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Barnardo’s recruiting new PR officer to counter bad publicity
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[responsivevoice_button] It seems Barnardo’s is starting to feel the heat caused
15 Aug 2012
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Using Benefits to Blackmail
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[responsivevoice_button] Gillian Wilkes, from the West Midlands, was recently made redundant
12 Aug 2012
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Bread and circuses: the shady business of the International Olympic Committee
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[responsivevoice_button] Ian Blunt and Beth Lawrence outline some key events in
26 Jul 2012
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The real environmental impacts of holding the Olympics in East London
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[responsivevoice_button] Tom Antebi from the Ecologist and the Counter Olympics Network
26 Jul 2012
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Greenwash Gold 2012 campaign
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[responsivevoice_button] Richard Solly describes the Greenwash Gold 2012 Campaign, which aims
26 Jul 2012
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Security Games: Surveillance, repression and activism around the London 2012 Olympics
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[responsivevoice_button] Britain launched its biggest peace time security operation ever ahead
26 Jul 2012
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Calais: Olympics border control repression
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[responsivevoice_button] Members of the group Calais Migrant Solidarity tell Corporate Watch
26 Jul 2012
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Corporate Olympics: Introduction
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[responsivevoice_button] Now that the Olympics and Paralympics and all the associated
26 Jul 2012
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Preparing London for the Corporate Games: the Docklands Planning Model
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[responsivevoice_button] Ian Blunt explains how legislation and ‘democratic’ processes were adapted
26 Jul 2012
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Soldiers trained in snatch squad tactics for the Olympics
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[responsivevoice_button] “Large numbers” of soldiers from the Parachute Regiment and a
05 Jul 2012
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Cuadrilla under pressure from Fracktivists
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[responsivevoice_button] This month activists have continued to campaign against the introduction
05 Jul 2012
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G4S dumps UPM, chooses new partners to house asylum seekers
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[responsivevoice_button] The short-lived affair between G4S and United Property Management (UPM)
03 Jul 2012
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‘I was so frozen by stress after having my benefits stopped’
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[responsivevoice_button] Karen Stromberg from the London Coalition Against Poverty describes the
30 Jun 2012
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Revealed: the punishing reality of the coalition’s welfare reforms
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[responsivevoice_button] Sanctioning – stopping someone’s benefits after a perceived infringement of
30 Jun 2012
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Benefit claimant forced to accept Jubilee steward position for less than minimum wage
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[responsivevoice_button] A benefit claimant was told by the Jobcentre that she
07 Jun 2012
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