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Occupy the London Stock Exchange - World Revolution Day 15th October

10 Years of Afghan War: Guantánamo-related events to mark anniversary (London)

Friday 7th October marks the 10th anniversary of the start of the war in Afghanistan on 7th October 2001. Before there was Guantánamo, there were black sites and torture prisons in Afghanistan where such practices continue to be carried out today. Nearly all the prisoners held at Guantánamo had been "processed" and held at the prisons at the Bagram Air Base, Kandahar and the Dark Prison in Kabul before being taken to Guantánamo Bay.

The 99 Percent Occupy Wall Street

06-10-2011 08:01 | Occupy Everywhere | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | World

The entrapment and arrest of 700 peaceful Occupy Wall Street (OWS) activists on the Brooklyn Bridge has created a huge wave of support for their movement. The number of daytime occupants in Liberty Plaza doubled or tripled from 100 the week prior to 200-300 this past Monday and Tuesday. These people are the core who maintain the occupation of the plaza, making it possible for several hundreds and sometimes thousands to hold rallies in the late afternoon and participate in the open mic speakouts and General Assembly meetings in the evening.

Countries with No Water

06-10-2011 07:39 | Climate Chaos | World

Imagine living in a country that has no fresh water? Well, it's happening in the Pacific. Some countries there have run out of fresh water.

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The Real Reason Why Police Cage Peaceful Protestors

05-10-2011 18:46 | Analysis | Policing | Public sector cuts | World

On Saturday, the Occupy Wall St. movement marched on the Brooklyn bridge in New York. Police officers cut the demonstrators off from the exits, entrapping them on the bridge, in the rain, before carting off as many as 700 to jail. In the story below, British journalist Dan Hancox writes about how corralling peaceful protestors, or "kettling," was used by Britain's conservative government to steamroll resistance to their drastic austerity agenda. As the Occupy Wall St. movement spreads to cities all over America, we may see much more of this type of policing of public space to quell protests. (AlterNet Editor's note)

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US Presidential Candidate Abuses Animals

05-10-2011 18:42 | Animal Liberation | World

the Mitt Romney record

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Palestine Today 10 05 2011

05-10-2011 16:40 | Other Press | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday October 5th, 2011

Occupy Wall Street: A Reply to Skeptics

On September 27th Lauren Ellis published an essay in Mother Jones Magazine entitled “Is #OccupyWallStreet Working?”

The essay argues that Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is not working because the movement has no clear message and is not demographically representative of those who are affected most by the current economic problems. While Ellis does raise important points about movement-messaging and political representation, she in no way tries to understand the internal logic and outward expression of OWS.

Ellis’ conclusions center around four main points: that OWS’s “kitchen sink approach” is a form of ineffective messaging; that the media’s focus on the police brutality distracts from OWS’s main message (or lack thereof); that the hacktavist collective Anonymous inhibits the OWS movement; and that the OWS participants are the “usual suspects” of “dreamers.” In what follows, I provide counter-arguments to each of Ellis’ points as an attempt to flesh-out some of the philosophies, practices, and communicative strategies of Occupy Wall Street. I want to note that I am not seeking to attack Lauren Ellis in any way. Instead, I am trying to demonstrate why her arguments—representative of many like-minded skeptics—are insufficiently substantiated.

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'Occupy' Movement Scares US Ruling Class

05-10-2011 15:02 | Occupy Everywhere | Repression | Social Struggles | World

As grassroots anger grows against the feeble facade that is democracy in the US, the 'Occupy' movement is gaining in popularity, and its massive online presence is being translated into boots - and tents - on the ground. After getting their start on Wall Street - the belly of the imperialist beast - the occupations have spread across the country.

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Occupy Manchester continues into day 4

05-10-2011 08:52 | Occupy Everywhere | World

Activists have been occupying Manchester for five nights now as part of the global movement of the 99%.

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When the Euro suit does not fit (article about the Greek crisis)

05-10-2011 07:51 | Social Struggles | World

Greece is sinking deeper into the financial crisis. Reporter for Swedish Newspaper Dagens Nyheter Kajsa Ekis Ekman visited this misunderstood country with a broken social contract, where... everyone agrees with each other.

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Occupy Chicago Efforts Mark One Week, Join 130+ Other U.S. Cities

It began as a call in July 2011 by the magazine Adbusters to hold powerful business interests on Wall Street to account, and drawing on inspiration from the famed 2011 grassroots protests across the Middle East. But the mantle has been taken up by grassroots activists in New York City to forge an ongoing occupation outside of Wall Street and throughout New York City. The effort in its first two weeks has spurred a national movement with sibling efforts in at least 130 other cities, including Chicago.

