From ldxar1 at tesco.net Mon Nov 21 21:19:29 2005 From: ldxar1 at tesco.net (Andy) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:19:29 -0000 Subject: [Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - USA part 2 Message-ID: <024501c5ef24$71d2f900$0202a8c0@WOL> US: INTERNATIONAL PROTESTS Protesters target Caterpillar distributor to increase pressure over Israeli demolitions http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/220081_caterpillar14.html Similar protest in Peoria http://www.hoinews.com/news/headlines/1470727.html Divestment protesters target Caterpillar over sales to Israel http://www.christianpost.com/article/church/2036/section/protestors.for.against.divestment.rally.at.caterpillar.meeting/1.htm Howard visit to US protested over bullying of East Timor http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/635/635p16b.htm Nashville college protest over visit of Sudanese official http://www.volunteertv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3211056 Protesters target John Lewis over Caterpillar links http://www.waronwant.org/?lid=9969 Armenians in America protest and commemorate genocide http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_113122833.html Sikh Americans protest against arrests of Sikhs in India http://www.panthic.org/news/123/ARTICLE/1484/2005-07-03.html?sid=b6cf088a461b84e0e6a66a80eb7988d8 Aid convoy heading for Cuba passes into Mexico despite interference http://www.caravan16.blogspot.com/ Solidarity protest over death of Colombian Mayday protester http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00231.html http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050515123145316 Gabriela Network protest state terror in the Philippines http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0524-13.htm Protesters demand end to Cuba travel ban http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0425-04.htm Papua solidarity protesters stage demo at CEO's home http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050508204202558 Vietnamese refugees protest visit by Vietnamese PM http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/19/news/notes.php Iranian exiles protest Iran PM's visit to New York http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/375/1/ Kashmiris protest visit by Indian PM http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=119371 US: ANIMAL RIGHTS Animal rights protesters disrupt rodeo http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,12882637%255E2862,00.html Protesters oppose hunters on plan to legalise cat-hunting http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10120322 Foie Gras duck torture protests continue http://cbs5.com/localwire/localfsnews/bcn/2005/04/16/n/HeadlineNews/DUCK-DEFENSE/resources_bcn_html Protests at Ringling Brothers circus http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2005/04/04-15-05tdc/04-15-05dnews-09.asp Small protest over animal abuse at Nevada university http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2005/07/17/104300.php?sps=rgj.com&sch=LocalNews&sp1=rgj&sp2=News&sp3=Local+News&sp5=RGJ.com&sp6=news&sp7=local_news Successful campaign derails NYSE listing of HLS http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news511.htm Corvallis protesters target circus http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2005/04/02/news/community/satloc02.txt PETA protest against circus in Grand Forks http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/12359524.htm PETA hand cards to schoolkids - bigots annoyed http://www.localnews8.com/home/1440987.html Pit bull supporters protest paper's ban on adoption ads http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20050518-1932-ca-pitbullprotest.html Taser tests on pigs protested http://www.channel3000.com/news/4358704/detail.html Graduate returns Columbia University degree to protest animal experiments http://www.peta.org/mc/NewsItem.asp?id=6407 PETA hold protest over deaths at zoo http://www.nbc5.com/news/4491061/detail.html http://www.peta.org/mc/NewsItem.asp?id=6402 Elephant death leads to protest at zoo http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20050504-9999-1m4protest.html Protest over eating/torture of dogs in Korea http://www.idausa.org/news/currentnews/activists_stage_bark_in.html Activists protest outside SHAC persecution court case http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050602174243601 Animals liberated, lab trashed at Louisiana Uni http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050424043449459 On Monday, May 16th, LCA led 30 protesters, including Rikki Rockett from the rock group Poison in a civil disobedience action at the Los Angeles Zoo. 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URL: From ldxar1 at tesco.net Mon Nov 21 21:17:40 2005 From: ldxar1 at tesco.net (Andy) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:17:40 -0000 Subject: [Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - Latin America vs neoliberalism, China revolts, anti-dictator movements Message-ID: <018001c5ef24$129fc990$0202a8c0@WOL> ARGENTINA: Activists "leaflet-bomb" US-linked companies ahead of Bush visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3083 Mass unrest over suspension of train service; trains torched In five hours of insurrection, commuters fought cops and torched a cop car http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4399362.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4399672.stm Protesters revolt against Bush visit and US summit in Mar del Plata Thousands march against neoliberalism and some throw stones and start fires during battles with cops Police had fenced off the summit, but protesters stormed police lines, answering tear gas with Molotov cocktails and stones They also torched a bank during clashes which coincided with the summit opening Teachers and public sector workers went on strike against the Bush visit and joined the protests Hundreds also protested against Bush in Brazil, Venezuela and Panama, and in Buenos Aires and 200 other cities In Buenos Aires, a banner was draped on a monument and a US flag burnt Later, shops and government buildings were targeted in downtown Buenos Aires Some piqueteros marched on the US embassy, while others blocked roads 4 police were injured in Rosario while attacking protesters who targeted a Citibank branch In Neuquen and Mendoza, protesters targeted US multinationals Protesters also attacked a McDonald's in Uruguay and spraypainted the financial district before coming under vicious attack from police and bankers who collaborated to beat protesters http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3198 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3199 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3200 CHINA: Police in Huaxi expelled from area by popular uprising over pollution Police sent to smash a peaceful protest by elderly residents were driven off by stone-throwing crowds Elderly people had established a tent city as part of a blockade, but were attacked by cops Protesters also overturned and trashed cop cars The initial protest was a call for the relocation of chemical plants blamed for pollution - the latest in a two-year-long campaign to curb pollution from the factories Locals are unable to grow crops because of the pollution Up to 30 cops were put out of action, while protesters numbered in tens of thousands http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/world/3133588 http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/13/international/asia/13cnd-riot.html?oref=login (bugmenot login: abbaabba1 and password abbaabba1) http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=3036 http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=3013 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1565554,00.html http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050412-094927-8968r.htm http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050412/asp/foreign/story_4604285.asp http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6560 Video http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2005/06/14/VI2005061401932.html?referrer=emaillink CHINA: Land grab leads to mass protest and clashes as police interfere Four villagers were earlier arrested by soldiers as they tried to stop bulldozers moving in Protesters demonstrated for at least three successive days On the third day, they besieged a government building demanding the four be released Up to 7000 farmers are under threat from the land grab in Guangdong http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/China/GG04Ad02.html Workers revolt at Futai textile factory Strike over ban on independent unions and organisations leads to mass unrest with cop vehicles torched Workers revolted after a road-block was attacked by security guards Workers also throw stones and bricks as cops attack with tear gas and batons Company guards and regular cops were driven off in a hail of stones before riot cops finally smashed the protest http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/17/AR2005071700931.html Peasants in Qianjin village clash with cops in anti-road protest http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreenLeft_discussion/message/20411 Unrest over pharmaceutical plants - villagers confront riot cops Xinchang villagers involved in day-long pitched battles, throwing stones at cops Dongyang unrest closes plant - police routed - 6 cops allegedly killed during the unrest Workers attack police positions after rumours that 2 elderly women were killed Reports suggest up to 74,000 mass protests happen every year in rural China http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2177 http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/04/18china.html http://www.fifthinternational.org/index.php?id=14,74,0,0,1,0 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3353140a12,00.html http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20050719-0452-china-factoryclash.html Students in Jiangxi fight cops and overturn cars during unrest over fees and other issues http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=148063026&p=y48x6373z Unrest in Chizhou after traffic accident; supermarket looted A police station was stormed, power cut to it and firecrackers thrown inside http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-06/30/content_455671.htm http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/06/29/report_china_traffic_dispute_becomes_riot/ http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20050801-071517-7024r.htm http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002417597_chinariot03.html http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/639/639p20.htm Shengyou: Farmers revolt over land grab - six killed http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=afvVWc73TaJ0&refer=top_world_news Government needs to listen to popular concerns, says security chief "In the latest riot on Sunday, in the poor eastern province of Anhui, armed police who tried to quell the disturbance were driven back by rocks and firecrackers. Later, power to the police station was cut and fireworks thrown inside." http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050630171242870 Jianxia, Zhejiang: protesters occupy factory blamed for pollution and illness Around 600 protesters blockaded the entrance, shutting workers inside "This is only the last in a wave of nationwide social agitations and unrest. On Sunday 26 June, more than 10,000 people rose up in the streets of Chizhou city in Anhui province, after a car with four men ran over Liu Liang, a young pedestrian. The protesters set fire to two police cars on the scene and to the "guilty" car. They also threw fire crackers and stones at the local police station." http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050703073027507 Environmental protest over lead poisoning Protesters clash with cops, stoning police lines and trashing police vehicles "After the initial melee with police, thousands of demonstrators torched police cars and broke into government offices, witnesses reported." http://www.rfa.org/english/news/2005/08/25/china_protest/ http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/08/21/dozens_hurt_after_china_factory_protest/ More on Zhejiang "After the initial melee with police, thousands of demonstrators torched police cars and broke into government offices" http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050821171250687 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050415055107976 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050415084858835 CHONGQING: 10,000 workers blockade steel plant to oppose lay-offs and repression Police viciously attacked workers, injuring dozens and allegedly killing two http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16923733%5E2703,00.html Farmers clash with cops in Inner Mongolia over land grab Police were overwhelmed and fled as farmers overran a road-building site and seized equipment The road was being built on farmers' land which the state had seized http://groups.google.com/group/alt.anarchism/browse_thread/thread/23e7ca29d1ece9c5/a9b15808426a4a38?hl=en http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6762 http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050728/asp/foreign/story_5044108.asp Strike and picket at Inner Mongolia factory met with state violence http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/07/10/5165237 Hebei farmers regain land after uprising Six farmers were killed by security forces in clashes over a land grab without compensation, to build a nuclear waste site http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050723162245323 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4702339.stm http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050721-12215400-bc-china-farmers.xml Agrarian rebellions in China http://www.po.org.ar/poen/2005/poen910/poen910008.htm Beating of student sparks mass unrest in Chizou, Anhui Student beaten by guards of rich car-driver - incident sparks mass unrest against the rich "By the end of the evening, 10,000 Chizhou residents had filled the streets, some of whom torched police cars, pelted overwhelmed anti-riot troops with stones and looted a nearby supermarket bare." http://info.interactivist.net/news/05/08/11/2251212.shtml?tid=13 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/chin-j15.shtml Farmers protest in Beijing suburb over Olympic-linked land grab http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/labo-j25.shtml Unrest in Dacen, Guangdong - peasants clash with riot cops in protests over corruption Villagers threw up barricades and blocked roads Meanwhile in Qinghai, Tibetan peasants burnt down government offices in protests about taxation In Ximen village, Jiangxi, protesters blockaded a rail line for six hours in a protest over corrupt land deals http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/chin-j20.shtml Repression of strikers in Xianyang http://www.nosweat.org.uk/article.php?sid=1267 Massive strike at Shenzen WalMart factory http://www.nosweat.org.uk/article.php?sid=1269 http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/04/22/6742982 http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4125 Shengyou: "Hundreds of hired thugs have attacked protestors in rural China, killing six people and injuring over 50 others. The villagers fought them off and captured one of the men, who admitted he had been hired in Beijing to "teach a lesson" to the farmers, and he would be paid $12 for his work." http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20225.htm Article on social conflict in China http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/china_capitalist_discipline_and_rising_protests?PHPSESSID=7ccf617ed753bcd84dc1b90a5976939f Farmers fight goons over land grab in Shengyou - six killed http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6571 Dispute over pollution in Jingxin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6747 Taishi: "Angry residents have made the village hall a squatters' camp. They've evicted the mayor, who's also the local Communist Party chief, and seized village budget records, suspecting malfeasance. They've set up sentinels in case police riot squads come to evict them." http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6876 Villagers rout police in Huankantou http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6186 http://www.workerspower.com/index.php?id=66,531,0,0,1,0 DAYE, HUBEI PROVINCE: Mass unrest - 10-20,000 protesters fight police after police attack small protest Locals are angry at plans to merge the city into a larger municipality Police set dogs on an initial protest and beat some protesters In response, thousands storm government offices two days later Government buildings and vehicles were smashed during the unrest http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1751822,00.html http://www.geocities.com/ericsquire/articles/dogs/reuters050809.htm HUASHUI: Protests, unrest force closure of pollution sites Villagers warn of further unrest if politicians backtrack http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050826-06194400-bc-china-villageprotest.xml NICARAGUA: VICTORY FOR PROTESTERS Calm Returns to Managua as Nicaraguan Protests Prevail Managua, Apr 29 (Prensa Latina) The Nicaraguan capital returned to normal Friday, after several days of police repression against popular marches demanding government action against the high cost of living. The Executive?s negotiating commission, universities, students, and transportation workers recently agreed to assign a 1.8 million-dollar subsidy to public transport companies. With this decision, bus fare in the capital would be fixed at 2.50 cordobas (0.15 dollar cents) and bus owners would supply the deficit caused by increased oil prices. When negotiations concluded, student leader Yasser Martinez said this was a victory of the working people, impoverished by neoliberal measures. Meantime, Legislator Gustavo Porras told Prensa Latina the massive protests were the ?trigger? that made it possible to overcome the government-fueled crisis. He also condemned President Enrique Bola?os for having commanded the police repression against the protesters. ?It was a challenge, an offense against rebellious people that know how to face and defeat any tyranny,? Porras stressed. The approved initiative guarantees 3-month funding for transport workers, while a long-term agreement benefiting over 850,000 citizens who use public transportation in Managua is under way. Similarly, preferential tariffs for low-income people will be established in the future. Mass protests demand resignation of president http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=pt%7Cen&u=http://www.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/2005/04/315534.shtml&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=pt%7Cen&u=http://www.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/2005/04/315622.shtml&prev=/language_tools Transport price rises lead to popular insurrection Clashes with cops as mass arrests and injuries sustained As Bolanos speaks to marchers who reach Presidential Palace, he falls under a hail of missiles A wave of police repression has been unleashed as students, workers and civil society groups protest http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/nicaragua_sitting_on_a_powder_keg_again http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050426131315594 http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/nicaragua_students_clash_with_police_over_oil_costs BELIZE: More on April's unrest http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050425180142540 http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/23/12209/3125 PERU: Thousands protest free trade deal with US Farmers, construction workers and pharmaceutical workers joined mass protests in the capital Lima Transport workers also went on strike in several areas The free trade deal is criticised for raising prices of pharmaceuticals, agricultural chemicals and other items Many artists joined the march, demanding cultural protections http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-07/15/content_3223100.htm http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={096B38E5-BDBD-4A0B-9B36-0F8603BCFC71}&language=EN http://www.rednova.com/news/international/173635/thousands_of_peruvians_protest_us_trade_pact/ http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B096B38E5-BDBD-4A0B-9B36-0F8603BCFC71%7D&language=EN http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1956 PERU: Seven killed as cops attack copper-mining protest Protesters from rural communities tried to march on a site where a multinational is exploring with a view to mine - apparently aiming to close it down Local demonstrators fear that mining could lead to pollution Police viciously attacked the protesters; dozens were injured and at least eight are still missing, as police shot into crowds of protesters An energy minister was besieged by protesters angry about the violence http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050805142054601 Protests target Tintaya mine - again Mine shut down after occupation by locals demanding greater benefits from the company Villagers torched and ransacked parts of the grounds http://www.minesandcommunities.org/Action/press661.htm http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2005-08/2005-08-03-voa13.cfm?CFID=22159336&CFTOKEN=21632886 PANAMA: Mass protests against neoliberal retirement "reforms" Strikes called across the country; hundreds arrested in ongoing protests Thousands of demonstrators fought police in Panama City Students and workers have fought police and looted cars in three days of protests http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={AC7ABFBA-359C-4417-82FF-435F995A30A5}&language=EN http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1535 http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-05-25-voa22.cfm BRAZIL: Mass march by MST; clashes in capital as police attack Thousands of landless peasants march on Brasilia US embassy and government buildings targeted Police attack march - 50 injured in resulting clashes The unprovoked police attack occurred during a march on congress http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3284837a12,00.html http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10126084 http://www.lexpress.mu/display_article.php?news_id=42198 http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5010797,00.html http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000086&sid=aruTxgygbx7w&refer=latin_america http://www.politinfo.com/articles/article_2005_05_18_2209.html http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N17557679.htm http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1268&storyid=3144231 http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050518-114139-3046r http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-5-17/28842.html http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/05/16/international/i185812D83.DTL http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5793810&cKey=1116396316000 http://news.monstersandcritics.com/southamerica/article_1000827.php/More_than_12000_land_reformists_march_on_Brazilian_capital http://www.arabtimesonline.com/arabtimes/breakingnews/view.asp?msgID=9029 http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=111653®ion=4 http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/626/626p15.htm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2013 http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0519-05.htm http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0520-20.htm http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050521103659351 http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/05/17/3297675 http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6923/692351.html http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20221.htm http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6527 http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news505.htm Mayday launches 2-week march by landless workers http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=28502 Thousands of landless workers occupy 12 farms http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4415205.stm http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=639573 Brazil's poor are cut down after a 150-mile protest march By Andrew Hay and Tiago Pariz in Brasilia 19 May 2005 A 17-day protest march by 12,000 landless Brazilian peasants ended in violence as activists fought police and demanded faster government land resettlement to cut rural poverty. More than 50 people were injured when mounted riot police charged demonstrators at the end of a gruelling 150-mile march on Tuesday to pressure the left-wing Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, to meet land reform promises. But leaders of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) met Mr Da Silva, known widely as Lula, and said they reached a deal to boost reform spending. Government officials denied any accord. More than 30 MST activists and 20 paramilitary police suffered bruises and broken bones after protesters tried to cross a police line at Congress. The mounted officers made repeated baton charges in the worst protest violence in Brasilia in years. "They just came at us without provocation," said Gabriel Silveira, an MST activist, as he staggered on the grass before Congress, complaining of a blow to his shoulder by police. Police Major Nevitton Pereira Junior said two officers could lose their sight after being speared in the face by bamboo poles. He showed welts where he said he had been beaten. MST leaders have threatened to increase the pace of land occupations, and could drop traditional support for Lula if he fails to meet a promise to settle 430,000 families by 2006. He has come nowhere near fulfilling that election pledge after focusing on market-driven economic policies and big-farm producers in an attempt to achieve a steady growth rate. MST leaders stated after meeting Lula that he agreed to free nearly half the land-reform spending frozen in 2005, about 700 million reais (?155m), and hire 1,300 land reform agents to speed settlement of families. The agrarian reform minister, Miguel Rossetto, said the meeting had been "positive" but the government had made no deal and it was hoping to present its proposals by the end of yesterday. MST leaders showed no sign of easing up on farm invasions, which worry foreign investors and can cause political headaches for Lula as the opposition accuses him of being soft on "crime". Joao Pedro Stedile, an MST leader, told cheering activists near Congress as police looked on: "With the energy of this march we have to raise occupations even higher, with this energy we have to attack economic policy." Since Lula's Workers Party moved from its leftist roots the MST has lost its most powerful political backer. The MST invades ranches to press the government to purchase and resettle unused land. The end goal is to cut deep land inequality where 1 per cent of Brazil's 180 million people control 45 per cent of its farmland. Leaders of Brazil's peasant movements said they still backed Lula but could end support for his 2006 re-election campaign unless he spends more on landless settlement. "When we get to the election period we are going to discuss this," said Romario Rossetto, a national co-ordinator of the Via Campesino movement which represents small farmers. YEMEN: Mass uprising over fuel subsidies and other cuts in the capital Sana'a and other towns Over a dozen protesters killed in fighting with police; some reports suggest armed clashes Protesters burned tyres, trashed government buildings, threw stones and tried to storm the ruling party HQ and presidential palace Corporate stores, banks and advertising hoardings were also targeted The government had previously withdrawn the subsidy cut several times after protests Thousands were involved in the unrest and related protests http://www.guardian.co.uk/yemen/Story/0,2763,1532978,00.html#article_continue http://www.yobserver.com/news_7546.php http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=861&p=front&a=1 http://www.yobserver.com/news_7547.php http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1992 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1990 http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0721-03.htm http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050720160803235 http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=05/07/22/2034209&mode=nested&tid=14 http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/20/164829/091 http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/23/103856/860 http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/635/635p16.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4703173.stm http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2005/July/middleeast_July534.xml§ion=middleeast GUINEA: Youths loot rice in food price unrest Protests over food shortages - protesters block roads and throw stones Youths with sticks and stones blocked traffic and burnt tyres Prices have again risen as the government has not delivered promised subsidies to traders http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_10348.html http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6DU5VB?OpenDocument&rc=1&emid=ACOS-635PLK http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-07-06-voa44.cfm GHANA: Protest over social amenities - youths fight cops sent to suppress protest Protesters shut down water plant during prolonged pitched battles http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=86657 ETHIOPIA: Mass protests and stone-throwing over alleged election rigging Police open fire on demonstrations, killing at least 26 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/10 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/09/AR2005060901890.html http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=10049 http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=10051 http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=10067 http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=05/06/10/1132236&mode=nested&tid=1 http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6744 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/ethi-j23.shtml http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2005-06-12-voa22.cfm http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15557557%5E1702,00.html http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Ethiopian-protest-leaves-22-dead/2005/06/09/1118123928605.html http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-06/08/content_3056866.htm http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1717139,00.html http://news.softpedia.com/news/Addis-Abeba-Riot-Kills-23-11570.shtml Opposition supporters fight police sent to smash pro-democracy protests Ten people were killed in days of clashes over disputed elections Mass injuries and arrests have also been reported Protesters responded with force to the repression, and some cops were injured http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4402578.stm http://news.monstersandcritics.com/africa/article_1059188.php/Sporadic_gunfire_in_Ethiopia_as_riot_police_chase_protestors http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4395874.stm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3136 How many more killings will it take, to make a ruler a dictator? http://www.pambazuka.org/index.php?issue=211 Crackdown spreads beyond capital http://www.pambazuka.org/index.php?id=28603 Why does the world ignore Ethiopia's elections? http://www.pambazuka.org/index.php?id=28320 SUDAN: Southern Sudanese revolt in Khartoum and elsewhere after mysterious death of leader Garang Protesters smashed cars and shops, started fires and fought police Cops responded murderously, slaughtering over 100 people Resisters defied fascistic curfew orders, taking to the streets with clubs http://www.southsudan.net/garang16.html http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8778297/ http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/01/world/main712980.shtml http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,14658,1540346,00.html http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/17487 http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1749204,00.html http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/27795FD0-DFD2-4B79-B5AD-98C9D4536E95.htm http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=996202 http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=10888 http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/08/05/2003266504 http://english.people.com.cn/200508/04/eng20050804_200110.html http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F089B7BE-2495-4F3F-8ABC-BFA827A7943F.htm http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/04/content_3307141.htm http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1749204,00.html http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-sudan02.html http://www.leadingthecharge.com/stories/news-0053765.html TOGO: More clashes as opposition supporters march against hurried elections Opposition supporters and riot cops fought running battles http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4417969.stm And again as deposed son of former president wins allegedly rigged election Burning barricades went up the moment the "result" was declared Opposition supporters threw rocks and targeted cars, while riot cops roamed the streets http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=4c54359668d50bb2 http://www.liberianonline.com/liberia-news351.html http://www.tiscali.co.uk/cgi-bin/news/newswire.cgi/news/reuters/2005/04/26/world/angrytogoyouthsprotestafterpollresult.html&template=/news/templates/newswire/news_story_reuters.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050426-18414500-bc-togo-election.xml http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=qw1114518065172B232 http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050428/NEWS06/504280491/1012 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050427124156372 http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=28472 http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=46559 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/togo-m11.shtml http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/27/6528/41982 http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20218.htm http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6395 Growing repression as unrest feared http://www.pambazuka.org/index.php?id=27942 Human rights groups allege hundreds killed in post-election clashes, massacres http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=47116 http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=47283 20 killed in several days of clashes as regime troops attack Residents conscripted by troops to clear up debris 600 reportedly fled across the border to Benin in the aftermath of the clashes http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4494475.stm DR CONGO: Unrest over a the "delay" (cancellation) of elections Two protesters are killed by police who fired into the crowd in Mbuji Mayi Protesters threw rocks, built barricades and burned down political party offices Police chased and attacked crowds, and at least six people were killed nationwide There were also clashes in Brussels as Congolese exiles demonstrated http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=136&art_id=vn20050518071829491C903077 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1732 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4558187.stm http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-06-30-congo_x.htm 10,000 march in Kinshasa against delaying of elections http://www.politinfo.com/articles/article_2005_07_09_2210.html KENYA: Protests and clashes as President sells out on promise to reduce powers Protesting youths stoned police as the streets around parliament became a battleground One person is shot as looters target shops and cars http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4699037.stm Police attack constitution protesters - 3 killed Protesters battled police sent to suppress the protests http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1825779,00.html 3 people, including a child and a teenager, killed by cops during protests over constitutional changes Protesters fought police in Kisumu while trying to stop a rally in support of the changes http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,6119,2-11-1447_1825779,00.html Car torched, protesters injured as opponents and supporters clash http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=254954&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/ IVORY COAST: Thousands protest extension of presidency; protesters block roads and burn rubbish and police attack with teargas and fire in the air http://english.people.com.cn/200510/31/eng20051031_217944.html http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/30/news/briefs.php LIBERIA: Unrest over alleged election irregularities - opposition supporters attacked by police Protesters threw stones at riot cops and marched on election commission buildings http://news.monstersandcritics.com/africa/article_1061551.php/Liberian_riot_police_disperse_demonstrators_with_teargas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3178 UGANDA: Police attack demo against Museveni third term Peaceful protest broken up by police; result is running battles As police attack, crowd responds with stones, disperses and re-emerges near parliament http://uganda.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/06/29/anti-dictatorship_demo_in_uganda_crushed.html KENYA: Protests continue over constitutional issues Protesters fought riot cops in Nairobi for several days, and a cop murdered one person for alleged looting http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/20/world/main710484.shtml http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-7-20/30469.html http://www.publiuspundit.com/?p=1391 NEPAL: Students stage pro-democracy demonstrations and battle police in Kathmandu Protesters, some of them masked, blocked roads and threw stones in an attempt to defend their blockades from police attacks The protests followed the conviction of a former prime minister by a royalist kangaroo court http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4744375.stm PHILLIPINES: Thousands join protests against Arroyo http://www.etaiwannews.com/World/2005/07/14/1121308067.htm http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/07/14/MNG8NDNJA91.DTL http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.philippines14jul14,1,7420864.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines&ctrack=1&cset=true http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/07/13/thousands_demand_philippine_leader_quit/ http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/634/634p19b.htm http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200506/s1389822.htm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1863 http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=3699 http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050713-06330900-bc-philippines-arroyorally.xml http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1121251320755B214 http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050713/w071346.html http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-07-13-voa30.cfm http://www.theconservativevoice.com/ap/article.html?mi=D8BALM9G0&apc=9002 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2034 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2045 http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/2239/2005-6-11/148 at 246385.htm http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/08/03philpinesb.html http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?3,69,3,719 State of the Nation Address protested http://a-manila.org/newswire/display/91/index.php http://a-manila.org/feature/display/25/index.php Farmers storm Department of Agriculture as part of Arroyo protests Hundreds of protesters trashed windows and ransacked the office, putting officials to flight Protesters also hung anti-WTO banners and demanded an overhaul of the ministry http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050715125135943 Protesters in Cebu storm statist barricades - 3 goons injured Statists had attacked with teargas and water cannons when people tried to enter a government building http://news.inq7.net/regions/index.php?index=1&story_id=43379 Farmers and fisherfolk barricade road to protest State of the Nation Address http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2044 Overseas protests by Filipinos and supporters in Hong Kong, Australia, Canada and US http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2096 Public transport workers stage strike to get Arroyo out http://www.mindanews.com/2005/07/25nws-transport.html Crisis resurfaces in October - police attack student, worker and church protests near the presidential palace http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Philippines+%26+South+Asia&month=October2005&file=World_News2005101591234.xml http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Philippines+%26+South+Asia&month=October2005&file=World_News2005100533852.xml http://news.inq7.net/top/index.php?index=1&story_id=52380 http://www.newsflash.org/2003/05/hl/hl019224.htm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3086 Clashes as cops disrupt march towards presidential palace Crackdown on anti-government protests sparks repeated instances of clashes between cops and protesters http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=57562&version=1&template_id=45&parent_id=25 Protesters defy march ban, storm bridge http://news.inq7.net/nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=54106 http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/net/2005/10/21/riot.mars.downtown.manila.rally.(12.33.p.m.).html Army infiltrators caught during Quezon City rally http://www.tribune.net.ph/headlines/20051022.hed03.html PHILLIPINES: Police attack rally against state terror Protesters were demonstrating against assassinations of political dissidents The police baton-charged and arrested protesters, with many injured http://www.bulatlat.net/news/5-9/5-9-terror.htm http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/net/2005/04/07/11.hurt.as.police.disperse.protest.near.ipu.summit.(3.10.p.m.).html http://www.bulatlat.net/news/5-9/5-9-terror.htm EUSKADI: Fascistic ban on separatist protest leads to a day of clashes in San Sebastian Masked youths built barricades and battled police, and rallied in defiance of a ban http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=65286360&p=65z8666z EAST TIMOR: Protesters rallying against Indonesian president attacked by state police Protesters rallied at the site of a massacre by Indonesian army forces and came under attack They later regrouped at an opposition party HQ where they were besieged http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/622/622p20.htm http://www.asia-pacific-action.org/statements/apisc_timoreseprotestersattacked_090405.htm MAURITANIA: Israeli official visit prompts mass demonstrations Massive protests, mainly by students, are attacked by cops Protesters defend themselves by throwing stones at cops A police blockade of the university prompted fierce clashes with students wishing to march on government offices Hundreds of students shouted slogans against normalisation with Israel Protesters also burnt tyres and painted anti-Israeli graffiti, and some burnt Israeli flags Protesters allege Mauritania, one of only three Arab League countries with ties to Israel, is sucking up to America to get money http://quickstart.clari.net/voa/art/df/2005-05-02-voa26.html http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/1714116.php http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archives/005837.shtml (rightist blog reproduces deleted Reuters report) http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-05-02-voa26.cfm http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer&cid=1114568596700&p=1078113566627 http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/14D039ED-B4D3-4843-9FF8-A76DFFED8460.htm http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/050503/2005050304.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ldxar1 at tesco.net Mon Nov 21 21:17:30 2005 From: ldxar1 at tesco.net (Andy) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:17:30 -0000 Subject: [Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades Spring-Autumn 2005 - Bolivia, Ecuador, and the G8 summit protests Message-ID: <017401c5ef24$0acf8340$0202a8c0@WOL> On the Barricades Spring-Autumn 2005 - Bolivia, Ecuador, and the G8 summit protests BOLIVIA: Mass protests overthrow government A new wave of mass protests broke out as a controversial gas bill passed parliament Marchers from El Alto descended on the capital en masse Congress was evacuated as protesters marched on it Demonstrators broke through cop lines and nearly reached Congress Police attacked the protesters with water cannons Protests for nationalisation of gas were also held across the country After sell-out on gas privatisation and redistribution issues, government faces new rebellion from El Alto slum-dwellers and peasants Protests continued for weeks, with attempts made to involve the police and military in repression Eventually President Mesa was forced to step down in the face of unrest, and plans to install far-rightist Vaca Diez as a replacement also fell apart http://www.falkland-malvinas.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=5658 http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={0033281F-72E6-4ED2-8018-3DA66F2BE910}&language=EN http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/05/24/BoliviaProtests_050524.html http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/mayo/vier27/23bolivia.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4605487.stm http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={6CB971C9-695D-45DA-B39B-4FBA65C260D2}&language=EN http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1527 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1529 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1528 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/27/17740/3054 http://newsocialist.org/index.php?id=305 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/7/212555/4105 http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N11216611.htm http://www.counterpunch.org/webber05092005.html http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0613/p06s01-woam.html http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/6/223313/0055 http://www.internationalist.org/boliviaexplodes0506.html http://www.internationalist.org/lapazeyewitness050606.html http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/7/213122/3581 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/7/213122/3581 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/junio/mier8/24boliv-i.html http://www.americas.org/item_19790 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/6/17431/08183 http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20050606-1947-bolivia-unrest.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1866 http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news502.htm http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/630/630p12b.htm http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/630/630p12.htm http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/627/627p24.htm http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=11301 http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=4805a676cefd60167d027f0472dfcccb http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4557379.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1487077,00.html http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/18May2005_news36.php http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4551293.stm http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=111838®ion=4 http://news.monstersandcritics.com/southamerica/article_1001070.php/Protests_continue_in_Bolivia_over_gas_industry http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/17/1420227 http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050517-074136-8407r.htm http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0505/S00201.htm http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BD7FC3AAA-AC63-4057-9F0F-F76EDBC7C33D%7D&language=EN http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story.asp?StoryId=CqOLSqeidyM9SAxzPys1WCM90zxn0CW Protest paralyses main airport http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-06/10/content_3065769.htm Protests derail Congress http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4594615.stm The people take La Paz http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/31/20717/4474 http://www.marxist.com/Latinam/bolivia-revolutionary-crisis010605.htm The uprising of miners and peasants http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2003/11/102035.shtml Interview with Bolivian activists http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/25/1414214 Tear gas in the Andes - The Nation article on the protests by Christian Parenti http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050613&s=parenti Water wars continue in El Alto http://www.cupe.ca/www/p3_alert__march_2005/bolivia_water_fight_ The first few days of the second gas war http://www.newsocialist.org/index.php?id=286 The revolution must continue (Fifth International analysis) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2110 http://www.allheadlinenews.com/cgi-bin/news/newsbrief.plx?id=2235625374&fa=1 New government tries to divert protest into parliamentarism http://www.marxist.com/Latinam/bolivia-parliamentary-trap130605.htm Bolivian people's assembly launched http://www.marxist.com/Latinam/bolivia-peoples-assembly090605.htm Mass organisations form revolutionary council http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00243.html Statement by "Coordinadora de Defensa del Agua y el Gas" http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00251.html Bolivia "in pre-revolutionary situation" - UNIPA, Brazil http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00274.html Analyses of the unfolding crisis from PO, Argentina http://www.po.org.ar/poen/2005/poen900/poen900004.htm http://www.po.org.ar/poen/2005/poen903/poen903003.htm http://www.po.org.ar/poen/2005/poen904/poen904003.htm Peasants occupy gas plant in protest over local services http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4316562.stm Is reform enough? - Carlos Herrera, Bolivian Bolivarian http://www.axisoflogic.com/cgi-bin/exec/view.pl?archive=130&num=18327 Bolivia crisis peaks http://www.axisoflogic.com/cgi-bin/exec/view.pl?archive=130&num=18192 Mesa warns of civil war threat http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/09/news/bolivia.php Mesa resigns in bid to stop protests http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=alF4AE34J_TE&refer=top_world_news Thousands protest in Bolivian capital http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/06/07/bolivia.unrest/ Mesa's concessions fail to stop protests http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4608111.stm Protests derail Bolivian Congress session http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5834012 Behind the crisis http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0613-24.htm Neoliberalism is not an option in Bolivia http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0609-27.htm Zero Hour in Bolivia http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0609-32.htm Tear gas in the Andes - the Bolivia crisis http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0527-28.htm Bolivia Mayday protests http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/05/04Bolivia.html After the uprising http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/24bolivia.html CPGB general analysis of the Bolivia revolt http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/581/bolivia.htm CPGB criticises MAS http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/582/bolivia.htm On the march against imperialism http://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/185/185_bol.html http://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/186/186_bol.html http://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/184/184_bol.html Interview with COB activist http://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/186/186_int.html Bolivia crisis leads to replacement of president http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?3,69,3,717 The Other Insurrections http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6321 Victory in Bolivia! http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-2/548/548_05_Bolivia.shtml http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/547/547_06_Bolivia.shtml http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/545/545_02_Bolivia.shtml Make the revolution permanent http://www.workerspower.com/index.php?id=78,791,0,0,1,0 http://www.workerspower.com/index.php?id=77,729,0,0,1,0 Byebye Mesa http://www.counterpunch.org/hylton06072005.html Bolivia on the edge of revolution http://www.counterpunch.org/maass06082005.html http://www.counterpunch.org/gott06142005.html The agony of stalemate http://www.counterpunch.org/hylton06022005.html http://www.counterpunch.org/hylton06142005.html Bolivia erupts http://www.counterpunch.org/webber05202005.html Back to the streets in Bolivia http://www.counterpunch.org/webber05092005.html Recovering Bolivia's oil and gas http://www.counterpunch.org/olivera06102005.html Messy situation as protests continue, coup threatened http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050602115940229 Indigenous protest in Bolivia http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/05/26/penhaul.bolivia/index.html Nationalisation or Death - rebellion in Bolivia http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050528133134702 Bolivia explodes in sharp class battle http://www.internationalist.org/boliviatoc.html The first two days of Bolivia's new gas war http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/article.php3?id_article=799 Protests by workers and indigenous people rock the ruling class http://socialismandliberation.org/mag/index.php?aid=445&PHPSESSID=a65f90fb525e7bb8829076a53bed7298 Behind the uprising http://www.nosweat.org.uk/article.php?sid=1315 Dual power in Bolivia http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/bolivia_s_laboratory_of_dual_power?PHPSESSID=7ccf617ed753bcd84dc1b90a5976939f Struggle goes "inside" http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/bolivias_gas_war_moves_inside Reversing the tide in Bolivia http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/7/123841/2664 Gas protests continue http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/30/124130/456 New uprising in Bolivia http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/24/62955/1715 Protesters demand nationalisation of oil and gas http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6923/692353.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6924/692405.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6925/692504.html "Last week Bolivia's congress was forced to meet in the former colonial capital Sucre, as La Paz's streets were out of their control. Then congress had to be suspended after military Special Forces killed a member of the mineworkers union Juan Coro as he was en route to protests, and peasant union members took over the Sucre airport." http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20224.htm Narcosphere reports http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/12/214534/676 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/10/185538/941 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/10/11925/5827 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/9/235156/3341 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/9/84257/46598 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/9/2014/37723 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/7/213122/3581 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/7/3226/45623 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/3/20745/10741 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/2/202837/7248 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/2/91950/40629 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/1/203744/6962 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/1/1938/47554 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/31/20717/4474 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/31/82723/2089 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/30/191911/883 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/27/233342/114 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/27/17740/3054 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/24/174716/841 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/24/131418/002 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/19/31431/1005 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/17/2492/77016 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/special/bolivia_en Vaca Diez behind death of miner http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/9/172426/1456 Airport strike against Vaca Diez http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/9/14829/09416 Strikes across Bolivia http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4235 Rebellion topples president http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6715 http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6716 http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6682 http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6683 Warning of civil war, Bolivia's President resigns http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/boli-j09.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/boli-j03.shtml ECUADOR: More protests against Gutierrez over corruption lead to toppling of government General strike and mass protests force resignation of former leftist Gutierrez What began as small liberal protests over supreme court stacking, turned into a mass popular mobilisation forcing the resignation of the president In a day of unrest in Quito, dozens were injured by fumes and one confirmed dead in clashes A week-long state of emergency was a pretext for massive police violence, but hundreds of thousands defied the repression Congress was stormed and briefly occupied Once again, popular masses marched on Quito and effectively overthrew a government The once popular Guttierez quickly sold out to neoliberalism, angering his former supporters http://www.marxist.com/Latinam/ecuador_uprising210405.htmhttp://english.people.com.cn/200504/20/eng20050420_181962.html http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://ecuador.indymedia.org/es/2005/04/9325.shtml&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://ecuador.indymedia.org/es/2005/04/9119.shtml&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://peru.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/15440.php&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://ecuador.indymedia.org/es/2005/04/9117.shtml&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://ecuador.indymedia.org/es/2005/04/9001.shtml&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://ecuador.indymedia.org/es/2005/04/9012.shtml&prev=/language_tools http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p15.htm http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00448.html http://www.po.org.ar/poen/2005/poen896/poen896004.htm http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0421-02.htm http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0420-08.htm http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/05/11ecuador.html http://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/185/185_ecu.html http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050415234604452 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=200504221111009 http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/article.php3?id_article=788 http://socialismandliberation.org/mag/index.php?aid=404 http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/04/24/0273450 http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6918/691801.html http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20217.htm http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/4/19/17234/5833 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/4/17/1740/70522 http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6462 http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6376 http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/541/541_11_Ecuador.shtml Hmmm. time for another President to go? http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0501-30.htm Revolt was "middle-class" says US Marxist group http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6919/691953.html Latin America: Docile no more http://mondediplo.com/2005/06/12latinamerica What Ecuador's people think of politics and politicians http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/4/18/20454/9033 Interview with indigenous leader http://www.narconews.com/Issue37/article1274.html New crisis in Ecuador - protesters demand nationalisation of oil and redistribution of oil wealth Workers and peasants blocked highways and occupied airports and oilfields The new president has declared a state of emergency and sent the army to seize the oilfields http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6934/693462.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4168070.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4164840.stm http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/8/20/6222/57479 Workers and peasants push for power http://www.marxist.com/Latinam/bolivia-workers-peasants080605.htm Latin America in revolt - a continent defies the US http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p24.htm Photos from the march which overthrew Gutierrez http://ecuador.indymedia.org/es/2005/04/9157.shtml http://ecuador.indymedia.org/es/2005/04/9090.shtml http://ecuador.indymedia.org/es/2005/04/9086.shtml General strike and protests in Cuenca, Quito http://boston.indymedia.org/feature/display/35430/index.php Reports on repression http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/04/1733998.php http://newswire.indymedia.org/en/newswire/2005/04/822012.shtml As you probably know, Lucio won the elections in Ecuador in a very much Chavez-like agenda. Upon taking office he, unlike Chavez, forgot all his promises and turned to neoliberalism, against the people and being a servant to the US following on Uribe's footsteps. ALl the insults to the Ecuatorian people have been very much ignored until early April when he, with a rigged supreme court, acquitted former president Abdala Bucaram who had being removed from office for corruption (an ecuatorian Carlos Andres if you will). Once acquitted, Bucaram comes back to Ecuador. That angered the Ecuatorian people and gives grounds for one side of the right to play politics against the president (other side of the same right). They called a strike against the president and the supreme court on Wednesday 13th (of all dates!!). It was a top-down strike without any power of convoking the masses. However, there was a real issue that was hurting the Ecuadorian people, thinking of demonstrations, the people started to think of it on a more spontaneous manner and after that day there were public gatherings and demonstrations that increasingly gathered more people. At first it was mostly upper middle class but as the days progressed the country has been warming up and now there were more people joining the opposition but only from the middle class. Yesterday there was a big gathering going to the congress. There were about 30 to 40 thousand people (you might have heard a lot more from the media but it was only that many) that marched peacefully towards the congress. The demonstration got around the presidential palace where it was stopped by the guards with tear-gas. Nothing, that was not completely predictable if you know how this things tend to develop. The country keeps warming up and there will not relent until the accomplish something. At first it was the dismissal of the corrupt supreme court. They accomplished it but the anger for Lucio's abuses was too much and by now they want Lucio to resign. I doubt that they will calm down until Lucio steps down. Now let me make clear that this movement is strictly from the middle class. Even in the large demonstration of yesterday (April 19th) there wasn't any representation from the lower economic or ethnic groups. That the movement is from the middle class means two things. One, that it is demographically unimportant. As we discussed the middle class comprises only some 20% of the Ecuadorian people. If they went into a strike and paralyzed the country economically they could choke the economy and get Lucio to resign but by bulk of people they are limited in what they can do. The other consequence of that being a middle class movement is that it is fundamentally, and above all, a peaceful movement. So, there will not be any violent movement to force Lucio out of office. Nobody wants unrest in the country (certainly not the people that are in the business of placing and replacing governments in Latin America) and there will be a solution sooner rather than later. What I see will happen is something that has been rehearsed many times and works surprisingly well every time. The president and the vice-president will play good cop bad cop games. Lucio cancel the civil rights, and the vice-president, Alfredo Palacios, condemns the action. Lucio represses the people and send hordes to produce violence and the vice-president condemns it as well. The media plays along to demonize Lucio (which is not hard to do) and the Vice-president uses the spotlight of the media to champion the cause of righteousness and civil rights. The president resigns or is removed from office and the Vice-president takes the well-deserved job after his performance. He rallies the people against Lucio and when he is uncharged everybody wins. The people are happy because the accomplished their goal and go back home happy as happy can be because they succeeded in their cause (oops as I type this I hear that Lucio was removed from office by the congress just as I typed it three lines ago!!!). This formula has been used many times. It happens in 1997 when the removed Abdala Bucaram, it happened in 2000 when they removed Jamil Mahuad, it was used also in Bolivia in 2002. The people had rallied to the streets to protest against the privatization of the natural gas and water. The president Sanchez Lozada repressed the demonstration and the vice-President condemned it. They had a week or so stand off while the people fought in the streets against the public forces. Then the president resigned and Carlos Mesa (the vice-president) took office as the hero of the country. The people went back home only to see the new president continued with the privatization of the natural gas and water just as the former president was doing but the people was demobilized already. So long as it is a middle class movement, as it has been, this formula should work out as it has in the past. The lower classes and indigenous movements have not supported the movement but they will if the country continues to warm up. That might be the reason that the Congress rushed to remove him now before the real uprising comes. If there is a real uprising or if the middle class do not bite the hook, then some real changes might come about. Ecuador is a key country for Plan Colombia and the imperial control of South America. If Ecuador joins the Axis of good Colombia will end up coming our way sooner rather than later. It is uncertain so far if the Ecudorian people will fall for the trick of switching Vice presidents or not. There is a large crowd in the congress that do not let the, now, president go to the presidential palace. The events are very interesting and relevant to the future of South America Jesus (Jesus A Rivas, Vivabolivar list) Ecuador: overflowed 16 political class Q.S.V.T. Apr 2005 00:22 GMT In Quito (Ecuador) new forms of protest are being invented. Wednesday with "cacerolazo" began, Thursday followed with "revent?n" of globes, and today "tablazo" is made. Everything began with a proposal of a listener in Radio the Moon, that continued transmitting without interruptions to receive the telephone calls of people who call to their neighbors to go out. The conductor of the program that seted out like citizen information channel, Alpaca Velasco, received anonymous threats of death. The political class is overflowed, and in SEVERAL COUNTRIES already they begin to manipulate the information, in order to facilitate the repression. One of the coreadas phrases is: THAT ALL GO AWAY!!!!! ================= More information: Ecuador Indymedia http://ecuador.indymedia.org Radio the Moon (online) http://www.radiolaluna.com ================ http://www.lahora.com.ec/ultimahora.asp#41926 DAILY HOUR 15/04/2005 - 3:03:35 p.m. After "revent?n" summons "tablazo" against Government of Exempt Ecuador (EFE) Once passed "cacerolazo" of the last Wednesday and "revent?n" of Thursday, thousands of Ecuadorian are prepared to carry out tonight, in Quito, "tablazo" against the Government of the president of Ecuador, Lucio Guti?rrez. The original protests began after the Government reduced importance to a manifestation led by the authorities of the province of Pichincha, whose capital is Exempt, that afternoon had little pursuit during the morning and of the last Wednesday. But at night, a nourished group of demonstrators surprised the police that guarded the Supreme Court of Justice, which they were impotent to repress the shouts of those who demanded the cease of the members of the high court and the resignation of Guti?rrez. "Outside Bright outside", "Cease of the Court de facto", coreaban the demonstrators, who insisted to the massive movement to the shout of: "The one that does not jump is Bright". The situation at night made worse Thursday for the Government, when the protests were multiplied in diverse sectors of Quito, by where at least 5,000 people made sound the horns of their cars or globes and casseroles were congregated with. The night of "revent?n" took its name from the thousands of globes that were punctured to call the attention with the noise in a day that extended until the dawn in scenes little seen in Quito, that it has 1.6 million inhabitants. 15/04/2005 - 5:53:54 p.m. Today to 21h00: Mass media become echo of ?El Tablazo Several radial mass media of the city of Quito, through their regular programmings, were made echo during this day of the car call that maintains the resident Ecuadorian community in the Capital, to continue with the marches against the Government of the president, Lucio Guti?rrez. Transmitters like Cinnamon, America, Brilliant (Chain Democracy), Quito, Center, Columbus, among others where the Moon is included, radio that is canalizing the citizen inconformidad, have come announcing the manifestations for tonight, to which they have denominated it "the Tablazo" and that to say of consulted people will surpass the previous manifestations like the Cacerolazo and the Revent?n: Think that the 50 thousand people will reach. Exempt radio and its informative space Ecuadoradio, after announcing the news coverage of tonight, fourth informative emission communicated to its hearing the transfer of his, for 23h00, this way presenting the Ecuadorian community and the outside the development these unusual events in Ecuador. The conductors of the radial programs, of all the musical sorts, not only that opened their microphones to their listeners so that they invite the population to be united to the Tablazo, but who supported with Alpaca Velasco, director of the informed space the Key, of Radio the moon. "Paquito, we are four broadcasters here that we are going to defend to you", he said to a pair of speakers of Radio Cinnamon to rate of tropical music. Radio Watchtower of the city of Guayaquil, according to Alpaca Velasco, could be integrated to the transmission of tonight. ecuadorinmediato.com =========================== http://www.diario-expreso.com/html/politica.asp DAILY EXPRESS 15/04/2005 "revent?n" of Quito put to the regime in Maxima alert the protests took the streets last night inhabitants of the capital the capital became last night the epicenter of the popular displeasure again. At least 15 marches, organized of spontaneous form, filled the streets as much to the south, as in the center and north of the city. The popular pressure forced the Government to carry far the measures and the Congress was surrounded after the meeting that finished to 21:50; the same it happened in the palace of Carondelet and the Supreme Court of Justice. The call had like protagonist to "Radio the Moon again" that organized the denominated protest "revent?n". This consisted of exploding to 21:00 all the globes that the demonstrators had between their hands. To that hour, at least ten thousand people located in the sector of the Carolina obeyed the order with a contagious enthusiasm. Somebody began to distribute a leaf with the direction of the deputies of Pichincha; others suggested "we go to the Court", but the majority chose to remain shouting against the Government. The march began to grow with the passage of time. The people dressed in the t-shirt of the Selection and the children turning the covers of the pots subjects of gossip, returned to become presents/displays like the previous night. Passed the 22:00, the demonstrators chose to be placed the Court in front of, but the police force interrupted its step again. Meanwhile, motorized marches and on foot looked for to arrive at the Congress. To 23:00, the minister of Government returned to endorse the position of the regime in the subject of the Court, while people followed in front of the institutions of the State. The night of Wednesday however, the communication by cellular had a preponderant place in the protest. In the cellular one of Carolina Prexel, a message noticed to him that one night very long was approached: "In the Carolina: 21:00 ". It was not necessary nothing else so that this young person who lives in "San Carlos", to the north of Quito, went to the traditional park of Quito. Two hours before, already it had taken a pot, a bucket and it was united to hundreds of mothers of family, children and young people to protest in "cacerolazo" characterized by his espontaneidad and call. It was Wednesday 13 of March and the last hours of provincial unemployment did not promise anything in special. Suddenly, the noise of casseroles in the streets was listened to, some vehicles made sound his claxons and the shout of "all outside, the first dictator", crossed the curtains and blinds of houses, departments and condominiums. In their district, at least five hundred people did the same and went to the park to shout under the light of a bonfire. Suddenly that cellular message arrived and next to another group of young people it undertook way towards the Carolina. Near the 21:00 they came together citizen of the south, like the Magdalena, the Footwear; of the north: Carapungo and Calder?n, as well as of other sectors, that to the radio call the Moon left armed of a pot, a bucket, drums... Altogether, the people of at least twenty districts, of the fifty and two sectors in which the city is distributed, decided to leave her addresses and to prolong the protest in the morning and afternoon. A good number faced the Police in the low ones of the Supreme Court, until to 24:00 they undertook the way to the house of president Lucio Guti?rrez in the sector of the Fulling mill. There they began to shout from the road its displeasure, under the surprised glance of both police of the entrance. In other residential sectors like "the Gasca" and "San Gabriel", people caught bonfires, closed the transit and began to organize themselves of spontaneous form. There it was Edmundo Mendoza, owner of the commercial premises of the Rumipamba avenue (North of Quito) shouting against "Lucio and Ayerve" in spite of the influenza that still suffers. "I wanted to go out to shout, but my son advised to me that he did not do it by my disease". However, he was until the 01:00 wide-awake one, listening to the expressions of people by the radio. Others, like V?ctor Jimbo, president of III the stage of the Urbanization "San Pedro Claver", took their loudspeaker, with which regularly it calls to mingas, and asked for the people who concentrated themselves in the English park. "I obtained Solely that ten families integrated themselves to the protests; clear that first it was necessary to convince the housewife ". Little by little, more people were adding themselves, until a good group ignited a bonfire and again it began to walk. The broadcasting Alpaca Velasco filled its mailbox of messages twice. That is to say, in one night it received on six hundred writings. He, even, marched towards the park the Carolina, the Supreme Court and the residence of Lucio Guti?rrez, pressed by hundreds of people who before the call of the radio had responded to the initiative to organize "cacerolazo". At dawn of yesterday they began to circulate other messages summoning to the citizens for today, in times of the night, to "farra antidictatorship", an idea that also will be irresistible for Quito. Today the south of Quito will be "farra against the dictator" in the capital was one of the most important poles of the popular displeasure. Marches from the sector of the Michelena, the Conception and San Bartolo tried to arrive at the Congress, but the Police prevented the access them. The main site of concentration was the sector of the Villaflora, where six thousand people at least crossed the main streets of the city. After that long-haul, whole families returned to their departure point and began to sing the national anthem of natural and sudden form. To "Radio the Moon" began to arrive suggestions for the protest from tonight. Some raised to take several avenues and to seat in the same ones; others raised to arrive at the Historical Center. Finally, the Moon raised the protest of "farra against the dictator" or "San Viernes against the dictatorship" that had great welcome between the hearing. The same one was left decree after several telephone calls. Some of the same ones proposed to advance until the Swissotel, where supposedly the President had met with members of the Roldosista Party. Outside the city also protests took place, basically in Cumbay? and Conocoto. In this zone, at least thousand people began to organize a manifestation by several zones. ===================== http://www.elcomercio.com/noticias.asp?noid=125236 DAILY COMMERCE 15/04/2005 cacelorazo went a punishment to the partisanship Its organization around a radial station - the Moon was the lapidaria test that an important segment of the society does not feel represented by a political class that, through the Democratic Left (YOU GO) and Pachakutik, took the reins from the Assembly of Quito. On the contrary, it was the sample of which before the incapacity of the political parties to lead citizen protests, people look for other spaces that viabilicen their exigencies. In this case it was radial means that one is against the government of Lucio Guti?rrez. For Jose Laso, director of Communication of the Andean University, that spontaneous manifestation demonstrates that there are "new channels of inconformidad and protest that exceed the partisan logic". Laso explains east behavior in the fact that the citizenship "has the impression that is agreed to and negotiated to its backs". To this the strategy of the Regime is added, which aims to discredit any action that has a partisan border, like the Assembly of Quito, led by the mayor Alpaca Moncayo and prefect Ramiro Gonz?lez (YOU GO). In that sense, the psychologist Francisco Peralta considers that the radial station became a scene where people "took control of her opinion creating a commitment with his to think, to say and to do". In effect, in last the 48 hours, radio the Moon received a rain of calls in which most of people it expressed his displeasure and it was committed to participate in acts with new shades, like ' cacerolaz?. In parallel form, the participants criticized to most of televising means, accusing it "to by ricochet hide to the acts against the Government and the Court". To say of Jose Laso, that attitude is explained in the necessity of people to feel represented in the spaces contemporary public: the mass media. However, that expectation was truncated and even for either direction of two-way working by several reporters, who described the nocturnal protest as "vandalism". On the matter, Peralta says that the citizenship protested because it felt that the "vandalism" came from certain means, that they hid information "to defend interests". Although cacerolazo was an alternative channel, the sociologist Jorge Leon considers that that lack of representativeness can generate another type of manifestations, that can be "radical and violent", as it happens in other latitudes. The marrow the citizen displeasure looks for alternative spaces the parties. In the case of cacerolazo, one radio was the one that articulated the protest. ===================== http://www.lahora.com.ec/noticiacompleta.asp?noid=332548 DAILY the Exempt HOUR - Friday, April 15, the 2005 power of the casseroles the tribune of the Shyris and other points of the city congregated yesterday at night to thousands of people who with slogans and blows in the casseroles requested the exit of the president of the Republic, Lucio Guti?rrez. Globes, Flags, whistles, placards and the t-shirt of the selection were the symbol with which the civil society identified itself that is not in agreement with the Government. All shouted by the exit of Lucio Guti?rrez and the destitution of the Court and the courts, their proposal is, that assumes the power the Vice-president, Alfredo Palacio, while a generational change is made in the policy. The march of casseroles expands To 21h00 last night burst hundreds of globes by several points of the city and the whistle of the cars intensified like signal of protest and rejection to Guti?rrez. This happened in the sector of the Central University and in the Greater Seminary where they were autoconvocaron around 300 people who went with torches and casseroles to the CSJ by the route of the Metrob?s. In the Italy park another group met to go to the CSJ; nevertheless to the height of the Chamber of Commerce of Quito, by the Amazon Avenue the presence of the military and police was evident, the Supreme Court she remained surrounded and watched all the night. Also they added Cotocollao, the Villaflora, the Painted one, Carapungo and the Gasca. With the motto "it is not a speed fight, but of resistance", the inhabitants of Quito concentrated themselves in several places of the city to request the exit of Guti?rrez. In the south, in the Rodrigo de Ch?vez also a considerable number of people met. LAHORA Thousands of Ecuadorian at night protest against Guti?rrez the Ecuadorian capital returned to be shaken tonight by the multitudinal protests of groups of citizens against the Government of president Lucio Guti?rrez. Tens of groups went out of unexpected and spontaneous form in more than twenty Quito districts to protest against the Government and the Supreme Court of Justice. The peculiar mobilization triggered the night of Wednesday last through initiative of many citizens who through the transmitter "Radio the Moon" summoned to a denominated protest "cacerolazo". The demonstrators demand that the controversial court is reorganized, who has been the target of the critics since its president, Guillermo I castrate, decided to annul the judgments who by presumed corruption weighed against their friend, ex- governor Abdal? Bucaram. Tonight, "Radio the Moon" has not interrupted its signal to receive hundreds of telephone calls of people who call to their neighbors to go out. In the Shyris avenue, in the commercial center of Quito, 5,000 people shouted "Lucio at least went" and "Bucaram to the jail", while in the Michelena street, to the south of the city, 3,000 demonstrators requested "that all go away", including the governor, the judges of the Supreme Court and the hundred of deputies of the Congress. In the district San Carlos, to the north of the large city, more than thousand citizens, between parents of family, housewives, old, young and young, they crossed several streets of the sector "waking up" to the neighbors so that they are united to the protests. Some people, through the "Radio the Moon", summoned a nocturnal manifestation to besiege the Parliament, whereas others suggested to march until the presidential Palace of Carondelet. In the environs of the Supreme Court also 7,000 people have concentrated themselves, which they demanded the destitution of the judges and rejected the anonymous threats of death that has received the director of "Radio the Moon", the journalist Alpaca Velasco. According to journalistic sources, more than eight hundred police they have bet themselves in the environs of the Parliament to prevent that the marches arrive until that enclosure, whereas in the Supreme Court more than one hundred agents they prevent the access of the demonstrators to the seat of the Court. The protests have been pacific, although the participants have rejected with indignation the declarations of the president, who hours before had labeled "the forajidos" protestants as and calculated that they were "very little". "Here it does not have forajidos nor we are four pelagatos", indicated a woman whom the exit of the power of president Guti?rrez asked, whom accused, like other hundreds of people, of "treasonous and dictator". On the other hand, the minister of Government (Inner), Oscar Ayerve, diminished the protests in Quito and said that in the capital "importance new features have not taken place". Ayerve admitted the right of the people to pronounce itself and announced that the Government has the intention to support amendments to the statutory law of the judicial function, to reorganize the Supreme Court. Exempt EFE autoconvoca tonight to the 'TABLAZ? to follow with protests the manifestations of the citizens in Quito, who have had a protag?nico paper from the night of Wednesday 13, has solved to follow with the protests under new initiatives, and for tonight of Friday a form of denominated expression ' Tablaz? has looked for, which must as objective demand the resignation of president Guti?rrez and the diverse powers of the Ecuadorian state. The proposal has been raised by the own Quito settlers, who through the transmission that maintains Radio the Moon, in constant form they have called to suggest protest forms, and for that reason the idea has arisen from 'tablaz? According to has been explained, it is which to 21h00, all the citizens whom they love to protest, they are united in its districts, and with two tables in its hands they let know its displeasure with the necessary noise. The initiative includes the accomplishment of marches by all the city, which make feel that noise that is come off striking of 'tablaz?. The manifestations have been lead to protest in pacific form, thus many of the summoned ones to these marches have become to concentrate in sites like the Avenue of the Shyris, to the north of Quito, in redondel of Villa Flora, to the south, and in the districts of the city that has forty spontaneous marshalling areas. The reclamation that has been sent from the first moment at which the citizenship turned upside down in spontaneous manifestation, is that the resignation of president Guti?rrez is demanded, but the slogan of ' outside todos' has been added with which they express the rejection to the Ecuadorian political class, that has created one serious political crisis of illegality in Ecuador. ecuadorinmediato.com Outgrowth of uprising - government defies IMF http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2015 ECUADOR: Further protests - protesters target oil production The unleashing of repression led to mass popular resistance, with state buildings trashed and looted http://english.people.com.cn/200508/18/eng20050818_203279.html http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2005/08/24/afx2190591.html http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a23.shtml FRANCE: Mass uprising over police repression and social alienation after youths are electrocuted fleeing cops Running battles pitted riot cops against large numbers of youths, many of them hooded, who built barricades out of bins and burning cars Crowds of youths burn symbols of authority, build barricades and fight police in Paris and other cities The CRS presence, intended to suppress the revolt, is taken as a provocation, sustaining ongoing unrest The revolt, focused in minority communities, forced police to flee on several occasions Insurgents are demanding the resignation of the quasi-fascist minister Sarkozy, whose crackdown freakery has fuelled unrest Police stations were besieged during the unrest, and insurgents formed teams to fan out and outmanoeuvre police Insurgents showed sophisticated tactical awareness, forming small groups which evaded police assaults As statists downplayed the unrest and engaged in macho posturing, it escalated repeatedly, with police lured into ambushes on the eleventh night Unrest spread from Paris to 300 other towns and even into Belgium and Germany The state went from one repressive measure to another, flooding areas with police and using archaic fascist/colonial curfew laws designed to smash the Algerian independence struggle A bigot was killed after picking on youths seen burning rubbish bins, as youths defend themselves against the threat of arrest (NEWSCLIPPING COMPILATIONS) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3155 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3157 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3160 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3161 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3156 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3158 Analysis and political appeals (compilation) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3159 More links http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3111 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3115 As the unrest calms in Paris, it begins in other places Police curfews spark unrest in Lyon, with youths fighting police in the city centre Sarkozy is forced to flee as crowds disrupt a speech to cops http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3195 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3196 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3197 G8 PROTESTS - EDINBURGH, GLENEAGLES, AUCHTERADER, STIRLING Liberals try to hijack dissent, head off effective protest http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1633 Protest suppression threats create possibility of unrest http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1632 Smygo archive of mainstream media stories http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6473 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6497 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6511 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6555 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6580 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6649 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6633 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6683 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6659 G8 protests http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news503.htm G8 protests roundup http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/633/633p16.htm Massive but ineffectual "Make Poverty History" demo supports debt cancellation http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/02/uk.g8.edinburgh.ap/ http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/02/world/main705975.shtml http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/07/02/poverty_protesters_march_in_scotland/ http://english.people.com.cn/200507/04/eng20050704_193869.html http://politics.guardian.co.uk/development/comment/0,15709,1520216,00.html Mass march on eve of summit - thousands attend but little action organised http://www.workerspower.com/index.php?id=47,750,0,0,1,0 Anarchists attacked by police while joining mass march Police attack distorted by media as part of authoritarian hype http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/07/315846.html http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=731222005 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1678699,00.html http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=730822005 Virtual rally accompanies mass demo http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2139385/g8-protests-virtual Sail 8 boat protest flops http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/03/usail8.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/07/03/ixportaltop.html Orkney anti-poverty march http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20227.htm Jews against the G8 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6693 G8 July 5 - street carnival/protest held in Edinburgh http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/07/05/1120329419394.html http://worldrevolution.org.uk/index.php?id=36,139,0,0,1,0 http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/&articleid=244520 http://www.sabcnews.com/world/other/0,2172,107700,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4650343.stm http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15828537%255E910,00.html http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=148291770&p=y48z9z476 http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=244520&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/ http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00041.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00095.html http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=6787 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050703095019973 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050705091830418 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050705091520900 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2005070509081850 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050705072233902 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050705071027636 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050704091522672 http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20227.htm http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6912 http://worldrevolution.org.uk/index.php?id=36,139,0,0,1,0 Media goons blame trouble on protesters as usual, arselick Geldof http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050705091027544 July 6: small protest at Dungavel; others target oil refinery http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=745702005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4653843.stm http://www.workerspower.com/index.php?id=47,752,0,0,1,0 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4649365.stm http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=744652005 http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20228.htm http://www.workerspower.com/index.php?id=47,752,0,0,1,0 Faslane Big Blockade goes ahead - hundreds blockade the military base http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/04/g8.naval.protest.ap/ http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5040743.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4660711.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1520913,00.html http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29337 http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20227.htm Protesters target Menwith Hill http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=6789 1500 on anti-war march http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20227.htm July 7 - protesters march on G8 and tear down perimeter fence Police attack with dogs, helicopters and riot goons http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=354846&in_page_id=1770 http://www.workerspower.com/index.php?id=47,753,0,0,1,0 Police play cat-and-mouse with Auchterader march, try to ban and then are forced to back down by the threat of unrest Protesters blocked from attending by police repression held protests and blocked roads in Edinburgh Sell-out Geldof also staged his own sectarian march http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2005/July/theworld_July152.xml§ion=theworld http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw1120673160888B261&set_id= http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/07/07/2003262537 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050706071147661 http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1733043,00.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050706-08063700-bc-g8-protests.xml http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2005/July/theworld_July150.xml§ion=theworld&col= http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=749692005 Thousands of marchers join Auchterader march on summit Some tear down the fence and get inside the security perimeter before being attacked by police http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Police-reinstate-cancelled-G8-protest/2005/07/06/1120329496548.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4654767.stm http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050706/w070650.html http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-summit7jul07,0,1138667.story?coll=la-home-world http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=751692005 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=354846&in_page_id=1770 http://www.channel4.com/news/content/news-storypage.jsp?id=1342194 http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00113.html http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050706222327797 http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20228.htm http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6928 http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4370 http://www.workerspower.com/index.php?id=47,753,0,0,1,0 http://www.channel4.com/news/content/news-storypage.jsp?id=1342194 Protesters kept from Auchterader, attacked by police in Edinburgh http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/article.php3?id_article=843 http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6924 http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20228.htm http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6959 Police attacks on Stirling protesters headed for Auchterader lead to mass unrest A Burger King is targeted and police lines attacked as protesters resist police repression Rail and road links were blockaded by protesters Police were forced to retreat under an onslaught on several occasions Protesters using arm-links pushed back police lines The M9 to Gleneagles was brought to a standstill by blockades and running battles http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4654767.stm http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw1120673160888B261&set_id= http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=751692005 This is how to deal with fascist pigs! Black Block take on police state in Stirling, enforce freedom of movement against police lines, and sab corporations http://www.indymedia.org.uk/rtsp/2005/07/317379.rm Stirling black block Anarchists succeed in storming main road despite repeated police attacks and blockades http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00139.html Report from Stirling and related protests http://www.counterpunch.org/tina07122005.html Campsite besieged http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=894 Fascist pigs blockade Stirling eco-camp This vindictive action was a kneejerk after police were outclassed in clashes in Stirling http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=78706056&p=787x643x Stirling camp besieged http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050707070126511 Police persecution of activists and others - pub besieged http://groups.google.com/group/alt.anarchism/browse_thread/thread/e4a6e11b65a07c6c/2f6863b75f799327?hl=en Rundown of police repression from Legal Defence and Monitoring Group http://groups.google.com/group/alt.anarchism/browse_thread/thread/132565b3e5fe2160/64f68f06f8fc4478?hl=en Police fascism in Stirling http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/586/letters.htm More on repression http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20228.htm In run-up to G8, pigs encourage snitching of unusual actions/people, and SNP support anti-protester crackdowns http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20216.htm Morag Balfour, SSP candidate for Glenrothes, has condemned police requests for personal details of visitors to Fife during the G8 summit as a "disingenuous breach of privacy". Morag was responding to the revelation that hotels, bed and breakfasts, camping and caravan sites were being asked to provide details of bookings coinciding with the summit between 6-8 July 2005. http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20218.htm Pigs try to divert protest from within earshot of Gleneagles, to rural village http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20221.htm As told to SchNEWS: "I went up to the G8 protests with three friends....we were trying to find a quiet spot as far away from the Stirling site as possible. We found a lovely derelict farm, belonging to a friend of a friend of a friend. We put our tents up and twenty minutes later 11 van loads of Met police arrived, 7 of them Armed Response Units....They asked us if we knew each other and when we said "yes" they hauled us out of our cars, handcuffed us, threw us into a cell for 30 hours and finally charged us the next day. "When I'd finally been to court and released on bail (conditions to leave Scotland directly with an escort and not to deviate from a set route etc.) and the police returned my possessions to me, my car keys were missing. It turned out that the Met had stolen all of our cars and sent them to a scrap yard, which wouldn't release them without a ?200 payment. The cars had been legally parked and even the Scottish police were shocked that the Met had stolen them illegally. Anyway, long story short, I was in breach of bail 'cos I couldn't leave Scotland as ordered without my car, as all my keys and my boss's house, business and safe keys were on the keyring...and it all went downhill from there!!" http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news507.htm One attendee at the protests in Scotland last week was sitting at a bus-stop waiting for a bus when the forces of Law and Order come screeching up beside him. Out jumped six of Scotland's Finest who promptly searched him and, having found nothing dubious on him, reached for a half-empty can of lager left under the seat he was on. Said suspect was then arrested for "street drinking" and held for 30 hours. This is despite the fact that the person-in-question has not touched alcohol for 15 years! http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news503.htm Protesters occupy crane in debt relief protest http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=354692&in_page_id=1770 Environmentalists target Grangemouth refinery http://icayrshire.icnetwork.co.uk/othernews/news/tm_objectid=15700681&method=full&siteid=73592&headline=activists-protest-at-oil-refinery-name_page.html GOOD ONE! Bush collides with cop while cycling at summit http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4658327.stm London bombings no shock to activists http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0708-02.htm Class War activist's G8 blog http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00112.html Personal accounts http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00249.html John Ross's account of the G8 events http://www.counterpunch.org/ross07192005.html Personal account from Starhawk http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050705212449201 Irish Dissent report http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050705070910989 Various reports http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6911 Blog from the protests http://worldrevolution.org.uk/index.php?id=36,129,0,0,1,0 Collection of links on the G8 protests http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/resistg8/reports/index.htm G8 ELSEWHERE: Sheffield G8 meeting met with protests despite police state http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2005/398/index.html?id=np4.htm G8 solidarity rally in Houston, Texas http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00027.html Solidarity protest in Kansas City attacked by police http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00135.html Bristol (UK) activists occupy posh flat development project in solidarity with G8 protests http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00136.html Richmond G8 protest disrupts Massey Coal HQ http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050712131312987 West Coast G8 protest http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050708221334880 Anti-G8 critical mass in West Sussex, UK http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050417050053956 School students walk out http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6960 PALO ALTO: Anarchists outwit police on Reclaim the Streets march Police cruiser smashed, and police forced away from march Stores were targeted, and protesters de-arrested as police attacks were repelled Goods were appropriated from some stores while others were trashed http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00319.html http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/05/1738691.php http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/05/1738667.php http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00388.html http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/06/1716119.php http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/06/1716116.php http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/06/1716115.php http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00344.html http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050523145355810 Anarchist anti-war rally in Palo Alto - demonstrators evade police http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/06/1749518.php http://voice.paly.net/view_story.php?id=3051 Second anarchist demo in Palo Alto marks G8 summit http://voice.paly.net/view_story.php?id=3185 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2016 SAN FRANCISCO: Anarchist protest coincides with G8 Anarchists sabbed corporate targets and used news-stands to block police manoeuvres One pig was injured while involved in a vicious attack on protesters Pigs allege protesters tried to block their car with a mattress and set it on fire http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/09/BAprotest09.DTL http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/070905_nw_officer_injured.html http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=3573694&nav=5D7lbwvL http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/10/BAG5UDLNU01.DTL Vindictive statists prosecute protesters for self-defence http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=3588113 http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=3578563 Whinging pigs complain about being outclassed http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=3582142 http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=3581196 RICHMOND: Another G8 solidarity protest - protesters blockade Massey over mountaintop destruction http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783738485 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ldxar1 at tesco.net Mon Nov 21 21:17:48 2005 From: ldxar1 at tesco.net (Andy) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:17:48 -0000 Subject: [Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - worker revolts, summit protests and more Message-ID: <018901c5ef24$18981b90$0202a8c0@WOL> IRAN: Unrest in the mainly Arab area of Khuzestan Anti-regime protesters trashed copshops, cop cars and government buildings This happened after state forces attacked a peaceful pro-independence rally At least one, and maybe up to three, were killed by statists who used live ammo Some protesters fought back with stones; 200 were arrested http://www.keralanext.com/news/indexread.asp?id=182018 http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/04/a061d904-b1d9-422d-ba6e-dd4ee7520924.html http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5BBF33C0-DAB8-45C3-B690-EC0F2BB70FFC.htm http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=161245 More unrest in November as Arab nationalists march and stole police lines http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=37416&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs IRAN: Unrest in Kurdish areas after police attack Iraq election celebration Protesters target vehicles and shopfronts and set up burning barricades Police were also bricked in the revolt in Mahabad http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=32553&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=33892&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs Killing of Kurd sparks protests and unrest Iranian troops deployed in the thousands to suppress mass protests in Iranian Kurdistan Hundreds of protesters with sticks and stones stormed government buildings and military posts There are reports of a vicious state response, including shots from troops and helicopters, and mass arrests http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,12858,1543031,00.html IRAN: Soccer game used as opportunity for protest; police attack fans http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/newswire/news2005/041605-iran.htm IRAN: Mass uprising in Darivan, a suburb of Shiraz, over a land grab More than 1000 locals blockaded roads and burned tyres in anti-government protests The unrest was triggered by plans to seize farmers' land to build a cemetery http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1833 SYRIA: Kurds stage heroic resistance to police attack on separatist march After police attacked a PKK commemoration event, protesters threw stones and trashed police cars http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2005/August/middleeast_August443.xml§ion=middleeast&col= http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B8FC6DA1-82D0-4670-B74A-8B5C408D04DB.htm KURDISTAN/TURKEY: Protests and unrest as state agents accused of bombing murder Locals accuse Turkish intelligence and police agents of planting a bomb aimed at a dissident Protesters threw rocks at cops and attacked government buildings in Hakkari City, Semdinli and other towns http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4430022.stm INDIA: Attacks on minority shrines and mosques by state agents leads to uprising Protesters stone demolition agents and hold them hostage Officials are gheraoed for six hours until demolitions stop http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050418/asp/nation/story_4628949.asp GURGAON, INDIA: Police attack picket lines, sparking controversy and clashes Hundreds were injured as workers defended themselves against the police violence, building barricades and allegedly torching police vehicles Police also made mass arrests Picketers were demanding the reinstatement of sacked colleagues On a second day, workers protested outside a hospital demanding treatment for injured comrades Police again attacked the workers, leading to further clashes Workers used hit-and-run tactics to stay ahead of police lathi-charges Protesters also targeted local authorities for not taking action against the police A bandh is later called to protest the attack, though this is sparsely observed The strike also hit Honda's profits as production slumped at the affected factory http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2131 (compilation of stories) http://www.counterpunch.org/naveen07302005.html http://www.counterpunch.org/sainath07292005.html http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/labo-j30.shtml http://www.countercurrents.org/india-reddy180805.htm INDIA: CITU trade unionists hold united rallies over contract labour, demanding regularisation and other measures Contract labourers storm office after police attacks - several arrested http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/may132005/district1917312005512.asp http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/may132005/district204112005512.asp http://www.hindu.com/2005/05/14/stories/2005051409430300.htm Bengal factory shut down by strikers who blockade it; management driven out http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050516/asp/bengal/story_4745444.asp BANGLADESH: Police attack sweatshop picket line, injuring workers http://independent-bangladesh.com/news/jul/21/21072005ts.htm#A1 http://www.bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidDate=2005-07-21&hidType=LOC&hidRecord=0000000000000000053339 http://nation.ittefaq.com/artman/publish/article_20164.shtml CAMBODIA: Uprising at garment sweatshop after boss disappears http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/article_1028615.php/Cambodian_factory_workers_released_after_riot ZAMBIA: Unrest in mining towns as miners strike and revolt They are in an ongoing strike demanding that the mine company's profits be shared with workers through wage rises Angered by reports the strike had ended and the disappearance of a negotiator, miners confronted police, attacked mine property and tried to storm a supermarket They also smashed shop windows, targeted cars, stoned a corporate executive, and looted mine offices Later, miners allegedly planted explosives to sabotage lighting underground, shutting down the mine An opposition leader demanded to be arrested for inciting the unrest, blaming the government for workers' conditions http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/28 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/33 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/30 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/35 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050720202313483 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2005071616174186 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wrks-j22.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/euro-j15.shtml Police teargas mine safety protesters after accident http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m27.shtml Mine ends with concessions, but workers feel sold-out http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6993 SOUTH AFRICA: Police attack on protesters leads to denunciations Protesters demanding more retrovirals for people with HIV and AIDS were viciously attacked by police Police opened fire with rubber bullets - at least 50 were injured by these and in the crush as people fled http://www.dispatch.co.za/2005/07/15/Easterncape/acops.html http://www.dispatch.co.za/2005/07/16/Easterncape/act.html http://www.gaynz.com/news/default.asp?dismode=article&artid=2603 http://www.gaynz.com/news/default.asp?dismode=article&artid=2607 http://www.news-medical.net/?id=11715 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/13 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/14 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0507/S00152.htm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/15 SOUTH AFRICA: Workers fight police as union march is attacked Workers try to break through police cordons, scuffle with cops and try to un-arrest a worker victimised by police The protest was against privatisation http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=238622&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/ http://www.finance24.com/articles/business/display_article.asp?Nav=ns&lvl2=buss&ArticleID=1518-1786_1706414 SOUTH AFRICA: Municipal workers clash with cops during demonstrations held to coincide with a mass strike Workers spill rubbish bins in the streets in protests over pay, and threw bottles at a manager Others stormed a cordon, tried to tear down a fence, and threw bottles at the police Dozens were arrested as police tried to suppress the protest; official stewards also interfered Strikers also stormed factories to shut down scabbing operations, and one security guard was reportedly stabbed Protests were held at civic centres across the country, including Durban, Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria Meanwhile, the strike by 200,000 municipal workers shut down municipal offices, buses and other services There were conflicting claims about the effectiveness of the strike http://www.sabcnews.com/economy/labour/0,2172,109164,00.html http://www.witness.co.za/content/2005_07/35835.htm http://www.sabcnews.com/economy/labour/0,2172,109201,00.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2745 http://www.capetimes.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=271&fArticleId=2642477 http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20050728064441661C724082 http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=qw1123670166279B241 http://www.sabcnews.com/economy/labour/0,2172,109220,00.html http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=594&art_id=qw112254120124B241 http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=594&art_id=qw1122546780281B241 http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/&articleid=246563 http://www.theherald.co.za/herald/2005/07/28/news/n01_28072005.htm http://www.dispatch.co.za/2005/07/28/Easterncape/amarch.html http://www.sabcnews.com/economy/labour/0,2172,109133,00.html http://www.sabcnews.com/economy/labour/0,2172,109148,00.html http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/&articleid=246530 http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=qw112254120124B241 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http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/&articleid=245140 http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=245140&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/20 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2203 http://www.labournet.net/world/0507/samwu1.html http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/06/28/8278557 http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6941 Deadlock in strike continues into August http://www.labournet.net/world/0508/samwu1.html Union protest as cops fire at peaceful picket http://www.labournet.net/world/0507/samwu2.html PHILLIPINES: Strikers storm Lepanto gold mine http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/labo-j30.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/labo-j18.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/labo-j04.shtml Strike eventually ended with state-mandated compromise http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/lab-j09.shtml KUWAIT: Bangladeshi migrant workers storm Bangladeshi embassy in protest over unpaid wages Passports were looted and cars and other items damaged, as well as the interior of the building which was overrun About 1200 workers were involved http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4486601.stm http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=162201 http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050424/wl_sthasia_afp/kuwaitbangladeshlabour_050424124045 Migrant workers strike over unpaid wages at another company in Kuwait http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=162189 After migrant protest, workers victimised Migrant workers allegedly deflate tyres on cars in protest over death of worker due to medical neglect at sweatshop http://www.arabtimesonline.com/arabtimes/kuwait/Viewdet.asp?ID=5298&cat=a NIGERIA: Workers protest at port management meeting, attempt blockade and disruption http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/25 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/36 PHILLIPINES: Mayor intervenes to avert strike clashes Cops were trying to get scabs into a hotel, and later attacked pickets Workers are striking over bosses' refusal to sign an agreement with the union http://www.thefreeman.com/local/story-20050602-31145.html Hotel could close as strike continues Workers will blockade if management intransigence continues http://www.thefreeman.com/local/story-20050603-31186.html http://www.thefreeman.com/local/story-20050521-30695.html GHANA: Irate workers blockade managers' offices, keeping them inside The stevedores were holding a demonstration inside the plant over deteriorating plant and machinery and poor work conditions http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/9 MARSEILLES: Striking sailors fight cops to shut down port, throwing flares and pieces of metal and turning water cannons against the cops Brand-new cars were trashed, items thrown and fires set as workers defended positions against riot cops They also took refuge on a ship and turned a water cannon on the cops http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=25&story_id=19215&name=Striking+Marseille+seamen+battle+with+riot+police http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050418180127938 Blockade at Marseille port and ferry occupied in protests over privatisation of ferry service http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2005/09/27/ap2246714.html CORSICA, FRANCE: Mass protests and blockades against privatisation - strikes close airports, ports Riot cops launch attacks on pickets blockading a port http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/10/01/corsica.strike.ap/ Corsican ferry occupied in anti-privatisation protest - army attack In response, workers strike in Marseille and revolt in Bastia http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2005/410/index.html?id=np2.htm POLAND: Miners fight police in Warsaw as police interfere with protest over retirement Angry miners fought back against teargas-lobbing cops after at first ignoring police provocations The government backed down over the "reforms" after the unrest http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/pola-a20.shtml TAIWAN/THAILAND: Thai migrant workers revolt over corruption and unpaid wages in Kaohsiung Labourers working on the subway system burnt down a management office during unrest over exploitation They also damaged other buildings and fought police with stones The unrest sparked calls for reform and the sacking of a minister "Late on Sunday August 21, 2005 a violent riot erupted by more than 1,600 ethnic, migrant workers building a mass transit railway project in Kaohsiung Taiwan. Workers set fire to their dormitory in southern Taiwan, burnt cars and hurled rocks at police after some were apprehended." http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2005/08/29/2003269589 http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=49913&version=1&template_id=45&parent_id=25 http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2005/08/24/2003268934 http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/GH24Ae02.html http://www.aglob.ru/en/events/?id=412 http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/09/05/62283.html http://nationmultimedia.com/2005/08/23/headlines/index.php?news=headlines_18407558.html http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2005/08/23/2003268802 http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2005/08/26/opinion/index.php?news=opinion_18437239.html http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=4054http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6924 http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/08/22/taiwan.thaiworkers.reut/index.html Worker revolt opens issues of corruption and poverty http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2005/11/07/2003279103 AFGHANISTAN: Opium destruction stopped by armed protesters who stoned the eradicators and exchanged gunfire with them Dozens of villagers gathered to stop the destruction of their crops Farmers are angry that, while eradication through repression is well-funded, the alternative crop strategies proposed by the government have never emerged; crop destruction thus leads to impoverishment and famine There are unconfirmed reports that one villager died during the clashes http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/4b05b2231975707f7ea0572980e7c660.htm INDIA: Anti-eviction protest attacked in Digha, India The start of the drive saw clashes as residents resisted eviction Police attacked with lathis and teargas to smash a road blockade http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1115067.cms http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1113700.cms ZIMBABWE: As social cleansing continues, mass actions begin to bite There have been uprisings led by women from the townships http://www.socialistunitynetwork.co.uk/voices/gwisai.htm http://www.spa.gov.sa/newsprint.php?extend.252884 http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=817 http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/629/629p20.htm Revolts in Harare as crackdown intensifies - residents throw stones, block roads, loot a shop and damage vehicles Residents fought a pitched battle after vendors resisted police destruction http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A49786 http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=84&art_id=vn20050526112055297C729430 Opposition alliance "bungles protests" http://www.zimbabwesituation.com/jun10a_2005.html#link2 Socialists organise stay-away to protest purges http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1845 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1846 Opponents call for resistance http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1910 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1978 South African anti-privatisation activists' statement http://www.apf.org.za/article.php3?id_article=88 "Residents rioted Thursday night in at least one township on the southern edge of Harare as police arrested street vendors and burned their kiosks." http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050527123156347 Lessons from the general strike http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/lessons_learned_from_the_stay_away_general_strike_in_zimbabwe?PHPSESSID=7ccf617ed753bcd84dc1b90a5976939f Stay-away gets going http://www.pambazuka.org/index.php?id=28517 Work stoppages and street battles in the townships http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6659 WOZA women arrested for protesting against crackdown http://www.pambazuka.org/index.php?id=28727 Social Forum calls for action http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?3,69,3,713 SRI LANKA: Tsunami-devastated villagers stage protests over relief "Nevertheless, a pitched battle erupted in the evening. Hundreds of angry protesters gathered at the Urawatta bridge and blocked the main Colombo-Galle road with a makeshift barricade of rocks, logs and tsunami debris. When police moved in to remove them, demonstrators attempted to beat them off by throwing stones. Those in the forefront of the protest were mainly women. Other demonstrations have taken place in the same areas. On June 12, some 2,000 people from four coastal villages between Ambalangoda and Galle-Paraliya, Totagamuwa, Akurala and Seenigama-used a bus to block the Colombo-Galle highway for hours. Again there was a violent clash as police attacked the protesters with batons and rifle butts. Four people were arrested. The following evening, hundreds of people again blocked the road to demand the immediate release of those arrested. The police were compelled to back down and free the prisoners. After police officials promised to look into the problems, the protests subsided. The protest we witnessed flared up because nothing had been done." http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/sril-j25.shtml BAHRAIN: Clashes at protest over welfare, as police sabotage march on parliament Protesting over the absence of social welfare funds from the budget, unemployed workers and others stormed police lines Hundreds gathered in various places and stormed police lines; 20 people were injured Protesters used sticks and stones after cops attacked people gathering for the protests http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=117226&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=28118 http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=117227&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=28118 INDONESIA: Land grab in Kembangan sparks clashes Marketing office stormed and trashed and documents burnt as 100 protesters took action Many were injured as police stormed the office to end an occupation http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1804 KENYA: Land grab sparks protests and unrest - opponents tear down fences and battle police over the corrupt reallocation of state land to political allies of the powerful http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=39029 EGYPT: Peasants drive off armed goons with stones in dispute over land grab http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7246 TAGUIG, PHILLIPINES: Residents blockade roads to prevent demolition of homes http://news.inq7.net/top/index.php?index=1&story_id=53089 JAIPUR, INDIA: Police massacre protesting farmers after farmers stone police in water dispute http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10330774 http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050614/asp/nation/story_4865007.asp GREECE: Locals resist toxic mud dumping, riot cops attack but protesters fight back http://www.7days.ae/content/view/3427/5/ HOLLAND: Squat evictions resisted, burning barricades built Riot cops stoned, forced to retreat; paint bombs thrown; one eviction delayed by five hours http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00269.html BRAZIL: Squatters resist eviction at two-year-old occupation Police violently stormed the squat, but were met with bricks and sticks from the rooftop - one cop was knocked unconscious http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050817125503637 GHANA: Clashes break out as police attack refugees returning from protest Refugees had marched to the Ivorian border to demand resettlement, but were deported to the camp Once there, they came under attack from police, but resisted and forced the police to retreat Refugees also blocked roads and burnt offices and other parts of the camp during the unrest Many refugees are now on the run because of fear of violence and murder by cops Some participants cited poor food and sanitary conditions as reasons for the revolt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3181 SUDAN: Clashes over attempt to evict internal refugees 14 cops and 20 refugees killed in clashes, as refugees took weapons from offices and stormed copshops This happened after police opened fire on a peaceful protest against the evictions The massive clearance of refugees from a shanty-town settlement to a desert area caused impoverishment and homelessnes http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=47216 MOROCCO: Protests in Tamassint over repression, political imprisonment and earthquake rebuilding As police surround the town, supporters organise a march against political imprisonment Protesters meet police attack with stones; cops injured and cop cars damaged Sit-ins organised as protesters surround, besiege Tamassint http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/article.php3?id_article=810 Tamassint prisoners organise hunger strike http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/article.php3?id_article=811 Hunger strike by students at Fez university http://uganda.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/06/21/solidarity_with_the_student_of_fes_university.html OGONILAND, NIGERIA: Murder of youth by police sparks uprising Hundreds of protesters carried the body in a procession before storming a copshop The copshop and cop cars were trashed, and cops forced to flee http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20050517T170000-0500_80664_OBS_NIGERIAN_POLICE_KILL_YOUTH_IN_UNEMPLOYMENT_PROTEST__TRIGGERING_RIOT.asp http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L17624400.htm http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050517/API/505171262 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-nigeria-riot,1,6977217.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apafrica_story.asp?category=1105&slug=Nigeria%20Riot Uprising against police in Ogale, in the Niger Delta, after police shoot a protester dead Youths stormed and torched a copshop and trashed police cars, and protested at oil plants http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1733 NIGERIA: Revolt by traders as anti-"crime" vigilantes carry out mass arrests and abuse Claims that 32 people died in vigilante cells sparked unrest among traders in Aba http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3369674a12,00.html SRI LANKA: Pigs open fire on protesters demanding removal of a checkpoint - murder one protester http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4530717.stm KOREA: Peace protesters storm airforce base and fight back when attacked by cops The protest was about the deployment of US missiles in Korea Protesters against a US military base expansion plan clash with cops Protesters threw stones and steel pipes in an attempt to storm the base at Pyongtaek About 20 pigs and 80 civilians were injured in the clashes http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_191202711.html http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=12194 http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200507/11/200507112245305079900090309031.htmlhttp://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/s1368973.htm http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050713124916675 http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/s1379601.htm WEST PAPUA: Clash in Papua over show-trial of separatists - cops attack protesters, protesters respond by stoning cops and trashing buildings Protesters also threw bottles at the courthouse http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/SODA-6C99N4?OpenDocument http://www.westpapuanews.com/articles/publish/article_2292.shtml Student protesters demand dismissal of top pig over repression http://www.asia-pacific-action.org/news/jp_papuastudemandkapolribdismissed_170505.htm Protesters denounce UN decision to give Papua to Indonesia http://www.kabar-irian.com/news/msg03375.html WASHINGTON: IMF and World Bank meetings protested at A16 mobilisation "Spank the Bank" event attracts hundreds, but well down on some previous years Only a few hundred turn out for small protests away from the venue However, tens of thousands march against Iraq war and IMF/WB in Washington http://jakarta.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=147 http://indymedia.org.nz/feature/display/31403/index.php http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59447-2005Apr16.html http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0418-06.htm http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2005041808563614 http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/09/F37E473D-2A29-453A-9D17-111BFAABD827.html http://www.akbank.com/en/reuter_news.asp?Story_ID=nN24309340 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3066 Pictures http://www.globaljusticeecology.org/index.php?name=news ASSAM, INDIA: Protests shut down World Bank meeting for two hours Protesters from local activist groups occupied the building and forced the delaying of workshops http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3184 POLAND: Protests organised against Council of Europe summit Warsaw turned into "fortress city" for summit Protesters tried to storm the blockade around the meeting venue, and resisted police attempts to surround them; 11 were later arrested http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00292.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00225.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00261.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6385 UKRAINE: Protest at WEF forum - activists picket meeting, moon photographers http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00313.html http://groups.google.com/group/alt.anarchism/browse_thread/thread/786b861a65cd7ce9/08887abb2c2df255?hl=en GREECE: Uprising in Salonika against economic summit - 1000 anarchists fight cops http://chiapas.mediosindependientes.org/display.php3?article_id=115016 Video http://d.turboupload.com/d/60833/Salonica_Greece_Riot_10-9-05.rar.html MAYDAY GERMANY: Clashes as police attack anarchist protesters Police side with Nazis and attack thousands of counter-demonstrators Later, they disrupt an anarchist demo against rightist media barons, leading to further clashes Later, heroic anarchists storm police lines at a street festival Police attack revellers and arrest 65, and there are some clashes, but less than last year - apparently because there's less cops about http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L01684673.htm http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5740462&cKey=1114972519000 http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00025.html http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2005050115581390 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6258 LONDON MAYDAY: Police attack protesters near Hackney supermarket 80 or so had converged on the supermarket for unspecified actions (NB how cops claim to have "foiled" the protest - this is not what Indymedia posters are saying...) