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(Im)Precision of U.S Bombing and the (Under)Valuation of an Afghan Life

12-10-2008 18:58 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Terror War | World

US/NATO bombs kill about ten times more Afghan civilians with a ton of our
"precision" bombs than we killed Serbs in 1999. More than 80% of Afghan
civilian deaths today caused by the US/NATO are due to close air support
attacks. They (Afghans) are only worth one-tenth of an Alaskan sea otter
rather than forty camels. We spend ten dollars on the military in
Afghanistan to pursue our geo-strategic aims and less than $1 on
reconstructing the everyday lives of Afghans devastated by thirty years of
war.

squat pretoriusstraat 28 in amsterdam to be evicted

12-10-2008 11:31 | Free Spaces | World

Those activists who have passed through Amsterdam, will know that there is a thriving squatting scene there. One of the main squats in the east of the city, Pretoriusstraat 28, will be evicted by riot cops on tuesday 14th October. After a seven year battle against speculation and the sale of social housing, state and capital have finally got their way. For the time being!
On this day other Amsterdam squats will be evicted.

Economic Fascism and The United States

12-10-2008 00:46 | Globalisation | World

If I do not believe in, trust, or support the US Federal Government, my home should not be in jeopardy. The Federal Government, whenever they choose, through the IRS, will take your home if you do not support them. This confiscation of property by the Federal Government is absolutely and unequivocally wrong, and it is illegal.

For the Federal Government to threaten me with stealing my home because I want them to fail, is economic FASCISM.

Let the Federal Government collect it’s taxes but to put my home in peril because of taxes - is ECONOMIC FASCISM.

I want the Federal Government to spend itself into bankruptcy and irrelevance; and it is my patriotic right as a human and and an American to have control over my money to do so.

I believe in local taxes, and local representation of those taxes; to me - the FED is DEAD.

The day a Trident Nuclear submarine pulls into port for salvage and dismantling, because the US Federal Government has no money, will be a day I open a bottle of champagne and christen my life. (I will drink it and not smash it on some battleship.)

Edinburgh Financial Protest: "We wont pay for your crisis!"

11-10-2008 20:55 | Analysis | Social Struggles | World

"We Wont Pay for Your Crisis!"

Edinburgh is set to have a demonstration against the government's criminal bank bailout, at the Corporate Headquarters of HBOS.

Demonstration Against Ugandan Human Rights Abuse, London 9 Oct, 2008

11-10-2008 18:17 | Anti-racism | Gender | Social Struggles | World

October 9 is Uganda Independence Day, but for gay Nigerians in particular there is little to celebrate. Around 50 people met in a demonstration sponsored by the NUS outside the Ugandan Embassy in Trafalgar Square at noon on Ugandan Independence Day, Oct 9, to protest against human rights abuses in Uganda.
Photographs (C) 2008, Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

Roma people in Italy. Urgent appeal to the Spanish (and European) authorities

11-10-2008 16:29 | Anti-racism | World

EveryOne Group has sent an urgent appeal to His Majesty King Juan Carlos I; to the President of the Spanish Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero; and to the Ministers and Spanish Members of Parliament, asking them to provide – by way of exception and given the gravity of the situation – humanitarian protection on Spanish soil for a small community of Romanian Roma which is about to be evicted from a derelict building in the city of Pesaro after suffering long and terrible persecution in Italy. The clearance would cause a humanitarian tragedy.

Moscow- Anti-Fascist murdered by nazi scum!

11-10-2008 12:35 | Anti-racism | World

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Austria's Nazi Haider Dead!

11-10-2008 07:22 | Anti-racism | Migration | World

Austrian far-right Nazi politician Joerg Haider has been killed in a road accident

Hamburg: Acquittal for alleged Superheroine

10-10-2008 22:46 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

A few days ago, a Hamburg activist was in court for allegedly having participated in an action against precarity and for distribution. Now she has been acquitted. Here is a report from someone who was at the court case:

Florence, Italy. The muncipal police snatch blankets from the Roma sleeping out.

10-10-2008 21:53 | Anti-racism | World

FLORENCE, AT THREE O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING THE MUNICIPAL POLICE SNATCH BLANKETS FROM THE ROMA SLEEPING NEAR THE STATION AND SEND THEM TO BE DESTROYED: “SLEEP ON CARDBOARD INSTEAD!”

INDIGNATION FROM EVERYONE GROUP AND AURORA ASSOCIATION WHO ARE REQUESTING AN URGENT MEETING WITH THE MAYOR, LEONARDO DOMENICI, AND APPEALING TO THE PEOPLE OF FLORENCE TO HELP THE ROMA FIGHT OFF THE COLD

Venezuela: National Security = Personal Insecurity

10-10-2008 20:02 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Terror War | World

* This Editorial from El Libertario (#54, September-October 2008, Venezuela) examines – from the current Venezuelan perspective – how authoritarian power builds its own security upon the destruction of collective security.

This Week in Palestine – Week 41

10-10-2008 19:40 | Anti-racism | Other Press | Palestine | World

This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org, for October 4 through 10, 2008.

The Wall Street crisis (by Latuff)

10-10-2008 18:50 | Analysis | Globalisation | World

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

Crooks and Killers

10-10-2008 18:22 | Anti-militarism | World

How justice for those who own a society and those who serve their interests differs so greatly from the justice given to the middle class and poor.

Uk RNC Activist UPDATE

10-10-2008 16:47 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

From Dave

PANIC DECLARED Empty store shelves, gas pumps, ATMs ahead -

10-10-2008 16:23 | Analysis | Globalisation | Technology | World

Forget debating a 1929-style stock crash. It just happened, and the banking "holiday," if it happens, won't wait 4 years as it did in the Depression because THIS crisis started with banking. If it weren't for World War II, we would still be in the Depression. Capitalism as we have known it is dead -- Bush & Co. are proving it by socializing the insurer AIG and talk of buying into banks, etc. Our only hope that the finance and service economy (see chart) would take up the slack left by the end of WWII. But the finance economy just failed. The tech (computer) industry is sure to follow its partner down the drain. Empty store shelves and unavailability of cash to you as well as businesses are possibilities we deal with here.