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Benjamin Zephaniah calls on Midsummer House to go Foie Gras free!

04-02-2008 21:09 | Animal Liberation | Culture | Cambridge | World

Midsummer House demo report and statement from poet, Dr Benjamin Zephaniah!

Who Owns Ireland's Paedo-Files/ The Pope or the People?

04-02-2008 12:14 | Culture | Education | World

Accessing the Diocese of Dublin's secret files on paedophelia is a question with ramifications that go back to the initial colonising of the island by the Papacy. The theft of Ireland by the Papacy from the native pagans and given to the English (Henry 11) recalls the initial plantation of Ireland by the Norman/French/English Christians. While they now call themselves 'The Irish', the question as to who owns the files relating to criminal matter ('criminous clerks' and paedophiles) has raised the question as to who owns iRELAND, the Pope or the People.

Urgent Campaign: Save Sulukule. Sign Now!

03-02-2008 23:55 | Anti-racism | Culture | Repression | World

The campaign to save Sulukule achieves its first important results

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Sweden: Action for free museums

03-02-2008 14:47 | Culture | Social Struggles | World

On Saturday February 2 "Open Stockholm" acted host as culturally starved "stockholmers" took part in an action for free entry to museums. Thirty or so culturebuffs visited the museum of architecture as well as the museum for Asian culture. To illustrate the failure of their attempt to introduce admission fees at museums - a symbolic mass entry was performed, without paying admission of course. Through this action we wanted to direct attention to the way admission fees and charges come to act as a fence in our cultural landscape.

Killed By Plastic... Salvador Brazil pictures and video

03-02-2008 03:43 | Culture | Ecology | World

The London based artist Mark McGowan, commissioned by
Global Ocean, has completed an extraordinary
performance, leading the incredible Salvador Carnival
procession in Brazil, which is attended by 5 million
people , the artist pulled a massive fishing net
filled with plastic waste weighing 300 kilogrammes,
8km along the official route.

The event was organised in an attempt to raise
awareness about the catasphropic levels of plastic
ending up in the oceans of the world, killing an
estimated 100,000 sea animals every year.

A Million Women Rise - march against gender based violence

29-01-2008 18:11 | Anti-racism | Culture | Gender | World

Wimmin strike back - Shout-out - National Action on 8th March 2008 in London to raise awareness and generate action around gender based violence that devastates the lives of wimmin, children and their communities.

A Walking Paradox (Eduardo Galeano+Latuff)

28-01-2008 19:01 | Culture | History | World

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff, to be published in Ideias magazine of the Sindicato dos Servidores da Justica Federal, Rio de Janeiro.

Wed 30th, 12pm: Mapuche Solidarity Demo at Chilean Embassy for hunger strike

Due to the critical situation of the hunger striker Patricia Troncoso, who various sources say is nearing the very end of her life, Mapuche International Link are calling urgently for a demonstration outside the Chilean Embassy in London with other groups on Wednesday 30th, between 12-2pm.

International Animal Rights Gathering 2008 - Vienna, Austria

26-01-2008 20:11 | Animal Liberation | Culture | World

It's now 10 years since the Animal Rights Gatherings went international. Come and celebrate the first decade of international get-togethers at a beautiful spot to the South of Vienna, Eastern Austria, at the foot of the massive Schneeberg mountain. On Thursday, there will be a big demo march in Vienna in the afternoon.

I'd Put The Telly On But I Doubt It Would Fit.

23-01-2008 23:40 | Analysis | Culture | Other Press | World

A humourous look at the medium that is television. Or perhaps specificly those who watch it and why. And why they probably shouldn't. Enjoy!

The Temporary Zones

19-01-2008 14:58 | Culture | World

Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte aims to create a vital facilities for contemporary art concerned with contributing a model strategy for cross-border and interregional projects on the basis of improving new approach.

