[Onthebarricades] On the Barricades part 4 (Eastern Europe, US, UK, Europe, Canada, Aus, Aotearoa/NZ)

Andy Robinson ldxar1 at tesco.net
Tue Jan 25 13:57:29 PST 2005


GEORGIA:  Soldiers walk off duty and hold protest over conditions

http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=8621

http://www.bakutoday.net/view.php?d=11717

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=10419

 

CHECHNYA:  Relatives of the disappeared protest in Grozny

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/303226.html

 

RUSSIA:  Workers on hunger strike - one is hospitalised - in protest over wage arrears

http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html?id_issue=10733107

Hunger strike by workers in Timashevsk, near Krasnodar - they haven't been paid for 3 years
http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi?db=default&uid=default&ID=2797&view_records=1&ww=1&en=1
Yekaterinburg hydro workers end hunger strike after receiving back-pay
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1663369&PageNum=0
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/01/12/015.html

Port workers in Vladivostok protest against tariffs

http://vn.vladnews.ru/News/upd21_3.HTM

AIDS activists protest in Moscow

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/01/303750.html

Fascists in St Petersburg get asses kicked

http://www.enrager.net/newswire/stories.php?story=04/12/15/1622243

Workers in Ivdel, Sverdlovsk region, stage hunger strike

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

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/euro-j14.shtml

Relatives of Beslan survivors blockade road,
demanding inquiry, resignation
Protest ends after Kremlin chiefs promise talks
http://news.inq7.net/world/index.php?index=1&story_id=25156
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4199691.stm
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=430690
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/21/beslan.protest.ap/
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Russia%20Beslan%20Protest
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/sns-ap-russia-beslan-protest,0,6165576.story?coll=ny-leadworldnews-headlines


 Relatives of Beslan Victims End Protest in South Russia
Created: 24.01.2005 13:59 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:59
MSK, 14 hours 27 minutes ago


Families of victims of the Beslan school hostage massacre have suspended their blockade of a major highway in southern Russia after being promised a meeting with a top aide to President Vladimir Putin, organizers said yesterday.  The protesters closed the Beslan-Vladikavkaz federal highway for two days but have now ended their demonstration, Zarina Cherchesova of Alania TV told Ekho Moskvy. This came late Saturday night after a deal was struck, whereby the Alania republican TV station will show the demonstration and carry a statement to the republic's parliament demanding an extraordinary session to consider holding a referendum.  The protesters say they do not intend to drop their political demands. Meanwhile, the Russian president's representative in the South Federal District, Dmitriy Kozak, has promised to meet a group of mothers who lost their children in September's act of terrorism within the next few days.  A large tent blocking the road was taken down late Saturday and by yesterday all of the approximately 150 protesters had dispersed, Rada Maliyeva, a spokeswoman for the local Teacher's Committee group which helped organize the demonstration, told reporters.  The protesters were demanding the resignation of the top official in the region, North Ossetia President Alexander Dzasokhov, whom they accuse of poorly handling the crisis last fall, and the opening of an international investigation into the tragedy.  They blocked the key road for three days and agreed to disperse only after being told that Putin's representative for the north Caucasus, Dmitry Kozak, would travel to Beslan to hear their grievances. Maliyeva said the protesters could decide to reinstate their blockade if their demand for a vote of
no-confidence in Dzasokhov and for officials to be held accountable for the massacre were not satisfied.  The deaths occurred as a result of a chaotic battle between Russian and security forces and about 30 hostage-takers that erupted after more than 1,200 children and adults had been held in the school by pro-Chechen militants for three days.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/01/24/beslanprotestends.shtml




fwd from Earthfirstalert list

Translated from  http://www.aeliberation.net

Sabotage for defence of trees

Published 1st of November 2004 24th of October Commando Jeffrey Luers together with inhabitants of the city of Zhukovsky of Moscow region organised an action of ecological sabotage. Activists trespassed to construction site of city stadium and spiked some 60 trees marked to be cut, they left signs "trees are spiked, cutting down is a danger for life!" behind them.  Participators of the action ask not to danger workers and to hold back  from cutting down spiked trees.  Corruption of the city administration and lack of interest to local opinion pushed activists to radical action. City inhabitants appealed repetedly to local administration in order to save green areas and to stop construction in the center of the city, but they were ignored. Last drop was cutting down birch grove in area of school number 7, which was once planted to commemorate those pilots and cosmonauts which made the city famous.  Activists believe, that actions speak louder than words, and make it known to inhabitants of the city, journalists, representatives of the city administration and bosses of the construction companies, that they are prepared to fight for environment by any means, which does not harm life.

 

Relatives of Detained Radicals Protest in Moscow

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/12/27/prosecutionrally.shtml

Created: 27.12.2004 14:21 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:21 MSK

MosNews

Relatives and friends of members of the National Bolshevik party held a rally near the office of the Prosecutor General's Office on Monday. 39 members of the party were detained after an invasion of the presidential administration's office on Dec. 14.  Several dozen people took part in the rally including representatives of the organization For Human Rights. No National Bolshevik party flags or other signs were seen, the Grani.Ru website reported. The rally members held up posters with slogans "Happy New 1937 Year" (referring to the year of mass Stalinist political repressions), "Free Our Children," and pictures of the detained youths.  The head of the human rights organization, Lev Ponomarev, was quoted by the website as saying it is possible to "get the detainees out of the prison only by joint efforts". He called for all people who are not indifferent to take part in their demonstration.  The rights organization is attempting to draw the Russian authorities' attention to unjust court sentences, illegal detention and other human rights violations.  The party members occupied an office in the presidential administration office, hung their flags out of a window and a poster calling on Russian president Vladimir Putin to resign. They also distributed leaflets with a similar demand. They have been placed in various prisons, and a young woman was taken to the hospital after suffering concussion during her arrest, the website reported.  The detainees are charged with damaging property, vandalism and forced seizure of power. They could face up to 20 years in prison.  On Dec. 20, seven members of the same party were sentenced to five years in prison each for occupying the building of the Russian Health Ministry in August.