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4503967.stm http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4489353 http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/PA_NEWA10688321114962808A00?source=PA%20Feed http://www.lse.co.uk/uknews.asp?story=YW112188Q&news_headline=police_disperse_may_day_store_protestors&nw=yes TOLEDO, US: Anti-fascist uprising as fascists descend on town Rock-throwing protesters forced cancellation of a Nazi march and battled cops http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1220600 http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/10/16/anti_nazi_protest_turns_violent_in_ohio/ http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051023/NEWS16/51023002/-1/NEWS SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA: Students hold Tent City protest against cuts and low pay for staff Hundreds of students are rallying and camping out in the area, dubbed as an alternative university Police have attacked the camp and made violent arrests, and the university are threatening to expel protesters http://www.theksbwchannel.com/education/4395006/detail.html http://www.nbc11.com/news/4393614/detail.html http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2005/April/19/local/stories/01local.htm GERMANY: Anti-Nazis rally to counter Nazis in Erfurt and Essen Oinkers attack Erfurt anti-Nazis with water cannons http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1113619391666 DENMARK: Thousands protest Bush visit http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-07/06/content_3184845.htm http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=148526162&p=y485z6868 http://english.people.com.cn/200507/07/eng20050707_194522.html http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/fremmedsprog/English/article.jhtml?articleID=263280 The day before, hundreds of anarchist youths marched against Bush and burnt US flags http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=148430852&p=y4843y558 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-07/06/content_3181232.htm http://www.etaiwannews.com/World/2005/07/07/1120702303.htm AUSTRALIA: Immigrant solidarity protesters target Villawood Baxter-style protests on a smaller scale target the concentration camp in Sydney http://baxter05.info/?action=newswire&parentview=754 Villawood residents stage rooftop protest http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/14/1089694426302.html Vigil at Melbourne immigrant detention camp http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/625/625p6g.htm BAXTER 05 - coverage from Indymedia http://www.indymedia.org/en/2005/04/114240.shtml http://baxter05.info/?action=newswire&parentview=507 http://perth.indymedia.org/?action=newswire&parentview=9584 http://sydney.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=53639&group=webcast http://baxter05.info/?action=newswire&parentview=486 http://baxter05.info/?action=newswire&parentview=684 http://darwin.indymedia.org/?action=newswire&parentview=4062 HOUSTON, TEXAS: Protesters oppose Halliburton meeting Protesters flank the area around the meeting Some occupy the building itself for a period Police viciously attack protesters, using "pain compliance" torture methods http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=6089 http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/ap/2005/05/18/ap2038357.html http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3187759 http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050518-033352-5840r.htm http://www.click2houston.com/news/4503548/detail.html http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/apbiz_story.asp?category=1310&slug=Halliburton%20Shareholders http://www.latimes.com/business/investing/wire/sns-ap-halliburton-shareholders,1,6256330.story?coll=sns-ap-investing-headlines http://news.monstersandcritics.com/business/article_1001054.php/Protests_at_Halliburton_meeting http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050518/APF/505181018 http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/business/11677715.htm http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0519-21.htm http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050519074633521 CZECH REPUBLIC: Raver murdered by cops during vicious police attack on legal rave Hundreds injured in vicious police attack against the Czechtek festival Some reports suggest self-defence by some in the crowd http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7428 http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0809-09.htm http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050730/w073046.html GREECE: Protesters storm asylum concentration camp, break through police lines and enter the centre http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news511.htm Video http://athens.indymedia.org/media_file.php?id=190&type=video Anarchists repel fascist demo http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050918150056638 http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050917-22174900-bc-greece-protestclash.xml -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ldxar1 at tesco.net Mon Nov 21 21:17:56 2005 From: ldxar1 at tesco.net (Andy) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:17:56 -0000 Subject: [Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - student revolts, urban uprisings, prison uprisings Message-ID: <019801c5ef24$1e54c420$0202a8c0@WOL> CAMEROON/AMBAZONIA: BUEA UNIVERSITY Cameroon riot cops murder strikers 2 strikers at the University of Buea shot dead by riot cops Students ransack parts of the campus and fight cops They build barricades after a sit-in is smashed The Governor is prevented from entering the campus Demands included free or cheaper food, lower fees, the right to resit exams, and other matters Police intervention takes the form of humiliation and abuse of students Student union formed as result of strike http://ambazonia.indymedia.org/en//2005/04/1015.shtml http://www.postnewsline.com/2005/04/stronguniversit.html http://www.postnewsline.com/special_report_the_university_of_buea_crisis/ http://www.africanindependent.com/cam_university_riots_ubsu_onekon_intv_conditions051205.html http://www.postnewsline.com/2005/04/strongpolice_ki.html http://southafrica.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/8093_comment.php http://www.postnewsline.com/2005/04/strongminister_.html#more http://www.postwatchmagazine.com/2005/05/biya_deploys_wa.html http://www.postwatchmagazine.com/2005/06/making_the_scnc.html#more http://www.postwatchmagazine.com/2005/06/what_the_studen.html#more http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?3,69,3,710 http://www.all4all.org/2005/05/1871.shtml http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=46886 http://www.postnewsline.com/2005/05/strongthe_battl.html Strike called off after concessions on food prices, resits and other matters http://www.postnewsline.com/special_report_the_university_of_buea_crisis/ Students in Yaounde have also taken to the streets http://ambazonia.indymedia.org/en//2005/04/1007.shtml ZAMBIA: Student uprising over refusal to raise grants Protesters stoned vehicles and blockaded main roads, and forced the Presidential motorcade to turn back Students battled police for three hours before being pushed back onto the university campus http://www.namibian.com.na/2005/May/world/05B2BF4FEF.html http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=84&art_id=qw1116315363895B251 Zambia police arrest 51 university students at riot 18 May 2005 17:37:58 GMT Source: Reuters (full report) LUSAKA, May 18 (Reuters) - Zambian police arrested 51 university students on Wednesday after they began stoning cars during protests which began three days ago, police said. "The situation is very tense at Unza (the University of Zambia) and we have called in police reinforcements. The students have blocked the main road (to Lusaka airport) and they are burning car tyres," police spokeswoman Brenda Muntemba said. Students say the protests are over a government refusal to increase their funding. Muntemba said the students had started stoning vehicles and he had not ruled out witness reports that motorists were also being targeted. Police had arrested 51 students and charged them with riotous conduct, she said. A student leader told Reuters the protests were sparked by a government refusal of a request to raise their research allowances to $170 from $85. "Our project allowances have remained static for almost 10 years. We want the government to listen to us and increase these allowances," a student leader said on condition of anonymity. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18443583.htm 51 students arrested as repression escalates http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/18/content_2968564.htm Unrest continues as students try to march on a TV station Cops attack with teargas http://www.zamnet.zm/newsys/news/viewnews.cgi?category=3&id=1116495008 Students block roads in grants protest http://allafrica.com/stories/200505190270.html MADAGASCAR: Student uprising over cost of living Student protesters burnt tyres and threw rocks and petrol bombs at cops, who attacked with tear gas At least five cops were put out of action, leaving their comrades annoyed Students are enraged by price rises, meagre subsistence allowances and cutbacks http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=84&art_id=qw1114014063845B253 UGANDA: Student unrest in Kampala over increase in university fees Students from Makerere University protested the fee increases and fought police Students burn cars, loot shops fight police and barricade themselves into hostels, as unrest paralysed several parts of the city Police murdered one student during the unrest, and later arrested dozens of students http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3173 http://southafrica.indymedia.org/news/2004/11/7029_comment.php KERALA, INDIA: Students protesting admission standards clash with cops Cops blocking the planned route were stoned as students tried to march on college buildings http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:1jLt3xg1wX0J:www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/004200507022023.htm+%22Students%27+protest+turns+violent,+30+injured%22&hl=en NIGERIA: Students protest fuel prices - state office stormed and looted, shops closed down Riot cops murder three protesters while trying to suppress the unrest http://www.thetidenews.com/article.aspx?qrDate=09/02/2005&qrTitle=Students%20protest%20fuel%20price%20hike%20in%20Edo&qrColumn=NIGER%20DELTA KENYA: Motorist shoots student during campus revolt in Nairobi http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/40 PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Students torch vice-chancellor's car in protest over expulsions Several other cars were also torched in the unrest as part of a student boycott The protest is over expulsions of students with low grades Students stoned a security vehicle before coming under attack from armed cops The vice-chancellor was eventually forced to step down http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/png-uni-head-steps-down-over-student-unrest/2005/07/31/1122748527382.html http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Police-fire-warning-shots-at-PNG-uni/2005/07/26/1122143830270.html http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411749/600386 http://www.abcasiapacific.com/news/stories/asiapacific_stories_1415398.htm http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/s1413789.htm http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/s1413045.htm http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/s1412913.htm http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/s1412691.htm PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Police murder schoolchildren resisting removal of headmaster Police sent to arrest the teacher for fighting police found the building blockaded, and students fought police violence by throwing stones and other items At least two children were killed and 35 wounded as police opened fire with guns http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4396228.stm http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,17140979%5E663,00.html http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1497396.htm UGANDA: Protesting school students clash with police and target home of school boss http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/23 ZAMBIA: High-school students revolt over water shortages, trashing school buildings http://www.zamnet.zm/newsys/news/viewnews.cgi?category=5&id=1120202891 INDIA: Students take over Jadavpur University in protest over exclusions Students stage fast and sit-in; attacked and electrocuted by cops When this abuse was exposed, students and others mobilised on a huge scale Spontaneous student general strike held, with mass rallies and other actions University turned into liberated zone as painters, singers and other artists move in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1646 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1648 http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050418/asp/calcutta/story_4616269.asp http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050419/asp/calcutta/story_4630712.asp http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050420/asp/calcutta/story_4634882.asp SUDAN: Two students killed as security forces attack protests http://www.reuters.co.za/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp;:426376f1:12f8ec70e7c389e7?type=topNews&localeKey=en_ZA&storyID=8208748 KOLKATA, INDIA: Student protests http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6894 PAKISTAN: Student uprising at Gomal University after student is murdered by security guard - vice-chancellor's car torched http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_17-5-2005_pg7_29 GREECE: Police officer shoots student during impromptu demo against the officer's defiance of a ban on cops in universities In response, thousands of anarchists and human rights activists march Protesters faced off with police, firebombed banks and built burning barricades Police also attacked a hundreds-strong solidarity demo demanding the release of detained protesters http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1708346,00.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00137.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00180.html http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/59 http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/55 http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/51 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050520112418402 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2005051019034060 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2005051122230245 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050512075547632 http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/05/11/6447964 http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/05/11/6346371 http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/05/13/4164774 Further mass protests as 2500 gather for anti-fascist demo - cops attack protesters and unleash repression Protesters respond with Molotovs and pitched battles erupt http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050520202001190 http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/05/23/4197898 http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/05/25/2078728 Youths target riot cop van in reprisal for shooting http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050515181929277 QUEBEC STUDENT STRIKE VICTORY! "The seven week Qu?bec student strike launched on February 24 ended with the government backing down on certain issues and a radicalization of many Qu?b?cois youth." http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/13/53919/4820 http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/16/101448/899 http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6917/691711.html Quebec student strike - a battle won, a struggle that must continue http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/article.php3?id_article=780 Quebec student unrest http://quebec.indymedia.org/en/node.php?id=20474 LIBERIA: Former child soldiers rise up in revolt over unpaid school fees UN troops fired in the air after the rebels trashed shops and a voting station http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1703604,00.html SOUTH AFRICA: New wave of urban unrest over services, cutbacks http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/safr-j14.shtml CATO CREST, DURBAN: Squatters battle police Informal residents staged a peaceful march which was disrupted by police repression When they realised police wouldn't let them march, they stormed police lines and stoned police Residents are angry that they are still in an informal settlement when low-cost housing is being built in the area Police drove the protesters off, but they responded by building burning barricades at the entrance to their settlement http://www.dailynews.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=499&fArticleId=2500562 PHOMOLONG TOWNSHIP, SOUTH AFRICA: Clashes with police as residents protest over service delivery Municipal buildings burnt down and roads barricaded as residents defy police attacks for several days http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1685819,00.html DURBAN: Revolt and blockade in settlement http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/622/622p20c.htm Durban residents confront cops when barred from meeting PM http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/625/625p13c.htm DURBAN: Hundreds of informal traders yesterday pitted themselves against Metro Police in Durban during an angry protest against the city's latest campaign http://www.themercury.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=283&fArticleId=2524918 PORT ELIZABETH: Cops stoned and burning barricades erected as mayor visits township Mayor forced to flee as protests over service delivery continued http://iafrica.com/news/sa/618253.htm Protesters in Port Elizabeth block roads in housing protest http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/general/0,2172,104756,00.html Residents of De Doorns township blockade road in services protest Burning tyres and mounds of rubbish shut the road Two protesters and two cops were injured in clashes, and police attacked with rubber bullets http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=244715&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/ Resistance in Cape Town - residents burn tyres, blockade roads and stage nonviolent protests http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2014 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/06/05/wsafr05.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/06/05/ixportal.html http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1709889,00.html http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/628/628p17b.htm Housing protests in Port Elizabeth and Cape Town - roads blocked http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4595235.stm http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6658 PORT ELIZABETH: Housing protesters block road with burning barricades http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,6119,2-7-1442_1743095,00.html WORCESTER/DE DOORNS and KHAYELITSHA: Roads blocked in township protests "If it means we must make this country ungovernable, we will do so until they listen to our demands" http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=244715&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/ FRANKFORT, ORANGE FREE STATE: Residents barricade roads, and resist police attacks in protests over service delivery They also stage later protests over political trials of protesters http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1754849,00.html http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1754117,00.html KGOTSONG, BLOEMFONTEIN: Residents battle police, blockade roads and trash buildings in protests over service delivery http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1758603,00.html http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1758483,00.html http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=qw1124798941505B216 VRYBURG TOWNSHIP: Protesters throw petrol bombs, block roads in protests over dismissal of councillors http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1768881,00.html JAMAICA: Uprising after police assassination - gang and community members in Spanish Town kept police out for two days in Spanish Town Some residents fought police with guns, while others built burning barricades http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20051031T210000-0500_91568_OBS_GANGSTERS_RULE.asp http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20051103T220000-0500_91729_OBS_PASTOR_BLAMES_POLITICIANS_FOR_RIOT_IN_SPANISH_TOWN.asp Uprising after police kill man and allegedly torch his house to cover it up Protesters expelled police from the community and built burning barricades http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20050412T220000-0500_78624_OBS_ANOTHER_POLICE_SHOOTING__ANOTHER_PROTEST.asp JORDAN "Police manhunt sparks riot, attacks in Jordan" "Rioters have smashed 25 cars and beat policemen looking for two criminals in a poor eastern district of the Jordanian capital, a police spokesman said yesterday." NIGERIA: Orile police division attacked after allegedly killing a bus passenger Residents threatened to torch a police station and blocked roads http://www.independentng.com/news/nnsep090507.htm TRINIDAD: Unrest over violent arrest and frame-up - police prevented by crowds from taking suspect Protesters blockade roads with rubbish and old appliances, set up burning barricades, and throwing bottles and stones Cops opened fire when surrounded by protesters http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=92724249 http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=92919863 NEW YORK: Protesters against a supermarket development destroy the building in a storm of bricks http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/328269p-280590c.html BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT: Small uprising after motorcyclist dies - police chase motorcyclist to death leading to unrest http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1915 NEW ORLEANS: Armed insurrection in flood-devastated city As army occupies and stops people leaving, there are reports of residents arming themselves and shooting at national guard units and helicopters http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent7777/2443853.html Police attack "looters" instead of rescuing survivors http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/sep2005/loot-s01.shtml Blackwater mercenary goons deployed to occupy New Orleans http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091005A.shtml Genocide in New Orleans, and other news from Indymedia http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2543 Evacuees, supporters protest at White House http://www.nbc4.com/news/4950213/detail.html McGEHEE, ARKANSAS: Locals stand up to police intimidation Police "gun" raid turns sour for pigs as locals rebel, back down officers Community uprising after cops blockade area http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050715124648261 http://www.pbcommercial.com/articles/2005/07/14/news/news2.txt McKINNEY: Freedom fighters battle police over fireworks ban Attack on freedom of assembly by fascistic police is met with defiance and resistance Police sent to attack revellers are hit with fireworks and bottles, despite viciously attacking with teargas and injuring bystanders Police who choose to attack instead of retreat, claim to have "no choice" because freedom is unthinkable for them http://www.courier-gazette.com/articles/2005/07/06/news/news01.txt http://www.texarkanagazette.com/articles/2005/07/06/local_news/news/news04.txt GREECE: Uprising by Iraklis volleyball fans barred from greeting victorious players at the local airport Riot police sabotaged attempts for a celebration by blocking the airport Angry fans responded by storming police lines and throwing rocks and petrol bombs http://www.freep.com/news/latestnews/pm3574_20050404.htm http://www.iht.com/getina/files/237309.html BIRMINGHAM: Uprising in the Lozells area as inter-ethnic tensions spill over into fighting with police Although unrest began as tension between black and Asian youths, it later included attacks on lines of riot cops sent to interfere with freedom of movement and otherwise violate rights http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3146 VENICE, ITALY: Attack on "tramp" with dogs sparks unrest on ferry - "punks" resist repressers and hospitalise bigots http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200508291540-1112-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia BRITISH-OCCUPIED IRELAND: Residents stage sit-in and later revolt over Loyalist parade in Ardoyne, and others resist in Derry and elsewhere http://www.newsletter.co.uk/story/21369 http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=149137558&p=y49y38z64 http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5936858&cKey=1121160912000 http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/12/nireland.parade.reut/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5136415,00.html http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=116990&Sn=WORL&IssueID=28115 http://www.utvlive.com/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=62518&pt=n http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/08/08ireland.html Activists later target police with firebombs in clashes sparked by the repression 60 pigs injured while attacking protesters with water cannons http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/07/12/international/i063201D49.DTL http://politics.guardian.co.uk/northernirelandassembly/story/0,9061,1527327,00.html http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15730114&method=full&siteid=89488&headline=60-cops-hurt-in-orange-protest-riot--name_page.html Protesters pipe-bomb pigs during unrest over Orange parade in Ardoyne http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=149243458&p=y49z44y64 http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=44458&version=1&template_id=38&parent_id=20 Unrest in Cushendall over violent arrest by police Cops attack with CS spray after being surrounded by an angry crowd Three cops were injured during the showdown, and cops were forced to withdraw http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4213958.stm Cops also face mass unrest over alleged brutality in arrests in a Protestant area http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=16849 Unity against state violence: Catholic joins Loyalist uprising across sectarian divide, to strike at the common enemy - cops http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4256152.stm PERPIGNAN, FRANCE: Racist killing sparks mass revolt by North Africans http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8DF43FF5-34D0-48BA-A9DB-1661CFC5D139.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4594019.stm AUSTRALIA: Small uprising in Inverell after violent arrest by cops http://www.abc.net.au/news/items/200509/1452962.htm?newengland ISRAEL: 500 youths riot in Afula, damage property, burn trees By Eli Ashkenazi, Haaretz Correspondent Approximately 500 youth rioted late Friday night in the center of the northern city of Afula, vandalizing property and setting fire to trees. Damage was cause to office buildings in the area. Police arrested four of the youths, all residents of Afula, two aged 16, and two 21-year-old men. They will be brought for a remand extension Saturday evening. The reason for the disturbance was not apparent. The youths gathered at Independence Square in the city's center and began to riot. During the disturbance, two palm trees were set on fire. The fire spread, damaging an electric pole and a dental clinic nearby. The youths attempted to attack police officers, including Border Police, Yassam riot police and firefighters. There were no injuries. http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=617682 JAMAICA: Prison uprising and breakout attempt - several killed http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/2005/04/02/prison.shtml http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050402-10015900-bc-jamaica-prisonriot.xml TURKEY: Prison uprising in protest over disciplinary action against inmate Prisoners started a fire as part of the protests http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1729 LUCEBURG, GEORGE COUNTY, AMERICA Uprising at Christian borstal causes massive damage http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050412/NEWS01/504120304/1002 ARIZONA: Prison unrest - screw slips over and injures himself http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/news/local/11356940.htm RENOUS, NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA: Prison uprising - yard trashed, buildings attacked Prisoners refuse to return to cells in protest; some reports blame prison smoking bans http://www.muskogeephoenix.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050426/NEWS01/50426003 http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1113769142239_34/?hub=Canada http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/04/17/1001344-cp.html http://www.smokersclubinc.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=723 http://maritimes.indymedia.org/news/2005/06/10430.php SWEDEN: Prison uprising wrecks prison - prisoners protest overcrowding http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=1634&date=20050618 MALTA: Uprising at prison over interference in trading http://www.maltamedia.com/news/2005/ln/article_6589.shtml PAKISTAN: Prison uprising at Sargodha jail in Pakistani-controlled Punjab - screws taken hostage, 20 injured including 10 screws http://pakistantimes.net/2005/06/25/top16.htm http://www.arap.so36.net/prison/riot/riot2005.html PITTSBURGH: Prison unrest sends screws to hospital in dispute over TV rights INDIA: Unrest at Cuddalore jail QUEBEC: Prisoners barricade themselves into cells to protest jail conditions WISCONSIN: Prisoners rush guard in prisoner removal dispute TASMANIA: Prison uprising followed by siege TURKEY: Prisoners start fires at maximum-security prison SULLIVAN COUNTY, US: Prisoners burn materials and pelt screws in jail revolt MADISON: Prisoners revolt over searches and theft of items by screws http://www.arap.so36.net/prison/riot/riot2005.html TULARE COUNTY, US: Prisoners "organise resistance" and defy guards http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050611/NEWS01/506110326 NIGERIA: Uprising at Ikoyi Prison over attempts to move prisoners At least 16 people, 6 screws and 10 cons, died during clashes as screws made violent attempts to quell protests The record office and chief warder's office were torched during the unrest Three prisoners were murdered by screws during the unrest http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1803432,00.html http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=28827 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/39 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3060 Later reports reveal that overcrowding and prisoner transfers without consent were the main causes of the revolt, and that 10 inmates and 5 screws died during the revolt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3075 http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1803432,00.html SWANNANOA, US: Youths rise up in cafeteria at youth centre http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050602/NEWS/50602004/1001 AUSTRALIA: Prisoners at Risdon Prison hold officer hostage and seize control of reception area for three days http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/628/628p10.htm BAXTER CONCENTRATION CAMP: Refugees revolt against mistreatment, damage buildings http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Riot-causes-70000-damage-to-Baxter/2005/07/25/1122143765672.html IRAN: Major prison revolt in Tehran - cell removals resisted, screws captured http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2783 PHILLIPINES: Uprising at Bulacan jail - prisoners resist as screws attack celebration - one prisoner killed, probably by screw gunfire http://news.inq7.net/regions/index.php?index=1&story_id=46687 MINERAL WELLS, HOUSTON: "Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler confirmed a "riot" was in progress at the Corrections Corporation of America pre-parole transfer facility on Highway 180" (WFAA) "Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler. Fowler said his department was called Saturday night about the riot." (Houston Chronicle) CALIPATRIA, US: Uprising at prison; screws murder inmate during unrest linked to overcrowding http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20050904-9999-1n4prison.html THAILAND: Uprising at Lobpuri prison http://www.thaisnews.com/news_detail.php?newsid=144777 AGRA, JORDAN: Uprising over torture and mistreatment at Agra jail after suicide by inmate Screws murdered one insurgent inmate during six hours of unrest Prisoners seized control of the jail for two hours, burnt buildings and fought screws The Jordanian government has been forced to look into abuses due to the unrest http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3065 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4280830.stm UK: Protests, uprising at Strangeways Prison over mistreatment http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/men/news/s/173/173349_riot_squad_drama_at_strangeways.html BRAZIL: Prison revolt after gunmen aid escape bid; prisoners trash parts of prison and fight screws Three died in clashes between the gunmen and screws, including 1 screw and 2 inmates http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/29/content_3416075.htm http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/28/content_3412642.htm RENOUS, CANADA: Prison revolt - prisoners refuse to return to cells http://maritimes.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/10142.php HINDLEY YOI, UK: Uprising at youth prison http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1586671,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/4314994.stm http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/men/news/s/176/176851_prison_youths_in_7hour_riot.html ARGENTINA: Inmates burn down prison in protest over repression - 32 killed as screws trap inmates in burning building http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-10/17/content_485578.htm http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200510/s1483464.htm EDO, NIGERIA: 120 inmates escape during uprising http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3089 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Violent riot in Moca prison: 1 dead, several injured MOCA.- One dead and several injured is the result of a violent riot in the jail of this municipality. while the prison compound's security was reinforced with members of the National Police from Santiago and other nearby town. The riot in the facility, which is managed by the National army, which caused alarm in the vicinity where it is the prison enclosure, was began when several inmates resisted being transferred to the Public Jail at Puerto Plata. The body of the inmate, who has yet to be identified, was taken to the public hospital here. Preliminary reports indicate that there are several wounded in the prison, located in the country's north central region. http://www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=6677 KYRGYZSTAN: Insurrection at prison colony - prisoners kill politicians and take control Gunfire was heard as police stormed the building Uprisings sparked by poor living conditions forced screws to withdraw from a number of prisons Only a month later did the police dare to attack again http://www.chinapost.com.tw/i_latestdetail.asp?id=32155 http://www.turkishweekly.net/comments.php?id=1791 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-10/21/content_3664367.htm http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/10/D5559D09-DB4F-460F-BF2D-10E541185AAF.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3135 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3137 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3140 ROXBURY: Prisoners block cell doors in protest over restrictions on personal items http://www.herald-mail.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=123312&format=html SAN DIMAS: Small uprising at US youth prison; windows smashed http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_3145515 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ldxar1 at tesco.net Mon Nov 21 21:18:03 2005 From: ldxar1 at tesco.net (Andy) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:18:03 -0000 Subject: [Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - global troublespots (Western Sahara, Kashmir, Manipur, Palestine) Message-ID: <019e01c5ef24$2279b5b0$0202a8c0@WOL> WESTERN SAHARA: New intifada breaks out - students and others protest Defiance and confrontations abound as security forces attack demonstrators and jail some for long terms Protests begin after a crackdown on a small protest over a transfer of a prisoner to Morocco This sparked larger protests in El Aaiun which later spread to other cities, including the Saharawi community within Morocco http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2005053113164878 http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6932/693260.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6925/692551.html http://www.afrol.com/articles/16438 MANIPUR: Women protest against militants' bandhs http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1317514,000900030008.htm http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=1.09.120405.apr05 Protests against planned eviction of Lei-Ingkol village http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=3.12.110505.may05 Teachers launch indefinite strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a27.shtml Journalists strike to protest pressure from armed opposition groups http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050618/asp/northeast/story_4882186.asp Naga students burn government offices in protest over lathicharge http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=Naga+students+protest+govt+decision&id=75717 Students stage 2-day shutdown to protest abduction of student unionist by armed opposition group http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=114245&n_date=20050907&cat=India Protests after police killing echo last year's uprising - protesters march on home of state official http://www.telegraphindia.com/1051012/asp/northeast/story_5346949.asp http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3079 Journalists strike over threats from armed opposition groups http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3130 Medical staff stage dharna over similar issues http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3131 Protest opposes local development project http://www.kanglaonline.com/index.php?template=headline&newsid=23630&typeid=2 Thousands in Manipur protest Armed Forces Act Sunday August 21 2005 00:00 IST IANS IMPHAL: Hundreds of protestors shouting anti-government slogans Saturday took to the streets in Manipur demanding withdrawal of legislation that gives the army unlimited powers to deal with militancy, police said. A police official said some 2,000 to 2,500 people holding placards marched through the main thoroughfares in the capital to demand withdrawal of the controversial Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) that provides unlimited powers to the security forces to shoot or arrest anybody without a warrant. The protest march was organised by the Manipur chapter of the London-based human rights organisation, Amnesty International. "People are being killed and raped with impunity by security forces taking advantage of the AFSPA," said T. Singh, a civil rights campaigner, who took part in the procession. Army and paramilitary soldiers followed the protestors in mounted vehicles to prevent them from creating any trouble. "The protest march passed off peacefully without any trouble," said police official Dhiren Singh. An Amnesty activist said the organisation would be lobbying worldwide to pressurise India into repealing the controversial law. "The legislation is nothing but draconian, and unless repealed, scores of people in Manipur will continue to be shot dead by the security forces without any rhyme or reason. This is nothing but a scar on democracy," the activist said on condition of anonymity. "We shall intensify our protest and if New Delhi does not accept our demand than the state would go up in flames." In July last year, Manipur was in turmoil when a 32-year-old woman detained under the troops' special powers died in military custody - allegedly after being raped. The security forces said she was a rebel. The state was virtually under siege for about two months with protestors holding rallies and demonstrations demanding the withdrawal of the legislation. One protester died after setting himself on fire and a group of young women drew nationwide attention to the cause by demonstrating naked outside a military camp. There are more than 19 rebel outfits active in Manipur, bordering Myanmar, with demands ranging from secession to autonomy. More than 10,000 people have died in the insurgency in Manipur during the past two decades. http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:Ed8fZfdhlxwJ:www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp%3FID%3DIEP20050820085329%26Page%3DP%26Title%3DNation%26Topic%3D0%26+%22Thousands+in+Manipur+protest+Armed+Forces+Act%22&hl=en KASHMIR: Protests in Kupwara over killing of youths by soldiers http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1181490.cms http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_25-7-2005_pg7_1 Rallies protest plans by Indian state to murder Kashmiri separatist The death sentence, for involvement in a paramilitary attack, has galvanised opposition in Srinagar and elsewhere Traders and workers have staged general strikes and demonstrations Shops, schools, post offices and government buildings were all shut down Lawyers also shut down the courts to register a protest against the sentence A sit-in was also held in the sentenced man's hometown http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2005/August/subcontinent_August162.xml§ion=subcontinent&col= http://www.7days.ae/global-news/kashmir-strike-in-protest-over-death-sentence.html http://english1.peopledaily.com.cn/200508/06/eng20050806_200597.html http://www.jammu-kashmir.com/archives/archives2005/kashmir20050805b.html http://www.abcasiapacific.com/news/stories_to/1432957.htm http://www.eians.com/stories/2005/08/08/08kas.shtml http://www.pakistantimes.net/2005/08/06/kashmir1.htm http://www.jammu-kashmir.com/archives/archives2005/kashmir20050808c.html http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_7-8-2005_pg7_32 http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=47397&version=1&template_id=40&parent_id=22 http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=324917 Children protest against attack on school by armed opposition group http://www.ndtv.com/template/template.asp?template=Ceasefire&slug=Children+protest+attack+on+Srinagar+school&id=72976&callid=1 http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/may/13jk1.htm http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2005/May/subcontinent_May487.xml§ion=subcontinent Journalists march in protest over police violence http://www.kashar.net/kashmir/complete.asp?id=1093 http://www.kashar.net/kashmir/complete.asp?id=1107 "Massive" protest in Triath to oppose assassinations http://www.kashar.net/kashmir/complete.asp?id=1086 Protesters block road and overrun army checkpoint in protest over beating of youth http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1117574.cms Massive student rally organised by leftists http://www.marxist.com/Asia/pakistan-red-storm160705.htm Hundreds demonstrate on Mayday http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/05/04kashmir.html In aftermath of earthquake, locals loot stores to obtain needed supplies http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/arc_Articles.asp?Article=124135&Sn=WORL&IssueID=28205 Labour rallies on Mayday http://www.expressindia.com/kashmir/full_story.php?content_id=45896&type=ei Angry Crowds Protest Delays in Reopening Kashmir Border By DAVID ROHDE and SALMAN MASOOD Published: November 8, 2005 Protests marred the partial opening of a crossing point along the line of control dividing the Pakistani- and Indian-administered portions of Kashmir. http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/08/international/asia/08quake.html&OP=b479549Q2FNWgiNndcTEdd8kNkQ51Q51VNQ7EQ7ENQ51bNu28gE2e8ud2eQ25NeTueNQ51bQ5CyeAgBm8aQ25 PALESTINE: Gunmen protest against Abbas http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60318-2005Apr17.html Palestinian militants demand jobs for ex-militants and victims of Israel http://www.zeenews.com/links/articles.asp?aid=212427&sid=WOR Unemployed people and people with disabilities demonstrate in Gaza and trash government buildings http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20050618-063217-9650r.htm Gaza militants storm building in jobs protest http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200507/s1405655.htm New unrest over unemployment - protesters in Khan Younes blockade roads and shops Police attack a march on the governor's office, prompting clashes http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/article_1046068.php/Gaza_protest_turns_sour_10_injured Protest against poverty at UN office in Gaza http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050910-10032500-bc-mideast-poverty.xml Palestinian students write protest letters to Sharon http://home.maryknoll.org/index.php?module=MKArticles&func=display&id=401&office=global Muslims plan protests to defend al-Aqsa http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200504/200504100017.html Attempt to ban youths from worshipping at al-Aqsa leads to clashes 7 pigs injured as youths at the mount resist repression http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Security/5511.htm Al-Aqsa protest http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/0B34E4C7-C940-45BA-B3AE-E16270AE328D.htm Protesters form human shield to protect al-Aqsa http://www.amin.org/eng/uncat/2005/april/apr11.html Israelis injure 13 demonstrators defending al-Aqsa http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/10/content_2811835.htm Thousands protest al-Aqsa threat across Palestinian territories http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=14176 Six Soldiers Wounded in Riot Near Bethlehem - Amos Harel and Arnon Regular Six Israel Defense Forces soldiers and four Palestinians were wounded Wednesday in the village of Tsurif, southwest of Bethlehem, in an incident that began when an army jeep overturned during a routine patrol of the village, injuring four soldiers. Dozens of Palestinians residents surrounded the jeep, pelting the injured soldiers and rescue forces with stones and cinder blocks. (Ha'aretz) Further details: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=564773&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=564773&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y&_loopback=1 Arabs within Israel stage strike, protests over massacre http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2005-08/05/article01.shtml Protest over ban on Arab students at sports centre in Israel http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Trends&loid=8.0.225782017&par=0 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3190 Palestinians and activists protest against Israeli rubbish dump, block roads and clash with soldiers http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/563727.html Hamas activists protest US desecration of the Qur'an http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/575824.html http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=10167 Protesters mark foundation of Israel with demonstrations http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1116172837630_8/?hub=CTVNewsAt11 http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=8388 http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1116172837630_8/?hub=CTVNewsAt11 http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/918.shtml Nakba Day marked by pilgrimage to abandoned villages http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/575393.html Protests mark one year since apartheid wall ruling http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/7385/1/278 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/palmedialert/message/461 Nonviolent protests continue throughout West Bank http://pnn.ps/english/archive2005/feb/week3/210205/21febdemo.htm Protesters demonstrate on behalf of "administrative" prisoner http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=81895 Palestinian prisoners stage hunger strike to highlight their plight during a summit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1821 Palestinian political prisoners begin hunger strike over "meaningless" release programme http://www.palestinenet.org/english/archive2005/may/week5/290505/29mayadrabasra.htm Solidarity protest at Ofer concentration camp, to support jailed wall protester http://www.ainfos.ca/05/aug/ainfos00006.html Pictures https://israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/3558/index.php Hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners over mistreatment of Koran http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7737 http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/24/72232/4098 Prisoners stage one-day hunger strike against solitary confinement http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=Enews&id=3105 http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12278&Itemid=1 Political prisoners end hunger strike as PA agrees to look into their demands http://www.arap.so36.net/prison/riot/riot2005.html Human Barrels block annexations wall At 6-00 AM this morning Israeli forces securing the building of the annexation wall in the west bank village of Bil'in found five human barrels blocking the construction route. Four Israelis and one Swede barricaded themselves inside metal barrels placed on the route of the annexation wall that is to annex 50% of Bil'in farm land. Palestinians Israelis and internationals were demonstrating around the barrels. The military announced the area a closed military zone and arrested five Israelis and one international using metal cutters' to pry the peace activists out of the barrels. Before his arrest Johan Persson from Sweden explained why he was in a barrel on the route of the annexation wall " It is the responsibility of the international community to enforce international law. Since our governments and the UN are allowing Israel to continue committing war crimes with impunity it has become the responsibility of citizens like myself to do what we can to stop them" 10 Israelis Arrested and Beaten at Bil'in Anti-Wall Demonstration May 6, 2005 Bil'in, Ramallah, West Bank 10 Israeli non-violent peace activists were gassed, arrested, and severely beaten with batons by Israeli soldiers today at an Anti- Wall demonstration in the village of Bil'in west of the West Bank city of Ramallah. Several Palestinian demonstrators were wounded by rubber coated metal bullets. 3 were treated for tear gas inhalation. Arrestee Rabbi Arik Asherman of Rabbis for Human Rights was seen being beaten to the ground after being handcuffed. Today's demonstrators, including 150 - 200 Palestinians from Bil'in, 70 Israelis from the groups Rabbis for Human Rights, Anarchists Against the Wall, and Gush Shalom, and the International Solidarity Movement, left the village and headed for the path of the Wall being cut through Bil'in's olive fields. They carried signs reading "Stop the Wall", "No to the Wall" in Arabic, Hebrew, and English. No construction was occurring today on the site, but Israeli soldiers stood guard. As marchers approached the path of the Wall they were told it was a closed military zone and that the demonstration was illegal. As they continued peacefully walking forward they were met immediately by tear gas being fired on them. Soldiers then attacked demonstrators beating the Israelis with wooden batons and arresting them. The soldiers continued beating demonstrators even after being handcuffed. Sound grenades and rubber coated steel bullets were also fired at the crowd. Several Palestinians received minor wounds in the head, legs, and stomach. One person was hit in the head with a tear gas canister. Several demonstrators were also treated for gas inhalation. The 10 arrestees are being held by the police at Givat Ze'ev settlement near Jerusalem and are reported to be currently being released. Today's demonstration, organized by village residents against the construction of the annexation Wall through their olive groves, is the most recent action in a very active popular campaign against the Wall. Two days ago, Palestinians joined by International and Israeli activists chained themselves to olive trees. 11 were arrested and released. The Nakba day of 15th May 1948 was commemorated in the village of Bil'in in another protest against the apartheid fence - the present link in the chain of the Zionist occupation. At 05:00 in the morning, members of the local committee of village, Anarchists against the fence, and international activists arrived at Bil'in's work site along the route of the separation fence. The activists fortified themselves inside iron barrels, chained themselves to each other and refused to go away. Their aim was to prevent the bulldozers from continuing in the building the apartheid fence which confiscate more than half of the lands of the village. At 06:00 in the morning, 10 jeeps of the army, border police, and police arrived. At 07:00 6 israeli activists were detained, amongst them a photographer who was not even taken part in the action. Their excuse was it is a closed military area. At 07:30 - the time the report was written, there were still army forces there, and people worry the village will be victim of a violent suppression of the village. Adar Interesting pictures from the action are at: https://israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/3137/index.php Electronic media of Israeli main daily: Breaking News from http://www.ynetnews.com/ Anti-fence protesters detained Israelis and Palestinians belonging to an anarchist group clashed with IDF soldiers Sunday morning in a bid disrupt construction work on the West Bank security fence. During the clashes, which took place in the village of Bil'in, forces detained six protesters, the IDF said. Six International peace activists arrested in the West Bank Village of Bil'in for chaining themselves to imperiled olive trees along side Palestinian and Israeli activists, were set free today. On 4 May, residents of the village of Bil'in near Ramallah organized a non-violent protest against the annexation Wall where they were joined by Israelis and Internationals in chaining themselves to the olive trees while others demonstrated. Bil'in farmers had received notice the previous day that eighty five olive trees would be uprooted to make way for the illegal Wall and called for International and Israeli support. After a stand off that lasted four hours, the Israeli military using excessive force cut the chains and dragged away twelve of the non-violent protesters, arresting 6 Internationals and 5 Israelis. All the Palestinians who were initially detained were all released. All 5 arrested Israelis were released after agreeing not to return to Bil'in for 15 days. The deportation hearing scheduled for the six International Activists this morning never took place. Instead, after holding them for over 26 hours, the police made an offer reportedly from the Israeli Ministry of the Interior that they be released under the condition that they would not enter a closed military zone. To which all agreed save one who was also released. When asked why he participated in the protest by chaining himself to an olive tree, released activist Gabe Gao from the United States, who is of Jewish descent, said: "The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel's Separation Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is illegal and must be dismantled. The confiscation of Palestinian land and destruction of Palestinian property has nothing to do with 'security'. It is the responsibility of the international community to pressure Israel to adhere to international law. Since my government is not taking action, I feel it is my moral obligation to act in opposition to this crime." The activists report being beaten and treated with excessive force during their arrest by Israeli Boarder Police and the Israeli Defense Force citing video and photographic evidence (available upon request). Greek activist, Maria, requested medical attention for a blow to the head and injuries to her legs and arms sustained during the arrest. Instead She was brought to an interrogation room and repeatedly insulted with racial slurs. She received medical treatment only after 12 hours and repeated requests. Initially she was informed by Israeli ambulance drivers that the fee for thorough treatment would be 350 NIS, but eventually she was treated without charge. The Greek consulate is intervening in order to obtain her medical records which the Israeli police have refused to release. Eleven arrested in attempt to non-violently stop olive trees being uprooted by Israeli Military in Bil'in Eighty five olive trees are currently being uprooted by the Israeli Military in the West Bank village of Bil'in to make room for the illegal annexation wall. As part of a Palestinian Non Violent resistance campaign against The Wall sixteen people including nine Palestinians chained themselves into the olive trees this morning in Bil'in while fifty others demonstrated. After a stand off that lasted four hours the Israeli military cut the chains and dragged away twelve of the non-violent protesters. Yesterday the residents of Bil'in received notice from the Israeli Army about the uprooting and demolition of the ancient olive trees and rallied International and Israeli supporters to demonstrate alongside them today. The Military police used excessive force during the arrests. One of the arrestees, a woman from Greece, suffered a blow to the head while being beaten by Israeli soldiers. An Israeli protestor was kneed in the groin and a Norwegian protestor had his legs forcibly spread to a 180 degree angle. Of the eleven arrested there were two Americans, two Swedish, one Norwegian one Greek and five Israelis. (All the Palestinians who were initially detained were all released.) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 01/05/05 Two protesters hospitalized with wounds sustained at anti-Wall demo in Bil'in today [Ramallah, West Bank] 12-year old Ahmed has a metal fragment lodged in his skull. A Norwegian protester who was standing next to Ahmed was also hit by a ricocheting fragment of what he says were live rounds fired in their direction by Israeli soldiers two hundred meters away. 23-year old Hamze is suffering from an injury to the back of his head from a gas canister that was shot at him directly from short range. The demonstration that began as a calm and peaceful protest was met with rubber coated metal bullets, tear gas and sound bombs fired indiscriminately into the crowd. The Israeli military did not produce a closed military area warrant and so had no legal grounds to disperse the demonstration. The confrontation then escalated to stone throwing from some of the Palestinian youth, and Israeli soldiers began shooting live rounds in the direction of the protesters. In a demonstration held last Thursday, undercover Israeli provocateurs threw stones at Israeli soldiers and border police. Special forces used a gas powered gun, not previously used in the West Bank, capable of firing rapid rounds of plastic bullets filled with a white powder (which is currently being analyzed) that caused intense pain to the people shot. Two Palestinians, Riad Bornat and Ilyan Abu Rahma, who were assaulted and dragged away by the provocateurs, are still being held in Israeli custody. Today's May Day demonstration was attended by workers and farmers from Bil'in, accompanied by Israeli and international activists to protest the theft of their livelihood. Before the current Intifada mmany Bil'in residents worked in Israel. Today with unemployment soaring at over 60% the village depends on its agricultural land to survive. More than half of Bil'in's land, 2,300 dunams, will be lost beyond the Wall and has been earmarked for settlement expansion. 3 April, 2005 Israeli suffering brain hemorrhage due to injury during Anti-Wall Protest Israeli activist, Jonathan Pollack, was hit in the head by a tear gas canister shot from an M-16 when Israeli soldiers fired at an anti-Wall demonstration in the Ramallah region village of Bil'in. He was hospitalized in Tel Hashomer hospital in Tel Aviv, received internal and external stitches and diagnosed to be suffering from a hemorrhage in the brain. His medical situation is currently stable and he is conscience. One hundred protesters gathered in front of the Israeli Ministry of Defense this evening protesting the tactics the Israeli military uses in its attempts to silence dissent against the Wall. The village of Bil'in has continued it's resistance to the Wall, which will effectively confiscate fifty percent of their agricultural land, despite nightly raids, harassment and arrest campaigns by the Israeli military conducted against the village. ISM (The International Solidarity Movement) is currently maintaining a presence in Bil'in to document and report human rights abuses. Despite Israeli claims that the Wall is intended to safeguard the security of its citizens the route of the Wall near Bil'in has been specifically designed to incorporate the current construction of the settlement of Menora in addition to the existing settlement of Kiryat Sefer. Thousands protest across many towns and villages on anniversary of International Court ruling against apartheid wall Thousands march in Ramallah, KafrThulth protesters marched on roadblocks and tried to reclaim land, and in Beit Liqya protesters were teargassed leading to clashes http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/962.shtml Bil'in protests mark a year from the ICJ ruling - after a long peaceful protest, Israeli forces attack http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3984.shtml http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11999&Itemid=1 Protesters set up cage to blockade Bil'in wall building (picture) https://israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/3362/index.php ISM reports from caged protest in Bil'in and other anti-wall protests http://groups.yahoo.com/group/palsolidarity/message/1214 Protesters carry gravestones in Bil'in protest http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11875&Itemid=1 Bil'in protesters build mock fence to blockade real fence route http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3898.shtml 20 protesters injured as soldiers attack Bilin crowd; noise weapons used http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11517&Itemid=1 Six injured, 18 arrested in Bilin http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12600&Itemid=1 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3109960,00.html More arrests and injuries as soldiers attack demo http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12707&Itemid=1 Bilin, 21 April - peace protest becomes warzone https://israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/3033/index.php Report on Bilin demonstration http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4006.shtml Arrested activists stage prison solidarity http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1996 Wall protests continue in Bilin, M'Nazil http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00130.html Bilin uses two-wave tactic to protest wall http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00278.html Protesters chained into barrels block wall route http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00216.html Cage protest http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00371.html Solidarity protest with injured and invalids of Bilin http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00121.html Bilin - three victories amid a sea of tragedies http://www.ainfos.ca/05/apr/ainfos00414.html Bilin protest attacked http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6834 Pigs lie about Bilin violence http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050728014701291 Bil'in protesters carry gravestones in protest http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2005/06/17/crackdown-on-non-violent-resistance/ Pics http://freckle.blogs.com/photos/bilin_tombs/index.html Protesters chained in cylinders block wall route http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2005/07/20/protesters-blocked-the-path-of-the-annexation-barrier/ http://freckle.blogs.com/photos/strength_in_unity Palestinians present "gift house" to soldiers http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2005/07/30/palestinians-give-the-israeli-military-a-gift-house/ Soldier joins Bilin demo http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2005/08/12/soldier-joins-bilin-protest/ Young Palestinian women lead Bilin march http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2005/08/16/young-palestinian-women-lead-demonstration-against-the-wall-in-bilin/ Protesters attacked with noise weapon http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2005/06/08/stink-bombs-and-the-scream-bilin/ More Bilin stories http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00343.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00365.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/aug/ainfos00061.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00468.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00309.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00100.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00028.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00272.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00046.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/apr/ainfos00487.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/apr/ainfos00377.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/apr/ainfos00366.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/apr/ainfos00270.html http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/36 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050806023850990 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2005073008572329 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050813062343168 http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/07/news/mideast.php Something astir in Bilin http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00304.html Apartheid Wall foundations dismantled in Bil'in - protesters fight back as soldiers attack http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/944.shtml Continuing demonstrations - and attacks by soldiers - in Bilin http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=2262 http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/910.shtml http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10781&Itemid=1 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00301.htm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/palsolidarity/message/1186 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/palmedialert/message/416 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/palsolidarity/message/1192 http://imemc2.thinkhost.net/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=10153&Itemid=2 http://imemc2.thinkhost.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10337&Itemid=1 http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=Enews&id=2469 http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11233&Itemid=1 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3067369,00.html http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/palmedialert/message/394 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/palsolidarity/message/1170 http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=81109 http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050923-11144900-bc-mideast-barrier.xml Protester injured by troops as Bilin protests continue http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3067369,00.html Protests - and attacks on protests - continue in Bilin http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/626/626p15b.htm "Walking coffins" protest in Bilin http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11377&Itemid=1 Protests, arrests and clashes continue in Bilin http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12779&Itemid=1 http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12784&Itemid=1 Demonstrators in Bilin chain themselves to olive trees http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/572362.html http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/palmedialert/message/413 Reports from Bilin and elsewhere http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00173.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00199.html Beit Surik and Bilin protests http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00445.html Imneizil and Bilin protests http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00441.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00333.html Protests in Ramadin, Marda, Bilin - in Ramadin, police chased protesters into the town, where clashes with youths ensued http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00164.html Crackdown on peace protests in Asira, Bil'in and elsewhere http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2007 Palestinian boy murdered as protesters against the wall come under attack in Beit Lakiya http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1120789233505&p=1078027574097 http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/961.shtml http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20050708-1814-israel-palestinians.html http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1120789233505 http://www.politinfo.com/articles/article_2005_07_08_2116.html http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=116594&Sn=WORL&IssueID=28111 Villagers of Marda continue to resist - several injured as troops attack demo http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/939.shtml Marda protests oppose destruction of olive trees http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2005/06/24/week-of-palestinian-nonviolent-resistance-met-with-violence/ Farmers stop Marda tree-cutting for three hours http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2005/06/05/farmers-stop-tree-cutting-in-marda-for-three-hours/ Video of olive-tree chaining protest in Marda http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2005/05/04/video-from-bilin-olive-tree-chaining/ Breaking through at Marda - protest disrupted by statists http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00065.html Marda villagers resist the wall http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/630/630p18b.htm Several injured as Salfit protesters join Bil'in demo http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/949.shtml Imneizil villagers stop bulldozers http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/948.shtml Salfit protesters suppressed using colonial-era laws http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2739 Kfar Haris wall protesters injured with teargas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2161 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2163 Al-Ramadin villagers mount bulldozer in wall protest http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2005/06/07/villagers-mounted-bulldozer-in-al-ramadin/ Dozens injured as army attacks Qalqilya wall protesters http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12445&Itemid=1 http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12563&Itemid=1 Soldiers attack Qalqilia protest http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12563&Itemid=1 Soldiers attack wall protest near Salfit http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11977&Itemid=1 http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11565&Itemid=1 March against the wall in Salfit http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11504&Itemid=1 Five injured as IOF attacks wall protest in Salfit http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=Enews&id=3543 Wall protest in Salfit - protesters wounded and arrested http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00148.html Activists march in Tel Rumeida; attacked by soldiers - 32 arrested http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3088411,00.html Protesters march on Muqata against apartheid wall http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/922.shtml Beit Surik protesters block wall-building http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00009.html Israeli troops clash with farmers in Dir al-Asal, near Hebron, over land grabs and sheep theft during construction of the Apartheid Wall http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10957&Itemid=1 Protesters resist house demolition in Haifa http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11545&Itemid=1 Demonstrators in Ma'Sha attacked http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00179.html Land Day protest at al-Walaja, near Bethlehem, over house demolitions http://bethlehemghetto.blogspot.com/2005/04/land-day-activities-continued-al.html Ten Palestinians injured in confrontation with settlers and soldiers in Liban al-Gharbi http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2005/08/11/0-palestinians-injured-by-israeli-soldiers-in-liban-al-gharbi/ Protests in Immatin village over land grab http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1901 Immatin demo viciously repressed http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00255.html More on demos in Immatin http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2005/08/26/we-shall-overcome/ Grannies protest settler violence http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6235 Clashes as protesters target Greek Patriarch over land sale http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10931&Itemid=1 http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050429/wl_nm/mideast_church_dc_1 http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/spages/573800.html Youths resist as Israeli army invades Jenin; 1 murdered by troops http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12866&Itemid=1 Fighters claim to have repulsed entry of tank into Rafah http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13018&Itemid=1 Peace protesters rally in Tel Aviv after killing of Palestinian youths http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/572451.html Hundreds rally in Tel Aviv for peace protest after shootings in Beit Lakiya http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00059.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00160.html http://www.labournet.net/world/0505/wall4.html Jenin residents secure end to clashes between Palestinian militias http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/23888331-47BA-41F6-9018-5DDD4C6CE5BB.htm Nonviolent resistance as Israelis demolish homes in Khader village, near Bethlehem http://pnn.ps/english/archive2005/jul/week4/270705/27julalkhader.htm Hebron residents protest at internal checkpoints http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/palmedialert/message/482 Salfit activists march against checkpoints http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13032&Itemid=1 Gaza Strip residents reclaim destroyed farmland http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4408479.stm Hebron visit sabotaged by Israeli statists http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00447.html Environmental activists from the GreenCourse movement and residents of Nitzan protested on Friday against the building of temporary housing for evacuated Gaza Strip settlers on the Nitzana dunes. The protestors blocked bulldozers at the construction site with their bodies and managed to halt work for several hours. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/581345.html Palestinians and activists march in Kfar Harrs, attacked with tear gas http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/01E3A851-6268-4F72-B5D3-A64B395301AB.htm Christian Peacemaker Teams organise nonviolent protest in Hebron http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12970&Itemid=1 Roadblocks removed in Asira al Shamaliya village near Nablus http://groups.yahoo.com/group/palsolidarity/message/1195 Roadblocks dismantled by protesters between Nablus and Asira Al'Shamalia http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00217.html Checkpoint demo near Nazlat Issa http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2005/07/08/demonstration-against-a-checkpoint-near-the-village-of-nazlat-issa-2/ http://freckle.blogs.com/photos/nazlat_issa/ Soldiers surround, abuse roadblock protesters in Asira http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2005/07/22/israeli-army-surrounds-asira-demonstrators-shoots-one-villager/ Protest at Huwara checkpoint http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/27/95550/4949 Clashes in Hebron after incursion by Israeli troops http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11151&Itemid=1 More protests against the Apartheid Wall in Saffa http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/894.shtml Apartheid Wall protested in Salfit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1571 Al-Aqsa Brigade militants storm government office in jobs protest http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200507/s1405655.htm Nakba Day marked by pilgrimage to abandoned villages http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/13/15715/6171 Clashes in Tsurif near Bethlehem; traffic accident is followed by showdown between stone-throwers and soldiers http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=564773&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y Roadblock in mid-Jerusalem protests against segregation of city http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/598767.html Shu'fat Palestinians demonstrate to defend their presence in Jerusalem http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/977.shtml Palestinian health workers go on strike for pay increase http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4DD05B3A-4EAF-4C55-9B19-261596928837.htm Palestinian teachers strike for higher pay http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6263 http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=6263 http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/article_11355.shtml Women in Black protest outside Ariel settlement, against expanding settlements http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2005/08/19/belfast-women-protest-expansion-of-settlements-in-the-west-bank/ Israeli army attacks demonstration of people with disabilities http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2005/06/08/israeli-army-attacks-disabled-demonstrators/ Druze refusenik sentenced three times over http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11470&Itemid=1 Renamed street sign sabbed http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3117083,00.html Israeli road signs get activist makeover http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00064.html Protest over football game for Arab team scheduled for Ramadan http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/othersports/2050AP_SOC_Israel_Ramadan.html Israelis Protest Travel Restrictions Against PA Motorists 12:22 Oct 23, '05 / 20 Tishrei 5766 (IsraelNN.com) Members of left-wing Israel's Peace Now organization protested on Sunday morning against the travel restrictions prohibiting Palestinian Authority (PA) residents from traveling on Israeli roads in Judea and Samaria. The protest took place in southern Jerusalem at the entrance to the Minharot Tunnel Highway. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz has reinstated travel restrictions following two shooting attacks, one fatal, occurring an hour apart from one another. The perpetrators in both cases made an easy getaway by traveling on the Route 60 towards a nearby PA autonomous area. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=91635 Banksy targets Apartheid Wall http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4748063.stm Street art marks Nakba Day in Tel Aviv http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00227.html http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050511194224153 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050511113019125 Graffiti on the Apartheid Wall and related targets - pics http://bethlehemghetto.blogspot.com/2005/05/easy-when-you-know-how-more-graffiti.html http://bethlehemghetto.blogspot.com/2005/04/collection-of-spray-cans-were-seen.html http://bethlehemghetto.blogspot.com/2005/04/this-watchtower-is-first-one-that.html http://bethlehemghetto.blogspot.com/2005/04/posted-by-peacerider_27.html http://bethlehemghetto.blogspot.com/2005/04/baby-speaks.html http://bethlehemghetto.blogspot.com/2005/04/posted-by-peacerider_111460330079466675.html http://bethlehemghetto.blogspot.com/2005/04/any-guesses.html Banksy does the Apartheid Wall http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0805-06.htm http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7169 Caravan of Justice suppressed, activists deported http://www.palestinemonitor.org/nueva_web/updates_news/updates/caravan_4_justice.htm Children from Bilin protest at Israeli Supreme Court http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00234.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00228.html Mutiny over food in IDF http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2172 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ldxar1 at tesco.net Mon Nov 21 21:18:11 2005 From: ldxar1 at tesco.net (Andy) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:18:11 -0000 Subject: [Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - Iraq, Afghanistan, Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia Message-ID: <01ac01c5ef24$28ab1910$0202a8c0@WOL> IRAQ: Massive anti-US protests in Baghdad, on site where Saddam statue was felled Demonstrations also held in Ramadi and Najaf Mass anti-occupation demonstrations by Shiites and Sunnis in Baghdad, Samarra, and elsewhere http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0520-03.htm http://www.juancole.com/2005/07/sunnis-demonstrate-in-baghdad-as.html http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent7777/1684454.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4429137.stm http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=5723 http://www.postfallspress.com/articles/2005/04/10/news/news03.txt http://www.juancole.com/2005/04/up-to-300000-demonstrate-in-baghdad.html http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0409-02.htm http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1341814.htm http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2581/2/ http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0520-03.htm http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=5721 http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/04/quit-iraq-largest-popular.html Thousands of Shiites and Sunnis protest occupation, sectarianism http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0520-03.htm More mass protests in late August http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7271 Protesters firebomb British occupation troops and torch two tanks in protest over exchange of gunfire between occupiers and Iraqi security forces in Basra British troops had stormed an Iraqi prison to release British soldiers arrested by Iraqi forcess British troops are forced to retreat under hail of petrol bombs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3059 http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=123&art_id=qw1127152801946B262 http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5293485,00.html Hundreds demonstrate in Samarra http://www.juancole.com/2005/04/demonstration-in-samarra-ash-sharq-al.html Shi'ites demonstrate after detention of cleric Media sources estimate 6000 protested in Najaf, Nasiriyah and Kufa http://www.albawaba.com/en/news/183837 http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050520/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_protests http://www.kcbs.com/pages/kcbs/news/news_story.nsp?story_id=71706925&ID=kcbs&scategory=Computers Baquba students march against US occupation and arrests of students http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Gulf%2C+Middle+East+%26+Africa&month=April2005&file=World_News200504122302.xml Students burn flags in protest against US; release of detained students demanded http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/46139 General strike to protest occupation and blockade in Ramadi http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11845&s2=19 General strike in Ramadi against US blockade http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6522 Anti-occupation protests in Hit, Ramadi, Samarra and Mosul - Iraqi Islamic Party denounced for collaboration http://www.jihadunspun.com/index-side_internal.php?article=104821&list=/home.php Police murder protester in Samarra during clashes over government jobs http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/55095 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1783 Textile workers strike in Baghdad http://www.uuiraq.org/english/211.htm http://www.uuiraq.org/english/210.htm Protest over the arrest of a tribal leader in Baghdad July 3, 2005. Wahied al-Homaidi, the secretary-general of the Mesopotamian Tribes Union of Iraq, was arrested and his offices were searched by coalition forces on Saturday, witnesses said. REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz Protest in Baghdad over police brutality http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/20AAF6C7-6357-4140-899F-3382CEA2FA6A.htm Police open fire on protesters in Tikrit, attacking 1000 marchers demanding resignations over a political killing http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13472&s2=08 http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?sf=2813&click_id=2813&art_id=qw1120724101464B262&set_id=6 http://www.breakingnews.ie/2005/07/07/story210507.html Nasiriya energy workers strike and protest http://www.wpiraq.net/english/2005/uui-nasirya.htm Police shoot at protesters demonstrating against water shortages http://www.uuiraq.org/english/191.htm Health workers strike in Kirkuk and elsewhere against pay cut http://www.uuiraq.org/english/204.htm Samarra police open fire on unemployed protesters http://www.uuiraq.org/english/192.htm Street vendor crackdown protested in Nasiriya http://www.uuiraq.org/english/166.htm Uprising in Abu Ghraib concentration camp - prisoners stone guards as escape attempt foiled http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1868 http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?sf=2813&art_id=qw1118130840700B262&click_id=2813&set_id=1 Three break out of Abu Ghraib http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2005/20050526_1363.html Saddam's lawyers strike over safety http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/BA20D208-83A4-4AEF-A807-B9F9949F30C6.htm Protests over corruption in Mosul, Iraq; Kurdish domination denounced http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3139 Taxi drivers protest "police terrorists" over ban on right-hand-drive cars Drivers storm government building; police and soldiers shoot and beat them http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1861 Mass protests in Mosul secure release of women held as hostages by US forces http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/54086 http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12775&s2=20 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1812 Oil exports halted by strike in Basra - workers demand local reinvestment of profits http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050717-09433000-bc-mideast-flags.xml http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1958 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4690601.stm http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13827&s2=18 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4690601.stm http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=70934 http://www.newsocialist.org/index.php?id=386 http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13997&s2=23 FWCUI statement on oil strike http://www.uuiraq.org/english/197.htm Protests on Kuwait border http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent7777/1684454.html Iraqi doctors strike over harassment, abuse by police and soldiers http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wned/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=785608 http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13877&s2=20 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1969 UUI marks Mayday http://www.uuiraq.org/english/171.htm Unemployed workers march in Nasiriya to protest inhumane government policies http://www.uuiraq.org/english/166.htm "Strike" by airport company suspends Iraq flights http://www.iraq-news.de/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1731 Iraqi activists organise boycott of US goods http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12364&s2=08 Women in Baghdad protest for rights under new constitution http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent7777/1684454.html US retaliates against Iraqi student protesters http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1975 Shiites hold protests against sectarian attacks in Najaf and elsewhere http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11920&s2=21 March in Qayara, dubbed by the US as "anti-terrorism", includes demands for the release of political prisoners http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent7777/1684454.html Attacks on oil pipelines continue http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=726553 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/05/content_2919593.htm http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-05-10T113656Z_01_MOR040313_RTRUKOC_0_ENERGY-IRAQ-ATTACK.xml 223. April 13 - bomb on oil pipeline near Kirkuk killed an Iraqi oil security chief and eight of his men, who were in the process of defusing another explosive device, and sparked a fire on the pipeline. 224. April 17 - attack near Fatha on oil pipeline from Kirkuk to the Bayji refinery. 225. April 18 - twin blasts at an internal oil pipeline near Kirkuk. 226. April 25 - insurgents blew up pumps used for domestic supplies near Bay Hassam, 19 miles west of Kirkuk. 227. May 4 - attack on an oil pipeline that links northern Kirkuk oil fields to Baghdad. The attack took place near Balad. 228. May 10 - attack on an oil pipeline complex near Kirkuk. 229. May 11 - a mortar round struck the Iraqi Oil Ministry complex in Baghdad. 230. May 11 - three bombs were planted on different parts of the oil pipeline in Kirkuk's Dibiz district. Two of the three exploded, heavily damaging the pipeline. 231. May 11 - attack on an oil pipeline near Bayji. 232. May 11 - a bomb exploded at Iraq's largest fertilizer plant in Basra, killing one person and wounding 23. The blast set fire to a gas pipeline. 233. May 11 - a bomb was planted near the oil ministry in central Baghdad. 234. May 12 - an insurgent blew himself up as he tried to sabotage an oil pipeline near Kirkuk. 235. May 13 - attack on the Athana pumping station that feeds the northern pipeline. 236. May 27 - attack on pipeline in the western outskirts of Baghdad. 237. June 3 - 8 a.m. attack on pipeline between Kirkuk and the Dibis refinery, about 30 miles west. 238. June 8 - saboteurs blew up a main oil pipeline near Kirkuk. 239. June 8 - saboteurs opened connections between two pipelines near the Bayji refinery causing oil spill. 240. June 9 - 8:00 p.m. saboteurs blew up a major oil pipeline five miles east of the Bayji refinery. 241. June 15 - insurgents blew up a pipeline near Baghdad that transports crude oil between Bayji and Daura. 242. June 23 - attack on pipeline carrying crude from Kirkuk to Bayji, near al-Fathah. 243. June 25 - attack on oil pipleline leading from Kirkuk to Ceyhan. 244. June 24 - pipeline linking the southern fields around Basra to Daura. The attack took place near Yusifiyah. 245. June 28 - attack on pipeline in southwestern Baghdad. 246. June 29 - attack on a natural gas pipeline linking storage facilities in Yousfiyah, south of Baghdad, to a plant in Baghdad. 247. July 3 - attack on a key feeder pipeline that leads to the Daura refinery. 248. July 8 - mortar attack on the Daura oil refinery hit a pipeline attached to one of the reservoirs. 249. July 20 - attack on an oil pipeline that connects Bayji and Baghdad. 250. July 20 - 6:00 a.m. a roadside bomb exploded under the pipeline that goes from Kirkuk to the Daura refinery. 251. July 20 - late night attack on oil pipeline between Mahmoudiyeh and Latifiyehin in southern Iraq. 252. July 21 - insurgents incinerated an oil pipeline west of Samarra. 253. July 26 - two Iraqi security personnel were killed and three wounded by mortar fire near Bayji while guarding an oil pipeline. 254. July 28 - a bomb hit an oil pipeline conecting Bayji and Kirkuk. A gas pipeline that supplies Bayji power station was also damaged during the attack. 255. July 28 - a bomb on a railway line hit a train carrying oil products near Baghdad, causing a huge fire. 256. August 3 - an explosion damaged a pipeline used for shipping fuel to a Baghdad power plant north of the capital. 257. August 4 - 5:00a.m. three explosions set ablaze a pipeline near Kirkuk. 258. August 20 - attack on a major line between Bayji and Baghdad stopped electricity supply to the capital. http://www.iags.org/iraqpipelinewatch.htm Oil sabotage costs billions http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2005/07/03/afx2121847.html Protesters stone cops, ostensibly for failing to stop suicide bombing http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050513/NEWS06/505130512/1012 Samarra unrest over services http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0807/iraq.html Iraqi Kurds protest at UN offices over repression against Kurds in Iran; police attack the protesters http://www.theage.com.au/news/iraq/kurdish-protest-halted/2005/08/07/1123353208981.html Iraqis protest arrest warrant for Shiite leader http://www.turks.us/article.php?story=20050710153620215 Uprising at Camp Bucca after detainee denied medical treatment http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/140962/1/.html http://www.uruknet.info/?p=10900&hd=0&size=1&l=x http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/05/content_2789409.htm http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3238556a12,00.html On 4th of May 2005, a student protest was organized in Sulaymania in Iraqi Kurdistan against corruption in the city's administration and poor academic standards in the universities. In this demonstration, Rebwar Aref, a member of the central committee of Worker communist party of Iraq, gave a speech that was greeted enthusiastically by the protesters. Comrade Aref is a well-known political figure and a former political prisoner of the Ba'ath regime who had a death sentence hanging over him. He is now responsible for the Campaign to try Saddam Hussein and Director of the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees. The comrade's militant speech, his political record and the warm response of the crowd clearly infuriated the PUK security forces. They moved to arrest him. Rebwar Aref was detained on 5th May 2005 and taken to the PUK's main security office in Sulaymania. His fate is currently unknown. This is not the first time that the PUK has violated basic political liberties - PUK has even killed its opponents, not simply attempted to silence them with arrests and repression. The life and safety of Rebwar Aref must be protected. We demand his immediate and unconditional release. Rebwar's only 'crime' was his solidarity with the students of Sulaymania University and his active support for their just demands for a better education and basic rights. PUK has a shameful history of persecuting political activists and banning the activities of the groups that do not share its political perspectives for Kurdistan. In July 2000 they closed the offices of the Worker communist party of Iraq, banned its activities and killed five of its members. General Strike Called To Resist Attack On Qaim (GI Special) 17 June, 2005 BBC The US military has launched a major offensive involving some 1,000 troops. The US operation in western Iraq began before dawn, with witnesses reporting fierce gun battles in the towns of Qaim and Karabila. The leader of Qaim's Muslim Clerics Association called on businesses to remain closed in protest at the US attack, which, he says, is endangering civilian lives. "The US forces are escalating the situation and we will declare a general strike after Friday prayers," Mudhafar al-Ani was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying. Eleven Detainees Briefly Liberate Selves From Iraqi Prison April 16, 2005 The Associated Press, BAGHDAD, Iraq The military says that eleven detainees have escaped from an Iraqi prison, but ten are believed to have already been captured. One detained prisoner says the group escaped through a hole in the fence that surrounds the Camp Bucca prison. The detention center is the largest in Iraq. Officials will not say why the prisoners are being detained. Iraqi demonstrators hold a protest calling for the release of detained men in the town of Karma April 15, 2005. Hundreds of demonstrators marched through the town to demand the Iraqi government and U.S. forces to release Iraqi prisoners and mujahideen fighters from prison. The banner reads ' the people of Karma demand the release of detainees from prison'. REUTERS/Mohanned Faisal Three break out from Abu Ghraib http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12071&s2=26 IRAQ WAR Recruiters face youth and student resistance http://socialismandliberation.org/mag/index.php?aid=361&PHPSESSID=a0416d62fb91235e3b5b75f0a4fdcb55 Strike by Filipino workers at US base over working conditions http://news.inq7.net/nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=38476 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4588723.stm http://news.inq7.net/top/index.php?index=1&story_id=38342 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2178 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050530070948973 Iraq-bound soldier holds up interstate in suicide bid http://www.mcduffiemirror.com/stories/063005/new_063005_1611_2.shtml CNN interrupted on air by war opponent http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent7777/890941.html Another fragging case grips the US military http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1811 Vets defy cops to distribute counter-recruitment propaganda http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1802 Iraqi "government" troops refuse to obey US orders http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1864 Marine has cousin shoot him in leg to avoid return to Iraq http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8583296/ Benderman jailed - "a moral leader of the nation" imprisoned http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14207&s2=30 Distraught soldier threatens suicide http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2750 Soldiers Arrested: Wanted To Burn Flag July 4, 2005 Army Times Some National Guard soldiers are donating blood in Rapid City, S.D., to make up for about 40 units reportedly destroyed by one of their comrades. Serafin Delgado with the West Virginia National Guard, is accused of breaking into United Blood Services, causing thousands of dollars of damage, and destroying the blood units. According to police, Delgado got into an argument with other members of his unit and said he wanted to burn an American flag. Reports indicate he found one at the Blood Services office but couldn't pull it off the pole, so he broke into the building. Delgado is being held in the Pennington County Jail. GUANTANAMO BAY: Prisoners stage hunger strike, demand religious respect and fair trials http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200507/s1420814.htm http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0722/guantanamo.html http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/07/21/guantanamo_inmates_declare_hunger_strike/ http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8497 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8520 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8547 http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0721-15.htm Released reports reveal heroic resistance by Guantanamo inmates http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8135 Journalist's heroic defiance of captors http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8067 Omar Deghayes goes on hunger strike http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news512.htm IRAQ/JORDAN: Iraqi police trainees revolt in Amman http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050612-052612-2030r.htm Unrest among recruits to Iraqi army http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/02/content_3297660.htm AFGHANISTAN, PALESTINE, INDONESIA, PAKISTAN: Muslims protest over US desecration of Qur'ans Nine killed during protests in Afghanistan Government buildings torched, shops looted, UN offices targeted http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1368560.htm http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11930&s2=23 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,157901,00.html http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0527-01.htm http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0514-07.htm http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/musl-m14.shtml Desecration protests in Palestine http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7797 Desecration protest in Duraz http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7773 Thousands march in Jabaliyah, Gaza, and al-Halil, West Bank http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7250 PAKISTAN: Thousands rally to protest Koran desecration http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_26-5-2005_pg7_46 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7794 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7679 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7231 Lawyers hold desecration protest http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7680 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7548 BANGLADESH: Thousands hold march despite police interference http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7809 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7678 INDIA: Thousands of Muslims protest in Mumbai http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7795 BJP minority branch march in Delhi (?! Hindu chauvinist party protesting anti-Muslim actions?!) http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7657 Women stage march http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7542 Thousands hold dharna in Chennai http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7485 BAHRAIN: 3000 rally over Koran desecration http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7796 TANZANIA: Hundreds of young Muslims rally http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7681 CANADA: Hundreds rally at the US consulate http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7578 MOROCCO: 2000 hold sit-in near parliament http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7579 MALAYSIA: Protesters burn US flags in protest http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7537 Police attack abuse protest http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7411 EGYPT: Protests against Koran abuse also target the government http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7536 LEBANON: Hundreds march, calling for closure of US embassy http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7541 KASHMIR: Strike in protest at Koran desecration http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7520 Protests in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir also http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7446 INDONESIA: Thousands protest at US embassy in Jakarta http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7424 Hundreds gather for protest at mosque http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7229 SOMALIA: Thousands march in protest http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7410 IRAN: At least a thousand march in Qom http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7376 Angry protest over desecration in London; also Calcutta, Somalia and Palestine http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/18759971 US media covers up reasons for unrest http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0523-32.htm Indonesia: hundreds protest http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_14-5-2005_pg4_7 Protests in Afghanistan, Pakistan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1620 Thousands of Muslims protest in Somalia http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3288095a12,00.html Why Muslims revolt over Qur'an desecration - a discussion http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GF07Aa01.html Women, students protest at UK embassy over interference Some students threw stones at the embassy and at once point cops attacked the protesters http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=36317&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-09/29/content_3559711.htm AFGHANISTAN: Mass protests in Kabul and elsewhere over allegations of mistreatment of the Qur'an at Guantanamo Bay Passing American troops were stoned and fired into the air before quickly fleeing Protesters reportedly spread throughout the city of Jalalabad, which was rendered uncontrollable Further protests occurred in numerous other cities and regions http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20050512&hn=19444 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1608334,00.html http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.afghan19may19,1,415344.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines&ctrack=1&cset=true http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002280350_quran19.html http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=750099 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8466958 http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL105529.htm http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=751936 http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20050511T220000-0500_80298_OBS_AFGHANS_PROTEST_OVER_ALLEGED_FLUSHING_OF_QURAN_IN_US_JAIL_IN_CUBA.asp http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1611925,00.html http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8485195 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3278573a12,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5003446,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5001555,00.html http://www.politinfo.com/articles/article_2005_05_12_1500.html http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2005/05/13/build/world/30-protestors-shot_v.inc http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/05/8412e94f-ad24-46cb-b4b7-aedef1b174df.html http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-woafgh0513,0,2406674.story?coll=ny-world-big-pix http://www.truthnews.net/daily/2005050047.htm http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/13/terror/main694999.shtml http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/05/11/afghans_protest_alleged_quran_desecration/ http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5772639&cKey=1115801450000 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1366484.htm http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4998057,00.html http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=747146 http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Afghan-protest-against-Koran-desecration-turns-violent/2005/05/11/1115585025901.html http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=746739 http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=54734 http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050510/w051034.html http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/manawatustandard/0,2106,3275928a6408,00.html http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-05-10-voa39.cfm http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4996883,00.html http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-05-11T065656Z_01_YUE121890_RTRUKOC_0_RELIGION-AFGHAN.xml http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4997591,00.html http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2005/May/subcontinent_May396.xml§ion=subcontinent http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=754086 http://english.people.com.cn/200505/12/eng20050512_184781.html http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=8190 http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Afghan%20US%20Protest http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1268&storyid=3106376 http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4998238,00.html http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-05-11-voa19.cfm http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-05-11-afghan-riot_x.htm http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/07/27/us_moves_to_defuse_afghan_tension/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2181 http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0510-06.htm http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0516-05.htm http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0511-07.htm http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7244 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7249 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7238 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7217 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7203 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7193 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050513095655430 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050511103803255 http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6921/692162.html http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6523 http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/544/544_05_Afghanistan.shtml http://www.antiimperialista.com/view.shtml?category=9&id=1116189067&keyword=+ Unrest bodes ill for US role http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=11287 RAWA on Qur'an protests http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2002 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6464 America persecutes detainees held during unrest http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7422 AFGHANISTAN: NATO sends F16 jets to crush mass protests in Takhar province as thousands protest against regional governor http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20050530-1030-afghan-nato-protests.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1974 Protesters disrupt opium eradication Armed protesters confront US-backed forces and stone government forces http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=46645&SelectRegion=Asia Protests and clashes in Herat after US soldiers fight with local police Two people were murdered by police who opened fire on a crowd celebrating the anniversary of the Soviet defeat http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1718 http://www.ndtv.com/template/template.asp?template=Afghanistancopes&slug=Two+killed+in+Herat+clashes&id=72332&callid=1 Women protesters oppose abduction of Italian aid worker, call for release http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/17/content_2966447.htm Villagers demonstrate against rape http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1803 Resistance fighters break out of US prison http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1892 Jailbreak at Bagram - four demonised prisoners escape http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0711-07.htm http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8319 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8248 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8237 Afghan youths want US out http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0530-27.htm Afghan communists break out of prison http://www.antiimperialista.com/view.shtml?category=9&id=1119186430&keyword=+ Displaced persons storm UN compound, trash offices in protest after roof collapse http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=118679 Kashmiri asylum seekers protest for rights http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=121491 Protests, roadblocks in Mazar-i-Sharif over assassination of election candidate http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4305790.stm Women protest against arrest of humanitarian worker http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/17/content_2966447.htm http://english.eastday.com/eastday/englishedition/world/userobject1ai1105156.html BAGRAM UPRISING Prisoners handed over to Afghan cops due to uprising http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8699 http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7194 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8639 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8640 http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0726-08.htm http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent7777/1684454.html http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/afgh-j28.shtml http://www.freep.com/news/nw/afghan27e_20050727.htm Afghans protest killing of Islamic cleric 16 Oct 2005 11:42:47 GMT KHOST, Afghanistan, Oct 16 (Reuters) - About five thousand Afghans protested on Sunday against the assassination of a pro-government religious figure in a suspected Taliban bomb blast, urging the government to protect Islamic clerics from further attacks. Mullah Ahmad Khan was killed on Friday after a bomb planted in his mosque's pulpit went off just before prayers in Tanai district in eastern Khost province. Fifteen worshippers were wounded in the blast which officials said was part of the Taliban's campaign against supporters of President Hamid Karzai. No Taliban official could be reached since Friday for comment about the killing of Khan. Members of the radical group have in the past killed a number of influential clerics who had preached against the militants. The protests were led by Khost University students but also extended to several provincial districts, witnesses said. "We call on the government to protect the Ulemas (clerics) and arrest culprits for Khan's killing," said Sher Alam, one of the organisers. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL334240.htm IRAN: Journalist goes on hunger strike; protesters demand release http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0715/p06s03-wome.html http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/article_1033384.php/Clashes_as_students_protest_arrest_of_dissident_in_Teheran http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1953 Exiles mark anniversary of revolt in numerous cities http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2798 Political prisoner solidarity protest attacked http://www.counterpunch.org/fiyouzat07142005.html Mayday marked with vigour by workers http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050506073356643 http://www.socialismnow.org/html/kulen010505.htm Textile worker protest attacked; hundreds more detained as anti-regime protests spread http://www.labournet.net/world/0508/iran2.html Tehran bus workers rally to protest attack by pro-regime goons http://www.labournet.net/world/0505/iranbus1.html Labour protests in several cities http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/euro-j29.shtml Mayday in Iran http://www.wpiran.org/wb177%20may%20day%20in%20iran.htm Workers' protests across Iran http://www.wpiran.org/LN0622workers%20protests%20for%20pay%20and%20imprved%20cnditions.htm Mass protest at "phony election" in Tehran and other cities; protests and clashes with election organisers in Mahabad, Sanandaj, Boukan, Kamyaran and Sardasht http://www.wpiran.org/LN0617election%20marred%20by%20protests.htm Protest near Tehran University calls for release of political prisoners http://www.wpiran.org/LN071505%20protest%20for%20freedom%20of%20political%20prisoners%20in%20Iran.htm Iran-Khodro workers strike for minimum wage http://www.wpiran.org/LN071605Iran-Khodro%20Workers%20Went%20on%20Strike%20Demanding%20450.000%20Touman%20Minimum%20Wage%20.htm Kashan textile workers march http://www.wpiran.org/LN072005%20Hundreds%20of%20Kashan%20Textile%20Workers%20March%20towards%20Tehran.htm Jailed human rights lawyer begins hunger strike http://www.arap.so36.net/prison/riot/riot2005.html Hundreds protest against undemocratic Iranian elections in Tehran - boycott urged http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2454 Police smash pre-vote protest http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=32467&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs Women protest barring of women candidates from elections http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_7304.shtml Protest at British Embassy over imperialist pressure http://www.payvand.com/news/05/aug/1150.html Textile workers' protest attacked http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/637/637p18h.htm Textile workers march on Tehran http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/635/635p14i.htm Thousands of workers take part in anti-regime protests and strikes http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/219/69/ Protesters stage annual rally to support the Palestinian cause http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4385804.stm Iranian students protest over sex segregation and religious repression 7,000 angry students came under attack from regime goons in the protest in Najaf-Abad, in Isfahan http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4062 Students stage sit-in outside parliament http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=31958&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs Iranians protest US desecration of Qur'an http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=22&art_id=qw1116420123127U232 Students stage sit-in outside parliament http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=31958&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs IRAN/GLOBAL: Protests in five cities over executions of gay men in Iran http://www.ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/2005aug/1001.htm TURKEY: Prison activists arrested Three members of the Association for Inmates' Families' Solidarity were taken into custody yesterday from the Parliament garden as they attempted to chain themselves to a gate as a way of protesting the street beatings of fellow members in Trabzon last week. http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=11016 Hundreds protest police killing of Kurdish boy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1444 Human rights protesters attacked by rightist goons while protesting lynchings http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=10510 Online protest over EU report's failure to mention headscarf ban http://www.zaman.com/?bl=national&alt=&hn=21309 Union organised in spite of intimidation http://lnn.laborstart.org/more.php?id=481_0_1_0_M Police attack solidarity demo supporting conscientious objector http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00390.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00415.html Unionisation battle at textile subcontracting site http://www.labournet.net/world/0506/turkey1.html Protest against US military base http://www.antiimperialista.com/view.shtml?category=9&id=1119345484&keyword=+ http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=48107 Strike planned at aerospace sweatshop http://www.imfmetal.org/main/index.cfm?n=47&l=2&c=11317 NGOs stage Uzbek human rights protest http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=42329 TURKEY A group of people whose relatives have disappeared held a protest yesterday in Galatasaray Square in conjunction with International Week of the Disappeared, observed in Turkey May 14-31. Nearly 40 people carrying photos of their relatives shouted slogans. JORDAN: Prisoners accused of "terrorism" stage hunger strike against verdicts http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/article_1034781.php/Jordan_al-Qaida_prisoners_on_hunger_strike Prisoners stage hunger strike against death penalty http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050720-07564900-bc-jordan-prisonerstrike.xml Rally to protest alleged al-Qaeda bombings http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1302562 http://www.10tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4102319&nav=LUESMuat SYRIA: Protest over UN inquiry, US threats - tens of thousands of Syrians oppose US interference http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2005/October/middleeast_October601.xml§ion=middleeast&col= http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174158,00.html http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2005/October/middleeast_October582.xml§ion=middleeast Lawyers strike as part of UN protests http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=781284 LEBANON: Sit-in over electric wires near homes http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=16842 Palestinians protest against threats to al-Aqsa http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050508-095447-5224r.htm http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=14176 Armenians protest Turkish PM visit over Armenian genocide http://www.azg.am/?lang=EN&num=2005061704 Protest over attack on journalist http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E4C5C98D-8CBF-41BD-8CFA-C7BB6C30817E.htm YEMEN: Journalists protest against trial of colleague http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story.asp?StoryId=CqOGAWeidEwvTzw4TAM91CM5HBgLZDhm Doctors and pharmacists strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j08.shtml KUWAIT: Fijian migrant workers strike http://pidp.eastwestcenter.org/pireport/2005/May/05-24-06.htm Migrant workers from Fiji strike in pay dispute http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/labo-j04.shtml U.A.E.: Bangladeshi migrant workers stage protest for unpaid wages http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2005/July/theuae_July437.xml§ion=theuae&col= QATAR: Nepalese migrant workers strike briefly in concern over colleague's death http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=Local_News&month=July2005&file=Local_News200507123329.xml BAHRAIN: Workers strike, demonstrate over sackings http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=112423&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=28059 http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=112496&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=28060 Protests over unemployment and police brutality http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/20BF3806-5DC7-47F1-817C-05E428176A34.htm http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20050619-124052-4246r.htm SAUDI ARABIA: Prisoners at Hayer Prison stage hunger strike http://www.jihadunspun.net/intheatre_internal.php?article=102394&list=/home.php& TUNISIA: Successful hunger strike by security workers http://www.union-network.org/uniproperty.nsf/0/1B7B0015476C76CFC125704A00301CAD?OpenDocument MOROCCO: Moroccans protest at accusations of migrant abuse Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:28 AM GMT RABAT (Reuters) - Scores of Moroccan humans right activists protested on Thursday at reports of abuse by the authorities against migrants from sub-Saharan Africa who use the country as a springboard to Europe. Some 200 activists and passersby gathered near parliament in the Rabat. Some chanted: "We are all African" while holding lit candles. Others carried placards reading: "Morocco cannot become Europe's immigration policeman" and "No to racism". The protest coincided with the deportation by Morocco of hundreds of African migrants. They have been arrested after violent attempts to break into Ceuta and Melilla, two Spanish enclaves surrounded by Moroccan land. International and local rights groups have said the Moroccan authorities have abandoned hundreds of migrants, including pregnant women and children, in the desert while other migrants complained of beatings and of being fed little. Moroccan officials say they are respecting human rights. http://za.today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-10-14T062708Z_01_ALL423324_RTRIDST_0_OZATP-MOROCCO-IMMIGRATION-PROTEST-20051014.XML Moroccans protest al Qaeda's threat to kill hostages 06 Nov 2005 14:08:48 GMT Source: Reuters CASABLANCA, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Thousands marched through Morocco's biggest city on Sunday to protest al Qaeda's decision to kill two Moroccan hostages in Iraq. Holding banners and chanting "Muslims are brothers. A Muslim does not kill his brother" and "'Yes' to freedom, 'No' to terrorism and barbarity", the protesters marched through Casablanca, a city of 6 million and Morocco's financial capital. Al Qaeda has said it decided to kill the Moroccan embassy employees, Abderrahim Boualem and Abdelkrim al Mouhafidi because of Morocco's support for the U.S.-backed Iraqi government. Top Moroccan officials, ministers, pro-government and opposition party leaders and trade unions and rights groups, led the protest to put pressures on al Qaeda to free the two men. Some members of Islamist parties which back Iraqi insurgents fighting U.S.-led forces in Iraq also joined the march. "All Moroccans are with Iraq, all Moroccans are innocent," the marchers chanted. Morocco's influential organisation of Islamic scholars, known as the High Council of the Ulema and the Councils of Ulema in the Moroccan Kingdom, dismissed al Qaeda's argument that its verdict to kill the two embassy employees was "God's judgment". "The two Moroccans would be considered martyrs if this iniquitous verdict were to be carried out as they were carrying out a duty assigned to them by their nation and legitimate state," the Moroccan Islamic body said on Saturday. Organisers and local government officials said more than 150,000 people took part in the peaceful march while reporters said the anti-Qaeda protesters numbered more than 10,000. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L06694154.htm EGYPT: Students rally against Mubarak http://groups.msn.com/SituationinMiddleEast/general.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=4247 http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4932737,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1458025,00.html http://www.obviousnews.com/breakingnews/stories/obviousnews-557596.html http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=7962 Mayday protests demand reform http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/740/eg10.htm Academics hold march demanding the security services stay out of universities' affairs and defending academic freedom http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20050419-1407-egypt-academics.html http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1113790878483 http://www.keralanext.com/news/indexread.asp?id=184681 http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Gulf%2C+Middle+East+%26+Africa&month=April2005&file=World_News20050420298.xml Asbestos dispute continues http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/752/eg8.htm Egyptian journalists rally against repression http://www.aljazeerah.info/April%202005%20News/19%20n/Egyptian%20Newsmen%20Protest%20Colleagues%20Imprisonment.htm Bedouin protest "terror" arrests http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=73c605aa95eed94c Anti-Mubarak protests continue; protesters clash with police http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2E5E01FA-7F7D-4BCE-A1B0-C0E1605F9EC6.htm Four-month long Esco strike ends - "partial victory" hailed http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/745/eg9.htm http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/743/eg42.htm Police and goons smash referendum rallies http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=15402 http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk05272005.html Students protest against "emergency laws" http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1458025,00.html Police attack anti-torture protest http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5100443,00.html Students rally against Mubarak http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1113272267505 Demonstrations against US occupation of Iraq http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1789 Anti-Mubarak protesters beaten in Cairo http://groups.msn.com/FriendsOfIndependentPalestine/general.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=7584 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-egypt31jul31,1,7194376.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=1&cset=true Protests over alleged vote-rigging by Islamist opposition group http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=15013 Assault on protesting women stirs anger, not fear http://groups.msn.com/ArabsOntheNet-Activated/general.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=5405 Anatomy of a protest - one protest is soon two http://www.abc.net.au/ra/pacbeat/stories/s1420324.htm Mubarak's goon squads http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk05272005.html Thousands protest sexual harassment of activists http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4600133.stm Simmering dissent - the persistence of popular protest in Egypt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1917 Journalists protest against repressive laws http://www.ameinfo.com/63550.html Families of detained Islamic activists stage protest http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2005/July/middleeast_July135.xml§ion=middleeast&col= http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050705-10443100-bc-egypt-protest.xml Laura Bush visit protested http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7918891/ Women protest detention of relatives http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=6983 Protest targets sexual harassment by regime loyalists http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7631 Hundreds detained after anti-government protests http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7145 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2005052506590544 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050527105027885 Goons attack demonstrators http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6646 http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6648 Activists protest against goon violence on earlier demo http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6694 Police blockade striking weavers http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6456 Victory for asbestos workers http://www.nosweat.org.uk/article.php?sid=1375&mode=thread&order=0 Textile workers stage hunger strike over boss's threats http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m27.shtml Textile workers strike for higher pay http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a19.shtml Protest at state security HQ over torture http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/749/eg7.htm Tourism workers protest against bomb attacks http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/76A7EAF6-2D73-4D73-B078-C67340F6092B.htm Mubarak "win" marked by protests http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4BB84C5D-63A8-4B00-9CAC-09412FAF82E0.htm http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/050912/2005091206.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4234162.stm KABYLIE: Marches commemorate, celebrate uprising http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050424040158893 TUNISIA: Demonstrations against Sharon disrupted by pigs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1612 Imprisoned journalist on hunger strike http://www.pambazuka.org/index.php?id=27885 UZBEKISTAN: Mass uprising against tyrant Karimov ends in bloodshed Protesters in Andijan and other border towns in the Ferghana Valley revolted over mistreatment of locals Their first action was to storm a prison to free locals stitched up on charges of being Islamists Armed rebels then fought government troops for several days The eventual victory for Karimov's forces was followed by massacres of thousands, with many more fleeing across the border http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2005/s1372071.htm http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=10545 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,156617,00.html http://www.cbc.ca/storyview/MSN/world/national/2005/05/16/uzbekistan050516.html http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4568650 http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15301957-38197,00.html http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L13175511.htm http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0514uzbekistan14.html http://www.freep.com/news/nw/uzbek14e_20050514.htm http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/544/544_05_Uzbekistan.shtml http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10125572 http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20050513T210000-0500_80405_OBS_SOLDIERS_KILL____AS_UZBEK_S_PROTEST_SPREAD_.asp http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2005/May/theworld_May300.xml§ion=theworld&col= http://www.wral.com/apworldnews/4484701/detail.html http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050514-104058-7735r.htm http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/05152005/world/42496.htm http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3280861a12,00.html http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,15301957%255E401,00.html http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/uzbe-m16.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/uzbe-m14.shtml http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5002783,00.html http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=82187&cat=Asia http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4540041.stm http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/civilsociety/articles/eav051305.shtml http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4544599.stm http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1484252,00.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;sessionid=CNWIAVAYETUMLQFIQMFCM5OAVCBQYJVC?xml=/news/2005/05/17/wuzbek17.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/05/17/ixnewstop.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1619 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/13/AR2005051300458.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1619 http://www.countercurrents.org/uzbek-auken150505.htm http://www.countercurrents.org/uzbek-galima150505.htm http://www.countercurrents.org/uzbek-boehm150505.htm http://www.countercurrents.org/uzbek-howden170505.htm http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=530712005 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1647 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C2089-1622286%2C00.html http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/05/12/kyrgyzstan-050512.html http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0607-06.htm http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0516-04.htm http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0514-03.htm http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/05/18uzbekistan.html http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/06uzbekistan.html http://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/185/185_uzb.html http://www.fifthinternational.org/index.php?id=14,80,0,0,1,0 http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/16/18422/6476 http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2005/393/index.html?id=pp2a.htm http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news498.htm http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p17b.htm http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/627/627p15.htm After Andijan, opposition reports protests in Samarkand http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/06/0f466954-1f05-43a1-be7f-d71eb99063f6.html Before the massacre - thousands protest for justice http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7211 Second massacre in Pakhtabad as regime loses control http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0517-06.htm UK helped train army involved in massacre and supplied hardware http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1300&id=676492005 http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1300&id=577302005 Uzbekistan blows the lid on the lie about liberty http://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0,11319,1495880,00.html Uprising triggered by rights violations http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0518-06.htm Political and economic problems leading up to the crisis http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20221.htm Uzbek tyrant, America's ally, makes Saddam look good http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0525-28.htm http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0518-30.htm http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0516-27.htm Karimov - Bush's favourite terrorist http://www.counterpunch.org/maass05212005.html Uzbek cops smash attempts to hold protest over Andijan massacre http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7597 "Uzbekistan's most orderly protest" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4540041.stm Protesters oppose trial of youths as "extremists" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4532407.stm Unrest spreads from Andijan to Korasuv http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4549873.stm Accusation that 7000 were murdered in the Uzbek "genocide" http://www.muslimuzbekistan.com/eng/ennews/2005/05/ennews25052005_4.html Is the British state using political Islam for its own ends? http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/GE27Ag01.html US opposes calls for investigation at NATO http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/13/AR2005061301550.html Political Islam and US geopolitics http://www.asiantribune.com/show_article.php?id=2473 Diplomats venture into the Uzbek issue http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/GF16Ag01.html US manoeuvres in Uzbekistan http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_18270.shtml Uzbekistan and the latest oil grab http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1662 Eyewitness report http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4544229.stm What lies behind the protests? