[Onthebarricades] On the Barricades - repression; technology; theory; miscellaneous

Mon Apr 4 04:28:06 PDT 2005

British man held at Gitmo is blinded in one eye during torture by US goons

http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/16680139?source=PA

Lawyer convicted for doing her job

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/11/nyregion/11stewart.html?hp&ex=1108184400&en=d43440ee57f1d7a6&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Lynne Stewart case terrorises lawyers

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/11/nyregion/11lawyers.html

AI protest over missing Iraqi woman

http://uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=9973&s2=26

Palestinians and other Arabs in Iraq under attack

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050323/REPOSITORY/503230362/1037/NEWS04

Iraq's gypsies under attack

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/616ac5819d2339f82a154c6886d4e12a.htm

UK troops beat up relatives for inquiring about detainees

http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=10026&s2=28

US state bars Sandinista heroine as "terrorist"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1430305,00.html

Canadian tortured in Jordan and Syria at US request
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/25/opinion/25herbert.html

Schoolkid arrested for story about zombies at school.
http://www.lex18.com/Global/story.asp?S=2989614

"Zero tolerance" victimises Kentucky students
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/mar2005/kent-m11.shtml

Texas pigs celebrate fire at black-owned nightclub
http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/535/535_08_TexasPolice.shtml

Hospitalised man tasered to force urine test - "this is torture" says Amnesty

http://www.rense.com/general63/maninhospitalbedtasered.htm

Deporting young chef is fighting terrorism?!

http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/opinion/html/B76E50C2-93B7-4343-84C9-2D3FB41070D2.shtml

Police at Elmore Academy attack civil rights class and
arrest teacher for resisting this fascist attack
http://fairmontsentinel.com/news/stories/030405b.html

California Latinos afraid to leave their homes because of dragnet sweeps

http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=620

Police taser man for allegedly not paying for food
http://colorado.indymedia.org/feature/display/10538/index.php

Protest after police murder dogs in drug crackdown freakery
http://www.mlive.com/news/fljournal/index.ssf?/base/news-27/1110300641239220.xml

Philly man tasered for trying to get home

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/001665.html

Vindictive sentence for youth accused of Molotov against military target (so cluster bombs are OK but Molotovs lead to jail? What bullshit!)
http://nyc.indymedia.org/feature/display/142514/index.php

Operation Harass the Homeless, Oregon

http://rogueimc.org/en/2005/03/4153.shtml

US political prisoner persecuted

http://www.newsandletters.org/Issues/2005/Mar-April/Khaldun_Mar-April_05.htm

He's maced after asking cops to help dying dog 

BY ALISON GENDAR and CELESTE KATZ
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS 

Jaime Johnson alleges harsh conduct by cops while he was trying to help Suki.  -->A Brooklyn man was pepper-sprayed when he brought his dying dog to his local police precinct, it was revealed yesterday. 
Jaime Johnson, 30, a maintenance worker from Bedford-Stuyvesant, claims he was unfairly treated by cops. 
But police sources said officers acted properly to subdue what they described as a drunken man having a violent fit. 
Johnson said he ran to the 88th Precinct stationhouse Saturday morning after his family's Shih Tzu puppy, Suki, was hit by a car. 
"I was frantic. I was scared, and I didn't know what to do, so I figured I would go to the precinct and ask for help," Johnson said yesterday. 
Johnson says he pleaded with cops to get an ambulance for the dog. 
"Within three minutes of [getting] there, I was blinded for the rest of the day," said Johnson, who denied he was drunk. 
Johnson said he was briefly put into a cell and then brought out and cuffed to a sink so he could wash his face. 
He was brought to Woodhull Hospital for what sources said was a psychological evaluation. 
While Johnson was at Woodhull, police sources said, the Sanitation Department was called to take the dog's body away, which is standard procedure, according to police. 
Johnson and his fiance, Twaina McLeod, 29, had no idea what had become of their pet until yesterday. 
The couple asked for help from City Councilwoman Letitia James (Working Families Party-Brooklyn), whose office is looking into the matter.

February 23, 2005
Florida boy accused of assault with rubber band

13-year-old suspended 10 days after confrontation with teacher

WKMG Local 6

A 13-year-old student in Orange County, Fla., was suspended for 10 
days 
and could be banned from school over an alleged assault with a rubber 
band, according to a WKMG Local 6 News report. 

Robert Gomez, a seventh-grader at Liberty Middle School, said he 
picked 
up a rubber band at school and slipped it on his wrist.

Gomez said when his science teacher demanded the rubber band, the 
student said he tossed it on her desk.

After the incident, Gomez received a 10-day suspension for 
threatening 
his teacher with what administrators say was a weapon, Local 6 News 
reported.

"They said if he would have aimed it a little more and he would have 
gotten it closer to her face he would have hit her in the eye," 
mother 
Jenette Rojas said.

Rojas said she was shocked to learn that her son was being punished 
for 
a Level 4 offense -- the highest Level at the school. Other 
violations 
that also receive level 4 punishment include arson, assault and 
battery, bomb threats and explosives, according to the Code of 
Student 
Conduct.

The district said a Level 4 offense includes the use of any object or 
instrument used to make a threat or inflict harm, including a rubber 
band.

Rojas plans to fight the ruling but her son still faces expulsion.

"It's ridiculous, it's a rubber band," Rojas said.

The school's principal could not comment because the case is still 
under investigation.

A district spokesman said there is still a series of meetings the 
district will have before Gomez is officially expelled.

***************Two US citizens thrown out of Bush public event in
Portsmouth NH for wearing T-shirts Bush staffers didn't like

"On Feb. 16, 2005, at the Bush event in Portsmouth, NH, a friend and
I tested freedom of speech in America, and found it defunct.

