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EDF French nclear power station leak - UPDATE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricastin_Nuclear_Power_Center

In July of 2008, 18,000 liters (4,755 Gallons) of Uranium solution containing natural uranium were accidentally released. Due to cleaning and repair work the containment system for a uranium solution holding tank was not functional when the tank filled. The inflow exceeded the tank's capacity and 30 cubic meters of Uranium solution leaked with 18 cubic meters spilled to the ground. Testing found elevated uranium levels in the nearby Gaffière and Lauzon rivers. The liquid that escaped to the ground contained about 75kg of unenriched uranium which is toxic as a heavy metal while possessing only slight radioactivity. Estimates for the releases were initially higher, up to 360kg of natural uranium, but revised downward later. [3]

French authorities have banned the use of water from the Gaffière and Lauzon for drinking and watering of crops. Swimming, water sports and fishing were also banned.

This incident has been classified as Level 1 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

2,000 Mink Freed - Dedicated To Austrian Prisoners

23-07-2008 17:17 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | Repression | World

Dedicated To Austrian Prisoners

http://austriasolidarity.com
2,000 Mink Freed - Germany
anonymous communique (translation):

HLS Supplier Staples Targeted in the Midwest

23-07-2008 14:43 | SHAC | Animal Liberation | Health | World

On Monday, July 14th, activists left over ninety "Staples kills" fliers throughout the Staples store in Terre Haute, Indiana at 125 Davis Avenue. Soon after, on Tuesday, July 23rd, activists left over 120 "Staples kills" fliers throughout a Staples store in Chicago, Illinois at 711 West Jackson Boulevard.

Palestine Today 072308

23-07-2008 14:30 | Anti-racism | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday July 23rd, 2008

Zimbabwe: Western Lies and Hypocrisy

23-07-2008 02:40 | Social Struggles | World

How Do We Know What We 'Know'?

In recent times I have been reasoning with many people about what is happening in Zimbabwe, and a continual theme that emerged is just how much people rely on mainstream media for views about Zimbabwe and the wider world. Many persons admitted that BBC and/or CNN were the main sources that 'informed' their perspective on Zimbabwe. However, the Western Media, especially BBC and CNN, are openly on a mission to demonize President Robert Mugabe and bring about regime change in Zimbabwe. So it is like asking a person's sworn enemy for opinions/news about that person. Very unbalanced stories will be told. It is clear that the Western international media is complicit in fabricating/distorting stories to justify intervention in the affairs of sovereign nations. And that is one of the main points that is connected to understanding the Zimbabwe issue. Local media around the world, especially where I am from in the Caribbean, simply reproduce coverage by the dominant international media. Even when local commentators try to analyze the events they end up giving a very distorted picture mainly because they assume that the news they get from Western sources are true.

Direct Action; UK, USA, Spain & Mexico

22-07-2008 15:55 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | World

19th-22nd July

ANOTHER UCLA VAN OUT OF ACTION (USA)
TRUCK AT CHICKEN MARKET COVERED IN PAINT (Mexico)
BRICKS THROWN THROUGH WINDOWS AT ESCADA (Spain)
GROUSE, PHEASANT PENS DESTROYED (UK)
FUR SHOP SABOTAGED (Spain)
PROCTER & GAMBLE PRODUCT TAMPERING (Spain)

France: Immigrants strike for the right to work

22-07-2008 14:32 | Migration | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

“They work here, they live here, they stay here!”
French immigrants strike for the right to work—and win.
By Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly

The State Religion of Competition

22-07-2008 12:11 | Education | World

The inevitability or desirability of competition is a myth. Competition is learned and not part of our nature. Cooperation makes possible top performance, not competition. The alternative to No.1 is not No.2 but rejecting the whole mania of rankings. Masculinity really has nothing to do with hitting a golf ball in a hole.

Boris Johnson will face tough court fight if he backs Crossrail hole scam

22-07-2008 10:43 | Analysis | Social Struggles | World

Harriet Heartless is set to making a gloating announcement today around the Houses of Parliament
confirming her backing for the Big Business Crossrail hole scam

Guardian Story Reveals Brown a Christian Zionist

22-07-2008 05:25 | Anti-militarism | Other Press | World

The Guardian shamelessly repeats Brown's long-refuted LIE that Iran's president threatened to "wipe Israel off the map", and frames its story in the language being used by the belligerent parties in Israel and the US, the ones threatening another illegal war, the ones who have created the illusion of a crisis, in order to feign justification for a war they planned years ago.

