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Sequani Insurance

28-07-2008 00:48 | Stop Sequani Animal Testing | Animal Liberation | Oxford | World

The upcomming carnival Against vivisection (6th Sep) gives us a rare oppertunity.

An Egyptian Cult - Pictures taken secretly inside Dublin Central Freemasons Hall

27-07-2008 20:03 | Analysis | Culture | History | World

Today Freemasons may deny that any part of their cult hearkens back to the pagan gods of the Nile. Yet in Freemasons Hall, Dublin, home of the world's second oldest Grand Lodge, the Holy Royal Arch Room contains two large sphinxes and other sculptures aping Ancient Egypt. In Philadelphia, USA, the Masonic Temple boasts 'the finest specimen of Egyptian decoration outside Egypt'. Even London's Great Eastern Hotel at Liverpool Street station has a magnificent Egyptian Temple for lodges to rent for their ritual 'nights out'.

US increases federal Minimum Wage - "aspiring to more burger"

27-07-2008 13:33 | Globalisation | Workers' Movements | World

I've just read on wikinews how the US Federal minimum wage was increased last week from $5.85 to $6.55 an hour. If by chance you are one of those who haven't enjoyed a weakening dollar to spend your salary on fun weekend shopping sprees in New York City and thus learnt elementary currency trading, we're talking about an increase from £2.94 an hour to every 60 minutes.

This of course raises many questions. Not least of which might be : how much can you buy for $6.55 or £3.14 or would it be worth you spending a Sunday afternoon comparing wage levels between your locality and some other state in Europe?

New American ELF Prisoner: Brian Lefey

27-07-2008 10:16 | Ecology | Repression | World

Urgent ELP! Bulletin (26th of July 2008)

an attempt to assassinate bolivian president Evo Morales?

27-07-2008 01:13 | Social Struggles | World

LA PAZ - Bolivian President Evo Morales has voiced suspicions about the crash of a helicopter he used last week that killed five people, saying the incident was “probably not accidental”.Morales flew aboard the Super Puma on Sunday in southern Bolivia and was scheduled to use it again on Monday to travel from La Paz to the northern city of Cobija, said Defense Minister Walker San Miguel.

River City ADL Visits Dow Chemical

27-07-2008 00:32 | SHAC | Animal Liberation | Health | World

On Monday, July 14th, River City (formally known as Evansville, Indiana) Animal Defense League folks traveled to an office of Dow Chemical in Indianapolis, Indiana to disrupt and demonstrate against them for their involvement with Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS).

26.07.08 Climate Camp press conference

Images from the climate camp press conference, Saturday 26th July 2008.
The climate camp will move this weekend from its location at Heathrow Airport to a new location - Kingsnorth power station in Medway, Kent. This conference aimed to examine the ongoing situation at Heathrow and bring different groups such as Camp for Climate Action, local campaign groups HACAN and NoTRAG), and Greenpeace to discuss a broad strategy against expansion.

Ex-Mossad chief says strike on Iran could 'affect us for 100 years'

26-07-2008 21:09 | Anti-militarism | World

Note that most of the definitives tossed about by these Extremists are unsourced at best.

Neocons Lash Out at White House for Diplomatic Overtures to Iran

26-07-2008 21:07 | Anti-militarism | World

Lashing out is about all these disgraced War Criminals have left.

Are You Ready to Face the Facts About Israel?

26-07-2008 21:06 | Anti-racism | World

The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict
Published by Jews for Justice in the Middle East

As the periodic bloodshed continues in the Middle East, the search for an equitable solution must come to grips with the root cause of the conflict. The conventional wisdom is that, even if both sides are at fault, the Palestinians are irrational "terrorists" who have no point of view worth listening to. Our position, however, is that the Palestinians have a real grievance: their homeland for over a thousand years was taken, without their consent and mostly by force, during creation of the state of Israel. And all subsequent crimes—on both sides—inevitably follow from this original injustice.

This paper outlines the history of Palestine to show how this process occurred and what a moral solution to the region's problems should consist of. If you care about the people of the Middle East, Jewish and Arab, you owe it to yourself to read this account of the other side of the historical record.

Introduction
The standard Zionist position is that they showed up in Palestine in the late 19th century to reclaim their ancestral homeland. Jews bought land and started building up the Jewish community there. They were met with increasingly violent opposition from the Palestinian Arabs, presumably stemming from the Arabs' inherent anti-Semitism. The Zionists were then forced to defend themselves and, in one form or another, this same situation continues up to today.

The problem with this explanation is that it is simply not true, as the documentary evidence in this booklet will show. What really happened was that the Zionist movement, from the beginning, looked forward to a practically complete dispossession of the indigenous Arab population so that Israel could be a wholly Jewish state, or as much as was possible. Land bought by the Jewish National Fund was held in the name of the Jewish people and could never be sold or even leased back to Arabs (a situation which continues to the present).

