World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

'I'd just like more control over my life' :- Independent Living Bill!!

15-09-2006 16:35 | Education | Health | Social Struggles | World

The government says it is committed to giving disabled people greater
independence, but in reality progress is stifled by red tape and severe
funding shortages. Andrew Cole on how a radical new bill aims to address
this.

So they need to get on with radicially changing the laws in the UK to bring
them in line with the UN Disability Convention.

NUS Disabled Students Campaign are backing the Disabled Peoples' and CARWB lobby

15-09-2006 16:11 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Hi some very good news, the National Union Of Students (NUS) Disabled Students Campaign are backing the Disabled Peoples' and CARWB 'Welfare-Reforms' protest in Manchester, on Monday 25/9/06 and they wish to be added to the growing list of groups endorsing the Coalition:. apparently they already have policy on this.

WILL YOU BE THERE TOO???

CHOMSKY FEARS 9/11 DEBATE

15-09-2006 02:26 | Education | Repression | Social Struggles | World

When questioned about his stance on the 9/11 issue, Chomsky timidly regurgitates the official line by saying that the version we are force-fed by the mainstream media is "pretty much what happened. He claims that he hasn't seen any "credible evidence" to suggest otherwise

OutRage!:Supporting the Prayers for Darfur event 17 Sept

14-09-2006 15:51 | Repression | Social Struggles | London | World

Gay Rights group OutRage! statement in support of the Global Day of Action for
Darfur 17 Sept. and the linked prayers event.

Civil society groups denounce Singapore government, IMF-WB for barring activists

14-09-2006 10:33 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Jubilee South and the Freedom from Debt Coalition of the Philippines, two of the proponents and lead organizers of the International Peoples Forum vs the IMF and World Bank, denounce the latest move of the Singapore government to prevent the exercise of freedom of speech and peaceful assembly.

Revista Speak Up!! See link:- Revista Speak Up!! Non-Violent Communication

13-09-2006 11:03 | Culture | Education | Social Struggles | World

Non-Violent Communication

Algo que pode ser útil tanto para civilizar a rivalidade entre israelenses e
palestinos quanto para ajudar pais a educarem seus filhos com menos
transtornos: Speak Up entrevistou com exclusividade o criador da Comunicação
Não-Violenta.

Can you believe that Israelis and Palestinians, Arabs and Americans, and
even parents and children are learning to get along better(1)?

Chalk4Peace represents a new direction in activism. It requires no

13-09-2006 09:01 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | London | World

Chalk4Peace represents a new direction in activism. It requires no
central organisation other than the communication of the idea and
what YOU as an individual organise in your community. It is moved
forward by the enthusiasm of those who are touched by the concept

Disturbing Implications: Something in the Air

13-09-2006 04:55 | Ecology | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

‘Siberia and today’s arctic regions of Canada will be the future breadbaskets of the world.’ I read this forecast in the sixties and immediately scoffed at the prediction. The guy who made these predictions is either nuts, a charlatan, or both, I thought. The regions referred to are renowned for their permafrost, and aside from some mosses, lichens and ‘summer’ grasses, there is no way those areas could yield a viable supply of food for “the world” – that was then!

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Bikounga Family Must Stay

12-09-2006 12:34 | Migration | Social Struggles | Birmingham | World

"We've had it all in the UK: Economic persecution, hardship, legal and administrative prejudice, brutality and detention, years of waiting and now destitution and the four of us living in one room. It's time to fight for our right to stay." - Judith and Juslain Bikounga, Tuesday, 12th September, 2006

Blair: Beating Washington’s war drum in the Middle East

12-09-2006 09:01 | Lebanon War 2006 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

Blair’s pose as a peacemaker is, in fact, aimed at neutralising popular opposition to the creation of a truncated Palestinian entity, with Israel permanently annexing much of the West Bank and the whole of Jerusalem. At the same time, he wants to offer some respite to Olmert, who like Blair has been badly weakened by the failure to defeat Hezbollah in Lebanon. More important still, he is seeking to create the best conditions for Israel, as the key regional ally of Washington, to be able to focus its political and military capabilities against Iran and Syria.

Blair press conference disrupted in Lebanon

12-09-2006 00:36 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | World

link to indymedia ireland

Death Threats Against Lancet's Haiti Human Rights Investigator

12-09-2006 00:32 | Analysis | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

"You are a dog ... you should die. We are going to necklace you," whispered a British-accented caller into the phone. It was the latest in a round of death threats that Athena Kolbe, Human Rights Investigator and Master's level social worker at Wayne State University, had received. According to police officials, Kolbe first began receiving threatening calls at home and on her cell phone at 4:00 AM on the morning of Monday September 4.

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Boycott of the China olympic games in 2008

11-09-2006 11:48 | Social Struggles | World

Ten Reasons Why the Free World with The Leadership of America Must Boycott the 2008 Olympic Games in Communist China
By Demetrius Klitou

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Inquests into 3 deaths in Immigration Detention

11-09-2006 05:23 | Migration | Social Struggles | Birmingham | World

There have been 10 deaths in Immigration Removal centres in the last six years.

Stop Arming Israel

10-09-2006 01:39 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | World

Brilliant new cross-coalition campaign in the UK - Please forward to
friends and appropriate lists...

...plus a Manchester protest tommorow

http://www.stoparmingisrael.org/action/gmex.php

The Law is an Ass, by Philip Ruddock

09-09-2006 10:18 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Philip Ruddock, Australian Attorney General, announced today that a broader range of people in the Australian community (non-Muslims) are to be targeted as “terrorists!” Ruddock also stated that persons who are not ‘terrorists’ need not be alarmed as his new wider classification should not concern ‘them’(?)

Australian citizens are left to conclude that the determination of who exactly is a terrorist has become an arbitrary prerogative of the Attorney General and his gang of enforcers! Whatever happened to due process, innocent until PROVEN guilty? {God help that journalist who stepped on Ruddock’s toe, he will be the first to go!) It is not coincidental that the Bush regime also found due process to be an inconvenience. Ruddock’s logic and methods reek of neo-con methods, Guantanamo (Torture) Bay and Bush regime criminal methodologies have found expression in Oz.

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Murdoch’s media empire girds up for a war against Iran

It is not designed to convince, but to browbeat and intimidate. The editorial is one more indication that an assault on Iran is being planned for sooner, rather than later.

Israeli right-wing party threatens Brazilian cartoonist

Just a tiny example how the IsraHell' dirty tactics work.

UN agrees disability treaty

08-09-2006 17:08 | Culture | Education | Social Struggles | World

An international treaty that will give greater rights and freedoms to disabled people around the world has been agreed at the United Nations

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was adopted in New York. This is the first human rights treaty of the 21st Century, and the UN hopes it will mark a significant improvement in the treatment of disabled people.

COALITION AGAINST THE WELFARE REFORM BILL (CAWRB) Demo/Lobby In Manchester

08-09-2006 14:37 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles | World

COALITION AGAINST THE WELFARE REFORM BILL (CAWRB) Demo/Lobby In Manchester on Monday 25th September 2006

Gather at 3pm in Exchange Square, opposite the Arndale Centre on Corporation St (¼mile to Victoria Stn, 1mile to Piccadilly and coach stns). The stroll and roll joins the protest outside the Labour Party Conference at the G-MEX centre on Lower Mosley St. The protest will be from 3pm so join us there if you can’t do the march.

Campaigners can meet you at either the bus or train stations. If you
have booked transport, there is a safe drop off point arranged with the
police.

Please get in touch and read below for more information: