[Onthebarricades] On the Barricades part 2 (Asia)

[Andy Robinson]

PALESTINE

At a December 15 protest in Bil'in against the Apartheid Wall three 

international activists were arrested by Israeli soldiers as they 

documented Israeli border police beating a Palestinian teenager.  

Four Israeli activists were also arrested that day. (from ISM)

 

PALESTINE:  Prisoners begin hunger strike over human rights abuses and torture

http://www.milligazette.com/Archives/2004/01-15Sep04-Print-Edition/011509200464.htm

More anti-wall protests

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=6943

ISM protests in Jayyous

http://www.palsolidarity.org/DesktopModules/Articles/ArticlesView.aspx?tabID=0&alias=Rainbow&lang=en-US&ItemID=721&mid=10618

http://www.palsolidarity.org/DesktopModules/Articles/ArticlesView.aspx?tabID=0&alias=Rainbow&lang=en-US&ItemID=711&mid=10618

http://www.palsolidarity.org/DesktopModules/Articles/ArticlesView.aspx?tabID=0&alias=Rainbow&lang=en-US&ItemID=737&mid=10618

Wall resisted in Biddu

http://www.palsolidarity.org/DesktopModules/Articles/ArticlesView.aspx?tabID=0&alias=Rainbow&lang=en-US&ItemID=735&mid=10618

 

 

IRAQ:  Oil pipelines sabbed yet again (several times)

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/27352069-B1E9-4CA6-AD1F-73AC5AE7A426.htm

http://uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=8225&s2=19

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=644731

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3949173

http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=35918

Oil pipelines sabbed every day, says minister

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/afp/20050113/wl_mideast_afp/iraqoilsabotage

Oil sabbing costs Iraqi state billions

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/afp/20050111/wl_mideast_afp/iraqeconomyunrestoil

Iraq gas pipeline sabbed
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=123&art_id=qw1105103883457B262

 

Resistance Offensive Cuts Off All Oil Exports From Iraq

 

8 January 2005 (Reuters)

 

BAGHDAD - Power cuts have halted Iraq's crude oil exports from its 

southern Gulf terminals and saboteurs blew up domestic crude and gas 

pipelines in northern Iraq, shipping sources and officials said on Saturday. 

 

Loadings at the southern Basra oil terminals stopped on 0845 (GMT) on 

Friday, disrupting all exports.  Flows from the north have been halted 

for three weeks due to sabotage.

 

Iraq has the capacity to export about two million barrels per day from 

its offshore Basra and Khor al-Amya terminals in the Gulf. [Wrong.  HAD 

the capacity.]

 

Saboteurs blew up domestic oil and gas pipelines in northern Iraq on 

Saturday and crude exports through Turkey remained disrupted following an 

earlier attack, oil officials said.

 

An explosion ripped off a section of an oil pipeline running from 

northern fields to the 350,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) Baiji refinery in the 

Safra area, around 70 km (43 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, they said.

 

Two guard posts for an oil protection force composed of tribesmen were 

blown up around the area and one guard was wounded.

 

Saboteurs also blew up a gas pipeline in the Fatha area near Baiji, 

home to Iraq's biggest refinery, the officials said.  The gas line feeds 

the Baiji power plant, they said.

 

One civilian suffered burn wounds in the blast, the officials added.

 

Attacks against Iraqi oil facilities in northern areas have escalated 

since U.S. forces attacked the former rebel stronghold of Falluja in 

November.

 

The export pipeline to Turkey's Ceyhan port, which can carry 500,000 

barrels per day, has also been repeatedly hit.

 

There have been no flows through the line since an explosion damaged it 

on Dec. 18. Officials expect repairs to take at least another week.  

[At which time, it will be blown up again.  Duh.]

(from GI Special)

 

 

Abu Ghraib prisoners escape in transit - 28 on the run

http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011505Y.shtml

Saddam Hussein remains on hunger strike, claims his lawyer

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=8107

 

Nasiriyah power workers begin strike

http://www.uuiraq.org/english/115.htm

http://www.uuiraq.org/english/113.htm

Iraqi farm workers establish workers' council

http://www.uuiraq.org/english/104.htm

Cotton workers punished for labour activism

http://www.uuiraq.org/english/105.htm

Basra workers hold international conference

http://www.uuiraq.org/english/114.htm

Violent suppression of textile strike in Kut

http://www.uuiraq.org/english/118.htm

Soft-drink manufacturers strike

http://www.uuiraq.org/english/117.htm

Strikes across Iraq

http://www.uuiraq.org/english/116.htm

Unemployed Union leads protests by homeless families and squatters

http://www.uuiraq.org/english/108.htm

WCPI, OWFI lead Fallujah solidarity demo

http://www.uuiraq.org/english/111.htm

Basra rail workers strike to protest insurgent
attacks on rail workers
http://www.itf.org.uk/english/newsonline/january/iraqi_strike.htm
http://www.iraqitradeunions.org/archives/000153.html



Statement To US Labor Against The War From Hassan Jum'aa - Southern Oil 

Company Trade Union, Basra

 

From: Ewa Jasiewicz

To: GI Special

Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 10:06 AM

Subject: Statement to US Labor Against The War From Hassan Jum'aa - 

Southern Oil Company Trade Union, Basra

 

FROM: General Union of Oil Employees- Basrah

TO: American Labour Against the War

04 December 2004

Subject: Thanks and appreciation

 

I begin by saying peace be upon you; you who have stood against war and 

for peace. 

 

In my capacity as president of the union of oil-sector employees in 

Basrah, and in the name of the executive bureau of the union, we extend to 

you our immense thanks and gratitude to your militant organisation, 

which took a serious stand against the war and for peace, because peace is 

the foundation in this turbulent world. 

 

We put on the record our thanks and great appreciation and may God 

bless you in doing good and for peace to prevail in the whole world, 

including our wounded country, the great Iraq; the Iraq of love and 

fraternity.

 

>From this standpoint we see it as necessary that our work is based on 

full cooperation and coordination to lay the democratic foundation of 

trade union work. 

 

We want to express our full confidence in being the link in the 

cooperation to combine the power of the Iraqi working class with the power of 

the American working class opposed to war and destruction.

 

You no doubt are aware that the former regime dissolved the unions 

using a draconian law (edict number 150, 1987) that changed the status of 

workers to civil servants, in order to control the working class and its 

wealth, and to distort its identity. 

 

Since that day the working class hasn't been able to exercise its most 

basic rights. 

 

On 20 April 2003, after the defeat of the tyrant, activisits in the oil 

sector re-established the oil workers' union and we started, for the 

first time in Iraq, to elect a union committee in free and democratic 

manner.

 

Today, the oil trade union constitutes the greater weight of workers in 

southern Iraq.  The union's executive bureau was formed to represent 

ten unions formed in the oil companies working in the south.  It also 

includes 30 union committees at work places within Basrah, Misan and Thi 

Qar.

 

We stress that we stood against the vile occupation, which has soiled 

our dignity.  We continue to be strongly opposed to the repressive acts 

of the American, British and multinational forces committed against our 

people in Iraq's cities, and the flagrant aggression against our 

national economy, which has been destroyed by war. 

 

This wounded country's infrastructure has been destroyed and the 

occupation forces is responsible for the greater part of this destruction. 

 

The occupation forces have not shown any initiative to rebuild the 

country and they have not allowed the people who want the good of the 

country to engage in re-construction. 

 

This is because of repressive laws that do not serve the production 

processes. 

 

There is a simple reason for their non-cooperation in rebuilding the 

oil production facilities: Iraqi cadres have rejected their presence 

which made them obstruct the delivery of reconstruction equipment.  This is 

particularly true of KBR company.

 

Finally, I extend my thanks and appreciation for standing by us for the 

sake of peace.  I pledge that this letter is not the last, but we will 

be in constant touch. 

 

I would like to tell you that you are welcome in Iraq any time you 

like.

 

Peace and God's blessings be upon you.

