World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Fictional Genital Wart More Popular Than EDL

17-07-2011 14:56 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | World

The English Defence League claim to have more members than the Liberal Democrats. But there is a new virus in town. The Genital Wart. In just under 54 hours the Genital Wart gained the same amount of members the EDL reached in 12 months.

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UG#559 - Famine, The Fruit of Disconnection (Jailing Gardeners, Raw Milk & Soil)

A show on the 'developed' world's fundamental disconnection from the soil that ultimately sustains us all, with an emphasis on the insanity of modern US food laws. Julian Cribb on the global famines ahead, Ivan Illich on soil and virtue, David Gumpert on why FDA agents went undercover for a year to catch an Amish farmer accused of selling raw milk. Then Frederick Kaufman on global food market profiteering by Goldman Sachs and Patrick Holden from the UK soil association on organic food and use of direct action to escape the market model of food provision.

Anonymous Hacktivists Leak 90,000 US Military Emails

12-07-2011 09:56 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

Anonymous hacktivists have leaked 90,000 US military emails from Booz Allen Hamilton, a massive US military consulting firm. The leak was done in the name of #Antisec and includes 90,000 log-ins including personnel from US CENTCOM, SOCOM, US Marine Corp, various US Air Force facilities, US Dept of Homeland Security & private sector contracors. The data has been made available by Anonymous as a downloadable torrent.

Have you ever squatted the heart of the beast?

10-07-2011 18:24 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

In the past couple of days, a group of people in Vienna, fed up of the increasing daily repression of life and the lack of free social space, have taken over an abandoned building in the Ottakring part of the city.

Deaths from Self-Harm in immigration detention, murder, undetermined

Remember the dead - Justice for the Living - End Immigration Detention Now

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Muhammed Shuket born 1964 - died in Colnbrook IRC 2nd July 2011

Another death in Immigration Detention. At the moment there are no hard facts, not even the cause of death of Muhammed Shuket and the Home Office after the 63 word statement below have *shut up shop, until after the inquest.

6th Anniversary of 7/7

Six years on from an event with the largest single loss of life in London since the blitz can the Metropolitan Police, with it's long track record of complicity in facilitating Miscarriages of Justice be allowed to offer a 'narrative' which is so deeply flawed and suspect? How about a 'narrative' which has remained unexamined and unchallenged except by the July 7th Truth Campaign? A 'narrative' that has ascribed guilt to four men without their families having the opportunity and legal representation to question, particularly when the four accused have been denied their own Inquest proceedings? Or a 'narrative' deemed outside the scope of inquiry by the 7/7 Inquests, and a 'narrative' which has led to the demonisation of the Muslim population? This is the same flawed and unproven narrative that has been the basis for the questioning of multi-culturalism and a 'narrative' which has done much to fuel the race-hate and bigotry of the far-right neo-fascist organisation, the EDL.

Italy: No TAV press conference – “This is the people’s resistance”

06-07-2011 21:01 | Ecology | Social Struggles | World

In the midst of the riot porn that can be found on the internet about the NO TAV protests of Sunday 3 July – and that I’m not going to post here because a) you can find it anywhere and b) you can have too much of it – I’ve found a story that I think is much more important.

Eco-village social media platform being developed! HELP needed!

06-07-2011 01:21 | Culture | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

New eco-village orientated social media platform being developed- seeking fellow hackivists and geeky campaigners for collaboration / community based on free, equal association, consensus decision making and open source principles... lets take a activist sized bite outta fciabook!

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PHILIPPINES: The Rough and Rugged Road toward Change

05-07-2011 04:51 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Akbayan Party’s Statement on the First Year of the Aquino Government

No Borders blockade Calais detention centre

On Saturday around 30 No Borders activists blockaded the detention centre and border police complex at Coquelles, a few miles from Calais.

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Anarchism: the A word

Mindless, violent thugs, hell-bent on sowing chaos.’ That’s the kind of press anarchists often get. Uri Gordon provides a more sympathetic take on a growing yet still little understood political movement.

Italy: civil war in Valsusa – Repression against NO TAV movement

03-07-2011 20:37 | Ecology | Repression | Social Struggles | World

After a crowded torchlight march on the night between June 26th and 27th, the Free Republic of the Maddalena in Piedmont was brutally assaulted by a full-scale military operation performed by around 2000 forces that turned the place into a battle site: teargas thrown at eye level, bulldozers and heavy vehicles used to evict the camp, water jets against protesters, beatings, tents and equipment smashed up. In the nearby town of Venaria, a riot police vehicle on its way to the site ran over and killed “by mistake” an elderly woman.

Urgent Appeal: Crackdown on Malaysian Socialists

02-07-2011 12:45 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Manila -- Around 70 members of Partido Lakas ng Masa (Party of the Laboring Masses - PLM) held a brief picket in front of the Malaysian Embassy this morning to protest the arrests and detention of 30 activists belonging to the Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM).

"Let Them Go!"

Witness' see black men being stopped and searched.

UG#555 - Homo Systematicus (Machines of Loving Grace & The World of Conspiracio)

30-06-2011 11:41 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

The week's show features two important thinkers on the idea of the world as system. First, a radio adaptation of episode 2 of the new documentary by Adam Curtis, All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace about the social role and flimsy scientific basis of the idea of an 'ecosystem', followed by a short comment by Curtis on the film's main message. Next, Ivan Illich on the institutionalization of society and the loss of people's personal power in the 1980's when people started to see the world as a system.

j30 Critical Mass

Watch live broadcasts from a Nokia Phone all over London, from the point of view of a cyclist!

Events in Greece "on a scale not seen since December 2008!"

29-06-2011 20:43 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Our quote above but occupations and actions are happening all over Greece.
Rioting has spread all over central Athens, not contained around Syntagma any longer.
99 protesters hospitalised, 500! treated at Red Cross tents in Syntagma Square.
Legal school (Nomiki) open and providing assistance
Talk that Syntagma square is closed to entrance, rioting is around, and that meeting is happening in Monastiraki
MANY MANY ARRESTS, GREAT VIOLENCE, FASCISTS AND COPS MAKING BOMBS
Meanwhile the prime minister is out eating a a taverna...

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