The event was touted as open to the public in the NH press but was
really, as usual, just for Bush supporters (after two days of
fruitless calling, my friend got tickets only by implying she was a
Republican). We got in wearing TurnYourBackOnBush T-shirts under our
sweaters (you can see pictures of the T-shirt on this page:
http://www.turnyourbackonbush.org/photos.html ). We sat in the back,
near the media (by the way -- there were large numbers of empty
seats, which we photographed with a phone camera; there were way
under 2,000 there, less than half that -- so why did the organizers
tell us no seats were left). When Bush walked in, we moved to the
(mainly empty) section directly in front of the banks of cameras, sat
down, took off our sweaters -- to reveal the T-shirt beneath. We had
reversed the shirt so that the picture of the feet and the text was
on our backs, facing the media. We made sure we were leaning forward
so the press could get a good look. Almost immediately event
staffers came and tried to block us by sitting behind us, but our
whole row was empty so we just kept moving, and they kept following
-- very amusing really. They clearly wanted to throw us out but
couldn't because if they had tried, the cameras would have caught the
whole thing, and of course Bush was speaking -- it would have
disrupted the event and been very embarrassing for them. We never
clapped and as far as we could tell, were the only ones not clapping
-- confirming it was another Republican-only event, this time using
taxpayer funds. When Bush was done and everyone began to leave, we
stood in our row facing each other so that the departing Bush
supporters could see the message on our backs. During the whole
time we were there, we never spoke to anyone but each other; ours was
a silent, peaceful, respectful protest. Then we decided to bring our
message directly to Mr. Bush. After all, everyone else had been
allowed to present their message of support -- by clapping, by
shaking his hand afterwards -- so why couldn't we go and silently
stand there with our backs turned, presenting a message of dissent?

As soon as we left the safety of the media area with its banks of
cameras and very interested reporters, and approached the Bush exit
area (about 60 ft. away from the cameras), we were suddenly grabbed
by plain-clothes officials who did not identify themselves and
physically thrown out of the event.

Here's how it went. Two huge men -- not in uniform, did not identify
themselves, behaving like thugs -- crowded up next to us. (We are
both small middle-aged women.) Mine said, "Time to leave"
menacingly. When I said why, he said "Don't make a scene." I said
I'm not making a scene but why do I have to leave? No answer; he
started to push me and touch me. I said "Get your hands off me!
Don't you dare touch me!" and he stopped. He just crowded me
forward. I said "Do you believe in the Bill of Rights?" No answer.
"How about my freedom of speech?" No answer. "So now we don't have
freedom of speech?" No answer. "I was hoping the police would defend
our rights and uphold the law." No answer. All this time this huge
bearish man kind of crowded me onward.

The same thing was happening to my friend. When she was grabbed by
the arm, and told she was leaving NOW -- the man kept saying,
"You're out of here!" -- she asked who he was, but he refused to
answer. She said, "You're frightening me! Who are you?" Only then
did he identify himself. Though many prominent Republicans witnessed
our eviction, they didn't lift a finger to prevent it -- and in fact
turned away and pretended it wasn't happening.

They forced US citizens out of a taxpayer-funded public event because
they didn't like our T-shirts.
I am far more terrified of the Bush regime than I am of terrorists.
We must stop this cancer attacking our civil liberties before it
undermines and destroys our democratic institutions."

Lexington, KY anarchist faces year in jail

Tuesday, March 08 2005 @ 01:19 PM PST
Contributed by: Anonymous
Views: 147 

Anthony Poynter, one of the individuals arrested at
the 1/20 inaugural protest, could get a year in jail
for wanting to know why the cops were beating on a guy
and then having the cops beat on and tase him. Anthony
could use as much support as anyone can spare. Please
send a letter or email to the Fayette Co. Attorney
demanding they drop the ridiculous, false charges of
disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Margaret Kannensohn, Fayette Co. Attorney, 163 W.
Short St., Suite 700, Lexington KY 40507
Of course, any donations toward his attorney's fees
are appreciated and can be mailed to:
Central KY ABC, POBox 8302, Lexington, KY 40533
Finally, Anthony's next court date has been set for
3/22 @ 10am. For those of you who can make it in
person to show your disgust with this crap the address
is:
Fayette Co. District Court
150 N. Limestone
Courtroom 3, 2nd Floor
Lexington, KY

New low for US pigs - 5-year-old arrested

Police Handcuff, Arrest 5-Year-Old Girl
'I Don't Want to Go to Jail,' Says Young Student

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (March 18) - A 5-year-old girl was arrested, 
cuffed and put in back of a police cruiser after an outburst at 
school where she threw books and boxes, kicked a teacher in the 
shins, smashed a candy dish, hit an assistant principal in the 
stomach and drew on the walls.

The students were counting jelly beans as part of a math exercise at 
Fairmount Park Elementary School when the little girl began acting 
silly. That's when her teacher took away her jelly beans, outraging 
the child.

Minutes later, the 40-pound girl was in the back of a police cruiser, 
under arrest for battery. Her hands were bound with plastic ties, her 
ankles in handcuffs.

"I don't want to go to jail," she said moments after her arrest 
Monday.

No charges were filed and the girl went home with her mother.

While police say their actions were proper, school officials were not 
pleased with the outcome.

"We never want to have 5-year-old children arrested," said Michael 
Bessette, the district's Area III superintendent.

The district's campus police should have been called to help and not 
local police, he said.

Bessette said campus police routinely deal with children and are 
trained to calm them in such situations.

Under the district's code of student conduct, students are to be 
suspended for 10 days and recommended for expulsion for unprovoked 
attacks, even if they don't result in serious injury. But district 
spokesman Ron Stone said that rule wouldn't apply to kindergartners.

"She's been appropriately disciplined under the circumstances," he 
said.

The girl's mother, Inda Akins, said she is consulting an attorney.

"She's never going back to that school," Akins said. "They set my 
baby up."

NO CHILD LEFT UNMOLESTED
Reports of Military Recruiters Sexually Abusing High
School Students On the Rise

Tuesday, March 15 2005 @ 09:22 PM PST
 From CounterRecruiter.net:
Two weeks ago Indiana National Guardsman Sgt. Eric P. Vetesy was charged with sexually assaulting six young women -- mostly high school students -- who he helped enlist in the military. Vetesy faces 31 counts of rape, sexual battery, official misconduct and corrupt business influence. Prosecutors say Vetesy assembled background information on each recruit and was able to target those he thought most likely could coerce. He most of the high school students during lunch breaks at school.
"These were very young women who were being recruited out of high school classes," said Hamilton County Prosecutor Sonia Leerkamp. "This is one of the most heinous investigations of this type that I've ever seen, and one of the worst abuses of authority."  Vetesy is not alone. The Indianapolis Star reported on March 1, "Nationwide, military recruiters reportedly have been linked to at least a half-dozen sexual assaults during the past few years, since the creation of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. This broad education law requires, among other things, that high schools give military recruiters greater access to students."  The Indianapolis Star also published background information on the other cases: 

* July 2003: A former U.S. Army recruiter based in Moreno Valley, Calif., was sentenced to 16 months in prison for the statutory rape of a 17-year-old girl who was joining the Army. He pleaded guilty to having sex with the girl in a back room of the Army's recruiting station and in a government-issued sedan. The girl told authorities the sex acts happened when the man was her recruiter. She later decided not to join the Army. 

