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from noborders, 15 March 2010: "Public demo at WH Tours offices, Kelvin Way, Manor Royal, Crawley Saturday, 27th March 2010. Meet at 11am @ Crawley train station. Bring banners and instruments.

WH Tours is a coach company based in Crawley, near Gatwick airport. Part of the company's business is leisure: coach excursions, sightseeing tours and so on. Another part, however, is much more sinister: the company provides coaches for transporting detained migrants facing deportation from immigration prisons to airports to be deported on commercial or specially charted flights..." more

from infoshop, 12 March 2010: "The Northeast Clusterfuck is stoked to descend on DC again this April! We’re all out in our cities and rural towns across the northeast US of Amerika, picking teams and spray painting our running shoes black, ready to bust ass in the Anticapitalathon Games against our most bitter of rivals, the International Murder Fund and the slimy World Bank. Get yer affinity team in training and we will see YOU on the streets of Washington, DC from April 23rd to 25th..." more

from vastminority, 12 March 2010: "An Election Meltdown mass protest has been called by the same groups behind last year's anti-G20 protests during which newspaper vendor Ian Tomlinson was killed by the police.

Says the event website: "On International Worker's Day, Saturday 1st May 2010, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse will take to the streets again at the head of four Mayday Carnival Parades. "All four Parades will converge on Parliament Square at 2:30pm, and the carcasses of the four party leaders will be hung, drawn and quartered, or guillotined in accordance with the wishes of the assembled multitudes in a Mayday Carnival..." 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, 11 March 2010: "Detainee Solidarity London is calling for a demo this Saturday at Harmondsworth in solidarity with the 55 detainees on hunger strike since last week. At any one time, over 2500 people are in immigration detention in the UK. Some have been detained for months, others for years. We call for the immediate closure of all detention centres and stand in solidarity with all those in Harmondsworth, Yarl's Wood and elsewhere resisting this barbaric practice..." more

from mw, 10 March 2010: "You see it the moment you walk off the plane: a mammoth soccer ball hanging from the ceiling of Johannesburg International Airport festooned with yellow banners that read, "2010 Let's Go! WORLD CUP!" If you swivel your head, you see that every sponsor has joined the party - Coca Cola, Anheuser-Busch - all branded with the FIFA seal. It's when your head dips down that you see another, less sponsored, universe. Even inside this gleaming state-of-the-art airport, men ranging in age from 16-60 ask if they can shine your shoes, carry your bags, or even walk you to a cab. It's the informal economy fighting for breathing room amidst the smothering sponsorship..." more

from email, 9 March 2010: "On Monday, 8th March, about 50 people from Rozbrat squat Collective made a demonstration in front of the gate of Poznan International Fair Center, where a congress of local councils from all over Poland was taking place. Shouting slogans “City is not a company. Rozbrat stays!”, the anarchists blockaded the gate. Many cars with the officials were forced to turn back..." more

from email, 9 March 2010: "Saturday April 10 and Sunday April 11 2010, Manchester Student Union - Anarcha-feminists in Manchester, including the Anarchist Federation Women's Caucus, present two days of discussions, workshops, skill-sharing and fun for people of all ages and genders! Whether you're a committed activist, dipping a toe in the waters or just interested in finding out what anarcha-feminism is, there will be something here for you..." more

from email, 9 March 2010: "An Italian court has confirmed the convictions of 15 police officers, prison guards and doctors who were found guilty of the ill-treatment of detainees in the Bolzaneto detention facility in Genoa in 2001 during protests against the G8 summit. The court also overturned the initial acquittals of another 29 people who have now been convicted of ill-treatment..." more

from thisisourjob, 9 March 2010: "Amadeu Casellas walked out of prison this afternoon after 24 years behind bars. Justice Department sources disclosed that a 2008 Constitutional Court decision, in which it was ruled that time served in preventive detention should count toward a prisoner’s final sentence, has finally been applied to Casellas’ case. After a sentence recalculation based on statutory discrepancies between old and new penal codes, authorities concluded that Casellas had served eight years too many, and released him..." 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 imc-uk, 9 March 2010: "Hunger strike in detention centre in Italy; people involved in the grassroots campaign against detention and racist laws were arrested on 23rd February... On the 1st of March, as large demonstrations and numerous workers' strikes were taking place in various cities in Italy in occasion of "the day without migrants" (the first strike of migrant labour in Italy), protests were started also by the migrants in the detention centres ("the Centre for Identification and Explusion that detain undocumented migrants in Italy)..." more

from various sources, 7 March 2010: "Captive behind the walls of a modern reformatory for democracy’s transgressors. The days, the months, the years will be gradually killed off with the discipline embodied by the proud stance of revolutionaries, the ones who are trying to achieve the impossible. Embraces will also die out in the echoing, funereal silence of submissive prisoners..." more

from housingstruggles, 5 March 2010: Over 120 people and 40 organizations participated in the Third Encounter for Dignity and Against Gentrification hosted by the Movement for Justice in el Barrio this past Sunday in East Harlem, New York... “The objective of this third encuentro was to connect our struggle. Our struggle doesn’t have boundaries...” more

from afed-sheffield, 4 March 2010: "The English Defence League (EDL) have made plans to march in Sheffield on 30th May. We call on autonomist anti-fascists to make a stand against them. They have already held a series of actions elsewhere in the country, such as in Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham and Leeds, apparently demonstrating against ‘extremist Islam’..." more

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from bristolabc, 3 March 2010: "Some good news today on the legal front for the EDO Decommissioners. The 6 EDO Decommissioners from Bristol, along with the 3 campaigners from Brighton allegedly implicated in the case, were in court in Brighton today, 1 March, to hear the judge rule on whether or not they could proceed with their defence..." more

via imc-ie, 3 March 2010: "A taped conversation between building contractors has fuelled the anger of acquilani already disenchanted with the progress of reconstruction... Last Sunday, the patience of many of the L’Aquila earthquake victims ran out. An estimated 6,000 of them joined in a “wheelbarrow protest” in the old centre of L’Aquila, the Abruzzo town hit by a devastating earthquake last April which killed 307 people and left more than 40,000 homeless. Focus of the protest was the 4½ million tonnes of rubble which, 11 months later, still choke the eerily empty town centre..." more

from splc, 2 March 2010: "The number of extremist groups in the United States exploded in 2009 as militias and other groups steeped in wild, antigovernment conspiracy theories exploited populist anger across the country and infiltrated the mainstream, according to a report issued today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)..." more