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4543847.stm Earlier protest in Andijan http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4532407.stm The role of the US in Uzbekistan http://reflectioncafe.blogspot.com/2005/05/violence-in-uzbekistan-and-role-of.html Conspiracy theories, anyone? http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/06/uzbekistan-guuam-andijan-riots-and.html http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/diplomatic/foreign.htm Uzbekistan after the massacre http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=13027&s2=26 Uzbek president massacres 7,000 in Andijan genocide http://www.muslimuzbekistan.com/eng/ennews/2005/05/ennews25052005_4.html Video/presentation on the massacre http://www.dawah.tv/broadcast/uzbekdemon.rm Refugees put number of dead in thousands http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;sessionid=CNWIAVAYETUMLQFIQMFCM5OAVCBQYJVC?xml=/news/2005/05/17/wuzbek17.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/05/17/ixnewstop.html http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=530712005 http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6CF3A2?OpenDocument Uzbek clashes spread to neighbouring towns http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1484252,00.html Karimov - America's "special dictator" http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/GE17Ag01.html UZBEKISTAN: More protests. Police confront peasants outside US embassy - 100 arrested http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050504-113526-1604r Villagers barred from protest http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/04/0d5ccc5b-d911-4293-b420-94930a217c07.html Protesters in Kara-Su border town demand release of locals http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/21/content_2985192.htm Women hold angry protest at US embassy in Tashkent in protest over land grab Military forces violently smash the protest http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4509325.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4512003.stm Peasants protest outside US embassy, clash with cops http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050504-113526-1604r KYRGYZSTAN: Protesters demand resignation of Speaker over links to overthrown regime http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/04/0e52c3d3-3efd-416a-98e8-be49f0b0c91c.html Clashes over refusal to register election candidate - protesters force their way into government headquarters and battled pigs Seven injured as security guards open fire on protesting market traders http://washingtontimes.com/world/20050617-102133-4920r.htm http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=669382005 Security guards open fire on protesting market traders at hotel in Osh http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4087822.stm Pollution protest blockade wins government promise http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/08/ee56b1c0-8516-46c8-a744-f00ec83578ed.html http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/08/be28bb22-e97c-4cc8-8343-99e9a7f40208.html http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2005/08/2-TCA/tca-020805.asp#371520 Opposition protests over prison revolt - possible corruption alleged http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4373552.stm http://www.turkishweekly.net/comments.php?id=1791 Protests in solidarity with Uzbek dissidents http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20050519&hn=19735 http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/may202005/foreign1755422005519.asp http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=772785 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/577144.html KAZAKHSTAN: Police attack tent protest over housing shortages http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2005/October/theworld_October186.xml§ion=theworld&col= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ldxar1 at tesco.net Mon Nov 21 21:18:25 2005 From: ldxar1 at tesco.net (Andy) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:18:25 -0000 Subject: [Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - Southeast and East Asia, Indonesia Message-ID: <01c901c5ef24$37078cf0$0202a8c0@WOL> NEPAL: May Day marked by labour marches http://www.gefont.org/events/mayday05.htm Protests planned for Mayday http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200504241957.htm 10,000 join Mayday protests against King http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/2615/10_000_take_to_streets_in_protest_over_Nepal_s_king Protest against registration of fake union - 1000 workers demonstrate http://lnn.laborstart.org/more.php?id=448_0_1_0_M Student protest attacked in Kathmandu http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=45925 Students hold nationwide strike to protest shootings http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_14-5-2005_pg4_19 Students under attack - security forces open fire on protesters and blockade university http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=38756 Arrests and injuries as police attack pro-democracy demonstration http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=36609 10,000 march in Kathmandu, demand restoration of democracy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2004 Phone workers protest over ban on mobiles http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullstory.asp?filename=6a3Ra3maxamal&folder=aHaoamW&Name=Home&dtSiteDate=20050712 http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=45498 Transport strike observed after call by Maoists http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=46601 Teachers strike over appointment of head http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullstory.asp?filename=6a4Wa7maxamal&folder=aHaoamW&Name=Home&dtSiteDate=20050725 Civil service strike over attack on union rights http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=46406 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2106 Thousands protest for democracy http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1374299.htm 100 professionals arrested while protesting the regime http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/2005/sep/sep19/news13.php Civil servants march against union ban http://www.blog.com.np/index.php?p=737 Mass pro-democracy protests led by opposition leaders http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2005/September/subcontinent_September182.xml§ion=subcontinent&col= http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/afx/2005/09/04/afx2205471.html Petrol price protest attacked, students injured http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=49355 Civil servants strike over mistreatment of colleague http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=52173 University teachers protest over crackdowns and academic freedom http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/2005/sep/sep24/news10.php Nationwide protests against repressive "media ordinance" held by journalists and their supporters http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/2005/oct/oct22/news05.php Journalists defy protest ban to oppose repression http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=55799 Students arrested at protest rally in Kathmandu - rally targets media repression http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/2005/oct/oct27/news15.php Radio stations go off-air in censorship protest http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=55192 BURMA: Global campaign launched after trade unionist murdered http://www.itfglobal.org/news-online/index.cfm/newsdetail/455 MONGOLIA: Public sector workers protest over low wages and pensions http://ubpost.mongolnews.mn/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1115276370&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1& SOUTH KOREA: Golf course workers' strike finally ends in success http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi?db=default&uid=default&ID=2010&view_records=1&ww=1&en=1 Trade unionists go on hunger strike over migrant worker bill http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200504/kt2005042217335610220.htm Statement of workers' union http://www.kctu.org/maybbs/pdsview.php?db=kctuinfo2&code=eng_action&n=24 Human rights watchdog criticises bill http://www.koilaf.org/labor_view.php?num=2860 Warning strike launches campaign against bill http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200504/kt2005040117185311990.htm Seoul Philharmonic protests with music http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200503/kt2005033121554453460.htm Ex-spies hold protests against Japan; clash with cops http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200504/200504150029.html School students protest against hair length rules http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200505/kt2005051517315411960.htm School students protest over new, stricter college entry system http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200505/kt2005050817300811970.htm Strike and rally in casualisation protest by workers http://www.todayonline.com/articles/60176.asp Air strike at Asiana Air hits exports, flights http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/08/08/6662366 http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2005/07/28/200507280005.asp http://www.todayonline.com/articles/63645.asp http://www.koilaf.org/index_init.php?url=labor_view.php?num=2995 http://www.koilaf.org/index_init.php?url=labor_view.php?num=2981 http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200507/kt2005072018545611960.htm http://edition.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/07/20/skorea.pilots.ap/ http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200507/200507210029.html http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/7/21/business/20050721090116&sec=business http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200507/200507180018.html http://www.chinapost.com.tw/i_latestdetail.asp?id=29266 http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worldbiz/archives/2005/07/20/2003264305 http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200507/200507200016.html http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/business/index.ssf?/base/business-44/112167872528160.xml&storylist=mibusiness http://www.koilaf.org/index_init.php?url=labor_view.php?num=2975 http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=040000&biid=2005071940638 http://www.koilaf.org/index_init.php?url=labor_view.php?num=2977 http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Markets/GG18Ag04.html http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200507/200507190042.html http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/ap/2005/07/20/ap2147731.html http://www.koilaf.org/index_init.php?url=labor_view.php?num=2983 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-07/17/content_3229977.htm http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200507/kt2005071719093010220.htm http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worldbiz/archives/2005/07/18/2003264055 http://www.etaiwannews.com/World/2005/07/18/1121659636.htm http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200507/kt2005071817154711950.htm http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20050718-052540-3690r.htm Korea Air pilots walk out to support Asiana strikers http://www.abcasiapacific.com/news/stories/asiapacific_stories_1416599.htm Hospital and metal workers strike http://www.koilaf.org/index_init.php?url=labor_view.php?num=2980 http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200507/kt2005072119001911960.htm http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=040000&biid=2005072292888 http://www.koilaf.org/index_init.php?url=labor_view.php?num=2990 http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=040000&biid=2005071940638 http://www.koilaf.org/index_init.php?url=labor_view.php?num=2978 http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200507/200507200036.html Hospital strike ends in arbitration http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200507/kt2005072418042410220.htm Provisional agreement in metal strike http://www.koilaf.org/index_init.php?url=what_view.php?num=366 Union federations hold joint rally http://www.koilaf.org/index_init.php?url=what_view.php?num=366 Unions boycott labour panels http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2129 Whale factory occupation faces threats http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0526-22.htm "No One Is Illegal" demo http://migrant.nodong.net/zb/view.php?id=newsndates&page=1&sn1=&divpage=1&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=248 Anti-war and migrant worker demos http://migrant.nodong.net/zb/view.php?id=newsndates&page=1&sn1=&divpage=1&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=250 http://blog.jinbo.net/CINA/?pid=209 Protests over arrest of migrant union leader Immigration office stormed on one protest http://migrant.nodong.net/zb/view.php?id=newsndates&page=1&sn1=&divpage=1&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=246 http://migrant.nodong.net/zb/view.php?id=newsndates&page=1&sn1=&divpage=1&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=247 http://migrant.nodong.net/zb/view.php?id=newsndates&page=1&sn1=&divpage=1&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=245 Korea Mayday events http://migrant.nodong.net/zb/view.php?id=newsndates&page=1&sn1=&divpage=1&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=243 Thursday peace protests continue http://migrant.nodong.net/zb/view.php?id=newsndates&page=1&sn1=&divpage=1&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=241 Youths plan further hair ban protests http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050519082551654 Hunger strike at Mokdong immigration prison http://www.labournet.net/world/0508/apwsl1.html Workers head for confrontation with government http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4452 http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4074 Government smashes hospital strike, but pilots' strike continues http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/labo-j30.shtml . and then they ban the pilots' strike as well http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a20.shtml Metal workers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a20.shtml Trade unionist killed by scab at cement drivers' picket http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/labo-j18.shtml South Korean Private Kills 8 Soldiers After Being Tormented By Officers June 20, 2005 New York Times A 22-year-old South Korean soldier who had been bullied by his superiors killed eight soldiers at a guard post at the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea, inflicting the highest number of casualties on the South Korean Army since 2000. CHINA: Parents block roads in tuition fees protest http://chinastic.chinabroadcast.cn/chinastic/content.aspx?id=6737 Unrest as army veterans gather to protest benefits http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2005/04/14/2003250384 Veterans protest redundancies, arrests of colleagues, and unpaid wages at factory in Shenzen Riot police called out as mayor is besieged in car http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=4561 http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=161806022&p=y6y8x67z8 Truck, bus and taxi drivers stage protest over draconian red-light jumping sentences http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Metro/GG05Ak07.html Professor stages one-man protest over graduate recruiting system http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-07/04/content_456786.htm Veterans protest in Beijing http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=3043 Farmers stage protests over land grabs near Olympic venues http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-06-17-voa59.cfm Jailed cyber-dissident goes on hunger strike http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=15114 Burst of internet protest over forced retirement of education official http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/article_1058600.php/Official`s_`retirement`_sparks_protest Local bureaucrats and foreign bosses gang up to smash strike Thousands of workers strike for several days to demand the right to form an independent union The factory is a WalMart supplier http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/25/AR2005042501555.html http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/en/web/article.php?article_id=50259 http://www.china-labour.org.hk/iso/article.adp?article_id=6326 http://www.investors.com/breakingnews.asp?journalid=27128911&brk=1 TIBET: Graduates protest for jobs, claim discrimination http://www.rfa.org/english/news/2005/07/14/tibetan_youth/ HONG KONG: Protest against homophobia http://uk.gay.com/headlines/8544 Protesters target Benetton over "mulesing" http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Hong-Kong-protest-against-Aussie-wool/2005/04/07/1112815665575.html Cathay Pacific workers apply for review over occupational health http://www.csr-asia.com/index.php?p=2484 Hotel workers protest for severance pay http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/lab-a23.shtml Protesters target Japan over reparations and history falsification http://english.people.com.cn/200507/07/eng20050707_194669.html Professional drivers protest over traffic violation crackdown http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Metro/GG05Ak07.html TAIWAN: Telecom workers stage strike against privatisation Clashes with police over entry of scabs http://www.smh.com.au/news/Breaking/Taiwan-state-telco-workers-on-strike/2005/05/18/1116361589500.html http://www.etaiwannews.com/Taiwan/Society/2005/05/18/1116378763.htm http://money.iwon.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.jsp?cat=USMARKET&src=704&feed=dji§ion=news&news_id=dji-00015520050516&date=20050516&alias=/alias/money/cm/nw Article on protests against stray dog killing in Taiwan http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2005/07/17/2003263942 Mistreated lepers protest demolition of hospital http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2005/05/14/2003254622 Students protest over fee increases http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/s1405545.htm http://english.www.gov.tw/index.jsp?action=cna&cnaid=11198 http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2005/07/03/2003261987 Telecom workers protest privatisation http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2005/08/09/afx2176120.html Arms trade protest opposes increased procurement http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2005/09/26/2003273260 Medical professionals march over pay http://www.ettoday.com/2005/04/20/11195-1780235.htm JAPAN/TAIWAN: Tokyo police smash protest at Yakusuni Shrine over "honouring" of enslaved Taiwanese aboriginal people http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2005/06/15/2003259352 JAPAN: Nearly 300,000 attend Mayday marches Workers attack economic woes and militarist constitutional reforms http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=336040 http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050430a6.htm Rallies held to oppose militarist amendments to the constitution http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=334324 More protests in Okinawa, this time over live-ammo training at US bases http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1968 Anarchists organise protest against nuclear weapons http://www.ainfos.ca/05/aug/ainfos00048.html Protests mark Hiroshima Day http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7396 http://www.labournet.net/world/0508/japan1.html Teachers oppose revival of nationalist rituals http://www.labournet.net/world/0502/japan2.html http://www.labournet.net/world/0503/japan3.html Rail strike targets Iraq war as well as privatisation, speed-ups and hazards http://www.labournet.net/world/0503/japan4.html Transport workers stage anti-war rallies http://www.labournet.net/world/0503/japan5.html Woman attempts suicide in protest over prime minister http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/article_1044720.php/Woman_attempts_suicide_in_Koizumi_protest Ethnic Chinese groups denounce Koizumi visit to Yaasakuni Shrine http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-10/18/content_3642915.htm VIETNAM: Successful strike at McDonald's toy maker in Danang Sweatshop workers previously smashed windows and struck for two days over wages and the humiliation of workers http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBW8N6HO8E.html http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01LAB130505 http://thanhniennews.com/society/?catid=3&newsid=6722 McDonald's toy makers strike over low pay and sweatshop conditions http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=522362005 CAMBODIA: As quotas end, conflict escalates http://www.nosweat.org.uk/article.php?sid=1272 Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK PHNOM PENH, July 20 (Reuters) - Cambodian riot police on Wednesday broke up a protest by ethnic minority asylum seekers against the forced return of over 100 Vietnamese refugees. THAILAND:: 2,000 Thai Workers Demand Higher Wages BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - More than one thousand workers blocked a Bangkok street outside the prime minister's office Monday, demanding that the government increase the minimum wage and control prices following a steep rise in fuel prices. Workers carrying banners and placards rallied on a main road, blocking the entrance to Government House. http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?feed=AP&Date=20050718&ID=4969431 Workers rally for minimum wage rise http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/labo-j23.shtml Electricity workers protest against privatisation http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/lab-m21.shtml Workers attend Mayday rallies, call for rise in minimum wage http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/labo-m07.shtml Protest over stock-market listing of beer company - protesters allege profit motive will encourage drinking http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/ap/2005/07/20/ap2148649.html Soldiers involved in crackdown, slain by angry villagers http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050921-06444000-bc-thailand-killings.xml Mayday marchers call for minimum wage hike http://www.chinapost.com.tw/i_latestdetail.asp?id=27940 Villagers pray to stop Salween Dams http://www.indymedia.org/en/2005/04/114586.shtml Poverty protesters demand dam gates be opened to combat drought Protest at ministry demands dam gates open Policemen are deployed in front of the Energy Ministry to keep law and order while about 100 members of the Assembly of the Poor rally to demand that the Pak Moon dam gates be opened. — Tawatchai Kemgumnerd About 100 Assembly of the Poor members again rallied at the Energy Ministry yesterday to demand the Pak Moon dam's sluice gates be opened. Pakin Sommit, adviser to Energy Minister Viset Choopiban, told them the ministry would not allow them all inside, but asked them to send 10 representatives. However, the protesters rejected the offer and continued their rally. Mr Pakin said the Assembly of the Poor had asked the ministry to open the sluice gates, citing a cabinet resolution that the gates be opened from May to August for fishing. But a provincial committee chaired by the Ubon Ratchathani governor decided on May 16, after meeting the Assembly of the Poor, to keep the sluice gates closed. The decision, to be reviewed next month, was based on the fact many areas still facing drought would be affected if the gates were opened. Mr Pakin said he did not know what to do if assembly members refused to negotiate. The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) said opening the sluice gates had been postponed because of the drought. Egat deputy governor Paiboon Thepmongkok said cabinet empowered Egat to open the dam gates for four months from either May or June. http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/19May2005_news08.php http://www.mcot.org/query.php?nid=38592 MALAYSIA: Villagers protest after fatal accident; call for ban on HGVs http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=134979 http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/5/18/nation/10978970&sec=nation Indian workers camp out near High Commission to protest non-payment of wages http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200505121863.htm http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1108359.cms Squatters refuse to move and protest against social cleansing http://www.mmail.com.my/Current_News/MM/Tuesday/National/20050712133820/Article/index_html Protest over new condominium, deemed threat to green belt http://www.hba.org.my/news/2005/1005/residents.htm Mayday march targets privatisation http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=28500 SINGAPORE: Police attack small protest at Central Profident Fund over corruption http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050816045705321 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050811045043620 http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/s1435852.htm http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050811045043620 PHILLIPINES: Taxi drivers protest against oil deregulation http://news.inq7.net/regions/index.php?index=1&story_id=34277 http://news.inq7.net/nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=34199 Greenpeace protesters attacked by guards during protest at mine http://www.philstar.com/philstar/News200511110402.htm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3177 Farmers threaten to plant marijuana in protest against vegetable imports http://www.freshplaza.com/2005/14apr/2_ph_a_marihuanaplant.htm Rattan manufacturers stage strike http://www.thefreeman.com/local/story-20050603-31195.html Soldiers deployed against Lepanto strike? http://www.bulatlat.net/news/5-16/5-16-lepanto.htm Indigenous people protest gold mining ban http://news.inq7.net/regions/index.php?index=1&story_id=32494 Mayday marked with cycle rally by labour activists http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/dav/2005/05/01/news/city.workers.to.stage.cycling.protest.sunday.html Mayday events across the country http://manila.indymedia.org/?action=newswire&parentview=3786 http://qc.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/3251.php Schoolteachers march on Mayday http://manila.indymedia.org/?action=newswire&parentview=3802 Peasant leaders protest killings of activists with fast http://qc.indymedia.org/news/2005/03/2991.php http://qc.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/3001.php Phillipines International Forum held http://qc.indymedia.org/news/2005/03/2953.php Women hold march against poverty and globalisation http://manila.indymedia.org/?action=newswire&parentview=3782 Protests against lopsided free-trade deal with Japan http://manila.indymedia.org/index.php?action=newswire&parentview=3703 Government workers protest corruption and mismanagement in pension fund http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/bac/2005/05/07/news/gov.t.employees.gird.for.protest.html Food Not Bombs set up in Naga City http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2010 Mining workers and activists storm mine HQ http://news.inq7.net/regions/index.php?index=1&story_id=44568 Workers clash with cops as mine dispute continues http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/bag/2005/07/26/news/clash.occurs.between.lepanto.strikers.cops.7.hurt.html Strike declared at oil firm http://www.mb.com.ph/BSNS2005071439384.html Port workers strike for benefits http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/lab-j09.shtml Cebu hotel workers defy anti-strike order http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/labo-j18.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/labo-j11.shtml Rattan furniture makers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/labo-j11.shtml GSIS workers protest corruption Health workers protest for pay increase Retrenched garment workers demand entitlements http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/lab-m14.shtml Plantation workers storm labour office http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/labo-m07.shtml Transport workers protest over fuel prices http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/lab-a23.shtml As Nestle strike continues, trade unionist is murdered http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/nestle/ Protest marks anniversary of martial law http://news.inq7.net/top/index.php?index=1&story_id=50777 Sacked university workers call for solidarity http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ilo/2005/04/29/news/university.protesters.call.for.support.html Workers and opposition groups rally on Mayday There are some clashes with cops as workers marched against the government http://news.inq7.net/top/index.php?index=1&story_id=35321 http://www.metronews.ca/reuters_international.asp?id=70753 Transport strike http://au.news.yahoo.com/050418/19/u0cj.html http://au.news.yahoo.com/050418/3/u0ql.html Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino 63 Unrubia St. Bgy. Marilag, Proj. 4, Quezon City Tel. No. 9950849; 9950850 PRESS RELEASE 30 April 2005 Nationwide protests to mark May Day Jobs, trade union rights, delivery from poverty and hunger, social change. These will be organized labor's battle cry this coming Labor Day. Disgusted over the government's failure to address the pressing demand for wage increases in the face of endless oil price hikes and the rising cost of public services like power and water, the Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP) and Partido ng Manggagawa (PM) vowed to mobilize thousands of their members nationwide to street marches and rallies. Protest actions will be held in Manila, Laguna, Cavite, Bulacan, Iloilo City, Bacolod City, Cebu City, Davao City and Iligan. In Manila, BMP and PM will be joining the Broad Alliance for Workers' Interest (BAWI) in a march from Welcome Rotonda to Mendiola. In a build up to Labor Day celebration, some 300 women workers under the BMP-Kababaihan lighted torch and held a noise barrage at Welcome Rotunda this afternoon, assailing the Arroyo administration for playing deaf and blind to the plight of the workers in the midst of the deepening economic and social crisis. "Workers nationwide demand across-the-board wage increases. What we got are more price increases and new taxes (VAT)," BMP chair Victor Briz, said. Briz pointed out that for more than a decade, Congress and the regional wage boards miserably failed to adjust minimum wage levels any nearer to the cost of living. The current minimum wage remains at P250 (excluding ECOLAs) in NCR while the cost of living is at P600 a day. "Until when shall we wait for this usual crumb? When we, the horses of production, are already dead?", asked Briz. Aside from their pressing demand for wage increase, labor groups also demand the immediate stop to deregulation, privatization and liberalization policies which have created massive dislocations of workers and farmers - the root cause of perennial unemployment, rising cost of living and deteriorating social services. Workers also accused the Arroyo administration of perpetuating the policy of cheap labor by fixing wages to the barest minimum and denying workers, through stringent laws, the full freedom to organize, collectively bargain, and to strike," Of the more than 16 million wage and salaried workers, only 1.6 million are organized in about 17,000 unions, while only 555,000 workers are covered by CBAs. "Instead of giving full protection to labor as mandated by the Constitution, the government and capitalists are rather using all repressive laws, the courts, and the police in suppressing workers' legitimate rights to organize and to strike. In fact, harassments and deaths meted those who dare to fight for their rights," said Briz, citing the Hacienda Luisita case. Briz said past and present governments apply the same policies, the GMA administration clearly being the staunchest ally of business and international capital. As such, labor groups, he said, are not expecting any better under Arroyo's administration and this rotten system of imperialist globalization. "But we will not give up our fight for bread and freedom, however deaf and numb this government is," he declared. "Nevertheless, we already have realized that the ultimate way to solve the present and recurring crisis is the road of political and social change in the country. Until the establishment of a democratic government of workers and of the people," Briz concluded. EAST TIMOR: Thousands rally in church-led reform protests - initially organised around reactionary religious issues but also encompassing dictatorial government attitudes http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-6BLDBL?OpenDocument http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/04/20/2003251223 http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/s1349036.htm Catholic education demos take up social justice issues http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p16b.htm INDONESIA: Journalists protest court verdict against colleagues http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=24437 Protests against Israel http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Trends&loid=8.0.151918944&par=0 Workers protest low pay at sugar factory http://www.nosweat.org.uk/article.php?sid=1334&mode=thread&order=0 Hundreds of farmers protest against water privatisation http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1909 Major strike at garment sweatshop in Jakarta http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2011 Crap arrest of eco-warrior leads to unrest in court http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2200 Hundreds rally in Jakarta for peace in Aceh http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/633/633p20.htm Gamblers protest over ban http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2201 Workers occupy Gap factory http://www.nosweat.org.uk/article.php?sid=1282 http://www.nosweat.org.uk/article.php?sid=1293 http://www.nosweat.org.uk/article.php?sid=1316 http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4341 Strike at garment factory http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4237 Strike at Puma factory http://www.nosweat.org.uk/article.php?sid=1259 Rail workers protest over downgrading of status http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/labo-j23.shtml Textile workers rally for reinstatement http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/lab-m21.shtml Mayday rallies across Indonesia demand improved pay and conditions http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/labo-m07.shtml Activists resist evictions in Sulawesi http://www.antiimperialista.com/view.shtml?category=9&id=1117574292&keyword=+ Palestine solidarity protests in Jakarta, Aceh and nationwide http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Trends&loid=8.0.151918944&par=0 http://www.aljazeerah.info/April%202005%20News/18%20n/Indonesians%20in%20Various%20Cities%20Protest%20Israeli%20Threats%20to%20Al-Aqsa%20Mosque.htm http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=7942 http://www.zeenews.com/links/articles.asp?aid=212415&sid=WOR http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/EdmontonSun/News/2005/04/18/1002012-sun.html http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2005/April/theworld_April387.xml§ion=theworld Street vendors block roads in eviction protests http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2755 Farmers protest for land reform http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2751 Peasants and urban poor protest at parliament over violent attacks by corporate goons http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2747 Hundreds rally in 10 cities against fuel price rise 2000 march on Presidential Palace in Jakarta, while elsewhere police fight protesters trying to storm petrol stations http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=252450&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/ http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/09/30/2003273817 http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.213805650&par=0 INDONESIA =================^======================================== I N D O L E F T - News service > > =================^======================================== Compilation of articles on May Day commemorations ================================================= - Peaceful actions greet international Labour Day - May Day, thousands of workers rally in Bandung - Thousands of workers inundate Central Jakarta on May Day - Workers blockade road in front of mayor's office in Malang - Makassar workers pelt effigies of Yudhoyono-Kalla with bottles and stones - Thousands gather to commemorate May Day in Jakarta ------------------------------------------------------- Peaceful actions greet international Labour Day Tempo Interactive - May 1, 2005 Deni Mukbar/Siswanto, Jakarta - May Day was commemorated today by hundreds of workers and mass organisations from Greater Jakarta at the Hotel Indonesia roundabout in Central Jakarta. The action, which began at around 10am, was joined by a number of organisations including the Indonesian Association of Trade Workers (ASPEK) and Student's Solidarity for the People (SMUR) who called for improvements to workers' welfare and the proper application of the law on labour affairs. Meanwhile at 11.20am, another mass organisations calling themselves the United People's Alliance held an action at the State Palace calling on the government and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to strengthen domestic industries. Other demands including opposing the use of contract workers and improvements to the performance of national industries. Since 7am in the satellite city of Bekasi, workers from a number of organisations had packed roads leading towards Jakarta concentrating in at number of points such as the Social Affairs Department in front of the Bekasi regional government offices. The coalition of workers came from the Bekasi branch of the National Workers Union (SPN), the Bekasi branch of the Association of Indonesian Trade Unions (GSBI), the Permindo Oil Trading Workers Association, the PT Hirose Electric Indonesia Trade Union and other trade unions from the Bekasi regency. Prior to this, they commemorated May Day by holding a long- march through Bekasi but delayed holding a demonstration as they plan to this later at the Hotel Indonesia roundabout. ------------------------------------------------------- May Day, thousands of workers rally in Bandung Detik.com - May 1, 2005 Ahmad Yunus, Bandung - May Day was also commemorated by workers in the West Java provincial of Bandung. Around 3,000 works spilled into the streets of Bandung organising a long-march and convoy. Demonstrators began gathering at the Monument to the People's Struggle on Jalan Dipati Ukur at around 8am where they gave speeches in which they called for workers welfare to be improved. They also rejected the use of contract labour. A number of banners and posters were brought to the action with messages such as "Reject Cheap Wages" and "Abolish Contract Labour Systems". The demonstrators then held a long-march and convoy from Jalan Dipati Ukur via Jalan H Juanda and Jalan Diponegoro. At 11.40 demonstrators were still at the Radio Republic Indonesia building on Jalan Diponegoro where they plan to broadcast their demands though the radio station. The workers came from a number of organisations including the National Workers Union, the West Java National Trade Union Congress Alliance, the Greater Bandung Employees Brotherhood Forum and the Indonesian Association of Free Trade Unions. The long-march and convoy resulted in traffic jams and a number of places such as Jalan Supratman were even closed off by police. (asy) ------------------------------------------------------- Thousands of workers inundate Central Jakarta on May Day Detik.com - May 1, 2005 Iqbal Fadil, Jakarta - Commemorating May Day on May 1, thousands of workers inundated the Hotel Indonesia roundabout in Central Jakarta resulting in a massive traffic jam on Jalan Sudirman. The workers, who were from a number of trade unions from Jakarta and the satellite cities of Bogor, Tangerang and Bekasi, arrived at the roundabout at around 9am on Sunday. At around 10am they began leaving the roundabout to march to the State Palace so right now the Hotel Indonesia roundabout and Jalan Thamrin is filled with a sea of people. To get to the State Palace on Jalan Medan Merdeka Utara, they used all of the lanes on Jalan Thamrin except the busway and as a result traffic on Jalan Sudirman between Senayan and Hotel Indonesia came to a total standstill. The busway was intentionally left empty but ended up being used by private vehicles and ordinary buses. Workers brought a number of banners, their trade union flags and the majority wore headbands. In addition to those going on foot, a number of workers also traveled in a convoy of motorcycles. A number of demands were taken up for this May Day: that May 1 become a labour day and national holiday; an end to mass dismissals; an end to the use of contract labour; the repeal of Law Number 13/2003 on Labour Affairs, Law Number 2/2004 on the Settlement of Industrial Disputes and Law Number 39/2004 on the Protection of Migrant Workers; upholding and protecting the freedom of workers to form trade unions; establishing mechanisms to protect Indonesian migrant workers and their families and; providing free education, health and cheep housing for the poor. They also called on all parties to end violence against and the trafficking of women and children, an end to privatisation and the sale of state assets, the arrest and trial of corrupters and the seizure of their assets, bringing employers to trial who violate workers and an end to interference by the IMF, World Bank, the Consultative Group on Indonesia and the Asia Development Bank in national economic policy. (asy) ------------------------------------------------------- Workers blockade road in front of mayor's office in Malang Detik.com - May 1, 2005 Budi Hartadi, Malang - Thousands of workers in East Java city of Malang commemorated May Day by blockading the road in front of the mayor's office on Jalan Tugu. As well as the demonstration in front of the mayor's office workers also held an action in the grounds of the Gajayana Stadium and the Malang City square. During the action workers called on the government to make May 1 a national holiday and for the government to immediately abolish all anti-worker policies which are contained in Law Number 13/2003 on Labour Affairs and Law Number 2/2004 on the Settlement of Industrial Disputes as well as an end to liberalisation in the labour sector. "Workers are being dismissed, workers' wages do not conform to the minimum regional wage and fuel price increase indicate that the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice-president Jusuf Kalla are puppets of imperialism", shouted a worker during a speech. As well as giving speeches, they also brought a number of posters with the messages such as "Stop fuel price increases", "Increase workers' wages" and "Fuel price increase are further strangling the working class". The action was also joined by a number of activists from the Joint People's Movement against Fuel Price Increases, the People's Democratic Action Committee, Indonesian Labour Solidarity for Struggle and the Malang branch of the All Indonesia Trade Union. Although the action proceeded in an orderly manner, hundreds of police officers were deployed to maintain security and supervise the hundreds of workers commemorating May Day. (asy) ------------------------------------------------------- Makassar workers pelt effigies of Yudhoyono-Kalla with bottles and stones Detik.com - May 1, 2005 Gunawan Mashar, Makassar - Like pelting the holy wall with stones to excise evil. That's what it was like at a demonstration in the South Sulawesi provincial capital of Makassar during the commemoration of May Day - they pelted effigies of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice- president Jusuf Kalla with bottles of Aqua and stones. Actions by workers commemorating May Day on Sunday were held in a number of places. As well as workers, students from a number of other organisations also took to the streets. One of the places used by demonstrators was the Reformasi toll road where hundreds of workers and students from the United Student Worker Front (FBMB) linked up with the Association of Islamic Students (HMI) and demonstrated by 'sleeping' in the middle of the toll road intersection. Their action was carried out as a symbol that workers no longer trust the Yudhoyono-Kalla government and that since they took office workers have continued to have no power and are still left to flounder with no clear future. As a result of the action traffic on road leading to the Reformasi toll road slowed to a crawl. Demonstrators had also made effigies with pictures of Yudhoyono and Kalla that were pelted with bottles of Aqua and stones. This act was a symbol of protest against the president and vice-president. At around 11am demonstrators left the Reformasi toll road and are currently travelling towards the Karebosi Square to meet up with other workers who will arrive from other locations. Each year Karebosi Square is a focal point for workers commemorating May 1. As of going to print around 500 workers had already gathered and this will increase because many are still on their way such as workers who had gathered at the Makassar Industrial Zone on Jalan Ir Sutami who are now on their way to the square. Hundreds of police officers have been put on alert to maintain security during the demonstrations. (asy) ------------------------------------------------------- Thousands gather to commemorate May Day in Jakarta Tempo Interactive - May 1, 2005 AJI/AT, Jakarta - The commemoration of international labour day (May Day) in Jakarta today involved thousands of workers and other social organisations such as students, the urban poor, farmers and women. The participants had been commemorating May Day since 10.30am by holding a people's theater at the Hotel Indonesia roundabout in Central Jakarta then marching to the State Palace. This May Day the teams raised were national industrialisation for the people as an alternative economic concept to resolve welfare problems that have yet to be solved by the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice-president Jusuf Kalla. National industrialisation is industrialisation that gets rid of the neoliberal framework and must be carried put by a clean, democratic, modern, independent and populist government. The Yudhoyono administration has no commitment to implement industrialisation that is truly free from the interests of neoliberalism. Action commemorating labour day, May 1, were also held in the satellite city of Tangerang (Cisadane/KBC Worker Committee), in Jakarta (Indonesian Transportation Trade Union for Struggle, SBTPI) and dominated by opposition to illegal payments at the North Jakarta port of Tanjung Priok and in the satellite city of Bekasi in front of the Indomobil car factory followed by a march to Bekasi's Tongyang industrial zone. [Translated by James Balowski.] =================^======================================== I N D O L E F T - News service > > =================^======================================== United People's Alliance demonstrates against neoliberalism Detik.com - April 20, 2005 Dian Intannia, Jakarta - Around 30 student activists, rural workers and urban-poor activists from the United People's Alliance (Aliansi Rakyat Bersatu, ARB) are demanding that the government apply the concept of national industrialisation. The oppose the concepts of neoliberalism and global capitalism which is being applied by the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY). This opposition was conveyed at demonstration held in front of the National Development Planning Board (Bappenas) building on Jalan Taman Suropati in Jakarta on Wednesday April 20. "SBY should put into place a national industrialisation [program] based on [concepts of] independence, democracy, populism, modernism, transparency and internationalism", said ARB's public relations officer Lukman Hakim during break in the demonstration. According to Hakim who is also a deputy-chairperson of the People's Democratic Party, to date the concepts which have been applied by the government such as investment by foreign capital have been unproductive. This has also occurred with the privatisation of state owned enterprises (BUMN). He then gave as an example foreign investment in the mining field such as the gold mining firm PT Newmont Minahasa Raya which has had no positive influence on ordinary people and has instead has caused environmental damage. "SBY should put into place a people-orientated industrialisation which is based on domestic potential, not neoliberalism", he said. SBY he continued, should be able to use the reconstruction of Aceh as a impetus for domestic industrialisation. If SBY was astute, he could use Aceh to reinvigorate domestic industries, where the development based on the Aceh blue- print for reconstruction can take advantage of domestic markets as the principle foundation. This however said Hakim, can only occur under preconditions where a peaceful conditions must be created in Aceh. One of these is by implementing a cease-fire between the armed separatist Free Aceh Movement while at the same time pursuing diplomatic efforts. During the action the alliance also demanded a meeting with Bappenas officials to convey their desires and to demand that the government put into place a social subsidy program to cover the people's basic needs such as subsidising energy, electricity, housing, agriculture, education and health care which the government is obliged to do. They also called for abolishing contract labour and ending dismissals though a subsidy program, canceling the foreign debt, rejecting privatisation and the sale of state assets along with seizing the wealth of corrupters which could be taken to subsidise the needs of domestic industrialisation. While the action was taking place, Bappenas officials headed by the state minister of national development planning and head of Bappenas, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, were actually in the middle of a meeting so only Bappenas' director of industry, Lucky Eko Wurdoyo, was prepared to meet with them later at 1pm. (umi) [Translated by James Balowski.] INDONESIA Textile workers on strike City News - May 12, 2005 BOGOR: Representatives of about 6,000 workers of textile producer PT Great River Indonesia staged a rally at the Bogor Council on Wednesday, demanding that councillors force the company to reemploy their colleagues. "We will continue the strike until we reach an agreement with the company," a worker, Martanto, said. The workers were protesting PT Great River's decision to lay off some 700 workers on May 9 and, according to them, had cut their monthly salary in half. "The company always claims losses, but production is still going on, we still receive a lot of orders ... Every time we ask the executives to show us the financial reports, they always refuse," Martanto added. The company produces shirts and lingerie for export to the U.S., Italy, Australia and Japan. The company's human resources officer, Harun Hutapea, deplored the strike, saying that the company needed the workers' moral support to get fresh capital. -- JP -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ldxar1 at tesco.net Mon Nov 21 21:18:17 2005 From: ldxar1 at tesco.net (Andy) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:18:17 -0000 Subject: [Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - South Asia Message-ID: <01bd01c5ef24$30d3b890$0202a8c0@WOL> NAGALAND: Protesters torch government offices after police injure protesters in lathicharge Protests are continuing over an ethnic dispute with Manipur http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=Naga+students+protest+govt+decision&id=75717 INDIA: "Minor unrest" at factory after Dalit self-immolates http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/29/stories/2005042918860300.htm Electricity workers stage dharna http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEK20050519012631&Page=K&Title=Southern+News+-+Karnataka&Topic=0 Fisherfolk march on parliament http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/26/stories/2005042603750500.htm Miners' strike shuts down Indian colliery http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/26/stories/2005042604240600.htm http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/27/stories/2005042709410400.htm http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/23/stories/2005042310020400.htm Lecturers start relay hunger strike to protest sacking http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/26/stories/2005042602870300.htm Electricity strike in Punjab http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/21/stories/2005042105420300.htm Chennai textile strike ends with deal http://www.chennaionline.com/colnews/newsitem.asp?NEWSID=%7B8F43D9E4-B719-411C-B2E8-6A5B6471609A%7D&CATEGORYNAME=Tamil+Nadu Nurses' strike shuts down hospital http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=125795 Drug suppliers launch indefinite strike http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/06/stories/2005040614000300.htm Tirupati teachers hold dharna over unpaid wages http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/05/stories/2005040502180300.htm College teachers demonstrate http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/09/stories/2005040910790300.htm Food workers mobilise against privatisation http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=138646 http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=138808 Elementary school teachers protest for regularisation http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1954 Doctors protest over cost-cutting http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?storyflag=y&leftnm=lmnu2&leftindx=2&lselect=1&chklogin=N&autono=188266 University staff and students protest against political expulsions; boycott call empties campus http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050418/asp/calcutta/story_4616269.asp http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050419/asp/calcutta/story_4630712.asp http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050420/asp/calcutta/story_4634882.asp Flash strike by Kochi bus workers http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/03/stories/2005060319020300.htm Boss besieged by transport workers http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050531/asp/siliguri/story_4806615.asp Strike/lockout in contract dispute closes Apollo Tyres http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=131862 Relay fasters demand reinstatement of sacked workers http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/01/stories/2005060114220300.html Sugar mill workers stage protests against privatisation http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=132069 EPSL workers stage protest against sackings and retrenchment http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050602/cth1.htm#18 Demonstration held over job insecurity and safety http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jun32005/district18463200562.asp Informal steel workers strike over wages and other issues http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/03/stories/2005060320600300.htm Nurses stage strike over management harassment http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050526/asp/calcutta/story_4785927.asp Teachers stage candlelit protest over poor services http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=131191 Dispute at jute mill - lockout begins http://www.hindu.com/2005/05/27/stories/2005052703880500.htm Hawkers protest against non-recognition, privatisation and layoffs http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=131220 Massive protest against privatisation in Punjab Protest against privatisation of government schools http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=131349 http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050528/ldh2.htm http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050517/punjab1.htm#11 Power loom strike in Karnataka http://www.hindu.com/2005/05/28/stories/2005052800710300.htm Strike halts tea production in Assam http://www.zeenews.com/links/articles.asp?ssid=50&aid=217768&newsid=BUS http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/07/11/7696808 'Anganawadi' workers stage dharna seeking wage revision http://www.hindu.com/2005/05/20/stories/2005052012900300.htm Farm workers' strike called off after talks http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2005/05/20/stories/2005052001091700.htm Workers at small employees' organisation protest over planned layoffs http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=130315 Wholesale market workers stage protest, strike http://www.hindu.com/2005/05/21/stories/2005052108600300.htm Coca-Cola workers demand reopening of plant condemned by campaigners http://www.hindu.com/2005/05/24/stories/2005052408730300.htm Punjab cycle workers stage rally over attack on rights http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=129081 Karnataka plantation workers stage protest http://www.hindu.com/2005/05/13/stories/2005051303800300.htm Assistant cooks hold rally http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/may132005/district202432005512.asp UP railway workers strike over suspension http://www.hindu.com/2005/05/14/stories/2005051411260500.htm Contract workers' dharna HYDERABAD: Fifty persons working on contract basis at the Marri Channa Reddy Human Resources Development Institute staged a dharna on the campus on Wednesday seeking justice. http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/02/stories/2005060215730400.htm Bandh callThe all-Assam Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes Unemployed's Association has called a 12-hour state bandh from 6 am on Monday, demanding filling up of about 30,000 vacant posts in government departments as backlog for SC and ST candidates. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050530/asp/northeast/story_4803792.asp Construction workers arrested CUDDALORE: Over 900 construction workers were arrested in Cuddalore district when they staged a demonstration in support of their demands that included payment of pension and family pension. http://www.hindu.com/2005/05/18/stories/2005051806690301.htm Ghatshila: Employees of Hindustan Copper Limited (HCL) will go on a day's token strike in support of their demands on June 1. Jharkhand Copper Majdoor Union general secretary Devi PrasadMukherjee said HCL leaders will meet Union mines minister Shishram Ola and submit a four-point charter of demands, which includes re-opening of Sidheshwar Chapri open cast mines, increasing the capacity of flash smelter at Maubhandar factory from 16,000 to 32,000, implementing wage revision which is pending since 1997 and increasing the retirement age of employees from 58 to 60 years. Mukherjee said if the HCL management does not take any positive step to implement the wage revision, the workers will go on strike. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050520/asp/ranchi/story_4762427.asp#5 Student protesters stage bandh - oil and gas sites shut down http://www.reuters.co.in/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp?type=businessNews&localeKey=en_IN&storyID=8516600 Chennai trade unionists protest against foreign investment and demand end to anti-union laws http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=82536&cat=India http://newstodaynet.com/17may/rf5.htm Massive tea strike in West Bengal over poverty wages (collection of stories) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2130 West Bengal tea strike ends with wage deal http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=100656&n_date=20050726&cat=Business Strike in textile town demands action on pollutants http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=100634&cat=India Indian truckers paralyse border in protest over truck seizures in Bangladesh http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jul262005/national202282005725.asp Postal workers protest over impact of merger http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=141253 Pepsico hires scabs as strike continues http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/07/10/5308830 Mayday protests http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/05/04india.html Kerala and Punjab government workers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/labo-j30.shtml Aluminium workers strike, telecom workers protest http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/labo-j23.shtml Power workers, bank workers and teachers take action http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/labo-j16.shtml Andhra Pradesh transport workers on strike over bankruptcy Power workers protest for unpaid salaries Water workers demonstrate http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/lab-j09.shtml Teachers, cashew workers demonstrate http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/lab-j02.shtml Tamil Nadu bank workers protest College teachers stage short strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a27.shtml Hunger strikes, protests by health workers Municipal workers, dam workers, and biscuit factory workers hold protests http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a20.shtml Childcare workers protest over wages Small business employees protest over job cuts http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/labo-m28.shtml Kolkata bank strike Tamil Nadu transport workers walk out Punjab electronic workers protest retrenchment http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/labo-j25.shtml Indefinite strike by steelworkers Auto-workers walk out in Jharkand Power strike in Tamil Nadu Childcare workers strike Dockworkers hold pickets against privatisation http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/labo-j18.shtml Chemical workers continue strike Steel workers walk out, electronic workers protest Tamil Nadu electric workers strike, Calcutta nurses launch work boycott Construction workers demonstrate http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/labo-j11.shtml Kerala farm workers hunger strike Tamil Nadu transport workers protest for pay rise Cooperative workers, plantation workers, unemployed demonstrate http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/lab-m21.shtml Rickshaw drivers protest ban Headload workers blockade Kerala state office http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/lab-m14.shtml Coir factory workers strike in Kerala http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/labo-m07.shtml Textile workers' demonstration SALEM: Members of textile associations staged a demonstration here on Wednesday as part of their State-wide agitation called by the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Tamil Nadu Textile Workers' Unions in support of their charter of demands. The police arrested 321 agitators and released them in the evening. In Namakkal, the police arrested 209 members of textile unions and released them later http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/28/stories/2005072801500300.htm INDIA LABOUR NEWS: Railway workers hold protest at gate over pay Mill workers arrested protesting for bailout and other demands Cashew workers hold relay hunger strike over pay; get concessions Unemployed Mangalore chemical workers hold dharna Punjab teachers hold protests over detention of strikers Passport and port staff protest over privatisation Strike in Tirupur mill town over dyeing closures Bank workers hold rally for nationalisation Anganwadi workers protest Tamil Nadu government workers stage rally for reinstatement Nurses stage one-day strike Ex-university staff member goes on hunger strike over alleged nonpayment of dues Jailed teachers go on hunger strike after being arrested for protesting at minister's house over casualisation Farmers protest fuel prices Biochemical workers protest over betrayal of promises on wages Beedi workers protest for minimum wage Fruit vendors demand end to raids Kerala state finance workers strike over sacking of managers for strike action Construction workers demand pay increase Balco construction workers stage walkout over death of worker, trash company vehicles Workers protest anti-union policies of government Health inspectorate workers protest outsourcing http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2132 Cashew workers go on fast Valparai plantation workers strike over wages Hospital workers go on hunger strike Relatives of jailed teachers burn effigy University workers stage demo over vacancies Telephone exchange workers continue protests Lawyers strike against vacancies Medicine companies targeted by protesters for anti-union practices University staff protest over manhandling by librarian http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2137 Andhra Pradesh miners strike for pay increase Power workers strike over privatisation Textile workers strike over bonuses http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/labo-a30.shtml Childcare workers stage sit-down in Ludhiana Dockworkers protest for wages University staff demand reinstatements http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/labo-a16.shtml Police arrest hundreds of workers as textile and government workers protest Tamil Nadu railworkers protest http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a06.shtml Workers protest over conditions in Andhra Pradesh Kerala bank workers march Textile workers protest closure Punjab income tax staff strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/lab-a13.shtml Grounded flight sparks passenger protest http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050417/asp/nation/story_4625282.asp Protesters disrupt train services in protest over service cutbacks http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050711/asp/jamshedpur/story_4974907.asp NEW DELHI: Hundreds of irate residents of a south Delhi neighbourhood took to the streets on Sunday to protest against their water pipes running dry (Newindpress) Leftist protest over fuel prices disrupts traffic http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1154939.cms Javadpur students stage march in solidarity with hunger strikers http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=304884 Students protest against new IIT admission rule Hindustan Times - India Angered by the Government's decision to restrict admission into IITs only for those with 60 per cent marks, about a hundred students on Tuesday held a protest. New IIT rules: Students protest in Delhi NDTV.com - New Delhi,India ... Technology have been changed. "We are here to protest against the new entrance exam procedures," said a student. "Bar girls" protest against ban http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=Bar+girls+in+Delhi+to+protest+against+ban&id=71399 http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=33353&version=1&template_id=40&parent_id=22 Mumbai traders continue anti-VAT shutdown http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1079486.cms "Bar girls" take protest to premier's constituency http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=Bar+girls+protest+in+Patil's+constituency&id=73034 Outrage after police attack poverty rally http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1615 Hawkers disrupt trains in protest over accident death http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050705/asp/calcutta/story_4949918.asp Kolkata sex workers march to demand legalisation http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1094337.cms Protests over poor roads in Bangalore, and over byelaw crackdown in Koramangla http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3183 Traders continue protest Our Correspondent / Mangalore November 07, 2005 The meeting of trade bodies of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh which was held here on Saturday under the auspices of the Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI). It unanimously resolved to continue their non-compliance by not paying service tax till it is withdrawn. The meeting decided to form a confederation of southern states federation of commerce and industry based in New Delhi to liaise with the Union government on matters concerning members of the trade bodies. It also decided to intensify its non-compliance of payment of service tax by consigners/consignees. A Srinivas Rao, president of KCCI felt that the government was treating traders as second class citizens and making them a victim for the budget deficit. Vishwanath Kamath, chairman of the action committee urged the government to abolish service tax imposed on traders. The meeting was presided over by S Babu, president, Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry. http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?storyflag=y&leftnm=lmnu2&leftindx=2&lselect=1&chklogin=N&autono=204768 Protest by journalists over police abuse forces government inquiry http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050830/main5.htm Hunger strike at Nagpur jail over transfer of official http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=Nagpur+jail+inmates+protest+DIG%92s+transfer&id=73769 Farmers blockade road and protest at office over electricity non-payment crackdown http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050531/punjab1.htm#26 Kerala farm workers stage fast (NOTE: this campaign later ended in agreement) http://www.hindu.com/2005/05/17/stories/2005051710950300.htm Prisoners break out while in transit http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050707-05535200-bc-india-jailbreak.xml Nagpur prisoners go on hunger strike to protest transfer http://www.arap.so36.net/prison/riot/riot2005.html Bangalore local language activists storm IT business site, stone campus http://www.uniontribune.org/news/computing/20050928-0753-tech-india-language.html Farmers protest land grab in Uttar Pradesh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3084 Transport workers stage AIDS awareness rally http://www.hindu.com/2005/05/16/stories/2005051608650300.htm Protests over tsunami aid irregularities in Kerala http://mathaba.net/x.htm?http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=212268 Residents protest at Ludhiana council meeting over sewage, water shortages and other issues http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2132 Kashmiri Pandits protest over relocation http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=304154 Protest in Kerala over failure to build sea wall after tsunami http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2740 Demonstrators demand a right to work http://www.flonnet.com/fl2212/stories/20050617001804400.htm Monsoon Death Toll in India Passes 850; Hundreds Protest Los Angeles Times - CA,USA BOMBAY, India -- Hundreds of angry demonstrators blocked traffic for hours Saturday to demand restoration of drinking water and electricity. Naxalites take up pesticide pollution to seek support http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1622 Activists gather to oppose river diversions http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=43189 Hundreds of environmentalists protest channel building; mass arrests made http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2005/July/subcontinent_July71.xml§ion=subcontinent&col= http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1948 Animal rights activists protest against animal sacrifice http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3129 Feminists protest over naming of settlement in honour of sati http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1731 Gay rights activists protest criminalisation of gay lifestyles http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=Gay+activists+protest+in+Mumbai&id=77519 Plachimada protesters against Coca-Cola attacked, arrested en masse http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2005/1065.html Major rally in Plachimada against Coca-Cola http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2005/1036.html Residents protest Coca-Cola with flyposters http://www.ndtv.com/money/showbusinessstory.asp?slug=Coke+unit+faces+protest&id=26159 Another protest against Coke, this time in Gangikodan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3068 Students protest over alleged deliberate failings at MS University, Vadodara http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=138704 Nursing students protest over fees http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=139377 Tibetans rally against visit by Chinese tyrant http://www.tibet.ca/en/wtnarchive/2005/4/10_6.html Indian Tamils protest slander by Sri Lankan minister http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=15539 Sikhs demonstrate for independence http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050607/asp/nation/story_4836313.asp Pro-opposition students revolt in Kerala http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/004200507022023.htm Sikhs stage protests over hearings on pogroms; police attack protesters with water cannons http://www.panthic.org/news/125/ARTICLE/1665/2005-08-14.html?sid=7be98dc73db5a94a970e6d7a35fa0381 http://www.panthic.org/news/126/ARTICLE/1671/2005-08-14.html?sid=c6c687a9b47706248509614a7ad517d8 Dalits hold strike and protests over pogroms by upper-caste opponents http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4216290.stm The People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals,Sanjeevani,Animal Rights Fund staged a silent protest on Thursday at the Mahatma Gandhi statue on M.G. Road (Bangalore, Karnataka, India)against the death of the circus animals in Mumbai last Monday. The protestors were dressed in black and mourning. As many as 21 animals - four sea lions, 10 dogs and seven cats - were burned to death as the event management company that had brought the circus from Russia had abandoned the animals. They were imprisoned in three rooms which caught fire. Only three dogs survived, though they suffered severe burns and are undergoing treatment. MEGHALAYA: Opposition activists attack home of politician Students and others call bandhs as agitation for a Garo state intensifies http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050626/asp/frontpage/story_4916195.asp PAKISTAN: Villagers protest over army land grab http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_13-4-2005_pg7_17 Massive telecom strike against privatisation http://au.news.yahoo.com/050530/19/uj45.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4593753.stm Striking workers under attack from army - workers arrested using terrorism laws http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1847 Victory for telecom strike - strike called off as privatisation postponed indefinitely http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4610167.stm Successful strike at PTCL telecom service against privatisation http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1921 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1916 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1913 Workers occupy, defend PTCL HQ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1920 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2009 Army to occupy installations http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1979 Collection of articles on PTCL http://www.socialistworld.net/index2.html?/category/telecom.html The strike from beginning to end. Workers strike against privatisation http://www.socialistworld.net/index2.html?/category/telecom.html Complete shutdown across Pakistan http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/05/26apakistan.html Strike continues as negotiations fail, crackdown begins http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/05/26pakistanb.html http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/05/29pakistan.html http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/01pakistan.html Ten-day strike forces retreat - privatisation postponed indefinitely http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/04pakistan.html http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/06pakistan.html Negotiations with government break down http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/07pakistan.html Workers re-occupy PTCL HQ in protest after breakdown of talks http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/08pakistan.html Repression escalates as conflict continues http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/08pakistan.html http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/15pakistan.html Strike resumes, remains solid in spite of sell-out http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/16pakistan.html Strike ends after three weeks in partial defeat - privatisation begins, but with big concessions to workers and the possibility of further action if it continues http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/21pakistan.html Report of agreement between management and PTCL, weeks after strike http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_5-8-2005_pg7_1 More on PTCL http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/07/11pakistan.html http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/21pakistan.html http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/16pakistan.html http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/15pakistan.html http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/08pakistan.html http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/04pakistan.html http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/05/29pakistan.html http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/05/26pakistanb.html http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/05/26apakistan.html http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2005/398/index.html?id=np2.htm http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4360 http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6650 http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-2/549/549_11_Pakistan.shtml August - new phase of PTCL struggle begins http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cmkp_pk/message/2933 Protests at Pakistani embassies across Europe Pakistani consulate occupied in Glasgow; warship picketed in Ireland http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/16pakistanlobbies.html http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/02pakistan.html http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/27irelandc.html http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/23scotland.html Fisherfolk rally against contract system, arrests; hold token hunger strike http://www.pff.org.pk/article.php3?id_article=58 http://www.pff.org.pk/article.php3?id_article=57 Fisherfolk stage protest over economic issues and repression http://www.kashar.net/technews/complete.asp?id=1118 A prominent women's rights activist was detained for organizing a road run to protest the government's ban on women taking part in marathons alongside men. Police arrested more than 40 participants from several NGOs and political activists before the start of marathon race organized by Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and Joint Action Committee. Arrested people included Asima Jahangir, Hina Jilani, Farooq Tariq, Senator Iqbal Haider, Azra Shad, Riffat Maqsood, Shamim Aslam, Nasir Iqbal, Shahtaj Qazalbash, Muhammad Tehsin, Gulnar and Janisar Baloach. Marathon Race was planned from Qazafi Stadium to Qalma Chowk but the city government stopped the race and arrested participants. Police severely tortured during the arrests, especially women were dragged from hair. Police also tortured women inside the van after the arrests. All the arrested activists were released after one hour. Khalid Mahmood Mixed marathon attacked by cops http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_15-5-2005_pg1_3 http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_22-5-2005_pg1_2 Victory for campaign against political dismissal at Quetta hotel http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi?db=default&uid=default&ID=2203&view_records=1&ww=1&en=1 Union announces success in unionising Coca-Cola plants http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi?db=default&uid=default&ID=2193&view_records=1&ww=1&en=1 Concessions end trainee doctors' strike http://www.dawn.com/2005/07/04/nat37.htm Deprived worker threatens to self-immolate http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/jul2005-daily/12-07-2005/metro/i13.htm Protests over attacks on madrassahs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2190 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8575 Mayday activities in 18 cities http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/05/02pakistan.html Protest in Peshawar over ban on female local election candidates http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cmkp_pk/message/2812 Health employees protest over jobs http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/labo-a30.shtml University lecturers force reinstatement of sacked professor http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/lab-a23.shtml Opposition general strike unsuccessful http://news.monstersandcritics.com/southasia/article_1047042.php/Pakistan_strike_is_largely_ignored Protests over planned crackdown on Islamists http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/07/22/musharraf050722.html "Walk for Justice" in support of hotel workers http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi?db=default&uid=default&ID=2356&view_records=1&ww=1&en=1 Thousands take part in Mayday protests In Lahore, workers block roads and burn tyres http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050501/wl_sthasia_afp/maydaypakistan_050501101134 Police disrupt commemmoration of slain unionist http://lnn.laborstart.org/more.php?id=430_0_1_0_M Police attack refugee protest in quake-hit town Refugees were marching to protest demolition of a makeshift refugee camp http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20051111-1626-southasia-quake-protest.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3174 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3176 Labour Party Pakistan women leader beaten up by police Nazli Javed, national finance secretary of LPP and a Lahore local body counselor was severely beaten up by police on 3rd May during the journalist demonstration at Mall Road Lahore. She bravely fought with the police when the police started beaten charge. She snatched the stick of one police constable after he and some other attacked her. She started beating the police constables who started running away. Nazli did not run away even after the rain of lathi charge on her. Instead she kept the traditions of Okara peasant women who had several times fought with police using the wooden sticks. Several LPP comrades came to her help and fought with her against the police brutality. Nazli photographed being beaten up was printed in several national dailies including Daily Express. Now she has several blue spots on her body. Building a resistance culture is one of the priorities of LPP in recent times. This was a fine example of that. Fighting with the section of working class and showing examples of bravery. I was yesterday at Punjab Journalist Union office and every one was of full praise of Nazli. Farooq Tariq general secretary Labour Party Pakistan Rape protest includes self-immolation http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1734450,00.html SINDH The Long March from Sukkur to Karachi Sindh Confronts Musharraf With March of Thousands Against Kalabagh Dam Special SAT Report KARACHI, March 28: As General Pervez Musharraf continues his officially sponsored rallies to lobby for the Kalabagh Dam, thousands of Sindhis have been marching with their nationalist leaders from Sukkur to Karachi against the proposed Dam, with their rally ending with a huge demo before the Chief Minister House in Karachi today. But while the entire spectrum of Sindhi activists has joined hands for the cause, their 685 kilometers Long March has been largely ignored or down-played by the mainstream Pakistani news media, ostensibly under Army pressure. Leaders of the Awami Tehrik, including Rasul Buksh Paleejo have been making fiery speeches in the last two weeks during their march and participation in their rallies have seen from a few hundred men and women to thousands. The remarkable aspect, however, has been the focused attention paid by the Sindhi Press to not just the anti-Dam rhetoric but to the larger anti-Punjab sentiment in Sindh. Among the mainstream political parties, former PM Nawaz Sharif has been the most prominent in extending support, surprisingly for the Sindhis, as top leadership of the PPP is relatively muted on the issue. According to the Sindhi Press, when the Long March entered Thatta on March 24 the city observed a unique show of solidarity as thousands welcomed the marchers with slogans that gave General Musharraf the stark choice, between the Kalabagh Dam or Pakistan. Chants of "Karballa, karballa, sindh lai karballa," "Pervez Musharaf ker Ailan, Dam khapey ya Pakistan," ringed the air. Thousands of political activists, lawyers and people from various walks of life staged a sit-in on the National Highway. Activists of the Awami Tehrik, Sindhiani Tehrik, People's Party Parliamentarians, Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party and Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz and members of the District Bar Association participated in the sit-in which resulted in suspension of vehicular traffic for over two hours. On the occasion, AT Chief Rasool Bux Paleejo, PPP leader Babu Ghulam Hussain, Sindhiani Tehrik president Zahida Shaikh, educationist Aapa Maryam Majidi and others delivered speeches and Sarvaich Sujawali and Wasand Thari recited national songs. Paleejo has been relentless and vivid in his remarks. He told the rally countries cannot survive on the basis of religion and appealed to the conscience of the Pakistani and South Asian people to raise their voice against the oppressive rule of Punjab. He accused General Musharraf and his group of committing dacoity on waters of the River Indus and said supply of water to Sindh had been stopped to create hatred between Sindh and Punjab. Paleejo has not been sparing the Sindhi feudal lords who are hand in glove with the Pakistan Army. "The General has hired the services of some feudals who had a track record of selling out for their petty interests," Paleejo thundered. However, he warned that the rulers must beware that 40 million people of Sindh would fight for their legitimate rights till the last drop of their blood. The Sindhi leader accused Punjab of disregarding major water agreements, saying Chashma-Jhelum and Taunsa-Punjnad canals could not be opened without the consent of Sindh. He said undemocratic forces first took over the administration of the country by force and then initiated what he called the anti-Sindh Thal canal project. The vested interests are creating hatred and disharmony among the provinces and those leaders, who were betraying the people of the smaller provinces, would be taken to task. On its 17th day men and women came out on the roads of Hyderabad to welcome the March participants. Workers of Anti-Greater Thal Canal Action Committee, Sindh Water Committee Pakistan People's Party, Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), Taraqi Pasand Party, Sindhi Adabi Sangat, Sindh Hari Committee, PPP (SB), JUI-F, Awami National Party, Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz, Sindh National Party, Sindh National Council and student of Sindh University, Mehran University, Tando Jam Agricultural University and LMC joined hands. More than 200 leading writers, intellectuals, water experts and journalists and several dozens lawyers were also marching with the protesters. Speakers, besides Mr Paleejo, included Ayaz Latif Palijo, Wishnoo Mal, Agah Shahabu Din, Dr. Dodo Maheri, Abrar Qazi, Zahida Shaikh, Mahboob Abro, Dilshad Bhutto, Parwano Bhatti, Nazeer Naz, Amanu laah Sial, Zafar Leghari, Tarik Khoso, Qadir Ranto, Husna Rahoojo, Jeejee Zareena Baloch, Taj Joyo, Dr. Khalil Qazi, Nazeer Memon and others. Many of the fiery speakers warned that if any individual or party compromised on Kalabagh or any other dam, it will be declared a traitor to Sindh and its entry in rural areas would be banned by the Sindhi masses. Paleejo received standing ovation when he said the people of the province were capable of resisting such moves if they were pushed any further. He accused General Musharraf of acting against national interests just to remain in power. Awami Tehrik Central Leader Ayaz Latif Paleejo, an advocate, urged the leaders of all the parties to join in the efforts for the rights of Sindh. He warned western leaders that their endorsement of present rulers has encouraged them to destroy the fate of 40 million peace loving Sindhis. Admiring the role of Fazil Rahoo, Nazeer Abbasi, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Soreh Badshah Pagara, Murtaza Bhutto, Lala Asad, Ayaz Samon and others, the speaker urged living leaders of Sindh including Pir Pagara, Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, Asif Ali Zardari and Mumtaz Bhutto not to compromise and not to lose hope in the masses. They were urged to join the peace loving common Sindhis on roads, villages and in towns. Ayaz Paleejo condemned the brutal attitude towards Balochs and invited the Urdu speaking population to join hands with Sindhi masses against Kalabagh Dam. He asked Altaf Hussain and MQM to come forward and support the PONM's strike on 31st March. The role of the media in ignoring the Sindhi protest was also condemned. Specially mentioned were CNN, BBC, Geo, Indus and ARY satellite channels. The peaceful but resolute march by the Sindhi nationalists for almost a month proves the inherent strength of their conviction and their commitment not to allow the Pakistan Army to play with their rights, just as Balochistan is already in flames and a fundamentalist wave has taken political control of the NWFP. Analysts say with all the smaller provinces up in arms against the Center, General Pervez Musharraf has only Punjab to depend on and that may not be enough for him to continue on this war path for long. BANGLADESH: Sit-in strike in support of workers killed in sweatshop collapse http://lnn.laborstart.org/more.php?id=450_0_1_0_M Emotions run high as workers stage rally at site of disaster http://nation.ittefaq.com/artman/publish/article_18734.shtml Factory dispute ends with agreement http://www.itglwf.org/displaydocument.asp?DocType=Press&Index=1184&Language=EN Protest against attacks on journalists http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=24601 Journalists rally after attack by police http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=26636 http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=26633 Jute mill workers stage countrywide strike The strike is over privatisation, government unresponsiveness, and other issues http://financialexpress-bd.com/index3.asp?cnd=7/20/2005§ion_id=5&newsid=6074&spcl=no http://nation.ittefaq.com/artman/publish/article_20074.shtml http://www.bharattextile.com/newsitems/1995758 http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1172646.cms http://nation.ittefaq.com/artman/publish/article_20108.shtml http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/jul2005-daily/17-07-2005/business/b8.htm One-day general strike after bombings http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4168226.stm Strike in EPZ over harassment of female workers http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/labo-j30.shtm Child workers protest against child labour http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/labo-j25.shtml Protests over US Congressman's "bomb Mecca" remark http://pc540.blogspot.com/2005/07/bangladeshis-protest-us-politicians.html Labour rallies mark Mayday http://nation.ittefaq.com/artman/publish/article_18075.shtml Pro-opposition unions call off strike http://nation.ittefaq.com/artman/publish/article_17476.shtml SRI LANKA: Tamils protest over lack of tsunami relief http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=14664 BBC services disrupted by strike http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=14970 Graduates rally, demanding jobs http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=15395 http://www.colombopage.com/archive/July16113800JV.html Journalists march to protest killing of pro-rebel e-journalist http://www.chennaionline.com/colnews/newsitem.asp?NEWSID=%7BDCBE5643-84A7-4355-951C-FD1F3D396CF3%7D&CATEGORYNAME=National Strike by non-academic university staff reaches 1-month milestone, then ends as salary anomalies are addressed http://www.colombopage.com/archive/July28112327UN.html http://www.colombopage.com/archive/July28195752UN.html http://www.colombopage.com/archive/July1540536UN.html Graduates protest for jobs http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=15395 Socialist May Day in Colombo http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/04mayday01.html http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/05/02srilanka.html Timber and health workers protest http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/labo-j30.shtml Teachers, graduate workers, cooperative workers, and university staff all stage protests http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/labo-j23.shtml Health workers picket ministry against privatisation http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/labo-j16.shtml Strike on Dunkeld estate over unpaid wages http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/lab-j02.shtml Transport, university workers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/lab-j02.shtml Road workers protest for job security Hotel workers picket over tsunami-linked sackings http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a27.shtml Sacked textile workers demand jobs Health workers demand job security http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a20.shtml Development officers stage hunger strike to demand tsunami allowance Transport workers stage sick-out over pay http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/labo-m28.shtml Transport workers strike to demand unpaid salaries Council workers demand tsunami allowance http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/labo-j25.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/labo-j18.shtml Transport workers protest in Colombo http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/labo-j11.shtml Farm workers strike, demanding promised raise Postal workers picket; mineral workers stage hunger strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/labo-j04.shtml Engineering and health workers walk out http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/lab-m21.shtml Power and oil workers protest against privatisation Train drivers strike for pay rise http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/labo-m07.shtml Cooperative workers protest land grab State workers protest over work irregularities Transport workers strike over unpaid wages http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/labo-a16.shtml Supermarket workers demand government buyback Surveyors strike over conditions http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/lab-a23.shtml Month-long university strike ends http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/iutu-a03.shtml Government workers protest over conditions Power workers picket for outstanding salaries http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a06.shtml Tamils and Muslims protest racist remarks; journalists protest mistreatment http://www.eians.com/stories/2005/08/08/08tam.shtml Schools shut in protest against Tamil Tiger assassinations http://www.colombopage.com/archive/October14130317JV.html Fisherfolk protest over inadequate tsunami aid http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4372564.stm Labour, political rallies across the country mark Mayday http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2005/05/01/pol01.html Workers protest port privatisation plans http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=197669&category=Frontend&Country=SRI%20LANKA Strike threat prevents oil privatisation http://au.news.yahoo.com/050329/3/tpeh.html Rail wildcat strike wins reinstatement of manager http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/04/06/news11.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ldxar1 at tesco.net Mon Nov 21 21:18:33 2005 From: ldxar1 at tesco.net (Andy) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:18:33 -0000 Subject: [Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - West Papua, Pacific Islands Message-ID: <01d701c5ef24$3d284e80$0202a8c0@WOL> FP3 action coordinator arrested after demonstration in Jayapura SPMNews - April 27, 2005 On Saturday April 25, hundreds of people from the Liberation Front against the Oppression of Papua (Front Pembebasan Penindasan Papua, FP3) went to the Papuan Provisional Parliament in the provincial capital of Jayapura where they held an action calling for a resolution to the human rights violations in Wamena and Wasior. The action proceeded in a safe an orderly manner until the demonstrators arrived at the parliament grounds. FP3 action coordinator Jefry Pagawak took the opportunity to read their demands which include asking the head of the Papua regional office for legal affairs and human rights to take responsibility for the forced transfer of 11 prisoners from the Wamena Jayawijaya jail to the Gurung Sari jail in the South Sulawesi provincial capital of Makassar. FP3 said that the transfer had already caused many of the prisoners to suffer life-long disabilities and even die. FP3 also asked for the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) and the Attorney General to take responsibility for the delays in the investigation by the Wamena and Wasior Commissions for the Investigation of Human Rights Violations. "We demand that Komnas HAM, the Attorney General, the Minister for Legal Affairs and Human Rights and Indonesia's Director General for Correctional Institutions immediately return the 11 prisoners from the Makassar jail to the Wamena jail or at the very least to a Papuan regional office for legal affairs and human rights. In addition to this [we demand] the immediate trial of the perpetrators of human rights violations in Wamena and Wasior. The government mustn't keep this affair quiet", said Pagawak. The demonstrators also believe that past acts of violence committed by the TNI (Indonesian armed forces) and Brimob (Mobile Brigade) in Papua must be brought to trial. FP3 also rejects the plans for new army battalions to be headquartered in Merauke, Wamena and Nabire and a Kostrad (Army Strategic Reserves Command) command to be established in Timika. Not long after the demonstration ended, Intel (Indonesian intelligence) officers and members of the Jayapura municipal police detained Pagawak. Papuan police have given no clear indication as to how long he will be held. Pagawak was detained without an arrest warrant so we were also surprised said a close friend of Pagawak (who asked that their name not be mentioned) after SPMNews contacted them via their mobile phone in Jayapura. WEST PAPUA: Protesters block road in election corruption protest http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1911 At least 13 injured in unrest at trial of Papuan separatist; cops stoned http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/10/144918/222 Residents block roads to protest election decision http://www.kabar-irian.com/news/msg03386.html 10,000 rally against "special autonomy", saying it has failed to meet its promises http://westpapuaaction.buz.org/latest-news.htm#10000 17 Papuans stage hunger strike over human rights violations in Abepura http://www.kabar-irian.com/news/msg03431.html Papuans protest over puppet government http://www.westpapua.ca/?q=en/node/421 http://www.acheh-eye.org/a-eye_news_files/a-eye_news_english/news_item.asp?NewsID=2585 Flag raising by OPM in Biak http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3186 WEST PAPUA The burning wildfire in Papua Jayapura, 4 August 2005. On 29 July 2005, the Papuan Customary Council held a press conference in Jayapura affirming the plan to organise rallies in all districts and provincial houses of representatives. It is part of series of activities to mark its stance to return Law No. 21/2004 on the Special Autonomy for Papua back to the Central Government. These activities also include a seminar on the implementation of this law 6 and 8 August and the commemoration of the International Day of indigenous peoples on 9 August. Interestingly, this plan almost coincides with the issuing of H.R. 2601 by the US House of Representatives that includes substantial concerns over Papua and Aceh in Section 1115 . This political decision endorsed by Eni Faleomavaega (American Samoan Congressman) and Donald Wayne creates various interpretations and assumptions partly because most of Papuans do not have direct access to such information http://www.hampapua.org/home2.html =================^======================================== I N D O L E F T - News service > > =================^======================================== Papuans demand UN conduct review of 1969 'Act of Free Choice' SPMNews - May 2, 2005 Port Numbay (Jayapura) - Around 500 indigenous Papuans organised by the Papua Youth Group (Kelompok Pemuda Papua) held a demonstration against the integration of West Papua in to the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia on the morning of Sunday May 1 at the Trikora Abepura Square. They presented five demands, three of which were directed at the secretary-general of the United Nations, Koffi Annan. The three demands were for a review of Pepera documents (the 1969 UN sponsored referendum on integration with Indonesia) as it is legally flawed, full of irregularities and intimidation, urging the Indonesian government to immediately withdraw all of its troops (organic and non- organic) from West Papua by the end the year and for the government as a member of the UN to give an opportunity to the Papuan people to determine their own future though a free and confidential referendum under the supervision of the UN and other international agencies. In the document containing the demands which was signed by Kwila Nungga Penggu two demands were presented to the Indonesian authorities, the immediate and unconditional release of all Free Papua Movement political prisoners and that the Papuan people explicitly reject special autonomy and the Indonesian sponsored Papuan People's Council and for Indonesia to give an opportunity for the people of West Papua to determine their own future. The action appeared different from usual because it was conducted in the form of a joint prayer led by a Papuan student activist who is a candidate priest and was wearing traditional Papua clothing. After hearing that Brimob (Mobile Brigade) planned to attack the peaceful demonstration, the demonstrators immediately dispersed at around 12.30pm and proceeded towards the Pendopo Sentani in an orderly manner to join up with Mamta (Mamberamo-Tami) demonstrators and a number of prominent Papuan Cultural Council members who were preparing to hold an event marking the third anniversary of the council and to lay a wreathe of flowers on the grave of Theys H. Eluay(1). Notes: 1. West Papuan pro-independence leader, Theys Eluay was found dead in his car in November 2001 after attending a party thrown by Indonesia's Kopassus Special Forces. Seven Kopassus soldiers were later found guilty of the murder and sentenced to short terms in jail. [Abridged translation by James Balowski.] PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Communication strike continues http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/labo-j23.shtml Striking nurses win victory on all demands http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/lab-j02.shtml Walkout secures wages for unpaid teachers http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/labo-m28.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/labo-m07.shtml Loggers strike over entitlements http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/labo-a16.shtml Telecom strike continues http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a06.shtml Sabotage shuts down gold mine http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3175 TONGA: Civil servants and public sector workers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/labo-j30.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a27.shtml http://www.abc.net.au/ra/pacbeat/stories/s1420324.htm http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/tong-a19.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a06.shtml http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/s1421417.htm http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/641/641p18.htm Protesters break police lines and occupy park http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/639/639p14b.htm Protesters scuffle with police during march to home of king http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10342026 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10341880 Human rights activists protest royal control of electricity companies http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/s1370948.htm Overseas Tongans assist strikers http://www.abc.net.au/ra/pacbeat/stories/s1428287.htm Teachers and students march as strike continues http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2227 Health workers join strike http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2208 Vehicles trashed and burnt as activists take fight to government http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/massive_strike_in_tonga_-_school_smashed_200_arrested?PHPSESSID=7ccf617ed753bcd84dc1b90a5976939f Civil service strike enters fifth week http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/latest_from_tonga Civil servants protest during strike http://www.matangitonga.to/article/tonganews/government/eua260805.shtml Mass strike and protests challenge monarchy http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6934/693457.html 10,000 march on palace in protest over electricity prices http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6924/692457.html TONGA/NEW ZEALAND: King fails to escape unrest by fleeing the country Tongans target royal residence in Auckland http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3383316a11,00.html VANUATU: Papua solidarity protesters drape Indonesian diplomat's car with Papuan flag http://groups.yahoo.com/group/westpapuaresistance/message/374 Aviation walkout http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a27.shtml SOLOMON ISLANDS: Plantation workers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/labo-j04.shtml FIJI: Government attacks hotel strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/labo-j30.shtml Three-day civil service strike; timber workers also strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/lab-j02.shtml Indefinite strike by 3000 government employees http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/labo-j25.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/labo-j11.shtml Municipal workers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a06.shtml Nurses end five-day strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/lab-a13.shtml SAMOA: Construction workers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/labo-j30.shtml NEW CALEDONIA: General strike and protest over attack on union leader http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/lab-j09.shtml General strike and march call for job preference for locals http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/labo-m28.shtml GUAM: Chamorros fight water privatisation http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1841 Campaign against military bases also organised http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1851 Protest against water privatisation http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/630/630p17f.htm Chamorros launch anti-bases campaign http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/634/634p18e.htm SAIPAN: Workers demonstrate for back wages; sweatshops in crisis http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/NewsDetails.asp?News_id=14210 http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?cat=1&newsID=46054 http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?cat=1&newsID=46082 Garment workers walk out of labour board meeting http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/labo-m07.shtml -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Action Alert From the FMLN, El Salvador May 1, 2005 Americas Watch: Project of Peace No War Network URL: http://www.PeaceNoWar.net Repression of the FMLN and other progressive forces escalate in El Salvador... Please call the Salvadoran Ambassador to the U.S. Number below! From: Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front ? To the International Community and to all members of the Network of Salvadoran citizens living abroad On April 28 the PNC (National Civilian Police) of El Salvador arrested Pedro Bachon Rodr?guez, an Ecuadorian doctor who is an advisor to the SIMETRISSS, the Doctor?s Union of El Salvador. Though Mr. Rodr?guez is a legal resident of El Salvador and is married to a Salvadoran woman the Salvadoran authorities arrested him with the intention of deporting him back to his native Ecuador. This action is a blatant contradiction of ARENA?s own immigration policies. ? ARENA [the right-wing, ruling party of El Salvador] recently gave political asylum and legal residency to well-known Cuban terrorist Posada Carriles. Carriles is a career narcoterrorist who spent time in a Venezuelan jail for the 1973 bombing a Cuban airliner, killing all 73 on board. He escaped after 8 years in 1985 thanks to a bribe from Jorge Mas Canosa, the now deceased head of the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF). He has been tied to the importation of large quantities of cocaine into the US in support of the Contras in Nicaragua in the 80s and to a series of bombings in Cuba just recently. Elected FMLN Deputies Zoila Quijada and Salvador Arias were beaten by the PNC as they were attempting to protect a group of protestors that were demanding Rodr?guez?s release. Members of the Human Rights Ombudswoman?s office were also beaten and then arrested. It is important to note that these repressive actions took place the day before Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is making her first visit to El Salvador - and three days before the massive celebration of May Day "International Workers Day." We are calling on everyone to denounce these human rights violations and demand the immediate release of Rodr?guez and the others being held in detention. Take Action Against Torture and Repression in El Salvador! Call the Salvadoran Ambassador Rene Le?n in Washington, D.C. At: 202- 265-9671 Ext. 223/229, Demand that the Salvadoran Government * Stop the repression against the people of El Salvador. * Stop arresting leaders of the Salvadoran social movement. * Respect the constitutional right to mobilize. * Respect the human rights of FMLN officials CISPES Committee In Solidarity With The People of El Salvador 8124 West 3rd Street L.A. Ca. 90048 323-852-0721 Founded: 1980 - 25 Years of Solidarity SURINAME: Energy workers strike http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/2005/04/25/strike.shtml BELIZE: Trade unionists take to the streets once more http://www.belizean.com/mt-static/archives/2005/03/a_smaller_prote.html#more http://new.channel5belize.com/archive_detail_story.php?story_id=13905 Strike call largely ineffectual http://new.channel5belize.com/archive_detail_story.php?story_id=13891 HAITI: UN occupation force carries out another massacre in Port-au-Prince http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_19089.shtml Mass protest after massacre in Cite Soleil http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/7_15_5.html 5000 protest massacre http://haitiaction.net/News/HIP/7_15_5.html Detained, deposed Haitian PM goes on hunger strike http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/625/625p13.htm Hunger strike by former PM continues http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0510-08.htm Thousands of Lavalas supporters demonstrate http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050504214448465 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050415222936416 http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/15/223343/461 Students protest Haitian regime, economic policies http://www.nosweat.org.uk/article.php?sid=1322 Fresh protests for return of Aristide http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050519-081441-7741r.htm JAMAICA: Haitian refugees blockade camp in funeral protest http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/westernnews/html/20050415T190000-0500_78755_OBS_HAITIAN_REFUGEES_PROTEST_.asp Opposition leads mass protest which shuts down the country http://www.antiguasun.com/paper/?as=view&as=view&sun=281935077507132005&an=392751096809082005&ac=Regional&shwef=120643097510232005&pstamp=AS&CFID=2210597&CFTOKEN=16102923 Tanker drivers shut down fuel depots in protest over unfair dismissal by Texaco http://www.radiojamaica.com/news/story.php?category=2&story=20969 ANTIGUA: Court workers protest over conditions http://www.antiguasun.com/paper/?as=view&sun=281935077507132005&an=415435096608252005&ac=Local ARUBA: Protest over hostile coverage by US media over abduction case http://www.thedailyherald.com/news/daily/i44/girl44.html TRINIDAD: Residents protest for improved amenities; police attack protesters http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=72363631 ST LUCIA/CARIBBEAN: Farmers march to protest EU policy change which hits Caribbean farmers http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=157690748&p=y5769y454 http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20050929T220000-0500_89419_OBS_CARIBBEAN_FARMERS_TO_PROTEST_TRADE_RULINGS_AGAINST_BANANAS__SUGAR.asp http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8CU2BT01.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down&chan=db CUBA: Opposition allege prison uprising due to brutality and mistreatment http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4422567.stm http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1686712,00.html http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2005/04/11/cuban_inmate_injured_in_prison_riot_dies?mode=PF Protests over US travel ban http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/abril/juev28/protesta.html Scuffles between pro- and anti-government protesters http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4681021.stm Regime forces arrest dissidents to smash prison solidarity rally http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2005/07/23/world/cubadetains22dissidentsrightsleadersays.html PUERTO RICO: Truckers' strike - government pressure combined with use of troops to escort scabs http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6931/693105.html Protests over governor's pay-busting measures http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a09.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a16.shtml http://www.workers.org/2005/world/puerto-rico-0915/ BAHAMAS: Crisis at casino over draconian disciplinary rules http://www.thenassauguardian.com/national_local/283826675656953.php DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Social groups protest neoliberal policies http://www.noticiasaliadas.org/Summ.asp?lanCode=1&couCode=22 Doctors strike for wage increase and health funding http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m10.shtml -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ldxar1 at tesco.net Mon Nov 21 21:18:40 2005 From: ldxar1 at tesco.net (Andy) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:18:40 -0000 Subject: [Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - South America Message-ID: <01e801c5ef24$44d75130$0202a8c0@WOL> BRAZIL Occupied factories under attack http://www.marxist.com/appeals/brazil-goulart-appeal270605.htm Protest at UK embassy over murder of Brazilian by British police http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2119 http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/07/25/international/i142732D89.DTL http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/braz-j27.shtml Protests over London shooting in victim's village http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/07/25/bombings.brazil.ap/ Prison unrest in Sao Paolo - prisoners decapitated in one incident, escapes attempted in another http://www.arap.so36.net/prison/riot/riot2005.html http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1722260,00.html "Lost tribe" defend land from loggers http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050526084634376 Amazonian Cofan indigenous people rally to protest pollution caused by Texaco http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1232238 MST occupy farms http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4077 Bishop on hunger strike over environmentally destructive river diversion project http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4303254.stm Government workers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j12.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a23.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j14.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j07.shtml Construction workers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/brif-a26.shtml One man stages sit-in against minibus ban http://www.dehavilland.co.uk/webhost.asp?wci=default&wcp=EntertainmentStoryPage&ItemID=15043909&ServiceID=8&filterid=345221&searchid=234672&category=1 March in the River asks for the end of the violence of the State and the elites In quarrel - 25-04-2005 to the 06:57:18 In the afternoon of day 15 of April, friday, hundreds of people had marched in the Center of Rio De Janeiro to remember the quotidiano genocide that the ruling class promotes in Brazil. Marcha Against the Violence of the State and the Elites broke of the Church of the Candel?ria with destination the Court of Justice, descends for the Rio Branco Avenue, at the shouts of "arrives of slaughter, murderous policy". The violence practised against the poor persons is a structural problem of the Brazilian society. "the inaquality, the income concentration, the maintenance of the repressive apparatus that was mounted during in all this century and, in particular, during the military dictatorship, today if reflecte in this systematic violence and the police corruption", explains Maur?cio Fields, activista of the Front of Popular Fight. The manifestation was organized by the Net of Communities and Movements Against the Violence, Movement Posso-Me To identify and Movement of Trabalhadores Sem Terra (MST). The date was chosen in function of the proximity with other genocides. In 16 of April of 2003, four people had been assassinated by the policy in the community of the Borel, in the River In day 17 of the same month, have nine years behind, 21 agricultural workers without land had been died in the slaughter of Eldorado of the Caraj?s, in Par?. Moreover, in last day 31, 30 people had been victims of a slaughter promoted for policemen in New Igua?u and Queimados, in the Of the state of Rio de Janeiro Lowered one. Massive march by landless peasants begins http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=28514 Protesters occupy building in Rio http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=pt%7Cen&u=http://www.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/2005/04/315569.shtml&prev=/language_tools Students occupy rectory in democracy protest http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=pt%7Cen&u=http://www.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/2005/04/314243.shtml&prev=/language_tools COLOMBIA: STUDENT STRIKE http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/24081.php Mayday http://uganda.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/05/07/young_anarchist_wounded_by_police_in_bogota_colombia.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00069.html http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050504210900926 http://perso.wanadoo.es/rompiendocabuyas/primerodemayo.htm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/colombiaresistance/message/355 http://www.simone.bruno.name/primo/index_8.htm http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m10.shtml Students join Sinaltrainal protest against Coke. but several are kidnapped http://www.labournet.net/world/0506/colomb2.html Thousands protest free-trade deal with US http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-09-23-voa14.cfm (Google translation) Bogota, 13 of April of the 2005. From today University National Unemployment goes ahead, and this it does not stop in spite of the closing of universities and the militarization of the same ones. For the sample a button, today in the host National University bogota everything was prepared, the taking of buildings, the accomplishment of assemblies, the development of diverse playful spaces and a most important concrete sheet, that it includes/understands: - Rejection to the application of the reforms like the decree that ends the autonomy of the universities, 2566 decree 3545 and the law 812/2003 that diminishes budgets. Among others. - Rejection to the imposition of directors in the public Universities and to the elimination of the mechanisms of democratic participation. - Exigency to the national government and the territorial to assume the pensi?nales bond payment and pulled beings. - Rejection to the extinction of the educational and administrative race and to the labor deregulation. - Exigency of safeguard of the Education in the TLC. The education is a right, not a transfronterizo service. - Exigency of the nonapplication of the reforms imposed in the National University by the present administration. - Exigency of the opening of a table of discussion and national decision on education publishes in Colombia. - Development of a university component This initial platform this in constant construction and development by means of the consolidation of discussion spaces and battle of local significance. Nevertheless, it watchs the pretension of the directors and the national government to us of enlodar the protest day. Last night by the news of the television, the argument of the directors appears of skinny form to close the campus, an assumption cuts in the water provision, that could cause a sanitary crisis justifies the closing of two days, (as if were not frequent these cuts). But they did not obtain its assignment and on the contrary, the repression I finish in our favor. Thousands of students surrounded the university the day throughout, the discussion and the dots became presents in the exits of 30 race and street 26, while many natives of Bogota found out the problems of nacho and their joint with the problems of the country, because this fight is not of a minority but of the Colombian society as a whole. The exit of street 26 was today an important point of contact of diverse currents that are against the privatization of the public education, representing of universities, schools, unions and in social general of movement of resistance to the neoliberal globalizaci?n and the authoritarianism of the state and the market. The presence of the group elite of repression and tortures (ESMAD) was not made hope, its permanent intimidation accompanies and finishes fortifying the endurance of students, workers and professors of diverse educative institutions that were not let intimidate by this gesture of symbolic and real violence of the establishment. Towards noon salio of the university a multitudinal march that moved until the ministry of Education through the avenue the gilded one or street 26. The feeling and the force of the demonstrator profit to shake the city to its step, while overwhelmed passers-by were united somehow to the protest. The march I conclude in the ministry where I appear a national request sheet. The today day was very positive but it leaves great lessons us, some are: First; the lack of communication between diverse movements to the interior of nacho and in general of all the universities, I finish demobilizing to many inconformes that were not able to canalize their energy in the massive acts in addition, the insufficiency of equipment to improve the communication continues being a great problem. Second; the development of playful spaces for the game, the dance, the dance and the art in general becomes a priority, a as simple element as music could even cohesionar plus the movement and vitalizar the protest expressions. By I complete is necessary to know clearly that this is single one more a day, than the fight also follows and unemployment. The resistance spaces must overflow the institutional routes that turn out insufficient to fight to Capitalism, the sexism and the racism of our culture, for that reason the problem of the protest this in permanent development and is a always unfinished process. In the national university we will continue revolcando the Earth and speaking of which we thought, I sabotage of unemployment fortifies to us, and we will follow still on of fight. Thursday 14 a.m was continued the day with a symbolic hug to the U about the 9. And you come when they open the campus we follow with the protest that neither is shut up nor finished. To The PRIVATIZATION OF The UNIVERSITY IT DOES NOT PUBLISH, WE MUST RETHINK OUR ACADEMY And PROJECT IT TOWARDS The COMMUNITY. NOT TO THE TLC, THE FREE COMMERCE IS A THREAT, THE EDUCATION IS A RIGHT NOT A SERVICE. NOT To The RE-election OF URIBE And ITS CORPORATIVE MODEL NOT To The POLITICA OF SECURITY DEMOCRATICA. A MESSAGE OF THE COLLECTIVE AVERAGE FREES. COLOMBIA Nicholas Neira, struck by the police the 1 of May, in critical state We denounced the police brutality Shared in common long wait of the 4 of May Tens of thousands of people mobilized this 1? of May until the Seat of Bolivar in Bogota. Women, men and children, artists , went out to reject the government of Uribe V?lez, their pretensions of re-election, to the TLC and the neoliberalism between many more demands by the worthy life and the change of articles of incorporation. Columns of Sintratel?fonos, CGT , Uneb , Sutimac, CTC, organizations of human rights, Asopersoner?as, Fensuagro, viviendistas, feministas... and also the political survivors of the Patriotic Union and organizations PDI, PCOS, Moir, UD , PCC, Modep, MRI, PTC, anarchists ... Around the two of afternoon, the ESMAD and the Cavalry of the police repressed young people , anarchists and students . There is an indetermine number of disappear-lengthy by the punitive forces. Also there were repression and haltings of demonstrators in Grass. In Medell?n , Cali , Barranquilla , Cartagena, Sincelejo , Pereira, Manizales, Grass, Barrancabermeja , Bucaramanga , Ibagu?, Neiva and other places of the country were fulfilled nourished marches. Mayday in Colombia (various cities) http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/24973.php&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/25017.php&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/24932.php&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://www.nodo50.org/anarcol/index.php%3Fp%3D208&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/25118.php&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/24933.php&prev=/language_tools Mobilisation against trade deal in Cartagena, Bogota http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2005/02/22126.php&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2005/02/22192.php&prev=/language_tools National student march http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/24081.php&prev=/language_tools ECUADOR Mayday marches follow uprising http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BA55C4125-9739-4EE3-ABE8-97C60034FC6E%7D&language=EN Mayday in Quito http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://ecuador.indymedia.org/es/2005/05/9386.shtml&prev=/language_tools Indigenous people and environmental protesters march against Petrobras oil activities http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/31623/story.htm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1947 Banana workers strike http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4360 State threatens to sack striking doctors http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/wkrs-a19.shtml Doctors return to work after fall of Gutierrez http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/brif-a26.shtml Protests mark free-trade summit http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/630/630p14b.htm Prisoners self-mutilate, crucify selves in prison conditions protest http://www.arap.so36.net/prison/riot/riot2005.html BOLIVIA: Court workers strike over pay cuts and competition http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a23.shtml Teachers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m17.shtml PERU: Bolivian-style socialism spreads to Peru http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreenLeft_discussion/message/16160 Chinese mine company sparks protests http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3277067 Agricultural strike forces potato price increase Thousands mobilise to block roads and occupy an airport in a southern Andean region http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6918/691811.html Doctors strike for increased health budget and higher pay http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j19.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j07.shtml Massive anti-privatisation march in Lima http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/amer-a30.shtml One-day strike by transit workers, teachers http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j28.shtml Protest against attack on press freedom http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m10.shtml Port workers protest against privatisation threat http://www.itfglobal.org/news-online/index.cfm/newsdetail/355 Mobilisation against TLC: (Peru Indymedia) Tests of irregular halting to demonstrators The day Thursday 21 of April the policia actuo quickly to shut up the voices anti TLC gassed, dunked with rochabus, struck, stopped, kidnapped by 3 days. At the moment they have been set free, with appearance. aca imagenes in which the minions give loose rein to their insane reality 15 Desaparecid at s After march ANTI TLC URGENT SOLIDARITY! In the mobilization of the day Thursdays 21 against the TLC, in which the policias surpassed the number of demonstrators,y despues of a brutal aggression, were stopped companions of the coordinator another world is possible, and students of the university cantuta, who were arestados in a deprived property, (in one cochera), where the companions hid to protect of the lacrimogenos gases, which they sent the policias, these when occurring account of their presence in this place came to surround the area,y to stop being taken them to the comisaria of Alfonso Ugarte, there remained until the dawn. Taken to Security of the State soon, being happened on the following day to the Ministry of Justice, where they follow lengthy to apesar of to have spent the 24 hours already. We asked for aid of different lawyers and also of defensor?a of the town but until these hours they have not approached, to apesar of the insistence and constant search, in the judicial power they give different do not give greater information, until this hour already the 8 at night of 22 Friday l at s compa?er at s follow detenid at s. Relation of detenid at s: 1 Raul Aryan Branches (coord. another world...) 2-Juan Pablo valence walls (coord. another world....) 3-Hugo Mayta Flowers (united town) 4-Jesus Perez Fernandes (cantuta) 5 Victor sedano Eduardo (cantuta) 7-Rolando requiz espinoza (cantuta) 8-Luis Enrique Iquipaza (cantuta) 9-Juan Carlos Sayas (cantuta) 10-Carolina Sucapuca (cantuta) 11- Roseli ochoa (cantuta) 12- Crowned Nona (cantuta) 13-Hilda white Ventuna (cantuta) 14-Cinthia Benilda Luque (cantuta) 15-Rocio miracles of the Pillar (cantuta) Compa?er at s, more unit is requested to l at s and support, in these cases that by conviction to our ideas, we are ourselves catched and restricted of our freedom, we must support to our friends and companions of fight. The March of CGTP.... Day 3 of March the workers in diverse parts of the country in Chiclayo, Piura, Tacna, Cusco and Arequipa in defense of their labor rights mobilized themselves and against the signing of the Treaty of Libre Comercio (TLC) with the United States. From Seat Two of May in Lima they divided the unions in the direction of the Congress of the Republic. The leaders Julio Baz?n, the Unique Power station of Trabajadores (CUT), El?as Grijalva, the General Confederation of Trabajadores (CTP) and Mario Huam?n (CGTP) marched every one with their own contingent. The dismissed ones by the fujimorismo, the workers of Telephone, the National Federation of Municipal and working Workers of the sector were also added Health, Sitram?n and until the cotton plants who carried out a numerous march in hours in the morning, among that were not formed into a guild like the present university students. But it is possible to stand out that one of the secondary demands was the Constituent Assembly on the part of these leaders of the CUT, CTP and CGTP, that really do not take refuge in the exigencies of the workers in the mobilization. The town does not want to give a truce to the government to continue applying their neoliberal measures. Coarse in national agreements that benefit to this government from the rich ones and the transnational companies. Very on the contrary the workers we are about to to remove to this band of capitalist delinquents by means of our method: the mobilization. The workers if we can! Videos of the march. traditional interviews, declarations, policias filming, blows and scenes. More on TLC demos http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://peru.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/15311.php&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://peru.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/15397.php&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://peru.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/15382.php&prev=/language_tools VENEZUELA: Mayday in Caracas - a million workers march for socialism http://www.venezuelasolidarity.org/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=63 A tale of two marches http://bbugs.blogspot.com/2005/05/mayday-in-venezuela-tale-of-two.html Update on Venepal http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p14b.htm http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/625/625p16c.htm Protesters march for popular control of oil company http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/anti-imperialist_demonstration310505.htm Homeless people protest for housing solutions http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=41236 Photos from anti-imperialist demonstration http://www.aporrea.org/dameverbo.php?docid=61031 Peasants march to protest assassinations of land reformers http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1501 Peasants march in Caracas demanding land and protesting goon attacks Land occupations also continue as peasants resist latifundist attacks http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6928/692803.html Peasants occupy large estates http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6930/693003.html Indigenous peasants march on Caracas http://www.newsfeeds.com/archive/soc-culture-caribbean/msg00633.html Indigenous people march against neoliberalism http://www.indymedia.org/en/2005/04/114432.shtml Indigenous people protest against threat to deport evangelists http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2005/10/29/chavezs_threat_to_expel_evangelists_spurs_protest/ CTV mark Mayday with march for minimum wage http://www.eluniversal.com/2005/04/28/en_pol_art_28A555619.shtml CHILE Youth protesters begin march http://www.plenglish.com/Article.asp?ID=%7B95FD6014-5A75-4668-B512-5DBA4136B001%7D&language=EN Football strike averted at last minute http://soccernet.espn.go.com/headlinenews?id=337068&cc=5739 Protests over Barrick Gold mine and eco-destruction http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p19b.htm Mine strike ends http://www.cbc.ca/cp/business/050712/b071210.html Barrick Gold project faces protests over pollution http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12447 Political prisoners stage hunger strike for freedom http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00029.