19-05-2005 11:42
This demonstration has been called by a group of UK-based Uzbek dissidents, and is supported by Craig Murray, Britain's former Ambassador to Uzbekistan.
Please disseminate this message as widely as possible
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On Malcolm X's 80 birthday, Peter Tatchell reveals the hidden gay past of the American black nationalist leader
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Hereby more photographs from the action of the indigenous peoples that
continues today with 500 Tupinikim and Guarani participating.
Aracruz will go to court, according to their comments in the media
yesterday.
More news later on.
Article on the forests of silence follows.
Forests of Silence—Terra de Resistancia
On Wednesday the 16th of February 2005 the Kyoto Protocol came into effect. As well as attempting to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the international agreement also aims to offset carbon pollution through sequestration methods known as clean development mechanisms.
One of the CDM’s included in the Kyoto Protocol are so called planted forests. All over the world, millions of hectares of living trees are being planted or planted. As well as providing rich industrialised countries with valuable resources such as paper pulp, these ‘planted forests' also theoretically absorb carbon from the atmosphere and are a major market mechanism for combating climate change.
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19-05-2005 08:33
*Support Uzbekistan's democratic opposition.
*Demand justice for the hundreds murdered by Karimov in Andizhan this week.
*Call for an end to Western support for this brutal regime.
Read more >>18-05-2005 18:38
In the UK, this week is Christian Aid Week (www.caweek.org). The annual event, which started in 1957, is the oldest door-to-door collection campaign in the UK.
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The Home Office have now ratcheted up the ante by re-introducing slavery through the form of 'voluntary service for people who have failed the Asylum System and needing subsistence and accommodation' with the assistance of the National YMCA Organisation.
Liverpool YMCA is going to be the first voluntary sector agency to collude with the Home Office in the immigration slavery scheme introduced by section 10 of the 2004 legislation.
While Liverpool is parading on its City Of Culture, 2008 Status (more like Culture of Capital, Here & Now), it would be worthwhile stating historical fact - Liverpool was home to the Slave Trade - and now in 2005, Liverpool could and may well become home to the New City Of Slavery.
The YMCA and the Home Office have called for a 'Closed Door' Meeting to be held at Liverpool City Councils Millenium House on Tuesday 24 May 2005 from 12:40 - 14:40hrs.
The aim of this meeting from what I can gather, is to 'embrace community dialogue' - through restricting the meeting to just a few (highly-paid & self-anointed) NGOs (whose own sources of revenue are probably paid for by the Home Office...)
The question is, can real community dialogue be achieved like this?
The meeting was posted on the SmartGroups Liverpool asylum seeker and refugee support group:
http://www.smartgroups.com/message/viewdiscussion.cfm?gid=1256290&messageid=2609 ----Section 4 Support - 'Voluntary Service'
>> There is a consultation meeting with the YMCA and
>> the Home Office about this on 24th May - 12.40 - 2.40
>> at Millenium House in Liverpool.
As you can see this is the only outside knowledge of this meeting.
I contacted the Liverpool YMCA today which people believe to be the site of the Pilot Scheme, and the Office Administrator has denied any knowledge of the meeting, but said that, "if it's not Liverpool then it might be Chester which will do it."
If the meeting is being held within Council premises, can Trade Unionists based within Millenium House please make and take action with regards to this?
UNISON, and other Unions the call-out for you is here.
Individuals with a conscience, please make your views heard on this subject.
The following links are related to this meeting:
YMCA slave labour scheme
Section 4 Support - 'Voluntary Service'
There is a consultation meeting with the YMCA and the Home Office
about this on 24th May - 12.40 - 2.40 at Millenium House in Liverpool.
http://www.smartgroups.com/message/readmessage.cfm?gid=1256290&messageid=2602 IND has announced that YMCA England will be running a pilot exercise for Section 10 of the Asylum & Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act in Liverpool.
Word document:
http://www.asylumpolicy.info/mayiapnews.doc YMCA England Statement following meeting with Church Action on Poverty, Boaz Trust and Churches Commission on Racial Justice
Word document:
http://www.asylumpolicy.info/ymcastatement.doc It is important that no-one allows this 'Pilot' to get off the ground.