 

Hassan Juma'a Awad

President of the General Union of the Oil Sector Employees in Basrah

 

(Iraq Occupation Focus is currently running a campaign to raise funds 

for the SOC Union - click the link below for more details: 

http://www.iraqoccupationfocus.org.uk/socu.htm)

 

US uses refugees as human shield; refugees refuse and run off

http://www.jihadunspun.net/intheatre_internal.php?article=101141&list=/home.php&

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=8869

Economic nonviolence empowers Iraqi women

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=8913

Sadr supporters protest fuel prices

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/29632C9F-B10A-4A98-90AB-A0173AF16CC2.htm

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/050117/2005011701.html

Fallujah residents protest

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=05/01/03/2185881

Protests outside energy ministry - protesters set up camp to protest fuel prices and living conditions in Baghdad
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4456332

 

MARINE BRINGS THE WAR HOME:  2 cops shot, one killed, by Marine resisting redeployment to Iraq, in apparent ambush

http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/107228.shtml

http://cbs5.com/news/local/2005/01/14/Marine_Accused_of_Shooting_Cop_Laid_to_Rest.html

http://www.modbee.com/local/story/9750300p-10616529c.html

http://uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=8800&s2=13

 

Anti-Police Graffiti Cover Scene Of Ceres Warfare
Grieving parents of US Marine hero. Andres' mom said that her son came back from the slaughter in Fallujah "different".  2005-01-12 Juliana Barbassa - Associated Press, San
Diego Tribune & JOEL HOOD, Modesto Bee
Tuesday morning, Raya's family attended Mass before going to George's Liquors and the next-door tire shop, still riddled with bullet holes.  Spray-painted graffiti, much of it anti-police, appeared on both businesses and the supermarket across the street overnight, said deputy Jason Woodman, spokesman for the Sheriff's Department.  Much of the graffiti had been painted over by midday.  Among the remaining graffiti was a statement that simply read:  "RIP Andy," the name Raya often was called by friends.  Alvarez, Raya's cousin, said police suspected Raya had gang affiliations, based on his tattoos.  She acknowledged that she had not seen the tattoos, but said other family members told her that the tattoos signified "Latino and Chicano pride."   "It was a display of honor for our culture," she said. "He was not a banger. That just wasn't him."  But family and friends said something seems to have happened to the young man when he was abroad.  He used to be "a motivated kid," said the Rev. Dean McFalls, who knew the Raya family for years when he served in Ceres' St. Jude Catholic Church.  "He was friendly, outgoing, humorous.  He got along well with  people, and wanted to make the best of his life.  He
wanted to settle down in Ceres and raise a family."  When Raya returned from Iraq, family members said he was taciturn.  One of his neighbors, George Alvarez, told the Modesto Bee that Raya confided in him during the holidays, saying he had
"lots of trouble sleeping," and "a lot of mental things going on inside."  During his first visit to Iraq, Raya saw a convoy being blown up. He had friends in the vehicle, McFalls said.  Among the pictures the Raya family has to remember their teenager by are some in which he looks proud in his uniform -- "but there's also one in which he holds up a sign saying, "Operation send me home," family friends said.  "I think he wanted to be a warrior, a hero," said McFalls, describing  Raya's room.  Among the usual adolescent clutter --"Raya's bicycle shares space with posters of fast cars and young women" are Aztec symbols, and pictures from the time of the Mexican Revolution.  "Maybe once he got in the middle of the brutality, he found it was very different from the idealistic view he had of a solider defending the values of his country," McFalls said.  A family member who asked not to be identified said Raya's parents never allowed guns in their home, so it was unlikely that Raya had owned the assault rifle used in the shooting for very long. It was not a Marine-issued weapon, authorities said.  Raya used an SKS assault rifle, and it had been illegally modified with a detachable magazine, said Woodman.  He said investigators were trying to determine where Raya had obtained the weapon and could not rule out that he had an accomplice.  In an e-mail, a man identifying himself as a Marine and longtime friend of Raya's, said Raya could not have hidden the rifle
at Camp Pendleton, because military police often do random checks of barracks.   "Before he joined, he was very motivated," the e-mail stated. "The first time I saw him back (from Iraq), he wasn't so motivated.  He cracked negative jokes about people who were serious.  He was negative towards the Marines.  He still seemed like the same guy, he just had a hard time."

 

Families of US troops killed in Iraq raise $600,000 for Fallujah aid

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1506&e=10&u=/afp/20041223/ts_alt_afp/usiraqrefugees.041223173737

Dutch soldiers threaten to strike

http://www.labournet.net/world/0501/soldiers1.html

http://www.eurosavant.com/comments.php?id=450_0_1_0_C

Another soldier refuses Iraq redeployment

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=8907

Troop shortage worsens

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1015898,00.html

Pentagon ban on filming coffins defied

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/00E1EA83-3FDD-4284-BE10-25648D94C086.htm

Mass refusal and two suicides at army base

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=8876

Arab marine declared deserter - again

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20050105/ts_nm/iraq_usa_hassoun_dc

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050105/ap_on_re_us/marine_iraq

Iraq war hits National Guard recruitment

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1217-09.htm

 

MUTINY!

"Mutiny" On Gulf Warship
December 14, 2004 By JOHN KAY and TOM NEWTON DUNN,
"The Sun" (England)
THE captain of a [British] Navy warship has been booted off amid allegations of bullying and intimidation.  Cmdr David Axon was relieved from duty after complaints from crew as HMS Somerset returned from the Gulf.  A source said of the "mutiny": "A dangerous situation was brewing."  (from GI Special)

 

Decorated veteran Sergeant Benderman quits Iraq war

http://uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=8948&s2=18

 

Army Sergeant Who Refused More Iraq War Told He "Probably" Won't Be Charged
[Bloomberg.com, January 13, 2005]
U.S. Army Sgt. Kevin Benderman, a 10-year veteran who refused a second deployment to Iraq has been told he probably won't be charged by the military.  The military says that situations like those presented by Benderman are on a downward slide.  [Bullshit.  There are another 20 at Sgt. Benderman's base who also refusing to go back to Iraq for another tour.  The truth is the "military" is pissing its pants that prosecution can lead to a shitstorm of support from the anti-war movement, and national publicity.  They're just hoping it'll all go away.  But more and more service members every day are deciding the war is wrong.  What's on a "downward slide" is the ability of the Imperial Government in Washington to keep troops committed to a lost war for an evil purpose.]
MORE:
>From Monica Benderman
Sgt. Kevin Benderman and his wife, Monica, sit at their Hinesville, Georgia, home.
{The_War.8.2471}: Monica Benderman {mdawnb} Wed, 12
Jan 2005 19:33:38 
CST (10 lines)
Kevin and I just wanted to say HI..  and thank you!!!  The support is overwhelming, and we are grateful. Kevin has been placed on Rear Detachment with a new unit here at Ft. Stewart.  There is an investigation opening, into everything that happened prior to deployment, and he is getting good support, now, in getting his CO status considered.  We are still worried about the rest of this unit, and their treatment, and hope that they will begin to speak out for themselves as well.  Thank you again..there are some pretty fantastic people in this world.. we're glad to have "met" so many of them.
Happy night!!!!!

(from GI Special)

 

Sgt. Says He Will Murder Spec. Resisting Deployment To Iraq:

17 MORE AT FT. STEWART WON'T GO

 

In further developments this weekend, it has been confirmed that 

Specialist J.R. Burt and Specialist David Beals, also of 2-7 attempted 

suicide rather than deploy to Iraq, and an additional seventeen soldiers in 

2-7 Infantry Battalion have gone AWOL for the same reason.

 

In addition, SFC Johnson, 2-7 platoon sergeant for Spec. Beals 

reportedly told him recently ".when I get you to Iraq, I'm going to get you 

killed," in the presence of several witnesses who say this incident was a 

catalyst in Beals' attempted suicide.  

 

January 10, 2005 By Robert S. Finnegan, Southeast Asia News

 

On Friday, January 7, 2005 Sergeant Kevin Benderman, stationed with the 

2-7 Infantry Battalion at Ft. Stewart Georgia, refused an order from 

the Command Sergeant Major of his unit Samuel Coston to deploy to Iraq 

and requested a General Courts-Martial.

 

Benderman, 40 is a combat veteran, having served one tour in Iraq in 

2003 during which a Captain in his command ordered soldiers from 

Benderman's outfit to fire on children throwing rocks at unit personnel.  

Having personally witnessed this and other illegal acts by military 

personnel during his tour, Benderman now says that under no circumstances will 

he participate further in the war in Iraq, a war Secretary General of 

the United Nations Kofi Annan has labeled "illegal".

 

Benderman has applied for Conscientious Objector status.  His 

commanders have not yet acted on his request, as required by Army regulations.

 

In further developments this weekend, it has been confirmed that 

Specialist J.R. Burt and Specialist David Beals, also of 2-7 attempted 

suicide rather than deploy to Iraq, and an additional seventeen soldiers in 

2-7 Infantry Battalion have gone AWOL for the same reason.

 

Army sources who have been granted anonymity because they feared 

retaliation stated that both Burt and Beals are being harassed and mistreated 

on the Psychiatric Ward of Winn Army Hospital by unit commanders and a 

civilian, Dr. Capp who in apparent violation of state law is reported 

as informing them of the harsh punishments they may expect should they 

refuse deployment.

