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Banksy backs rioters with petrol bomb poster

Latest creation: Banksy has launched a new poster of a lit petrol bomb in a Tesco Value bottle – with profits being donated to help legal costs for those arrested during the Bristol riots

The artist will put the work up for sale just days after bloody battles over a new Tesco Express in the Stokes Croft area of Bristol – his home city.

It is believed profits from the £5 poster will go towards funding the legal defence for more than 30 rioters arrested following the two nights of violence.

via Banksy backs Bristol Tesco rioters with new petrol bomb poster | Mail Online.

Sweat shops..criminal capitalists

Bar worker had one week off in 18 months and it was UNPAID Tens of thousands of employees are being denied their legal right to time off work and paid holidays, a report revealed today. Citizens Advice said their bureaux had dealt with ‘widespread’ cases where people were forced to work without a break or could only take unpaid leave. Care home workers, hairdressers, bar staff, cleaners and shop employees were among the 87,000 cases reported to them in the last three years. No time off: 87,000 cases of people not being given time off or being given unpaid leave were reported to Citizens’ Advice in three years Most of those involved were…

The Daily Mail 2011-04-21

via Sweat shop: Retail staff among tens of thousands of workers ‘denied holiday entitlement by rogue employers’ – Worldnews.com.

Climate Change Causing Tornadoes?

Today, the US policy of burning fossil fuels unabated has increased the probability of life-threatening storms.

By the time the link between climate change and any one weather event can be absolutely established, it may be too late to do anything—as horrifically demonstrated in the South last week.

—A NASA study in 2007 predicted climate change would lead to more tornadoes and lethal storms in the United States, and ignoring this warning in light of recent events would seem foolhardy.

Whether or not last week’s tornadoes were caused by climate change, extreme weather is on the rise.

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Stop nationalist mind control!

Anti-Nationalist Front in Cyprus

First steps in order to establish anti-nationalist front.

Against hysteria and extremism there is only one solution: REVOLUTION!

via Anti-Nationalist Front in Cyprus.

China’s internet censorship

China has set up a new government body to control information on the internet.

The State Internet Information Office will take over responsibility from a number of lower-ranking directorates.

The new set-up will enable the government to keep a tighter grip on the content available to Chinese internet-users inside the country.

Beijing operates vast internet censorship, dubbed the “great firewall of China”. Websites deemed sensitive by the government are routinely blocked.

via BBC News – China tightens internet censorship controls.

Environmental refugees

The disappearance of Lohachara beneath the waters of the Bay of Bengal created environmental refugees. Dan McDougall reports on other islanders in the Sundarbans delta who have no escape from the rising ocean.

His exhausted body a prisoner to the Bay of Bengal’s violent tides, Dependra Das stretches out his bony arms to show his flaky, ravaged skin. He is covered in raw saltwater sores…. cont

via Environmental refugees – The Ecologist.

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