South Coast Newswire Archive

27-12-2006 09:35

Steve Pound MP on SOCPA - Radio 4 Christmas Repeal - Vote now!

Radio 4 is running a Christmas Repeal listener vote, and the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCPA) is one of the candidates. Steve Pound, Labour MP, was on the Today programme this morning talking a load of bull about SOCPA, but he was forced to admit that Maya Evans and Milan Rai should not have been convicted under the Act. This jolted me out of my apathy to go and vote and to send a comment to Today (below).

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21-12-2006 14:01

EDO Corp Director Found Guilty By US Inspector Of Conflict Of Interest

The US Department of Defense inspector general was instructed by US Congress last summer to carry out an 'independent investigation' into EDO Corp Director and former CIA man Dennis C Blair's involvement in the F22 multiyear contract, and has found paradoxically that he did breach conflict of interest rules, and yet this did did not affect the Institute for Defense Analyses report that recommended an extension of the F22 programme. Blair resigned as President of IDA and EDO Corp this summer after was revealed he and EDO stood to benefit financially from the contract which the so called independent IDA report recommended.

The New York Times has previously reported that despite the revelations about Blair, and opposition from George W Bush and Donald Rumsfeld to the extended contract for the system, that has taken 22 years to develop, and was intended for outdated Cold War battlefield scenarios, the Pentagon/Lockheed Martin F22 lobby group managed to sway the US Congress to extend the contract. The F22A Raptor is expected to enter active service in the next year and is the US's most expensive military weapon ever developed. Meanwhile the independence of a report by a Pentagon watchdog into a Pentagon preferred military project is obviously open to question.

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19-12-2006 23:19

55 mile walk from Brighton to London ends in SOCPA showdown.

3 Brighton activists marched the 55 miles for 3 days from Brighton to Whitehall to deliver letters to Downing Street and postcards to the foreign Office demanding the release of Brighton resident Omar Deghayes from Guantanamo Bay.

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19-12-2006 18:38

Stonehenge Solstice 2001 VIDEO

5min video chronicle of the Stonehenge solstice celebrations in Wiltshire

21st of June, 2001

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18-12-2006 23:49

Grey power for peace

Prosecutor's plan to retry 69-year-old Rosemarie Jackowski, for blocking traffic while protesting the Iraq war. The battle is turning the feisty 4-foot-10 inch former schoolteacher into a darling of the dove crowd, the anti-war movement's newest folk hero and cause celebre.

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18-12-2006 22:46

Police Refuse to Investigate Assault on Protester

Smash EDO Press Release

Contact Andrew Beckett or Sarah Johnson For more
Details

Email -  smashedopress@yahoo.co.uk, tel 07875708873

www.smashedo.org.uk

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18-12-2006 19:02

New Year's Eve Peace Vigil on Salisbury Plain

For the fifth consecutive year a Salisbury Plain Peace Vigil will be held on the army range at 12 noon on New Year's Eve 31 December 2006

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18-12-2006 16:35

Anti Lydd Airport statement from LAAG.

Lydd Airport bossses have today lodged a planning application to Shepway District Council for expansion.
Both group in the area are gearing up to respond to this and fight it all the way during next year. SDC are likely to put the plans out for wide consultation during first half of 2007.

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17-12-2006 14:10

Short film of smash edo masquerade

Smash EDO, www.smashedo.org.uk, aim to close down Brighton's arms dealers, EDO MBM

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16-12-2006 16:25

Privacy, Email and Activism - a brief intro

Recently there was a conference for activists interested in security issues - obviously something that any activist should be interested in. Notes from the gathering are being compiled along with previous documents into a printed booklet for activists which is expected to be distributed next year.
In the meantime I've been doing a little additional research on solutions specific to securing email communication...

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16-12-2006 14:55

EDO Trashed Again

EDO MBM are Brighton's very own arms manufacturers...

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15-12-2006 09:46

ROUGH MUSIC 13 IS OUT AND ABOUT

Brighton's **** stirrin' trouble makin' monthly is out and about on the streets. For an e-version go to www.roughmusic.org.uk

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15-12-2006 03:12

No ifs, no buts - corporate crime is completely fine!

A major criminal investigation into alleged corruption by arms dealer BAE Systems was halted yesterday when Tony Blair claimed it would endanger Britain's "national security" if the inquiry went any further.

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13-12-2006 17:41

Your mission, should you choose to accept it...

ID cards, injunctions, CCTV with voice activated alerts, national license plate monitoring, face recognition, directional microphones, network profiling, DNA databases, keylogging, phone taping, bugging and tracking, these are just some of the tools of repression being used against those battling to save the world from total domination and destruction.

This message will self destruct in 10 seconds.... 9.. 8.. 6.. 5.. 4.. 3.. 2..

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13-12-2006 13:51

Protest for abortion rights - March 2007

Following the successful FEMINIST FIGHTBACK conference on 21 October, activists are organising a national march for abortion rights on Saturday 3 March - the weekend before International Women's Day (Thursday 8 March).

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11-12-2006 22:12

This Weeks SchNEWS - Market Forces

THE EXPLOSION OF CORPORATE MERCENARIES

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10-12-2006 12:30

Israeli Goods Boycott

As part of the national Boycott Israeli goods day up to 15 people picketed Marks and Spencers today in Brighton.

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07-12-2006 14:41

EDO's Fans Sabotaged

EDO are a company producing weapons for the 'US and its allies'

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07-12-2006 14:21

Smash EDO Blockaders in Court

Three protesters had their first hearing in Brighton Magistrates today after blockading EDO MBM, Brighton

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07-12-2006 14:14

Photos of Smash EDO Masquerade

Yesterday Smash EDO held a victory masked ball to celebrate EDO's dismal performance in 2006

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