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Recent Main Stories Sussex Uni Cuts | Sussex Uni Protests | Greek Protests | Gaza Protesters Sentenced | French Crackdown on Migrants | Afghanistan Interview | Mainshill Eviction | Haiti Earthquake | Remember Gaza Demo | Copenhagen Summit Failure

Sussex, Lies and Videotape

Following last week’s ‘Stop The Cuts’ demonstration and occupation of the senior management’s offices six Sussex University students had been suspended and excluded from campus. The six had been ‘positively identified’ following Sussex Police’s thuggish altercations on campus....

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Other stories from this issue...
Schcoop! - No Cutbacks For Sussex Fat Cats - Expense claims of Sussex Uni bosses revealed
Sea Shepherd Roundup : Whaling Banshees - Sea Shepherd ends most successful mission yet
A-fence-is Weapon - Smash Edo activists on trial and Iraqi war anniversary actions
Hungry For Reform - Harmondsworth detainees join hunger strike
Hey Joe - British soldier sent down for refusing to serve,
Coal-amity - Telford No New Coal campaign moves up a gear
Tesco A No Go - Nationwide actions against Tesco
And Finally - New Zealand exorcism proceeds fund animal charity
 

Previous Issues

Issue 712, Friday 5th March 2010
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School of Hard Knocks
Students at Sussex University came into violent conflict with riot cops on Wednesday (3rd) as they occupied the executive nerve centre of their university. Several weeks in the planning by Stop the Cuts campaign in association with the Anarchist Society, around 80 students rushed the ‘fortified’ Sussex House building with a supporting demo outside of around 300 people, all in protest against the proposed cuts to university funding...

Issue 711, Friday 26th February 2010
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Greek Fire
Greece has once again been rocked by protests, strikes and civil unrest as Eurozone austerity measures kick in... plus, far-right losers the SDL are seen off the streets of Edinburgh, Colombian riot police attack protesting workers demanding better conditions at BP owned oil company, Tree hugging tramps declare war on Tesco, Protests are called as more Gaza defendants are banged up, and more...

Issue 710, Friday 19th February 2010
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Gaza Defendants Hammered
As Judge-mental Dennis hands down vicious sentences to London Gaza protesters.... plus, 700 activists converge on Aldermaston nuclear facility for mass blockade, Irish Shell protester jailed for seven months, after last week's illegal eviction activists re-establish migrant solidarity centre, Cameron's cuddly conservatives promise a crackdown on travellers and squatters, and more...

Issue 709, Friday 12th February 2010
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Slung Out On Yer Frontier
SchNEWS asks you and whose gendarmerie? As French cops crackdown on migrant welfare centre... plus, activists take on companies importing goods from illegally occupied Palestinian territories, Iranian anti-regime campaigner Bita Ghaedi goes into the fourth week of hunger strike in her fight against deportation, Turkish anti-militarists set to stand trial for “alienating people from military service” and “praising crime and criminals”, and more...

Issue 708, Friday 5th February 2010
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Eyewitness Afghanistan
From Kemp Town to Kabul, as SchNEWS interviews Al Jazeera journalist Medyan Dairieh about his take on the war... plus, Honduras' 'return to democracy' sees the coup leaders holding on to power and upping the repression, Kingsnorth Climate Campers win in the High Court against unlawful police stop and searches, No Borders and SoS Soutien open an autonomous safe space in Calais, and more...

Issue 707, Friday 29th January 2010
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Lanarky in Action
As the National Eviction Team move in on Mainshill Solidarity Camp... plus, they finally get around to putting a price on Blair's head, the English Defence League embark on a racist rampage through Stoke, French police evict a night shelter and destroy the makeshift camp erected by migrants in protest, a coalition of No Borders activists and local nimbys help derail plans for a new deportation centre in Crawley, and more...

Issue 706, Friday 22nd January 2010
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Haiti: The Aftershock Doctrine
As the rescue effort winds down SchNEWS looks at how the international aid effort is being subverted by military and corporate power... plus, Monday’s Smash EDO demo forced the Brighton bomb makers to shut up shop, the EDL’s racist roadshow is moving on to Stoke, Mainshill solidarity camp in South Lanarkshire is gearing up for an eviction date, and more...

Issue 705, Friday 15th January 2010
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Wild at Heart
Our comrades at SMASH EDO have announced the location of their Remember Gaza demo... plus, Gaza convoy finally allowed in after being held at port and attacked by Egyptian police, legal observer arrested at Smash EDO Carnival Against the Arms Trade finally overturns charges, European Court rules Section 44 stop 'n search illegal, the Christmas period has seen no let up for migrants in the squats and camps of Calais, and more...

