[Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - Eastern Europe

Mon Nov 21 21:18:58 PST 2005

GLOBAL:  Global march for marijuana legalisation - Million Marijuana March

http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1079686&fpart=4

Pictures from Madrid, Spain

http://gallery.marihemp.com/madrid2005mmm

Pictures from Budapest, Hungary

http://gallery.marihemp.com/budapest2005mmm

Pictures from Italy

http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/788215.php

Million Marijuana March website

http://www.geocities.com/tents444/mmm2005map.htm

Peace activists fast at UN to protest Iraq exploitation

http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12471&s2=12

EUROPE:  April 2 Day of Action for migrant workers

http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://liege.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/4064.php&prev=/language_tools

http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://estrecho.indymedia.org/feature/display/12844/index.php&prev=/language_tools

EuroMayday targets precarity

http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=de%7Cen&u=http://euromayday.at/&prev=/language_tools

Social Forum of the Mediterranean

http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://nice.indymedia.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D9395&prev=/language_tools

Nude cycle rides organised in Madrid and London to protest car dependence

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=840044

Sugar producers rally near EU HQ over "reform" plans

http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2005/07/18/ap2143680.html

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-07/19/content_3236477.htm

EASTERN EUROPE:  Strikes in Poland, Romania and Czech Republic

http://www.prol-position.net/ppnews/ppnews2.pdf

GEORGIA:  Possible grenade attack on Bush

http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/1565582.html

Protest over wrestling case turns into anti-government demo

Riot cops attack as protesters try to block road

http://newsfromrussia.com/cis/2005/07/01/60497.html

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/07/ba946a62-216d-4e43-90f8-dd97d5bfe0d3.html

http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=10256

http://dev.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/07/04/013.html

http://en.rian.ru/world/20050706/40855119.html

AZERBAIJAN:  Police viciously attack protest demanding free elections

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/21/AR2005052100542_pf.html

Further protests in June

http://www.blogrel.com/2005/06/05/protest-in-azerbaijan/

Protesters against state abuses lobby OSCE for support

http://www.today.az/news/politics/18944.html

Opposition demonstration goes ahead - 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&region=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
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