* January 2004: A former Marine recruiter in the Baltimore area who was convicted of fondling a teenage recruit was sentenced to probation and ordered to seek counseling. The judge was quoted: "You may have misinterpreted the actions of an outgoing, flirting teenager. She was a kid. You were her recruiter. You were her mentor. She looked up to you. She may have worshipped you from afar, but that doesn't mean she intended to act on it or wanted you to act on it." 

* May 2004: A 34-year-old Marine recruiter in Blooming Grove, N.Y., was charged with six counts of rape, accused of having sex several times with a 16-year-old girl who wanted to enlist. The school superintendent said the man apparently got to know the student while recruiting at Washingtonville High School. 

* June 2004: A military jury sentenced a Marine Corps recruiter to five years in prison for raping a 17-year-old high school student in a Riverside recruiting office. The recruiter asked the teenager, who was interested in joining the Corps and was participating in an after-school Marine exercise program, to enter a back room at the recruiting station, where he raped her, the girl testified. 

* November 2004: An Army recruiter in Riverside, Calif., was arrested on suspicion of having sex with two 17-year-old Paloma Valley High School students. The 24-year-old recruiter was charged with four felony counts of having sex with and giving alcohol to
minors. He met the two girls at an Army recruiting seminar at the high school.

MORE FBI ATTACKS ON INDEPENDENT MEDIA

Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 5:33 am
Post subject: FBI investigation info        
FBI investigating incidents on subdomains hosted by
flag.blackened.net.

OK folks, here's the real deal as far as I can share it
legally at the moment. Consider it as a press release if you
wish and feel free to distribute it for whatever reason you
deem necessary.

I'm under court order not to speak about specifics and have
my attorney trying to find out what the maximum penalty for
disclosure really is. I hate to have to keep my mouth shut
in areas where the Gestapo is involved, but I also have to
weigh things against the overall security of flag and it's
subdomains and also the wellbeing of my family.

I have been ordered to submit IP info on two separate
incidents having to do with subdomains hosted on flag. Both
of these are in regard to claimed or threatened
responsibility for acts of propaganda by the deed. Both
incidents involve topics which are completely out of line
for consideration here at flag and really I can only view
them in two ways. Either people are simply ignorant about
the murderous history of the FBI, or, as is my belief in one
case, they are trying to make flag vulnerable to government
intrusion.

At this point let me say, in all honesty and conviction,
that if I end up dead by strange means -- suicide, overdose,
drunk driving accident (I never, ever, ever drink and
drive), "accidental" gunshot to the back of the head while
sleeping ala Fred Hampton, car jacking, or anything else
reasonably suspicious, contact the FBI in Chico, California
for more details.

I have called numerous friends nationwide, anarchists and
otherwise whose opinions I respect and who I know will be
honest and forthwith in their opinions to ask them how I
should proceed. The unanimous consensus is that I comply
with the wishes of the FBI and provide the IP addresses
responsible. The only point of discussion, really, has been
whether or not I should reveal the specific information in
violation of two court orders.

Really, I am not left with much of a choice. Here are my two
choices as I see them:

1. Do not comply with the wishes of the FBI. This will most
likely lead to the seizure of flag and a compromise of all
the sites and information online. It will probably also lead
to me being imprisoned, I would guess. I personally do not
fear this, but I am the sole support for my wife and infant
daughter. There can be no doubt we would probably lose our
home as a result.

2. Comply with the wishes of the FBI, provide the IP
addresses, and count on the fact that I will catch a lot of
heat and hatred from my comrades in the anarchist movement
worldwide.

Though it pains me to comply with the State in any manner, I
have to choose option #2. The people who have foolishly
compromised us all will shoulder the burden for their
selfish actions. Frankly folks, they know better -- we all
know better.

I was first contacted by the Oakland FBI. Many of you know
their history. We are talking COINTELPRO for real -- not a
perceived or mythical fear. They are proven murderers and
automatons for the state who will blindly follow any order
to kill or disrupt without question. Read the history of
their disinformation campaign against the panthers if you
don't believe me. The panther comic book which they
completed and distributed, the fake letters between Huey and
Eldridge, the fires of hatred and murder they faked and
inflamed between the panthers and the US or "united slaves"
which led to the murder of Bunchy Carter and John Higgins in
L.A., the list goes on and on.

But, the real point is that I feel like a coward and traitor
to my comrades, even in the face of what is essentially a
coerced decision. I'm the last one who will criticize or
disagree with any of you who want to deride me. I'm also
aware that this will probably cause quite a few of you to
lose faith in me, flag, and it's subdomains. This can't be
avoided and it's something I weighed into my decision. I
post this mainly to inform you all and give you opportunity
to make your own decisions as to whether I've handled this
correctly and whether you wish to use flag or it's
subdomains in the future. If you don't trust me, I
understand, believe me.

It is by far the most agonizing decision I've been faced
with in relation to my anarchist opinions.

This is why we do not discuss certain things as if they are
a legitimate part of anarchism. Resist the extra
y-chromosome influenced urge to sound more hardcore than the
guy next to you. Nobody is impressed and the powers that be
are sitting on the edges of their seats waiting for an
excuse to shut down flag. Freedom of speech does not exist,
don't try to test it. They will come bust down your door --
for real -- point a gun to your head and pull the trigger if
you refuse to comply.

Believe it.

Your admin,

Dave

CANADA:

British Columbia: Police target homeless

Sunday, March 20 2005 @ 09:38 AM PST
Contributed by: revolution_rever
Views: 54 

KELOWNA, B.C. - Street people in the B.C. Interior
city of Kelowna have been told by the RCMP they have
until April 1 to surrender their shopping carts - or
have them seized.

Kelowna RCMP plan to seize shopping carts from
homeless

Last Updated Sat, 19 Mar 2005 09:39:35 EST
CBC News

KELOWNA, B.C. - Street people in the B.C. Interior
city of Kelowna have been told by the RCMP they have
until April 1 to surrender their shopping carts - or
have them seized.

The police said the carts, worth up to $350 each, are
stolen property. They said they're simply enforcing
the law after complaints by the city and the business
community.

