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UK Social Struggles Newswire Archive

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arroogahh! St Agnes Place eviction Friday 31st

30-10-2003 17:14

Just heard that the ballifs are due to return at 8am on Friday 31st Oct.

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Michael Howard MP.

30-10-2003 15:52

some basic info on M.Howard MP.

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LDMG UPDATE 24TH OCTOBER 2003

30-10-2003 13:28

LDMG UPDATE 24TH OCTOBER 2003
CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE:-
1. THE FUTURE OF LDMG? 2. WITNESSES NEEDED 3. HOW MANY PEOPLE CONSTITUTE AN ASSEMBLY? 4. ANTI-CAPITALIST PRISONERS ON HUNGER STRIKE 5. OBSTRUCTION OF THE HIGHWAY 6. LIBERTY JUDICIAL REVIEW 7. SUBSCRIBE

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Postie's Wildcat Spreads!

30-10-2003 12:20

The wildcat is spreading all over the UK.
Yesterday 20,000 in London walked out, joined in the evening by workers from Scotland, Berkshire, Coventry and other places.

More info below aswell as ways to show solidarity - get down to a picket line!

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hackmeeting held in Spain

29-10-2003 20:10

Last weekend saw the holding of the 4th hackmeeting in Spain - a meeting of community with social and technological activists.

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Library at LARC, Open meeting

29-10-2003 19:29

The distributed library project is part of an experiment in sharing information and building community. Unfortunately, the traditional library system doesn't do much to foster community. Patrons come and go, but there is very little opportunity to establish relationships with people or groups of people. In fact, if you try to talk with someone holding a book you like - you'll probably get shushed. The Distributed Library Project works in exactly the opposite way, where the very function of the library depends on interaction.

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Urgent: ESF in the UK? Sign the statement

29-10-2003 18:47

Please take time to read the statement below and if you can, please email your organisational or individual support. The correct email address is  ukesf2005@yahoo.com, not the one listed in the message below.

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Party and protest against sweatshops this Saturday

29-10-2003 11:26

Workers in a Mexican sweatshop supplying Levis and Tommy Hilfiger face starvation
after 7 were sacked (and 200 more threatened with it) for daring to form a union.

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ROMANIA: Diamond slavery

28-10-2003 21:17

Israeli entrepreneur Menachem Zvik, owner of the MCR International Afumati Romania - is working diamonds by exploiting its workers in apalling conditions.

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JUST PEACE NOW NEWS - north west

28-10-2003 14:20

JUST PEACE NOW NEWS
news of hopeful jewish initiatives for peace and justice in Israel/Palestine

Issue forty four - 26 October 2003

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Tube disaster and direct action

28-10-2003 13:53

On October 17th a Piccadilly line train crashed while less than 36 hours later a train derailed at Camden.

Later 3,000 more people were stranded on the Victoria Line and had to be evacuated. Several people were injured in these incidents – which along with a crash on the Central line several months ago, co-incidentally followed the privatisation of large sections of the Underground network.

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Argentina Video Collectives Screenings Thursday 30th Sept.

27-10-2003 11:41

Indymedia Cinema
@ The Other Cinema
presents

Argentina
Politics>Video>Art

Thursday, October 30th 9.00pm

The Other Cinema
11 Rupert Street,
London W1
Tel: 020 7437 0757
Nearest tubes: Piccadilly Circus or Leicester Sq.
5/7 pounds waged/unwaged


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Poster for Shebab Daiya film

27-10-2003 10:02

JPG of poster
This is the poster for "Shebab Daiya: Life in the Promised Land", which will be shown in Cambridge at the next Indymedia film screening on 2 November 2003.

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Those who seek ''the death of the United Nations''

26-10-2003 22:07

While the United Nations is seen by many as merely a talk shop that gets little done, the truth lies elsewhere. For example, UNESCO has done a great deal for education and the work of UNICEF has been phenomenal.

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Save the European Social forum process!

26-10-2003 08:32

This is a sign-on statement, calling for the bid to bring the ESF to London in 2004 to be opened up to all social movements and made democratic and transparent. At the moment it is anything but.

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DAN Calls Time on Charities

26-10-2003 02:19

Who represents disabled people?

DAN calls time on charities

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Bush in Australia

25-10-2003 18:56

For detials of how our Australian friends welcomed Bush, check out the following links...

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Distributed Library Project meeting:

25-10-2003 01:38

Distributed Library Project meeting:
Sunday 26th Oct, 12noon - 5pm.
London Action Resource Centre, 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES Phone: 020 7377 9088

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St. Agnes Place eviction cancelled for the day.

24-10-2003 14:29

A general view of a few grups that gathered in the street
This morning, the bailiffs turned up at St. Agnes Place. However, they just passed by in their car a few times.
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