But to its credit, they've also outed Brown as a Zionist, and all future statements by this dangerous and irresponsible sycophant should be considered with this in mind.

No Middle East Peace Without Tough Love

https://israel.indymedia.org/mod/otherpress/display/275

Saving Iceland Blockades Century Aluminum Smelter and Elkem Steel Factory

21-07-2008 23:18 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Globalisation | World

Saving Iceland, July 21st 2008 Press Release
GRUNDARTANGI – Today 20 activists from Saving Iceland blockaded the single supply road to Century Aluminum’s smelter on Hvalfjordur and Elkem – Icelandic Alloys steel factory. They have chained themselves to each other using arm tubes to form a human blockade as well as using tripod for the first time in Icelandic history.

Naples. On the sand, two starfish...

21-07-2008 14:54 | Anti-racism | World

Two children of the Roma ethnic group drown in Naples. Next to their lifeless bodies people continue to sunbathe, have fun and swim in the sea.
Pictures on:

http://www.everyonegroup.com/EveryOne/MainPage/Entries/2008/7/20_Two_children_of_the_Roma_ethnic_group_drown_in_Naples.html

German prisoners bound for hunger-strike over conditions

21-07-2008 14:50 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Solidarity welcomed! - Almost 500 prisoners in Germany have answered a call for a co-
ordinated hunger-strike on August 1st - 7th by prisoner solidarity
group "Iv.i" (Representation for the Interest of the Detainees).

Palestine Today 072108

21-07-2008 14:50 | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Monday July 21st, 2008.

Italy G8 summit site switch?

21-07-2008 12:40 | Social Struggles | World

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has hinted that next year's Group of Eight summit may not take place on the small island of La Maddalena as planned.

Dictatorial Powers

"Based on advice given to Donald Rumsfeld by Defense Department lawyers regarding the use of isolation at Guantánamo, when the lawyers warned that it was "not known to have been generally used for interrogation purposes for longer than 30 days," Marri has now been held in solitary confinement for 66 times longer than the amount of time recommended by the Pentagon's own lawyers (this figure includes the six months that he spent in isolation in Peoria County Jail and the Metropolitan Correction Center in New York, before being transferred to Charleston)."

Cultures combined

21-07-2008 08:54 | Culture | Education | Other Press | World

Independent Street Carnival Troupe perform at the Pakistan Forum.

Letter from Austrian Prisoner: Christoph

20-07-2008 18:22 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | Repression | World

Open letter from Christoph, July 7th 2008
More info

http://austriasolidarity.com

"La Pastora Durrut" of the Maquis a heroic story of autonomy.

20-07-2008 17:28 | Culture | History | World

Hopefully later this year will see a book by José Calvo published which draws on files and archives and interviews and his own attendence as a youth at a trial of one of the "Maquis" those guerillas who offered the last organised resistance against Franco and fascism in Spain from the end of WW2 and the vain hope that the allies would re-establish the legitimate republic through to their dwinding end in the 60's.

His book will at last tell the story of One of the Maquis who has long needed reclaiming from the lies and distortions of the past.

An individual who took the nom de guerre as a Maquis, or member of the AGLA (usually denominated as communist), of "Durruti" (after the honoured Barcelona anarchist). Before that at the age of 32 he had taken the equally momenous step of taking the name "Florencio" in replacement of the "Teresa" which his parents upon seeing his genital malformation had registered on his birth certificate "to avoid later complications" & it was said "military conscription".

Analysis of the Oaxacan social movement from within.

Analysis of the Oaxacan social movement from withinm written by some of those intimately connected to grassroots struggle and organisation.

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EDF French nclear power station leak - UPDATE

2,000 Mink Freed - Dedicated To Austrian Prisoners

HLS Supplier Staples Targeted in the Midwest

Palestine Today 072308

Zimbabwe: Western Lies and Hypocrisy

Direct Action; UK, USA, Spain & Mexico

France: Immigrants strike for the right to work

The State Religion of Competition

Boris Johnson will face tough court fight if he backs Crossrail hole scam

Guardian Story Reveals Brown a Christian Zionist

Saving Iceland Blockades Century Aluminum Smelter and Elkem Steel Factory

Naples. On the sand, two starfish...

German prisoners bound for hunger-strike over conditions

Palestine Today 072108

Italy G8 summit site switch?

Dictatorial Powers

Cultures combined

Letter from Austrian Prisoner: Christoph

"La Pastora Durrut" of the Maquis a heroic story of autonomy.

Analysis of the Oaxacan social movement from within.

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