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Coalition Against the Welfare Reform Bill - Manchester Demo

20-09-2006 21:28

Stroll, Roll and Rally against the Welfare Reform Bill!

Next Monday, 25th September, the Coalition Against the Welfare Reform Bill will be Strolling and Rolling across Manchester to lobby the Labour Party Conference.

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Mischief Makers build giant syringe in support of NHS march on Saturday

20-09-2006 21:18

Community arts and creative activist collective The Mischief Makers have build a giant syringe in support of UNISON's march to 'Defend the NHS' on Saturday. The syringe will read 'Inject more into the NHS' and is made in an effort to show solidarity to NHS workers as well as acknowledging that the ongoing cuts in and privitisation of the National Health Service is something that should concern everyone. The Mischief Makers also hope to add a more creative element to Saturday's march and rally, organised by UNISON, UK's largest union. The march will start from 10.30am on the Forest Recreation Ground. Come along and show your support!

Wikipedia on the Mischief Makers:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mischief_Makers

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Day 18 of Mersey Fire Strike: Compromise Seems Likely

20-09-2006 21:04

A compromise between the Fire Authority and Merseyside FBU seemed very likely tonight, as both sides talked up the chances of a deal.

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Australian government’s role in ousting East Timor’s prime minister Alkatiri

20-09-2006 20:11

Ousting of Alkatiri
The record of the Howard government in the ousting of Alkatiri demonstrates yet again that Canberra will stop at nothing to assert its economic and strategic interests in East Timor and throughout the Asian Pacific region. Having dispatched troops to the island in 1999 and 2006, the Australian government, with US backing, is determined to undercut its rivals and install a compliant regime.

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Nestlé, York, the Philippines and the boycott

20-09-2006 17:40

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Nestlé has just announced lay offs in York. Meanwhile in the Philippines trade unionist five years into a strike prepare to mark the first anniversary of the assassination of their leader. Nestlé was wining and dining trade unionists at the TUC a little over a week ago and is sponsoring a fringe meeting at the Labour Party Conference on Monday. As with the baby milk issue, it puts its own profits first while engaging in PR to divert criticism.

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What Future for Haiti? An Interview with Patrick Elie

20-09-2006 15:42

A new grassroots movement will have to form that comes from the street and grassroots mobilizations. Lavalas is this movement, but Lavalas and Fanmi Lavalas, although related, are different things. Fanmi Lavalas is a political organization. Lavalas is a political philosophy, not a party. Lavalas and the popular movement are one in the same. It was the name coined for it by President Aristide. But he did not invent the reality of it, he just put a name on it. He doesn’t own it. It owns him.

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There is no Palestine (Israel: Part 4)

20-09-2006 15:29

This is the fourth part of an ongoing series I am still in the middle of mulling over regarding my recent visit to Israel and Palestine. I went as part of an all female, religiously mixed group of 1 Jew, 4 Muslims and me, a little old nothingist (and occasional faux-Christian for balances sake).

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On being a security risk (Israel: Part 3)

20-09-2006 15:27

This is the third part of an ongoing series I am still in the middle of mulling over regarding my recent visit to Israel and Palestine. I went as part of an all female, religiously mixed group of 1 Jew, 4 Muslims and me, a little old nothingist (and occasional faux-Christian for balances sake).

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On how to tell a story (Israel: Part 2)

20-09-2006 15:25

This is the second part of an ongoing series I am still in the middle of mulling over regarding my recent visit to Israel and Palestine. I went as part of an all female, religiously mixed group of 1 Jew, 4 Muslims and me, a little old nothingist (and occasional faux-Christian for balances sake).

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Israel (Part:1)

20-09-2006 15:23

This is the first part of an ongoing series I am still in the middle of mulling over regarding my recent visit to Israel and Palestine. I went as part of an all female, religiously mixed group of 1 Jew, 4 Muslims and me, a little old nothingist (and occasional faux-Christian for balances sake).

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Battle for Spain

20-09-2006 13:36

Interesting book review on the Spanish Civil War

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Shell Still Stopped.

20-09-2006 13:00

Picket in front of main gate to the site
Latest news on the struggle against Shell in the West of Ireland. Large numbers at pickets prevent entry into refinery construction site. Shell’s public relations efforts come to naught.

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National Housing Federation Conference Providing Shelter for Corporate Bully?

20-09-2006 02:13

Flashback Shalom Family Campaigner for Social Justice NHF Conference ICC 2006
Birmingham International Convention Centre…20th-22nd September 2006, “The Annual Conference and Social Housing Exhibition 2006 is the most important event in the housing calendar. It is a 'must attend' for everyone involved in social housing”. Too exhausted to attend but nevertheless with very good reason, one Family openly invites the Federation to resist associations with corporate bullies.

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Housing and Land Rights 06 Campaign

20-09-2006 01:49

London Social Forum as part of international
support for World Habitat Day on Monday 2nd October 2006
Day of Direct Action on Housing & landrights in London.

Open Forum on speculation, housing, land, civil and social rights

Sunday October 1, 2006, 12.30pm-6 pm
Limehouse Town Hall,
646 Commercial Road, London E14 7HA

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A Dirty Business - Oxford University & the Dogs of War!

20-09-2006 00:17

It’s difficult to imagine Oxford University professors having cosy chats with seasoned mercenaries. It’s even more difficult to believe that there is a strong link between leading Oxford University academics and men who are paid to go to war and whose only loyalty is to their bank accounts. Or is it?

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PALESTINIAN RIGHTS - WOMEN’S RIGHTS- GAY RIGHTS - HUMAN RIGHTS

19-09-2006 23:49

FIGHTING ON TWO FRONTS:
A public meeting with Palestinian activist Rauda Morcos

Rauda Morcos, poet, teacher and co-founder of Aswat (‘Voices’), the
Palestinian feminist lesbian organization will speak about the work of Aswat, Palestinians inside Israel and the effects of Israeli occupation.

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Muslim radicalisation and British Foreign Policy

19-09-2006 23:13

Amidst world-wide Muslim protests at the Pope's recent remarks, Hizb ut-Tahrir (the Muslim organisation Tony Blair wanted to proscribe with his Anti-Terrorist legislation) called a typically (for HT) peaceful and low-key meeting.

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La Jornada: George W. Bush, Culpable

19-09-2006 22:39

Major Mexican paper covers the delivery of guilty verdict at White House gates by Bush Crimes Commission

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ASBO Squat 360 Panorama

19-09-2006 15:42

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ASBO Squat 360 Panorama

ASBO Squat, Burns Street, Nottingham

360 QTVR panoramic vista image

You need Quicktime for this. You can then open this link and you will see a 360 degree panoramic vista, around the ASBO Community Squat in Burns Street, Radford.

.MOV file is 3.6Mb. Please wait a mo, for it to download.

With the new page or viewer open, drag the cursor arround on the image and it will rotate and pan up and down. You can also zoom in and out.

[ Quicktime Download at:  http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html ]

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Using Tax Payers Money To Subsidise Your Business -The Reality of Prison Labour

19-09-2006 13:42

Having plundered the third world with impunity for so long, first-world capitalism has now turned its attention to the incarcerated working class in its own prisons, potentially a rich source of exploitable labour. Prisoners are paid around 30 pence per hour, but even these pitifully small wages are seen as fair game by capitalism.
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