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Issue 631, Friday 9th May 2008
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Heckler at the Back
Protesters have targeted the Nottingham premises of Heckler & Koch... Plus, activists arrested last year after banner drops in protest against the widening of the M1 have their charges dropped, BASF trying another crop trial of a GM potato, Northern Petroleum trying to drill in an area of outstanding natural beauty in West Sussex, and more...
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Previous Issues

Issue 630, Friday 2nd May 2008
Snatch of the Day
No Borders actions around the country target Borders and Immigration Agency snatch squads... Plus, the SOCPA laws are to be replaced with a new armoury of anti-protest legislation, Southampton University becomes the latest victim of censorship when it is forced to pull the scheduled screening of the Smash EDO campaign film, bio-tech corporation Novartis is in SHAC's sights for the World Day For Lab Animals, and more...
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Issue 629, Friday 18th April 2008
Mayan the Force be with You
Thousands of indigenous Mayans are threatened with displacement by new hydroelectric dam project...Plus, Adbusters have called for people to switch off all their electronic gadgets in Mental Detox Week, incoming UN Human Rights Council investigator into the Israeli oppression of Palestine, compares Isreal's treatment of Palestine to Nazi Germany, US Raytheon arms manufacturers have their facility in Glenrothes, Scotland hit by d-lock action, and more...
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Issue 628, Friday 11th April 2008
F.A.C.K YOU
Ten years after the death of Simon Jones at Shoreham docks in an accident, SchNEWS asks whether workplace safety has improved in the past decade... Plus, hunger strike at Harmondsworth asylum seekers detention centre, MESHO, a 16 page, tabloid sized spoof paper has been released and will be distributed across Britain, Street Blitz is coming to London - where artists will install art around the capital in public place and more...
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Issue 626, Friday 28th March 2008
Verge on the Road
One week into the Smash EDO national tour, screening the notorious SchMOVIE 'On The Verge' -- the film police tried to ban... Plus, Terminal five at Heathrow opens to chaos -- and climate change protesters, A British reality TV show illegally goes deep into the Peruvian jungle to use remote, uncontacted tribes as a backdrop for some riveting survival television, The Grand National is coming around again -- and animal rights protesters will be there to highlight this cruel race which has seen thirty five horse destroyed in the past decade alone, and more...
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Issue 625, Friday 21st March 2008
Showstoppers
As Sussex Police try to censor anti-arms trade film...Plus, in Big Brother Britain a Peace activist's vehicle is tagged for surveillance, Celtic Heritage Trust win legal victory after free party fracas, daring activist raid on depleted uranium test site, Catholic worker activists sent down for refusing to pay fines from DSEi action, Murdoch's union-busting print plant at Wapping closes, and more...
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Issue 624, Friday 14th March 2008
Fort for a Day
Direct action camp at Rath Lugh is raided as protesters build tunnels to defend the site. Call out for activists to go to Ireland to help... Plus, Another mighty cock up this week by Sussex Police – as yet again the Crown Prosecution Service is forced to drop a Smash EDO court case, A protester who muttered a swear word to police at last year's No Borders Camp near Gatwick has her case thrown out of court last week, Depleted Uranium weapons to be tested in Scotland, and more...
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Issue 623, Friday 7th March 2008
Bunch of Hunts
It's three years since the Fox Hunting ban came into force in England. What's changed - not much, with fox hunts still going on...Plus, Wilton Park, a mansion owned by the Foreign Office for conferences and meetings of those involved in arms trade, counter terrorism, privatisation and more, Protesters fighting the building of a Dow Chemicals research lab in India, have a victory after a seven-week long blockade, Five cops from Gwent police in Wales decided to have day-trips to the seaside during working hours... before they were rumbled,and more...
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Issue 622, Friday 29th February 2008
No Strain No Gain
SchNEWS looks at how corporations and governments are limiting and controlling the varieties of crops grown... Plus, Wikileaks - exposing corruption - is under attack, refugees incarcerated in Harmondsworth Detention Centre acquitted of conspiracy to commit violent disorder, DEFRA bending over backward to change the rules so the locations of trial GM crops can be kept secret,and more...
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Issue 621, Friday 22nd February 2008
The Best Aid Plans
As George Bush visits Africa to big up his aid profile, SchNEWS reveals how 90% of that 'aid' ends up in the pockets of US companies... Plus, Denmark roundup with riots in Copenhagen, blockade by villagers in India halts plans by Dow Chemical to build new research labs, Posh restaurant in Cambridge pulls foie-gras off menu after direct action, Activists invade Burnley v QPR to deliver a message to Alistair Campbell, and more...
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Issue 620, Friday 15th February 2008
Garbage Gaia
A huge slick of plastic refuse - a 'trash vortex' - is engulfing the Pacific Ocean... Plus, Another action at Carmel Agrexco – the UK importer of Israeli produce grown on occupied Palestinian territory, Britain's prisons reach bursting point with record ever prisoner numbers, As a man walks from Bristol to India to promote the freeconomy, US ex-soldiers in free legal ecstasy shocker, and more...
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Issue 619, Friday 8th February 2008
Counter Punch
A look at the some of the civil liberty quashing powers in the new Counter Terrorism Bill... Plus, Police pay out £44mil in compensation in the last 5 years, SuS laws are back, plans to build UK's first coal plant in a generation, McDonalds to give 'A-Level' equivalents to staff, and more...
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Issue 618, Friday 1st February 2008
Change of P.A.C.E
Sweeping changes to the legal aid system are going to mean that thousands are going to find themselves without proper legal advice... Plus, ID Cards put on hold, Shell pull out of Wildlife Photographer of the Year, cost of nuclear cleanup rises to £73bn, and more...
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Upcoming events...