But homeless people, who can often be seen trundling
around Kelowna's downtown core with everything they
own on the carts, said they're crucial for their
survival.

"These are really these people's homes. They carry
their homes in their shopping carts," said Bob, who is
homeless.

"Then they get it taken away. Their sleeping bag is
gone. Their clothes are gone. And they call us bums,
right, because they took our stuff."

Anti-poverty advocates accused the police of targeting
the poor.

Candace Sutherland of the Drop-In Centre said that if
the police take away people's carts, the city should
build a day-storage facility where they can store
their few belongings.

Michelle Rule, who is on Kelowna's committee on the
homeless, said her group is working on long-term
solutions, including more shelters and places for the
homeless.

She said they're also looking for help from the
business community to acquire some warehouse space
that street people could use to store their belongings
safely during the day.

But Rule warned that it could take some time to find a
storage space and get it set up.

Asylum seeker wins, but still detained

Home Office homophobia against genuine refugee

OutRage! backs Vadim's fight for justice

London - 10 March 2005

Despite winning his asylum claim on 15 February, Mr Vadim Selyava, a 
21-year old gay Belarusian, is threatened with deportation and is 
detained at Dover asylum detention centre. 

Mr Selyava is a constituent of the Home Secretary, Charles Clarke MP.

Home Office officials successfully appealed on 28 February against 
the decision to give Vadim refugee status.

"The asylum refusal notice given to Vadim by the Home Office is 
based on outrageous homophobic assumptions," said Peter Tatchell
of the gay human rights group OutRage!, which is campaigning on
Vadim's behalf. 

"He was subjected to humiliating questioning to `prove'
his homosexuality. Despite being in a stable same-sex relationship 
for eight months, the Home Office says Vadim is not gay: 

"It is not accepted you are a genuine homosexual"(Home Office 
refusal notice, 3 February 2005).

"The Home Office claims the situation for gays in Belarus is
`no different' from the UK and other countries, and that there is a 
thriving gay scene in the major cities. These claims are complete 
fiction," added Mr Tatchell. 

"In 2004, a gay rights conference in the capital Minsk had to be 
called off after the government threatened to arrest the 
participants. 

"A gay club cited by the Home Office, Mayak, was closed down by
the government.

"As evidence that there are social options for Vadim in Belarus,
the Home Office cites gay cruising areas in public parks - even 
though cruising is illegal and gays who go to there are often beaten 
and robbed.

"Home Office officials say that if Vadim is queer-bashed he can 
complain to the authorities; ignoring the fact that they routinely 
deny protection and redress to gay victims of violent attacks.

"Vadim is a victim of the government's new `get
tough' policy to cut asylum numbers. He could remain incarcerated 
for months until the courts reconsider his asylum claim," said Mr 
Tatchell.

A photo of Mr Selyava is available here:
http://www.outrage.org.uk/imagezoom.asp?file=Vadim

Mr Selyava was arrested by immigration authorities on 26 January 
2005 at the offices of the Contract Personnel job agency in Norwich. 
He had gone there to make inquiries about his employment. 

His arrest occurred even though he was working lawfully in the UK 
with a valid one-year work permit issued by the Home Office. The 
permit entitles him to work in the hospitality industry, which is 
the sector in which he has been employed.

OutRage! is backing Vadim's application to be released from 
detention and granted asylum in the UK.

"Having won his asylum case, he should not continue to be held 
against his will," said David Allison of OutRage!. 

"Vadim is not a criminal, but he has been incarcerated for many 
weeks. He should be released immediately.

"Vadim arrived in the UK lawfully last June from Belarus (now an 
independent state, but formerly part of the Soviet Union). He sought 
work in the UK as a legal way of escaping homophobic persecution in 
his home country. He has always resided in Britain legally. 

"Vadim began work at the Hilton Hotel at Gatwick last June. Soon 
afterwards, he met his partner, Jeremy, who lives Norwich. They 
decided to live together.

"Commuting from Norwich to Gatwick was impossible, so Vadim
sought permission from the Home Office to transfer to a hotel job in 
Norwich. The Home Office refused him permission to switch employers 
within the hospitality sector. It ordered his arrest and forcible 
removal from the UK.  

"Facing deportation, Vadim claimed asylum on the grounds that he
had suffered homophobic persecution in Belarus, including beatings, 
threats and harassment by the police and vigilantes because he is 
gay. He has a well-founded fear of persecution if he is returned to 
Belarus.

"If Vadim is deported to Belarus, he will have to go into the 
military for 18 months. Homosexuality is against military law and 
can be punished with several years imprisonment, according to Human 
Rights Watch and the International Lesbian & Gay Association. In 
prisons, gay men are liable to be queer-bashed and raped. Such 
crimes usually go unpunished," added Mr Allison. 

Mr Selyava lives in the Norwich South constituency with his partner, 
Jeremy. They have now lived together for over eight months.

He is being backed by one of the two local Norwich MPs - the Norwich 
North MP, Dr Ian Gibson, who represents the constituency next to 
Vadim's.

Vadim's Norwich South constituency MP is Charles Clarke, the Home 
Secretary

Vadim's partner, Jeremy, has written to him. A meeting has been 
arranged with one of Mr Clarke's staff, but the Home Secretary
has not yet personally responded to Jeremy's representations. 

Although Vadim was granted asylum on 15 February 2005, the Home 
Office successfully appealed against the decision two weeks later, 
on 28 February. 

The grounds on which the Home Office reversed the granting of asylum 
are highly questionable, according to Vadim's former solicitor, 
Augustus Balasubramaniam of Duncan Lewis and Company solicitors (020 
7275 2786 / 020 7923 4020). 

The Home Office is now seeking to have Vadim deported back to 
Belarus. Less than 24 hours before his scheduled removal from the 
UK, on Sunday 6 March, Vadim's immigration legal advisor, Chris
Aigbokhan of Chris and Co Legal Services in Brixton (020 7738 3898 / 
07739 985 447) secured a deferment, pending a new appeal. 

While waiting for this appeal, which could take months, Vadim 
remains in detention.

"Vadim is well educated and speaks good English. He wants to work 
and does not wish to be a burden on the taxpayer. Once the Home 
Office agrees that he can stay in the UK, Vadim has job waiting for 
him at the Hotel Nelson in Norwich," added Mr Tatchell.

I Will Kill Rosie Kane

SHOOTING THREAT TO MSP OVER G8 PROTEST

SIOBHAN MCFADYEN
Scottish Daily Mirror, 18/03/05

FIREBRAND MSP Rosie Kane has received a death threat.

