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16-12-2004 18:32

Kelly Minio-Paluello arrested for filming peaceful demonstration near Ramallah

Journalist and community activist Kelly Minio-Paluello (23) was arrested brutally by Israeli Border Policemen while filming a peaceful demonstration on Tuesday outside Ramallah, Occupied Palestinian Territories. She is currently being held in Hadera Detention Centre awaiting deportation. Kelly has visited Cambridge several times. Her husband, Cambridge activist Mika Minio-Paluello, remains in Palestine.

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14-12-2004 16:54

Done up like kippers in Brighton!

Six Activists from London and Brighton were on trial this week for obstructing the access road into EDO/MBM Technology, a factory producing bomb-release mechanisms and tank diagnostic systems for the US/UK and Lockheed Martin. Protesters planned to use the case as a platform to allow victims of attacks using similar equipment in Iraq and Palestine to give evidence in court, Brighton magistrates had other ideas

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07-12-2004 17:59

Letter to Blair Seeks Iraqi Civilian Deaths Inquiry

Former ambassadors, senior military figures and a bishop were among 44 signatories of an open letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair today calling for an inquiry into civilian deaths in Iraq.

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06-12-2004 13:49

NO ID IRAQ

ID cards are being trailed in Iraq, before they come here

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05-12-2004 12:01

Blunkett: a case for prosecution under harassment law

AS A lawyer, I have other concerns beyond whether David Blunkett is the father of the two children to a married woman he was having an affair with and whether he fast-tracked a visa for her servant.
Is he guilty under the law of harassment?

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25-11-2004 16:29

Anti-war protesters brake into Cabinet Office minutes after Queen Speech

Blair's ring of steel fails to stop protesters

Key points
• Anti-war protesters brake into Cabinet Office minutes after Queen Speech
• Four arrested on burglary charges amid claims of police over-reaction
• Breach latest in string of blunders starting with flour attack on PM in May

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23-11-2004 11:18

Burning Solidarity with Fallujah - Palestine

'Al-Fallujah' spelt out in flames lights up the sky on Jabal Ash-shamliya, the m Nablus, Palestine, shows solidarity with the people of Falluja by writing 'Al-Falujah' in Arabic in flames on the mountain above the city

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22-11-2004 21:01

Battle of the Beanfield Film Screening

OPERATION SOLSTICE recounts the story of how 420 people were arrested on 1 June 1985 on their way to Stonehenge to hold the 11th People's Free Festival.

Using video footage, the police radio log, photographs and personal testimony to recreate what became known as the Battle of the Beanfield. This documentary presents horrifying evidence of the semi-military tactics employed by police as they smashed up travellers' homes.

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18-11-2004 20:30

Fallujans pay the price of liberation

When a nation's identity, existence and dignity is put at risk, the sacrifice required is far more than the lives of a group of fighters, and that is why Falluja has chosen to carry the flag of resistance in Iraq, in the clear knowledge it may be wiped out.

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11-11-2004 16:24

We seize servers, you can't complain - US gov

The US Government is attempting to block efforts to find out who seized Indymedia's servers in London last month. The Government has filed a motion in San Antonio District Court opposing the Electronic Frontier Foundation's motion to unseal the court order which resulted in the seizures, and arguing among other things that unsealing would "seriously jeopardize" an "ongoing criminal terrorism investigation".

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04-11-2004 20:11

ASCII reopens on Saturday

It was reported some time ago on this IMC that the ASCII computer collective in Amsterdam was evicted last month. (The eviction was broadcast from the inside, via a webcam, but anyway.) The good news is that the boys and girls are reopening this weekend, in a newly squatted building in the Wibautstraat, A*dam.

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02-11-2004 22:12

Ethnic Cleansing Drive in Britain

Borehamwood Borough Council, whose domain includes the world-famous Elstree film studious, is about to spend 250,000 Euro in an ethnic-cleansing operation against nomadic families living on their own land in the district.

But they won't be doing the dirty work themselves. Hired for the job is a company called Constant & Co., which boasts that it carries out a hundred such "move-ons" every month.

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29-10-2004 16:51

Forthcoming demo against arbitrary detentions, Woodhill Prison, Milton Keynes

MK Stop the War with the Campaign Against Political Terror plans a demo at HMP
Woodhill (in W. Milton Keynes), provisionally on Sunday 28 November,
12.30-14.30.

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25-10-2004 08:32

US casinos promised tax breaks - The poor get 50p rise

The ever ugly face of greed driven New Labor, How Blair worships the rich,
and trahes the poor

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24-10-2004 15:48

Blunkett legislates to silence lone protester at Westminster

His home is a roll of green plastic sheeting, his possessions no more than necessary to make coffee, keep warm and roll the occasional cigarette.
Approaching his fourth winter on Parliament Green, few passers-by even notice Brian Haw and his collection of anti-war poster. But Blunkett wants to legislate to silence him.

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23-10-2004 22:17

Storming the Palace

About 200 people storm the European Social Forum on Saturday October 16th 2004...

There's two versions of the same video - if you have the connection the MP4 is much better...

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18-10-2004 23:46

ESF demonstration and actions wrap-up

A quick wrap-up of the Sunday ESF events, demonstrations and actions.

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18-10-2004 11:07

Photos from the ESF march

Backwards inteligence team back Some photographs of the ESF march in London on the Sunday 17 Oct 2004.

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15-10-2004 19:26

Women's day.


On Thursday 14 October, at the European Social Forum there was a Women's day, which was organised by Global Women's Strike (See  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/2004/10/298661.html). There purpose was to give a voice to women who are normally silenced and marginalised by our society and also by mainstream feminist movements - African women, disabled women, asylum seekers and refugees, prisoners and the mentally ill.

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15-10-2004 10:52

MI6 Accused of Using Data Gained by Torture in Uzbek Jails

BRITAIN’S ambassador to Uzbekistan has accused MI6 of using information obtained by foreign governments through the use of torture, according to a leaked document published yesterday.

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