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Lockerbie - Never mind the political point-scoring... who planted the bomb?

05-09-2009 11:47

Friday Drivetime - Bristol’s weekly current affairs roundup. Discussing the big stories in Bristol and around the world with Martin Summers & Maryna Morris

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Sheffield Troublemakers - Rebels and Radicals in Sheffield History

03-09-2009 21:33

Attached is a recording of a meeting held on 2nd September 2009, organised by the Sheffield Humanist Society, which was addressed by David Price, author of Sheffield Troublemakers - Rebels and Radicals in Sheffield History.

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How jail feels like

01-09-2009 03:41

Here is a lively description of how jail feels like, borrowed from a book by semiotext(e) titled Autonomia: post-political politics, edited by Sylvere Lotringer and Christian Marazzi, ISBN 1-58435-053-9, distributed by MIT Press.

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150th anniversary of statue to chartist leader

29-08-2009 11:22

Feargus Edward O'Connor (1794 – 1855) was a Chartist leader and advocate of land reform. In 1847 he was elected MP for Nottingham, making him the first and only Chartist to get elected to Parliament. While largely forgotten today, when a statue in his memory was unveiled 150 years ago in August 1859 thousands of people came to mark the event. A contradictory figure, the statue to O'Connor which still stands in the Arboretum is a reminder of Nottingham's long, proud tradition of political radicalism.

Further Reading: BBC: Historic Figures | Spartacus Educational | Wikipedia

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Revolutionary syndicalism and organization

26-08-2009 15:34

An English translation of a historical (early 1980s) Greek anarchosyndicalist text by the Anarchosyndicalists Group.

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Public Meeting: Can Obama bring Justice and Peace to the Middle East

25-08-2009 22:29

Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign Public Meeting

With Professor Jeff Halper, Director (Israeli Committee Against House Demolition)

Friday 4th September 6.30 pm

Library Lecture Theatre, Tudor Square, (Behind the city Library Sheffield S1 1XZ) Sheffield

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Public Meeting: Sheffield Troublemakers

25-08-2009 22:12

Sheffield has a long and colourful history of independent thought, agitation and rebellion which we can be proud of. David Price will speak about his new book covering the history of Sheffield as a centre for radical thinkers and activists.

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Lockerbie Bombing: Al-Megrahi's Statement

22-08-2009 21:19

Upon leaving HM Prison Greenock en route back to Libya, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi issued the following statement through his lawyers:

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Roman and saxon settlements being destroyed forever

20-08-2009 17:34

Constructors on the Olympic Highway destroy historic findings to save money

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Italy, Germany and Japan: Former World War II Axis Nations Repudiate Bans agains

17-08-2009 15:42

U.S. military, especially air, bases in Germany, Italy and Japan have been used in every major military campaign waged by the Pentagon from the Korean War to the current one in Afghanistan for basing bombers and for the transit of troops, weapons and equipment.

So despite constitutional requirements to repudiate and renounce and bans against preparing for war, the three former Axis nations have indeed been partners to a series of armed conflicts for sixty years.

But for most of that period, indeed for almost a half century, the nations' legal prohibitions against direct military aggression have been observed even in the breach.

With the return of Germany, Italy and Japan to waging and supporting wars and the revival of Nazi sentiments in Europe a student of the future could be forgiven for thinking that the Axis powers were the victors and not the losers of World War II and that the Nuremberg trials had never occurred.

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Provocation on the Plinth

14-08-2009 20:21

PROVOCATION: WHEELCHAIR-USER IN NAZI UNIFORM ON THE PLINTH

Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth as part of Antony Gormley’s One & Other project

Artist and activist Liz Crow sat on the plinth in a crowded Saturday night Square on her wheelchair wearing full Nazi regalia to draw attention to a hidden history and the message it holds for us all today.

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Cambridge Festival of Ideas

13-08-2009 13:12

The next Cambridge Festival of Ideas will take place from 21 October to 1 November 2009, with over 140 free events in arts, humanities and social sciences

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The Yankee Bases and the Latin American Sovereignty (by Fidel Castro)

12-08-2009 22:28

The war on drugs is a pretext to establish military bases in the whole hemisphere.

The arguments used for the installation of seven air and naval US bases in Colombia are an insult to intelligence.

The Yankee forces could promote a dirty war as they did in Nicaragua, and even recruit soldiers of foreign nationalities who are trained by them and attack any country. But the combative, brave and patriotic people of Colombia would hardly let itself be dragged into a war against a people from a sister nation like Venezuela.

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Bombshell: Bin Laden worked for US till 9/11

12-08-2009 07:56

Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds dropped a bombshell on the Mike Malloy radio show, guest-hosted by Brad Friedman (audio, partial transcript).

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1905

12-08-2009 00:54

... for the empire was important to Britain in other, less material ways too.

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Honduras President Manuel Zelaya (by Latuff)

10-08-2009 04:51

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff. To be published in Contraponto, the paper of the Sindicato dos Servidores das Justiças Federais no Estado do Rio de Janeiro SISEJUFE-RJ.

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The Great Hiroshima Cover-Up

09-08-2009 08:31

In the weeks following the atomic attacks on Japan 64 years ago, and then for decades afterward, the United States engaged in airtight suppression of all film shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombings. This included footage shot by U.S. military crews and Japanese newsreel teams. In addition, for many years, all but a handful of newspaper photographs were seized or prohibited. The public did not see any of the newsreel footage for 25 years, and the U.S. military film remained hidden for nearly four decades.

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Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years

08-08-2009 20:33

Most Americans ever since have seen the destruction of the populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as necessary and effective—as constituting just means, in effect just terrorism, under the supposed circumstances—thus legitimating, in their eyes, the second and third largest single-day massacres in history.

To regard those acts as definitely other than criminal and immoral—as most Americans do—is to believe that anything—anything—can be legitimate means: at worst, a necessary, lesser, evil. At least, if done by Americans, on the order of a president, during wartime.

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Niger Coup: Onward to Kleptocracy

07-08-2009 20:32

The fabricated referendum this week in Niamey is just neo-colonial business as usual

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Olive Picking [Palestine, October 2009]

06-08-2009 23:23

Dear Friends,
On behalf of the coordination Committee of the JAI/ATG of Palestine we hope that the PSC is able to publicise this years Olive Harvest event on your web pages and e mail listings. We are hoping for a greater turn out this year from Britain and further afield.

Details can be found via the web link