 

In addition, SFC Johnson, 2-7 platoon sergeant for Spec. Beals 

reportedly told him recently ".when I get you to Iraq, I'm going to get you 

killed," in the presence of several witnesses who say this incident was a 

catalyst in Beals' attempted suicide.

 

Winn Army Hospital Public Affairs Officer Laurie Kemp refused to even 

confirm that the two Specialists had been admitted to the hospital.

 

The 2-7 Chaplain, Captain Matt Temple in a letter addressed to 

Benderman today stated that: "It is unfortunate that you have chosen the course 

of action you have taken.

You should have had the moral fortitude to deploy with us and see me 

here in Kuwait to begin your CO application.  To expect me to complete an 

interview with you within 48 hours of a major deployment was 

unreasonable and quite inconsiderate of my own time. I would have gladly helped 

you once we got here. 

 

"As an NCO in the US ARMY, I expected a greater display of maturity 

from you. Furthermore, for you to have media personnel contacting me at my 

personal email address without first acquiring my permission was very 

unprofessional of you.  You should be ashamed of the way you have 

conducted yourself.  I certainly am ashamed of you.  I hope you will see your 

misconduct as an opportunity to upgrade your character and moral 

behavior for your own good and the good of your fellowman." 

 

Benderman said the letter disgusted him, stating "Nothing in my career 

as a professional soldier has prepared me to respond to something like 

that letter from the Chaplain." 

 

Benderman's congressional representative, Congresswoman Cynthia 

McKinney has written a letter to his Battalion Commander Lt. Col. Todd Wood 

expressing her concern for Benderman's rights and suggesting that Wood 

designate him as non-deployable to Iraq.

 

Support for Sergeant Benderman has been overwhelming, says his wife, 

Monica. "We are being swamped for interview requests by the media," she 

said on Monday. 

 

Benderman has also garnered the support of an American icon and war 

hero, Colonel James "Bo" Gritz, USA (Ret.), who profiled Benderman for 

three days running on his radio show "Freedom Call". 

 

Gritz has labeled previous charges by the Army in connection with 

Benderman's refusal to deploy and statements to the press "ridiculous," and 

savaging the officers of 2-7, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and 

President Bush on the air while calling Benderman "a hero" and his 

immediate superiors "weenies."

 

Colonel Gritz is one of the most decorated soldiers in U.S. Army 

history, having led the only raid on a prisoner of war camp during the 

Vietnam War at Son Tay, North Vietnam.

 

On Monday afternoon, Benderman says he is still in the dark as to what 

the Army plans for him. "I have learned nothing from anyone in my chain 

of command informing me on the disposition of my case, despite my 

attempts to communicate with them.  Perhaps tomorrow," he said.

 

 

 

 

Sgt. Kevin Benderman Writes:

"Why I Refused A 2nd Deployment To Iraq"---

22 More At Ft. Stewart Refuse To Deploy So Far

 

By: Sgt. Kevin Benderman, Published In Project For The Old American 

Century

 

First a brief forward from POAC co-editor Jack Dalton. I received an 

email a few moments ago from Kevin's wife Monica.

 

In it she has told me a total of 22 people in Sgt Benderman's unit have 

refused to deploy to Iraq.

 

17 have gone AWOL and 2 have attempted suicide. The status of the 

remaining 3 is unknown at this time.  We at the POAC fully support the 

decision to refuse deployment to Iraq which has been made by Sgt Benderman, 

and the others in his unit.

 

I am Sgt Kevin Benderman and:

These are the chronological events that led me to conclude that I had 

no other choice than to refuse the deployment order to Iraq.

 

I was deployed to Iraq in March 2003 and returned in September 2003; 

while I was there I was with the 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 4th 

Infantry Division.  We staged our vehicles in Kuwait and then proceeded 

to move out into Iraq.

 

We were carried on the back of heavy equipment transporters to about 

fifty miles south of Baghdad and then we downloaded the vehicles.  We 

were in the vehicles while they were on the trucks, which I thought was a 

little odd considering that in the garrison environment those types of 

actions are considered unsafe and are therefore not allowed. 

 

During the road march north through the country I saw the effects of 

what war does to people, those effect are such; homes were bombed, people 

were living in mud huts, people were obtaining their drinking water 

from mud puddles along the side of the road and were catching rain in 

buckets when it did rain, they begged us for food and water and we had 

enough, we would share it with the people that were there, the kids looked 

especially hungry and thirsty.  The commander told us to stop giving 

the people food because they would get food from other sources after the 

trucks started bringing in relief supplies.

 

Somewhere along the route there was this one woman standing along side 

the road with a young girl of about 8 or 9 years old and the little 

girl's arm was burned all the way up her shoulder and I don't mean just a 

little blistered, I mean she had 3rd degree burns the entire length of 

her arm and she crying in pain because of the burns.  I asked the troop 

executive officer if we could stop and help the family and I was told 

that the medical supplies that we had were limited and that we may need 

them, I informed him that I would donate my share to that girl but we 

did not stop to help her.

 

When we were there, the command elements ordered the unit to perform 

all types of actions that are considered unsafe to soldiers, such as, 

having military vehicle maintenance personnel retrieve missiles that were 

present in our area of operations using a M88 recovery vehicle and 

transport them to sites to be destroyed by the explosive ordnance 

personnel.

 

They also ordered mortar personnel to enter into a compound that held 

various types of munitions that the Iraqi army had left behind and to 

load these munitions onto trucks. When these personnel were not working 

fast enough for the 1SG he ordered them to throw the mortar rounds onto 

the trucks whereupon one of rounds exploded and inflicted shrapnel 

wounds on two soldiers.

 

We were using an old custom building that was located in the middle of 

the town that we were in for the troop HQ and naturally that attracted 

the attention of the local populace. Small children would come up to 

the wall that surrounded the place before we had a chance to apply 

concertina wire along the top of the wall and they would toss small pebbles 

at us inside the walls.

 

We would tell the children to get down from the wall and leave the 

area, one day the troop commander saw us telling the children top get down 

from the wall and he told everyone there that if the children came back 

at any time after that to shoot them if they were to climb back onto 

the wall.

 

I was in charge of a group of soldiers that were in their late teens 

through their early twenties and I had to constantly tell them to keep 

their heads down because they thought that the war was like the video 

games that they played back at the barracks. War is not like that at all 

and until you have the misfortune to engage in it for yourself you 

cannot begin to understand how insane it all is. 

 

There are no restart buttons on reality and that is why I cannot figure 

out why now we are pursuing such a policy in this day and age.  War 

should be relegated to the shelves of history, as was human sacrifice.  If 

you stop to think about it you become aware that war is just human 

sacrifice.  There is no honor in killing as many as you can as quickly as 

you can.

 

We, in America refer to ourselves as civilized and people from other 

countries still living the simple life are backwards and un-civilized, 

but what is civil about the capability to create atomic weapons?  What is 

civil about being able to kill over 100,000 people with just one bomb?

 

We may be more technologically advanced but are we more civilized?  I 

think the answer is no. War has to be considered the absolute enemy of 

mankind.  Where we would be without it?

 

I would presume that we as a nation would be out of debt if we were to 

apply as much energy to pursuing sound economics as we do pursuing war, 

we would never get sick if we spent as much on preventive medicine as 

we do on war, the elderly would get affordable prescription medication 

if we were to use the resources that are spent on war to work for that 

purpose, there would not be un educated children if we were to buy new 

classrooms and books for schools instead of new weapons systems, social 

security would be a lot more secure with some of the money that war 

costs.

 

Why do we want to train the young people in the world that the only way 

we can settle our differences is to kill one another?

 

Why shouldn't we train them to become surgeons or homebuilders?  Why 

shouldn't we train to become anything but killers?  I think that the 

world would be better off if we were to do that instead. 

 

I have talked to veterans from every war from WWII on and their opinion 

is that the wars they fought were to be the last war ever fought.  How 

many more are we going to fight before we realize that the act of war 

is for small minded people that are intent in only satisfying their own 

needs and not the needs of the people in general?

 

I do not want to be killed because I am living in a place that has a 

ruler that wants to go to war with any one.

 

The only way to bring peace to the world is to let the people of the 

world decide for themselves what they want to spend their efforts on.  I 

feel that in this day and age governments start wars, and not people, 

and since the governments want the wars then why don't we let the 

government fight the war?  All of the politicians that want to fight a war 

are free to trade places with me at any time.

 

I will gladly go and learn war no more.

