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Holocaust Memorial Event

Resistance to Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: from Europe in the 1940s to the Middle East TodayThe most appropriate way to commemorate the dead in the Nazi Holocaust is to stop current and future genocides. Sunday January 25thGlasgow venue: Western Infirmary Lecture Theatre (WILT) download mapEdinburgh Venue: OOTB (Out of the Blue drill Hall) Dalmeny Street,…

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Campaigners Decommission Arms Factory in solidarity with Gaza

EDO/ITT in Brighton has a visit from angry citizens (from Indymedia)It appears as though the weapons factory in Brighton, EDO/ITT is at present occupied and receiving retribution for its criminal activitiesUKindymedia is reporting here: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/418777.htmlThat computers, filing cabinets and the like are being chucked out of the windows by a group intent on shutting down…

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Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC)*

Press Release”Stop the Massacre in Gaza – Boycott Israel Now!”Occupied Ramallah, Palestine – 27 December 2008:  Today, the Israeli occupation army committed a new massacre in Gaza, causing the death and injury of hundreds of Palestinian civilians, including a yet unknown number of school children who were headed home from school when the first Israeli…

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Poem by Michael Rosen

Poem by Michael RosenIn Gaza , children,you learn that the sky killsand that houses hurt.You learn that your blanket is smokeand breakfast is dirt.You learn that cars do somersaultsclothes turn red,friends become statues,bakers don’t sell bread.  You learn that the night is a gun,that toys burnbreath can stop,it could be your turn.You learn:if they send…

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