World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

---Oaxaca: the people win an important battle against the police!---

03-11-2006 13:12 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

Good update from NarcoNews:
The APPO has forced the PFP into a retreat from its attempted incursion into the Benito Juarez University. But the war is far from over.

Timeline from Oaxaca City, 2 November, 2006 (Part 4)

Oaxacans push federal police out after violent assault on university, dozens
missing and injured. All times are local time in Oaxaca.

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Timeline from Oaxaca City, 2 November, 2006 (Part 3)

Minute to Minute up to 16:27 today, Oaxacans push federal police out of university barricades, possibly one APPO member dead, many injured. All times are local time in Oaxaca.

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Photos: "Day of the Dead", Mexican Embassy, London. (02.11.06)

Images of a demonstration outside the Mexican Embassy tonight in London. For the dead of Oaxaca on the "Day of the Dead".

Bristol alt media is back with Bristle 23

02-11-2006 22:46 | Analysis | Culture | Social Struggles | World

We’re not looking for a new England
But we are fighting for another world

Issue 23 of Bristle magazine is out now, sticking it’s size 10’s (and 9’s, 7’s, 5’s…) into the nationalism & identity issues with a special feature.

“Welcome, dear reader, to our humble offering of alternative print media opposing the forces of darkness – capital, the state and religious fundamentalists.” (Bristle 23, editorial, page 1)

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Timeline from Oaxaca City, 2 November, 2006 (Part 2)

Minute by minute reporting from Mexico - all times are local times in Mexico

Timeline from Oaxaca City, 2 November, 2006

Minute by minute reporting from Mexico - all times are local times in Mexico

Reports from Oaxaca (and what to do)

Latest updates via irc - and details for action

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Mexican embassy covered in symbolic blood

On Wednesday night, London activists threw red paint to symbolise the blood of the people of Oaxaca on the walls, stairs and doors of the Mexican Embassy

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London Mexican Embassy protest - bad leg: what is there to learn

02-11-2006 03:14 | Repression | Social Struggles | London | World

After finally getting my laptop back from the unfortunate coffee spill episode, I've downloaded the photos of my right leg from Monday evening outside the Mexican Embassy in London.

Brad Will and Oaxaca discussion and films

At the rampART social centre (15 rampart street, London E1 2LA)
this thursday evening (2nd November), from 8pm...

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NHS'Spine'- threat to privacy of records etc.

Guardian Nov 1...
The NHS's centralised and computerised syetem 'Spine' poses a very real threat of breaches of confidentiality of health records and raises the spectre of other agencies getting a view too..

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Mixed Bag

01-11-2006 14:37 | Culture | Education | Social Struggles | World

War is the Answer (Ode to ‘democracy’)

Give me your poor, your tired, your hungry,
I’ll piss on ‘em, rape, and kill ‘em
That’s what your statutes of bigotry mean
Bomb ‘em back to the stone age
and devastate their lands is really what
your democracy means.

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Oaxaca Solidarity Action Report, Berlin

01-11-2006 13:07 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Around 100 people gathered today (01/11/06) in front of the Mexican embassy in Berlin to demonstrate solidarity with the resistance movement in Oaxaca, Mexico and to demand an end to the police and (para-)military brutality which has left at least seven dead and over a hundred injured.

Capitalism ... the end is nigh

We were quite rude about this event last year (1), but perhaps we're mellowing with age so we'll give it a plug. This Saturday (4/11) sees a march and rally against climate change beginning at the US embassy at midday (2) and then heading down to Trafalgar Square for a rally with the usual (probably quite dull) speakers and a vague promise of some tunes. (3)

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John Matthews Chair of Crest Nicholson “Please Help Us” – A Family Request

Stuck in the actuality of the third anniversary of their houseboat and home eviction, the Shalom Family from Wales made a special visit on 30th October, to Crest Nicholson’s brand new ‘Crest House’, in Chertsey, Surrey. The Family delivered a new letter of appeal, in perfect harmony with their cause for Social Justice, to Crest Plc Chairman John Matthews.

Photos: Mexican Embassy protest in London (30.10.06)

Police and protesters clash outside the Mexican Embassy in London (30.10.06). The protest was about the US cameraman Brad Will who killed in Oaxaca, Mexican.