World Repression Newswire Archive

Lonmin massacre: statement from Abahlali baseMjondolo

17-08-2012 13:52 | Globalisation | Policing | Repression | World

Statement from South African grassroots movement Abahlali baseMjondolo on the Lonmin massacre, the political context to the killings, and solidarity actions called so far in Cape Town and Auckland, New Zealand.

Solidarity With The Lonmin Miners

17-08-2012 12:02 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Stop Lonmin’s massacre of striking workers at Marikana, South Africa
For a general strike to end the Marikana massacre

In US, Centers For Disease Control Calls Mad Cow and Mad Pig West Nile Virus

The US government conspiracy of silence about Mad Cow and Mad Pig Disease in the United States continues.

America’s Vassal Acts Decisively and Illegally

I returned to the UK today to be astonished by private confirmation from within the FCO that the UK government has indeed decided – after immense pressure from the Obama administration – to enter the Ecuadorean Embassy and seize Julian Assange.

U.S. Republicans Own The "Voting Machine" Count Falsifiers

As more and more countries are going back to paper ballots because of electronic machine vote fraud, the US continues to allow the plutocratic political party to
control virtually every easily hacked 'voting machine'.

Corporate collaboration lets Mugabe continue abuses

15-08-2012 09:29 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Zimbabwe’s political-economic crisis continues because dislodging decades of malgovernance has not been achieved by either a Government of National Unity that began in early 2009, civil society activism, or international pressure, including this week’s Maputo summit of the main body charged with sorting out democratisation

How to support the dignified community of San Marcos Avilés:

HOW TO SUPPORT:

What YOU can do to support the dignified community of San Marcos Avilés, hich is under imminent threat of violent displacement:

Growing terror in San Marcos Aviles: imminent displacement planned

URGENT REPORT

“Worldwide Echo in Support of the Zapatistas:
Freedom and Justice for San Marcos Avilés and Francisco Sántiz López”

http://sanmarcosavilesen.wordpress.com/
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Arrests and Injuries at Calais "Justice for Noureddin" Demonstration

07-08-2012 15:42 | Migration | Policing | Repression | World

Arrests and Injuries at Calais "Justice for Noureddin" Demonstration

Has Australia Become a National-Security State?

Since the dawn of the nuclear age in 1945 political analysts have predicted that the immense dangers implicit in this technology would inevitably lead to the implementation of police-state tactics.

FBI Agents Raid US Homes in Search of “Anarchist Literature”

05-08-2012 09:44 | Policing | Repression | Sheffield | World

When FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force agents raided multiple activist homes in the Northwest last week, they were in search of “anti-government or anarchist literature.”

International Call for Solidarity with Zapatista Support Bases of San Marcos Aviles

“It is not only the task of the independent/alternative media to circulate the truth, but rather it is the responsibility of us all to do so.”

“Our compas from San Marcos Avilés are suffering this violence because they are indigenous, because they are Zapatistas, and because they have opened their own autonomous school.”

USA: Human Rights Activist Ordered to Jail

03-08-2012 21:30 | Policing | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The case of Ed Frey is reminiscent of an earlier Santa Cruz case where Sandy Loranger did time in jail for feeding the homeless soup. When the judge offered her counseling instead of jail Sandy Loranger replied, "If feeding my fellow man is a crime, I am beyond rehabilitation."

Libya and Syria: When Anti-Imperialism Goes Wrong

03-08-2012 10:03 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Reflexive opposition to Uncle Sam’s machinations abroad is generally a good thing. It is a progressive instinct that progressively declined in the 1990s, as presidents Bush Sr. and Clinton deftly deployed the U.S. military to execute “humanitarian” missions in Somalia, Haiti, and the Balkans and progressively increased in the 2000s, as Bush Jr. lurched from quagmire to disaster in transparent empire-building exercises in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Breaking……. Urgent: Community In Chiapas, Mexico, Threatened

Human rights organisations have warned that the population of nearly 200 Zapatista supporters in the indigenous community of San Marcos Aviles are at very serious risk of violent assault and displacement. The threats made against them have increased sharply since the Mexican elections in July.

New Leeds ABC Leaflet

Prisoners need support. New general-use Leeds ABC leaflet and small poster for notice-boards, etc.

International Call To Action:

“Worldwide Echo in Support of the Zapatistas:
Freedom and Justice for San Marcos Avilés and Sántiz López”

Today, with urgency, we are called upon to mobilize, with our whole being, solidarity and support for our Zapatista sisters and brothers of the community in resistance of San Marcos Avilés

Sex, Lies and Julian Assange

24-07-2012 07:16 | Repression | Terror War | World

Investigative journos at Aussie TV programme 'Four Corners' have been looking into the detail of Julian Assange's predicament and have put together this 50 min programme. Want to inform yourself about Julian's situation? This is a good place to start.

Watch it online or read the transcript (below).

Britain: London Olympics opening week

23-07-2012 15:31 | Globalisation | Policing | Repression | World

The greatest sporting, and money-making, show on earth The 2012 Olympic Games, held in London, will start with on Friday 27 July, watched by an estimated audience of 1 billion people around the world. Beyond the sporting excellence, Manny Thain looks at the crass commercialisation and increased state repression that accompanies the ‘greatest show on earth’.

Justice for Noureddin campaign continues in Düsseldorf, Germany

21-07-2012 13:26 | Anti-racism | Migration | Repression | World

The campaign and calls for justice, and an independent enquiry, after the death of popular refugee Noureddin Mohammed, originally from Darfur, which began outside the 'Hotel de Police' in Calais by local sans-papiers and other No Borders activists, continued yesterday after two actions in the German city of Düsseldorf during the No Borders camp in the nearby city of Köln. (This camp is also being supported by actions and a solidarity camp for a hunger-strike by refugees in the regional capital, Düsseldorf.)

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