Credit Crisis

from email, 24 August 2010: "Managing to cram almost every issue into one sentence and somehow involving zombies – no mean feat – this additional call out adds interest to the the no borders camp. Below is the call out in euro-english: "Since the crisis of Greece and the euro in early May, the European Union has become a political zombie: its neoliberal and monetarist brain is damaged, but it continues to create havoc and disaster. Merkel, whose inaction has escalated the cost of the financial crisis from €45 to €45billion, is imposing her mantra on Europe: Austerity, Austerity, Austerity... more

by Johann Hari, 6 July 2010: "By now, you probably think your opinion of Goldman Sachs and its swarm of Wall Street allies has rock-bottomed at raw loathing. You're wrong. There's more. It turns out the most destructive of all their recent acts has barely been discussed at all. Here's the rest. This is the story of how some of the richest people in the world - Goldman, Deutsche Bank, the traders at Merrill Lynch, and more - have caused the starvation of some of the poorest people in the world, just so they could make a fatter profit..." more

from email, 4 July 2010: "INTERSQUAT – Festival in Berlin from 10th until 19th of September 2010. Let’s come together to provide a base for discussions, introducing different thoughts, initiating meetings, linking each other, developing new perspectives and creating a self-determined and autonomous free space from 10th until 19th of September 2010 at the Berlin INTERSQUAT Festival..." more

from bookfair, 1 June 2010: "We have now booked the venue for the 2010 bookfair. We will, for the fourth year running, be holding the event at Queen Mary's, University of London on the Mile End Road. The date for the 2010 bookfair will be SATURDAY 23RD OCTOBER 2010 from 10am to 7pm..." more

from reuters, 28 May 2010: "ROME, May 28 (Reuters) - Trade unions in southern Europe have this week ramped up their efforts to block deficit cutting austerity plans, announcing strikes, protest rallies and most recently efforts to unify their action across borders. Italy's 6-million strong CGIL union announced a nationwide stoppage on June 25 to be preceded by protest rallies around the country two weeks earlier, while Greece's private sector union GSEE said it would strike next month against pension reform..." more

from gipfelsoli, 25 May 2010: "CANADA: CTV News has learned that Ottawa expects to spend $833 million on security for next month’s G8 and G20 summits. In March, the federal government had allocated $179 million for its security budget. But under new estimates that will be introduced in the House of Commons later Tuesday, these costs should increase by $654 million to a total of $833 million, officials tell CTV..." more

Updated daily: Articles from external newswires filtered to include the keywords: Meltdown, Parliament... more

from guardian, 29 April 2010: "Mervyn King is warning that the victor in next week's election will be forced into austerity measures that will keep the party out of power for a generation, according to the US economist David Hale. "I saw the governor of the Bank of England [Mervyn King] last week when I was in London and he told me whoever wins this election will be out of power for a whole generation because of how tough the fiscal austerity will have to be," Hale said in an interview on Australian TV reported by Reuters..." more

from libcom via mw, updated 12 March 2010: "Battle Ground Athens: Second general strike leads to pitched battles... More than 150,000 people took to the streets of Athens against the austerity measures in a mass protest march that has led to extended battles in the Greek capital.

On Thursday March 11 all of Greece came to a 24 hour standstill as a result of the second general strike to be called within less than a month (not the third as reported by foreign media, as the first strike in February only concerned the public sector)..." more

from email, 9 March 2010: "A weekend of workshops, discussions and socialising for everyone with an interest in radical autonomous social centres. How can a new generation of social centres learn from the successes and failures of established ones? What are the ways in which we can best face up to the challenges.." more

from independent, 24 February 2010: "A wave of industrial and social unrest is building across Europe as workers resist attempts by governments and private companies to impose austerity policies, drive down wages and rescue some nations from near-bankruptcy. Huge protest rallies took place in cities across Spain last night; today a general strike could paralyse Greece while industrial action at French airports and oil plants as well as the narrowly averted stoppage at Germany's Lufthansa promise to be just the start of the greatest demonstration of public unrest seen on the continent since the revolutionary fervour of 1968..." more

from occupied london, 12 February 2010: "It’s been making headlines the world over: the greek economy is in crisis, the times call for unity, the nation is in trouble, there is a debt lingering and this is somewhat a “national” one as well. What an image: the revolted of December 2008 to be showing the way of obedience, succumbing to austerity plans, to the economists’ expertise..." more

from freedom, 13 January 2010: "Workers at the car part manufacturers who won a momentous battle for redundancy payment from Ford motor giants last year are still locked in a bitter dispute with their ex-employers over money owed through the pension fund after the collapse of Visteon UK..." more

from climate-imc, 26 November 2009: "Until recently, many of the globe's biggest corporations were firmly in the climate change denial camp - and funding spurious research to back up their claims. Now a new realism has emerged. Climate change is no longer rejected as a bogus theory the economy can ill afford. Instead, it's a business opportunity..." more

from crimethinc, 24 September 2009: "This was written the night of September 24, immediately following the events described, without time to verify all the reports summarized or assemble additional information. There may be errors; if so, we will correct them shortly.

This is on-the-spot reporting just in from the first day of the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, which has seen a great deal of spirited resistance and confrontation—perhaps as much as has occurred at any anarchist mobilization in North America in half a decade. This gushy, hastily composed account presents the context, attempts to convey the spirit of the day, and raises a few preliminary questions..." more