 

POLAND:  Human rights protest in solidarity with suppressed squatters

http://www.ainfos.ca/04/dec/ainfos00231.html

Protest against rent increases

http://www.ainfos.ca/04/dec/ainfos00305.html

 

SERBIA:  Ethnic Albanians rally to protest killing of
boy by border guards
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/10/news/briefs.html
http://www.keralanext.com/news/?id=91418



 

GREECE:  Strike and protest by public-sector workers over benefit cuts

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/wkrs-d17.shtml

Workers rally against unemployment, price rises

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100020_15/12/2004_50735

 

GREECE & EUROPE:  Solidarity protests with Thessaloniki defendants

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jan/ainfos00236.html

http://www.wombles.org.uk/news/article_2005_01_13_1306.php

 

SPAIN:  CGT calls general strike in Burgos

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jan/ainfos00205.html

 

ITALY:  Rail workers strike to demand safety improvements after crash
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4180681.stm

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

Farmers blockade roads to protest prices, compensation

http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200412211151-1030-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia

Berlusconi hit with tripod by angry worker

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=05/01/01/0678260

Commuters unable to board packed train block rail line, causing disruptions
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=autcmDwTsv38&refer=europe

Workers at US bases strike over pay, pensions
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=26709
 Alitalia plane crews stage "snack strike" to protest new working conditions

http://news.airwise.com/story/view/1105094857.html

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=100803&Sn=BUSI&IssueID=27294

 

 

MALTA:  Thousands protest to save public holidays

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/euro-j14.shtml

http://www.maltamedia.com/news/2005/ln/article_4796.shtml

Government postpones and rethinks "reform" after massive protests
http://www.union-network.org/uniindep.nsf/4e36123c6ddb05b7c12568f000341550/ff7d840cb5dcc928c1256f89002ae8c6?OpenDocument
http://www.di-ve.com/dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=167678
Students protest bus fare increases
http://www.di-ve.com/dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=168968
Immigrants arrested while protesting for the right to remain in Malta, and denied legal assistance
http://www.di-ve.com/dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=169104&pid=null

http://www.maltamedia.com/news/2005/ln/article_4850.shtml

 

CATALONIA:  10,000 protest for sports independence

http://www.iht.com/getina/files/214954.html

 

 

FRANCE:  Protest against nanotech conference in Grenoble

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/302727.html

Fishermen blockade part of the Channel

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/4113709.stm

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3909837

Tamil immigrants strike at pub chain

http://india.indymedia.org/en/2004/12/209968.shtml

Strike at H&M clothes shop over precarity

Blockade ends as workers submit to judge's dikkktat 

H&M strikers end strike after deal offered
http://au.news.yahoo.com/050107/19/shtr.html

http://www.nosweat.org.uk/article.php?sid=1152&mode=&order=0

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/wkrs-d31.shtml

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

Massive public-sector strikes against funding cuts, privatisation, job cuts and other "reforms" which hit workers
Teachers, civil servants, museum workers, train drivers, hospital workers and others took part in the strikes
200,000 also marched in related demonstrations
There were scuffles with cops when some marchers headed for scumbag minister Sarkozy's den
http://au.news.yahoo.com/050118/19/sn60.html
http://au.news.yahoo.com/050120/19/sofk.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4190275.stm
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7385592
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050119.wfran0119/BNStory/International/
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=25&story_id=15951&name=Strike+shuts+down+French+schools%2C+offices%2C+museums
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/20/news/france.html
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7395225
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4186511.stm
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=58&story_id=15828&name=France+braces+for+week+of+anti-reform+strikes
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/18/wfran18.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/01/18/ixworld.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4184155.stm
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/18/france.strike.reut/index.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aTTkF8Z.u5TQ&refer=europe



BELGIUM:  Massive workers' march in Brussels

http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=48&story_id=15295&name=Massive+protest+marchhits+Brussels+streets

Irate passengers blockade terminals after flight cancelled

http://www.luchtzak.be/article7043.html

Industrial action in transport sector continues

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/euro-j14.shtml

http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=48&story_id=15602&name=New+transport+strike+hits+Brussels

 

HOLLAND:  Bus drivers strike

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/wkrs-d17.shtml

F4J reach Utrecht
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4011935

 

AUSTRIA:  Death penalty opponents protest at US
embassy and target Schwarzenegger
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4743046,00.html

 

SWITZERLAND:  Strike against multinational over asset-stripping

http://www.labournet.net/world/0501/bunzl1.html

Workers try to stop factory closure

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=5321

 

SWEDEN:  Anti-fascists fail to blockade station, but succeed in disrupting Nazi gathering

http://www.enrager.net/newswire/stories.php?story=04/12/15/5063155

Weekly protests by journalists to Eritrean embassy over arrested journalist

http://www.afrol.com/articles/15165

 

FINLAND:  Nokia workers walk out over job cuts
http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/article/1101978294122

 

IRELAND:  Eleven-day ferry strike ends

http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/1216/irishferries.html

Protesters dig graves in Fallujah protest

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68079

Shrink nurses strike

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/euro-j14.shtml

Sugar workers take to the streets to protest closure
http://www.carlow-nationalist.ie/news/story.asp?j=22923
Antenna protested
http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0119/connemara.html

 

IRELAND:  NAZI BEHEADED!

