[Onthebarricades] ON THE BARRICADES: Part 1

[Andy Robinson]

ON THE BARRICADES:  GLOBAL RESISTANCE ROUNDUP

December 12 (2004) to January 24 (2005)

 

ALGERIA:  Uprising in city of Oran by youths frustrated over housing allocations

"More than 100 demonstrators, many hooded, burned tyres and hurled Molotov cocktails and stones at anti-riot police in Oran, Algeria's second largest city"

City hall burnt down and looted

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L13641542.htm

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=04/12/21/8009887
"Demonstrators blocked roads, sacked public buildings and overturned vehicles in the Bouira region, southeast of the capital, Algiers, the reports said.   In the western Tiaret region and in Sidi Ammar in the east, hundreds of people blocked highways to protest against higher transport prices caused by the increase in fuel costs." (al-Jazeera)
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/20B73C29-ADB4-42AD-BF13-BAA64D7D2BFD.htm

Uprisings over fuel prices throughout Algeria

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/48DF51E7-67CB-4B91-98A5-4C13A659DF33.htm

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050118132543276

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/48DF51E7-67CB-4B91-98A5-4C13A659DF33.htm

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18683869.htm

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18683869.htm

 

ALGERIAN YOUTH TAKE TO STREETS TO OPPOSE GAS PRICE HIKE

Rioting youths looted and burned public buildings in a northern 

Algerian town to protest against an increase in gas prices and a 

lack of housing and jobs in the latest disturbance to hit the 

country. Between 3,000 and 5,000 inhabitants of Birine, 200 km (120 

miles) south of the capital Algiers, initially took part in Monday's 

unauthorized protest which later turned violent when youths looted 

and set fire to buildings, witnesses and newspapers said. "There was 

huge damage. Rioters set fire to several public buildings, including 

the city hall and those belonging to local post office and tax 

office," a local journalist, who asked to remain anonymous, 

said. "Anti-riot police weren't able to control the crowd until the 

arrival of more policemen from neighboring towns," he said.

 Meanwhile in the northeastern Kabylie region, angry demonstrators in 

the town of Kherrata reportedly blockaded the region's main road.

 Butane gas and fuel oil are the only available sources of energy in 

Algeria's remote mountain regions and high plateaus. The 

government's decision to hike the price of from 170 to 200 dinars 

(1.7 to 2.0 euros) goes against a recommendation from the national 

parliament. 

Demonstrations are rare because they need approval from the interior 

ministry under a state of emergency in place since 1992, when the 

cancellation of elections a hardline Islamic party was set to win 

sparked more than a decade of violence. 

But demonstrations are on the rise and increasingly violent across 

the country as disgruntled youths take to the streets, particularly 

over a lack of housing and jobs. Dozens of youths have recently been 

sentenced to prison for such offences. 

Unemployment stands at around 25 percent in the energy-rich country, 

but is much higher in some regions.  (from ORead Daily)

 

 

 

GREECE:  Oinker-station destroyed by anarchists, in retaliation for torture of refugees

The action was carried out by helmeted and hooded protesters, who used Molotovs and other items to heavily damage the copshop

Cops apparently shot at the rebels with their handguns

Several cop cars were also trashed

The copshop had been the site of serious mistreatment of refugees, including mock executions

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/303200.html

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=04/12/26/1375262

http://www.enrager.net/newswire/stories.php?story=04/12/27/7768900

http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/26/172755/47

Pics from the action

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=304642

Pics of police abuse victims

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=302336

Anarchists occupy embassy in solidarity with arrestees from copshop action

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=04/12/28/6176444

 

 

GUATEMALA:  Gold mine truck blockaded

Soldiers, pigs and an armoured scoop tried to bash their way through barricades in Solola

The protest, over eco-destruction and a threat to a locally-built bridge, involved many locals

There were clashes as locals lit burning roadblocks and pelted the trucks with rocks and sticks

Some locals also opened fire with guns, and two protesters were killed by a police or army assassin as tear-gas was hurled

Seven pigs were also hospitalised

The truck continues its journey but at a very slow pace as barricades continue to go up

The Guatemalan president is committed to "establish the rule of law" to "protect the investors" (statism=boss class tyranny)

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/01/11/guatemala.violence.ap/

http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/13/95036/9822

 

Report from SchNews:

Bridge Too Far

 

A blockade is going into its seventh week on a metal pedestrian

bridge over the Panamerican Highway 130kms northwest of Guatemala

City to stop mining equipment getting through to the Glamis Gold

Marlin mine near San Marcos, Guatemala. One protester has already

been murdered and seven injured after attacks by the police and

army.

 

It started when the mining equipment convoy first got to the

bridge and found they were up against several thousand indigenous

farmers and villagers intent on stopping part of it being

dismantled to get large drilling equipment past it. Then when one

of the mining vehicles was set alight the convoy retreated 2km to

a lookout point parking area, where it has been stuck ever since,

protected by private police from the rampaging villagers. The

local mayor is on the side of the protesters, but already the

Guatemalan Interior Ministry have sent in troops and police to try

to escort the convoy to the mine. The protesters are now

threatening to push the mining equipment over a cliff where it is

parked - and good luck to them!

 

The company Glamis have been lent $45million to develop the mine

by the International Finance Corporation (part of the World Bank)

without conducting the obligatory consultation of the local

indigenous communities, or complying with the World Banks' own

recommendations regarding negotiations with those affeced by the

project (since when has that stopped a World Bank project?)

 

Glamis are a mining company who have left a trail of indigenous

peoples' rights violations, contaminated water and pollution

across north America, and are currently using NAFTA laws to file

for $50 million compensation because of actions taken by the State

of California who had the audacity to protect it's environmental

and indigenous communities from the impact of their open cast

mining.

 

See www.miningwatch.ca for more information.

 

 

NIGERIA:  Youths torch copshop in protest over police shooting of student

Students stormed the copshop and cops fled - they then looted arms, freed prisoners and torched the place

Cop vehicles and other cop-linked buildings were also targeted

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050115220003935

 

GUANGDONG:  Another uprising in the southern province; huge clashes between locals and cops

The uprising started when a cop beat a youth to death for alleged theft

Up to 50,000 mainly poor urban residents took part in the uprising

Reports suggest several people were killed and 100 injured

http://www.politinfo.com/articles/article_2004_12_27_0352.html

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=04/12/28/6325939

 

Reports: Many Killed, Hurt in China Riot

Associated Press

HONG KONG - As many as 1,000 villagers battled police in southern China in a riot that left several people dead and dozens wounded, newspapers said Sunday.  Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po and Apple Daily newspapers differed widely over the size of the mob and what led to the clash Saturday in Da Lang village in Guangdong province. Both said the riot started after security forces beat a resident to death.  Wen Wei Po said nearly 50,000 people faced off against hundreds of police officers and torched four police cars. About a dozen village security officers were hurt in the dispute that sparked the riot, the newspaper said.  The Apple Daily, meanwhile, put the crowd size at nearly 1,000. Police fired tear gas at the rioters, the newspaper said. It quoted a villager as saying that several locals were killed and 100 were injured.  Wen Wei Po said the incident began with a dispute over compensation for a traffic accident. The disagreement flared into a riot when local security forces beat to death a relative of the accident victim, the newspaper said.  Apple Daily said the security forces sparked the unrest by beating to death a 15-year-old boy for stealing a bicycle. It said police brought the riot under control in three hours and later arrested about a dozen people.  Police and government officials refused to confirm details of the incident. "The riot is over," said one government official in Dongguan, a city that includes Da Lang.  The official, who would not give his name, referred all inquiries to the Communist Party propaganda office in Dongguan, where phones rang unanswered Sunday.  Police in Da Lang and Dongguan also refused to comment.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/10502792.htm

 

CHINA:  Tenants revolt over mall closure - occupy roof, throw bricks

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=05/01/06/9244969

 

More on China unrest:

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=04/12/29/8667432

http://www.socialistworker.org/2004-2/524/524_05_China.shtml

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=5346

 

 

 

GERMANY:  Resistance to fascistic crackdown on benefits escalates

One claimant suicide-bombs a job centre after his benefits are cut

The state is introducing a work-or-starve scheme to force claimants to submit to worse job conditions

Protesters clash with pigs in unrest over work-or-starve dole "reforms"