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00051.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00221.html Hunger strike called off as human rights bill is passed http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00296.html Mayday march in Santiago http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00120.html http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050503171212711 Student anti-privatisation protests continue http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/27 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050503210847813 Copper mine hit by strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j12.shtml Couple self-immolate in poverty protest at Presidential Palace http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/chil-j27.shtml Laundry workers go on hunger strike to demand raise http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m03.shtml Dairy workers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m03.shtml Customs workers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/brif-a26.shtml STUDENTS MARCH AGAINST THE FINANCING LAW About 5000 students of the main traditional universities of the capital, marched by the Alamenda in rejection to the propose Law of financing by the government who allows that I contribute private invest in the education of the students without resources later to receive to them as a consumption credit. The march that began to 13:00 hours in the Italy Seat I congregate students of the Univerisiadad of Chile, University of Santiago, Metropolitan Technological University (UTEM) and the Metropolitan University of Sciences of Educacio'n (UMCE), which were escorted by customs officers in the whole the passage until the Ministry of Educuaci?n where they were repressed by special forces of customs officers, who used a great amount of cars he sends water and he carried out massive haltings with great brutality in special to the women. Soon estudinates returned to their respective campuses being developed some incidents in the UTEM of Eighteen, which remained seizure until the 17:30 hours and the USACH where customs officers enter the establishment without they were registered lengthy. Monday and Tuesday the CONFECH announced new mobilizations against the LAW OF FINACIAMIENTO of the Superior Education. CENTRAL ACT OF THE DAY OF THE WORKER First of May of 1886 they are declared around 5,000 strikes all over the United States. This Sunday, 119 years later, almost 45 thousand people met to march from diverse points of the Tree-lined avenue towards the central act in commemoration of the day of the worker to be made in Seat the Heroes. Diverse social groupings, political, collective, or simple parties independent met to celebrate and to demand a worthy work, or, to demonstrate repudio towards the same idea of work, stressing that not festeja the work, but that commemorates the death of workers who indeed die in their fight to diminish the working hours. In the act I speak the president of the CUT, Arturo Martinez, that maintained that "if continuous with the labor relaxation, the cause would be summoned to a strike of 48 hours, criticizing that the companies continue increasing their gains and that is not reflected in the pays". Soon they acted Max Berr?, ex- Inti Illimani and Alvaro Henr?quez, ex- leader of the dissolved group the three. At moments that the commemoration I stop being celebration to transform itself into direct confrontation against customs officers, who were bet in the environs with a great amount of contingent, taking place but of 20 haltings and around 1 hour in which I journey by the North flank it had to do itself altered DAY OF MOBILIZATION BY THE FREEDOM OF THE POLITICAL PRISONERS OF THE WORLD With diverse activities prisioner at s was developed to the day of mobilization by the freedom of l at s abroad politicians of the world in the country and. In Santiago, the march summoned in the Seat the Hero?s again was repressed by customs officers when this was arranged to occupy the Tree-lined avenue, leaving some prisoners. Nevertheless, the demonstrators regrouped to march by the stroll Smoky where prisioner at s read a declaration by the freedom of tod at s l at s politicians of the world. Soon the march went towards street Flag where some confrontations and haltings were locked up by customs officers taking place. In Amsterdam, a manifestation in frontis of the Chilean Consulate in solidarity with the political prisoners was made mapuches. In Valparaiso, on the other hand a march in the seat was summoned Sotomayor. Thursday 21 of April|In extensive day of protests Secondary and University in the street Near 7 hours of manifestations they were registered yesterday in the streets of Valparaiso. These began 12:00 hrs. by secondary students, whom they demand does not raise of passes and passage scholastic. Hundreds of these arrived at Intendance, place in where they faced great police contingent. After the first dispersion the students regrouped in the ascent equator on hill foot in where they raised to barricades cutting the transit in the Av. Bellavista with Condell. Already to 14:00 hrs. students of the Valparaiso University, Wide Beach, Santa Maria and Jose Miguel Race met in Seat Victory to march in the direction of the congress to protest against the financing law that would be discussed in the session of the Congress. In the outskirts of the legislative seat were special forces of customs officers who began a strong repression after the first confrontations. At that moment mientr?s was stopped a companion of our group covered the manifestation. During everything afternoon they continued the confrontations by all avenue Pedro Montt. In as much, students of the Arcis University protested raising to barricades in France Avenue, cutting that access road towards hills of the city. Near the 19:00 hrs. already finalized the protest day, registering itself but of 400 stopped which were released in times of the night. These manifestations were added to which thousands of students inside made throughout all the country and the protests of the day Tuesday and outside the congress and in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Valparaiso. Pictures from student mobilisations in Chile http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://santiago.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/31674.php&prev=/language_tools First of May With around 600 people the central act organized by the Unitary Power station of workers was made. Union, social and political organizations marched from seat victory to the scene the Italy Park, place in where artistic numbers and some speeches were made. The act, like the last years, one characterized by the little participation and call. In addition they became to listen to diverse voices from sectors that criticize the bureaucratic and conciliador character of the CUT. In half of the act, and but the showy thing of the day, was the irruption of a group of women in the scene to read a declaration in which diverse operating practices against the woman were denounced. After some struggles and pushes on the part of in charge of security of the organization it was allowed that the declaration was ***reflxed mng Already in the evening, in different places from Valparaiso, forums, debates and presentations of videos around the union fights and the cuestionamientos to the same work were made. Tuesday 12 of April New mobilization by passes student A new manifestation around the conflict by passes student was made today. From very early around 3000 secondary students of the city of Vine of the Sea they tried to march towards Valparaiso to be with students of the Catholic University in frontis of that house of study. The march was quickly bloqueda in the Creek sector Sandal by special forces of customs officers who hab?an extended ample an operative one by all Av. Spain in which they are inclu?an guanacos, zorrillos and micros. The students when crippled seeing the advance of the march began to raise hills thus to manage to arrive at Valparaiso. After diverse confrontations that took place with customs officers single a group managed to arrive at the central house of the UC, place in where they met with the college students. Quickly decidio to leave by Av. Spain place in where it waited for a guanaco and numerous customs officers who did not take in beginning to repress. In spite of the strong repression the students fixed to cut them diverse streets and to pronounce themselves during 2 hours Thursday 31 of March But of 3000 students they protested against the rise of passes student But 3000 students they went out to protest by the rise of happens and the scholastic tariff in the fifth region demanding the creation of happens only, national and gratuitous. Secondary college students and of establishments of Valparaiso and Vi?a of the Sea met from the 12:00 hrs. in the Italy Park later to march between songs and shouts towards Regional Intendance, place in where they met with the provincial governor, seremi of Education and the one of Transports to show the refusal to them to the rise on the part of the students. Later and with the authorization of the governor the thousands of students were given back marching by avenue Pedro Montt place where special Forces of Customs officers began to repress strongly dispersing the march by diverse points of the Buenosairean plan. The students quickly began to reorganizarze registering confrontations in the environs of the National Congress, in the Italy Park and France Avenue on hill foot where students raised barricades. The protest day lasted around 5 hours registering itself about 150 lengthy ones. March for the release of political prisoners http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://valparaiso.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/2471.php&prev=/language_tools PARAGUAY: Mass mobilisations over fuel price hike http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={F975B1C8-1846-43BE-8346-BB18DE30DFB0}&language=EN Rumsfeld booed on visit http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/8/17/18316/7090 Teachers strike, and win wage increase http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j21.shtml URUGUAY National protest strike over government neoliberalism http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j06.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j28.shtml The world is not for sale: Direct action against Monsanto in Uruguay Wednesday, August 17 2005 @ 02:50 PM PDT Contributed by: Anonymous Views: 132 DIRECT ACTION AGAINST MONSANTO IN URUGUAY The world is not for sale August 8th 2005 Today, the headquarters of Monsanto's representative in Uruguay, Agroterra , received an unexpected visit of a group of people protesting against GMO's and the bio-tech industry. At 4pm more than a dozen people wearing hoods arrived to the headquarters with posters, banners, and spray paint. In their communique they denounced Monsanto and all the companies that profit off of life. "The only hunger they stop is their profit's hunger, our hunger is consequence of their system and it's solved with social justice, not with their agrotoxics and their seeds of death." The company locked the doors and waited for the police to arrive. In less than 20 minutes the 'invisible' demonstrators, who were not representing any organization, dispersed leaving their cries for justice painted on the walls of the Monsanto building. Photos: http://uruguay.indymedia.org/news/2005/08/37849.php http://uruguay.indymedia.org/news/2005/08/37859.php http://uruguay.indymedia.org/news/2005/08/37867.php URUGUAY/ARGENTINA 29 of April of 2005|BINATIONAL MARCH IN THE BRIDGE OF FRAY BENTOS A hug against the cellulose plants The next diverse Saturday 30 of April social organizations of Argentina and Uruguay will be mobilized jointly to be on the Bridge the General International San Mart?n and to reject the installation of two plants of cellulose on the Uruguay River. The encounter of Uruguayan Argentineans and to jointly express the rejection to the installation of cellulose plants as well as to the model of forest development that is behind its operation, will serve to establish a common competing front to the ominous effects that will be registered in the tourism, the artisan fishing, the beekeeping and the agriculture of both margins of the Uruguay River. >From Montevideo hs will leave to a caravan the same Saturday 30 of April to 7,00. In the Seat 1? of May, with locomotion available. In order to ask for information to communicate with Guayubira Group on telephones 413 2989 and 410 0985 and 305 4520 - 099 154 935 of Multisectorial Commission. Also they can do it with FFOSE to telephones 924 2477 - 924 4858. URUGUAY 8 of April of 2005|OCCUPATION OF FACTORY BRIGNONI Inheritances of a dismantled country The workers and workers of the tile factory and parqu?s Brignoni are in conflict. The company, after its situation of decay decides to send to all its employees to the insurance of unemployment per indetermine time, proposing inculso to them the possibility of working of irregular form. Before the possibility of remaining without work in permanent form and the possible dismantling of the factory, the workers decided to occupy and to begin the negotiations with the purpose of returning to produce in cooperative regime. Due to the bad administration of its last two managers and to the crisis of the neoliberal model, this factory with 130 years of life begins to decay as much remarkably acquiring enormous deprived debts with as with the State. Soon the history of always: the rights of the workers are not respected, the conditions in which work are every time worse and the dismissals begin to be current, getting to be 60 for the work that made 300 people. At the moment the workers are in a carp on Carrasco Way (next to the church de la Cruz) where sell cake fried and receive the unconditional support of the neighbors. Focused in the autogesti?n project they are working next to the University of the Republic, the confederation of cooperatives ( Cudecoop ) and the union of the construction ( Sunca ). ARGENTINA Mayday in Argentina http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/287696.php&prev=/language_tools Zanon under attack again - supporters rally http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=42&ItemID=7717 Massive support for CTERA's first strike in Kirchner era Teacher strike halts classes Yasky said that the federal education act should be scrapped "to put an end to a model of inequality." The law in passed in 1992 transferred responsibility for education financing from the national government to the provinces. http://www.buenosairesherald.com/argentina/note.jsp?idContent=166295&hideIntro=true http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m24.shtml Strike grounds Aerolingas planes http://www.falkland-malvinas.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=6111 Pitched battle breaks out as religious fundamentalists attack piqueteros http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clarin.com%2Fdiario%2F2005%2F07%2F27%2Fsociedad%2Fs-02903.htm&langpair=es%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools Festival Against Intolerance calls for drug legalisation http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/10/231035/920 Workers strike for higher pay in several sectors http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4686 Teachers' strike in Salta ends and restarts http://www.po.org.ar/poen/2005/poen910/poen910005.htm http://www.po.org.ar/poen/2005/poen895/poen895001.htm http://www.po.org.ar/poen/2005/poen894/poen894002.htm Workers at McDonald's resist and win http://www.po.org.ar/poen/2005/poen907/poen907005.htm http://www.po.org.ar/poen/2005/poen906/poen906001.htm "Community Strike" in support of workers in Santa Cruz http://www.po.org.ar/poen/2005/poen902/poen902001.htm Caleta piqueteors freed "because of their struggle" http://www.po.org.ar/poen/2005/poen897/poen897003.htm Activists want Bush barred from Summit of the Americas http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0728-07.htm Police attack factory occupation by unemployed youths http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j27.shtml Public health strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j27.shtml Strike among natural gas extraction workers http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j12.shtml Pilots' strike shuts down domestic airlines http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j12.shtml Meatpackers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j06.shtml March for Life exposes child poverty http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j06.shtml Workers protest against plan to privatise shipyard http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j06.shtml Unemployed protesters demand benefits http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a23.shtml Professors strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j28.shtml Chilecito teachers and their supporters protest during strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j21.shtml Autoworkers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j14.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m03.shtml Bank strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m24.shtml Government workers strike and protest http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m17.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m10.shtml Airport shut down in wages dispute http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a02.shtml Tens of thousands join strikes and protests http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a09.shtml Friday 22 of April 2005|PORT MADRYN: THE FIGHT MEASURES INTENSIFY Possible general unemployment in Chubut The workers of the fishing in Madryn Port, nucleados in the Union of the workers of the Industry of the feeding - Stia- but mobilized from the bases intensified, from the week last, the measures of fight in reclamation by the increase of the hour of work of 3 pesos to 6 that they have been demanding for more than 6 months. They are 3000 workers who demand the wage resetting of the 100 percent and that to the day of today maintains 14 poles in different accesses from the city. For Monday general unemployment of 40 unions summoned by the CTA and the CGT is confirmed, in support to the STIA. If for Wednesday there are no agreements, then general unemployment in all the province of the Chubut is anticipated. Pole in the accesses to the industrial Park and the Port Madryn is a city with a high spending power, in which at the moment the basic food basket (composed by elements of personal hygiene, scholastic cleaning, equipment, clothes, health, services, house and mobility) underwent an increase of the 3 percent arriving at the amount of 1870 pesos. In this frame and even in the one of Nation, that establishes the basket of the poverty in 780 pesos, 500 pesos constitute an entrance that is below the line of poverty. The fisheries in Madryn Port represent one of the more important economic activities, have twelve companies all of them of foreign capitals. The gain of the industry is approximately of 2,000 million dollars per year and the permissions of the fishing make them that have the monopoly of the market. A man of Calfum?n last name, as the same one affirmed bien of zona, for 26 years he has been working in the fishing and he told the press that with 500 weights per month we do not do anything, not podemos. Also he compared what they win with which they sell the fishing companies in the outside. Ellos sell the kilo of prawn to 55 euros, affirmed Calfum?n. The conflict broke out again Wednesday 13 when the tired workers of which the company does not pay to them what corresponds and that the union does not organize the reclamation initiated unemployment that already has been 9 days. Parallelly they cut the access to the industrial park and made mobilizations. Friday: unemployment in all the chubutense fishing sector For Friday, soft Admiral Storni had been 72 hours without making activity some. That day they met during three hours the Secretary General of the Union of Industries of the Feeding, Luis N??ez; the gremiales delegates; the manager and the learned adviser of the CAPIP (Camera Argentina Patag?nica de Fishing Industrias), Alexander Cagliolo and Diego Larnoud respectively; and the undersecretary of Work of the province, Hieronymite Garci'a in a hearing of conciliation without reaching any agreement. The measures of force adopted by the workers, this time with the support of the STIA, intensified with unemployment of activities that included to all the fishing sector of Chubut, preventing all type of enter to the harbor zone and the industrial parks and fishing. Also the dock workers could not unload the moored poteros ships to the Storni. Tuesday: adhesion of the workers of the SUPA Tuesday of this week the United Union Harbor Argentineans (EXTREME) supported the reclamation of the workers of the fishing. By then already they were the 20 fishing boats that had to return to high seas by not being able to moor and the provincial government decreed the obligatory conciliation between the parts. Passed the 22 not yet they had met and the threats of repression to the workers ordered by local Justice, in case of the nonobservance of the obligatory conciliation, made the rounds in the commandos of the GEOP that remained in the doors of the police stations of the zone. Wednesday: obligatory conciliation, without agreement Wednesday finally, allowing the entrance of the press, gremiales representatives met, of the CAPIP and of the government until the 5 in the morning and, again, there was no agreement. Although to closed doors, the negotiations are strongly being guarded by the disconformes bases with the leadership of the STIA and force to accept everything what they request. Its main reclamation is the increase of 100 % of the hour of work, from 3 to 6, but without contemplating decrees of the government. He is to say they are requesting 7,80 had offered them 6 pesos but they request 7,80 because the CAPIP says offers 6 to them and the workers affirm that of those six, with the discounts they have left 4,60 Thursdays: the last news the CAPIP people said that she will not accept another conciliation in these conditions. This is, they want to go to negotiate to Buenos Aires. The workers did not accept this proposal. Today to the morning after a meeting in the seat of the Union of the STIA the Intersyndical one, a gremial instance that reunites to CGT, CTA and unions nonaligned confirmed for the next Monday general unemployment of 40 unions summoned by the CTA and the CGT in support to the STIA, to which also the UOM adheres, ALUAR union. If for Wednesday there are no agreements, then, general unemployment in all the province of the Chubut is anticipated. Tuesday 20 of April 2005|IT FOLLOWS the PLAN OF UNITARY FIGHT Confluence between piqueteros and sectors occupied In a day marked from early the morning by the repression the workers of Lafsa in the Airfield for light aircrafts, and by the persistence of the fight in the Garraham Hospital, the second day of unified fight was made east 19 Tuesday, where different competing piqueteras organizations came together with the occupied sectors that maintain conflicts against their respective employer's associations. In Capital a a massive march go of Congress to Seat of May, in Rosary make three cut of route, in Cordova mobilize until the the Public Work Ministry of and in Tucum?n mobilize thousand to the the Seat Independence. In the bridge that unites to Negro River with Neuqu?n organizations of the zone came together. In other points of the country also she had measured of fight. The government follows without occurring by alluded, with which to nonpro-government the piqueteras organizations they will not have left more alternative than to continue fighting by the raised demands. The 6 of this month the fight plan had begun with 96 cuts in all the country in reclamation of increase in the social plans and the universalizaci?n of such, the generation of jobs and the increase of the wages and by the freedom of all and the prisoners to fight. For these days more fights are expected. They will follow the hospitals in conflict: like in Neuqu?n, where Sobisch said "that the gremialistas look for a dead", like in the Mej?a Branches and the Garraham where this Wednesday begins another unemployment of 72 hours. The aeronautical ones will follow with their measures of force, in spite of the repression. In addition, measures of force in subte in solidarity are preveen. In Buenos Aires, or mentioned workers of Lafsa and the Garraham they headed the march to Seat of May, along with other combative union sectors like Parmalat or the railway. They went preceded by the nourished columns of the movements of unemployed people who the press has estigmatizado like "the duros". After marching until the fence seat, several organizations went to the Ministry of Work in solidarity with recently repressed aeronautical workers. In as much, in Rosary three poles were made. Members of the town tufa were added to one of the cuts and to slogans of the day they added specific vindications on the rights of the original towns. In another one of the poles familiar presents became of the victims of the massacre of the penitentiary of Coround and made forts critics against the provincial government of Obeid. In Cordova the piqueteras organizations were mobilized until the Public Work Ministry of the Province of Cordova, where a delegation met with Minister Oscar Santarelli, to title of this portfolio to solicit that jobs for the unemployed people in different public works are opened to him, before which the authorities responded with a deep refusal. As opposed to this situation the piqueteras organizations expressed the necessity to take new tendientes measures of fight to guarantee the genuine use and worthy conditions of work and expressed their solidarity with the companions and companions of LAFSA that in the morning brutally were repressed and stopped. Meanwhile, in Tucum?n, according to commercial newspapers, 3000 people mobilized until the center of the provincial capital where a delegation was received by civil employees of second line of the government. An act was made where the different oradores emphasized the unit obtained in the day. Also in the highway bridge that unites to Negro River with Neuqu?n, piqueteras organizations came together to adhere to the national day of protest and in addition to add the support to the fight of the workers of health of the Province of Neuqu?n who for seven months have been coming fighting by the wage resetting. Friday 15 of April 2005|IN RECLAMATION BY the LABOR CONTINUITY Repression to the workers of LAFSA Before the refusal of the Government of consensuar with the workers a resolution for the conflict that guarantees all the jobs, the LAFSA employees decided in assembly to take the counters and the departure lounge from several companies. When they were trying to take ahead this measurement, they were with an infantry cord who bordered the area where the passengers approach. Immediately the police began a hardest repression, that left 25 hurt workers, among them, seven women. There were blows, tear bullets of rubber and gases. In addition, two companions were stopped when they tried to aid the wounded, which generated from that moment an indiscriminate repression, according to the delegate explained Carlos Platkowski. The inspector of the airport police Marcelo Sa?n justified the repression saying that the situation was untenable and even alleged that was in risk the security of the airport. He explained in addition that the reason by that it ordered the evacuation of the workers was because the counters have much work in the schedule in which the protests took place. The LAFSA employees decided to remain in the place (surrounded by a police cord that moved away them of the passengers), demanding an answer to the authorities and that retires the police forces. The fight plan had retaken Friday, when the workers demanded an answer and the only answer of the government was silence. For that reason, they blocked the zone of boarding of the airport, the counters of the companies and the hall of passengers, preventing for more than one hour the exit of flights. This generated forts confrontations with the deprived monitoring of the airport. The main demands that expressed the Ministry of Work are the preservation of all the labor positions and guarantees in the conditions of crossing, in case that this one is accepted. But the propose Act in Labor Agreement by the government does not imply a concensuada exit. >From the moment at which Kirchner announced the privatization of Lines Federal Areas, the employees began the force measures. Quickly, the unions (CGT and CTA) left them in the fight, and they dedicated themselves to sign agreements with the government: Level Edgardo, the APA secretary (Asociacio'n Personal Aerona'utico), accepted by means of an agreement the privatization of the company. To more of a month of initiate the conflict, the LAFSA employees not yet have guaranteed happens in block to the new invention of American Airleans: LAN Argentina. The crossing would become to LAN Chile (also property of the North American company), that would have to buy the minority portion of "the ghost" company Aero2000, of that the aeronautical unions have denounced that would be handled by testaferros of Jaime. The lack of transparency in the agreement of entrance from LAN to the local market, the few certainties that offer them to the workers on their future labor conditions, the attempt of the company to dissolve the body of delegates (recognized legally) as it maneuvers to be able to incorporate the workers in individual form are only some of the problematic ones which the ex- employees of LAPA and Dinar face. And they are those that take to this plan of fight to follow ahead. Friday 15 of April 2005|BY the WAGES and IN SPITE OF the AGGRESSIONS Resistance in the schools and hospitals the health and the public education not only follow without being priority for the present government, but who the workers and workers who organize themselves and fight to improve their thin wages come being persecuted. Who with their effort fight day to day to maintain to the gratuidad and the quality so that the majorities can be cured and be educated, they finish being repressed, being intimidated and being ninguneados by the state authorities. The support of the community becomes in something very significant to maintain these fights. They know that who maintain these basic rights of the population in spite of the thin budgets that the state distributes, are the one who work in the hospitals and the schools. The educational salte?os follow their fight, although again they were attacked, this time, by one patota that acted with complicity of Gendarmerie, while they cut the route in the border with Bolivia. In Neuqu?n, the house of an educational delegate was baleada. In the scope of the health, the fight of the Garraham Hospital of Federal Capital stands out, where the personal fight by worthy pays, as well as happens in the Mej?a Branches, and the Province of Buenos Aires, where they come giving numerous fights in that sense. The Minister of Health of the Nation, Gin?s Gonz?lez Garci'a, threatened "applying to the rigor of the law" against the workers and workers (administrative nurses, technicians and) who make unemployment of 72 hours to demand a 70 percent of increase in the basic pay and a 2 percent per year of antiquity. "a neonatolog?a nurse, with 15 years of antiquity, gains by seven hours of task in critical area 1,000 pesos and, to arrive at the 1,300, he would have to work 17 hours per day, since by hourly extra he receives eight pesos", they declared to the press the personnel in fight. They make a strike by 72 hours, that east Friday finishes, when an act to be made in nosocomio announces how they follow the actions to recompose the wage. In this conflict the Ministry of Work until now has been limited to try to intimidate to the workers dictating three times the obligatory conciliation and sending inspectors to control to see if the minimum guards are made. Known it is that who work in this hospital they are completely devoted to save the life to him to countless patients. For that reason in front of the cameras of television and in direct for all the homes it was possible to be seen parents of boys committed in the hospital defend the workers in strike. In as much, the past Sunday in the international Bridge Rescuing Mazza - Yacuiba, in the limit with Bolivia, one patota of truck drivers struck to palazos and destroyed all the properties of educational of the department San Mart?n that are installed there from Friday 8, before the total inaction of the national Gendarmerie whom it guards in place. In Neuqu?n, the repressive scaling of the last months is deepened, every time, with greater impunity. Saturday at the dawn, the house of Alexander Castellar, leader of the Association of Workers of the Education of Neuqu?n (THEY TIE), was baleada when all the family was sleeping. Friday 8 of April 2005|PLAN OF FIGHT UNIFIED Courteous of route in all sides In spite of the protests made in 95 points of the country by the piqueteras organizations who are not pro-government, the government did not occur by alluded in the reclamation to increase the plans social, to universalizar them, to generate work worthy, to prevent raises it of prices and to release and to desprocesar to the persecuted ones and persecuted to fight by the most basic rights. A new plan of unified fight began. Fifty thousand people who for short while have been making malabares to survive with thin the 150 pesos of the plan heads and female leaders of family, if are that they have the "luck" to have access to the same one, left to cut to the route last Wednesday like part of a National Day of Protest. 20 piqueteros groups mobilized themselves. In Jujuy there were cuts in 42 points of the province. Also it had measured of fight in the Chaco, Formosa, Catamarca, Santa Fe, Tucum?n, Neunqu?n and Ri'o Negro. In It jumps were mobilizations of active solidarity with the educational fight recently repressed. In the west, the south and north of Great Buenos Aires were poles, as well as near the Silver and in Sea of the Silver. In the Ministry of Work the organizations of Capital came together. In Cordova, the tolerance police the zero that imposed governor Of the Sota stopped to five demonstrators by "marauding". The referring ones of the movements were received with the fence Seat of May and the body of the Guard of infantry of the federal police guarding the Pink House. It follows the fight: the 19 to the Seat organizations whom they summoned to the fight day were those that they compose National the Piquetero Block, the mst Teresa Lives, the MTR the Dignity, the Current Clasista and Combativa, the MTD An?bal Ver?n, the Popular Front Dar?o Santill?n, among others. The governmental policy to humiliate to the base organizations treating to interchange social aid by unconditional support while it is continued repressing of concealed way the protest has finished uniting what was dispersed. The autumn will not be easy. The essential products of the familiar basic basket increase. The state authorities not only deny the right to that that subsidy is universalizado to all the unemployed people, but that becomes deaf ears to the reclamation of which the amount of such is duplicated at least. And while the assumption begins to appear of the occupation indices (that include the "beneficiaries" of the plans) is used like argument so that more social protests do not take place, the generation of genuine jobs is an utopia in the country of the black work and the servile Workers Unions to the established power. So far, the 19 of next April, in agreement with the solved thing by Intersyndical Encuentro made 2 of April the past, a massive mobilization will come together in the Seat of May in reclamation of these same points and also demanding the increase of wages of the occupied workers and the labor day of 6 hours. It will be the turn of the unit of class between the independent piqueteros sectors of the government and the expressions of the working activism that went out to break with the fear and to demand what corresponds. Friday 8 of April 2005|2 OF APRIL: NATIONAL UNION ENCOUNTER organizes the antibureaucratic working activism Saturday 2 of April, more than 1000 workers carried out the first Union National Encounter summoned by the working ceramists of Zan?n, the Body of Delegates of the Subte, delegates of the Railway Union Seccional the West, delegates, activists and antibureaucratic internal commissions. They participated more than 300 factories of all the country, state workers of several provinces and workers of the main companies of services. The final resolutions were: - To accompany to the workers in fight by LAFSA the act to be made Thursday 7 of April to 17 hs. in Airfield for light aircrafts. - the accomplishment of a unitary act for 1? of May against the government of Kirchner and imperialism. - To fight by the formation of antibureaucratic lists unitary plenary cradles in of delegates and activists. - To establish a commission of connection opened to the incorporation of more organizations to coordinate fight measures. - To propose a new encounter for the month of Julio - the support to the piqueteras measures of fight of next the 19 of April. The encounter was organized to begin to 10 morning but given the numerous concurrence just at noon, after the reading of the call document, it went to sesionar in commissions where the propose resolutions by the convoking organizations struggled. Some delegations raised, in addition, the necessity to deepen the political discussion for the construction of a unitary and effective coordination to and the workers. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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and unusually, is permitted http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/Jun/20050605News027.asp Riot police attack opposition protest ahead of elections http://www.isagambar.az/2005/0210-cnn-bbc.htm http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20051009T210000-0500_90082_OBS_RIOT_POLICE_DISPERSE_OPPOSITION_PROTESTERS_IN_AZERBAIJAN.asp http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/10/f34f4198-7435-4409-98fa-a129e7eec35c.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3082 Opposition holds mass rally after election, alleging corruption http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2005/11/09/afx2327177.html http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/09/news/baku.php http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=124857®ion=2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3179 ARMENIA: Protesters oppose Georgian ethnic cleansing of Armenians http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=8178 RUSSIA/BASHKORTOSTAN: Opposition protesters from Bashkir republic rally in Moscow against regional dictator http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/04/15460063-bb4c-4478-934f-b40597ee6c0b.html RUSSIA: Public-sector workers strike and protest across the country http://en.rian.ru/russia/20051012/41751173.html Mass participation in Mayday rallies http://en.rian.ru/society/20050501/39782813.html After racist murder, anti-racists protest in Voronezh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3096 Anti-globalisation protests as Bush visits Moscow http://www.antiimperialista.com/view.shtml?category=9&id=1116084528&keyword=+ Coca-Cola workers picket over exploitation http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2005/05/20/ap2044074.html Protest in Moscow attacks US involvement in former Soviet republics http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1939 Prisoners slash themselves to protest mistreatment http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050629-04525800-bc-russia-prisonerprotest.xml Greenpeace activists protest at Russian nuclear conference http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1955 Prison boss fired after mass self-harm protest by prisoners http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1957 Kronstadt revolt commemmorated - flags draped http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00318.html http://www.avtonom.org/news/0505.html Small anarchist Mayday march in Moscow attacked by cops after building spraypainted http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00030.html Summary of anarchist Mayday actions in Russia http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00306.html http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050520233453160 Dockers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/euro-j29.shtml Sakhalin miners start underground protest http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/sep2005/euro-s02.shtml Air traffic controllers stage hunger strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/lab-j17.shtml Coca-Cola workers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m27.shtml Revolutionaries march against Putin in Moscow http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3061 Russia, Samara, assault on participators of the radical-ecological* protest camp in Otradniy 18th of July, a thug employed by Remetall-C assaulted 4 participators of the camp on their way to train station. One man from Samara, two men and one woman from Moscow were hurt. More information to follow later. Currently there are 40 people in the protest camp, which was launched 4th of July. Some video footage from the camp: http://ru.indymedia.org/usermedia/video/3/ecolager.yandex.ru_3.66.wmv Contacts for the camp: ekolager at yandex.ru protest at otradny.ru +79171069690 +79083861580 www.otradny.net http://www.ru.indymedia.org More on Otradniy eco-camp http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00357.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00315.html http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/05/19/righthandcarprotests.shtml Russian Motorists Protest Potential Ban on Right-Hand Drive Cars Created: 19.05.2005 13:22 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:23 MSK, 14 hours 4 minutes ago MosNews Thousands of Russian motorists who drive foreign-made cars with right-hand drive protested the government's plan to ban imports of the cars. The government has said, however, that it plans no such measures in the foreseeable future. Hundreds of motorists blocked traffic in central Moscow on Thursday, opposing the government's plans to ban the imports and operation of right-hand drive cars in Russia, the RIA-Novosti new agency reported. Motorists staged rallies near the federal government compound after Russian media reported the Ministry for Industry and Energy's controversial plan. About 50 cars arrived at the government building with orange ribbons tied to their antennas in protest. The protest caused a major traffic jam on Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment, where the government sits. Protesters also urged the government not to increase import duties for used foreign-made cars. Hundreds of foreign-made car owners gathered in the west of Moscow on Thursday, their cars, too, adorned with orange ribbons and balloons. Similar protests were held in other cities and towns across the country. AVTONOM REPORTS Page 6: Irkutsk anarchists organised a benefit concert for an orphanage 14th of December, Ufa anarchists joined protests against abolition of free social benefits 22th of January and had their own illegal demonstration as well, anarchists in Perm organised Food Not Bombs and support concert 27th of February, Nizhni Novgorod police arrested anarchists who joined protests against abolition of free social benefits 23rd of January, Yaroslavl anarchists organised illegal demonstration 23rd of February, Page 7: Moscow anarchists demonstrate solidarity with Israeli squatters and anarchists against walls 28th of January (see http://www.ainfos.ca/05/feb/ainfos00290.html), anarch at -feminist graffiti action in Saint-Petersburg in the eve of 8th of March. Page 8: Comrade Ukrop tells how and why he threw Eduard Limonov, leader of the National-Bolshevik Party with a pie. Announcement about G8 protests coming up in Scotland. Page 9: "Masses rush to love president". Leaflet and report from anarchist subversion in a pro-presidential demonstration of 12th of February. See English version in http://www.ainfos.ca/05/feb/ainfos00290.html Page 16: Indigenious people in Sakhalin protests against oil corporations, protests against urban densification in Kiev, protest for access to drugs for HIV positive prisoners in Moscow Page 17: New housing law, SOBR special forces demonstrate liberation of hostages to journalists in Kemerovo, but forgets to tell them that it was just a demonstration, not for real... "Homeless", a column by Gibel. Page 18: 3000 people siege city council of Izhevsk, Republic of Udmurtia 1st of March, bus drivers in a wildcat strike in Tambov 1st of March, Anti-war festival "Krik" in Moscow 14th of February, Chernobyl victims protest in Krasnoyarsk, firemen and police are deprived exemption from army (we are not sorry for the pigs though!). Page 19: Workers of Yasnogorsk car plant protest against lockout, 60 inhabitants of a collapsing dormatory begin a hungerstrike in Samara, 11 soldiers in Ingushetia announce that officers attempt to force them to subscribe a professional contract, and that they will desert if they are sent to serve in Chechnya, 1000 mothers of Beslan demonstrate without permission in Vladikavkaz with a slogan "terrorism of governement is worse than Al-Qaida". Murmansk anarchists are sued after organising a breakout march from a protest against abolition of free social benefits 23rd of January. (see http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jan/ainfos00376.html for English report) More summary: http://www.ainfos.ca/05/apr/ainfos00434.html Head of Beslan Teachers' Committee Arrested in Moscow for Supporting Khodorkovsky Created: 18.05.2005 11:40 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 11:40 MSK MosNews A prominent Russian public figure, the head of the teachers committee of the town of Beslan, where terrorists took a whole school hostage in September last year, was detained by Moscow police on Tuesday for taking part in the protest rally against the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Ekho Moskvy radio reports. The radio station reported that Vissarion Aseyev, was detained on Tuesday, May 17 and taken to a local police station. It was the second time in as many days that Mr. Aseyev had been detained - on May 16 he was detained near the court building for demonstrating in support of the former Yukos chief and later released. The Gazeta.Ru internet site quoted another human rights activist as saying that Aseyev was beaten during detention.Tatiana Karpova, a co-chairwoman of the regional public organization Nord-Ost that helps Beslan siege victims, told the Web site that Aseyev, who was wounded in Beslan, had fallen victim not only to terrorism, but also to state terrorism. Karpova said that Aseyev was in Moscow on the invitation of the Nord Ost organization to take part in the second "No to Terror " festival on May 14. Yukos Court Protesters Report Police Brutality Created: 17.05.2005 12:08 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 12:08 MSK MosNews A protest rally by Mikhail Khodorkovsky supporters near a Moscow court on Monday ended in clashes with law enforcers, with police detaining participants indiscriminately, opposition leader Sergei Mitrokhin told the press. He complained that the protesters had been beaten by police. Deputy leader of the liberal Yabloko party, Sergei Mitrokhin said that about thirty minutes after the rally sanctioned by the city hall ended policemen began detaining people. In comments for the Ekho Moskvy radio station Mitrokhin said that the rally had been officially sanctioned by the city authorities. "Permission was valid until 14-00 [Moscow time]. At 14-00 we folded up all our banners and stopped shouting slogans. People started slowly to disperse. At that moment, they [police] began grabbing people and dragging them to a [police] van. They grabbed me too. I was dragged to the van, with my head banging against the van. Then they handcuffed me to the van and started kicking me. Then they beat up women while pushing them into the vans." Mitrokhin said that afterwards he had all the injuries he had suffered confirmed by medical staff at a first aid center. Ilya Yashin, head of Yabloko's youth wing, said that altogether the police detained about 20 people. They were charged with disobedience to police and participation in an unsanctioned rally. On Tuesday, however, the charges against the Khodorkovsky supporters were dropped by a Moscow court, Gazeta.ru reported. Protest leaders Garry Kasparov and Sergei Mitrokhin said, citing the judge, that the case had fallen apart in court as the prosecutors failed to produce any evidence of guilt. SAKHALIN YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, July 1 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's northern indigenous peoples ended on Friday a three-day protest against the oil majors (Itar-Tass) MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: Peasants picket Russian embassy in Kishinev over movement interference by Transnistrian regime http://www.azi.md/news?ID=34168 http://www.azi.md/print/34168/En UKRAINE: Unusual piggy protest by farmers http://en.for-ua.com/news/?id=1324 BELARUS: Belarus Riot Police Break up Peaceful Rally for Missing Journalist Created: 08.07.2005 15:32 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 15:40 MSK MosNews Riot police have dispersed a peaceful rally held in the Belarus capital Minsk in memory of Russian journalist Dmitriy Zavadskiy who went missing in Belarus five years ago. Russia's First Channel television reported that special purpose OMON police troops had been used to break up the rally, which had not been sanctioned but was peaceful in nature. One of the policemen hit Zavadskiy's wife Svetlana in the face. The woman was admitted to hospital with head injuries on Thursday evening. Dmitry Zavadsky, a citizen of Belarus who worked as a cameraman for Russia's Channel One television, went missing in Belarus in July 2000. In 2002 Belarus authorities charged two police officers with Zavadsky's kidnapping and sentenced them to life in prison. http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/07/08/zavadskyriot.shtml Police attack opposition rally in Minsk http://www.data.minsk.by/belarusnews/092005/37.html Russians, Ukrainians and Belarussians jailed for Chernobyl commemoration http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1719 LATVIA: Gay pride goes ahead - but comes under attack http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2050 ALBANIA: Protest over historical ethnic cleansing cuts short Greek PM's visit http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4397470.stm ROMANIA: Postal strike begins http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/4/18/latest/20050418182539&sec=Latest BULGARIA: Teachers organise protests over education quality http://www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=46842 Locals and environmentalists protest at EBRD office over ecocidal project http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=47904 Trade unionists prepare to blockade parliament http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=49927 Blockade of landfill site, before vicious attack by police Residents locked in homes by riot pigs as cops occupy village to smash blockade http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00200.html Pictures: http://bulgaria.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4011/index.php Blockades hit rubbish dumps near Sofia http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/article_1029268.php/Garbage_accumulates_in_Sofia_as_landfill_protest_continues MACEDONIA: Dancers stage embassy protest after bizarre visa ordeal Similar events occur in Bulgaria and Ukraine http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_objectid=15705051&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=we-are-going-to-register-our-protest-in-the-only-way-we-know-name_page.html CROATIA: Successful campaign against experiments on beagles http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1997 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2017 SERBIA: Workers at trade union strike in unpaid wages dispute http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/lab-m20.shtml Hague detainee stages hunger strike http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2752 BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: Farmers stage 20-day protest outside government building http://www.fena.ba/uk/vijest.html?fena_id=FSA281750&rubrika=ES http://www.fena.ba/uk/vijest.html?fena_id=FSA282181&rubrika=ES Hundreds protest at US embassy over Guantanamo detentions http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7720 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7375 Human rights protesters target US http://www.fena.ba/uk/vijest.html?fena_id=FSA262533&rubrika=ES KOSOVA: Serbs protect bottle-thrower from UN goons, stage demo to block pursuit http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/07/0e2462d4-c94d-4b4d-849a-33335b97c9d9.html Ethnic Serbs rally to protest killings of youths, call for minority rights http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.201754522&par=0 Ethnic Kosovars protest for independence ahead of Kosova-Serbia talks http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-09-29-voa27.cfm POLAND: Workers protest against exploitation by French bosses; throw stuff at French embassy http://www.eupolitix.com/EN/News/200507/872b5e95-56e2-42ee-84be-51a9f6f3dbfd.htm http://euobserver.com/?sid=9&aid=19590 Ongoing protests in Bialystock target racism, fascism, and Lukashenko of Belarus http://www.ainfos.ca/05/aug/ainfos00049.html Anarchist Mayday events in Lodz, Czestochowa http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00071.html http://pl.indymedia.org/pl/2005/05/13483.shtml Massive worker protests on Mayday http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4238 Gay pride march in Warsaw - fascists attack, anti-fascists respond http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00186.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00185.html http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6759 Solidarity protesters demand release of Italian anarchists http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00376.html Leftists, anarchists disrupt mainstream Mayday events http://www.radio.com.pl/polonia/article.asp?tId=22398 Strike broken by hiring Finnish crews http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/article/1101978971324 HUNGARY: Massive Critical Mass ride in Budapest http://www.indymedia.org/en/2005/09/825163.shtml CZECH REPUBLIC: Privatisation of flats draws protests http://cbw.cz/phprs/2005051609.html Mayday happening on Haymarket history A happening on the history of Haymarket was performed on Mayday by FA-Praga and friends. It followed a Food Not Bombs meal made by the Warsaw FNB team. Some pictures were posted on indymedia: http://pl.indymedia.org/pl/2005/05/13525.shtml Wage deal averts strike at Skoda http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=motoringSummary&storyID=700862 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ldxar1 at tesco.net Mon Nov 21 21:18:52 2005 From: ldxar1 at tesco.net (Andy) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:18:52 -0000 Subject: [Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - Africa Message-ID: <020c01c5ef24$5322fc30$0202a8c0@WOL> SENEGAL: Opposition protesters march against repression http://www.reuters.co.za/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp;:425cc9b2:a8168b6e5be84f76?type=topNews&localeKey=en_ZA&storyID=8164963 GUINEA-BISSAU: Police fire tear gas at marchers http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L17687281.htm Police in Guinea-Bissau fired teargas on Tuesday to stop hundreds of supporters of an ousted former ruler, as the interim leader said the country risked sinking into political chaos. Hundreds of supporters gathered outside the house of Kumba Yalla, who was ousted as leader in a bloodless coup in 2003 but says he is still the rightful head of state and declared himself president at the weekend. GUINEA-BISSAU: Opposition protests military rule, supports deposed president http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-05-22-voa21.cfm GHANA: Graduate teachers strike "for respect" http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/1 Ongoing conflict over fate of air workers http://www.accra-mail.com/mailnews.asp?id=13507 Poultry farmers march for fair trade http://april2005.org/media/events/gh_coopdetat.html Wildcat gold strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/sep2005/euro-s02.shtml Graduate teachers on strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/euro-j10.shtml Stevedores protest over poor conditions http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/lab-m20.shtml SIERRA LEONE: Workers protest at power company head office over layoffs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/24 BENIN: Youths stage nude protest over political arrest http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/38 TOGO: Journalists protest beating of reporter http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3078 LIBERIA: Telecom workers protest over bid announcement delay, salary arrears http://allafrica.com/stories/200504130727.html Protesters stage sit-in outside Finance Ministry to protest corruption http://liberianobserver.com/about_liberia/finance_protest.html Civil service strike over salary arrears http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/37 Striking civil servants refuse to return to work http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/euro-j15.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j08.shtml Election workers on go-slow http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m27.shtml Telecom workers set up blockades http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/euro-a22.shtml Soldiers loot barracks over unpaid wages http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2005/06/mil-050615-irin03.htm MAURITANIA: Protests against visit by Israeli foreign minister http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10816&Itemid=1 MALI: Protest over beating of journalist http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/other_news/&articleid=245241 NIGER: Deal ends VAT protests - tax revoked, protesters freed http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4464287.stm General strike called off as opposition seeks talks http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=46466&SelectRegion=West_Africa&SelectCountry=NIGER NIGERIA: Electricity strike could disrupt supply http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/5 Protesters defy ban and hold pro-secession rally http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/05/16/nigeria.rally.ap/ Judicial strike over state interference ends http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/26 Steel workers take action over severance pay http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/34 100 arrested and others injured at Biafra separatist march http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=47033 Crackdown on secessionist movement - 53 held for "treasonous" football tournament http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=46717 Doctors strike against overwork in Ibadan http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wrks-j22.shtml Steelworkers take industrial action http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/euro-j15.shtml Media workers and tanker drivers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/euro-m06.shtml Doctors strike for promised raise http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/euro-a22.shtml Mass protest over fuel prices http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/&articleid=250991 Unrest in Ilorin - cop killed during clashes, cops murder protester in retaliation http://www.tribune.com.ng/260905/news03.htm http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/cover/october05/03102005/f303102005.html Soldiers burn down police HQ in unrest in Lagos http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3085 Biafra separatists stage protests despite repression http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3067 Protest and strike movement by oil and gas workers begins http://allafrica.com/stories/200504041011.html http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/cover/april05/29042005/f229042005.html http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/cover/april05/27042005/f227042005.html ETHIOPIA: Protests planned and banned after contested election http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=10237 Soldiers blockade road in pay protest http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/07/03/ethiopia.soldiers.ap/ Government bans anti-poverty campaign rally http://www.pambazuka.org/index.php?id=27982 CAMEROON: Laid-off workers stage sit-down outside PM's office over unpaid dues http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/27 Teachers stage demonstrations over corrupt appointment practices http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/29 CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE: Strike, protests by telecom workers over unpaid wages http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=47412&SelectRegion=Great_Lakes&SelectCountry=CONGO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/3 Telecom workers stage strikes and demonstrations over unpaid wages http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j03.shtml BURUNDI: Displaced people end protest after resettlement deal http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6EX4Q5?OpenDocument KENYA: Law students protest new compulsory courses http://allafrica.com/stories/200504150058.html Hospital strike causes crisis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/6 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/7 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/8 Bombing survivors stage hunger strike in protest for compensation http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/18 Demonstrations over hijacking of constitution http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1991 Protests over Thai wildlife deal http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2117 Civil servants sacked, sued over strike http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=25078 Go-slow at airport duty-free over pay discrepancies between locals and expats http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=245140&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/ Football match highlights global inequality http://april2005.org/media/events/ke_footie.html Land occupations speed up pressure for redistribution http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20216.htm Workers suspended after strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j08.shtml Bus workers storm company HQ - attacked by cops http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/lab-j17.shtml Disastrous end to civil service strike - strikers sacked, demonstrations attacked http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/euro-j10.shtml Health workers strike for pay rise http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m27.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m13.shtml Tea plantation workers strike over pay http://allafrica.com/stories/200504041058.html http://allafrica.com/stories/200504080054.html Civil servants strike over pay http://allafrica.com/stories/200504290952.html UGANDA: School admin overhauled after students stage sit-down strike http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/4 UGANDA: Students Riot Over School Director AllAfrica.com - Africa Some students of Ombachi Management Vocational Institute have rioted against their director of poor administration. Youths protest at parliament against Museveni term extension http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/17 workers strike for unpaid wages http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j01.shtml Strike by rail workers ends http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/euro-a22.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/labr-a15.shtml Opposition demonstrations attacked by police as unrest over presidential term extension continues http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2005/June/theworld_June698.xml§ion=theworld&col= ZAMBIA: Council workers stage sit-in http://allafrica.com/stories/200504120188.html Shopworkers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j01.shtml Nurses strike; civil servants end strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/euro-m06.shtml Civil servants take national strike action http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/wkrs-a29.shtml Agricultural workers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a05.shtml Protest against constitutional changes http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3138 Police intimidation forestalls demonstration over fuel prices http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3134 Council strike spreads http://allafrica.com/stories/200504250447.html MOZAMBIQUE: Strike by Wackenhut security guards http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/22 Hotel workers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j01.shtml Cotton workers strike to demand unpaid wages http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/lab-j17.shtml Opposition activists stage naked protest over alleged election fraud http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4708497.stm Sappers strike over unpaid wages, conditions http://allafrica.com/stories/200504120365.html ZIMBABWE: Doctors strike over fuel shortages http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j08.shtml Junior doctors, printers and packagers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a05.shtml Hotel workers organise sleep-in in canteen in protest over pay http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a19.shtml MDC hold fuel price protest http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4315180.stm Labour protesters arrested http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3187 5 Bulawayo Students Injured By Riot Police Zimbabwe Standard (Harare) July 17, 2005 Posted to the web July 18, 2005 Adrian Nel, Bulawayo Five students were seriously injured on Monday when armed anti-riot police broke up a peaceful demonstration over late payment of grants and deteriorating conditions at the Bulawayo Polytechnic campus. More than 2 000 students took part in the demonstration. The injured students, three males and two females, were taken to the United Bulawayo Hospitals, where they were treated and later discharged. Bulawayo Polytechnic SRC secretary general, Briton Gudhlanga, said the students' union was surprised by the attack on the peaceful demonstration. Gudhlanga said they subsequently put the demonstration on ice to allow the authorities to address some of the issues raised by the students. http://allafrica.com/stories/200507180653.html BOTSWANA: Workers plan mass protests against Debswana sackings http://www.mmegi.bw/2005/May/Wednesday25/593976348561.html Workers protest for labour protection http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m27.shtml NAMIBIA: Workers sacked for striking http://www.namibian.com.na/2005/May/national/05B2223584.html Leader heads off Namibian municipal workers' protest http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/16 Brewers protest job cuts http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/32 Teachers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/euro-a26.shtml Hardware workers stand up for colleague and get fired over wildcat strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/lab-m20.shtml Metal workers and teachers launch industrial actions http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/euro-a22.shtml Strike demands reinstatement of sacked activist http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/wkrs-a29.shtml Labour dispute at textile company http://allafrica.com/stories/200504280039.html LESOTHO: Textile workers to strike over pay http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/31 SWAZILAND: Civil servants strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j01.shtml SOUTH AFRICA: Miners stay underground to protest mine sale plan http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000081&sid=aADqamRxbdKQ&refer=australia Nurses' pyjama protest continues - escalation threatened if participants are punished http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=594&art_id=qw1113575220152B241 Taxi drivers protest at West Cape legislature http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/zones/sundaytimesNEW/newsst/newsst1113569784.aspx March against privatisation in Cape Town - clashes with cops http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/&articleid=238622 http://www.sabcnews.co.za/economy/labour/0,2172,104618,00.html Councillors promise investigations after workers protest infringements http://www.theherald.co.za/herald/2005/05/23/news/n19_23052005.htm http://www.theherald.co.za/herald/2005/05/20/news/n12_20052005.htm More conflicts ahead as COSATU confronts ANC http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Politics/0,,2-7-12_1712892,00.html Fisherfolk chain themselves to parliament in protest against government policies http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20050530071218854C677188 Strikers dismissed in northwest vehicle components factory dispute - workers demand salary increases http://www.sabcnews.co.za/economy/labour/0,2172,105287,00.html Transkei Uni in crisis as strike continues http://www.dispatch.co.za/2005/05/19/Easterncape/aalead.html http://www.dispatch.co.za/2005/05/24/Easterncape/aclass.html Two teachers stage sit-in at official's office to demand unpaid salaries http://www.theherald.co.za/herald/2005/05/26/news/n21_26052005.htm Teachers lock-out head http://www.witness.co.za/content/2005_05/34153.htm Volkswagen workers return to work after deal http://www.sabcnews.co.za/economy/labour/0,2172,105036,00.html http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=&fArticleId=2524291 http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/&articleid=237993 http://www.finance24.com/articles/companies/display_article.asp?Nav=ns&lvl2=comp&ArticleID=1518-24_1703572 Health workers march over problems in KwaZulu-Natal http://www.witness.co.za/content/2005_05/33993.htm Transport workers march against corruption http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/crime1justice/0,2172,101412,00.html Deal ends week-long Harmony Gold strike http://www.reuters.co.za/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp;:4253f70e:3a6cfd9c2a9a5342?type=businessNews&localeKey=en_ZA&storyID=8103424 http://www.finance24.com/articles/default/display_article.asp?Nav=ns&ArticleID=1518-24_1685753 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4417549.stm http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=200964&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/ http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=569&fArticleId=2473397 http://www.finance24.com/articles/companies/display_article.asp?Nav=ns&lvl2=comp&ArticleID=1518-24_1686452 Residents stage sit-in to demand jobs http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1685099,00.html Municipal workers launch nationwide protest movement http://www.finance24.com/articles/default/display_article.asp?Nav=ns&ArticleID=1518-25_1686183 Coalminers stage underground protest over lack of retrenchment payments http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=594&art_id=qw111297024124B241 http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1688204,00.html http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=214910&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/ http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000081&sid=aADqamRxbdKQ&refer=australia http://www.sabcnews.co.za/economy/labour/0,2172,101849,00.html Textile workers put pressure on retailers to address sweatshop conditions http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=46662&SelectRegion=Southern_Africa&SelectCountry=SOUTH_AFRICA Public sector workers demonstrate as talks break down http://www.theherald.co.za/herald/2005/04/27/news/n06_27042005.htm Pretoria teachers strike over 60-plus classes http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=215047&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/ Bus strike continues; stranded commuters torch bus http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4468481.stm Deal ends bus strike http://www.sabcnews.co.za/economy/labour/0,2172,102698,00.html Demonstrations outside court as landlords target squatters http://southafrica.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/8015.php http://southafrica.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/7980.php http://southafrica.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/8095.php Armed clashes after political group storm union blockade http://allafrica.com/stories/200504251020.html Taxi drivers stage blockade over impoundings http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=qw1116331382627B232 Nurses stage pyjama-clad protest over uniform allowances http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7503528/ http://iafrica.com/news/sa/201202.htm http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1693249,00.html Protests against impounding of taxis in Johannesburg http://iafrica.com/news/sa/663421.htm Tens of thousands strike against unemployment and poverty http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4625135.stm School students begin agitation against language discrimination http://www.capetimes.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=271&fArticleId=2622779 Hungry mineworkers blockade road http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=244689&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/ Municipal workers protest over pay http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=245207&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/ Strike at Pick 'n' Pay supermarket http://www.finance24.com/articles/companies/display_article.asp?Nav=ns&lvl2=comp&ArticleID=1518-24_1741798 http://www.sabcnews.com/economy/labour/0,2172,108840,00.html http://www.finance24.com/articles/companies/display_article.asp?Nav=ns&lvl2=comp&ArticleID=1518-24_1741771 http://www.sabcnews.com/economy/labour/0,2172,108831,00.html http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20050726070538587C341403 http://www.finance24.com/articles/companies/display_article.asp?ArticleID=1518-24_1743304 http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20050724101314300C234522 http://www.sabcnews.com/economy/labour/0,2172,108851,00.html Pick 'n' Pay protesters demonstrate inside stores http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20050727071402960C483563 http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=594&art_id=qw1122119822375B241 http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=246124&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/ http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=594&art_id=vn20050715102708728C455045 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/19 Protests continue outside courts as workers are tried http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=594&art_id=qw1122303781352B263 Strikes at Pick 'n' Pay, KFC and SAA airline http://www.theherald.co.za/herald/2005/07/26/news/n10_26072005.htm COSATU considers Pick 'n' Pay solidarity boycott http://www.sabcnews.com/economy/labour/0,2172,109098,00.html Chrome workers stage strike http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=&fArticleId=2642232 Air strike hits airlines; pay deal is eventually reached http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/07/28/4006913 http://www.sabcnews.com/economy/labour/0,2172,109217,00.html http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=qw1122538685934B241 http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=129&fArticleId=2642827 http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=246123&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/ http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=594&art_id=qw112201524059B241 http://www.finance24.com/articles/companies/display_article.asp?Nav=ns&lvl2=comp&ArticleID=1518-24_1741824 http://www.finance24.com/articles/companies/display_article.asp?Nav=ns&lvl2=comp&ArticleID=1518-24_1741785 http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=qw112201524059B241 http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=246048&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/ http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=594&art_id=qw1122006961173B241 http://news.airwise.com/story/view/1122296880.html http://www.sabcnews.com/economy/business/0,2172,109087,00.html http://www.finance24.com/articles/companies/display_article.asp?Nav=ns&lvl2=comp&ArticleID=1518-24_1743170 http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=qw1122292083105B241 http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20050725084423310C432881 http://iafrica.com/news/sa/464627.htm http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20050724101314300C234522 http://www.sabcnews.com/economy/business/0,2172,108878,00.html http://www.sabcnews.com/economy/business/0,2172,108938,00.html http://www.finance24.com/articles/companies/display_article.asp?Nav=ns&lvl2=comp&ArticleID=2-7-1442_1742414 http://www.finance24.com/articles/default/display_article.asp?Nav=ns&ArticleID=1518-24_1742092 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/21 Municipal workers march for pay hike http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=qw1121163663910B236 Workers injured after boss opens fire http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/wkrs-a29.shtml Striking chrome workers attacked by goons http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a05.shtml Tollgate strike ends in deal http://www.sabcnews.com/economy/labour/0,2172,109122,00.html Unpaid teachers strike http://www.witness.co.za/content/2005_07/35629.htm ANC goons attack anti-privatisation meeting http://www.apf.org.za/article.php3?id_article=90 Workers protest at hospital over mismanagement and pay issues http://www.apf.org.za/article.php3?id_article=91 Demo at local government summit http://www.apf.org.za/article.php3?id_article=92 Counter-mobilisations in Kliptown target government betrayals http://www.apf.org.za/article.php3?id_article=105 "People's Inspection" in Alexandria http://www.apf.org.za/article.php3?id_article=107 Viljoenskroen (Free State) residents march over housing http://www.apf.org.za/article.php3?id_article=108 Victory in steelworkers' strike http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2162 Strike wave in South Africa http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/08/11southafrica.html http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/28southafrica.html Residents in Vygrond, Valhalla Park and elsewhere march for services and against evictions http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?3,69,3,697 Taxi blockade to protest impoundings http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=181&art_id=vn20050518075202192C916492 200 protest against political prosecution http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?3,69,3,708 Housing protests in Gugulethu, Khayelitsha - burning tyres block roads http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?3,69,3,706 http://www.laborsmilitantvoice.com/feaSAupdate.htm Kennedy Road land and housing march http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?3,69,3,696 Bayview rally against eviction plan http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?2,40,5,777 Resistance heads off squat evictions in Johannesburg http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050804112537874 Analysis of miners' strike http://www.laborsmilitantvoice.com/feaSAstrike.htm http://www.fifthinternational.org/index.php?id=14,106,0,0,1,0 http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7121 Police harass Jubilee 2000 demo http://www.finance24.com/articles/companies/display_article.asp?Nav=ns&lvl2=comp&ArticleID=1518-24_1716091 Cosatu protests sedition charges against protesters http://www.pambazuka.org/index.php?id=28411 Huge strike in gold mines http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/08/08/6386419 Durban protesters march on councillor, demand resignation http://uganda.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/05/17/people_power_topple_a_government_official.html Strike wave http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4683 Strike in glass industry http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/euro-j15.shtml Auto component workers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j08.shtml One-day strike against poverty http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/safr-j01.shtml Metcash retail workers strike over redundancies http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/sep2005/euro-s02.shtml Furniture workers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/euro-a26.shtml Toll operators strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/lab-j17.shtml Rail and tyre workers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/euro-j10.shtml Mass sickies at South African fire station http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j03.shtml Hundreds protest return of Barclays, former apartheid allies http://www.forbes.com/finance/feeds/afx/2005/05/29/afx2063211.html http://www.politinfo.com/articles/article_2005_05_28_1821.html Police shoot at protesters demanding councillors resign amid typhoid outbreak http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4269370.stm Hawkers revolt, overturning stalls in protest over bans http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1713479,00.html Fisherfolk blockade parliament http://www.themercury.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=282&fArticleId=2539326 Students protest over mistreatment of minorities at Stellenbosch university http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=105&art_id=vn20050729065514193C625650 Clashes with cops over looting of derailed beer train http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1760383,00.html Dissidents in ANC hold protest over internal repression http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/&articleid=253784 Strike and protest over job losses and unemployment in Gauteng, North West http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=13&art_id=qw1128936241108B241&set_id= Traders in Johannesburg protest over alleged malpractice by council; stalls closed as strike called http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=253287&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/ Student revolt at Zululand university over alleged election rigging http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1824321,00.html Police attack protest over municipal boundaries http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1827906,00.html SOUTH AFRICA Indymedia in Cape Town and WOSA celebrate May Day CAPE TOWN, 30 APRIL AND 1 MAY 2005 - Indymedia South Africa and WOSA (Workers Organisation for Socialist Action) are celebrating International Workers' Day with two events in Vrygrond on the May Day weekend. On Saturday 30 April from 11am, grafitti artists will gather on the corner of Vrygrond Avenue and Drury Road to create an artwork celebrating struggles through the centuries. Come along, bring refreshments and music and join the fun! And then on Sunday 1 May there will be an event of talks, drama, dance and poetry in the Green Church in Church Circle, from 2pm till 5pm. Everyone is invited, and transport home will be provided for those who need it. Food and drinks on sale. For more info, contact Indymedia on: 084 687 5863. http://www.themercury.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=283&fArticleId=2524918 Traders protest after crackdown May 18, 2005 By Philani Makhanya Hundreds of informal traders yesterday pitted themselves against Metro Police in Durban during an angry protest against the city's latest campaign to clean up the pavements and eliminate over-trading in the central business district. About 300 informal traders protested outside the Durban City Hall after the Metro Police confiscated their goods and removed them from the streets. Scores of illegal traders have been removed from Field, Smith and West streets this week as police have accelerated the enforcement of street trading bylaws. The protest against the city's enforcement of bylaws fuelled speculation that the illegal traders were attempting to undermine the work done to introduce 50 Metro Police auxiliary constables who would police the informal sector. Lindiwe Mahlangu, the head of the city's Business Support Unit, was adamant, however, that the city would introduce the constables, who were expected to begin work next month. They would clamp down on informal traders who disregarded bylaws by trading in areas not designated for informal trading. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ldxar1 at tesco.net Mon Nov 21 21:19:03 2005 From: ldxar1 at tesco.net (Andy) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:19:03 -0000 Subject: [Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - Western Europe Message-ID: <021601c5ef24$59e38030$0202a8c0@WOL> CYPRUS: Air strike hits services http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2005/07/08/afx2130074.html Truckers clash with scabs during strike, and police attack pickets http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=20954&cat_id=1 GREECE: Public sector workers hold 24-hour strike for contracts http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=527813 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j01.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/euro-j29.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/lab-j17.shtml http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/28greece.html http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/06/23/3828012 http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2005/404/index.html?id=pp6.htm http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6757 Civil servants strike against government policies http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/lab-m20.shtml Air traffic controllers hold four-hour strike http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2005/05/18/afx2037118.html Air strike over privatisation plans http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/18/news/travel19.html Flight attendants strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/euro-a22.shtml Police attack bank workers' protest http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a19.shtml Anarchists occupy Cervantes Institute and march on embassy in protest against attacks in Italy and Greece http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1869 http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/99 http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/124 Pictures http://athens.indymedia.org/display.php?articleId=2476 http://athens.indymedia.org/display.php?articleId=2448 Mass ecological march targets genetic modification http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1867 Shop owners and workers stage blockades over opening hours bill http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=3160375&maindocimg=3158772&service=100 Union calls strike against labour "reforms" http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100006_20/07/2005_58822 http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/26/news/greece.php http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=46000&version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21 Striking bank workers resist as police attack picket lines http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100012_17/08/2005_59700 Strike on Olympic Air grounds flights http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/07/26/olympic.strike.reut/ Mayday protests occur - later than usual http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00138.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00181.html http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/05/10/6775943 Hunger strike by Turkish anarchist refugee http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00467.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00283.html http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/64 CCTVs sabotaged in wave of action http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/142 http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/76 http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/113 Anarchists torch cars in Athens http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/29 Banks targeted by anarchists http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/99 Benetton torched http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/104 Police start scuffles by attacking picket line during bank strike http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050817120423653 Public sector strike - especially strong among dockers http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/06/29/0347792 Bank workers strike over pension cuts http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6928/692854.html A group of about 20 youths threw more than 10 firebombs at riot police in Kaningos Square, in central Athens, during the early hours of yesterday morning. Nobody was injured in the attack and there was no damage caused. The youths made off into surrounding streets before police could make any arrests. http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100016_25/06/2005_57874 PORTUGAL National workers' strike against neoliberal budget http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4685459.stm Anarchists join mass socialist Mayday event http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00036.html Teachers' strike http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00405.html Public workers strike to oppose spending cuts http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wrks-j22.shtml Farmers protest for drought relief http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4290670.stm Arraial invades the streets of Lisbon In quarrel - 27-04-2005 to the 01:43:49 In the Sunday, 24 of April, the streets of Lisbon had been day surprised by aleg?ricos cars, high music and glad people, rare things nowadays. The objective one was simple: to invert the orders of the game, at least for one day, and to demonstrate that the streets belong to those who use them. The party, without any legal authorization, was since its beginning followed for agents of the PSP that, however, had been incapable of impeding it. According to stories of some of the participants, one of the policies will have relieved that they existed in that zone exaggerated cameras that could film an eventual load police... and thus the witchcraft turned over against the wizard. Although some unexpected stoppings, the passage occurred in party, without any bigger vicissitudes. For the way, some banking institutions and store of telecommunication had been citizens to a symbolic redecoration, that joining ink to the words, made poetry on montras. After about three hours of stroll, the arraial was desmobilizou espontaneamente in the Martim Moniz. This initiative constitutes the alive test of that the authorities, although more powerful, they are not invincible: a policy does not leave of being a simple person who, such as any another one, feels fear and impotence before what it exceeds its capacity of control. In the deep one, everything will be able to be ours, if to want. BASQUE COUNTRY: Protesters defy ban to stage protest against repressive laws http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/bata-a25.shtml SPAIN Protests before and during bull run in Pamplona http://www.canada.com/travel/story.html?id=10ebfdc2-5ba6-4b15-b20c-7bf7a64356ad http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=745212005 http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw1120575421509B215&set_id= http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0706-08.htm Strike by anarchist union at AUSSA breakdown van service in Seville http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00063.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00115.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00462.html http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2005081903075625 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050709090302172 Solidarity demo: Photos http://www.cnt.es/sevilla/fotos/thumbnails.php?album=30&page=1 Videos http://www.nodo50.org/cnt/sevilla/ait/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=23 Barcelona solidarity with Italian anarchist prisoners http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/103 35,000 mink liberated http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050817191801635 Hundreds protest deportation of Africans into the Moroccan desert http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B2CF69F40-972C-4A52-AE7A-CE8F56A62612%7D)&language=EN Once again, the civil inspectors entered the NATO base of B?tera (Spain) 14 de mayo de 2005 Civil inspectors entered the base near Valencia but inmediately were expelled by the police Similarly to what happened the last two years, a group of inspectors crossed the wire fences of the future headquarter of the NATO Response Force in order to claim for its closure and return to the population, inspite of a strong deployment of police forces. More than one hundred civil inspectors left on saturday morning the village of B?tera to undertake the walk to the headquarter of the NATOs Rapid Reaction Force, which lies at a distance of 4 km. The participants were equipped with white coats, signs (showing slogans as "CLOSE DOWN THE BASE", "RETURN THE BASE", "NATO OUT"), prismatics, cameras, questionnaires and, as a special feature this year, with magnifying glasses in order to carry out their investigation. During the march of about one hour the group has been accompanied by a strong deployment of the Guardia Civil (military security forces), that consisted in a large number of police vehicles, motorbikes, dozens of officers and dogs. Not to forget a helicopter that several times passed closely to the ground and even landed on a roundabout near the headquarter, only some meters away from the march. Some officers intended to impede the advance of the group on the road leading to the base, arguing that they were "waiting for instructions", but the inspectores passed them quite easily. About 12'30 a.m. the march, that at this time had a lenght of about 100m, crossed the road and started walking directly beside the headquarter's fence. Some minutes later they reached the place where the entrance was to happen, near to the fences of the main installations of the base. Inspite of the presence of the riot police inside and outside the base and of the helicopter just a few meters above the inspectors' heads, the fourteen inspectors in charge of carrying out the inspection of the interior of the base, managed to cross the wire fences and entered the military site. During these moments it could be seen that the officers were acting with more brutality that in former editions of this action, threatening the participants with their truncheons, pushing them violently and even grabbing their necks. The persons that had entered the base did not manage to advance in direction of the main installations on accounts of the expeditiuos conduct of the riot police, that after surrounding and concentrating the group on a small spot forced them to sit down using in several cases painful immovilizing techniques. The officers that were present in the interior of the military site refused to answer any of the questions of the questionnaires that the inspectors carried with them and that treated topics such as the presence of weapons of mass destruction, uranium ammunition and cluster bombs at the NATO base. In a few minutes, and even without sufficient time to take their arab tea, the fourteen inspectors were identified and expelled, carrying them one by one over a hole in the fence to the outside. None of them was arrested. In the exterior, the other inspectors sang and threw flowers in honor of the potential victims of this offensive military installation. As we were told by the inspectors team, "once again the secretism and the opacity of the military affairs has been visible: As we could not carry out the intended mission of observation we will return next year. Nevertheless we were able to confirm that it is an installation that produces and stores violence, insecurity and fear, and that has the capacity to project them to any place in the world. As we don't want to be part of a global war in that everyone of us is a potential victim, we reclaim the dismantling of these and the other military installations. In the meanwhile we will do everything possible to obstruct and impede their functioning by means of disobedience and nonviolent action. For now we leave quite pleased, because our action supposed a hindrance to the normal functioning of this war installation for quite a while". The proposal that they make with their action is obvious: "immediate closure of the installation, return of 100% of the land to the village of B?tera for social and ecologic use, as an extension of the Natural Parc "La Sierra Calderona" and as a center of environmental observation and protection (using of the buildings and the military helicopters)". Photos: http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/178841/index.php Press (spanish): http://www.nodo50.org/tortuga/article.php3?id_article=1860 Palestinians deported after Nativity siege persecuted - relatives protest http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/04/content_2785738.htm MALTA: Greenpeace protest causes stir over environmental aspects of shipping http://www.di-ve.com/dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=179777 VATICAN: Sexual abuse victims protest at Vatican mass http://www.freep.com/news/religion/pope12e_20050412.htm http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/11/world/main687210.shtml ITALY: METALWORKERS: TRADE UNIONS CALL 10 HOURS OF STRIKE (AGI) - Rome, Italy, May 12 - Fiom-Fim and Uilm trade unions called 10 hours of strike. Uil secretary general , Antonino Regazzi, after today's meeting said that the strike was an attempt to unfreeze the negotiation for the contract. Workers will stop working for two hours for an assembly on the contract then they will strike for 4 hours region by region and for other 4 hours locally. The strike proposal will be presented on next May 17 at the next assembly of trade union delegates that will meet after the meeting, scheduled the day before, with Federmeccanica (employers' association).(AGI) - 121923 MAG 05 http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200505121923-1219-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia Transport strike in Italy - air traffic controllers and train drivers strike http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2005-05-13-italy-strike_x.htm?csp=34 Protest over evictions of elderly and vulnerable people http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200505131815-1197-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia Strike hits transport sector http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw1121421961298B234&set_id=3 Cabin staff strike on Alitalia airline http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200507181142-1045-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia Magistrates on strike http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200507141223-1058-RT1-CRO-0-NF82&page=0&id=agionline-eng.italyonline Strike at national statistics bureau over contract stability delays release of data http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?feed=AP&Date=20050713&ID=4959441 A small victory over the Nazis http://www.ainfos.ca/05/apr/ainfos00424.html Political prisoner goes on hunger strike http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8469 Another political prisoner ends hunger strike due to health problems http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=5915 Airline strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/euro-j29.shtml Nationwide transport strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wrks-j22.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j03.shtml Education staff protest http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m13.shtml Actors protest over funding cuts http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3076 Messina fans blockade port over expulsion from Serie A http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aGCbBS.eNKtc&refer=europe Mass unrest in Genoa after punishment of local football club http://www.cbc.ca/story/sports/national/2005/08/09/Sports/genoa050809.html http://www.allheadlinenews.com/cgi-bin/news/newsbrief.plx?id=2247231070&fa=1 Farmers blockade roads, railways in protest over corruption http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200508291204-1041-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200508271250-1042-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia Mayday marches in many cities Milan Mayday prompts criticism http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=it%7Cen&u=http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/783924.php&prev=/language_tools Photos http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=it%7Cen&u=http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/784076.php&prev=/language_tools 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http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=it%7Cen&u=http://italy.indymedia.org/&prev=/language_tools Mayday Abruzzi http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=it%7Cen&u=http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/782888.php&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=it%7Cen&u=http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/782921.php&prev=/language_tools Mayday Naples http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=it%7Cen&u=http://italy.indymedia.org/archives/display_by_id.php%3Ffeature_id%3D2324&prev=/language_tools Mayday in the South of Italy http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=it%7Cen&u=http://italy.indymedia.org/archives/display_by_id.php%3Ffeature_id%3D2322&prev=/language_tools Mayday Milan http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=it%7Cen&u=http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/783555.php&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=it%7Cen&u=http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/783471.php&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=it%7Cen&u=http://www.sconfini.net/modules.php%3Fop%3Dmodload%26name%3DMy_eGallery%26file%3Dindex%26do%3Dshowgall%26gid%3D47&prev=/language_tools Immigrant political prisoners go on hunger strike http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=it%7Cen&u=http://italy.indymedia.org/archives/display_by_id.php%3Ffeature_id%3D2307&prev=/language_tools HOLLAND: Doctors strike against health "reforms" http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=1&story_id=19315&name=Doctors+strike+in+dispute+over+reforms http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=1&story_id=20228&name=Doctors+on+three%2Dday+strikeagainst+healthcare+reforms http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/wkrs-a29.shtml Residents warn of uprising over cannabis cultivation evictions http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=19&story_id=18871&name=Riot+erupts+as+man+admitssexual+abuse+in+TV+show Protests against Bush's visit http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=10807&fcategory_desc=Bush%20Administration%20Lies%20and%20Deceit http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11146 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/08/content_2927548.htm Bush visit protest pics http://indymedia.nl/nl/2005/05/27408.shtml Student protests force backtrack by Dutch government; protesters storm parliament http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/04/30netherlands.html Local government workers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j01.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/lab-j17.shtml Rubbish collectors and road sweepers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a19.shtml Bus strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j03.shtml Doctors strike to oppose government health plans http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m27.shtml HOLLAND: Police nab activists seeking Bush's nuke suitcase --Dutch police arrested six activists on Sunday who said they wanted to enter Dictator Bush's Netherlands hotel and look for the suitcase which allows him to activate nuclear weapons. The activists, carrying binoculars and wearing signs that identified them as "citizen's inspectors," mimicking the International Atomic Energy Agency's weapons inspectors, were caught by Dutch soldiers as they approached Bush's hotel. (CLG, originally Yahoo News) BELGIUM Tens of thousands protest against neoliberal pension "reforms" http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20051028-105621-5747r Transport strike over feared staff cuts http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=24&story_id=20068&name=Trains+and+buses+come+to+a+standstill Public sector workers march for higher pay http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=24&story_id=20682&name=2%2C000+public+workers+march+on+Brussels Signal tower staff strike over rosters http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/euro-a26.shtml Public sector workers march for pay rises http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/euro-j10.shtml Protest at international Iraq conference http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0506190323124202.htm Transport strikes http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/lab-m20.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m13.shtml Caterpillar workers strike and protest, while steelworkers blockade motorway http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=48&story_id=23509&name=Wallonian+workers+strikein+protest+over+fuel+costs Baggage handlers, textile workers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/euro-m06.shtml Solidarity protest to support animal liberation prisoners - police attack protest http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050712021323627 Many flights delayed at Brussels due to trade union action Posted on Friday, July 15, 2005 @ 10:29 AM CEST by sn26567 A union representative of Brussels Airport handling company Flight Care has been fired two days ago. The unions called the dismissal illegal and started a strike this morning. Many flights handled by Flight Care are delayed by 30 to 45 minutes. http://www.luchtzak.be/article9342.html Baggage handlers blockade luggage conveyors http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=24&story_id=19643&name=Angry+baggage+handlers+spark+airport+chaos Bus strike as pay offer rejected http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=24&story_id=19496&name=Bus+strike+in+Wallonia+as+12+cent+rise+rejected Civil servants strike against austerity plans http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=24&story_id=18449&name=30%2C000+Flemish+civil+servants+on+strike Bombspotters http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0418-01.htm 500 Bombspotters arrested during massive citizens inspection of NATO nuclear weapons Brussels, 16th April 2005: 500 bomspotters were arrested by police today after a thousand gathered in Belgium to carry out a citizens nuclear weapons inspection. A massive police presence greeted inspectors from Greenpeace and Bombspotting at NATO- HQ: SHAPE and Kleine Brogel airbase. Greenpeace activists from the six NATO countries currently hosting the 480 nuclear weapons based in Europe: Italy, Germany, Belgium, UK, Turkey and the Netherlands. Greenpeace and Bombspotting are demanding that NATO become a nuclear free alliance. In two weeks the 184 member countries of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty will meet. "They have a clear choice. Either disarmament or a new arms race", said Hans Lammerant, from Bombspotting. "We choose nuclear disarmament! And a necessary step towards nuclear disarmament is the withdrawal of US nuclear weapons from NATO countries, and an end to the role of nuclear weapons in NATO policy." "At a time when key NATO countries are doing so much to encourage Iran to give up its nuclear aspirations, it would be hypocritical for NATO not to do the same", said Nicky Davies, Greenpeace International. "We are part of a growing movement of people who will continue to conduct these inspections of nuclear sites, to bear witness and draw attention to these crimes until the world is free of nuclear weapons." In the year that marks the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, European citizens are demanding disarmament. More on this anti-NATO action: http://www.shropshirestar.com/show_article.php?aID=32104 http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20050417&hn=18555 FRANCE Workers observe holiday abolished by government Millions strike or stay off work on the day to protest the extra day of work http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4551975.stm http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=25&story_id=20090&name=Cancelled+French+holiday+met+by+strikes+and+absenteeism http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4550353.stm http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aWEwt2KynJ_M&refer=europe http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=25&story_id=20075&name=France+braced+for+showdown+Monday+over+axed+holiday+ Rail workers strike over job losses http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/euro-j10.shtml Train drivers strike http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=25&story_id=20658&name=Paris+region+worst+hit+by+national+rail+strike http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4604411.stm http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5837976&cKey=1117714831000 http://www.rmtbristolrail.org.uk/archives/00000142.shtml Mass anti-privatisation protetss http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2005/410/index.html?id=np2.htm http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-10-04-voa46.cfm http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13446966,00.html Striking sailors disrupt channel services http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=25&story_id=19097&name=Striking+French+sailors+disrupt+Channel+ferries Protest for better housing for immigrants after Paris fire http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0827/france.html Strike at Hewlett Packard over job cuts http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=1132559 Total Oil refinery workers strike over cancellation of holiday http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/afx/2005/05/19/afx2040010.html http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050520-112318-2369r.htm National strike protests abolition of day off http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5788174&cKey=1116237022000 http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/05/16/french-holiday050516.html Protesters oppose racist immigration crackdown http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20050515T000000-0500_80503_OBS_HUNDREDS_PROTEST_FRANCE_S_CRACKDOWN_ON_ILLEGAL_IMMIGRANTS.asp CLI Nantes occupied in precarity protest http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://nantes.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D5510&prev=/language_tools Occupation of education ministry followed by mass arrests against school students http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://nantes.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D5612&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://paris.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D35636&prev=/language_tools Mobilisation to support asylum seeker family threatened with eviction http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://nantes.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D5593&prev=/language_tools Kurdish hunger strike in Liege http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://liege.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/4072.php&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://liege.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/4073.php&prev=/language_tools Precarity protesters occupy stock exchange http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://paris.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D36231&prev=/language_tools Housing office occupied to raise pressure over evictions http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://paris.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D36249&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://paris.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D36251&prev=/language_tools Precarity resistance http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://www.marches-contre-precarite.blogspot.com/&prev=/language_tools Calais town hall occupied in migrant precarity protest http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://lille.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D1514&prev=/language_tools Boulougne - protest against repression http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://lille.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D1513&prev=/language_tools Anti-deportation protest in Grenoble http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://squat.net/fr/news/grenoble030505.html&prev=/language_tools Strike, occupation and alternative service used to oppose post office privatisation http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://indygrr.ouvaton.org/index.php%3Fpage%3Darticle%26filtre%3D1%26droiteA%3D1%26numpageA%3D1%26id%3D718&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://indygrr.ouvaton.org/index.php%3Fpage%3Darticle%26filtre%3D1%26numpageA%3D2%26id%3D620&prev=/language_tools Sharon visit protested (pictures) http://paris.indymedia.org/article_propose.php3?id_article=39219 Ferry turned back by striking workers http://www.u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=62717&pt=n French school students oppose governmental control http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/article.php3?id_article=794 Repression against French school student movement http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00287.html "Pink Panthers" and other activists target Catholic fundamentalist march http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00180.html Anti-advertising protest in Paris http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00436.html http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050528132740321 Successful women's march in Marseille http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/article.php3?id_article=841 Transport strike closes down Nantes http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/05/16/3692789 Mayday anti-precarity action in France http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4185 School student movement - vicious state repression http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/lyce-a16.shtml Squatters resist eviction of "dangerous" squats, blockade entrance http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4208018.stm High-school students resist; schools, official buildings occupied http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://lille.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D1357&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://lille.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D1360&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://lille.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D1340&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://lille.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D1322&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://lille.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D1309&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://lille.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D1587&prev=/language_tools Mass occupations across France http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://lille.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D1279&prev=/language_tools "Occupied Faidherbe college Since today Sunday, 18h, the Faidherbe college of Lille east (also) occupied." "montebello is occupied since yesterday evening This Pasteur evening also is occupied thus if you want to spin a blow of hand, come tomorrow morning (7h) to Pasteur" FRANCE: Sharon visit protested "Israel prime-minister, registered murderer Ariel Sharon is welcomed with actions in Paris. On Sunday about 150 people started to march from Barb?s . Activists marched through a very long marching route and when they have reached Opera their number was about 3000.. In several places on Aubervilliers street.. slogans such as Libert? pour tous and black&red revolution, Anarchy in Here were written . we have also added lots of A emblems on the walls." http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050713101850302 GERMANY: Mayday protests in Hamburg, Berlin http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=de%7Cen&u=http://de.indymedia.org/2005/04/111804.shtml&prev=/language_tools Anti-fascist demo in Essen http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=de%7Cen&u=http://de.indymedia.org/2005/04/112050.shtml&prev=/language_tools http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=de%7Cen&u=http://de.indymedia.org/2005/04/112222.shtml&prev=/language_tools Protests over military procession deemed reminiscent of Nazism http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3133 Workers protest at Deutsche Bank meeting over job cuts http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000100&sid=aU6iy7XvZYwI&refer=germany "African village" in German zoo sparks protests http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africaresistance/message/11 Protests against deportation of Kosovars http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1589120,00.html Condom protests during pope's visit http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1740357,00.html Protesters enter military base http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/638/638p14f.htm Heartless goons demolish Checkpoint Charlie memorial http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,2763,1522206,00.html Protesters cut their way into military base, walk around and hang a banner before turning themselves in http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050812111940833 Protesters besiege Nazis; NPD penned in and eventually escorted away http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/05/10/0534490 Doctors strike over pay and conditions http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/euro-m06.shtml Protest against IBM job cuts http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/wkrs-a29.shtml Doctors protest over pay http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a05.shtml Hunger strike at immigration prison http://www.arap.so36.net/prison/riot/riot2005.html Steelworkers stage warning strikes http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=19246&name=West+German+steelworkers+stage+warning+strikes Germans protest against new ruling coalition Posted at 8:16am on 6 Nov 2005 Hundreds of Germans have joined protest marches in Berlin against the new governing coalition, which they fear will cut social welfare spending. Blowing whistles and banging drums, the demonstrators set off from three points in the city, carrying placards urging politicians to fight unemployment and protect pensions and wages. Germany's two main parties are still negotiating the terms for a coalition government, after neither won a clear majority in September's elections. http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/bulletins/radionz/200511060816/276d03e0 AUSTRIA: Innsbruck far-right forum disrupted by anti-fascists http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=de%7Cen&u=http://at.indymedia.org/newswire/display/53833/index.php&prev=/language_tools Mayday protests http://www.fifthinternational.org/index.php?id=14,77,0,0,1,0 Successful student strike for free education http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3015 Campaign to defend autonomous social centre http://www.indymedia.org/en/2005/03/114003.shtml SWITZERLAND: Workers march against poverty, social welfare cuts and immigration crackdowns on Mayday There are also some clashes as anti-Nazis target Nazi demos http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=107&sid=5740990&cKey=1114957165000 Zurich airport taxi drivers strike over pay http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=asoJBuomjiSw&refer=europe http://www.nzz.ch/2005/07/16/eng/article5945953.html http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=111&sid=5945953&cKey=1121437801000 Greenpeace return high-tech waste to Hewlett-Packard http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0523-01.htm Norway farmers' wives complete mammoth march to present petition to WTO http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.all4all.org%2F2005%2F07%2F2022.shtml&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools DENMARK: Bush visit protested http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/55856 http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/jul2005-daily/07-07-2005/world/w6.htm http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-07/06/content_3181232.htm Police attack protest held to support squatted social centre http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00363.html SWEDEN: Overtime ban in solidarity with Finnish paper workers http://www.paperiliitto.fi/paperiliitto/english/overtime.php http://printweek.hbpl.co.uk/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&UID=02730e5b-d1f2-4f84-8e8f-3a22c1fae98b http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/article/1101979526302 Feminist protesters attacked by sex club bouncers and clients http://finance.news.com.au/story/0,10166,15220363-23109,00.html Solidarity with Finnish paper strikers http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6923/692310.html Building workers' union calls for boycott to put pressure on Polish firm http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=1201&date=20050331&PHPSESSID=2a2ddc3a55cd068babea6550132644ba FINLAND: Strikes to close paper mills http://www.forbes.com/technology/ebusiness/feeds/ap/2005/04/22/ap1969112.html Transport strike at ports http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D89F2S881.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down Paper mill workers go on strike; employers follow with lockout http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/business/11664795.htm http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/ap/2005/05/16/ap2031473.html http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/article/1101979514699 http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/article/1101979482549 http://www.yle.fi/news/left/id12887.html http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8AGBT080.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down http://www.dotprint.com/dp_fullstory.asp?ArticleID=252 http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050602-012544-1155r.htm http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/article/1101979749812 http://www.paperiliitto.fi/paperiliitto/english/emcef.php http://www.paperiliitto.fi/paperiliitto/english/overtime.php http://www.paperiliitto.fi/paperiliitto/english/forest.php http://www.yle.fi/news/id12685.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4596895.stm http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2005/05/18/ap2037325.html http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/afx/2005/05/18/afx2036555.html Border guards strike leads to open borders http://www.yle.fi/news/id12803.html http://www.yle.fi/news/left/id12848.html http://www.sptimes.ru/archive/times/1075/news/n_15904.htm http://www.yle.fi/news/left/id12509.html http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/article/1101979749104 http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/article/1101979733538 http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/05/19finland.html http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/23finland.html Sweets factory workers walkout before cuts decision is reversed http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/article/1101979778009 In Sunday 1st [May], there were some 60 people in anarchist block of red march and later perhaps 100 people in anarchist concert in a park Festival of Street Art responds to crackdown on graffiti "March was little prepared, but people behaved themselves accordingly. All route got tagged with stencils and without, there were plenty of stickers around as well. Tagged buildings included ministry of environment, ministry of transport, finnish employers' association and city hall." http://info.interactivist.net/news/05/08/26/2231214.shtml?tid=22 Dockers stage three-day strike http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6919/691912.html Paper strike set to end http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j01.shtml Construction workers strike in sympathy with paper workers http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/euro-j10.shtml GM crops destroyed http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news508.htm ICELAND: Eco-protest against dam-building includes lock-ons, protest camp, and disruption of corporate events http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1889 Refugees protest against mistreatment http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6928/692858.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ldxar1 at tesco.net Mon Nov 21 21:19:10 2005 From: ldxar1 at tesco.net (Andy) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:19:10 -0000 Subject: [Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - UK, Ireland Message-ID: <022401c5ef24$5f054850$0202a8c0@WOL> IRELAND: Pickets, blockades and direct action target Shell and Statoil over Rossport Five Fascist judge indefinitely detains resisters for thinking for themselves instead of uncritically obeying dikkktats "Meanwhile, continuing protests back in Mayo have insured that Shell isn't getting any work done on its terminal or its pipeline. The message is getting across to the public, as the Rossport Five draw on a long Irish tradition of jailed resisters to imperial power. ? Seighin tapped straight into that tradition and threw in some class consciousness when he cited the support they're getting from their "ordinary" fellow prisoners in Cloverhill Jail: "They have a tremendous, very accurate sense of right and wrong that is slightly missing in more exalted society." (Counterpunch) Shell stations are shut down as direct action spreads, and work on the pipeline is halted by protests http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=149675530&p=y49676z36 http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=148842450&p=y48843y56 http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1530695,00.html http://www.indymedia.ie/index.php?region=mayo http://www.ainfos.ca/05/aug/ainfos00086.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00116.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00197.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00309.html http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=70762&results_offset=30 http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00367.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00374.html http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=986 http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/08/02ireland.html http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050820164645159 http://www.counterpunch.org/browne07162005.html http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1870 Sinn Fein activists occupy terminals in gas protest solidarity actions http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=148111740&p=y48yyz446 Protest against visit of Chinese ambassador http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69857 Strike planned at Rye Valley food factory http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0601/ryevalley.html Polish builders protest over union-busting pressure http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0601/porttunnel.html French dockers blockade Irish ferries in protests over low pay to staff http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0530/irishferries.html http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4593359 http://www.rmt.org.uk/C2B/PressOffice/display.asp?ID=1437&Type=2 http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0523/irishferries.html http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=143937868&p=y43938574 http://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=60605&pt=n http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1536 Demonstration for living wage for ferry workers http://www.itfglobal.org/news-online/index.cfm/newsdetail/439 Farmers protest over sheep prices http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0420/farmers.html Protests over deportation of mothers http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=59925256&p=599z5558 Asylum seekers stage hunger strike http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69440&type=feature Mass anti-deportation protest grips Irish town http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4426635.stm Rally against deportation at Irish party office http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=139120830&p=y39yzy536 Waterford students protest over underfunding http://www.waterford-news.ie/news/story.asp?j=17609 Construction workers protest over pensions http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=142710840&p=y4z7yy546 More deportation protests http://www.utvlive.com/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=59217&pt=n http://www.businessworld.ie/livenews.htm?a=1149224;s=rollingnews.htm Reclaim the Streets in Dublin http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=141638426&p=y4y639y3z Protests as Ireland play Israeli football team; fans wave Palestinian flags as Israeli national anthem played http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3909.shtml Protest over wages at retirement village http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0711/tullybeg.html Artists withdraw from Galway exhibit in protest over cuts http://www.galwayadvertiser.ie/dws/story.tpl?inc=2005/07/14/news/19807.html Asylum seekers on hunger strike as opposition to statist racism grows http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00314.html Solidarity protest over Mayday shooting in Colombia; protesters arrested http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00307.html http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69905 Mayday festival in Waterford http://www.waterford-news.ie/news/story.asp?j=17866 Dublin Mayday march supports migrant workers http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=141497226&p=y4y49793z Sacked airport workers stage hunger strike http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=633786 Protests against mistreatment of Turkish migrant workers by Gama company http://www.siptu.ie/news/pr.php?id=1403 http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0412/gama.html http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0411/gama.html http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0405/gama.html http://www.examiner.ie/pport/web/Full_Story/did-sgISAp26mvYaQsglO-LCk0lQvU.asp http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0404/GAMA.html Nurses protest over A&E conditions http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0414/health.html http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0412/health.html Temp workers' struggle at Tesco, Ireland http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=1077 Successful anti-deportation campaign secures return of Nigerian child http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/04/24irelandb.html Dublin activists stage anti-precarity unionising effort at end of Mayday march http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050506083950106 Gama dispute continues http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/05/16/9489889 Polish workers at Dublin tunnel stage wildcat strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j03.shtml Store staff in north Dublin strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a12.shtml Protests over military planes at Galway airshow http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=147440334&p=y4744yx4x Protests over excavation of Tara valley http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=150577092&p=y5x577798 Protest at Czech embassy over CzechTek repression http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=1089 Rossport Five supporters target Fianna Fail meeting http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=154915462&p=y549y6y68 School students and parents protest over school bus service http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=154682482&p=y54683y88 Children stage parliament protest over bus dispute http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=158052220&p=y58x5z9z6 Protest against building of "super-prison" in Dublin http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=157305978&p=y573x6684 Limerick parents stage school bus protests http://www.utvlive.com/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=66269&pt=n Farmers hold protest against Mandelson at British embassy http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=161740364&p=y6y74yx7x 1,000 farmers protest at milk price cut Thursday, April 14 06:23:53 More than 1,000 farmers have protested outside Glanbia's head office in Kilkenny against an 4c a gallon cut in milk prices imposed by the company. They claimed that the price cut will mean an unacceptable cut in their incomes. Addressing the demonstration, IFA leader John Dillon claimed that farmers were being used to subsidise Glanbia's share price. The price cut had been followed by a 7c rise in the Glanbia share price, he said. Mr Dillon said that Glanbia had now reduced prices by 18c over the past four years, cutting farmers' incomes by 40pc. The latest 4c price cut would reduce the income of a 60,000 gallon dairy farmers by 12pc, he said. He said that the dairy industry would have no future if companies in the sector continued to make such cuts. The industry could not survive without viable farmers, he warned. Mr Dillon urged milk processors should be improving efficiency instead of cutting their prices to farmers. BRITISH-OCCUPIED IRELAND: Blunkett booted! Blunkett cancels visit to job centre as republicans protest demanding release of POW http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=148787382&p=y48788x88 http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=122229200&p=yzzzz978x Postal workers stage wildcat strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/euro-j10.shtml Clashes as police support Orange Order march http://www.allheadlinenews.com/cgi-bin/news/newsbrief.plx?id=2238231572&fa=1 Sectarian clashes in Derry city centre http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northwest_edition/story.jsp?story=662317 Polish workers stage walkout over alleged sectarian abuse http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4431759.stm Hospital protest over acute services 28 July 2005 Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry will suffer if acute services are axed in Omagh, protesters said today. WALES: Aviation workers stags job cuts protest http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/4658181.stm Swansea bus drivers strike over pay http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/4433571.stm Cardiff steelworkers continue protests http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4384493.stm SCOTLAND: Eviction resisted http://scotland.indymedia.org/newswire/display/1524/index.php Council forced to back down on pay imposition after worker resistance http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1635632005 Jeff Luers solidarity protest - US flag burnt http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/20/0438/87313 Two-day bus walkout over pay in Scotland http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6932/693262.html Glasgow tube dispute continues http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20215.htm http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20217.htm First Minister stumped by schoolchild http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20218.htm Cyclists protest motorway building http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20219.htm Environmentalists stage naked protest over planning carve-up http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20220.htm Bridge toll workers strike over pay http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20221.htm Anti-bypass protest site grows http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20222.htm Dundee council housing defence campaign hails partial victory http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20222.htm SSP protests target Royal Bank of Scotland profiteering http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6812 http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20226.htm Large Pride march in Scotland http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20226.htm Phone mast protest in East Kilbride http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6820 School students launch anti-deportation campaigns http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/46038-print.shtml UK: Union protest against privatised rail http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4409211 Families protest closure of Rover factory http://edition.