*Anti-fascists behead statue of Russell

http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1313994&issue_id=11895

*JIM CUSACK

ANTI-FASCIST youths are believed to be responsible for breaking the head and right arm of the statue of the IRA Chief of Staff and Nazi collaborator Sean Russell in a Dublin park.  The head and right arm were removed from the statue in Fairview on Thursday night. It had previously been vandalised by communists in the Fifties as the original statue erected by Sinn Fein after the Second World War was raised in a Nazi-style salute.  In a statement admitting responsibility, the people behind the incident referred to the fact that Sinn Fein's MEP Mary Lou McDonald had "paid homage" to Russell in a ceremony in October last year.  The statement said: "As Europe prepares to commemorate the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp 60 years ago, citizens of this state can no longer tolerate the shameful presence of a memorial to the Nazi collaborator Sean Russell in a public park in our nation's capital city. "Six million Jews, hundreds of thousands of political dissidents, homosexuals, Roma people, Soviet prisoners of war and the disabled were put to death by the Fascist hate machine that overran and terrified Europe from 1939-1945. Sean Russell, the IRA chief of staff was one of the many nationalist fanatics who looked to Adolf Hitler for political and military support in the IRA's quest to reunify Ireland at the point of the bayonets of the Gestapo. "Russell sought to overthrow the government of Eamon De Valera by fomenting terror and sabotage in the shipyards and munitions factories of Northern Ireland. "In Belfast, IRA volunteers were ordered to help the Luftwaffe bomb their own city at the cost of nearly 2,000 dead and thousands made homeless.  "At the Wannsee conference, the infamous Nazi gathering that planned the 'Final Solution', the Jewish community in Ireland was marked down for annihilation. Having freed Ireland from British rule, the Nazis expected their collaborators in Sinn Fein and the IRA to help them round up Dublin's Jews and ship them off to Auschwitz. That was the price Sean Russell was prepared to pay to end partition.  "Luckily for the honour and welfare of the Irish people, Russell died on a German U-Boat in August 1940 on his way home to carry out the orders of his Nazi masters.  "This year Sinn Fein again openly paid homage to the traitor Russell at his statue in Fairview Park with speeches extolling his 'revolutionary' fervour and patriotism from Dublin MEP Mary Lou McDonald and veteran IRA terrorist Brian Keenan."

 

*Statue of Nazi ally vandalised*

*Henry McDonald

Sunday January 2, 2005

The Observer <http://www.observer.co.uk>*

An unnamed group in Dublin claimed responsibility last night for vandalising the statue of an IRA leader linked to the Nazis in the Second World War.  The group said it had severed the head and right arm of the statue in Dublin's Fairview Park in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.  They said that as Europe prepares to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps, they could no longer tolerate a statue in honour of Sean Russell.  Russell was commanding officer of the IRA during the Second World War and conducted a campaign of assassination and sabotage in both Britain and Ireland, aimed at damaging the war effort against Hitler.  Although an open ally of the Nazis, Russell is still honoured by the modern IRA and Sinn Fein. In September 2003, Sinn Fein MEP Mary Lou McDonald spoke at a rally to commemorate Russell in the north Dublin park. The same rally was also addressed by veteran IRA man Brian Keenan.  In a statement released this weekend, the group claiming to be behind the attack on the statue said: 'Six million Jews, thousands of political dissidents, homosexuals, Roma people, Soviet prisoners of war and the disabled were put to death by the fascist hate machine that overran and terrified Europe from 1939 to 45.  'Sean Russell was one of many nationalist fanatics who looked to Hitler for political and military support in the IRA's quest to reunify Ireland at the point of the bayonets of the Gestapo.  'At the Wansee conference, the infamous Nazi gathering that planned the "Final Solution", the Jewish community in Ireland was marked down for annihilation. Having freed Ireland from British rule, the Nazis expected their collaborators to help them round up Dublin's Jews and ship them off to Auschwitz. That was the price Sean Russell was prepared to pay to end partition.'

 

BRITISH-OCCUPIED IRELAND:  Police station closure
event disrupted by republican protesters
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4037492

 

SCOTLAND

Peace activists target Halliburton contractor

http://www.leftweb.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=56&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Activists picket Starbucks

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/01/303752.html

Warmongers BAe blockaded in Edinburgh

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/302825.html

Clashes as Loyalists attack Bloody Sunday
march
http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15105258&method=full&siteid=86024&headline=bottles-fly-at-republican-protest-rally-name_page.html

 

 

UK:  WORKERS' STRUGGLES

Brewery staff in Gateshead stage strike

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4112521.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4114293.stm

Post and tube workers strike over Christmas

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3923575

Long-running strike enters fourth year

http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=911363

Rail workers stage wildcat overtime ban

http://www.enrager.net/newswire/stories.php?story=04/12/29/0293605

Train depot workers strike

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=4999

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=5142

Liverpool social workers' strike ends with sell-out from union leaders

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=5358

http://www.workerspower.com/index.php?id=49,358,0,0,1,0

William Cook foundry battle continues - strikers seek reinstatement
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/south_yorkshire/4192233.stm

 

UK:  ASYLUM, ANTI-RACISM AND ANTI-FASCISM

Protest over internment
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4027099



UK:  PEACE PROTESTS

Activists enter nuke base in tsunami aid protest

http://www.tridentploughshares.org/prel/prel05/r050102.php

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/01/303412.html

Locks glued at HQ of DSEi company

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/01/303600.html

EDO also hit with glued locks

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/01/303757.html

Protesters target Ministry of Defence

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/303204.html

Peace camp in Parliament Square

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/303104.html

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/303145.html

 

Trident Ploughshares Protest At Arrival 

Of HMS Victorious In Plymouth

 

Michal Lovejoy of Trident Ploughshares organised a well turned out 

number of people considering the short notice (around 20 but not one single 

CND member) to protest at the arrival of HMS Victorious into Devonport 

Dockyard Plymouth yesterday, Sunday 16th January 2005.  There were 

banners saying things such as 'Victorious Not Welcome Here' and 'No Nuclear 

Weapons' , and placards with 'Reclaim The River Tamar - Scrap Trident, 

End Poverty and Stop Pollution'.  This marks a good start to the New 

Year concerning nuclear protests in Plymouth for 2005.  PS thanks for the 

apology Ruth (CND Press Office) for not mentioning Trident Ploughshares 

in your press releases, but it will happen again  one way or another, 

and we have come to expect it as a matter of course now. 

 Love And Peace from  Sandra.

