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Issue 2482 | February 2007

Reviews

Lee Sustar and Aisha Karim (eds), 'Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader'
Christian Miller, 'Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost lives, and Corporate Greed in America'
Peter Brock (ed), 'These Strange Criminals: An Anthology of Prison Memoirs by Conscientious Objectors from the Great War to the Cold War'
David Cortright, 'Gandhi and Beyond - Nonviolence for an Age of Terrorism'

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Fairford Coach Case: Cautious victory for the right to protest

by Andy Meinke | Feature | February 2007

Just the facts M'Lud... ...

Reflections on Rossport

by Camilla Cancantata | Feature | February 2007

Last year myself and filmmaker Mayyasa Al-Malazi spent several weeks interviewing and filming people involved in the Shell to Sea campaign, including the Rossport Solidarity Camp, in the r ...

Good news

News | February 2007

In Denmark, a group of citizens are preparing to challenge the legality of their country's participation in the invasion of Iraq. ...

BAE resists attempt to reinstate corruption enquiry

by Albert Beale | News | February 2007

The Serious Fraud Office's dropping of one of its corruption cases against BAE Systems on government “advice” had led to widespread national and international condemnation, the threat of l ...

The courage to resist

by Jim Haber | News | February 2007

There is no conscription in the United States: people in the military who become conscientious objectors have to show they oppose all war and that they took this view only after joining th ...

Gitmo has got to go!

by Nik Gorecki | News | February 2007

On 11 January, the fifth anniversary of the opening of the notorious detention camps Delta, Iguana and X-Ray at the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay, was marked by protests and ...

Court agrees: Haw's conditions were "absurd"

by Rikki Blue | News | February 2007

Mark Wallinger's “State Britain” installation, a loving recreation of the whole forty metres of Brian Haw's Parliament Square anti-war protest site in all its former glory, opened on 15 Ja ...

Faslane 365: "an obligation to act"

by Sian Jones | News | February 2007

Later in the month, groups from Ireland, Leicester, Staffordshire and Stoke all blockaded successfully. ...

Is another world possible?

by Andreas Speck | News | February 2007

No doubt, this World Social Forum is different. Africa - Kenya & - makes its presence felt. ...

Five minutes to midnight ... but there's still time to act

| Feature | February 2007

“We stand at the brink of a second nuclear age. Not since the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has the world faced such perilous choices ... ...

Pipes, ash and protests

by Brian Bunyan | News | February 2007

Waste disposal and pipeline developments seem to be the bane of environmentalists the world over. ...