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25-01-2011 13:02

A National 500m Buffer Zone Campaign?

See how you can in three to five easy steps help to start a national campaign in support of Andrew Bridgen's 500m Buffer Zone Bill to stop any future English opencast mining from happening near where people live. Scotland and Wales already have such protection, we in England, do not.

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25-01-2011 11:54

Careers Group defends inclusion of arms company BAE Systems in careers events

Protesters unite under the Ban BAE banner The Careers Group (University of London) organises the Guardian Graduate Fair which last November exhibited numerous companies including BAE Systems (the worlds largest weapons producer. Students and campaigners protested in front of the BAE stall and at their presentation and an open letter signed by student representatives was presented to the Careers Group and The Guardian asking for the company to be excluded from future events. (To read open letter see  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/12/470099.html). We have received a vague response from the Careers Group defending the inclusion of the arms company at the event and we have responded with another letter, both of which are available to read here.

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22-01-2011 21:15

Dixie's Vintage Stall Cambridge's Last Fur Retailer

Vintage fur perpetuates the fur industry, as fur is make 'acceptable' in the vintage scene, it finds it's way on to the catwalk in the form of new fur. Indeed new 'imperfect' fur is often passed off as vintage by manufactures and finds it's way into vintage retailers.

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21-01-2011 16:07

Mayday Indymedia Film Screening - 29th Jan - Brighton

Mayday Indymedia Film Screening - 29th Jan - Brighton

The Mayday Indymedia Collective presents a screening Human Resources from Metanoia Films at 6.00 PM on Saturday 29th of January 2011 at the Cowley Club 12 London Road, Brighton, BN1 4JA. To be followed by a discussion. Read on for more information about the Mayday Indymedia Collective and other events that weekend.

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18-01-2011 00:14

Three undercover political Police unmasked as infiltrators into UK Anarchist, Anti-Fascist and Climate Justice movements.

PC Mark Kennedy (AKA "Mark Stone"), "Lyn Watson" and "Mark Jacobs" We have reposted with updates and corrections, this has many changes from previous post!

please flag up any mistakes and we will up date in 24 hours or so. We still need more factual information about their activities. The purpose of this post/thread is to create as clear a picture of the infiltrators as possible for activists worldwide.

If you wish to post about the bourgeois press then please post here.  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/01/472102.html

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17-01-2011 22:58

US Knew Tunisian Gov. Rotten Corrupt

Bin Alis demolition ? New Wikileaks: US Knew Tunisian Gov. Rotten Corrupt, Supported Ben Ali Anyway ... The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten released a series of US diplomatic cables from 2006 on massive and pervasive corruption and nepotism in Tunisia and its effect on economic development and social problems. The cables show that the United States government was fully aware of the dangerous and debilitating level of corruption in Tunisia, and its anti-democratic implications. But they raise the question of whether Washington was wise to make Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, despite his clear foibles, the pillar of its North Africa policy because of his role, as a secular strongman, in repressing Muslim movements (as William MacLean of Reuters argues).

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17-01-2011 20:51

Trees to be felled on Midsummer Common despite locals' opposition.

Some of the many artful protests by locals. A rather strange thing is happening on Midsummer Common in Cambridge.

Trees are being felled, despite minimal public consultation and local residents' very visible opposition, and yet we are supposed to believe this is Cambridge City Council acting democractically.

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17-01-2011 16:05

Silent Protest in Cambridge by Academics.

Today (Monday 17/01/2011) about 300 people gathered together on Kings Parade in Cambridge, front of the university Senate House for a silent vigil with Cambridge Academics as a protest against the government's higher education policies.

Many of them were university academics, who symbolically turned up in their black robes to represent the wider body of higher education tutors, whom are affected by the government's cuts to higher education funding.

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17-01-2011 09:57

Past Is Present: Settler Colonialism In Palestine

For over a century, Zionism has subjected Palestine and Palestinians to a structural and violent form of destruction, dispossession, land appropriation, and erasure in the pursuit of a new colonial Israeli society. Too often, this Palestine ‘Question’ has been framed as unique; a national, religious, and/or liberation struggle with little semblance to colonial conflicts elsewhere.

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16-01-2011 14:28

Tunisia: 23 years of autocratic rule

routed Bin Ali and ABBAS GAZA - Fatah, PLO backtrack on statement praising popular revolution in Tunisia ..... The Fatah-controlled Palestinian liberation organization (PLO) attempted to disavow earlier remarks in which it welcomed the overthrow of the Tunisian president after it issued a statement in this regard. Senior Fatah and PLO official Ahmed Abdelrahman said the PLO's executive committee did not issue any statement about the situation in Tunisia and did not hold any meeting during the last two days.