(from directactionagainstwar list)

 

UK:  INTERNATIONAL PROTESTS

M&S picketers defy ban and also branch out; picket revived now ban is over

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/01/303454.html

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/manchester/2004/12/302317.html

London M&S picket, 30 December

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/303311.html

Protest at bank called off as withdrawal of Palestine solidarity accounts reversed

http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=18932005

Zimbabwean asylum seekers protest

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=5138

 

UK:  ANTI-CORPORATE AND ANTI-CAPITALIST PROTESTS

Wilkinson's prison slavery leafleters persecuted by "street wardens"

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/302988.html

Windrush, Iraq looters, protested again

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=04/12/18/1596638

No Sweat target London boat show

http://www.nosweat.org.uk/article.php?sid=1153&mode=&order=0

Olympics event disrupted by protesters

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/302820.html

Squat eviction resisted in Birmingham - bailiffs fail to show up

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/302911.html

Protesters take unusual items on trains to protest bike ban
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/4202559.stm

 

UK:  ANIMAL RIGHTS PROTESTS

Animal rights activists target Manchester airport over animal exports, imports

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/s/141/141440_alert_after_animal_rights_airport_protest.html

Protesters target Oxford University donors

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,9865,1381032,00.html

 

UK:  ANTI-RACIST PROTESTS

Families picket copshop over killing

http://www.eastbournetoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=488&ArticleID=908149

Racist bailiffs get picketed

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/302795.html

Fash bashed in Woolwich

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jan/ainfos00250.html

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=5576

 

UK:  ECO-ACTIVISM

Treetop protests begin in King's Lynn

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/01/303688.html

http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=991&ArticleID=919950

Eco-warriors fail to prevent chopping down of old tree in Slough

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/303129.html

Treehouse sit-in protest on bypass route; 2 arrests as police attack
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/beds/bucks/herts/4201405.stm
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4021558

 

UK:  MISCELLANEOUS PROTESTS

Football reporter perches on ladder, scaffolding to defy ban

http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/News/story.asp?datetime=03+Jan+2005+08%3A30&tbrand=ENOnline&tCategory=NEWS&category=News&brand=ENOnline&itemid=NOED03+Jan+2005+08%3A00%3A43%3A370

Houseboat family protest against corporate theft of their home

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/303080.html

Small shopkeeper threatens to close shop and keep it unused in protest over sign ban

http://www.hastingstoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=479&ArticleID=912500

Father climbs Portsmouth tower in access rights protest

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3944632

Pigs smash F4J Xmas protest at church

http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=News&tBrand=edponline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED26%20Dec%202004%2017%3A54%3A59%3A153

Fathers march in London

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4107343.stm

Fathers stage protest on motorway gantry

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3913860

Fathers' rights protesters target rail signals

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3894160

Fathers 4 Justice target Big Brother
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/15944956?source=Evening%20Standard

 

ISRAEL:  Beer Sheva bus strike continues

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/517047.html

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/514445.html

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

Scab buses sent to Beer Sheva
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/527135.html

Dairy workers strike over pay

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/517088.html

Beqez dispute resolved

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/518937.html

Discount Bank workers strike

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/519820.html

Students protest against militarisation of their school

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/520381.html

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/520281.html

Vivisection lab sabbed

https://israel.indymedia.org/feature/display/1570/index.php

Billboard liberation in Israel Palestine solidarity protest

https://israel.indymedia.org/feature/display/1440/index.php

Transport workers return to work as
outsourcing plan postponed
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/530142.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/525432.html 
Discount Bank workers strike over uncertain future
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/526011.html
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=872785&fid=942
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/523595.html
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=870935&fid=942
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=870883&fid=942
SuperSol dispute ends with agreement
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/524114.html
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=871614&fid=942
Teachers rally against hostile report
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/522623.html



 

AUSTRALIA:  WORKERS' STRUGGLES

Building workers strike over site death; shipyard, electric workers walk out in pay disputes

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

Oil and gas workers travel to the mainland to protest roster changes

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

Tasmanian electricians strike

Queensland medical staff impose work ban to protest staff shortages

Rail workers return to work for negotiations

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

 

AUSTRALIA:  ASYLUM AND ANTI-RACIST PROTESTS

Hunger strike at Baxter camp

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1268394.htm

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1267456.htm

Bakhtiyari supporters occupy immigration office

http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Bakhtiyari-supporters-in-barricade-protest/2004/12/23/1103391879161.html?oneclick=true

Newcastle fascists booted

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreenLeft_discussion/message/13124

 

AUSTRALIA:  ECO-ACTIVISM

Conservationists stop logging in old-growth forest with blockade; attacked by cops, officials

http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/86072.php

http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/86117.php

http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/86118.php

http://www.abc.net.au/gippsland/news/200501/s1284664.htm

Rallies after eco-protesters are SLAPPed by rich corporate bosses

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/303172.html

 

AUSTRALIA:  MISCELLANEOUS PROTESTS

Protest as Nativity banned from Melbourne CBD

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,11736545%255E2862,00.html

 

AOTEAROA/NEW ZEALAND:  Residents protest Te Aro destruction, replace earth removed for bypass

http://indymedia.org.nz/feature/display/23447/index.php

Police suppress anti-bypass march

http://indymedia.org.nz/feature/display/23516/index.php

New Year battery hen liberation

http://indymedia.org.nz/feature/display/25119/index.php

Newspaper workers strike over pay

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

Fifty-strong anti-war demo marches to US Embassy

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreenLeft_discussion/message/11768

 

 

CANADA:  WORKERS' STRUGGLES

Wildcat strike at Air Canada

http://www.enrager.net/newswire/stories.php?story=05/01/20/9524602

Liquor strike escalates - stores smashed, picketed, HQ blockaded

http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/10/11223/5591

Toronto meat packers approve deal, end strike

http://www.themilitant.com/2004/6846/684604.html

23 workers at Deer Park Villa return to work after 7-month strike

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/wkrs-j18.shtml

Quebec carnival workers walk out

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/wkrs-j05.shtml

Postal workers take rotating strike action over pay and parity

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/wkrs-d14.shtml

 

