World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Bilingual Bulletin from Oaxaca

01-10-2006 19:22 | Repression | Social Struggles | Zapatista | World

A rough translation of recent events in Mexico from Irene. Streets have been renamed to honour the disappeared. Anybody who can make a better translation from the Spanish to the English is invited to do so.

Under a Blood Red Lie ... The Real RED Manifesto

30-09-2006 12:07 | Globalisation | Health | Social Struggles | World

All things being equal, they are not.

And that's the way we like it.

As first world consumers, we have tremendous power (well we do). What we collectively choose to buy, or not buy, can change the course of life and history on this planet, so let us make the decisions for you.

“A Total Rollback Of Everything This Country Has Stood For”:

30-09-2006 08:27 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The Senate has agreed to give President Bush extraordinary power to detain and try prisoners in the so-called war on terror. The legislation strips detainees of the right to challenge their own detention and gives the President the power to detain them indefinitely. The bill also immunizes U.S. officials from prosecution for torturing detainees who the military and the CIA captured before the end of last year. We get reaction from Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights

PHILIPPINES: The worst regime post-Marcos

29-09-2006 23:09 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

AKBAYAN (Citizens Action Party) commemorates Martial Law with condemnation of worst regime post-Marcos.

Palestine Today

Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org For Thursday September 28th, 2006

Israeli air forces struck a Palestinian house in Rafah, the army injures an old farmer north of Beit Lahia town in the Gaza Strip, and in the West Bank the army invades several cities and takes prisoners. These stories and more coming up stay tuned.

Homeless families in Iraq seek government action

28-09-2006 11:34 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Hundreds of homeless people demonstrated in Baghdad on Monday in protest over being evicted from government buildings and schools they had been squatting in.

Poland - government has to go!

28-09-2006 11:20 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Around 200 people demonstrate in a front of parliment builidings in Poland asking the government for leave...

URGENT - Witch hunt in Chile: Six anarchists arrested after police raid squat.

28-09-2006 04:01 | Free Spaces | Repression | Social Struggles | World

This is what progressive democracy looks like.

Palestine Today

Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org For Wednesday September 27th, 2006

One child was killed and at least fourteen residents were injured in an Israeli air strike and 20 residents were taken prisoner by the Israeli army during an invasion to areas east of Khan Younis, while the army continue to attack West Bank cities and taking prisoners. These stories and more coming up stay tuned.

Stop the Northern Coastal Reclamation Project in Indonesia!

27-09-2006 14:17 | Ecology | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

This is an urgent appeal from eco-activists in Indonesia. This appeal is about an environmentaly destructive development called 'Northern Coastal Reclamation Project'. Our campaign strategy will be to push the Dutch reclamation consultant to resign from this corporate-greed project, therefore we need solidarity from dutch activists (and also from all people everywhere else of course!)

The name of the consultant company is WitteveenBos.

http://www.witteveenbos.co.id/ -- It is the only consultant in Indonesian for this kind of project. The plan is threatening the lives of many poor people, and will wreck an ecologically sensitive area.

Six entries for six people (Israel: Part 6)

26-09-2006 10:11 | Palestine | Social Struggles | World

This is the sixth and final part of a series regarding my recent visit to Israel and Palestine. I went as part of an all female, religiously mixed group of 1 Jew, 4 Muslims and me, a little old nothingist (and occasional faux-Christian for balances sake).

Suicide Bomber

26-09-2006 03:55 | Culture | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Perhaps the two most feared words in the English language today are “suicide bomber”; the propaganda machine in the west ensures that these two words continue to strike fear and terror into the hearts of the civilian population. Circumstances occasionally present all of us with unusual opportunities. When a young man who claimed the above distinction wished to make known his story it would have been a dereliction of my profession to refuse the request. The public interest is not served unless both sides of a story are made available.

Palestine Today 092506

Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org for Monday September 25th, 2006

Several Israeli army tanks and bulldozers stormed Al Farahien and 'Abassan Al Kobra areas near Khan-Younis south of the Gaza Strip and the Rafah crossing was closed again after three days of operating. In the West Bank today, the Israeli military court ruled that eighteen Palestinian legislators are to remain imprisoned. These stories and more coming up stay tuned.

OutRage!/NUS; Uganda demo pics and report

On Friday Sept 22nd NUS-LGBT and OutRage! held a joint demo agagainst the persecution of lgbt people in Uganda.

The Israel Problem (Israel: Part 5)

25-09-2006 10:04 | Palestine | Social Struggles | World

This is the fifth part of a six article series regarding my recent visit to Israel and Palestine. I went as part of an all female, religiously mixed group of 1 Jew, 4 Muslims and me, a little old nothingist (and occasional faux-Christian for balances sake).

PHILIPPINES: Remember Martial Law!

25-09-2006 07:09 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

September Twenty-One Protest against Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (STOP-GLORIA)

Copenhagen: Riots during a "Reclaim the streets" for Ungdomshuset

24-09-2006 22:36 | Culture | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

Sunday, Sep 24 2006, 11:01pm

Phone Home!

23-09-2006 20:43 | Gender | Social Struggles | World

www.PhoneHome2006.org

Solomon Islands PM publicly denounces Australian government

22-09-2006 01:01 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

This is the second time in a few months that the Howard government has embarked on a dirty tricks campaign to destabilise a neighbouring government. Just three months ago, East Timor’s prime minister, Mari Alkatiri, was forced to resign on June 26 and the former foreign minister, Jose Ramos-Horta, who made no secret of his sympathies for the US and Australia, was installed in his place.

The Cottage of Content Occupation: Summary

A week has past since the forcible eviction of the occupiers of the so-called Cottage of Content. With no official word from Birmingham City Council, the buildings’ future function looks uncertain.