Police have launched a probe after the Scottish Socialist Party MSP 
received a letter claiming she would be shot if she protested at the 
G8 Summit at Gleneagles this year.
Rosie says she is now scared for her life - and is calling for an 
inquiry into security at the July summit in Perthshire which will 
attended by George Bush and Tony Blair. 
Lothian and Borders Police have taken the anonymous threat so 
seriously that they have called in Special Branch officers to 
investigate.
The death threat letter, which claims to be from an employee of an 
estate near Gleneagles, warns that Rosie and other G8 protesters will 
be shot if they stray on to private land.
She said: "I am very concerned.
"This is a person talking about firearms and who claims to be in 
possession of a gun.
"They are willing to use it against me and I am very concerned. At 
first I thought it was a crackpot letter but it is a threat. This 
person could have a grudge and this could result in a loss of life or 
serious injury.
"The situation with the young child who was killed after being shot 
with an airgun is evidence enough to show that this should be taken 
seriously.
"We are non-violent campaigners and we detest firearms. We say no to 
the firearms industry.
"It had never occurred to me that people in the area could be armed - 
apart from President Bush's entourage. The fact that there will be 
people in the area who are carrying firearms is terrifying to me.
"We have to demand that no one is permitted to do so during the 
period of the summit."
Mum Rosie added: "Anyone who suggests they are carrying a gun and are 
willing to use it against protesters should be locked up.
"I hope no one is injured or affected during our peaceful protests."
The letter says: "We have the right to carry our legal firearms as 
long as we have our permits on our persons during the dates of this 
summit.
"So I will tell you now - the first tree-creeping, unemployed, back-
packing, gas- wearing, anti-democratic activist that happens to enter 
our boundary, we will shoot these people.
"And we do have this right."
A spokesman for Lothian and Borders Police said: "We received a 
complaint and are investigating."
Leaders of the world's most powerful nations will be gathering at 
Gleneagles in July for the G8 summit.
And an estimated 250,000 protesters will also converge to demand a 
fairer deal for the world's poor.
Tayside Police are mounting a huge security operation involving 
hundreds of their own officers and many from other areas.
Anti-riot squads are being trained and briefed at the former Law 
Hospital, near Wishaw, Lanarkshire.
Rosie Kane has a history of campaigning and was fined £150 at 
Helensburgh District Court earlier this week for an anti-nuke demo at 
Faslane.
She was also arrested last week for a sit-in outside Holyrood in a 
home-made submarine.

Nurses condemn abuse of refugees in Britain - handcuffings in hospital and abduction at gunpoint are among the accusations

http://www.labournet.net/ukunion/0501/nhsasyl1.html

Vindictive statist scum dish out mass sentences to Lincoln Prison insurgents

http://www.louthtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=817&ArticleID=934454

Tortured at Guantanamo, and now at risk again - British detainees freed, but at risk from new fascistic laws allowing suspects to be put under house arrest and even innocent family members to be detained

http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1040573.htm

Imposition of fascist "control orders" leads to an attempted suicide or overdose, and another medical emergency
http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=6024
Freed Gitmo prisoner fears use of control orders to
suppress revelations of torture
http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=5898
Control orders are reminiscent of apartheid South
Africa and attack dissent
http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=5911
Blair threatens imprisonment without trial for G8 protesters

http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15261895%26method=full%26siteid=86024%26headline=labour-in-dundee--blair--g8-wreckers-risk-house-arrest-name_page.html

Ethnic cleansing "eviction" at Paynes Lane - photos of trashed campsite
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/03/306590.html

Another inhuman deportation planned
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/02/305353.html

Free speech under attack - protester and journalist banned from G8 protests
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/03/306887.html
Photographer arrested at port for taking photos
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/03/306307.html

UK immigration centre racist abuse exposed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/real_story/4310361.stm

Racists and rightist scumbags attack Channel 4 drama for telling the true story of the persecution of Bradford insurgents and the racism which led to the uprising
http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=960244

London Animal Action (LAA), an organisation that campaigns peacefully on animal welfare issues, has had its bank accounts frozen by a High Court Order. It was named on an injunction taken out by Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) under the Protection from Harassment Act. LAA's harassment amounted to organizing transport to demos against HLS and arranging demos in London. their bank account contained several thousand pounds that had been raised to buy a minibus. LAA is taking legal advice to fight the case, but this would itself cost thousands of pounds and if any person claimed to speak for LAA they themselves could be made bankrupt - even if that person had never been involved in the campaign. This is just like the case of Lynn Sawyer who was going to lose her house after being sued by HLS for over 2 hundred grand in order to shut her up (SchNEWS 471). Fortunately a judge has recently overturned this ruling and reduced Lynn's fine to £2500 costs. LAA has ceased to exist as a result, but an ex-member said "The likelihood is that this will stir up a hornets' nest of anger against HLS."

(from SchNews)

Recruiting Russian Style: Agents Raid Dormitories And Grab Students For Army
January 12, 2005 By BRYON MACWILLIAMS, The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Russian military raided college dormitories in the nation's capital on Tuesday, in many cases rousing male students from their beds, in a surprise move to collect fresh conscripts following the end to deferments from mandatory service.  Agents of the city's office of military registration and enlistment fanned out among dorms across Moscow the day after the conclusion of the New Year's-Old Christmas holiday period, during which the government announced that all draft deferrals would be canceled.  The raids were intended to catch students unawares. Recruitment officers, each accompanied by two police officers, sometimes literally dragged students from their beds, according to a newspaper, Versiya. Some students were taken directly to medical clinics to undergo physical examinations, reportedly in violation of a federal law that requires supporting documents from the place of study and allows young men up to three days to contest their conscription.  Konstantin Kudryavtsev, an assistant dean in the chemistry department at Moscow State University, said in an open letter that two students had been awakened at 7 a.m. and taken under guard for physicals even though they had been enrolled in the university's military courses -- a status that, by law, entitles them to deferments.  Only 9.5 percent of the 176,000 men eligible for the draft last fall are serving in the military.  In 1994 some 27 percent of men between the ages of 18 and 27 served, according to the general staff of the armed forces of Russia.  The military, comprising some 1.2 million troops, reportedly was short last fall by more than 31,000 recruits.  Human-rights groups have reported that beatings and violence, often in hazing rituals, kill hundreds of conscripts annually. Desertion and even suicide are endemic and well documented. But parents fear most that their sons will be sent to fight in the war-torn republic of Chechnya.