Hundreds of protesters stormed a benefit office in a working-class area

Cops, as usual, acted as the hired goons of the state, bludgeoning protesters

Intimidation apparently worked, to keep numbers down; the low turnout causes gloating from rightist wankers 

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6777661/

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/wkrs-j07.shtml

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11854659%5E2703,00.html

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=05/01/03/8485128

http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6903/690353.html

http://www.faz.net/s/Rub9E75B460C0744F8695B3E0BE5A30A620/Doc~ECAAD1A9A5667421BAA06052BF89CE364~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/03/business/german.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4142441.stm
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1446794,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6777661/

Earlier story:  Huge resistance to job cuts is coming.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1415705,00.html

 

 

RUSSIA:  Similar resistance spreads after benefit cuts

Pensioners fight with bus conductors and hijack buses

There is mass defiance against payment for social services as well as widespread demonstrations

Protesters attack bus conductors and other enforcers in widespread resistance, and stage unauthorised demos http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901050124-1018026,00.html

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050119061520472

http://www.all4all.org/2005/01/1388.shtml

http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6904/690404.html

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1106435409322&call_pageid=970599119419

 

Mass demonstrations by elderly people and other claimants hailed as the biggest protest wave since the 1998 mine strikes

Huge demonstrations continuue day after day in Moscow

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.anarchism/browse_thread/thread/c2990438a777064b/5fb34392cce3c2cf#5fb34392cce3c2cf

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jan/ainfos00292.html

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=1&ItemID=7024

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/01/35748f47-5554-4c5a-8abe-fac8aa8e4883.html
http://www.qctimes.com/internal.php?story_id=1043695&t=Nation+%2F+World&c=26,1043695
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050113-113914-9709r.htm

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/01/60a8aa80-a0f0-4d39-a7a1-7bebf0d7d24a.html

http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=&fArticleId=2377059
http://washingtontimes.com/world/20050117-100729-4091r.htm
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/01/17/build/world/65-russians-protest.inc

http://www.politinfo.com/articles/article_2005_01_22_5019.html

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7399571
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=2487
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2005/01/24/908750-cp.html
http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,11965-4042575,00.html
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=658680
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7399571
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F489E438-FEAC-4828-8BD6-1B9E8091DF91.htm
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5485484
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3164509a12,00.html

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=658662

 

Attempts made to block key Moscow road

http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031780275162&path=!nationworld&s=1037645509161

 

Pensioners block main road in St Petersburg
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,11962728%255E1702,00.html
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050116-084534-1037r.htm
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/127581/1/.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-01/16/content_2466827.htm

Demonstrations in cities across Russia
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F489E438-FEAC-4828-8BD6-1B9E8091DF91.htm
Thousands protest in Murmansk
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1669752&PageNum=0
Protest in Kaluga
http://www.tass.ru/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1653633&PageNum=0
And in Novgorod
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1649402&PageNum=0
And in Irkutsk
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1648252&PageNum=0
Protest near Stavropol
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1649309&PageNum=0
Protesters in Khimki block roads, attacked by cops;
pledge to step up protests
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050124/w012430.html

 

Putin gives bribe to army amid unrest
http://www.spacewar.com/2005/050124160731.lsigh2b3.html

 

 

 

KOREA:  Farmers stage rally against rice imports, blockade bridges and roads

300 arrested as cops smash vehicles and attack blockades

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200412/kt2004122015475712070.htm

http://www.iht.com/getina/files/212870.html

http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20041220/300400000020041220191221E1.html

 

 

 

AMERICA:  Bush inauguration protested

Protesters burst through fences, delay Bush

Some break through onto parade route - police attack with pepper spray http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050121100055189

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050120224756737

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050120183141821

http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/21/13586/5425
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2005012016580002822541&dt=20050120165800&w=RTR

http://nyc.indymedia.org/feature/display/139414/index.php
http://boston.indymedia.org/feature/display/33061/index.php
http://nyc.indymedia.org/feature/display/139681/index.php

http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/93E42AE9E32C8C8005256F93006B2A56?Opendocument

http://www.ucimc.org/feature/display/24748/index.php

Protesters rush security gate

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050120223918193

 

 

Showdown after protest as some protesters on "youth march" target shop windows and cop cars
Cops viciously attack protesters with pepper spray
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27648-2005Jan21.html



Police state DC
http://rwor.org/a/1266/police-state-dc.htm
http://richmond.indymedia.org/feature/display/9117/index.php


Protesters shut down Chevron petrol station
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/308797.shtml
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/308781.shtml

Mini Critical Mass takes back the streets - and the
mall
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/308567.shtml

 

Cheney snowballed
http://www.kirotv.com/politics/4112846/detail.html

As riot cops advance, one protester steps forward and begins to pray

http://www.lancasteronline.com/pages/news/local/4/11378

 

Man threatens to blow up van near Bush route
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=7362196


Anti-war groups protest
http://www.canada.com/news/world/story.html?id=29ff82f0-4efa-44ee-8fd2-642b0e02fa4d

Code Pink interrupt Bush speech
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/21/PROTESTS.TMP

 

Thousands stage rally near White House

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050121095804923

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=1&ItemID=7075

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0105/201580.html

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/612/612p11b.htm
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/20/2005/1118

Hundreds mark inauguration with protests
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=428977

"Mourners" on parade route
http://www.mailtribune.com/archive/2005/0121/local/stories/02local.htm
Vermont protesters travel to Washington DC
http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050122/NEWS/501220359/1003/NEWS02

New York activists travel to Washington to protest
http://www.nyunews.com/opinion/editorial/8661.html

 

Code Pink activists unfurl banners at Bush's speech - dragged off by oinkers

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0120-06.htm

Protest Warriors get asses kicked

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050120182710431

http://www.washingtondispatch.com/spectrum/archives/000769.html

 

Hundreds gather in Burnside Park
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/308531.shtml
Burning flag
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/308499.shtml
Student rally
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/308506.shtml
Activists target news station over bad coverage
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/308478.shtml
Oinkers spray and arrest journalists
http://www.rcfp.org/news/2005/0121-new-photog.html


Personal reports from the protests
http://hm.indymedia.org/feature/display/10063/index.php
http://baltimore.indymedia.org/feature/display/9449/index.php
http://www.binghamtonpmc.org/feature/display/331/index.php

 

>From the DC Indymedia Newswire:
http://dc.indymedia.org via Infoshop and Portland IMC 
Best as narrative if read from the bottom up. 

