World Anti-racism Newswire Archive

Ethnic cleansing, one sick Gazan at a time.

The Israeli government must feel so proud of itself for not having the any member of the IDF pull the trigger on these people: just let their treatable diseases take their course.

One also has to praise the actions of the Tel-Aviv based Physicians for Human Rights - Israel for their wonderful humanitarian work in this area.

FATMA NAVRUZ MUST STAY!
19 October 2007


Message from the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum (NNRF)

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'Ms Navruz is a 54-year-old woman who is suffering from considerable problems of ill-health. She has no less than three different appointments scheduled for this week at the Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham – one for an endoscopy, another in the department of Thoracic medicine, and another with her psychiatrist. She has further appointments pending because she is suffering severe pain requiring treatment for pain relief and physiotherapy. Ms Navruz's consultant states that she is suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, anxiety and depression, which they say is in keeping with her accounts of torture, rape and imprisonment in her country. She is also suffering from psychosis. The fact that Ms Navruz has not been able to prove torture and rape at the hands of the Turkish authorities for her political actions in support of working people in Turkey and the Kurds in particular is not a surprise to anyone who has worked with survivors of both torture and rape – two of the most heinous and hidden acts of terror to the individual.

On 5 September immigration authorities snatched a Tamil Sri Lankan family from South Benwell, Newcastle. The immigration police pounded at the door of the Uthayakumar family home at 7am and demanded access. The family were informed that they faced deportation and were made to pack their belongings under the supervision of immigration officials from North Shields Immigration Reporting Centre. The family is suspected by the Sri Lankan government of having connections to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and would be in extreme danger if deported.

At 4pm today - 20th October 2007 An activist from North West Asylum Seeker Defense Groupt was arrested. Faraydun Abdulazzadah was travelling on bus number 192 when he was arrested supposedly for a ticket offense. Faraydun is a political refugee from Iran and if forced to return would be at risk of imprisonment or execution as he is a communist.

Switzerland, Bern. The conservative and right winged party SVP tried to do a "march to Bern" on october the 6th. This march was planned as a part of the racist and antisocialist election campaign of the SVP. Planned was also a celeberation on the central place of Bern. What u got 2 know: the fascist leader Mussolini and his party once did a "march to rome" and adolf hitler and the NSDAP did a "march to Berlin". So this march of the SVP was a clear provocation.-

Massive riots stopped the march. At the central place of Bern a huge stage, several vans, mics - everything belonging to the SVP - was destroyed by anarchists and communists. The marchers were not able to reach the place though police fought for them against the rioters.

This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for October 12 through 19, 2007.

This week the Israeli army escalated its attacks and invasions into various parts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip while in the meantime, diplomatic efforts to hold a peace conference under American supervision continue, these stories and more, coming up, stay tuned.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, October 18th, 2007.

An article exposing the UK Government's collusion with Indonesia in stopping the people of West Papua from voting for freedom from Indonesian colonial rule

'Undone mayor' Ken Egostone is risking being exposed as a serial fabricator at the expense of same of the key communities whom he first disenfranchised over 20 years ago when he abused the GLC funding programmes to bribe strategically -and contemptuously racistly selected and placed ethnic surrogates who sacrificed the long term economic, social and human rights of entire communities in return for the corrupting cash that the egotist Livingstone doled out to these colluders... Today Livingstone is embarked on a massive lying project to ensure he gets re-elected in May 2008 as the 'undone mayor'

After the success of our first event Food Not Bombs Manchester will be out across the city this week at the below venues. Come say hi....

Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Prepare now for emergency protest at the US Embassy in London!

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a former Black Panther Party spokesman, supporter of the MOVE
organisation and an award-winning journalist known as the “voice of the voiceless”. He was
framed up in 1982 on false charges of killing a Philadelphia police officer. Sentenced to death
based on his political history and beliefs, Mumia has spent 25 years on death row for a crime
he did not commit.

See below, contact the PDC or visit www.partisandefense.org for more information.

Forget the Neo-Con, the Neo-Dem, the Neo-Lib and the Neo-Nuts. The role the demonization and dehumanization of the (many, many, many...) Empire’s enemies has played in supporting imperialism and colonialism can be more easily seen in those Western liberal and progressive writers, journalists, intellectuals and anti-war movement’s planners who always resort to human rights, women rights, gay rights’ violations of the Empire’s enemy of the month as the reason why we, the enlightened people, can’t surely sympathies, let alone support the "other" peoples who try to defend themselves and resist against wars of aggression and occupations, which is to say, colonialism and imperialism.

How American politicians can call Iran a dangerous country and claim that it poses a threat to the U.S. is a mystery. On second thought, it is not a mystery. It just tells you that the politicians think you and I are so stupid that we will fall for the exact same parade of lies and exaggerations that was used to justify the war against Iraq.

International Day of Action for Radical Community Responses to Sexual Assault - November 30th 2007

Call to Action- No Borders Camp November 2007
Where: The wall of death dividing the cities of Mexicali and Calexico, Mexico-U.S. border.
When: November 5-11, 2007

Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, spokesman of Neturei Karta International, issued the following statement on the eve of the group's meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Obviously Ahmadinejad was not saying "We don’t have any homosexuals whatsoever in Iran" —something nobody in the world would believe, not even in Iran. And by implication, he was not telling his audience, I am a plain liar! —something which his audience at Columbia and the American media construed him to be saying.

There's been a lot of talk about Ahmadinejad's statement about how Iran supposedly "doesn't have gays like you do" - which of course totally distracts from the substance of his speech in which he proclaimed that Iran was not going to attack anyone and that he didn't deny the holocaust as claimed but only questioned why the Palestinians had to suffer for it.

There will be an organising meeting on 6 October at the Friends Meeting House (Quaker House), 6 Mount Street, Manchester, from 12pm to 2pm.

IRAQI REFUGEE SEIZED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT IN MANCHESTER. - PLEASE ACT NOW!




Despite fleeing oppression in Iraq, Sabah Abdul Rahman Kasim was arrested by what he thought were police officers, but were in fact officers from Borders and Immigration Agency (BIA), on a bus in Manchester (Bus no. 17) at 3:30pm on Saturday 8 September 2007. He was essentially kidnapped and sent to a holding centre, possibly Dallas Court Reporting Centre, in Salford.