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<< Page 68 | Page 66>>Campaigners lock themselves to the gates of arms factory on 10th anniversary of Iraq invasion
Campaigners have blockaded the gates of a Brighton arms factory on the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. A group of activists arrived at the EDO MBM factory at 6am and three of them affixed themselves to the gates using bicycle d-locks and superglue.
The action was held this morning to mark the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war in 2003.
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Catt judgement leave police intel gathering practices in tatters
For those of us who have spent many years fighting excessive and intrusive surveillance of political protest by the state, the victory of John Catt in the Court of Appeal this week was especially sweet. The judgement rules that the gathering and retention of information about John Catt’s political activity was an unlawful breach of his right to a private life, and leaves police intelligence gathering practices in tatters.
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Activist risks jail,pledges not to answer questions if stopped under Terror laws
Tom Woodhead, who is currently being held by Israeli immigration authorities has pledged not to answer questions if British authorities attempt to misuse the Terrorism Act 2000 when he is deported to the UK.[Full Story | 2 comments ]
UK peace activist faces deportation by Israeli occupation authorities
PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEUK peace activist faces deportation by Israeli occupation authorities and is set to be detained by Special Branch under anti-terror powers upon return
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Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000: A police snooping tool
Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 is being used to gather intelligence on activists. Corporate Watch would encourage anyone stopped under this legislation to expose its misuse.[Full Story | 1 comment ]
CPS Clears EDO Weapons Inspectors of All Charges
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free bradley manning graffiti
solidarity graffiti in exeter
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Remembering the dead in Gaza this Wednesday at EDO
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UK Peace Activists to Visit Afghanistan
For the first time since the invasion of Afghanistan, this month, a group of British peace activists will be visiting Kabul, with the intention of building links between the peaceful, day-to-day citizens of their two countries.
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Letter of Support for Ecostream campaign from Israeli group Boycott from Within
Support for the campaign to close doe the Ecostream store in Brighton.
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Israeli state funded Batsheva Dance performance disrupted
Press Release Friday 9th November 2012 Disruption of Israeli state funded Batsheva Dance performance : Brighton Dome
Friday 9 November
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Picardie, First World War, a mother’s grief.
The poem 'PICARDIE' was written by the mother of a young man Lieutenant A.N. Trotter who was killed in Bethune, France during the First World War. In it she recalls a holiday they had spent as a family in the same district when her son was just a lad of fourteen.
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the Bristol City Mayor Fix-Up
Bristol is being dragged into a bogus Mayor election that is attemting to pass over sixty percent of the electoral power over to one individual which in the modern world is considered either ludicrous or a regime and in historic terms, it was known as feudal. The article is written by Dave Dobbs who is running for Bristol Mayor who is running as a protest to the stupidity and to highlight why the Government wants Bristol under corporate lockdown seeming as it is one of the major locations that drones are now manufactured in the UK. And the prospect of war that now looms.
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Halloween haunting at EDO MBM - Demo report 31/10/12
Every year the victims of the components made at the EDO MBM factory rise from the grave and lurch toward the Brighton arms manufacturer in search of revenge and living flesh…
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Yearly Smash EDO Halloween demo, Wed 31st, 4pm
It's almost time for the yearly Smash EDO Halloween demo. Dress in your scariest mask and come prepared to haunt some arms dealers..
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"Vigil for Iran"
GRASS-ROOTS MOVEMENT. We build this campaign in solidarity with the people of the Middle East. The desire to create peace is the objective, with the aim of preventing an attack on Iran.
Weekly Vigil at Parliament Square, London SW1A OAA
5-7pm
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Smash EDO Fundraiser @ the Cowley Club tomorrow
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EDO parent corp director to chair secret Pentagon meeting on Iran
John J. Hamre is a former US Deputy Secretary of Defense, and the current chairman of Defense Policy Board, a secretive federal advisory committee to the United States Department of Defense. Hamre also happens to be a paid director of ITT Exelis, the parent of Brighton's own EDO MBM Technology Ltd.Cryptome.org has recently released documents of a secret meeting to be chaired by Hamre on the subject of ' national security issues regarding
Iran, including Internal Political Dynamics and Security Posture and
Capabilities.'
As the war drums beat louder it appears those with a direct financial interest in any military attack on Iran are at the heart of policy making machine that could make it happen.
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Israeli court finds that Rachel Corrie's death was a 'regrettable accident'
The judge in a civil case in Haifa over the death of Rachel Corrie, a US Palestine solidarity activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer while trying to prevent the demolition of Palestinian homes in 2003, has ruled that the Israeli state is not culpable.[Full Story | 8 comments ]
Manufacture of components used to fire cluster munitions challenged in court
Two anti-militarist activists were found guilty of aggravated trespass in Brighton today. The pair had glued themselves to the gates of the EDO MBM factory in the early hours of 27th April 2011 in protest at the sale of umbilical cables for use in Afghanistan and also to the Israeli military.[Full Story ]