# 12:30am New reports from Columbia Road/18th street
says bricks were thrown, windows broken; Protesters
were hemmed into one end of alley; 100 to 150 arrests
appear to have been made; some marchers managed to get
out; 
# 12:09pm The two buses on 18th street are gone, as
are a group of protestors who were arrested; police
seem to be about to disperse; 
# 11:59pm Police have assaulted DC Radio Co-Op
reporter Darby Hickey for the second time during the
day; police warned the reporter to "take a walk" and
leave the scene, and then she was shoved; 30 more riot
cops marched up to the scene and more arrests are
taking place; the entire section of Columbia Road has
been shut down, and the number of arrests appears to
be in excess of 50 people; 
# 11:52pm March turned onto 18th Street and marchers
were blocked in; heavily-armed police are now
detaining and arresting demonstrators, and there are 2
buses parked on 18th and another 4 buses parked on
Columbia, but so far nobody has been placed in the
buses; a helicopter is overhead spotlighting the
scene; 
# 11:46pm 100 riot police forming up at 18th and
Belmont, and all roads and allies off Columbia Road
are being closed off; protesters are now pinned in and
are not allowed to leave; 
# 11:22pm Large march of 150 or more people is now
moving down Columbia Road through Adams Morgan; they
have occupied the entire left lane of the road
approaching 18th and Columbia, chanting "Bring the War
Home"; the marchers are converging on a hotel; 
# 8:09pm Police are reporting that Union Station has
been cleared of "pedestrian" problems, meaning
protesters; police are also reportedly moving in to
block what they call "pedestrian traffic" into
Columbus Circle, which is a closed area, and it is
unclear if this reference to "pedestrians" means
"protesters"; 
# 7:25pm Republican assaulted a photographer taking
pictures, while police looked on; no action was taken
by the police; 
# 7:11pm Physical confrontation just occurred between
a Republican and a protester at Union Station;
protester was arrested, but Republican was allowed to
enter Inaugural Ball at Union Station; Police are now
forming a line between Republicans and protesters; 
# 7:02pm Confrontations now occurring between
Republicans and protesters at Union Station; 
# 6:56pm Police have gone behind Union Station; Police
reporting that Metro PD has situation at Union Station
covered, other police forces going back to the
motorcade; 
# 6:33pm Marchers from unpermitted march say it was
"spontaneous", comprised of many different people of
all types; they are now at Union Station regrouping
and playing music; 
# 6:22pm Police have cleared Mass. Ave. of protestors
using their motorcycles, marchers have reached the
corner by Union Station; 
# 6:18pm Police issuing "final warning" to disperse to
Mass. Ave. protesters; police on motorcycles are
ramming marchers in front of Post Office on North
Capitol by Union Station; 
# 6:16pm Police now issuing second warning to
protesters to disperse from Mass. Ave. immediately; 
# 6:15pm Police have issued first warning for marchers
on Mass. Ave. to disperse; 
# 6:10pm March has taken over one entire side of
Massachusettes Avenue; 
# 6:10pm March is now going out of Chinatown onto
Massachusettes Avenue towards Union Station; about 200
people; police have been attempting to follow, but
road blockades have prevented police vehicles from
following; 
# Unpermitted march now at 15th and L; 
# Arrest at 15th and M at spontaneous unpermitted
march; 
# 3:45 Coffins carried by protestors are burning; 
# 3:44 At least 30 riot-police at 14th and
Pennsylvania; stand-off between police and protestors;
whole area is filled with pepper-spray and tear-gas;
16 mainstream journalists observed getting sprayed by
police with pepper-spray; 
# 3:38 Police now sending reenforcements to 15th and H
street; 
# 3:33 Police reporting that one of two officers
injured at 14th and Pennsylvania has a broken arm; 
# 3:32 Protesters are pushing through gates at 13th
and Pennsylvania; 
# 3:31 Two women arrested at 13th and Pennsylvania; 
# 3:20 Police snipers appearing on rooftops around
14th and Pennsylvania; 
# 3:20 Two officers reported injured at 14th and
Pennsylvania; mainstream journalists being hit and
pepper-sprayed by police; 
# 3:18 Pepper spray and tear-gas directed at
protestors at 15th and Pennsylvania; at least 50
injured protestors; reports from police of "chest
pains" in protestor; mainstream media journalists
being hit with pepper spray; reports of bleeding from
injured protestors; 
# 3:18 Three sections of fence on inaugural parade
route now broken down by protestors; fence blocking
off parade route has collapsed; protestors battling
police in streets; police still responding with pepper
spray and tear gas; 
# 3:15PM: Much of the first 3 blocks of Pennsylvania
has a significant anti-Bush presence, hard to pick
pro-bush demonstrators out of some segments. 
# 3:14 Presidential motorcade slowed down at request
of police; 
# 3:13 Police send a request to the Bush motorcade to
slow down the motorcade at 5th and Pennsylvania, as
major street battle rages between protestors and
police at 14th and Pennsylvania; 
# 3:13 Tear-gas being used in street battle between
protestors and police; 
# 3:12 Bush motorcade is speeded up to get beyond the
protestors on parade route; 
# 3:11 Bush motorcade passes massive grouping of
protestors on parade route; "Fuck Bush!" can be heard
live on CNN as protestors out-shout Bush supporters; 
# 3:05PM: Spot in the fense near 14 and Penn, near
Willard Hotel, where they've rattled the fense, gotten
it knocked over or bent over twice, MPD pepper spray.
Extra police are being deployed to this area. 
# 2:57PM: Unconfirmed reports of 4 arrests at 8th and
D NW # 2:56PM: Pepper sprayed anarchists at 11th and E
NW 
# 2:52PM: Protesters at 14th and Penn have been
"contained" -- surrounded by the police, according to
one call. 
# 2:50PM: Some anarchists at 14th and Penn are trying
to pull-down barricades, break through check-points.
Check-points are being closed-down by the police.
Protests at 16th and H going well. (20 people laying
on ground) 
# 2:33PM: Flags being burned at 14th and Penn. Some
callers report there has been a fight of some sort
between anarchists burning a flag and a Bush-supporter
trying to take the flag from them. 
# 1:50PM: Possible splinter group heading from D & 7
to Capitol area. Riot police lining the streets at
Penn & 14th. 
# 1:43PM: "Gas" at 7th and D NW 
# 1:38PM: There's a police car (#137, MPD?) in front
of the Counter-Inaugural convergence space. 
# 1:35PM: Report on the police radio of bottle and
rock throwing at 10th and D. 
# 1:34PM: Police being dispatched to Pershing park,
report of arrests at D and 7th. 
# 1:16PM: (updated)snow balls thrown by some
activists, several people say at least 2,000
anarchists. Some sort of projectile, maybe pepper
balls, corroborated by some. Snowballs were thrown.
Mood as calmed down, peoples spirits are "high."
Anarchist Cheerleader squad is among them. 
# 1:10PM: 1 person down, hit by pepper spray, maybe
physical force between 7th and 8th on G NW, police
tried to prevent one "anarchist" march from linking up
with another, things are "heating up fast." One DC
Radio Coop/IMC contributor has also been hit by pepper
spray. No arrests yet. 
# 12:45: DAWN march is in the vicinity of McPhearson
Square, people are shouting "whose streets, our
streets!" Mood is "serious, but energetic." 
# 12:43: "Anarchist march" at 13th and L, say the
police around them were drawn away by "something
else." 
# 12:35PM: One arrest reported on "P circle," P street
near Dupont or Logan? Choppers and police cars heard
converging on an area near Logan/in Shaw. 
# During Bush's speech, Code Pink held up banners
"Bring the troops home" and shouted. Police
immediately took them away. After that another group
shouted, they were taken away. 2 more protests
following that. Members of the audience appluaded the
police actions, shouted "USA USA," and some through
snowballs while other people tried to block cameras
from covering the protesters. Public radio noted this
very briefly, and the CNN noted and covered none of it
as far as we can tell. 
# 12:15PM Splinter group broke away from DAWN march at
16th and Q NW, maybe 200-300 ppl says observer. 
# 11:55AM: Police chatter estimates DAWN (Malcom
X/Meridian Park) march at 10,000 
# 11:50 am DAWN march from MalcomX park just started
with 5-800 going down 16th street. Police presence but
not too heavy. People from Maine, Michigan, East Coast
corridor. Primarily younger protestors, but people who
have protested before. College students from Maine. 9
jump out vans are following them behind. 
# 11:41AM: Marches have left Dupont Circle and Malcom
X/Meridian Park 
# 11:31AM: Bush is about to be introduced at the
inauguration platform




Pics
http://gallery.thetechgurus.net/
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/308504.shtml
http://www.ucimc.org/feature/display/24528/index.php


Audio
http://miami.indymedia.org/uploads/2005/01/inaugurationevent3.rm
http://miami.indymedia.org/uploads/2005/01/inaugurationevent2.rm
http://miami.indymedia.org/uploads/2005/01/inaugurationevent1.rm

 

 

 

MILWAUKEE - inauguration protest is "most successful
direct action in years" - protesters build barricades,
block roads and evade police
http://milwaukee.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/202619.shtml
http://madison.indymedia.org/feature/display/21299/index.php

 

 

 

Large inauguration demo in Seattle

Protesters chase off army recruiters and stage march and rally

http://www.komotv.com/stories/34897.htm

http://www.tdn.com/articles/2005/01/21/area_news/news06.txt

http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20050121/topstories/72871.shtml
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002156513_demos21m.html

http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/244231.shtml

 

Boeing targeted in Chicago - 4 arrested for praying on company property

School students also staged a walkout and demonstration

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050120protests,1,4213866.story?coll=chi-news-hed

 

 

Protests across America

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050120165422970

Protest in Vermillion, Dakota

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050121150141296

Cops viciously attack protesters in Lexington, Kentucky

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050121112745808

Small protest in Sacramento

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050120185711524

Inauguration protests in Washington State
http://www.kirotv.com/politics/4112846/detail.html

