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Palestine Today 06 20 2011

20-06-2011 15:34 | Other Press | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org, for Monday June 20th , 2011

SpanishRevolution: After 19J. Videos and text

20-06-2011 14:15 | World

SpanishRevolution: After 19J. Videos and text

A Tribute to Anti-War Campaigner Brian Haw, Driven by Revulsion at the Murder of Innocents

When I was a child, I read the Guinness Book of Records, and marvelled at the stories of the people who, in ancient times, removed themselves from everyday reality, like Saint Simeon Stylites, a Christian ascetic who lived on a tiny platform on top of a pillar in Aleppo, Syria for 37 years in the 5th century AD.

Un Imigrato a Verona

19-06-2011 22:29 | Workers' Movements | World

On June 17th, 2011, a group of about 25 immigrants that had been protesting for ten days decided to end their protest by climbing up the scaffolding attached to Verona's arena and demanding their long promised residency permits.

Facebook and Google strut with top bankers and royalty - Bilderberg 2011 debrief

19-06-2011 18:39 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

Friday Drivetime - BCfm’s weekly politics show - At five: discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world - After six: straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers and Marina Morris

Parliament Square peace campaigner Brian Haw dies

19-06-2011 12:34 | Anti-militarism | South Coast | World

A brief tribute to wonderful human being and committed peace activist Brian Haw.

Turkey’s final warning to Syria: Tomorrow may be too late for reforms

What is unfolding in Syria is an armed insurrection supported covertly by foreign powers including the US, Turkey and Israel.

Alternative perspectives on the Libyan War

18-06-2011 08:21 | Anti-militarism | Other Press | World

The War in Libya: Race,"Humanitarianism" and the Media

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/forte200411.html

Excerpt:
Social Media Folklore:
Creating the Legend of "African Mercenaries"

One of the most fertile sites for the international production of myths of savage African mercenaries has been Twitter, among other social network sites, in ways that bring back to mind the manner in which Twitter was used to spread misinformation at the time of the June 2009 Iran election protests. The problem is not that the site is an outlet for creative imaginations, but that some of the mainstream media source Twitter for their reports, in the absence of correspondents on the ground. The Independent's Michael Mumisa observed that "foreign media outlets have had to rely mostly on unverified reports posted on social network websites and on phone calls from Libyans terrified of Gaddafi's 'savage African mercenaries who are going door-to-door raping our women and attacking our children'," and he speaks of "a Twitter user based in Saudi Arabia," who "wrote how Gaddafi is 'ordering african (sic) mercenaries to break into homes in Benghazi to RAPE (sic) Libyan women in order to detract (sic) men protesters!'" The New York Times' David Kirkpatrick, in one of the few sober pieces analyzing the Libyan opposition, noted that "like the chiefs of the Libyan state news media, the rebels feel no loyalty to the truth in shaping their propaganda, claiming nonexistent battlefield victories, asserting they were still fighting in a key city days after it fell to Qaddafi forces, and making vastly inflated claims of his barbaric behavior."

Twitter is useful, however, not as a source of incontestable information about Gaddafi's atrocities, but as a guide to how the opposition prepared the narrative cover for attacking Sub-Saharan Africans. The mass of passive repeaters (retweeters), comprising diverse individuals and some journalists, helped from early on to inseminate the fear of African terror: "Afro-mercs" landing at the nearest airport and fanning out to murder Libyans. The myth was useful to the opposition, possessing a structure that made it cohere and appeal on a very basic level: 1) all vs. one -- the Libyan people united against the dictator; 2) male vs. female -- African mercenaries specifically targeting Libyan women; and, 3) local vs. foreign -- proud nationals combating savage intruders. Some of the tweeted statements are classics of colonial racial propaganda, especially when they revolve around protecting local Libyan women, a useful trope also in both classic and contemporary imperial narratives linking the status of native women with progress and liberation.

Unemployment Figures Con

17-06-2011 21:39 | Social Struggles | Liverpool | World

Unemployment has fallen by 88,000 but official figures showed the fall came after thousands of young people were classed as 'economically inactive' rather than unemployed.

Call out for workshops for EF! Summer Gathering 2011

17-06-2011 15:16 | Analysis | Climate Chaos | Ecology | World

This year's Earth First Summer Gathering takes place in East Anglia this year, starting on the 10th of August and running for five days. With six workshops tents we have space for over 100 discussions, presentations and workshops. The spaces are filling up fast, but there is still time to book a spot. So if you've got an idea you wish to highlight, whether it's related to ecological defence or social resistance here is your chance. The gathering is attended by hundreds of individuals interested and participating in struggles around the UK and Europe.

