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Solidarity Protest at the German Consulate in Edinburgh
About 20 -30 people participated at the solidarity protest against the G8 related police raids in Germany from Wednesday 9th of May.Please Take 5 Minutes To Help A Prisoner
Long-term prison resister John Bowden is currently being victmised for his politics and for his links to the Anarchist Black Cross.REMEMBER EACH ELEVENTH campaign - EVOLVING ! YOU TOO?
THIS SPRING, 2007, IDEAS FOR FUTURE ACTION DISCUSSIONS, RE THE "REMEMBER EACH ELEVENTH" CAMPAIGN.SUGGESTING RADICALS ETC ENGAGE, USING, SAY, THE "WREATH" LECTURES . . . . proposing some unusual "overlaps" - dates to follow - encouraging extra involvement . . . . new moments, unities, etc
Scotland’s May 2007 Election Fiasco
Are we seeing a para-political coup against Scottish democracy?Arrests in Barcelona against the squatter movement
On 23 April, 2007, Javier Mazas and Peter Gelderloos were arrested during the police response to a small demonstration organized by the Assamblea de la Okupacion (Squatters Assembly) on La Rambla, in Barcelona.Nuclear Warhead Convoy on the road today
Activists today expressed their anger that the Ministry of Defence had transported six, fully armed nuclear warheads along the Edinburgh Bypass just the day after the new Parliament was sworn in.Presidential Candidate: Senator Reid was Right, War is Lost
Reid is now opposing the Iraq War because the U.S. is losing; he initially supported the war and backed the invasion. The war is another imperial adventure by the U.S. and there is a growing divide, by those supporters of U.S. imperialism, that a continued war is weakening U.S. imperialism.The War on Free Expression
The struggle to save our First Amendment rights.Palestinian Army of Islam must show good faith by releasing journalist
"The Palestinian Army of Islam, which has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of BBC journalist Alan Johnston, must show good faith and release him immediately," declared Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, GUE/NGL Chairman of the EP delegation for relations with the PLC, following the release of a video by the Al Jazeera network in which the Palestinian Army of Islam takes responsibility for the kidnapping.German Consulate Attacked!the messanger
Copied from Indymedia Scotland:As a show of solidarity with the victims of police repression in Germany, the German Consulate in Edinburgh has been redecorated in lovely yellow.
Saving Europe's Last Great Wilderness From Corporate Greed TALK+NEW FILMS
An activist from the Saving Iceland campaign gives talks with new films in at the Common Place in Leeds, at 5 - 6.30, Saturday 12 May.A summer of International dissent and action against Heavy Industry - swarming around Iceland from the 6th of July 2007. http://www.savingiceland.org/camp2007 http://www.savingiceland.org/conference
Edinburgh Protest against G8 Repression - Friday
German Police have carried out roughly 40 raids across Germany or social centres and homes as well as taking out the alternative internet provider so36.net. This is all done as part of a security operation surrounding the G8 summit due to take place within a month in Northern Germany.Demo in Support Of John Bowden
HANDS OFF JOHN BOWDEN!STOP THE HARRASSMENT
Demo outside The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh
Friday May 25th 2.00pm
Finland, Host of the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, does not respect Human Rights
Hosting the Eurovision 2007 song contest gives Finland an opportunity to market itself to the rest of the world with empty phrases and images that cover the gloomy reality. By doing so Finland wants cover up such facts as the poor legal protection people in Finland have against the missuse of power by members of the judicial system and various authorities. These practices have the silent approval of those in power.Suddenly, it is 142,000 spoiled votes
"I never used to feel strongly about this, but 100,000 Scots have just had their votes stolen by being misinterpreted as 'spoiled ballots' while voting against BlaIraq. No fucking way is that true. Maybe four of five thousand deliberate spoils, but I'm also guessing the 100,000 figure is being rounded down by that amount."Summary of today's police raids in Germany
According to mainstream media, over 800 policemen were involved in raiding 40 left-wing political objects with the support of 20 public prosecutors.Whilst German television channels reported live from the razzias in the big cities, according to the populist press farms in Schleswig-Holstein, Brandenburg and Niedersachsen were also affected.
Several reasons were given so far for the raids, which nevertheless seemed to centre on and affect mainly infrastructure and logistics around the protests against the G8 summit.
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Raid of "Rote Flora" G8 Convergence Centre in Hamburg
Several main hubs of political projects associated with the forthcoming G8 protests have been raided by the police in Germany.Amongst them a social centre in Hamburg, which will open in three weeks as the first convergence centre in Germany.