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GRAPHICS Issues 661-704
(2009)
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A collection of SchNEWS' best graphics from the past
decade, presented in a full colour pocket-sized book. Covering issues
from climate change to vivisection, police repression to resource
wars, these graphics manage to raise a grin out of some deadly serious
matters, all the while never watering down the uncompromising anarcho-green
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20th December 2009 | Issue
704 - NOT A HOPENHAGEN - In the end there was no deal on
the table in Copenhagen and COP 15 was the big global cop-out we
expected.
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11th December 2009 | Issue
703 - ONCE YOU COP YOU JUST CAN'T STOP - Going to COP15
at the weekend? Wondering which pair of socks to bring? A space-hopper
and a peace flag or a gas-mask and a bag of transit wheel nuts?
Ask no longer as SchNEWS brings you our prepare-for-action guide
to the week long climate protest in Denmark...
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4th December 2009 | Issue
702 - DUBAI NOW, PAY LATER - As the oasis of capitalism
in the desert turns pear-shaped...
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27th November 2009 | Issue
701 - BUY BUY CRUEL WORLD - It's Buy Nothing Day, and no
better time than to order a complete set of SchNEWS annuals for
only £9.99...
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20th November 2009 | Issue
700 - GOOD COP BAD COP - The COP15 UN Climate Conference
in Copenhagen - considered the most important climate talks since
Kyoto - hasn't even happened, but still the US and China have agreed
to not make any agreements, leaving talks dead in the water before
they've even started.
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13th November 2009 | Issue
699 - MEXICAN WAVE - Around 200,000 workers, teachers, students,
unionists, farmers and social campaigners shut Mexican cities down
on November 12th in a national strike against the military backed
privatisation of a national power company.
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6th November 2009 | Issue
698 - POST APOCALYPSE - as the posties go on strike at a
round of cutbacks designed to prepare the Royal Mail for privatisation.
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30th October 2009 | Issue
697 - A LIBERAL HELPING? - The Guardian publish a
police 'domestic extremists' spotter card and brew up a storm about
police attempts to monitor protesters.
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23rd October 2009 | Issue
696 - SOOTY AND SWOOP - Over a thousand swoopers descended
on Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station with a stated aim to shut the
whole place down. Ratcliffe is a coal powered station owned by Saruman
the Mighty, and Britains 3rd largest emitter of carbon.
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16th October 2009 | Issue
695 - KICKING UP A STINK - In a rare SchNEWS advertorial,
Cosmetics manufacturer Lush have released a new soap called Fabulous
Mrs Fox on sale from now til Boxing Day. Every penny
of the profits is set to be spent on funding sab groups up and down
the country as they disrupt bloodsports.
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16th October 2009 Issue
695 - AND FINALLY ...As farmers take their protest about
dairy pricing to Brussels, where they milk it for all its
worth...
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9th October 2009 | Issue
694 - SWOOPER TROOPERS - As the Great Climate Swoop descends
on the coal-fired power station at Ratcliffe-On-Soar near Nottingham..
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2nd October 2009 | Issue
693 - WHO ARE YA? - Fabio Capello wonders why England always
has trouble fielding a strong left winger, as SchNEWS asks just
who are the far-right English Defence League.
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24th September 2009 | Issue
692 - JUNGLIST MISSIVE - Jungle Mania as Calais' refugee
camps are violently evicted and trashed by French police.
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4th September 2009 | Issue
689 - ARM-A-GEDDON MYSELF SOME OF THAT - An Isreali firm
is now offering for sale its Jumper robo missile pack
the latest in high convenience unmanned self-powered death
machines, all provided in a handy carrying case.
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21st August 2009 | Issue
688 - STOCK HORROR AT HLS - Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS),
the largest animal testing lab in Europe, are hitting the financial
skids - thanks to campaigning which has targeted bankers and investors.
(NB - incase you don't get this joke: it's a LOLBUNNY, a bit like
a LOLCAT. Look on the web - they're pictures of cute animals with
cute text-speak captions).
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14th August 2009 | Issue
687 - FASH GET THE BRUM RUSH - The far-right in Britain
rears it's boney head as the English Defence League march in central
Birmingham.
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7th August 2009 | Issue
686 - BLOWING IN THE WIND - The campaign against the closure
of the wind turbine manufacturer Vestas site in the Isle of
Wight, instigated by sacked workers occupying the factory two weeks
ago (see SchNEWS
685), has continued this week with a broad coalition of activists
and locals assembling to show solidarity with the workers.
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7th August 2009 | Issue
686 - BLOWING IN THE WIND
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27th July 2009 | Issue
685 - THE HIPPY, HIPPY SHAKEDOWN - At the last minute the
Big Green Gathering is closed down by the police and local council
on a roadblock permit technicality - but as one policeman admitted
'This is political'.
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17th July 2009 | Issue
684 - GOOD PLAN, 'STAN - As the body count mounts, we look
at the unwinnable war in Afghanistan, and the Obama chapter of the
'War Of Terror'.
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10th July 2009 | Issue
683 - BOBBIES ON THE BLEAT - The HMIC (Her Majestys
Inspectorate of Constabulary) report about the policing of the G20
protests - called Adapting To Protest - is more concerned
about public perception of the police rather than the police actions
themselves, which saw one innocent bystander killed and other police
violence - all caught on camera.
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10th July 2009 | Issue
683 - BOBBIES ON THE BLEAT - Heres an actual page
from the G20 police report, wrapping up many pages of lucid argument
and rigorous research. But just what is that pile of brown stuff
next to the word conclusion? Under magnification, we
can clearly see that it is in fact a well chosen visual metaphor
to sum up the report. Its all complete horseshit.
