tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68246802011-04-21T19:27:34.015ZCommunity website. dealing in politics, art, photography, walking, meeting, empowerment, education,Bobnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824680.post-10564817559694442682008-11-19T18:53:00.000Z2008-11-19T18:55:13.462Z

hello all, following on from discussions at the 'resisting regenicide: struggles in the city' event at the CCA on saturday the 1st of november, a few of us see the need for a website to monitor gentrification strategies in the lead up to the commonwealth games 2014 in the east end of glasgow. a model for this type of activity can be found in the london games monitor website: http://

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About �: "Common Good posts needed from a variety of sources. Either send links, articles, essays, photographs, clippings, history - or if it is something you would be interested in - join the blog and input direct.In the Common Good. Bob.Snail Mail: City Strolls Electron Club CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD"

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Sicko? The Truth About the US Health Care System

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PLATFORM - Desk Killer

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Al-Qaeda plot to bring down UK internet-News-UK-Crime-TimesOnlineAs usual don't forget to read the comments:"However, although the Sunday Times warning that most of the UK's Internet traffic passes through the Docklands facility may be valid enough, its crime reporter, David Leppard, failed to note that critical infrastructure is distributed at many colocation sites and terrorists would need to

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The Lucifer Effect by Philip ZimbardoHow good folk become bad

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Green Left - VENEZUELA: Venezuela: Socialism makes a comeback

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How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish | Iraq | Guardian Unlimited

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Scotland on Sunday - Review - City takes panes to remember Geddes

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History, like slavery, isn’t a matter of colourBlackbird Leys IWCA

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GRASS ROOTS HOUSING PROCESS

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Bright pupils to receive vouchers for extra lessons | News crumb | EducationGuardian.co.uk

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Homeless over £3k debtby Clare Harris

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Indymedia Scotland: �5M for Bikes, �500M for M74 Extension

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Free Culture: What we need from youLinuxWorld: Events Highlights - Lessig Keynote

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Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre - 'Not fit for Purpose'

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BBC NEWS | England | London | Fires started at asylum complex

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BBC NEWS | Business | YouTube cuts 30,000 illegal clips

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Heart and soul of the city | Society Guardian | SocietyGuardian.co.ukLee Myung Bak, pledged in 2002 to restore the river, tear down the motorway and create a five-mile long, 800-yard wide, 1,000-acre lateral park snaking through the city where the river once ran.

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LRB | Tony Judt : Bush’s Useful Idiots

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Lorely Listens (Lorely Burt)The park belongs to the people. Before it is sold off in our name we should be formally asked through a referendum.Written by Lorely Burt and published in Solihull Times on Wed 21st Jun 2006

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Tears for New Orleans�

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Scott Ritter on "Target Iran

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Black Panthers Reunite 40 Years Later - EarthLink - U.S. News

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Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | John La Rose

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Scotsman.com News - Tears, anger, threatened suicide - another dawn raid"Our call to Jack McConnell [the First Minister] is to go back to the Home Office and this time stand firm until he can get an assurance that these dawn raids by snatch squads will be stopped in Scotland for good. - Robina Quereshi, of Positive Action in Housing

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Indymedia Scotland: “We look for signals, body language, anything out of the ordinary,”A visit to central London's CCTV control centre. The UK has 20% of the world's CCTV cameras. Why does that not seem to bother people?

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Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts features | The writing on the wallThe biggest loser of the Commonwealth games, says graffiti artist Banksy, is Melbourne's street art scene - and London could be next for the whitewash

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Hugo Chavez: Rise Up Against the Empire: "September 20, 2006Address to the United NationsRise Up Against the EmpireBy HUGO CHAVEZ"

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Brian Haw Peace Protester is in court again"I want to go back to my own kids and look them in the face again knowing that I've done all I can to try and save the children of Iraq and other countries who are dying because of my government's unjust, amoral, fear - and money - driven policies. These

Bobnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824680.post-1157968123882231232006-09-11T09:44:00.000Z2006-09-11T09:48:43.896Z

Patrick Cockburn: Gaza is Dying Today's media carry powerful testimonies of heroism and tragedy from New York five years ago - ordinary people in that city coping with grief. The silence from Palestine is deafening, as Israel 'rampages through Gaza' following its failure to defeat the Lebanese resistance led by Hezbollah. Blair did not even raise the issue of Israel's massacres of Palestinians,

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Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | Unhappiness is inevitable: "Unhappiness is inevitablePoverty and work are what make most of us miserable - and therapy is not the solutionPaul MoloneyMonday August 28, 2006The Guardian"

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The New York City Streets Renaissance

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BBC NEWS | England | Beds/Bucks/Herts | Detained parents on hunger strike

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World's Biggest Retailer Wal-Mart Closes Up Shop in Germany | Business | Deutsche Welle | 28.07.2006

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Come CleanCOME CLEAN! - The WMD Awareness Programme is dedicated to providing trustworthy and up to date information on Weapons of Mass Destruction world wide.