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/04/13/mg.rover/ Warrington Fujitsu staff protest against management imposition of pay award http://www.mysan.de/article80498.html Journalists target executives in piggy pay protest http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/article/190505/pigsick_journalists_target St Helier refuse collectors strike http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/jersey/4549377.stm Erskine Bridge strike continues - but boss goes on holiday! http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5039601.html Rubbish collectors threaten strike over snooping http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/norfolk/4604783.stm HSBC workers strike http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=161629&command=displayContent&sourceNode=161359&contentPK=12541691 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4585219.stm Train guards strike over working hours http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/4589319.stm Workers at BBC strike http://www.freelanceuk.com/news/1141.shtml http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1490109,00.html http://www.bectu.org.uk/news/bbc/nb0258.html http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8571730 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8571310 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1625268,00.html http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15270422-1702,00.html Coventry council workers strike http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/coventry_warwickshire/4574421.stm Week-long strike at London Metropolitan University http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4567825.stm Strike at West Sussex post office over restructuring http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/southern_counties/4565129.stm Norfolk train drivers strike over new ticket system http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/4562855.stm Land registry workers stage work-to-rule http://www.pcs.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=897159 P&O workers protest job losses http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/4680861.stm Suffolk firefighters strike against cuts http://www.buryfreepress.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=843&ArticleID=1096309 AA staff demonstrate against ableist targeting by management, and cutbacks http://www.gmb.org.uk/Templates/PressItems.asp?NodeID=92085 http://www.gmb.org.uk/Templates/PressItems.asp?NodeID=92084 Rolls-Royce staff stage walkout over dismissal of union convenor http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/4697081.stm http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1665572005 BT stockholders face protests over outsourcing http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1528053,00.html http://www.amicustheunion.org/Default.aspx?page=2349 Protests over state of hospital in Bridlington http://www.amicustheunion.org/Default.aspx?page=2307 Asda distribution staff in northeast England strike over pay http://www.checkoutmagazine.co.uk/market_update/market_update_story.ehtml?o=1279 http://www.politics.co.uk/press-releases/gmb-three-day-strike-at-asda-distribution-depot-washington-as-acas-fail-avert-disruption-$15011524.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wear/4718365.stm Guardian staff strike http://www.nuj.org.uk/ Pay strike starts at Asda distribution depot http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/07/28/4346477 Strike against Rentokil staff agency at Aintree hospital, Liverpool http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/07/04/2668228 Gate Gourmet workers sacked - campaign launched, other workers walk out http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6933/693301.html http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2005/405/index.html?id=np1.htm http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7180 http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7178 http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news510.htm Ambala Foods workers strike over pay http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6922/692212.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6918/691853.html http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6957 http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6667 Migrant workers stage sit-in to highlight exploitation http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7209 Chubb security staff strike http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7261 Council workers strike over victimisation of activists http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7264 Workers protest at O2 meeting http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7058 Rolls Royce strike over sacking of union rep http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6982 Northampton postal workers strike over anti-union manoeuvres http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6931 Tesco picketed in solidarity with Polish workers in the UK http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4693 Ansa Logistics strike thwarts bosses http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4696 School strikes in Coventry http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4354 Dewsbury lecturers strike http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4244 Strike at London Metropolitan University http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6540 http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6565 University of Westminster students protest over course changes http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6477 Norgren strike http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6472 Merseyside hospital workers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/lab-j17.shtml Train strike near London http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/euro-j10.shtml Merseyside train guards strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m27.shtml Coventry journalists, Suffolk firefighters strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a05.shtml Rail workers on nationwide protest march against privatisation http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/PA_NEWA12523041114780089A00?source=PA%20Feed Strike at Brunel University http://www.aut.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=1205 http://www.aut.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=1199 Rover workers demand answers http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4441063.stm Demos continue against fire service "reform" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4427401.stm ITV workers strike http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=143601 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4416855.stm Easter strike at paint firm in wage dispute http://www.batleytoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?sectionid=372&articleid=985714 The Truth Behind the Tube "Strike" (Saturday23 July) Radio phone in's were united in their condemnation. "Cowards" was one of the more emotive words used, to the reports that tube drivers had refused to work following the second attempt to carry out suicide bombings on the London transport network. The truth, as sheepishly revealed in The Sun on 23 July, was that drivers had refused to work in disgust at the fact that the day after the second bombings, armed police put a gun to the head of a tube driver at Stockwell station, who had run down the tunnel after police had shot a suspect five times on his train. Bob Crow commented on the RMT website: "No apology could ever be enough ever take away the trauma that that driver has suffered and there should be a full inquiry into the handling of the incident," http://www.londonclasswar.org/news.htm Drivers walk-out, call for instant closures when bombings happen, and oppose armed cops on stations http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2005/403/index.html?id=np4.htm Angry mothers occupy school roof in cuts protest http://www.leedstoday.net/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=39&ArticleID=1028494 Parents protest over axing of school crossing patrol http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4334702.stm Parents blockade gates in Stourbridge school closure protest http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_objectid=16220403&method=full&siteid=50002&headline=angry-parents-protest-at-school-closure--name_page.html Protest in Coventry over cancelled pensioners' centre plan http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_objectid=15731684&method=full&siteid=50003&headline=pensioners-protest-in-row-over-centre--name_page.html Sit-in for unspecified reasons at Norfolk voting station http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/england/4518893.stm Protest in Peterborough demands drop-in shelter http://www.peterboroughthisweek.com/ka/news/peterborough/story/3119134p-3618196c.html Farmers launch milk strike over low prices http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=107428 Caterpillar workers surprised by Palestine protest http://www.socialistunitynetwork.co.uk/reports/caterpillarprotest.htm Protesters target Uzbek embassy - sit-in blockades embassy, paint thrown on walls http://www.muslimuzbekistan.com/eng/ennews/2005/05/ennews18052005_1.html Iraq war protest at Downing Street (Quicktime video) http://homepage.mac.com/bhughes2/iMovieTheater138.html London demonstration over killing of Colombian Mayday protester http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1381 Solidarity protest in London supports gay man jailed in Turkey http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/07/071205turkeyDemo.htm Zimbabwean hunger strikers temporarily end action over deportations http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050711-08190700-bc-britain-zimbabweanrefugees.xml http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=95923&cat=World http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/633/633p16c.htm Thousands join London Palestine demo http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/923.shtml Protest at BBC over Iraq coverage bias http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13893&s2=20 Protests and direct action outside Uzbek embassy over Andijan crackdown http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1616890,00.html http://1924.org/uzbekistan/press_releases/index.php?id=17052005a.html OutRage take protest over gay rights and women's rights to Palestine event http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/578/letters.htm Solidarity protest over murders of activists in Turkey http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6830 York No Sweat pickets Disney http://www.nosweat.org.uk/article.php?sid=1320 Protest in Tesco targets Coke http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20216.htm Brighton Caterpillar protest http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/952.shtml Hunger strike by Zimbabwean refugees http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2748 Protesters target Chinese leader's visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3188 Greenpeace occupy Prescott's roof http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/27/npresc27.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/04/27/ixportaltop.html Activists chain themselves to cars in protest over gas-guzzlers http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0605-04.htm Greenpeace blockade Land Rover production line http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4565829 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15524871&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=4x4-chain-gang-name_page.html Pagans enact ritual to protest building near henge http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/4505191.stm Greenpeace occupy Rangerover plant http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1485493,00.html http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=a8QwVUhunml4&refer=uk Artist wastes water in protest against water waste http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1949 Protesters scale trees at BP HQ http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news495.htm Road campaigners occupy transport ministry http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news508.htm VICTORY! In spite of vicious state repression, Newchurch torture farm closes http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news509.htm Greenpeace blockades British ministry in PNG timber protest Posted at 01:33 on 20 October, 2005 UTC The campaign group Greenpeace has dumped a tonne of Papua New Guinea plywood outside the headquarters of the British ministry for the environment in London. Greenpeace says the timber was logged illegally in Papua New Guinea, turned into plywood in China, and was being used on British building sites. It says illegally logged timber from Rimbunan Hijau, and other companies, can be found as plywood at Wolseley Build Centres and other builders' merchants throughout Britain. Volunteers used a crane to place over a tonne of plywood - secured with large chains - right outside the door of the Department for Environment in London. Campaigners chained themselves to the timber, but police used boltcutters to remove the two activists, and they were released without charge. http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=20025 PRESS RELEASE: ACTIVISTS OCCUPY PLYMOUTH ISLAND IN NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROTEST. Friday 13th May 2005 16.00pm Twelve Trident Ploughshares activists have landed on Drakes Island in the River Tamar today close to Devonport Dockyard in Plymouth which is used to refit Trident, the UK's illegal nuclear weapons system. The occupation of Drakes Island takes place at the same time as the NPT Review Conference in New York, where the UK delegation is coming under increasing diplomatic pressure to honour disarmament commitments made in 2000. The Island occupation will highlight the hypocrisy of the UK's position on nuclear weapons. At the last NPT Review Conference in 2000, the UK, as a nuclear-weapons state, made a series of commitments, including, "An unequivocal undertaking [by the nuclear-weapon States] to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals leading to nuclear disarmament to which all States parties are committed under Article VI" Despite commitments to disarm, and a recent unsolicited attack on Iraq who it accused of trying to develop nuclear weapons the UK government is currently upgrading its nuclear weapons factory, AWE at Aldermaston with development of facilities for the manufacture of the next generation of nuclear weapons already underway. The Island occupation is the start of two weeks of protest in Plymouth by local people who are joined by national and international nuclear weapons protesters commited to seeing Plymouth and the UK free of nuclear weapons. A carnival and blockade will be held outside Devonport Dockyard on Friday 20th May and a camp site is organised in Plymouth for protesters from Thursday 19th to Sunday 22nd May. ENDS: _www.tridentploughshares.org_ (http://www.tridentploughshares.org/) Block the Builders blockade gate at Aldermaston http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4528465 EDO protests continue http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6729 Menwith Hill spybase protested http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1520532,00.html Police attack on protest against EDO - protesters pigpenned Actions continued - goosestepping parody of EDO chairman Police forced back shamefaced after attack on peace camp http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news508.htm Thousands stage peace march in London http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1155307 Anti-nuclear protesters block road at Rolls-Royce site http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/derbyshire/4374730.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/derbyshire/4370796.stm Peace protesters demand inquiry in London http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/10/20/a2.int.warbrits.1020.p1.php?section=nation_world Relatives of soldiers killed in war hold Downing Street vigil http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1595189,00.html Thousands protest for trade justice http://www.obviousnews.com/breakingnews/stories/obviousnews-559030.html Fascist pig who banned Palestine picket hit with email blitz http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/4500835.stm Student protests stop deportations http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p20b.htm Protesters defy Parliament Square demo ban http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4734665.stm http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=118461&Sn=WORL&IssueID=28135 Protest against ASBOs http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6957 Rooftop protest at youth prison http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15475019&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=10-riot-at-youth-jail-name_page.html Protest over continued detention of Charles Bronson - still in jail 20 years after the end of his sentence! http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=MK3012165E&news_headline=prisoner's_son_let_off_over_rooftop_protest Hunger strike at Yarls Wood against deportations http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news511.htm Arrests as police suppress Parliament Square picnic http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news510.htm Lancaster Six convictions spark further protests as attack on free speech continues http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/manchester/2005/09/324737.html Cornwall residents sab parking meters as council ignores referendum http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/4286468.stm Old man jailed for council tax refusal http://www.channel4.com/news/content/news-storypage.jsp?id=709082 Siege as suspect refuses to go quietly http://icberkshire.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200berkshireheadlines/tm_objectid=15767879&method=full&siteid=50102&headline=riot-police-in-four-hour-britwell-siege-name_page.html Youth unrest in Croydon after trader throws water on boy http://iccroydon.icnetwork.co.uk/news/croydon/tm_objectid=16136151&method=full&siteid=53340&headline=schoolboys-attack-traders-in-mini-riot-name_page.html Charles Clarke protested over attacks on civil liberties http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=News&tBrand=edponline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED30%20Oct%202005%2021%3A32%3A12%3A073 IHRC cuts relations with pigs over shooting http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8663 Hizb ut-Tahrir vow to defy ban - warn of community uprisings http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8911 Muslims protest repressive laws http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7065 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7059 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7081 Protest over detention of Rachid Ramda http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7718 Babar Ahmad trial resumes amid protests http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=6824 Algerian dissident held by British statists in Ireland goes on hunger strike http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7216 Belmarsh internment protest http://www.fourthwrite.ie/patricia7.html Student campaign leads to judicial review for refugee http://www.irr.org.uk/2005/august/fq000020.html Noise demo and sit-in protest fro asylum seekers in Nottingham http://www.veggies.org.uk/AlternativeNews/ArticlePage.php?id=255 Protest over death in custody http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7222 Anti-deportation campaigns http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6907 Hispanic carnival observes silence for police shooting victim http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7128 Campaign forces return of refugees to Teesside http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7091 Zimbabwean refugees stage hunger strike against deportation http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6914 http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4443 Protests as SWP invite alleged anti-Semite to speak http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4482 Campaigners prevent deportation of Congolese refugee beaten by guards http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4227 Peace vigil at Stockwell tube station after shooting http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0725-04.htm http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2005/403/index.html?id=np3.htm Protest over shooting at Downing Street http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0727-07.htm Travellers march for freedom in Basildon http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6533 Travellers protest ethnic cleansing http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4553066 Mass protest against dawn raids on asylum seekers in Glasgow http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4300260.stm And over mistreatment of refugees in Manchester and Bolton http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/4300770.stm Schoolchildren boo Blair http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15098570-1702,00.html Alistair Darling pied http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news499.htm Motorists protest against Birmingham crackdown http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4455791.stm Police station mast near school protested http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/4448107.stm Man Utd fans protest Glazier takeover Fascistic courts convict protester for complaining about police interference with the right to protest http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/4551707.stm http://www.sportal.com.au/soccer.asp?i=news&id=65617 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/13/nmanu13.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/05/13/ixnewstop.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/4543739.stm http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050512-010019-2834r.htm http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5038814.html Protesters stage go-slow to protest extension of "congestion charge" (stealth tax) area http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/londonnews/articles/18193547?source=Evening%20Standard Farmers for Action blockade oil depot in pre-election fuel price protest Lorry drivers later join the protests at other refineries http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2005/04/25/26903/Farmer+protest+targets+refinery.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4484331.stm http://www.tnn.co.uk/CurrentIssues/plonearticle.2005-05-03.2654446769 Water speed limits protested in the Lake District http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4489674 Speed camera go-slow protest on motorway http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4484449 Fathers for Justice scale snooker venue http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/snooker/4497401.stm Southampton fans protest over suspension of manager by control freaks http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_league/super_league/st_helens/4524427.stm Manchester United fans protest http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2005/393/index.html?id=np4.htm Manchester United fans disrupt UEFA meeting over Glazer takeover http://breakingnews.iol.ie/sport/story.asp?j=146654556&p=y46655z6z&t=soccer Fans clash with cops as Glazers visit; police attack sit-down protesters http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/4635727.stm Safety fears end milk price protest Farmers demonstrating outside milk depots finished their blockades early as they claimed lorry drivers were jeopardising their safety. Members of the group Farmers For Action staged the protest outside Robert Wiseman's depots in Cambuslang and Bellshill to highlight their concerns over milk prices. Bosses at Robert Wiseman's said police were marshalling the demonstrations and insisted there was no danger. About 180 farmers gathered outside the two plants and at the Arla Food depot in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, to try to halt milk deliveries. But Farmers For Action spokesman John Cumming said the action was called off because he feared someone could be hurt by lorries going through their picket lines. A spokesman for the dairy firm said: "There were protests at our facilities but we met our obligations to staff and to our customers. "The police were very much in control of the situation. As far as we're concerned, there was no danger." The farmers were protesting over the price they are paid for their milk. The National Farmers Union says they receive between 16p and 20p per lire, which it claims is less than 10 years ago. They are being backed by the Scottish Green Party, which is urging First Minister Jack McConnell to take urgent action to help the farmers. Shiona Baird MSP, party co-convener and a former farmer, said: "What will it take for the Labour-Lib Dem coalition to take action to support the Scottish dairy farmers? Will they wait until the industry is totally decimated and we have to import our milk?" But Mr McConnell said at First Minister's Questions on Wednesday that it was a matter for the supermarkets, not the Executive. http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1915132005 Manchester United fans protest at Vodafone meeting http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/sport/football/manchesterunited/s/167/167257_fans_group_in_vodafone_protest.html T-shirt protest planned after repression http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/sport/football/manchesterunited/s/171/171877_glazer_protest_in_pipeline.html Residents square off with builders over sneaky development project http://www.thisishertfordshire.co.uk/news/newsindex/display.var.622516.0.residents_line_up_in_housing_protest.php Hearts fans plan protest over draconian life ban for lifelong fan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3023 Cockler victimised for protest over dangerous practices - statists steal vehicles and property http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1949052005 Small fuel protest at refineries and on motorways http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/4244708.stm http://edition.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/09/16/fuel.protest/ Fathers 4 Justice scale Parliament http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-09/28/content_3553960.htm Naked ramble continues - as does persecution http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=689 Man Utd fans continue Glazier takeover protests http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/WinnipegSun/Sports/2005/05/16/1041524-sun.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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http://sydney.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=54936&group=webcast Students stage blockade to protest asylum detention http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200507/s1414606.htm Showdowns as police confront and arrogantly dictate to protesters against a building project Protesters oppose the store building because of nearby platypus nests http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1274&storyid=3448576 http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15934596-1248,00.html Protest against cricket tour of Zimbabwe http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0507/S00233.htm : Protest at PM's home over logging in Tasmania http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,15284974%255E1702,00.html Greenpeace blockade coal port over global warming http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,16071235%5E664,00.html Esk residents fight factory farms http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/634/634p4d.htm Adelaide protesters condemn Australian hypocrisy on refugees http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/635/635p6f.htm South Australian teachers strike over workload http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/633/633p5c.htm Pigs attack Queer march in Perth http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/633/633p2d.htm Students enter GSL offices in protest over imprisonment of refugees http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200507/s1414606.htm Cyclists protest tunnel; police attack over nakedness http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15297235%255E3102,00.html Trade unionists picket in support of colleagues http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1367624.htm Workers organise at fast-food outlets http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/06/92714.php Protest at military base - soldiers give protesters thumbs-up http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/622/622p2.htm Animal rights protest disrupts rodeo http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,12882637%5E2862,00.html Patient angered at lack of local care stages sit-in at hospital http://pei.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=pe_meggison_20050428 Protests over sea border with East Timor http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p2.htm http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/625/625p11b.htm Strike at Ballarat University http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p6c.htm And at LaTrobe University http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/626/626p4b.htm Coal strike close to victory http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/625/625p6.htm Aussie Mayday marchers oppose anti-union attacks http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/625/625p3.htm Motorcyclists organise mass ride protest against toll http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/CityLink-begs-bikies-to-halt-protest/2005/05/20/1116533514474.html Hundreds protest against state funeral of fascist scumbag Joh Bjelke-Petersen http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/626/626p5c.htm Building workers stage walkout and rally to protest anti-union laws http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/626/626p5.htm Environmental activists target senator over old-growth forest destruction http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1364026.htm Visit by US warship protested http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200507/s1405653.htm Nationwide protests for Schapelle Corby http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,15438533^662,00.html Monash students occupy bar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2093 Animal liberation activists assaulted during raid on chicken farm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2114 Greenpeace activists occupy dirty coal plant http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050812071030926 Protesters defend Aboriginal embassy http://www.sydney.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=54347&group=webcast Melbourne Mayday march http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/91373.php Students hold Day of Action against attack on student unions http://perth.indymedia.org/index.php?action=newswire&parentview=10085 Street theatre exposes abuse of refugees http://perth.indymedia.org/index.php?action=newswire&parentview=9919 Uprising at Villawood concentration camp http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/baxt-a04.shtml Council workers, truck drivers and car manufacturers all strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/labo-j30.shtml Power workers walk out http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/labo-j23.shtml Butter factory workers strike over unfair dismissals http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a20.shtml University of Newcastle workers and students rally against cuts http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/labo-m28.shtml Hunter Water workers strike Aged-care workers protest http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/labo-j25.shtml Trico car plant workers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/labo-j18.shtml Rail workers in Victoria strike over harassment of signalman http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/labo-j11.shtml Wildcat train strike over stand-down of worker for refusing random drug test http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/lab-m14.shtml Car workers strike to defend permanent jobs Engineering workers walk out as talks stall http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/labo-m07.shtml Refinery workers strike over safety http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/labo-a16.shtml Maintenance workers strike in New South Wales; port workers, miners strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/lab-a23.shtml Glassworkers walk out to protest job cuts http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a06.shtml Rally opposes child detention http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/630/630p4h.htm ANZ picketed over war profiteering http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/630/630p4g.htm http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/627/627p2.htm Rightists attack Aboriginal parishioners in church dispute http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/630/630p4d.htm Peace protest at Talisman Sabre military exercise http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/630/630p4.htm http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15582400%5E1702,00.html Protest after refugee commits suicide http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/s1395702.htm Protest as US warship visits http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200507/s1405653.htm Cattlemen protest, and environmentalists counter-protest, about wilderness grazing ban http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15557648%5E1702,00.html Protests at Forbes CEO conference http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/632/632p6b.htm Anti-dump protesters confront minister http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/636/636p11c.htm Contractor goons illegally detain and viciously attack forest hikers http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/636/636p2b.htm Boeing strikers confront MP Baldwin http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/636/636p4b.htm Maleny protesters picket minister http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/636/636p4c.htm Solidarity protest targets Woolworths store http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/638/638p6b.htm Greenpeace break into nuclear plant to expose site insecurity http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,16231278%5E2862,00.html Civil rights protest greets politician - Ruddock targeted over Hicks torture http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/637/637p6i.htm QBuild workers impose work bans in campaign for new agreement http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/637/637p7d.htm Transport workers block traffic in industrial relations protest http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/637/637p5d.htm Dredger ship hides to avoid environmental protests http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16185723%5E30417,00.html Unpopular arrest at pub sparks mass resistance against pigs http://inverell.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=421636&y=2005&m=9 Refugee solidarity activists mark Tampa Day http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/641/641p4d.htm Peace protest targets Howard visit to Adelaide http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,16400795%5E421,00.html Northern Territory campaign against nuclear waste dump launched http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/639/639p2b.htm Protest against uranium mining http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/639/639p7c.htm Anti-corporate "clowns" protest ban on protests at Forbes conference http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/639/639p4e.htm Girls fight guards at tourist market http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16630756-17001,00.html Parents protest at parliament over sacking of principal http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200509/s1465868.htm Tasmania forest protest kicks off http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16734853-1244,00.html Students occupy government building over "voluntary student unionism" http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/629/629p4d.htm Minister's visit to university protested http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/627/627p2g.htm Thousands attend rally to defend Newcastle University http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/627/627p4.htm Protest over threat to deport Timorese refugees http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/627/627p4b.htm Waste dump protests in Mildura, Victoria http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16847942%5E30417,00.html Minister confronted by emergency workers over job benefits http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200510/s1475358.htm Young workers rally against anti-union "reforms" in Melbourne CBD http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,16773802-5001028,00.html Goons shoot at Australian forest protesters http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16767294-1244,00.html Education minister flees university event to avoid protesting students http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/police-deny-telling-nelson-protest-out-of-control/2005/09/28/1127804527553.html Horse-head protest targets cruelty in horse-racing http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17105381-29277,00.html Students protest fee increases at Victoria university http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3463373a10,00.html Protest at Alcoa refinery over health issues http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200510/s1488874.htm Protest over fascist "anti-terror" laws in Australia http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200510/s1488344.htm Wave of protests targets attack on workers by Howard regime under the guise of "industrial relations reforms" http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/07/13australia.html http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/07/07australia.html http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/07/01australia.html http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2005/400/index.html?id=np5a.htm http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6929/692907.html http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6940 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/irpr-j02.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/inte-j02.shtml http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/632/632p3.htm http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/632/632p12c.htm Students protest and strike against Howard http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/27australia.html Workers down tools to defy ban on joining protest http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200506/s1403466.htm Thousands of workers strike in protest at the "reforms" http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15750281-28097,00.html Photos from industrial relations rally http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/06/93088.php http://community.webshots.com/album/382678976rrpRPo Thousands rally in Northern Territory http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200506/s1404138.htm And in Sydney http://sydney.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=56489&group=webcast Students force minister to retreat at rally after police attack http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200507/s1404447.htm Howard cancels trip to evade protesting workers set to give him the finger in Geelong http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=425 Truckers join industrial law protests http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a20.shtml So do lecturers http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/labo-j04.shtml AUSTRALIA/GLOBAL: Global trade union activists protest Australian anti-union attacks at Thai consulate http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2749 NEW ZEALAND/AOTEAROA: Foreshore land grab protests continue http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3253646a8153,00.html River users, residents protest dam plan http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_national_story_skin/505881%3fformat=html Vivisectionists protested http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0504/S00207.htm Cat-lovers protest cat-hunting conference http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10120322 Radical Youth picket against youth exploitation http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050815021230303 Protesters arrested at picket of McDonald's on Mayday http://indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/32734/index.php http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050501014757989 http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/police_brutality_at_protest_against_mcdonalds_youth_exploitation http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/mcdonalds_police_collude_to_destroy_youth International Women's Day marked http://www.labournet.net/world/0503/newz1.html Strike by hospital security guards http://www.labournet.net/world/0504/newz1.html Colgate-Palmolive picket http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/solidarity_strong_at_colgate-palmolive_picket_today Bus strike in Auckland wins pay increase http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/prolonged_bus_strike_threatened http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/bus_drivers_reject_pay_deal http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/angry_stagecoach_drivers_raise_stakes http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6927/692760.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6921/692110.html Coalminers take industrial action over pay http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/coal_miners_take_action http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/national_miners_strike_for_fair-share_pay_rise http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/miners_strike_solid_energy http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6928/692859.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6918/691810.html Bank workers strike, protest http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/bank_workers_take_to_the_street http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/bank_staff_begin_strike_action http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/anz_reports_huge_profits_while_staff_strike_for_fair_conditions http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/anz_bank_rolling_strikes Solidarity action in support of Tongan strikers http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/639/639p14b.htm Protest flotilla targets ferry over speed and ecological issues http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3422215a10,00.html Man sails in front of ferry to make it stick to speed limit http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411749/610269 Nurses fight for pay parity http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/nurses_to_fight_for_pay_parity Student protest over fees and funding http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/pick_up_a_placard_stick_it_up_mallard Maori plan blockade over power plant http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3427488a11,00.html Walkout at Auckland airport http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/auckland_airport_workers_walk_out http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/air_nz_seeking_public_sympathy_says_union Radio New Zealand suspends striking workers http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/radio_nz_suspends_striking_workers?PHPSESSID=7ccf617ed753bcd84dc1b90a5976939f Strike hits newspapers http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/industrial_action_hits_fairfax?PHPSESSID=7ccf617ed753bcd84dc1b90a5976939f Protest to save Happy Valley targets mine company Solid Energy http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/direct_action_against_happy_valley_mine?PHPSESSID=7ccf617ed753bcd84dc1b90a5976939f http://blackcat.enzyme.org.nz/save_happy_valley?PHPSESSID=7ccf617ed753bcd84dc1b90a5976939f University, airline and manufacturing strikes http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/labo-j30.shtml Strike at call centre http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/lab-j02.shtml Newspaper, manufacturing, university and hospital workers involved in strikes http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a20.shtml Bed manufacturers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/lab-m14.shtml Metal strike Teachers protest job cuts http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/labo-m07.shtml Industrial tool makers walk out http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/labo-a06.shtml Hundreds march for interfaith harmony after London bombings http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6777 Apple growers protest Australian protectionism http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411416/593450/ Engineers at airport protest over planned layoffs http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411415/623004 Protests and repression at New Zealand arms fair http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3448082a10,00.html Peace protesters blockade Navy vessel http://sydney.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=53663&group=webcast ANZAC Day marked with peace protest http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/91104.php Mayday march http://indymedia.org.nz/feature/display/32828/index.php Protests against seal hunting http://indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/31264/index.php Protesters target poultry conference http://indymedia.org.nz/feature/display/31158/index.php Budget opponents stage protest http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3285881a6160,00.html ISRAEL: Holocaust survivors protest against Israeli bank http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/571960.html Beer Sheva bus drivers' strike finally ends with some victories for the drivers but without winning their main demand http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/567633.html http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/567512.html Postal strike http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=905918&fid=942 Taxi drivers try to block road in price jump protest http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/563633.html Dispute in electricity sector http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=563760&contrassID=2&subContrassID=2&sbSubContrassID=0 Bank workers prepare to defy strike ban http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=80442 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/566050.html Teachers protest and disrupt studies over mass sackings http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/581422.html http://www.ei-ie.org/en/news/20050510.htm Firefighters strike over unpaid wages http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3090356,00.html http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/580509.html May Day march by workers in Haifa http://www.workersadvicecenter.org/May-1-05-Haifa.htm Striking postal workers under attack http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/578307.html Orthodox Jews stage blockade to protest motorway building on holy site Pigs bricked when they tried to arrest someone near a religious school Protesters burn rubbish after returning from a demo, and several cops are injured in clashes Cops wantonly beat protesters inside the school and on the streets http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Briefs/5400.htm http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3077761,00.html Refusenik revolt continues http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p19.htm Jerusalem Gay Pride attacked by religious bigot http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/594514.html http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/07/21israel.html Anarchists lock up banks on Mayday http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00008.html Anarchists and activists barred from Mayday march by police, and attacked http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/05/05israel.html http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050502055114734 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6258 Animal rights activists occupy Procter and Gamble offices http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050524030917226 Munitions workers blockade plant over unpaid wages http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/euro-j10.shtml Taxi drivers block streets in fuel price protest http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/labr-a15.shtml Kibbutz residents protest cancer-causing antennae http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=83572 Students protest racist conference http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1116296306207 http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=CultureAndMedia&loid=8.0.167831079&par=0 ISRAEL/US ANTI-ZIONIST ORTHODOX JEWS PROTEST THE STATE OF ISRAEL New York City, NY April 29, 2005. If you happened to be passing by the Israeli Consulate yesterday afternoon you most surely would have been shocked by the unusual sight that greeted your eyes: a group of over 10,000 Orthodox Jews who were protesting against the actual existence of the state of Israel. Behind them hung large posters showing the beating of Orthodox Jews by Israeli police while they were protesting the desecration of antiquated Jewish cemeteries which are in the path of a planned highway expansion. The shocking sight didn't stop there. When you studied their signs and looked at the picture posters a shocking new world was revealed. Tens of thousands of religious Jews are protesting in the streets of Jerusalem against the state of Israel stating that the state of Israel, according to the Torah (that is the Jewish teachings) is illegitimate. They state that since the time that God sent the Jews into exile with the destruction of the temple two thousand years ago the Jews were forbidden to have their own state and that the whole concept of Zionism and the creation of the state of Israel was formed by irreligious Jews contrary to the Torah and the opinion of almost all of the Rabbinical leaders of Judaism worldwide. The posters showed beaten and bloodied Rabbis sprawled on the ground cowering before Israeli police with stun guns and batons in their hands. Other posters showed old and young men alike being dragged on the ground and being piled into paddy wagons to be taken to Israeli prisons. Still other graphic pictures showed the excavated graves and bones spread over the ground; quite a shocking sight. The signs that the protesters held read: a.. Israel has no right to rule over any part of the Holy Land b.. Jews Mourn 56 years existence of "Israel" c.. Zionists do not represent Jews d.. Let our Sages rest in Peace e.. Israeli Government: Grave Digging is inhumane, disgraceful and shameful f.. Zionism stole the name of Jews g.. Oh No! Zionism will never succeed h.. Rabbinical Leaders fought Zionism since its inception i.. True Jews will never recognize Israel j.. Israel does not represent world Jewry k.. Dissolve the Zionist State l.. Authentic Rabbis always opposed Zionism and the State of Israel Other demonstrations were held in Montreal, Canada and London, England. For further information and photographs of these activities visit our website at www.nkusa.org CANADA Gravel trucks besiege parliament in payment rates protest http://www.canada.com/edmonton/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=b7db6c08-bed6-4269-9bae-51b8b064af56 Protest after corporate bandits sack striking workers http://www.prdirect.ca/en/view_release.aspx?TrafficID=3438 LCBO store staff go on strike http://ottsun.canoe.ca/News/National/2005/07/23/1144036-sun.html Montreal musicians strike over gruelling schedule http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j06.shtml Daycare workers and trash collectors strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j21.shtml Ontario hydro workers strike for contract http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j14.shtml Daycare and flight kitchen workers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j07.shtml Electrical workers and Quebec auto insurance workers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m24.shtml Truckers strike in British Columbia http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m17.shtml Ottawa taxi drivers strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m10.shtml Strikes at Lakehead University, and West Quebec schools http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/wkrs-a19.shtml Wildcat at sawmill http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a02.shtml Loggers set up picket lines http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a09.shtml Strike at Lakehead Uni as bosses try to break union http://winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?id=1273&type=S&PHPSESSID=b23a9e02b67971c6e158f4733458f388 Quebec labour unions protest ahead of strike Canadian Press Saturday, October 29, 2005 Montreal - Thousands of Quebec public sector workers took to downtown Montreal on Saturday to protest lagging contract negotiations with the government. Organizers claimed that 10,000 members from a "common front" of the province's largest unions - the Confederation of National Trade Unions and the Quebec Federation of Labour - joined the march which included a Halloween theme. Cops tell student campers to move, so they cross the road and camp nearer to their target http://www.chroniclejournal.com/story.shtml?id=26743 Environmentalists protest mosquito "fogging" in Winnipeg http://winnipeg.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=mb_fogging-20050715 Toronto Sikhs protest arrests in India http://www.panthic.org/news/123/ARTICLE/1571/2005-07-17.html?sid=af468eb963abdedbe0c8b63f018551bc Crabbers stage blockade in quota protest http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050413.w2crab0413/BNStory/National/ Newfoundland crabbers protest over quotas http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Page/document/v4/sub/MarketingPage?user_URL=http://www.theglobeandmail.com%2Fservlet%2Fstory%2FRTGAM.20050413.w2crab0413%2FBNStory%2FNational%2F&ord=1119977408521&brand=theglobeandmail&force_login=true http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1114621176479_110030376/?hub=Canada http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/04/25/crab-nfld050425.html http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=195bb636-8bf8-407e-8d6c-c151cbd7642d http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/21/203424/919 Crabbers blockade provincial building http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/03/content_2909499.htm Truckers stage protest convoy in Vancouver, BC http://vancouver.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=bc_truckers20050429 http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1115429117336_2/?hub=Canada Iranian-Canadians protest over killing of photojournalist http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1116298373048_19/?hub=Canada Nursing home workers protest http://nb.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=nb-nursing20050518 Earth Day marked by global warming protest by Inuit and celebrities in the Arctic http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20050423123053427 London gay pride event defies Nazis' threats; counter-protesters met by anti-Nazis http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2005/07/11/1125874-sun.html No One Is Illegal march heads for Ottawa http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00278.html http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00368.html http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/19/15554/5280 OCAP take poverty protest to social security ministry http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00343.html Police attack protest against detention without trial http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7390 Detainee on hunger strike http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8435 Rally for women's freedom in Iraq http://www.wpiraq.net/english/2005/toronto-women-protest.html Squeegee protest at police HQ - police harass legal protest http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050627110357548 Worker solidarity group WSN chalks up success http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2005051709171658 Protest targets SNC-Lavalin war involvement http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050505172159915 Mayday marchers protest labour policies; some stores targeted http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050503112736769 http://www.socialismnow.org/html/vancouver010505.htm Indigenous people blockade traditional lands in Klappan area, keeping out mining company http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/26/95439/2317 http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/19/121717/456 http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/22/61129/1559 Tahltan protesters occupy office http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/2/53649/10625 CBC workers locked out in dispute http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/17/14423/4861 Telus workers strike http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/21/12332/5305 Protests over repression in Haiti http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/2/91921/46541 Minister smeared with blood in Haiti protest http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/18/93627/0561 http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/18/14637/0454 Protests at Global Forest Summit - one activist hangs from a structure to blockade an entrance, while others march near hotels, and two stage lockdowns inside the event http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/3/1272/06140 http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/3/134458/7406 http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/3/161458/0313 Protesters resist poisonous fumigation in Winnipeg http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/12188941.htm PETA stages protest over pollution effects and cruelty in fishing http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1123814287903_37/?hub=Canada Vancouver company pulls out of HLS link after firebombing http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/23/155316/623 Cabbies blockade airport http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/26/182534/768 Mohawk language sale backtrack forced by popular discontent http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/28/163530/701 Poundmaker Cree occupy office over corruption http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/28/75013/5782 Copwatch slandered by cops http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/17/184848/327 Ontario steel strike continues http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/17/225722/990 http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6922/692211.html Elderly woman dies in hunger strike over long-term care http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/17/75455/0396 Tsimshian protesters take to courthouse lawn in shellfish prosecution protest http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/1/54946/50479 Deal could end Haida blockade http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/28/64732/9283 Chemical workes strike to defend jobs http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6932/693252.html Anger as packers' strike banned - ongoing fight plegded http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6932/693257.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6930/693056.html Alberta meat packers stage wildcat strike http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/130 Trade unionists target WalMart http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20220.htm Protest as Chinese leader visits Canada http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/canada/12667849.htm http://www.tibet.ca/en/wtnarchive/1993/5/20_3.html http://www.torontotyc.com/huvisit.htm Indigenous people build blockade to protest eco-destruction http://thunderbay.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/19398.php http://thunderbay.indymedia.org/news/2005/03/18874.php Tent city at FWCI college http://thunderbay.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/19466.php Haiti solidarity protests http://quebec.indymedia.org/en/node.php?id=20535 Truckers protest fuel prices http://bc.indymedia.org/feature/display/1366/index.php Anti-poverty committee confronts bosses http://bc.indymedia.org/feature/display/622/index.php Residents protest response to spill near Edmonton By LORI FAZARI Canadian Press Friday, August 05, 2005 Wabamun, Alta. - More than 100 angry protesters blocked a Canadian National railway crossing Friday to express their anger at what they called the company's poor response to a freight train derailment and oil spill on the lake where they live. Cabin owner Don Goss said CN appeared to be more worried about getting trains running again than they were in cleaning up what some have described as an environmental disaster. (Globe and Mail) CN Rail lines blockaded Posted by: anonymous, Section: Prairies Posted on Sun Aug 14th, 2005 at 12:40:28 PM PST DeadJasonLives CN Rail and the Provincial governmnet are not doing nearly enough to clean up their lousy mess. The residents of Lake Wabamun are protesting their inaction by sitting on the train line so that no train goes through. Until CN Rail and the provincial governmnet do more and quick, this method should continue not just in Wabamun, but further down the line as well. Do not feel like you cant do anything because you are wayover wherever. Start a protest on your local CN Rail line brothers and sisters! CN Rail is a Crown corporation. Alot of the management teams that run CN and that oppose CN workers' Transportation union are American business types. Money, Money, Money... jerks. [editor's note, by ron] The protest has been ended with an apology from CN: http://www.ctv.ca (from resist.ca) HAWAII Protesters Occupy University of Hawaii Admin Building 05/02/2005 WEEKEND-LONG SIT-IN DEMANDS END TO MILITARY R&D CENTER Since 10 a.m. on Thursday, April 28th, a coalition of Native Hawaiian groups, students, faculty, anti-war activists, environmentalists, and religious organizations have joined forces to occupy the University of Hawaii administration building, to demand the University cease all work on a secret Navy research project, UARC. This research is for the development of space-based laser systems, surveillance technologies, and sea-based mines. Since September 11, 2001, the US military has embarked on its largest expansion onto Hawa'ian land, since World War II. The Army plans to take 28,000 acres of this precious land to station a Stryker Brigade. More on the occupation http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/03/1357237 http://manila.indymedia.org/?action=newswire&parentview=3773 Protesters occupy University of Hawaii admin building to protest military training centre http://www.other-net.info/index.php?p=951 http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/04/1735222.php Hawaii school students protest for money for charter schools http://starbulletin.com/2005/04/23/news/story4.html Autonomy protesters demonstrate over inadequate representation http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Jul/21/ln/507210349.html/?print=on Native Hawaiians occupy office over anti-sovereignty bill http://kgmb9.com/kgmb/display.cfm?storyID=6138 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ldxar1 at tesco.net Mon Nov 21 21:19:52 2005 From: ldxar1 at tesco.net (Andy) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:19:52 -0000 Subject: [Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - repression global Message-ID: <024e01c5ef24$805a4d70$0202a8c0@WOL> REPRESSION: AUSTRALIA Fascist pigs in Australia fine drivers for tooting in support of protesters! http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15934596-1248,00.html Australian Queer activist persecuted for occupation http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/622/622p6c.htm Aussie law banning free speech used to persecute youths and black people http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/625/625p6f.htm Persecution of dissident cleric in Australia http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2005/s1430499.htm Immigration "control" is murder: another detained refugee dies in Australia Fisherman trapped on boat for a week by pigs dies of "unknown causes" probably linked to racist crackdown http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/626/626p2.htm Human rights activists denounce Australian ASIO repression, arrests without proof, assumption of guilt and persecution of Muslims http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200506/s1402223.htm Australian customs goons steal sacred props from Papuan performers - threaten not to return http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200509/s1471452.htm Fascist "anti-terrorism" secret detention laws plotted by state control-freaks - kafkaesque requirement may mean parents are jailed for telling the other parent of detention http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3080 Sydney politicians plan ethnic cleansing of aboriginal area http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15462157%5E421,00.html Falun Gong sues over Canberra protest ban http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200506/s1389049.htm Police-state terror in Australia - American protest activist deported Spy goons now claim they can deport over encouragement of illegal protests as control freakery lurches out of control once more http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/protest-advice-led-to-us-activists-detention/2005/09/13/1126377315072.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3022 Cops get off scot free for Palm Island atrocities, despite admissions their actions were illegal http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16047737-421,00.html Screws persecute prison activists http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/639/639p5c.htm State fascism out of control: Nazi pigs threaten workers about swearing on picket line http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/641/641p2b.htm Union activist persecuted for dissident article http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/639/639p4b.htm Abuse in Australian detention centres http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/baxt-a04.shtml Racist white Australia deports brown Australian citizen http://www.countercurrents.org/racism-polya150505.htm http://www.gabriellereillyweekly.com/gabrielle_reilly/australian_community_service/schapelle_corby.htm By Gabrielle Reilly Schapelle Corby: Schapelle Corby, a 27-year-old Australian, faces a maximum punishment of death by firing squad after 4.1 kg of cannabis were found inside her unlocked bodyboard bag at Bali airport last October. Schapelle is believed to have been an innocent victim in an Australian domestic drug smuggling racket between Sydney and Brisbane. The criminals however, did not remove the drugs in Brisbane according to the plan and Schapelle, unbeknown to her, arrived in Bali with drugs that had been planted in her bag along the way. Schapelle Corby is due to have a verdict in mid-May. If found guilty in Indonesia of drug trafficking, she will most likely face the Indonesian firing squad a short time afterwards. According to The Age "Corby's lawyers revealed an unidentified man had come forward and signed a statement naming three baggage handlers he says planted the drugs in Corby's unlocked boogie board bag. Chief lawyer Lely Sri Rahaya Lubis said the three baggage handlers had since been jailed in Australia, while the man who made the statement was also in prison. But Lely admitted it would be difficult to bring the man to Bali to testify, as he was a prisoner in Australia." REPRESSION: CANADA $1,000 Fines Proposed for CSIS Sit-in Arrestees; Bizarre JP Eventually Reduces fine to $50 SCARBOROUGH, MAY 27, 2005 -- The arbitrary nature of the secretive court process which has jailed five Muslim men in Canada a collective total of 203 months was evident in the Scarborough municipal courthouse today for the verdict and sentencing of three people charged following a brief, nonviolent sit-in at the CSIS Toronto headquarters last October. In a moment more fit for a circus sideshow than a "democratic nation's" courtroom, a mumbling Justice of the Peace (JP) Cledwyn Longe decided to deal with his own personal authority issues by laying $1,000 fines on Diana Ralph, Kirsten Romaine and Matthew Behrens, three of six people charged at the sit-in, which marked three years in solitary confinement for Hassan Almrei, one of the Secret Trial Five. During their April trial, JP Longe behaved abusively towards the defendants, making senseless and arbitrary orders, ignoring relevant video testimony, and walking out in the middle of Mona Elfouli's testimony about the difficulties she and her children have faced during the five years her husband, Mohammad Mahjoub, has been incarcerated without charge. Longe was clearly disturbed at the April trial that individuals came to court prepared to stand up for their rights and the rights of the detainees with whom they held their solidarity sit-in. Like anyone in power, he could have acted in a paternal, "if only they understood the difficulties of my position" manner and dismissed it all as an interesting sidebar to his normal roster of traffic and pet by-law violations. But instead, like the power structure he represents, he chose to lash out angrily both then and again today. At 3 pm, defendants Romaine and Behrens rose to hear what they were hoping would be a reasoned, detailed analysis of the submissions they had made regarding the sit-in, and the necessity and related defences which were laid before Longe in April. But before the verdict was delivered there was trouble. After they were identified by the court, the defendants sat at the defence table so they could take notes on the verdict. "You will stand in my court," he ordered Behrens and Romaine. "I need to sit so I can make notes on your verdict," Behrens explained. "Not in my court!" Longe responded in that "This is my court and I'll do as I damn well please, Charter of Rights be damned!" manner. "Fine, I will walk over here and lean against this bar, so I can make my notes," Behrens proposed as he moved towards the edge of the elevated desk. "No, you will stand right there," Longe chided him. An embarrassed court clerk, perhaps fearing this would devolve even further, graciously handed Behrens a piece of cardboard to make notes against while in a standing position. Turns out there was nothing of note in the JP's so-called decision. Rather than producing the reasoned, analytical approach to the submissions and testimony that were presented to him six weeks earlier, he mumbled like a school kid who hadn't done his homework and was faking his way through the oral exam. "Defendants occupied space...refused to leave...no proper defence presented...guilty as charged..." he stumbled. He turned to the prosecuting attorney, who had a long lineup of traffic offences to deal with, and asked for a sentencing recommendation. She said she would leave it in his hands. He looked at us and pronounced his verdict. "$1,000 fines." He was pleased. Putting us in our place. How dare we come to his court and assert ourselves! "That's an incredibly severe penalty for such a minor demonstration for which there was no violence, no one was hurt, it was over in a matter of minutes," Behrens explained. "Well, I could have fined you $2,000," Longe beamed. Obviously someone very much in love with his grandiose power. "What are your reasons for this huge fine?" Behrens asked. "I don't have to give you any," Longe replied. "We were there not for ourselves, but for human rights, for everyone," Romaine explained. "That's irrelevant," Longe stated, just as he said the testimony of Mona Elfouli was irrelevant before he walked out on her in April. Behrens explained it was remarkable that an offence which didn't even require a preliminary court summons and which, if the defendants had simply ignored it, would have resulted in a $75 fine, had suddenly ballooned into a major amount of cash. But it made sense. If we had obediently accepted the notion that we were guilty for our sit-in -- designed to draw attention to human rights abuses here in Canada and the potential deportation to torture of the Secret Trial Five -- then that would have been the end of it. But because we decided to contest the notion that there was something wrong with our act of necessity, to try and save the lives of these men, their families, and the very notion of due process itself, we were to be punished. It was an act very much in keeping with the nature of what we were protesting at CSIS. Indeed, when Muslim men refuse to spy for CSIS, they are thrown in jail for years without charge or bail, and threatened with deportation to torture. Obedience is rewarded, disobedience and conscience are punished. In the end, Behrens explained that in similar cases, individuals are often either given an absolute discharge or a fine of $100. Romaine explained that she has no employment but that, even if she did, that was not the point--why were we being punished for standing up for human rights? "Irrelevant," came the favourite word of the JP, adding, "Fifty dollar fine" in the same arbitrary manner in which he had pronounced the first fine. We assured him we would not pay it, and walked out of court to the thumbs-up and smiles of most of those awaiting the opportunity to contest speeding and parking tickets. Last night, as he called from his solitary confinement cell, where he has spent the past three years and 8 months, Hassan Almrei spoke about the impending court decision. "You know of course you are guilty," Hassan explained. "You guys are guilty of being human, you are guilty of caring for people who spend years in solitary confinement on secret evidence." While we could have shared this with the JP, it would perhaps have been declined -- like everything else that has to do with human rights and democracy -- as "irrelevant" in his courtroom. Undeterred, the defendants will continue to campaign to end secret trials in Canada, and have marked their calendars for the 24 Hours Against Torture vigil on June 8. Hassan Almrei has a bail hearing scheduled for June 27 and 28. For more info: tasc at web.ca or (416) 651-5800, www.homesnotbombs.ca Apparently it's illegal to attempt suicide by self-immolation, according to Canadian statist goons http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/05/03/fire-legislature050503.html Theft of possessions of relative of Gitmo victim, and even reading her diaries, permitted by pig-loving judge - but return limit set http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7949 Election committee tries to ban Canadian eco-newsletter http://bc.indymedia.org/feature/display/1057/index.php RCMP kill again with taser http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/1/125217/8418 Canada police brutality investigated http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/1/11526/87665 Innocent people jailed without charge in Canada, now at risk of deportation to torture and death http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=6651 Indigenous activists arrested by "anti-terror" goon squad http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/29/133318/281 Activists jailed for Kamloops blockade http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/17/124542/196 Consvervatives shown to be complicit in murder of indigenous protester by pigs http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/31/75641/8285 Discrimination against the poor in local cohabitation law http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/1/114036/3199 Canadian goons deport immigration activist http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/26/11210/9194 Killed in Iran, persecuted in Canada - Iranian photojournalism banned http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1119131409564&call_pageid=1105528093962&col=1105528093790&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes REPRESSION: EUROPE Crackdown-culture TV show triggers pogrom in Holland http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=19&story_id=18871&name=Riot+erupts+as+man+admitssexual+abuse+in+TV+show http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4374461 Statist goons respond by trampling on media freedom, invading TV news station http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=19&story_id=19093&name=Media+union+angered+by+police+raid+ GERMANY: State fascism on the rampage - paramilitary policing with helicopters and snatch-squads used in terror against graffiti artists http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/berl-a28.shtml Fascist "anti-terror" laws lead to deportation of innocent refugee for being unemployed http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/immi-a03.shtml Repression against Basque youth groups continues http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1805 Hungarian socialist arrested for wearing red star http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/584/letters.htm Greece: Absurd prosecution and stitch-up attempt against anarchists accused of sabotage against riot cops http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050718170401303 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050713125650816 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050709161617597 "Anti-terror" laws used to persecute Greenpeace in Denmark http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=5240 Irish state signs away rights to US - American agencies to be allowed secret interrogations and property theft in Ireland http://www.irishexaminer.com/pport/web/ireland/Full_Story/did-sg46g7Ks0cvBEsg7OWirIStPSk.asp Irish cop brutality covered up http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050723223030154 British Algerian jailed in Italy on trumped-up charges http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8469 Immigration "controls" kill - five die storming EU enclave http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4292490.stm Martial law in Italy: pigs seize control of transport depots in Genoa http://www.cbc.ca/story/sports/national/2005/08/09/Sports/genoa050809.html Vicious repression in Iceland - vehicles driven at eco-protesters, and foreigners stripped of rights http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1889 Vicious racist crackdown could spark 25,000 deportations from Holland http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20218.htm Real role of German "anti-terror" laws is to persecute protesters, admits report http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=6918 Greece: artist on trial for insulting the church! http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/66998/ Germany: journalist faces stitch-up for antifa activism as NPD and pigs collude http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1984 GREENPEACE ARE TERRORISTS? In October '03 Danish Greenpeace activists hung an anti-Genetic Modification banner on the Agricultural Council building in Copenhagen. In May 2005, the individual activists who carried out the banner drop, along with the entire Danish Greenpeace organisation, were charged with trespass under new anti-terrorist legislation which allows not just individuals but an entire organisation to be charged with a criminal offence. In June '05 Greenpeace was duly convicted under the "terrorist" trespass charges and fined 30,000 dkr (approximately 4,000 Euros). They also had 20,000 dkr worth of equipment confiscated. A spokeswoman for 'Greenpeace Europe' told ELP "Greenpeace Nordic were of course shocked to see laws intended to limit international terrorism being used to convict organisations whose work is based on strong principles of non-violence. Greenpeace has therefore appealed this verdict." Following Greenpeace's conviction, ELP has learnt that Amnesty International has also voiced their concern for the consequences of this law. For more info see www.statewatch.org/news/2005/jun/04greenpeace.htm REPRESSION: ISRAEL/PALESTINE Israel tortures women and children http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=Enews&id=2520 Israeli prisoners photograph children naked http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=Enews&id=2526 Mother pleads for right to visit imprisoned son http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=Enews&id=2538 Child prisoners loses his voice due to Israeli torture http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=Enews&id=2578 Physical and sexual abuse of children in Israeli prisons http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=81502&src=0 Soldiers shoot Palestinian boy for not collaborating http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10869&Itemid=1 Humiliation at the apartheid wall crossing points http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10890&Itemid=1 Death in custody due to Israeli human rights violations http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=Enews&id=2612 http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=Enews&id=2666 Medical neglect threatens life of prisoner http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10947&Itemid=1 Israeli prisons are like hell, reveals former prisoner http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=Enews&id=2686 Pharmacist detained http://imemc2.thinkhost.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10399&Itemid=1 Lethal X-ray machine kills elderly Palestinian woman http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=10743&Itemid=2 Israeli uses harmful and indecent equipment to scan Palestinians http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10978&Itemid=1 Israel uses paralysis gun against Bilin protesters http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10806&Itemid=1 Mass arrest of Palestinian workers in Israel http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11158&Itemid=0 Continued torture of Palestinian detainees in Israel - solitary confinement http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12197&Itemid=1 State terror in Hebron as soldiers arrest residents and activist http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11986&Itemid=1 Collective punishment in Bil'in as reprisal for protests http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/palmedialert/message/446 Israeli interference leads to death of elderly woman http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11862&Itemid=1 Why kill Nino? Innocent Palestinian murdered by Israeli soldiers http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4000.shtml Soldiers ambush, kidnap anti-wall protest organiser http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11543&Itemid=1 Village put under curfew to smash wall protests http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1891 Palestinian authority pursues the latest grab at authoritarian power by ripping down political posters http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050717-09433000-bc-mideast-flags.xml Israel plots to smash Jerusalem mosque http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=8553 Israel wants to stop Palestinian compensation suits http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4012.shtml http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6EJ3U2?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PFR Palestinian prisoner loses sight because of Israeli torture http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=Enews&id=3333 300 Palestinian prisoners dying in Israeli jails http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12667&Itemid=1 Palestinian children given harsh terms http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12789&Itemid=1 Palestinians forced to drink piss http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11294&Itemid=1 Palestinian jailed indefinitely, blinded by dark cells, and kept in solitary confinement http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12866&Itemid=1 Israeli goons stop child getting medical treatment http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=Enews&id=3468 Knesset passes new anti-Palestinian laws http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/PressR/English/2005/87-2005.htm Prison abuse - Israeli style http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13030&Itemid=1 REPRESSION: GLOBAL Massacre by UN forces in Haiti - dozens killed in attack on slum http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1860 Haiti pigs launch massacre at soccer match http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/8/26/171233/077 Social cleansing in Zimbabwe: when a dictator is as devastating as a tsunami http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=817 Mass demolitions and other human rights abuses http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_1721780,00.html http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/629/629p20.htm Mugabe lays waste to buildings in new terror tactic http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1908 More Zimbabwe social cleansing coverage http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1999 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2095 http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/20zimbabwe.html http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050527123156347 http://www.pambazuka.org/index.php?issue=214 http://www.zlhr.org.zw/media/releases/may_24_05.htm http://www.sokwanele.com/articles/sokwanele/opmuramb_overview_18june2005.html http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=12138 http://www.hrforumzim.com/frames/inside_frame_special.htm http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=12400 http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6837 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/zimb-j16.shtml http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2744 http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/629/629p20.htm http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_050723mugabe.shtml http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/632/632p11.htm For a united socialist response to the attacks http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/580/zimbabwe.htm Unicef report on Zimbabwe crisis http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0726-11.htm Caterpillar caught supplying Zimbabwe http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?2,40,5,793 Journalist arrested for filming raids http://www.pambazuka.org/index.php?id=28269 Thousands arrested in Harare crackdown http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=11934 Troops carry out population purges in Filipino warzone - Manobo displaced http://www.bulatlat.net/news/5-15/5-15-manobo.htm "War on drugs" is war on hill tribes in Laos http://gaizao.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=415 Montagnard refugees driven out of Cambodia http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0721-05.htm Iran judicially murders two youths for being gay http://www.beirut.indymedia.org/ar/2005/07/2999.shtml Kangaroo court: Tak Bai commission refuses to investigate massacre and insists on secrecy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1609 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1610 Press freedom under attack in Thailand - censorship in Muslim South http://www.cpj.org/news/2005/Thai19july05na.html Journalist on trial for criticising government http://www.ifj-asia.org/page/thailand050718.html Continuing detention of journalist in Iran http://www.counterpunch.org/fiyouzat07142005.html Ethnic cleansing against Uighur in China http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7186 Human rights violating cop restored to position by Mauritius government http://www.lalitmauritius.com/news.asp?newsid=626 More on repression at SEKA and women's day in Turkey http://www.peoplesmarch.com/archives/2005/may2k5/TKP-ML.htm Gay anarchist jailed and beaten in Turkish prison for conscientious objection http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1918 Manipur state goons plan shoot-on-sight against Meitei language activists http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/09/stories/2005040902201300.htm Bihar Dalit youth beaten by upper-class goons for getting educated http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2753 8000 homeless and destitute as Bangladesh shanty town razed http://www.bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidDate=2005-07-21&hidType=LOC&hidRecord=0000000000000000053376 Burma: fascist regime cracks down even further http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_13-6-2005_pg4_24 Soldiers massacre fishermen http://www.mizzima.com/mizzima/archives/news-in-2005/news-in-July/20-July-05-39.htm State terror in the rural hinterlands of the Phillipines http://www.bulatlat.net/news/5-9/5-9-enemy.htm Qatar strips 15,000 Qataris of citizenship - apparently for political dissent http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=9268 Jordanian activist jailed for criticising US http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050605132858347 Vigilantism on the rise in Nepal http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-04-04-nepal-vigilantes_x.htm Ethnic cleansing against Roma in Kosova http://www.scn.org/roma/ethnic_cleansing.html More on Kosova - Serbs evacuated, ethnic cleansing and conflict continue http://www.guardian.co.uk/Kosovo/Story/0,2763,1490685,00.html Innocent Indians executed in Saudi Arabia http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/apr/20spec2.htm Violent land clearances in Uganda - several killed http://uganda.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/05/20/state_sponsored_banditry_on_the_rise_in_uganda.html Museveni wants crackdown on dissidents http://uganda.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/06/29/museveni_orders_'anarchists'_arrest.html "UPDF forces and officials of other government-related military security agencies have committed and are still continuing committing multiple abuses against the human rights of northern Ugandans, including summary execution, torture, rape, child recruitment, and inhuman conditions of detention in unauthorized detention locations." http://uganda.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/05/02/human_rights_violations_by_ugandan_government.html Controversy over Indonesian drug stitch-up of Australian tourist http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1637 South Africa plans land grab against long-term factory squatters http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p20i.htm Is the Iraqi resistance running its own little Gitmos? http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/06/19/a2.int.torture.0619.html Ogiek flee as Kenya persecution escalates http://www.ogiek.org/news/news-post-05-07-4.htm Civil rights under attack in Indonesia - student jailed for "disrespecting" president http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1842 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1840 Fascistic crackdown against Shi'ites in Yemen - villagers terrorised and threatened, hundreds of innocent people arrested, Shi'ite clerics treated as heretics, mass rape threatened, books seized, doctors harassed. http://www.jafariyanews.com/2k5_news/july/14shias_persecution_yemen.htm Pakistan: planned demolition of football stadium draws protests http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1922 Police raid Pentecostal church Masked special forces call worshippers 'sectarian,' 'prostitutes' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: April 23, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Michael Ireland ? 2005 Assist News Service Twenty masked special and plain clothes police raided an evening seminar at a church in Izhevsk, the capital of the Udmurtia autonomous republic in Russia. According to the Forum 18 News Service, police forced about 70 people outside the Work of Faith church April 14, calling them "sectarians" and "prostitutes," while they searched the building. Nearly 50 church members were held for five hours at the police station and fingerprinted. Udmurtia's interior ministry claimed the Pentecostals had "distorted" details of the raid. Pentecostal bishop Yuri Degtyar told Forum 18 he believes the public prosecutor now has things under control and that the investigation into police conduct during the raid will be "objective." "The public prosecutor's response was pro-active," he said Thursday from Izhevsk, about 700 miles east of Moscow. "They have taken control of the situation." On Tuesday, the Moscow-based Slavic Centre for Law and Justice questioned how, before the investigation had even started, Udmurtia public prosecutor Boris Sarnayev could announce to the press that "no police action aimed at humiliating people on religious grounds has been established." Twenty masked special and plain clothes police officers burst into premises owned by its affiliate church, Word of Faith, on the evening of April 14, breaking through a side gate although the main gates were open, the national Pentecostal union headed by Bishop Sergei Ryakhovsky reported in a statement. Shouting "Quick! We'll break your legs!" the officers directing the operation - one of whom was said to be drunk and brandishing a pistol - reportedly forced the approximately 70 people present, including pastors, worshippers and seminar participants, to stand facing an outside wall for approximately half an hour while both they and the building were searched. According to the union, the officers told Pastor Mikhail Russkikh that no search warrant was required after 6 p.m. and repeatedly called church members "sectarians" and "prostitutes," before detaining 46 of those present in a single cell at the local police station for approximately five hours. The Pentecostal Union statement says the detainees were interrogated individually, fingerprinted and photographed, some were told to sign blank witness statements, and one was hit when he refused to answer questions. No formal police charges were reportedly made. On Monday, the Interfax news agency reported a spokesman for Udmurtia's department of the Interior Ministry, which includes the police force, insisted the Pentecostal Union had "distorted" events and vowed his department would file suit against "a number of organizations and citizens" circulating information about the incident in the media if it proved unconfirmed by the public prosecutor's investigation. Asked Thursday how precisely the Pentecostal union statement had distorted events, a press spokesman at Udmurtia's Interior Ministry department directed Forum 18 to a Monday statement on the Udmurtia state authorities' official website. The statement maintained that an Izhevsk district public prosecutor had issued a warrant for an urgent search of the church's premises in connection with the April 9 discovery not far from the building of a murdered man. The statement also claimed that both the murdered man and a man accused of the murder had lived at the church's premises from 2003 onwards. The murderer had placed his victim's possessions at the church's premises and told police that a number of people with previous convictions lived there without registration. This, according to the statement, led to the April 14 search and detention of 46 people, against 22 of whom administrative charges were brought for not having registration. [Russian citizens are required by law to register at any locality where they stay for more than 90 days.] Bishop Degtyar insisted that only 12 people present at the church's premises did not have registration, being participants in Word of Faith's ex-convict rehabilitation project. "These twelve are people with difficult pasts trying to change their lives," he told Forum 18. "This was the only administrative violation, but it doesn't warrant police in masks scaring us all - there are civilized ways of conducting searches." In addition, he said, no mention of the murder investigation was made until several days after the search, and no one was questioned about it during the police interrogation. "The questions were rather: 'Why do you go to this church and not an Orthodox church?', 'How much money do you donate to your church?'" In a statement published on the Slavic Centre for Law and Justice website Tuesday, Degtyar also explained that the man accused of the murder had last been seen at the church's rehabilitation centre approximately 18 months ago and that the church had unfortunately not known he was using a false identity or was wanted by police in other parts of the country, "otherwise we would have turned him in to the law-enforcement agencies ourselves." The murder victim had also not been seen at the centre for a long time, maintained the statement. Work of Faith Church runs a number of social projects assisting the homeless, orphans and low-income families in addition to former convicts. "We are working to change society for the better," Degtyar told Forum 18. "We want it to be healthy and strong." In July 2001, Dmitry Mafenko, then leader of the church's anti-drugs project, was kidnapped with his assistant Pavel, and the pair have not been seen since. While acknowledging that local drug dealers are opposed to the church's activity, Degtyar stressed to Forum 18 that there was no connection between this kidnapping and the April 14 raid, which he put down to "local police arbitrariness." The church previously has had no conflict with the police, he added: "We pray for the authorities - the incident was completely unexpected, and many people are still in shock about it." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7544 Somali peace activist assassinated http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0711-09.htm WalMart close store to smash union http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0511-03.htm MinuteMen suck - migration to US is necessary safety-valve http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0511-26.htm MinuteMen to take on foreign capital http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0424-25.htm Message from ELF/ALF prisoner Chris McIntosh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2757 The absurdity of Jeff Luers' sentence http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2756 Iran election analysis by Iranian socialist http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/582/iran.htm Francis Ona's role analysed http://www.counterpunch.org/watts07302005.html Oppression breeds violence - racism and "crime" in AmeriKKKa http://www.counterpunch.org/chestnut07292005.html Latest Zapatista declaration http://www.counterpunch.org/marcos07142005.html Poison spraying in America http://www.counterpunch.org/hudson04192005.html Thinking socialism and the economy through engagement with workers http://www.nd.edu/~econrep/papers/graham.html The crisis in Niger - interview with a local activist http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7151 Jeff Luers interview http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/06/22/gree.DTL South Africa since the fall of Apartheid - how much has changed? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3608149.stm Protests expected at Hong Kong summit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1574 Bogus hostage crisis hits Iraq http://www.uruknet.info/?p=11168&hd=0&size=1&l=x Manipur: agitation over script reform replaces political unrest http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/sair/Archives/3_41.htm "Moral and cultural policing" and extortion by armed opposition groups in Manipur http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/GD05Df03.html What is al-Qaeda? http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GE21Ak04.html Interview with Ewa Jasiewicz on workers in Iraq http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/622/622p12.htm Article on sabotage in the workplace http://www.cert.org/archive/pdf/insidercross051105.pdf Article on class and caste war in Bihar http://www.anthropologymatters.com/journal/2004-2/kunnath_2004_under.htm Iraqi mujahideen seize control of border town http://www.jihadunspun.net/intheatre_internal.php?article=102320&list=/home.php& Indonesia police accused of planting bomb http://www.laksamana.net/vnews.cfm?ncat=48&news_id=8193 The formation of national identity in the Indian northeast http://www.epw.org.in/showArticles.php?root=2005&leaf=05&filename=8680&filetype=html Afghanistan: wartime sexual violence http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_ahmad/20050526.html A Chicano/a reply to the racist SOS/Minutemen gangs http://la.indymedia.org/news/2005/06/128101.php Speech by class struggle hero Craig Johnson after his release from political imprisonment http://www.socialist-alliance.org//page.php?page=426 Escape from Halifax: Sea Shepherd activist evades capture http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050718180124723 CIA links to Sudan genocide http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/052205Y.shtml Occupation and oil in Western Sahara http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12506 Cambodian mass grave sold off to corporation http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/04/privatizing-mass-grave-in-cambodia.html Phillipines mining area militarised to protect corporations from dissent http://www.bulatlat.net/news/5-9/5-9-abra.htm Analysis of neocon project in the Middle East http://wampum.wabanaki.net/archives/001436.html Fake hostage crisis in Iraq http://www.uruknet.info/?p=11168&hd=0&size=1&l=x India: government blamed for tribal unrest http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/20/stories/2005042012130400.htm Neoliberals praise Gujarat, site of anti-Muslim pogroms http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=81&page=10] For Arab press, humiliating photos of Saddam reinforce hostility to the US http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0523/p07s02-woiq.html Priest crucifies Nun to death in exorcism ritual in Romania http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1119098341918B265 Rare sensible ruling by judge protects denouncement of racist police in America http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050527/NEWS01/50527002 Effects of torture on US public culture http://www.counterpunch.com/floyd05252005.html Did Blair rig his way back into parliament? http://unspun.mithuro.com/content/view/82/36/ "War on terror is just propaganda" confirms military source http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1234660.htm Interview on trade union organising in the Kaliningrad docks http://www.icftu.org/displaydocument.asp?Index=991222033&Language=EN Video on South African housing struggles https://video.indymedia.org/en/2005/07/138.shtml Seed-saving in Iraq http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13970&s2=23 Afghan elections reveal disaster of US colonialism http://www.countercurrents.org/afgan-whitney301005.htm Globalisation is an anomaly and its time is running out http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,7369,1542027,00.html MALAYSIA: Crackdown on immigrants reversed due to labour shortage http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4583061.stm INDIA: homeless workers face anxiety http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/may292005/district1751492005528.asp Anti-protest laws will not stop Commonwealth Games protests, say Aboriginal leaders http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,15280338%255E11088,00.html On globalisation, Iraq and Middle East studies - Chomsky http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=11&ItemID=7548 James Petras on the causes of the Iraq war http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=34928 Anarchy in China Farmers angry at corruption and poverty repel riot police, and sightseers arrive to gawk at the tiny village that rose up against authorities. salon.com - - - - - - - - - - - - By Jonathan Watts There is a strange new sightseeing attraction in this normally sleepy corner of the Chinese countryside: smashed police cars, rows of trashed buses and dented riot helmets. They are the trophies of a battle in which peasants scored a rare and bloody victory against the Communist authorities, who face one of the most serious popular challenges to their rule in recent years. In driving off more than 1,000 riot police at the start of the week, Huankantou village in Zhejiang province is at the crest of a wave of anarchy that has seen millions of impoverished farmers block roads and launch protests against official corruption, environmental destruction and the growing gap between urban wealth and rural poverty. China's media have been forbidden to report on the government's loss of control, but word is spreading quickly to nearby towns and cities. Tens of thousands of sightseers and well-wishers are flocking every day to see the village that beat the police. But the consequences for Huankantou are far from clear. Having put more than 30 police in the hospital, five critically, the 10,000 residents should be bracing for a backlash. Instead, the mood is euphoric. Children have not been to school since Sunday's clash. There are roadblocks outside the chemical factory that was the origin of the dispute. Late at night the streets are full of gawking tourists, marshaled around the battleground by proud locals who bellow chaotic instructions through loudspeakers. "Aren't these villagers brave? They are so tough it's unbelievable," said a taxi driver from Yiwu, the nearest city. "Everybody wants to come and see this place. We really admire them. "We came to take a look because many people have heard of the riot," said a fashionably dressed young woman who had come from Yiwu with friends. "This is really big news." Although the aftermath is evident in a school car park full of smashed police buses, burned-out cars and streets full of broken bricks and discarded sticks, the origin of the riot is hazy. Initial reports suggested that it started after the death of two elderly women, who were run over when police attempted to clear their protest against a chemical factory in a nearby industrial park. Witnesses confirmed that the local old people's association had kept a 24-hour vigil for two weeks outside the plant. Many said they had heard of the deaths, but no one could name the victims. The local government of Dongyang insists there were no fatalities. Like many of the other disputes that have racked China in the past year, frustration had been simmering for some time. Locals accused officials of seizing the land for the industrial park -- built in 2002 -- without their consent. Some blamed toxins from the chemical plant for ruined crops, malformed babies and contamination of the local Huashui River. The village chief reportedly refused to hold a public meeting to hear these grievances. Attempts to petition the central government also proved fruitless. Locals said they had lost faith in the authorities. "The Communists are even worse than the Japanese," said one man. Memories are still fresh of the fighting on Sunday. "It was about 4 a.m. and I was woken up by an unusual noise," said Wang, a shopkeeper who lives next to the school where the fiercest fighting took place. "When I looked out of the window, I saw lots of riot police running into the village. Many men rushed out of their houses to defend our village." Accounts of the conflict differ. Residents say 3,000 police stormed the village, several people (including police) were killed, dozens were wounded and 30 police buses were destroyed. But the Dongyang government says about 1,000 police and local officials were attacked by a mob, which led to 36 injuries and no deaths. The outcome is also unclear. Locals say the village chief has fled. In his place, they have established an organizing committee, though its members are a secret. This suggests a fear of recriminations, but the public mood is one of bravado. "We don't feel regret about what we have done," said a middle-aged man. "The police have not come back since they withdrew on Monday. They dare not return." Some, however, admitted to anxiety. Among them was an old woman -- also named Wang -- who reluctantly opened her doors to visitors who had come to see her collection of trophies from the battle. "I am scared," she said, as she showed two dented riot police helmets, several empty gas canisters, a policeman's jacket and several truncheons and machetes. "This is getting bigger and bigger." But there have been no arrests and no communication from the authorities. The current leadership will be keen to avoid a Tiananmen Square-style confrontation, including Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, who pleaded with the Tiananmen protesters to leave before the tanks came. At the same time, the authorities are committed to social stability. According to government statistics, protests increased by 15 percent last year to 58,000, with more than 3 million people taking part. In many provincial capitals, roadblocks occur more than once a week. Last weekend, anti-Japanese demonstrators rallied in three cities, including Beijing. But in Huankantou, villagers do not seem to realize that although they have won the battle, they may be far from winning the war. Amid a crowd of locals beside a wrecked bus, one middle-aged woman won a cheer of approval by calling for the government to make the first move toward reconciliation. "It's up to them to start talking," she said. "I don't know what we would do if the police came back again, but our demand is to make the factory move out of the village. We will not compromise on that." Beijing Review Colorless Revolution Kyrgyzstan feels the domino effect of the revolutions that have toppled the governments of former Soviet republics -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By DING ZHITAO POST-REVOLUTION RALLY: Kyrgyz citizens focus on a political debate in a square in Bishkek after the collapse of the Akaev government They failed to agree on a color for their revolution-never quite making a decision on tulip, lemon or pink-but they did successfully overthrow a government in two weeks. The disputed parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan triggered widespread protests last month across the mountainous Central Asian country. On March 24, opponents of President Askar Akaev stormed main government buildings in the capital city of Bishkek. Akaev made almost no attempt to resist and fled to Russia. For Akaev, the uproar must have been unexpected. The ousted leader had regarded his country, nicknamed "Switzerland of Central Asia," one of the most democratic in the region, which therefore seemed immune to the popular color-coded democratic revolutions that have impacted other republics of the former Soviet Union, like the most recent "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine and the "Rose Revolution" in Georgia. The Akaev government first believed it had made abundant preparations for the elections. More importantly, it claimed to have considered the demands raised by the United States and the Center for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. President Unprepared When the crisis broke out, Akaev proved to be unprepared both psychologically and institutionally. He underestimated the strength of his opponents when protests first mushroomed in the south of the country. In dealing with the initial protests and those that followed, the moderate intellectual president and respected physicist tried handling the situation according to legal procedures to avoid further complications. He even dreamed of overcoming the protests with the help of the West. But he did not expect the situation to devolve so rapidly and spiral out of his control. For observers, what happened in Kyrgyzstan is not that surprising. They believe that it was another typical "color" revolution. The revolutions in these republics have a lot in common. They started with elections that were deemed fraudulent and illegal by the opposition. The government in power would then agree to hold new elections, which created the opportunity for the opposition to take control. Presidents were forced to resign or flee. At pivotal moments, power agencies, including the police, army and intelligence, all supported the opposition, causing the unprotected governments to topple. Foreign intervention and influence can also be traced in the revolutions. "Opposition forces, financed from the outside, are seeking to bring about the collapse of our society," said Akaev as his government began to unravel. In late 2003, the rose revolution in Georgia forced out President Eduard Shevardnadze and put Mikhail Saakashvili in his place. In late 2004, nearly the same thing happened in Ukraine. Viktor Yushchenko was brought to power through the Orange Revolution, taking Viktor Yanukovich out of the political scene. Sun Zhuangzhi, a researcher at the Institute of Russia, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), was one of the 14 political observers dispatched by the Chinese Foreign Ministry to Bishkek for the latest elections. He witnessed the poll that ended in the collapse of the former government in Kyrgyzstan. The "successful examples" made in Georgia and Ukraine provided a model that could be copied by the opposition in Kyrgyzstan, according to Sun. Kyrgyzstan has been burdened with sharp ethnic contradictions, severe social inequality and sluggish economy. A majority of its population of 5 million people is living below the poverty line. But in the realm of geo-politics, the country between China and Uzbekistan is of vital strategic importance. Kyrgyzstan is located on the ancient Silk Road and bridges the East and the West. It is also an important transit of international drug trafficking and a recognized hotbed of Islamic extremists. Both the United States and Russia deployed troops to the country in the name of antiterrorism. Their military bases are only 33 km away from each other. Both countries seek influence in Kyrgyzstan. Big Blow for Moscow For Moscow, Kyrgyzstan's revolution was like a fire in its backyard. Russia had to postpone its joint military exercise with Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia and Tajikistan, and changed the location of the exercise from Kyrgyzstan to Tajikistan. According to a security agreement signed in 1992, the countries committed to combating terror, drug trafficking and organized crime together. The Russian administration cannot help but regard the collapse of the Akaev government as another big loss. Observers agree that the political upheaval in Kyrgyzstan is a new manifestation of the loss of Russian influence in former Soviet states, following Georgia and Ukraine, which were all friendly regimes in Russia's traditional sphere of influence. Some put forth the idea that the series of color-coded provocations were meant to encircle Russia. Kyrgyzstan's presidential election due in June is very likely to produce a pro-West government. The political structures of Central Asia then are changing unfavorably for Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin might have already predicted the situation, or might have learned a lesson from the previous revolutions. Moscow has been keeping a low profile during Kyrgyzstan's revolution, unlike the situation in Ukraine where Putin was vocal about supporting Yanukovich and his pro-Russia government. Despite being relatively quiet on Kyrgyzstan, President Putin told a press conference in Armenia on March 25 that Russia would try its best to maintain its current relations with Kyrgyzstan, and explained the revolution in the country was the result of weak authority and economic and social deterioration. Russia promised to continue energy supply to Kyrgyzstan. Putin seems to be giving Moscow some wiggle room for working with a new government. Also on March 25, a U.S. State Department spokesman said that the Bush administration would join the Russian Government to help Kyrgyzstan maintain order. In a gesture to materialize its pledge of continuing to support economic and democratic reform in Kyrgyzstan, Washington also promised an aid package of $31 million this year. Actually, aid from the West is not a new development. The U.S. Government has been giving scholarship to young people from the five Central Asian countries to receive education in the West. Some of those students have working vigorously in the color revolutions. The United States also has donated a large sum of money to build schools in Kyrgyzstan, which was well received in the country and was instrumental in nurturing pro-America sentiment there. Several European countries, including Britain, the Netherlands and Norway, have also joined in U.S. efforts in Kyrgyzstan. Other than financial aid, widespread criticism of Akaev made opposition forces fearless. Just as Akaev once said, "Many foreign forces feed our opposition morally and financially." Good News for U.S. The regime change in Kyrgyzstan can be viewed as particularly auspicious for U.S. President George W. Bush, given his State of the Union appeal in February to achieve democracy in other places around the world. Washington seems satisfied with the situation in Kyrgyzstan. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on March 24 that the upheaval in Kyrgyzstan could become a democratic success story if political change occurs without violence. "It will have been a very good thing," she said. However, for other Central Asian leaders, the revolution in Kyrgyzstan rang an alarm. Regional governments are concerned that the domino effect of the color revolutions that tipped over Georgia, Ukraine and now Kyrgyzstan, could strike them next. Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan will both hold elections soon. In Belarus, appeals for the president to resign have been heard. On March 25, only the second day following the topple of the government in Bishkek, opposition in Belarus tried launching a "snow revolution" in Minsk and demanded that their president Alexander Lukashenko step down. Though the situation was taken under control, Lukashenko's political rivals are optimistic about the future. They said that what happened was simply a rehearsal, and the decisive phase of the Belarus revolution would take place in one year. As a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the political earthquake in Kyrgyzstan certainly exerts profound influence on the regional body. The second day after the collapse of the Akaev government, SCO Secretary General Zhang Deguang said in Beijing that peace, security and political stability was of great importance to the region. He admitted the SCO had been watching closely the development of the domestic situation in Kyrgyzstan, which had made a major contribution to the founding and development of the SCO. China Makes Contact On March 28 and 29, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing exchanged opinions on the Kyrgyzstan situation with his counterparts from Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in telephone conversations. All foreign ministers agreed to further strengthen the construction of the SCO. Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV news reported on March 24 that geographical politics in the Central Asia was confronting the possibility of major changes. If pro-America politicians win the election in June, it might be doubtful that Kyrgyzstan would remain in the SCO. Whether the SCO Regional Antiterrorism Structure shall remain in Bishkek is also suspicious. These possibilities pose great challenges to the future of the SCO. China shares a border of more than 1,000 km with Kyrgyzstan, where land trading ports have been established with Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Kyrgyzstan has been viewed as an important buffer in the Central Asian region, where terrorism, separatism and religious extremism have been rampant. Observers warn that the East Turkistan terrorist forces may make the most of Kyrgyzstan's political disorder. Among the four terrorist organizations deemed illegal by the Supreme Court in Kyrgyzstan in November 2003, three had links with the East Turkistan Islamic Movement that seeks to split Xinjiang from China. Rampant Looting Besides, the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway might also be impacted by the chaos in Kyrgyzstan. The 600-km-long railway is expected to shorten the distance from Xinjiang to the Middle East and the Gulf area, and extend to Europe. A new Silk Road of the 21st century is planned to link Beijing and Paris, but it might be postponed in the short term. China's energy strategy of going west might also be affected by the latest situation in Central Asia. Wan Wancai, a Xinhua News Agency correspondent in Kyrgyzstan, said the political upheaval in Kyrgyzstan itself posed little danger to China, though loss of business was inevitable in any country in turmoil. Many shops in Bishkek have been ransacked during violence and vandalism, resulting in economic losses of at least $8 million for dozens of Chinese businesses. The Chinese Foreign Ministry and Embassy in Kyrgyzstan launched the emergency response system to ensure the security of the 10,000 Chinese nationals in the Central Asia country, arranging for special planes and cars to evacuate those who wanted to return to China. A bigger concern than these losses, Wan said, was the possibility of U.S. deployment of long-distance espionage planes to Kyrgyzstan, which could pose a negative influence to China's security. Phoenix TV predicted that China's strategic space in the Central Asia would feel the pinch if the United States was able to establish a bridgehead in the heart of the region. SILLY STUFF AND STATIST BULLSHIT "Inmates claimed they were raising a white flag, but there's no winners or losers - we'll (law enforcement) always be the winners," Jones said. http://www.muskogeephoenix.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050426/NEWS01/50426003 WHAT AN ARROGANT NAZI PRICK! All the more reason to overthrow these fuckwads! About an uprising against violent police in Northern Ireland. He said despite all the "concessions that have been given to republicans on the issue of policing" they were "still not satisfied". "When police officers move in to deal with an issue of law and order they are turned upon in this vicious way," So police now think that they have impunity to repress and brutalise, because of some supposed "concessions"?! And of course, what police call justified by their own, becomes "turned upon" and "vicious" when anyone else does it. What a bunch of hypocritical control-freak maniacs! "It's not against the law for them to gather in protest, but it is against the law to impede either vehicular or pedestrian traffic or to become a nuisance," Police Chief Ed Wagner said. http://www.thewmurchannel.com/education/4473224/detail.html Nice technicality, pig! Like, you can ban them from being in any place they might protest, because it might "impede" some other kind of use of that space, and still claim not to be banning them from protesting! Such is the kafkaesque world of pigspeak! "Access was denied to the M4 as a result of these actions. It is a very clear and obvious distraction to motorists driving underneath." (fascist moron prosecutor) http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4530781 "As a result of" means the PIGS decided to close the motorway to stop people seeing the protesters' message. What next? Arrested for obstructing the downward descent of a truncheon with one's head? Times pro-capitalist moron denounces anarchist "time warp" - despite endorsing capitalist economics and bourgeois philanthropy older than even Marx or Stirner! Obsessed with "sending out a message" of course. and all tearful over the poor beleaguered nimbies who say nothing about the pigs. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1062-1682239,00.html http://www.financialexpress.com/latest_full_story.php?content_id=108138 "Neither you nor us have a choice," Sarkozy told police and fire department representatives in Toulouse. "We have to succeed. We will not give a centimeter." (Sarkozy speaking in an attitude of typically fascist intransigence. Statists can see nothing but total war, because they seek nothing but control). "The violence left 25 inmates and 25 prison staff members wounded. One guard was repeatedly cut. Another guard shot and killed an inmate, which authorities said helped quell the riot." YES, THEY REALLY ARE ADVOCATING MURDER AS A FORM OF SOCIAL CONTROL! http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20050904-9999-1n4prison.html Silly article on Korea air strike http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200507/kt2005072516434754050.htm Performatives disguised as descriptives http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200507/20/200507202149155809900090109011.html The barometer of a democracy is how effectively it smashes the right to protest, says this bigot http://www.koilaf.org/index_init.php?url=labor_view.php?num=2969 SILLY STATEMENT. Police Chief Says Anti-Occupation Protestors Can Fly 14 May 2005 By Carlotta Gall, The New York Times "Police fired in the air to disperse the crowd, and as a result one man was killed and one injured," the local police chief, Amir Shah Nayebzada, said in a telephone interview. (thanks to GI Special for spotting this) Silly article praises violent pigs, evil snitches and sellouts who denounce "vandalism" http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050606/NEWS01/506060378 "The republic is completely determined to be stronger than those who want to sow violence or fear," Mr. Chirac said at a news conference in the courtyard of the Elysee Palace after meeting with his internal security council. "The last word must be from the law." http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/international/europe/06cnd-paris.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5040&en=6d035692f695ecb9&ex=1131944400&partner=MOREOVERNEWS "The law must have the last word," the president, Jacques Chirac, said yesterday after a security meeting with senior ministers, making his first public address on the riots http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1636153,00.html?gusrc=rss Typical Schmittian nonsense from a statist who more-or-less admits the underlying premise of statism - that the state exists, simply in order to perpetuate its own existence, and that all that matters to statists is maintaining their own dominance at all costs. And of course, at whatever point the unrest stopped, the state could have claimed credit via whatever its latest repressive initiative was, even though each failed initiative showed the state's real impotence in the face of revolt. "Violence is not a solution," Sarkozy, accused of stoking passions by calling troublemakers "scum", told reporters after the Villepin meeting. "It's a sign that the laws of the republic apply to everyone and that we will not give in to violence," said mayor Gerard Gaudron, a member of the governing UMP party. http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/WorldNF.asp?ArticleID=190354 Interesting hypocrisy coming from representatives of organised violence! This is the same Sarkozy who thinks he can terrorise the poor into submission with police violence, who now poses as a pacifist! And this from a republic founded in the fires of revolution, in the storming of the Bastille and on the barricades of Paris. now reduced to equivalence with the monarchy, and with any state, in its brute arrogance as a state determined to win at all costs. "I speak with real words," Sarkozy told Wednesday's Le Parisien newspaper. "When you fire real bullets at police, you're not a 'youth,' you're a thug." http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/257461EE-4259-42A7-AB98-B712ACE87615.htm and someone needs to read some Roland Barthes. "Zones without law cannot exist in the republic," Chirac said. http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/04/france.riots/ So much for policing by consent. which goes out the window the moment consent is withdrawn. Contrast the discourse of the rebels, who make the "Republic" conditional on its respect for them, rather than their own existence conditional on its diktats. "After an hour, some young people go outside and stand in front of the police: everyone expects a confrontation. How does the police strategy make ay sense, except in terms of "marking their territory", "restoring order" in the most primitive and macho way possible." http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/11/327207.html This is the truth behind all that goes above - the disavowed tyrannical violence underpinning statist arrogance. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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protest Disneyland free transport deal http://www.wftv.com/news/5108874/detail.html Local government workers hold protest for "fair contract" http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2005/10/22/brf301.htm Unionised workers protest at state house over benefits and pensions http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14538383&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6 Naval workers march to protest shipyard closure http://www.thewmurchannel.com/news/4486471/detail.html http://news.mainetoday.com/apwire/D8A2HU7O1-132.shtml Steelworkers stage protest tour over unfair treatment http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050711005586&newsLang=en Firefighters stage picket over cutbacks and contracts http://www.dailynewstribune.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=58699 Camden Yard cleaners, still unpaid, march on bosses http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050601212939258 Student-farmworker alliance report from Florida http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00192.html Farmers protest for labour protection http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6921/692164.html Hundreds of truckers protest fuel prices http://www.nbc6.net/news/4832833/detail.html http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050811205856526 http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6934/693452.html Workers and peace activists stage joint march to support university workers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2182 Strike at Northwest Airlines http://www.labournet.net/world/0508/nwa1.html http://www.labournet.net/world/0508/amfa3.html http://www.labournet.net/world/0508/amfailwu3.html http://www.labournet.net/world/0508/amfadebate1.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6934/693403.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6934/693401.html http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/nwa-a29.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/nwa-j20.shtml Georgetown University workers victory! http://socialismandliberation.org/mag/index.php?aid=359 California workers fight pension privatisation http://socialismandliberation.org/mag/index.php?aid=358 Chicago nursing-home workers win gains http://socialismandliberation.org/mag/index.php?aid=389 Utah miners continue struggle http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6916/index.shtml Los Angeles bus strike http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6932/693263.html San Francisco farm workers rally for contract http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6932/693259.html New York meat packers strike over contract issues, unpaid wages and sackings - at several different companies http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6932/693204.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6920/692012.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6926/692658.html Arizona copper miners strike over unfair labour practices http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6928/692850.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6929/692901.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6927/692755.html New Mexico lava miners strike http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6929/692911.html Fight continues at Utah mine http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6934/693402.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6925/692502.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6927/index.shtml http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6923/692302.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6922/692201.html Houston janitors rally for union http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6921/692163.html United Airlines workers protest pay and benefit cuts http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6919/691910.html Boston power workers strike and win in dispute over cuts, safety http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6924/692452.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6921/692104.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6923/692312.html California janitors strike for medical benefits http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6926/692654.html Rally for union drive at Seattle cement plant http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6927/692702.html Union fight highlights defective body armour http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6923/692301.html Laundry workers stage walkouts as contract negotiations drag http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6923/692355.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6924/692453.html Sympathy strike supports Texas janitors http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j27.shtml Airport strike in New York Machine workers strike in Alabama Plumbers strike at Kent State University http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j06.shtml Detroit nursing home workers locked out http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/seiu-j19.shtml Strike over unfair labour practices at Indiana metal processor Lockout at New York factory Teamsters strike at bottling plant http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a23.shtml Fort Wayne drug centre workers walk out http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j28.shtml Oregon creamery strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j28.shtml Furniture workers' strike ends in agreement http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j21.shtml Strike and lockout at Hawaii hotel http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j21.shtml Pennsylvania teachers' strike continues http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j14.shtml Pennsylvania brewers, New York laundry workers strike Northeast Electrical teamsters locked out after unionising http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j07.shtml Massachusetts utility workers strike Pennsylvania steelworkers strike over healthcare http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m24.shtml Locked-out alloy workers battle security guards http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m17.shtml Maine delivery drivers strike against union-busting Strike at Michigan car plant http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m10.shtml Waste workers strike over company harassment Philly bus drivers stage sickout http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m03.shtml Bus drivers end strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/buss-a30.shtml Industrial workers strike in Texas http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a02.shtml Transit drivers strike over pay cuts Rhode Island nurses protest mandatory overtime Michigan lockout continues http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a09.shtml Schwarzenegger goons ban nurses' strike http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-2/552/552_15_UCNurses.shtml University of California clerical workers strike http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-2/549/549_15_UCClericals.shtml Strike hits Boston Utility http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/545/545_11_NStar.shtml Student rally supports striking grad workers http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/541/541_15_GradEmployees.shtml Militant sit-down supports NYU workers http://www.workers.org/2005/us/nyu-0915/ Akron lecturers protest at graduation over contract http://www.newsnet5.com/education/4906483/detail.html Striking California nurses protest against harassment by security guards http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-13-2005/0004167321&EDATE= Court interpreters strike for contract http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20050518-9999-7m18interp.html Teachers stage protest and overtime ban http://www.tahoe-world.com/article/20050518/News/105180001 Flight attendants stage protest http://www.nbc5i.com/travelgetaways/4502793/detail.html US: WELFARE STATE Students stage Capitol Hill protest to defend social security http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/local/12127486.htm San Diego residents oppose university development because of inadequate infrastructure http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/07/15/news/sandiego/17_31_587_14_05.txt http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20050715-9999-7m15sdsu.html Childcare workers protest policy changes http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1116322451141840.xml&coll=2 Thousands protest closure of Maine shipyard http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2005/05/17/thousands_protest_shipyards_closure/ High-school students hold sit-in to protest funding cuts http://www.thenewsguard.