CANADA:  ASYLUM STRUGGLES

Refugees stage rolling hunger strike at immigration office

http://www.cmaq.net/en/node.php?id=19259

http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/8/224228/0594

http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/8/1270/41985

http://www.themilitant.com/2004/6848/684812.html

 

CANADA:  EVERYTHING ELSE

Solidarity demo with Kashipur protesters over mining and protest deaths

http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/16/214428/94

Fare strike in Vancouver - 5000 bus drivers participate

http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/19/19368/2038

Farmers block roads to protest for support
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1106331264501_101740464/?hub=Canada
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1106331264501_101740464/?hub=TopStories

 

 

GUAM:  Workers protest against layoffs, allege racism

http://www.guampdn.com/news/stories/20041221/localnews/1766832.html

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

Surgeons end boycott of hospital - the action was over poor conditions and lack of supplies

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

 

 

US:  ANTI-RACIST  AND POLICE BRUTALITY PROTESTS

Protesters demonstrate against deaths in custody, rampaging police in Jacksonville

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/10544669.htm

http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=2753592

http://tallahassee.indymedia.org/feature/display/5726/index.php

Victory for jail solidarity campaign in Urbana-Champaign

http://www.ucimc.org/feature/display/22981/index.php

Monday gas (petrol) sales boycott organised to protest immigrant discrimination

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/01/1712345.php

Modesto protest against death in custody

http://www.ainfos.ca/04/dec/ainfos00436.html

Columbus, Georgia - 8000 march against police brutality

http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6904/690401.html

Protest in Saginaw over shootings by cops
http://www.mlive.com/news/sanews/index.ssf?/base/news-2/1106063411137380.xml

"The Only Gang to Fear is the Collier County Taser Gang"

Collier County protesters gather to protest death in custody

http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/news/article/0,2071,NPDN_14940_3457332,00.html

(Bugmenot login:  me at spamguard.com & password junk)

Martin Luther King protesters demonstrate for affirmative action

http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw110195_20050117.htm

 

Rallies mobilize protesters, not Skinheads 

 

Hundreds show support  for diversity in Portland, but a hate event 

that motivated them to gather  fails to occur 

 

Sunday, January 09, 2005

FRED LEESON 

 

On a day  when Skinheads failed to appear, an estimated 1,000 

Southwest Portlanders  turned out Saturday at two nearby events to 

encourage diversity and hate  prevention. 

 

Mayor Tom Potter and a constellation of  political, religious and 

neighborhood leaders addressed an overflow "unity  rally" at the 

Multnomah Center, while another 300 people at Gabriel Park  protested 

against hate. 

 

The demonstrators mobilized after a local  Skinhead group announced 

plans to gather Saturday afternoon at Gabriel Park  to distribute 

anti-Jewish literature in Southwest Portland neighborhoods.  But no 

Skinheads showed up. 

 

About 50 Portland police officers  patrolled in and around the park 

but found no disruption. Portland police  Sgt. Brian Schmautz said 

officers stopped one car on a minor traffic  violation. Police 

arrested the driver for failure to display a license, and  the car's 

other two occupants then walked back to the community center by  

Gabriel Park and reportedly shouted, "White power," Schmautz said.  

 

During the 90-minute Multnomah Center rally, speakers urged the  

packed house to respect diversity and free speech, but to be 

vigilant  against hate. 

 

Portland City Commissioner Sam Adams said the line between  free 

speech and hate is crossed when someone urges violence against those  

they oppose. 

 

Potter, ending his first week as mayor, said the large  turnout was 

the reason he loved Portland and Portlanders. 

 

While  Potter received a partial standing ovation, a larger ovation 

came later for  Shahiar Ahmed, president of the Bilal Mosque 

Association, who teased Potter  for omitting Muslims while noting 

Portland's diversity. 

 

"This is  home, warts and all," Ahmed said. "Hate is but an event. 

What we need to  work on is the ambience that creates hate." 

 

Jimmy Brown, director of the  Portland Office of Neighborhood 

Involvement, said hate literature has been  distributed at times in 

Portland's southwest suburbs. 

 

"When they do  come -- and they will come -- we will be prepared to 

stand up the way we are  today," he said. 

 

Last year, the city of Tigard held a rally to oppose  hate literature 

that was being left on doorsteps and lawns in Tigard  neighborhoods. 

The Tualatin Valley Skins, which took credit for the  leafleting, 

promised to attend that rally but never showed up.  

 

Police and gang enforcement units in Washington County have said  

they think there are no more than a handful of members of the 

Tualatin  Valley Skins. 

 

Jim Ramm, who heads Tualatin Valley Skins and who had  called for the 

anti-Jewish leafleting drive from Gabriel Park on Saturday,  

apparently stayed home. 

 

"The event was postponed until next week,"  Ramm said via telephone. 

He said the delay was necessary because an Internet  server firm shut 

down his site and he wants a new Internet address to put on  

pamphlets. 

 

A man identifying himself as Ramm, however, called The  Oregonian 

Saturday morning to say that the rally would continue as planned  and 

that representatives from eight other racist groups would attend.  

 

Anti-hate protesters in Gabriel Park included members of the Freedom  

Socialist Party, Radical Women and the Portland State University 

Green  Party. They called themselves the Ad-Hoc Coalition to Protest 

the Tualatin  Valley Skins. 

 

They marched around the park chanting, "Hey, hey, ho, ho,  white 

supremacy has got to go," and, "Stop the Nazis and the KKK, civil  

rights are here to stay." 

 

Protester Eudee Gutierrez, 15, of  Northeast Portland said he came to 

the park to represent Native Americans,  who he thinks should get 

more involved in the community. 

 

"I don't  like Nazis," he said. "Do you?" 