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The Black Church and the Hollowing Out of Black Politics

17-01-2008 11:44 | Analysis | Anti-racism | Culture | World

Much of what passes for Black leadership no longer represents African American political interests or opinion, having broken from their progressive mass moorings under the lure of corporate money and “faith-based” government bribes. Black politicians dance to the tunes of Big Business campaign contributors, while many Black preachers “ape the undemocratic and bigoted worst” of their white Christian counterparts.

2008 election charade, part 2: White House bought by big money

15-01-2008 16:05 | Analysis | Culture | Repression | World

What is clear is the fact that major corporations are collectively hedging their bets, financing both sides. For example, Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have money behind every leading candidate. Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, and UBS are also prominent players, in virtually all of the camps.

The Seduction of Capitalism is a Brain Function?

15-01-2008 10:44 | Culture | Globalisation | Other Press | World

Previous research has examined how advertising and marketing affects behaviour, but this is the first study to demonstrate the direct effect on the brain.

Musical attack on Bush and his "war on terror"

Friends of Lebanon announces New Anti-Bush anthem "Nuclear Man"......

Greenwash Guerillas Invade BP Sponsored Tate Britain

On Friday 4 January the Risaing Tide Greenwash Guerilla Brigade decided to pay Tate Britain a lil' visit.

"In the State of Israel the Jewish mother is disappearing"

07-01-2008 10:06 | Culture | Gender | Palestine | World

The Women in Black are example and paragon of refusal to worship the god of death, refusal to obey the racist laws of the State of Israel .

The action of The Women in Black is in itself the rejection of racist education and the routine systematic poisoning of minds that sustains the schools, the media and the speeches of the nation's elected representatives.

Shadows of a gloomy future for the elite caste

05-01-2008 13:43 | Culture | Globalisation | Workers' Movements | World

The Minister of State for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education, Bill Rammell, 27th November 2007 has given a speech on Academic Freedom and extremism in British Higher Education.

Since then he is looking for allies; for people who want to reinterpret freedoms "in the context of the new challenges and threats that face our society". In reality, with just this sentence he narrows down the scope for debate, framing it as a mere reinterpretation of the word freedom in the context of external threats and imagined dangers from an hypothetical external environment.

How independent was the BBC Persian Service in the period 1941-79 ?

02-01-2008 09:01 | Culture | History | Other Press | World

This paper attempts to look at whether and how far the British Government has tried to use the broadcasts as a tool for political propaganda and influence.

It will in turn ask whether the Persian Service has -- as part of the BBC’s editorial whole – managed to keep its independence intact in reporting events in a balanced and objective way.

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Sombre Christmas in Iraq

25-12-2007 21:46 | Anti-racism | Culture | Iraq | World

The Farid family is one of the relatively few Iraqi Armenian families remaining in the predominantly Shia area of Karrada. They moved from Basra to Baghdad during the Iran-Iraq war in the mid-1980s due to heavy bombing in southern Iraq.

World Culture Newswire Archive

Benjamin Zephaniah calls on Midsummer House to go Foie Gras free!

Who Owns Ireland's Paedo-Files/ The Pope or the People?

Urgent Campaign: Save Sulukule. Sign Now!

Sweden: Action for free museums

Killed By Plastic... Salvador Brazil pictures and video

A Million Women Rise - march against gender based violence

A Walking Paradox (Eduardo Galeano+Latuff)

Wed 30th, 12pm: Mapuche Solidarity Demo at Chilean Embassy for hunger strike

International Animal Rights Gathering 2008 - Vienna, Austria

I'd Put The Telly On But I Doubt It Would Fit.

The Temporary Zones

The Black Church and the Hollowing Out of Black Politics

2008 election charade, part 2: White House bought by big money

The Seduction of Capitalism is a Brain Function?

Musical attack on Bush and his "war on terror"

Greenwash Guerillas Invade BP Sponsored Tate Britain

"In the State of Israel the Jewish mother is disappearing"

Shadows of a gloomy future for the elite caste

How independent was the BBC Persian Service in the period 1941-79 ?

Sombre Christmas in Iraq

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