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Issue 2538 | October 2011

Editorial: Media Conference

by Milan Rai and Emily Johns | Comment | October 2011

So, it’s finally here. The Rebellious Media Conference (RMC, née the Radical Media Conference) is finally taking place, nearly two years after the first brainstorming in the Peace News office about how to mark our 75th anniversary.

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News in Brief

Y-12 sentences · Jody McIntyre· Uranium walk· Countless crimes· Nepal crisis· Western Sahara· £600,000 domes · £20,000 detention· Aha Ahava!· And they call it peace ...read

Letters

Save squatting· A good read· Conscious Wales· PN camp keeps us sane! ...read

Reviews

Fredrik S Heffermehl, The Nobel Peace Prize: What Nobel Really Wanted
Hussein Lucas, After Summerhill: What happened to the pupils of Britain’s most radical school?
Michael Chanan (dir), Chronicle of Protest: a Video Diary
Bill McKibben (ed), The Global Warming Reader; Haydn Washington and John Cook, Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand

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Afghanistan: truth from the embers

by Milan Rai | Feature | October 2011

A call for all anti-war activists to expose three lies about the Afghan war

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A Week of Action against the Death Fair

by Dan Viesnik | News | October 2011

Dan Viesnik reports on the protests surrounding Europe's biggest arms fair.

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Anti-nuclear blockaders to make their Hinkley Point

by Dan Viesnik | News | October 2011

Activists plan major blockade of Hinkley nuclear power station.

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Anglo-French drones?

by Chris Cole | News | October 2011

Drone Wars UK's Chris Coles examines the latest wranglings surrounding the planned Anglo-French drone.

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The new SOCPA

by Christina Dey | News | October 2011

The law banning "unauthorised" protests around Parliament has finally been repealed, but what will replace it?

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The right to march?

by David Polden | News | October 2011

On 26 August, the metropolitan police in London obtained the home secretary’s consent to ban marches in Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Islington, Waltham Forest, and Newham for one month from 2 September. ...

Maikel continues hunger strike

by Andreas Speck | News | October 2011

Egyptian pacifist and blogger continues fast.

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Mass arrests at tar sands protest

by David Polden | News | October 2011

1252 arrested at US tar sands protests.

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Commemorating the Gleision miners

by Kelvin Mason | News | October 2011

In the wake of the recent flood deaths, Kelvin Mason ponders the future of coal mining - and coal miners - in Wales.

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Carbon Cycle 2011

by Anna Bullen | News | October 2011

Welsh activists take action on transport.

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Make Peace Festival

by Sarah Young | News | October 2011

Hundreds attend annual Scottish CND event.

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Edinburgh university occupied

by Declan McCormick | News | October 2011

Students protest tuition fee hike.

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Coal action in Scotland

by Danny | News | October 2011

Skillshare draws over 100 participants.

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The big red cross

by Lillian Lyons | Feature | October 2011

Lillian Lyons, wife of imprisoned conscientious objector Michael Lyons, describes why he refused the “learning to kill” course.

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Voice of the People: An interview with the Hankyoreh

by Taesun Kwon | Feature | October 2011

Taesun Kwon, the executive editor of South Korea’s non-corporate national daily newspaper, talks to Peace News

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Where next for radical media?

by Emily Johns and Brian Dominick and Anne Beech and Michael Albert | Feature | October 2011

Rebellious Media Conference contributors Anne Beech, Michael Albert, Brian Dominick and Emily Johns respond to some questions from Peace News

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The Propaganda Model

by Alison Edgley | Feature | October 2011

In time for the PN-initiated Rebellious Media Conference, a brief guide to the classic analysis of the mainstream media by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman, co-authors of Manufacturing Consent.

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Go, move, shift!

by Charlotte Potter-Powell | Feature | October 2011

Charlotte Potter-Powell examines the purpose and effect of solidarity actions at Dale Farm as the barricades rise higher around the Travellers’ site in Essex.

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The delegate prepares herself

by Maya Evans | Comment | October 2011

Maya Evans gets ready to travel to Afghanistan later this year.

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Obituary: John Hyatt 1949-2011

by Michael Randle and Milan Rai and Emily Johns | Comment | October 2011

Life-long activist and "guerilla anarchist" who helped expose plans for a paramilitary coup and stood trial for "incitement to disaffect" British troops in Northern Ireland.

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From the archives: The triviality of Labour politics

Comment | October 2011

The inability of the Labour Party to come together round a genuinely progressive vision of the world, especially over issues of peace and war, has a long pedigree.

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Activism and … Eviction

Comment | October 2011

Being evicted from your home leaves deep scars and although there may be much support, sometimes you can get done-over by so-called supporters. ...