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Environmental Action at Football Association HQ in London

31-03-2008 21:55

Campaigners against sponsorship of FA by power station construction company

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Report From Nablus-Boomchucka Circus

31-03-2008 21:32

More inspiring words from the real clowns...we operate purely on donations..hint hint ;o)

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Riseup! Radio #3 The April Show - Bring it on!

31-03-2008 21:00

Welcome to another superduper action packed edition of your Riseup Radio chock full of local news, tunes & interviews. This month we've got info about the upcoming week of action for autonomous spaces and what might be going off in Nottingham; we'll be talking to Dan who's just returned from the Antartic on a whale saving mission and and we've been talking to someone from Nottingham's Defy ID group on whats happening locally on resisting the government's proposed ID card system. Also an interview about legal advice for activists, a promotion about a recently setup cooperative dealing with activist equipment and a report from those who joined the blockade at Aldermaston Nuclear Weapons Establishment near Reading from Nottingham and Leicester. Oh, and a whole load of cracking good home grown music including Idiot Joy, 3am Association and Muteqx. Enjoy :-)

Listen: #3 The April Show

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London Rising Tide kick-off Fossil Fools Day at the FA headquarters

31-03-2008 20:44

London Rising Tide played a spoof game of football
outside the Football Association's headquarters in Soho Square with a coal ball, demanding that the FA end their sponsorship deal with E-ON.

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Freeconomy Free For All in Wrexham

31-03-2008 19:24

Freeconomy Wrexham is having a 'Free for All' Bring and Take event at Acton Community Centre, Overton Way, Acton this Saturday 5th April from 9.30 am - 12.30 pm. Come along and find out how to make the world go round without money! Bring your unwanted items along and find something new (to you) to take home with you. Everything for free. Shoplifters will NOT be prosecuted.

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World Against War National Rally - full report - videos, mp3s, photos

31-03-2008 17:34

March 2008 marks the 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Over 50,000 people rallied in Trafalgar Square to protest the continued occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, the on-going siege of Gaza, and the threats of attack on Iran.

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Grass roots struggle for ecology in Palestine

31-03-2008 16:41

This weeks Indy Global Reports was recorded in the village of Marda, in the middle of the West Bank International activists and environmentalists from across the world, Palestine and Israel came together to join a workshop which was originally to be led by Star Hawk, author and activist.
Star Hawk was denied entry to Israel and deported from Ben-Gurion airport last week. Local activists put out an emergency call for workshop leaders, and the course was able to take place. I went to Marda to speak with the participants and organisers.

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South Africa: All charges against the Kennedy 6 dropped

31-03-2008 16:36

The Kennedy Road shack settlement was were Abahlali baseMjondolo began and although the movement now has 14 affiliated settlements and a further 25 branches the state has always been obsessed with the Kennedy Road settlement. This is where the brunt of the repression has been borne and where, a week and one year ago, 6 key activists were arrested on trumped up murder charges (the same tactic had been used against the Landless People's Movement in Johannesburg a year before). After they were denied bail and subject to ongoing violence in the prison they went on a highly publicised two week hunger strike after which they were granted bail. Now the state has quietly conceded that it never had any evidence and dropped all charges against the 6 activists.

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Fossil Fools day - Banner hung

31-03-2008 13:01

Building up to the Fossil Fools day -

http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org - some people in Lancaster, England hung a banner at the side of Lancaster's busiest roundabout for the "rush" hour gridlocked car drivers to enjoy. The banner read: "Worried about Climate Change? Stuck in Traffic? Get a Bike!"

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Canadian Coast Guard Rams Sea Shepherd Ship (twice)

31-03-2008 09:21

The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker CCGS Des Groseilliers twice rammed the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship Farley Mowat today. The Sea Shepherd is present at the baby seal hunt to document the killings. Witnessing a seal being clubbed is a crime in Canada.

The Coast Guard had ordered the Farley Mowat to not approach the area where seals are being slaughtered. When the Farley Mowat did not comply, the Coast Guard rammed the vessel near the port aft stern area. After the Farley Mowat stopped in the ice, the Coast Guard rammed the ship a second time in the same area of the ship causing damage to the plates in that area.

The Coast Guard has demonstrated extreme recklessness with this move. The crew of the Farley Mowat were engaged in documenting the slaughter of seals. They were not interfering with the hunt. The annual slaughter of baby harp seals has started off the east coast of Canada in Newfoundland last week. The slaughter of over 325.000 baby seals has been widely condemned around the world, but the Canadian government is ademend in its continued support for it.

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London Critical Mass visits the Chinese Embassy on its March 2008 ride.

31-03-2008 05:46

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http://www.archive.org/details/cml28-3-08

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Brutal arrest of 23 anti-militarist activists in Poland

30-03-2008 22:24

23 Polish antimilitarist activists were violently arrested on Sunday (30/03/2008) at a private flat of one of them morning after coming back from a demonstration after-party in Slupsk in nothern Poland.

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Sea Shepherd Moves In On Canadian Seal Slaughter

30-03-2008 21:56

The annual slaughter of baby harp seals has started off the east coast of Canada in Newfoundland. The slaughter of over 325.000 baby seals has been widely condemned around the world, but the Canadian government is ademend in its continued support for the barbaric mass killings. The EU is said to pass legislation this year to ban the sale and/or export of seal products within its borders.

Last week, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship 'Farley Mowat' set off from Bermuda to make its way to the killing fields. The last time the Sea Shepherd went out to confront the seal hunt was in 2005 when eleven Sea Shepherd crew were arrested. The aim of this year's 'Seal Defence Campaign' is to try and document the atrocities. In Canada it is a crime witness a seal being killed. Never mind going out there purposefully to document whats going on " It is a crime to take a photograph of a dying seal. It is a crime to video tape or film a sealer doing his grisly work. Unless you have a permit and the government is not granting permits. And the regulations that ban anyone approaching the slaughter are actually called the 'Seal Protection Regulations'."

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UK government deports 60 Iraqi Kurds; no one notices

30-03-2008 16:53

Andy Worthington reports on the forced deportation of 60 Iraqi Kurds from the UK last Thursday, which has not been reported in any major media outlets at all.

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RMT and TSSA vote for joint strike action

30-03-2008 00:35

RMT station staff and train operator members voted Thursday by a margin of five to one for strike action in defence of safety on the London Underground.

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Zimbabwean Asylum Rights Demo @ Speakers Corner, Nottingham

29-03-2008 21:44

At 2pm on Saturday 29th March, on the day of the Zimbabwean elections, folks gathered to highlight the dangers that people who have fled Zimbabwe will face, if they are forcibly returned there.

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Westgate Demo Photos

29-03-2008 16:59

ahem. I'm sure one of the lovely IMC folk will realise that the previous post was missing its rather important part. That is the photos. *Blush*

So here's some Photos of today's demo against tripling the size of the Westgate Centre, and effectively privatising public space.

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Asking Sarkozy to kick Total Out of Burma at Arsenal Summit

29-03-2008 11:57

At the Anglo-French summit held at Arsenal Emirates Football Stadium on Thursday 27th April, protesters asked French President Sarkozy to kick French Total Oil out of Burma. President Sarkozy has previously told Total not to make further investment in Burma, but Total currently funds the brutal military regime with over 500 million dollars a year. In December it upgraded its offshore gas platform whilst asking its corrupt military partners for a maritime exclusion zone around the platform.

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