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THREATS TO HUGO CHAVEZ AS VENEZUELA'S DECEMBER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION APPROACHES
HOW THE BUSH NEOCONS PLAN TO DISRUPT THE VENEZUELAN ELECTIONOaxaca Solidarity Action Report, Berlin
Around 100 people gathered today (01/11/06) in front of the Mexican embassy in Berlin to demonstrate solidarity with the resistance movement in Oaxaca, Mexico and to demand an end to the police and (para-)military brutality which has left at least seven dead and over a hundred injured.OutRage!- Arrest Khatami-Don't honour him...
OutRage! challenges Met Police etc to arrest Iran's former President Khatami rather than honour him on his visit to London (and Edinburgh)Madrassa Massacre
Prince Charles preaches religious tolerance in Pakistan, as the US destroys a religious school killing eighty innocent people.petition & demos against visit of Iran's Khatami (Weds etc)
Former Iranian President Khatami is due to visit the UK this week (London and Edinburgh). Demos are planned and a petition has been set up against this visit.Anti-G8 International Action Conference, Rostock Nov 10-12
From 10-12 November, 2006 up to 500 people are expected to gather for an international anti-G8 action conference in Rostock, Germany. The conference will be attended by everyone from the groups of the radical-left (including Dissent, the Interventionist Left and others), through attac and NGOs to members of the Left Party (Linkspartei.PDS).Jose Fernandez Delgado refuses prison food in protest at conditions (Aachen 4)
This imprisoned Spanish anarchist in a German prison appeals for solidarity and support, please take time to contribute to an improvement in his conditions. Widen the struggle for not only his release but for the overall attack and destruction of the capitalist system itself.New indymedia-Video from South Lebanon
These days a new short film from indymedia-activists was published under the name "Siddiqine's Harvest". This video deals with the longterm consequences the Israeli 'war against Hezbullah' has for the people and the agriculture of South Lebanon.The Veil Issue Revisited
The statements by Blair and Straw against the wearing of veils have been received positively in the pampered and sheltered filter of contemporary western sensibilities. In the Arab world, after five years of images of dead women in blood-splattered veils during two wars of conquest by these same sensitive liberators, such tasteless declarations will be taken as an extreme insult on top of grievous injury.Liam Byrne's Trip to Glasgow
Home Office Minister Liam Byrne came to Glasgow today and received a warm welcome. Kind of.VICTORY FOR CHE!
An account of the campaign in Glasgow to challenge recent Labour Council Bylaws which ban political material outside Celtic Park. A report on the latest development which saw the open display of explicitly political material.Computerization of voting in Brazil
I will present a summary of the computerization of voting in Brazil, but before that, it's necessary to explain some characteristics of the organization of the electoral power so that it can be understood, because some things happened that could lead to misunderstanding.No More Dawn Raids - No More Deportations/Rally and Lobby of Scottish Parliament
10.00am to 12.00pmThursday 26 October 2006
Canongate
Edinburgh
EH99 1SP
Scottish, churches, charities, schoolteachers, trade unions, neighbours have condemned the dawn raids by immigration officials on innocent asylum seeking families in Glasgow.
THE SHAME OF THE NATION: A COLLECTIVE PERVERSION
THE COLLECTIVE PERVERSION OF THOSE IN HIGH PLACES IN THE USA call to attack and block capitalism, Towards an inventive strategy
Towards an inventive strategy for attacking and blocking summits
Red Cross lambasts US terror law
Mr Kellenberger said the ICRC was still studying the lawThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has
expressed concern over a newly-approved US anti-terrorism law.
No to Torture - former British ambassador to Uzbekistan speaks out against UK/US torture collaboration
Craig Murray, former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan with over 20 years of foreign affairs experience, talks about torture and human righs abuses in Uzbekistan. He presented his book: "Murder in Samarkand - A British Ambassador's Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror" at the Edinburgh Independent and Radical Bookfair on Friday, 13th of October 2006, at the session on "Political Terrorism and the US Imperial Project".
Achin Vanaik on US Imperialism and Political Terrorism
Achin Vanaik is an independent Indian scholar and journalist and Professor of International Relations and Global Politics at Delhi University. He was speaking at the Independent and Radical Bookfair in Edinburgh on Friday, 13th of October 2006, about Political Terrorism and the US Imperial Project.
Here are two audio recordings of his talk, which is about 30 minutes, and some notes on the talk.
Brazil: The Perfect Electoral Crime (II)
These types of tests of independent attack are technically called "Penetration Tests" and the Hursti Reports (1st and 2nd Parts) may be obtained at:http://www.blackboxvoting.org/BBVreport.pdf
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/BBVtsxstudy.pdf