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Peace Action London- Thurs 25th September

20-09-2008 18:41

The next Peace Action is taking place on Thursday 25th September.
Come and join in! We'll be meeting outside Holborn Tube Station @ 1PM, before heading to an army careers office.
For more info, please contact:

peaceactionlondon@riseup.net

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Iraqi Kurds deported to Northern Iraq

18-09-2008 17:38

Iraqi Charter flight landed in Erbil 02:00hrs this morning.

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Smash EDO Smashing Update

18-09-2008 10:17

Smash EDO Events

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Kick em off Campus - New Activist Network Intro Meeting

18-09-2008 10:13

Kick em off Campus is a direct action network that struggles against army recruitment and arms manufacturers on campus.

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Letters from Milwaukee. A new show from Riseup Radio.

18-09-2008 10:11

The first in a series of shows focusing on activism and music from cities around the world. Our first show comes from Milwaukee. A city famous for it’s breweries, cheese and giving the world the Fonz.

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Peace Action London- Thurs 25th September

18-09-2008 09:22

The next Peace Action is taking place on Thursday 25th September.
Come and join in! We'll be meeting outside Holborn Tube Station @ 1PM, before heading to an army careers office.
For more info, please contact:

peaceactionlondon@riseup.net

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22nd Sept - Brighton Against the Arms Trade

17-09-2008 22:26

Monday 22nd Sept

Brighton Against the Arms Trade - Public Meeting, 7.30 pm, Brighthelm Centre, North Rd, Brighton

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Forcible Deportation of Iraqi asylum seekers ended in violence

17-09-2008 11:59

The asylum seekers were to be deported to Erbil in Northern Iraq. However,
when one of the asylum seekers punched and smashed a window of the plane,
the Commandoes boarded the plane to try to unsuccessfully pin the Iraqi
asylum seekers down. The asylum seekers have been moved back to detention centres.
Many were badly beaten and are injuried as a result.

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13.09.08 Seven-day long US Embassy demo

14-09-2008 13:49

Images from the '7 days and 7 nights for 7 years' demo outside the US Embassy in London.
This was organised by 'We Are Change UK & TruthAction London', two groups who dispute the commonly-held idea that the final fall of the twin towers was caused by the two terrorist planes alone.
(The '7 days' theme was to coincide with the 7th anniversary of 9/11.)

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NO to Missile Defense - Oct 4 - Menwith Hill

12-09-2008 06:24

Show your strength of feeling against American Missile Defense by coming to Menwith Hill near Harrogate. This US system, which Brown quietly said yes to in 2007, is making huge waves in Eastern Europe: Poland has agreed to missiles and the Czech Republic, despite a majority of its people against, has agreed to the US radar component for MD. Russia is already comparing these plans to the Cuban Missile Crisis...

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Vigil at Home Office - Stop Deportations to Iraq

11-09-2008 22:29

Around thirty demonstrators held a lunchtime vigil outside the London Home Office on Thursday 11 Sept, 2008 to oppose the unfair detention and forced removal of Kurdish Iraqi asylum seekers from the UK, which has resulted in an unknown number of deaths. Photographs (C) 2008, Peter Marshall, all rights reserved

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Support Danish WMD Whistleblower Frank Grevil

09-09-2008 10:05

Frank Søholm Grevil (born in 1960) had the rank of major in Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste [FE] (Danish military intelligence agency). On February 22, 2004 he acted as a whistle blower leaking classified information about the FE's assessment of the possibility of weapons of mass destruction [WMD] in Iraq. These documents proved that Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen lied to the Danish parliament when he claimed that there was evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

Frank Grevil was sentenced to four months in jail for leaking these documents.

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TONIGHT-Filmmakers Against War/Nick Broomfield/Smash Edo/Andy Worthington

08-09-2008 08:13

Monday 8th September
As part of Portobello Film Festival

http://www.portobellofilmfestival.com/2008/09-08_inn.html
at Inn On The Green, 3-5 Thorpe Close, W10 5XL (2min from Ladbroke Grove Tube)

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Suicide among US soldiers to hit new record (by Latuff)

07-09-2008 19:42

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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Benefit for Circus2Iraq, 19th Sept, Brighton.

05-09-2008 11:50

Hi all!

Just a quick update on our fundraising, our mates in Brighton are putting on a big benefit night for us on the 19th sept, to help us get some much needed funds for the potential trip to Kurdistan in northern Iraq in October...

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Monday Sep. 8th - Filmmakers Against War/Nick Broomfield/Smash Edo/Andy Worthing

05-09-2008 10:24

Monday 8th September
As part of Portobello Film Festival

http://www.portobellofilmfestival.com/2008/09-08_inn.html
at Inn On The Green, 3-5 Thorpe Close, W10 5XL (2min from Ladbroke Grove Tube)

Free Entry All Night

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Georgia, NATO and the spread of war - public meeting in Cambridge

02-09-2008 18:42

Cambridge Stop the War Coalition will be holding a public meeting on 11th September, 7.30pm, Friends Meeting House, Jesus Lane Cambridge. The meeting will discuss the recent conflict in Georgia and the wider causes and implications of this conflict. The coalition has also organised transport to the national demonstration in Manchester, 20th September. Join the protest, bring the troops home.

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Obama's Choice of Biden: "The Devil Made Me Do It."

29-08-2008 21:36

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

Flip Wilson's comedic character "Geraldine" knew who to blame for her own indiscretions: "The Devil made me do it." The same goes for Barack Obama who, his
supporters are quick to explain, is blameless for his political sins and betrayals. The "white folks" made him do it, or "the polls" made him do it - but never the candidate, himself. However, it will be hard to find a devil to blame for Obama's choice of Sen. Joe Biden - "as much a war monger as George Bush" - as his running mate. The fact is, Obama "was never a progressive - he just briefly played one to win points in an Illinois
Democratic primary election six years ago." Let the Devil be.

Click the flash player link to hear this Black Agenda Radio commentary:

http://www.blackagendareport.com/mambots/content/plugin_jw_allvideos/jw_allvideos_player.swf?file=http://www.blackagendareport.com//BAR_Radio/mp3/098x_gf_biden.mp3&autostart=false

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