 

There are activities that I have been involved in that have led me to 

these new and developed beliefs, and they are numerous but I can tell 

you some of them.

 

When you walk in the woods and you see a deer stand and look at you, or 

you are on the river in the morning and the mist rises off the water 

while you hear the morning calls of the river birds, and the otters just 

lie there as you glide past in your boat and don't even move, you know 

that there is a better way.

 

When you can find solitude in the woods that are so filled with peace 

and the wildlife that is all around you, you feel the better way all 

around.  A person must acknowledge the fact the we are a part of the 

universe and the universe does not want to be out of sorts with itself, so 

why do we spend so much effort on trying to be out of sorts with others 

of the human race?

 

I have been to the war zone and I have seen the devastation it causes.  

Why can't everyone agree that war is the most repugnant of all human 

endeavors?  Why is it considered noble to be able to look through the 

sights of a rifle and kill another human being from 300 meters away?  Why 

are you a hero if you can throw a hand grenade farther than the next 

guy in the foxhole?

 

Shouldn't these young men and women that are in the army be throwing 

footballs or baseballs or softballs instead?  It would impress me a lot 

more to see someone make the winning free throw at the basketball game 

or kick the winning extra point at the football game, or knock in the 

winning run at the World Series than to see them be able to shoot more 

humans from 300 hundred meters.

 

I would rather they spend their time at the golf course or the tennis 

courts or in college, any where but in the war zone trying to survive 

and having to kill to do it.  It just doesn't make sense to me.

 

 

A Brief History of Sgt Kevin Benderman's Military Service

I first entered the army on 27 Jan 1987 and received basic training at 

Ft. Bliss, TX. I received advanced individual training at Ft. Sam 

Houston, TX.  My military occupational specialty was designated as 91R10 

Veterinary Food Inspection Specialist which is basically the equivalent to 

a U.S.D.A. Food Inspector.

 

My first duty assignment was Ft. Leavenworth, Ks.  Where I worked in 

the commissary and my duties included; inspecting poultry and dairy 

products, fresh fruits and vegetables, canned goods, and the general 

sanitation of the facility.  My mission was to ensure the health of the 

soldiers.  Was a part if the United States Army Medical Dept. Activity or USA 

MEDDAC.

 

I received an Army Achievement Medal while serving on the unit fund 

counsel, which utilized funds, raised through various activities to help 

provide for soldiers that were not able to get home during Christmas.  I 

received another AAM for assisting during an increased workload due to 

personnel shortages during the Persian Gulf War.  I also received my 

first Good Conduct Medal during this enlistment.

 

I received an honorable discharge from the Army after the Persian Gulf 

War on 24 Apr 1991.  I re-entered the Army 26 Jun 2000 and was awarded 

the MOS of 63M10, which is a Bradley Fighting Vehicle mechanic.  

Re-took basic training at Ft. Knox, KY and went the US Army Armor School at 

Ft. Knox, KY

 

Received AAM for being honor graduate from the Class.

 

First duty assignment after completion of training was Ft. Hood, TX.  

Unit was 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division.  

Also known as the Buffalo Soldiers.

 

Went to Iraq with the 4th I.D. in March 2003 returned to Ft. Hood Sep 

2003.  Re-enlisted with choice of duty station of Ft. Stewart, GA.

 

ARMY AWARDS RECEIVED INCLUDE TWO ARMY COMMENDATION MEDALS, 4 ARMY ACHIEVEMENT MEDALS, 3 GOOD CONDUCT MEDALS, 2 NATIONAL DEFENSE SERVICE MEDALS, And ONE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM SERVICE MEDAL.  RECEIVED NUMEROUS LETTERS OF COMMENDATION. RECEIVED COMBAT LIFESAVER CERTIFICATION, WAS 

CHOSEN TO BE THE STUDENT 1ST SGT OF THE PRIMARY LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT COURSE OUT OF FOUR HUNDRED STUDENTS.

 

 

November 20, 2004

To: George W. Bush

From: SGT Kevin M. Benderman

 

When are you going to tell the truth to the people of the United 

States?

 

Why don't you tell them why you want to be in Iraq so bad?

 

I was there for six months and I did not see the first weapon of mass 

destruction.  I did receive orders from the company commander to shoot 

children if they threw small rocks at us and that was when I figured out 

that the entire thing was way over the line.

 

Over 1200 soldiers have died in Iraq so that you can have a couple 

billion more dollars, that should make you feel very good about yourself. 

 

The soldiers that have died for this sham that you have put over on the 

American people are so much more deserving than that.  You are not 

worth the dust off of their boots. 

 

If you truly had respect for the military and the people that serve 

then you would not continue to kill them in your war.

 

I joined the Army to protect my country and not to be a mercenary for a 

political despot.

 

If you wish to put me in prison because of my views then you should 

make room for about 75% of the military.

 

And while you are at make some room for yourself and about half of your 

administration.  You are responsible for what happened at Abu Gharaib 

and you are shirking your responsibility.

 

The commander in chief is not above the UCMJ, as you would like to 

believe.

 

I want to fulfill my contract that says I joined the Army to protect my 

country against all enemies foreign and domestic, and as far as I am 

concerned you are a domestic enemy of the United States.

 

You care nothing for this country; you just care about the profits that 

are to be made from the oil in Iraq.  That much is evident to me from 

the way the contracts were passed out to Halliburton and KBR.  It must 

be nice to have the deck stacked in your favor by the president of the 

USA.

 

Since your are raising the debt ceiling of America so that we can pay 

the bills that you have run up, why don't you forgive the debts of every 

one in the armed forces since they are the ones that are making it 

possible for you to make billions from the oil from Iraq.

 

Sincerely,

 

SGT Kevin M. Benderman

 

>From Monica Benderman:

 

The_War.8.2088}: Monica Benderman Fri, 31 Dec 2004 09:10:42 CST (54 

lines)

 

Unfortunately, I believe that no soldier is in Iraq by his own doing.

 

Most definitely, the Iraqis are not.  But to understand why I say that 

about the US military, I believe you have to become more aware of 

exactly what is involved in saying NO to Iraq.

 

My husband spoke to his commander yesterday, his unit is scheduled to 

fly back to Iraq next week. 

 

The commander refused to approve his request for Conscientious Objector 

Status.  My husband then took it to the Brigade CSM who did his best to 

talk my husband out of it.  Going so far as to tell my husband that 

"the people we are going over there to kill rape 8 year old girls."

 

My husband's response... fathers rape their daughters in America, 

uncles rape their nieces, and pastors rape altar boys, and yet no American 

soldier is ordered to go to where that person lives and shoot them with 

an M-16." 

 

The CO status is pending, but they are making it very difficult for my 

husband.  The other options, for any military personnel who have a 

conscience....jail for however long this government decides, moving to 

Canada, or some other foreign country that may or not grant asylum, or 

WHAT???

 

Are you aware of how many soldiers, marines and National Guard would 

willingly join in a lawsuit against the legality of this war, if they 

could afford the high priced team of Human and Civil Rights attorneys who 

have expressed an interest in this case, and if they could be assured 

that once having taken on this case, they would still have a home, a 

family, and a country that supported them?

 

My husband has spoken to just such a team of attorneys.  They have 

researched this case, and believe that, while difficult, it is possible.  

The problem... cost, and naturally, the unknown.

 

Soldiers need the support of their country.  Soldiers fight hard for 

this country, and do not have the benefit of knowing just how many people 

are truly there for them.

 

If we could find a way to show them that the support is real, that the 

support isn't just lip service in chat rooms and on forum pages, but 

that it is real, and open, and confident in the RIGHT of what these 

soldiers are doing... I guarantee you... there are a hundred thousand 

soldiers who would fight for the right thing. 

 

America hasn't done enough to show these soldiers that they will stand 

behind them when they throw down their weapons.

 

Right now... our government is "brainwashing" our military.. and our 

military is falling into their trap because there are still not enough 

strong American civilians who are willing to stand boldly beside the 

soldiers and say NO to that government.

 

The soldiers have lives, and families that they feel responsible for.  

We can talk all day about what they SHOULD DO... but many, first and 

foremost believe that they have no other choice but to follow orders, so 

that the people they love stay protected, not from enemy terrorists, 

but from our government.

 

We are all willing to fight... but I don't think American civilians 

realize how much of the fight for the military depends on them.

 

Sometime the talk has to stop, and the action begin.

 

Thank you.

 

08 Jan 2005 Monica Benderman The_War.8.2088} 

 

I just got back from the hospital, Winn Army Hospital, visiting 2 

soldiers, both of whom were scheduled to deploy with Kevin's unit yesterday. 

