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Free Speech TV: Shell on Earth — This episode of the British activist series Undercurrents documents the collaboration of Shell Petroleum with the dictatorship of Nigeria in oppressing — and slaughtering — the Ogoni people. Visit More Free Speech TV: Supplementary Justice — On August 17, 1996, amid some of the worst violence ever in Northern Ireland, US President Bill Clinton allowed the extradition of Irish political refugee Jimmy Smyth back to Belfast. RealAudio, RealVideo, transcript, and discussion board at Lower Ormeau Concerned Community: Reroute Sectarian Marches — "Lower Ormeau Concerned Community was formed in March 1992, just a few weeks after the Ulster Defence Association murdered five members of our community in Sean Graham's, a local bookmakers shop. LOCC was set up to campaign for civil rights, the right not to have to endure sectarian marches and the abuses which they bring; and the massive police operations, including curfews for up to 25 hours, plastic bullets and beatings, all to facilitate those who wish to force marches through our community. The purpose of this web page is to inform you of our views, free from distortion and bias." See it at Scotland Yard Bugged my Phone — Britain's Scotland Yard holds files on nearly 2000 environmental activists, many of whom are under surveillance and have had their phones bugged. This activist took his bugged telephone — and his camcorder — directly to the powers that be, to get some answers. See the result at Denis Kevans — Denis has just released his CD City of Green, which celebrates green bans movement of the 1970s and the Mundey-led Builders Labourers Federation. He also has a web site at What's new at the Marx-Engels Internet Archive? — New additions include: the Alexandra Kollontai Internet Archive; Leon Trotsky's 1927 Problems of the Chinese Revolution; and 10 essays from 1899-1909 added to the James Connolly Internet Archive. Find these and many more at Left On-line welcomes information on new and interesting left and progressive Web sites. Send a short description to glw@greenleft.org.au or visit