Occupy Chicago, merely a week old, has already drawn hundreds of grassroots protesters, who "march…each day…After an hour long general assembly meeting, demonstrators headed through the financial district, Millennium Park, the Magnificent Mile and back to base camp to once more spread messages of solidarity, positivity and persistence in the face of a political system that’s left 99% of Americans without a real voice in governance…While it may be young and still trying to get organized, the movement to Occupy America is growing and cohering. And though many went home after Saturday’s march, more than a hundred stayed to continue organizing and evangelizing, with no plans to leave until they feel their job is done."

UPDATE: Occupy Chicago threatened by Chicago police to stop.

Additional Coverage: Lessons Learned from Occupy Wall Street | Five Things that Occupy Wall Street Did Right | Occupy Chicago Entering Day 6 | Protestors Occupy Chicago in Solidarity with Occupy Wall St NY | An American Spring is Possible | Open Letter to Occupy Chicago.

Outside Resources: Think Progress; NY Times' Andrew Ross Sorking Sneers at Occupy Wall Street | Protests Work Better with Specific Demands | Occupy Wall Street Makes Its Own Media.

Social Media Resources: Tumblr | Twitter | Live Video Stream

antinuke banner drop - rotherham

04-10-2011 11:10 | Anti-Nuclear | Sheffield | World

a banner was dropped on the busy parkway next to the nuclear research centre in rotherham yesterday in solidarity with the hinkley blockade

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700 Arrested on Brooklyn Bridge as Occupy Wall Street Enters Third Week

The "Occupy Wall Street" protests in the financial district took a dramatic turn on Saturday when protesters tried to march across the Brooklyn Bridge. When police arrested 700 of the demonstrators, the event quickly turned into one of the largest arrests of non-violent protesters in recent history. Some protesters claim police lured them onto oncoming traffic on the bridge’s roadway; others said they did not hear instructions from police telling them to use the pedestrian walkway. Meanwhile, similar "Occupation" protests have spread to other cities, including Chicago, Boston and Los Angeles, where hundreds of protesters are now camped out in front of City Hall. We host a roundtable discussion with Marisa Holmes, an organizer with the main organizing group of Occupy Wall Street, called the General Assembly, Marina Sitrin, an attorney who is part of Occupy Wall Street’s legal working group, and Laurie Penny, a writer and journalist who reported on protests in London earlier this summer

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All Nine Antifascists Acquitted In Second Welling Trial!

03-10-2011 16:10 | Anti-racism | Repression | World

(But there are six already in jail who need support.)

Solidarity with the comrades of Revolutionary Struggle (Greece)

03-10-2011 13:50 | Anti-racism | Repression | World

Solidarity statement from UK antifascist prisoner Thomas Blak.

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Interview: Behind the Lines

03-10-2011 09:41 | Health | Iraq | Migration | World

Hussein Al-Alak speaks with a Jordanian based activist involved in helping Iraqi refugees who have fled to Jordan.

Call from France to all UK anti-nuclear Activists

03-10-2011 06:45 | Ecology | World

INVITATION FOR A BIG CAMP AND MASS ACTION AGAINST THE NUCLEAR TRANSPORT CASTOR IN VALOGNES (FRANCE) ON THE 24TH AND 25TH OF NOVEMBER 2011, JUST ACROSS THE CHANNEL

The french and the english government have this common feature of being mad about nuclear power. Whereas Germany, Switzerland and Italy are stepping out of the nuclear energy, France and Great-Britain are doing as if Fukushima never happened. If we refuse to let Fukushima become, like Tchernobyl before, an accident without consequence, it is time to take action, NOW.

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Nuclear blockade plus U.S. undeclared war on Commonwealth country Pakistan?

02-10-2011 11:00 | Anti-Nuclear | Public sector cuts | Terror War | World

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Five Things That #OccupyWallStreet Has Done Right

02-10-2011 06:14 | Other Press | Policing | Public sector cuts | World

#OccupyWallStreet protests are now well into their second week, and they are increasingly capturing the public spotlight. This is because, whatever limitations their occupation has, the protesters have done many things right.

World Newswire Archive

Occupy the London Stock Exchange

10 Years of Afghan War: Guantánamo-related events to mark anniversary (London)

The 99 Percent Occupy Wall Street

Countries with No Water

The Real Reason Why Police Cage Peaceful Protestors

US Presidential Candidate Abuses Animals

Palestine Today 10 05 2011

Occupy Wall Street: A Reply to Skeptics

'Occupy' Movement Scares US Ruling Class

Occupy Manchester continues into day 4

When the Euro suit does not fit (article about the Greek crisis)

Occupy Chicago Efforts Mark One Week, Join 130+ Other U.S. Cities

antinuke banner drop - rotherham

700 Arrested on Brooklyn Bridge as Occupy Wall Street Enters Third Week

All Nine Antifascists Acquitted In Second Welling Trial!

Solidarity with the comrades of Revolutionary Struggle (Greece)

Interview: Behind the Lines

Call from France to all UK anti-nuclear Activists

Nuclear blockade plus U.S. undeclared war on Commonwealth country Pakistan?

Five Things That #OccupyWallStreet Has Done Right

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