 

At one point, about 10 self-described  punkers, anarchists 

and "underground workers" stood atop the highest hill in  the park, 

where they planted a red and black flag. 

 

Patrick  Harrington of The Oregonian contributed to this report.

 

Further report & pics:

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/307584.shtml

 

TASER DEATH PROTESTED

Close to one hundred people gathered Saturday evening in front of 

the Collier County Sheriff's Office headquarters in East Naples, 

Florida to protest the agency's handling of a traffic stop that 

ended in the death of a 19-year-old Fort Myers man, Christopher 

Hernandez. Hernandez was hit twice by a Taser stun gun last month in 

North Naples before he was taken into custody and died nearly eight 

hours later on Dec. 28. "We want people to know there's been an 

injustice," said Sheena Torres-Nunez, 20, a cousin of 

Hernandez. "Things just like this have happened in the past. People 

need to know about it. An innocent man is dead." Family members, 

many of them from Fort Myers, were wearing T-shirts with his photo 

on the front. They described Hernandez, who graduated from North 

Fort Myers High, as friendly, outgoing and not violent. 

Hernandez had been at Club Zero on Immokalee Road and was a 

passenger in a car that was weaving through the parking lot, nearly 

hitting people walking to their cars. After a short chase, deputies 

say, Hernandez got out of the car and confronted them. They said 

they had to subdue him using a Taser. 

There were a few tense moments when protesters of Everglades 

restoration in Collier County showed up in pickup trucks with dozens 

of Confederate flags visible. They had protested earlier as part of 

an all-terrain vehicle rally. Some of the Hernandez protesters - 

most of the coalition's turnout was black - turned their backs to 

the Confederate flags, while others wondered why the group had 

showed up at their protest. Others shook hands with the ATV group, 

who honked their horns in solidarity. 

The demonstration came the same day a Pensacola intruder died after 

being shocked twice by Escambia County deputies. An autopsy has been 

scheduled to determine Carl Trotter's cause of death.  Sources: 

Naples Daily News, NBC2 News, News Press (Florida)

(from ORead Daily)

 

US:  ECO-ACTIVISM

Protesters occupy hallway in global warming protest

http://madison.indymedia.org/feature/display/20642/index.php

http://www.enrager.net/newswire/stories.php?story=04/12/14/7370131

Native Americans protest drilling

http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2004/12/29/news/local/nws02.txt

Resistance grows to interstate superhighway

http://www.tnimc.org/feature/display/4037/index.php

Protesters breach security for two days running and blockade Pentagon and White House

http://indymedia.us/en/2005/01/3819.shtml

Electric vehicle drivers stage car-sit to protest Ford's plans to seize and destroy all the vehicles;  Ford backs down in face of the protest 

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0115-01.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0117-03.htm
http://www.greenconsumerguide.com/index.php?news=2400
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/01/24/business/news/81111.txt
Anti-GM activists dump rotten oranges at office in protest over biotech lab

The protest "will not be fruitless", said one activist (lolol)

http://www.tcpalm.com/tcp/wptv/article/0,2547,TCP_1213_3444120,00.html

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/biotech/2005-01-04-biotech-protest_x.htm

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-pprotesters05jan05,0,5253604.story?coll=sfla-news-broward

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pprotest04jan04,0,2951822.story?coll=sfla-news-palm

http://www.wpbfnews.com/news/4048324/detail.html

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2005/01/04/s1b_protest_0104.html

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/feeds/0103scripps.html

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050105/NEWS/501050309/1006/SPORTS

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=05/01/05/5318951

ELF bomb construction sites

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2005012018320972

Protesters plan campaign over Apple's "i-waste"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3079-2005Jan12.html

                

US:  WORKERS' STRUGGLES

Youngstown newspaper strike

http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6903/690361.html

Youngstown newspaper strike - solidarity graffiti

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050112133910884

http://www.angelfire.com/la2/neworleansanarchists/pictures/strike.html

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/wkrs-d14.shtml

Newspaper company settles with one of two sets of staff

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/wkrs-j18.shtml

US newspaper hires one paper's staff as scabs in scheme to smash strike at other paper
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04338/421102.stm

 

School bus drivers fight back against GPS and other attacks

http://boston.indymedia.org/feature/display/32753/index.php

Labour unrest at Parry Center

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/12/306390.shtml

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/feature/archive201.shtml#top

Fresno nurses strike

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2004/12/1707975.php

Illinois university strike is a success

http://www.socialistworker.org/2004-2/524/524_11_NEIU.shtml

Chicago colleges strike succeeds, but repression continues

http://www.socialistworker.org/2004-2/524/524_11_LaborInBrief.shtml

Bus drivers strike in New York

http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/526/526_11_NYCBusDrivers.shtml

http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6903/690363.html

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/wkrs-j18.shtml

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

Midwest tractor workers locked out

http://www.themilitant.com/2004/6848/684860.html

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=19&ItemID=6890

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/wkrs-d14.shtml

St Louis nurses strike

San Francisco hotel workers protest

NY comedy workers strike

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

Reuters workers strike

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/wkrs-j18.shtml

Strike at Illinois school

New Jersey trash haulers strike

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

Electrical workers strike and demonstrate

Minneapolis public housing workers strike over wages

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/wkrs-d21.shtml

Sugar mill workers end strike despite worsened contract

Nursing home workers end strike, but are locked out

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/wkrs-j05.shtml

New Jersey electrical workers walk out

Pennsylvania school strike ends

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/wkrs-d14.shtml

Alisal teachers protest over contracts
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/local/10689707.htm

Hudson building workers picket education authority
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13799347&BRD=1291&PAG=461&dept_id=523587&rfi=6

Sacked auto workers protest hiring of scabs
http://www.workdayminnesota.org/view_article.php?id=d772f750342aaaf9ac87774dd2388a44
UAW members protest Ford outsourcing
http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/21/news/fortune500/ford_outsource.reut/

 

 