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Independent Online Edition > UK Politics

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SACC - Political Censorship by the BBC

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Breaking News Boosts Spread of Citizen Journalism - OhmyNews International

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BBC NEWS | Politics | Commons Confidential: May 2006" hawking, as a novelty item, an official Government report into the death of a public servant " " can't believe Labour would act is this almost triumphant way over someones death and subsequent whitewash. Its almost as they see the Hutton report as some sort of trophy "" What next, signed souvenir shrapnel from Iraq? " Rob.

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BBC NEWS | Politics | Commons Confidential: May 2006" hawking, as a novelty item, an official Government report into the death of a public servant " " can't believe Labour would act is this almost triumphant way over someones death and subsequent whitewash. Its almost as they see the Hutton report as some sort of trophy "" What next, signed souvenir shrapnel from Iraq? "

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Hatred and Respect: The Class Shame of Ned 'Humour' | Alex Law | Variant 25

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Home

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Grand jury exonerates New York cop who shot 19-year-old youthThe law-and-order campaign, regularly stoked by the media and the big business politicians, means that the police function as a virtual occupation force in poorer neighborhoods

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Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | Blair's inner circle and its ferocious grab for power

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Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - Remnants of Glasgow's tobacco trading past

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Save Parliament! Stop the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill

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ZNet | Europe | The Power Inquiry And Fear Of Public Opinion: "The Power Inquiry And Fear Of Public Opinion"

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New Zealand: Support workers taking McDonalds to court: "New Zealand: Support workers taking McDonalds to court"

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BBC NEWS | Scotland | Gangs gather to 'avoid' trouble

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A 90minute documentary on the planet’s dwindling oil resources

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The Magna Carta is renowned as the 'Charter of Liberty' which inspired modern constitutional safeguards against the power of the State. But its smaller companion, the Charter of the Forest, enshrining the customary rights of the commoners to land and resources, has been overlooked. Cutting between the political struggles of the early 1970s and the 1720s, Peter Linebaugh shows how the struggle

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There is just one thing Geldof can now do for Africa. This is to announce that his optimism was misplaced, that the mission was not accomplished, that the struggle for justice is as urgent as ever. But while he holds his tongue, he will remain the man who betrayed the poor.

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Not Local? No rights. No charity. Brighton and Hove Council's vicious "local connection" policy for the homeless has been getting steadily more repressive. Now the homeless aren't allowed to use First Base Day Centre to buy a cheap meal, have their post delivered or take a shower, unless they have had a tenancy in the town for 6 months out of the last 12, or 3 years of the last 5 or have had

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Around 75 community and housing activists from across the city gathered in the Macro Community Resource Centre on North King St last night, for the launching of a new Tenants First booklet, entitled "The Real Guide to Regeneration for Communities:

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The attorney general last night threatened newspapers with the Official Secrets Act if they revealed the contents of a document allegedly relating to a dispute between Tony Blair and George Bush over the conduct of military operations in Iraq.

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The British government has threatened to use the Official Secrets Act to sue newspapers that publish contents of a leaked memo

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Bush's Leadership: Running on Empty

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Mickey Z, "Politics and the Playing Field: An Interview with Dave Zirin"

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Gate Gourmet bosses' anti-worker plot libcom.org | newswire - libertarian communist comment, news and analysis

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Going South: From Chapter One of You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train

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If Americans Knew - what every American needs to know about Israel/Palestine

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Key Issues: Nuclear Weapons: Issues: Accidents: 20 Mishaps that Might Have Caused Nuclear War

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Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - Scotland's modern architecture in crisis?

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New Statesman: " Blair's bombs Terror and the UK - The senseless repercussions of interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine demand that we renew our anger at our leaders. Our troops must come home. We owe it to all those who died in London on 7 July. By John Pilger"

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t r u t h o u t - John Pilger | Fighting Fascism Then, and Now The world is a very different place from Barcelona in 1938, and from the Sierra del Pandols, and the Valley of Jarama, and all the battlefields of Spain, but the legacy of those who confronted fascism then endures as a warning to us all today.

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Corporate Watch Newsletter Issue 21Following the elections at the end of January, it seems the way may now be open to privatise Iraq ’ s biggest and most strategic asset: oil. But while the UK and USA are carefully playing the politics at a government level, Iraq ’ s occupiers may face a greater obstacle in the oil industry ’ s workers.

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-- CAE DEFENSE FUND -- When thought becomes crimeHow did it come to this?Only a perverse authoritarian logic can explain how Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) can at one moment be creating the project "Free Range Grain" for the Risk exhibition at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, reconfiguring it for The Interventionists exhibition at Mass MoCA in a second moment, and then suddenly have a CAE member in

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Campaign Against Prison SlaveryThe Campaign Against Prison Slavery exists to challenge and bring about an end to forced prison labour, and to expose the companies that exploit it. A strong campaign has been built in England, with an emphasis on direct action against companies using prison labour, and public awareness raising to encourage boycotts to put pressure on companies. The campaign has

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ActionWeekIs this an idea?

