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Rage against the NATO war conference – they make war, we make trouble

31-12-2005 02:14 | World

The days of war-planners meeting in Munich, going largely unnoticed by the general public, are a thing of the past. Meanwhile they have to barricade themselves behind a mass of police units because in the last few years thousands of people have confronted the military's generals, the war ministers and the arms lobbyists/dealers with their resistance.
There are reasons enough for this. The German armed forces (Bundeswehr) celebrate in their 50th year of existence as a globally active "peace-keeping" force and increase their participation in the "war on terrorism" not only in Afghanistan. The USA and Great Britain and their occupying regime in Iraq have created a system that in reality offers the Iraqi people only terror and a fight for survival.

The rulers in the EU continue to aspire to the formation of a European military force despite the failure to implement a Europe-wide constitution: The supposed protection from terrorist attacks serves as a convenient springboard for racist exclusion tactics, repression and deprivation of human, civil and international rights.

For these reasons the exponents of such policies are getting together in Munich’s Hotel Bayerischer Hof from 3rd to 5th February 2006.

Let’s prepare a suitable reception for them!

JOSE RIZAL IN THE U.S.A.

31-12-2005 01:58 | Anti-racism | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

The anniversary of the death of the Philippines' national hero Jose Rizal this Dec. 30 affords us the occasion to reassess his work, particularly in the context of ongoing fierce class war in the Philippines between the oppressed, impoverished majority and the few privileged landlords and politicians bought by global capital. This is taking place at a time when the Philippines is being re-colonized by the U.S., the world's imperialist hegemon. Would Rizal want the country partitioned by greedy transnational corporations and their racist elites in the brutal terrorist war against peoples of color? These reflections hope to provoke a re-thinking of what it means to be a Filipino with the Philippines in dire crisis, using Rizal as a point of departure, especially in the light of its citizens becoming an embattled diaspora--more than ten million OFWs as exploited domestics and contract workers scattered around the planet, while the country's rich natural resources, cultures and traditions are wasted by foreign profiteers supported by local comprador parasites currently headed by the corrupt Arroyo regime. "O where is the hope of the motherland...."?

California Turn Down Covance Lab Plans! The Attention Turns on Chandler

30-12-2005 17:35 | Animal Liberation | Bio-technology | World

Covance's new lab plans have been turned down in California, but not yet in Chandler, Arizona. Listed below are the contact details for all the departments within the City of Chandler Council. Please contact them about the new laboratory, which is planned to be the biggest Covance animal lab in the world. Remember to state the arguments which are listed on; www.savechandler.org . Covance MUST NOT be allowed to build the new laboratory.

Lifelong Work

30-12-2005 14:21 | Workers' Movements | World

Pension schemes and the labor market are in an irreconci-lable opposition. This schizoid argumentation has long sunk into mass consciousness.. That a society with the highest productivity of world history chains seniors to production longer than in the Middle Ages is hardly upsetting.

Guilty plea bargin leads Enron court cases

30-12-2005 03:19 | Analysis | Free Spaces | World

“Did you knowingly deceive the investing public?” Lake asked Causey, who replied, “Yes, your honor.” When asked if he knew that giving false public documents and statements was illegal, Causey said, “Yes.” He appeared relaxed during the hearing and before it began winked and smiled at his wife, who wept after it was all over.

Causey, had been scheduled to go on trial next month with former Enron chief executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling, facing the possibility of more than 20 years behind bars. He is now predicated to cooperate with federal prosecutors against his former bosses. Whether Causey will testify in the trial of Lay and Skilling is uncertain, but his deal with prosecutors calls for them to request a seven-prison sentence that could be reduced to five years if he cooperates fully.

Causey was a key figure in the huge financial scandal that drove Enron to bankruptcy in December ‘01 amid revelations the company had used off-the-books partnership deals to hide billions of dollars in losses and inflate profits.

Causey’s plea makes it 16 former Enron executives who have now pleaded guilty to crimes related to the scandal that opened a window on corporate accounting misdeeds and tainted the Bush administration because Lay had been a close ally of the Bush family for years and one of its biggest political donors.

The SHORTWAVE REPORT 12/30/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!

30-12-2005 00:46 | Analysis | World

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, Cuba, and Russia.

