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12-03-2012 12:03

Animal torturer from Sequani speaking in Coventry 26-28 March

There is a British Toxicology event at Warwick University Conference Park in Coventry from 26 - 28 March

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09-03-2012 14:06

A conversation with Jeff Monson: Revolutionary Politics, fighting and Putin!

Saturday 10th March 7:00pm until 8:30pm

LAMP TAVERN, 257 Barford Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, West Midlands, B5 6AH

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09-03-2012 11:20

Workfare Walk of Shame

Saturday, 17 March 2012 13:00 until 16:00

Meet at Poundland, Kings Heath High Street, Birmingham

Fair Work - Not Workfare!

Join us on the Workfare Walk of Shame on Kings Heath High Street

Meet at Poundland from 1pm, at around 1:30pm we will go for a walk down Kings Heath high street, stopping off at places that use forced labour from workfare schemes.

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09-03-2012 10:19

Save Our NHS, Public Meeting, Stroud 15 March 2012

Basic poster Following a high court challenge by Stroud resident Michael Lloyd, NHS Gloucestershire has withdrawn plans to transfer our local hospitals & 3000 NHS health workers out of the NHS. This is great news, but this is just the first step in keeping our health services in the NHS. The campaign to Keep Gloucestershire’s NHS Public needs your support now more than ever.

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08-03-2012 21:18

Traveller Solidarity Network and Europe-Roma Talk

Saturday 14:00 until 16:00
Unite the Union, 211 Broad Street, B15 1AY

This meeting is both part of the Traveller Solidarity Network (TSN) nationwide
speaker tour and the relaunch of the Europe-Roma organisation.

It will include a short film, a Traveller Solidarity Network activist speaking about what happened at Dale Farm last year, as well as talks from a local Romany Gypsy from the nearby Meriden site currently facing eviction and Ladislav Balaz from the Czech Roma community in Birmingham, with plenty of time for discussion. This meeting is supported by Birmingham National Union of Teachers.

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04-03-2012 16:36

New evidence casts doubt in Lockerbie case

This documentary film investigates the case against Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the convicted Lockerbie bomber, and finds new evidence to suggest that he and Libya may have fallen victim to a huge miscarriage of justice.

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03-03-2012 21:28

EDL fail in Walsall

For the past month the EDL's youth division have been threatening to unleash a violent demo on Walsall on 3rd March. Richard Johnson the main organiser of the demo and member of the youth division who lives in Rushall, West Midlands, claimed he couldn’t wait to 'smash the dirty curry munchers'. Another member Mart Bradders who refers to the local Muslim community as 'dirty pakies' threatened to bring pigs blood. Johnson claimed he'd ideally like 300 people to show up but expected the numbers to be more like 60-100. The actual turnout must have been a big disappointment for him then.

The following pictures are screen-shots of EDL members facebook pages taken from EDL News  http://edlnews.co.uk/edl-news/edls-richard-johnson-plans-race-attacks-at-walsall-demo

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03-03-2012 20:53

Boycott Workfare Demonstration Report

Today in Birmingham, around 50 people gathered to demonstrate against the government’s workfare schemes, which see people forced to work for up to 6 months in order to keep their benefits for hugely profitable companies. This was part of a national day of action, organised by Boycott Workfare, which saw over 40 towns and cities around the UK take to the high street to tell companies to leave the schemes.

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01-03-2012 11:39

Homeowners: the gravediggers of capital

In the previous issue of SHIFT, we launched a series of articles discussing the relevancy of lifestyle choices for radical politics. In the first article from the latest issue (Issue 14) to go online , TOM FOX continues the series with a critical look at housing cooperatives, arguing that networks such as Radical Routes have all too often tended to miss what exactly it is - or what could be - that's radical about coops in general, and housing coops in particular.

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29-02-2012 13:37

Occupation starts as camp ends

Occupy Birmingham will be leaving the park behind Symphony Hall today. The occupiers have had a permanent presence in Birmingham City centre since October 15th, first in Victoria Square and latterly in the park on Cambridge Street. The camp is the longest occupation in England, it might be dismantling but this does not end the activities of Occupy, far from it. This is not the beginning of the end, but is the end of the beginning phase of Occupy.

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26-02-2012 14:32

The lies of a youthcare employee

Exposing the lies and perjery of a youthcare employee, on the basis of a different riligion.
The courts and state do nothing to right this wrong.
The queen, who privatised childcare, could not care less.

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22-02-2012 17:54

Trial Collapses in Farce As Judge Throws Out Case After 10 Minutes

Last year three people were arrested for displaying a banner on the bridge connecting the Hyatt hotel during the Lib Dem conference in Birmingham.  https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/2011/10/486177.html

One of them was then held in prison for ten days and suspended from his job for three months. Yesterday the case went to trial but was thrown out of court after only ten minutes.

The following statement is taken from the Banner Drops are not a Crime website:

 https://bannerdropsarenotacrime.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/trial-collapses-in-farce-as-judge-throws-out-case-after-10-minutes

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22-02-2012 11:48

New Leeds ABC T-shirts

Anarchist Black Cross T-shirt Look good and support a good cause.

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22-02-2012 00:08

Food is a right not a privilege – statement of solidarity

The first arrest for sharing food in Orlando, Florida Birmingham Food Not Bombs would like to issue a statement of solidarity to all groups and people around the world who have been arrested for sharing food with the hungry. There’s been a worrying trend recently in America of new laws being introduced to prevent free food being given out to the hungry which has resulted in many people being arrested and held for days in prison. There has been a call out for people around the world to consider sharing free meals in celebration of our right to food on Sunday 1st April. Food is a right not a privilege.

 https://network23.org/brumfnb/2012/02/21/food-is-a-right-not-a-privilege-statement-of-solidarity/

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19-02-2012 22:51

Please help us to get live hare coursing banned in Ireland

What passes for "sport" in some quarters... A Bill proposing a ban on hare coursing will soon be debated in Ireland's parliament. We are seeking the support of people worldwide to influence our political leaders to back this measure.

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19-02-2012 19:58

European Liberals – 2 Shameful Videos, Just to Remember

THESE SO CALLED “PACIFISTS” HAVE PUSHED AND SUPPORTED THE MEDIA CAMPAIGN OF PROPAGANDA FOR THE AGGRESSION AGAINST LIBYA, AND THEY ARE GUILTY EXACTLY AS THE NATO AND ITS MERCENARIES WHO DEVASTATED THE JAMAHIRIYA.

SHAME ON “STOP THE WAR COALITION” AND SHAME ON BRITISH “SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY“ AND ALL NATO-PUPPETS, OF EVERY COLOR.

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19-02-2012 11:21

Libya one year on

Remembering the events that led up to NATO waging war and the subsequent imperialist blitzing of the Libyan People's Jamahiryia

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18-02-2012 22:49

UK-wide day of action against workfare – Saturday 3rd March

In solidarity with Liverpool Uncut’s action against workfare on Saturday 3rd March, Boycott Workfare has called a national day of action against workfare. There’s already actions planned in Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, London, Leeds, Sheffield and Tunbridge Wells (with Glasgow, Lincoln, Notts and others planning!). Why not visit your high street as well?

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18-02-2012 10:16

Boycott Workfare National Day of Action, 3rd March, Poundland Picket

Picket & Demonstration outside Poundland, on Union Street in Birmingham City Centre calling for them to withdraw from workfare schemes. If they have withdrawn before the 3rd of March, we will picket Tesco on New Street instead. If Tesco have withdrawn make sure you check here to see who else remains.

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