 

One didn't make it.. he had knee problems and went to the doctor on 

Wednesday.  The dr. gave him a full bottle of Percoset. 

 

When his wife woke up yesterday morning, she found him on the floor.  

He had taken 32 Percoset.  The doctor said that she was 10 min. from not 

being able to save him.

 

Today, he was still groggy, but determined.

 

They had told him that it didn't matter that he was in the Psych. ward, 

he was just "malingering" and he would be deployed on Monday, as soon 

as he was released.  I talked with him and told him that his Sgt. 

Benderman had sent a message, "I got your back."

 

The soldier has decided to refuse to deploy, and he will stay here and 

fight alongside Kevin. 

 

The second soldier also did not get on the plane.  He missed the deploy 

time, and they thought that he had gone AWOL.  

 

They found him along a highway about 30 min from here.  He had driven 

to a point, stopped his car, taken a full bottle of pills, the gotten 

out and walked along the highway with a gun in his hand.

 

Fortunately, he passed out before he could use the gun.  I gave him the 

same message from Kevin. 

 

He too is ready to refuse deployment and stand with Kevin. 

 

Both of these soldiers said that they would rather die here than die in 

Iraq.  The details will come out, but I can assure you, it is due to an 

ungodly amount of pressure, very, very negative pressure from the same 

command structure that Kevin is now speaking out about.

 

These two soldiers are going to be okay.  They are getting stronger, 

one is still a little more groggy than the other, but they are ready to 

fight. 

 

Both are very grateful to everyone of you.  I told them about all of 

the support they have waiting for them, and they really can't believe it.

 

For your information, there are many more to follow. 

 

It is just the beginning. 

 

There will be little communication with the soldiers "in country" until 

the end of this month, for "security reasons."  But some of the 

soldiers did manage to find a way to be able to have access.. at very great 

risk to themselves.. so please know that there is a great problem with 

this unit right now.

 

We will keep you up to date, as we hear more.  Just know, what you are 

doing does matter to these soldiers, and we are getting word to them.  

They are sooo happy to know that you all are there.

 

Thank you.  Monica

(from GI Special)

 

 

01/17/2005 By Robert S. Finnegan, Managing Editor, Southeast Asia News

Georgia: 

 

Specialist David Beals of the 2-7 Infantry stationed at Ft. Stewart, 

Georgia has today decided to turn himself in after going AWOL from the 

Winn Army Hospital following his attempted suicide.  Beals plans to 

return within 72 hours, after taking the time he said was necessary to 

ponder the few options available to him.

 

Beals, 25, has already served a tour in Iraq.  After witnessing 

firsthand the killing of innocent civilians by U.S. forces he has decided to 

apply for Conscientious Objector status.  He also stated that he would 

accept an honorable discharge from the Army.

 

Remarks made by his platoon sergeant also played a part in Beals' 

decision, after being continually told by him that "You guys are gonna die, 

I don't want to deal with shipping your s**t back when you are coming 

home in a box."

 

Beals then made a decision, telling his wife Dawn "I would rather die 

at home with you than go over {to Iraq} with these people and let them 

get me killed."  He added that he wanted to be with his family when he 

dies, rather than in Iraq with individuals who obviously wanted him 

dead.

 

After having his stomach pumped and being stabilized at a civilian 

hospital Beals was transferred to Winn Army Hospital, and there he said his 

problems began.

 

"After they got me to Winn and my wife walked me up to the ward, they 

{the doctors} pushed her out and said 'you have to go, you can't see 

him,' it was the next night I think, before she was allowed to see me" 

Beals said.  He also stated that Dr. Capp, a civilian doctor at Winn had 

told both himself and Specialist J.R. Burt of 2-7 who had also attempted 

suicide that they had two choices: "You {Beals and Burt} are going to 

leave on your own and get on the plane, or you are going to leave in 

shackles and get on the plane."  Beals also said Capp told him that he was 

malingering to get out of deploying to Iraq.

 

Beals said he went AWOL from the hospital because he feared that they 

were going to handcuff him and deposit him directly on the plane, not 

understanding at that time he could refuse deployment.  "The doctor made 

it clear to me that I could get on the plane or go to jail, those were 

his exact words" he said.

 

Having had several days to think about his plight Beals is now sure he 

will not deploy, even if it means going to jail.  "When I was in Iraq 

the first time, we were proceeding to an objective and there was a truck 

on the road with a family in it that was hit by an air strike.  The 

mother and the daughter survived but the father and the son didn't.  The 

son was decapitated, and our first sergeant and his driver were taking 

pictures of them."  Beals said this incident was the catalyst that 

demonstrated to him the reality of this war.

 

Well aware of the possible consequences he faces for refusing to 

deploy, Beals is firmly convinced he is doing the right thing.  "I won't 

compromise my beliefs for the Army, come what may" he said.

 

Telephone calls to Army Public Affairs Officer Lt. Colonel Kent and 

Winn Army Hospital Public Affairs Officer Laurie Kemp requesting comment 

were unanswered at press time.

 

Southeast Asia News Managing Editor Robert S. Finnegan is an 

internationally published investigative reporter and former Marine Corps 

Non-Commissioned Officer.  Working recently as a Senior Editor and lead 

investigator on the Bali Bombings for The Jakarta Post, he may be reached at 

seanews1 at yahoo.com.  Copyright release granted for further publication 

at additional news outlets.

(from Southeast Asia News via GI Special)

 

Territorial Army Soldier Resigns

 

George Solomou, from the London Regiment of the TA, will announce his 

resignation from the army and detail his reasons. George is resigning in 

protest at the continuing illegal occupation of Iraq by British and US 

forces. Speaking to Military Families Against the War today he said 'I 

believe the occupation of Iraq to be illegal under international law. 

Were I to be called up I would therefore have no choice but to refuse to 

go. I am resigning from the army in protest at the war and continued 

occupation of Iraq'.

 

 

IRAQ DEMONSTRATIONS:

 

Thousands of Fallujans demonstrate

Ash-Sharq al-Awsat Thousands of Fallujans demonstrated on Saturday in front of the main entrance to the largely abandoned city. They demanded that US military forces leave their city and that basic services be restored so that they could return. One eyewitness reporter called in from the scene an estimate of 30,000 demonstrators. [Cole: I saw footage of the demonstration on Arab satellite television, and agree that it was a big, important demonstration, but I'd say it was only a few thousand strong; I suspect that having 30,000 people out by that gate would be a logistics problem--where did their water come from, e.g.]

 

Some of the placards announced that Fallujans refused to live under a military occupation. They presented a list of demands, which included the facilitation of their return to the city, speedy return of services, rebuilding of the devastated city, and monetary compensation to its inhabitants. They also protested the US military demand that returnees show identification papers. Many said that such papers got left behind in the city when they fled.

 

Children marched with placards reading "Where is my Father?" or "Where is my house, you supposed Liberators?"

 

Several demonstrators said that returnees were instructed by the Marines not to eat any food left behind in the city during their absence.

 

I suppose the implication is that the US used chemicals in its assault on the city, which may have poisoned foodstuffs. This allegation does not make any sense to me, however. I don't think the US did use chemicals, or that it would have risked the public relations backlash from doing so. I also can't imagine what chemicals are in the US inventory that would render food inedible.

 

The Fallujah demonstration was big enough to be news, but I couldn't find out anything about it via Western newspapers and wire services.

 

[1/2 Addendum: Kind readers made several suggestions about why the US might have warned against eating food left behind, assuming they did issue such a warning. One reader suggested that cordite and other chemicals released in the course of a high-powered conventional assault on the city could not be good for a person. Another suggested that it had to do with the use of uranium-tipped shells fired by US tanks. Another suggested that US troops as a tactic of war deliberately poisoned food so as to deny it to the guerrillas.)

http://www.juancole.com/

(2nd January)

 

Elderly Man Dies When US Troops Fire Tear Gas At Crowd

 

US forces dropped tear gas on the residents of Fallujah on Sunday as

they gathered trying to get into their city. As a result, one local

Iraqi died. Witnesses told Mafkarat al-Islam that the Americans

unleashed the tear gas after the sound of explosions and intermittent

clashes were heard early Sunday morning in the ash-Shurtah

neighborhood in the north of the city.