Issue 704, Sunday 20th December 2009
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Not a Hopenhagen
As World Leaders dither inside, SchNEWS looks to the thousands of dissenters outside the Copenhagen Climate Conference.... plus, the Camp for Climate Action activists target Canada for wanting to exploit the oil their climate koshing tar sands, as much of Iraqs's oil finally got auctioned off last week was was mission accomplished for the US?, a prominent member of the EDL is charged with soliciting murder and using threatening, abusive or insulting words, Israeli goverment irked as UK warrant for war crimes issued to foreign ministe, and more...

Issue 703, Friday 11th December 2009
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SchNEWS Guide to Copenhagen
Due to too many people being away (probably) burning babylon, being sick or generally too lazy, there is no print issue this week. But we didn't want you not gettin' any of yer regular fix and wanted to give you the lowdown on going to Copenhagen, so have patched together this 'blink and you'll miss it' Climate Conference special edition for the web only (where special means er, compact.)

Issue 702, Friday 4th December 2009
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If You're Not Swiss-ed Off...
Ten years after Seattle, thousands congregate in Geneva to resist world trade organisation meeting... plus, 25 years after the Bhopal disaster and still no justice for the victims, protests in Wales over biomass plant at Port Talbot, Sussex students protest at staff cuts, Lithuanian national is imprisoned over London G20 protests, we gloat as the capitalist edifice of Dubai crumbles, and more...

Issue 701, Friday 27th November 2009
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Buy Buy Cruel World
SchNEWS hopes the anti-consumerist message will finally gain purchase with international 'Buy Nothing Day' tomorrow... plus, the Target Barclays campaign is launched, opposing their investment in the arms trade, protest camp against opencast coal mine in Scotland is under threat of eviction, protest camp by the sacked Vesta workers on the Isle Of Wight is evicted, and more...

Issue 700, Friday 20th November 2009
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Good Cop Bad Cop
Things are hotting up for the COP15 UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen next month... plus, despite being out of the news, the plight of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka continues to be dire, protesters disrupt the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Edinburgh, the state clampdown on animal rights protesters continues as four are raided and arrested, the far-right march in Glasgow – and again are outnumbered, but next month move to Nottingham, and more...

Issue 699, Friday 13th November 2009
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Mexican Wave
Around 200,000 workers, teachers, students, unionists, farmers and social campaigners shut Mexican cities down on Wednesday (12th) in a national strike... plus, importer of Israeli produce grown on occupied Palestinian territories sees sustained protests, ex-soldier who served in Afghanistan is arrested over his opposition to the war, protests against the NATO meeting in Edinburgh begin as anti-militarist convergence space is opened, and more...


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February

7th Feb to 7th May
The Verdict is in....
So it seems that the council are not even willing to come and see what great things are happening in the SystemXchange Social Centre. We have a date for court, and we need you to come visit get involved and write your comments on the site, so we can show the judge exactly what is going on.....visit the site for more details
Address: The Old Court House, 27 Sheen Lane, SW14 8HY
Directions: 30 secs from Mortlake Train Station
Nearest Public Transport: Mortlake Overground/Richmond Underground
Postcode: SW14 8HY | View Map
Time: All Every Day
Price: Free/Donations
Phone: 07776356252
Email: systemxchange@gmail.com
Web: http://systemxchange.webs.com

March

15th Mar
Save Titnore Woods! Protest, Worthing
Demo to protect Titnore Woods. - Meet 1.30pm before the 2pm Worthing Borough Council planning meeting, deliberately held in afternoon to stop residents attending.
Address: outside Assembly Hall, Stoke Abbott Road, Worthing
Time: meet 1.30pm
Web: www.protectourwoodland.co.uk

17th Mar
Demo against BNP, Liverpool
There will be an anti-fascist demo outide the Liverpool Crown Court as Peter Tierney, high-profile BNP member, will be appearing in court on charges of assaulting someone who tried to stop the BNP handing out leaflets in the Liverpool city centre last year.
Address: Outside Liverpool Crown Court, Victoria Monument, Derby Sq, Liverpool
Time: 9.15am
Email: liverpoolantifascists@riseup.net
Web: http://liveraf.wordpress.com