WSF Caracas: Shroud for Venezuela’s social movements

29-12-2005 22:44 | Analysis | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

* A member of the group promoting the Alternative Social Forum explains why the World Social Forum (WSF), taking place in Caracas during January 2006, is another attempt by the Chavez government to impede the autonomous development of social struggles in the country.

Family Law + secrecy of draconian acts

29-12-2005 18:15 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Further to our protests and conferences recently;

Belarus Indymedia

29-12-2005 15:56 | Repression | World

Belarus is called "Europe's last dictatorship", and things are certainly grim there, but Belarus Indymedia is alive and well, and here is a snapshot of what you can find on it...

Bloggers publish secret UK torture complicity evidence

29-12-2005 14:54 | Anti-militarism | Indymedia | Social Struggles | World

Bloggers around the world are publishing damning documentary evidence of UK complicity in torture, in defiance of Foreign Office efforts to block their publication.

The Fat Years are Over

29-12-2005 14:18 | Globalisation | World

Hardly anyone today dares financing the social state by cutting the armament budget.. The fat years are over! Three cheers for dispossession! Expropriation instead of representation!

Greenham Common

29-12-2005 12:04 | Culture | Gender | Social Struggles | World

Reconstruction of rare songbooks the women made in 1987.

G8 2006 St. Petersburg

29-12-2005 09:58 | World

A call out to protest against G8 summit of 2006
in St. Petersburg, Russia

Converge on the Capital

29-12-2005 05:02 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

In the recent past an American grandmother demonstrating against the tyrant Bush, held a placard as she marched on the Capital, it read, “The Road to Hell is lined with Bushes”. It is now evident that this grandmother (who puts younger Americans to shame) was exhibiting prophetic or intuitive insight. In that period Bush was relatively tame. This American woman and true patriot is an inspiration to us all.

MI6 torturer Nicholas John Andrew Langman must face justice!

28-12-2005 19:24 | Anti-militarism | World

MI6 Athens station chief Nicholas Langman has been identified as a "war on terror" criminal, actively involved in the torture of a group of innocent Pakistanis arrested in Greece earlier this year. By his actions, Langman has betrayed the British people, shaming our name and putting us all at greater risk of terrorism.

Catholics breach the exclusion zone to read out more names of Iraq victims

28-12-2005 18:09 | Free Spaces | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Members of Pax Christi today today risked arrest by assembling outside Downing Street and reading out the names of Iraqi children and British servicemen killed in Iraq

"Superpower without Leadership"

28-12-2005 14:12 | Anti-militarism | World

The arrogance and hubris of this administration was responsible. A glance at the region would have made that judgment impossible. Unlike the Pentagon, we in the State Department never believed our soldiers in Iraq would be greeted as liberators with flowers.

2005 In Review

28-12-2005 09:56 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | World

Revolution 30A

Brick Lane London E1 Area campaign MANIFESTO Against the Crossrail hole Bill

28-12-2005 09:15 | Ecology | Social Struggles | World

KHOODEELAR! NEWS Released at 0800 Hrs London Wednesday 28 December 2005 BRICK LANE LONDON E1 AREA MANIFESTO AGAINST the Crossrail hole Bill.
The future composition of the Council in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets will depend very much on the conduct of over the Crossrail hole of those candidates seeking election to the Council at the scheduled polls in May 2006.

Unpleasant pictures from Palestine

27-12-2005 20:20 | Repression | World

Pictures of a killing in Palestine

World Newswire Archive

Rage against the NATO war conference – they make war, we make trouble

JOSE RIZAL IN THE U.S.A.

California Turn Down Covance Lab Plans! The Attention Turns on Chandler

Lifelong Work

Guilty plea bargin leads Enron court cases

The SHORTWAVE REPORT 12/30/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!

WSF Caracas: Shroud for Venezuela’s social movements

Family Law + secrecy of draconian acts

Belarus Indymedia

Bloggers publish secret UK torture complicity evidence

The Fat Years are Over

Greenham Common

G8 2006 St. Petersburg

Converge on the Capital

MI6 torturer Nicholas John Andrew Langman must face justice!

Catholics breach the exclusion zone to read out more names of Iraq victims

"Superpower without Leadership"

2005 In Review

Brick Lane London E1 Area campaign MANIFESTO Against the Crossrail hole Bill

Unpleasant pictures from Palestine

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