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Vegan Prisoner Support Group Benefit Fri 17 July in Brum

14-07-2009 19:31

The VPSG provides help, support, and information for vegans detained either in police custody or within the prison system. VPSG also try to ensure that the prison vegan diets are nutritionally sound and that vegan clothing, hygiene and bodycare products are made available or can be ordered or sent in to vegan prisoners.

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Discussion on Public Services

13-07-2009 15:35

Another Radical Discussion at the J.B Spray, this time it's on the ways in which Public Services will be provided in a non-hierachical society.

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July Events at 56a Infoshop, London (Film and Zines)

12-07-2009 22:22

Here is this months events at 56a Infoshop in South London, a social centre now in its 18th year of operation. As usual there is the monthly screening of films about work presented by Full Unemployment Cinema. Also there is a special weekender organised to show our finally rejigged Zine Library.

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Anti BNP Rally - Lincoln

12-07-2009 10:10

Anti BNP Rally - Lincoln - Saturday 11th July 2009

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UK's National Portrait Gallery Threatens To Sue Wikipedia User

12-07-2009 08:42

The National Portrait Gallery of London is threatening litigation against a Wikipedia user over his uploading of pictures of some 3,000 paintings.

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Aspire (Leeds) - Chris has hanged himself

12-07-2009 08:13

Aspire (Leeds) - Chris is dead but will not be forgotten

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How the State Crushed the Early 90s Free Party Scene

12-07-2009 07:52

For a brief moment, at vast and lawless raves such as Castlemorton, a generation glimpsed an alternative way of life. Speaking to survivors of the early 90s free party scene, Tim Guest tells the story of how the state crushed the dream

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City Council Hands £30k to PwC to Answer the Obvious

09-07-2009 14:16

Nottingham City Council are paying PricewaterhouseCoopers to conduct a study into hiving off services to a non-profit trust.

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UpRise: Rise Festival Picnic in the Park

08-07-2009 11:13

Sunday, July 12th marks one year on since Europe's largest anti-racism event, Rise Festival, last took place.

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Nottingham Carnival 2009

07-07-2009 19:25

Notttingham's annual carnival took place at the city's Forest Recreation Ground on July 3rd and 4th with a procession of dancers and floats from the castle on Sunday 4th. The parade was a well attended event with the warm weather encouraging large crowds along the route, through Radford and Hyson Green.

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Revolutionary Cynicism

07-07-2009 17:10

In order for a truly autonomous movement to be realised, the rebellion must trascend consciousness, theory and action, with a true hatred for all civilized convention as a fundamental starting point. Enough about the December uprising, maybe some due time should be paid to their forefathers!

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Bradford's BNP Latest Meeting Place

05-07-2009 10:50

West Yorkshire's BNP current meeting at a popular music venue that regularly hosts local bands from West Yorkshire and beyond, the Royal pub in Low Moor. Like their hero Adolf Hitler with his beer hall meetings, the Royal is where West Yorkshire's fat and ugly BNP demifuhrers now meet regularly to plot their campaigns of hatred.

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A rap-song for Thomas Schulz, aka Schmuddel

01-07-2009 23:14

Thomas was an antifascist punk. He was killed at the 28.3 2005 by a
joung Nazi-Skinhead in Dortmund, Germany.
To remember him two members of the antifascist youth group AJB from the
neighbourtown Bochum put an antifascist rap in internet.
You will find a MP3-version of the song and a short selfmade video on

http://www.myspace.com/iceclimberniemand

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Animal Rights Gathering in North Korea

01-07-2009 14:40

The well-known exiled North Korean painter and animal rights activist Latuff, who is living in Brazil produced a new copyright-free picture in support of COALITION FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS IN NORTH KOREA IN EXILE (CARNKE). The picture shows some courageous fighters of the ANIMAL LIBERATION ARMY - KOREAN PEOPLE´S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC (ALA-KPDR) at their clandestine animal rights gathering near Pjoengjang zoo in 1985, planning an attack to liberate tortured galapagos-iguanas, who are abused for perversions like games, similar to spanish bullfights.

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"Be The Media!" at Glastonbury

25-06-2009 16:07

Maybe not to everyone's tastes, but this years Glastonbury Festival is in full swing and Indymedia is there to cover the goings on that are relevant to the activist community and to reach out to get people involved and excited about participating in Indymedia collectives around the country. A mobile "Be the media" centre has been provided by the Northern Indymedia collective at the Veggies Catering Campaign pitch in the green futures field and will be running alt-media workshops throughout the weekend in conjunction with IMC Nottinghamshire. Don't hate the media, BE THE MEDIA!

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Holocaust Denier Nick Kollerstrom to appear at Conway Hall

24-06-2009 11:35

“Conway Hall is a landmark of London’s independent intellectual, political and cultural life.

For over one hundred years the Ethical Society had its centre at South Place in the City of London, where it fostered freedom in moral and spiritual life and thought. In order to have a wider range of influence and greater scope for development the Society decided to build a new home in Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury.”

http://www.conwayhall.org.uk/

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Bradford Zine Fayre 2009

23-06-2009 11:12

Sunday 21st June saw a hoard of zinesters descend on the Treehouse Cafe, Bradford for a full day of zine trades, workshops and live poetry performance. Plus the compulsory vegan feast of culinary delights. Here's some photos and more details of what went down...

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Croeso Americanaidd: An American Welcome for Arfon Gwilym

22-06-2009 17:28

In June of 2009, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security denied respected musical artist, publisher and Weslh language activist Arfon Gwilym entry into the United States to perform at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington. D.C. (info:

http://url.ie/1ufy )

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Picnic Festival 2009

22-06-2009 16:14

After an absence of a few years, the Ambient Green Picnic is back in Guildford, only it is no longer called ambient or even green, is a shadow if not a parody of its former incarnation and what was once a free festival now costs a tenner to get in.

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Scientology is about to implode

21-06-2009 15:58

The pyramid scam otherwise known as the Church of Scientology has received the first of three major body blows from which it is unlikely to ever recover.

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