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14th March: Student Action Against CPE in France: Protests + Blockades + Clashes

Tuesday 14th March France:

More nationwide demos, blockades, railway obstructions, occupations and street clashes as a student day of action opposed the CPE employment law. Updates from libcom below:

Expose and End Bio-Electro-Weapons Torture

15-03-2006 03:03 | Bio-technology | Globalisation | Repression | World

Hypocracy Domestic Torture is being done with bio-electro-weapons in the United States.

Queen of Imperialism Praises Australia's Generosity

15-03-2006 01:50 | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

The Prime Meanster, John HoWARd, and his wife, Janette, hosted the black tie gathering for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh in the Great Hall in Dictatorship House in Canberra.

Animal testing proves it's worth

14-03-2006 23:22 | Animal Liberation | Health | World

Six men are fighting for their lives suffering life-threatening multiple organ failure. The men were volunteers in clinical trials for a drug to treat conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and leukaemia. The drug had already been tested on animals although it is unclear how many of those unwilling subjects had previously been killed by the drug.

The QUICKTIME REPORT 15/3/06 - SEE GLOBALLY!

14-03-2006 19:03 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

A review of news, opinion, and photography recorded, from the Indymedia Newswire. With times and freqs for tuning in anywhere you can, at your leisure. Free to rebroadcast. The world & recorded for the community archive!

Breaking news from Israel

14-03-2006 16:03 | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

British and US prison wardens, who were meant to be guarding and protecting prisoners including Ahmed Saadat, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, have withdrawn to allow the Israeli army to storm the prison. The British government must be urgently contacted to press them to re-enter the prison and protect those inside. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has condemned the raid and said the US and UK warders were responsible for the prisoners' safety. Reports are that already one prison policeman has been killed and 18 wounded. According to the BBC, ‘50 jeeps and three tanks pushed into the oasis town in the Jordan valley, as two helicopters hovered overhead. The army later brought a large armoured bulldozer to the prison, which proceeded to demolish walls.’

Biosafety Meeting in Curitiba: Towards a strict GMO labelling?

14-03-2006 12:01 | Bio-technology | Ecology | World

On Monday, 13 March the Third Conference on the Biosafety Protocol (MOP3) started in Curitiba, Brazil. The Biosafety Protocol is the only international treaty that sets obligatory rules for the trade with GMOs. Main issue of this meeting is the question how GMOs have to be labelled (Article 18). GMO producers favour the very vague label that something "may contain" GMOs, while most countries want a clear description of which GMO is contained in a shipment. (background of COP8/MOP3 meeting ).

Experiences and perspectives of the students' movement in France

The text that follows introduced the ICC public meeting of 11th March in Paris, at which students and militants involved in the recent events debated their experience and the best means for spreading the movement.

Call for Weekend of Resistance Against the "Green Scare" June 9 - 11, 2006

14-03-2006 03:13 | Ecology | Social Struggles | World

For the past few years the weekend of June 11 was typically a time when we reflected on Jeff Free Luers' 22.5 year sentence and held events to recognize the anniversary of his incarceration. This year Jeff writes below that he wishes this year to focus on the Green Scare co-defendants. Please plan an event now! It's only 3 months away. And keep reading...

UK/ Posthumously defaming victims of police killings

13-03-2006 23:29 | Analysis | Repression | World

Has anyone ever seen this tactic before?

Former top judge says US risks edging near to dictatorship

13-03-2006 23:04 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

· Sandra Day O'Connor warns of rightwing attacks
· Lawyers 'must speak up' to protect judiciary

Round up on recent anti-Shell Resistance in Mayo

13-03-2006 23:03 | Ecology | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Details of various events which have taken place in the struggle against Shell in the West of Ireland in January, February and early March of this year.

Changing Course: No New Nuclear Power Plants!