US:  ANTI-CAPITALISM

Chicago fare strike hits transit authority in the pocket - partial success for campaigners

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/12/16/8569767

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/5536

http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/50169/index.php

http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/50036/index.php

http://www.ainfos.ca/04/dec/ainfos00296.html

Guerrilla poetry in DC
http://dc.indymedia.org/feature/display/112228/index.php

Demo targets Coors over pro-Bush, anti-gay and anti-eco spending

http://colorado.indymedia.org/feature/display/9828/index.php

New York Critical Mass victory - New Year ride goes ahead without harassment

http://nyc.indymedia.org/feature/display/137916/index.php

But in Portland, harassment continues

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/307194.shtml

Lone "Santa" protests predatory loan firm

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/12/305981.shtml

Iowa students protest uni's link to Coke
http://www.gazetteonline.com/article.aspx?art_id=94839&cat_id=1




NOT MY PRESIDENT, NOT MY WAR! THIS WHOLE SYSTEM IS ROTTEN TO THE CORE!
In solidarity with the billions around the world who are being oppressed under the Bush agenda, The Internet Liberation Front has hacked and defaced six Republican websites who push forward the sick and violent ideology of warfare, capitalism, and profit over people.
The will of the people was not expressed in these elections. Imperialist war, tax cuts for the rich, and ecological destruction are not in the interest of working people or the stability of our global society. The bush administration are rich lying thieves, these inaugurations are a joke, and the whole system is corrupt.
We will not be their slaves and let them get away with murder. Activists and hackers alike are rising up to resist the Bush administration using street protest, sabatage, and hacktivism. You won't hear about it on their televisions cause the revolution is in the streets!
The massive counter-inauguration protests in DC is only the beginning. Expect four more years of resistance to the U.S. war machine. Hacktivists of the world, unite! 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
January 18, 2005
To coincide with the massive protests in DC against the inauguration of George W. Bush, the Internet Liberation Front has launched a hacktivist campaign against Republican websites. Six websites were hacked and defaced with a statement against the Bush agenda of war and corporate cronyism.
"The will of the people was not expressed in these elections. Imperialist war, tax cuts for the rich, and ecological destruction are not in the interest of working people or the stability of our global society.", the hackers wrote in a statement posted on the websites belonging to the Arizona Young Republicans, Students4Freedom.com, CollegeConservative.com, Freedominion.ca, RepublicanFirst.com, and Freedominstitute.ca.
The hackers, calling themselves the Internet Liberation Front, has done no damage to the systems and do not believe hacktivism to be a violent tactic. "Using direct action techniques such as website defacements and financial disruption, 'hacktivists' are able to put pressure and accountability on politicians to make progressive and revolutionary changes".
You can see a mirror of the defacement at http://www.freewebs.com/internetliberationfront/
You can contact us through all of the following emails: ilf at dcemail.com, intlibfront at doneasy.com, and ilf at bolt.com 
What is the Internet Liberation Front(ILF)?
The ILF is a decentralized tactic used by politically motivated hackers to commit acts of electronic civil disobedience against corrupt corporations and governments. Using direct action techniques such as website defacements and financial disruption, 'hacktivists' are able to put pressure and accountability on politicians to make bring progressive and revolutionary changes.

We are not a specific group of people. We are a generation of hackers who feel indignation and want to build a world free from parasitic bosses and rulers. All who want to join the resistance movement are free to use the name ILF.

 

BIOTIC BAKERS BRIGADE STILL GOING STRONG

On December 6th, 2004, the Biotic Baking Brigade of Austin, Texas placed its first nomination for the Canary Awards of 2005 upon the face of John Aielli, host of KUT's morning show, Eclecticose (Austin's NPR affiliate). This honor was bestowed in order to illustrate the dangerous consequences of consolidating power into the hands of the few. Twenty years is a lengthy amount of time for anyone to hold a position-particularly one that involves four hours of access each weekday to the airwaves of a city.  Quite simply, we intervened to save the listeners of Austin, Texas from having to listen to John Aielli be seduced by the illusion of his own power.  John Aielli was nominated for this honor because he continually exploits the very pedestal upon which he sharpens his creative teeth; by bolstering the financial agendas of groups whose lifestyle and product positioning spectacle continue to dull our senses, John Aielli and his morning show continue to stifle the very mechanisms which afford the reception of his programming privilege.  Furthermore, John Aielli trounced across the divide which necessarily segregates our audio experiences from our visual experiences. By intentionally  disengaging from our collective folklore and showing his face on the south capitol steps to lead a "holiday sing along" it is only natural that  an involuntary muscular contraction of the wrist occurred. We are all only so fortunate that it was a cream pie and not a bowl of warm gravy which too was present to assist in John Aielli's nomination.
Cast your vote for the 2005 Canary nomination pool
today at 
yellowbirdsgottafly at graffiti.net, or, as always, take
matters into 
your own hands!

 

 

Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Protester raises ire of mining chief
Conservationists have thrown a pie into the face of a mining boss in  the south-west of Western Australia.  Police allege Chris Farnsworth hit Cable Sands general manager Collis Thorp in the face with a pie outside an energy and resources forum in Bunbury before spraying a nearby businessman with green dye.  Mr Thorp used his presentation to industry leaders to launch a scathing attack on opponents of the mine.  "The so-called non-violent action of the protest movement should also be talked about," he said.  "For those who might have seen it this morning I was assaulted again this morning with a large pie of human excrement thrown in my face.  "So these are the lovely peaceful protesters. Guys, I can assure you for those who come into confrontation with these people they are not peaceful protesters."  Mr Farnsworth has rejected the claims, saying the pie was a coffee mouse. In defence of his non-violent direct action, he said "I must also take exception to the word 'thrown'. I prefer to regard the mousse as 'positively positioned' rather than thrown."

 

 

US:  BUSH PROTESTED

Bush protested on visit to Macomb, Michigan

http://michiganimc.org/feature/display/8788/index.php

Voter Fraud demonstrators demand recount, reform

http://www.tnimc.org/feature/display/4027/index.php

DID SWAT TEAM REFUSE TO ATTACK SYRACUSE CHENEY DEMONSTRATORS?