Northampton, Massachusetts
http://wmass.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4237/index.php
Philly
http://phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/21/0349241
San Diego
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/107453.shtml
Minneapolis
http://twincities.indymedia.org/feature/display/19713/index.php
Kansas City
http://kcindymedia.org/feature/display/2074/index.php
Boston
http://boston.indymedia.org/feature/display/33056/index.php
Atlanta, Georgia
http://atlanta.indymedia.org/feature/display/36158/index.php
Fayetteville, Arkansas
http://arkansas.indymedia.org/feature/display/6711/index.php
Dallas
http://www.ntimc.org/newswire.php?story_id=1783&PHPSESSID=20fcf9f6f1b9e1503256355a510d97a5
Eugene
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/308597.shtml
Bend, Oregon
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/308541.shtml
University of Minnesota
http://twincities.indymedia.org/feature/display/19720/index.php
University of Houston
http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/36589.php
Los Angeles
http://www.la.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/121411.php
http://www.la.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/121486.php
http://www.la.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/121525.php
http://www.la.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/121546.php
Traverse City
http://michiganimc.org/feature/display/9106/index.php
Denver, Colorado
http://colorado.indymedia.org/feature/display/9966/index.php
http://news4colorado.com/topstories/local_story_020195506.html

Austin, Texas
http://austin.indymedia.org/feature/display/18818/index.php
Portland banner drops
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/308483.shtml

New Orleans
http://www.theneworleanschannel.com/politics/4112678/detail.html
Georgia
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/4113201/detail.html
Tucson, Arizona
http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=2835487

Sarasota
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/breaking_news/10692836.htm
Austin, Texas
http://www.news8austin.com/content/headlines/?ArID=129646&SecID=2
New Haven
http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=27838
Biloxi, Mississippi
http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=2836604
Newport
http://www.newportnewstimes.com/articles/2005/01/21/news/news07.txt
Bridgewater
http://www.heraldnews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13794941&BRD=1710&PAG=461&dept_id=99784&rfi=6
Monterey
http://www.californianonline.com/news/stories/20050121/localnews/1898245.html
Ukiah
http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/Stories/0,1413,91~3089~2666550,00.html
Colorado
http://www.gjsentinel.com/hp/content/news/stories/2005/01/21/1_21_inaugurati_www.html;COXnetJSessionID=B118P4erF4Gabk2gg11zy8pbSY07A9YfsMLCgVbtX46tOHPBxJd3!-430123402?urac=n&urvf=11066245086880.7799339511018885
Manhattan
http://www.themercury.com/view/article.asp?sectionid=News/Default/NewsArticles&id=735-2005-01-21-48689-35
Ames, Iowa
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050121/NEWS09/501210410/1001/NEWS
Napa
http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=D2140519-5137-4707-B39C-49D2A8EAE69A
Lexington, Kentucky
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/local/10697093.htm
Brattlebro, Vermont
http://www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102~8860~2665932,00.html
Illinois State University
http://www.dailyvidette.com/news/2005/01/21/Campus/Isu-Students.Protest.Bush.Inauguration-837951.shtml
Utah
http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=39&sid=146170
Arkansas
http://www.nwanews.com/story.php?paper=adg&section=News&storyid=105533
Lansing, Michigan
http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=2838625&nav=0RbQVRfM
Ithaca
http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/01/21/41f07b51da8a3
Bellingham
http://news.bellinghamherald.com/stories/20050121/TopStories/227673.shtml
Portland
http://www.dailyvanguard.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/01/21/41f0c2522e17e
Berkeley
http://www.dailycal.org/article.php?id=17323
Princeton
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13799508&BRD=1091&PAG=461&dept_id=425695&rfi=6

Santa Barbara

http://www.sbindymedia.org/feature/display/1475/index.php

http://www.sbindymedia.org/feature/display/1474/index.php

Medford, Southern Oregon

http://rogueimc.org/en/2005/01/3813.shtml

Knoxville

http://www.tnimc.org/feature/display/4210/index.php

Nashville

http://www.tnimc.org/feature/display/4211/index.php

 

Toronto, Canada - police viciously attack anti-Bush protest, hospitalise one protester

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050120215857509

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050120215728264

 

More coverage of inauguration protests

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050120071936396

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050121095327789

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2005012109221482

http://www.counterpunch.org/jacobs01212005.html

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/election2004/story/493630DA133D190986256F9000186920?OpenDocument&Headline=Critics+of+war,+other+dissenters+stage+protests

http://english.people.com.cn/200501/21/eng20050121_171381.html

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-01/21/content_2488736.htm
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050120/w012036.html

http://www.westernfrontonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/01/21/41f1a0f1c3593

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=430448
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4746816,00.html

 

Pre-protest coverage:  Protesters to rain (PISS) on Bush's parade

Bush inauguration protests planned - various stories
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/5688
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/5687
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/5704

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/5714

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0120-09.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0120-05.htm

 

 

 

 

D R CONGO:  Protesters demand elections; several killed in clashes

http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-01-10-voa40.cfm
http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa&articleid=194985
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20050110T190000-0500_72955_OBS_DR_CONGO_TENSE_AFTER_ANGRY_PROTEST_OVER_ELECTION_DELAY.asp

 

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO:  "THE PEOPLE ARE SAYING WE NEED ELECTIONS"

 

A comment by the head of the election commission on the possible 

delay of national elections sparked violent demonstrations on Monday 

in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). As 

part of a 2003 peace agreement to end armed conflict in the DRC, the 

government and all rebels groups agreed to form a transitional 

government until national elections were held on 30 June 2005. 

Nevertheless, on Friday the president of the Independent Electoral 

Commission, Apollinaire Malu Malu, said that the elections might be 

delayed to later in the year. "I don't want to dwell too much on the 

date of 30 June because the constitution allows for a further six-

month extension with the possibility of a one-time renewal," Malu 

Malu had said on local radio.  

 

Malu's remarks about a delay in the vote prompted demonstrators to 

take to the streets of the DRC capital, throwing stones, setting up 

barricades and burning tires on a main road near the city's airport, 

which caused the cancellation of all outgoing domestic flights. 

Eliane Nabaa, spokeswoman for the U.N. mission in Congo, said the 

government fired tear gas into crowds near the airport who were 

threatening to march toward downtown.  The Kinshasa-based African 

Association for the Defense of Human Rights said three people died 

and eight were wounded.  An official at Kinshasa General Hospital 

said one fatality was brought there, along with two wounded. Scores 

of others were under arrest.  The protests were centered in the 

city's poor neighborhoods, but sporadic gunfire could be heard 

throughout the city.

 

"The people are saying we need elections," said Adrian Bimbata, a 

resident in the area contacted by telephone. "They don't want 

elections to be delayed, and the economy is bad and everyday our 

money becomes more worthless. The people are protesting these 

things."

(from ORead Daily)

 

 

 

 

PERU:  Villagers protesting against mine take journo hostage

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/2969043

New year marked by "military-civilian" uprising

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/1/2/203323/3991

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/01/01/peru.rebels.ap/

http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/1/165441/7873

 

BOLIVIA:  

New water war in El Alto - protesters take on water MNC, government - and win

Protesters had taken to the streets and blockaded cities to oppose a privatisation deal

The routes to La Paz through El Alto were blockaded by local indigenous activists

The Bolivian President rescinded the deal after several days of protests

In one protest, a copshop was stormed and occupied

An Aymara leader had earlier warned of insurrection over various grievances http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=04/12/20/3273745

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050120132603124

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=422&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2005011910481024

http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/13/63734/3242

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=5542

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreenLeft_discussion/message/13018

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreenLeft_discussion/message/12776

http://www.indiadaily.com/breaking_news/21101.asp

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/wkrs-j12.shtml

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4166639.stm

 

Santa Cruz joins unrest, with protests over fuel prices and a large strike

Some protesters also demand independence or autonomy for their region

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreenLeft_discussion/message/12757

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/wkrs-d24.shtml

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=d97c48f9b1782549

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050111-070108-6323r.htm

http://www.metronews.ca/reuters_international.asp?id=51934
http://www.keralanext.com/news/indexread.asp?id=97262
http://www.truthnews.net/daily/2005010182.htm
http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/368/14861_santacruz.html
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N21443194.htm
http://www.turkishpress.com/world/news.asp?id=050122030733.s3eo2slz.xml
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050122-043249-2676r.htm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-01/23/content_2496555.htm
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N24167671.htm
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/10723457.htm
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/612/612p18.htm

