World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

BNP wreath charge dropped.

25-05-2005 15:13 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | World

Martin Gleeson walks free..

Countryside Properties. Asbestos criticisms voiced in Parliament...

25-05-2005 13:10 | Ecology | Health | Social Struggles | World

In an unprecedented move, asbestos victims and asbestos environmental concerns have just been made the subject of a Maiden Speech in Parliament.

The controversial planning application for 600 houses at the former Turner & Newall Asbestos factory in the Spodden Valley was addressed in the maiden speech of Rochdale’s new MP Paul Rowen.

Here are some of the excerpts: (as reported at:

http://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/News/news.asp?ID=624 )

Sheffield company illegally supports racist state

Sheffield Company A4e recently won a contract with Israel which breaks international law because it involves working in the illegally occupied area of East Jerusalem. The article below explains in more detail.

You can call A4e on 0800 345 666 or contact Jenny Caven at jcaven@a4e.co.uk.

A4e Head Office, Bessemer Rd, Attercliffe, Sheffield, S9 3XN. Tel: 0114 2203040. Fax: 0114 2812929.

Behind the Iron Curtain, Connecticut USA

23-05-2005 20:43 | Indymedia | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Proposing laws to elected officials and being critical of police and the courts in Connecticut USA can cause you to be threatened by officials, arrested, and then sent to prison on questionable charges.

OutRage!- on thePalestine Demo 21st(+Pic links)

23-05-2005 16:13 | Social Struggles | World

Gay rights group OutRage! attended the Palestinian demo on May 21st to draw attention to the plight of gay Palestinians
and to support the wider Palestinian struggle.

See the email address at the end of the posting to make your views known to the Palestinian UK rep...

“Freedom for ALL Palestinians”, urges OutRage!

“Gay Palestinians are being beaten, tortured and murdered by factions of the PLO, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Palestinian Authority,” according to Peter Tatchell of the queer rights group OutRage!

Paris Demo against EU constitution.

22-05-2005 20:16 | Analysis | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

In Britain being anti Europe has always been associated with reactionary Torys or even more rightwing entities like UKIP and Veritas. Even openly nazi scum like the BNP have used it as a platform for their vileness. Meanwhile across the channel tradeunionists, lefties and anarcho-sydicalists have realised that far from being a progressive move the EU constitution is yet another move towards a neoliberal agenda. In fact it's little more than a rubber stamp to stitch up workers on a continental scale. On Saturady the NON! campaign had their main rally.

Human Dignity is Inviolable

22-05-2005 14:14 | Social Struggles | World

The Christian faith is obviously losing ground. Disorienta-tion and superstition spread. The merciless religion of the market has long replaced faith in the humanitarian God.. Act so you always treat people as ends in themselves and never merely as instruments or means to an end (Kant).

City Workers to get High tech ID cards.

21-05-2005 15:10 | Social Struggles | Technology | World

So it begins (pt 2)
Workers,including cleaners are to be issued with High tech
ID Cards...

Clarkson's sad anti green stunt..

21-05-2005 15:05 | Ecology | Social Struggles | World

Car addicted twat Jeremy Clarkson chained himself to a London Bus in attempt to ridicule eco protestors.

FBI- Eco militants are biggest terror threat

So it begins... (FBI reeckon eco warriors are worse than
anyone else)

NEW FILM POOKS FUN AT NORTH KOREA,US AND CANADA

20-05-2005 18:14 | Indymedia | Repression | Social Struggles | World

New Film Cheney's Tomorrow Never Comes.Political Action/comedy About a liberal newscaster that makes fake/slanted reports.He himself terorrist working for North Korea.Hunted by the CIA,FBI,Canadian GOV,US Department of State.The trailer www.customflix.com/207135

Is the Social State Ending?

20-05-2005 15:58 | Social Struggles | World

Socially just means people have comparable chances to develop in their lives, may have work, are protected against the great risks of life and can age with dignity. To that end, social systems and personal effort are necessary.

WEF takes place at Dead Sea this weekend

THis is a 500 word piece with one photo about the scarcely publicised WEF meeting which is taking place in Jordan this weeekend.

Freedom according to the Stock Market (Gunter Grass)

19-05-2005 13:50 | Social Struggles | World

"Our freely elected delegates are not free in their decisions.. Profit maximization is passed off as a basic value instead of the social obligation of property.. The freely elected members of parliament submit to the internal and global pressure of large capital. Democracy perishes.."

Malcolm X - gay black hero?

On Malcolm X's 80 birthday, Peter Tatchell reveals the hidden gay past of the American black nationalist leader

Indigenous People occupy their lands in Brazil

Hereby more photographs from the action of the indigenous peoples that
continues today with 500 Tupinikim and Guarani participating.
Aracruz will go to court, according to their comments in the media
yesterday.
More news later on.

Article on the forests of silence follows.

Forests of Silence—Terra de Resistancia

On Wednesday the 16th of February 2005 the Kyoto Protocol came into effect. As well as attempting to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the international agreement also aims to offset carbon pollution through sequestration methods known as clean development mechanisms.

One of the CDM’s included in the Kyoto Protocol are so called planted forests. All over the world, millions of hectares of living trees are being planted or planted. As well as providing rich industrialised countries with valuable resources such as paper pulp, these ‘planted forests' also theoretically absorb carbon from the atmosphere and are a major market mechanism for combating climate change.

Demonstrate against the Uzbek massacres - Uzbek Embassy, London, 12 noon, Saturd

*Support Uzbekistan's democratic opposition.

*Demand justice for the hundreds murdered by Karimov in Andizhan this week.

*Call for an end to Western support for this brutal regime.

Christian Aid Week

18-05-2005 18:38 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | London | World

In the UK, this week is Christian Aid Week (www.caweek.org). The annual event, which started in 1957, is the oldest door-to-door collection campaign in the UK.

SPEAKERS IN LONDON TO CALL FOR END TO ABUSE OF UK DEVELOPMENT AID

Advance: 18 – 20th May 2005

SPEAKERS IN LONDON TO CALL FOR END TO ABUSE OF UK DEVELOPMENT AID*

Campaigners from Ghana, Nigeria, Georgia and Guatemala arrive in London this week to call on the UK Government to stop funding oil, gas and mining projects through development aid. The visit comes ahead of the crucial G8 meeting in July, when leaders will discuss issues of poverty and climate change.

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