Palestine Today 06 16 2011

16-06-2011 13:48 | Other Press | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org, for Thursday June 16th, 2011

Lettre de Mme Maigret à Jean-Paul Sartre

16-06-2011 10:11 | Rossport Solidarity | Analysis | World

My English’s not improved yet. We have experienced" notre Gauche Proletarienne" and Maoism and we suffer know Chinese impact You are demanding yet facts, because world is to far from death. Dear, here is my experience for that Known as “Spanish [r]evolution.

USA: Turn Off That Camera! Filming The Police At Work

16-06-2011 10:01 | Other Press | Repression | World

Dashboard cams in police cars are ubiquitous. Yet police are pushing back against Americans capturing them at work on cell phone cameras. Arresting people filming arrests. Is that right?

You see police arresting someone. Maybe it looks right and by the book. Maybe it doesn’t.

You pull out your cell phone and start to record. To make a video. And the next thing you know, you are arrested. The video-making bystander, in handcuffs. Facing charges.

It’s happening all around the country. Cell phones and their cameras are now everywhere. Police often don’t like to be recorded doing their work. It’s not always pretty.

But in the era of the citizen journalist, should making a video mean an arrest? Who’s the watchdog then?

This hour On Point: the battle over citizens videoing police.

- Tom Ashbrook

Journalist and Human rights activist Tortured

15-06-2011 17:18 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

Human rights watchdog Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has exposed a story about the abduction, detention, cruel and inhuman treatment and interrogation of human rights defender William Gomes.

Palestine Today 06 15 2011

15-06-2011 14:52 | Other Press | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org, for Wednesday June 15th, 2011

Public Rally in Support of Victims of Torture, 26 June, Trafalgar Square, 2-4pm

26 June is UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. In spite of laws to protect them, men, women, children and entire communities all around the world have to live with the consequences of torture meted out by state authorities. Torture is illegal. Join us on this day to show solidarity with victims. Also the final day of Refugee Week 2011, it should not be forgotten that many refugees have fled torture.

Atos Origin Recruitment Event Disrupted by Angry Protests

15-06-2011 08:01 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Around 60 disabled people, supporters and benefit claimants held an angry protest outside the Atos Origin recruitment event in London yesterday.

Europe Activists campaign against Israeli Agrexco -Global day of action 26/11/11

15-06-2011 07:44 | Palestine | Social Struggles | World

This past weekend in the Montpellier, France, over 100 activists from 9 countries gathered for the first ever European Forum Against Agrexco. Delegates from Italy, UK, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Palestine joined the French organizers for two full days of workshops aimed at strengthening the boycott campaign against the Israeli agricultural export giant.

Agrexco is Israel's largest fresh produce exporter and European markets account for the vast majority of their sales under the brand Carmel. The Israeli government's 50% stake in the company as well as their marketing of 60-70% of the fruit and vegetables grown in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank have made Agrexco a prime strategic target for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.

Pro-Nazi, Pro-Rape, Pro-Pedo Music in London

14-06-2011 21:52 | Anti-racism | Gender | Social Struggles | World

On 25 June and 1 Oct 2011, London's Slimelight nightspot plan to stage concerts by musicians with links to Fascism, Nazism and violent anti-Feminism

Fear of Freedom:collectivist bill of rights reducing NZers to dependency.

14-06-2011 19:45 | Education | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Australia could be landed with a dependent NZ if we become part of Australia. In my view, we will be like 'an anchor their your neck'. Our collectivist bill of rights, Australia is also seriously considering a bill of rights, is reducing the population to a state of dependency. I consider, if we join with Australia it should be a matter of mutual choice and not out of our desperation by our being reduced to 'third world status' and the 'begging bowl'. But I do think God is defending New Zealand so the people can have a choice.

World Newswire Archive

Palestine Today 06 20 2011

SpanishRevolution: After 19J. Videos and text

A Tribute to Anti-War Campaigner Brian Haw, Driven by Revulsion at the Murder of Innocents

Un Imigrato a Verona

Facebook and Google strut with top bankers and royalty - Bilderberg 2011 debrief

Parliament Square peace campaigner Brian Haw dies

Turkey’s final warning to Syria: Tomorrow may be too late for reforms

Alternative perspectives on the Libyan War

Unemployment Figures Con

Call out for workshops for EF! Summer Gathering 2011

Palestine Today 06 16 2011

Lettre de Mme Maigret à Jean-Paul Sartre

USA: Turn Off That Camera! Filming The Police At Work

Journalist and Human rights activist Tortured

Palestine Today 06 15 2011

Public Rally in Support of Victims of Torture, 26 June, Trafalgar Square, 2-4pm

Atos Origin Recruitment Event Disrupted by Angry Protests

Europe Activists campaign against Israeli Agrexco -Global day of action 26/11/11

Pro-Nazi, Pro-Rape, Pro-Pedo Music in London

Fear of Freedom:collectivist bill of rights reducing NZers to dependency.

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