 

Hundreds of the people of Fallujah who had been waiting to get into

the city became more insistent prompting the Americans to throw sound

grenades and tear gas grenades. As a result a 65-year old local man

was reportedly killed in an incident also witnessed by the crew of an

Arab TV station that claimed to be impartial, but nevertheless failed

to report the death due to threats from the Americans that they would

not be allowed to cover further events in Fallujah if they broadcast

that story.

http://www.jihadunspun.net/intheatre_internal.php?article=101171&list=/home.php&

 

Fallujah residents demonstrate in nearby town
http://www.alchahed.net/

 

 

 

WAZIRISTAN/BALOCHISTAN:  Pipelines sabbed as fighting continues

Blast claimed as assertion of tribal sovereignty

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_9-1-2005_pg1_6

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/297ec2a8978216118d7f724a0b185f40.htm

 

IRAN:  Workers protest over sale of factory; wear mourning, martyrdom dress

http://www.payvand.com/news/04/dec/1208.html

Strike at Sanandaj textile factory

http://www.labournet.net/world/0501/iran1.html

Protest over US detention of Iranian pilgrims

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=140210

 

EGYPT:  Protests target trade deal with Israel

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Africa&ao=176636

Mubarak pres term extension and succession protested

http://beirut.indymedia.org/ar/2004/12/2038.shtml

Marchers try to deliver aid to Rafah

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=5001

Asbestos demonstrations continue

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11791

Reformers hold demonstrations against Mubarak
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=6590

 

MOROCCO:  Pharmacists strike over new legal code which blames them for crime

http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia-e.asp?ID=308286

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

 

JORDAN:  Pigs ban peace protest at UN

http://www.sierratimes.com/rss/newswire.php?article=/afp/20041231/wl_mideast_afp/iraqusmilitary&time=1104515698&feed=iraq

 

LEBANON:  Electric workers strike for welfare support, economic human rights

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=11246

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

Hundreds protest against French ban on Lebanese TV station

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=televisionNews&storyID=7115582

 

YEMEN:  MPs stage sit-in after parliament is arbitrarily suspended

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041227-091154-4930r.htm

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=9d0eed727da87747

 

BAHRAIN:  Protesters oppose road scheme which will ruin villages

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=99673&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=27279

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=99508&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=27277

 

TURKISH KURDISTAN:  Sit-down protest after locals murdered by Turkish oinkers

http://www.kurdmedia.com/news.asp?id=5986

 

TURKEY:  Woman self-immolates in protest against torture cells

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Turkey%20Protest

http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/302722.asp

Protest against extrajudicial executions
http://www.roj.tv/en/news/browse.php?mod=article&opt=view&id=627

Protest against forthcoming EU summit

http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=841

20 anti-militarists protest near officers' club against conscription

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/303077.html

Workers stage hunger strike over politically-motivated withholding of back-pay
http://www.roj.tv/en/news/browse.php?mod=article&opt=view&id=632

 

 

 

 

INDIA:  WORKERS' STRUGGLES

Sanitation workers strike

http://www.hindu.com/2004/12/25/stories/2004122506700400.htm

Tamil Nadu coop bank workers demonstrate over pay and aid

http://www.hindu.com/2004/12/25/stories/2004122515130300.htm

http://www.hindu.com/2004/12/25/stories/2004122504230300.htm

Demonstrations, strike threat win bonus deal for port workers

http://www.itf.org.uk/english/newsonline/december/india_ports.htm

http://in.news.yahoo.com/041213/54/2iftt.html

Insurance staff demonstrate

http://www.hindu.com/2004/12/22/stories/2004122214940300.htm

Strike at GlaxoSmithKline factory

http://au.news.yahoo.com/041220/3/s97b.html

Customs officials strike over discouraging of trade and torture of arrested officials

http://www.bangladesh-web.com/news/view.php?hidDate=2004-12-13&hidType=NAT&hidRecord=0000000000000000029289

Other customs officers go on hunger strike

http://www.hindu.com/2004/12/19/stories/2004121910580300.htm

AITUC stages marches across the states of Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu

http://www.hindu.com/2004/12/17/stories/2004121708130300.htm

http://www.hindu.com/2004/12/17/stories/2004121706670300.htm

http://www.hindu.com/2004/12/17/stories/2004121716230300.htm

Steamer blockade called off as management promises discussions

http://www.hindu.com/2004/12/19/stories/2004121914210300.htm

Bihar government secretariats paralysed as strike continues

http://www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/959137.cms

Boat owners and workers strike and protest over pricing and monsoon ban

http://www.hindu.com/2004/12/16/stories/2004121605620300.htm

http://www.hindu.com/2004/12/16/stories/2004121601240700.htm

Part-time workers boycott interviews, demanding full-time jobs

http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?hpFlag=Y&chklogin=N&autono=176692&leftnm=lmnu1&lselect=0&leftindx=1

Gujarat public transport paralysed by "mass leave" protest strike

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1163000,000600030005.htm

Tamil Nadu road workers protest and fast, demanding their jobs back

Sit-down by nursery workers, demanding payment on time

Karnataka plantation workers stage sit-down over pay

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/awkr-d18.shtml

Bus drivers strike over closure of corporation

http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=54278

"Mass leave" (strike) disrupts transport in Gujarat, and workers protest privatisation

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1163000,000600030005.htm

Hospital workers start indefinite strike

Telecom workers demonstrate

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

Insurance workers strike for pay

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/labo-d28.shtml

70,000 power workers stage indefinite strike against privatisation

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/labo-j15.shtml

Bank workers take action over closures, unpaid salaries

Sanitation workers strike over police assault

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/labo-j03.shtml

Bihar municipal strike ends after 44 days
http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=63353
Tamil Nadu powerloom strike
http://www.hindu.com/2005/01/22/stories/2005012204340600.htm
Building inspectors strike over arrests of colleagues
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=114872
Railway hunger strike called off after four days due
to success
http://www.hindu.com/2005/01/21/stories/2005012105100400.htm
http://www.hindu.com/2005/01/14/stories/2005011407610400.htm
Gorakhpur junior doctors strike for timely payments
and better working conditions
http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=60787
Delhi transport workers hold sit-in
http://www.hindu.com/2005/01/21/stories/2005012118590300.htm
Port terminal workers at Chennai strike to demand
compensation for the family of a worker killed at work
http://www.hindu.com/2005/01/20/stories/2005012012830500.htm
Andhra Pradesh teachers stage sit-in for pay parity
http://www.hindu.com/2005/01/20/stories/2005012003800300.htm
Power workers strike against privatisation
http://www.hindu.com/2005/01/13/stories/2005011310370500.htm
http://www.hindu.com/2005/01/11/stories/2005011104260500.htm
Panchayat workers continue occupation
http://www.hindu.com/2005/01/06/stories/2005010608990500.htm
Flash strike at Kakinada port
http://www.hindu.com/2005/01/03/stories/2005010304890500.htm

 

 

INDIA:  SMALL PRODUCERS

Boatmen blockade river over jetty withdrawal, and win concessions

http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=53068

Brick-makers protest over ash-mixing rules

http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=112029

E-protest by e-workers and e-professionals over arrest of auction site owner

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/966342.cms

 

 

INDIA:  STUDENT PROTESTS

Students stage hunger strike over fee hikes and teacher sacking

http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=111112

Students and teachers protest over speeding lorries near college

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/965906.cms

 

 

INDIA:  ANTI-CAPITALIST & ANTI-CORPORATE PROTESTS

Protest against WTO and new patent laws

http://www.indiadaily.com/breaking_news/19174.asp

http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=53651

http://www.hindu.com/2005/01/06/stories/2005010605971100.htm

Road blockade in Tamil Nadu to demand water provision

http://newstodaynet.com/20dec/cr4.htm

Coca-Cola protest opens New Year

http://india.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/210007.shtml

Opposition activists protest mine deal

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1156966,000900030010.htm

http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=48512

 

INDIA:  WOMEN

Women's march to parliament makes history

http://india.indymedia.org/en/2004/12/209961.shtml

 

INDIA:  MISCELLANEOUS PROTESTS

"Disciplined" village rejects election, pre-elects reps in protest re development

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5922_1167533,0015002100000001.htm

Protests over petrol prices - government vehicles trashed
http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=58726
Bikers protest helmet rule
http://ww1.mid-day.com/news/city/2005/january/102146.htm

 

INDIA:  TSUNAMI-RELATED PRORESRS

Tsunami victims protest at not receiving promised aid

Protests occur in coastal regions of India and on the Andaman and Nicobar islands

In one incident, islanders took an official hostage

http://newstodaynet.com/02JAN/ss2.HTM

http://www.hindu.com/2005/01/02/stories/2005010206380100.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tsunami/story/0,15671,1382441,00.html

http://newstodaynet.com/29DEC/SS4.HTM

Kerala villagers protest coffin shortage after tsunami

http://www.keralaonline.com/keralanews.asp?folder=Keralanews&file=7_4839.xml

http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=51414

Fishermen protest, claim tsunami relief not received

http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=55038

 

