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Report of Protest + Arrests Outside Gordon Brown Q&A Newcastle, 2nd July

03-07-2009 13:43

Protestors assemble on the pavement
On Thursday 2nd July activists from Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! gathered outside the Discovery Museum in Newcastle after receiving a VERY last minute tip-off that Gordon Brown was holding an 'invite only' question and answer session inside. Three of the protestors were later arrested and released without charge.

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Drax defendants guilty

03-07-2009 10:56

22 Drax defendants found guilty of obstruction - 7 had already plead guilty.

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Victims of the Racist War on Terror: Free the NW10

02-07-2009 22:17

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Audio from the meeting of the The London Campaign to support the North West 10, foreign students who were arrested under Terror Laws and most of whom are now in prison, despite there being no evidence against them, met at the Khalili Lecture theatre at SOAS on Thursday 2nd July.

Speakers included Tariq Mehmood, one of the 'Bradford 12', Gareth Peirce - Human Rights Solicitor, Dorothy Wright of UCU, Asim Qureshi of Cage Prisoners and Rizwan Sabir, arrested with Hicham Yezza at Nottingham University.

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Palestine Today 070209

02-07-2009 15:30

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Thursday July 2nd 2009.

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Palm Oil Gala Dinner & Dance pictures

02-07-2009 09:01

In the park
The Climate Rush held a Gala Dinner and Dance outside the Millennium Hotel in Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, London last night (1 July 2009) as a protest against the deforestation of tropical forests to grow biofuel crops.

Pictures copyright (C) 2009, Peter Marshall. All rights reserved.

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Rossport solidarity demo + press release

02-07-2009 08:14

demo at Irish embassy in London

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Noise demo at the Irish embassy

02-07-2009 00:11

the oil drummer
15 to 20 people made a fairly cheerful racket for a couple of hours outside the Irish embassy in London today, in protest at the appauling brutality of the Gardie, who coninue to assault and imprison those fighting Shell in Rosport.

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Terrorism Act 2000 Urgent Please Read

01-07-2009 17:24

Stopped at Birmingham International airport

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Palestine Today 070109

01-07-2009 16:12

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Wednesday July 1st 2009.

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Defend the SOAS 9 - Home Office 30 June 2009

01-07-2009 14:17

A demonstration outside the Home Office in Marsham St, London called for an end to the hounding of migrant workers by the Borders Police and for the release of Marina Silva, the SOAS cleaner still held in Yarl's Wood, as well as the return of those already forcibly deported.
Pictures copyright (C) 2009, Peter Marshall.All rights reserved.

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The No Borders demo in pictures.

01-07-2009 09:56

The first road block after leaving the camp.
Well so much for all those blood curdling corporate media reports about the 'riot' in Calais. The Daily Mail retained their first prize for the most absurd prediction by saying that the protesters planned to smash through the border controls and lead the refugees through 26 miles of channel tunnel?!

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London Picket against Honduras Coup

01-07-2009 09:29

Embassy with flag and police
Protesters gathered outside the Honduras Embassy in Gloucester Place, London on Tuesday evening (30 June 2009) in an emergency picket against the reactionary military coup in Honduras on Sunday 28 June.
Pictures copyright (C) 2009, Peter Marshall. All rights reserved.

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churchill statue converted to sri lankan extermination camp

01-07-2009 07:55

Audio jamcam - by cover of night
in a bold occupation at 2.30 this morning, a woman from peacestrike.org has converted the parliament square churchill statue into a mock-up of a sri lankan death camp. she intends to stay there as long as possible to highlight the plight of hundreds of thousands of tamil civilians facing threat of starvation, rape, torture or murder.

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Nigeria mass deportation flight delayed by deportees' resistance

01-07-2009 00:40

The joint charter flight that was meant to carry rejected Nigerian refugees to Lagos via Dublin this afternoon has been delayed for several hours due to deportees' refusing to board the plane. As of 11pm, the flight, which was scheduled for 17:15, had still not left Stansted airport.

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27th June: Calais No Border march -pictures

30-06-2009 23:25

The white cliffs of Dover - the UK's entrance point for many asylum seekers.
Images from the Calais No Border march, which took place on Saturday 27th June.
Thousands of people from the No Border camp descended on Calais town, France, to get their point across about the situation facing increasing numbers of desperate asylum seekers stuck in the Calais area. Many asylum seekers face destitution in Calais as they struggle to complete their journey- for the most part away from war torn countries such as Afghanistan.

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Palestine Today 063009

30-06-2009 16:48

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Tuesday June 30th 2009.

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Camp for Climate Action Launches Legal Challenge Against G20 Police

30-06-2009 16:22

Climate Campers have launched a Judicial Review against the Metropolitan Police, challenging the policing of the G20 Climate Camp in the City protest on 1st April and marking the start of a David and Goliath legal battle.

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Campaigners blockade detention centre to stop mass deportation flight to Nigeria

30-06-2009 13:30

Anti-deportation campaigners are currently demonstrating outside Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire in an attempt to stop the mass deportation of families and children to Nigeria.

Campaigners from the Stop Deportation Network have staged a sit-in outside the centre's gates, preventing coaches carrying families due to be forcibly deported on a specially charted flight today from leaving.

Earlier this morning, another group of protesters staged a short demonstration outside WH Tours offices in Crowley, near Gatwick, before being removed by police. WH Tours is a private coach company contracted to carry deportees from detention centres to the airport.

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Anti Deportation demo at Crawley bus company

30-06-2009 11:09

DEMONSTRATION AT WH TOURS BUS COMPANY TO PROTEST ITS INVOLVEMENT IN DEPORTATIONS

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Around the Campaigns Tuesday 30th June 2009

30-06-2009 10:28

Claude Ndeh & Family
You have the Power to Stop Deportations

You will need Courage, Persistence and Faith

An Anti-Deportation Campaign involves organizing resistance to restrictive immigration legislation, and simply means making the government change their minds regarding an individual case.
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