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Issue 640, Friday 18th July 2008
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Down, Wembley Way
The Tent City at Wembley has been evicted but the community led protest against the planned privatised City Academy school goes on... plus - the Derbyshire open-cast coal mine protest is threatened with eviction, Fox hunting monitors in two separate court cases, the Italian court ruling on police violence at the G8 Genoa 2001 protests, UK military plans to assist in fighting local insurgency in Nigeria against the oil industry and more...
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Previous Issues

Issue 639, Friday 11th July 2008
FIT for Purpose?
SchNEWS looks at the police Forward Intelligence Team (FIT), who have become a common sight at protests, and a campaign to resist them... plus - the British govt makes it harder for immigrants and asylum seekers to get the free health care, international day of action against private equity firms, the site of a proposed City Academy in Wembley has been re-occupied with a tent city as the locals, and more...
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Issue 638, Friday 4th July 2008
Empire of the Vanities
An outrageous story of greed, lust and structural adjustment as we chart the steady decline of the G8 cartel... plus - Protests against open coal mine in Derbyshire get unexpected Court reprieve, photography is new focus of civil liberty crackdown, Anti-Israel protests at 'Salute to Israel' march in central London to celebrate 60 years of oppression, London resident Binyam Mohamed still in Guantanamo after years of torture, and more...
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Issue 637, Friday 27th June 2008
Hounded
SchNEWS asks who’s harassing who as The Crawley and Horsham Foxhunt seeks giant exclusion zone against local hunt monitors and Wildlife Protection Group, plus - Carmel Agrexco’s UK depot was shut down, anniversary of McLibel trial victory, ten animal rights activists held without charge under anti-terror laws in Austria, and more...
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Issue 636, Friday 20th June 2008
Along For Fluoride
The UK government is intent on expanding the fluoridisation of drinking water, but yet all medical evidence is clearly against this 'forced mass medication'. So why are they doing it? Plus - Austrian animal rights groups targeted by violent police campaign, open-cut coal mining protests in Derbyshire, Hicham Bezza is released, George Bush visit to London kicks off, breakout at Campsfield Detention Centre and more...
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Issue 635, Friday 13th June 2008
Cock 'n' Kabul Story
How the US / UK plan to devastate and then 'reconstruct' Afghanistan is paying dividends (for some)...Plus, Brits prepare to give Dubya a decent send off, BNP festival under threat after anti-fascist actions, government plans to bribe communities to swallow nuclear waste, Guantanamo inmates get right to civilian trial - maybe, and more...
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Issue 634, Friday 6th June 2008
Academic Freedom
As Nottingham post-grad faces deportation after failed terror arrest.... Plus, Full Report into the Smash-EDO Carnival Against the Arms Trade, Animal Rights website owner sentenced to four and a half years, third week of hunger strike for Czech protesters against US 'Star Wars' military bases, Israel at 60, and more...
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Issue 633, Friday 23rd May 2008
Self Defence
Peace activist students on 'aggravated trespass' charges denied legal aid.... Plus, Wrexham woman on the wrong side of the law when she takes plastic chairs from a council tip, Bush visits U.K for last time as president, Nottingham university terror arrest signals wider clampdown, Mass tresspass called on site of proposed Derbyshire Opencast mine, and more...
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Issue 632, Friday 16th May 2008
Sects and the City
Cult friction as police harass anti-scientology protest in London... Plus, Man jailed after massive animal rights conspiracy trial, Cardiff anarchist newsletter 'Gagged' in libel shocker, Brighton squatters in occupied Methodist Church defy bailiffs, Housing benefit snoopers to get latest lie-detecting gear, and more...
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Issue 631, Friday 9th May 2008
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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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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04-Aug to 11-Aug - Camp For Climate Action - This year will be at the Kingsnorth coal fired power station, south of Ashford, Kent. The new coal-fired plant proposed for the site will pump out the same amount of carbon dioxide as the 30 least-polluting countries combined, and will produce twice as many emissions as a third runway at Heathrow.
Web: www.climatecamp.org.uk

06-Aug to 17-Aug - 'A' camp - Anarchist summer camp in Switzerland
Email: acamp@arachnia.ch.NOSPAM
Web: www.acamp.ch.vu

07-Aug to 10-Aug - Northern Green Gathering - - a small volunteer-run environmental/educational gathering, on a beautiful new site in North Yorkshire!
Address: somewhere in North Yorkshire
Web: www.nggonline.org.uk

