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Escalation of state violence against Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico

30-05-2008 06:21

Police and military aggression, harrassment and direct attacks have increased, people have been injured, displaced and terrorised. Political prisoners are being beaten and isolated.

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Fuelling the Fire

27-05-2008 16:32

Rising oil prices offer the best hope of curbing carbon emissions in the short term, but they also reflect our unquenchable thirst for the black gold. Just don’t mention the ‘R’ word…

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Mitrovica lead crisis: Romano Them asks for comprehensive information from UN

27-05-2008 14:00

A survey, which was produced by the Institute of Public Health in Kosovska Mitrovica at the request of the representatives of the IDP camps in Northern Mitrovica confirmed previous allegations, according to which the lead level in the blood of Romani children living in these camps has remained at an alarmingly high level.

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UNISON Public Meeting, 11th June: Save our services in Lambeth!

27-05-2008 11:15

Speakers include:
Mark Serwotka – General Secretary, PCS
Alan Walter – Secretary, Defend Council Housing
Heenal Rajani – Lambeth UNISON
Barbara Glosby – Lambeth Pensioners Association

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The Tools Of Greenwashing: Astroturfs

27-05-2008 10:26

Questioning and exposing the greenwashing activities of corporations, in particular, is something that the seasoned cynic makes light of; but sometimes our job is made more difficult, not so much by the quality of the greenwashing being used, but by the sheer weight of apparent “public” opinion supporting the views of the corporations.

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Calling all Activists, Artists and Astronauts for Day of Action against G8

26-05-2008 17:09

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Do you Screenprint? Make Music? Street Art? Perform? Do you like to bake Cookies?
The 5th July 2008 will be your chance to take to the streets and be part of a creative intervention in Croydon. Come together with lots of other artists, activists and alternative astronauts, to create a disturbance in the normal structure of time and space and show your support for the protests against the G8 in Japan.

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Silvio Berlusconi and the 2008 'democratic' election campaign

26-05-2008 09:53

Senator Guiseppe Ciarrapico
If you want to know WHAT controls the European media…

These are all statements of Silvio Berlusconi himself in the weeks before the 2008 elections.
Silvio Berlusconi assures a few weeks before the elections that there is no place in his coalition for persons with a criminal past or with mafia connections…

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Help Europe:Silvio Berlusconi is taking over the European mediamarket!

26-05-2008 09:48

In the media I read that Berlusconi’s company mediaset mid 2007 has taken over Endemol: one of the biggest mediaconcerns on the world market…
Do we have to worry in Europe?

If you want to know WHAT won the Italian elections and who controls OUR media.
Read and shiver…

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Italian Crystal nights, first the gypsies...Is this Europe 1938?

26-05-2008 09:44

burning gypsy camp in Napels
A few nights of raids with baseball bats and molotov cocktails have done the job…
Why didn`t we see the sensational images of burning gypsy camps, terrified and crying children and desperate people in our European press?

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Activists succesfully block Cargill soyfactory in Belgium: exciting videoreport!

26-05-2008 07:20

On April 17th 2008, activist from seven different european countries blocked the soy factory of Cargill in Ghent (Belgium) for a whole day long. Not one single truck of soy was able to enter or leave the factory.

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Five suppliers for the National Identity Scheme apointed

25-05-2008 15:44

repost from  http://www.ips.gov.uk/passport/press-2008-05-23.asp
The five suppliers chosen to work with the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) and to deliver the National Identity Scheme (NIS) were named today.
CSC, EDS, Fujitsu, IBM, and Thales have been invited to sign framework contracts and form a Strategic Supplier Group for the scheme.

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Ban Ki Moon and world leaders to take proactive action on Burma

25-05-2008 15:41

Burma Democratic Concern today called for Ban Ki Moon and world leaders to take proactive action decisively by setting out clear deadlines and benchmarks to solve Burma crisis.

