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London U'wa solidarity action - 'No a la violencia (para)militar' (foto)

25-09-2000 01:32

When the armed response unit turned up we already had embarassed the ambassador to pick his way past this banner and another banner reading 'No Blood For Oil', to take our leaflets, to take a Financial Crimes with articles on both Plan Colombia and the U'wa, and to remain tight-lipped in the face of questioning as to his government's role in the appalling ongoing situation. With any luck the tale of his inconvenience and possible embarrassment has already been registered by the Colombian government.

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London U'wa solidarity action - Columbian embassy: No Blood For Oil (foto)

25-09-2000 01:26

The security guard tries to enforce the 'unspoken' rule that you are allowed to protest at an embassy as long you do this from the other side of the street. We refused to follow his demand and asked him to call the police who after 10 minutes duly turned up with an armned response unit.

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U'wa solidarity action - Columbian embassador has to walk through banners (foto)

25-09-2000 01:21

As the U'wa people of Colombia are facing the final showdown in their eight year campaign to prevent Occidental petroleum from drilling in their ancestral lands, on Friday the 22 activists were picketing the Columbian Embassy in London.

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Financial Crimes distribution, London Bridge on Friday 22 (another picture)

25-09-2000 00:10

Activists giving out the Financial Crimes spoof newspaper in the City of London as part of a London wide distribution. Read the report at

http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=332

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Financial Crimes distribution, London Bridge early on Friday 22 (picture)

25-09-2000 00:08

Activists giving out the Financial Crimes spoof newspaper in the City of London as part of a London wide distribution. Read the report at

http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=332

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Two City of London policemen reading the Financial Crimes on Friday 22 (picture)

25-09-2000 00:05

Two City of London policemen inform themselves about different issues of anti-capitalist struggles through reading a copy of the Financial Crimes spoof newspaper. Read the report at

http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=332 rt

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U'wa solidarity action at Fidelity (Foto)

24-09-2000 22:50

As the U'wa people of Colombia are facing the final showdown in their eight year campaign to prevent Occidental petroleum from drilling in their ancestral lands, on Friday the 22 activists were picketing Fidelity Investments, one of Oxy's largest shareholders. For some inexplicable reason the City of London Police had also decided to participate as only they can, even though the action had not been publically advertised.

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Latest from the Global Action Express

24-09-2000 22:39

from Sherwood Radio newswire

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Italian train allowed to leave (repost from prague imc)

24-09-2000 22:13

The Italian train has been allowed to come to Prague. The news was announced at a sit-in at Karlov-bridge, on Sunday-evening around 8:30 PM.

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Financial Crimes distribution (picture)

24-09-2000 22:01

Activists giving out the Financial Crimes spoof newspaper in the City of London as part of a London wide distribution. Read the report at

http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=332

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Athlete boycotts corporatised Olympics

24-09-2000 21:37

Why I'm Skipping the Olympics
by Kaliya Young
Published in the San Francisco Chronicle

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Acción pro-Chiapas en Barcelona

24-09-2000 11:09

Siete personas se cuelgan del monumento de la Plaça d'Espanya, Barcelona, desde las
9.30 hasta las 13.30.El Colectivo de Solidaridad con la Rebelión Zapatista lleva a cabo esta mañana una acción de protesta para denunciar la situación en que se encuentran las comunidades indígenas en Chiapas, que nada ha variado cuando ya hace casi dos meses de la celebración de las elecciones.

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Ya Basta solidarity action at Interior Ministry (12 noon)

24-09-2000 10:24

Spontaneaou solidarity action

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Manifestación en Barcelona

24-09-2000 00:17

Esta tarde, desde las 18 hasta las 22 h, se realizó en Barcelona una multitudinaria manifestación contra la globalización económica.

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Anti-fascists march against IMF in Prague

23-09-2000 23:48

At aproximatly 1:50pm today in Namesti Miru square, Prague, a gathering of anti-facist demonstrators met to march through the city in solidarity with the protests aginst the IMF, World bank and other global anti-capitalist issues.
Anti-facistist speakers decried racism and the rising tide of nationalist tendencies, through some well-spoken speeches and colorful banners. The march reached its conclusion peacefully at around 5:15pm.

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London U'wa solidarity action (video)

23-09-2000 17:34

Watch the solidarity actions in support of the U'wa indigenous people of Colombia by London activists of Reclaim the Streets outside Fidelity Investments the City of London and the 'encounter' with the Colombian ambassador outside the Colombian Embassy. 22/09/00. Duration 48 seconds.

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Financial Crimes newspaper distribution in the City of London. 22/09/00.

23-09-2000 17:21

Watch one of the several distribution points of the Financial Crimes spoof newspaper in the City of London in the morning of the 22/09/00. Duration 38 seconds.

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Financial Crimes

23-09-2000 15:04

On Friday morning passers-by at the Financial Times building in London were offered a free copy of the 'Financial Crimes', containing indepentent information about the World Bank, the IMF, Anticapitalists and various other issues. The handing out of this 'spoof' newspaper was timed to coincide with the FT running a special edition about the forthcoming events in Prague.

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