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World Rainforest Movement, Bulletin 152
The World Rainforest Movement’s latest Bulletin, Women on the March, offers several unheard stories on the struggles of indigenous, peasant, working and unemployed women around the world, the social pains they endure, and their efforts to empower and organize themselves for social justice, equality and the preservation of life. Stories in the Bulletin include: Food sovereignty [...] more >>
POW picket , Dublin, Sat March 27th 2010.
RSF to hold picket in support of Republican prisoners. This picket will be held near the site where Robert Emmet - himself a political prisoner - was executed. more >>
Afghanistan: NATO-Lüge aufgedeckt
GIs erschiessen fünf Menschen: Schwangere Frauen, Mütter und 2 Regierungsbeamte ... Blutiges Ende einer Feier in Afghanistan: Bewaffnete US-Amerikaner stürmten in dem Ort Khataba in der ostafghanischen Provinz Paktia ein Haus und erschossen fünf Menschen: Zwei schwangere Frauen, Mütter von zusammen 15 Kindern, eine Achtzehnjährige und zwei Regierungsbeamte, die sich unter den Gästen befanden. Das geschah am 12. Februar. Etwa 25 Menschen hatten sich an diesem Abend versammelt, um die Namensgebung eines neugeborenen Jungen zu feiern. Obwohl zahlreiche Überlebende die Vorgänge in allen Einzelheiten schilderten, verbreitete die NATO zunächst routinemäßig ein von Lügen strotzendes Kommunique. »Mehrere Aufständische verwickelten die gemeinsame – aus US-Amerikanern und Afghanen bestehende – Einsatzgruppe in ein Feuergefecht und wurden getötet«, hieß es damals in einer Presseerklärung der Besatzer. more >>
Support the Save Vestas Crane Occupiers
Support the Save Vestas Crane Occupiers Tuesday 16 at 9.30am Southampton Magistrates Court more >>
Save Vestas supporters in court this week
The defendants in the crane protest case from September 2009 will be in court in Southampton on Tuesday 16 and Wednesday 17 March (this week!). If you can get along to give some support and would like more details email savevestas@googlemail.com. If you need a reminder of what the case is about or are hearing about [...] more >>
Kgopotso Khumalo on the LPM & Public Participation' in Johannesburg
Click here for pictures. Kgopotso Khumalo on the LPM & Public Participation' in Johannesburg Kgopotso Khumalo Landlessness and access to basic services in South Africa remains a 'pipe-dream' for many poor communities who remain marginalised by leaders who are meant to protect them. When one takes a closer look at Protea South, an informal settlement area in the core of Soweto, one is met by a large number of unemployed residents, many of which are the youth. Lack of electricity, water and sanitation services have also rendered the area both smelly and unliveable. But this is the place where most communities are unified through struggle for land, housing and basic services. read more more >>
(en) Russia, Anarchists and the Second Chechen War* - Anarchist resistance against the Second Chechen War (2/2)
Most likely, even without the explosions of 1999, the anti-war movement would have been miserable, but afterwards it did barely existed. It took 3 months after the beginning of the war for the anti-war movement to gather enough courage to get out in the streets. The first people to demonstrate in Moscow in December of 1999 were Anarchists. Apparently some sorry pickets had already taken place in other cities. Soon after other groups appeared as well (liberals and Trotskists), and the question of cooperation became an issue.---In this respect, the movements in Moscow and St. Petersburg developed in different directions.--In St. Petersburg, all anti-war groups (anarchists, liberals and Trotskists) agreed upon a common anti-war picket, in which everyone was to participate with their own political symbols. In Moscow liberals did not want political symbols present in the pickets, but due ... more >>
(en) Russia, Anarchists and the Second Chechen War* - Anarchist resistance against the Second Chechen War (2/2)
Most likely, even without the explosions of 1999, the anti-war movement would have been miserable, but afterwards it did barely existed. It took 3 months after the beginning of the war for the anti-war movement to gather enough courage to get out in the streets. The first people to demonstrate in Moscow in December of 1999 were Anarchists. Apparently some sorry pickets had already taken place in other cities. Soon after other groups appeared as well (liberals and Trotskists), and the question of cooperation became an issue.---In this respect, the movements in Moscow and St. Petersburg developed in different directions.--In St. Petersburg, all anti-war groups (anarchists, liberals and Trotskists) agreed upon a common anti-war picket, in which everyone was to participate with their own political symbols. In Moscow liberals did not want political symbols present in the pickets, but due ... more >>
