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Student Direct | Manchester’s Student Read » Victory for Anti-Arms Trade Campaign
Victory for Anti-Arms Trade Campaign Catherine Bolsover Over 300 students turned up to show their opposition to investing in the arms trade at a General Meeting in UMSU last Wednesday, following on from reports at the high level of arms … Continue reading
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Student Direct | Manchester’s Student Read » Students Protest Against Arms
Students Protest Against Arms Gordon Michaels Students from the University of Manchester travelled to London last week to protest against the world’s biggest arms fair. Various groups joined together to call for a week of action and resistance against the … Continue reading
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Students ban Coca-Cola | Manchester Evening News – menmedia.co.uk
STUDENTS at Manchester University have voted to ban Coca-Cola from the campus. The fizzy drink will be taken off the shelves and withdrawn from university bars after allegations about the firm’s record in Third World countries. The claims centre on … Continue reading
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Why have we boycotted Coca-Cola? Coke’s human rights abuses and evironmental disregard is well documented. War on Want found that the Coke bottling plants in India were draining vast quantities of ground water to produce their soft drinks. This leads … Continue reading
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University of Manchester Students’ Union – TvWiki, the free encyclopedia
University of Manchester Students’ Union – TvWiki, the free encyclopedia.
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Manchester Climate Action
Giant elephant visits Council’s climate change conference Posted in Uncategorized on December 6, 2010 by manchesterrobbie Campaigners against the expansion of Manchester Airport took a 12 foot inflatable elephant to the city council’s Climate Change Action Plan stakeholder conference on … Continue reading
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» Manchester unionists prepare for June 30 strike – MULE
Manchester unionists prepare for June 30 strike Article published: Tuesday, June 14th 2011 As trade unions ballot their members across the country for authorisation to call a day of coordinated strike action on June 30, unionists in Manchester are urging … Continue reading
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» Council backs down to Market Street protestors – MULE
Council backs down to Market Street protestors Article published: Tuesday, September 27th 2011 Following two weekends of harassment from police and council officials, campaigners from a range of different political groups in Manchester on Saturday successfully held a mass street … Continue reading
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Thomas Barlow – Telegraph Blogs
August 17th, 2007 23:51 George Monbiot motivates the camp My blog yesterday may have seemed a bit rushed and that was because I was hurrying to see George Monbiot. The entire camp had been talking about his workshop all day. … Continue reading
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» Manchester climate activists report back from Edinburgh protest – MULE
Manchester climate activists report back from Edinburgh protest Article published: Wednesday, September 8th 2010 In August of this summer, the Camp for Climate Action set up on the front lawn of RBS headquarters in Scotland. Manchester Climate Action’s Tom Barlow … Continue reading
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