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Nottingham folk report from G8 in Germany #2

01-06-2007 10:45

Second report from some Nottingham folk who have travelled to Germany to take action during the G8 summit, which takes place at from 6-8 June 2007 in a hotel in Heiligendamm next to Rostock at the Baltic Sea. For more coverage of the G8 summit, click here. For the first report, click here.

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Spanish police arrested turkish communist!

01-06-2007 09:24

Comrades,

on the 29 of may the spanish police arrested by order of „Interpol“ the turkish communist Binali Yilidirm at the „Kontiki Playa“-Hotel on Mallorca. Binali Yildirim was on holidays with his football team. Reason for the arrest was a request for extradition from Turkey.

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Empire as a Way of Life, Part 8

31-05-2007 15:24

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 eighth of these seminars and the text upon which it was based. The first 9 of these seminars have taken place and the intention is to have the whole series published on this site; the last one will take place on 19th June.

This seminar, recorded on 17th April 2007 by the L.A. Sound Posse, runs for 39 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 This recording was originally made available on the A-Infos Radio Project site.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.

Previous parts of this series:

Empire as a Way of Life, Part 1 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 2 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 3 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 4 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 5 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 6 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 7 | mp3 | doc

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G8; Call for Global Infopoint Network

31-05-2007 14:49

In conjunction to the alternative media material that has already started coming out of Germany about whats going on, we want to encourage the setting up of a network of nodal infopoints outside of the protest area for people in their local area to be able to go to and find out first hand whats going on...Spaces already forming in Berlin, Mataro(Cat), Sao Paulo

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Audio: Barcelona and the ongoing attack against the squatted social centres.

31-05-2007 14:43

Here there is a 24 minute interview with Emily from Miles de Viviendas squatted social centre, about the local situation in the barrio of Barceloneta, the Barcelona wide situation, the Pirate University project from Miles de Viviendas, and other means of positive creative action for change.
Recorded on May 3- 07

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Update from the Pedal Powered Clowns to Palestine

31-05-2007 09:40

Update from the Pedal Powered Clown to Palestine Project taken from their website

http://www.pedalpoweredclowns.org/

For more information about the project, see the previous article:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/05/370963.html

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90% of CCTV is illegal

31-05-2007 07:15

CameraWatch was launched in Edinburgh yesterday. Despite it's name, it is not an activist group, it is an industry-funded advisory group. However, it did start with a few tips that may be useful to activists facing prosecution using CCTV images.

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the truth about oxford university and thames valley police

30-05-2007 23:40

a report on the outcome of the oxford trial of the lab protesters as published in arkangel:

http://www.arkangelweb.org/international/uk/20070530speak14.php

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Sheffield Vigil: Release Alan Johnston

30-05-2007 21:46

NUJ members and supporters of the Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign held a vigil outside BBC Sheffield on 30th May 2007 to call for the immediate and unconditional release of the respected BBC journalist.

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Asylum seeker Peter Gichura case

30-05-2007 18:19

Asylum seeker Peter Gichura wins in court. He will be able to stay in the UK to prepare his disability discrimination test case "at least until October", following a hearing in the High Court on the 23d of May 2007. Claire Glasman, from WinVisible said: "A victory in his case would help establish rights and protections for all disabled people."

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900 Mile Cycle Ride for Global Cooperation!

30-05-2007 15:35

The Simultaneous Policy (SP) campaign, aimed at addressing global problems such as climate change, unfair trade, global poverty and unsustainability, has prompted carpenter, musician and cycling enthusiast, Adam Jacobs, to cycle from Land’s End to John O’Groats this summer, beginning during National Bike Week, in order to raise both funds for and awareness of the Simultaneous Policy.

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Good Riddance Attention Whore

30-05-2007 14:47

Cindy Sheehan has sadly announced her retirement from the peace movement.

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Indymedia G8 Timeline online!

30-05-2007 14:15

From now on, you can find verified, up-to-date news also via the new Timeline webpage:

http://de.indymedia.org/ticker/en for English and

http://de.indymedia.org/ticker for German.

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Anarchists join Gay Pride march

30-05-2007 12:24

Local anarchists supported the march and distributed leaflets.

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Week of actions against NATO in Sweden

30-05-2007 11:53

The 9th - 14th of May saw an intense week of actions against NATO Response Force in Göteborg, Sweden. NATO:s new response force NRF, was started on initiative of Donald Rumsfeld, and can be deployed within 5 days to, among other things, combat terrorists.
The response force held a huge naval exercise in the Baltic Sea at the end of May, and 37 ships stopped in Göteborg beforehand for preparations.

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Saturday Inspiration: Peace is Possible

29-05-2007 20:14

Peace is Possible - People do Care

R.S.V.P. - Saturdays - Parliament Square

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Noam Chomsky: 'A Poisoned Chalice': The Media and the Use of Force

29-05-2007 15:46

Attached is a one hour audio of Noam Chomsky speaking on 'a poisoned chalice': the media and the use of force, which was recorded at the 20 Years of Propaganda? conference held in Windsor, Canada, earlier this month. Noam Chomsky compares US aggression to Nuremberg standards of Nazi war crimes and discusses the occupation of Iraq, genocide and the role of the media in the fabrication of a pretext for war with Iran — it's pertiant to the discussion following the feature article on imperial disinformation.

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Prelude to the G8: Tearing it up in Hamburg

29-05-2007 14:10

On their way to block the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, anti-capitalists from all over Germany and the world stop in Hamburg to confront the Asian-European Meeting (ASEM).

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Pictures from Hamburg, yesterday

29-05-2007 11:11

Four pictures from the pre-G8 protest against the ASEM summit in Hamburg, yesterday.

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Protesters target ASEM summit in Hamburg

29-05-2007 04:50

Thousands of anti-globalisation demonstrators have marched through the centre of the north German city of Hamburg protesting against a meeting of EU and Asian ministers.