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UK: Animal Rights Summer Gathering, 27-30 August 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:24:03 +0000

from ar, 16 March 2010: "Having barely recovered from an exhausting but exhilarating Spring Gathering in Nottingham, this year's Summer Gathering has been announced for Friday 27th August to Monday 30th August 2010. It is still early in the planning process, but this announcement is mainly to minimise the need for clashes of dates at the summer gathering season unfolds, allowing more efficient use of shared resources..." more

News about Jock Palfreeman

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:56:29 +0000

from bristolabc, 16 March 2010: "Our friends at the long running Brighton ABC group have just released the latest issue of their Active Solidarity freesheet. One of the political prisoners they feature is Jock Palfreeman. Jock is serving 20 years in a Bulgarian prison after defending himself against a large gang of nazis, one of whom he killed in self-defence, and wounded another. Matters have taken a turn for the worse for him; on 19 February he was placed in complete isolation (solitary confinement), the first prisoner to be so treated..." more

COP15 arrestees Noah and Natasha head to trial

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:45:31 +0000

from infoshop, 16 March 2010: "On March 16th and March 19th, Noah (American) and Natasha (Australian) will go to trial for charges related to the organization of demonstrations against the COP15 conference in Copenhagen in December 2009. They are facing politically motivated charges which accuse them of organizing to disrupt the public order and do violence to police, and face stiff prison sentences as well as deportation form Denmark. Both were targeted by Danish police and arrested in December during the COP15, and kept in jail for 25 days in isolation before being released in advance of their trials..." more

Soyinka defends Nigeria's militants as attacks continue

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:31:33 +0000

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from priceofoil, 16 March 2010: "Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian Nobel peace prize novelist warned that Nigeria is close to breaking up and had become a failed state. He said the leadership of the country has descended into a “theatre of the absurd”. Soyinka’s warnings came soon after the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) – the leading militant group in the delta region – set off two car bombs, in the government building in the southern oil city of Warri, where talks were being held about implementing an amnesty programme..." more

London May Day: Power to the People's Assembly, Saturday 1 May 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:23:47 +0000

No more WH Deportation Tours! Demo Saturday 27 March 2010

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:52:09 +0000

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

Compete with the Northeast Clusterfuck at the Anticap Games, IMF/WB Summit, DC, 23-25 April 2010

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:33:09 +0000

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

Mayday mayhem for London?

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:29:23 +0000

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

Greece: General Strike demonstrations lead to pitched battles

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:46:01 +0000

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

Soldarity demo at Harmondsworth this Saturday, 13 March 2010

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:00:43 +0000

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

2010 South Africa World Cup: Invictus in reverse

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:57:31 +0000

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

Poland: Demonstration in support of the Rozbrat squat, Poznan, 8 March 2010

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:54:22 +0000

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

"The City is not a company! Rozbrat stays" - 37 anarchists detained in Poznan after clashes with cops

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:58:25 +0000

Anarcha-feminist Gathering, Manchester 10-11 April 2010

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:56:43 +0000

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

Bolzaneto: Convictions of abuse during Genoa G8 protests upheld

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:55:01 +0000

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