19th Mar
Iraq Invasion Anniversary protests, Brighton
This day marks the 7th anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom, an opperation which resulted in the death of between 100,000-1,000,000 civilians. EDO/ITT are directly linked to, and profit from, some of these deaths. To commemorate these acts Smash EDO are calling for a day of events: 12pm - A picket of Barclays in North Street, Brighton, to highlight their involvement in the arms trade; 3-6pm - Extra long 'Horrors of War' noise demo outside EDO/ITT. Bring noise making equipment;
7pm - Benefit gig at Hector's House, featuring The Junk, Primeval Soup, Clear as Mud and more TBC.
Address: around Brighton
Time: 12pm, 3pm-6pm, 7pm-
Web: www.smashedo.org.uk

20th Mar
Liverpool Antifascists Folk Night
Benefit night for Liverpool Anti-Fascists featuring local folk musicians and singer-songwriters.
Address: The Pilgrim, Pilgrim St, Liverpool
Postcode: L1 9HB | View Map
Time: 7pm
Price: £5/£7
Email: liverpoolantifascists@riseup.net
Web: http://liveraf.wordpress.com

20th Mar
EDL marching in Bolton
Protect multi-ethnic and diverse Bolton against the far-right English Defence League. The UAF are mobilising for the day, but as always these demos need people prepared to be more proactive than what the UAF stewards allow.
Address: Victoria Square, Bolton
Time: 11am
Web: www.uaf.org.uk

21st Mar
Bristol Seed Swap
Lined up so far is Seeds from the Heritage Seed Library, Commmunity gardens' plant stalls, local gardening groups, film showings, seed saving workshops, tea and cake and more.
Address: Windmill Hill City Farm, Philip St, Bedminster, Bristol, BS3 4EA
Postcode: BS3 4EA | View Map
Time: 11am-4pm
Email: bristolseedswap@yahoo.co.uk
Web: www.seedysunday.org/page_id__107_path__0
p2p9p.aspx

27th Mar
CAAT Gathering in York
Your chance to meet CAAT supporters, get the latest information on our campaign and share ideas for action in the run up to the election. If you like, you can also take the chance to practise some public-speaking skills and become a CAAT speaker!
Address: 15 Priory St, York YO1 6ET
Postcode: YO1 6ET | View Map
Time: 10.30am to 5pm
Price: free
Phone: 020 7281 0297
Email: rhiannon@caat.org.uk
Web: www.caat.org.uk

27th Mar
Community Action Gathering, Nottingham
The aim is to share information and experiences, and exchange our views as local activists, and hoping to work out how to promote the concept of community action effectively, to establish better links and communication channels among local groups, and encourage new ones to flourish all over the UK. For more info see website.
Address: Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Nottingham, NG7 6HX
Postcode: NG7 6HX | View Map
Email: communityactionnetworkuk@googlemail.com
Web: http://communityactionnetwork.wordpress.
com

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For those with an attention span of more than three minutes, here is a new collection of articles too long, analytical or high-brow to normally publish in the weekly newsheet.
Click Here for full list of feature articles...
From Kemp Town to Kabul, as SchNEWS interviews Al Jazeera journalist Medyan Dairieh about his take on the war...
An eyewitness account from Phnom Penh, as Cambodia faces its largest forced displacements since the time of the Khmer Rouge.
The future of Titnore Woods is threatened as Tesco and Worthing Council gang up to build upon the ancient woodland...
Who are the far-right English Defence League, and what are their strategies?
With the murder of Russian human rights activist Natalia Estemirova in Chechnya, we look at the Russian-backed despotic regime in Chechnya.
At the last minute the Big Green Gathering festival in Somerset was pulled due to legal pressure - SchNEWS looks at the events and factors that led to this.
Imagine A Garden
Imagine A Garden
The story of the squatted Lewes Rd Community Garden on the site of a disused petrol station in Brighton.
Reports From The Verge
Reports from the Verge
- OUT NOW - Smash EDO/ITT Anthology 2005-2009 - covering the Smash EDO/ITT's campaign efforts to shut down the Brighton based bomb factory since 2005.
National London Gaza demo, Jan 09
Conflict Alert
National demo in London in Jan 09 against the Israeli bombing of Gaza.
Brighton Gaza Demo, Jan 09
Humanity
Protests in Brighton against the Israeli bombing of Gaza in Jan 09.
Brighton Shut ITT Demo
Watch ITT!
Report from second national Smash EDO demo against Brighton bomb-parts makers EDO/ITT in October 2008.
Uncertified
Uncertified
SchMOVIES 2008 DVD Collection including the saga of On The verge, Newhaven anti-incinerator campaign, Titnore Woods and others.
On The Verge
On the Verge
The full length Smash EDO Campaign Film - the film the police tried to ban.

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