9 - Shut down Kingsnorth Power Station - Those at the camp will be joined by thousands more from across the UK to converge on the power station via land, sea and air. Four different groups, each using different tactics (including a group accessible to parents and children). The ’Great Rebel Raft Regatta’ (GRRR) will be launching an armada: from pirate ships to Viking boats, a multitude of different themed rafts are being constructed out of recycled materials (available at the camp.) Landlubbers can join the ’Orange Pod’ who will be putting on their dancing shoes and heading straight for the main entrance in a colourful, musical spectacle. If you're more a fan of wild undergrowth than endless economic growth then the ’Green Guerrillas’ will be approaching through the surrounding fields and woods, looking for weak points in the perimeter fence up, under or through. Aerial approach plans are strictly under wraps, find out more at the camp!
Address: Camp for climate action, near Kingsnorth power station, Kent
Nearest Public Transport: Trains run from central London to a pick up point near Kingsnorth every few minutes and take less than an hour
Email: info@climatecamp.org.uk
Web: www.climatecamp.org.uk www.thegrrr.net www/subscribe/climatecamp http://lists.riseup.net/

10 - Prison Justice Day - To show solidarity with those in prison and to remember those who have died while being held in prisons all over the world. This year the campaign group NoMorePrison are holding a demo outside HMP Styal as part of Prison Justice Day and also as a tribute to Pauline Campbell, who campaigned fearlessly against deaths in womens prison's but died in May of this year. Pauline's daughter died in Styal prison in 2003. Prisons are failed institutions that do not work. They are places of pain and social control and are brutal, abusive and damaging to everyone who is incarcerated in them. Prisons are fundamentally flawed and all attempts to reform them have failed. We are committed to their abolition.
Address: HMP Styal, Wilmslow, Cheshire
Time: 1 pm - 4pm
Email: pikiebub2000@yahoo.co.uk
Web: www.alternatives2prison.ik.com

10 - Glasgow Anarchists Subversive Social - You don’t have to be an anarchist to come along, you just have to be interested in making Glasgow and the wider world a better place to live in. As well as the usual banter and what not there will be a talk from Norma Costas a member of the Argentinian Anarchist Federation, the FLA, and teacher at an anarchist school.
Address: upstairs at the Junction bar, West George Street, Glasgow
Time: 6pm

13 - The Britain-Colombia Connection - Hosted by the Colombia Solidarity Campaign. Our guests will be discussing the roots of the ongoing violence in Colombia, and exposing the role Britain and British energy companies continue to play in destabilising in the area. Introduced by Jake Lagnado and Andy Higginbottom of the Colombia Solidarity Campaign.
Address: Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, King's Cross, London N1 9DX
Directions: Map: http://tinyurl.com/2oq9vv
Nearest Public Transport: King's Cross
Time: 7pm
Price: free
Phone: 020 7837 4473
Email: nik@housmans.com
Web: www.housmans.com/events www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk

14 - No2iD London social - Meet the organisers, ask questions, get involved, have a pint. Everyone is welcome whether a member, supporter, sympathiser or even Home Office minister.
Address: The Old Crown, 33 New Oxford Street, WC1H 1BH
Directions: it's not at The Crown but The *Old* Crown
Time: 6.30pm
Email: london@no2id.net

16 - Central London Squat History Walk - Wander back in time between 1946 and 2003 (approx.) To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the "biggest ever eviction" in Britain at Huntley Street. The Walk will take about 3 hours
Address: Tolmers Square, London NW1
Time: 2pm

16 - Shut Down the BNP's 'Red White & Blue' Festival - Once again the BNP plan to hold their annual bash, where fascists from all over the country, and beyond, gather to forge ties, plot racist attacks, sing songs about the ‘Third Reich’, and drunkenly fall about waving their handbags at each other. Help Antifa aim spoil the party...
Address: Derbyshire - see website for details closer to date
Web: www.antifa.org.uk

20-Aug to 27-Aug - Peoples' Global Action Gathering, Athens - The PGA is a tool and structure for groups and people worldwide with common struggles and anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian princples. This is their 5th gathering in Europe since 1998. There will be a range of events, and autonomous spaces, for more info see websites...
Web: http://europe.pgaconference.or
g/en/greece_08 www.agp.org

21-Aug to 24-Aug - 10th International Animal Rights Gathering - It's now 10 years since the Animal Rights Gatherings went international. Come and celebrate the first decade of international get-togethers. The event will attract around 400 activists from all across Europe and beyond. It is a time to get together and talk, to socialise and build up networks.
Address: south of Vienna, Austria, at the foot of the massive Schneeberg mountain
Web: www.ar2008.info

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