 

 

INDIA:  REPRESSION RESISTANCE

Prison resistance in Tamil Nadu

http://www.peoplesmarch.com/archives/2005/jan2k5/tamilnadu.htm

Fake encounters and killings protested in Andhra Pradesh
http://www.ndtv.com/template/template.asp?template=Naxalviolence&slug=TRS+protest+'fake+encounters'+in+Andhra&id=67214&callid=1&category=National

 

 

INDIA:  TRIBAL AND MINORITY STRUGGLES

Muslims protest land encroachment

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/975873.cms

Aboriginal tribals protest extension of scheduled tribes list

http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=48563

Tribes gather to discuss indigenous rights

http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011605J.shtml

 

ORISSA
Tribals demand end to repression
Statesman News Service

BHUBANESWAR, Dec. 17. - Hundreds of tribals in their traditional dress held a rally near the state Assembly today under the banner of Jana Pratirodh Manch, a pro-Naxalite organisation, demanding a complete halt to the repressive measures on struggling people.  It may be noted that this was the second rally organised by pro-Naxalites, followed by a massive rally organised by Daman Pratirodh Manch, another pro-Naxalite body, on 14 September. Leaders of Jana Pratirodh Manch held the rally today in protest against the alleged repression on the struggling people. Stating that they are fighting for peoples' rights in a democratic manner, the JPM leaders regretted that the government instead of understanding the plight of the poor and solving their problems, threatened them with gun.  "If the government wants to deal with us in this way, we are prepared to face it," retorted Manch president, Mr D Venkat Rao. Dr Prem Pati, president of Bahujan Bama Shakti, called upon the workers to fight relentlessly for the suffering and struggling masses.  Flaying the government's "anti-people" policies, the Manch leaders alleged that the government was throwing the poor people out of their homes and hearths in the name of industrialization without providing them any alternative for their sustenance.  Mr GR Ambedkar, secretariat member of Bahujan Bama Shakti, lamented that the state was evicting the tribals from forests while its Andhra Pradesh counterpart was providing shelter to them.  Later, a three-member delegation, comprising president of Jana Pratirodh Manch, Mr D Venkat Rao, secretary, Mr B Thatoi and president of Dalit Adivasi Ekta Manch, Mr Pratap Rao met the Mr Navin Patnaik and presented an eight-point charter of demands. The major demands included halting repression and eviction of tribals from forests, land right to tribals, waiver of all agricultural loans to small and marginal farmers, compensation and free house to the super cyclone-affected people.  On the outcome of the meeting, Mr Thatoi said he had assured to look into their demands. 
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=9&theme=&usrsess=1&id=63275

 

ASSAM:  Protest against wave of ULFA attacks on civilians

http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=49216

 

KASHMIR:  Protests after encounter killings

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_23-12-2004_pg7_4

Separatists protest against forthcoming polls

http://www.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=61486&cat=India
http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=59938

http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=61623

 

PAKISTAN:  Anti-imperialist rally blocks traffic

The rally was organised around the slogans "Down with imperialism!", "Workers of the world unite!", "No to WTO/Bush-Musharraf!", "No to imperialist globalisation!" and "An injury to one is an injury to all".

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/610/610p22.htm

Water workers protest against privatisation

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_30-12-2004_pg7_15

"Black Day" observed; protests against Musharraf

http://thepakistaninewspaper.com/news_detail.php?id=1629

http://www.manoramaonline.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=manorama/MmArticle/CommonFullStory&c=MmArticle&cid=1104481590118&channel=News&p=1002194839100&count=7

Police round up activists, but fail to prevent protests against Musharraf in Gujrat

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_1-1-2005_pg7_31

Anti-privatisation demos continue

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=5551

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=4976

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/labo-j03.shtml

News workers march for promised wage increases

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/labo-j15.shtml

Journalists hold sit-down strike and call for pay increase

Sugar workers demonstrate for severance pay

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

Chitral residents protest checkpoints
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_18-1-2005_pg7_41

MMA protests against Musharraf continue

http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=89647

 

Religious Fundamentalist Attack JAC rally

Today, on 11th January, the religious fundamentalist groups attacked  the Joint Action Committee For Peoples Rally on religious column in front of Lahore Press Club; three were injured including a journalist from Daily Pakistan. Yousaf Baluch chairman National Trade Union Federation and Tasneem from AGHS also got minor injuries.  JAC has submitted an application for the registration of the case against the leaders of Mutehida Tulaba Mahaz, a joint student front of Jamaati Islami, Muslim League and Peoples Party students groups. When JAC activists reached at Lahore Press Club for
the rally, they found some religious fundamentalist group-raising slogan in favor of the religious column in the passport. We raised slogans against it. There were both groups chanting slogans next to each other. Police tried to separate the both but failed. But when confronted in the same coin, the religious group left the place and while going back, a small group threw stones and it hit the three leaving a serious wound in the forehead of
Yaseen Malik, a local journalist.  We tried to catch the culprits but they ran away.  It was a cowardly act by the fanatics who were unable to harass us by their presence. Astonishingly, before the incident, main leaders of PPP like Muneer Ahmed Khan and Muslim League N were also sitting side by side with religious fundamentalists students to lean their support for their cause.

(from CMKP list)

 

BANGLADESH:  Rickshaw drivers protest over ban on use of a route

http://www.bangladesh-web.com/news/view.php?hidDate=2004-12-19&hidType=NAT&hidRecord=0000000000000000029878

http://www.bangladesh-web.com/news/view.php?hidDate=2004-12-19&hidType=LOC&hidRecord=0000000000000000029856

Mass opposition protests against government

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=100223&Sn=WORL&IssueID=27286

Pakistani refugees stranded for three decades protest, stage hunger strike

http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=49291

Garment workers mark end of preferential trade deal with mass demo
http://nation.ittefaq.com/artman/publish/article_14996.shtml

 

 

SRI LANKA:  Tsunami victims protest over substandard food aid

http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=13815

Massive opposition protest against political victimisation

http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=13683

Tamils form human chain to call for peace talks

http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=13672

Workers at two estates take action over unpaid wages

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

Airport workers protest for pay

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/labo-d28.shtml

Teachers boycott exams over abolition of hardship allowance

Fired bus workers stage hunger strike demanding reinstatement

Valuation staff demonstrate over salary anomalies

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/awkr-d18.shtml

Estate workers down tools to protest
misuse of tsunami aid
http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=14016

 

TAMIL EELAM:  Hundreds protest Annan's decision not to
visit the area
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/01/09/hundreds_protest_annan_move_in_sri_lanka/
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1105240988164
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_10-1-2005_pg4_22
http://www.newindpress.com/coastalcalamity/News.asp?Topic=-367&Title=&ID=IEL20050109114508&nDate=&Sub=&Cat=

 

NEPAL:  Maoists bomb peace march, kill one

http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=24974

ANNFSU organizes rally to pressurize govt

NUWAKOT, Dec 16 (PR) - All Nepal National Free Students' Union (ANNFSU), the student wing of the ruling CPN-UML, organized a huge rally here in the district headquarters, Bidur, Thursday in order to pressurize the government to initiate dialogues with the Maoists. Hundreds of locals, along with various social organizations in the district, took part in the rally. Later, the rally converged into a mass meeting at Trishuli.

http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=25969

Villagers protest against Nepalese Army human rights abuses

http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=26048

School students protest against Maoist forced recruitment of children

http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=26824

Massive peace march in Kathmandu

http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=27047

Clashes after Maoists attack human rights protest

http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullstory.asp?filename=aFanata0sa3qzpda6a9a9va.axamal&folder=aHaoamW&Name=Home&dtSiteDate=20041226

Anti-Maoist rally in Baglung

http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=27157

General strike by traders to protest police repression of festival

http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullstory.asp?filename=aFanata0sfqzpda7Wa1ta.axamal&folder=aHaoamW&Name=Home&dtSiteDate=20050102

Taxi drivers stage blockade

http://www.gorkhapatra.org.np/pageloader.php?file=2004/12/19/editorial/editorial2

Farmers pour milk on roads to protest debilitating Maoist military blockade

http://www.gorkhapatra.org.np/pageloader.php?file=2004/12/26/topstories/main8

Baglung anti-Maoist demos continue

http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=27948

Nawalparashi locals clash with Maoists

http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullstory.asp?filename=aNPata0scqzpda8Va0wa.axamal&folder=aNPataiaoanaaal&Name=National&dtSiteDate=20050116&sImageFileName=