 

More unrest in El Alto

TENSION MOUNTS IN BOLIVIA
Bolivian President Carlos Mesa's government remained unsteady Wednesday as strikes led by rightist forces in the eastern city of  Santa Cruz and leftist elements in El Alto shut down two of  Bolivia's three biggest cities for a third day.  Several analysts said they wondered whether the embattled Mesa will survive to serve the remaining two years of his presidential term. He took office  when his predecessor was forced to resign amid violent protests in El Alto. ''I can't see how he'll get out of this,'' said one foreign analyst in La Paz.  A two-day civic strike called by business, labor and neighborhood groups to protest a rise in gas prices brought the normally bustling Santa Cruz, Bolivia's richest and largest city with 1.2 million people, to a halt. Streets were blocked and public transport was grounded.  In El Alto, the poor combative city of 800,000 that overlooks the 
capital, protests continued for a second day against the gas price hikes and also the city's water utility, owned by France's Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux.Protesters cut off roads leading down into the capital and access to the international airport outside El Alto. El 
Alto's powerful Federation of Neighborhood Groups says the company, Aguas de Illimani, has not complied with its concession contract, granted in 1996. El Alto community leaders said the water company had failed to meet its commitment to provide service to all residents. They said one in four people lacked access to drinking water in the sprawling township, which spreads across a plateau above the capital and around an international airport.  "This battle over water is just one chapter in a larger fight for
dignity," said Edgar Ramos Andrade, a journalist there who wrote an impassioned 
editorial supporting the demands. The company denies wrongdoing. The mostly Aymara Indian residents of the town of El Alto blocked all the roads leading to La Paz, the administrative capital.  Mesa moved Tuesday and Wednesday to resolve the impasse with his left flank by canceling the concession awarded five years ago to the private French-led consortium to provide water and sewer service to El Alto, a largely poor city near La Paz. El Alto leaders met Wednesday night and decided to continue their strike, and also 
planned a large march to La Paz today.  Business leaders in Santa Cruz, Bolivia's economic capital, have a different grievance. They want the government to repeal its Dec. 30 decision to raise gasoline prices by 10 percent and diesel prices by 23 percent. The government, which is being kept afloat by foreign assistance, said it could no longer afford to subsidize the lower prices. The Santa Cruz leaders are using the petroleum
price issue to push their principal concern: winning greaterautonomy from La 
Paz and the rest of western Bolivia, said leftist sociologist Alvaro García. He said that in canceling the water contract, Mesa hopes to isolate the conservative forces in Santa Cruz. ''He's created a temporary alliance with the left in the hopes that this will diminish tensions,'' García said. Mesa also made a series of concessions this week to farmers in the Santa Cruz region, including lower interest rates on loans.  The challenge presented Mesa with his worst political crisis since an Indian-led uprising drove his predecessor from
office and brought him to power 15 months ago.  In an impassioned televised speech Sunday, Mesa said he would rather resign than call out the army and police to restore
order. Dozens of people were killed when President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada used 
force to clear the streets and highways of protesters in 2003."I will not act like my predecessor," Mesa said. "We will not have tanks on the streets.. I am not willing to resort to violence."  The Bolivian Workers Central Office (COB) executive secretary Jaime Solares, said Mesa should resign and hold new elections, because he "didn't fulfill the reforms stated by popular sectors".  On Wednesday, Evo Morales, leader of the leftist
Movement to Socialism who finished a close second in the last presidential election, called Mesa "public enemy No. 1." He said Mesa should immediately call a new presidential election, though the next balloting is not due until June 2007.  Activists warned that social organizations will rally on Thursday from El Alto to La Paz to demand the government to pay attention to their requests. 

Sources: Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Reuters AlertNet, Prensa Latina, Radio Havana
(ORead)

 

 

CHIAPAS:  Villagers under attack, maintain roadblock despite repression

State terror against them is extreme, including armed raids and death threats

http://www.unobserver.com/layout5.php?id=2053&blz=1

 

OAXACA, MEXICO:  Protesters build barricades and battle cops to stop swearing in of mayor

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=25701

CIPO-RFM resisting globalisation in Oaxaca

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/303251.html

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/303257.html

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/303269.html

Inside the protest camp raid

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/303263.html

Repression intensifies

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/303283.html

CIPO-RFM website

http://www.nodo50.org/cipo/ourstory.htm

 

SOLOMON ISLANDS

Police and striking workers from the Russell Island Plantation Estate (RIPEL) clashed at Yandina wharf in the Solomon Islands on January 17. The police used C-S spray on the strikers who responded by hurling rocks. RIPEL employees had occupied the wharf to try and stop copra being loaded onto ship bound for Honiara. The strikers forced the boat to leave before it was fully loaded.  About 1,000 RIPEL workers are on strike over the sacking of 100 employees and the eviction of their families from the island following the introduction of new copra-harvesting methods. Earlier, the workers told police officials at the wharf that they would allow the copra to be loaded if the company paid due salaries and National Provident Fund contributions.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/labo-j22.shtml

 

 

DAVOS:  Protests planned in Bern

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050121074609312

Police attack protest in Bern by hundreds of anti-capitalists
Pigs blockaded bridges and had a huge presence in the capital
Smaller-scale protests and a street party had also occurred during the day
Over 80 protesters were arrested
Many shops were boarded up in advance

A small demo also took place in Davos itself
http://www.nzz.ch/2005/01/23/english/page-synd5485519.html



GLOBAL:

17,262 liberated animals.

554 acts of sabotage, vandalism and arson.

Bite Back animal rights direct action report 2004 (downloadable as PDF from this page)

http://www.directaction.info/2004/index.htm

 

PHILLIPINES:  Gelmart workers strike against layoffs, and win

E-activists organise a virtual sit-in which helps towards the victory

The workers also received solidarity from local activists in the Phillipines

One worker was injured in clashes on the picket line

http://manila.indymedia.org/

http://manila.indymedia.org/?action=newswire&parentview=2504

http://www.geocities.com/gelmartworkersonstrike/

http://manila.indymedia.org/?action=newswire&parentview=2445

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/labo-j08.shtml

 

PHILLIPINES:  Dislocated families blockade airport, preventing building work

They have not been paid promised compensation and say they won't move till they get it

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?section=Provincial&OID=65225

http://qc.indymedia.org/news/2004/12/2196.php

 

INDIA:  Students ransack head office and block roads to protest against death of engineering student

http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=54391

 

AFGHANISTAN:  Prison uprising near Kabul - screws as well as prisoners killed in shootout

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/17/content_2348665.htm

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/263131p-225291c.html

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/18/content_2353397.htm

http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=4328

 

BELIZE:  Massive mobilisations shake the government

Many groups, including teachers, strike as part of a two-day general strike, and massive crowds demonstrate against the government

Labour groups were campaigning against tax increases and pay increase deferrals, and also demanded constitutional reforms

There were clashes with police around the parliament and elsewhere in the capital

Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets, injuring two people, and were on the receiving end of rocks, bottles and eggs

The unrest forced parliament to stop debate periodically through the second day of the strike

http://www.guardian.bz/reject.html

http://new.channel5belize.com/archive_detail_story.php?story_id=13392

http://www.amandala.com.bz/index.php?story=404&PHPSESSID=41b20d8585f479b9a1ee112b158d0ff7

http://new.channel5belize.com/archive_detail_story.php?story_id=13381

http://new.channel5belize.com/archive_detail_story.php?story_id=13384

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Belize%20Strike

http://www.belizean.com/mt-static/archives/2005/01/riots_in_the_ca.html#more

 

KENYA:  Council workers storm several buildings in protests over pay arrears

A council guard let off his gun, to be met with a rock in the face

Workers are on strike, and booed the mayor at a public meeting

At one point, Nairobi was the setting for running battles between protesters and cops

Protesters forced their way into the council building to confront scabs

http://allafrica.com/stories/200501110884.html

http://allafrica.com/stories/200501110811.html

 

NIGERIA:  Students torch vice-chancellor's residence in protests at Lagos campus

Protests were held after the death of a student leader

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=86&art_id=qw1106306820448B252

 

KENYA:  Small student uprising in protest at power shortages at a university

Students attempted to burn buildings, but were arrested

http://allafrica.com/stories/200501181656.html

 

MEXICO:  Clashes in town near Mexico City after police make raid

Locals stone police, claiming they had no arrest warrants

A massive police invasion of the town was then mounted, during which three pigs were taken hostage

Residents also blockaded roads and built barricades

They secured the release of all those arrested, in return for freeing the three cops

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4151627.stm

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20050106-1535-mexico-mobuprising.html

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20050105-2044-mexico-policerescued.html

 

 

ZAMBIA:  Africa Social Forum held

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/5587

http://www.pambazuka.org/#2

http://www.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/112679.shtml

http://mail.kein.org/pipermail/incom-l/2005-January/000192.html

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=2&ItemID=6908

 

HAVE THE SLAVES LEFT THE MASTER'S HOUSE?

