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Palestine Today 07052011

05-07-2011 18:41 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Tuesday July 5, 2011.

PHILIPPINES: The Rough and Rugged Road toward Change

05-07-2011 04:51 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Akbayan Party’s Statement on the First Year of the Aquino Government

No Borders blockade Calais detention centre

On Saturday around 30 No Borders activists blockaded the detention centre and border police complex at Coquelles, a few miles from Calais.

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Anarchism: the A word

Mindless, violent thugs, hell-bent on sowing chaos.’ That’s the kind of press anarchists often get. Uri Gordon provides a more sympathetic take on a growing yet still little understood political movement.

Call for an end to violence and impunity in the DRC

04-07-2011 11:18 | World

Demonstration Manchester Saturday 16 July 2011
Assemble: 12:00 noon
All Saints Park ( opposite BBC-Manchester)
Oxford Road
Manchester M15 6BH

Harry's Place, Islamophobia and the arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah

04-07-2011 11:09 | Anti-racism | Palestine | Repression | World

The arrest late on Tuesday night in London of Sheikh Raed Salah is a very strange business. The political leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, who has three times been elected as Mayor of his town, Umm al Fahm, has visited Britain without problems before, and his programme this time – including two engagements in the House of Commons - was public knowledge well before his arrival. No objection was made by any UK government agency.

14 Propaganda Techniques Fox "News" Uses to Brainwash Americans

There is nothing more sacred to the maintenance of democracy than a free press. Access to comprehensive, accurate and quality information is essential to the manifestation of Socratic citizenship - the society characterized by a civically engaged, well-informed and socially invested populace. Thus, to the degree that access to quality information is willfully or unintentionally obstructed, democracy itself is degraded.

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Italy: civil war in Valsusa – Repression against NO TAV movement

03-07-2011 20:37 | Ecology | Repression | Social Struggles | World

After a crowded torchlight march on the night between June 26th and 27th, the Free Republic of the Maddalena in Piedmont was brutally assaulted by a full-scale military operation performed by around 2000 forces that turned the place into a battle site: teargas thrown at eye level, bulldozers and heavy vehicles used to evict the camp, water jets against protesters, beatings, tents and equipment smashed up. In the nearby town of Venaria, a riot police vehicle on its way to the site ran over and killed “by mistake” an elderly woman.

Antifascist Prisoners In Need Of Support

02-07-2011 18:31 | Anti-racism | Repression | Sheffield | World

Six antifascists were recently fitted-up and sent to prison. Because of ongoing legal issues, for the moment we are unable to say more about their case, but a full report will eventually be issued. Suffice to say, they have been well and truly fucked over and deserve our fullest support and solidarity. Please write to them. As always, assume your letters are being read by our enemies and ensure you do not compromise your own security or that of others. Also please note that Thomas Blak and Austin Jackson are as yet unsentenced. For advice on writing to prisoners see the Leeds ABC website. La lucha continua!

Urgent Appeal: Crackdown on Malaysian Socialists

02-07-2011 12:45 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Manila -- Around 70 members of Partido Lakas ng Masa (Party of the Laboring Masses - PLM) held a brief picket in front of the Malaysian Embassy this morning to protest the arrests and detention of 30 activists belonging to the Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM).

Prisoner Solidarity Protest - US Embassy, 4 July, 6-8pm

Demonstration in support of all political prisoners with a UK-US link on American Independence Day - from British residents in Guantánamo Bay, individuals being extradited to the US under a one-sided extradition treaty, Welsh-American alleged Wikileaks whistleblower, UK campaigns for political prisoners in the US...solidarity with one and all!

Palestine Today 06 30 2011

30-06-2011 15:51 | Other Press | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org, for Thursday June 30, 2011

"Let Them Go!"

Witness' see black men being stopped and searched.

Teacher and lecturers pension cuts

30-06-2011 12:38 | J30 Strike | Public sector cuts | Workers' Movements | World

Stirke action taken by many unions to fight against Pension cuts.

UG#555 - Homo Systematicus (Machines of Loving Grace & The World of Conspiracio)

30-06-2011 11:41 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

The week's show features two important thinkers on the idea of the world as system. First, a radio adaptation of episode 2 of the new documentary by Adam Curtis, All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace about the social role and flimsy scientific basis of the idea of an 'ecosystem', followed by a short comment by Curtis on the film's main message. Next, Ivan Illich on the institutionalization of society and the loss of people's personal power in the 1980's when people started to see the world as a system.

Fashion Show to Fight Human Trafficking and Support Fair Trade

30-06-2011 11:36 | Education | World

To take a stand and raise awareness of Human Trafficking, the Florida Coalition Against Human Trafficking and Youth for Human Rights of Florida are working together to raise awareness of this horrific problem with the “Colors of the World” fashion show on Saturday, July 16th in Tampa.

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j30 Critical Mass

Watch live broadcasts from a Nokia Phone all over London, from the point of view of a cyclist!

Rape, Mercenaries, And Bloodbaths On The Scale Of Yemen?

The Media Blank Amnesty's Failure To Find Evidence In Libya

In the Independent on June 24, Patrick Cockburn reported a vital development countering official propaganda on Libya:

'Human rights organisations have cast doubt on claims of mass rape and other abuses perpetrated by forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, which have been widely used to justify Nato's war in Libya.
'Nato leaders, opposition groups and the media have produced a stream of stories since the start of the insurrection on 15 February, claiming the Gaddafi regime has ordered mass rapes, used foreign mercenaries and employed helicopters against civilian protesters.'

Amnesty and Human Rights Watch (HRW) have checked the claims and found flat zero evidence.

Events in Greece "on a scale not seen since December 2008!"

29-06-2011 20:43 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Our quote above but occupations and actions are happening all over Greece.
Rioting has spread all over central Athens, not contained around Syntagma any longer.
99 protesters hospitalised, 500! treated at Red Cross tents in Syntagma Square.
Legal school (Nomiki) open and providing assistance
Talk that Syntagma square is closed to entrance, rioting is around, and that meeting is happening in Monastiraki
MANY MANY ARRESTS, GREAT VIOLENCE, FASCISTS AND COPS MAKING BOMBS
Meanwhile the prime minister is out eating a a taverna...

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