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British American Tobacco AGM targetted by ASH protest

03-05-2008 08:44

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BAT sells 100 billion cigarettes each year in africa causing a hundred thousand deaths. early on weds 30th april young volunteers from 'action on smoking and health' (ASH) laid shoes outside the BAT HQ to represent the dead, then energetically harangued delegates outside the AGM.

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Green Taxes: A Hard Lesson For Environmental Lightweights

02-05-2008 10:15

So, as I suspected all along; according to an article in todays Independent, the public don’t support “green” taxes.

"More than seven in 10 voters insist that they would not be willing to pay higher taxes in order to fund projects to combat climate change, according to a new poll. "


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Threatening phone call from Ex Home Secretary & US lacky John Reid MP

01-05-2008 20:35

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Drunk Ex UK Home Secretary John Reid wants me to "stop hankering" the Bilderbergers. See all the latest on my War on Terror analysis at  http://www.bilderberg.org

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BT staff protest against anti-Irish discrimination

29-04-2008 19:06

BT Ireland workers protest against anti-Irish discrimination
On Tuesday April 22nd a large group of BT Ireland staff, with support from other CWU members, held a public protest at the corporate head office for British Telecom in Dublin

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Global Famine: The Lords of Capital Decree Mass Death by Starvation

29-04-2008 14:42

The men who profit from such mass murder use terms like "structural adjustment" and "economic fundamentals" to attach a veneer of rationality to a chaotic system they have created on the fly for the sole purpose of mega-theft.

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NYC's 'Movement for Justice in El Barrio' - 1st UK Speaking Tour Details!

28-04-2008 23:03

Please FWD and publicise >>>

// 1st UK Speaking Tour of New Yorks 'Movement for Justice in El Barrio' Taking Place in May 2008!

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Making a killing from the food crisis

28-04-2008 10:25

The world food crisis is hurting a lot of people, but global agribusiness firms, traders and speculators are raking in huge profits. The fundamental cause of today's food crisis is neoliberal globalisation itself, which has transformed food from a source of livelihood security into a mere commodity to be gambled away, even at the cost of widespread hunger among the world’s poorest people.

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Grangemouth UK oil strike & bosses tactical AGM in USA details

27-04-2008 12:40

they will be discussing tactics about grange mouth & most will be pressing Brown to crackdown www.trilateral.org
We must all support workers at Grangemouth leading fight for better pensions &safety, it is making people think about conserving fuel.
Renationalise, cooperativise& start drilling geothermal shafts rather than oil boreholes. Most rich corporations & billionaires pay little or no tax, in fact they are often subsidised, whilst most tax dosh comes from people & cooperatives.
Fuel should be rationed at pumps & at terminals by worker cooperatives for those that need it & not gas guzzlers.
This is uncopyrighted at the moment, to those in the BBC & ITV do a good job with this information & you will get our support too.

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Trilateral Commission, G8 meeting now in Washington

25-04-2008 22:31

"French leader Valerie destaing after setting up G8 &"retiring" became a Trilateral attendee, but was never part of the corporate politburo with Kissinger & Rockefeller" Robin Ludd
Message to Trilateral Dragons Den come on,
cooperate, before our planet dies!,
Untested unsafe "magic bullets" will only make things worse!

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Starbucks v cowboy developers

25-04-2008 16:43

coffee shop looks familiar
Starbucks have had several cases recently of developers using the Starbucks brand name, corporate colours and logos in a clear case of 'passing off' to mislead the public with the intention to enhance the developer's own reputation by association.

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Not on the Label

24-04-2008 17:11

Not on the Label, an excellent book by Felicity Lawrence, exposes how big business destroys small business. When a small business tries to order ten copies to sell in their shop, they are told by the big business publisher Penguin their order is too small!

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Anti-Hunger Protests Rock Haiti

24-04-2008 11:31

Food Protests in Haiti
Demonstrations that started in Le Cayes on Thursday, April 3rd, against soaring food prices spread across Haiti to Petit-Goagve, Gonaïves, Aquin and, by April 7, to the capital, Port-au-Prince. Anger over rising prices has been building for many months with basic food stuffs increasingly out of reach for the poor. Tires were set ablaze in the streets and thrown together to form barricades that paralyzed traffic for days.

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"We Will Not Be Moved"

23-04-2008 20:18

El Barrio Fights Back Against Globalized Gentrification

By Michael Gould-Wartofsky
CounterPunch

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Why DID they "remember St George" . . . . then try to recuperate him ????

23-04-2008 14:31

seeing as its "St Georges Day" today, as current debates discuss if we should call it as a Holiday, a few bits of the backstory you mightnt hear about in most places

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1 may Day of Climate Action

22-04-2008 20:52

1 MAY: DAY OF CLIMATE ACTION
Invasion of the climate snatchers!
Only one week to go!
Contacts, resources and ideas for action, and public actions.


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Call for participation in the Radio and Public Media Forum, EA3, Peru

22-04-2008 15:30

Between May 10 and 16 in Lima, the Alternative Media Forum will be carried out with the support of Enlazando Alternativas 3 and a number of independent media of Peru, Latin America and Europe. These neetings will be parallel to the Fifth Summit of European Union-Latin America and Caribbean (EU-LAC) Heads of State, held in Lima.

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Talk on the Global Blood Trade and its Victims

22-04-2008 09:05

On Mon 28 April (5.15pm in School of Geography, Leeds), Carol Grayson will give a seminar on the ‘Global Blood Trade and its Victims’. She will talk about how blood has become a lucrative globalised commodity, the dire implications for patients’ welfare, and the campaigns fighting for justice.

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Global Food Crisis: Hunger Plagues Haiti and the World

22-04-2008 00:11

Consumers in rich countries feel it in supermarkets but in the world's poorest ones people are starving. The reason - soaring food prices, and it's triggered riots around the world in places like Mexico, Indonesia, Yemen, the Philippines, Cambodia, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Guinea, Mauritania, Egypt, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Peru, Bolivia and Haiti that was once nearly food self-sufficient but now relies on imports for most of its supply and (like other food-importing countries) is at the mercy of agribusiness.

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Film Screening tomorrow on Brad Will by Brazilian film maker and activist

21-04-2008 18:52

Latin Night will host activist from Brazil to screen new documentary on Brad Will

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March Against St Athan Military Academy, April 26

21-04-2008 10:17

On Saturday 26 April (1.30pm) people from all over the UK will be coming to Cardiff for the first national UK march against the proposed military academy at St Athan - a huge PFI project involving, among others, arms manufacturers Raytheon: if we do not act now, our taxes will fund their profits and the preparation of future Iraqs.
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