Students protest fuel price rises
http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullstory.asp?filename=aFanata0sjqzpda7a9a1ta.axamal&folder=aHaoamW&Name=Home&dtSiteDate=20050111




Peace rally in Dhangadhi

Thousands of people took part in a peace rally in Dhangadhi, the district headquarters of Kailali, in far-western region Sunday, calling upon the government and rebels to give up violence and resume peace talks.  People from all walks of life including farmers, teachers, students, businessmen and women took part in the rally enthusiastically, reports said.  Mid- and Far-western regions of Nepal are one of the highly affected areas from the nine-year-old insurgency.  The rally was organised jointly by 'Sudur Paschim Nagarik Samaj' and 'Integrated Development Society, Kailali-two Dhangadhi-based NGOs. neaplnews.com by Dec 19 04
http://www.nepalnews.com/

 

Teachers on strike

NEPALGUNJ: The Nepal Teachers' Union, Jajarkot, has decided to call an indefinite educational strike and close all the schools in the district from Friday to protest the forced mobilisation of teachers and students by the Maoists. Secretary of the union, Achyut Prasad Sharma, said a meeting of the teachers decided to close the schools after the Maoists asked the teachers to attend their training, asked them to take part in the construction of trenches and bunkers and forced them to implement Maoists' education calendar and curricula. - HNS

http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullstory.asp?filename=aNPata0scqzpda7Ta0wa.axamal&folder=aNPataiaoanaaal&Name=National&dtSiteDate=20041226&sImageFileName=

 

 

 

Maoist students close down schools, colleges in eastern region

 

Most of schools and colleges in the eastern Mechi and Koshi zones were

closed down Tuesday as the Maoist student wing, the All Nepal National

Independent Students Union (Revolutionary), announced a two-week-long

strike in educational institutions in urban centres.

 

Reports said that the educational activities in urban centres such as

Dharan, Itahari, Damak, Dhulabari, Damak, Ilam Bazaar and several

other places could not take place today.

 

The ANNISU-R called the strikes in protest of arrests and killings its

leaders and cadres in recent times. The strikes will be in effect

until February 1. An indefinite bandh (general strike) is already in

place in Taplejung district since last few days. 

 

Meanwhile, the Private and Boarding Schools' Organisation of Nepal

(PABSON) and local human rights groups have asked the Maoist students

to immediately call off the strikes in view of the nearing SLC sent-up

exams. nepalnews.com mbk Jan 18 05

 

http://www.nepalnews.com/

 

Maoist inmates at Sundarijal jail start hunger strike

 

Seventeen Maoist detainees, including a woman, started relay hunger

strikes from Saturday at Sundarijal detention center in Kathmandu

demanding better facilities.

 

The inmates have demanded that they be allowed to meet their family

members and relatives seven days a week and be given newspapers to

read. One of the key demands includes the removal of the red corner

notice and the terrorist tag on the Maoist party.

 

Recently, the inmates had in a memorandum sent to the prime minister

through the jailer had made the demands, warning of strikes. They said

they would soon launch serious protests to pressure the government to

meet their demands. nepalnews.com mbk Jan 08 05

 

http://www.nepalnews.com/

 

 

 

 

 

CHINA:  Imprisonment of protesting workers questioned

http://www.china-labour.org.hk/iso/article.adp?article_id=6072

http://www.china-labour.org.hk/iso/news_item.adp?news_id=3810

Workers strike at Phillips plant

http://www.pacificepoch.com/newsstories?id=18968_0_5_0_M

Toyland workers strike new deal as labour shortages bite

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1379453,00.html

Sweatshops face strikes, protests and shortages

http://www.asianlabour.org/archives/003311.php#more

Women workers at WalMart supplier strike for the right to form a union

http://www.china-labour.org.hk/iso/news_item.adp?news_id=3790

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4803

http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6901/690153.html

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/labo-d28.shtml

Retail workers strike

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

Long article on growing social unrest in China

http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/12/30/news/china.html

 

HONG KONG:  Thousands march for democracy
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/128754/1/.html
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/eastasia/view/128775/1/.html



TAIWAN:  Solidarity organised to support "rice bomber"

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2004/12/18/2003215593

Protesters gather to oppose anti-union law
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2005/01/21/2003220294
Teachers demanding union rights clash with opponents
near parliament
http://english.www.gov.tw/index.jsp?action=cna&cnaid=6205

 

THAILAND:  Government bank workers strike and demonstrate

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

Angry protests at coal conference
http://allafrica.com/stories/200501241165.html
Tsunami victims' relatives protest removal of bodies, and win
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/s1287356.htm
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asiapacific/detail.asp?GRP=C&id=57305

MALAYSIA:  Exiles from Myanmar (Burma) hold protest at
embassy - arrested by Malaysian cops
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_18-1-2005_pg4_17
Man arrested while protesting against company
http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=32204

Locals on hunger strike over power shortages
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/32716
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/32647

 

PHILLIPINES:  Government workers protest against moving of office
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/zam/2005/01/12/news/8t.gov.t.workers.protest.over.transfer.of.regional.office.html

Union-busting at mills
http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi?db=default&uid=default&ID=2731&view_records=1&ww=1&en=1#Philippines
Marchers commemmorate massacre of farmers
http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=2&story_id=24993

 

 

KOREA:  Rail workers stage massive actions after union-busting court ruling

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/labo-d28.shtml

LG Caltex takes reprisals against strikers

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200412/24/200412240048075409900090409041.html

STRUGGLE REPORT

13/12/04:

Protest camp wound up

Protesters join striking cement workers at rally

Peace protest fizzles; anti-NSL protest staged instead

Labour rights rally

http://qc.indymedia.org/news/2004/12/2068.php

20/12/04:  Rally against anti-terror law

Iraq event

Migrant workers solidarity rally

http://qc.indymedia.org/news/2004/12/2144.php

28/12/04:  Sit-down events by migrant rights and anti-war groups

http://qc.indymedia.org/news/2004/12/2205.php

01/01/05

Rally against National Security Law

More events organised to target social exclusion

Jeong-Rib social centre occupation continues

Anti-war rally

Rally for irregular workers

Students march on parliament in anti-war protest and clash with cops

http://qc.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/2238.php

 

 

NORTH KOREA:  First signs of protest creep out - anti-regime graffiti

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/5728

Picture and story here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/18/wkor18.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/01/18/ixportal.html

 

 

 

 

CAMBODIA:  Garment workers stage sit-in at PM's house; attacked by cops

http://www.nosweat.org.uk/article.php?sid=1137&mode=&order=0

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BKK132220.htm

http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/s1272143.htm

 

 

PHILLIPINES:  Food firm strikers defy picket ban

http://www.thefreeman.com/local/index.php?fullstory=1&issue=articles_20041215&id=25796

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/awkr-d18.shtml

Text revolt imminent over VAT rise

http://qc.indymedia.org/news/2004/12/2175.php

Catholic hostel workers strike

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/awkr-d18.shtml

Locals blockade factory access, closing three factories, over local recruitment

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/awkr-d18.shtml

Lockout at sugar factory on Negros island

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/labo-j15.shtml

 

 

PHILLIPINES:  FOOD NOT BOMBS (from Manila Indymedia)

For the daring belongs the future : the recent FNB Activity in Metro Manila : the last in 2004

by Crossposting from anti-bureaucratic ::imc-aktivist                  

At the forefront of grassroots autonomous initiativ in manila: Food Not Bombs which was held dis morning in Bonifacio plaza. Fnb an explicitly in existent for more than 10 years celebrates it's last activity in 2004.For those who are boxed in ideologikaL platforms: FNB paved an underground anti-state movement in the lokal counter-kulture [mind the, self proclaimed] thru the different kolektivs, and to put it bluntly drawing the line between the rethorics & direct democracy.

 

As N4S put it: "We Permit people of ideologies to define anarchy rather than bring our views to the masses and provide models to show the contrary.We permit corporations not to only lay-off workers while cutting benefits, but to poison the air n water to boot & allow them to kill our planet.We permit the police, the armies,the politicians, to terrorize whatever sector of the population.."We create an Anarchist moment in which people,food,justice,housing are important than profit,bombs property & dicipline.We respond to death with life.Conformity with resistance.Obedience with dances.Labor with carnivals.Music with noize" 

 

Revolutionary solidarity by Direct Action : We act lokally,& we are everywhere.Even in the hype of tragic calamities in the nation & abroad- kolektivs are working autonomously to contribute & not2 exploit-as for liberal media[open pub one's included] we provide the variation between solution & mere theory-react-ionary alone.

 

PHILLIPINES/JAPAN:  Protest at embassy over new restrictions on migrant workers

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=feature&id=814

 
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