Against War

from infoshop, 11 April 2008: "The morning of Thursday April 10th, a black bloc was called together to "shut down" CANSEC (secrity and weapons fair) and attack the system it expands. From the beginning of the demonstration an overwhelming police presence was mobilized to intimidate our small bloc. Later, the community police station, on Somerset west of Bank, was attacked with rocks and paint bombs... to draw attention to our attack and to highlight our rage towards the pigs..." more

from ainfos, 9 April 2008: "Even the multi-million dollar surveillance and security technology on display, the presence of uniformed police, and the assertion by security forces that they had been gathering extensive 'intelligence' on CANSEC resistance could prevent a group of Ottawa anarchists from infiltrating the event and simply pulling a fire alarm..." more

from email, 8 April 2008: A London CAAT map on Platial.com has won a site award in the “Activism” category. The map, called London Arms Trade, shows the locations of the offices of weapons manufacturers and distributors in London. The map was created using CAAT resources and the British Defence Industry Directory (Online), to begin to pinpoint those involved in making London the capital of the world arms-broking trade. more

from UTA, 7 April 2008: Here's a long but well-researched article on the history and development of the Sadr movement in Iraq, and its relationship with the different Shia factions, the government and the resistance to the occupation.  more

from contra-doxa, 5 April 2008: As long as there will be war, as well as systems and organizations that support militarization, murder, and profit-making from conflicts, there will be always movements protesting against them. Nowadays NATO is the most influential military alliance in the world. That’s why wherever a NATO summit will take place there will be people resisting it. Bucharest is not an exception. In spite of the media intoxication as well as governmental repressions, which started already months before the summit, hundreds of anti-militarists both, Romanian and international, gathered in the capital city, Bucharest. more

from various sources, 3 April 2008: At approximately 12:30pm today [2 April 2008], hundreds of police descended on the convergence center of the anti-NATO gathering in Bucharest. At this point, some organizers on the scene estimate that 46 arrests in all have been made. All the arrests were made inside the convergence center. There was no demonstration happening. Many of the police were wearing ski masks, and were very hostile to journalists trying to access the scene. Most prisoners have been released now.  more

Articles from external newswires filtered to include the keywords: NATO, Bucharest, Romania. more

from RAWA, 31 March 2008: As Afghanistan battles to check growing poppy production, there thrives a disturbing trend behind the scene, where daughters of poppy producers pay the price for the unpaid loans. Termed as "opium brides", the daughters of poor poppy farmers are often given to drug traffickers if their fathers are unable to pay the loan taken for growing the illicit crop because of the official action. more

updated 8 April 2008: 23 Polish antimilitarist activists were violently arrested on Sunday (30/03/2008) at a private flat of one of them morning after coming back from a demonstration after-party in Slupsk in nothern Poland. At least $1400 is needed for initial legal fees. Anarchist Solidarity, Anarchist Black Cross and the Campaign Against Militarism are appealing for help in the form of donations or other shows of solidarity. (Spreading and translating this news, sending nasty faxes, etc.)  more

Articles from external newswires filtered for the keywords: Guantanamo, Gitmo.

from email, 28 March 2008: Whilst leading his life under the immediate threat of death like all the conscientious objectors living in Turkey, Ismail was taken into custody on March 16, 2008 in the Kadiköy district of Istanbul on the grounds of being a deserter.  more

from email, 28 March 2008: On Saturday March 29 large crowds are expected in Slupsk, Poland to protest against the installation of elements of the American Anti-Missile Defense System at the proposed site in Redzikowo. A public meeting will be held outside of the City Hall (Ratusz) starting at 12pm. more

from Vredesactie, 27 March 2008: About 1000 people from 17 European countries went to the NATO headquarters in Brussels this morning to take part in the international non violent action NATO GAME OVER. 5 years after the start of the Iraq war and 10 days before the Bucharest NATO summit, peace activists from all over Europe show that preventing war starts here in Europe - 1000 participants and 500 arrests. more

from email, 23 March 2008: Hundreds of demonstrators from member countries of NATO laid siege to the alliance's headquarters on the outskirts of Brussels Saturday to mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war. "The police force was huge and didn't hesitate to use dogs, horses, pepper spray, clubs and water cannon" said one witness. Another wrote: "They locked up some 400 arrested in one cell block... Without searching them. So some people had their cameras inside and many pictures and films are coming out now. Like this one, which shows it is difficult to lock up a bunch of clowns..." more

from infoshop, 22 March 2008: The plan was simple: put out a call saying we were going to evict the recruiting station and bring a moveable cage to confine military recruiters until they no longer posed a danger to our community, all the while we would march to a different war-related institution, either the local ROTC office or Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). more

updated 27 March 2008: More UK tour dates +++ Police have intervened across the country to censor 'On the Verge' an independent documentary about a campaign to shut down a Brighton weapons manufacturer. So far establishments in Southampton, Chichester and Bath and Oxford as well as Brighton have come under police pressure to cancel film showings. In Brighton police intervened to prevent a showing at the Duke of York's Cinema. more

from Pittsburgh Organizing Group (POG), 13 March 2008: On Wednesday, March 19, POG will be holding a torch-lit march to a modern day castle of abominations—our local military recruiting station. If the station remains open, we intend to evict it and everything inside of it, occupy the location, and transform it into something useful for the community.  more