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=2272 Alabama woman finishes protest trek to Washington - protests poverty, hunger http://www.nbc13.com/news/4499923/detail.html Ferry users protest at fare hike, boycott service http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050517/NEWS01/505170348/1004 School students walk out over fee for extracurricular activities http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b3_4walkoutmay12,0,5000394.story?coll=all-newslocal-hed Teachers and supporters protest Schwarzenegger budget http://www.times-standard.com/Stories/0,1413,127~2896~2865585,00.html http://www.willitsnews.com/Stories/0,1413,253~26908~2867917,00.html http://www.marinij.com/Stories/0,1413,234~24407~2865473,00.html http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/11627584.htm Spokane homeless set up protest camp http://www.kxly.com/common/getStory.asp?id=43836 Nurses protest at Johnson and Johnson HQ over attacks on cheap drug access http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=3225&category_id=19 Protest against Bush's social security plans http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/11592702.htm Ohio: anti-cuts rally at state house http://www.newsnet5.com/money/4372284/detail.html Protest over "surplus" school http://www.local10.com/news/4708519/detail.html Residents protest over shopping plaza development http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/07-05/07-13-05/a04lo838.htm Police attack restaurant closure protest - later forced to apologise http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050702/NEWS/507020363/1004 Winona university students protest fee increase http://www.winonadailynews.com/articles/2005/07/14/news/00lead.txt Parents protest introduction of fee-based streaming in state school http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,15929658%255E2862,00.html Youths protest social security plan http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/11592702.htm Pharmaceutical takeover of psychiatry protested http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/20/19364/3675 Rallies target Schwarzenegger cutbacks http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/546/546_11_Governator.shtml Protesters tear down controversial supermarket in New York http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/328269p-280590c.html Protest over school renovations http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20050826-9999-6m26ncmiddle.html Protest over dorm repairs yields results http://www.oberlin.edu/stupub/ocreview/2005/10/7/news/article1.html Idaho students protest funding shortages http://www.journalnet.com/articles/2005/10/03/news/local/news03.txt Homeless families protest at mayor's office in San Francisco http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/21/BAGRNFBV241.DTL Elderly residents protest over home destruction plan http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0519netrailer19.html Teachers stage action day http://www.mtshastanews.com/articles/2005/05/19/news/06protest.txt Brownsville residents protest electricity rates (10/19/05 - BROWNSVILLE, TX) - About 100 residents appeared before the Brownsville City Commission to protest increased electricity rates. The city's Public Utilities Board raised its electric rates by five-and-a-half percent on October First. Each customer must pay an extra $2.77 per thousand kilowatt-hours in their base electric rate. The board provides electricity as well as sewer and water services for Brownsville. Mayor Eddie Trevino Junior attributed the increase to hurricane-related oil refinery shutdowns and the spiraling cost of fuel. http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=state&id=3550266 US: STUDENT PROTESTS Northwest Missouri State students protest against Public and Campus Safety http://www.kq2.com/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=1864 St Louis students protest against fee increase, hold sit-in http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/education/story/6CC84136FCDC65BB86256FE900154B7E?OpenDocument Washington University student fast continues http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=1695 http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/education/story/2421E7D89EC4B46F86256FE500153E73?OpenDocument http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/9EAE31042918110686256FE4001762E4?OpenDocument http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=77989 "Tent State" camp-out at Missouri campus http://www.unews.com/news/2005/04/18/News/Students.Camp.Out.Protest.Tuition-928719.shtml Vicious police attack on tent university protest http://www.yubanet.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/7/20215 Cornell students protest car lot http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/14/425e0fe90f203 Protest over sacking of school principal - students stage 3-day walkout http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/3534E41CBD5CBB8986256FFE0014171B?OpenDocument Rich High School students and parents protest over disrespect by school http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southtown/yrtwn/south/063syt4.htm Students and educators stage roadside protest over California funding cuts http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20050504-9999-1mi4briefs.html Students stage walkout and protest over fascistic backpack ban http://www.thewmurchannel.com/education/4473224/detail.html Racine County school students protest against athletics cuts http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/politics/11428867.htm School nurses hold protest http://www.timesheraldonline.com/Stories/0,1413,296~31531~2824223,00.html Parents and students protest over centralised qualification criteria http://www.komotv.com/stories/36380.htm Medicine cuts prompt protests in Washington State http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=WA%20XGR%20Gregoire%20Health%20Care Bettsville school students protest non-renewal of coach's contract http://www.advertiser-tribune.com/news/story/0416202005_new01protest0416.asp Student protest at resignation of teacher shuts down school http://www.mlive.com/news/fljournal/index.ssf?/base/news-28/111357854380060.xml School students stage walkout over new dress code http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/4385772/detail.html Cruel punishments of Haitian students spark protest http://www.timesledger.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14346752&BRD=2676&PAG=461&dept_id=551068&rfi=6 Kansas Tent State protest http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050421082959439 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050419205541538 Students block intersection, present demands http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050416100719157 Schwarzenegger speech protested at Santa Monica College http://www.laborsmilitantvoice.com/feaSchwartzSMC.htm Mayor faces hail of missiles and car damage as students protest cuts http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050522065118588 Des Moines school students protest against hugging ban http://www.kwqc.com/Global/story.asp?S=4046115&nav=7k7NJ1IJ US: ANTI-CORPORATE/ANTI-CAPITALIST Locals protest over building of WalMart http://www.news8austin.com/content/headlines/?ArID=137362&SecID=2 Graffiti against the system in Los Angeles http://la.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/126184.php Hacktivists target live TV broadcasts http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/other_news/&articleId=244390 Protests at tobacco company meeting http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2005/04/19/news/z4news19.txt Riot cops attack Audioslave (ex-RATM) free concert http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=36950 Protest at Coca-Cola AGM http://www.indiaresource.org/campaigns/coke/2005/cokechallenged.html Modesto "Reclaim the Parks" event targets persecution of the homeless and other issues http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00415.html http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/106 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050726005724360 Protests at Chevron-Texaco AGM http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0428-10.htm Activists torch flags in Sarasota; caught by cops http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050629122130312 El Paso giant flag burnt http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050719152713787 Anti-capitalist Mayday in Boston http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050502142130837 March for media reform http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0516-20.htm Protest hits plans for football stadium in New York http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/stad-m16.shtml WalMart protested in Cleveland http://www.sunnews.com/news/2005/part1/0526/ACWALMAR.htm Protest over safety of drug Paxil - GlaxoSmithkline targeted http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-20-2005/0004111635&EDATE= http://www.volunteertv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3905266 US: PROTESTS AGAINST POLITICIANS As Cheney visits Philly, protesters highlight attacks on social security http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/112-04162005-477023.html Protest at Princeton Frist Centre over Republican attempts to get rid of filibusters http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=734393 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/01/AR2005050100708.html Filibuster protests spread across campuses http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0523-10.htm University of Alabama students protest Rice visit http://www.cw.ua.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/10/21/43589b0214d00 Calvin Uni staff and students sign protest letter over Bush visit http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3364690 Students protest after Bush-themed art is pulled from gallery Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA US: ECOLOGY Artistic protest highlights climate change http://www.canada.com/entertainment/story.html?id=acdb0160-1083-476b-8a38-b048a4f5716c Oregon timber blockade quickly smashed by pigs http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-10/1113842419147450.xml&storylist=orlocal Rainforest protests continue despite ongoing piggery http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/local/scn-gt-protest4apr13,0,2530815.story?coll=green-news-local-headlines Students occupy Cornell building in protest over tree felling http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/29/4271e11545ce6 Police smash lockdown protest against parking lot building at Cornell Uni http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July05/redbud.716.dea.html http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--studentprotest0715jul15,0,7243715.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=3598680 http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/07/15/42d7b86c197ee http://1010wins.com/topstories/local_story_196150429.html http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050715/NEWS01/50715001/1032/LIVING Police attack road-building protest in Illinois; protesters graffiti council building http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw116758_20050605.htm Native Americans protest skylift on sacred site http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/Jul/20050710News030.asp Earth Day protest disrupted by cops http://www.ainfos.ca/05/apr/ainfos00430.html ELF graffiti appears on cars http://www.news10.net/storyfull1.asp?id=10952 Protests over destructive fishing of small fish off eastern USA http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0725-09.htm Anti-nuclear protest at Vermont power plant http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051108/NEWS/511080342/1003/NEWS02 Biotech protest event in Philadelphia http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0617-20.htm Activists protest at timber giant's meeting http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0421-14.htm Protest against road-building in Indianapolis - police attack with tasers http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050604140546831 Activists spraypaint, try to torch road building company's office http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050719105146746 16 arrested for protesting against mountaintop removal by coal company http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050601073515731 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050531140546232 Mountain activists target coal companies http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050809071938202 Students join protest to save Tennessee mountain http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050709085525984 New blockade at Biscuit timber sale - young woman sets up platform http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050812084848399 SUV's graffitied in California http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2005051719091185 Massey coal board protested over pollution near school http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050526170309676 Critical Mass in Sacramento attacked by cops http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050528211935218 http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/04/1735414_comment.php#1735463 Cyclists dismantle anti-cycle barrier in New York http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050426180734793 New York Critical Mass continues despite police harassment http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/30/184056/750 More on earlier protests: Biscuit Sale resistance http://slingshot.tao.ca/displaybi.php?0086017 Pig gives himself heart attack by attacking protesters at biotech conference and dies after police initiate scuffles (those who live by the sword.) http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/06/23/charges-protest050611.html http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=2&id=24314 New York Critical Mass still under attack http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news510.htm Protest at De Beers conference over attacks on indigenous people http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=22&art_id=vn20050624071213546C172873 Hundreds rally against arctic drilling http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2005/09/21/hundreds_protest_drilling_in_arctic_refuge/ Tennessee mountain occupied in mining protest http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news508.htm Rally against Massey mining practices http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783738485 Protest grows against gas plant plans in Maine http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2005/08/22/protest_building_in_new_brunswick_to_lng_plans_in_maine/ Homeowners In Belle Meade Section of Memphis Protest New Development MEMPHIS- A battle is heating up today in the Belle Meade area in East Memphis. A developer wants to build what's called an infill-development on the north side of Poplar. An infill development is where several houses are built on land where only one or two houses stood before. Memphian Tom McCarty lives in Belle Meade and has put a sign in his yard opposing the plan. McCarty says he's afraid of sewage problems as well as increased traffic. In a letter to city planners, the developer says the in-fill would be both successful and consistent with other developments already going up in the area. http://www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=4025301 US: PEACE PROTESTS Fascist pigs interfere with student peace rally http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=36169&ntpid=5 Militarist flags and banners nabbed http://www.kget.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=BD70B00A-A262-4BB5-A415-A52D567BCC8D 40,000 march to abolish nukes near UN convention http://www.pww.org/article/articleprint/6943/ Anti-war protesters arrested at official's office http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0406-01.htm American students fight the military machine http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/622/622p24.htm Angry protest at army fair in Cambridge, Mass. - police attack protesters http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1839 Anti-war protest in Plainfield, NJ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1907 Peace leafleting at heritage day persecuted by pigs http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1121072710156600.xml&coll=2 Silent peace protest in Los Angeles park http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/10/09/MNGFDF4U671.DTL Peace protest in Denver draws thousands http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4142793,00.html 15,000 protest against Iraq war in LA http://www.pcc-courieronline.com/092905/news/protest.html Peace protester arrested at Oswego County parade http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-0/111951577187150.xml&coll=1 Raging Grannies arrested for trying to enlist http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2046 San Diego Iraq peace march pictures http://al-awdasandiego.org/s24/s24.html Anti-nuclear protest targets laboratory http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/Protest-Livermore-Lab.htm Raging Grannies occupy recruiting centre http://www.wlbz2.com/newscenter/article.asp?id=26323 Peace protests, street theatre continue at White House http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1971 Cuntaleeza Rice interrupted by Abu Ghraib re-enactors http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/052805C.shtml Protests outside recruiting offices in Seattle http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11992&s2=24 Cindy Sheehan, mother of dead soldier, stages tent protest near Bush ranch http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/12/AR2005081201816.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1545845,00.html http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-08-10-peace-house_x.htm http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7573 http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7483 http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7556 http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7568 http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0815-03.htm http://www.counterpunch.org/moses08152005.html http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/craw-a23.shtml http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-2/553/553_02_SheehanVigil.shtml Air force officer charged with anti-Bush graffiti http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2329 Staten Islanders protest for peace http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2185 Protests continue in Fayetteville http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0725-06.htm Cops persecute school peace leafleters http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0711-05.htm Anti-nuclear and peace activists rally at nuclear weapons conference http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0502-02.htm http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0501-10.htm Boston military event protested; activists arrested despite being on common land http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0620-21.htm Freeway blogging http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0812-01.htm Protests at nuke sites mark Hiroshima, Nagasaki anniversary http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0802-09.htm Survivors join protesters for LA Hiroshima/Nagasaki vigil http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0807-02.htm Vigils over deaths of innocent people in Iraq http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0426-07.htm Voices in the Wilderness defy ridiculous fine for healing sick Iraqis http://www.counterpunch.org/kelly08152005.html Vicious attacks on protests in Pittsburgh and Salt Lake City - protesters tasered, tear gas fired from helicopters http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent7777/2005/08/23/ More on Pittsburgh counter-recruitment demo - recruiting centre shut down http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050821084558717 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050820155608986 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050821211311961 http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-2/554/554_11_Pittsburgh.shtml On earlier protest, Pittsburgh protesters shut down recruiters http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2005042614042046 Mass protest in Dekalb, Illinois, in solidarity with Pittsburgh protesters http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050823195702850 Salt Lake City demo "reminiscent of Vietnam era" http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050824055043158 Kansas City hosts anarchist anti-war protest http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050523131244193 Catholic Worker activists dig graves at uni in war protest http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2005050308323579 Counter-recruitment flyposting in Ohio http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050503070115544 Anarchists join anti-war march and cause disruption to protest war http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00327.html Labour-peace march http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/546/546_04_SCSU.shtml Victory for students at New York as peace activism spreads http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/540/540_12_Recruiters.shtml Thousands join peace protests http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-10/27/content_3690889.htm 300 protest for peace in Mount Pleasant http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2005/10/30/local/iq_3744623.txt Dozens march in Rochester http://www.wroctv.com/news/story.asp?id=20542&r=l Peace groups target Hillary Clinton fundraiser http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=3539586 Peace protest marks Veterans' Day in New Jersey http://www.nj.com/news/times/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-3/113178843718390.xml&coll=5 Students stage peace rally in Seattle http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002600889_protest03m.html UCSC KICK RECRUITERS OFF CAMPUS http://www.lefthook.org/Ground/Erin040605.html http://www.theksbwchannel.com/news/4353123/detail.html NEW YORK CIA BOOTED http://www.lefthook.org/Ground/Field040605.html Abu Ghraib protest interrupts Rice speech http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1379137.htm Two arrested in topless protest at Capitol Associated Press SACRAMENTO - Two women, members of a group called Breasts Not Bombs, were arrested Monday after they stripped off their tops at the state Capitol to protest measures backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday's special election ballot. Other protesters were permitted to pare to their brassieres or to pasties without being arrested. Some men in the group also removed their shirts. "Once they bared all, they were arrested," said California Highway Patrol Officer Tammy DuTemple. The Mendocino-based group went to court last week to block the arrests, but U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell ruled Friday that "there is no First Amendment right to bare breasts on the grounds of the state Capitol." Members previously had demonstrated topless without incident in the San Francisco Bay area and at an anti-war rally in Washington, D.C. Arrested and taken to Sacramento County Jail were Sheryl Glaser, 45, and Renee Love, 40, both of Albion. Each was charged with indecent exposure, disorderly conduct and violating the conditions of the group's demonstration permit. State Sen. Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, said the Legislature should clarify what constitutes indecent exposure. "Exactly what is it that we are dealing with when we talk about the indecency of the breast?" she asked. "If a woman were holding a baby here today and breast-feeding, would she have been arrested?" http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/13106913.htm 18 grandmothers arrested at Iraq war protest October 17, 2005, 8:18 PM EDT NEW YORK (AP) _ Eighteen grandmothers were arrested and face charges of disorderly conduct after they showed up at a military recruiting center and said they wanted to enlist, a protest group said. Police arrested the women, ranging in age from 49 to 90, Monday afternoon after they sat down in front of the Times Square recruiting station to protest the war in Iraq, police said. When the 18 women, including Marie Runyon, who is 90 and blind, tried to enter the station, they found it locked, said Joan Wile, 74, director of Grandmothers against the War. "We tried to ring the bell at the booth, but no one answered," Wile said. "I saw a head poke up from behind the counter every once in a while and then duck back down. I don't know what they were afraid of. Maybe they don't know how to deal with a bunch of grannies." The women were taken into custody after they sat down in front of the recruiting station and began to chant, "We insist, we want to enlist." Grandmothers against the War joined the New York City Raging Grannies and the Gray Panthers to form a coalition called the Anti-War Grandmothers, which organized the protest in Times Square. The group said that about 100 people attended. "The police were extremely nice," Wile said. "They helped us up from our sitting position and helped us get in and out of the van, which was difficult with our handcuffs on." http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--warprotest1017oct17,0,4353278.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork Protesters stage same-sex kissing during UC Santa Cruz protest SANTA CRUZ, Calif. Protesters staged a display of same-sex kissing in front of military recruiters at U-C Santa Cruz yesterday. The stunt was part of a rally against military recruiters at a university job fair.Activists oppose the Army, Navy and Marines recruiting on campus, saying the military discriminates against homosexuals.But campus officials say military recruiters can't be banned from the job fair. Under a law called the Solomon Amendment, the university risks losing federal funds. http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=4000536&nav=9qrx Five arrested at protest of detainee conditions October 18, 2005, 2:59 PM EDT NEW YORK -- Five young men wearing hoods and orange jumpsuits were arrested at Hunter College, New York, on Tuesday in a protest of conditions at the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay detention camps. Shouting "They're raping me! They're torturing me! Please do something! Don't just go to class," the five knelt on the floor with leashes around their necks, evoking photos of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib camp in Iraq, before being handcuffed and dragged away by campus police. The protest in a third-floor student commons area of the Manhattan campus was part of an effort to drum up support for a nationwide day of protest against the war in Iraq on Nov. 2. "If there isn't a movement that's resisting these outrages, this is not going to change," said Ati Lagos, an organizer of the protest, who said she was with an organization called The World Can't Wait. Louis Mader, director of the public safety for Hunter, part of the City University of New York system, said the demonstrators would be given desk appearance tickets and released. "This space is by permit only," he said. "These individuals had no permit." Some students who watched the guerrilla theater unfold were supportive while others were puzzled. "I think it's great that they're doing this," said freshman Eileen Woie. "People need to know." But sophomore Jason Balroop said, "It's a distraction. We all have class. I have to take a test right now." http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--huntercollegeprot1018oct18,0,5009710.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork Recruiting Office Shot Up Apr 28, 2005 ARVADA, Colo. (CBS4) An Army and Marines recruitment center in Westminster was shot at eight times early Friday, an incident that police believe is related to the airing of CBS 4 News' report on alleged recruitment improprieties. "The timeliness is too significant to ignore," said Westminster police investigator Tim Read. "The report was at 10 p.m. (Thursday night) and by 7 this morning, the damage occurred. No one was injured in the shooting, which shattered some glass at the front of the building at 7355 W. 88th Ave. Debbie Cannon, with the Denver Army Recruiting Battalion, called the shooting an "isolated incident" and not the result of the broadcast. [One more stupid, silly, transparent lie. Why bother? Oh, sorry, forget. Lying is second nature for recruiters, and that's what Cannon is.] (report from GI Special) Anti-Nuclear Demonstrations Held in New York By Christine Hauser May 1, 2005, The New York Times NEW YORK - A coalition of groups opposed to nuclear weapons marched in New York today, just before talks start at the United Nations to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Marching bands played, and demonstrators held placards and flags pushing for nuclear disarmament and rallying against war as they made their way toward Central Park. The protest by United for Peace and Justice, an antiwar group, and Abolition Now, which advocates the elimination of nuclear weapons, have said they expected up to 60,000 people to participate, including the mayors of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where the United States dropped atomic bombs in 1945 in the final days of World War II, killing and wounding hundreds of thousands of people. Marching along with the mayors from the two Japanese cities were survivors of the bombings. The march started at midday and made its way up First Avenue in Manhattan before heading west. "Shut down everything - testing, nuclear weapons, the war," said Vickie Downie, of Teseque, N.M., who came with a group calling for the closing of the beleaguered Los Alamos National Laboratory, the country's largest nuclear weapons lab, according to The Associated Press. A statement on the Web site of United for Peace and Justice said, "We need to be out in the streets sending a loud and clear message to decision-makers and the public at large: End the war in Iraq!" It said war veterans and military families also planned to join the march and rally. Bob Schumacher, a Vietnam War veteran from Montrose, Penn., said the public was being fed lies, as it was in the Vietnam era, The A.P. said . "I made a promise to people I knew who died there that I wouldn't stand by and let another war happen and not speak out," he said. The protest is timed to coincide with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty conference that starts on Monday when representatives of 189 countries gather at the United Nations. The conference is meant to offer hope of closing large loopholes in the treaty that the United States says Iran and North Korea have exploited to pursue nuclear weapons. Iran threatened on Saturday to resume producing nuclear fuel, and North Korea dismissed President Bush as a "philistine whom we can never deal with." Kirk Semple contributed reporting for this article. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/nyregion/01cnd-protest.html?hp=&pagewanted=print&position= "June 29 - The Washington Post was protested this evening by area activists for the newspaper's failure to properly cover the leaked documents commonly known as The Downing Street Memos." US: REPRESSION/STATE PROTESTS Students hold die-in to protest execution http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/education/story/11BB400FFFF8654386256FE900154C07?OpenDocument Death penalty opponents protest New England execution http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct--rossexecution-pro0513may12,0,2027158.story?coll=ny-region-apconnecticut http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=3339190&nav=3YeXZoNw Death penalty protested in Burlington http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=3361891 http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=3363582&nav=4QcSa1yl Death penalty protesters stage long march http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1640 Inmates' families protest high-cost prison phone calls http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/47267 Screws injured as prisoner revolts http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/04/15/state/n142825D16.DTL Poker players protest gaming crackdown http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=96795&cat=World http://www.pokernews.com/news/2005/07/new-york-poker-players-protest-raid.htm Charlottesville execution protested http://www.dailyprogress.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=CDP%2FMGArticle%2FCDP_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783790681&path=!news Protest over police shooting in Rochester http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050712/NEWS01/507130305/1007/SPORTS Three Strikes protets bike ride begins http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/news/071205_nw_three_strikes_ride.html Med-pot activists protest SFPD role in raids http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_194112653.html Crowd stage spontaneous protest as police abuse child http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/lorain/111848257318490.xml&coll=2 Thousands march in Atlanta to oppose crackdown on voters http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6932/693201.html Report on copwatch in Modesto http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00098.html Bush event ejectees continue protests http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0529-23.htm New York rally against Nazi "Patriot" Act http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0712-08.htm Protesters demand closure of Guantanamo Bay http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8160 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8118 Protests demand new trial for Yemenis http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7561 Ex-marine accused of shooting down cop chopper http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050817111800866 Rebellion by inmate triggers near-uprising in New Mexico prison http://www.arap.so36.net/prison/riot/riot2005.html Cops injured in revolt at occupied housing complex as police interference in everyday life intensifies http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14735847&BRD=1282&PAG=461&dept_id=182121&rfi=6 Heroic residents resist car towing by pigs - evil prosecutors call their defensive actions assault, "near-riot" http://www.rrstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050711/NEWS0107/50711007/1004/NEWS Florida police attack birthday party - 300 party-goers engage in a "full-blown battle" to defend their space from police repression http://www.aversion.com/news/news_article.cfm?news_id=4771 Love and rage: heroic breakout as lover frees inmate, slays screw http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-08-12-courthouse-extradition_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA Privacy group calls for RFID protest at Dallas WalMart http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=172301047 New York taxi drivers protest over GPS requirement http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=NY+cab+drivers+protest+GPS&id=79602 Uprising at youth academy http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=117565 Protest over draconian rules, elder abuse at housing complex http://news10now.com/content/all_news/watertownnorth_country/?ArID=50261&SecID=90 Civil liberties activists protest police brutality at Davis copshop http://www.californiaaggie.com/article/?id=11168 Revellers resist as police attack Halloween procession in Madison http://www.wkowtv.com/index.php/news/story/p/pkid/22573 Rhode Island students wear gags in protest over repression at university Students Wear Gags In Protest Of New Rules POSTED: 11:34 am EDT October 20, 2005 UPDATED: 2:30 pm EDT October 20, 2005 SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- University of Rhode Island students are donning gags to protest changes to the school's disciplinary code. The changes allow university officials to discipline students accused of repeatedly breaking the law off-campus. The new rules also make it easier for residence hall directors to search dormitory rooms. URI's dean of students has said the rules let the university intervene when students could hurt themselves or others. The gagged students will appear at a Faculty Senate meeting scheduled for Thursday afternoon on the URI campus. A group called the URI Student Rights Coalition accuses the Faculty Senate of betraying the spirit of the university by ignoring students' concerns over the changes. http://www.turnto10.com/education/5132971/detail.html More on Rhode Island repressive rules and resultant protests http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2005/10/17/uri_students_protest_new_discipline_rules/ Protest at Virgin Megastore over anti-copying technology http://p2pnet.net/story/6704 US: WOMEN'S RIGHTS Cornell Uni students march for women's rights http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/18/426332fbdcb57 Abortion protest sparks counter-protest at UNC http://www.dailytarheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/08/42566d4e29c47 Protest over lack of women in faith-based TV http://www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?ID=8996 Nurse-in held to protest column http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050714/NEWS01/507140340/1006 Pro-abortion feminists march over Supreme Court nomination http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5115244,00.html Protest at hospital over alleged discouraging of breastfeeding http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-29/1123338430199630.xml&storylist=penn Students and feminists protest over denial of emergency contraception to rape survivor http://www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?ID=9356 Miers college protest for abortion rights targets Supreme Court nominee http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/oct/22/students_protest_against_miers/?city_local US: GAY RIGHTS Silent student protest opposes anti-gay bias across America http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0413silence13.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51707-2005Apr13.html http://www.herald-sun.com/durham/4-596935.html http://www.mlive.com/news/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/news-13/1113492080213510.xml Gay people protest against inequalities http://www.gay.com/news/election/article.html?2005/04/15/2 Protests as students victimised for removing homophobic graffiti http://www.mlive.com/news/aanews/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1115997009218350.xml Gay rights protesters rally outside bigot event http://www.longmontfyi.com/region-story.asp?id=1556 700 protest Colorado homophobes http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0502-08.htm Protest over bans on gay men and atheists in the Boy Scouts http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_282234859.html Pikesville students stage counter-protest against anti-gay bigots http://www.thewbalchannel.com/health/5135718/detail.html US Gays Launch Boycott of Jerusalem Gay Pride Report, QUIT, 13 May 2005 SAN FRANCISCO -- A vote by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to support a Gay Pride celebration in Jerusalem, Israel, has sparked criticism from gay groups that oppose Israel's policies in the Palestinian territories. They have announced a boycott of the celebration, slated to take place in the contested city of Jerusalem on August 18-20, saying Israel's policies toward the Palestinians make a mockery of the theme of the event, "love without borders?". "The Board of Supervisors took a closer look at Israeli democracy, what they would see it borders without limit," charged Kate Raphael-Bender of San Francisco-based QUIT, a lesbian/gay/bi/trans group that supports return of the territories occupied by Israel to Palestinian control. "No city in the world could have more borders than Jerusalem," she added. Raphael-Bender said those borders are constantly encroaching further and further into Palestinian territory, and are enforced by military checkpoints and cement walls. "Israel's borders are impenetrable to Palestinians, and keep many separated from their homes, jobs and families," she added. Raphael-Bender noted that gay Arabs are likely to hit a wall if they try to join the festivities in Jerusalem. Not only Palestinians but all Arabs are routinely denied entry into Israel. QUIT urges gays and lesbians to observe ongoing international boycotts of travel to Israel and Israeli products through which the international community can exert pressure on Israel to withdraw its forces from Palestine. "For internationals to stay away from this event will send a very clear message to the Israeli government," Raphael-Bender said, noting that the situation was different for gays in Israel. Both QUIT's counterpart in Israel, Black Laundry, and the Palestinian lesbian group Aswat will participate in the event but plan to use it to draw attention to the injustices Palestinians are subject to under the brutal Israeli occupation. Early supporters of the boycott include: American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, San Francisco Chapter (ADC-SF) Jews for a Free Palestine LAGAI -- Queer Insurrection Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA) Queers for Peace and Justice International Socialist Organization. The boycott of World Pride in Jerusalem, kicked off by QUIT! and other LGBTI groups in the U.S. is gaining momentum, even as the SF Board of Stupervisors passed a resolution yesterday supporting it. QUIT! has produced a 15-minute video to counter the one produced last summer by bluestar promoting World Pride. QUIT!'s "Love Without Borders?" piece presents the true image of Jerusalem, a city divided by a 25-foot concrete wall, which has caused death and destruction in Palestinian communities for the last two years. The full video is available from the QUIT! website. US: ANTI-RACISM/ANTI-FASCISM: Large anti-fascist mobilisation against fascist rally in Boston http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1639 http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=507679 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050509074533612 http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/05/10/2733656 http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/05/16/1266319 http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/543/543_11_BostonAntiNazi.shtml Anti-fascists keep bigots away from Philadelphia Equality Forum http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050505081210256 Students protest over racist and other hate-fuelled incidents on campus http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/15/425f5c16f37a0 Protests over murder by cop are re-sparked by bigoted mayor's fanatical anti-"crime" comments http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050715/NEWS01/507150382/1002/NEWS Immigration rights activists protest at governors' convention http://www.woi-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3603402&nav=1LFXcE2H Hundreds protest racist "Minutemen" vigilantes at US-Mexico border http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0418BorderDemo18-ON.html Minutemen event in New Jersey sabotaged http://www.onepeoplesproject.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=757&Itemid=2 http://www.onepeoplesproject.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=768&Itemid=2 Chinese immigrants protest loss of jobs to China http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/11382415.htm http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/NewsDetails.asp?News_id=14424 Counter-protesters target racist demo against monument - one bigot injured http://www.whittierdailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,207~12026~2872973,00.html http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mural15may15,1,6913452.story?coll=la-headlines-california&ctrack=2&cset=true Protesters turn out for anti-Nazi demo in Boston (NOTE: report not very sympathetic to anarchists, and prone to excuse pigs) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dowbrigade/2005/05/08#a5026 Students to protest at graduation over US university's alleged racial victimisation http://www.thechamplainchannel.com/news/4505357/detail.html Hispanic people protest over health crisis http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/05-19-2005/0003639565&EDATE= Minuteman car hits protesters http://la.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/127256.php Protest under attack by police also http://la.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/127255.php Antifascists take on homophobes in Philadelphia http://www.onepeoplesproject.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=736&Itemid=2 Tomball anti-fascists protest Nazi KKK http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1636 Small protest against racial profiling and police murders in Modesto http://www.modbee.com/local/story/10244031p-11055602c.html Mini-uprising after acquittal of pig who murdered black person in St Petersburg http://news.tbo.com/news/MGB7DDWUN8E.html Demonstration staged after racist attack http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1059101&tw=wn_wire_story http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=3554063 Racist mural protested in Texas http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=3574948&nav=0RY5bxpJ San Ysidro - protest held against Minutemen bigots http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20050703-9999-1m3border.html Compton: Angry residents confront mayor after police fire hundreds of shots at a driver http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/breaking_news/11624256.htm Minutemen goons scared of protesters http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2158 San Diego anti-racists confront, disrupt Minutemen http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/07/109981.shtml Protests at pro-Minutemen conference http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050530082158233 Minuteman drives car at protesters http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050526165646583 Thousands protest Minutemen in Chicago http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6927/692762.html "Scuffles" in Chicago as protesters blockade Minutemen meeting http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-rally16.html Racist anti-immigrant law in Arizona prompts boycott, strike, marches http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050510180543974 Zionist racist business driven out of LA by protests over racist signs http://www.laborsmilitantvoice.com/feaAllphone.htm New Jersey Minutemen affiliate get the antifa treatment - twice http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/07/12/0981552 Angry Birdtail Sioux protesters torch Indian Act in protest over schooling http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/17/11439/8394 Anti-racists re-enact "unsolved" lynching http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6931/693155.html Protests over Miami police shooting - judge recommends charges http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6919/691951.html Vigil over racial assault in New York http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6927/692703.html Los Angeles Latinos protest war and education problems http://news.monstersandcritics.com/northamerica/article_1044232.php/L.A._Latinos_protest_war_dropout_rate 40,000 march against the Minutemen in Chicago http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-2/551/551_15_ChicagoMarch.shtml San Diego racists confronted at the border "Through the long night, as Chase and his thugs attempted to apprehend border-crossers, Gente Unida activists in four-wheel drive vehicles dogged them with floodlights and loud music. These tactics proved to be successful, disrupting the "covert" actions and demoralizing many volunteers, who trickled away one by one, through the night. Frustrated vigilantes threatened some activists with violence. On a videotape made by one group of counter-protesters, the bigots can be heard saying, "You come down here and you will be engaged in a firefight."" http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-2/551/551_16_Vigilantes.shtml http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-2/550/550_15_ImmigrantsRights.shtml Rally in Austin after cops murder youth http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-2/549/549_02_AustinPolice.shtml Counter-protesters shut down Minutemen/SOS racists in LA http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/544/544_12_Bigots.shtml Minuteman goon booted in Long Island http://www.onepeoplesproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=805&Itemid=2 Katrina sparks emergency demo in New York http://www.workers.org/2005/us/times-square-0915/ Minuteman bigot runs over protester in Los Angeles http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/546/546_12_Runover.shtml Protesters confront Nazis on Yorktown battlefield http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2746 Activists stage hike to protest migrant deaths http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0529B1-talker29.html San Francisco Minutemen protested http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20050526-0121-ca-vigilanteprotest.html Immigrants refuse to leave detention centre yard in protest over hearing delays http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/09/21/state/n094558D37.DTL Protesters oppose mistreatment of stitched-up H Rap Brown http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/ap_newfullstory.asp?ID=63391 Confederate flag draws protest in Asbury Park http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050731/NEWS01/507310422/1004/NEWS02 Protest over Linden mural http://www.texarkanagazette.com/articles/2005/07/10/local_news/news/news08.txt Protest over police brutality and killings in Galveston http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=8dd884b78b4c71e8 Prisoner accused of con business starts hunger strike http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/08/26/alleged_new_mexico_con_artist_stages_starvation_protest/ Mass protest against metal detectors and searches at New York school http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2005/09/57410.html San Francisco: rally against the Minutemen http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/10/1779577.php Rally for reparations focuses on 1921 pogrom http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3426802 Hispanic people protest over health crisis http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/05-19-2005/0003639565&EDATE= Protests against Minutemen in Elgin, Chicago http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/couriernews/top/3_1_EL12_A1MINUTECOPS_S1.htm Anti-fascists protest Hammerfest in Georgia http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3185 Around 200 people packed Inala Community Hall last night for a fiery public meeting on fighting racism and stopping black deaths in custody - jointly organised by Socialist Alliance, Youth Affairs Network Queensland, Sisters Inside and key leaders in the Murri community. The meeting drew significant media coverage (apparently it featured on Stateline tonight). Many in the crowd were there to see Murrandoo Yanner, the powerful young Aboriginal leader from northern Queensland. Murrandoo didn't disappoint, giving a sizzling denunciation of systemic racism, of the failures of governments - Labor and Liberal, of the class nature of racism, and of the need to continue the resistance. Murrandoo was like a local Malcolm X,capturing and inspiring the audience. Socialist Alliance member and Murri leader Sam Watson gave a fantastic outline of the long struggle against black deaths in custody, and Rev Alex Gator moved with her personal story of police violence. Discussion time saw plenty of people, mostly Murris, young and old, women and men, plus some non-Indigenous anti-racist activists, all contribute to an understanding of the problems, and the need for a people based movement to destroy police racism and violence. 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URL: From ldxar1 at tesco.net Mon Nov 21 21:19:52 2005 From: ldxar1 at tesco.net (Andy) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:19:52 -0000 Subject: [Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - repression global Message-ID: <027101c5ef26$bb66f650$0202a8c0@WOL> REPRESSION: AUSTRALIA Fascist pigs in Australia fine drivers for tooting in support of protesters! http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15934596-1248,00.html Australian Queer activist persecuted for occupation http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/622/622p6c.htm Aussie law banning free speech used to persecute youths and black people http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/625/625p6f.htm Persecution of dissident cleric in Australia http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2005/s1430499.htm Immigration "control" is murder: another detained refugee dies in Australia Fisherman trapped on boat for a week by pigs dies of "unknown causes" probably linked to racist crackdown http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/626/626p2.htm Human rights activists denounce Australian ASIO repression, arrests without proof, assumption of guilt and persecution of Muslims http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200506/s1402223.htm Australian customs goons steal sacred props from Papuan performers - threaten not to return http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200509/s1471452.htm Fascist "anti-terrorism" secret detention laws plotted by state control-freaks - kafkaesque requirement may mean parents are jailed for telling the other parent of detention http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3080 Sydney politicians plan ethnic cleansing of aboriginal area http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15462157%5E421,00.html Falun Gong sues over Canberra protest ban http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200506/s1389049.htm Police-state terror in Australia - American protest activist deported Spy goons now claim they can deport over encouragement of illegal protests as control freakery lurches out of control once more http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/protest-advice-led-to-us-activists-detention/2005/09/13/1126377315072.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3022 Cops get off scot free for Palm Island atrocities, despite admissions their actions were illegal http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16047737-421,00.html Screws persecute prison activists http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/639/639p5c.htm State fascism out of control: Nazi pigs threaten workers about swearing on picket line http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/641/641p2b.htm Union activist persecuted for dissident article http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/639/639p4b.htm Abuse in Australian detention centres http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/baxt-a04.shtml Racist white Australia deports brown Australian citizen http://www.countercurrents.org/racism-polya150505.htm http://www.gabriellereillyweekly.com/gabrielle_reilly/australian_community_service/schapelle_corby.htm By Gabrielle Reilly Schapelle Corby: Schapelle Corby, a 27-year-old Australian, faces a maximum punishment of death by firing squad after 4.1 kg of cannabis were found inside her unlocked bodyboard bag at Bali airport last October. Schapelle is believed to have been an innocent victim in an Australian domestic drug smuggling racket between Sydney and Brisbane. The criminals however, did not remove the drugs in Brisbane according to the plan and Schapelle, unbeknown to her, arrived in Bali with drugs that had been planted in her bag along the way. Schapelle Corby is due to have a verdict in mid-May. If found guilty in Indonesia of drug trafficking, she will most likely face the Indonesian firing squad a short time afterwards. According to The Age "Corby's lawyers revealed an unidentified man had come forward and signed a statement naming three baggage handlers he says planted the drugs in Corby's unlocked boogie board bag. Chief lawyer Lely Sri Rahaya Lubis said the three baggage handlers had since been jailed in Australia, while the man who made the statement was also in prison. But Lely admitted it would be difficult to bring the man to Bali to testify, as he was a prisoner in Australia." REPRESSION: CANADA $1,000 Fines Proposed for CSIS Sit-in Arrestees; Bizarre JP Eventually Reduces fine to $50 SCARBOROUGH, MAY 27, 2005 -- The arbitrary nature of the secretive court process which has jailed five Muslim men in Canada a collective total of 203 months was evident in the Scarborough municipal courthouse today for the verdict and sentencing of three people charged following a brief, nonviolent sit-in at the CSIS Toronto headquarters last October. In a moment more fit for a circus sideshow than a "democratic nation's" courtroom, a mumbling Justice of the Peace (JP) Cledwyn Longe decided to deal with his own personal authority issues by laying $1,000 fines on Diana Ralph, Kirsten Romaine and Matthew Behrens, three of six people charged at the sit-in, which marked three years in solitary confinement for Hassan Almrei, one of the Secret Trial Five. During their April trial, JP Longe behaved abusively towards the defendants, making senseless and arbitrary orders, ignoring relevant video testimony, and walking out in the middle of Mona Elfouli's testimony about the difficulties she and her children have faced during the five years her husband, Mohammad Mahjoub, has been incarcerated without charge. Longe was clearly disturbed at the April trial that individuals came to court prepared to stand up for their rights and the rights of the detainees with whom they held their solidarity sit-in. Like anyone in power, he could have acted in a paternal, "if only they understood the difficulties of my position" manner and dismissed it all as an interesting sidebar to his normal roster of traffic and pet by-law violations. But instead, like the power structure he represents, he chose to lash out angrily both then and again today. At 3 pm, defendants Romaine and Behrens rose to hear what they were hoping would be a reasoned, detailed analysis of the submissions they had made regarding the sit-in, and the necessity and related defences which were laid before Longe in April. But before the verdict was delivered there was trouble. After they were identified by the court, the defendants sat at the defence table so they could take notes on the verdict. "You will stand in my court," he ordered Behrens and Romaine. "I need to sit so I can make notes on your verdict," Behrens explained. "Not in my court!" Longe responded in that "This is my court and I'll do as I damn well please, Charter of Rights be damned!" manner. "Fine, I will walk over here and lean against this bar, so I can make my notes," Behrens proposed as he moved towards the edge of the elevated desk. "No, you will stand right there," Longe chided him. An embarrassed court clerk, perhaps fearing this would devolve even further, graciously handed Behrens a piece of cardboard to make notes against while in a standing position. Turns out there was nothing of note in the JP's so-called decision. Rather than producing the reasoned, analytical approach to the submissions and testimony that were presented to him six weeks earlier, he mumbled like a school kid who hadn't done his homework and was faking his way through the oral exam. "Defendants occupied space...refused to leave...no proper defence presented...guilty as charged..." he stumbled. He turned to the prosecuting attorney, who had a long lineup of traffic offences to deal with, and asked for a sentencing recommendation. She said she would leave it in his hands. He looked at us and pronounced his verdict. "$1,000 fines." He was pleased. Putting us in our place. How dare we come to his court and assert ourselves! "That's an incredibly severe penalty for such a minor demonstration for which there was no violence, no one was hurt, it was over in a matter of minutes," Behrens explained. "Well, I could have fined you $2,000," Longe beamed. Obviously someone very much in love with his grandiose power. "What are your reasons for this huge fine?" Behrens asked. "I don't have to give you any," Longe replied. "We were there not for ourselves, but for human rights, for everyone," Romaine explained. "That's irrelevant," Longe stated, just as he said the testimony of Mona Elfouli was irrelevant before he walked out on her in April. Behrens explained it was remarkable that an offence which didn't even require a preliminary court summons and which, if the defendants had simply ignored it, would have resulted in a $75 fine, had suddenly ballooned into a major amount of cash. But it made sense. If we had obediently accepted the notion that we were guilty for our sit-in -- designed to draw attention to human rights abuses here in Canada and the potential deportation to torture of the Secret Trial Five -- then that would have been the end of it. But because we decided to contest the notion that there was something wrong with our act of necessity, to try and save the lives of these men, their families, and the very notion of due process itself, we were to be punished. It was an act very much in keeping with the nature of what we were protesting at CSIS. Indeed, when Muslim men refuse to spy for CSIS, they are thrown in jail for years without charge or bail, and threatened with deportation to torture. Obedience is rewarded, disobedience and conscience are punished. In the end, Behrens explained that in similar cases, individuals are often either given an absolute discharge or a fine of $100. Romaine explained that she has no employment but that, even if she did, that was not the point--why were we being punished for standing up for human rights? "Irrelevant," came the favourite word of the JP, adding, "Fifty dollar fine" in the same arbitrary manner in which he had pronounced the first fine. We assured him we would not pay it, and walked out of court to the thumbs-up and smiles of most of those awaiting the opportunity to contest speeding and parking tickets. Last night, as he called from his solitary confinement cell, where he has spent the past three years and 8 months, Hassan Almrei spoke about the impending court decision. "You know of course you are guilty," Hassan explained. "You guys are guilty of being human, you are guilty of caring for people who spend years in solitary confinement on secret evidence." While we could have shared this with the JP, it would perhaps have been declined -- like everything else that has to do with human rights and democracy -- as "irrelevant" in his courtroom. Undeterred, the defendants will continue to campaign to end secret trials in Canada, and have marked their calendars for the 24 Hours Against Torture vigil on June 8. Hassan Almrei has a bail hearing scheduled for June 27 and 28. For more info: tasc at web.ca or (416) 651-5800, www.homesnotbombs.ca Apparently it's illegal to attempt suicide by self-immolation, according to Canadian statist goons http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/05/03/fire-legislature050503.html Theft of possessions of relative of Gitmo victim, and even reading her diaries, permitted by pig-loving judge - but return limit set http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7949 Election committee tries to ban Canadian eco-newsletter http://bc.indymedia.org/feature/display/1057/index.php RCMP kill again with taser http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/1/125217/8418 Canada police brutality investigated http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/1/11526/87665 Innocent people jailed without charge in Canada, now at risk of deportation to torture and death http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=6651 Indigenous activists arrested by "anti-terror" goon squad http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/29/133318/281 Activists jailed for Kamloops blockade http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/17/124542/196 Consvervatives shown to be complicit in murder of indigenous protester by pigs http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/31/75641/8285 Discrimination against the poor in local cohabitation law http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/1/114036/3199 Canadian goons deport immigration activist http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/26/11210/9194 Killed in Iran, persecuted in Canada - Iranian photojournalism banned http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1119131409564&call_pageid=1105528093962&col=1105528093790&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes REPRESSION: EUROPE Crackdown-culture TV show triggers pogrom in Holland http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=19&story_id=18871&name=Riot+erupts+as+man+admitssexual+abuse+in+TV+show http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4374461 Statist goons respond by trampling on media freedom, invading TV news station http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=19&story_id=19093&name=Media+union+angered+by+police+raid+ GERMANY: State fascism on the rampage - paramilitary policing with helicopters and snatch-squads used in terror against graffiti artists http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/berl-a28.shtml Fascist "anti-terror" laws lead to deportation of innocent refugee for being unemployed http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/immi-a03.shtml Repression against Basque youth groups continues http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1805 Hungarian socialist arrested for wearing red star http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/584/letters.htm Greece: Absurd prosecution and stitch-up attempt against anarchists accused of sabotage against riot cops http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050718170401303 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050713125650816 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050709161617597 "Anti-terror" laws used to persecute Greenpeace in Denmark http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=5240 Irish state signs away rights to US - American agencies to be allowed secret interrogations and property theft in Ireland http://www.irishexaminer.com/pport/web/ireland/Full_Story/did-sg46g7Ks0cvBEsg7OWirIStPSk.asp Irish cop brutality covered up http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050723223030154 British Algerian jailed in Italy on trumped-up charges http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8469 Immigration "controls" kill - five die storming EU enclave http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4292490.stm Martial law in Italy: pigs seize control of transport depots in Genoa http://www.cbc.ca/story/sports/national/2005/08/09/Sports/genoa050809.html Vicious repression in Iceland - vehicles driven at eco-protesters, and foreigners stripped of rights http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1889 Vicious racist crackdown could spark 25,000 deportations from Holland http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20218.htm Real role of German "anti-terror" laws is to persecute protesters, admits report http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=6918 Greece: artist on trial for insulting the church! http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/66998/ Germany: journalist faces stitch-up for antifa activism as NPD and pigs collude http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1984 GREENPEACE ARE TERRORISTS? In October '03 Danish Greenpeace activists hung an anti-Genetic Modification banner on the Agricultural Council building in Copenhagen. In May 2005, the individual activists who carried out the banner drop, along with the entire Danish Greenpeace organisation, were charged with trespass under new anti-terrorist legislation which allows not just individuals but an entire organisation to be charged with a criminal offence. In June '05 Greenpeace was duly convicted under the "terrorist" trespass charges and fined 30,000 dkr (approximately 4,000 Euros). They also had 20,000 dkr worth of equipment confiscated. A spokeswoman for 'Greenpeace Europe' told ELP "Greenpeace Nordic were of course shocked to see laws intended to limit international terrorism being used to convict organisations whose work is based on strong principles of non-violence. Greenpeace has therefore appealed this verdict." Following Greenpeace's conviction, ELP has learnt that Amnesty International has also voiced their concern for the consequences of this law. For more info see www.statewatch.org/news/2005/jun/04greenpeace.htm REPRESSION: ISRAEL/PALESTINE Israel tortures women and children http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=Enews&id=2520 Israeli prisoners photograph children naked http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=Enews&id=2526 Mother pleads for right to visit imprisoned son http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=Enews&id=2538 Child prisoners loses his voice due to Israeli torture http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=Enews&id=2578 Physical and sexual abuse of children in Israeli prisons http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=81502&src=0 Soldiers shoot Palestinian boy for not collaborating http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10869&Itemid=1 Humiliation at the apartheid wall crossing points http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10890&Itemid=1 Death in custody due to Israeli human rights violations http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=Enews&id=2612 http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=Enews&id=2666 Medical neglect threatens life of prisoner http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10947&Itemid=1 Israeli prisons are like hell, reveals former prisoner http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=Enews&id=2686 Pharmacist detained http://imemc2.thinkhost.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10399&Itemid=1 Lethal X-ray machine kills elderly Palestinian woman http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=10743&Itemid=2 Israeli uses harmful and indecent equipment to scan Palestinians http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10978&Itemid=1 Israel uses paralysis gun against Bilin protesters http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10806&Itemid=1 Mass arrest of Palestinian workers in Israel http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11158&Itemid=0 Continued torture of Palestinian detainees in Israel - solitary confinement http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12197&Itemid=1 State terror in Hebron as soldiers arrest residents and activist http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11986&Itemid=1 Collective punishment in Bil'in as reprisal for protests http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/palmedialert/message/446 Israeli interference leads to death of elderly woman http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11862&Itemid=1 Why kill Nino? Innocent Palestinian murdered by Israeli soldiers http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4000.shtml Soldiers ambush, kidnap anti-wall protest organiser http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11543&Itemid=1 Village put under curfew to smash wall protests http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1891 Palestinian authority pursues the latest grab at authoritarian power by ripping down political posters http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050717-09433000-bc-mideast-flags.xml Israel plots to smash Jerusalem mosque http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=8553 Israel wants to stop Palestinian compensation suits http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4012.shtml http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6EJ3U2?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PFR Palestinian prisoner loses sight because of Israeli torture http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=Enews&id=3333 300 Palestinian prisoners dying in Israeli jails http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12667&Itemid=1 Palestinian children given harsh terms http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12789&Itemid=1 Palestinians forced to drink piss http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11294&Itemid=1 Palestinian jailed indefinitely, blinded by dark cells, and kept in solitary confinement http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12866&Itemid=1 Israeli goons stop child getting medical treatment http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=Enews&id=3468 Knesset passes new anti-Palestinian laws http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/PressR/English/2005/87-2005.htm Prison abuse - Israeli style http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13030&Itemid=1 REPRESSION: GLOBAL Massacre by UN forces in Haiti - dozens killed in attack on slum http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1860 Haiti pigs launch massacre at soccer match http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/8/26/171233/077 Social cleansing in Zimbabwe: when a dictator is as devastating as a tsunami http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=817 Mass demolitions and other human rights abuses http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-1662_1721780,00.html http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/629/629p20.htm Mugabe lays waste to buildings in new terror tactic http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1908 More Zimbabwe social cleansing coverage http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2003 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1999 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2095 http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/06/20zimbabwe.html http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050527123156347 http://www.pambazuka.org/index.php?issue=214 http://www.zlhr.org.zw/media/releases/may_24_05.htm http://www.sokwanele.com/articles/sokwanele/opmuramb_overview_18june2005.html http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=12138 http://www.hrforumzim.com/frames/inside_frame_special.htm http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=12400 http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6837 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/zimb-j16.shtml http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2744 http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/629/629p20.htm http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_050723mugabe.shtml http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/632/632p11.htm For a united socialist response to the attacks http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/580/zimbabwe.htm Unicef report on Zimbabwe crisis http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0726-11.htm Caterpillar caught supplying Zimbabwe http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?2,40,5,793 Journalist arrested for filming raids http://www.pambazuka.org/index.php?id=28269 Thousands arrested in Harare crackdown http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=11934 Troops carry out population purges in Filipino warzone - Manobo displaced http://www.bulatlat.net/news/5-15/5-15-manobo.htm "War on drugs" is war on hill tribes in Laos http://gaizao.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=415 Montagnard refugees driven out of Cambodia http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0721-05.htm Iran judicially murders two youths for being gay http://www.beirut.indymedia.org/ar/2005/07/2999.shtml Kangaroo court: Tak Bai commission refuses to investigate massacre and insists on secrecy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1609 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1610 Press freedom under attack in Thailand - censorship in Muslim South http://www.cpj.org/news/2005/Thai19july05na.html Journalist on trial for criticising government http://www.ifj-asia.org/page/thailand050718.html Continuing detention of journalist in Iran http://www.counterpunch.org/fiyouzat07142005.html Ethnic cleansing against Uighur in China http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7186 Human rights violating cop restored to position by Mauritius government http://www.lalitmauritius.com/news.asp?newsid=626 More on repression at SEKA and women's day in Turkey http://www.peoplesmarch.com/archives/2005/may2k5/TKP-ML.htm Gay anarchist jailed and beaten in Turkish prison for conscientious objection http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1918 Manipur state goons plan shoot-on-sight against Meitei language activists http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/09/stories/2005040902201300.htm Bihar Dalit youth beaten by upper-class goons for getting educated http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2753 8000 homeless and destitute as Bangladesh shanty town razed http://www.bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidDate=2005-07-21&hidType=LOC&hidRecord=0000000000000000053376 Burma: fascist regime cracks down even further http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_13-6-2005_pg4_24 Soldiers massacre fishermen http://www.mizzima.com/mizzima/archives/news-in-2005/news-in-July/20-July-05-39.htm State terror in the rural hinterlands of the Phillipines http://www.bulatlat.net/news/5-9/5-9-enemy.htm Qatar strips 15,000 Qataris of citizenship - apparently for political dissent http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=9268 Jordanian activist jailed for criticising US http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050605132858347 Vigilantism on the rise in Nepal http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-04-04-nepal-vigilantes_x.htm Ethnic cleansing against Roma in Kosova http://www.scn.org/roma/ethnic_cleansing.html More on Kosova - Serbs evacuated, ethnic cleansing and conflict continue http://www.guardian.co.uk/Kosovo/Story/0,2763,1490685,00.html Innocent Indians executed in Saudi Arabia http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/apr/20spec2.htm Violent land clearances in Uganda - several killed http://uganda.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/05/20/state_sponsored_banditry_on_the_rise_in_uganda.html Museveni wants crackdown on dissidents http://uganda.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/06/29/museveni_orders_'anarchists'_arrest.html "UPDF forces and officials of other government-related military security agencies have committed and are still continuing committing multiple abuses against the human rights of northern Ugandans, including summary execution, torture, rape, child recruitment, and inhuman conditions of detention in unauthorized detention locations." http://uganda.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/05/02/human_rights_violations_by_ugandan_government.html Controversy over Indonesian drug stitch-up of Australian tourist http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1637 South Africa plans land grab against long-term factory squatters http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p20i.htm Is the Iraqi resistance running its own little Gitmos? http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/06/19/a2.int.torture.0619.html Ogiek flee as Kenya persecution escalates http://www.ogiek.org/news/news-post-05-07-4.htm Civil rights under attack in Indonesia - student jailed for "disrespecting" president http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1842 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1840 Fascistic crackdown against Shi'ites in Yemen - villagers terrorised and threatened, hundreds of innocent people arrested, Shi'ite clerics treated as heretics, mass rape threatened, books seized, doctors harassed. http://www.jafariyanews.com/2k5_news/july/14shias_persecution_yemen.htm Pakistan: planned demolition of football stadium draws protests http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1922 Police raid Pentecostal church Masked special forces call worshippers 'sectarian,' 'prostitutes' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: April 23, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Michael Ireland ? 2005 Assist News Service Twenty masked special and plain clothes police raided an evening seminar at a church in Izhevsk, the capital of the Udmurtia autonomous republic in Russia. According to the Forum 18 News Service, police forced about 70 people outside the Work of Faith church April 14, calling them "sectarians" and "prostitutes," while they searched the building. Nearly 50 church members were held for five hours at the police station and fingerprinted. Udmurtia's interior ministry claimed the Pentecostals had "distorted" details of the raid. Pentecostal bishop Yuri Degtyar told Forum 18 he believes the public prosecutor now has things under control and that the investigation into police conduct during the raid will be "objective." "The public prosecutor's response was pro-active," he said Thursday from Izhevsk, about 700 miles east of Moscow. "They have taken control of the situation." On Tuesday, the Moscow-based Slavic Centre for Law and Justice questioned how, before the investigation had even started, Udmurtia public prosecutor Boris Sarnayev could announce to the press that "no police action aimed at humiliating people on religious grounds has been established." Twenty masked special and plain clothes police officers burst into premises owned by its affiliate church, Word of Faith, on the evening of April 14, breaking through a side gate although the main gates were open, the national Pentecostal union headed by Bishop Sergei Ryakhovsky reported in a statement. Shouting "Quick! We'll break your legs!" the officers directing the operation - one of whom was said to be drunk and brandishing a pistol - reportedly forced the approximately 70 people present, including pastors, worshippers and seminar participants, to stand facing an outside wall for approximately half an hour while both they and the building were searched. According to the union, the officers told Pastor Mikhail Russkikh that no search warrant was required after 6 p.m. and repeatedly called church members "sectarians" and "prostitutes," before detaining 46 of those present in a single cell at the local police station for approximately five hours. The Pentecostal Union statement says the detainees were interrogated individually, fingerprinted and photographed, some were told to sign blank witness statements, and one was hit when he refused to answer questions. No formal police charges were reportedly made. On Monday, the Interfax news agency reported a spokesman for Udmurtia's department of the Interior Ministry, which includes the police force, insisted the Pentecostal Union had "distorted" events and vowed his department would file suit against "a number of organizations and citizens" circulating information about the incident in the media if it proved unconfirmed by the public prosecutor's investigation. Asked Thursday how precisely the Pentecostal union statement had distorted events, a press spokesman at Udmurtia's Interior Ministry department directed Forum 18 to a Monday statement on the Udmurtia state authorities' official website. The statement maintained that an Izhevsk district public prosecutor had issued a warrant for an urgent search of the church's premises in connection with the April 9 discovery not far from the building of a murdered man. The statement also claimed that both the murdered man and a man accused of the murder had lived at the church's premises from 2003 onwards. The murderer had placed his victim's possessions at the church's premises and told police that a number of people with previous convictions lived there without registration. This, according to the statement, led to the April 14 search and detention of 46 people, against 22 of whom administrative charges were brought for not having registration. [Russian citizens are required by law to register at any locality where they stay for more than 90 days.] Bishop Degtyar insisted that only 12 people present at the church's premises did not have registration, being participants in Word of Faith's ex-convict rehabilitation project. "These twelve are people with difficult pasts trying to change their lives," he told Forum 18. "This was the only administrative violation, but it doesn't warrant police in masks scaring us all - there are civilized ways of conducting searches." In addition, he said, no mention of the murder investigation was made until several days after the search, and no one was questioned about it during the police interrogation. "The questions were rather: 'Why do you go to this church and not an Orthodox church?', 'How much money do you donate to your church?'" In a statement published on the Slavic Centre for Law and Justice website Tuesday, Degtyar also explained that the man accused of the murder had last been seen at the church's rehabilitation centre approximately 18 months ago and that the church had unfortunately not known he was using a false identity or was wanted by police in other parts of the country, "otherwise we would have turned him in to the law-enforcement agencies ourselves." The murder victim had also not been seen at the centre for a long time, maintained the statement. Work of Faith Church runs a number of social projects assisting the homeless, orphans and low-income families in addition to former convicts. "We are working to change society for the better," Degtyar told Forum 18. "We want it to be healthy and strong." In July 2001, Dmitry Mafenko, then leader of the church's anti-drugs project, was kidnapped with his assistant Pavel, and the pair have not been seen since. While acknowledging that local drug dealers are opposed to the church's activity, Degtyar stressed to Forum 18 that there was no connection between this kidnapping and the April 14 raid, which he put down to "local police arbitrariness." The church previously has had no conflict with the police, he added: "We pray for the authorities - the incident was completely unexpected, and many people are still in shock about it." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ldxar1 at tesco.net Mon Nov 21 21:19:45 2005 From: ldxar1 at tesco.net (Andy) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:19:45 -0000 Subject: [Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - repression USA Message-ID: <026a01c5ef26$b70ff840$0202a8c0@WOL> REPRESSION: US Subway hell gets even hotter - unconstitutional "random" and racist searches of the innocent on New York subways http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0727-02.htm Pigs exploit London bombings to sneak in long-plotted measure http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6930/693052.html Refuse to be searched! http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0722-29.htm Oppose Homeland Security crackdowns http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6930/693020.html The greatest outrage is the lack of outrage http://www.counterpunch.org/anderson07262005.html Statist racists are child abusers: children abandoned because of shock raid on immigrant workplace http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/raid-a05.shtml Persecution of homeless people continues across America http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/atla-j04.shtml Mayor tries to ban art party - court stops him http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/graf-a24.shtml DEA goons steal plastic surgery money http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6606 Tasers unsafe, confirm police - individual cops sue manufacturers for injuries sustained in training http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news509.htm Los Angeles Police have turned into artistic censors and decided to close down an art show, deeming it to be "aggressive and offensive". The art show was entitled 'Mark of the Beast' and featured subverted corporate logos; the Levis logo was changed to read Evils, Pepsi was changed to Piss and Nike's catchphrase Just Do It became Just Don't. The aggressive material can be seen at: www.transportgallery.com/transport/photosApr05.cfm Feds persecute peace activists because state court acquitted them http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6570 Pig-fucking judge's decision deals blow to First Amendment, says paper (a solid article except for the qualifier about senseless etc etc at the end) http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050829/NEWS/508290319/1018/OPINION Jury allows police impunity for wanton firing at bystanders http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/dailystar/91619.php Courts persecute Toledo insurgents - once more, fighting against violent police attacks is labelled "assault", and vindictive police denounce pro-cop courts for alleged leniency http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051029/NEWS02/51029025 US could ban seafarers from 25 nations from US ports! http://www.itfglobal.org/news-online/index.cfm/newsdetail/367 Statist murder by default: prisoners left to die in New Orleans http://prisonforum.com/index.php?topic=188.0 http://www.countercurrents.org/us-michaels021005.htm Questions of intent over New Orleans http://www.aztlan.net/new_orleans_land_grab.htm Blackwater mercenaries deployed to New Orleans http://www.countercurrents.org/us-kall1120905.htm Alabama anti-sex control freaks ban dildos http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6201 Migrant woman jailed for taking morning-after pill http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/544/544_02_GabrielFlores.shtml Murders by police continue: black youth shot in the back in Austin http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-2/549/549_02_AustinPolice.shtml American pigs re-arrest racist stitch-up victim http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news495.htm More fascism in America - arrested protester ordered to apply for jobs; protesters at risk of 3-year sentences for minor damage to building (What has someone not having a job got to do with the alleged illegal action? Clearly the judge here is imposing a generalised social conformism incompatible with official excuses for statist power) http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050610/NEWS02/506100520 Goons block war veteran's attempts to visit children in Cuba http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2758 Political persecution of police brutality activist intensifies http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2743 It's official - cops taser people for free speech, when not attacked http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3166871 School mistakes burrito for gun http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/burrito_lockdown&printer=1 Banned in the USA - tax protest book http://www.newswithviews.com/NWVexclusive/exclusive1.htm Ann Coulter and the police state http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/3/234357/7289 Police murder toddler - shoot human shield in showdown with disturbed man http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/LA-police-kill-human-shield-toddler/2005/07/12/1120934208432.html?oneclick=true Politically-motivated surveillance, entrapment, arrest and jailing of crusading Asian-American lawyer, for criticising the Patriot Act http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=261f4ed6d61243ca90d3145678d15f80 US police abuse and murder with their new torture weapon http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=770 Latest taser abuse - police electrify child Victim of police abuse is boy with problems; relatives barred from bus by abusive police http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/lorain/111848257318490.xml&coll=2 Police murder psychologically-different man with taser http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0505-24.htm Video of police torturing motorist for talking on the phone http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/video/taser_video3a.html Jordanian jailed for visiting websites http://www.freep.com/news/locway/obeid29e_20050629.htm US statists attempt to defend the indefensible - Canadian stopped en route at airport and shipped to Syria for torture http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/10/nyregion/10civil.html British Muslim leader barred from US without reason http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4684489.stm Abuses of unchecked power - Kafka meets Orwell in post-911 America http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0720-27.htm Racist fervour leads to attacks on voting and entitlements in Arizona http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0605-25.htm Blatant racism at Timimi trial http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7532 American Muslim disappears into solitary confinement http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8199 FBI trawls libraries for information http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7978 Pro-peace Palestinian tried for sending money to charities http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8672 American Gestapo targets peace protester as snitches run rampage http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2179 The "spy on your family for the war on drugs" bill http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1914 Peace leafleting at heritage day persecuted by pigs http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1121072710156600.xml&coll=2 Talking to fellow workers is under attack http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/workersrights/eye7_2005.cfm Jailed for being transgender - the latest atrocity by a bigot judge in America Tyrant judge also bans transgender person from studying http://www.transadvocate.com/archives/000206.php Black man wrongly jailed for 20 years, denied parole for claiming innocence - freed when DNA evidence proves him innocent http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05211/546262.stm Lawsuit settled over Bush protest arrests http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeech.cfm?ID=18601 State attacks on free expression continue - man jailed for wearing Grinch mask; police threaten all who wear masks, hoods to enforce generalised vulnerability to state violence http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050526105449524 Nazi judges legalise censorship of campus publications http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2204/ Radio stations and clubs under attack - police try to censor musical criticisms by closing stations, stitching up performers, pulling permits and harassing venues http://www.counterpunch.org/daveyd07192005.html Man labelled sex offender for getting cross with child - despite court's admission that the offence was not sexual "This is the most stupid ruling the appellate court has rendered in years," said Barnaby's Chicago attorney, Frederick Cohn. "If you see a 15-year-old beating up your 8-year-old and you grab that kid's hand and are found guilty of unlawful restraint, do you now have to register as a sex offender?" http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-molest01.html Abuse of prisoners in Ohio http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8844 Crackdown freakery and institutional injustice in Texas http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0620-26.htm Hundreds of innocent people rounded up in Fatherland Security "anti-gang" purge http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney08022005.html Nimbyite anti-"crime" fanatics create zones banning former sex offenders (to displace them to other areas) http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/06/08/miami_effectively_bans_molesters_from_area/ http://www.mysanantonio.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8AHFLU80.html State land grabs legalised - but not without a backlash "In Lodi, N.J., hundreds of trailer park residents may soon be squatters if the city decides their homes are hurting land values." http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0706-07.htm Protester on trial for self-defence from Bushite goons' violence http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0622-05.htm Fascist school tyrants tear down Bush satire posters http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0527-06.htm More school fascism: teacher sacked, others walk out over draconian punishment http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0526-06.htm And a kid kicked off school computers for accessing a political parody website "We don't condone it. We don't like it and we discipline it," Superintendent Dr. Dan Doerhoff (grw002 at mail.connect.more.net) said. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0526-07.htm Persecution of the young - police force pedestrians to be breathalysed http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0808-06.htm Mass roundup of 10,000 - including 9,000 with no serious charges http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney05182005.html Fatherland Security given go-ahead to waive any and all laws http://www.counterpunch.org/shull05112005.html Fatherland Security to wreck natural site, fill in river and destroy habitats to pursue anti-Mexican fence crusade http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/site/pp.asp?c=euLTJbMUKvH&b=486097 Three Strikes atrocity continues http://www.counterpunch.org/yoshioka05062005.html Artist persecuted by Homeland Security http://www.counterpunch.org/mcmillan04152005.html Vicious attack on legal party in Utah - military-dressed goons attack with helicopters and dogs, beat people up etc http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050823133340924 People who feed the homeless are under state attack in Dallas http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050807155009897 Kaczynski wants to donate his works to a library - but a judge decides to steal them instead http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050721225304898 Chicago pigs beat man for. standing in open public park, and arguing with them http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050806111033170 WalMart goons murder suspected shoplifter http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050819185544407 Screws kill resisting con in Baltimore http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050516132143199 Homelessness activists convicted for reopening shelter http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050429080029347 "Art is biowar" persecution continues - Steve Kurtz on trial for civil offence in criminal court - as case breaks down, prosecutors invent new charges "Judge Schroeder seemed to agree, asking Federal Assistant District Attorney William Hochul whether an underaged youth who uses the internet to purchase alcohol across state lines, for example, should be subject to federal wire fraud charges. "Yes," Hochul answered after some hedging, and Schroeder chuckled. "Wow, that really opens up a Pandora's Box, wouldn't you say?" he asked Hochul." "Cambria further argued that the FBI intentionally misled a judge into issuing the original search warrant. That judge was never told of Kurtz's lengthy, credible and complete explanation of what the seized bacterial substances were being used for, nor of the fact that Kurtz tasted Serratia in front of an officer to prove it was harmless. Also, the judge was told of Kurtz's possession of a photograph of an exploded car with Arabic writing beside it, but not of the photograph's context: an invitation to an important museum art show. The photograph, by artists the Atlas Group, was one of several exhibited pieces pictured on the invitation." http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=05/05/19/1246226&mode=nested&tid=8&tid=22 Socialist candidate challenges state ban on "subversive" election candidates http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6929/692902.html Political prosecution of three newspapers begins to break down http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6925/index.shtml Birdwatchers under attack as "security" hysteria mounts http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1522968,00.html Statist terror at airports - children manhandled by security goons http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/24/232444/424 Mall tyrants attack teens, try to insist on parental escorts http://www.masslive.com/living/republican/index.ssf?/base/living-0/112132713728690.xml&coll=1&thispage=2 Corporate censorship: council bans residents from mentioning WalMart at meetings http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20050708-1419-speaknowal-mart.html Fascist anti-porn probation rules lead to jailings for trivialities such as reading non-porn mags http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1966 Abuse of "odd", archaic and forgotten laws in America http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1981 The First Amendment is dead - Muslim preacher given life sentence for exercising free speech http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/timi-j27.shtml Bushite goons stop man visiting family in Cuba http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/abril/juev28/protesta.html American man jailed for saving a drowning man's life http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3252707 Soldier punished for criticising Bush http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1779 Canadian lawyer says criticising Israel is anti-Semitism! http://palestineblogs.com/archives/2005/05/08/lawyer-any-criticism-of-israel-is-a-form-of-anti-semitism/ California National Guard accused of spying on protest groups http://www.progressive.org/?q=mag_mc063005 New Jersey town uses Patriot Act to attack homeless people http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050630052509990001 Jewish family file lawsuit over police murder, claiming their son was murdered because he was mistaken for a Muslim http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1120876248576 New attack on the right to protest in Pennsylvania http://govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php?channel=23&id=94301 Police persecute activist for complaining about Minutemen - phony charges filed, house trashed http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/06/1747943.php Instead of arresting bigot who drove van at protesters, pigs arrest 5 protesters on trumped-up charges http://www.pww.org/article/articleprint/7198/ Pot prohibition kills again - medical marijuana user dies because of denial of medicine http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1117360 Politically-motivated persecution of Arab academic http://groups.msn.com/SimeAgain/general.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=1350 Activists jailed for refusing to collaborate with kangaroo court http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1865 Denver bans pit-bulls and even staffies! http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/4362515/detail.html ACLU uncovers political surveillance and harassment http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1638 Sexual abuse and rape in American prisons exposed http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/225561_jailguards24.html Persecution of Sherman Austin continues http://la.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/127422.php Librarian stands up to Patriot Act http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44445 US jailers torture innocent Afghan to death http://newsfeed.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/story.asp?j=330443103004&p=33x443yx3473&n=330443103503 "Real ID" - the latest attack on civil rights in America http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,67471,00.html?tw=wn_story_top5 Elderly teacher is labelled "terrorist" for inadvertent knife http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm Road closed in fake penis alert http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91059-13355259,00.html Fascist court bans parents from teaching Wicca http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050527/NEWS01/505270510 Innocent child arrested in US as "terrorist threat" http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1710 Adding insult to injury: brother of man murdered by police, arrested for standing up to cops http://news.tbo.com/news/MGB7DDWUN8E.html Attack on freedom of speech leads to arrests of parents at schoolboard meeting http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/news/042905_NW_durhamschoolboardmtg.html Newark makes two moves toward redevelopment Plan for new downtown area opens door for eminent domain Friday, June 17, 2005 BY JEFFERY C. MAYS Star-Ledger Staff The Newark City Council approved two pieces of legislation that will have a major impact on development in the city. One will create an entirely new downtown neighborhood on 13.5 acres, and the other will make it easier to transfer city-owned land to developers. Both met resistance from residents at Wednesday night's council meeting, but the council said they felt the changes were in the best interest of the city. A redevelopment plan for 13.5 acres of the downtown Mulberry Street neighborhood was approved by a vote of 5 to 4, clearing the way for the city to officially designate a developer and begin taking private property using eminent domain. In another move, the entire city of Newark has now been deemed an area in need of rehabilitation, by a 6 to 3 vote, making it easier for the city to create the type of redevelopment plan being used on Mulberry Street. "We are talking about enhancing neighborhoods," said Councilwoman Bessie Walker. The Mulberry plan is a 13.5-acre project to build more than 2,000 market-rate condominiums and create an entirely new neighborhood. The redevelopment plans calls for mixed-use buildings with stores on the bottom, wide plazas, a park and the option of an arcade. City officials say it is the first effort to create an entirely new neighborhood and not just build two- and three-family houses. "It's an exciting day, a historical day for the city of Newark," said Emilio Farina, a principal in the Mulberry Street Urban Renewal Co., the developer that will probably be chosen for the project. Supporters of the project packed the council chambers wearing T-shirts and buttons. The central planning board unanimously decided to recommend the plan to the city council on Monday. George Mytrowitz, a spokesman for the Mulberry Street Coalition, a group of property owners fighting the use of eminent domain for the project, urged the city council to postpone voting on the plan until his group's lawsuit challenging the blight designation is decided. "We knew it was a foregone conclusion," said Mytrowitz. "The city is wasting taxpayer dollars to come up with a plan when they know we are contesting it in court." Councilman Augusto Amador, who voted against the Mulberry Street plan, said the city council should have waited until the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling on a case it is hearing regarding when the government can take private property for a public use and exactly what constitutes a public use. Mytrowitz said he was also concerned about the city council declaring all 24 square miles of Newark as an area in need of redevelopment. "The city is trying to fast-track development. Your house or business, your most important possession, may not be safe," said Mytrowitz. Right up until the vote, the city council had questions about what the designation would mean. Assistant Director of Economic and Housing Development Johnny Jones and Corporation Counsel JoAnne Watson explained that the designation does not change the process the city would have to follow to use eminent domain. Instead, city officials said the designation would allow for smaller areas to be targeted for redevelopment. The city would be able to take city-owned parcels and combine them with parcels owned by developers to create neighborhood redevelopment plans. To meet the standard for rehabilitation, an area must show a pattern of vacant, substandard or deteriorated housing; have half of its housing stock or water and sewer infrastructure at least 50 years old; or stand to benefit from rehabilitation to prevent more deterioration. Newark's sewer system is at least a century old. City planning officials currently declare an area in need of redevelopment if they want to put together neighborhood plans. That designation allows the city to take private property and devise plans to redevelop the area. It also allows the municipality to convey city- owned land to private developers without going through the public bidding process. In order to be declared in need of redevelopment, an area has to meet several criteria, including unsafe and dilapidated buildings, underused land, and abandoned commercial or industrial areas. The city council has to ask the central planning board to investigate whether an area is in need of redevelopment. Hearings must be held by the planning board, and the council must approve the planning board's recommendation. Jones said that process can take from six to eight months and can cost the chance at outside funding. Attorneys from McKirdy and Riskin, one of the leading firms on eminent domain issues in the state, questioned why the city would need to be declared in need of rehabilitation when the state's redevelopment laws already give the city broad powers. Nancy Zak, a community activist who works for the Ironbound Community Corp., said the city should concentrate on finishing its Master Plan and updating its zoning laws. Proper planning and zoning would eliminate the need to do so many neighborhood plans, she said. "I have no problem voting on different areas in need of redevelopment, but I don't believe all sections of the city of Newark are in need of rehabilitation," said Councilman Donald Tucker, who along with Amador and Luis Quintana voted against the designation. Jeffery C. Mays covers Newark City Hall. He may be reached at jmays at starledger.com or (973) 392-4149. The following appeal was initiated by the Women's Fightback Network in Boston, an affiliate of the IAC. Please respond immeditately: Stop Racial Profiling & Police Brutality! Drop All charges Against the Somerville 5! Please take a minute to read the flyer below regarding a very important struggle against police brutality and racial profiling in Somerville, MA. We are appealing to you to immediately call or send a fax to Dr. Albert Argenziano, Superintendent of Somerville Schools, demanding that all five students immediately be reinstated at Somerville High School, in good standing, with no repercussions. The decision to reinstate or expel is currently in the hands of Dr. Argenziano and the deadline is this Thursday, May 12. The students have been unjustly suspended for more than 10 days. No court has found them guilty but Somerville High School officials have decided they are "guilty until proven innocent". This is a travesty of justice!! More than 300 of their peers at Somerville High School signed a petition requesting their reinstatement. Please help save their futures! Make your voice heard! Dr. Albert Argenziano Superintendent, Somerville School Department Phone: 617-625-6600 x6005 or 617-625-6600 x6000 Fax: 617-625-4731 aargenziano at k12.somerville.ma.us Come & Pack the Court! Tuesday, May 10, 9:00 AM Somerville District Court (Orange Line to Sullivan Station, Bus #92 or #90) Call the Mayor of Medford, Michael McGlynn to demand that all charges be dropped Now! - 781-393-2408 ****************************** STOP RACIAL PROFILING AND POLICE BRUTALITY! DROP THE FRAME-UP CHARGES AGAINST CALVIN BELFON, CASSIUS BELFON, EARL GUERRA, ISIAH ANDERSON & MARQUIS ANDERSON! Every day, across the country, Black youth and other young people of color are the victims of racial profiling and police brutality. Skin color and national origin are seen by police as a cause for suspicion and a reason to violate people's rights. "Driving while Black" or "walking while Black" is the all too common harsh reality for our young people. Racial profiling can result in beatings, maiming, imprisonment and even death. On April 20, 2005, 5 Black youths from Somerville (Calvin Belfon 17, Cassius Belfon 15, Earl Guerra 16, Isiah Anderson 17, and Marquis Anderson 16) were the victims of racial profiling and a brutal, unprovoked attack by Medford Police. The Somerville youths were walking to catch a bus home and stopped at a Store 24 nearby. Outside they were confronted by a heavily armed Medford police officer. He grabbed Calvin Belfon by the throat and punched him twice in the face. Fearing serious bodily harm or worse, Belfon defended himself. His brothers and friends came to his aid. When Calvin appealed for the cop to stop, he responded by calling him a racist name. A police riot ensued with at least 10 cops armed with guns, clubs, mace and flashlights, beating the 5 youths. All 5 young people sustained injuries to the face and head and all were maced. Calvin and Isiah were clubbed on their heads with a flashlight. All later went to the hospital for treatment. Police also gang-profiled the youths as evidenced by asking them what their "street names" were. A cover-up of this vicious assault by the Medford Police quickly followed. In pre-fabricated stories, police told the press and media such things as they were "fighting for their lives" "teens turned on them" , "were overwhelmed", etc. Absurd lies like these are commonly used by police to cover up abuse and pin it on the victims in order to get away with it. Needing a probable cause for the unprovoked attack, the police claimed the youth were making trouble in the Store 24 and that the youth had tried to grab cop's weapons. All five of these young people are students at Somerville High School who get good grades and have never been in trouble at school or with the law. They are all excellent athletes and members of the football, track and basketball teams; respected by their peers. All five attend church on a regular basis. All dream of going to college. They currently have been unjustly suspended from school. They have been charged with assault with a deadly weapon, assault and battery, and disorderly conduct. The future of these promising students and athletes is now in jeopardy. Our youths have a right to walk down the street, attend an event, or drive their cars free from police harassment both psychological and physical. They have a right to walk safely and not be terrorized by racist police. We need to come together as a community and demand this - parents, guardians, educators, peers, and residents. Join us in demanding: Drop all charges now. Reinstate the students at SHS immediately. Conduct an independent investigation into police actions on April 20, 2005. Stop racial profiling and police brutality. Come & Pack the Court! Tuesday, May 10, 9:00 AM Somerville District Court (Orange Line to Sullivan Station, Bus #92 or #90) Call the Mayor of Medford, Michael McGlynn to demand that all charges be dropped Now! - 781-393-2408 Issued by: Committee to Defend the Somerville High School 5 Against Police Brutality c/o Women's Fightback Network & International Action Center - 617-522-6626 Suspension reduced over call from mom in Iraq Georgia student refused to end call at school from soldier-mother The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ga. - Following hundreds of angry phone calls and e-mails, school officials in this Army base city have reduced a suspension imposed on a student who wouldn't give up his cell phone while talking to his mom - a sergeant on duty in Iraq. The angry calls about the boy's suspension got so bad at one point that secretaries had to take their phones off the hook, assistant principal Alfred Parham said. Kevin Francois, a 17-year-old junior at Spencer High School, was suspended for 10 days for disorderly conduct Wednesday after a teacher told him to give up his cell phone outside the school during his lunch break and he refused, the teen said. The boy said he had not expected the call from his mother, Sgt. 1st Class Monique Bates, who left in January for a one-year tour. The teacher says the confrontation happened in a hallway, not outside, and that Francois never said the call was with his mother. The Muscogee County School District Board of Education allows students to have cell phones in school but not to use them during school hours. The punishment for violating that policy is that the phone is confiscated until the end of the day. But Francois was suspended for cursing and being defiant, said Parham. That was extended to 10 because "he did not want to accept the three-day suspension and to agree that he would not use the cell phone openly or curse." "We are empathetic to all students whose parents serve in the armed forces ... (but) we do have behavior standards which we uphold," said Superintendent John A. Phillips Jr. On Friday, the school district reduced the suspension to three days, which will allow Francois to return to school Monday, after officials met with him, the guardian who cares for him while his mother is out of the country, and a representative of her unit. "People are fussing at us, calling us names," said assistant principal Wendell Turner. "We are the school that serves Fort Benning," Turner said. "We're well aware of students with parents overseas." Parham said, however, that Francois' behavior at school has been "a chronic problem." And Francois added: "I'm not a golden child and I've been wrong, but I was right this time." Phoenix Man Dies After Shocks From Police Taser Guns PHOENIX -- Authorities in Phoenix say a man who had been suspected of assaulting a police officer has died after being shocked multiple times with Taser guns. Police said the 24-year-old, who was not immediately identified, had tried to run from police early Tuesday, but a female officer caught up with him and shocked him with a stun gun. The man is said to have then resisted arrest and was shocked again by a another officer's Taser gun. The man went unconscious and later was pronounced dead at the hospital. Police will not say exactly how many times the man was shocked. The death comes amid increasing debate nationwide over police use of Taser guns. Mom Ticketed After Rushing Burned Baby To Hospital Baby Had Been Burned By Iron's Steam MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- A Vermont woman won't face criminal charges for leading police on a high-speed chase, because she was rushing her burned baby to the hospital. She will get a traffic ticket, though. Vermont State Police said the woman has been issued a civil ticket for failing to obey a police officer. A trooper attempted to pull her over but she ignored his lights and sirens. Eventually, the trooper escorted her to the hospital. Police received reports she was traveling as fast as 90 to 100 mph. Her 9-month-old son was burned by steam from a fallen iron. He suffered second-degree burns to his hand and foot. Terrorist Threat By NINA BERNSTEIN Published: April 9, 2005 - NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/09/nyregion/09suicide.html? At Heritage High School in East Harlem, where the student idiom is hip-hop and salsa, the 16-year-old Guinean girl stood out, but not just because she wore Islamic dress. She was so well liked that when she ran for student body president, she came in second to one of her best friends - the Christian daughter of the president of the parent-teacher association, Deleen P. Carr. Now Ms. Carr, a speech pathologist who calls herself "a typical American citizen," is as outraged as the girl's teachers and classmates, who have learned that the girl and another 16-year-old are being called would-be suicide bombers and are being held in an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania. "They have painted this picture of her as this person that is trying to destroy our way of life, and I know in my heart of hearts that this is bogus," said Ms. Carr, who welcomed the Guinean girl to her house daily and knows her family well. "I feel like, how dare they? She's a minor, and even if she's not a citizen, she has rights as a human being." Whack'em & Stack'em - Kill the Unarmed; No Questions Asked Report By J.J. Johnson New York City - Maybe it's the heat. Perhaps the Internal Affairs Department of the NYPD needs something to do. Or maybe this cop was just bored. Whatever the reason, another person decided to have himself killed by a man with a badge. A whack & stack indeed. Last Friday, Staten Island Police raided two rooms in a storage facility in Chelsea. According to the Commish - Ray Kelly, the take down was over a compact disc counterfeiting operation. Fair enough. At the other end of reality, Ousmane Zango, an African Immigrant who repaired sculptures and drums imported from Africa, decided to visit his cramped improvised studio around the same time. Zango's connection to the raid: Zip Number of weapons in Zango's possession: Zero Zango's criminal record: Nada All the more reason he should die. It's "African Season", ya know. And there's a fresh whack & stack in this town that hasn't even left the morgue yet. Usually, murder suspects are named immediately, but we can't do that here - him being part of that thin blue line and all. Whoever the shooter was, someone decided to leave the plain clothes officer to guard some bootleg CD' s just down the hall from Zango's pad. Apparently, guarding bootleg CD's can get quite boring, and there's nothing better to break such boredom than blowing someone away. So, the plain clothes officer went after his prey. Five bullet rounds later, Ousmane Zango lay whacked on the floor. The official reason: Well, we don't have one. He just chased him down and shot him. The shooter in question did state that for some reason, Zango reached for his gun. Makes perfect sense, doesn't it? The Medical Examiner's office reported that Zango had two bullets enter the front of his body and exited the rear. One entered from the back and exited through the front of his body. And one bullet grazed his hand. Normally, cases like these wouldn't even make it on the radar screen in the Big Apple, but the reader will recall we mention that Zango was an African Immigrant (read: a black person). This gets the anti-whack & stack machine rolling against New York City's Finest. While not resorting to anarchy at this time, the whole incident reminded many people of a classic whack & stack of an African Immigrant 3 years ago. Amadou Diallo tried to shoot 4 police officers with his wallet (according to police), and that fatal mistake cost him 41 high-speed projectiles, and the privilege of breathing on this planet. Not to worry. After the long investigation, it was deemed a "good shoot". Needless to say, the natives did get a bit restless over the whole thing. Class is in session: You have the whack above. But with no criminal record, no weapon found, and no real reason for Zango to get whacked, the 'stack' becomes difficult here. Read this carefully, as there will be a test on this tomorrow: When killing an unarmed black person, always use the threat of upheaval in the community. This usually scares the heck out of the white people - making most folks forget that an innocent person was off'ed. So, send the media out to gauge the reaction. Get a few quotes from the likes of Al Sharpton - guaranteed to piss off any non-black person. Wonder if they ever call Sharpton after a white person is killed by police, or for that matter - killed period? Of course, we weren't there, and cops never lie. The Commish made mention that there were no video cameras where the shooting took place. The area was immediately cordoned off after the shooting, in case some other unarmed person decided to reach for some other officer's gun - obviously. If you are reading this wondering if the shooting officer is in custody, the answer is no. In fact, at the time of this writing, the shooter hasn't even been questioned. But thou shallt not pass judgment on this fine officer. After all, we must put ourselves in their shoes, and understand things from their viewpoint. But, any civilian under the same circumstances would have been immediately charged with first degree murder, discharging a weapon within the city limits, and heaven forbid if he didn't have a license for that firearm. And that line about "He was reaching for my gun?" Tell it to your loy-ya. So let 's not put a civilian in this officer's shoes. Perhaps the surviving family of Ousmane Zango should sue the gun manufacturer. Whack'em & Stack'em: Never Joke With An Armed Cop J.J. Johnson Okay, so it's been awhile since we're critiqued a state-sponsored slaying, meaning the bodies have been piling up since we've last put finger to keyboard. There are those that were wondering what it would take for a good 'whacking' to warrant an update. Well, this one will do. This lawful offing was conducted by a man that isn't even supposed to be armed. No matter. Proving the fact that having a badge makes one 'licensed to kill', Whack'em & Stack'em class is in session once again. Calumet City, Ill - 36 year-old Arlin McClendon worked at the Cook County Jail. He was out driving last Saturday night when he saw an SUV that he knew belonged to a co-worker. What the heck...he flashed the lights and blew the horn to get his attention. That's what folks usually do on a Saturday night, right? Pretty harmless since you know it's your buddy from work. Ah... here's where things get confusing. Arlin's co-worker was in the OTHER car. The wife and kid were in this car. But Arlin didn't know that. He went over and pounded on the glass. Even one report of him going for the car door handle. Before we continue, and word to those that always take sides with law enforcement in our whack & stack reports. What if at this point, you were to open fire on this person (multiple times), regardless of the fact that he was your FRIEND; how many years would you get in prison? Answer: A whole bunch - if you're a civilian. But being that Arlin's work buddy wears a badge, he gets to think Arlin is a potential carjacker and shoot him dead. After a quick investigation, Arlin's bud was charged with... ...well, nothing. Welcome to the World of Whack'em & Stack'em. See the difference? In fact, this whacker was so good at his tradecraft, he didn't even get his name leaked to the media (Lord knows we wouldn't want anyone to think badly about the shooter, would we?) You see, there have been a number of carjackings in the area, according the police - thus giving the corrections officer justification in killing one of his best friends. "It is a tragic accident, a case of mistaken identity," Calumet City police Sgt. Larry Smith told the AP. "The victim and the shooter were lifelong friends. They worked together." By the way, did you know that corrections officers are allowed not carry firearms while on duty? And as for off-duty, have you seen the strict, draconian gun laws they have in Illinois? Well, not to worry, as none of that crap applies here. You see, since these guys are officers-of-the-law, they know what they're doing when it comes to guns. Our shooters only punishment is to have to live with the mistake that he simply didn't know what his friend looks like after 13 years. Lesson: If you have a badge, it's even okay to kill one of your own for a semi-good reason. Another RNC protest prosecution falls apart http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/300220p-256865c.html Distraught Man Shot At Bridge SEATTLE -- A distraught man shot by police early Friday in Seattle has died. Police had responded to a report the man was jumping off a bridge. Spokeswoman Debra Brown says officers were trying to calm the man when they struggled and shots were fired. The man in his 20's was taken to Harborview Medical Center where he died. The incident happened about four this morning at the First Avenue South Bridge over the Duwamish River as the man's wife and child were in a car. 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URL: From ldxar1 at tesco.net Mon Nov 21 21:19:37 2005 From: ldxar1 at tesco.net (Andy) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:19:37 -0000 Subject: [Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - repression UK, Iraq, global gulag Message-ID: <026901c5ef26$b31d1330$0202a8c0@WOL> REPRESSION: UK UK pigs murder in broad daylight http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/july2005/220705licensetokill.htm http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/07/jean-charles-de-menezes.html Latest fascist wish-list from British police-state tyrants http://infowars.net/Pages/Jul05/230705powers.html Police-state terror on the underground - random passengers under attack from police snoops http://prisonplanet.com/Pages/Jul05/230705random.html Frame-up of Egyptian scientist disintegrates http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13829&s2=18 London bombing: an inside job? http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14012&s2=24 Letter admitting bombings is fake - classical Arabic used incorrectly http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1965 Police response - more frightening than the killing http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29642 Law professor says police shooting illegal http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2005/270705profalarmed.htm Police racism - background to the London murder http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1538380,00.html Blair and pigs lie http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/58092 Planned new laws would ban free speech such as calling suicide bombers "martyrs" http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8364 Globalising racism: plans to auto-ban people banned from America or Europe, from Britain also http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8337 Suspicions about 7/7 - London bombings could have been black-op http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/070805finalword.htm As police terror spreads, reports emerge of further shootings - 2 killed at Canary Wharf http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10334992 Pigs allegedly throw bomb at Birmingham "suspect" and then torture him with a taser http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8694 Pervert police force suspect to strip in violent siege http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1713498,00.html http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7018 IHRC cuts relations with pigs over shooting http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8663 Blair's proposals "comparable with Hitler" - Muslim cleric http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8891 Lawyers call Blairite proposals "unthinkable" http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=9033 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=9055 "The Orwellian concept of "thought crime" is to be made the basis of British law." http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/brit-a10.shtml Armed police abuse child and elderly woman - point gun at child, give elderly woman heart attack by slamming her against a wall http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1537572,00.html http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8644 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8679 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8710 UK pigs terrorise geek http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/09/324024.html http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/09/324110.html http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/09/324549.html Oppose Blair's "ordinary fascism"! http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14070&s2=25 Civil liberties in Britain destroyed - Monbiot http://politics.guardian.co.uk/columnist/story/0,9321,1584143,00.html Another murder by police echoes the Menezes shooting - Azelle Rodney http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7221 Another death in custody http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7222 Muslim who killed cop in self-defence, denied fair trial and stitched-up because judges refuse to overturn use of prejudicial ricin lies "Lord Justice Judge, sitting with Mr Justice Newman, said evidence about the ricin explained to the jury why he was so determined to evade capture, refuting the argument that he had acted in self-defence. Without it, the jury would have been left speculating as to why he wished to "take on" a large number of police officers unless he was fearful they might "do him serious injury"." Judges sympathise with racist white cop and widespread anti-"terrorist" hysteria to excuse callousness to victim of police terror http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8450 Ethiopian refugee, wrongly accused, beaten by police thugs http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/&articleId=247190 G8 Summit approaches - and the anti-anarchist scare stories begin. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=405402005 European watchdog reveals inhuman treatment of Belmarsh detainees http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1503521,00.html Protest hauliers warned that they may lose licences Times Online - UK By Valerie Elliott, Countryside Editor. POLICE chiefs have told hauliers who protest at British refineries this week to expect a tough response. (this is why the state can't be trusted with powers of any kind. vehicle licenses are meant to be about safe driving, yet here we have police abusing them to attack protesters) Calls to deport refugee for having controversial beliefs http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/27/nmass27.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/07/27/ixnewstop.html Bombing subject says Iraq, not al-Qaeda, was the reason for the attacks http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/london-bomb-suspects-driven-by-iraq-rage/2005/07/31/1122748524889.html Police terror at the G8 - suspected protesters held at London airport http://scotland.indymedia.org/newswire/display/1836/index.php Pigs demand license to hack http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5803380.html New menace to shoppers as corporate goons and pigs threaten searches http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1534926,00.html Two-thirds of Muslims consider fleeing Britain due to state and racist terror http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1536222,00.html Man arrested for leafleting at mosque (?!?!) http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8508 Persecuted cleric is seriously ill because of prison conditions http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7175 Nazi pigs stage "mob-handed" attack to remove someone who sneezed in church http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-1743461,00.html Football club bans fan for life, for throwaway remark http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3023 Similar vindictiveness over convictions by another club http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1983362005 (such extreme actions, to rob someone of their hobby and threaten them with violence, and for what? A single indiscretion or act of deviance) Derby pig scum try to limit numbers for peace demo http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/4363284.stm http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2005/10/326193.html Persecution of youth for resisting police violence - judge sets arbitrary curfew http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4256152.stm Police terror on London train - passengers held-up by armed police http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8680 British Iraqi detained for 8 months in Iraq, sues British government http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7857 Persecution of Babar Ahmad continues http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7499 Police who tortured Babar Ahmad whitewashed by internal inquiry http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=6707 British state goons deport persecution victim to Syria http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7438 Algerians found NOT GUILTY of ricin plot, threatened with deportation and torture http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7243 Human rights activists accuse Britain of already deporting people to be tortured http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=6720 "Control order" victim re-imprisoned - removed tag on advice of psychiatrists http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7112 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7029 Fascist pigs order photographer to move, and search him under "terrorism" laws, for photographing parliament http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7079 Stop-and-search terror targets black people http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7127 Police persecute Sikh lawyer http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7055 Another fascist law - "control orders" "Control orders can be imposed on British citizens or foreign nationals, in contrast to the ATCSA provisions which were only applied to foreign nationals. All that is needed is for the Home Secretary to decide he has 'reasonable grounds' for suspecting that the person concerned is or has been involved in 'terrorism-related activity'. Such activity includes not only the 'commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism' and 'conduct which facilitates...such acts', but also 'conduct which gives encouragement...to such acts' and 'conduct which gives support or assistance to individuals who are known or believed to be involved in terrorism-related activity'. Potentially, the family, friends, lawyers, colleagues and comrades of any person considered by the government to be a terrorist suspect are therefore all targets for the imposition of further control orders, along with anyone who verbally supports but does not engage in 'terrorist activity'." http://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/184/184_cor.html Police escalate terror against football fans http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2261 Ethnic cleansing against "gypsies" continues http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/587/letters.htm ASBO fascism continues - more absurd ASBOs and info A third of ASBO victims are psychologically-different; youths, ethnic minorities and the poor are all targets http://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/184/184_asb.html http://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/185/185_asb.html http://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/186/186_asb.html People arrested for sitting on a bench http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4327 Fascist use of Nazi "anti-social behaviour" laws to smash protests excused by evil judge http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/4409584.stm ASBOs used by homophobes to target gay men http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=541942005 "God works in mysterious ways..in this case via the mortal coils of Tory Coucillor Allison Bucknell and Andy Humm. These two are begging for an Anti Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) to be served on the creator of www.lynehamvillage.co.uk website, Mitch Hawkins (no relation to Stephen, the international professor of Outer Space). Based in Wiltshire, Mitch ran a few Dead Pope jokes on his site, much to the annoyance of Humm" http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news494.htm ASBO threatened against peace protester Lindis Percy http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1459008,00.html Judge refuses ASBO on Lindis Percy, but agrees to curfew and tagging http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15528689&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=no-asbo-on-protest-gran-name_page.