Amanda Alexander And Mandisa Mbali

The story of the poor goes round and round. But what about the story of the rich? The story not being told is that of the beneficiaries of slavery and colonialism. The story of exploitation that put us into this dispensation, commodified our own life for profit. They divided and ruled. Can we unite and live? Can we unite for the world that will be our world? Let us rise up and begin to tell this story. of why they continue to be rich, continue to plunder.

 

- Wahu Kaara, Kenyan feminist activist speaking at the ASF opening plenary

 

Introduction

 

At the opening plenary of the Africa Social Forum in Lusaka, Zambia (10-14 December, 2004), delegates from across the continent gave varied testimonies that coalesced around a single truth: recolonisation is worse than slavery. 

 

Activists noted Africa's history of injustices and oppression through colonialism, slavery and apartheid, but swiftly moved on to the injustices of present-day, post-colonial Africa: privatisation and cost-recovery, wars fought over Africa's natural resources, heavy debt burdens and conditionalities, unfair trade and disease. Contrary to dominant accounts of the continent as an almost biblically 'cursed' 'basket case' and Africans as helpless victims, delegate after delegate emphasised that Africa's poverty, wars and disease pandemics are causally related to a global economic system that is predicated on the poverty of the many. 

 

"The world, it would seem, friends, is at the end of its imagination", Corinne Kumar of Tunisia and Indonesia told the assembled plenary. How much further can the tired mechanisms of domination and exploitation be stretched? Though they are continuously re-disguised, masquerading as World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) or Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), as the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) or Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), the instruments of oppression remain just as blatant for those attempting to access basic services like water, land, education and healthcare - with increasing difficulty. 

 

Colonialism is a very old game, and is thus forced to maintain itself through substitutions - substitutions that activists are perpetually contesting. Substitutions of NEPAD for economic liberation, of incessant white tutelage for black independent praxis, of "efficiency" that benefits the few rather than the many, of a blameless past for a counter-hegemonic history, of the language of the powerful for localised terminology and stories, of dignity for the flat notion of "equality". Kumar's assertions were echoed by many activists throughout the Forum: it is up to the South - and Africa in particular - to champion notions of democracy that are not intrinsically tied to the market economy; to find new notions of power that facilitate, transform, and enhance; to redefine Africa through a discourse of dissent - one that decentres, disrupts and interrupts all that is dominant. 

 

At the ASF we observed that while African civil society is not uniformly strong across all regions, trade unionists, students, women and young people are increasingly resisting neoliberalism on the continent - against the current of their politicians. At a session on NEPAD, a Zimbabwean delegate argued that African leaders, by attending G8 meetings and producing a policy document endorsed by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), are revealing that they "fear freedom, as former slaves who walk back to their masters, not yet ready to leave the master's house". 

 

Along with their critiques of neo-colonialism and the lack of democracy in international policy-making, African activists were increasingly outraged at the lack of democracy within the Forum structure. The ASF often replicated prevailing socio-economic, cultural and political inequalities. In particular, despite the feminist tribunal at the beginning of the Forum, women were often not given sufficient space to participate and raise feminist issues throughout the conference. Plenary sessions and panel discussions were largely devoid of meaningful dialogue and debate. The sole exception, which will be discussed later as a promising alternative, was the Feminist Dialogue, where women arranged their chairs in a large circle to form the only space in the entire forum set up for the horizontal movement of knowledge in many directions. 

 

Why the master's tools will never destroy the master's house 

 

In The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon predicted the exhaustion of third world nationalism as espoused by many African leaders (1965). Indeed, without civil society resistance Africa's bourgeoisie and its nationalist leaders may end up becoming the 'cheap jack' to Western capitalism and imperialism. As one delegate argued, "the master's tools [neo-liberal policies] will never destroy the master's house [rich countries' economic domination of Africa]". Patrick Bond poses the question even more directly: will Africa aim to 'fix' the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) such as the World Bank, World Trade Organisation (WTO) and IMF or 'nix' them (Bond, 2000)? Or, in terms of the central problematic posed in our report, will Africa merely substitute structural adjustments for 'homegrown' structural adjustments such as GEAR and NEPAD? Are the foreign overseers such as the Bank and the IMF increasingly confident that they can count on local overseers to carry out their work? Has the logic of 'fiscal discipline' become so normalised that Africa's ruling class has yoked itself with fiscal self-discipline?

 

The social consequences of structural adjustment programmes have been evident in Africa for over two decades. The very real, human costs were evident as we walked through downtown Lusaka, where crumbling infrastructure includes the broken storm drains, clogged with garbage, that periodically become breeding grounds for cholera. The Lusaka-based Namibian human rights lawyer who showed us around mentioned that as a result of cutbacks espoused in structural adjustments and a high proportion of the country's budget going toward debt servicing, patients attending the country's public hospitals must provide their own drips, medicine, bedding and food. 

 

Indeed, IFI-advocated cost recovery is alive and well in Zambia: advertisements on Zambian television announced that cut-offs of electricity were immanent for defaulters over the festive season and that electricity company employees who assisted them to reconnect would be liable for prosecution. Jubilee Zambia informed us that this year just shy of a third of Zambia's budget will go toward servicing odious debt. Therefore, it comes as little surprise that Zambia's life expectancy has been reduced by AIDS and other preventable and treatable infectious diseases to a mere 35 years of age. The choices facing Africa's leaders are as stark as the slogans on t-shirts worn by activists from the African Friends Service Committee: "LIFE" or "DEBT". 

 

The very real impacts of neo-liberal policies on ordinary African people's lives brought debates on how African politicians and civil society organisations should relate to IFIs into sharp relief. African politicians are already engaging with IFIs and G8 countries and it was clear to many delegates that NEPAD can be viewed as the product of such engagements. In this context, an important item on the agenda was African civil society's engagement with IFIs such as the World Bank and Bank-supported programmes like NEPAD. 

 

On the second day, a session was held on views of "Civil Society Engagement with the World Bank" chaired by Kumi Naidoo of CIVICUS (an international umbrella body of NGOs). Naidoo outlined how CIVICUS's board had for an eighteen-month period ".embarked on a process of canvassing and documenting civil society views on engagement with the Bank". Naidoo described this as a "painful process" for which CIVICUS had received a great deal of criticism. Nevertheless, according to Naidoo, CIVICUS was powering ahead to hosting a "Global Policy Forum" in April 2005 bringing together the Bank and civil society, which would mark "the end" of its engagement with the Bank. 

 

When the floor was opened, Console Tleane from the Freedom of Expression Institute of South Africa argued that CIVICUS was unfairly seeking legitimation for its engagement with the Bank at the Africa Social Forum. Tleane pointed out that the conversation seemed awkwardly placed in the agenda of the Forum - rather than scanning civil society views on working with the Bank, delegates were ready to strategize how to bring about the end of the bank by April 2005. Kenyan activist Njoke Njehu of 50 Years is Enough, a Washington DC-based NGO, argued that there have been three major civil society attempts to engage with the Bank, including the World Commission on Dams and the Extractive Industry Review - and they had all failed. The Bank's primary objective in trying to engage with civil society is to boost its public relations (PR) and lend a veneer of legitimacy and transparency to its opaque and undemocratic operations. Indeed, Njehu stated that the Bank has a PR budget in excess of US$20 million per annum and seventy staff devoted to improving its image. She went on to question who actually funded CIVICUS's engagement with the Bank and in fact whether the organisation was truly independent of the Bank and those who support its agendas. 