The Arab community, as it became increasingly aware of the Zionists' intentions, strenuously opposed further Jewish immigration and land buying because it posed a real and imminent danger to the very existence of Arab society in Palestine. Because of this opposition, the entire Zionist project never could have been realized without the military backing of the British. The vast majority of the population of Palestine, by the way, had been Arabic since the seventh century A.D. (Over 1200 years)

In short, Zionism was based on a faulty, colonialist world view that the rights of the indigenous inhabitants didn't matter. The Arabs' opposition to Zionism wasn't based on anti-Semitism but rather on a totally reasonable fear of the dispossession of their people.

One further point: being Jewish ourselves, the position we present here is critical of Zionism but is in no way anti-Semitic. We do not believe that the Jews acted worse than any other group might have acted in their situation. The Zionists (who were a distinct minority of the Jewish people until after WWII) had an understandable desire to establish a place where Jews could be masters of their own fate, given the bleak history of Jewish oppression. Especially as the danger to European Jewry crystalized in the late 1930's and after, the actions of the Zionists were propelled by real desperation.

But so were the actions of the Arabs. The mythic "land without people for a people without land" was already home to 700,000 Palestinians in 1919. This is the root of the problem, as we shall see.

http://www.wrmea.com/jews_for_justice/index.html

Free the Cuban Five!

26-07-2008 18:47 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

International Pressure Grows, Demanding U.S. Release of the "Cuban Five" Anti-Terrorists
(tune in to UhuruRadio.com Sunday for live interview with committee representative)

Direct Action; UK, Mexico, Finland & Sweden

26-07-2008 16:09 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | World

24th-26th July

THREE MICE RESCUED FROM PET STORE (Mexico)
WILD BOAR LIBERATED (UK)
MORE FUR SHOPS TARGETED (Sweden)
FUR SHOP ATTACKED (Finland)
MOOR SABOTAGE (UK)

Raga P and Trial delay of Malaysian Activists.

26-07-2008 11:27 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

This is a heads up on some of the repressions in Malaysia , from
colleagues and friends caught up in the new rules, regulations
and problems- which really have been building up since Anwar's
first trial.

http://www.suaram.net

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

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/05/398719.html

Victory Day for Seals in Europe

25-07-2008 22:51 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | Ocean Defence | World

News Release: 23/07/08

ALF Respond to Roundup of Lawful Activists by Freeing Animals

25-07-2008 22:26 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | Repression | World

On May 21st in Austria, the government carried out an unprecedented round-up of the country’s most prominent, above-ground, lawful animal advocates. Some of them have been on hunger strike in protest. The Guardian reports that “shelter workers, animal welfare teachers and public campaign organizers” are held “under suspicion of membership in ‘a criminal organisation.’”

News from the Austrian Prisoners

25-07-2008 19:27 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | Repression | World

Last week we “celebrated” Kevin’s, Jürgen’s and Felix’s birthdays outside the prisons. These were not normal vegan birthday parties.

More info (English solidarity website)

http://austriasolidarity.com and

http://antirep2008.tk

No Border Patras 08 -Greece

25-07-2008 19:17 | Anti-racism | Migration | World

NO BORDER PATRAS 08 -GREECE

It’s Chilling: Iraq Before Liberation

Often forgotten are the children whom the British Government also sought to "liberate" before rendering an estimated 4.5 million extra Iraqi children as orphans through "liberation"

Hijacker Legend is RACIST but how to lay down this gauntlet?

25-07-2008 18:14 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Terror War | World

‘There comes a time when silence is betrayal’ (Martin Luther King) - Is it racist and/or Islamophobic to continue to subscribe to the official story of 9/11? Should we not denounce it as a racist rumour?

MashCan Org: Canadian Doctors Exposed!!!

25-07-2008 18:14 | Health | World

The consuming public is very vulnerable to any value judgment made by a medical professional.

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Sequani Insurance

An Egyptian Cult - Pictures taken secretly inside Dublin Central Freemasons Hall

US increases federal Minimum Wage - "aspiring to more burger"

New American ELF Prisoner: Brian Lefey

an attempt to assassinate bolivian president Evo Morales?

River City ADL Visits Dow Chemical

26.07.08 Climate Camp press conference

Ex-Mossad chief says strike on Iran could 'affect us for 100 years'

Neocons Lash Out at White House for Diplomatic Overtures to Iran

Are You Ready to Face the Facts About Israel?

Free the Cuban Five!

Direct Action; UK, Mexico, Finland & Sweden

Raga P and Trial delay of Malaysian Activists.

Victory Day for Seals in Europe

ALF Respond to Roundup of Lawful Activists by Freeing Animals

News from the Austrian Prisoners

No Border Patras 08 -Greece

It’s Chilling: Iraq Before Liberation

Hijacker Legend is RACIST but how to lay down this gauntlet?

MashCan Org: Canadian Doctors Exposed!!!

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