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4552441.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/humber/4555131.stm Another fascist decision by another evil judge - Keith Mann jailed for being a victim of verbal abuse http://www.nocompromise.org/news/050429keithjailed.html Repression at DSEI: The Met police have been showing us how they serve the community at this year's DSEi arms fair. As long as you're only in the area to sell or buy guns and bombs, that's ok, guv, but if you step out of line..here's a sample of some of the reasons for the 31 (so far) arrests .for having 2 mobile phones, for having spray paint, for 'going equipped to cause criminal damage' by carrying 2 marker pens and for not wanting to be photographed by a FIT (cop surveillance) team. One poor chap was arrested for blocking the road even though he was standing on the pavement. http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news512.htm Trade union sellouts abuse their power to aid and abet crackdown freakery http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4576368 Nimbyite bigots sabotage G8 protest camp http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4562707.stm Disability discrimination is legal in Britain, according to pigs - "national security" excuse used to suppress disability lawsuit http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news508.htm BP illegally refuse AGM entry to protesting shareholders http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news494.htm Fascistic intervention by goon Prescott leads to pigs trying to use anti-protest laws to persecute Greenpeace activists accused of peaceful sit-in Peaceful protest is "terrorising", says this New Labour goon http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/27/npresc27.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/04/27/ixportaltop.html Persecution of moderate Muslim cleric for questioning the existence of al-Qaeda and denouncing statist lies and state terror http://propagandamatrix.com/Pages/Jul05/280705cleric.html Absurd conviction of football fan for standing up for the right to protest in the face of police persecution http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/4551707.stm Prosecutor tries to prejudice trial by blaming activists who hung banner because pigs closed road http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4530781 Democracy smashed in Britain - MPs summarily punished for protest in chamber http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4639665.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4643151.stm British Army on the streets to extend police state http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1723441,00.html Police state terror grips London - dozens of random Muslims rounded up "on suspicion" http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3110182,00.html Persecution ahead of G8 - protesters get police visits http://scotlandtoday.scottishtv.co.uk/content/default.asp?page=s1_1_1&newsid=7976 Ridiculous arrest and jailing of peace activist for taking photos - anti-protest laws ban protest against corporations http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1823 Censorship in the UK - Iraq protest book under attack http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1530311,00.html With scrutiny criminalised, EDO private goons run rampage, brutalise protesters One protester is jailed under fabricated accusations after being attacked by guards http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/southcoast/2005/07/318266.html Fifers' kick up stink over recycling scheme chaos by Angela Gorrie In what will surely become known as "The Great Wheelie Bin Crisis of 2005", Fife Council's pilot recycling scheme is causing chaos, and some nasty smells, across the county. From the very beginning, the scheme was beset by problems. Phone enquiries about the drastic change to an essential service went unanswered, then callers were told they could put cans in with papers. This advice transpired to be correct... but only in Dunfermline. On the first day of the new rubbish collection timetable in Newburgh, the council came to collect on a day residents were told they wouldn't, causing hundreds of people to run with their bins as the yellow truck passed. Any bins whose lids wouldn't shut had their over spilling contents removed and laid out at the side of the street. These bags were accompanied by a notice stating that if it was to happen again a ?50 fine would be issued. Additionally, the council seem to have failed to take into consideration that the contents of the brown garden waste bin (which, incidentally you are not permitted to put any soil in) will decompose. Do they seriously think that no smell will be generated by this when these bins are emptied only once a fortnight at most? We are only a month into the scheme but already thousands of names have been added to petitions, and people are talking of withholding a relative proportion of the Council Tax. As the summer continues the stench must surely rise. http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20222.htm REPRESSION: IRAQ AND US GLOBAL GULAG Iraqi journalists arrested for free speech http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1228633.htm Five journalists arrested in Iraq http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11460&s2=02 "Renditions" via Sweden exposed http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/20/AR2005052001605.html America sends people to Uzbekistan to be tortured http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shobak_news/message/2327 Family members held hostage by US forces in Iraq http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1456773,00.html Death squads already active in occupied Iraq http://globalresearch.ca/articles/FUL506A.html US death squads in Iraq http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11250&s2=23 US troops murder Iraqi detainees http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=55&p=14170&s2=29 Kurdish activist jailed for demonstrating for education reforms http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2180 Saudi driver held for nine months, for arguing with US troops in Iraq http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=9012 The Kafkaesque world of post-911 detention http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-06-26-detentions_x.htm Another Apartheid Wall - America's gated community in the heart of Baghdad http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/55846 Iraqi journalist shot by US troops http://www.freep.com/news/nw/iraq-box130e_20050630.htm Iraqi children massacred in Buhriz http://www.uruknet.info/?p=12901 Abuse of non-Iraqi Arabs pervasive by US forces - long-term migrants treated as terrorists http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12865&s2=22 Iraqi "gypsies" persecuted in ethnic cleansing by political Islamists http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12354&s2=07 Palestinians in Iraq persecuted by US forces www.uruknet.info?p=12229 Random Sunni youths arrested as part of US terror operation in Iraq http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12334&s2=05 Iraqi police arrest and torture to death at least 12 Sunnis in coordinated raids http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13722&s2=16 Jordanian in America jailed for visiting the "wrong" websites http://www.freep.com/news/locway/obeid29e_20050629.htm Italy kidnapping inquiry reveals CIA methods http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1519576,00.html Australian government admits to abandoning citizen in US jail in Iraq http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13002&s2=24 US interferes with life-saving airlift for wounded journalist http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2005/06/19/afx2100049.html Shootings of journalists in Iraq becoming routine http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13653&s2=14 "Unlisted" US prisons are sites of torture and rape http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=66&p=12722&s2=18 Iraqis suffocate to death in police van http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/56449 Former Iraqi rulers tortured in custody http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=66&p=12665&s2=17 Iranian documentary-makers jailed for two months for making archaeology film in Iraq http://www.payvand.com/news/05/jul/1083.html Ethnic cleansing by US-backed Kurdish guerrillas in Iraq http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/14/AR2005061401828.html Guantanamo survivor interviewed http://www.jihadunspun.net/intheatre_internal.php?article=102920&list=/home.php& Western-backed Iranian militia accused of torture and brainwashing http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1495712,00.html Concern over torture by Iranian exile rebel group http://ipsnews.net/new_notan.asp?idnews=28738 US army to murder fragger http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11412&s2=30 Court rules for Pablo Paredes who avoids jail time for Iraq refusal http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/printer_051305X.shtml "I'm gonna shoot me some Hajji" - racism in the US military in Iraq http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1900 Baghdad show-trials sentence workers to death http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1899 US troops open fire on Iraq minibus, killing three http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/51490 Troops force Iraqi detainee to dig own grave http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=18279&c=206 Elderly Afghan man murdered by US troops during house raid http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_18-5-2005_pg7_51 Torture is "barracks humour" says military goon http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14019&s2=24 Bush plans to block ban on torture of prisoners http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14016&s2=24 US soldier's Iraq blog silenced http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biasresistance/message/123 Iraqi journalists still being killed and detained http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/66223/ Iraq pigs in Tikrit ban driving cars alone, and shoot one person for defying the ban http://www.almendhar.com/almendharen/details.aspx?nID=2987 http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/krwashbureau/20050514/ts_krwashbureau/_bc_usiraq_bombers_wa Documents reveal US soldiers inventing new torture methods; murder detainees http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/02/AR2005080201941_pf.html US imprisons journalists without charge in Iraq http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11594&s2=08 US troops killing journalists http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11939&s2=23 Iraqi regime legalises property theft against oppositionists http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11819&s2=18 More Iraq abuse detailed - soldiers beat detainees with hammers http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_2892191 Journalist killed after investigating US-backed death squads in Iraq http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/iraq-j01.shtml US troops arrest journalist, then arrest his father for asking why http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2183 Iraqi press under attack http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0503-05.htm Unarmed Iraqi shot, despite cooperating with and praising US troops http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/25/AR2005052501916.html Prisoner abuse of Iraqis in 1991 http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11653&s2=10 [ Still mulling over the Salvador option? ] Imad Khadduri "A few days ago, an American manned check point confiscated the driver license of a driver and told him to report to an American military camp near Baghdad airport for interrogation and in order to retrieve his license. The next day, the driver did visit the camp and he was allowed in the camp with his car. He was admitted to a room for an interrogation that lasted half an hour. At the end of the session, the American interrogator told him: 'OK, there is nothing against you, but you do know that Iraq is now sovereign and is in charge of its own affairs. Hence, we have forwarded your papers and license to al-Kadhimia police station for processing. Therefore, go there with this clearance to reclaim your license. At the police station, ask for Lt. Hussain Mohammed who is waiting for you now. Go there now quickly, before he leaves his shift work". The driver did leave in a hurry, but was soon alarmed with a feeling that his car was driving as if carrying a heavy load, and he also became suspicious of a low flying helicopter that kept hovering overhead, as if trailing him. He stopped the car and inspected it carefully. He found nearly 100 kilograms of explosives hidden in the back seat and along the two back doors. The only feasible explanation for this incidence is that the car was indeed booby trapped by the Americans and intended for the al-Khadimiya Shiite district of Baghdad. The helicopter was monitoring his movement and witnessing the anticipated "hideous attack by foreign elements". The same scenario was repeated in Mosul, in the north of Iraq. A car was confiscated along with the driver's license. He did follow up on the matter and finally reclaimed his car but was told to go to a police station to reclaim his license. Fortunately for him, the car broke down on the way to the police station. The inspecting car mechanic discovered that the spare tire was fully laden with explosives." A warning to car drivers (in Arabic) May 11, 2005 And a Resistance warning to this effect May 14, 2005 Anmar Yassin Salman was arrested with his brother by the anti-terrorism Wolf brigade and died in custody, his family said. Bashar Yassin Salman, brother of the dead police officer, said that he and his brother were placed in a room with hundreds of other detainees and tortured without being accused of any crime. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) More Occupation Prisoners Murdered July 16, 2005 (AFP) A former general in Saddam Hussein's army and his son were found shot dead in Baghdad after being detained by police commandos, an interior ministry official told AFP, raising new question marks over the discipline of the elite force. Akram Ahmed Rasul al-Bayati, a major general in the old regime's disbanded military, and his son Ali, a policeman, were killed on Friday evening after being arrested last Sunday, the official said asking not to be identified. There was no immediate word of any official investigation. US holding American citizens without trial in Iraq http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8187 American prisoners sent to Uzbekistan? http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0501-03.htm Bagram detention victim speaks out about torture - and starvation of his daughter due to US detention http://www.antiimperialista.com/en/view.shtml?category=9&id=1125221839&keyword=+ CIA mind-control experiments on children, including use of torture and rape, alleged http://www.totse.com/en/conspiracy/mind_control/161916.html CIA trains Uzbek interrogators to torture, murder prisoners http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0516,hentoff,63104,6.html US Marines stage incursion into Somaliland http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1362433.htm Children and elderly people held and abused at US concentration camps in Afghanistan http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7808 Sikhs terrorised on US bus - armed police storm bus and manhandle British tourists http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1536635,00.html US goons censor news to Gitmo inmates - London bombing concealed http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8205 US plans catch-all statements not to oppose US as condition for release http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8170 Poll on Gitmo appears to show two-thirds of Americans have no ethics and one-third are outright Nazis http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8015 But another poll shows how ignorant they are! http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7143 Senators shocked by details of torture of Saudi at Gitmo http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7858 Victims of Guantanamo include children, according to lawyers http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7860 Lawyers reveal Bahraini in Kandahar and Gitmo was tortured with icy water and tied to a pole http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7806 MI5 asset left to rot in Gitmo as MI5 links to Abu Qatada revealed http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7688 Torture as terror http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0512-23.htm Kuwaiti tortured at Guantanamo http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7620 Al-Jazeera journalist held and mistreated at Guantanamo "He is completely innocent. He is about as much of a terrorist as my granddad. The only reason he has been treated like he has is because he is an Aljazeera journalist. The Americans have tried to make him an informant with the goal of getting him to say that Aljazeera is linked to al-Qaida." http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7995 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8067 Shocking report on torture of US prisoner sent to Morocco http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1540549,00.html British resident tortured in foreign prisons on US instructions http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1540558,00.html US suspects tortured in Jordanian prisons http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=9024 Afghanistan human rights monitor fired for uncovering human rights abuses http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2184 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <027301c5ef26$c358a750$0202a8c0@WOL> Petition against the Patriot Act https://secure.aclu.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=Patriot_Act_Petition_ACLU&printer_friendly=1 Appeal to Brazil to stop persecuting occupied factories http://www.marxist.com/appeals/brazil-goulart-appeal270605.htm Protest denial of US entry to Nicaraguan activist http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1810 Petition against seal hunt in Canada http://www.yaaaonline.org/sealpetition.shtml Support Hampton University students threatened with punishment for protesting http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/hampton/ Support Google against rightist goons over newslisting of ISM site http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2186 Petition for amnesty for Italian political prisoners http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=5915 http://www.clubpost1984.org/article.php3?id_article=3 Call on company to reinstate sacked workers http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=56 Petition against ban on Hizb ut-Tahrir http://www.petitiononline.com/HTban/petition.html Support Serb inmate at risk due to standoff http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2752 Radical centre in Borneo calls for support http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2741 Free Palestinian children from detention http://www.petitiononline.com/dcips/petition.html Demand medical treatment for US inmate http://www.petitiononline.com/ld176761/petition.html Justice for Eddie Ammons - jailed for self-defence http://www.petitiononline.com/ld176761/petition.html Please parole Eric Brennesholtz http://www.petitiononline.com/rl62203/petition.html Free Taylor Wells - wrongly imprisoned http://www.petitiononline.com/tgw1228/ Pardon Thomas DeWolf http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/852517613?ltl=1126682938 Support Taiwanese migrant workers http://www.petitiononline.com/migrants/petition.html Save Pasargad archaeological site http://www.petitiononline.com/Pasargad/ Support Korean hotel workers against anti-union closure http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=57 http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi?db=default&uid=default&ID=2295&view_records=1&ww=1&en=1 Tell Coca-Cola to take action on Turkish workers' rights http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/coketurkey Labournet Germany under attack - protest seizures of equipment http://www.labournet.net/world/0507/labnetde1.html Support Turkish workers' campaign for unionisation http://www.labournet.net/world/0506/turkey1.html Oppose Zimbabwe government crackdown - support right to housing http://www.habitants.org/article/articleview/1467/1/381/ Sign Citizens' Objection to GM organisms http://www.bite-back.org/objection/index.php Support trade unionist sued by bosses http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/3992 Boycott Amazon.com over foie gras sales! http://www.nomorehomelessanimals.org/boycottamazondotcom.html Save the orang-utans - petition http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/822035733?ltl=1121612391 Protest to Yorkshire Post over support for Covance animal torturers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2118 Protest export of African wild animals to Thailand http://www.ecoterra.de/sites/anti-chiangmai-night-zoo.htm Protest Sharon's visit to Toronto http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2111 Oppose Intel support for Israel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2109 Protest pharma giant's attack on unions http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=55 Petition over murder of Mexican youth by police http://www.petitiononline.com/Just4J/petition.html Petition: tell Belgrade Zoo to become more animal friendly http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/777611166?ltl=1121170865 Letter-writing campaign - support Burmese political prisoners http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1844 Send protest email about murders of trade unionists in Colombia http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/campaigns/show_campaign.cgi?c=62 Petition for long-term prisoner to receive medical care http://www.petitiononline.com/shoatz/petition.html Send email to John Lewis urging them to stop stocking from Caterpillar http://www.waronwant.org/?lid=9780 Urge trader to stop stocking eggs from factory farm hens https://community.hsus.org/campaign/traderjoes/ Petition for the release of a Haitian political prisoner http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/263040597?ltl=1116859838 Demand release of trade unionists imprisoned and tortured in Eritrea http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=50 Support the demands of Bangladeshi workers' organisations over the recent sweatshop collapse which killed many workers http://www.waronwant.org/?lid=10089 Take action on police corruption around Oxford University animal torture lab http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1635 Close down cruel dolphin tank http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/309558120?ltl=1119226257 Protest against Patriot Act expansion http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/678505594?z00m=25071&z00m=25071<l=1119225770 Petition in support of Puerto Rican anti-colonial political prisoners http://www.petitiononline.com/ProLibUN/petition.html Petition to close down Guantanamo Bay http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/petition.cfm?itemid=19123 Protest Rajiv Gandhi Foundation's endorsement of murderous Modi regime in Gujarat! http://www.petitiononline.com/antimodi/petition.html Petition against farming of dogs for food http://www.gopetition.com/online/5422.html Petition: Call on UN to review support for Papuan integration into Indonesia http://www.petitiononline.com/unreview/ Denounce killing of Nestle union organiser in the Phillipines http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/nestle/ Sweat-free Campuses campaign http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/newsweatfreecampaign/ Oppose anti-worker disaster zone measure - http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/protect_workers/uxigxe4z768e36? Oppose clearcutting of old-growth forests by Kleenex http://www.actionworks.ca/clientfiles/greenpeace_canada/actioncentres/kleercut-eng/takeaction.jsp Petition against gutting of eco-protection laws in America http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/713864189?z00m=24417&z00m=24417<l=1119227202 Sign petition supporting Pablo Paredes http://www.npowebsite.net/dp/dp.asp?Mode=OnlinePetition%3C/b%3E Call for rights for Iraqi detainees http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=14334&s2=03 Thailand boycott/mailing appeal over treatment of zoo animals http://www.ecoterra.de/sites/anti-chiangmai-night-zoo.htm Petition in support of "Peace Tax Seven" in UK http://www.petitiononline.com/PT7UK/ Free Jalalabad protesters! (Note - action details are unclear) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1660 Call for buying petrol from Citgo instead of Iraq war-linked companies http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0516-25.htm Call for release of Aung San Suu Kyi http://www.actionburma.com/ Send email protesting social security doublespeak by corporate leader http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/TellSchwab Click for the forest! (A click a day keeps advertisers paying for a Swedish forest to be saved) http://www.ettklickforskogen.se/engelska/ettklickeng.asp Turkish conscientious objector beaten and abused in prison - protest now! http://wri-irg.org/co/alerts/20050524a.html Free Khalid Jarrar, detained Iraqi blogger! http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/820522461?ltl=1121553819 Protest animal abuse and fur farming in China http://www.petitiononline.com/HKDKP012/ Protest animal abuse in Serbia http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1890 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1923 Petition in support of Jeff "Free" Luers, political prisoner http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1919 Petition to save funding for US projects for victims of domestic violence http://www.700women.org/site/c.feIJLOOsGlF/b.854229/k.ADBB/Sign_the_Petition/apps/ka/ct/contactcustom.asp Petition against Denver pit-bull genocide (NOTE: lots of statist nonsense in the wording but worth signing anyway I think) http://www.petitiononline.com/savepits/ Petition against Lancaster University's persecution of anti-corporate protesters http://www.petitiononline.com/gfox6/ Support Peace Tax protesters http://www.petitiononline.com/PT7UK/ Save Thornborough Henge http://www.petitiononline.com/TimeW1/petition.html Petition against Arctic drilling http://wwf.ca/HowYouCanHelp/DoNotDrill/letter.asp?campaign=anwr Support MSPs against parliament protest crackdown http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/754099600?ltl=1121838644 Protest racist anti-Mexican T-shirt http://www.bluelatinos.org/urbanoutfittersoutrage.htm Petition for the release of Lebanese political prisoner wrongly accused of terrorism in France, whose health is at risk http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.petitiononline.com%2F1680GA%2Fpetition.html&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools Complain to The Sun and Press Complaints Commission about racist columnist http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=14027&s2=24 Support release of Yemeni political prisoners in the US http://www.al-awdany.org/politicalprisoners/signletters.html Israeli ban on Palestinian civil lawsuits: "PCHR urges you to write a letter to Michael Eitan, Chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee demanding that he prevent passage of Amendment No. 5 to the Civil Wrongs Law: Fax: +972 2 6496404 or meitan at knesset.gov.il." http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6EJ3U2?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PFR Protest executions of gay youths in Iran http://www.beirut.indymedia.org/ar/2005/07/2999.shtml 2 activists jailed, help needed http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2048 Support stitched-up German anti-fascist http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1984 Akha campaigners urge global boycott of Thailand http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2005 Leave an online condolence for Terri Schiavo http://theresa-schindler.memory-of.com/about.aspx Free speech under attack: defend left-wing students at Ghent university http://www.petitiononline.com/alsgent/petition.html Protest attacks on workers in Pakistan http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi?db=default&uid=default&ID=2088&view_records=1&ww=1&en=1 Protest whipping of Nepalese migrant in Malaysia http://www.gefont.org/actin_alert/mangal/mangal_gurung.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7544 Somali peace activist assassinated http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0711-09.htm WalMart close store to smash union http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0511-03.htm MinuteMen suck - migration to US is necessary safety-valve http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0511-26.htm MinuteMen to take on foreign capital http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0424-25.htm Message from ELF/ALF prisoner Chris McIntosh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2757 The absurdity of Jeff Luers' sentence http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2756 Iran election analysis by Iranian socialist http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/582/iran.htm Francis Ona's role analysed http://www.counterpunch.org/watts07302005.html Oppression breeds violence - racism and "crime" in AmeriKKKa http://www.counterpunch.org/chestnut07292005.html Latest Zapatista declaration http://www.counterpunch.org/marcos07142005.html Poison spraying in America http://www.counterpunch.org/hudson04192005.html Thinking socialism and the economy through engagement with workers http://www.nd.edu/~econrep/papers/graham.html The crisis in Niger - interview with a local activist http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7151 Jeff Luers interview http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/06/22/gree.DTL South Africa since the fall of Apartheid - how much has changed? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3608149.stm Protests expected at Hong Kong summit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1574 Bogus hostage crisis hits Iraq http://www.uruknet.info/?p=11168&hd=0&size=1&l=x Manipur: agitation over script reform replaces political unrest http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/sair/Archives/3_41.htm "Moral and cultural policing" and extortion by armed opposition groups in Manipur http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/GD05Df03.html What is al-Qaeda? http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GE21Ak04.html Interview with Ewa Jasiewicz on workers in Iraq http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/622/622p12.htm Article on sabotage in the workplace http://www.cert.org/archive/pdf/insidercross051105.pdf Article on class and caste war in Bihar http://www.anthropologymatters.com/journal/2004-2/kunnath_2004_under.htm Iraqi mujahideen seize control of border town http://www.jihadunspun.net/intheatre_internal.php?article=102320&list=/home.php& Indonesia police accused of planting bomb http://www.laksamana.net/vnews.cfm?ncat=48&news_id=8193 The formation of national identity in the Indian northeast http://www.epw.org.in/showArticles.php?root=2005&leaf=05&filename=8680&filetype=html Afghanistan: wartime sexual violence http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_ahmad/20050526.html A Chicano/a reply to the racist SOS/Minutemen gangs http://la.indymedia.org/news/2005/06/128101.php Speech by class struggle hero Craig Johnson after his release from political imprisonment http://www.socialist-alliance.org//page.php?page=426 Escape from Halifax: Sea Shepherd activist evades capture http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050718180124723 CIA links to Sudan genocide http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/052205Y.shtml Occupation and oil in Western Sahara http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12506 Cambodian mass grave sold off to corporation http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/04/privatizing-mass-grave-in-cambodia.html Phillipines mining area militarised to protect corporations from dissent http://www.bulatlat.net/news/5-9/5-9-abra.htm Analysis of neocon project in the Middle East http://wampum.wabanaki.net/archives/001436.html Fake hostage crisis in Iraq http://www.uruknet.info/?p=11168&hd=0&size=1&l=x India: government blamed for tribal unrest http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/20/stories/2005042012130400.htm Neoliberals praise Gujarat, site of anti-Muslim pogroms http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=81&page=10] For Arab press, humiliating photos of Saddam reinforce hostility to the US http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0523/p07s02-woiq.html Priest crucifies Nun to death in exorcism ritual in Romania http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1119098341918B265 Rare sensible ruling by judge protects denouncement of racist police in America http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050527/NEWS01/50527002 Effects of torture on US public culture http://www.counterpunch.com/floyd05252005.html Did Blair rig his way back into parliament? http://unspun.mithuro.com/content/view/82/36/ "War on terror is just propaganda" confirms military source http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1234660.htm Interview on trade union organising in the Kaliningrad docks http://www.icftu.org/displaydocument.asp?Index=991222033&Language=EN Video on South African housing struggles https://video.indymedia.org/en/2005/07/138.shtml Seed-saving in Iraq http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13970&s2=23 Afghan elections reveal disaster of US colonialism http://www.countercurrents.org/afgan-whitney301005.htm Globalisation is an anomaly and its time is running out http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,7369,1542027,00.html MALAYSIA: Crackdown on immigrants reversed due to labour shortage http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4583061.stm INDIA: homeless workers face anxiety http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/may292005/district1751492005528.asp Anti-protest laws will not stop Commonwealth Games protests, say Aboriginal leaders http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,15280338%255E11088,00.html On globalisation, Iraq and Middle East studies - Chomsky http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=11&ItemID=7548 James Petras on the causes of the Iraq war http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=34928 Anarchy in China Farmers angry at corruption and poverty repel riot police, and sightseers arrive to gawk at the tiny village that rose up against authorities. salon.com - - - - - - - - - - - - By Jonathan Watts There is a strange new sightseeing attraction in this normally sleepy corner of the Chinese countryside: smashed police cars, rows of trashed buses and dented riot helmets. They are the trophies of a battle in which peasants scored a rare and bloody victory against the Communist authorities, who face one of the most serious popular challenges to their rule in recent years. In driving off more than 1,000 riot police at the start of the week, Huankantou village in Zhejiang province is at the crest of a wave of anarchy that has seen millions of impoverished farmers block roads and launch protests against official corruption, environmental destruction and the growing gap between urban wealth and rural poverty. China's media have been forbidden to report on the government's loss of control, but word is spreading quickly to nearby towns and cities. Tens of thousands of sightseers and well-wishers are flocking every day to see the village that beat the police. But the consequences for Huankantou are far from clear. Having put more than 30 police in the hospital, five critically, the 10,000 residents should be bracing for a backlash. Instead, the mood is euphoric. Children have not been to school since Sunday's clash. There are roadblocks outside the chemical factory that was the origin of the dispute. Late at night the streets are full of gawking tourists, marshaled around the battleground by proud locals who bellow chaotic instructions through loudspeakers. "Aren't these villagers brave? They are so tough it's unbelievable," said a taxi driver from Yiwu, the nearest city. "Everybody wants to come and see this place. We really admire them. "We came to take a look because many people have heard of the riot," said a fashionably dressed young woman who had come from Yiwu with friends. "This is really big news." Although the aftermath is evident in a school car park full of smashed police buses, burned-out cars and streets full of broken bricks and discarded sticks, the origin of the riot is hazy. Initial reports suggested that it started after the death of two elderly women, who were run over when police attempted to clear their protest against a chemical factory in a nearby industrial park. Witnesses confirmed that the local old people's association had kept a 24-hour vigil for two weeks outside the plant. Many said they had heard of the deaths, but no one could name the victims. The local government of Dongyang insists there were no fatalities. Like many of the other disputes that have racked China in the past year, frustration had been simmering for some time. Locals accused officials of seizing the land for the industrial park -- built in 2002 -- without their consent. Some blamed toxins from the chemical plant for ruined crops, malformed babies and contamination of the local Huashui River. The village chief reportedly refused to hold a public meeting to hear these grievances. Attempts to petition the central government also proved fruitless. Locals said they had lost faith in the authorities. "The Communists are even worse than the Japanese," said one man. Memories are still fresh of the fighting on Sunday. "It was about 4 a.m. and I was woken up by an unusual noise," said Wang, a shopkeeper who lives next to the school where the fiercest fighting took place. "When I looked out of the window, I saw lots of riot police running into the village. Many men rushed out of their houses to defend our village." Accounts of the conflict differ. Residents say 3,000 police stormed the village, several people (including police) were killed, dozens were wounded and 30 police buses were destroyed. But the Dongyang government says about 1,000 police and local officials were attacked by a mob, which led to 36 injuries and no deaths. The outcome is also unclear. Locals say the village chief has fled. In his place, they have established an organizing committee, though its members are a secret. This suggests a fear of recriminations, but the public mood is one of bravado. "We don't feel regret about what we have done," said a middle-aged man. "The police have not come back since they withdrew on Monday. They dare not return." Some, however, admitted to anxiety. Among them was an old woman -- also named Wang -- who reluctantly opened her doors to visitors who had come to see her collection of trophies from the battle. "I am scared," she said, as she showed two dented riot police helmets, several empty gas canisters, a policeman's jacket and several truncheons and machetes. "This is getting bigger and bigger." But there have been no arrests and no communication from the authorities. The current leadership will be keen to avoid a Tiananmen Square-style confrontation, including Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, who pleaded with the Tiananmen protesters to leave before the tanks came. At the same time, the authorities are committed to social stability. According to government statistics, protests increased by 15 percent last year to 58,000, with more than 3 million people taking part. In many provincial capitals, roadblocks occur more than once a week. Last weekend, anti-Japanese demonstrators rallied in three cities, including Beijing. But in Huankantou, villagers do not seem to realize that although they have won the battle, they may be far from winning the war. Amid a crowd of locals beside a wrecked bus, one middle-aged woman won a cheer of approval by calling for the government to make the first move toward reconciliation. "It's up to them to start talking," she said. "I don't know what we would do if the police came back again, but our demand is to make the factory move out of the village. We will not compromise on that." Beijing Review Colorless Revolution Kyrgyzstan feels the domino effect of the revolutions that have toppled the governments of former Soviet republics -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By DING ZHITAO POST-REVOLUTION RALLY: Kyrgyz citizens focus on a political debate in a square in Bishkek after the collapse of the Akaev government They failed to agree on a color for their revolution-never quite making a decision on tulip, lemon or pink-but they did successfully overthrow a government in two weeks. The disputed parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan triggered widespread protests last month across the mountainous Central Asian country. On March 24, opponents of President Askar Akaev stormed main government buildings in the capital city of Bishkek. Akaev made almost no attempt to resist and fled to Russia. For Akaev, the uproar must have been unexpected. The ousted leader had regarded his country, nicknamed "Switzerland of Central Asia," one of the most democratic in the region, which therefore seemed immune to the popular color-coded democratic revolutions that have impacted other republics of the former Soviet Union, like the most recent "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine and the "Rose Revolution" in Georgia. The Akaev government first believed it had made abundant preparations for the elections. More importantly, it claimed to have considered the demands raised by the United States and the Center for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. President Unprepared When the crisis broke out, Akaev proved to be unprepared both psychologically and institutionally. He underestimated the strength of his opponents when protests first mushroomed in the south of the country. In dealing with the initial protests and those that followed, the moderate intellectual president and respected physicist tried handling the situation according to legal procedures to avoid further complications. He even dreamed of overcoming the protests with the help of the West. But he did not expect the situation to devolve so rapidly and spiral out of his control. For observers, what happened in Kyrgyzstan is not that surprising. They believe that it was another typical "color" revolution. The revolutions in these republics have a lot in common. They started with elections that were deemed fraudulent and illegal by the opposition. The government in power would then agree to hold new elections, which created the opportunity for the opposition to take control. Presidents were forced to resign or flee. At pivotal moments, power agencies, including the police, army and intelligence, all supported the opposition, causing the unprotected governments to topple. Foreign intervention and influence can also be traced in the revolutions. "Opposition forces, financed from the outside, are seeking to bring about the collapse of our society," said Akaev as his government began to unravel. In late 2003, the rose revolution in Georgia forced out President Eduard Shevardnadze and put Mikhail Saakashvili in his place. In late 2004, nearly the same thing happened in Ukraine. Viktor Yushchenko was brought to power through the Orange Revolution, taking Viktor Yanukovich out of the political scene. Sun Zhuangzhi, a researcher at the Institute of Russia, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), was one of the 14 political observers dispatched by the Chinese Foreign Ministry to Bishkek for the latest elections. He witnessed the poll that ended in the collapse of the former government in Kyrgyzstan. The "successful examples" made in Georgia and Ukraine provided a model that could be copied by the opposition in Kyrgyzstan, according to Sun. Kyrgyzstan has been burdened with sharp ethnic contradictions, severe social inequality and sluggish economy. A majority of its population of 5 million people is living below the poverty line. But in the realm of geo-politics, the country between China and Uzbekistan is of vital strategic importance. Kyrgyzstan is located on the ancient Silk Road and bridges the East and the West. It is also an important transit of international drug trafficking and a recognized hotbed of Islamic extremists. Both the United States and Russia deployed troops to the country in the name of antiterrorism. Their military bases are only 33 km away from each other. Both countries seek influence in Kyrgyzstan. Big Blow for Moscow For Moscow, Kyrgyzstan's revolution was like a fire in its backyard. Russia had to postpone its joint military exercise with Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia and Tajikistan, and changed the location of the exercise from Kyrgyzstan to Tajikistan. According to a security agreement signed in 1992, the countries committed to combating terror, drug trafficking and organized crime together. The Russian administration cannot help but regard the collapse of the Akaev government as another big loss. Observers agree that the political upheaval in Kyrgyzstan is a new manifestation of the loss of Russian influence in former Soviet states, following Georgia and Ukraine, which were all friendly regimes in Russia's traditional sphere of influence. Some put forth the idea that the series of color-coded provocations were meant to encircle Russia. Kyrgyzstan's presidential election due in June is very likely to produce a pro-West government. The political structures of Central Asia then are changing unfavorably for Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin might have already predicted the situation, or might have learned a lesson from the previous revolutions. Moscow has been keeping a low profile during Kyrgyzstan's revolution, unlike the situation in Ukraine where Putin was vocal about supporting Yanukovich and his pro-Russia government. Despite being relatively quiet on Kyrgyzstan, President Putin told a press conference in Armenia on March 25 that Russia would try its best to maintain its current relations with Kyrgyzstan, and explained the revolution in the country was the result of weak authority and economic and social deterioration. Russia promised to continue energy supply to Kyrgyzstan. Putin seems to be giving Moscow some wiggle room for working with a new government. Also on March 25, a U.S. State Department spokesman said that the Bush administration would join the Russian Government to help Kyrgyzstan maintain order. In a gesture to materialize its pledge of continuing to support economic and democratic reform in Kyrgyzstan, Washington also promised an aid package of $31 million this year. Actually, aid from the West is not a new development. The U.S. Government has been giving scholarship to young people from the five Central Asian countries to receive education in the West. Some of those students have working vigorously in the color revolutions. The United States also has donated a large sum of money to build schools in Kyrgyzstan, which was well received in the country and was instrumental in nurturing pro-America sentiment there. Several European countries, including Britain, the Netherlands and Norway, have also joined in U.S. efforts in Kyrgyzstan. Other than financial aid, widespread criticism of Akaev made opposition forces fearless. Just as Akaev once said, "Many foreign forces feed our opposition morally and financially." Good News for U.S. The regime change in Kyrgyzstan can be viewed as particularly auspicious for U.S. President George W. Bush, given his State of the Union appeal in February to achieve democracy in other places around the world. Washington seems satisfied with the situation in Kyrgyzstan. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on March 24 that the upheaval in Kyrgyzstan could become a democratic success story if political change occurs without violence. "It will have been a very good thing," she said. However, for other Central Asian leaders, the revolution in Kyrgyzstan rang an alarm. Regional governments are concerned that the domino effect of the color revolutions that tipped over Georgia, Ukraine and now Kyrgyzstan, could strike them next. Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan will both hold elections soon. In Belarus, appeals for the president to resign have been heard. On March 25, only the second day following the topple of the government in Bishkek, opposition in Belarus tried launching a "snow revolution" in Minsk and demanded that their president Alexander Lukashenko step down. Though the situation was taken under control, Lukashenko's political rivals are optimistic about the future. They said that what happened was simply a rehearsal, and the decisive phase of the Belarus revolution would take place in one year. As a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the political earthquake in Kyrgyzstan certainly exerts profound influence on the regional body. The second day after the collapse of the Akaev government, SCO Secretary General Zhang Deguang said in Beijing that peace, security and political stability was of great importance to the region. He admitted the SCO had been watching closely the development of the domestic situation in Kyrgyzstan, which had made a major contribution to the founding and development of the SCO. China Makes Contact On March 28 and 29, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing exchanged opinions on the Kyrgyzstan situation with his counterparts from Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in telephone conversations. All foreign ministers agreed to further strengthen the construction of the SCO. Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV news reported on March 24 that geographical politics in the Central Asia was confronting the possibility of major changes. If pro-America politicians win the election in June, it might be doubtful that Kyrgyzstan would remain in the SCO. Whether the SCO Regional Antiterrorism Structure shall remain in Bishkek is also suspicious. These possibilities pose great challenges to the future of the SCO. China shares a border of more than 1,000 km with Kyrgyzstan, where land trading ports have been established with Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Kyrgyzstan has been viewed as an important buffer in the Central Asian region, where terrorism, separatism and religious extremism have been rampant. Observers warn that the East Turkistan terrorist forces may make the most of Kyrgyzstan's political disorder. Among the four terrorist organizations deemed illegal by the Supreme Court in Kyrgyzstan in November 2003, three had links with the East Turkistan Islamic Movement that seeks to split Xinjiang from China. Rampant Looting Besides, the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway might also be impacted by the chaos in Kyrgyzstan. The 600-km-long railway is expected to shorten the distance from Xinjiang to the Middle East and the Gulf area, and extend to Europe. A new Silk Road of the 21st century is planned to link Beijing and Paris, but it might be postponed in the short term. China's energy strategy of going west might also be affected by the latest situation in Central Asia. Wan Wancai, a Xinhua News Agency correspondent in Kyrgyzstan, said the political upheaval in Kyrgyzstan itself posed little danger to China, though loss of business was inevitable in any country in turmoil. Many shops in Bishkek have been ransacked during violence and vandalism, resulting in economic losses of at least $8 million for dozens of Chinese businesses. The Chinese Foreign Ministry and Embassy in Kyrgyzstan launched the emergency response system to ensure the security of the 10,000 Chinese nationals in the Central Asia country, arranging for special planes and cars to evacuate those who wanted to return to China. A bigger concern than these losses, Wan said, was the possibility of U.S. deployment of long-distance espionage planes to Kyrgyzstan, which could pose a negative influence to China's security. Phoenix TV predicted that China's strategic space in the Central Asia would feel the pinch if the United States was able to establish a bridgehead in the heart of the region. SILLY STUFF AND STATIST BULLSHIT "Inmates claimed they were raising a white flag, but there's no winners or losers - we'll (law enforcement) always be the winners," Jones said. http://www.muskogeephoenix.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050426/NEWS01/50426003 WHAT AN ARROGANT NAZI PRICK! All the more reason to overthrow these fuckwads! About an uprising against violent police in Northern Ireland. He said despite all the "concessions that have been given to republicans on the issue of policing" they were "still not satisfied". "When police officers move in to deal with an issue of law and order they are turned upon in this vicious way," So police now think that they have impunity to repress and brutalise, because of some supposed "concessions"?! And of course, what police call justified by their own, becomes "turned upon" and "vicious" when anyone else does it. What a bunch of hypocritical control-freak maniacs! "It's not against the law for them to gather in protest, but it is against the law to impede either vehicular or pedestrian traffic or to become a nuisance," Police Chief Ed Wagner said. http://www.thewmurchannel.com/education/4473224/detail.html Nice technicality, pig! Like, you can ban them from being in any place they might protest, because it might "impede" some other kind of use of that space, and still claim not to be banning them from protesting! Such is the kafkaesque world of pigspeak! "Access was denied to the M4 as a result of these actions. It is a very clear and obvious distraction to motorists driving underneath." (fascist moron prosecutor) http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4530781 "As a result of" means the PIGS decided to close the motorway to stop people seeing the protesters' message. What next? Arrested for obstructing the downward descent of a truncheon with one's head? Times pro-capitalist moron denounces anarchist "time warp" - despite endorsing capitalist economics and bourgeois philanthropy older than even Marx or Stirner! Obsessed with "sending out a message" of course. and all tearful over the poor beleaguered nimbies who say nothing about the pigs. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1062-1682239,00.html http://www.financialexpress.com/latest_full_story.php?content_id=108138 "Neither you nor us have a choice," Sarkozy told police and fire department representatives in Toulouse. "We have to succeed. We will not give a centimeter." (Sarkozy speaking in an attitude of typically fascist intransigence. Statists can see nothing but total war, because they seek nothing but control). "The violence left 25 inmates and 25 prison staff members wounded. One guard was repeatedly cut. Another guard shot and killed an inmate, which authorities said helped quell the riot." YES, THEY REALLY ARE ADVOCATING MURDER AS A FORM OF SOCIAL CONTROL! http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20050904-9999-1n4prison.html Silly article on Korea air strike http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200507/kt2005072516434754050.htm Performatives disguised as descriptives http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200507/20/200507202149155809900090109011.html The barometer of a democracy is how effectively it smashes the right to protest, says this bigot http://www.koilaf.org/index_init.php?url=labor_view.php?num=2969 SILLY STATEMENT. Police Chief Says Anti-Occupation Protestors Can Fly 14 May 2005 By Carlotta Gall, The New York Times "Police fired in the air to disperse the crowd, and as a result one man was killed and one injured," the local police chief, Amir Shah Nayebzada, said in a telephone interview. (thanks to GI Special for spotting this) Silly article praises violent pigs, evil snitches and sellouts who denounce "vandalism" http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050606/NEWS01/506060378 "The republic is completely determined to be stronger than those who want to sow violence or fear," Mr. Chirac said at a news conference in the courtyard of the Elysee Palace after meeting with his internal security council. "The last word must be from the law." http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/international/europe/06cnd-paris.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5040&en=6d035692f695ecb9&ex=1131944400&partner=MOREOVERNEWS "The law must have the last word," the president, Jacques Chirac, said yesterday after a security meeting with senior ministers, making his first public address on the riots http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1636153,00.html?gusrc=rss Typical Schmittian nonsense from a statist who more-or-less admits the underlying premise of statism - that the state exists, simply in order to perpetuate its own existence, and that all that matters to statists is maintaining their own dominance at all costs. And of course, at whatever point the unrest stopped, the state could have claimed credit via whatever its latest repressive initiative was, even though each failed initiative showed the state's real impotence in the face of revolt. "Violence is not a solution," Sarkozy, accused of stoking passions by calling troublemakers "scum", told reporters after the Villepin meeting. "It's a sign that the laws of the republic apply to everyone and that we will not give in to violence," said mayor Gerard Gaudron, a member of the governing UMP party. http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/WorldNF.asp?ArticleID=190354 Interesting hypocrisy coming from representatives of organised violence! This is the same Sarkozy who thinks he can terrorise the poor into submission with police violence, who now poses as a pacifist! And this from a republic founded in the fires of revolution, in the storming of the Bastille and on the barricades of Paris. now reduced to equivalence with the monarchy, and with any state, in its brute arrogance as a state determined to win at all costs. "I speak with real words," Sarkozy told Wednesday's Le Parisien newspaper. "When you fire real bullets at police, you're not a 'youth,' you're a thug." http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/257461EE-4259-42A7-AB98-B712ACE87615.htm and someone needs to read some Roland Barthes. "Zones without law cannot exist in the republic," Chirac said. http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/04/france.riots/ So much for policing by consent. which goes out the window the moment consent is withdrawn. Contrast the discourse of the rebels, who make the "Republic" conditional on its respect for them, rather than their own existence conditional on its diktats. "After an hour, some young people go outside and stand in front of the police: everyone expects a confrontation. How does the police strategy make ay sense, except in terms of "marking their territory", "restoring order" in the most primitive and macho way possible." http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/11/327207.html This is the truth behind all that goes above - the disavowed tyrannical violence underpinning statist arrogance. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ldxar1 at tesco.net Mon Nov 21 21:20:19 2005 From: ldxar1 at tesco.net (Andy) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:20:19 -0000 Subject: [Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - longer action appeals (2) and some fun stuff Message-ID: <027501c5ef26$ce8a8f30$0202a8c0@WOL> Please send responses to: Ira Burnim, Legal Director, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, at irab at bazelon.org. From: Ira Burnim & Alsion Barkoff, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law Date: June 1, 2005 Subject: Request for Information on Disability Discrimination in Prisons and Jails -- for Goodman v. Georgia and United States v. Georgia, U.S. Supreme Court Issue in the Supreme Court The U.S. Supreme Court has taken another case challenging the constitutionality of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). At issue is whether Congress has the constitutional authority to require states to pay money damages for violations of Title II of the ADA in their prisons. A negative ruling might suggest that Congress did not have the power to enact many of the core provisions of Title II, including the community integration provisions. The plaintiff in this case is an inmate with paraplegia who uses a wheelchair for mobility. He alleges that the state has violated the ADA by holding him for more than 23 hours a day in a cell that is so narrow he cannot turn his wheelchair; by excluding him from counseling, classes, and religious services because of his disability; and by failing to make toilet and bathing facilities accessible. Since the decision in Tennessee v. Lane, which narrowly held that individuals could sue states for money damages for denial of access to courthouses, the federal appellate courts have been split over whether individuals can sue the state for money damages in other contexts under Title II of the ADA. Information Needed - Disability Discrimination in Prisons and Jails Brief writers in the case are seeking information on disability discrimination in prisons and jails. This information may relate to individuals with physical disabilities, mental illness, or developmental disabilities. Discrimination against prisoners with disabilities may involve, for example, denial of access to prison programs, denial of adequate medical or mental health services, failure to make prisons and jails physically accessible, punishing prisoners with disabilities more severely than other prisoners, or the criminalization of individuals with mental disabilities (e.g., individuals with mental disabilities imprisoned for conduct resulting from failures of public service systems). Brief writers seek especially: I. Published reports -- by government agencies, public interest groups, journalists, or others -- detailing disability discrimination in prisons and jails at the state and local level. Self-evaluations performed by the state might have such information. II. Information about lawsuits brought to challenge disability discrimination in prisons and jails in your jurisdiction, favorable results in such lawsuits (by judgment or settlement - in an officially citable form if possible), and the number of complaints public or advocacy agencies have received about disability discrimination in prisons and jails. III. "Horror stories" about disability discrimination in prisons and jails - stories that would shock judges or lay people. It would be best if these are described in judicial opinions, pleadings, or published reports or articles that could be cited. IV. Court decisions describing disability discrimination in prisons and jails. V. Information about situations in which individuals with mental disabilities have ended up in prison due to a lack of mental health or mental retardation services (i.e., the criminalization of people with mental disabilities). Please send such information to: Ira Burnim, Legal Director, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, at irab at bazelon.org. Materials available only in hard copy can be faxed to 202-223-0409 or mailed to 1101 15th St. NW, Suite 1212, Washington, D.C. 20005-5002. If possible, please send in your information by June 20, 2005. Thank you! Pennsylvania Animal Advocates, Your Help is Needed Again-Protect Your Right to Help Animals! The Issue In March, the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives passed H.B. 213, legislation that creates the crime of "eco-terrorism." As written, this bill has the potential to be used against activists participating in peaceful protests or undercover investigations. The HSUS opposes violence and intimidation and these activities are not consistent with our mission of animal protection, however, H.B. 213 is too broad. We need your help to defeat it. For example, a person protesting conditions at a pet store who inadvertently protests on private property, could be charged as an "ecoterrorist." A protester on a public highway who picked up a wounded bird from a pigeon shoot could be charged with theft (a property crime) and therefore, under this bill, could also be deemed an "ecoterrorist." Further, this bill could make it a felony to take part in peaceful demonstrations that may be deemed "intimidating" if a property crime is committed. Actions that may be included under this broad language could be peaceful demonstrations, and people who assist in caring for wounded animals could be labeled as "terrorists." Please take action today on this harmful legislation. What You Can Do Please call and email your state Senator, Robert Wonderling, today and urge Senator Wonderling to strongly oppose H.B. 213. This bill is far too vague, could impede investigations, and label peaceful protest and minor trespass as terrorist activities. Such crimes do not make a person a terrorist 5/28/05--Columbia University's Hall Of Horrors KINSHIP CIRCLE LETTER CAMPAIGN http://www.kinshipcircle.org 2 letters SOURCE OF INFORMATION http://www.columbiacruelty.com investigative video: http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=columbia_primates For more information on probe into NIH oversight of its federally funded research: http://energycommerce.house.gov/108/Letters/03132003_834.htm *DISCLAIMER: The information in these letters is verified with the original source. I cannot assume responsibility for the accuracy of the information or for the consequences of its use. Nothing in this email is intended to encourage illegal action in whatever country you are reading it in. *Kinship Circle cannot guarantee the validity of email addresses. During a campaign, recipients may change or disable their email addresses. ============================== SAMPLE LETTER #1 ============================== The Honorable Joe L. Barton Acting Chair of the Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations 2125 Rayburn House Office Bldg. Washington, DC 20515-3808 ph: 202-225-2927; fax: 202-225-1919 email: commerce at mail.house.gov The Honorable James C. Greenwood Chair of the Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations 2125 Rayburn House Office Bldg. Washington, DC 20515-3808 ph: 202-225-2927; fax: 202-225-1919 email: commerce at mail.house.gov The Honorable Tommy G. Thompson Secretary of Health and Human Services Hubert H. Humphrey Building 200 Independence Ave. S.W. Washington, DC 20201 ph: 202-690-7000; fax: 202-690-7203 CIVIL LIBERTIES RALLY SUPPORT THE SHAC 7 Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2005 Time: 8:30 AM Court Support Demo followed by an 11:00 AM Rally Place: Federal Courthouse, 402 State St, Trenton, NJ On May 26th, 2004, 7 activists were indicted and arrested on "animal enterprise terrorism" charges. Specifically, the activists are alleged to have operated a website for the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty campaign (www.SHACAmerica.net [http://www.SHACAmerica.net]). For this they face an aggregate of 23 years in jail each and upwards of $1,250,000. This is what the "War on Terror" has become - a war on the First Amendment! This is a call to action for anyone who believes that no one should be thrown in jail for expressing their views, no matter how controversial or unpopular those views may be. Attend this event to demonstrate that activists of varied social justice and civil liberty causes will stand together to defend free speech. Make no mistake: this is a frightening step in the Bush administration's path to "War on Domestic Dissidence" - a path that will not end until we stop it! The SHAC 7: Kevin Jonas, Jake Conroy, Lauren Gazzola, Josh Harper, Darius Fullmer, Andy Stepanian and John McGee. Please come support them. ****Please help these defendants and show your support by dressing appropriately to attend court.**** Visit the SHAC 7 website at: http://www.shac7.com [http://www.shac7.com] (website will be updated shortly). While you are there, sign up for the SHAC 7 support list to receive up to date information on court support activities and to find out what you can do to help. Subscribe at: http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/shac7 First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists & I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists & I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me. -Pastor Martin Niem?ller HLS (Huntingdon Life Sciences) is one of the world's largest contract animal testing companies. Five undercover investigations have revealed the horrors hidden behind the closed doors of HLS, which is responsible for the torture and mutilation of hundreds of thousands of animals and death of 500 animals a day. This message brought to you by the Ad Hoc SHAC 7 Support Committee. www.turcp.org Over 300 telecommunication workers and trade unionists arrested Government starts military crackdown as it announces unilateral date for privatisation of Pakistan Telecommunications Khalid Bhatti, National Organiser of the Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan, Monday 13 June 2005 Over the weekend the number of telecommunication workers taken into custody by the police has risen to over three hundred. Paramilitary police forces have raided the homes of union leaders and arrested the relatives of union leaders. Police raided the house of one employee who died recently. Despite being told this police arrested his son who has nothing to do with the industry. This is reminiscent of the tactics of the US army who take relatives as hostages when they raid houses in Iraq. These brutal action follows the unilateral Government announcement of the restart of the privatisation process on 18 June and the deployment of the Signal Corps (a section of the military) to take over the running of the telephone exchanges. The restart of the privatisation process is in complete disregard for the agreement signed by the government which lead to a suspension of the strike on Friday 4 June where they promised the indefinite halt of privatisation. In effect this is a lock out of the workforce since all workers from grades 1-16 in the industry are barred from entering the telecommunications depots. However, the mood of the workers is even more solid than before. They have refused to accept improvements in pay and conditions which the managing director of Pakistan Telecommunications Company Ltd (PTCL) offered in the last couple of days. The value of the new package went up from Rs3.5 billion to Rs 5 billion but workers refused to be budged on agreeing to these enticements to accept privatisation. One of the union leaders Haji Khan Bhatti said at a press conference in Karachi gave the government 24 hours to release all those arrested and to withdraw the restarted privatisation process. Another union leader Malik Maqbool said that the striking workers would shut down the telecommunications system from 15 June. He warned companies not to participate in the bidding process and said that if the process went ahead then the telecommunication workers would take action against this happening. In Quetta, Balochistan, telecommunication workers have already taken action against the fibre optic link which is the backbone for much of the system in the province. It is vital that the government and management are flooded with letters of protest. There are signs of some frictions within the state in Pakistan over the question of the strike. An ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan has opposed the privatisation process in Parliament and the leader of the MMA (Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal - an alliance of Islamic parties in Pakistan) has said that if his party is elected at the next elections they will renationalise all industries privatised by Musharraf. Letters of protest will widen divisions between the Privatisation Commission of the government who are most in favour of restarting the privatisation process immediately and the Ministry of the Interior who have shown signs of holding back in an all out attack on the telecommunications workers. These letters could also have an effect in holding back the government from making vicious attacks against the telecommunication workers. Protests should demand: - Release all telecommunications workers and trade unionists leaders taken into custody. Stop the crackdown now. No more arrests - For the immediate withdrawal of all paramilitary and police forces from in and around PTCL premises - Honour the 4 June agreement - No to the privatisation of PTCL - Full support to PTCL workers fighting privatisation Send to: Awais Leghari, Minister Telecom and Information Technology, minister AT moitt.gov.pk and aleghari AT moitt.gov.pk Junaid Khan, President PTCL, president AT ptcl.com.pk M.Shahzad Sadan, Senior Vice President PTCL, sevphr AT ptcl.com.pk Please send copies to: turcpakistan AT yahoo.com and cwi AT worldsoc.co.uk Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 1:33 PM Subject: Maroccan Trotskyist in hungerstrike - request for help From: brauns at web.de Dear comrades, At the university of Fes in Morocco 193 students are in hungerstrike now against privatisation of their universities. The hungerstrike and the protests are organised by the illegal National Union of Students in Morocco that is mainly build by members of maoist and trotskiyst organisations. The slogan of the hungerstrike is: "We are communists. We love life. But we are prepared to die for it! Under pressure of the world bank the monarchist dictatorship wants to privatise the universities till 2009. Stipendiums are cut and students should pay money for their studies. The state even organised a special police for the universities, that collaborates with the secret service. With strikes and boycotts the students fight against the university reform. They boycotted the exams twice between December and March. In Fes this struggle goes on. Because of these protests eight students are in prison now with fines between four months and three years and they were heavily beaten by police. These students in prison are in hungerstrike, too, for beeing accepted as political prisoners with some privileges as free literature and visits without controll. There are more social struggles in Marocco as well. Last week the state attacked a demonstration of people in the Rif area , who lost their houses in an erarthquake last year. The army throw pepper gas from helicopters and shot with rubber amunition on the people, among them many children and women. The demonstration was for new houses and against the corrupt state, that has stolen most of the money for the earthquake victims. The alliance of houseless is organised by left wing people. The leader of this alliance was kidnappend by secret service before the demonstration. A trial will be May 26th. In South Morocco, there were huge demonstrations against the privatisation of the health-sector. Among these demonstrations the Trotskyists had a leading role. The Trotskyist movement in Marocco is organised around the paper "stuggle", Their homepage (only in arab language) is http://www.al-mounadhil-a.info. But you can watch some pictures at http://www.al-mounadhil-a.info/albums/index.php This Trotskyist movement has some links to the USFI, but they seem not to be an official section yet. Inside the supporters of Struggle there seem to be some criticism in the USFI-politics in Brazil and elsewere. It would be very useful, if comrades could send messages of greetings to the stuggling students in Marocco. It is important to show them international solidarity with their struggle. Please send your messages of solidarity to zarwalabdlatif at yahoo.fr and a copy to my e-mail adress. comradely Nick Marxist Initiative Munich PLEASE CROSSPOST FAR AND WIDE >From the Sled Dog Action Coalition, http://www.helpsleddogs.org National Geographic Channel aired its new 60 minute movie "Dare to Explore" "Expeditions from the Edge: Iditarod" in May and will air it again. This film is monstrous hype carefully constructed to turn animal abusing Iditarod mushers into romanticized heroes. Less than one minute of air time was devoted to the terrible suffering the dogs endure in the Iditarod. At least six scenes dealt with mushers suffering frostbite in minus 49 degree to minus 99 degree wind chill. Although dogs get frostbite of the penis, flanks and other areas, this was never mentioned. The film didn't mention that many dogs suffer from bleeding ulcers, lung damage, ruptured disks, broken bones, paralysis, anemia, or various viral diseases, or that many dogs have died in the race. Iditarod mushers were portrayed as daring adventurers and dog lovers. In an interview, Rick Swenson said, "I don't think that most people care any more about their children than we care about our dogs." Swenson was once banned from the Iditarod for killing his dog by making him run through waist-deep water and ice. The Iditarod later reinstated Swenson and made him a director. Please tell National Geographic Channel, the film's sponsors and producers to stop showing this film and air one devoted to telling the truth about this horrific race. Below is a list of organizations that are involved in airing, producing or sponsoring "Dare to Explore" "Expeditions from the Edge: Iditarod." Emails are first given in block form and then individually under the sample letter. EMAIL ADDRESSES FOR ALL: pressroom at ngs.org, tryan at nationalgeographic.com, presidentceo at grbtv.com, gcollins at grbtv.com, jmadden at grbtv.com, fzimone at grbtv.com, marielle at grbtv.com, gmackinney at grbtv.com, petersenrk at ldschurch.org, mediahelp at ldschurch.org, william.hendry at floridasnatural.com, fnatural at citrusworld.com, Scott_Matulis at ahm.honda.com, webmaster at NissanUSA.com, ir at iac.com, mmagnesen at kraft.com, kcharles at kraft.com, customerrelations at remax.net, franchiseinfo at remax.net, susan.mcgowan at cendant.com, jmenaker at webershandwick.com, alice.nathanson at effem.com, chris.jones at effem.com, honda-admin at wieck.com, investorrelations at directv.com, Shareholders.IM at pg.com, justin.gemski at citigroup.com, mindy.ross at citigroup.com, Edward.Murphy at mbna.com, jeffrey.citron at vonage.com, michael.yerington at westernunion.com, webeditor at fla-keys.com, clinton at floridakeys.com, andynewman at aol.com, support at 888.info, marketing at 888.info, customerservice at 1800petmeds.com SAMPLE LETTER TO PERSONALIZE: Dear National Geographic Channel, film producers and advertisers: Your organizations are involved in the airing of National Geographic Channel's "Expeditions from the Edge: Iditarod." This film is monstrous hype carefully constructed to turn animal abusing Iditarod mushers into romanticized heroes. Though its involvement, your organization is encouraging Iditarod dog torture. Please stop promoting the cruelty. I urge you to stop showing this film. Instead, broadcast one devoted to telling the truth about this horrific race. In "Expeditions from the Edge: Iditarod," less than one minute of air time was devoted to the terrible suffering the dogs endure in the Iditarod. At least six scenes, dealt with mushers suffering frostbite in the minus 49 degree to minus 99 degree wind chill. Although dogs get frostbite of the penis, flanks and other areas, this was never mentioned. The film didn't mention that many dogs suffer from bleeding ulcers, lung damage, ruptured disks, broken bones, paralysis, anemia, or various viral diseases, or that many dogs have died in the race. Iditarod mushers were portrayed as daring adventurers and dog lovers. In an interview, Rick Swenson said, "I don't think that most people care any more about their children than we care about our dogs." Swenson was once banned from the Iditarod for killing his dog by making him run through waist-deep water and ice. The Iditarod later reinstated Swenson and made him a director. In the Iditarod, dogs are forced to run 1,150 miles, which is the approximate distance between New York City and Miami, Florida, over a grueling terrain in 8 to 15 days. USA Today sports columnist Jon Saraceno called the Iditarod "a travesty of grueling proportions" and "Ihurtadog." Fox sportscaster Jim Rome called it "I-killed-a-dog." Orlando Sentinel sports columnist George Diaz said the race is "an illegal sweatshop for dogs." USA Today business columnist Bruce Horovitz said the race is a "public-relations minefield." Please visit the Sled Dog Action Coalition website http://www.helpsleddogs.org and be sure to read the quotes on http://www.helpsleddogs.org/remarks.htm . All the material on the site is true and verifiable. At least 126 dogs have died in the Iditarod, including four who died in 2005 race. There is no official count of dog deaths available for the race's early years. And no one knows how many dogs die in training or after the race each year. On average, 53 percent of the dogs who start the race do not make it across the finish line. According to a report published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, of those who do cross, 81 percent have lung damage. A report published in the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine said that 61 percent of the dogs who finish the Iditarod have ulcers versus zero percent pre-race. Tom Classen, retired Air Force colonel and Alaskan resident for over 40 years, tells us that the dogs are beaten into submission: "They've had the hell beaten out of them." "You don't just whisper into their ears, 'OK, stand there until I tell you to run like the devil.' They understand one thing: a beating. These dogs are beaten into submission the same way elephants are trained for a circus. The mushers will deny it. And you know what? They are all lying." -USA Today, March 3, 2000 in Jon Saraceno's column Mushers believe in "culling" or killing unwanted dogs, including puppies. Many dogs who are permanently disabled in the Iditarod, or who are unwanted for any reason, including those who have outlived their usefulness are killed with a shot to the head, dragged or clubbed to death. "Dogs are clubbed with baseball bats and if they don't pull are dragged to death in harnesses....." wrote Alaskan Mike Cranford in an article for Alaska's Bush Blade Newspaper (March, 2000). Jon Saraceno wrote in his March 3, 2000 column in USA Today, "He [Colonel Tom Classen] confirmed dog beatings and far worse. Like starving dogs to maintain their most advantageous racing weight. Skinning them to make mittens. Or dragging them to their death." Please stop supporting and promoting this barbaric race. Tell people the truth about the cruelties the dogs endure. Sincerely, Dear brothers and sisters, Assalaamu `Alaykum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuhu Land-grabbing has become a national epidemic in Bangladesh. These land-grabbers are a powerful syndicate that have the money, muscle plus a lawless and utterly corrupt environment in Bangladesh, with all the right connections from administration to judicial and law-enforcing agencies that allow them to operate freely without any problem. They operate almost always in collusion with powerful politicians. Our property in 20 Zakir Hossain Road, Khulshi, Chittagong, Bangladesh, lived and owned by my family, with all the legal documents, payments of taxes and utility bills, for the last 47 years did not deter them from grabbing it. It is like a small investment for them with a chance of a phenomenal return on investment. They don't lose, but individual victims like us do. They also target vulnerable people like my parents - both in their mid-70s, and children living overseas. All our pleas, including my trip to Bangladesh, and meeting with government agencies did not do anything to alleviate our suffering. Every passing day is worse than the day before. My aging parents who thus far were able to display a remarkable degree of fortitude, hoping that the system would rectify and come to their relief, have been broken down both mentally and physically. My mother had a 3 by-pass surgery a year ago. It is taking a devastating toll on our fundamental belief in goodness of human kind, of law and order, justice and fairness. I am told that your collective and individual voice may make some difference. And Allah knows the best. So, if you feel that you ought to do something, here is a petition that I wrote, which you could sign and fax to Bangladesh Prime Minister's office. You are welcome to write your own. But my previous experiences tell me that not too many are willing to spend time in writing a note, so attached below is a sample draft. You may also like to call/fax/email your own governments (Address List of Foreign Embassies in Bangladesh http://www.embassiesabroad.com/embassy.cfm ) demanding that they put the Bangladesh government and its Embassy on notice for violations of fundamental rights of our family there. You may also choose to call the Bangladesh Embassy working in your area - please click on the link (Address List of Bangladeshi Embassies abroad http://www.embassiesabroad.com/embassy.cfm#179) Here are three additional ones which were not listed in the above list: Bangladesh Permanent Mission, UN , New York 821 UNITED NATIONS PLAZA, 8TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY 10017 TEL 212-867-3434 | FAX 212-972-4038 | E-MAIL bangladesh at un.int Bangladesh High Commission, Australia a.. 21, Culgoa Circuit, O'Malley, ACT-2606, Canberra, Australia Telephone : (612) 6290-0511, (612) 6290-0522, (612)6290-0533 (Auto hunting). Fax : (612) 6290-0544, (612) 6290-0566 E-Mail : bdoot.canberra at cyberone.com.au High Commission for the People's Republic of Bangladesh, Ottawa. 275 Bank Street, Suite-302, Ottawa, Ont. K2P 2L6,Canada. Tel: 613-236-0138 & 613-236-0139 Fax: 613-567-3213 / Email: bang at bellnet.ca For those, who want to know more, I have tons of info that I can share with you. For the moment, please, view the link on a press conference conducted by my father that got posted today in the NFB: http://www.bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidDate=2005-05-13&hidType=OPT&hidRecord=0000000000000000044583 Please, also pass this on to your friends and professional circle asking them to write and forward to others. Let us see if there is anything called people's power which could force the Bangladesh government to do what is right. May Allah have mercy on us, Wa `Assalaamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuhu, Habib Siddiqui (Columnist and Analyst on Islamic and Muslim Affairs, Human rights and anti-war activist) Philadelphia, USA saeva at aol.com 215-619-5849 (W) 610-436-6837 (H) RE: hey, a favor, a studyHello everyone, My name is Anna and I am a student researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. I am doing a study on how members of online groups communicate with others. If you are over 18 years old and are North American I would really appreciate your participation in an anonymous survey to which this is a link. Clicking on it will direct you to the survey. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=956121116747 It takes only about 10 minutes to complete. All your responses will be confidential and I will not ask for any personal information. Thank you and I really appreciate it. anna If you need to contact me, my email is amarshall at asc.upenn.edu Thanks SNGP: CONTACT THESE LOCAL UK MPs TODAY MICHAEL FABRICANT (Con: Licfield, UK) Mr. Fabricant is the Newchurch guinea pig breeders' MP. There is one fundamental reason why Mr. Fabricant needs to be contacted: he has stated in interview that he overtly disapproves of using animals to test cosmetics. An obvious polite communication to him should then ask why has he not been outspoken about the fact this family have bred hundreds and thousands of animals specifically for that purpose for decades. JANET DEAN (Lab: Burton, UK) Sadly, Janet Dean MP is not the breeders' MP due to some logistical quirk of fate but her thoughts and comments on this issue are important due to the locality of her constituency. It is ligitimate that she is politely made aware of our many objections to factory farming animals for experimentation. It is particulary important in this case because Mrs. Dean was overt in her disgust for fox hunting and voted for the ban. She has supported EDM`s on welfare of greyhounds, banning snares,Japanese dolphin hunts, primates in research, game birds, slaugher of companion animals for food in China and lots more. Since both MPs obviously have a firm grasp of the issues concerning cruelty and animal sentience it remains shocking they would endorse the mass production of animal life to test make-ups and shampoos - just one of the many ways the Newchurch breeders factory farm the guinea pigs for profit. There are some pointers below. Please contact them politely today. Michael Fabricant M.P. House of Commons Westminster London SW1A 0AA At Burton:Janet Dean MP Suite 13 First Floor Cross Street Business Centre Cross Street Burton upon Trent DE14 1EF coxhilll at parliament.uk fax: 01283 569964 Phone: 01283 509166 At Westminster: Janet Dean MP House of Commons London SW1A 0AA mcgirrc at parliament.uk Phone: 0207 219 3000 In your communications please remind both MPs that this family of Newchurch have: Destroyed thousands of extremely sentient guinea pigs with their bare hands because they were below money-making standards. Caused the death of thousands more guinea pigs through their enforced confinement and through malnutrition and neurosis. Sent hundreds of thousands to be aimlessly killed in universities and laboratories for wholly unscientific 'medical research'. Their security guards have left several peaceful protesters needing hospital treatment (including facial injuries and serious head wounds). Proudly profited from an industry which has been directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of human beings. Sent hundreds of thousands more guinea pigs to be killed for indefensible weapons research, product testing and cosmetic testing abroad (this practice is already under the auspices of a UK voluntary ban because of its contentious and immoral nature.) -- SNGP: info at liberation-now.org www.liberation-now.org Choose an obnoxious website and enjoy some vicarious destruction. www.netdisaster.com Anti-settlement game made by pro-peace (moderate pro-Zionist) groups against West Bank settlers http://www.brand.co.il/unik/westbank/index_en.html Heehee - military jokes http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2174 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ldxar1 at tesco.net Mon Nov 21 21:19:22 2005 From: ldxar1 at tesco.net (Andy) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:19:22 -0000 Subject: [Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - USA part 1 Message-ID: <023c01c5ef24$6a0e7280$0202a8c0@WOL> US: WORKER PROTESTS AND STRIKES Coca-Cola workers strike http://groups.yahoo.com/group/colombiaresistance/message/318 Store opening draws union protest - workers call for boycott over use of non-union labour http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14352674&BRD=1719&PAG=461&dept_id=25271&rfi=6 16 arrests as janitors and supporters block road in pay dispute http://www.dailybreeze.com/business/articles/1693757.html Firefighters protest over sick-leave policy http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/07/17/firefighters_protest_at_mass_pike/ Pickets blockade Chevron HQ and fight with scabs http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/02/BABADIGEST3.DTL http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/11/01/MNGITFHCF84.DTL Taxi drivers protest Disneyland free transport deal http://www.wftv.com/news/5108874/detail.html Local government workers hold protest for "fair contract" http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2005/10/22/brf301.htm Unionised workers protest at state house over benefits and pensions http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14538383&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6 Naval workers march to protest shipyard closure http://www.thewmurchannel.com/news/4486471/detail.html http://news.mainetoday.com/apwire/D8A2HU7O1-132.shtml Steelworkers stage protest tour over unfair treatment http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050711005586&newsLang=en Firefighters stage picket over cutbacks and contracts http://www.dailynewstribune.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=58699 Camden Yard cleaners, still unpaid, march on bosses http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050601212939258 Student-farmworker alliance report from Florida http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jun/ainfos00192.html Farmers protest for labour protection http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6921/692164.html Hundreds of truckers protest fuel prices http://www.nbc6.net/news/4832833/detail.html http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050811205856526 http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6934/693452.html Workers and peace activists stage joint march to support university workers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2182 Strike at Northwest Airlines http://www.labournet.net/world/0508/nwa1.html http://www.labournet.net/world/0508/amfa3.html http://www.labournet.net/world/0508/amfailwu3.html http://www.labournet.net/world/0508/amfadebate1.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6934/693403.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6934/693401.html http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/nwa-a29.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/nwa-j20.shtml Georgetown University workers victory! http://socialismandliberation.org/mag/index.php?aid=359 California workers fight pension privatisation http://socialismandliberation.org/mag/index.php?aid=358 Chicago nursing-home workers win gains http://socialismandliberation.org/mag/index.php?aid=389 Utah miners continue struggle http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6916/index.shtml Los Angeles bus strike http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6932/693263.html San Francisco farm workers rally for contract http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6932/693259.html New York meat packers strike over contract issues, unpaid wages and sackings - at several different companies http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6932/693204.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6920/692012.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6926/692658.html Arizona copper miners strike over unfair labour practices http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6928/692850.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6929/692901.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6927/692755.html New Mexico lava miners strike http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6929/692911.html Fight continues at Utah mine http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6934/693402.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6925/692502.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6927/index.shtml http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6923/692302.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6922/692201.html Houston janitors rally for union http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6921/692163.html United Airlines workers protest pay and benefit cuts http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6919/691910.html Boston power workers strike and win in dispute over cuts, safety http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6924/692452.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6921/692104.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6923/692312.html California janitors strike for medical benefits http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6926/692654.html Rally for union drive at Seattle cement plant http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6927/692702.html Union fight highlights defective body armour http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6923/692301.html Laundry workers stage walkouts as contract negotiations drag http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6923/692355.html http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6924/692453.html Sympathy strike supports Texas janitors http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j27.shtml Airport strike in New York Machine workers strike in Alabama Plumbers strike at Kent State University http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/wkrs-j06.shtml Detroit nursing home workers locked out http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/seiu-j19.shtml Strike over unfair labour practices at Indiana metal processor Lockout at New York factory Teamsters strike at bottling plant http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a23.shtml Fort Wayne drug centre workers walk out http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j28.shtml Oregon creamery strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j28.shtml Furniture workers' strike ends in agreement http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j21.shtml Strike and lockout at Hawaii hotel http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j21.shtml Pennsylvania teachers' strike continues http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j14.shtml Pennsylvania brewers, New York laundry workers strike Northeast Electrical teamsters locked out after unionising http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j07.shtml Massachusetts utility workers strike Pennsylvania steelworkers strike over healthcare http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m24.shtml Locked-out alloy workers battle security guards http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m17.shtml Maine delivery drivers strike against union-busting Strike at Michigan car plant http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m10.shtml Waste workers strike over company harassment Philly bus drivers stage sickout http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m03.shtml Bus drivers end strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/buss-a30.shtml Industrial workers strike in Texas http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a02.shtml Transit drivers strike over pay cuts Rhode Island nurses protest mandatory overtime Michigan lockout continues http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a09.shtml Schwarzenegger goons ban nurses' strike http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-2/552/552_15_UCNurses.shtml University of California clerical workers strike http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-2/549/549_15_UCClericals.shtml Strike hits Boston Utility http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/545/545_11_NStar.shtml Student rally supports striking grad workers http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/541/541_15_GradEmployees.shtml Militant sit-down supports NYU workers http://www.workers.org/2005/us/nyu-0915/ Akron lecturers protest at graduation over contract http://www.newsnet5.com/education/4906483/detail.html Striking California nurses protest against harassment by security guards http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-13-2005/0004167321&EDATE= Court interpreters strike for contract http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20050518-9999-7m18interp.html Teachers stage protest and overtime ban http://www.tahoe-world.com/article/20050518/News/105180001 Flight attendants stage protest http://www.nbc5i.com/travelgetaways/4502793/detail.html US: WELFARE STATE Students stage Capitol Hill protest to defend social security http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/local/12127486.htm San Diego residents oppose university development because of inadequate infrastructure http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/07/15/news/sandiego/17_31_587_14_05.txt http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20050715-9999-7m15sdsu.html Childcare workers protest policy changes http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1116322451141840.xml&coll=2 Thousands protest closure of Maine shipyard http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2005/05/17/thousands_protest_shipyards_closure/ High-school students hold sit-in to protest funding cuts http://www.thenewsguard.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=2272 Alabama woman finishes protest trek to Washington - protests poverty, hunger http://www.nbc13.com/news/4499923/detail.html Ferry users protest at fare hike, boycott service http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050517/NEWS01/505170348/1004 School students walk out over fee for extracurricular activities http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b3_4walkoutmay12,0,5000394.story?coll=all-newslocal-hed Teachers and supporters protest Schwarzenegger budget http://www.times-standard.com/Stories/0,1413,127~2896~2865585,00.html http://www.willitsnews.com/Stories/0,1413,253~26908~2867917,00.html http://www.marinij.com/Stories/0,1413,234~24407~2865473,00.html http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/11627584.htm Spokane homeless set up protest camp http://www.kxly.com/common/getStory.asp?id=43836 Nurses protest at Johnson and Johnson HQ over attacks on cheap drug access http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=3225&category_id=19 Protest against Bush's social security plans http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/11592702.htm Ohio: anti-cuts rally at state house http://www.newsnet5.com/money/4372284/detail.html Protest over "surplus" school http://www.local10.com/news/4708519/detail.html Residents protest over shopping plaza development http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/07-05/07-13-05/a04lo838.htm Police attack restaurant closure protest - later forced to apologise http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050702/NEWS/507020363/1004 Winona university students protest fee increase http://www.winonadailynews.com/articles/2005/07/14/news/00lead.txt Parents protest introduction of fee-based streaming in state school http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,15929658%255E2862,00.html Youths protest social security plan http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/11592702.htm Pharmaceutical takeover of psychiatry protested http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/20/19364/3675 Rallies target Schwarzenegger cutbacks http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/546/546_11_Governator.shtml Protesters tear down controversial supermarket in New York http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/328269p-280590c.html Protest over school renovations http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20050826-9999-6m26ncmiddle.html Protest over dorm repairs yields results http://www.oberlin.edu/stupub/ocreview/2005/10/7/news/article1.html Idaho students protest funding shortages http://www.journalnet.com/articles/2005/10/03/news/local/news03.txt Homeless families protest at mayor's office in San Francisco http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/21/BAGRNFBV241.DTL Elderly residents protest over home destruction plan http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0519netrailer19.html Teachers stage action day http://www.mtshastanews.com/articles/2005/05/19/news/06protest.txt Brownsville residents protest electricity rates (10/19/05 - BROWNSVILLE, TX) - About 100 residents appeared before the Brownsville City Commission to protest increased electricity rates. The city's Public Utilities Board raised its electric rates by five-and-a-half percent on October First. Each customer must pay an extra $2.77 per thousand kilowatt-hours in their base electric rate. The board provides electricity as well as sewer and water services for Brownsville. Mayor Eddie Trevino Junior attributed the increase to hurricane-related oil refinery shutdowns and the spiraling cost of fuel. http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=state&id=3550266 US: STUDENT PROTESTS Northwest Missouri State students protest against Public and Campus Safety http://www.kq2.com/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=1864 St Louis students protest against fee increase, hold sit-in http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/education/story/6CC84136FCDC65BB86256FE900154B7E?OpenDocument Washington University student fast continues http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=1695 http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/education/story/2421E7D89EC4B46F86256FE500153E73?OpenDocument http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/9EAE31042918110686256FE4001762E4?OpenDocument http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=77989 "Tent State" camp-out at Missouri campus http://www.unews.com/news/2005/04/18/News/Students.Camp.Out.Protest.Tuition-928719.shtml Vicious police attack on tent university protest http://www.yubanet.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/7/20215 Cornell students protest car lot http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/14/425e0fe90f203 Protest over sacking of school principal - students stage 3-day walkout http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/3534E41CBD5CBB8986256FFE0014171B?OpenDocument Rich High School students and parents protest over disrespect by school http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southtown/yrtwn/south/063syt4.htm Students and educators stage roadside protest over California funding cuts http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20050504-9999-1mi4briefs.html Students stage walkout and protest over fascistic backpack ban http://www.thewmurchannel.com/education/4473224/detail.html Racine County school students protest against athletics cuts http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/politics/11428867.htm School nurses hold protest http://www.timesheraldonline.com/Stories/0,1413,296~31531~2824223,00.html Parents and students protest over centralised qualification criteria http://www.komotv.com/stories/36380.htm Medicine cuts prompt protests in Washington State http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=WA%20XGR%20Gregoire%20Health%20Care Bettsville school students protest non-renewal of coach's contract http://www.advertiser-tribune.com/news/story/0416202005_new01protest0416.asp Student protest at resignation of teacher shuts down school http://www.mlive.com/news/fljournal/index.ssf?/base/news-28/111357854380060.xml School students stage walkout over new dress code http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/4385772/detail.html Cruel punishments of Haitian students spark protest http://www.timesledger.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14346752&BRD=2676&PAG=461&dept_id=551068&rfi=6 Kansas Tent State protest http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050421082959439 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050419205541538 Students block intersection, present demands http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050416100719157 Schwarzenegger speech protested at Santa Monica College http://www.laborsmilitantvoice.com/feaSchwartzSMC.htm Mayor faces hail of missiles and car damage as students protest cuts http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050522065118588 Des Moines school students protest against hugging ban http://www.kwqc.com/Global/story.asp?S=4046115&nav=7k7NJ1IJ US: ANTI-CORPORATE/ANTI-CAPITALIST Locals protest over building of WalMart http://www.news8austin.com/content/headlines/?ArID=137362&SecID=2 Graffiti against the system in Los Angeles http://la.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/126184.php Hacktivists target live TV broadcasts http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/other_news/&articleId=244390 Protests at tobacco company meeting http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2005/04/19/news/z4news19.txt Riot cops attack Audioslave (ex-RATM) free concert http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=36950 Protest at Coca-Cola AGM http://www.indiaresource.org/campaigns/coke/2005/cokechallenged.html Modesto "Reclaim the Parks" event targets persecution of the homeless and other issues http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00415.html http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/106 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050726005724360 Protests at Chevron-Texaco AGM http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0428-10.htm Activists torch flags in Sarasota; caught by cops http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050629122130312 El Paso giant flag burnt http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050719152713787 Anti-capitalist Mayday in Boston http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050502142130837 March for media reform http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0516-20.htm Protest hits plans for football stadium in New York http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/stad-m16.shtml WalMart protested in Cleveland http://www.sunnews.com/news/2005/part1/0526/ACWALMAR.htm Protest over safety of drug Paxil - GlaxoSmithkline targeted http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-20-2005/0004111635&EDATE= http://www.volunteertv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3905266 US: PROTESTS AGAINST POLITICIANS As Cheney visits Philly, protesters highlight attacks on social security http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/112-04162005-477023.html Protest at Princeton Frist Centre over Republican attempts to get rid of filibusters http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=734393 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/01/AR2005050100708.html Filibuster protests spread across campuses http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0523-10.htm University of Alabama students protest Rice visit http://www.cw.ua.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/10/21/43589b0214d00 Calvin Uni staff and students sign protest letter over Bush visit http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3364690 Students protest after Bush-themed art is pulled from gallery Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA US: ECOLOGY Artistic protest highlights climate change http://www.canada.com/entertainment/story.html?id=acdb0160-1083-476b-8a38-b048a4f5716c Oregon timber blockade quickly smashed by pigs http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-10/1113842419147450.xml&storylist=orlocal Rainforest protests continue despite ongoing piggery http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/local/scn-gt-protest4apr13,0,2530815.story?coll=green-news-local-headlines Students occupy Cornell building in protest over tree felling http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/29/4271e11545ce6 Police smash lockdown protest against parking lot building at Cornell Uni http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July05/redbud.716.dea.html http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--studentprotest0715jul15,0,7243715.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=3598680 http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/07/15/42d7b86c197ee http://1010wins.com/topstories/local_story_196150429.html http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050715/NEWS01/50715001/1032/LIVING Police attack road-building protest in Illinois; protesters graffiti council building http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw116758_20050605.htm Native Americans protest skylift on sacred site http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/Jul/20050710News030.asp Earth Day protest disrupted by cops http://www.ainfos.ca/05/apr/ainfos00430.html ELF graffiti appears on cars http://www.news10.net/storyfull1.asp?id=10952 Protests over destructive fishing of small fish off eastern USA http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0725-09.htm Anti-nuclear protest at Vermont power plant http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051108/NEWS/511080342/1003/NEWS02 Biotech protest event in Philadelphia http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0617-20.htm Activists protest at timber giant's meeting http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0421-14.htm Protest against road-building in Indianapolis - police attack with tasers http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050604140546831 Activists spraypaint, try to torch road building company's office http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050719105146746 16 arrested for protesting against mountaintop removal by coal company http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050601073515731 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050531140546232 Mountain activists target coal companies http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050809071938202 Students join protest to save Tennessee mountain http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050709085525984 New blockade at Biscuit timber sale - young woman sets up platform http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050812084848399 SUV's graffitied in California http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2005051719091185 Massey coal board protested over pollution near school http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050526170309676 Critical Mass in Sacramento attacked by cops http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050528211935218 http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/04/1735414_comment.php#1735463 Cyclists dismantle anti-cycle barrier in New York http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050426180734793 New York Critical Mass continues despite police harassment http://resist.ca/story/2005/5/30/184056/750 More on earlier protests: Biscuit Sale resistance http://slingshot.tao.ca/displaybi.php?0086017 Pig gives himself heart attack by attacking protesters at biotech conference and dies after police initiate scuffles (those who live by the sword.) http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/06/23/charges-protest050611.html http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=2&id=24314 New York Critical Mass still under attack http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news510.htm Protest at De Beers conference over attacks on indigenous people http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=22&art_id=vn20050624071213546C172873 Hundreds rally against arctic drilling http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2005/09/21/hundreds_protest_drilling_in_arctic_refuge/ Tennessee mountain occupied in mining protest http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news508.htm Rally against Massey mining practices http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783738485 Protest grows against gas plant plans in Maine http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2005/08/22/protest_building_in_new_brunswick_to_lng_plans_in_maine/ Homeowners In Belle Meade Section of Memphis Protest New Development MEMPHIS- A battle is heating up today in the Belle Meade area in East Memphis. A developer wants to build what's called an infill-development on the north side of Poplar. An infill development is where several houses are built on land where only one or two houses stood before. Memphian Tom McCarty lives in Belle Meade and has put a sign in his yard opposing the plan. McCarty says he's afraid of sewage problems as well as increased traffic. In a letter to city planners, the developer says the in-fill would be both successful and consistent with other developments already going up in the area. http://www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=4025301 US: PEACE PROTESTS Fascist pigs interfere with student peace rally http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=36169&ntpid=5 Militarist flags and banners nabbed http://www.kget.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=BD70B00A-A262-4BB5-A415-A52D567BCC8D 40,000 march to abolish nukes near UN convention http://www.pww.org/article/articleprint/6943/ Anti-war protesters arrested at official's office http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0406-01.htm American students fight the military machine http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/622/622p24.htm Angry protest at army fair in Cambridge, Mass. - police attack protesters http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1839 Anti-war protest in Plainfield, NJ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1907 Peace leafleting at heritage day persecuted by pigs http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1121072710156600.xml&coll=2 Silent peace protest in Los Angeles park http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/10/09/MNGFDF4U671.DTL Peace protest in Denver draws thousands http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4142793,00.html 15,000 protest against Iraq war in LA http://www.pcc-courieronline.com/092905/news/protest.html Peace protester arrested at Oswego County parade http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-0/111951577187150.xml&coll=1 Raging Grannies arrested for trying to enlist http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2046 San Diego Iraq peace march pictures http://al-awdasandiego.org/s24/s24.html Anti-nuclear protest targets laboratory http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/Protest-Livermore-Lab.htm Raging Grannies occupy recruiting centre http://www.wlbz2.com/newscenter/article.asp?id=26323 Peace protests, street theatre continue at White House http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1971 Cuntaleeza Rice interrupted by Abu Ghraib re-enactors http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/052805C.shtml Protests outside recruiting offices in Seattle http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11992&s2=24 Cindy Sheehan, mother of dead soldier, stages tent protest near Bush ranch http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/12/AR2005081201816.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1545845,00.html http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-08-10-peace-house_x.htm http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7573 http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7483 http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7556 http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7568 http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0815-03.htm http://www.counterpunch.org/moses08152005.html http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/craw-a23.shtml http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-2/553/553_02_SheehanVigil.shtml Air force officer charged with anti-Bush graffiti http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2329 Staten Islanders protest for peace http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2185 Protests continue in Fayetteville http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0725-06.htm Cops persecute school peace leafleters http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0711-05.htm Anti-nuclear and peace activists rally at nuclear weapons conference http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0502-02.htm http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0501-10.htm Boston military event protested; activists arrested despite being on common land http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0620-21.htm Freeway blogging http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0812-01.htm Protests at nuke sites mark Hiroshima, Nagasaki anniversary http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0802-09.htm Survivors join protesters for LA Hiroshima/Nagasaki vigil http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0807-02.htm Vigils over deaths of innocent people in Iraq http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0426-07.htm Voices in the Wilderness defy ridiculous fine for healing sick Iraqis http://www.counterpunch.org/kelly08152005.html Vicious attacks on protests in Pittsburgh and Salt Lake City - protesters tasered, tear gas fired from helicopters http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent7777/2005/08/23/ More on Pittsburgh counter-recruitment demo - recruiting centre shut down http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050821084558717 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050820155608986 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050821211311961 http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-2/554/554_11_Pittsburgh.shtml On earlier protest, Pittsburgh protesters shut down recruiters http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2005042614042046 Mass protest in Dekalb, Illinois, in solidarity with Pittsburgh protesters http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050823195702850 Salt Lake City demo "reminiscent of Vietnam era" http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050824055043158 Kansas City hosts anarchist anti-war protest http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050523131244193 Catholic Worker activists dig graves at uni in war protest http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2005050308323579 Counter-recruitment flyposting in Ohio http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050503070115544 Anarchists join anti-war march and cause disruption to protest war http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00327.html Labour-peace march http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/546/546_04_SCSU.shtml Victory for students at New York as peace activism spreads http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/540/540_12_Recruiters.shtml Thousands join peace protests http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-10/27/content_3690889.htm 300 protest for peace in Mount Pleasant http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2005/10/30/local/iq_3744623.txt Dozens march in Rochester http://www.wroctv.com/news/story.asp?id=20542&r=l Peace groups target Hillary Clinton fundraiser http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=3539586 Peace protest marks Veterans' Day in New Jersey http://www.nj.com/news/times/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-3/113178843718390.xml&coll=5 Students stage peace rally in Seattle http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002600889_protest03m.html UCSC KICK RECRUITERS OFF CAMPUS http://www.lefthook.org/Ground/Erin040605.html http://www.theksbwchannel.com/news/4353123/detail.html NEW YORK CIA BOOTED http://www.lefthook.org/Ground/Field040605.html Abu Ghraib protest interrupts Rice speech http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1379137.htm Two arrested in topless protest at Capitol Associated Press SACRAMENTO - Two women, members of a group called Breasts Not Bombs, were arrested Monday after they stripped off their tops at the state Capitol to protest measures backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday's special election ballot. Other protesters were permitted to pare to their brassieres or to pasties without being arrested. Some men in the group also removed their shirts. "Once they bared all, they were arrested," said California Highway Patrol Officer Tammy DuTemple. The Mendocino-based group went to court last week to block the arrests, but U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell ruled Friday that "there is no First Amendment right to bare breasts on the grounds of the state Capitol." Members previously had demonstrated topless without incident in the San Francisco Bay area and at an anti-war rally in Washington, D.C. Arrested and taken to Sacramento County Jail were Sheryl Glaser, 45, and Renee Love, 40, both of Albion. Each was charged with indecent exposure, disorderly conduct and violating the conditions of the group's demonstration permit. State Sen. Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, said the Legislature should clarify what constitutes indecent exposure. "Exactly what is it that we are dealing with when we talk about the indecency of the breast?" she asked. "If a woman were holding a baby here today and breast-feeding, would she have been arrested?" http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/13106913.htm 18 grandmothers arrested at Iraq war protest October 17, 2005, 8:18 PM EDT NEW YORK (AP) _ Eighteen grandmothers were arrested and face charges of disorderly conduct after they showed up at a military recruiting center and said they wanted to enlist, a protest group said. Police arrested the women, ranging in age from 49 to 90, Monday afternoon after they sat down in front of the Times Square recruiting station to protest the war in Iraq, police said. When the 18 women, including Marie Runyon, who is 90 and blind, tried to enter the station, they found it locked, said Joan Wile, 74, director of Grandmothers against the War. "We tried to ring the bell at the booth, but no one answered," Wile said. "I saw a head poke up from behind the counter every once in a while and then duck back down. I don't know what they were afraid of. Maybe they don't know how to deal with a bunch of grannies." The women were taken into custody after they sat down in front of the recruiting station and began to chant, "We insist, we want to enlist." Grandmothers against the War joined the New York City Raging Grannies and the Gray Panthers to form a coalition called the Anti-War Grandmothers, which organized the protest in Times Square. The group said that about 100 people attended. "The police were extremely nice," Wile said. "They helped us up from our sitting position and helped us get in and out of the van, which was difficult with our handcuffs on." http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--warprotest1017oct17,0,4353278.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork Protesters stage same-sex kissing during UC Santa Cruz protest SANTA CRUZ, Calif. Protesters staged a display of same-sex kissing in front of military recruiters at U-C Santa Cruz yesterday. The stunt was part of a rally against military recruiters at a university job fair.Activists oppose the Army, Navy and Marines recruiting on campus, saying the military discriminates against homosexuals.But campus officials say military recruiters can't be banned from the job fair. Under a law called the Solomon Amendment, the university risks losing federal funds. http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=4000536&nav=9qrx Five arrested at protest of detainee conditions October 18, 2005, 2:59 PM EDT NEW YORK -- Five young men wearing hoods and orange jumpsuits were arrested at Hunter College, New York, on Tuesday in a protest of conditions at the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay detention camps. Shouting "They're raping me! They're torturing me! Please do something! Don't just go to class," the five knelt on the floor with leashes around their necks, evoking photos of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib camp in Iraq, before being handcuffed and dragged away by campus police. The protest in a third-floor student commons area of the Manhattan campus was part of an effort to drum up support for a nationwide day of protest against the war in Iraq on Nov. 2. "If there isn't a movement that's resisting these outrages, this is not going to change," said Ati Lagos, an organizer of the protest, who said she was with an organization called The World Can't Wait. Louis Mader, director of the public safety for Hunter, part of the City University of New York system, said the demonstrators would be given desk appearance tickets and released. "This space is by permit only," he said. "These individuals had no permit." Some students who watched the guerrilla theater unfold were supportive while others were puzzled. "I think it's great that they're doing this," said freshman Eileen Woie. "People need to know." But sophomore Jason Balroop said, "It's a distraction. We all have class. I have to take a test right now." http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--huntercollegeprot1018oct18,0,5009710.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork Recruiting Office Shot Up Apr 28, 2005 ARVADA, Colo. (CBS4) An Army and Marines recruitment center in Westminster was shot at eight times early Friday, an incident that police believe is related to the airing of CBS 4 News' report on alleged recruitment improprieties. "The timeliness is too significant to ignore," said Westminster police investigator Tim Read. "The report was at 10 p.m. (Thursday night) and by 7 this morning, the damage occurred. No one was injured in the shooting, which shattered some glass at the front of the building at 7355 W. 88th Ave. Debbie Cannon, with the Denver Army Recruiting Battalion, called the shooting an "isolated incident" and not the result of the broadcast. [One more stupid, silly, transparent lie. Why bother? Oh, sorry, forget. Lying is second nature for recruiters, and that's what Cannon is.] (report from GI Special) Anti-Nuclear Demonstrations Held in New York By Christine Hauser May 1, 2005, The New York Times NEW YORK - A coalition of groups opposed to nuclear weapons marched in New York today, just before talks start at the United Nations to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Marching bands played, and demonstrators held placards and flags pushing for nuclear disarmament and rallying against war as they made their way toward Central Park. The protest by United for Peace and Justice, an antiwar group, and Abolition Now, which advocates the elimination of nuclear weapons, have said they expected up to 60,000 people to participate, including the mayors of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where the United States dropped atomic bombs in 1945 in the final days of World War II, killing and wounding hundreds of thousands of people. Marching along with the mayors from the two Japanese cities were survivors of the bombings. The march started at midday and made its way up First Avenue in Manhattan before heading west. "Shut down everything - testing, nuclear weapons, the war," said Vickie Downie, of Teseque, N.M., who came with a group calling for the closing of the beleaguered Los Alamos National Laboratory, the country's largest nuclear weapons lab, according to The Associated Press. A statement on the Web site of United for Peace and Justice said, "We need to be out in the streets sending a loud and clear message to decision-makers and the public at large: End the war in Iraq!" It said war veterans and military families also planned to join the march and rally. Bob Schumacher, a Vietnam War veteran from Montrose, Penn., said the public was being fed lies, as it was in the Vietnam era, The A.P. said . "I made a promise to people I knew who died there that I wouldn't stand by and let another war happen and not speak out," he said. The protest is timed to coincide with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty conference that starts on Monday when representatives of 189 countries gather at the United Nations. The conference is meant to offer hope of closing large loopholes in the treaty that the United States says Iran and North Korea have exploited to pursue nuclear weapons. Iran threatened on Saturday to resume producing nuclear fuel, and North Korea dismissed President Bush as a "philistine whom we can never deal with." Kirk Semple contributed reporting for this article. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/nyregion/01cnd-protest.html?hp=&pagewanted=print&position= "June 29 - The Washington Post was protested this evening by area activists for the newspaper's failure to properly cover the leaked documents commonly known as The Downing Street Memos." US: REPRESSION/STATE PROTESTS Students hold die-in to protest execution http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/education/story/11BB400FFFF8654386256FE900154C07?OpenDocument Death penalty opponents protest New England execution http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct--rossexecution-pro0513may12,0,2027158.story?coll=ny-region-apconnecticut http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=3339190&nav=3YeXZoNw Death penalty protested in Burlington http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=3361891 http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=3363582&nav=4QcSa1yl Death penalty protesters stage long march http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1640 Inmates' families protest high-cost prison phone calls http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/47267 Screws injured as prisoner revolts http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/04/15/state/n142825D16.DTL Poker players protest gaming crackdown http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=96795&cat=World http://www.pokernews.com/news/2005/07/new-york-poker-players-protest-raid.htm Charlottesville execution protested http://www.dailyprogress.