WaPo: Unemployment rate for young veterans hits 21.1 percent
The unemployment rate last year for young veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars hit 21.1 percent, the Labor Department said Friday, reflecting a tough obstacle that combat veterans face as they make the transition home from war. more >>
Railway maintenance workers vote to strike, further action brewing in the industry
trackwork.jpg RMT members have voted strongly for strike action, in what stands to be the first national strike of rail workers in 16 years. Other workers including signallers and electrical supply controllers may also strike following their ballots in the coming weeks. Railway maintenance workers have voted for strike action in an RMT-organised ballot, with the prospect of strikes over the Easter bank holiday - the most effective time to take action – still on the table. more >>
25 Jobs to go at Gurit
We heard on Thursday afternoon. The local branch of the GMB union (who worked with Vestas workers and activists to try to unionise Gurit which supplied Vestas, and is adjacent to Vestas at St Cross) has been contacted. Will update anon. http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/news/jobs-to-go-at-gurit-31624.aspx By Richard Wright – Friday, March 5, 2010 WORRIED composite company workers are waiting to see [...] more >>
Pickets At South Korean And US Embassies
The UK Korean Friendship Association has called a picket of the both the US and south Korean embassies on Monday 15th of March in protest at the continuing war excercises in South Korea jointly with US military more >>
Solidarity with the PCS strike
LCAP members visited the picket lines of workers from the Public and Commercial Services Union outside Hackney Jobcentres. We support the strike and stand with them against the government’s attacks on staff compensation. We know that the attacks on workers compensation are part of the same attack on the welfare system that threatens unemployed workers’ [...] more >>
Welfare campaigners' solidarity with DWP workers
Members of Defend Welfare Newcastle (including benefits claimants) and Tyne & Wear Left Unity attended pickets, and a rally at Newcastle Monument, organised by the PCS Union during the strike by civel service staff (including DWP/Jobcentre Plus workers) on March 8th and 9th. more >>
Welfare campaingners' solidarity with PCS strike
Members of Defend Welfare Newcastle (including benefits claimants) and Tyne & Wear Left Unity, were joined by a “Fat Cat” when they offered support to striking workers at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP). By attending pickets, and a rally at Newcastle Monument, organised by the PCS Union during their strike on March 8th and 9th, they showed their solidarity with workers at the DWP, including Jobcentre staff. more >>
Antiracist-Antifascist rally in Amerikis Square (Athens): February 24 at 6 pm
Antiracist-Antifascist rally in Amerikis Square (Athens): February 24 at 6 pm SOLIDARITY TO THE IMMIGRANTS! There has been an effort by a fascist “citizens group” formed by extreme right wing racists and nazis, with the police in the leading role, to establish a type of Apartheid in the square of Agios Panteleimonas. Now, a new racist experiment is attempted in Plateia Amerikis (Amerikis Square). In this neighbourhood, where locals and immigrants have been living together for years, coexisting in their daily life, in the streets, in schools, in squares and public spaces, racists and the state are trying to artificially create a field of racist brutality and police occupation. In the reality of the financial, social and political crisis, the state and the bosses are launching and attack against the whole of society, intensifying exploitation and oppression. Immigrants and refugees, as the poorest and most excluded part of society, are the ones on whom this attack is focused in the most cruel way: Many are murdered in the borders, imprisoned in concentration camps, tortured in police stations. Living in the country, they are facing the most savage exploitation by the bosses. And they are hostages of the anti-immigration policies of the greek state which divides them into "legal" and "illegal". A perfect example is the new bill on citizenship that is defining which children have rights and which don’t! This way it is justifying the repression and manhunt of refugees and immigrants without papers while it promotes the incorporation of a small number of immigrants under the condition that they submit. In this context, the state has every interest in spreading racism within the society. Through a racist campaign by the media, the state is trying to force “national unity to save the greek economy” and it is targeting immigrants as a “threat to security and stability” in order to cultivate fear, class divisions and social cannibalism, so that