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Vegan Prisoner Support Group Benefit

19-04-2009 16:22

On Wednesday 29th April there is a benefit for the Vegan Prisoner Support Group (VPSG) at The Navigation, Wilford Street, Nottm NG2 1AA, with Inner Terrestrials, 4 support bands & DJ's.

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Blue NG offices in Bath occupied by 13 members of Action Against Agrofuels (AAA)

19-04-2009 09:59

AAA occupied Blue NG offices on Friday 17th, Via Campesina Day, in solidarity with millions of peasant land-workers demonstrating globally against agrofuels. Blue NG are committing a crime against humanity and the planet by using misinformation* to win support for the new market of agrofuel power stations, when virtually all agrofuels have been shown to cause ecosystem destruction, accelerated climate change & food poverty.

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Solidarity vigil for Basem outside the Israeli Embassy, London - pics

18-04-2009 22:04

Yesterday Basem was killed by the israeli army in the west bank village of Bil'in, Palestine, on an non violent anti apartheid wall demo.

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Protest Against The Use Of Kettling

18-04-2009 21:12

A protest, held at the City of London police station in Wood Street EC2, against tactics used by the police against the G20 protesters on the 1st & 2nd April.

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Urgent Action: Save the Refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea in Milan

18-04-2009 17:31

No Human Rights in Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia
EveryOne Group is asking the institutions to grant political asylum to the refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea in Bruzzano (Milan) according to the regulations laid down by international law.

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Free Vegan Food Sample Stall

18-04-2009 17:22

A very positive vegan outreach day today in the centre of town...

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Supporting Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 9

18-04-2009 17:15

Dear friends,
A landmark human rights trial is opening in a few weeks in U.S. federal court, where oil giant Royal Dutch Shell will answer to charges that it colluded with the Nigerian military to commit egregious human rights abuses, including the hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the leader of a human rights and environmental justice movement in the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta. Ken Saro-Wiwa was, was a recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize. In solidarity, I'm writing to ask you to support this important campaign for justice and accountability.

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Police unlawfully arrest teen then refuse to take witness statements

18-04-2009 10:08

During a regular demo outside Barclays Birmingham (due to their support for Huntingdon Life Sciences) a group of teenagers came to find out what the demo was about. The police were called, they arrested one teenager for alleged criminal damage (kicking the door of Barclays) which he didn't do, then refused to take details of bystanders who were witnesses to the non-crime.

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SHAC supporter arrested at Barclays demo

18-04-2009 00:38

Demo starts like any other
Passers by join in with protest despite police shenanigans while trying to make up the 'law' as they go along...

We held another demonstration today against Barclays in Birmingham City Centre for their blood-money investments into the filthy Huntingdon Life Sciences.

A riot van was also on the scene, and one of the supporting teens was unlawfully arrested - in an attempt to scare the newly aware bunch away.

Video of arrest  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mhkWmRrgO4

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Climate Action 114 Media Blog

18-04-2009 00:10

More attention has been drawn to the urgency of climate action and the need to to defend the right to protest against police excesses by the 'failed protest' than if it had gone ahead.

Notts Indymedia is clearly the first port of call for news and comment on the ongoing situation, however it may also be helpful to keep the subject in the public eye through other media.

Other journalists should have the integrity to acknowledge Notts Indymedia as their source, so that their readers could check here for an independent view of the subject.

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fossil fools day at tate britain

17-04-2009 22:15

activists from artnotoil staged a musical stunt at tate britain in the morning of 1st april - this is a short film of the event

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Terror raids unearth huge amount of bullshit

17-04-2009 20:48

A house raid in Manchester under the Terrorism Act, 9 April 2009
According to security sources, police raids in Manchester, Liverpool and Clitheroe have so far yielded eight packets of crisps, some beard shampoo and a foreign looking hat.

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Pirate Bay

17-04-2009 16:26

Pirate Bay has been closed down, the founders hit with heavy fines.

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Dissident Island Radio Show - Tonight!! 9pm

17-04-2009 16:25

impunity indeed...
On the show - lots of anti-militarist campaign updated info and more...

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This Week in Palestine -Week 16 2009

17-04-2009 16:10

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Welcome to This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for April 11th through April 17th, 2009.

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Police intimidation - Southampton animal rights

17-04-2009 15:57

Police in Southampton have aproached and advised local venue The Hobbit Pub that hosting so called 'meetings' between animal rights activists/hunt sabs will land them in deep shit with the law should something unlawful occur in the field/demos/actions.

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Poll projects low voter turnout in Haiti: Protests banned

17-04-2009 14:19

Based on their polling for the April 19 elections the Haiti Priorities Project also stated, "The majority who participated in the survey intend to stay home due to the inconsistency exhibited by the administration of President Préval and the international community wanting to practice [electoral] exclusion, a system in which the people have been rejected since the fall of Duvalier 1986."

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Protest Is Not A Crime Demo

17-04-2009 13:42

Photos from yesterday demonstration outside Scotland yard London. Protesters denounced the police tactics of forcibly corralling people known as "kettling", police assaults on demonstrators and home raids on participants.
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