personal Account from Bolivia

11-06-2005 14:45

Personal account of current events in Bolivia

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a humanist future for humans

11-06-2005 13:09

some observations and solutions as to the worldcrisis

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Iraq, nirvana, and collective existence

11-06-2005 12:31

"American snipers killing mothers, soldiers executing civilians in the street, houses being demolished with entire families inside.

A little girl on the way home from school is shot through the abdomen while watching her younger brother’s delicate body explode under the voracity of bullets spit from the cold muzzle of an m-16."

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'War on Terror' Has Indigenous People in Its Sights

11-06-2005 10:58

The "war on terror", identified in Amnesty International's annual report as a new source of human rights abuses, is threatening to expand to Latin America, targeting indigenous movements that are demanding autonomy and protesting free-market policies and "neo-liberal" globalisation.

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Peat processing plant sabotaged.

11-06-2005 10:52

At the end of last year a peat processing plant near Glastonbury, Somerset, was sabotaged. The Plant processed peat for several companies distributing to Garden Centres. The peat was extracted from areas in and near 5 different Sites of Special Scientific Interest for their ecological value. These sites were within an Area of outstanding Natural Beauty.

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17th June - Anti-G8 Fundraiser Gig

11-06-2005 10:27

Liverpool Social Forum presents a benefit gig with 4 top local bands, at Hannah's Bar, Hardman St on Friday 17th June, from 8.30pm. £4 / £3 on the door. Proceeds go towards transport & other costs for getting groups from Liverpool up to Scotland for the G8.

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Chairlegs, cows and public safety

11-06-2005 09:24

A dangerous weapon.
Recent headlines from the BBC.

“Armed police threatened to arrest a 10-year-old Wiltshire boy playing cowboys and Indians with a toy gun, his father claims.”

“A police marksman has been removed from firearm duties after a man was shot dead during a "pre-planned" operation.”

“Two police officers have been arrested on suspicion of murder, six years after they shot a man dead in east London”

“Police marksmen were called in to shoot three escaped cows that went on a six-hour rampage in a Cumbrian town.”

“No action will be taken against a police marksman who shot a 21-year-old man (armed with an umbrella) in Glasgow.”

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POLLUTERS IN CHIEF

11-06-2005 09:07

Enclosed some pictures of the polluters in chief

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Drivers needed for Liverpool anti-G8 contingent

11-06-2005 08:34

Liverpool Social Forum is organising minibuses to the mass protests against the G8 in Scotland in July. We urgently need more experienced drivers who can drive minibuses.

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FULL MOON SUMMER SOLSTICE

11-06-2005 08:33

$HUT DOWN TH€ G8 TO H€LL

THE QUEEN'S HEAD LIES ATOP THE PYRAMID OF BRITISH HIERARCHICAL POWER BUT IT IS THE MYTH OF DEMOCRACY THAT DELEGATES HER RESPONSIBILITIES TO TONY BLAIR VIA THE AFRICA COMMISSION. RATHER THAN EMPOWER AFRICAN NATIONS, THE WHITE SUPREMACISTS OF THE G8 HAVE CLEARLY LAID OUT A PROGRAMME OF FURTHER EXPLOITATION USING FINANCIAL REGULATION AND CONTROL FOR MANY MORE CENTURIES TO COME.

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Iraq Unions Solidarity

11-06-2005 08:28

(Today) Saturday 11th June 12-2pm at the CASA, 29 Hope Street, Liverpool city centre.

Come and hear what can be done to support the newly emerging Iraq Trades Union Movement. You only need to bring your optimism and your practical ideas for activity.

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“Regeneration equals FASCISM”

11-06-2005 08:10

The whole emphasis behind this regeneration initiative was to decimate the community through unnecessary demolition of perfectly good terraced housing and to socially cleanse the area of elderly home owners, RSL and private landlord tenants.

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Video of the Chilean “Demonstration Against the Exclusion” on May 21th

11-06-2005 05:45

A New Video of the great “Demonstration Against the Exclusion” on May 21th, 2005, outside the National Chilean Congress, were the President Ricardo Lagos was giving his last annual account to the parliament.

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Chinese Spies and Defectors

11-06-2005 03:14

The recent bid of a disaffected Chinese consular official to defect in Australia has displayed some curious behaviour from all concerned, not the least being the ineptitudes of Chinese government officials. Representatives of sovereign powers are not usually intimidated by journalists; however, during an interview (on the Australian media) the Chinese ambassador’s response to a question regarding the claim that three thousand Chinese 'spies' were operating in Australia, exhibited all the inexperience expected from Chinese officials in matters of international espionage.

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Lying with Pixels

11-06-2005 01:13

with the Srebrenica and OVL videos in mind, the following article is necessary reading

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Make Poverty History: New Wristband Scandal

11-06-2005 00:37

Following the damaging revelations last month that more than a million of the Make Poverty History wristbands have been sourced from Chinese sweatshops in ‘slave labour conditions’, a new scandal is about to break that goes right to the top of the star-studded anti-poverty coalition, Red Pepper can exclusively reveal.
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