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Students To Do Epic 50,000 Protestations In Front Of Giant Gordon Brown Photograph

13-06-2007 15:12 | Education | Iraq | Social Struggles | World

In a marathon art performance that will last one week, students from Camberwell College of the Arts are to prostrate themselves an incredible 50,000 times in front of a temporary shrine and giant photograph of the new Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Starting on Wednesday 20th June 2007 at 10am outside Camberwell College on Peckham Road the students will work in ten hour shifts in an attempt to reach their target.

East End of London community No to unaccountable public office holders

13-06-2007 13:44 | Analysis | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Blair's allagedly cvritical refertences to the 'feral media' on Tiesday giot klengthy poryrauls in parsie of Blair.

G8 Media Gets the Massage - good article from 'unspin the g8'

13-06-2007 12:49 | G8 Germany 2007 | Globalisation | Indymedia | World

Good article from dutch media activist on the 'media battle', the press centre village and the media intervention made by some clowns at Kühlungsborn:

ephemera 7.1: 'Immaterial and Affective Labour: Explored' online

13-06-2007 12:38 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

The new issue (7.1) of ephemera: theory & politics in organization, entitled "immaterial and affective labor: explored," has just been published at

http://www.ephemeraweb.org. This latest special issue offers a critical engagement with the conceptual and political territory animated by the deployment of such ideas in the work of Hardt, Negri, Lazzarato, Virno and others, and follows previous explorations of class composition and politics in ephemera (for instance in the issues on 'the theory of the multitude' and 'writing: labour').

German G8 Police: Lies, Propaganda and Provocation (report)

Below are a few examples of the lies and propaganda spun by the police during the G8 protests in Germany, as well as direct evidence that the police were at times using infiltrators to try and create conditions to justify further repression.

There are for sure many more examples of this during the last two weeks or so and civil liberties monitoring groups are investigating other incidents. It should also be said that while the media were able to report what appeared to be a tolerant attitude to the blockades at the East Gate, in other places sit down protestors were water cannoned, pepper sprayed and beaten. Also the police tried to provoke violence at various different protests and actions, arrested people for nothing more than having the wrong clothing on them, and failed to give medical assistance to injured people in a number of incidents. Police have also been criticised for using water canon at close quarters against peaceful blockaders resulting in several serious eye injuries, including a man from Liverpool who has lost the use of his eye after it was dislodged. Further criticism has come regarding the use of the military against protestors including the army on the A19 autobahn and the use of Panavia Tornado jets in low fly reconnaissance / intimidation runs over protest camp sites.

Other tactics used by the police included mass unrpovoked arrests, closure of transport systems to prevent people reaching legal assembly points and systematic feeding of misinformation to the media - details of which below:

Daily Mail G8 Blockade Reporting - Atrocious Newspaper Article Shocker!

13-06-2007 11:16 | G8 Germany 2007 | Globalisation | Other Press | World

Last night on newsnight Peter Oborne, a Daily Mail political columist said "It's the job of the press to bring to light falshoods". It's a shame the idea wasn't applied to the article below.

Published in print and on the web, it deals with the blockade protests against the G8 held on Wednesday 6th June. I saw a copy of it last night and was astounded at the shoddy quality of the journalism. I find it hard to believe that someone was actualy paid to produce such a mixed up shambles of misinformation and mistake.

It contains around 13 serious factual errors. This is a shocking number of mistakes for any article.

The Daily Mail does not have a good record when it comes to accuracy and G8 protests. This article confirms that their reporting should not be believed. Over 2.3 Million people read the Daily Mail...

Vox Pops - What was your best experience at the G8 protests 2007 in Germany ?

13-06-2007 10:30 | G8 Germany 2007 | Globalisation | World

In English only, for German and English please listen to:

http://www.freie-radios.net/portal/content.php?id=17619

Whats hot and not G8 2007

13-06-2007 10:10 | G8 Germany 2007 | World

G82007 Heiligendamm

What's hot and not

CASMII calls for ethical journalism in response to Observer article on Iran

13-06-2007 01:00 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | History | World

The Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) is greatly alarmed by the publication in the Observer 10.06.07 of an article "MI6 probes UK link to nuclear trade with Iran", by Mark Townsend, which propagates unfounded allegations and distortions against Iran, similar to the reports in 2003 that paved the way to the bloodbath in Iraq; nearly all of which now discredited.

The War on Consciousness

12-06-2007 23:57 | Terror War | World

We are truly in a war. It is not the war we imagine we are in, which is the way our true adversaries want it. It is not a foreign war against a foreign enemy. It is a war on consciousness, a war on our own minds. The global war on terror that is being fought around the world is an embodied reflection in the material world of a deeper, more fundamental war that is going on in the realm of consciousness itself.

Video of Prisoner Solidarity March, 08/06/07

12-06-2007 23:29 | G8 Germany 2007 | Globalisation | Repression | World

Video Rushes of the G8 Prisoner Solidarity March

Whats hot and not G82007 Heiligendamm

12-06-2007 19:46 | G8 Germany 2007 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

From the streets, blockades and bars- the self- elected unrepresentative group of 8 that make up the whats hot team have this report.

Burning of Margaret Hodge Effigy

12-06-2007 17:20 | Anti-racism | Migration | Social Struggles | World

In an extra ordinary art performance artist Mark McGowan is to burn an effigy of Margaret Hodge, the Minister of State for Industry and the Regions at the Department of Trade and Industry. In a protest over her comments saying that established British families should be given priority over economic migrants for council housing.

‘Cleansing’ the Two-state ‘Vision’ in Jerusalem

12-06-2007 17:17 | Analysis | World

“Israel Slides towards the Disastrous One State Trap,” The Baltimore Sun’s editorial concluded on June 5. The conclusion is no more true than in Jerusalem, where systematically and persistently Israel is accelerating her “Israelization” plans for eastern Jerusalem that will in the foreseen future doom the “land-for-peace” formula as obsolete, outdated and dead letter.

Why your revolution is no liberation!

During the recent weeks and months a spirited debate developed in different German left wing newspapers and groups about the sense or non-sense, the perspectives and the means and goals of the mobilisation against the G8 summit. Different German and Austrian anti-fascist groups started a campaign to criticise a wrong analysis of capitalism widely spread in the anti-globalisation movement. In the context of this campaign several public discussions and lectures were held, a special webpage was set up but above all reader was published that contains a set of basic texts referring to this problem. This reader is available in German and English and will soon also be published in French in order to spread the debate also across other countries. Check it out: www.no-liberation-reader.tk

Turbulence: Ideas for movement (Issue #1 Online Now!)

12-06-2007 16:23 | Analysis | Globalisation | Workers' Movements | World

The articles from the first issue of 'Turbulence: Ideas for movement' are now available to read and download online at: www.turbulence.org.uk

2nd International Day of Solidarity With John Bowden

12-06-2007 14:35 | Repression | World

Friday 13th July has been chosen as the date for the 2nd International Day of Solidarity with John Bowden. On that day, around the world, please make every effort to hold an action in support of John and in defence of the Anarchist Black Cross (ABC.)

Should Indymedia organise a whip round for the Blairs?

12-06-2007 12:36 | Analysis | History | World

Poor Anthony Charles Lynton Blair will cease to our lord and master on June 27th.
How is the poor chap to survive? Perhaps Indymedia readers should orgranise a whip round?

Venezuela's Withdrawal from the IMF and the World Bank

12-06-2007 11:38 | Globalisation | World

With their emancipation from the Bretton Woods institutions, the states of latin America now try to lessen their dependence. A Bank of the South could assume the role of structural creditor in the future.