While the YMCA may or could agree to the scheme, it can only be made unworkable if YMCA Staff take a stand on this issue - strike action, refuse on moral grounds, refuse on Health & Safety issues (will the refugees be given proper H&S training?)
Or perhaps I could 'release' the person out, if I saw a refugee doing what I called anything like 'labour'?
Or maybe, the homeless people within the YMCAs will start "getting refugees to do their 'dirty-work'", or cause deep divisions within already dis-enfranchised communities?
If this doesn't happen here, it could happen near YOU.
Maybe meet up at The Egg, Tuesday 24/05, 11:30am?
Anyone into it?
Banners, drums, trumpets, anything to make a party & noise.
Can the 'Outside Media' meaning The Echo/BBC do something on it?
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Advance: 18 – 20th May 2005
SPEAKERS IN LONDON TO CALL FOR END TO ABUSE OF UK DEVELOPMENT AID*
Campaigners from Ghana, Nigeria, Georgia and Guatemala arrive in London this week to call on the UK Government to stop funding oil, gas and mining projects through development aid. The visit comes ahead of the crucial G8 meeting in July, when leaders will discuss issues of poverty and climate change.
Read more >>17-05-2005 16:24
Defend gay Muslims persecuted by fundamentalism
17 May is “International Day Against Homophobia”
Saudi Arabia is one of the world's most homophobic countries. Gay people are routinely arrested, jailed, tortured, flogged and sometimes executed
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17-05-2005 13:44
On Friday May 13th, activists from Bolivia Solidarity Campaign, War on Want, and WDM joined protestors around the world, to campaign against Suez, the multinational water company focusing their attention on Lord Simon of Highbury.
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14-05-2005 19:26
London Anarchist Federation are calling for a demonstration at the Columbian Consulate in London in response to the brutal slaying of 15 year old Anarchist, Nicolás David Neira Alvares, during Mayday Demonstrations in Bogotá. Columbia.
Read more >>13-05-2005 23:19
scum police in italy attack people fighting against detention center in the city of lecce, solidarity action will be great if anyone has got time to do stuff,and we should find this time.
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This is a 2,200 word article with 10 attached photos of my time in the West Bank and Israel in May 2005.
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13-05-2005 12:40
“Fascists stab, democrats shoot” in Athens within University!
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13-05-2005 11:15
Join our protest on the International Day Against Homophobia.
Tuesday 17 May 2005
12 noon to 2pm
Saudi Arabian Embassy
30 Charles Street, London W1J 5DZ (nearest tube Green Park)
Read more >>12-05-2005 00:04
G8 awareness raiser in New Cross on Tuesday. Info will be available on the night about how to get to Scotland in July. Dub and Breakbeat Music from : Freq Nasty, Fun-da-Mental(WattsRiot), Smart Monkey and Performance Poetry from Paradox. Decent Line-up. £1 a pint. See You there.
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11-05-2005 10:58
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, an embittered Oona King said that her former constituents would live to regret voting her out of office, and hinted that there might soon be a by-election in Bethnal Green and Bow for "one reason or another".
Read more >>10-05-2005 05:43
Progressive media's obsession about Vietnam has made them believe that the US in a Quagmire in Iraq. Critics of war must keep calm. Americans did not go to Iraq to spread democracy or liberate the enslaved people of Iraq, give them the gift of liberty, freedom of press and economic prosperity.They went there as gold diggers for oil! They have broken Iraq in three antagonistic parts who are killing each other and destroying their economic infrastructure.Foget the propaghanda, the occupiers are doing a good job in destroying iraq; instigating Death Squad Capitalism,establishing a puppet government to secure the flow of cheep oil to the US. All thanks to an American Mullah who is helping US to establish "Market Economy",that is the transfer of Iraqi assets to US corporations. In Vietnam the US did not have an Ayatollah at our side! Iraq as a national identity is no more!It has been bulkanized!
Read more >>09-05-2005 16:18
This in-depth training is a chance to come together with
other likeminded people and prepare yourself for taking direct action or supporting others to take action at the G8 Summit and beyond.
Read more >>09-05-2005 13:24
for the third time Builders & Police are attempting to illegally evict our site
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