 

A Senegalese trade unionist in the Higher Education sector argued that the World Bank's policies had destroyed African Universities through dramatic budgetary cutbacks and cost recovery. Similarly, a Nigerian activist explained that she had attended a meeting with the Bank on PRSPs as recently as a month before and gained the impression the Bank had already decided on what policies should be adopted in the country and was merely "going through the motions" of holding a meeting with civil society activists. Year in, year out this NGO representative had been to meetings with the Bank and had seen virtually no implementation of progressive civil society organisation's suggestions, expect at the most cosmetic level. 

 

Veteran South African anti-apartheid and social justice activist Dennis Brutus argued that CIVICUS was still actively engaged with the Bank and so it was disingenuous to argue that it was 'disengaging' with the Bank, but only after a big meeting in April 2005. Njehu went on to argue that the IMF and World Bank divided NGOs into pliant 'good' NGOs like CIVICUS that it could 'deal with' and critical 'bad' NGOs like 50 Years that it refused to have anything to do with. If the Bank was serious about hearing civil society perspectives it would be prepared to hear very critical perspectives - even those arguing for it to be boycotted by ethical investors on the Bonds market and ultimately closed down. 

 

Tleane argued for activists who did not agree with such engagement to protest at such meetings in a way similar to the "Not in My Name" campaign launched by left-wing South African Jews opposed to Israeli President Ariel Sharon's policies in relation to Palestinians. One of the authors of this paper argued for 50 Years to demonstrate outside the meeting to show that not all civil society actors are in agreement with engagement with the Bank. South African Anti-Privatisation Forum activist Virginia Setshedi then led participating delegates in a protest song against collaborating with neo-colonial forces. Indeed, in an article entitled "No to World Bank-Civil Society Relations", the African Flame, the daily ASF newspaper, reported on the session as follows:

 

Without a single dissenting voice, participants rejected any dealings with the Bank. The Bank's bad record on the continent and the tonnes of evidence that indict it for the continued poverty of the African people were cited as the main reasons why any engagement will not be meaningful. The message was clear: there.[was] no way that the ASF would entertain any dealings with the Bank. 

 

Activists in the NEPAD session came to the same conclusions on the potential of neo-liberal institutions and policies. Senegalese economist Demba Dembele's rejection of NEPAD is based on two fundamental assumptions: that the West will never develop Africa and that most African leaders do not care about the welfare of their citizens. Pointing to the fact that NEPAD is premised on the extraction and export of Africa's prime resources and the opening of the continent to exploitative foreign direct investment (FDI), a Zimbabwean economist characterised NEPAD as "creating a Bill of Rights for trans-national corporations". Thus, he concluded: "our engagement will mean nothing". 

 

Finding our own tools: Feminist Dialogue

 

In breaking with the structure of other Forum sessions in which two or three panellists (usually male) addressed an audience for roughly two hours and finished by fielding a handful of questions, the feminist dialogue was constructed as an actual conversation - open to dissent and debate and allowing ideas to build off each other. Chairs were arranged in a large circle and, by the end of the session, nearly every woman and man present had spoken their mind. Unfortunately, discussion revolved around gender and feminism in our societies (of women in power having become 'patriarchs' and of the need for better, context-specific understandings of gender and feminism in order to avoid negative labelling, for example), but did not touch on feminism and the role of women within our own movements. The participatory form of the conversation embodied a dissent against the structuring of the ASF, and yet the critique must go further. 

 

We know that women fuel our movements (and more isolated moments of resistance) across Africa, but they were in the minority at the Africa Social Forum because the leadership of organizations and movements (i.e. those likely to represent organisations at international forums) are men. We know that we will go back to our meetings and some women may not feel free to speak up. Essentially, we know that patriarchy and other forms of dominance are being re-inscribed within our movements for resistance.

 

As Shallo Skaba, an Ethiopian coffee worker stated at the Africa Court of Women, "No one is looking for women's problems. No one considers all that women are doing". If movements go on as they are, women's problems will not be looked for, much less effectively organized around. One woman suggested in the dialogue that feminism is a political consciousness around power and power inequalities. Let us, then, apply that critical consciousness to the society we resist against and to the vehicles of resistance that are propelled by our energy, our sacrifices, our limited resources, our courage - but too often not by our decisions and the wisdom of our experiences as women.

 

Again out of character with much of the Forum, several action items were decided upon. These included gathering and sharing feminist literature from across the continent over an email discussion list and in existing publications such as Feminist Africa, the Centre for Civil Society website and research reports, and WeWrite. Feminist dialogue must be wrestled back from the (mostly Northern) academic spaces which have co-opted and subsequently come to define (and confine) debate.

 

Those present also strategised ways to hold women who are elected into office accountable. This is gravely needed, as demonstrated in South Africa, where Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has consistently pushed forward policies that have worsened - and ultimately taken - the lives of poor, black, HIV-positive women. In Tanzania, Fatima Alloo explained, women activists meet with each female politician upon assuming office. From the very beginning of her term - and often beforehand, during her campaigning - women activists attempt to become these politicians' primary network and base. Since women so often identify with a system that will "protect" them, the moment that they say 'No', they are persecuted. Women activists can thus form alternative forms of protection, and women in high office can draw their power not from the prevailing system of patriarchal control, but from those who understand power's underbelly. 

 

Finally, activists called for further strategising on helping to make women economically independent. As one activist from the Gambia remarked, we must make it possible for women to get a divorce if necessary, to have some measure of financial independence. In a global economy where women produce over 80% of resources, and yet own less than 20% of them, the battle for economic sovereignty for women will be long and difficult. However, we will work to assure that women are not further exploited by our own movements, and that we create means for economic independence as we can. 

 

Are our tools sharp enough? 

 

Across several sessions, a number of participants asked similar questions: what are we doing to take the debates here back to the grassroots in our own countries? People are dying of AIDS in my country, aggressive cost recovery means that water and electricity are being disconnected, trade negotiations are taking place which may ruin livelihoods, how will this Forum take our struggles forward? 

 

When we asked different delegates how the ASF meetings were organised, they could only answer with even more questions. How, for instance, were the meetings financed? How was the organising council constituted? 

 

Activists from South Africa's Social Movements Indaba (SMI) questioned the structure of the ASF (an un-elected, self-appointed, 'unrepresentative' council) and its 'lack of political direction'. The SMI activists said they viewed the council and the ASF as biased toward NGOs, as membership of the council did not entail representivity and members of the council had to pay their own way to council meetings. A statement issued and circulated by the SMI expanded this critique: 

 

The underrepresentation of social movements in relation to NGOs is reflected in the political content of the forum. It manifests in the persistence of the notion that the Africa Social Forum is nothing other than a space, in contrast to the perspective that it should have a programme to advance our struggle against neoliberalism (1). 

 

The SMI then went on to argue for a plenary to allow for collective decision-making on the structure and functioning of the ASF and develop a declaration and a programme of action. 

 

These problems are not unique to the ASF. Other social forums have been critiqued for not culminating in sufficiently concrete political outcomes that would advance the struggles of social movements. For instance, in discussing the Boston Social Forum, Peter Marcuse recently argued that there was insufficient participation of 'grassroots activists' (activists who were very poor, on welfare, etc.) (Marcuse, 2005 forthcoming). In general, there was an expressed need to link the BSF and other Social Forums to "action" with "concrete results" (ibid, 3). As Marcuse argues, while such forums might offer the future "nucleus" of a global social movement it is too early to speak of a global social movement focused on limited objectives and dealing with broader issues of power and social justice (ibid). 

 

Similarly, an activist writing for schnews.org.uk on the 2004 European Social Forum held in London argued that: "[Activists] came to see if 'another world is possible', yet as expected [the ESF] was hijacked by people whose vision seems seriously at odds with many people involved in grassroots politics". Many ESF activists questioned the wisdom of replacing one set of unaccountable political cronies for another. 

 

Building our own house: From 'space' to action?