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FOUR million pounds of taxpayers’ money is to be spent by a Scottish local authority buying back council homes it sold on the cheap, Scotland on Sunday can reveal.

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ZNet Commentary: Kennedy: Fascist America "It was dead water for 20-mile stretches north of New York City and south of Albany. It caught fire. It changed colors," he said. "Today, it is the richest water body in the North Atlantic. It produces more pounds of fish per acre and more biomass per gallon than any other waterway in the Atlantic north of the equator. It is the last major river system

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Nuclear Terror at HomeIf you can imagine some rational observers from Mars looking at this curious species down here, I don’t think they’d put very high odds on survival—another generation or two. In fact, it’s kind of miraculous that we’ve come along this far.

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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Leave our country now We lived through dark days under Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. When the regime fell, people wanted a new life: a life without shackles and terror; a life where we could rebuild our country and enjoy its natural wealth. Instead, our communities have been attacked with chemicals and cluster bombs, and our people tortured, raped and

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Scott Ritter Says U.S. Plans June Attack on Iran : SF Bay Area Indymedia United for Peace of Pierce County (WA) February 19, 2005 Scott Ritter, appearing with journalist Dahr Jamail yesterday in Washington State, dropped two shocking bombshells in a talk delivered to a packed house in Olympia’s Capitol Theater. The ex-Marine turned UNSCOM weapons inspector said that George W. Bush has "signed off

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Tsunami: A Discourse On Compassion Compassion has become morally and politically appropriate, as it should be. What is inexcusable is when those images of suffering are a direct consequence of policies waged by our governments and corporations for which we are culpable, we seem to exhibit compassion-deficient syndrome. A global compassion not only for human life, but for human dignity can never

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Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | I know what I'd doChoice? What choice? The residents of Clapham Park Estate might be asking themselves that as they head off to the polls within a couple of weeks. People who live in what was judged Lambeth's worst housing estate will be voting on whether to transfer their homes from Lambeth council to a new community-led housing association. Since

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ZNet Commentary: Australia: The Sickening Of DemocracyNational myths are usually partly true. In Australia, the myth of an egalitarian society, or "fair go", has an extraordinary history. Long before most of the world, Australia had a minimum wage, a 35-hour working week, child benefits and the vote for women. The secret ballot was invented in Australia. By the 1960s, Australians could boast the

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Delete the evidence Funny how the government would want to keep millions of files to cope with ID cards, yet it costs to much money to keep e-documents that might be important. Reminds me of another country that makes up laws to oppress rather than protect people

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Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Reservist ready to refuse call-up The first British soldier has come forward to urge mass refusal among the ranks to serve in Iraq, saying he would rather go to prison than accept a call-up to war.

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Toll of British wounded in Iraq war reaches 800 This article was in the Times Tues, 18 2005, and writes about the number of British soldiers that have been severely wounded. There is nearly 800 British soldiers wounded which means that the war in the South of Iraq has been more violent than the media have reported.

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Times Online - BritainMobile phones tumour risk to young children

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ZNet Commentary: The Other, Man-made Tsunami: "This one-way moral mirror allows us to ignore a trail of destruction and carnage that is another tsunami. Consider the plight of Afghanistan, where clean water is unknown and death in childbirth common. "

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The victims of the tsunami pay the price of war on Iraq US and British aid is dwarfed by the billions both spend on slaughter

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BBC NEWS | Politics | Howard condemns e-mail deletion The Tories have branded the government "hypocritical" over reports officials will delete millions of e-mails before new data laws take effect on 1 January.

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ZNet Commentary: Religion of the Rich: "In the United States this ideology has to be a religious one. Bush's government is forced back to the doctrines of Puritanism as an historical necessity. If we are to understand what it's up to, we must look not to the 1930s, but to the 1630s."

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medialens.org MediaLens is our response to the unwillingness, or inability, of the mainstream media to tell the truth about the real causes and extent of many of the problems facing us, such as human rights abuses, poverty, pollution and climate change.

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ZNet Commentary: 100,000 Iraqi Civilian Deaths - Part 1: "At time of writing (November 2), the Lancet report has not been mentioned at all by the Observer, the Telegraph, the Sunday Telegraph, the Financial Times, the Star, the Sun and many others.

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New Statesman

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ZNet Commentary: Thailand : Killing Hope

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ZNet Commentary: Don't Blame The People

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George Monbiot � The Paradox of Transition How does the Global Justice Movement become effective without becoming New Labour?

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ZNet Commentary: Outsource CEOs, not workers

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Edge of Sports

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"Olympics Chiefs Ask Bush To Pull Campaign Ad" (ZNet Blog)

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Homo Ludens (ZNet Blog)Yesterday, one of the “feel-good stories” of the Athens Olympic Games, indeed, one of the “games’ most captivating stories,” drew to its uneventful conclusion, when the Iraqi national soccer team ("football," as the sport is known in the more civilized parts of the world) lost in the bronze medal round of the tournament to the Italian team, by a score of 1-0.

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