UK politicians support use of torture "evidence"
http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=5822

POLITICIANS AND PIGS ADMIT RACIAL PROFILING OF MUSLIMS
http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=5664
http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=5652
http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=5620

ASBO FASCISM CONTINUES: YOUTHS STIGMATISED; WOMAN PUT ON ASBO NOT TO ATTEMPT SUICIDE
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=6017

Yet another UK law suppressing freedom to protest

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1419908,00.html

Australian politicians use legal technicalities to suppress free speech and exposure of torture by Habib and his lawyer
http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=5447

Racist police crackdown in Port Augusta, Australia - "anti-social" is the excuse again

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p6.htm

Phony deportations in Russia - Central Asians robbed
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/03/306555.html

In Malatya-Inönü University, two students were
detained with the claim of making graffiti & stickering and they were threatened by the
security units of the university. The students, who were interrogated with the reason of
standing nearby "Freedom in Anarchy" graffiti, were threatened by ÖGB (Özel Güvenlik Birimi-Special Security Unit) with starting an investigation and their IDs were seized for a while. During two hours of interrogation, the students resisted and denied claims of both the security and the chairman of the department about being members of an illegal
organization

Date: 27.02.2005 Time: 21:34
[Source: Autonomists News Portal -
http://www.otonom.info/web ]

Dutch Liberal bans transplants to Muslims to punish
them for not donating enough organs
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/03/306201.html

Israeli goons murder 10-year-old girl

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3596.shtml

Nepal coup - protests, criticism of government banned

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050207/ap_on_re_as/nepal_1

Nepal coup unleashes army - masses of civilians disappeared

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/03/01/nepal10224.htm

Nepal activists confined to capital

http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=32356

Even blood donors are under attack in Nepal
http://www.union-network.org/uniflashes.nsf/58f61ccf5875fe90c12567bb005642f9/ad6301f62ecf38bac1256fb20048d687?OpenDocument

Phillipines: war on terror is a reign of terror

http://www.bulatlat.net/news/5-7/5-7-bicutan.html

Police terror against locals opposed to new aluminium plant in Orissa

http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=9&theme=&usrsess=1&id=70846

Kashipur, Orissa repression continues

http://www.epw.org.in/showArticles.php?root=2005&leaf=03&filename=8440&filetype=html

Bojong waste dump rebels sentenced, but avoid the sentences demanded by prosecution goons
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:nu-MNx09ui0J:www.thejakartapost.com/detailcity.asp%3Ffileid%3D20050211.G02%26irec%3D1+Bojong+residents+sentenced+for+roles+in+riot+site:www.thejakartapost.com&hl=en

Arab journalist jailed in Spain

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/0C94F820-9232-41AC-B01D-81DE057F7FE4.htm

Detained Tunisian journalist hospitalised

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DBA9C711-2D79-4F68-8D36-D993DD3846DA.htm

Algeria activist stitch-up ahead in state revenge for urban unrest
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/03/306380.html

Politically motivated police harassment of refugee activists in Australia

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/615/615p4c.htm

Twat wants to smash Palm Island council for disagreeing with the government. ahem, "not representing the interests of islanders"

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200502/s1309481.htm

Asian-Australian threatened with execution in Singapore

http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/02/88275.php

Thailand locks up Burmese dissidents en masse

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/03/29/thaila10381.htm

The government intends to deport a 104 year old woman who has lived with her
adopted daughter and grandchildren in Melbourne for 10 years, and who has
outlived her relatives overseas.

Cui Yu Hu has been a widow since 1973, no longer has a home in China and has
outlived friends and family there.

She has been refused an aged-parent visa by the Immigration Department 
and will
be deported unless she successfully appeals.

(Source: The Age)(from GreenLeft Discussion list)

February 23, 2005       
Egypt Said to Hold 2,400 in Bombings
>From Reuters

CAIRO - An estimated 2,400 men from north Sinai remain in Egyptian
prisons without charge, four months after security police began
rounding them up for questioning in the bombings of tourist resorts
frequented by Israelis, a human rights group said Tuesday.

Many of the men have been tortured and in most cases authorities have
failed to tell their families where they are being held or what is
happening to them, New York-based Human Rights Watch alleged.

In informal meetings with the rights group, Egyptian officials
justified the conduct of the police by saying that U.S. and Israeli
authorities behave in the same way when their security is threatened,
a director of Human Rights Watch, Joe Stork, said at a news conference.

Challenged on the detentions and torture allegations at a meeting last
month, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said the reports were
implausible because there were only a few thousand people in total in
El Arish, the center of the arrest campaign.

At a meeting with Stork on Tuesday, a senior Interior Ministry
official said police had detained only about 200 people in north
Sinai, Stork said.

Asked how many people remain in detention, Stork said: "The estimate
we made of 2,400 people still in detention ... that's our best guess."

The Oct. 7 bombings killed 34 people.

The detentions present a conflict with the official version of the
investigation, according to which all nine bombers and alleged
accomplices are dead or under arrest. 

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-detain23feb23,1,7585178.story?coll=la-headlines-world

Mining Company tells Subanen Community to Cooperate or
Face Immediate 
Eviction. 

February 14, 2005

Sitio Canatuan, Siocon, Zamboanga del Norte -
Eighty-six Subanen
families face immediate eviction from their Ancestral
Domain at the
hands of the Canadian Mining company TVI Pacific Inc.
(TVI).  The
community members have until the last day of February
to accept a
relocation fee and get ready to move.  If they do not
comply then TVI
will file an eviction notice against them.   The
company is offering
each family 250,000 pesos ($4,600 US).

Three of families have already received formal notices
from the
company. Emmanuel and Gaga Gonzaga, Ireneo and Luciana
Calibo, and
Joey and Josie Gonzaga have been ordered sign or get
out.  These
families are among the many farmers who have been
actively opposing
the operations of the mining firm.

Timuay Boy Anoy, a Subanen leader, has responded to
the recent
pressure by saying that TVI will only have its wishes
"over our slain
bodies".  He has started further that "Even if it
means death, we will
continue fighting TVI because our land is our life and
it has already
been taken from us by TVI which does not have the
slightest respect
for our indigenous rights and sacred practices."