 

In order for the Social Forums to continue to have legitimacy with social movement activists they will have to move beyond merely being 'spaces' or 'forums' for debate about 'other possibilities' for the world and towards being forums for debating strategies and tactics and common campaigns. In essence, there seems to be a struggle for the soul of the Social Forums: will they be 'talk shops' or 'think tanks' or 'arenas for planning action', 'campaign launch pads' or 'strategy and tactics seminars'? As the feminist session of the ASF showed, making sessions more participatory and inclusive could be an important step in allowing legitimate critiques of the Social Forums and their constituent movements to emerge. In turn, this could allow for more focussed political discussions and outcomes at the Forums. 

 

The stakes are high in this debate. As Setshedi argued: "people are being disconnected at home, what am I doing here if it doesn't advance their struggle?". Or as an HIV-positive feminist activist from Zimbabwe argued, "people are dying of AIDS at home, we need to think of a common platform to campaign to improve their access to treatment". Such activists argued that it takes precious time and resources to attend Social Forums and that they must have something to show for attending such forums. 

 

ASF delegates rejected engagement with the Bank and NEPAD, however, it should not be forgotten that indirect approaches urging such engagement were made through civil society intermediaries. This shows that capturing Social Forums and blunting their impact is a tantalising outcome for the Bank and 'third-way' politicians, which only adds a further sense of urgency to debates about the political direction and future of the Social Forums in advancing the aims of social movements for socio-economic justice. It is clear that social movement activists around the world increasingly wish to 'jealously guard' (SMI, 2) the Social Forums against de-politicisation and an inching towards irrelevant abstraction, merely providing 'space for debate'. Such activists recognise that if they exhaust themselves debating in 'space' they will not seriously threaten the agendas of the Bank or the other IFIs. And the blunter the tools of the Social Forums get, the greater the chance activists will simply dispense with them entirely. 

 

*Amanda Alexander is a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal.

*Mandisa Mbali is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal. 

 

* Please send comments to editor at pambazuka.org

 

References

 

- Bond, Patrick (2003). Against Global Apartheid: South Africa meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance. London: ZED Books.

- "Endless Shit Flinging" (2004). www.schnews.org.uk. 22 October. 

- Fanon, Frantz (1965). The Wretched of the Earth. NY: Grove Press.

- Marcuse, Peter (forthcoming). "Are Social Forums the Future of Social Movements?" International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

- Social Movements Indaba (2004). Statement distributed at the Africa Social Forum. 12 December.

 

WORLD SOCIAL FORUM in Brazil

http://india.indymedia.org/en/2004/01/208519.shtml

http://tallahassee.indymedia.org/feature/display/5806/index.php

WSF:  Libertarians oppose statist presence at forum, plan protests
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/5679

 

 

 

 

PHILLIPINES:  Army declares Hacienda Luisita a "national security" issue
http://www.tarlacnews.net/main/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=343
http://news.inq7.net/regions/index.php?index=1&story_id=25225
Workers defy return to work order
http://news.inq7.net/nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=24376
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2005/jan/23/yehey/top_stories/20050123top9.html
http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=2&story_id=24344
http://www.tarlacnews.net/main/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=330
Workers declare intent to arm themselves if cops or army attack again
http://news.inq7.net/regions/index.php?index=1&story_id=25121
Taskforce to probe Hacienda Luisita dispute
http://www.mb.com.ph/MTNN2005012126938.html
Workers vow to defend picket lines if attacked
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/net/2005/01/21/luisita.workers.warn.of.trouble.over.dispersal.html
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/FlashNewsStory.aspx?FlashOID=23144
Aggressive manoeuvres and threatened attacks from state forces
http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=2&story_id=24995
http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=2&story_id=24997
Dispersal postponed due to massacre anniversary
http://www.tarlacnews.net/main/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=341
http://news.inq7.net/top/index.php?index=1&story_id=24899
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/net/2005/01/20/tension.heightens.anew.in.hacienda.luisita.(12.53.p.m.).html

Government orders Hacienda Luisita union leaders fired
http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=2&story_id=24339
Tarlac to lose money in ongoing strike
http://www.tarlacnews.net/main/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=329
Owners threaten to shut down Hacienda Luisita
http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=2&story_id=24109
Death threats against journalists covering the strike
http://www.mindanaotimes.com.ph/news/story.php?id=3268
Hacienda witness murdered

http://www.bulatlat.com/news/4-45/4-45-massacre.html


Another shooting incident at Hacienda Luisita
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/man/2005/01/07/news/2.hurt.in.shooting.incident.in.hacienda.luisita.html
http://news.inq7.net/nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=23468
http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=2&story_id=23412
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?section=PROVINCIAL&oid=66230
http://www.tarlacnews.net/main/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=318

http://www.philippinerevolution.org/cgi-bin/statements/releases.pl?date=050106;refer=kr;language=eng

http://qc.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/2278.php

http://qc.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/2315.php

http://qc.indymedia.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=374&category_id=1

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/labo-j08.shtml

 

Hacienda workers march to Malancang

http://www.asianlabour.org/archives/003225.php

Outrage continues over shootings

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/phil-d24.shtml

 

 

PHILLIPINES:  Human Rights Day commemorated - more shootings by suspected govt agents

The shootings were at a 600-strong rally near Manila

Protesters denounce the Arroyo regime's appalling human rights record, ranging from the Hacienda Luisita massacre to "anti-terrorist" crackdowns on Muslims and murders of journalists

http://qc.indymedia.org/news/2004/12/2044.php

http://qc.indymedia.org/news/2004/12/2039.php

http://qc.indymedia.org/news/2004/12/2038.php

http://qc.indymedia.org/news/2004/12/2057.php

Students stage walkout to protest "no permit, no exam" policy

Poor students are denied an education because refused entry to exams if they have unpaid fees

http://qc.indymedia.org/news/2004/12/2105.php

 

 

NEW YORK:  Casa del Sol residents protest eviction and fire

Police attack the protesters and arrest several as protesters defend themselves in the melee

Some protesters got on the roof and dropped banners

http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/135765/index.php

http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/135794/index.php

http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/135745/index.php

http://nyc.indymedia.org/feature/display/135816/index.php

 

QUEBEC:  Unemployed workers occupy plant

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050119104824825

 

KOREA:  Homeless clash with police at Seoul station after deaths of homeless men

The clashes were fierce enough to effectively close the station, and thousands of pounds of damage were done

Protests continued outside the station after riot cops arrived

Homeless people blame railway security for the deaths

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200501/23/200501232211093779900090409041.html

http://www.iht.com/getina/files/220507.html

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200501/200501230036.html

 

HUNTSVILLE, USA:  Uprising at juvenile prison - fire started

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull%26cid=1103170794867

http://www.waff.com/Global/story.asp?S=2710615&nav=0hBEULxK

 

CHESAPEAKE, USA:  Another prison uprising - screws briefly lose control

http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=2753065&nav=23iiUj0W

 

MONTANA:  Resistance from INSIDE mental asylum

Mistreated detainees protest

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=04/12/28/1991203

 

LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY:  School ID badges prompt uprising

Students clash with teachers, cops and other students at assembly, to resist the fascist policy

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2005011013450162

 

DONA ANA - Uprising at young offenders' institute over food quality

Insurgents fought guards for two hours and smashed windows

http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/4118932/detail.html

http://www.krqe.com/largeheadline.asp?RECORD_KEY%5BLargeHeadline%5D=ID&ID%5BLargeHeadline%5D=8092

 

KAMLOOPS, CANADA:  Fires started in inmate unrest at detention centre

http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/4/124955/8185

 

HUDSON:  School students resist exam schedule changes
Some block hallways, set off fire alarms and march out of school
After police attack marchers, some gather outside the school to continue the protest
It continued despite a sellout by "official" representatives
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1291&dept_id=523591&newsid=13798666&PAG=461&rfi=9



 

MANIPUR:  New protests after "encounter killing" achieve inquiry

http://www.kanglaonline.com/index.php?template=headline&newsid=21545&typeid=1

http://www.kanglaonline.com/index.php?template=headline&newsid=21526&typeid=1

Apunba Lub boycotts AFSPA review panel

http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=3.10.251204.dec04

TV producers protest Indian linguistic imperialism

http://www.kanglaonline.com/index.php?template=headline&newsid=21501&typeid=1

Women blockade army base to protest arrests
http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=7.16.210105.jan05

Civil servants strike after militants shoot
workers
http://www.indiadaily.com/breaking_news/19610.asp



 
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