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Action Alert – Panorama ‘Death on the Med’ – Contact the BBC
On the 16 August, 2010, the BBC broadcast a Panorama programme entitled ‘Death on the Med’. It claimed to reveal ‘what really happened’ when Israeli commandoes boarded the Mavi Marmara on 31 May 2010. The programme was extremely biased, portraying the activists on board as violent terrorists who set out to kill Israeli soldiers. Continue reading
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United Against Paintings By Gilad Atzmon
17 August, 2010 — Gilad Atzmon – Writings Some British Jews are desperate to stop the truth about the Jewish state being spread around. The Jewish Chronicle reported today that Jewish ‘Community leaders are battling to stop an exhibition of paintings by children from Gaza being shown in schools in the North of England.’ Jewish… Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 154 – 29th July 2010
29 July, 2010 — NO2ID WHERE ARE WE NOW? Parliament is in recess, so now is a good time to take stock of the coalition’s few weeks in office. Has the database state rolled back? The Identity Documents Bill – which will repeal the Identity Cards Act – is still in the Commons. Some improvements… Continue reading
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7/7: Seeds of Deconstruction
An 18-part Investigative documentary on 7/7: Seeds of Deconstruction, which examines some of the questions and conspiracy theories about 7/7, the July 7th 2005 London Bombings. Continue reading
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STOP THE WAR COALITION Newsletter No.1166, 7 August 2010
7 August, 2010 — Stop the War Coalition IN THIS NEWSLETTER: 1) WHEN DAVID BECKHAM WENT TO AFGHANISTAN: WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? 2) SUPPORT THE WIKILEAKS WHISTLEBLOWERS 3) VIVA PALESTINA AID CONVOY FOR GAZA: GET INVOLVED 4) REBRANDING THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ 5) PROSECUTING TONY BLAIR 6) MAKE A DONATION TO STOP THE WAR Continue reading
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Breaking the siege – six ways you can get involved in the next convoy to Gaza
With our government’s failure to end the blockade, people have been inspired to take action themselves to end the crisis, seen by the Gaza flotilla and previous land convoys. The overwhelming response to Israel’s attack on the Freedom Flotilla has forced governments to highlight this issue and call for an end to the siege. Continue reading
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Blair must be arrested! By John Pilger
Now consider the Proceeds of Crime Act. Blair conspired in and executed an unprovoked war of aggression against a defenceless country, of a kind the Nuremberg judges in 1946 described as the ‘paramount war crime’. This has caused, according to scholarly studies, the deaths of more than a million people, a figure that exceeds the… Continue reading
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Al Quds day annual demonstration and rally, London 4 September, 2010
Saturday 4th September 2010 at 2 pm, Marble Arch, London Continue reading
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Bradford can’t afford the EDL
“The EDL are coming here to provoke further trouble – trouble this city cannot afford.” That’s the warning from Ian Greenwood, the leader of Bradford Council. He knows his city. He knows that the English Defence League’s march of hate will hurt Bradford. Over the last few days, over 17,000 people have co-signed our letter… Continue reading
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PCHR and Hickman & Rose Oppose Proposed Changes to Universal Jurisdiction in the UK; Political Considerations Must Not Be Allowed to Triumph over the Rule of Law
On Thursday, 22 July 2010, UK Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke announced that the British government intends to give the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) the power to veto the issue of arrest warrants for universal jurisdiction offences in the UK. The proposal is the direct result of political pressure applied by the government of Israel,… Continue reading
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We can stop the English Defence League
In the past few days I’ve been getting scraps of information from my sources within the English Defence League that “The Big One” – the violent and racist groups event in Bradford – will be bigger and more dangerous than we first thought. We are now looking at up to 5,000 EDL thugs descending on… Continue reading
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The English Defence League in action
27 July, 2010 — Hope Not Hate Day by day the violent and racist English Defence League are becoming more dangerous. This shocking video exposes the truth behind this self professed “peaceful” group. Watch this video and then share it with everyone you know: The EDL exists for one simple reason: they want to spread… Continue reading
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LIVE IN LONDON? THIS IS NOW A MUST GO EVENT 26 July, 2010
SPEAKERS: Lance Corporal JOE GLENTON, just released from prison following court martial for refusing to fight in Afghanistan, CAROLINE LUCAS MP, JEREMY CORBYN MP, MARK STEEL, comedian and columnist, LINDSEY GERMAN, Stop the War Coalition, YASMIN KHAN, War On Want. Continue reading
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Don’t give up, Mrs Tomlinson By Patricia da Silva Armani
Two days ago, my family gathered at Stockwell tube station at 10am, as we have every year since 2005, to mark the exact moment when my cousin Jean Charles de Menezes was killed by the police. Jean was shot seven times in the head by officers while sitting in a tube carriage, on his way… Continue reading
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STOP THE WAR COALITION Newsletter No.1164 22 July 2010
On Monday 26 July, Joe Glenton, the soldier who said no to the war in Afghanistan, will make his first public speech since his release from military custody. He will speak at Stop the War’s Time To Go rally in London, when he will be joined by Caroline Lucas MP, Mark Steel (comedian and Independent… Continue reading
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UK: The proportional representation bill is coming…
On Monday 26 July the referendum bill on our voting system will be debated by MPs in parliament. Continue reading
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Video: The English Defence League uncovered
Formed less than a year ago, the English Defence League has become the most significant far-right street movement since the National Front. The Guardian spent four months undercover with the movement, and found them growing in strength and planning to target some of the UK’s biggest Muslim communities ” Warning: video contains very strong language Continue reading
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Afghanistan: Reading between the lines By Eric Walberg
As if a sign from Allah, Hague and British media idol David Beckham had their flight to Kandahar diverted mid-air to Helmand province, when the Kandahar airport came under attack. Rather than Karzai, it is Bashardost, the angry British troops and their mounting body count that Cameron and Hague are now heeding, and it is… Continue reading
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Police arrest photographer for displaying Cameron “wanker” poster
David Hoffman said five police burst into his terrace home in Bow after a neighbour complained about the Class War poster in his ground-floor window. He said the officers told him he had broken the Public Order Act and threatened to return and arrest him if he displayed it again. Continue reading