in conditions of poverty the oppressed will be turned against each other, against the most oppressed among us, and not against the real enemy: the state and the bosses who are looting our lives. This way the state intensifies police repression to force its anti-social policies, especially after the social revolt of December ’08 where locals, refugees and immigrants met in the barricades, giving only an image of the future the bosses will have to face. The state itself is breeding racist groups through its policies and it is supporting them through its official repression forces. This is what happened in Agios Panteleimonas neighbourhood, where the police covered the locking of the playground, arsons against places of prayer for Muslim immigrants, attacks in which immigrants were beaten and stabbed by racists. These racist groups are presented as “local citizens committees” in order for the state to give the image that police brutality against immigrants is supposedly a “popular demand of society”. And it is also using these groups to attack against people and spaces of social struggle that fight in solidarity and against fascism. In mid December ’09, a fringe of “citizens”, mainly members of LAOS ultra-right party, showed up in Plateia Amerikis asking that the place will be “cleansed and evacuated”. Their gathering ended ingloriously, and Th. Plevris, a fascist member of LAOS in the parliament, left immediately, when dozens of people went to the square and declared that racists and misanthropists are not welcome in the neighbourhood. This effort of a hate committed to be established was also presented in “Eleftherotypia” newspaper, supposedly progressive. In an article published on 31 December ’09, under a heading saying that Plateia Amerikis is “a bomb about to explode”, a fake image of the neighbourhood is presented and the real motives of the racists are obscured by a discourse about cleanness and degradation problems of the area. Ultra-right conservatives and neo-nazis, with the blessings of the police, think that they can turn this multicultural neighbourhood of Athens, where locals and immigrants have a tradition of living together, into a field of intolerance and racist hatred. They think that they will be allowed to assault refugees and spaces of self- organization and social struggle (social centres, housing squats, parks). Never! Like in every neighbourhood, locals and immigrants, we are people who live together everyday, in our workplaces, in schools, in the squares. We share common problems (unemployment, work exploitation, devastating way of life in an urban jail, without sufficient green and free spaces, control and repression). And we will fight together for a world of equality, having solidarity as our weapon and having as only enemy the enemies of freedom for all people. - No racist and no fascist will define which people are allowed to live together in the neighbourhoods, to hang out in the squares and to walk in the streets of the city. - No consent to the racist policies of the state against immigrants. - No tolerance to the fascist – racist gangs. EVERYONE TO THE RALLY IN AMERIKIS SQUARE Wednesday, 24 February at 6 pm Anarchists, Anti-authoritarians, Antiracists, Antifascists from Athens neighborhoods more >>
FACTORY UNDER OCCUPATION: Save 600 jobs at Vestas!
Vestas Blades UK on the Isle of Wight is due to close on 31st July. 600 jobs will be lost immediately, many more jobs that depend on Vestas will follow. This makes no sense from a green or a labour perspective! The government has just announced a major expansion of renewable energy including wind power. We [...] more >>
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Police Review: magazine cartoon - "In staggeringly poor taste"
from J4J campaign, 18 November 2008: We would imagine that, in the midst of the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, publications aimed at and widely read by serving police officers would show greater sensitivity in the way they talk about fatal shootings by the police. But evidently not. The magazine "Police Review", in its 14 November edition, decided that the introduction of new rules preventing firearms officers from conferring after a shooting was best illustrated by this appalling cartoon. more
Reclaim the Future 5: A vast day/night party event in a liberated, occupied space in London, 5 September 2009
from email, updated 6 September 2009: "Reclaim the Future 5 is a vast all-day all-night information and party event in a liberated, self-managed occupied venue somewhere in London on Saturday 5 September 2009.
* At least two rooms of live bands 9pm-4am
* DJs 4am-7am
* Cabaret * Workshops and stalls all afternoon - info on the arms trade, the G20, prisoner & detainee support, squatting, samba, permaculture, climate change, bike repair, and more... more
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