Refusal to attack demonstrators is one explanation for the sacking of the team leader and mass resignations of the squad

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreenLeft_discussion/message/12185

 

 

US:  HOMELESSNESS

Homeless rights activist takes precarious perch - after much persecution, finally forced down on Xmas eve, hospitalised, and jailed over Xmas

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23380-2004Dec23.html

http://dc.indymedia.org/feature/display/111564/index.php

http://dc.indymedia.org/feature/display/111637/index.php

Homeless activists propose lease of area where they live

http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2004/12/35922.php

Emergency warming centre set up by activists

http://rochester.indymedia.org/feature/display/3305/index.php

Homeless activists occupy mayor's office to demand shelter

http://www.socialistworker.org/2004-2/524/524_11_NewsAndReports.shtml

 

US:  INTERNATIONAL PROTESTS

Rally over human rights in China held in LA
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/12/22/state1845EST0131.DTL

Protest at Lafayette WalMart over Mexico WalMart abuses

http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/nation_world_news/article/0,1713,BDC_2420_3412121,00.html

(Bugmenot login: biteme at bugmenot.com and password biteme)

Toys R Us targeted for pursuing money from Iraq

http://www.madhattersimc.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3752&mode=thread&order=0

Bank's support for Israel protested

http://michiganimc.org/feature/display/8518/index.php

Ecocidal CEO gets home demo in solidarity with persecuted aboriginal Argentinians

http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/32299

Another Sudan vigil

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0117-01.htm

Solidarity protest at Indian embassy over patent law
http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=57723

Gambians in US protest murder of journalist in Gambia
http://allafrica.com/stories/200501181650.html



US:  ANIMAL RIGHTS PROTESTS

Pasadena animal rights protest targets fur dealers

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/Stories/0,1413,206~22097~2614335,00.html

Animal researchers get home visits

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/307879.shtml

PETA protest targets Iams
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Local/03AreaEAST06011905.htm

 

US:  PEACE PROTESTS

Weekly peace vigil at Texas Capitol

http://austin.indymedia.org/newswire/display/10208/index.php

Madison peace protests continue - police harass activists, steal sign

http://madison.indymedia.org/feature/display/21106/index.php

Atlanta anti-war activists hold alternative New Year event

http://atlanta.indymedia.org/feature/display/35760/index.php

Dallas peace protesters enter mall and enter "comedic" chase with guards

http://www.ntimc.org/newswire.php?story_id=1622&PHPSESSID=a0316b83969566b1b61133700af59d32

Anti-war march and rally in Minneapolis

http://twincities.indymedia.org/feature/display/19439/index.php

Xmas day protest in Fresno

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2004/12/1708021.php

Peace demo targets Xmas shoppers

http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/12/1712152.php

Florida protesters target shoppers
http://www.legitgov.org/report_schiffler_stpetersburg_122104.html

Toledo urban warfare exercise protested

http://www.counterpunch.com/ferner01192005.html

 

Several Military Recruiting Vehicles Burned In Recent Days

(from GI Special)

December 07, 2004 Silver Spring, Md. (AP)

 

Fire investigators in three area counties are trying to determine 

whether government passenger cars used by military recruiters are being 

targeted for arson.

 

The three latest cases involved cars authorized for Army use that were 

parked outside of a recruiting office in the 8,200 block of Georgia 

Avenue in Silver Spring.  They were burned early Monday.

 

The case is similar to an incident that occurred outside of a military 

recruiting office in Fairfax last Monday.  The Washington Post reports 

that a car parked near a recruiting station in 7,600 block of Richmond 

Highway was burned.  Another vehicle was burned early Friday in the 

13,900 block of Lee-Jackson Memorial Highway.

 

 

US:  WELFARE STATE

Rally in support of trauma centre threatened with closure

http://www.la.indymedia.org/news/2004/11/119392.php

Students and workers give "grinch" mayor a lump of coal

http://madison.indymedia.org/feature/display/20775/index.php

Tennessee candlelit vigil for healthcare programme

http://www.tnimc.org/feature/display/3920/index.php

Die-in staged opposite official "do"

http://www.tnimc.org/feature/display/4094/index.php

Workers' Comp recipients protest "reforms"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/01/20/BUGCEAT4H81.DTL&type=business

Rochester Martin Luther King commemmoration turns into school closure protest

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050115/NEWS01/501150321/1002/NEWS

New protests planned at mayor's house about healthcare

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20050116-9999-1m16sleep.html

 

 

US:  STUDENT PROTESTS

Students protest for extension of university benefits to gay couples

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041215/NEWS21/412150412

School students protest removal of student president
http://www.nbc25.com/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=3408

Students occupy president's office in protest over firing of professor
http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/54049



US:  PRISON PROTESTS

Rumour of uprising circulates at US prison

http://www.valleystar.com/localnews_more.php?id=56171_0_19_0_M

San Quentin rally against the death penalty

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0119-04.htm

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/01/19/SCENE.TMP

http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=01-21-05&storyID=20560

Death penalty opponents blockade prison gates
http://www.marinij.com/Stories/0,1413,234~24407~2659678,00.html

 

MISCELLANEOUS PROTESTS

Police smash church closure protest, ban worshippers from Xmas mass

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/26/churchclosings.ap/

Second protest also smashed with threats of arrests

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-boston27.html

Students protest homeland security course

http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16429

Family paint house pink to protest astroturf controversy

http://www.nbc-2.com/articles/readarticle.asp?articleid=2192&z=3&p=

Messianic Hassidim clash with cops over plaque

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

(Bugmenot login:  bruce51 and password 69gibson)

Woman poisons boss

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=05/01/07/1077664

 

US:  INDIDENOUS PROTESTS

Indigenous people protest to save shellmounds

http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/21/163144/14

 
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