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=CDP%2FMGArticle%2FCDP_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783790681&path=!news Protest over police shooting in Rochester http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050712/NEWS01/507130305/1007/SPORTS Three Strikes protets bike ride begins http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/news/071205_nw_three_strikes_ride.html Med-pot activists protest SFPD role in raids http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_194112653.html Crowd stage spontaneous protest as police abuse child http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/lorain/111848257318490.xml&coll=2 Thousands march in Atlanta to oppose crackdown on voters http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6932/693201.html Report on copwatch in Modesto http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00098.html Bush event ejectees continue protests http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0529-23.htm New York rally against Nazi "Patriot" Act http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0712-08.htm Protesters demand closure of Guantanamo Bay http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8160 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8118 Protests demand new trial for Yemenis http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7561 Ex-marine accused of shooting down cop chopper http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050817111800866 Rebellion by inmate triggers near-uprising in New Mexico prison http://www.arap.so36.net/prison/riot/riot2005.html Cops injured in revolt at occupied housing complex as police interference in everyday life intensifies http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14735847&BRD=1282&PAG=461&dept_id=182121&rfi=6 Heroic residents resist car towing by pigs - evil prosecutors call their defensive actions assault, "near-riot" http://www.rrstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050711/NEWS0107/50711007/1004/NEWS Florida police attack birthday party - 300 party-goers engage in a "full-blown battle" to defend their space from police repression http://www.aversion.com/news/news_article.cfm?news_id=4771 Love and rage: heroic breakout as lover frees inmate, slays screw http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-08-12-courthouse-extradition_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA Privacy group calls for RFID protest at Dallas WalMart http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=172301047 New York taxi drivers protest over GPS requirement http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=NY+cab+drivers+protest+GPS&id=79602 Uprising at youth academy http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=117565 Protest over draconian rules, elder abuse at housing complex http://news10now.com/content/all_news/watertownnorth_country/?ArID=50261&SecID=90 Civil liberties activists protest police brutality at Davis copshop http://www.californiaaggie.com/article/?id=11168 Revellers resist as police attack Halloween procession in Madison http://www.wkowtv.com/index.php/news/story/p/pkid/22573 Rhode Island students wear gags in protest over repression at university Students Wear Gags In Protest Of New Rules POSTED: 11:34 am EDT October 20, 2005 UPDATED: 2:30 pm EDT October 20, 2005 SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- University of Rhode Island students are donning gags to protest changes to the school's disciplinary code. The changes allow university officials to discipline students accused of repeatedly breaking the law off-campus. The new rules also make it easier for residence hall directors to search dormitory rooms. URI's dean of students has said the rules let the university intervene when students could hurt themselves or others. The gagged students will appear at a Faculty Senate meeting scheduled for Thursday afternoon on the URI campus. A group called the URI Student Rights Coalition accuses the Faculty Senate of betraying the spirit of the university by ignoring students' concerns over the changes. http://www.turnto10.com/education/5132971/detail.html More on Rhode Island repressive rules and resultant protests http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2005/10/17/uri_students_protest_new_discipline_rules/ Protest at Virgin Megastore over anti-copying technology http://p2pnet.net/story/6704 US: WOMEN'S RIGHTS Cornell Uni students march for women's rights http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/18/426332fbdcb57 Abortion protest sparks counter-protest at UNC http://www.dailytarheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/08/42566d4e29c47 Protest over lack of women in faith-based TV http://www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?ID=8996 Nurse-in held to protest column http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050714/NEWS01/507140340/1006 Pro-abortion feminists march over Supreme Court nomination http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5115244,00.html Protest at hospital over alleged discouraging of breastfeeding http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-29/1123338430199630.xml&storylist=penn Students and feminists protest over denial of emergency contraception to rape survivor http://www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?ID=9356 Miers college protest for abortion rights targets Supreme Court nominee http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/oct/22/students_protest_against_miers/?city_local US: GAY RIGHTS Silent student protest opposes anti-gay bias across America http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0413silence13.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51707-2005Apr13.html http://www.herald-sun.com/durham/4-596935.html http://www.mlive.com/news/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/news-13/1113492080213510.xml Gay people protest against inequalities http://www.gay.com/news/election/article.html?2005/04/15/2 Protests as students victimised for removing homophobic graffiti http://www.mlive.com/news/aanews/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1115997009218350.xml Gay rights protesters rally outside bigot event http://www.longmontfyi.com/region-story.asp?id=1556 700 protest Colorado homophobes http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0502-08.htm Protest over bans on gay men and atheists in the Boy Scouts http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_282234859.html Pikesville students stage counter-protest against anti-gay bigots http://www.thewbalchannel.com/health/5135718/detail.html US Gays Launch Boycott of Jerusalem Gay Pride Report, QUIT, 13 May 2005 SAN FRANCISCO -- A vote by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to support a Gay Pride celebration in Jerusalem, Israel, has sparked criticism from gay groups that oppose Israel's policies in the Palestinian territories. They have announced a boycott of the celebration, slated to take place in the contested city of Jerusalem on August 18-20, saying Israel's policies toward the Palestinians make a mockery of the theme of the event, "love without borders?". "The Board of Supervisors took a closer look at Israeli democracy, what they would see it borders without limit," charged Kate Raphael-Bender of San Francisco-based QUIT, a lesbian/gay/bi/trans group that supports return of the territories occupied by Israel to Palestinian control. "No city in the world could have more borders than Jerusalem," she added. Raphael-Bender said those borders are constantly encroaching further and further into Palestinian territory, and are enforced by military checkpoints and cement walls. "Israel's borders are impenetrable to Palestinians, and keep many separated from their homes, jobs and families," she added. Raphael-Bender noted that gay Arabs are likely to hit a wall if they try to join the festivities in Jerusalem. Not only Palestinians but all Arabs are routinely denied entry into Israel. QUIT urges gays and lesbians to observe ongoing international boycotts of travel to Israel and Israeli products through which the international community can exert pressure on Israel to withdraw its forces from Palestine. "For internationals to stay away from this event will send a very clear message to the Israeli government," Raphael-Bender said, noting that the situation was different for gays in Israel. Both QUIT's counterpart in Israel, Black Laundry, and the Palestinian lesbian group Aswat will participate in the event but plan to use it to draw attention to the injustices Palestinians are subject to under the brutal Israeli occupation. Early supporters of the boycott include: American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, San Francisco Chapter (ADC-SF) Jews for a Free Palestine LAGAI -- Queer Insurrection Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA) Queers for Peace and Justice International Socialist Organization. The boycott of World Pride in Jerusalem, kicked off by QUIT! and other LGBTI groups in the U.S. is gaining momentum, even as the SF Board of Stupervisors passed a resolution yesterday supporting it. QUIT! has produced a 15-minute video to counter the one produced last summer by bluestar promoting World Pride. QUIT!'s "Love Without Borders?" piece presents the true image of Jerusalem, a city divided by a 25-foot concrete wall, which has caused death and destruction in Palestinian communities for the last two years. The full video is available from the QUIT! website. US: ANTI-RACISM/ANTI-FASCISM: Large anti-fascist mobilisation against fascist rally in Boston http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1639 http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=507679 http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050509074533612 http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/05/10/2733656 http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/05/16/1266319 http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/543/543_11_BostonAntiNazi.shtml Anti-fascists keep bigots away from Philadelphia Equality Forum http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050505081210256 Students protest over racist and other hate-fuelled incidents on campus http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/15/425f5c16f37a0 Protests over murder by cop are re-sparked by bigoted mayor's fanatical anti-"crime" comments http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050715/NEWS01/507150382/1002/NEWS Immigration rights activists protest at governors' convention http://www.woi-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3603402&nav=1LFXcE2H Hundreds protest racist "Minutemen" vigilantes at US-Mexico border http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0418BorderDemo18-ON.html Minutemen event in New Jersey sabotaged http://www.onepeoplesproject.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=757&Itemid=2 http://www.onepeoplesproject.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=768&Itemid=2 Chinese immigrants protest loss of jobs to China http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/11382415.htm http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/NewsDetails.asp?News_id=14424 Counter-protesters target racist demo against monument - one bigot injured http://www.whittierdailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,207~12026~2872973,00.html http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mural15may15,1,6913452.story?coll=la-headlines-california&ctrack=2&cset=true Protesters turn out for anti-Nazi demo in Boston (NOTE: report not very sympathetic to anarchists, and prone to excuse pigs) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dowbrigade/2005/05/08#a5026 Students to protest at graduation over US university's alleged racial victimisation http://www.thechamplainchannel.com/news/4505357/detail.html Hispanic people protest over health crisis http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/05-19-2005/0003639565&EDATE= Minuteman car hits protesters http://la.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/127256.php Protest under attack by police also http://la.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/127255.php Antifascists take on homophobes in Philadelphia http://www.onepeoplesproject.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=736&Itemid=2 Tomball anti-fascists protest Nazi KKK http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1636 Small protest against racial profiling and police murders in Modesto http://www.modbee.com/local/story/10244031p-11055602c.html Mini-uprising after acquittal of pig who murdered black person in St Petersburg http://news.tbo.com/news/MGB7DDWUN8E.html Demonstration staged after racist attack http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1059101&tw=wn_wire_story http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=3554063 Racist mural protested in Texas http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=3574948&nav=0RY5bxpJ San Ysidro - protest held against Minutemen bigots http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20050703-9999-1m3border.html Compton: Angry residents confront mayor after police fire hundreds of shots at a driver http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/breaking_news/11624256.htm Minutemen goons scared of protesters http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2158 San Diego anti-racists confront, disrupt Minutemen http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/07/109981.shtml Protests at pro-Minutemen conference http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050530082158233 Minuteman drives car at protesters http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050526165646583 Thousands protest Minutemen in Chicago http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6927/692762.html "Scuffles" in Chicago as protesters blockade Minutemen meeting http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-rally16.html Racist anti-immigrant law in Arizona prompts boycott, strike, marches http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050510180543974 Zionist racist business driven out of LA by protests over racist signs http://www.laborsmilitantvoice.com/feaAllphone.htm New Jersey Minutemen affiliate get the antifa treatment - twice http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/07/12/0981552 Angry Birdtail Sioux protesters torch Indian Act in protest over schooling http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/17/11439/8394 Anti-racists re-enact "unsolved" lynching http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6931/693155.html Protests over Miami police shooting - judge recommends charges http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6919/691951.html Vigil over racial assault in New York http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6927/692703.html Los Angeles Latinos protest war and education problems http://news.monstersandcritics.com/northamerica/article_1044232.php/L.A._Latinos_protest_war_dropout_rate 40,000 march against the Minutemen in Chicago http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-2/551/551_15_ChicagoMarch.shtml San Diego racists confronted at the border "Through the long night, as Chase and his thugs attempted to apprehend border-crossers, Gente Unida activists in four-wheel drive vehicles dogged them with floodlights and loud music. These tactics proved to be successful, disrupting the "covert" actions and demoralizing many volunteers, who trickled away one by one, through the night. Frustrated vigilantes threatened some activists with violence. On a videotape made by one group of counter-protesters, the bigots can be heard saying, "You come down here and you will be engaged in a firefight."" http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-2/551/551_16_Vigilantes.shtml http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-2/550/550_15_ImmigrantsRights.shtml Rally in Austin after cops murder youth http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-2/549/549_02_AustinPolice.shtml Counter-protesters shut down Minutemen/SOS racists in LA http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/544/544_12_Bigots.shtml Minuteman goon booted in Long Island http://www.onepeoplesproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=805&Itemid=2 Katrina sparks emergency demo in New York http://www.workers.org/2005/us/times-square-0915/ Minuteman bigot runs over protester in Los Angeles http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/546/546_12_Runover.shtml Protesters confront Nazis on Yorktown battlefield http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2746 Activists stage hike to protest migrant deaths http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0529B1-talker29.html San Francisco Minutemen protested http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20050526-0121-ca-vigilanteprotest.html Immigrants refuse to leave detention centre yard in protest over hearing delays http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/09/21/state/n094558D37.DTL Protesters oppose mistreatment of stitched-up H Rap Brown http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/ap_newfullstory.asp?ID=63391 Confederate flag draws protest in Asbury Park http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050731/NEWS01/507310422/1004/NEWS02 Protest over Linden mural http://www.texarkanagazette.com/articles/2005/07/10/local_news/news/news08.txt Protest over police brutality and killings in Galveston http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=8dd884b78b4c71e8 Prisoner accused of con business starts hunger strike http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/08/26/alleged_new_mexico_con_artist_stages_starvation_protest/ Mass protest against metal detectors and searches at New York school http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2005/09/57410.html San Francisco: rally against the Minutemen http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/10/1779577.php Rally for reparations focuses on 1921 pogrom http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3426802 Hispanic people protest over health crisis http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/05-19-2005/0003639565&EDATE= Protests against Minutemen in Elgin, Chicago http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/couriernews/top/3_1_EL12_A1MINUTECOPS_S1.htm Anti-fascists protest Hammerfest in Georgia http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3185 Around 200 people packed Inala Community Hall last night for a fiery public meeting on fighting racism and stopping black deaths in custody - jointly organised by Socialist Alliance, Youth Affairs Network Queensland, Sisters Inside and key leaders in the Murri community. The meeting drew significant media coverage (apparently it featured on Stateline tonight). Many in the crowd were there to see Murrandoo Yanner, the powerful young Aboriginal leader from northern Queensland. Murrandoo didn't disappoint, giving a sizzling denunciation of systemic racism, of the failures of governments - Labor and Liberal, of the class nature of racism, and of the need to continue the resistance. Murrandoo was like a local Malcolm X,capturing and inspiring the audience. Socialist Alliance member and Murri leader Sam Watson gave a fantastic outline of the long struggle against black deaths in custody, and Rev Alex Gator moved with her personal story of police violence. Discussion time saw plenty of people, mostly Murris, young and old, women and men, plus some non-Indigenous anti-racist activists, all contribute to an understanding of the problems, and the need for a people based movement to destroy police racism and violence. 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URL: From ldxar1 at tesco.net Mon Nov 21 21:19:37 2005 From: ldxar1 at tesco.net (Andy) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:19:37 -0000 Subject: [Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - repression UK, Iraq, global gulag Message-ID: <024801c5ef24$78152540$0202a8c0@WOL> REPRESSION: UK UK pigs murder in broad daylight http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/july2005/220705licensetokill.htm http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/07/jean-charles-de-menezes.html Latest fascist wish-list from British police-state tyrants http://infowars.net/Pages/Jul05/230705powers.html Police-state terror on the underground - random passengers under attack from police snoops http://prisonplanet.com/Pages/Jul05/230705random.html Frame-up of Egyptian scientist disintegrates http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13829&s2=18 London bombing: an inside job? http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14012&s2=24 Letter admitting bombings is fake - classical Arabic used incorrectly http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1965 Police response - more frightening than the killing http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29642 Law professor says police shooting illegal http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2005/270705profalarmed.htm Police racism - background to the London murder http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1538380,00.html Blair and pigs lie http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/58092 Planned new laws would ban free speech such as calling suicide bombers "martyrs" http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8364 Globalising racism: plans to auto-ban people banned from America or Europe, from Britain also http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8337 Suspicions about 7/7 - London bombings could have been black-op http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/070805finalword.htm As police terror spreads, reports emerge of further shootings - 2 killed at Canary Wharf http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10334992 Pigs allegedly throw bomb at Birmingham "suspect" and then torture him with a taser http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8694 Pervert police force suspect to strip in violent siege http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1713498,00.html http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7018 IHRC cuts relations with pigs over shooting http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8663 Blair's proposals "comparable with Hitler" - Muslim cleric http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8891 Lawyers call Blairite proposals "unthinkable" http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=9033 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=9055 "The Orwellian concept of "thought crime" is to be made the basis of British law." http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/brit-a10.shtml Armed police abuse child and elderly woman - point gun at child, give elderly woman heart attack by slamming her against a wall http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1537572,00.html http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8644 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8679 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8710 UK pigs terrorise geek http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/09/324024.html http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/09/324110.html http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/09/324549.html Oppose Blair's "ordinary fascism"! http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14070&s2=25 Civil liberties in Britain destroyed - Monbiot http://politics.guardian.co.uk/columnist/story/0,9321,1584143,00.html Another murder by police echoes the Menezes shooting - Azelle Rodney http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7221 Another death in custody http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7222 Muslim who killed cop in self-defence, denied fair trial and stitched-up because judges refuse to overturn use of prejudicial ricin lies "Lord Justice Judge, sitting with Mr Justice Newman, said evidence about the ricin explained to the jury why he was so determined to evade capture, refuting the argument that he had acted in self-defence. Without it, the jury would have been left speculating as to why he wished to "take on" a large number of police officers unless he was fearful they might "do him serious injury"." Judges sympathise with racist white cop and widespread anti-"terrorist" hysteria to excuse callousness to victim of police terror http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8450 Ethiopian refugee, wrongly accused, beaten by police thugs http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/&articleId=247190 G8 Summit approaches - and the anti-anarchist scare stories begin. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=405402005 European watchdog reveals inhuman treatment of Belmarsh detainees http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1503521,00.html Protest hauliers warned that they may lose licences Times Online - UK By Valerie Elliott, Countryside Editor. POLICE chiefs have told hauliers who protest at British refineries this week to expect a tough response. (this is why the state can't be trusted with powers of any kind. vehicle licenses are meant to be about safe driving, yet here we have police abusing them to attack protesters) Calls to deport refugee for having controversial beliefs http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/27/nmass27.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/07/27/ixnewstop.html Bombing subject says Iraq, not al-Qaeda, was the reason for the attacks http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/london-bomb-suspects-driven-by-iraq-rage/2005/07/31/1122748524889.html Police terror at the G8 - suspected protesters held at London airport http://scotland.indymedia.org/newswire/display/1836/index.php Pigs demand license to hack http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5803380.html New menace to shoppers as corporate goons and pigs threaten searches http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1534926,00.html Two-thirds of Muslims consider fleeing Britain due to state and racist terror http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1536222,00.html Man arrested for leafleting at mosque (?!?!) http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8508 Persecuted cleric is seriously ill because of prison conditions http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7175 Nazi pigs stage "mob-handed" attack to remove someone who sneezed in church http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-1743461,00.html Football club bans fan for life, for throwaway remark http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3023 Similar vindictiveness over convictions by another club http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1983362005 (such extreme actions, to rob someone of their hobby and threaten them with violence, and for what? A single indiscretion or act of deviance) Derby pig scum try to limit numbers for peace demo http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/4363284.stm http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2005/10/326193.html Persecution of youth for resisting police violence - judge sets arbitrary curfew http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4256152.stm Police terror on London train - passengers held-up by armed police http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8680 British Iraqi detained for 8 months in Iraq, sues British government http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7857 Persecution of Babar Ahmad continues http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7499 Police who tortured Babar Ahmad whitewashed by internal inquiry http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=6707 British state goons deport persecution victim to Syria http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7438 Algerians found NOT GUILTY of ricin plot, threatened with deportation and torture http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7243 Human rights activists accuse Britain of already deporting people to be tortured http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=6720 "Control order" victim re-imprisoned - removed tag on advice of psychiatrists http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7112 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7029 Fascist pigs order photographer to move, and search him under "terrorism" laws, for photographing parliament http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7079 Stop-and-search terror targets black people http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7127 Police persecute Sikh lawyer http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7055 Another fascist law - "control orders" "Control orders can be imposed on British citizens or foreign nationals, in contrast to the ATCSA provisions which were only applied to foreign nationals. All that is needed is for the Home Secretary to decide he has 'reasonable grounds' for suspecting that the person concerned is or has been involved in 'terrorism-related activity'. Such activity includes not only the 'commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism' and 'conduct which facilitates...such acts', but also 'conduct which gives encouragement...to such acts' and 'conduct which gives support or assistance to individuals who are known or believed to be involved in terrorism-related activity'. Potentially, the family, friends, lawyers, colleagues and comrades of any person considered by the government to be a terrorist suspect are therefore all targets for the imposition of further control orders, along with anyone who verbally supports but does not engage in 'terrorist activity'." http://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/184/184_cor.html Police escalate terror against football fans http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2261 Ethnic cleansing against "gypsies" continues http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/587/letters.htm ASBO fascism continues - more absurd ASBOs and info A third of ASBO victims are psychologically-different; youths, ethnic minorities and the poor are all targets http://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/184/184_asb.html http://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/185/185_asb.html http://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/186/186_asb.html People arrested for sitting on a bench http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4327 Fascist use of Nazi "anti-social behaviour" laws to smash protests excused by evil judge http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/4409584.stm ASBOs used by homophobes to target gay men http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=541942005 "God works in mysterious ways..in this case via the mortal coils of Tory Coucillor Allison Bucknell and Andy Humm. These two are begging for an Anti Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) to be served on the creator of www.lynehamvillage.co.uk website, Mitch Hawkins (no relation to Stephen, the international professor of Outer Space). Based in Wiltshire, Mitch ran a few Dead Pope jokes on his site, much to the annoyance of Humm" http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news494.htm ASBO threatened against peace protester Lindis Percy http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1459008,00.html Judge refuses ASBO on Lindis Percy, but agrees to curfew and tagging http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15528689&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=no-asbo-on-protest-gran-name_page.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4552441.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/humber/4555131.stm Another fascist decision by another evil judge - Keith Mann jailed for being a victim of verbal abuse http://www.nocompromise.org/news/050429keithjailed.html Repression at DSEI: The Met police have been showing us how they serve the community at this year's DSEi arms fair. As long as you're only in the area to sell or buy guns and bombs, that's ok, guv, but if you step out of line..here's a sample of some of the reasons for the 31 (so far) arrests .for having 2 mobile phones, for having spray paint, for 'going equipped to cause criminal damage' by carrying 2 marker pens and for not wanting to be photographed by a FIT (cop surveillance) team. One poor chap was arrested for blocking the road even though he was standing on the pavement. http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news512.htm Trade union sellouts abuse their power to aid and abet crackdown freakery http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4576368 Nimbyite bigots sabotage G8 protest camp http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4562707.stm Disability discrimination is legal in Britain, according to pigs - "national security" excuse used to suppress disability lawsuit http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news508.htm BP illegally refuse AGM entry to protesting shareholders http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news494.htm Fascistic intervention by goon Prescott leads to pigs trying to use anti-protest laws to persecute Greenpeace activists accused of peaceful sit-in Peaceful protest is "terrorising", says this New Labour goon http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/27/npresc27.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/04/27/ixportaltop.html Persecution of moderate Muslim cleric for questioning the existence of al-Qaeda and denouncing statist lies and state terror http://propagandamatrix.com/Pages/Jul05/280705cleric.html Absurd conviction of football fan for standing up for the right to protest in the face of police persecution http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/4551707.stm Prosecutor tries to prejudice trial by blaming activists who hung banner because pigs closed road http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4530781 Democracy smashed in Britain - MPs summarily punished for protest in chamber http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4639665.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4643151.stm British Army on the streets to extend police state http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1723441,00.html Police state terror grips London - dozens of random Muslims rounded up "on suspicion" http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3110182,00.html Persecution ahead of G8 - protesters get police visits http://scotlandtoday.scottishtv.co.uk/content/default.asp?page=s1_1_1&newsid=7976 Ridiculous arrest and jailing of peace activist for taking photos - anti-protest laws ban protest against corporations http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1823 Censorship in the UK - Iraq protest book under attack http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1530311,00.html With scrutiny criminalised, EDO private goons run rampage, brutalise protesters One protester is jailed under fabricated accusations after being attacked by guards http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/southcoast/2005/07/318266.html Fifers' kick up stink over recycling scheme chaos by Angela Gorrie In what will surely become known as "The Great Wheelie Bin Crisis of 2005", Fife Council's pilot recycling scheme is causing chaos, and some nasty smells, across the county. From the very beginning, the scheme was beset by problems. Phone enquiries about the drastic change to an essential service went unanswered, then callers were told they could put cans in with papers. This advice transpired to be correct... but only in Dunfermline. On the first day of the new rubbish collection timetable in Newburgh, the council came to collect on a day residents were told they wouldn't, causing hundreds of people to run with their bins as the yellow truck passed. Any bins whose lids wouldn't shut had their over spilling contents removed and laid out at the side of the street. These bags were accompanied by a notice stating that if it was to happen again a ?50 fine would be issued. Additionally, the council seem to have failed to take into consideration that the contents of the brown garden waste bin (which, incidentally you are not permitted to put any soil in) will decompose. Do they seriously think that no smell will be generated by this when these bins are emptied only once a fortnight at most? We are only a month into the scheme but already thousands of names have been added to petitions, and people are talking of withholding a relative proportion of the Council Tax. As the summer continues the stench must surely rise. http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20222.htm REPRESSION: IRAQ AND US GLOBAL GULAG Iraqi journalists arrested for free speech http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1228633.htm Five journalists arrested in Iraq http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11460&s2=02 "Renditions" via Sweden exposed http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/20/AR2005052001605.html America sends people to Uzbekistan to be tortured http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shobak_news/message/2327 Family members held hostage by US forces in Iraq http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1456773,00.html Death squads already active in occupied Iraq http://globalresearch.ca/articles/FUL506A.html US death squads in Iraq http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11250&s2=23 US troops murder Iraqi detainees http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=55&p=14170&s2=29 Kurdish activist jailed for demonstrating for education reforms http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2180 Saudi driver held for nine months, for arguing with US troops in Iraq http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=9012 The Kafkaesque world of post-911 detention http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-06-26-detentions_x.htm Another Apartheid Wall - America's gated community in the heart of Baghdad http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/55846 Iraqi journalist shot by US troops http://www.freep.com/news/nw/iraq-box130e_20050630.htm Iraqi children massacred in Buhriz http://www.uruknet.info/?p=12901 Abuse of non-Iraqi Arabs pervasive by US forces - long-term migrants treated as terrorists http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12865&s2=22 Iraqi "gypsies" persecuted in ethnic cleansing by political Islamists http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12354&s2=07 Palestinians in Iraq persecuted by US forces www.uruknet.info?p=12229 Random Sunni youths arrested as part of US terror operation in Iraq http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12334&s2=05 Iraqi police arrest and torture to death at least 12 Sunnis in coordinated raids http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13722&s2=16 Jordanian in America jailed for visiting the "wrong" websites http://www.freep.com/news/locway/obeid29e_20050629.htm Italy kidnapping inquiry reveals CIA methods http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1519576,00.html Australian government admits to abandoning citizen in US jail in Iraq http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13002&s2=24 US interferes with life-saving airlift for wounded journalist http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2005/06/19/afx2100049.html Shootings of journalists in Iraq becoming routine http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13653&s2=14 "Unlisted" US prisons are sites of torture and rape http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=66&p=12722&s2=18 Iraqis suffocate to death in police van http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/56449 Former Iraqi rulers tortured in custody http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=66&p=12665&s2=17 Iranian documentary-makers jailed for two months for making archaeology film in Iraq http://www.payvand.com/news/05/jul/1083.html Ethnic cleansing by US-backed Kurdish guerrillas in Iraq http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/14/AR2005061401828.html Guantanamo survivor interviewed http://www.jihadunspun.net/intheatre_internal.php?article=102920&list=/home.php& Western-backed Iranian militia accused of torture and brainwashing http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1495712,00.html Concern over torture by Iranian exile rebel group http://ipsnews.net/new_notan.asp?idnews=28738 US army to murder fragger http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11412&s2=30 Court rules for Pablo Paredes who avoids jail time for Iraq refusal http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/printer_051305X.shtml "I'm gonna shoot me some Hajji" - racism in the US military in Iraq http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1900 Baghdad show-trials sentence workers to death http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1899 US troops open fire on Iraq minibus, killing three http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/51490 Troops force Iraqi detainee to dig own grave http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=18279&c=206 Elderly Afghan man murdered by US troops during house raid http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_18-5-2005_pg7_51 Torture is "barracks humour" says military goon http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14019&s2=24 Bush plans to block ban on torture of prisoners http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14016&s2=24 US soldier's Iraq blog silenced http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biasresistance/message/123 Iraqi journalists still being killed and detained http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/66223/ Iraq pigs in Tikrit ban driving cars alone, and shoot one person for defying the ban http://www.almendhar.com/almendharen/details.aspx?nID=2987 http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/krwashbureau/20050514/ts_krwashbureau/_bc_usiraq_bombers_wa Documents reveal US soldiers inventing new torture methods; murder detainees http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/02/AR2005080201941_pf.html US imprisons journalists without charge in Iraq http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11594&s2=08 US troops killing journalists http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11939&s2=23 Iraqi regime legalises property theft against oppositionists http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11819&s2=18 More Iraq abuse detailed - soldiers beat detainees with hammers http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_2892191 Journalist killed after investigating US-backed death squads in Iraq http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/iraq-j01.shtml US troops arrest journalist, then arrest his father for asking why http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2183 Iraqi press under attack http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0503-05.htm Unarmed Iraqi shot, despite cooperating with and praising US troops http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/25/AR2005052501916.html Prisoner abuse of Iraqis in 1991 http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11653&s2=10 [ Still mulling over the Salvador option? ] Imad Khadduri "A few days ago, an American manned check point confiscated the driver license of a driver and told him to report to an American military camp near Baghdad airport for interrogation and in order to retrieve his license. The next day, the driver did visit the camp and he was allowed in the camp with his car. He was admitted to a room for an interrogation that lasted half an hour. At the end of the session, the American interrogator told him: 'OK, there is nothing against you, but you do know that Iraq is now sovereign and is in charge of its own affairs. Hence, we have forwarded your papers and license to al-Kadhimia police station for processing. Therefore, go there with this clearance to reclaim your license. At the police station, ask for Lt. Hussain Mohammed who is waiting for you now. Go there now quickly, before he leaves his shift work". The driver did leave in a hurry, but was soon alarmed with a feeling that his car was driving as if carrying a heavy load, and he also became suspicious of a low flying helicopter that kept hovering overhead, as if trailing him. He stopped the car and inspected it carefully. He found nearly 100 kilograms of explosives hidden in the back seat and along the two back doors. The only feasible explanation for this incidence is that the car was indeed booby trapped by the Americans and intended for the al-Khadimiya Shiite district of Baghdad. The helicopter was monitoring his movement and witnessing the anticipated "hideous attack by foreign elements". The same scenario was repeated in Mosul, in the north of Iraq. A car was confiscated along with the driver's license. He did follow up on the matter and finally reclaimed his car but was told to go to a police station to reclaim his license. Fortunately for him, the car broke down on the way to the police station. The inspecting car mechanic discovered that the spare tire was fully laden with explosives." A warning to car drivers (in Arabic) May 11, 2005 And a Resistance warning to this effect May 14, 2005 Anmar Yassin Salman was arrested with his brother by the anti-terrorism Wolf brigade and died in custody, his family said. Bashar Yassin Salman, brother of the dead police officer, said that he and his brother were placed in a room with hundreds of other detainees and tortured without being accused of any crime. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) More Occupation Prisoners Murdered July 16, 2005 (AFP) A former general in Saddam Hussein's army and his son were found shot dead in Baghdad after being detained by police commandos, an interior ministry official told AFP, raising new question marks over the discipline of the elite force. Akram Ahmed Rasul al-Bayati, a major general in the old regime's disbanded military, and his son Ali, a policeman, were killed on Friday evening after being arrested last Sunday, the official said asking not to be identified. There was no immediate word of any official investigation. US holding American citizens without trial in Iraq http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8187 American prisoners sent to Uzbekistan? http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0501-03.htm Bagram detention victim speaks out about torture - and starvation of his daughter due to US detention http://www.antiimperialista.com/en/view.shtml?category=9&id=1125221839&keyword=+ CIA mind-control experiments on children, including use of torture and rape, alleged http://www.totse.com/en/conspiracy/mind_control/161916.html CIA trains Uzbek interrogators to torture, murder prisoners http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0516,hentoff,63104,6.html US Marines stage incursion into Somaliland http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1362433.htm Children and elderly people held and abused at US concentration camps in Afghanistan http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7808 Sikhs terrorised on US bus - armed police storm bus and manhandle British tourists http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1536635,00.html US goons censor news to Gitmo inmates - London bombing concealed http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8205 US plans catch-all statements not to oppose US as condition for release http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8170 Poll on Gitmo appears to show two-thirds of Americans have no ethics and one-third are outright Nazis http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8015 But another poll shows how ignorant they are! http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7143 Senators shocked by details of torture of Saudi at Gitmo http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7858 Victims of Guantanamo include children, according to lawyers http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7860 Lawyers reveal Bahraini in Kandahar and Gitmo was tortured with icy water and tied to a pole http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7806 MI5 asset left to rot in Gitmo as MI5 links to Abu Qatada revealed http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7688 Torture as terror http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0512-23.htm Kuwaiti tortured at Guantanamo http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7620 Al-Jazeera journalist held and mistreated at Guantanamo "He is completely innocent. He is about as much of a terrorist as my granddad. The only reason he has been treated like he has is because he is an Aljazeera journalist. The Americans have tried to make him an informant with the goal of getting him to say that Aljazeera is linked to al-Qaida." http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7995 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8067 Shocking report on torture of US prisoner sent to Morocco http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1540549,00.html British resident tortured in foreign prisons on US instructions http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1540558,00.html US suspects tortured in Jordanian prisons http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=9024 Afghanistan human rights monitor fired for uncovering human rights abuses http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2184 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ldxar1 at tesco.net Mon Nov 21 21:19:45 2005 From: ldxar1 at tesco.net (Andy) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:19:45 -0000 Subject: [Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - repression USA Message-ID: <024d01c5ef24$7c00de60$0202a8c0@WOL> REPRESSION: US Subway hell gets even hotter - unconstitutional "random" and racist searches of the innocent on New York subways http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0727-02.htm Pigs exploit London bombings to sneak in long-plotted measure http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6930/693052.html Refuse to be searched! http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0722-29.htm Oppose Homeland Security crackdowns http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6930/693020.html The greatest outrage is the lack of outrage http://www.counterpunch.org/anderson07262005.html Statist racists are child abusers: children abandoned because of shock raid on immigrant workplace http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/raid-a05.shtml Persecution of homeless people continues across America http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/atla-j04.shtml Mayor tries to ban art party - court stops him http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/graf-a24.shtml DEA goons steal plastic surgery money http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6606 Tasers unsafe, confirm police - individual cops sue manufacturers for injuries sustained in training http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news509.htm Los Angeles Police have turned into artistic censors and decided to close down an art show, deeming it to be "aggressive and offensive". The art show was entitled 'Mark of the Beast' and featured subverted corporate logos; the Levis logo was changed to read Evils, Pepsi was changed to Piss and Nike's catchphrase Just Do It became Just Don't. The aggressive material can be seen at: www.transportgallery.com/transport/photosApr05.cfm Feds persecute peace activists because state court acquitted them http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6570 Pig-fucking judge's decision deals blow to First Amendment, says paper (a solid article except for the qualifier about senseless etc etc at the end) http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050829/NEWS/508290319/1018/OPINION Jury allows police impunity for wanton firing at bystanders http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/dailystar/91619.php Courts persecute Toledo insurgents - once more, fighting against violent police attacks is labelled "assault", and vindictive police denounce pro-cop courts for alleged leniency http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051029/NEWS02/51029025 US could ban seafarers from 25 nations from US ports! http://www.itfglobal.org/news-online/index.cfm/newsdetail/367 Statist murder by default: prisoners left to die in New Orleans http://prisonforum.com/index.php?topic=188.0 http://www.countercurrents.org/us-michaels021005.htm Questions of intent over New Orleans http://www.aztlan.net/new_orleans_land_grab.htm Blackwater mercenaries deployed to New Orleans http://www.countercurrents.org/us-kall1120905.htm Alabama anti-sex control freaks ban dildos http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6201 Migrant woman jailed for taking morning-after pill http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/544/544_02_GabrielFlores.shtml Murders by police continue: black youth shot in the back in Austin http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-2/549/549_02_AustinPolice.shtml American pigs re-arrest racist stitch-up victim http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news495.htm More fascism in America - arrested protester ordered to apply for jobs; protesters at risk of 3-year sentences for minor damage to building (What has someone not having a job got to do with the alleged illegal action? Clearly the judge here is imposing a generalised social conformism incompatible with official excuses for statist power) http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050610/NEWS02/506100520 Goons block war veteran's attempts to visit children in Cuba http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2758 Political persecution of police brutality activist intensifies http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2743 It's official - cops taser people for free speech, when not attacked http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3166871 School mistakes burrito for gun http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/burrito_lockdown&printer=1 Banned in the USA - tax protest book http://www.newswithviews.com/NWVexclusive/exclusive1.htm Ann Coulter and the police state http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/3/234357/7289 Police murder toddler - shoot human shield in showdown with disturbed man http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/LA-police-kill-human-shield-toddler/2005/07/12/1120934208432.html?oneclick=true Politically-motivated surveillance, entrapment, arrest and jailing of crusading Asian-American lawyer, for criticising the Patriot Act http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=261f4ed6d61243ca90d3145678d15f80 US police abuse and murder with their new torture weapon http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=770 Latest taser abuse - police electrify child Victim of police abuse is boy with problems; relatives barred from bus by abusive police http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/lorain/111848257318490.xml&coll=2 Police murder psychologically-different man with taser http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0505-24.htm Video of police torturing motorist for talking on the phone http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/video/taser_video3a.html Jordanian jailed for visiting websites http://www.freep.com/news/locway/obeid29e_20050629.htm US statists attempt to defend the indefensible - Canadian stopped en route at airport and shipped to Syria for torture http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/10/nyregion/10civil.html British Muslim leader barred from US without reason http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4684489.stm Abuses of unchecked power - Kafka meets Orwell in post-911 America http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0720-27.htm Racist fervour leads to attacks on voting and entitlements in Arizona http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0605-25.htm Blatant racism at Timimi trial http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7532 American Muslim disappears into solitary confinement http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8199 FBI trawls libraries for information http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7978 Pro-peace Palestinian tried for sending money to charities http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8672 American Gestapo targets peace protester as snitches run rampage http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2179 The "spy on your family for the war on drugs" bill http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1914 Peace leafleting at heritage day persecuted by pigs http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1121072710156600.xml&coll=2 Talking to fellow workers is under attack http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/workersrights/eye7_2005.cfm Jailed for being transgender - the latest atrocity by a bigot judge in America Tyrant judge also bans transgender person from studying http://www.transadvocate.com/archives/000206.php Black man wrongly jailed for 20 years, denied parole for claiming innocence - freed when DNA evidence proves him innocent http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05211/546262.stm Lawsuit settled over Bush protest arrests http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeech.cfm?ID=18601 State attacks on free expression continue - man jailed for wearing Grinch mask; police threaten all who wear masks, hoods to enforce generalised vulnerability to state violence http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050526105449524 Nazi judges legalise censorship of campus publications http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2204/ Radio stations and clubs under attack - police try to censor musical criticisms by closing stations, stitching up performers, pulling permits and harassing venues http://www.counterpunch.org/daveyd07192005.html Man labelled sex offender for getting cross with child - despite court's admission that the offence was not sexual "This is the most stupid ruling the appellate court has rendered in years," said Barnaby's Chicago attorney, Frederick Cohn. "If you see a 15-year-old beating up your 8-year-old and you grab that kid's hand and are found guilty of unlawful restraint, do you now have to register as a sex offender?" http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-molest01.html Abuse of prisoners in Ohio http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8844 Crackdown freakery and institutional injustice in Texas http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0620-26.htm Hundreds of innocent people rounded up in Fatherland Security "anti-gang" purge http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney08022005.html Nimbyite anti-"crime" fanatics create zones banning former sex offenders (to displace them to other areas) http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/06/08/miami_effectively_bans_molesters_from_area/ http://www.mysanantonio.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8AHFLU80.html State land grabs legalised - but not without a backlash "In Lodi, N.J., hundreds of trailer park residents may soon be squatters if the city decides their homes are hurting land values." http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0706-07.htm Protester on trial for self-defence from Bushite goons' violence http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0622-05.htm Fascist school tyrants tear down Bush satire posters http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0527-06.htm More school fascism: teacher sacked, others walk out over draconian punishment http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0526-06.htm And a kid kicked off school computers for accessing a political parody website "We don't condone it. We don't like it and we discipline it," Superintendent Dr. Dan Doerhoff (grw002 at mail.connect.more.net) said. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0526-07.htm Persecution of the young - police force pedestrians to be breathalysed http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0808-06.htm Mass roundup of 10,000 - including 9,000 with no serious charges http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney05182005.html Fatherland Security given go-ahead to waive any and all laws http://www.counterpunch.org/shull05112005.html Fatherland Security to wreck natural site, fill in river and destroy habitats to pursue anti-Mexican fence crusade http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/site/pp.asp?c=euLTJbMUKvH&b=486097 Three Strikes atrocity continues http://www.counterpunch.org/yoshioka05062005.html Artist persecuted by Homeland Security http://www.counterpunch.org/mcmillan04152005.html Vicious attack on legal party in Utah - military-dressed goons attack with helicopters and dogs, beat people up etc http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050823133340924 People who feed the homeless are under state attack in Dallas http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050807155009897 Kaczynski wants to donate his works to a library - but a judge decides to steal them instead http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050721225304898 Chicago pigs beat man for. standing in open public park, and arguing with them http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050806111033170 WalMart goons murder suspected shoplifter http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050819185544407 Screws kill resisting con in Baltimore http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050516132143199 Homelessness activists convicted for reopening shelter http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050429080029347 "Art is biowar" persecution continues - Steve Kurtz on trial for civil offence in criminal court - as case breaks down, prosecutors invent new charges "Judge Schroeder seemed to agree, asking Federal Assistant District Attorney William Hochul whether an underaged youth who uses the internet to purchase alcohol across state lines, for example, should be subject to federal wire fraud charges. "Yes," Hochul answered after some hedging, and Schroeder chuckled. "Wow, that really opens up a Pandora's Box, wouldn't you say?" he asked Hochul." "Cambria further argued that the FBI intentionally misled a judge into issuing the original search warrant. That judge was never told of Kurtz's lengthy, credible and complete explanation of what the seized bacterial substances were being used for, nor of the fact that Kurtz tasted Serratia in front of an officer to prove it was harmless. Also, the judge was told of Kurtz's possession of a photograph of an exploded car with Arabic writing beside it, but not of the photograph's context: an invitation to an important museum art show. The photograph, by artists the Atlas Group, was one of several exhibited pieces pictured on the invitation." http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=05/05/19/1246226&mode=nested&tid=8&tid=22 Socialist candidate challenges state ban on "subversive" election candidates http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6929/692902.html Political prosecution of three newspapers begins to break down http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6925/index.shtml Birdwatchers under attack as "security" hysteria mounts http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1522968,00.html Statist terror at airports - children manhandled by security goons http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/24/232444/424 Mall tyrants attack teens, try to insist on parental escorts http://www.masslive.com/living/republican/index.ssf?/base/living-0/112132713728690.xml&coll=1&thispage=2 Corporate censorship: council bans residents from mentioning WalMart at meetings http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20050708-1419-speaknowal-mart.html Fascist anti-porn probation rules lead to jailings for trivialities such as reading non-porn mags http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1966 Abuse of "odd", archaic and forgotten laws in America http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1981 The First Amendment is dead - Muslim preacher given life sentence for exercising free speech http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/timi-j27.shtml Bushite goons stop man visiting family in Cuba http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/abril/juev28/protesta.html American man jailed for saving a drowning man's life http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3252707 Soldier punished for criticising Bush http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1779 Canadian lawyer says criticising Israel is anti-Semitism! http://palestineblogs.com/archives/2005/05/08/lawyer-any-criticism-of-israel-is-a-form-of-anti-semitism/ California National Guard accused of spying on protest groups http://www.progressive.org/?q=mag_mc063005 New Jersey town uses Patriot Act to attack homeless people http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050630052509990001 Jewish family file lawsuit over police murder, claiming their son was murdered because he was mistaken for a Muslim http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1120876248576 New attack on the right to protest in Pennsylvania http://govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php?channel=23&id=94301 Police persecute activist for complaining about Minutemen - phony charges filed, house trashed http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/06/1747943.php Instead of arresting bigot who drove van at protesters, pigs arrest 5 protesters on trumped-up charges http://www.pww.org/article/articleprint/7198/ Pot prohibition kills again - medical marijuana user dies because of denial of medicine http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1117360 Politically-motivated persecution of Arab academic http://groups.msn.com/SimeAgain/general.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=1350 Activists jailed for refusing to collaborate with kangaroo court http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1865 Denver bans pit-bulls and even staffies! http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/4362515/detail.html ACLU uncovers political surveillance and harassment http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1638 Sexual abuse and rape in American prisons exposed http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/225561_jailguards24.html Persecution of Sherman Austin continues http://la.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/127422.php Librarian stands up to Patriot Act http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44445 US jailers torture innocent Afghan to death http://newsfeed.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/story.asp?j=330443103004&p=33x443yx3473&n=330443103503 "Real ID" - the latest attack on civil rights in America http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,67471,00.html?tw=wn_story_top5 Elderly teacher is labelled "terrorist" for inadvertent knife http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm Road closed in fake penis alert http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91059-13355259,00.html Fascist court bans parents from teaching Wicca http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050527/NEWS01/505270510 Innocent child arrested in US as "terrorist threat" http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1710 Adding insult to injury: brother of man murdered by police, arrested for standing up to cops http://news.tbo.com/news/MGB7DDWUN8E.html Attack on freedom of speech leads to arrests of parents at schoolboard meeting http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/news/042905_NW_durhamschoolboardmtg.html Newark makes two moves toward redevelopment Plan for new downtown area opens door for eminent domain Friday, June 17, 2005 BY JEFFERY C. MAYS Star-Ledger Staff The Newark City Council approved two pieces of legislation that will have a major impact on development in the city. One will create an entirely new downtown neighborhood on 13.5 acres, and the other will make it easier to transfer city-owned land to developers. Both met resistance from residents at Wednesday night's council meeting, but the council said they felt the changes were in the best interest of the city. A redevelopment plan for 13.5 acres of the downtown Mulberry Street neighborhood was approved by a vote of 5 to 4, clearing the way for the city to officially designate a developer and begin taking private property using eminent domain. In another move, the entire city of Newark has now been deemed an area in need of rehabilitation, by a 6 to 3 vote, making it easier for the city to create the type of redevelopment plan being used on Mulberry Street. "We are talking about enhancing neighborhoods," said Councilwoman Bessie Walker. The Mulberry plan is a 13.5-acre project to build more than 2,000 market-rate condominiums and create an entirely new neighborhood. The redevelopment plans calls for mixed-use buildings with stores on the bottom, wide plazas, a park and the option of an arcade. City officials say it is the first effort to create an entirely new neighborhood and not just build two- and three-family houses. "It's an exciting day, a historical day for the city of Newark," said Emilio Farina, a principal in the Mulberry Street Urban Renewal Co., the developer that will probably be chosen for the project. Supporters of the project packed the council chambers wearing T-shirts and buttons. The central planning board unanimously decided to recommend the plan to the city council on Monday. George Mytrowitz, a spokesman for the Mulberry Street Coalition, a group of property owners fighting the use of eminent domain for the project, urged the city council to postpone voting on the plan until his group's lawsuit challenging the blight designation is decided. "We knew it was a foregone conclusion," said Mytrowitz. "The city is wasting taxpayer dollars to come up with a plan when they know we are contesting it in court." Councilman Augusto Amador, who voted against the Mulberry Street plan, said the city council should have waited until the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling on a case it is hearing regarding when the government can take private property for a public use and exactly what constitutes a public use. Mytrowitz said he was also concerned about the city council declaring all 24 square miles of Newark as an area in need of redevelopment. "The city is trying to fast-track development. Your house or business, your most important possession, may not be safe," said Mytrowitz. Right up until the vote, the city council had questions about what the designation would mean. Assistant Director of Economic and Housing Development Johnny Jones and Corporation Counsel JoAnne Watson explained that the designation does not change the process the city would have to follow to use eminent domain. Instead, city officials said the designation would allow for smaller areas to be targeted for redevelopment. The city would be able to take city-owned parcels and combine them with parcels owned by developers to create neighborhood redevelopment plans. To meet the standard for rehabilitation, an area must show a pattern of vacant, substandard or deteriorated housing; have half of its housing stock or water and sewer infrastructure at least 50 years old; or stand to benefit from rehabilitation to prevent more deterioration. Newark's sewer system is at least a century old. City planning officials currently declare an area in need of redevelopment if they want to put together neighborhood plans. That designation allows the city to take private property and devise plans to redevelop the area. It also allows the municipality to convey city- owned land to private developers without going through the public bidding process. In order to be declared in need of redevelopment, an area has to meet several criteria, including unsafe and dilapidated buildings, underused land, and abandoned commercial or industrial areas. The city council has to ask the central planning board to investigate whether an area is in need of redevelopment. Hearings must be held by the planning board, and the council must approve the planning board's recommendation. Jones said that process can take from six to eight months and can cost the chance at outside funding. Attorneys from McKirdy and Riskin, one of the leading firms on eminent domain issues in the state, questioned why the city would need to be declared in need of rehabilitation when the state's redevelopment laws already give the city broad powers. Nancy Zak, a community activist who works for the Ironbound Community Corp., said the city should concentrate on finishing its Master Plan and updating its zoning laws. Proper planning and zoning would eliminate the need to do so many neighborhood plans, she said. "I have no problem voting on different areas in need of redevelopment, but I don't believe all sections of the city of Newark are in need of rehabilitation," said Councilman Donald Tucker, who along with Amador and Luis Quintana voted against the designation. Jeffery C. Mays covers Newark City Hall. He may be reached at jmays at starledger.com or (973) 392-4149. The following appeal was initiated by the Women's Fightback Network in Boston, an affiliate of the IAC. Please respond immeditately: Stop Racial Profiling & Police Brutality! Drop All charges Against the Somerville 5! Please take a minute to read the flyer below regarding a very important struggle against police brutality and racial profiling in Somerville, MA. We are appealing to you to immediately call or send a fax to Dr. Albert Argenziano, Superintendent of Somerville Schools, demanding that all five students immediately be reinstated at Somerville High School, in good standing, with no repercussions. The decision to reinstate or expel is currently in the hands of Dr. Argenziano and the deadline is this Thursday, May 12. The students have been unjustly suspended for more than 10 days. No court has found them guilty but Somerville High School officials have decided they are "guilty until proven innocent". This is a travesty of justice!! More than 300 of their peers at Somerville High School signed a petition requesting their reinstatement. Please help save their futures! Make your voice heard! Dr. Albert Argenziano Superintendent, Somerville School Department Phone: 617-625-6600 x6005 or 617-625-6600 x6000 Fax: 617-625-4731 aargenziano at k12.somerville.ma.us Come & Pack the Court! Tuesday, May 10, 9:00 AM Somerville District Court (Orange Line to Sullivan Station, Bus #92 or #90) Call the Mayor of Medford, Michael McGlynn to demand that all charges be dropped Now! - 781-393-2408 ****************************** STOP RACIAL PROFILING AND POLICE BRUTALITY! DROP THE FRAME-UP CHARGES AGAINST CALVIN BELFON, CASSIUS BELFON, EARL GUERRA, ISIAH ANDERSON & MARQUIS ANDERSON! Every day, across the country, Black youth and other young people of color are the victims of racial profiling and police brutality. Skin color and national origin are seen by police as a cause for suspicion and a reason to violate people's rights. "Driving while Black" or "walking while Black" is the all too common harsh reality for our young people. Racial profiling can result in beatings, maiming, imprisonment and even death. On April 20, 2005, 5 Black youths from Somerville (Calvin Belfon 17, Cassius Belfon 15, Earl Guerra 16, Isiah Anderson 17, and Marquis Anderson 16) were the victims of racial profiling and a brutal, unprovoked attack by Medford Police. The Somerville youths were walking to catch a bus home and stopped at a Store 24 nearby. Outside they were confronted by a heavily armed Medford police officer. He grabbed Calvin Belfon by the throat and punched him twice in the face. Fearing serious bodily harm or worse, Belfon defended himself. His brothers and friends came to his aid. When Calvin appealed for the cop to stop, he responded by calling him a racist name. A police riot ensued with at least 10 cops armed with guns, clubs, mace and flashlights, beating the 5 youths. All 5 young people sustained injuries to the face and head and all were maced. Calvin and Isiah were clubbed on their heads with a flashlight. All later went to the hospital for treatment. Police also gang-profiled the youths as evidenced by asking them what their "street names" were. A cover-up of this vicious assault by the Medford Police quickly followed. In pre-fabricated stories, police told the press and media such things as they were "fighting for their lives" "teens turned on them" , "were overwhelmed", etc. Absurd lies like these are commonly used by police to cover up abuse and pin it on the victims in order to get away with it. Needing a probable cause for the unprovoked attack, the police claimed the youth were making trouble in the Store 24 and that the youth had tried to grab cop's weapons. All five of these young people are students at Somerville High School who get good grades and have never been in trouble at school or with the law. They are all excellent athletes and members of the football, track and basketball teams; respected by their peers. All five attend church on a regular basis. All dream of going to college. They currently have been unjustly suspended from school. They have been charged with assault with a deadly weapon, assault and battery, and disorderly conduct. The future of these promising students and athletes is now in jeopardy. Our youths have a right to walk down the street, attend an event, or drive their cars free from police harassment both psychological and physical. They have a right to walk safely and not be terrorized by racist police. We need to come together as a community and demand this - parents, guardians, educators, peers, and residents. Join us in demanding: Drop all charges now. Reinstate the students at SHS immediately. Conduct an independent investigation into police actions on April 20, 2005. Stop racial profiling and police brutality. Come & Pack the Court! Tuesday, May 10, 9:00 AM Somerville District Court (Orange Line to Sullivan Station, Bus #92 or #90) Call the Mayor of Medford, Michael McGlynn to demand that all charges be dropped Now! - 781-393-2408 Issued by: Committee to Defend the Somerville High School 5 Against Police Brutality c/o Women's Fightback Network & International Action Center - 617-522-6626 Suspension reduced over call from mom in Iraq Georgia student refused to end call at school from soldier-mother The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ga. - Following hundreds of angry phone calls and e-mails, school officials in this Army base city have reduced a suspension imposed on a student who wouldn't give up his cell phone while talking to his mom - a sergeant on duty in Iraq. The angry calls about the boy's suspension got so bad at one point that secretaries had to take their phones off the hook, assistant principal Alfred Parham said. Kevin Francois, a 17-year-old junior at Spencer High School, was suspended for 10 days for disorderly conduct Wednesday after a teacher told him to give up his cell phone outside the school during his lunch break and he refused, the teen said. The boy said he had not expected the call from his mother, Sgt. 1st Class Monique Bates, who left in January for a one-year tour. The teacher says the confrontation happened in a hallway, not outside, and that Francois never said the call was with his mother. The Muscogee County School District Board of Education allows students to have cell phones in school but not to use them during school hours. The punishment for violating that policy is that the phone is confiscated until the end of the day. But Francois was suspended for cursing and being defiant, said Parham. That was extended to 10 because "he did not want to accept the three-day suspension and to agree that he would not use the cell phone openly or curse." "We are empathetic to all students whose parents serve in the armed forces ... (but) we do have behavior standards which we uphold," said Superintendent John A. Phillips Jr. On Friday, the school district reduced the suspension to three days, which will allow Francois to return to school Monday, after officials met with him, the guardian who cares for him while his mother is out of the country, and a representative of her unit. "People are fussing at us, calling us names," said assistant principal Wendell Turner. "We are the school that serves Fort Benning," Turner said. "We're well aware of students with parents overseas." Parham said, however, that Francois' behavior at school has been "a chronic problem." And Francois added: "I'm not a golden child and I've been wrong, but I was right this time." Phoenix Man Dies After Shocks From Police Taser Guns PHOENIX -- Authorities in Phoenix say a man who had been suspected of assaulting a police officer has died after being shocked multiple times with Taser guns. Police said the 24-year-old, who was not immediately identified, had tried to run from police early Tuesday, but a female officer caught up with him and shocked him with a stun gun. The man is said to have then resisted arrest and was shocked again by a another officer's Taser gun. The man went unconscious and later was pronounced dead at the hospital. Police will not say exactly how many times the man was shocked. The death comes amid increasing debate nationwide over police use of Taser guns. Mom Ticketed After Rushing Burned Baby To Hospital Baby Had Been Burned By Iron's Steam MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- A Vermont woman won't face criminal charges for leading police on a high-speed chase, because she was rushing her burned baby to the hospital. She will get a traffic ticket, though. Vermont State Police said the woman has been issued a civil ticket for failing to obey a police officer. A trooper attempted to pull her over but she ignored his lights and sirens. Eventually, the trooper escorted her to the hospital. Police received reports she was traveling as fast as 90 to 100 mph. Her 9-month-old son was burned by steam from a fallen iron. He suffered second-degree burns to his hand and foot. Terrorist Threat By NINA BERNSTEIN Published: April 9, 2005 - NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/09/nyregion/09suicide.html? At Heritage High School in East Harlem, where the student idiom is hip-hop and salsa, the 16-year-old Guinean girl stood out, but not just because she wore Islamic dress. She was so well liked that when she ran for student body president, she came in second to one of her best friends - the Christian daughter of the president of the parent-teacher association, Deleen P. Carr. Now Ms. Carr, a speech pathologist who calls herself "a typical American citizen," is as outraged as the girl's teachers and classmates, who have learned that the girl and another 16-year-old are being called would-be suicide bombers and are being held in an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania. "They have painted this picture of her as this person that is trying to destroy our way of life, and I know in my heart of hearts that this is bogus," said Ms. Carr, who welcomed the Guinean girl to her house daily and knows her family well. "I feel like, how dare they? She's a minor, and even if she's not a citizen, she has rights as a human being." Whack'em & Stack'em - Kill the Unarmed; No Questions Asked Report By J.J. Johnson New York City - Maybe it's the heat. Perhaps the Internal Affairs Department of the NYPD needs something to do. Or maybe this cop was just bored. Whatever the reason, another person decided to have himself killed by a man with a badge. A whack & stack indeed. Last Friday, Staten Island Police raided two rooms in a storage facility in Chelsea. According to the Commish - Ray Kelly, the take down was over a compact disc counterfeiting operation. Fair enough. At the other end of reality, Ousmane Zango, an African Immigrant who repaired sculptures and drums imported from Africa, decided to visit his cramped improvised studio around the same time. Zango's connection to the raid: Zip Number of weapons in Zango's possession: Zero Zango's criminal record: Nada All the more reason he should die. It's "African Season", ya know. And there's a fresh whack & stack in this town that hasn't even left the morgue yet. Usually, murder suspects are named immediately, but we can't do that here - him being part of that thin blue line and all. Whoever the shooter was, someone decided to leave the plain clothes officer to guard some bootleg CD' s just down the hall from Zango's pad. Apparently, guarding bootleg CD's can get quite boring, and there's nothing better to break such boredom than blowing someone away. So, the plain clothes officer went after his prey. Five bullet rounds later, Ousmane Zango lay whacked on the floor. The official reason: Well, we don't have one. He just chased him down and shot him. The shooter in question did state that for some reason, Zango reached for his gun. Makes perfect sense, doesn't it? The Medical Examiner's office reported that Zango had two bullets enter the front of his body and exited the rear. One entered from the back and exited through the front of his body. And one bullet grazed his hand. Normally, cases like these wouldn't even make it on the radar screen in the Big Apple, but the reader will recall we mention that Zango was an African Immigrant (read: a black person). This gets the anti-whack & stack machine rolling against New York City's Finest. While not resorting to anarchy at this time, the whole incident reminded many people of a classic whack & stack of an African Immigrant 3 years ago. Amadou Diallo tried to shoot 4 police officers with his wallet (according to police), and that fatal mistake cost him 41 high-speed projectiles, and the privilege of breathing on this planet. Not to worry. After the long investigation, it was deemed a "good shoot". Needless to say, the natives did get a bit restless over the whole thing. Class is in session: You have the whack above. But with no criminal record, no weapon found, and no real reason for Zango to get whacked, the 'stack' becomes difficult here. Read this carefully, as there will be a test on this tomorrow: When killing an unarmed black person, always use the threat of upheaval in the community. This usually scares the heck out of the white people - making most folks forget that an innocent person was off'ed. So, send the media out to gauge the reaction. Get a few quotes from the likes of Al Sharpton - guaranteed to piss off any non-black person. Wonder if they ever call Sharpton after a white person is killed by police, or for that matter - killed period? Of course, we weren't there, and cops never lie. The Commish made mention that there were no video cameras where the shooting took place. The area was immediately cordoned off after the shooting, in case some other unarmed person decided to reach for some other officer's gun - obviously. If you are reading this wondering if the shooting officer is in custody, the answer is no. In fact, at the time of this writing, the shooter hasn't even been questioned. But thou shallt not pass judgment on this fine officer. After all, we must put ourselves in their shoes, and understand things from their viewpoint. But, any civilian under the same circumstances would have been immediately charged with first degree murder, discharging a weapon within the city limits, and heaven forbid if he didn't have a license for that firearm. And that line about "He was reaching for my gun?" Tell it to your loy-ya. So let 's not put a civilian in this officer's shoes. Perhaps the surviving family of Ousmane Zango should sue the gun manufacturer. Whack'em & Stack'em: Never Joke With An Armed Cop J.J. Johnson Okay, so it's been awhile since we're critiqued a state-sponsored slaying, meaning the bodies have been piling up since we've last put finger to keyboard. There are those that were wondering what it would take for a good 'whacking' to warrant an update. Well, this one will do. This lawful offing was conducted by a man that isn't even supposed to be armed. No matter. Proving the fact that having a badge makes one 'licensed to kill', Whack'em & Stack'em class is in session once again. Calumet City, Ill - 36 year-old Arlin McClendon worked at the Cook County Jail. He was out driving last Saturday night when he saw an SUV that he knew belonged to a co-worker. What the heck...he flashed the lights and blew the horn to get his attention. That's what folks usually do on a Saturday night, right? Pretty harmless since you know it's your buddy from work. Ah... here's where things get confusing. Arlin's co-worker was in the OTHER car. The wife and kid were in this car. But Arlin didn't know that. He went over and pounded on the glass. Even one report of him going for the car door handle. Before we continue, and word to those that always take sides with law enforcement in our whack & stack reports. What if at this point, you were to open fire on this person (multiple times), regardless of the fact that he was your FRIEND; how many years would you get in prison? Answer: A whole bunch - if you're a civilian. But being that Arlin's work buddy wears a badge, he gets to think Arlin is a potential carjacker and shoot him dead. After a quick investigation, Arlin's bud was charged with... ...well, nothing. Welcome to the World of Whack'em & Stack'em. See the difference? In fact, this whacker was so good at his tradecraft, he didn't even get his name leaked to the media (Lord knows we wouldn't want anyone to think badly about the shooter, would we?) You see, there have been a number of carjackings in the area, according the police - thus giving the corrections officer justification in killing one of his best friends. "It is a tragic accident, a case of mistaken identity," Calumet City police Sgt. Larry Smith told the AP. "The victim and the shooter were lifelong friends. They worked together." By the way, did you know that corrections officers are allowed not carry firearms while on duty? And as for off-duty, have you seen the strict, draconian gun laws they have in Illinois? Well, not to worry, as none of that crap applies here. You see, since these guys are officers-of-the-law, they know what they're doing when it comes to guns. Our shooters only punishment is to have to live with the mistake that he simply didn't know what his friend looks like after 13 years. Lesson: If you have a badge, it's even okay to kill one of your own for a semi-good reason. Another RNC protest prosecution falls apart http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/300220p-256865c.html Distraught Man Shot At Bridge SEATTLE -- A distraught man shot by police early Friday in Seattle has died. Police had responded to a report the man was jumping off a bridge. Spokeswoman Debra Brown says officers were trying to calm the man when they struggled and shots were fired. The man in his 20's was taken to Harborview Medical Center where he died. The incident happened about four this morning at the First Avenue South Bridge over the Duwamish River as the man's wife and child were in a car. The man's mother had reportedly called police to say he was suicidal. Brown says the man jumped off the bridge twice at a low level. After the first jump he went back and tried again before police arrived and chased through a brushy area. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ldxar1 at tesco.net Mon Nov 21 21:20:12 2005 From: ldxar1 at tesco.net (Andy) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:20:12 -0000 Subject: [Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - longer action appeals (1) Message-ID: <027401c5ef26$caf49730$0202a8c0@WOL> Most of the large number of people arrested in relation to the G8 have now been released on bail, though often with conditions which effectively forced them o leave Scotland. Seven men remain in custody, and are all being held at Saughton prison in Edinburgh: John Mackie 18769 Gary Lawson 91952 Colin Johnstone 91943 Andras Ozvath 91944 David Watson 91963 Stejn De Meerskman 91948 David Williams 91961 Please take the trouble to send them a letter or card. You can write to hm INDIVIDUALLY at HMP Saughton, Stenhouse Rd, Edinburgh, EH1 3LN. Stamps and Postal Orders (made payable to 'The Governor' ) are sure to be appreciated. When writing, please bear in mind that some of these prisoners may not necessarily be political activists, but could just be people who were in the area and unlucky enough to be arrested. As always, when writing to prisoners, bear in mind that all mail is lkely to be read by the authorities, so don't compromise your security or that of others, and don't vent your spleen on the guards - it's not you that's locked-up. For more information on writing to prisoners see the Brighton ABC website at www.brightonabc.org.uk For information on the G8 and what is happening with the prisoners see UK Indymedia. A prisoner support group is currently being set up for those facing trial or prosecution as a result of arrest over the G8 summit protests. To receive info email: july2005solidarity at yahoo.co.uk Crash The Recruiters Chat Room! From: Jim To: GI Special Sent: July 15, 2005 Want to chat with a military recruiter? Even better, want to ask embarrassing questions of them right in front of other real potential recruits who are so naive that they think this war is worth their time and even sacrifice? Go to http://goarmy.com/ChatIndex.do and dive right in. It is live! They will warn you then silence you if you talk about Iraq, or say disturbing things, but your initial protest statement will be seen by the recruiters and the young kids (not all are kids, but there is a surprising number of 13-16 year old kids there) who go there to look for a "job". And you can just go back later (most people have dynamically assigned ip addresses, so they don't know you from the last time, and of course, use a different nickname) I suggest starting easy, just asking questions like a recruit would. Like "I heard the VA hospitals are under funded, what's up with that?" It is also good to see what the people are saying. I would like to see one day there are so many people asking challenging questions, or saying straight-forward statements of opposition to this insane war that the chat room is just shut down. One more recruiting "office" shut down, imagine, it will happen. >> URGENT MESSAGE- TIMORESE ASYLUM SEEKERS >> >> Please see below--this seems absurd and must be stopped. If you >> can spare a moment to drop an email or letter to our beloved PM or >> Immigration Minister please do- these people have been given no reason >> why they are forced to return to East Timor after many years here, >> Hope you might send a message to whoever you think might listen. >> >> Bill Armstrong AO >> 14 The Bend >> Garden City 3207 >> 03 96456897 >> 0419 636 100 >> >> >> >> NO DEPORTATION FOR TIMORESE ! NO DEPORTATION FOR TIMORESE ! NO DEPORTATION FOR TIMORESE ! >> >> URGENT ! URGENT ! URGENT ! >> >> >> Let's back the Timorese 10 - 1 >> >> Write 1 letter or fax. >> Get 10 other people to do the same. >> >> Send to: >> Prime Minister Mr John Howard or Senator Amanda Vanstone >> House of Representatives >> Parliament House >> Canberra ACT 2600 >> Mr Howard: Tel: (02) 6277 7700 >> Fax: (02) 6273 4100 >> >> Senator Vanstone: Tel: (02) 6277 7860 >> Fax: (02) 6273 4144 >> >> minister at immi.gov.au >> >> >> THE FACTS: >> >> * About 30 East Timorese people who have been in Australia for between >> 9 and 12 years have been told to leave. >> * Some are married with children. >> * All have worked hard and contributed to Australian life. >> * They are among the last of the 1500 asylum seekers who escaped from >> the Indonesian occupation. All the others, including some family members >> of these 30, have received permanent residency in Australia. >> * As asylum seekers, they were not allowed to do University courses here. >> * There are no prospects for them in East Timor. >> * They have not been told why they are being deported. >> * They have been offered a one-way ticket to Timor and $2000 >> re-settlement money which they will risk if they appeal again to the >> Minister. Should such an appeal fail, they could be sent to a >> detention centre, losing the "financial incentive" to leave. >> >> QUESTIONS TO ASK: >> >> 1. Why is this group singled out and told to leave, when people >> in identical situations are allowed to stay? >> >> 2. Why have these people not been given reasons for their deportation? >> >> 3. Has the East Timorese Government been told that these people >> wish to return, when they clearly do not? >> >> 4. Two Timorese issues running simultaneously splits the energies >> of Timorese supporters, the media and the public. The position of the >> Government in one matter may receive less attention because of >> concentration on the other. >> What connection is there between the timing of these decisions and the >> current Timor Sea resources talks? >> >> For further information call >> Mary MacKillop Institute 02 9623 2947 sc at mmiets.org.au >> Edmund Rice Centre 02 9765 1330 kath at erc.org.au >> >> Sister Susan Connelly >> Mary MacKillop Institute of East Timorese Studies >> PO Box 299 >> St Marys NSW 1790 >> PH 02 9623 2847 >> FX 02 9623 1573 >> www.mmiets.org.au In the night of 15th and 16th April the Pakistani dictatorship in a brutal crackdown arrested thousands of PPP workers who were preparing to hold a mass rally to welcome Asif Ali Zardari, spouse of the PPP Chairperson at Lahore airport. The crack down had started several days earlier. Several trains from Karachi and other parts of the Sindh were cancelled and borders of the Punjab province were sealed. This has exposed the so-called enlightened moderation of the Musharaf dictatorship which is a close ally of US and British imperialism. This savage repression also exposed the fragile nature of this regime. It is terrified of a mass explosion due to its drastic anti-working class and anti-people policies being carried out on the behest of the IMF and the World Bank. The regime was afraid that this welcome rally might become the starting point of the movement that could lead to the overthrow of this pro-imperialist dictatorship. Comrade Manzoor Ahmed, president of the PTUDC and Member of Parliament, was arrested along with several other PPP MPs as they were on their way to Lahore airport in the early hours of Saturday April 16. Other MPs who were arrested are CH. Aitizaz Ehsan, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Imtiaz Safdar, Shamshad Sattar, Dr Fehmida Mirza, Qamar-uz-Zaman Kaira, Zulfiqar Ali Gondal, Tasneem Ahmed Qureshi, Nayyer Bukhari, Zamurrad Khan, Shehry Rehman, Mutaza Satti, Fouzia Habib, Samina Khalid Ghorki, Shagufta Bukhari, Naheed Khan, Safder Abbasi and many others. The veteran PPP left wing leader Ghulam Abbas was also arrested. Some female parliamentarians including Fozia Malik, Ferzana Raja, and Uzma Bukhari were severely beaten up by the police and are now hospitalized due to their injuries. Such is the ruthless repression of this regime that even small schoolchildren aged 8, 9 and 10 have been arrested in this crack down. The police custody cells are so crowded that the detainees are forced to stand up, as there is no room to sit. This is an act of cowardice and shows that the regime is on its last legs. Hence the desperate attempt to crush a rising tide of political revolt. Comrade Manzoor Ahmed and other PPP leaders have vowed to continue the struggle till the overthrow of this regime and the rotten capitalist system it defends and represent. In their message from prison these parliamentarians have said that such brutal acts cannot deter them, but paradoxically will expose the real character of this regime and provoke a revolutionary upsurge. They appealed to the workers, youth, and masses to support them in this episode of class struggle being launched in Pakistan. An Injury to One is An Injury to All! We appeal to all our supporters and sympathisers, trade union activists, party activists around the world to mobilise protest actions. Phone your local Pakistani embassies, organise pickets, raise the issue inside your local labour movement organisations. Do not leave your Pakistani comrades in these terrible conditions without doing everything in your power to stop this brutal regime. Reported by Hina Zain, Pakistan, 16th of April 2005 Here are the phone numbers and email addresses of both the Ambassador and Deputy Chief of Mission of the Pakistani Embassy in Washington, DC. Pakistani Embassy: 3517 International Court, NW. Washington, D.C. 20008 Ambassador: His Excellency, Mr. Jehangir Karamat ambassador at embassyofpakistan.org (202) 243-6500 ext. 2000 or 2001 OR Deputy Chief of Mission, Mr. Mohammad Sadiq dcmsadiq at embassyofpakistan.org (202) 243-6500 ext. 2002 Please send copies of your letters of protest to contact at marxist.com and info at ptudc.org. As most of you know, Willie Fontenot was recently forced out of his job as the environmental community liaison for the Louisiana Attorney General's Office after 27 years of public service. Fontenot's "crime" was assisting my students who were part of an Antioch New England Graduate School field studies course on environmental justice issues in Louisiana. The students' "crime?" They stood on a public sidewalk and took pictures of ExxonMobil's petrochemical facility in Baton Rouge--similar to the pictures of the facility published in ExxonMobil's annual report. Almost immediately, my students, my co-leader, and Willie were detained, lied to, and threatened by off-duty police officials working for ExxonMobil. On the next day, these ExxonMobil "rent-a-cops" complained to Attorney General Foti about Willie Fontenot's outspoken support of the legal rights of my students. Two weeks later, and without warning, Fontenot was given the choice of retiring immediately or face being fired without benefits. I am asking you to join a national letter writing campaign to urge Attorney General Foti rehire Willie Fontenot. This campaign has already pressured Charles Foti to have a meeting with Willie Fontenot on April 27. Foti is now planning on meeting with Willie Fontenot again in two weeks to negotiate some resolution to this controversy. Please write an email to the Attorney General to urge him to rehire Fontenot at their next meeting. Write to the AG's spokesperson (wartellek at ag.state.la.us) and send a copy to the lieutenant governor (ltgove at crt.state.la.us). A sample email is provided below. For more information on this situation, write Steve Chase, Director of the Environmental Advocacy and Organizing Program, Antioch New England Graduate School at steven_chase at antiochne.edu. ================= sample email ========================== To: wartellek at ag.state.la.us Cc: ltgov at crt.state.la.us steven_chase at antiochne.edu Subject: Rehire Mr. Fontenot Dear Attorney General Foti, Like many people around the country, I recently read a news story exposing how someone in your Office forced Willie Fontenot to resign after an ExxonMobil employee complained about Mr. Fontenot assisting a student group engaging in legal research activities. I am very concerned about this unjust dismissal of Mr. Fontenot, a man who has provided exemplary public service to the people of Louisiana through the Attorney General's Office for 27 years. While you may not have been aware of the circumstances behind Mr. Fontenot's dismissal, it is your responsibility to offer to reinstate Mr. Fontenot to his position immediately. I also urge you to institute a program to train corporate security guards, as well local law enforcement officers who moonlight as security guards, to ensure that they do not lie to, threaten, and needlessly detain students engaging in legal research activities. I urge you to publicly stand up for what is right, reinstate Willie Fontenot to his job, and make it clear that the corporate harassment of students, academics, journalists, and community members will not be tolerated in Louisiana. You have an opportunity to exert strong, ethical leadership here and be a national role model of courageous public service. I urge you to take responsible action and correct the injustice done to Willie Fontenot and to the students he was assisting as part of his work for your Office. Sincerely, [your name] ========================= Steve Chase Program Director Environmental Advocacy and Organizing Program Department of Environmental Studies Antioch New England Graduate School 40 Avon Street Keene, NH 03431 603-357-3122 x298 603-357-0718 (fax) Steven_Chase at antiochne.edu For information about the Environmental Advocacy and Organizing Program: http://antiochne.edu/es/eao/default.cfm Your help needed! You won't believe this! Every person's vehicle who was protesting Terri's MURDER, had their car towed from the parking lot. They were being targeted because they were in front of the hospital. ALERT: As you know, Terri Schindler-Schiavo has passed away, the victim of an out-of-control tyrannical judiciary, politicians who couldn't or wouldn't stop the judges, and a man who had abandoned his wife long ago and shouldn't have even been allowed to stay as her guardian. The crowds outside Terri's hospice in Pinellas Park, Florida, are all going home, weary from the battle. While Terri is gone now, we still live to fight another day -- and we WILL fight the judicial tyrants, to honor the memory of Terri. We're already formulating battle plans to move ahead in the War on Judicial Tyranny. But there's one more battle in Pinellas Park that needs to be fought... one more injustice that needs to be righted, on behalf of so many people that sacrificed so much to come and support Terri. Supporters of Terri Schiavo have been RIPPED OFF of over $20,000 -- and we need to STOP this financial assault on free speech, NOW. Thousands of Terri Schiavo supporters have made their pilgrimage to Pinellas Park, Florida over the past few weeks to peacefully assemble and pray. Local police frequently directed them to park in the large Winn-Dixie Supermarket parking lot across the street from the Woodside Hospice. It was literally a "Winn-win" situation. Demonstrators, thirsty from the hot Florida sun, purchased water and Gatorade by the truckloads from Winn-Dixie and surrounding retailers. The economy in Woodside Hospice enclave never looked so good. That was until TODAY, when dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Schiavo supporters walked out of Winn-Dixie to their cars, only to find that their cars had VANISHED. Why? Because EVK Enterprises, Inc., the property management company renting space to Winn-Dixie, began towing cars with a redemption fee of $161 PER CAR. An estimated 150 cars were towed, for fees in excess of $20,000 -- ALL IN CASH! One Terri supporter, Jerry McGlothlin, purchased retail products at the Winn-Dixie shopping center, from the CVS Pharmacy and the auto parts store, and left two shopping bags in his front seat in plain sight before he walked across the street briefly to the front of the Woodside Hospice, out of respect to Terri Schiavo. Then he walked back across the street and purchased $148.13 in groceries at Winn-Dixie, since he had a scheduled 8 day stay in St. Petersburg, visiting his nephew. Jerry then returned to an empty space where his car had been. After five hours of wrangling with the Winn-Dixie store manager, the management company and several people in Winn-Dixie's corporate headquarters to help him get his car returned, not a single person lifted so much as a finger to help. He eventually had no choice but to pay to retrieve his car. Said McGlothlin, "When I showed Winn-Dixie's store manager, John Brengle, my receipt for over $140 in groceries, and asked for my car back, he outright refused to help and shifted blame to the management company. I asked him politely four separate times during various stages of my five hour ordeal of being stranded without a car, only to have Manager Brengle refuse all four times. The management company needed just one single call from Brengle to stop the towing, but Brengle insisted on being complicit and doing nothing. I tried going over his head, calling several people at Winn-Dixie's regional and national headquarters, and got no help whatsoever. It seemed that top management had already taken sides on the Schiavo matter, regardless of how much money people spent with Winn-Dixie." Selective enforcement was the order of the day in the Winn-Dixie parking lot. Regardless of the size of a purchase (in McGlothlin's case he made 3 purchases in three of the stores in the shopping center, totaling over $200), as long as anyone crossed the street to show support of Terri Schiavo, even for 10 minutes, they got towed by "security" forces who monitored who crossed the street. Emotions apparently ran so high from the anti-Schiavo camp that there appeared to be no consideration whatsoever made to the fact that they were towing patrons of Winn-Dixie. (NOTE: At the main entrance to the Winn-Dixie on the 66th Street side, there was a "No protest parking please" sign that covered a second sign stating that "unauthorized" vehicles will be towed at owner's expense by Yoho's Towing. Ordinarily a reasonable observer would not consider actual PATRONS of Winn-Dixie as being "unauthorized," but then again, this is the heated Schiavo debate, and nothing about it seems ordinary.) One woman was crying hysterically at the car pound, Yoho's Towing; another man was from Canada without enough American money. But the pattern was always the same: No mercy from the a foul-mouthed woman working there named Danielle, who incessantly used the "F" word to complaining "customers," even when young children were present. One man was so incensed over having his car towed after purchasing water at Winn-Dixie that he spent hours telling his plight in front of the store to anyone who would listen. Eventually police either arrested him or convinced him to leave. TAKE ACTION: This is OUTRAGEOUS. It's one thing for owners of private property to post towing notices for unauthorized vehicles; it's another thing to deliberately TARGET protesters, EVEN THOUGH they're patrons of the stores on that property. These people need to "feel the heat" in order to "see the light". So it's up to US to apply that heat. There's several ways you can complain about this outrageous behavior -- but keep one thing in mind... BE VERY POLITE. Do NOT give them any excuse to file complaints against YOU! 1) Call Winn-Dixie's store #681 manager, John Brengle, at 727-541-2070. Inform him of your feelings about allowing the towing of the cars of Terri Schiavo supporters, even though they were obviously patrons of the Winn-Dixie and other stores on that property. You can also call Winn-Dixie corporate headquarters to complain at 866-946-6349, or send a message at http://www.winndixie.com/comments/main.asp . 2) Call EVK Enterprises, Inc., the property management company renting space to Winn-Dixie, at 727-821-4989. Inform them of your feelings about their new decision to tow the cars of Terri Schiavo's supporters, even though they were obviously patrons of the Winn-Dixie and other stores on that property. You can also send an e-mail to them at evkinc at evk-lease.com . 3) Call Robert Yoho Towing at 727-545-3596, and inform them of your feelings about towing the cars of Terri Schiavo supporters that were in the Winn-Dixie parking lot, even though they were obviously patrons of the stores on that property. Also let them know how you feel about their employees cursing at people with small children. 4) One observer commented that it would be interesting to know if the IRS would ever see this spike in sales on the tax returns of the small towing business, and whether there might be some "kick-back" funds for stores or property owners. The IRS offers a 10% finder's fee reward to citizens who give anonymous tips of likely tax fraud -- their number is 800-829-0433. Once more, let me remind you: BE VERY POLITE. Do NOT give them any excuse to file complaints against YOU! NOTE: Be sure to send this Alert to everyone you know who would be outraged at this deliberate targeting of supporters of Terri Schiavo. Thank you! Last September, Lancaster University (north west England) hosted a national "corporate venturing" conference - which is basically an event for large multinational companies to network and work out how to exploit / sponsor academic research. Amongst those present were Shell, BAe systems, Rolls Royce (both arms manufacturers), Unilever, GlaxoSmithKline, and Du Pont (involved in GM technology and responsible for the 'terminator' gene which makes seeds infertile, amongst other things). 6 people entered the conference to air their opposition to the commercialisation of research and to the University's links with multinational companies. Security were called to evict the students. The police turned up and informed the university that the 6 were doing nothing wrong. Five months later the six students received a court summons for aggravated trespass and face up to 3 months in jail if convicted. The University is adamant that an example should be made of these students and does not want to jeopardise future corporate venturing get togethers to be hosted by Lancaster. The summons has only been issued because the University is insisting on it. Unlike criminal prosecutions where the state decideds who to prosecute, this case cannot be heard without the University's insistence. The university is hosting the next national corporate venturing conf. this September. Have a look at the corporate venturing website http://www.cvconference.com/. It'll make you want to do something ! Please visit http://www.free-webspace.biz/GeorgeFox/index.html to find out more, and send emails of outrage to the Vice Chancellor if you can. University Clampdown on Campus Protest Lancaster University has brought charges against 6 students and graduates after a peaceful protest against Arms Dealers and GM Companies on campus. In a move that is being watched by other universities and colleges, Lancaster University is trying to silence criticism of its controversial links with multinational corporations. If Lancaster Uni gets away with this then we can expect similar strong arm tactics to silence critical students everywhere! The six students and members of the local community are facing charges of Aggravated Trespass for going into a lecture theatre to explain their opposition and hand out leaflets to delegates at a networking meeting for large companies (mainly involved in the defence industries, but also including GM, electronics and oil interests) and academic researchers. They face up to three months in jail. WHAT YOU CAN DO The Supporters Group is asking campaigners everywhere to: * WRITE TO THE VICE CHANCELLOR of Lancaster University - to ask him to DROP THE CHARGES against the six, and to introduce a PROPER FREEDOM OF SPEECH policy that doesn't allow the university to intimidate dissenting voices. Vice-Chancellor Prof. Paul Wellings University House University of Lancaster Lancaster LA1 4YW Tel: 01524 592001 E-mail: m.needham at lancaster.ac.uk A sample letter is available at: http://www.free-webspace.biz/GeorgeFox/letter.pdf * Check with your own institution whether they have a policy of allowing peaceful protest. * Ask your union to pass a motion to support the 6, and to inform Lancaster University of this motion. * If your university or union has an environment or ethics officer, ask them to support the campaign to drop the charges and for all universities to allow criticism and protest on campus. MORE INFO You can get up to date news, and more information from http://www.free-webspace.biz/GeorgeFox/index.html > URGENT ACTION ON HAITI > Save the life of Yvon Neptune > > Political prisoner Yvon Neptune, Haiti's last > constitutional Prime Minister, lies on the verge of death > from a hunger strike, initiated because the de facto > Haitian coup government has jailed him for 10 months > without formal charges, in violation of Haiti's > constitution. The Nation Coalition for Haitian Rights > (NCHR), a widely discredited, USAID funded anti-Aristide > group, has accused Neptune of participation in a massacre > in the city of St. Marc in February 2004, but the illegal > coup government has never offered any proof the massacre > actually took place, and UN independent expert on human > rights Louis Joinet recently dismissed accounts of the > massacre. > > Neptune has vowed to continue his hunger strike until he > is either charged or released. The illegal "interim" > regime of Gerard Latortue could easily meet this demand, > but refuses. They should therefore concede they have no > real case against Neptune and release him from prison. > > Though recent news reports indicate the Latortue > government may fly Neptune out of the country, Neptune has > long insisted he has no desire to leave Haiti. He wants to > either face an honest legal process or be released. > > CONTACT: President Bush, Kofi Annan, Mahame Cisse-Guoro, > UN Human Rights Rep.in Haiti and Thierry Fagart, Director > of MINUSTAH Human Rights Division > > Urge any and/or all of them to direct the coup government > of Haiti to release Neptune immediately and help him seek > medical attention in Haiti. > > President Bush: 202-456-1414, Fax 202 456-1806 or > president@ whitehouse.gov > > UN Secretary General Kofi Annan: 212-963-5012, Fax > 212-963-4879; inquiries@ un.org > > UN Human Rights office in Haiti, Mahamane Cisse-Guoro; > 011-509-244-9650 or 9660. Fax 011.509.244.9366 or 67 > cisse-gouro at un.org or mcissegouro at undp.org > > Thierry Fagart: 011-509-510-3183 or 85; fagart at un.org. Mr. > Fagart, a French lawyer and chief of the Haiti UN > mission's human rights division, recently told > journalists, "Since the beginning of the procedure until > today, the fundamental rights, according to national and > international standards, have not been respected in the > case of Mr. Neptune." > > SAMPLE Letter: > Dear Mr. Annan, > Political prisoner, Yvon Neptune, Haiti's elected prime > Minister, lies on the verge of death from a hunger strike, > initiated because the de facto Haitian coup government has > jailed him for 10 months without formal charges, in > violation of Haiti's constitution. The NCHR has accused > Neptune of participation in a massacre in St. Marc in Feb. > 2004, but the current government has never offered any > proof the massacre actually took place, and UN independent > expert Louis Joinet recently dismissed accounts of the > massacre. > The United Nations is charged with protecting the lives of > Haitian people. Please direct the coup government in Haiti > to release Yvon Neptune. Letters do not have to be long. Just a sentence or two will do it. Please copy your member of Parliament and all the party leaders: Pierre Pettigrew - pettigrew.p at parl.gc.ca Paul Martin - martin.p at parl.gc.ca Jack Layton - layton.j at parl.gc.ca Stephen Harper - harper.s at parl.gc.ca Gilles Duccepe - duccepe.g at parl.gc.ca Samples letters: Dear Minister Pettigrew, Racist comments are unacceptable. I call upon you to censure Israeli Consul General Ya'acov Brosh for his comments about Muslims made at the recent Daniel Pearl Dialogue event in Toronto. or Dear Minister Pettigrew Please demand the resignation of Israeli Consul General Ya'acov Brosh for his racist comments against Muslim made at a recent event in Toronto. Such comments do not reflect Canadian values and must not be tolerated. or Hon. Pierre Pettigrew, Israeli Consul General Ya'acov Brosh recently stated that "most terrorists today are Muslims and that the majority of Muslims support extremism." These comments were made at the Daniel Pearl Dialogue for Muslim-Jewish Understanding, held at the Temple Har Zion Synagogue in Toronto and sponsored by the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center. In December of last year, a similar speech was made by an invited keynote speaker at a conference also sponsored by the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center and held at the University of Toronto. At that event, the speaker stated that "Islamic terrorism is based on Islam," and that Islam was "immoderate" and "totalitarian." In view of repeated speeches of this nature, I demand that you and your department immediately censure Mr. Brosh. The comments foster hate and bigotry against Canadian Muslims. Mr. Brosh's is an Israeli official in Canada. His comments cannot be allowed to stand without a response from the Canadian government. Yours sincerely, Boycott Norm Stamper's "Breaking Rank" Book Tour By Kirsten Anderberg (www.kirstenanderberg.com) Norm Stamper was the Seattle Police Chief during the Seattle WTO riots in 1999. He has now reemerged to profit off his terrorist reign, by presenting a fuzzy package of remorse. He is now trying to make more capitalist profit off of his past terrorism through a book about his "mistakes" during WTO. Guess what Stamper? We SAW your mistakes. The world SAW your mistakes. We do not need your new spin-for-profit on it. I implore all to BOYCOTT this man's book. In Stamper's new book, he says, "I thought we were smarter than the anarchists. We weren't." Nothing has changed. We are still smart enough to know not to give this man even one more cent of money, even if he feigns some sort of new consciousness. Norm Stamper and his police force terrorized my town with extreme, indiscriminate war, and then had the nerve to label anarchists "terrorists." I have not forgotten and I will not forgive. Norm Stamper has a lot of nerve even stepping foot in my city of Seattle, is how I feel. How DARE this man show up 6 years after the WTO riots he led, and now try to soak Seattle citizens for money to see him give a talk at Town Hall on June 9? How DARE this man try to feign victimhood, himself, during the biggest street riots in US history in the last 20 years, and under his direct command?! How dare this man take personal profit from writing a book like this? EVERY SINGLE CENT OF PROFIT FROM STAMPER'S BOOK, "BREAKING RANK," SHOULD GO TO ANARCHIST SUPPORT AND LEGAL FUNDS. I suggest a full-blown boycott of this man's work, every single place he goes. I recommend PROTESTS anywhere Stamper tries to show his face. I plan to personally picket the Stamper talk at Town Hall this week, even if I have to do it alone. There should be scenes of anarchists, and anyone who values freedom in America, yelling "shame, shame, shame" anytime this man tries to speak in public. There should be public speculation as to this man's right to make capitalist profit off of him rioting on innocent people in Seattle streets. Again, the ONLY way this could be okay would be if Stamper donated every cent of profit he makes off WTO issues to anarchist causes and legal funds. If he was doing speaking tours and writing books to support the people he attacked and brutalized, his VICTIMS, then I would feel differently. But we paid Stamper as a city employee for his WTO riots, and we are now going to pay him again to tell us how he screwed that up? I do not think so. He owes that to us for free. I cannot put into words the disgust I have right now at the front cover of the Seattle Weekly pushing this man's story in some kind of kind and compassionate way, supporting his profit off of police terror, yet again. I say we QUIT paying this guy. He has done enough damage to society. If he wants to repent, let him do it for free. Or he can give his profits to anarchist organizations he has wrongly defamed and physically assaulted in the past. But I am not going to sit idly by and watch Stamper make profits off of his terrorist reign during the 1999 WTO police state in Seattle. I am also not enjoying the whole good cop, bad cop thing the media and Stamper are trying to feed us with this. Stamper is not a bad cop who has now gone good. All cops are bad, because cops are trying to enforce the middle class white male American status quo VIOLENTLY on anyone who threatens things like racism, patriarchy, classism, third world exploitation aka "free trade," etc. Free speech is such a load of crap when it comes to free assembly and speech, even on the street performer level, in American streets. (The Pike Place Market in Seattle CHARGES its street performers $30 a year for "free" speech rights somehow!) Police are here to protect white car-driving, home-owning, business owners. Just look at who fills the jails, that says it all right there. No words can erase the reality of who fills the jails, and why. I was violently rioted upon by the Seattle Police on June 2, 2003 at the LEIU protests. What were we protesting? The Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit's national conference in Seattle. This is a highly secretive police organization. How did Seattle Police react to our nonviolent, permitted protest? By containing us so we could not leave, then attacking us indiscriminately with pepper spray, concussion grenades, nightsticks, and more. How have things changed on Seattle streets since Stamper? THEY HAVE NOT CHANGED AT ALL. So let Stamper go give private lessons to Seattle Police about "what he learned" but do not go around touting Stamper as some do-gooder who is "breaking ranks" in some radical manner, for going on a book tour about his WTO glory days. If he learned something, he needs to go share that with Seattle Police themselves, as they still riot and are still unaccountable for their riots. I will testify first hand to this, as a witness, regarding Seattle Police riots on March 22 and June 2, 2003. My take on Stamper's book tour is that he is trying to repackage himself as some kind, conscious man who now sees the error of his ways. That is not good enough, Stamper. Especially not if you are taking personal profits from the tour. Going out to make some more money off of citizens for the terrorism of the WTO riots is not acceptable, period. As I have said, Stamper is on a book tour. It is our duty to BOYCOTT this book, and it is also our duty to keep public awareness in check on this man, by protesting every venue he tries to speak at to make more money off of his WTO terrorism on Seattle streets. In my opinion, Stamper is a criminal who got away with his crimes, like the cops who beat Rodney King on tape but somehow walked free. I have as much respect for those cops who beat Rodney King, as I do for the cops who beat anarchists on Seattle streets in 1999, Stamper included. I do not care how much remorse the Rodney King beater cops now feel, and I do not give one damn about Stamper's "remorse" either. When he donates all profits from this tour and book to anarchist support and legal funds, I will then give him an ear. -- You can receive Kirsten's articles, as they are written, via an email list called "Eat the Press." Go to http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/eatthepress to join the list. Nicky Clarke , Procter & Gamble Please read the following and feel free to send Nicky an email voicing your concern at info at nickyclarke.com Dear Nicky Clarke I am saddened to see your company promoting Procter & Gamble (P&G) (Red Siren competition: http://www.nickyclarke.com/redsiren/index.htm). It states on the back of Nicky Clarkeproduct bottle 'This product has not been tested on animals.' Yet you team up with a company (P&G) that poisons and kills animals for new cosmetic and household products and chemical ingredients and even in the development of its 'pet' food subsidiaries, Iams and Eukanuba. Many of these tests have nothing to do with regulatory requirements, and animal testing for cosmetics is not even allowed in the UK! Procter & Gamble's actions speak louder than its words: * Just some of the tests P&G have been involved with in the past include: skin irritancy tests for Oil of Ulay (now Olay); tests on monkeys for tampons; and horrific research conducted at notorious animal-testing laboratory, Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), on a group of 48 monkeys for a nasal decongestant already in use by human volunteers. * P&G continue to test on animals for new household cleaning and cosmetic products and for new chemical ingredients. The tests they continue to conduct for cosmetic products and ingredients have been effectively banned in the UK for several years, and European Union Ministers voted last year to ban them too! * In 1987 P&G fought a shareholders' resolution that would have eliminated product testing on animals for consumer and household products. * In 1989 P&G tried to launch a $17.5 million program to convince US legislators, school children and the public that tests designed to poison, blind, burn, mutilate and kill animals are absolutely necessary and humane. This programme never got off the ground, primarily because of the intense pressure and opposition P&G received from animal advocates in the US - such as In Defense of Animals (IDA) who jointly co-ordinate the Global Boycott P&G campaigns with us (see: www.pandgkills.org) * In 1990, Procter & Gamble lobbied against legislation to ban the notorious Draize test (in which corrosive chemicals are put directly into animals' eyes in California. This test has been roundly denounced as cruel and inaccurate in providing information to extrapolate to humans, and there are numerous superior non-animal alternatives available. * In 1999, Procter & Gamble announced that they would halt animal testing on its current products. What they downplayed, however, was the fact that testing would continue on "new-to-the-world" products and products whose ingredients are changed or altered. The announcement also exempted animal tests for new chemical ingredients. Most animal tests are for chemical ingredients, not end products. * P&G's petfood subsidiary Iams/Eukanuba have conducted painful, invasive and lethal experiments on cats, dogs and other animals. In some of the most horrific research cats and dogs have suffered and died due to surgically-induced kidney damage. Severe allergies have been inflicted on husky puppies. Cats have been killed in invasive abdominal experiments. We have repeatedly asked Iams/P&G to say it will not conduct any more experiments on any animal. They have consistently refused. See www.uncaged.co.uk/iams.htm for more information about Iams practices; and www.uncaged.co.uk/news/2002/iamsletter.htm our open letter to Iams/P&G which - two months later - they still have not answered. These tests have nothing to do with regulatory requirements and are purely designed to help market their products. * In 2002 a high-level internal memo was leaked which revealed P&G executives to have even been secretly lobbying European Governments to try to block a popular ban on testing cosmetics on animals. The memo states: "Throughout the process it was important that we were successful in keeping P&G out of the media spotlight. It would be damaging to be seen as the company lobbying to test on animals, against public opinion." See www.uncaged.co.uk/pg.htm * In March 2003 a new nine-month undercover investigation conducted by US group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has discovered harrowing neglect and suffering endured by cats and dogs in IAMS-sponsored experiments. The damning evidence confirms that IAMS' stated "research policy" is nothing more than a sham designed to conceal shocking suffering caused by IAMS experiments on animals. We have since made an official complaint about Iams' statements to the Advertising Standards Authority, who are currently conducting a formal investigation.(www.iamscruelty.com) * In 2004 a P&G experiment killed 423 young rats. The creatures were either castrated or forced through premature puberty through the injection of the sex hormones such as testosterone. A series of experiments then took place where the rats were repeatedly injected with gender-altering chemicals that shrunk their sex organs. After three weeks, all the animals were anaesthetised and killed by having their necks broken, and their bodies and genitalia dismembered to be weighed and analysed. Other scientists criticised these kinds of tests, pointing to "major scientific problems" with interpreting the results, and noting "severe animal welfare concerns" due to "complicated procedures and repeated injections". Yet there are several test tube methods for studying the sex-altering effects of chemicals. * Also in 2004 Procter & Gamble scientists sacrificed 160 animals to test the safety of sunflower oil-derived ethyl oleate, one of the most common fatty acids found in nature. This test was conducted despite the existence of previously published human test figures showing that ethyl oleate is well-tolerated in the diet and is very safe. Three animals were found dead during the experiment. After thirteen weeks, the surviving rats were killed by 'exsanguination' - bleeding to death - and dismembered for examination of their body parts.(www.uncaged.co.uk/news/2004/pgtests.htm) * Despite repeated demands from consumers, requests from its own shareholders, and ever-increasing public pressure, P&G refuses to stop its cruel and antiquated testing methods, preferring instead to continue to issue self-serving propaganda and meaningless rhetoric, while continuing to needlessly kill thousands of animals. Alternatives Procter & Gamble spends millions of dollars to package itself as a responsible, caring company, and claims to be a leader in the development of alternatives to the use of animals in product testing. But P&G refuses to put its money where its mouth is. In 1996 alone, P&G spent $5.1 billion on advertising. This stands in stark contrast to the $64 million that P&G claims to have spent on developing alternatives over a 14-year period! Despite its repeated PR claims about being in the forefront of developing alternatives and reducing product testing on animals, P&G's priorities seem clear: in less than 5 days, P&G spends more on advertising than it claims to have spent in 14 years on alternatives to painful and lethal animal tests. A recent example of an 'alternative' research programme involved killing over four hundred animals to examine whether a new animal test gave similar results to the one they had been using that dates back to the 1930s. Both tests are unreliable and crude in any case. The 'alternative' in this case was essentially the same as the old test: it was still a lethal animal experiment! (see: www.uncaged.co.uk/news/2004/pgtests.htm ) More than 600 companies manufacture safe and effective products that are comparable to Procter & Gamble's without testing them on animals. Companies with smaller budgets than P&G have been able to develop alternatives to animals while showing a true commitment to eliminating animal testing. There are NO requirements from governments that cosmetics and personal care products be tested on animals. The consumer product safety industry in the USA is regulated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which stated in 1984 that "It is important to keep in mind that neither the [Federal Hazardous Substances Act] nor the Commission's regulations require any firm to perform animal tests." Furthermore, the UK Government has effectively 'banned' testing on animals for cosmetic products and ingredients in the UK, and the European Union is moving down similar lines - despite the best efforts of companies like Procter & Gamble. Therefore, I urge you to please end your promotion of this cruel and callous company. The Judge Who Can Remove The Deer Murdering Board SUMMIT COUNTY PROBATE COURT 209 South High Street, Akron, Ohio 44308-1616 (330) 643-2350 FAX: (330) 643-2393 JUDGE BILL SPICER bspicer at summitohioprobate.com Judge Spicer appointed and can remove the 3 women on the Summit County parks board who approved the murder of deer in the parks. http://www.sharkonline.org/deerkills.mv Some of the deer were suffocated to death with plastic bags by members of White Buffalo http://www.neo.rr.com/MetroParks/ Air France is making big bucks off the misery of animals. They are by far one of the biggest importers of wild-caught primates. And you know where their destination is: Huntingdon Life Sciences and other labs in the business of torturing animals. Without the endless supply of live "test subjects" HLS' business would not be possible. These animals that once roamed free in the jungles of their native habitat are kidnapped and sentenced to lives of pain and terrifying deaths. Some of Air France's competitors have already decided to stop taking blood money. In the last week, Air Mauritius, British Airways and Air China have all announced that they will no longer import primates for vivisection. So take a few minutes out of your day to say "bonjour" to Air France. Ask them nicely to sever their ties with the live import trade. Stop by a payphone, dial 1-800-237-2747, and call as often as you like. Remember to be polite. Other numbers for Air France: Air France 142 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019 (212) 830-4000 Air France Newark, NJ 07102 (973) 961-2285 Air France 5600 North Mannheim Road, Chicago, IL 60607 (773) 686-1136 Air France 1 Allen Centre, Houston, TX 77002 (713) 654-3600 Air France 23723 Air Freight Ln, Sterling, VA 20166 (703) 661-6954 Air France 999 Peachtree Street Northeast Suite 2820, Atlanta, GA 30309 (404) 532-7401 Air France Dulles, VA 20101 (703) 661-6668 Air France 999 Peachtree Street Northeast Suite 2820, Atlanta, GA 30309 (404) 872-9701 Air France Fairbanks Internatio, Fairbanks, AK 99701 (907) 474-8842 (907) 474-0888 (fax) Air France 1120 Connecticut Avenue Northwest Suite 1050, Washington, DC 20036 (202) 974-5460 Air France 151 Harborside Drive, Boston, MA 02128 (617) 569-0240 Air France - Air Cargo Sales & Reservations 5621 West Imperial Highway, Los Angeles, CA 90045 (310) 646-3624 Air France - Cargo Operations Houston Intercontine, Houston, TX 77093 (281) 209-1244 Air France - Cargo Reservations & Information Miami, FL 33125 (305) 526-6235 Air France - Cargo Reservations & Information Miami, FL 33125 (305) 876-1460 Air France - Cargo Reservations & Information Miami, FL 33125 (305) 876-1460 Air France - Cargo Sales Office Dulles, VA 20101 (703) 661-3400 Air France - Regional Offices 1001 Brickell Bay Drive Suite 1706, Miami, FL 33131 (305) 374-2626 Air France Air Inc 1 Newark Centre, Newark, NJ 07102 (973) 623-3648 Air France Airlines Jfk Airport, Jamaica, NY 11430 (718) 553-8118 Air France Airlines Dulles, VA 20101 (703) 661-0449 Air France Airlines 1650 Northwest 70th Avenue, Miami, FL 33126 (305) 436-9495 Air France Cargo Newark International, Newark, NJ 07102 (973) 961-4552 Air France Cargo 18705 Lee Road, Humble, TX 77338 (281) 209-1244 Air France Cargo 270 Lawrence Avenue, South San Francisco, CA 94080 (650) 952-7667 Air France Cargo - Cargo Reservations & Information Houston Intercontine, Houston, TX 77093 (281) 443-5300 Air France Cargo Group 270 Lawrence Avenue, South San Francisco, CA 94080 (650) 873-8967 Air France Cargo Operations 270 Lawrence Avenue, South San Francisco, CA 94080 (650) 952-9931 Air France Cargo Services 1600 Aviation Boulevard, Atlanta, GA 30354 (404) 559-1317 Air France Cargo Services 1600 Aviation Boulevard, Atlanta, GA 30354 (404) 762-9081 Air France Logan Int'l Airport 21 Logan Airport, Boston, MA 02128 (617) 569-8414 Air France Lost & Found North Houston Intercontine, Houston, TX 77093 (281) 233-3100 Air France Regional Sales Office Houston, TX 77002 (713) 654-3600 Air France Regional Sales Office 1 Allen Centre, Houston, TX 77001 (713) 654-3600 Air France Sales Office 151 Harborside Drive, Boston, MA 02128 (617) 567-1302 Air France-Air Cargo Information Reservations Lake Charles, LA 70601 (337) 232-2746 Air France-Flight Arrival & Departure Information Akron, OH 44301 (216) 321-4538 Air France-Reservations & Flight Information Charlottesville, VA 22902 (434) 237-2747 Air France-Reservations & Flight Information Mobile, AL 36602 (256) 237-2747 Air France-Reservations & Information Medina, OH 44256 (216) 221-2110 Check http://www.shacamerica.net daily for updates on the campaign to CLOSE HLS!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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