World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

The QUICKTIME REPORT 12 /2/06 - SEE GLOBALLY!

11-02-2006 21:27 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

A review of news, opinion, and photography recorded, from the Indymedia Newswire. With times and freqs for tuning in anywhere you can, at your leisure. Free to rebroadcast. The world & recorded for the community archive!

"The Greatest Battles are yet to be Won"

At last the truth behind the endless stream of 1984-type propaganda against Iran has finally emerged on the fringes of the British mainstream media (MSM).

The Bolivarian Revolution: A Movement of Hope and Threat

11-02-2006 03:05 | Social Struggles | World

A long essay, split up into three parts, delving into the Bolivarian Revolution of Hugo Chavez, offering a fresh perspective on Latin American history and an analysis of the Revolution transforming Venezuela and the region. Print this one out and enjoy while sitting on your favorite couch or chair. This is a refreshing, well written essay worthy of some time.

Barcelona - Solidarity with 4th February Prisoners

10-02-2006 21:32 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Barcelona Solidarity: Nine people beaten, arrested, tortured and held facing serious charges including attempted murder of a policeman, because the "look like squatters".

Protest against apartheid in Bhutan

09-02-2006 18:38 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Bhutanese Community in The Netherlands organized a day long silent protest against apartheid policy of Bhutan's autocratic regime at Dutch Foreign Ministry complex, The Hague on 6th Feb 2006. It was also aimed at pressuring Bhutan's donor like that of Netherlands to suspend aid to Bhutan unless it stop discriminations against its minority communites specially of Lhosampa community of the south.

2nd Renaissance -4

08-02-2006 09:00 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

In due course, there is one achievement of overriding significance that Caral might well provide. One great contribution or lesson that can be applied to the 2nd Renaissance. How to live in peace, with spiritual meaning, and without warfare, for a thousand years.

Another Autonomous (ESF) Playground

08-02-2006 03:21 | Free Spaces | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

An Invitation for the Creation of an Autonomous Space During the 4th European Social Forum (Spring, 2006, Athens) This spring, the 4th ESF will take place in Athens. Thousands (maybe tens of thousands) of people from all around Europe, from an entire galaxy of social and political movements, organizations and collectives, will meet in our city to get to know each other, to exchange views and practices, to strengthen and extend the networks of resistance and creation, or even build new ones.

The QUICKTIME REPORT 8/2/06 - SEE GLOBALLY!

Mindwalk 30: A Motherless Land

08-02-2006 00:21 | Anti-racism | Culture | Social Struggles | World

We start out with some sound from a small anti-immigrant rally in Vista, Ca. if less than 20 people constitutes a rally. A poem called True Lies performed by Taalam Acey, Jody Paluson with Bush v.s. Nixon and Gore Vidal's take on the State of the Union 2006 with a Raymond Lafferty music bed.

No to Crossrail hole Bill Demo against Tower Hamlets Council Weds

07-02-2006 16:53 | Analysis | Social Struggles | London | World

The ill-conceived and seriously flawed Crossrail Bill, now before a UK House of Commons Select committee, has been exposed as a sham by the chief executive of Canary Wharf, no less. No wonder the Crossrail Bill is not popular with the rest of the community in Tower Hamlets. They are demonstrating outside the Council building AM Wed 8 Feb 2006. The Council has been shown to have colluded with the hype for Crossrail plan without telling the community which now faces devastation unless the Bill is fundamentally altered or even scrapped in its present form.

Free Iran's 800 jailed union activists

Support the Tehran bus workers strike. Defend the right of Iranian workers to form labour unions.

Permanent War

US Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, recently announced the ‘war on terror’ would be re-named “the long war”; this announcement has not surprised analysts who are aware that neo-con ideologues and strategists follow the Straussian (and perverted Trotskyist) doctrine of permanent war. Some interpret this as nostalgia for the ‘good old days’ of the Cold War in which a clearly defined enemy (communist bogeymen) kept the nation on permanent alert and amenable to the powers of the time.

PRISON DIRECTOR BLOCKS ACCESS TO TASMANIAN PRISONERS

07-02-2006 05:37 | Analysis | Culture | Social Struggles | World

Tasmanian Officials have blocked access to Tasmanian prisons for the International Conference On Penal Abolition XI delegates. There has been a history of access to prisons at previous ICOPA's putting focus on human rights in prisons in the local country and ensuring accountability.

2nd Renaissance -3

06-02-2006 19:55 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Plichta writes of this model as follows. "There was a time I used to make fun of the Apocalypse of St John and believed it to be a totally unreliable historical source. Today I am filled with deep humility, perhaps because I am now able to give a concrete description of the foundation of the world as seen by St John with my mathematical discoveries, and thus possibly open a new way to all of humanity which has now reached a dead end."

KHOODEELAAR the Brick Lane London E1 Area campaign against Crossrail hole Bi

06-02-2006 17:03 | Analysis | Social Struggles | London | World

KHOODEELAAR is backing a new community mobilisation next weekend against Crossrail hole attack in the East End. This follows Tower Hamlets Council's failure to implement the community demand of 22 January 2006 to pass a simple resolution saying No to Crossrail hole Bill.

Who's Your Shepherd?

06-02-2006 09:54 | Analysis | Culture | Social Struggles | World

Calling for the beheading of an artist for creating a caricature depicting a religion as violent is about hypocritical. The one certain thing all of these Torah-touting, Koran-clutching, Bible-thumping, Scripture-screeching religious zealots seem to share, is an unbridled lust for violence.

Silent No More

06-02-2006 09:34 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

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This cartoon episode of Islamic marching against free speech has inspired me to think beyond all that I have ever seen written or pictured.

Germany: Massive Protests against the NATO "security conference"

06-02-2006 01:12 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

Each year in February Munic turns into a city in state of exception: political, industrial and military leaders from all over the world take part in the NATO "security conference" to discuss "aspects of security" which means: to plan wars. This years guests: Condoleeza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and others...

Massive protests each year against this conference...

Communique of Antiauthoritarian Movement about the surveillance scandal

05-02-2006 21:04 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles | World

This is a communique of Antiauthoritarian Movement about the surveillance of telephones of its members: Grigoris Tsilimantos, Argiris Mouratidis, Attila Ihtiar and Marina Meintani (who used to be a member of the antiauthoritarian newspaper “Babylonia”)

Christine Gilbert - HEAD OF CORRUPT COUNCIL KNIGHTED

05-02-2006 20:44 | Gender | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

In the true fashion of the monarchy to honour despots and criminals of the people, Christine Gilbert, the chief executive of corrupt London Tower Hamlets Council has been knighted. Former Crossrail head and privatisation Guru, thief of public monies Sir Adrian Montague and coup instigator Sir Mark Thatcher are other beneficiaries. Sir - alias inhuman