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national / miscellaneous Thursday November 14, 2002 - 11:57 by Rory Hearne
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Last Friday while making my way to the European Social Forum (ESF) in Florence, Italy, where a million people (according to the organisers)peacefully marched against the imminent war against Iraq I experienced at first hand the lack of democracy and respect for human rights within the EU. The Schengan Agreement is supposed to guarantee the free movement of all EU citizens within EU states. However, the bus I was travelling in, which was part of the mobilisation for the ESF from Spain, was stopped at the French-Italian border. Our passports were taken by the border police and within 15 minutes they returned and asked for me to leave the bus and go with them. I was then stripsearched, the contents of my bags emptied on the floor, and later photographed. Completely confused and startled I asked the police why all this was being done to me. They gave no reason. Later, ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday November 14, 2002 - 11:54 by 12r12
YAHOO NEWS ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday November 14, 2002 - 11:40 by Gaelgoir
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Could someone tell me where I could get the lyrics of The Internationale in Irish? ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday November 14, 2002 - 11:37 by OK
A report from Socialist Party (CWI Britain) member, Christine Thomas, who was in Florence for recent ESF ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday November 14, 2002 - 11:32 by Zikan Kollontai
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Participate in an ECD against the WTO, the world's biggest exploitative institution ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday November 14, 2002 - 09:53 by Watchdog
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Before anyone goes along with the "wholesome" sounding anti-smoking crusade...please consider that this stuff HELPS the cigarette industry and their many ingredients suppliers, advertisers, insurers and investors...and gov't officials who allowed typical cigarettes to be so contaminated with dangerous, toxic, fire-starting, cancer-causing non-tobacco adulterants. WE, and the tobacco plant (nature) are blamed for effects of big corporate crimes. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday November 14, 2002 - 07:05 by brian
reminiscent of Lavon affair: If article does not print, it is here http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=25636 ... read full story / add a comment |
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