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Call for Submissions: Zine on Property Destruction

28-04-2007 07:51

Entering the radical community, many quickly find themselves constantly hearing about debate over property destruction. Is it violence? Does it matter if it's violence? Is it effective? Is it alienating? And on and on. I've been hearing this argument pretty much since I regularly started attending protests. At this point, I almost don't want to deal with the subject. Naturally, you're asking, "Then why the hell do you want to make a zine about it?"

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Hotdogs and poems - whats the difference?

27-04-2007 17:19

Audio
None according to Southwark Council's Street Care enforcers who confiscated poems from Joseph Marinus after his arrest for "breaching the peace" under Blackfriars Bridge last Saturday April 21st.

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Is Leadership Extinct in America?

27-04-2007 16:49

This is an overview of the trend seen in America of a failure of leadership during times of civil emergency. Law Enforcement is included. Following the Sept 11th attack, the US Federal govt has infused huge sums of money into law enforcement and even civilian training.
It appears that the answer to leadership in times of crisis in all sectors of US society
is to be found in the plain site, but is being missed by most citizens.

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Wonderland Down Under: Snoop Dogg refused visa

27-04-2007 16:32

Upside-down logic in the land down under -- Internationally known racist, war criminal, Iraqi holocaust denier and coward prime minister of Australia, John Howard stated that [black] entertainer Snoop Dogg had been banned from entering Australia for “sound reasons … I have to be careful what I say in these matters but he has been ... well there are certain judgments that are made on certain advice that I can't go into, but the reasons for banning him are sound," said Howard. Perhaps the black rapper is also a HIV carrier and votes Democrat! Howard recently levelled more criticism on US Democrats in relation to the war in Iraq. The absurdity and hypocrisy of Howard’s behaviour is reaching levels unimagined by even his most fervent critics.

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Queen's Market Supporters Picket St Modwen Meeting

27-04-2007 16:13

Friends of Queen's Market, who oppose the development plans for London's most ethnically diverse market, next to Upton Park tube station2727, today leafleted shareholders attending the annual meeting of developers St Modwen at Ironmongers' Hall in the City of London today.

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Wolverhampton's 13th Annual May Day Festival

27-04-2007 10:58

WOLVERHAMPTON's 13th annual MAY DAY FESTIVAL Tuesday 1st May 2007 7pm - 11pm
Pegasus Pub Function Room, Craddock Street, Whitmore Reans, Wolverhampton

details on www.wolvestuc.org.uk  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGptkBmCK0c

The 13th Annual May Day Festival organised by Wolverhampton May Day Committee,
has been sponsored this year by: West Midlands Fire Brigades Union & West Midlands UNISON and Midlands TUC. It’s theme is: Keep Wolverhampton a fascist-free zone.

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Camberwell Squatted Centre - Full Weekend Programme

26-04-2007 23:31

Here is your guide to the weekend's events at the CAMBERWELL SQUATTED CENTRE
190 Warham St
Off Camberwell New Rd
London SE5

Check the website for the full April/May calendar.

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Sheffield Peace in the Park - Saturday June 2 - Endcliffe Park - 12-8pm

26-04-2007 20:15

Peace in the Park
This year’s Peace in the Park festival is set to be the biggest and best ever!!!

Peace in the Park is 5! The festival started as a positive peace protest in 2003, at Devonshire Green, and has been moving and growing ever since.

Due to the huge attendance of last year’s festival in the General Cemetery, Peace in the Park will be moving to Endcliffe Park, Ecclesall road where there is enough space to pack in even more music, people and fun!

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new north london occupied social centre

26-04-2007 13:07

project 104 in leafy crouch hill
the old mountview theatre school site in crouch end is opening its doors to the public on sunday the 29th april after being abandoned by the drama school now based in wood green. the new social centre benefits from a small theatre, which can be converted for cinema nights, as well as exhibition space, large workshop spaces, a bar and kitchen, and residential area.

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The Copy/South Reader Response Project vs. WIPO's IP Day

25-04-2007 23:42

Copy/South Dossier cover
To mark World Intellectual Property Day (26 April), the Copy/South
Research Group calls on you to take up its slogan --'Encouraging
Creativity'-- and send in your creative thoughts and opinions on the
role of copyright law and ideology in the countries of the global South.

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Manor Gardens Petition -response

25-04-2007 19:02

Response recieved from Mr Blair following signing the Manor Gardens Allotments petition

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Bartleby not Radio Alice: Camberwell Squatted Centre film tonight

25-04-2007 12:56

Yes the film tonight at the Camberwell Squatted Centre has been changed at the last hour to the classic 1970 version of the Bartleby. He is the original refuser of work who 'prefers not to'. Free 7.30

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rampART / eviction / London / solidarity / La Universidad Pirata / Barcelona

24-04-2007 08:23

WHILE upscale universities open bio-technological parks sponsored by big
pharmaceutical companies
WHILE software companies and corporate record labels entertain themselves
with the futile exercise of hunting down so-called copyright delinquents
WHILE all forms of knowledge get privatized and the access to them becomes
even more elitist...

Universitat Pirata opens its doors

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Anti-deportation stall, Saturday, 28 April 2007, 12pm.

23-04-2007 13:28

Anti-racist activists from NWASDG and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! will be holding another anti-deportation protest and stall on Saturday 28 April from 12.00pm on Market Street in Manchester city centre. You are invited to attend and take an active part. Actions speak louder than words. Say no to the racist Labour government's policies of starvation, isolation, detention and deportation of refugees and asylum seekers, where it matters: on the streets. Defend all asylum seekers! No to deportations! No to British state racism!

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It's "International TV Turnoff Week" - kill your TV and get a life!

23-04-2007 13:25

Reality TV?
It's WhiteDot.org's "International TV Turnoff Week" this week - turn off your TV, do something fun with friends, live a little!

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Public Funds Wasted Busting Party in Granchester Meadows.

22-04-2007 04:03

Not a UFO, but the Copper Chopper!
If you go down to a field tonight you're sure of a big surprise, because you may find yourself surrounded by Police, out to use the full weight of the law and the resources of the State to stop you having any fun there!

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MAYDAY 07 - Camberwell Squatted Centre in Court but unbowed!!!

22-04-2007 00:03

MAYDAY…MAYDAY… CAMBERWELL SQUAT CENTRE GETS COURT PAPERS

So… the Squat Centre at 192 Warham Street, Camberwell, has received
court
papers… The owners of the building, so called, are seeking possession
of
the place, taking us to Lambeth County Court…on Tuesday May 1st! Yes,
Mayday! Well we weren’t going to work that day anyway…

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Vote Nobody! Campaign hits Cardiff city centre (w/ resized pics!)

21-04-2007 19:29

"Cardiff Anarchist Network", "southwalesanarchists.org" &"Nobody Represents You"
Nobody represents you! The Welsh Vote Nobody campaign continued in Cardiff city centre today...

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World Music Concert, May 6th 2007

19-04-2007 21:40

World Music Concert, May 6th 2007; 4 pm to 9 pm at the YMCA, Shakespeare Street, Nottingham

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'Government policy is racist!' says UCU head

19-04-2007 10:57

Alively Tower Hamlets Save ESOL public meeting, attended by over 100 people, heard from a wide range of speakers last night. Amongst them was Paul Mackney (Joint head of UCU) who pulled no punches about the governments proposals to end free entitlement to ESOL classess from September this year.
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