TVI started open pit gold mining in Sitio Canatuan
last year under a
Mineral Production Sharing Agreement that they gained
in 1998. 
Starting at the top of Mt. Canatuan, the Company has
steadily worked
its way down the mountain with earth scraping
bulldozers.  TVI
operations are now just 15 meters from the houses of
some members of
the Canatuan community.

The Subanen community refuses to relocate since they
believe it is
their ancestral right to live on the land.  Mt.
Canatuan is sacred for
the tribe and they consider it their most holy place.
In 2003, the
families obtained a Certificate of Ancestral Domain
(CADT) to the area
through the Indigenous People's Rights Act.  This
certificate makes it
illegal for anyone to enter their land without their
approval.

The following is an interview with Joy Gonzaga of
Sitio Canatuan
January 27, 2005

Josie Zamora Gonzaga has been a resident of Sito
Canatuan for 15 years
with her husband Lesjolando Gonzaga Sr.  She has one
son and two
daughters aged eight, six and one.
(The text has been translated and edited from the
original Visayan)

DCMI: Where you live? 

JG: I live in Sitio Canatuan.  Right at the mining
site.  We are
currently in a difficult situation because the mining
area is just 15
meters away from my house.

DCMI: How do you support yourself and your family? 

JG: Our means of livelihood is mainly farming.  We
planted fruit trees
and we sell the products to the market and the local
community for 100
pesos ($1.85 US) a day.  It is not enough for the
family since we need
to buy milk for the children.  The neighbours are hard
up and selling
their goods for debt.  That is one thing that would
like support
agencies to help us out with. Our meagre income is not
enough â?"
especially before the harvest comes.

DCMI: What can you tell me about what your life during
the last year
and your experiences with TVI?

J.G: Last year I joined a picket in Pisawak to express
my opposition
to mining operations in Canatuan.

My experience with TVI has been really disgusting. 
Since they have
started operating we can hardly live or enjoy drinking
fresh and clean
water.  Our water sources are now unclean since the
mines operate day
and night.  Everywhere the water is polluted â?" the
farmlands etc. 
Half of Luciana's (another Canatuan resident) plants
are covered with
waste.

I would like to appeal to the President Macapagal
Arroyo who gave them
permission to operate.  She should be the one to get
them to stop.  We
are just poor but they will trample our rights.  We
are forced to
fight for our rights.  I do not know what we will do.

Our right to our land is also being violated because
they established
checkpoints in certain areas where we used to pass. 
They have placed
barbwire across our path.  We are not allowed to enter
the check
points when we go home after 6 pm.

On December 9, 2004, I was approached by 8 of TVI's
Special Civilian
Armed Auxiliary (SCAA) members.  I recognized three of
these men as
Mr. Kanadawan, Mr. Tumimrang and Mr. Baes.  They tried
very hard to
convince me to sign a three page document agreeing to
a settlement of
170,000 pesos ($3,150).  They told me that being
stubborn would
accomplish nothing â?" I would have to vacate anyways
because it was
inside of TVI's MPSA area.  I simply answered that, "I
will not vacate
because I lived here before the MPSA and the CADT".

On December 10, 2004 I was offered 250,000 pesos
($4,600).  Adolfo
Dalman tried to tempt me with the amount (although I
did not see cash
in hand) at the house of Mr. Edang.  I said "no" and
they told me that
if I keep on refusing they would be forced to file a
case against me. 
They also told me that 'something' would probably
happen to me.  I
replied that "I will take note of that statement from
you.  If
something happens to me then you will be the first one
to be
questioned."

We all received an invitation from TVI a week after
that.  The people
of Canatuan were asked to come for a meeting to
discuss the problems. 
We were all asked to become members of SSAI II (a
pro-mining Subanen
Association organized by TVI) and accept a settlement
of 250,000
pesos.  A waiver was attached for us to sign.  If we
did not agree to
sign than we would not be granted a green card which
entitles us to
pass TVI's checkpoints.  They said deadline for the
decision is
February 28, 2005.  If we keep on refusing we are
going to be evicted
from the area.

When I think about how much money I was offered â?" I
try not to
remember that I was offered that much.  I am more
happy to see my
children still living here and going to school.  I am
happy to live
simply with the fruit trees and just dream that we
have the money.

DCMI: What is your biggest concern for the future? 

J.G: My biggest concern for the future is security for
my family.  I
am concerned about my livelihood and way of life.  I
urgently ask the
Government to act on it.

DCMI: What will happen to you if you are forced to
relocate? 

J.G: Time will only tell.  I am determined to live
here forever.  If I
will be forced to relocate I do not know what I will
do.  As of now I
will not move from the place where I have stayed for
so long.

DCMI: When you think about the future, what do you
wish for? 

J.G.: I dream of having TVI gone.  What I really wish
for the future
is to see my children grow and live simply.  I wish
that TVI would
leave soon.

DCMI: Do you have anything that you would like to say
to the people
who are supporting you both locally and
internationally?

J.G: I would ask those who support us in our struggle
to help us drive
TVI out from Canatuan.

- Maryanne Mutch of DCMI

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SPYCHIPS HIDDEN IN BRITISH UNIVERSITY ID'S
=====================================================================

Oops! Someone forgot to tell students at the UK's University of Warwick
about the RFID spychips in their university ID cards. The cards, which
also serve as library cards, are reportedly beaming out identity
information about students without their knowledge or consent as they
pass reader devices at the library and other campus locations.

Because it's shockingly easy to hide an RFID tag in a plastic card,
people need to remain vigilant even in countries like Great Britain
where there are strict privacy laws. The EU's 2002 "E-Privacy Directive"
outlaws the processing of "location data" (RFID data included) without
"the consent of the individual." We'd love to see the lawsuits that
arise out of this one!

Source:
Warwick Boar, 1/25/05
http://www.warwickboar.co.uk/boar/news/library_id_cards/

Big Brother Bear 
Is Watching You 
By Peter Zimonjic 
The Telegraph - UK
3-12-5 

      It has been a favourite children's toy for generations, but the teddy bear might never be the same again. Microsoft, the American computer giant, has designed a bear containing microphones, a camera and technology that will allow it to watch a child's every move. 

      The bear, which the corporation has rather unimaginatively named Teddy, can use face recognition software to watch any child whose image has been programmed into its computer. 

      When a child moves, the bear's head pans across the room allowing it to send pictures to a parent watching via a remote video link. The parent would be able to speak to the child via the bear's sound system, giving the adult the chance to shout a warning or other instruction when required. 