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15-01-2011 21:17

Three undercover political Police unmasked as infiltrators into UK Anarchist, Anti-Fascist and Climate Justice movements

PC Mark Kennedy (AKA "Mark Stone"), "Lyn Watson" and "Mark Jacobs" Statement for translation.

For attention of all international activist groups and movements regarding known involvement of UK undercover political police.
We need translation into French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Greek, Spanish, Polish, Russian, and any other languages people think are relevant. Please post translations here

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15-01-2011 15:29

Mook Vintage Closed Down? New Cambridge Fur Target!

Mook Vintage Closed Down... Mook Vintage (fur sellers) closed down, Dixie's Vintage stall maybe the last fur seller in Cambridge. Police fail to intimidation protesters:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2UCb2NXJgg

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12-01-2011 10:59

Zero Carbon Britain 2030

We are delighted to be welcoming speakers from the Centre for Alternative Technology to talk about CAT’s groundbreaking ZeroCarbonBritain2030 report, in which a team of distinguished academics and researchers show how Britain could eliminate emissions from fossil fuels within 20 years and break our dependence on imported energy.

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10-01-2011 22:47

two screws attacked as Littlehey prison set on fire

In what one can only hope is the second in a long line of prison revolts, prisoners refused to return to their wings after exercise, attacked two screws and set fire to and smashed up part of the prison estate

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09-01-2011 13:12

Smash HLS: Protest Target: Aircastle Limited

Campaign against animal torture company HLS- Fortress make their money; they are an investment company, and therefore rely on their subsidiaries and acquisitions to keep them profitable. This therefore widens the field considerably, and means that there are strategic protest targets across the world, from ski resorts to newspapers, which can all play a vital part in chipping away at Fortress' resolve.

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06-01-2011 15:53

Petition to cut military spending not education!

Want to take a stand in protecting education and condemning wasteful military spending? SIGN THE PETITION HERE!

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05-01-2011 11:05

Sizewell blockaders again walk free from court / case dismissed

Sizewell blockade - Feb 2010 (Credit: M. Harrison) Anti-nuclear campaigners again walk free from court / case dismissed

Two anti nuclear campaigners, Andreas Speck (46) from London and Ian Mills (45) from Chippenham, who appeared at Lowestoft Magistrates Court today (4 January) on charges of "failing to leave land" (S69(3)(a) CJPOA 1994) when they blockaded Sizewell nuclear power station in Suffolk on 22 February 2010 [1] walked free after the case was dismissed when the prosecution did not offer any evidence.

Report on the original action (Feb 2010):

Local Democracy Dumped! - Sizewell nuclear plant blockaded again
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/02/446513.html

Press Release (Tuesday 4 January 2011):

 http://stopnuclearpower.blogspot.com/2011/01/anti-nuclear-campaigners-again-walk.html

See also:

Activists 2 - EDF 0
 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/01/471549.html

Sizewell: Protesters walk free after CPS error
 http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/sizewell_protesters_walk_free_after_cps_error_1_766391

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04-01-2011 17:17

Activists 2 - EDF 0

Sizewell Blockade day one of a four day trial- Activist 2- EDF 0

For the second time in Lowestoft Magistrate courts- in court three, activists who blockaded Sizewell nuclear power station in Suffolk walk free.

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03-01-2011 12:58

WIKILEAKS: Israel has 100 bunkerbusters

In the autumn of 2009, American and Israeli leaders agreed that they should keep secret the delivery of bombs that can destroy Iranian nuclear facilities. In November 2009, a high-level group of Americans and Israelis met in Tel Aviv. On the agenda was the political and military situation in the Middle East. Concern about Iran's nuclear program dominated both the American and Israeli delegation, according to a document that Aftenposten has accessed via Wikileaks. The document states that the Israeli government considers 2010 a critical year, provided that the Iranians continued to increase the defense of the nuclear facilities. -Both sides then discussed the upcoming delivery of GBU-28 "bunker-busters" to Israel. A point was made that deliveries should take place in secret so that allegations that the U.S. government was helping Israel to prepare for an attack on Iran, "could be avoided, according to the document.

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28-12-2010 21:02

Cambridgeshire Libraries

Cambridgeshire Libraries consultation asks loaded questions

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