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Lakota Sioux - The Bravest Americans

25-12-2007 16:28 | Culture | History | Social Struggles | World

In September of this year, the United Nations passed a non-binding Resolution on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Naturally, Canada, the United States and Australia refused to sign, but this resolution paved the way for a move that has been waiting in the wings, so to speak, since the 1970s.

On Wednesday of this week, Russell Means led a delegation of the Lakota Sioux people to the U.S. State Department and the embassies of Bolivia, Chile, South Africa and Venezuela, declaring their secession from the United States of America.

Lies, Injustice and the Capitalist Way: We’re on the Highway to Hell—Don’t Stop

24-12-2007 17:29 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Culture | World

We “Free World” capitalistic Westerners are a loathsome lot—or to put it more crudely, we suck. When one considers how degenerate we are from a collective standpoint, it is difficult to suppress intense feelings of disgust and contempt.

Holiday Season Hypocrisy

23-12-2007 19:47 | Culture | Globalisation | Health | World

Christmas is also the time when the national obsession to shop and consume reaches its zenith. It traditionally begins the day after Thanksgiving, runs through Christmas eve, and after the holiday continues into January with plenty of extra buying power from holiday gift cards, year-end bonuses and other resources gotten or borrowed. It's for everything people never knew they wanted until creative advertising wizardry made their lives incomplete without them.

'Father Christmas' beaten in West Bank

23-12-2007 12:51 | Anti-racism | Culture | Palestine | World

An Israeli army spokesman said there had been disorder at the protest and that several demonstrators who were briefly detained were subsequently released.

Liberalism To Murdochracy

20-12-2007 22:31 | Culture | Globalisation | Other Press | World

The former Murdoch retainer Andrew Neil has described James Murdoch, the heir apparent, as a "social liberal". What strikes me is his casual use of "liberal" for the new ruler of an empire devoted to the promotion of war, conquest and human division.

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2nd Screening of Videoactivism and Independent Documentaries, Caracas 2008

18-12-2007 21:48 | Culture | Education | Social Struggles | World

* The collective editors of the Venezuelan journal El Libertario and the Organizacion Nelson Garrido, have issued a call out for filmmakers and video activists from all over the world to present their recent autonomous works concerning active social movements in struggle. This will be held in Caracas, Venezuela, between the 21st and the 28th of January 2008.

Bristol podcast - Stop Hinkley Nukes & Merry Christmas All

15-12-2007 21:19 | Anti-militarism | Culture | Health | World

Weekly internet radio arts and current affairs podcast from the Bristol Broadband Co-Operative

Mars Attacks! The corporatisation of Birmingham's community space

Mars Pension Trustees, owners of Fiveways Centre in Birmingham, are threatening to shut it down in the New Year regardless of no planning application having been submitted and no firm proposals for development in place. This will mean the closure of some independent businesses that add great diversity to the corporate landscape of Birmingham City Centre including Cafe One, Fairtrade music venue and meeting space for student and campaign groups inc. Amnesty, Green Party, Respect and Oxfam. No offer of relocation or settlement has been forthcoming as social enterprise is not considered acceptable in the corporatisation of this lively community space.

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GAGGED! #21 - South Wales Anarchist Newsletter

13-12-2007 14:48 | Culture | Other Press | World

South Wales Anarchist Newsletter • #21 • December 2007 • www.gaggedanarchist.tk • FREE

BeyondTV International Film Festival 2007

07-12-2007 18:19 | Culture | Social Struggles | World

The eighth BeyondTV International Film Festival was held in Swansea over the weekend Friday 30 November to Sunday 2 December 2007, with an additional screening at the Dylan Thomas Centre Wednesday 28 November 2007.

The Problem With Christmas

05-12-2007 09:58 | Analysis | Culture | Globalisation | World

Christmas - a time for peace, happiness and family; a time to sell vast quantities of seasonal goods, toys and cheap electrical items. What is it that people love about Christmas, and is that being taken away from us for the sake of a retail dream?

Fountainhead e-Letter, Berlin Germany

04-12-2007 20:31 | Anti-racism | Culture | Social Struggles | World

We are an international, intercultural organization based in Berlin Germany.

The price of Chinese corruption: what is the next in China's politics, finance?

01-12-2007 13:04 | Culture | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Watch out on the runaway corruption inside China! Has China's ongoing reform altered the nation's political-economic landscape as far as government corruption is concerned? What is the next if this corruption goes deeper? Surpring findings in new reports.

What next in the Blaired Party donations business?

28-11-2007 05:35 | Analysis | Culture | World

What is going to happen next?
After another day of frantic, new, revelations about the latest North East of England ‘donor’ to the Blaired Party that the UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is lumbered with, is it possible to imagine that anything different will happen to stop this phenomenally predominant feature surrounding what used to be called the Labour Party?

Olympic Fire Covers London In Smoke - sound and pictures

Radio 4 Olympic oppression of local residents covered by You And Yours last Friday
Olympic fire:BBC Pictures page

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7091032.stm

Israels only squatted house evicted by police

22-11-2007 15:02 | Culture | Free Spaces | Repression | World

The Ben Atar squat in Tel Aviv was evicted today by many policemen, undercover detectives and border policemen.

France: Report from Nanterre University Nov 9th

Yesterday a general assembly (Assemblée générale, or AG) was held at Nanterre, at the beginning around 1200 students were present, numbers dropped as the meeting took two hours but the final vote was over 600 in favour, 199 against and around 100 abstentions. Students voted to begin a strike and a blockade and also to occupy the buildings.

Chinese commerce, entrepreneurship revolution: family business, finance, trade

08-11-2007 00:15 | Culture | Globalisation | World

Is a rising China reshaping global finance, trade, wealth, peace, outsourcing, labor, politics map? Is Chinese capitalist revolution sustainable? What is really inside Chinese society, finance, government, labor, management, globalization? Talk to provocative thinker George Zhibin Gu from inside China.

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In January 2008, Global Day of Mobilization and Action

Unilateral Day of Action planned, to make the statement that 'It Does'nt Have To Be This Way Anymore", global actions planned by the largest and most cohesive aspect of the Anti-globalisation movement.

Mainstream Environmental Movement Closes Ranks : Private E-mails

Below is a copy of an e-mail and a follow up, sent to the heads of the largest environmental organisations in the USA and (in the follow up) their equivalents in the UK. These e-mails have been met with stony silence - the environmental organisations have closed ranks. I am bringing this into the public realm in order to let the public decide who is right...

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World Culture Newswire Archive

Lakota Sioux - The Bravest Americans

Lies, Injustice and the Capitalist Way: We’re on the Highway to Hell—Don’t Stop

Holiday Season Hypocrisy

'Father Christmas' beaten in West Bank

Liberalism To Murdochracy

2nd Screening of Videoactivism and Independent Documentaries, Caracas 2008

Bristol podcast - Stop Hinkley Nukes & Merry Christmas All

Mars Attacks! The corporatisation of Birmingham's community space

GAGGED! #21 - South Wales Anarchist Newsletter

BeyondTV International Film Festival 2007

The Problem With Christmas

Fountainhead e-Letter, Berlin Germany

The price of Chinese corruption: what is the next in China's politics, finance?

What next in the Blaired Party donations business?

Olympic Fire Covers London In Smoke - sound and pictures

Israels only squatted house evicted by police

France: Report from Nanterre University Nov 9th

Chinese commerce, entrepreneurship revolution: family business, finance, trade

In January 2008, Global Day of Mobilization and Action

Mainstream Environmental Movement Closes Ranks : Private E-mails

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