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EDL - The day of Reckoning Manchester 10th October

22-09-2009 17:56


EDL - The day of Reckoning Manchester 10th October

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Pride Parade cancelled in Serbia due to "security risks"

22-09-2009 12:37

This morning organisers Belgrad Pride held their final press conference before tomorrows pride parade. Except pride will not be held, due to high security risks and a lack of cooperation on the part of state and police to secure the event. Serbian police have cancelled permission for the pride to be held in its planned location in the centre of the city.

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Direct Action; UK, Germany, Italy, Spain & Mexico

22-09-2009 02:33

17th-21st September

ALF WELCOME ANDREW BAKER TO TOWN (UK)
CIRCUS SIGNS DESTROYED (Germany)
RABBIT FARM ADVERT TORN DOWN (Italy)
MEAT TRUCK COVERED IN PAINT (Spain)
HUNTING PLATFORM DESTROYED (UK)
MEAT SHOPS GLUED (Mexico)
LETTERS SENT TO HLS-LOVING SCUM (UK)
MEAT COMPANY VAN DESTROYED (Italy)
ROOSTER LIBERATED (Mexico)
TWO FUR FARMS FOUND ABANDONED (Italy)
EMPTY CAGES AT FUR FARMS (Germany)

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The Coming Insurrection - English Translation

22-09-2009 01:12

This is the English translation a the call to arms written in the wake of the riots that erupted throughout the Paris suburbs in the fall of 2005 and presaging more recent riots and general strikes in France and Greece, The Coming Insurrection articulates a rejection of the official Left and its reformist agenda, aligning itself instead with the younger, wilder forms of resistance that have emerged in Europe around recent struggles against immigration control and the "war on terror.

Sorry if this has been posted before but i thought it needed a wider audience

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Hermaphrodites speak out in Solidarity with Caster Semenya

22-09-2009 00:43

"Human Rights for Hermaphrodites, too!" - Geneva 25-01-2009 (Photo: Ärger)
Unfair and harmful treatment of hermaphrodites in sports has a long and painful history, shattering careers and crushing lives. When the global media started hounding Caster Semenya, worldchampion 2009 over 800 m, after she had been subjected to a sex test, and she eventually was exposed to be a "hermaphrodite", this was also noted in the intersex community, and several people spoke out in solidarity.

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Transport from the west to Highgate on Saturday

21-09-2009 21:53

If you need help getting from the west of the UK to Highgate Farm on Saturday for the national protest please get in touch.

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Camden council housing sell off scandal / lab update from Labour Party Camden

21-09-2009 20:31

There are plans to build a deadly virus containment facility and animal testing lab on a Camden Council house estate, Somers Town in place of urgently needed council homes and community facilities. This morning we received a letter from Camden Labour Party revealing plans by Camden council to sell off yet more homes through "downsizing week". This is an utter travesty and must be stopped.

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Resist! An RNC Aftermath Documentary

21-09-2009 18:03

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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Global Minga in Defence of Mother Earth and her Peoples: Oct 12 - 16

21-09-2009 14:50

In defense of Mother Earth and her Peoples against the commercialization of life, pollution and the criminalization of Indigenous and social movements...Marking the day Christopher Columbus first set foot on Abya Yala, 518 years ago. The mobilization will begin on Oct 12.

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Vicious personal attacks on Tamsin Omond

21-09-2009 13:19

Tamsin Omond
Why is Indymedia UK being used to launch viscous personal attacks on Climate Rush founder Tamsin Omond?

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Why is unemployment ignored by the Left?

20-09-2009 23:45

The Left are caught up in an endless series of navel gazing activities that ignore fundamental struggles. The relationship between people and economics is one of the struggles that has ceased to be of any great interest to campaigners and political activists. The reason is plain and simple: Thatcher Won the Class War.

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Aida Quilcué – walking the word

19-09-2009 11:44

Aida Quilcué – walking the word
PUBLIC MEETING
Saturday 26th September 3pm -7pm
Bolivar Hall, 56 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL

COMMUNITY SOCIAL WITH MUSIC
Sunday 27th September 6pm - 10pm
Telefono de la Esperanza, Unit 7, Fairfax House, Overton Road, Brixton, London, SW9 7JR

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Public Meeting Free Mahir Campaign! 22 Sep 09

18-09-2009 22:36

Dear Friends,

you are invited to the

PUBLIC MEETING TO LAUNCH THE FREE MAHIR CAMPAIGN!
bring ideas and a willingness to get active


Tues 22 Sept 2009, 7.30pm


Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, Off Albert Square


FREE MAHIR! No to Deportations! Fight State Racism!

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Dissident Island Radio tonight

18-09-2009 18:05

Corporate Watch // Key Party // Library House // Now or Never // Vestas updates

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NO2ID launch campaign against pilot Identity Card scheme in Greater Manchester

18-09-2009 13:15

With Manchester providing the testing ground for the government’s controversial ID card scheme this October, NO2ID have launched a campaign to alert and inform citizens as well as voice opposition to the National Identity Database project.

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Camden Animal Lab Development Control Committee meeting to be held next year.

17-09-2009 23:12

It has been confirmed that Camden council will be holding a Development Control Committee meeting regarding the controversial Camden Animal Lab next year. [Date tbc].

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Leopards Can’t Change Their Spots, Nor Can Capitalists

17-09-2009 17:16

Despite all the rhetoric, nothing much has changed and the fundamental contradictions of the system remain. The only solution is to rid ourselves of it.

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Climate activists pay Jeremy Clarkson a visit

17-09-2009 15:04

This morning seven activists from Climate Rush on the Run decided to pay Jeremy Clarkson a visit.

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CSSGJ Open Seminar. Thursday 24th September @ 4pm

17-09-2009 12:24

"Barbarians at the gates - the historical construction of the 'universal terrorist'"
An open seminar presented by Matt Carr, author of 'The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism from the Assassination of Alexander II to al-Qaeda (New Press 2007)
followed by discussion
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