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20-07-2006 12:51
G8 2006 Repression Continues -- The case of Mihain
Translated and posted by the "G8 2006 Info and Press Group", Berlin.
18-07-2006 22:10
NEWCASTLE Lebanon/Gaza Emergency Demonstration this Saturday
Just to let you know details of the Stop the War Coalition Demostration in Newcastle this Saturday at 1pm at Grey's Monument in the city centre
18-07-2006 08:00
Valerie Plame's CIA Unit Spied at 3rd-World Nuke Conferences
Jean C. Edwards is a former CIA agent who recently listed Valerie Plame's famous CIA front company Brewster Jennings Associates as her own former employer. Edwards attended at least three conferences with nuclear engineers and scientists from Iran, Pakistan, and other prospective and actual nuclear nations, apparently to spy on them.. The conferences were held in Trieste, Italy, in 1991, 1992, and 1995 while Edwards worked for the CIA. In the lists of attendees below, Edwards is listed as Jean C. Edwards from Jamaica.
17-07-2006 14:31
Updates and more info:
http://presse.gipfelsoli.org
Russian Authorities Target Journalists
The following press release was issued today by the Berlin-based "G8 2006 Info and Press Group"Updates and more info:
http://presse.gipfelsoli.org
16-07-2006 19:17
Solidarity actions requested!
G8 Delegates Blockaded in Hotel, Protesters Arrested
The following is a report about actions this morning (16/07/06) in St. Petersberg.Solidarity actions requested!
16-07-2006 18:48
300+ Demonstrate in Berlin Against G8 and Repression
Today, around 300 people took part in a demonstration in Berlin against the G8 and the system it represents, and demanded a release of those arrested in St. Petersberg taking part in protests against this year's summit.
15-07-2006 14:08
Press Release: Global Day of Action Against G8 and Repression
The following is a press release issued by the Berlin-based G8 2006 Info and Press Group. For more information, check out our website. Also see: www.agp.org
15-07-2006 00:46
Then the newspaper warned, “Already, in the wake of this reversal, the Bush Administration’s critics are talking about the ‘illegality’ of its previous failure to abide by Geneva rules. We’ll predict that it won’t be very long until some European magistrate indicts Donald Rumsfeld or National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley or some other US official for ‘war crimes’ for this failure. The Pentagon’s new memo won’t be much of a defense.” To forestall that possibility, the Journal argued, Congress should pass a law repudiating the application of Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions to the United States.
White House, Congress seek to legalize kangaroo courts, torture
Then the newspaper warned, “Already, in the wake of this reversal, the Bush Administration’s critics are talking about the ‘illegality’ of its previous failure to abide by Geneva rules. We’ll predict that it won’t be very long until some European magistrate indicts Donald Rumsfeld or National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley or some other US official for ‘war crimes’ for this failure. The Pentagon’s new memo won’t be much of a defense.” To forestall that possibility, the Journal argued, Congress should pass a law repudiating the application of Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions to the United States.
14-07-2006 18:39
More information about actions around the world: http://presse.gipfelsoli.org
AntiG8 Solidarity Action in Gothenberg
The following is a report from an action outside the Swedish embassy in Gothenberg against the G8 and in solidarity with the protests in Russia.More information about actions around the world:
http://presse.gipfelsoli.org
14-07-2006 15:15
1,500 Demonstrate Against G8 and Bush & Merkel's pre-G8 meet
Around 1,500 demonstrated yesterday (Thursday 13 July, 2006) against German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Bush's meeting in Stralsund, on the Baltic coast in north-eastern Germany.
14-07-2006 14:59
G8 2006 -- Solidarity Demo, Berlin
Around 70 people today (Friday 14 July, 2006) took part in a spontaneously organised demonstration outside the Russian embassy on Unter den Linden in Berlin. The protest was against the G8 meeting in St. Petersberg, and in solidarity with those protesting against the summit and the world it represents all over the world.
mobilisation animation
06-07-2006 15:32
Journalist in Tommy Sheridan libel trial infiltrated G8 'anarchist' camp
Investigative journalist at heart of Tommy Sheridan libel case infiltrated G8 'anarchist' camp in 2005
25-06-2006 19:01
Glasgow rendition flights vigil
A vigil has taken place this weekend at Glasgow Airport to highlight "extraordinary rendition" flights.Full Story | 1 addition | 1 comment >>
21-06-2006 19:03
The Scottish Socialist Party United Left
The Scottish Socialist Party United Left (or SSP United Left for short) is a new grouping in the Scottish Socialist Party. An appeal to launch this grouping took place on 13 June 2006.
10-06-2006 10:24
Sheriff McColl stated that she believed the two policemen were credible witnesses – although no-one could explain why not one frame of film shot by the countless police and media cameras present in that confined space had captured the accused charging the police lines, as described by Merseyside PCs Grant and Keith.
Interestingly, the reason for the police tactics of mass detention on that day was openly stated – both police witnesses said that the police had decided to cordon and detain the crowd of 200 plus demonstrators NOT because of anything the demonstrators had done, or were doing – but purely to stop them joining up with other groups of demonstrators in the city centre.
Guilty verdict in G8 Carnival Case
A G8 demonstrator was found guilty of Breach of the Peace and fined £300 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on 8th June – despite numerous mistakes, contradictions and omissions in the identification evidence by the police witnesses. The demonstrator had been arrested after being penned into Canning Street for around six hours during the Carnival for Full Enjoyment.Sheriff McColl stated that she believed the two policemen were credible witnesses – although no-one could explain why not one frame of film shot by the countless police and media cameras present in that confined space had captured the accused charging the police lines, as described by Merseyside PCs Grant and Keith.
Interestingly, the reason for the police tactics of mass detention on that day was openly stated – both police witnesses said that the police had decided to cordon and detain the crowd of 200 plus demonstrators NOT because of anything the demonstrators had done, or were doing – but purely to stop them joining up with other groups of demonstrators in the city centre.
10-06-2006 01:22
In a gathering of around 100 leaders from labor, peasant, urban poor, women and youth groups, the umbrella coalition Laban ng Masa is bracing for bigger fights in its bid to oust the Arroyo regime and initiate reforms under a transitional revolutionary government.
Philippines: Anti-Arroyo Groups Brace for Bigger Fights Ahead
In a gathering of around 100 leaders from labor, peasant, urban poor, women and youth groups, the umbrella coalition Laban ng Masa is bracing for bigger fights in its bid to oust the Arroyo regime and initiate reforms under a transitional revolutionary government. 
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08-06-2006 18:04
Home Office thug Reid strikes again! - Support urgently needed!
A 23-year-old man of Thai ethnicity was seized in a dawn raid on his flat in Lerwick, Shetland on Tuesday. The Home Office want to deport him to Thailand - where he has no family, can't speak the language, and faces imprisonment or conscription on arrival.
04-06-2006 19:36