      It may sound Orwellian but Steven Bathiche, who created the bear for Microsoft, said that it could help parents by taking on the characteristics of the person who owned the toy and helping them to monitor their child's movements even when they were busy. 

      "The vision behind this is to be in two places at once. This is what we are aiming for," he said. 

      The prototype bear was one of about 150 projects displayed at a recent two-day "tech fest" organised by Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, to give its worldwide teams of researchers the chance to show off their imaginative creations. 

      Most of the new inventions, including the bear, are based on the assumption that, before long, computers will move beyond the keyboard and mouse pad and into everyday domestic goods, including stuffed toys. 

      The bear is powered by motors inside its belly which operate its head and limbs. 

      There are also four microphones and a sound system to send and broadcast messages, a wireless network connection to the internet, and the latest computer software. 

      A spokesman for Microsoft, which has yet to set a date to begin commercial production of the bear, said: "He has face tracking capabilities and will react as though he was shy or embarrassed if there are a lot of people around him. One of the scenarios we envision in the future is that you could be playing Monopoly with your child and Teddy will play with you." 

      In addition to playing games, the bear's creators are also hoping that the toy could be used as an educational tool by installing teaching programs that would help children to learn simple concepts and ideas. 

      Claire Rayner, the agony aunt who is also the patron of Kidscape, a children's charity, said that she had doubts about the merits of the new toy. "The first thing it made me think of was Brave New World," she said. "What children want is human contact. 

      "To condition children that a teddy bear is a talking, caring parent does not go very far towards raising someone that will later relate well with adults. 

      "It doesn't make sense. Instinctively children bond with whatever is cuddly and nice to them and talks to them. If this toy actually does talk to them in familiar voices, I would be very disturbed by that, it is too inhuman." 

      Roger Vincent, a spokesman for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, said that the toy could be useful but gave a warning to parents that they should not rely upon the technology to watch over their children. 

      "Many accidents occur when children are not watched carefully enough. Unless the bear can follow the child around, pick them up and keep them out of trouble parents would be well advised to stay responsible," he said. 

      "The danger comes when parents over-rely on technology. Machines should only ever be used as a back up, not as a primary care giver." 

      © Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2005. 

      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main. 

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WORLD CUP IN GERMANY TO FEATURE PRIVACY INVASIONS
=====================================================================

>From our German friends FoeBuD comes word of disturbing plans by German
authorities to turn the 2006 World Cup into a mega-surveillance
snoopfest. Application forms for tickets to the football (Americans,
read "soccer") world championship require fans to give up an amazing
amount of sensitive information, including passport number, nationality,
financial information, and birth date. Information is also required for
all others receiving tickets, even if they're not the purchasers.
"Sifting out notorious trouble makers" is the excuse for this
astonishing information grab.

Those fans "lucky" enough to get tickets will be in for another privacy
shocker: They will have "personalized" RFID-chipped tickets that enable
authorities and others to track their movements during the event.

The use of RFID chips to monitor sporting events isn't limited to
Germany. The SuperFest held in Florida in conjunction with this year's
Super Bowl relied on RFID-chipped wrist bands for age verification and
cashless payment. 

Sources:
FoeBuD/StopRFID
http://stoprfid.foebud.org/en/news/news22.html
The Register, 2/8/05
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/08/world_cup_2006_big_brother_charges/
Jacksonville Business Journal, 1/26/05
http://jacksonville.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2005/01/24/daily26.html?jst=b_ln_hl

Russia bullied by EU to put biometrics on passports
http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/362/15164_passport.html

New attack on internet anonymity - surveillance
methods expand
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39183346,00.htm

Fatherland Security goons to be equipped with RFID cards
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,66801,00.html

We are all indigenous, and can again become.

http://www.greenanarchy.org/zine/GA19/all-indigenous.php

Negri on Deleuze and Guattari

http://korotonomedya.net/theoria/Negri_1000plateaus.html

Richard Koenigsburg - making conscious the unconscious - psychoanalysis of culture

http://home.earthlink.net/~libraryofsocialscience/making_conscious.htm

"It's not clear whether George W. Bush ever encountered 1984-he often appears to have read only the Bible and My Pet Goat-but Orwell's ideas about mind control have found a home in the Bush administration."

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=9710

IRAQ:  Riverbend on oppression of women, the elections, and more

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=9626

War journalism censored

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=9726

Uruknet beat the Google News censors!

http://uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=9901&s2=23

Inside the Peshmerga - Kurdish prejudice against Arabs abounds

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8100.htm

Unease among Kurds as leaders seek power in Baghdad

http://home.cogeco.ca/~kurdistan6/2-3-05-uneasy-kurds-leaders-eye-on-baghdad.htm

NEPAL:  Dalit backlash helps Maoists

http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/s1300016.htm

Mexican politician accused of Zapatista killings

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/10884.html

Machine politics and corruption in America

http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1074174.htm

Conservative's daughter comes out as lesbian anarchist and Nader voter

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42867

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/05/02/con05056.html

Novel about US attack on Turkey is bestseller

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FF6FC2AA-1876-494E-97E9-570A22F76B3C.htm

NATO carried out European "communist" terrorism to provoke fear, crackdowns
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/story/140175/

Africa's vanishing forests

http://cooltech.iafrica.com/features/410795.htm

Nepal:  Madhessis deprived of citizenship

http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullstory.asp?filename=aNPata0seqzpea0Qa4a9a.axamal&folder=aNPataiaoanaaal&Name=National&dtSiteDate=20050228&sImageFileName=

Interview with Maquila organiser in Honduras
http://www.cmt-wcl.org/cmt/ewcm.nsf/_/4E738440653CB121C1256FB80040F57E?OpenDocument

Nestle's silent massacre in Brazil
http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi?db=default&uid=default&ID=1877&view_records=1&ww=1&en=1

Disobediente collapse
http://www.metamute.com/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrIssue=29&NrSection=10&NrArticle=1464

Modern-day slavery
http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/533/533_12_ModernSlavery.shtml

BETHLEHEM BLOG:  Direct from the Bethlehem ghetto

http://www.bethlehemghetto.blogspot.com/

Colombian indigenous people take on multinationals

http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/137659/index.php

FENSUAGRO: Organising rural protest in Colombia

http://www.colombiajournal.org/colombia205.htm

Report from inside Fallujah

http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1153063.htm

Starvation threatens Guarani indigenous people

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p18f.htm

Karen rebels in Burma dig in for a last stand

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/GC25Ae01.html

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