Share A two week old strike of immigrant workers in a city near Sparta in Greece has led to street protests. The immigrant workers from Pakistan are on strike with the support of the Union of Immigrant Workers (uiw). They’re demanding asylum, houses, equal rights, and better wages. The video is from a protest...
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Share Campaign video by Richard Curtis and Bill Nighy, about the Robin Hood Tax, a tiny tax on bank transactions that could raise hundreds of billions for public services and to tackle poverty and climate change at home and around the world. Add your own voice to the campaign at http://www.robinhoodtax.org.uk
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Share Waterloo was filled with the sound of whistles, bagpipes and vuvuzelas on Thursday lunchtime as hundreds of London firefighters marched in protest against the threat of mass sackings if union leaders don’t agree to controversial changes to shift patterns. Report from London SE1 Community Website
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Share Three people have been held after a man threw a shoe at Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou attending a trade fair in the city of Thessaloniki . The man who launched the shoe, Dr Stergios Prapavezis, is a respected local cancer specialist and member of the protest movement called the Patriotic Front. Mass...
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Share Around 20,000 protesters march on Thessaloniki as Prime Minister George Papandreou offers no social assistance during an annual economy speech. Video by nocommenttv Video by Reuters (posted by fal2grace)
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Share In this RSA Animate video, renowned academic David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane? This is based on a lecture at the RSA
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Share Nick Clegg was jeered by hundreds of protestors assembled outside the Town Hall on Friday 3 September as he arrived for a council Q&A session and to launch the region’s new Local Enterprise Partnership. The protest was called by Sheffield Trades Council. Video by Sheffield Politics. More coverage from the Sheffield Star and...
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Share The government and TD’s are on their holidays as up to three hundred took part in a protest and carnival to highlight the jobs crisis in this country. A number of excellent bands, such as Elevator, Control Freak, Noise Machine played to a diverse crowd of Emos, pensioners, hipsters, protestors, community activists, tourists...
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Video of Tony Benn, Caroline Lucas MP, Greek activists and others at a rally calling for resistance to the wave of austerity sweeping across europe