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3rd July 2009 | Issue
682 - Michael Jackson RIP - SchNEWS' moving tribute to the
king of pop...
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26th June 2009 | Issue
681 - YOURE NICKED SUNSHINE! - At this year's summer
solstice celebration at Stonehenge, the Wiltshire police went over
the top - literally, by flying an un-manned drone surveillance copter
continuously over the crowd.
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19th June 2009 | Issue
680 - COPS, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE - Sussex Police raid the
home of Brighton film maker on a tenuous pretext. It is in fact
a general intelligence gathering effort, as they try to attack Smash
EDO.
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12th June 2009 | Issue
679 - Nick Griffin is showered with eggs during his 'victory'
speech outside Whitehall after becoming an MEP in the EU Elections.
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29th May 2009 | Issue
677 - MOSQUITO BITE - On April 19th 2009, representatives
from 360 Mískito communities declared the secession of the
entire Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, also known as the Mosquito
Coast. They announced that the area, which accounts for 46% of Nicaraguas
territory and an estimated 11% of the population, would form the
independent Nation of Moskitia.
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22nd May 2009 | Issue
676 - FINAL FRONTIERS - A humanitarian crisis caused by
British immigration policy is taking place just over the channel
in Calais. Thousands of people in search of a new life in the area
are risking their lives to enter the UK and are only surviving with
the illegal solidarity of local people. The situation
has worsened dramatically since the forced closure of the Red Crosss
Sangatte centre.
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8th May 2009 | Issue
675 - BRIGHTON ROCKED - As Smash EDO May Day Mayhem Hits
The Streets Of Brighton...
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1st May 2009 | Issue
674 - SWINE FLU - With Sussex police promising a big contingent
for Smash EDO's Mayday demo in Brighton, it is feared that they
could unleash an outbreak of swine flu.
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24th April 2009 | Issue
673 - SUMMIT OF THE UN-AMERICAS - Leaders from countries
across the Americas excluding Cuba meet in Trinidad,
in a gathering which produces absolutely nothing. Barack Obama is
met with strong criticism from Latin American leaders about the
continued US imperialism.
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17th April 2009 | Issue
672 - PATHOLOGICAL LIARS - Ian Thomlinson is killed by police
during the G20 Protests in central London - and he wasn't even on
the demo, he was a newpaper seller trying to escape the police cordon
to get home. Now That's What I Call A Police State!
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27th March 2009 | Issue
670 - APOCALYPSE WOW - The G20 Summit in London kicks off
next week as the G20 Dogs hit town.
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27th March 2009 | Issue
670 - IN THE BROWN STUFF - The decision to bail out the
banking system amounts to a redistribution of wealth from the poor
to the rich on an unprecedented scale.
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20th March 2009 | Issue
669 - STAND UP TO DETENTION - Home Secretary Jacqui Smith
has opened the latest addition to UK plcs capacity for locking
people up, Brook House - the largest immigration detention centre
yet - with space for 426 prisoners. 2,500 people are currently locked
up in 13 British immigration prisons and the government want to
be able lock up another 1,500.
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13th March 2009 | Issue
668 - TAKING IT ALL IN - The 110-vehicle aid convoy arrives
in war-torn Gaza delivering medical and other aid, as well as the
vehicles themselves such as ambulances and fire engines.
Saair Yildirim, a driver from Bristol acknowledged the reception
in Gaza had been tremendous, but was shocked to see
the wreckage of ambulances destroyed by Israeli fire.
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6th March 2009 |
Issue 667 - FOOLS RUSH IN - Momentum is building up for
protests against the G20 Summit next month in London. With four
horsemen of the apocalypse about to descend on the city of London,
we're worried about the fifth...
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6th March 2009 |
Issue 667 - AND FINALLY - To invoke the spirit of Bulldog
Blighty, the BNP have used the image of a WWII Spitfire on their
new campaign poster. The catch is that the markings on the plane
featured indicate that it was from a Polish Air Force squadron -
who in fact participated in the Battle Of Britain. Those bloody
foreigners, coming here and taking our jobs...!
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13th February 2009 | Issue
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6th February 2009 | Issue
665 - SHEIK, BATTLE & RULE - In Somalia the UN/Western-backed
Transitional Federal Government has fled its base in
Baidoa when the Islamist militias of Al Shabab took over took over
the town, with MPs fleeing alongside withdrawing Ethiopian troops.
The UN rubber-stamped government that never was is no more.
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30th January 2009 | Issue 664
- President Obama is inaugurated - is it the dawn of a new age
or more of the same with a more appealing face? Call us cynical
but the evidence is the latter.
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30th January 2009 | Issue
664 - INSIDE GUANTANAMO - Moazzam Begg, British ex-detainee
of Guantanamo, said that Guantanamo was like the Hilton
compared to other places in which he was incarcerated.
In his first week in office, President Obama made moves to close
down Guantanamo - which is great, apart from the fact that it's
the tip of the iceberg, and there are many - even less visible -
places where suspected terrorists are being renditioned tortured
outside public scrutiny.
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30th January 2009 | Issue
664 - And Finally - In memory of the Bush shoe thrower,
people in the Iraqi town of Tikrit have unveiled a statue... of
a shoe.
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23rd January 2009 | Issue
663 - DECOMMISSION ACCOMPLISHED - I dont
feel Im going to do anything illegal tonight, but Im
going to go into an arms factory and smash it up to the best of
my ability so that it cannot actually work or produce munitions...
[which] have been provided to the Israeli army so that they can
kill children. - Elijah Smith, one of the EDO 9.
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16th January 2009 | For more info see
Issue 661 - RAYTHEON ROOF-O-METER - As the rooftop occupation
of the Bristol offices of US arms giant Raytheon goes into its sixth
week.
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