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Direct Action; Afghanistan, UK, Mexico & Switzerland

19th-22nd May

SOLDIERS STOP DOG FIGHT (Afghanistan)
SMEAR CAMPAIGN TARGETS NOVARTIS VIVISECTORS (UK)
SUPPORT FOR PRISONERS BY MEANS OF HAMMERS, PAINT AND FIRE (Mexico)
ARSON DESTROYS EARTH-DESTROYING TRUCK (Mexico)
WINDOWS SMASHED AT BUTCHERS, VEHICLES PAINTED AT FISH FARM (Switzerland)

Dissident Island Radio - latest show ready for download!

Download the latest show which aired live on 15th May 2009

This Week in Palestine -Week 21 2009

22-05-2009 16:09 | Palestine | World

Welcome to This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for May 16th through the 22nd, 2009.

Scottish Climate Camp 3-10 August - details

22-05-2009 15:51 | COP15 Climate Summit 2009 | Climate Chaos | World

"Global ecosystems are in collapse, species extinction is unparalleled
in human history and dangerous climate change is a reality affecting us
all. There is no time to act but now. Join us 3-10 August for a week of
low-impact living and high-impact direct action."

Sri Lanka conflict: And Then They Came For Me

22-05-2009 11:00 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Terror War | World

by Editor, 'The Sunday Leader'
Published: 11 January 2009

This was Mr Wikramatunga's last editorial, who was brutally assassinated on 8 January. The opinions expressed are the author's own. Extract was also published in the May/June 2009 edition of Amnesty Magazine.

Egypt pigs are being mass-suffocated and cauterised to death

22-05-2009 02:49 | Animal Liberation | World

Unbelievable cruelties are taking place in Egypt's pig cull that is unique in the world and totally unscientific. Take action now!

Tamil Hunger Strike Tim Martin, London - pictures

21-05-2009 22:30 | Analysis | Repression | Terror War | World

On the day US President Barack Obama signals for the enlisting of the power of fundamental values, Tamils continue to demand the British Government take action to help the Tamil people of Sri Lanka as they fall into unsupported statelessness.

Youth for Human Rights International World Tour 2009

21-05-2009 17:38 | Education | Social Struggles | World

In honor of the 60th Anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) is again circling the globe, now on its sixth annual World Tour. The exciting World Tour 2009 includes Argentina, Australia, Barbados, Columbia, Jordan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, Timor-Leste and Uganda.

SURVEILLANCE STATES

21-05-2009 14:58 | World

http://www.statewatch.org/
"SURVEILLANCE STATES: Government spying, civil liberties and the "special relationship": The American Civil Liberties Union, PEN American Center and Statewatch invite you to join experts from the US and UK at Garden Court Chambers on 31 May 2009 for a discussion of mass surveillance, its implications, and challenges to government policy and practice.

Government Critics to be Sent to Mental Asylums?

21-05-2009 14:24 | World

Government Critics to be Sent to Mental Asylums?

http://www.wikio.co.uk/uk_politics/government/home_office/secretary_of_state_for_the_home_department/jacqui_smith

"May 20, 2009
Mr X, who had called Jacqui Smith a communist, was stunned to be told that the GP had received a letter from the highly secretive Fixated Threat Assessment Centre following instructions from the Home Secretary herself."

Palestine Today 052109

21-05-2009 14:24 | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Thursday May 21st 2009.

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A film about using VHS video tape wins top fashion film festival

21-05-2009 12:30 | Gender | Health | World

Undercurrents won a film festival by stating our independence from consumerism

Cardiff Anarchist Bookfair this Saturday

21-05-2009 11:29 | Culture | Free Spaces | Workers' Movements | World

all the details:

http://southwalesanarchists.org/bookfair

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Self-Harm in Immigration detention January/February/March 2009

Immigration detention, is harmful to the mental well being of those detained the detention can lead to acts of Self-Harm

Around the Campaigns Thursday 21st May 2009

Constant Moussavou & Jean-Baptiste Bassime, still in the UK

Caren Ondimu and family, here to stay

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Fascism, Nazism and Avigdor Lieberman

21-05-2009 00:13 | Palestine | World

The article is a look at Avigdor Lieberman as the latest manifestation of Zionist-fascism. The author entreats the reader to decide, as a ''Juror of the Court of Public Opinion,'' to decide if, based upon the evidence presented, Avigdor Lieberman is really a Nazi. The article is noteworthy for its reference to Zionist collaboration with the Third Reich in the Thirties complete with source references.

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Palestine Today 052009

20-05-2009 15:08 | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Wednesday May 20th 2009.

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Lakes for Living – Lakes for Life ??

Wastwater cools the world’s most dangerous nuclear waste stockpile so you
would imagine that an international conference based in the Lakes on the
environmental impacts on Cumbria’s freshwater resources would have
something to say about existing and potential impacts of the nuclear
industry.

G8 Torino: Italian police baton charge students

20-05-2009 05:27 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Italian police fought running battles with thousands of students protesting over the economic crisis yesterday on the sidelines of an international meeting of university leaders.

Obama’s Animal Farm: Bigger, Bloodier Wars Equal Peace and Justice

20-05-2009 00:19 | Analysis | Globalisation | Repression | World

"The deteriorating position of the US is manifest in the tightening circle around all the roads leading in and out of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul as well as the expansion of Taliban control and influence throughout the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Obama’s inability to recruit new NATO reinforcements means that the White House’s only chance to advance its military driven empire is to escalate the number of US troops and to increase the kill ratio among any and all suspected civilians in territories controlled by the Afghan armed resistance."

World Newswire Archive

Direct Action; Afghanistan, UK, Mexico & Switzerland

Dissident Island Radio - latest show ready for download!

This Week in Palestine -Week 21 2009

Scottish Climate Camp 3-10 August - details

Sri Lanka conflict: And Then They Came For Me

Egypt pigs are being mass-suffocated and cauterised to death

Tamil Hunger Strike Tim Martin, London - pictures

Youth for Human Rights International World Tour 2009

SURVEILLANCE STATES

Government Critics to be Sent to Mental Asylums?

Palestine Today 052109

A film about using VHS video tape wins top fashion film festival

Cardiff Anarchist Bookfair this Saturday

Self-Harm in Immigration detention January/February/March 2009

Around the Campaigns Thursday 21st May 2009

Fascism, Nazism and Avigdor Lieberman

Palestine Today 052009

Lakes for Living – Lakes for Life ??

G8 Torino: Italian police baton charge students

Obama’s Animal Farm: Bigger, Bloodier Wars Equal Peace and Justice

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