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Recent articles from external newswires filtered for the keywords: Roma, traveller, gypsy... more

Recent articles from external newswires filtered for the keywords: Greece, Greek, Thessaloniki, Athens... more

from email via fitwatch, 18 November 2008: The new Counter Terrorism Bill, currently in The Lords, contains an amendment to Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000. This amendment will make it an offence, punishable by up to ten years imprisonment, to publish or elicit information about any police constable "of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism"... This is a call from Fitwatch for a mass publishing of information on police officers on the day this Bill receives its Royal Assent. The date will be published as soon as we have it, but it is likely to be early 2009. more

from email via noborders london, 18 November 2008: Biometric ID cards will come into force for non-EU students and spouses from 25th November 2008 and will be issued from offices in Birmingham, Cardiff, Croydon, Glasgow, Liverpool, and Sheffield. We will be holding a protest outside the Home Office building (Lunar House) in Croydon, London and hope for protests outside each of the other offices on that day. more

from noborderswales, 18 November 2008: Announcing a series of actions targetting those who exploit and deport migrants, including a phone blockade of BMI, a solidarity with migrant workers at Amey & a Tesco picket: 20th, 21st & 22nd November 2008 more

from various sources, updated 18 November 2008: via Antiauthoritarian Movement (Assembly of Thessaloniki): "We call for international actions in solidarity to the thousands of prisoners who struggle inside the greek prisons. 21 prisons in turmoil, 5600 prisoners on hunger strike, another 3000 on abstention from prison meals, 16 demands to be fulfilled and an International Call to Action. more

from marmalade, 17 November 2008: In town for the verdict of the trial of 29 police and officals invovled in a planning and executing the raid on the Scuola Diaz in Genoa, 2001, probably the biggest human rights abuse in the EU in recent decades. The raid was on the 5 storey school housing the indymedia centre and hundreds of protestors during the 2001 G8 mobilisation.  more

from bbc, 15 November 2008: A manhunt is under way in western Germany for a convicted drug dealer who escaped by mailing himself out of jail. The 42-year-old Turkish citizen - who was serving a seven-year sentence - had been making stationery with other prisoners destined for the shops. At the end of his shift, the inmate climbed into a cardboard box and was taken out of prison by express courier. His whereabouts are still unknown. more

from various sources, updated 18 November 2008: A French judge has slapped terrorism charges on seven people suspected of sabotaging France's rail network, including the 34-year-old alleged ringleader of the self-styled "invisible cell". If found guilty of heading a terrorist organisation, Julien Coupat, a former sociology student, faces up to 20 years in jail. more

from various sources, 14 November 2008: "Officers from a specialist unit dedicated to tackling domestic terrorism are monitoring an eco-movement called Earth First! which has advocates who state that cutting the Earth's population by 80 per cent will ease pressure on other species. Officers are concerned a 'lone maverick' eco-extremist may attempt a terrorist attack aimed at killing large numbers of Britons..." more

from various sources, 14 November 2008: Good news: 20,000 police trying to prevent countless anti-nuclear waste activists from stopping the castor transport train weren´t able to stop them: a couple of activists managed to stop the train not far away from the french border by chaining themselves to the rails. The following is a portrait of a very famous and traditional event within the anti-Castor activist's agenda: the forest „game“ called the „Ralley Monte Göhrde“. more

from 325, 14 November 2008: The vast majority of prisoners (almost 100%) in all 21 prisons around Greece are either on a hunger strike or boycotting prison food. Also, thousands of prisoners have already signed petitions with their demands, despite the terrorism of the prison authorities that have already reacted with violent mass transfers and night invasions inside cells.  more

from infoshop, 14 November 2008: Amadeu Casellas is an anarchist prisoner who has spent 22 years in prison for bank robberies. Though he should be eligible for release, he remains locked up. To protest this, he launched a hunger strike over the summer, fasting for 76 days, until the prison authorities promised to grant him a series of furloughs and then place him in the third degree (open prison, in which a prisoner can leave during the day and a certain number of nights).  more

from email, 14 November 2008: 21st – 23rd November 2008: A weekend of free workshops promoting community learning and skill-sharing in autonomous spaces across London. more

from guardian.co.uk, 14 November 2008: There was uproar in a Genoa court last night after some of Italy's highest-ranking police officers, accused of masterminding a savage attack on peaceful protesters at the G8 meeting in the city seven years ago, were cleared of the charges against them. The area reserved for the public erupted into chants of "shame, shame" as the presiding judge finished reading his verdict. The mother of one of the victims clambered on to a crash barrier and screamed: "We'll have our revenge". more

from corpwatch, 11 November 2008: "The Home Office has introduced new biometric ID cards for two categories of foreign nationals. Amid fierce opposition, the controversial scheme will initially only apply to non-EU students and marriage visa holders, with the first voluntary ID cards to be available to British citizens from 2009..." more

from various sources, 11 November 2008: Pullens Centre, 184 Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17 3AE +++ Race Revolt Zine Launch and Benefit +++ Precarious Work and the Struggle for Migrant Workers' Rights +++ Bitter Rice by Giuseppe De Santis +++ Capitalist Decline, Financial Crisis & Revolutionary Prospects... more

from email, 11 November 2008: We mothers at Dale Farm, the largest Travellers' village in Britain, which is being threatened with total destruction, ask you to join our rally outside the Royal Courts of Justice. The live of our babies, including the unborn triplets of one of our young mothers, are going to be on the line if we lose this case. So please come along on Thursday, 4 December 2008, and stand with us outside the Court of Appeal, Strand (London) at 11.30 to lpm. more

from various sources, updated 15 November 2008: Protesters were demonstrating against France's minister of immigration, integration and national identity Brice Hortefeux's tough stance on expelling illegal immigrants back to their homelands. Anarchists torched cars and smashed shop windows, as armed police were pelted with rocks and other missiles. more

from IRR, 7 November 2008: A Kenyan asylum seeker held at Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre had a vital self-help guide confiscated by staff days before a crucial deadline for her case. more

from netcu watch, updated 18 November 2008: "This is yet another piece of legislation spewed out by the government and at a glance it appears to make the police get an even tighter stranglehold over us... In a nutshell it will become an offence punishable by up to 10 years to elicit information about a member of the armed forces, intelligence services or police (or indeed anyone who has in the past done any of these occupations) which might be useful for terrorists..." more

from various sources, 17 November 2008: +++ London +++ After a successful first meeting, the group that has now met as the Price Reduction Campaign is planning to go ahead to organise an event for DECEMBER 13th 2008 at TESCO, Morning Lane, Hackney (the heart of the universe!). The event will consist of a public rally/launch in the car park of Tesco’s with the view of communicating to the shoppers about the need/posibilities of Price Reduction considering the increase of prices and why they should support it and get involved. more