World Repression Newswire Archive

Women of Zimbabwe - mass arrests over schooling demonstration

06-05-2006 22:08 | Education | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Over a hundred Zimbabweans are currently in detention for demonstrating against a 1000% increase in schooling fees.

US plans major Asian power grid/The Fall & Fall Of Afghanistan

06-05-2006 17:53 | Repression | World

Here, the motive for invading and attempting to occupy Afghanistan - as was planned for long before 9/11 - is laid bare for all to see.

But will anyone notice?

Police Riot when confronted by Flowers

05-05-2006 18:16 | Repression | Workers' Movements | Zapatista | World

Bilingual (World English/World Spanish) report of the state of affairs in Mexico City. Three Dead in clashes between Police, and Flower Growers and Sellers. Up to Eight Hundred Riot Police are involved in clashes with residents.

(Repost from Irene - Mexico City)

19 Year Old Boy Killed In Nablus by Israeli Army during Invasion

05-05-2006 16:34 | Repression | World

Upon my arriavl in Nablus the Israeli army invaded the City seeking wanted persons at 15.30 hours during theis invasion one 19 year old boy was shot dead by soldiers at aprox 1700 hours.

1,000

05-05-2006 12:55 | Anti-militarism | Free Spaces | Repression | World

Korean farmers and supporters defy brutal eviction for U.S. base expansion

May 4th, 2006 at 5:00am, the Korean Ministry of National Defense (MND) made its fourth attempt to occupy the villages of Daechuri and Doduri and crush the resistance to U.S. military base expansion. This time, they came with 12,000 riot police, 1,500 plain-clothes hired 'workers', who are notorious, right wing ex-military strike breakers, and 3,000 Korean soldiers and army engineers.

The situation in Atenco, Mexico

05-05-2006 02:59 | Repression | Zapatista | World

The situation in Atenco, Mexico, continues on red alert. Since last night, when we accompanied the people of Atenco in their just and dignified struggle for land and in solidarity with other struggles, there were riot police from the PFP (Mexican Federal Preventive Police) that were prepared to enter and repress the people.

The Salvador Option In Iraq

04-05-2006 18:18 | Repression | World

Leaked documents, such as "Iraq: Options Paper", written by the Bliar Government, prove that Bush and Blair's respective criminal Regimes were discussing the old Colonial Trick of "Divide & Rule" (fomenting Civil War) a full year before their illegal War of Aggression began.

Again, the media sleeps on the issue, even though Documentary Evidence proves this.

Bush Censors Internet

04-05-2006 17:10 | Repression | World

The decision by Google to remove my top position was politically motivated by the Bush regime.

Iraqi Police execute 'gay' child

04-05-2006 14:43 | Gender | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Ahmed, aged 14, shot dead on doorstep - Murdered to cleanse the community - Fundamentalist police blamed – Ahmed, gone but not forgotten

Manifesto of solidarity to Garotinho, in hunger strike, by mayors of Rio de Jane

04-05-2006 14:06 | Repression | World

When deciding for the hunger strike, Garotinho sacrifices himself on behalf of the public morality, of the respect to the honor and the ethics, little remembered today in this country dominated for a perverse financial system that so much harms Brazilian people.

Australian police harass former Guantánamo prisoner

04-05-2006 07:55 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

He is planning legal action against the police over the detention. Whatever the outcome, the harrassment of Habib and his family are a particularly sharp expression of the ongoing assault on basic democratic rights being conducted by the Howard government and its state government allies against the working class as a whole.

Australian Surgeons Condemn "Horrific" Organ Trade

04-05-2006 06:20 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Prison inmates are given instructions from a police officer. Leading Australian transplant surgeons have condemned the practice of harvesting organs from executed prisoners.

Maydy 2006: Eye witness on the Autonomous Block March

Written record of the days events with the Autonoumous Block.

Judge Doubts Moussaoui's Claims About 9/11

03-05-2006 17:52 | Repression | World

The judge knows that a "confession", gained after years of detention, does not make up for the lack of actual evidence against the man, and that supports the Government's Conspiracy Theory.

Join the 5th International Conference against Disapperances

03-05-2006 16:37 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

ICAD has been struggling against disappearances of the opposition by the government or governments for the last 10 years. As part of this Struggle 4 conferences (Turkey 1996, Colombia 1997, Philippines 1999 and Germany 2002) have been organised.

Protesters back Mapuche hunger strikers

03-05-2006 16:30 | Repression | Social Struggles | Zapatista | World

from tomorrow's (2006-5-4) morning star

Steven Colbert: The Real Issue Is The Media's Utter Failure

03-05-2006 16:16 | Repression | World

Steve Colbert did not make any jokes about George W. Bush. He simply told the truth about Bush. The joke however was on the so called “journalists” of this nation. The target of Mr. Colbert’s comedy routine was our media, not George W. Bush.

The country that wouldn't grow up

03-05-2006 16:08 | Repression | World

Current debates within Israel and the world Jewish community about the harmful effects of militant Zionist Extremism show that this relatively young nation may be coming into its own, and finally addressing the faults of its past.

If this trend continues, we could actually see Zionist rule replaced with a truly representative form of Government, which would place peace, and the welfare of ordinary Israelis, ahead of what this narrow, supremacist ideology regards as "winning".

There is hope for the young state yet.