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A Very Indecent Act

14-10-2005 21:42

Over 30 housing Co-op tenants to be evicted by Brent Council, is set to destroy another well established community. This is a trend that will spread through Britain as John Prescott's Decent Homes Standards becomes a reality.

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Open Letter to Amnesty International on the Iraqi Constitution

14-10-2005 21:01

"There are so many problems in Iraq now, so many crimes committed daily where innocent people are killed, arrested, tortured. Why is it so important ;to neglect all these crimes and be busy with the constitution? Why is it so urgent?

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Mass solidarity with Gate Gourmet strikers - this Sunday!

14-10-2005 20:59

Gate Gourmet workers: 'It's not over yet!'

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This is Not Xenophobia, This is "National Security"

14-10-2005 20:09

Dubbed "Enforcement First" by the bill's author, Arizona Representative and former sportscaster J.D. Hayworth, the bill is a dream come true for the anti-immigration movement because of its harsh penalities and open hostility towards Mexican immigrants.

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Critical Mass meeting and film THIS SATURDAY

14-10-2005 20:08

Picked this up on one of the cycle lists...

apparently there's a discussion about the repression against the london critical mass happening at the rampart creative centre [on rampart street near aldgate] along with a screening of the Still We Ride, New York critical mass film.

would love to meet up with other massers and have a natter

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Peace Activist Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

14-10-2005 20:04



In his politics a proponent of peace, and in his art a master of silence, Harold Pinter has received his just reward from the Swedish Academy with their announcement of the Nobel Prize in literature. It was Pinter's adaptation of "The French Lieutenant's Woman" in 1981 that helped launch the careers of Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons. Pinter also began his career as an actor, and in the 50 years since has become one of the world's most widely respected playwrights, winning accolades from Tom Stoppard and Vaclav Havel. The occassion was true to form, by his own account: "I was called 20 minutes before the official announcement. The chair of the Nobel committee phoned and said, 'You have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature'. I remained silent, and then said, 'I'm speechless.'"

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Peak Park HGV ban protest

14-10-2005 19:43

Scrap the Mottram Bypass
The Save Swallow's Wood Campaign held a protest on Friday 14th October outside the national park authority headquarters in (Aldern House, Bakewell).

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Call for action: Pakistani Army goon to speak at Nottingham University

14-10-2005 19:04

Human rights protest
A representative of the Pakistani armed forces is speaking at the University of Nottingham. Action is needed because of the continuing militarisation of Pakistani society, human rights violations including attacks on labour and peasant activists and minority groups, and Pakistani army complicity in the US global torture gulag.

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Solidarity critical mass - Bristol 28 October

14-10-2005 17:57

A bunch of Bristol campaigners concerned about issues such as climate change, pollution, transport policy, wars & peace, and the current crackdown on civil liberties and expressions of dissent (see  http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=24300 for info about the attacks on civil liberties and on London’s critical mass), have decided to call for a one-off solidarity & celebratory critical mass ride in Bristol on 28 October.

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Colombian women's rights activist to speak at Sumac centre

14-10-2005 17:17

Jackeline Rojas, organiser for Colombian women's rights organisation, Femenina Popular, is speaking in Nottingham on Monday, 24 October at the Sumac Centre. She'll be joined by Andy Higginbottom, national secretary of the Colombia Solidarity Campaign.

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Charles Clarke loses Zimbabwe deportation case

14-10-2005 17:13

Refugees have won a test case means that hundreds of refugees from the former British colony of Zimbabwe will be allowed to remain in the UK as asylum seekers. President Robert Mugabe has committed thousands of human rights abuses. Anyone Zimbabwean who has claimed asylum in the UK would be targeted as opponents of Mugabe's government, and if they returned could face torture or death..

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No polling stations

14-10-2005 17:13

No Polling Stations
This is a new one way to fix an election

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naked green mass park art kill G8 social house

14-10-2005 16:00

So many subjects so little time!

Saturday evening looks to be packed. We've an hour of the latest short films from the Real2Reel Vol3 video compliation and a whole bunch of people to talk about the campaigns or issues covered in the videos, what they've been up to since and what they are working on now.

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Iraq shuts down as early voting starts

14-10-2005 15:57

US and Iraqi forces stepped-up security across Iraq on Thursday and prepared to impose an overnight curfew in an effort to reduce insurgent attacks aimed at wrecking this weekend's constitutional referendum.

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Free Video Workshop this saturday

14-10-2005 15:29

The world famous oxford indymedia video doctor is coming to London!

Yes, it's that time again, rampART is the venue for the video doctors surgery and video shooting and editing workshop from 2pm Saturday 15th as part of the Real2Reel video activism event. Film screenings kick off at 8pm sharp, interspaced with presentations and discussion then live music.

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Oxfordshire NHS to be privatised

14-10-2005 14:29

Plans were revealed this week to privatise the Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust. Bidders include Group 4!

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Portugal regulator fines Abbott, Bayer, others for price fixing

14-10-2005 13:58

Portugal's antitrust regulator said it had fined five major US and European drug companies a total of 16 mln eur for working together to artificially fix prices.

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Bird Flu at the Door

14-10-2005 13:42

Bird Flu - Coming in from the cold

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How fast does light travel?: lord patch vs the giver

14-10-2005 13:40

Audio

...contemplating bass domination, of George Scott 3rd, as he leads
contortions of riddim, like a graffer works a rhyme on wallz via tips
and nozzles, like an illustrator transforms word to image, like writers
collects the syntax of sight into the symbolism of lexis, like cymbals
and kneck snapping snares used by a selector swift at the controls...

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Ending the Spiral of Violence

14-10-2005 13:06

The US violates human rights in the name of human rights.. The Occident conquered, colonized, enslaved, humiliated and destoyed whole cultures and civilizations and carried out a never-seen genocide..With globalized casino capitalism, we kill as many people yearly as the victims in WW2, 40 million.
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