13-03-2006 18:54 | Ecology | World

Offensive wars, normalization of war, militarization of foreign policy, exploding inequality, privatization, political corruption and nuclear power plants as panaceas bring us to the brink of ruin. Changing course and accepting new priorities could help create a human-friendly future beyond short-term capital gains

Basque political prisoner found dead in his cell

13-03-2006 17:28 | Repression | World

José Angel Altzuguren, alias Kotto, aged 39, from Bera (Navarre), was found dead in his prison cell in Soria (Castille), three days after his transfer there from Iruñea (Pamplona) prison. According to prison authorities, Kotto used the sheets from his bed to hang himself. The political prisoner was under medical treatment for depression, despite which he had been moved into an isolation cell in the Spanish prison. The Basque pro-amnesty movement called it an 'induced suicide'.

Milosevic - murder or suicide

13-03-2006 16:13 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Health | World

Preliminary results from an autopsy on Milosevic have so far indicated the former Yugoslav leader died of a heart attack in his cell at a UN detention centre in The Hague. There has been speculation he committed suicide or was poisoned.

Sorbonne University Eviction Video + Pics and more background to CPE resistance (france)

For the last week protests, occupations and direct action against the CPE in France has been increasing. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets in hundreds of demonstrations. Railways have been blockaded, airports disrupted, and around half of France's universities have seen occupations. Clashes with police have occured throughout the country.

Much international publicity has come from the occupation and violent eviction of the Sorbonne university in Paris (video below). With the media making the obvious 1968 comparisons, riot police stormed the university building firing tear gas at around 4am on Saturday after hours of resistance from the occupiers and their supporters outside. There were around 30 arrests. The university had been occupied since Tuesday night with tensions increasing. On Friday police batton charged students who were blocking a road near to the university.

Pants To Poverty

13-03-2006 13:12 | Globalisation | World

Saturday 11 March, 2006. Volunteers strip to their underwear outside the London Royal Exchange to launch Pants To Poverty underwear.

Unrest in France - blog launched

13-03-2006 10:14 | Indymedia | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

As the revolt by workers against the first employment continues to spread in france,

http://libcom.org/blog has been set up to provide in-depth English language coverage of the riots, occupations, strikes and marches across the country.

Thoughts on the tragic loss of Tom Fox

13-03-2006 06:05 | Anti-militarism | World

This is a short appreciation of the murdered Chrsitain Peacemaker activist Tom Fox.

FBI Charles Rasner names Austin Indymedia, Food Not Bombs Terrorist

And then a perpetrator or bunglar on the side of militaristic over reaction in the Waco tragedy has the nerve to call indymedia free speech supporters and a group 'food not bombs' that gives away vegetarian meals 'terrorists' ! ? Truly when the Bush Regime confines 'free speech' to a cage or 'corral' what more does Mr. Rasner want in his rage to gut the Constitution and the First Amendent ?

World Newswire Archive

14th March: Student Action Against CPE in France: Protests + Blockades + Clashes

Expose and End Bio-Electro-Weapons Torture

Queen of Imperialism Praises Australia's Generosity

Animal testing proves it's worth

The QUICKTIME REPORT 15/3/06 - SEE GLOBALLY!

Breaking news from Israel

Biosafety Meeting in Curitiba: Towards a strict GMO labelling?

Experiences and perspectives of the students' movement in France

Call for Weekend of Resistance Against the "Green Scare" June 9 - 11, 2006

UK/ Posthumously defaming victims of police killings

Former top judge says US risks edging near to dictatorship

Round up on recent anti-Shell Resistance in Mayo

Changing Course: No New Nuclear Power Plants!

Basque political prisoner found dead in his cell

Milosevic - murder or suicide

Sorbonne University Eviction Video + Pics and more background to CPE resistance (france)

Pants To Poverty

Unrest in France - blog launched

Thoughts on the tragic loss of Tom Fox

FBI Charles Rasner names Austin Indymedia, Food Not Bombs Terrorist

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