19-March to 24-May - Smash EDO Tour 2008 - For nearly 4 years the Smash EDO campaign have been demonstrating outside EDO/MBM, the US arms manufacturers, in Brighton. The campaign will be touring the UK and screening the new full length Smash EDO SchMOVIES film – On The Verge. The tour will allow those involved in the campaign to discuss tactics, get feedback, and organise for the future. Look out for new dates as they appear on the website.
Email: on-the-verge@hotmail.co.uk
Web: www.schnews.org.uk/schmovies/i
ndex-on-the-verge.htm#tour

17 - Mad Pride Benefit Gig - Mad Pride are back - and presenting a gig of two punk legends - Vic Goddard's Subway Sect and John Head's Angel Racing Food.
Address: The Plough Inn, 173 Wood Street, Walthamstow, London
Time: 8pm
Price: £7 (£5 concs)
Phone: 07958 907357
Web: http://madpride.org.uk

17 - No Sweat: Fight Sweatshop Labour Behind The Beijing Olympics - No Sweat, the UK’s anti-sweatshop campaign, is calling on people to come down to the Kings Cross to protest against companies exploiting sweatshop workers producing merchandise for the Beijing Olympics. 3pm: Action meeting and screening of China Blue - Filmed in the face of opposition from the Chinese regime, telling the inside story of western retailers, the garment industry in south China, and how workers are fighting back. 7.30pm: benefit gig with Rhizomes, The Lockup, The Ruby Kid, Jakal, Press1. Nearest Tube: Kings Cross
Buses 10, 30, 45, 46, 73, 259, 390, 476
Address: The Cross Kings, 126 York Way London N1 0AX
Time: 3pm/7.30pm
Price: Free/Donations
Phone: 07754088989
Email: admin@nosweat.org.uk
Web: www.nosweat.org.uk

17 - Global Boycott Procter & Gamble Day - End P&G's cruel and unnecessary vivisection on animals to develop cosmetic, cleaning and even 'pet' food products. For ways to get involved see www.uncaged.co.uk/pgpamphlet.doc
Email: max@uncaged.co.uk
Web: www.boycottpandg.co.uk

18 - Three strikes and you're out… or you should be! - USAF Lakenheath in Suffolk is the largest US airbase in Europe. The bombing of Iraq and Afghanistan that we march against in London happens from this base. Bring the peace movement to the bases the planes fly from to commit the war crimes. The event will be circled by a bus tour of the base with tour guides Theatre of War… anything could happen on this murdering mystery tour. Bring things like dolls, ribbons, ladders, cardboard cut outs, banners etc to decorate the fence. We are also inviting people to bring a bike, to cycle and see the many areas of the base that are not visible from Gate 1. From 1pm at Gate 1 there will be entertainment and cafe, and at 2.30pm a gathering to hear speakers followed by a symbolic blockade of the gate.
Address: USAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, nr Thetford
Time: 1pm
Phone: 08453370282
Email: mellcndeast@cnduk.org
Web: www.lakenheathaction.org www.easterncnduk.org

19 - Naomi Klein Lecture with Q&A - A fundraiser for Hands Off Iraqi Oil and the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, this will be a launch of Klein's new book, Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, and she will be discussing the corporate takeover of Iraq.
Address: Friends Meeting House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ, opposite Euston Station
Time: 7pm
Price: £7/£5 - tickets from www.waronwant.org/shop
Web: www.handsoffiraqioil.org

19-May to 23-May - Renewable Energy in the Urban Environment - in Berlin, Germany. For details see weblink...
Web: http://www.greendragonenergy.c
o.uk/pdf/Urban_Renewables_Berl
in.pdf

20 - Hands Off Iraqi Oil Demo at Shell AGM - Shell are part of the corporate grab for Iraq's oil - come down and interrupt their Annual General Meeting.
Address: Barbican Centre, Silk St, London, EC2Y 8DS
Time: 9am-11am
Web: www.handsoffiraqioil.org

22 - NO2ID Meeting: Identity Crisis, Scandal and the Database State - Open public meeting to discuss the latest attempts by the Government to force us to have ID cards, what this may mean for you, and what we can do about it. Speakers include Phil Booth, National Co-ordinator of NO2ID, and Jason Kitcat, Chair of Brighton & Hove Green Party.
Address: Upstairs at Circus Circus pub, Preston Circus, Brighton
Time: 7:30pm
Price: Free
Phone: 07948 615 849
Email: brighton@no2id.net
Web: www.no2id.net

23-May to 26-May - Projectile 2008: Anarchist Festival - Returning for the 4th Annual Festival of Anarchist Film, Culture and Politics. This year its for four days - and Noam Chomsky will be joining us
Address: Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Time: Begins 5.30pm, Friday 23rd - with events throught to Monday
Email: info@projectile.org.uk
Web: www.projectile.org.uk

24 - Camp Titnore 2nd Birthday - Birthday Party on the steps of Worthing Town Hall in Chapel Road, Worthing. Bring music and party stuff.
Address: Worthing Town Hall, Chapel Road, Worthing
Time: 2pm
Web: www.protectourwoodland.co.uk/2
nd.htm

29-May to 01-June - Sunrise Celebration Festival - Does what it says on the tin with 13 arenas of music, kids stuff, theatre, workshops, and more...
Address: Off A303, between Podimore and Martock services, South Somerset
Price: £88 adv £100 at gate
Phone: Ticketline number: 0845 - 108 0259
Web: www.sunrisecelebration.com

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