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Gaza Friends: ISRAELIS PREVENT IRISH ACTIVISTS FROM BOARDING FLIGHT HOME
The seven Irish human rights activists due home in Ireland this afternoon at 2:25 pm were at the last minute prevented from boarding their flight out of Ben Gurion airport by Israeli armed guards. Continue reading
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Gala London Premiere of The Crisis of Civilization, 29-30 Nov, 7pm, Whirled Cinema
Following the successful UK premiere at the Leeds International Film Festival on Sunday of our documentary feature film, The Crisis of Civilization, we are delighted to announce that we will be holding our FREE 2 day Gala London Premiere at the Whirled Cinema in Camberwell. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 2 November 2011
2 November 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks Founder Faces Extradition Hearing in London New York Times By RAVI SOMAIYA LONDON — A London court will rule on Wednesday whether Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, will be extradited to Sweden over allegations of sexual abuse there last year. The decision may mark the end of a months-long Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books London Newsletter November 2011
1 November 2011 — Housmans Books NEWS 1. Announcing the Alliance of Radical Booksellers and the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2. Christmas book shopping online 3. Housman Peace diary 2012 IN-STORE EVENTS 4. ‘The Road to Wigan Pier Revisited’ with Stephen Armstrong5. ‘The Assault on Universities’ with Des Freedman and Michael Bailey6. Continue reading
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Exclusive: Leaked emails show Israel role in UK plot to ban Raed Salah By Asa Winstanley
The Electronic Intifada can now also exclusively reveal new details of an Israeli government role in the UK plot to exclude Salah. Continue reading
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“I Demand to Know What You’re Demanding!” Some Remarks on Programme at OccupyLSX By Dan Hind
There is something very striking about the occupation in the City of London. From the outset the ordinary dynamics of protest appeared to have been suspended. The form was different, for a start. This wasn’t a march from A to B, with its accompanying sense of an ending. But more than that, the occupiers weren’t… Continue reading
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Media Reform in Britain By Dan Hind
We are here because we know that there is something profoundly wrong in the communications sector. It has been obvious for a long time that much of the media are incapable of describing the world when doing so would disrupt the interests of powerful institutions and individuals. Continue reading
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Talk Amongst Yourselves By Dan Hind
On Saturday 14 October people will be heading into the Square Mile, the centre of the UK’s financial sector, in conscious imitation of Occupy Wall Street and similar actions in Europe and the Middle East. Continue reading
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UK tour ‘Bedouin of the Negev’ / London, Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights
Dr Awad Abu Freih heads the Chemistry Department of Sapir College in the Negev. He is also a Bedouin from Al Araqib, a village demolished twenty eight times since July 2010. He will speak about Israel’s little-reported ‘war’ against the Negev Bedouin who have been hounded from land they bought and inherited, and lived there… Continue reading
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Books: Gilad Atzmon: The Long Arm of Israel
We have learned in the last few days that some Jewish ‘anti’ Zionist elements are planning to interfere with Zero Books’ The Wandering Who book launch this Monday. Your support for the book and also for the freedom of speech is most welcome. Continue reading
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Tzipi Livni: A very special mission By Ben White
Last month, on the day that changes in universal jurisdiction law went into effect, Israel’s former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said she “received a phone call” from UK Ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould telling her “there is no longer a warrant for my arrest”. Continue reading
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The BBC is, and Always Has Been, Part of the Problem By Tom Mills
The neoliberal model propagated by Murdoch has been in ascendancy since the mid-1980s, whilst the public service model associated with the BBC has been progressively eclipsed. Indeed Murdoch has consciously sought to destroy, or at least marginalise, public service broadcasting, which is anathema to his politics and an obstacle to his ambitions. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #98 By William Blum: The crime of making Americans aware of their own history
Is history getting too close for comfort for the fragile little American heart and mind? Their schools and their favorite media have done an excellent job of keeping them ignorant of what their favorite country has done to the rest of the world, but lately some discomforting points of view have managed to find their… Continue reading
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Final timetable out now – Europe Against Austerity Conference
29 September 2011 Saturday 1 October 10am-5pm, Camden Centre, London, WC1H 9AU On Saturday hundreds of activists, trade unionists and left politicians from across the continent are gathering in London for a conference to discuss the crisis and co-ordinate resistance. Greek strikers, activists from the Spanish ‘Indignant’ movement, leaders of the French New Anticapitalist Continue reading
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Speeches from Statewatching Europe: Civil Liberties, the State and the EU
Statewatchs 20th anniversary conference was held at Conway Hall in London on Saturday 25th June 2011. More than 220 people from 18 EU countries registered and over 30 NGOs attended the conference. Continue reading
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How Could the Largest Social Justice Movement in Israel’s History Manage to Ignore the Country’s Biggest Moral Disaster? By Joseph Dana
The decision to exclude the occupation from the grievances of the July 14 Tent City movement was entirely organic. The key question is why. Continue reading
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Riotgate : Dispatch from East London By Felicity Arbuthnot
From afar we have heard the politicians, the social scientists, the psychologists. It is ‘feral youth’, ‘black youth’, ‘low life scum living off the State’ (say the millionaire politicians in charge of the State, living off it courtesy the tax payer.) The ‘lazy’, the ‘feckless’, ‘people from sink estates’, are responsible – and so it… Continue reading
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