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Including city-centre mass demos and protest camps. See also Camp For Climate Action, Smash EDO, Arms Trade, Animal Rights, G8 Summits, in fact nearly every other category...

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22nd August 2008 | Issue 643- GOING OVERBOARD - Direct action continues at Rossport, Ireland to stop work on Shell's gas pipeline and refinery.
"...the dredging machine started picking up large amounts of debris from the sea bed and dumping it within inches of the protesters – as the Gardai stood and watched..."

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9th Nov 2007 | Issue 610 - LICENSED TO CULL - Into the valley of DEFRA as badgers face needless extermination in forthcoming badger culls in the southeast of England.

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5th October 2007 | Issue 605 - IN GRAND STYLE - Faslane 365, the year of direct action against the Faslane Naval Base, finished this week after over 100 separate actions, and a total of 1150 arrests...

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21st September 2007 | Issue 603 - WE'RE ALL GOING TO WEMB-ER-LEY - Anti–academy protesters, who set up camp on a community sports ground in Wembley to prevent the building of a neo-Labour City Academy, have taken things to the trees. The group (mainly composed of teachers) have been occupying the site for the past six months.

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20th July 2007 | Issue 597 - EIRE WE GO AGAIN - Seven protesters against the motorway planned at the Hill Of Tara in Ireland (See SchNEWS 596) were arrested on Weds 18th trying to stop diggers from illegally destroying the important archaeological site at the proposed Blundlestown interchange in the Tara/Skryne Valley.

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20th July 2007 | Issue 597 - Blind Destruction as Cilla Black says 'Tara' to ancient Irish monuments at the Hill Of Tara.

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6th July 2007 | Issue 595 - $HELLS ANGELS - as Rossport campaigners fight the building of a gas refinery in the west of Ireland...

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27th April 2007 | Issue 585 - TARA! TARA! TARA! - SAs work begins on the M3 Motorway in Ireland, which will damage land in one of the most important archaeological sites in Europe at the Hill Of Tara...

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10th March 2007 | Issue 579 - DANISH PASTING - The eviction of the four storey Ungdomshuset (literally: Youth House) in Copenhagen has sparked three days of rioting and forced the Danish state to close its borders to foreigners coming to join the solidarity struggle.

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10th March 2007 | Issue 579 - Another blatant Danish reference as the Ungdomhuset eviction is depicted in LEGO. Er what else Danish is there?

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6th January 2006 | Issue 526 - CARRY ON CAMPING - A decade on the from the high point of the 90's ecological direct action protest camps - Newbury - SchNEWS looks at the current crop of protest camps around the country.

11th November 2005 | Issue 520 - FRENCH FRIED - France has ignited with direct action, which also spread to Berlin and Brussels. These riots are the boiling over of tension in Paris's suburbs after continual police harassments, searches etc, particulary of immigrant youths.

22nd October 2004 | Issue 470 - The European Social Forum hits London, and the Wombles become a big target for Met Police repression...

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4th May 2001 | Issue 303 - THREE THOUSAND CRAP ARRESTS - The Mayday Monopoly anti-capitalist demonstration in central London is heavily policed, with 3000 confined to a small section of road for hours in what's known as a 'kettle'...

8th November 2002 | Issue 380- ASSAULT AND PEPPER - Thousands took part in last Thursday’s nationwide day of action against the threat of war on Iraq. In Brighton, SchNEWS joined in with hundreds of others for the best bit of direct action on the city streets since the heady days of Reclaim The Streets parties way back in 1996.

22nd December 2000 | Issue 288 - WHEEL OF FORTUNE - Last week John ‘Two Jags’ Prescott announced the transport budget for local authorities for the next five years. Four billion pounds – nearly half the total – is to be spent on roads. That’s enough to build forty more Newbury bypasses. It looks like it’s time to dust down yer D-locks and take out yer tunnelling tools again.

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18th April 1997 | Issue 116 - They wanna fight, we wanna party! - Report from the 'Nevermind The Ballot's mass demo in London bringing together Reclaim The Streets and the Liverpool Dockers, a fortnight before Neo-Labour take power...