World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

CHEVRON to stand trial for complicity in murder of Nigerian protesters

16-08-2007 16:39 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles | World

CHEVRON TO STAND TRIAL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN NIGERIA

US Federal Judge Finds Evidence that Chevron Was Complicit In Murder of Nigerian Villagers

Chalk4Peace2007 SEPT 15 -23 - The Global Street Art Event

"OUR STREETS 'R OUR MEDIA -WE have TOTAL access"
The pavements are an untapped media resource through which we ordinary peace loving folk can share our messages, hopes, dreams, ideas and create a new momentum towards peace - at a certain point there is critical mass in the cultural conversation which transforms into ACTION

After 'Garry Newlove'- Schools, local councils and Ministers too are to blame

15-08-2007 10:20 | Education | Social Struggles | London | World

The Daily Mirror web site is publishing an item saying this:
“Peter Fahy said adults who turn a blind eye as youngsters roam streets tanked up on drink are as much at fault for the lawlessness blighting towns as the yobs themselves.”

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Reviving the Anti-War Movement: Support the Iraqi Resistance

15-08-2007 10:04 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | World

Has the Left been neutered? It struck me that the greatest taboo of the antiwar movement is to show the slightest empathy for the resistance fighters in Iraq
They are never mentioned as people for whom we should show concern, much less admiration.

Oaxaca Street Art

Some photos taken from the street art, graffiti and stencil work around the centre of Oaxaca city.

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Zapatista Communities Attacked

Following the recent Encuentro at Caracol de Oventic Zapatista communities have faced further violence against them.

Oaxaca: Catalan Four Released Without Charge, No Reason For Incarceration

The Catalan Four arrested, beaten, sexually assaulted and threatened were released last night, Monday 13 August 2007.

UK National Day of Action for Starbucks Employees- Aug. 18

STARBUCKS COFFEE: BAD FOR WORKERS, BAD FOR FARMERS, BAD FOR YOU!

A Letter From The Catalan Four: Still Detained In Oaxaca, threatened & beaten!

This letter was received from the four Catalan detainees still incarcerated in Mexico DF.
First is the rough English translation, then the original Spanish. At the bottom is a list of authorities you can write to in order to assist in their release.
A previous article asked for no one to demonstrate, but to write to demand release:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/378075.html

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Evidence showing the robbed have been doubly robbed by 'leaders' and media

13-08-2007 14:56 | Migration | Social Struggles | London | World

The UK Bangladeshis, some f the most hard up people living in the western hemisphere as migrants doing some of the least dignified or rewarding of jobs and tasks - whose money has been stolen via 'First Solution' [that had the promotional front of 'community link’ and even ‘mosque-proximate-site credibility' because the perpetrating operation was headquartered at the 'London Muslim Centre' next to the 'East London Mosque' on Whitechapel Road London E1 - are NOT anywhere near getting their money back. It is over 6 weeks since they lost money that the vast majority had handed to ‘First Solution’ in trust for transfer to the needy family and realties in Bangladesh.

El Libertario-Venezuela: Solidaridad para avivar la llam(A)

12-08-2007 23:22 | Free Spaces | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

* Llamado en busca del respaldo que necesita esta conocida publicación anarquista venezolana para proseguir su labor como vocero libertario de ideas y acción.

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"Do not make political actions for us": Catalan Four

The Catalan four arrested and imprisoned in Oaxaca have asked that no one makes protest for them, as they were not doing anything political.

First in Spanish, then the English translation.

FIT Watch at Climate Camp

FIT Watch will have an active presence at Climate Camp from Tuesday morning both at Staines Station and the camp itself.

We are also hoping to form a rota of people to stand outside camp trying to prevent FIT from taking photos, and adding to our own database of police photos.

Please help us and get involved – let’s show we will not accept their repressive policing.

We will have a workshop on Tuesday at 4:30pm at the camp to set up a rota. This workshop will also deal with the legalities of dealing with FIT Teams and will discuss how we can resist them in the future.

Undercover Notes From Oaxaca: Cops, lies and videotape

It’s been a tough two weeks. From election coverage, police monitoring to murder for timber.

But now, as I should be on a bus out of this hellhole masquerading as a happy tourist resort, but a zone of paranoia for an undercover journalist, I am compelled to get all this down. For one thing, purely to document the situation should I not make it out of here.

An Open Letter To Bertie Ahern

An open letter to the current Taoiseach of Ireland regarding the M-3 motorway scheme.

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Does an East End local copuncil ward by-election mean much to wider society?

08-08-2007 12:02 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | London | World

What is the message being sent out by the various ‘workers’ doing the factional ‘canvassing’ for their respective factional ‘candidate’ at the inner city, ‘deprived’ East London council ward of Shadwell [London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council] where polling is due to take place at the enforced by-election on Thursday 9 August 2007 ?

Automatic Numberplate Recognition Cameras creating a 'total police state'

07-08-2007 19:11 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | London | World

Philip Hollobone, Conservative MP for Kettering wants the system extended. Why not tell him what you think of that idea on his blog?:

Four Internationals arrested and detained in Oaxaca for watching a video

Four internationals were arrested on the evening of the election, 5 August, by Federal Police for the crime of watching a video of last year's riots on a television screen set up in the in Zocalo.

Post election day in Oaxaca

Monday 6 August 2007: The election is over and the result found Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) back in power, but only through a coalition with la Alianza con el Verde Ecologista. But those who refused to vote across Oaxaca were nearly 80 percent.