UK Newswire Archive
Water As A Weapon
06-05-2007 17:22
67 years jail for Atenco leaders
06-05-2007 16:27
Key leaders of the peasant struggle in San Salvador Atenco, Mexico state, have been sentenced to 67 years 6 months in prison, in a vicious act of class revenge. Atenco was stormed in May 2006 by hundreds of Federal police, who killed two, raped dozens and injured many more. The conflict goes back to 2002 when the peasants of Atenco prevented the theft of their land to build a new Mexico City airport.May 7th demo Trades Unions for Refugees Manchester
06-05-2007 16:26
Manchester Demo for Refugees and in celebration of International Workers Day
Camberwell Squatted Centre: G8 2007 and German (Anti-)Fascism Talk
06-05-2007 15:41
A talk by a German comrade about so-called anti-capitalist fascist mobilisation for and within the June 2007 German G8 movements. Useful for anyone going to the demos in germany this summer.Full article | 1 addition | 1 comment
Women in Yarl's Wood Removal Centre on Hunger Strike
06-05-2007 14:56
Women in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre are on hunger strike protesting against SERCO's draconian regime.French elections: capitalism and imperialism are the "danger"
06-05-2007 14:00
Nicolas Sarkozy is not more "dangerous" than Ségolène Royal. The SYSTEM is the "danger". Royal supports the euro-miltarist strategy of François Bayrou, and wish to prevent Iran from developing CIVIL nuclear technology. Furthermore, the French "left" is not well known abroad. Even young French ignore what "their left" really is.LNG pipeline mailing list and Gloucester action group.
06-05-2007 12:38
There is now a mailing list for updates on actions and new information on the LNG pipeline.There is now an action group in Gloucester to promote awareness locally and take part in direct actions.
TO A CITIZEN 50 YEARS HENCE
06-05-2007 10:44
IRAQ: Terrorizing a Nation into Homelessness: Who is Responsible?
06-05-2007 10:12
Last January, the municipality of Baghdad published a short advertisement calling tenders to bid on burying the tens of "unidentified" bodies found in the streets of the capital every morning for almost a year now. Few months before, the Iraqi ministry of Health proudly declared that it imported two big refrigerators with a capacity of 2 hundred bodies each, to keep those "unidentified" bodies. At the same time a new very big "state" graveyard was created to bury the bodies, after giving them numbers and taking their pictures , just in case one day a family would be lucky enough to identify a son, a husband, or a father…The Insular Conservative: John Winston Howard
06-05-2007 06:32
The Federal Minister of Employment and Workplace Relations (big) Joe Hockey was forced this week to draw his leader’s attention to the oppressive reality facing average working Australians. Crushing debt, loss of penalty rates and other entitlements have forced many Australian families to the wall. Mortgagee sales in working class areas throughout the nation have increased at an alarming rate. John Howard, the darling of big business and the Corporate sector wondered why the common people were not eating cake!EDO MBM/MUCKDONALDCLAN LAUNCH NEW ONLINE BETTING COMPANY
06-05-2007 05:56
insider sources tell usNottingham Mayday 2 Parade Pictures
06-05-2007 00:54
Nottingham Mayday 1 Event Pictures
06-05-2007 00:44
Norwich Rising Tide - First Action
06-05-2007 00:14
Cornwall goes Critical
05-05-2007 21:58
Activists needle shareholders over E.ON nuclear power
05-05-2007 20:49
It's not just in Nottingham that people are getting angry over E.ON's energy generating practices. Indymedia Germany have just reported that anti-nuclear activists have been demonstrating outside and inside the annual meeting of E.ON's stockholders in Essen, Germany. A coalition of environmental groups protested against E.ON’s plans to expand nuclear power production. Countries where E.ON is planning new nukes are Finland, Great Britain, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria.Full article | 3 additions | 4 comments
Netherlands: anti G 8 bike rally stopped by police. 115 arrested.
05-05-2007 20:01
About 115 people were arrested and brought to the headquarter of the police. The bikes were taken away from the owners and are now in posession of police. Police officials say the people were arrested because they were too many to drive in normal traffic.
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 6
05-05-2007 19:42
The current imperial slaughter in the Middle East, justified by the "Global War on Terror", that has resulted in at least 600,000 deaths in Iraq, is nothing new — the U.S. Empire has a long and sordid history of genocidal mass murder.
The history of the US imperialism and Empire is the subject of a series of ten monthly seminars from Dr John Marciano, "Empire as a Way of Life". Attached is a recording of the third of these seminars and the text upon which it was based. The first 7 of these seminars have taken place and the intention is to have the whole series published on this site; the last 3 will take place between now and June.
This seminar, recorded on 20th Feburary 2006 by the L.A. Sound Posse, runs for 45 minutes and includes the discussion following. It has been made available under a Creative Commons license. If this recording is broadcast please let the L.A. Sound Posse know. This recording was originally made available on the A-Infos Radio Project site.
The following text has been reproduced here with the kind permission of Dr John Marciano and he can be contacted at johnmarciano@mac.com. He introduced this series of seminars in the following way:
A fundamental purpose of our meetings is to understand the systemic nature of the U.S. Empire and the economic and military imperialism that is its lifeblood. The historian William Appleman Williams argues that empire became "a way of life" in the U.S., a "combination of patterns of thought and action that, as it becomes habitual and institutionalized, defines the thrust and character of a culture and society." This "way of life" has convinced many U.S. "Americans" they have a right or "manifest destiny" to impose their political and economic policies upon others.
Dr John Marciano is Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Cortland, where he taught courses on social and historical foundations of education and class, gender and race.
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