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Via Campesina protests at the Convention on Biological Diversity

25-05-2008 10:54

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During the current Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) conference in Bonn, Via Campesina and other social movements and activists have been organising a series of protests under the motto "Nature for people, not for business". 22nd May saw a banner protest, with noise and leafletting during the official celebrations of Biodiversity and at an agribusiness industry lunch.

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Memories of “Popular Power” in Venezuela’s economy

23-05-2008 21:43

* From false co-management and cooperatives to the deceitful EPS, we present a balance of what has happened in Venezuela after at least 7 years of pretending to build a socialist economy, where the available data and verifiable facts belie the failure of the Chavez administration.

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The Grande Arcade Sucks

19-05-2008 22:07

It really does suck

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Colombia parades FARC's top female "Karina" - Regional Temperature rising.

19-05-2008 21:01

Nelly Avila Moreno alias "Karina" [a.k.a. 'Janet Mosquera Renteria', 'Rocío Arias' aged 47, 1.60 metres tall and 85kg weight], has been one of the most wanted women on this planet this century. In a different sort of most wanted woman on the planet way to Kate Moss [a.ka. as Kate, aged 34, height 5'6" - 5'7", weight 105lbs]. And the difference is not merely one of metric versus imperial measurements. Whatever you can say about Kate you're not going to suggest she led brigade 47 of the FARC operating in western Colombia credited with narcotraffic operations in Samaná and Pensilvania reliant on plantations of 3,500 hectares. Coz you know you'd get a writ for libel for that. Nor was Kate ever worth 650 million US dollars in reward bounty.

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From Berlin to Kehl and Strasbourg: Block NATO!

19-05-2008 11:12

Against the meeting of the “NATO Parlamentarian Assembly” in Berlin
Rally and bicycle parade May 24, 1pm

This year’s annual NATO conference in Bucharest has taken the decision to celebrate NATO’s "60th anniversary" in France and Germany in 2009. The precise date remains unclear, but it will be held in spring 2009 in the border cities of Strasbourg and Kehl. NATO strategists have already stressed the importance of next year’s summit. They have made the proposal to ratify a new strategic concept that includes nuclear first strikes to keep or get access to resources and a civil-military approach to counter-insurgency.

Europe is at war - even if the bombs are falling several thousands of kilometres away. Because of NATO, the US maintains bases for military interventions worldwide. Nuclear weapons are still deployed in Europe. NATO membership implies participation in military interventions all over the world, directly with national forces, indirectly from military bases, or through logistical support for foreign troops.

Like the G8, NATO is an important player for the "Global Security Architecture".

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Civil Liberties and Extradition to the US

19-05-2008 00:01

The 2003 Extradition Act and Tony Blair and Gordon Browns erosion of Civil Liberties and Innocent with being proven guilty has gone.

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Biofuels and the Rise of Nationalistic Environmentalism

16-05-2008 21:17

The rapid expansion of biofuel production worldwide has paralleled a dramatic rise in food prices. The expansion of biofuels has been supported by a wide spectrum of people, from environmentalists looking for "sustainable" energy to conservatives wanting to reduce U.S. dependency on foreign oil. With food riots spreading, the U.S. remains committed to an expansion of biofuel.

Biofuels are part of a larger movement toward green capitalism, the idea that we can scale down our energy use through technologies that improve the efficiency of the consumer society. Biofuels are emblematic of the dark side of green capitalism, which is focused almost entirely on the well being of the global upper class. Biofuels are a form of nationalistic environmentalism that is creating a foundation on which more extreme nationalists will try to wed the racist tools of yesterday with a version of "sustainability" that will include the destruction of the global poor.

Real solutions are both impossibly difficult and simple. The cooperative societies in which most humans have always lived are capable of supporting a high standard of living with far less resources than the individualized, consumer society. Enlightened political leadership would be helpful, but we can create a sustainable society without it. Indeed, we have to.

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Saying Goodbye to Air Travel

16-05-2008 21:00

The airline industry has no future. The same is true for airfreight. No air carrier has a viable plan to make a profit with oil at current prices—much less in years to come as the petroleum available to world markets dwindles rapidly.
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