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Issue 638, Friday 4th July 2008
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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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Previous Issues

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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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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11 - The International Jewish Solidarity Network (IJSN) - The IJSN is a new Jewish initiative - anti-Zionist organizing in solidarity with Palestinian resistance.
Speakers include Hossam El-Hamalawy, Egyptian journalist, blogger & activist; Liliane Kaczerginski, IJSN international core, based in Paris; Professor Moshe Machover, co-founder of Matzpen, an anti-Zionist Israeli organisation (1962-1980s); Daniel Machover, lawyer working to indict Israeli army officers for war crimes; Sue Blackwell, prominent advocate of academic boycott. Wheelchair access.
Address: Trinity United Reformed Church, Buck St, Camden, London NW1
Directions: corner of Buck St & Kentish Town Rd.
Nearest Public Transport: Camden Tube Station
Time: 7.00 - 9.30 pm
Price: Free entry
Phone: 07816 251 377
Email: uk@ijsn.net
Web: www.ijsn.net

11-July to 13-July - Anarchist Summer Camp, Ireland - A weekend of - activities, workshops, campfires and walks along the seaside and hills around the small holding location. Low cost catering by Lental Disorder. Bring a tent and a sleeping bag, plates, bowls, cutlery - though the farmhouse can be used for special needs. Please enrol beforehand, and if you want to run a workshop send an email. No dogs. Email for info about maps, lifts, car sharing etc...
Address: nr Coolgreany, Co. Wexford
Email: anarchistsummercamp@yahoo.com

11 - Gay And Lesbian Humanist Association - Gaud and Bennett – a play by Fire and Brimstone Productions. This is the story of DeRobigne Mortimer Bennett (1818–1882), the last man to be imprisoned for blasphemy in the United States.
Address: Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square,, London WC1R 4RL
Directions: see link on GALHA Website
Nearest Public Transport: Holborn Underground
Time: 7:30pm
Price: FREE donations welcome
Phone: 0207-242-803 //8034
Web: www.galha.org.uk

11 - Gig in aid of 'Wales Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign' - Huwmm + Llwyd + Andrew Jones. A new 3 track CD single by Huwmm + Llwyd will be available free with entry.
Address: Shot in the Dark, City Rd, Cardiff
Time: 9pm
Price: £4

12 - Gig in aid of 'Wales Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign' - Gareth Phillips + Llwyd + Huwmm
Address: Quins Club, Carmarthen
Time: 8pm
Price: £4

12 - SHAC National Demo - Protest against Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), the largest contract vivisection laboratory in Europe. Meet in the park for stalls and vegan food, then from 12.30pm a march around Peterborough, then 3.30pm-5.30pm, a protest at the gates of HLS, Huntingdon Life Sciences, Woolley Road, Alconbury, Huntingdon, Cambs
Address: Stanley Recreation Ground, Peterborough, Cambs.
Time: meet 11am
Phone: 0845 458 0630
Email: info@shac.net
Web: www.shac.net/National2008

12 - Dancing in the No-Fly Zone with Hadani Ditmars - Book event and talk. Hadani Ditmars will be exploring the devastating effect that this most recent invasion of Iraq has had on civil and cultural life within the country.
Address: Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Rd, Kings Cross, London N1 9DX
Nearest Public Transport: Kings Cross tube
Time: 5pm
Price: Free
Phone: 020 7837 4473
Web: www.housmans.com/events

13 - w'OWFI fESt - All day benefit for the organisation of women's freedom in Irag. Live music & DJs. Also, info, book & zine stall, raffle, knitting & scrabble, clothing & book swap. Independent zines wanted.
Address: Captain's Rest,, Great Western Rd, Glasgow
Directions: On Great Western Road, West End, Glasgow
Nearest Public Transport: nearest tube is St.George's Cross. Lots of buses from city centre
Time: 3pm - 100pm
Price: £6 (On Door or get tickets from Monorail or Missing Records)
Phone: none
Email: christmastimeinthemountains@gm
ail.com
Web: www.myspace.com/christmastimei
nthemountains

14 - Noise Demo outside UK Coal, Doncaster - Noise demo against UK Coal, who are planning to begin a new open-cast coal mine in Derbyshire (See 'Demolition Derby' in SchNEWS 636)
Address: Meet at Doncaster train station at 3:30pm or outside UK Coal at 4pm
Time: 3.30pm
Phone: 07852 460871
Email: derby@earthfirst.org.uk
Web: www.leaveitintheground.org.uk

15 - Terrorist proscription, self-determination & human rights - Bill Bowring (Professor of Law, Birkbeck College); Gareth Peirce (Birnberg Peirce & Partners, Solicitors); Dr Susan Breau (Reader in International Law and Assistant Associate Dean for Research at the School of Law at the University of Surrey); Alex Fitch (CAMPACC). How has the ‘war on terror’ impacted on the right of peoples to self-determination and what are the implications for proscribed groups and solidarity movements?
Address: Room SG01, College of Law, 14 Store STreet, London, WC1E 7DE
Time: 6.30 - 8.30pm
Price: Free
Phone: 020 7586 5892
Email: estella24@tiscali.co.uk
Web: www.campacc.org.uk

16 - 'The power of community: how Cuba survived Peak Oil - Film screening and talk hosted by the Cuba Solidarity Campaign
Address: Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonain Rd, Kings Cross, London, N1 9DX
Nearest Public Transport: Kings Cross tube
Time: 7pm
Price: Free
Web: www.housmans.com www.powerofcommunity.org www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk

16 - Demo against E.ON, - Join the Greenwash Guerrillas to show that E.ON’S greenwash won’t wash! We will be cordoning off the area and warning summit delegates about the high levels of toxic greenwash leaking from the building. (We suspect its source to be E.ON Managing Director Bob Taylor, who’s got a top spot on the panel.) This should be a fun, subversive demo, with the Camp for Climate Action, Rising Tide, People and Planet, Earth First! and WDM all helping to spread the word. Bring if you can: a white painter's/boiler suit and any home-made greenwash detecting devices you can think up (eg. part of an old hoover, a remote control, a hair dryer painted green – get creative!) If you can’t bring these things, not to worry, extras will be on hand.
Address: Business Design Centre, Islington. 52 Upper St, London N1 0QH
Directions: meet in front of the building
Nearest Public Transport: Angel tube
Time: 8.15 AM
Phone: 07961 917 535
Email: info@climatecamp.org.uk
Web: www.greenwashguerrillas.org

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