[Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - worker revolts, summit protests and more

Mon Nov 21 21:17:48 PST 2005

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&section=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

http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=129&fArticleId=2621855

http://www.sabcnews.com/economy/labour/0,2172,108230,00.html

http://www.sabcnews.com/economy/labour/0,2172,108244,00.html

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=594&art_id=vn20050713070443187C785636

http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=&fArticleId=2622490

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=594&art_id=vn20050712125833326C217485

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=245207&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/

http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/&articleid=245169

http://www.sabcnews.com/economy/labour/0,2172,108205,00.html

http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/zones/sundaytimesNEW/newsst/newsst1121162600.aspx

http://www.finance24.com/articles/default/display_article.asp?Nav=ns&ArticleID=1518-25_1736261

http://www.libcom.org/newswire/print.php?story=05/07/12/5019605

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

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