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Leeds ABC 2011 Report

05-12-2011 15:44 | Policing | Repression | World

The annual report of Leeds Anarchist Black Cross.

Palestine Today 12 05 2011

05-12-2011 14:06 | Other Press | Palestine | World

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

Radical queer blogger arrested in Syria

05-12-2011 12:42 | Repression | World

News has emerged that Razan Ghazzawi, a radical queer blogger from Syria, was arrested as she tried to attend a conference in Jordan

UK Premiere 2012 The Mayan Word (December 17th)

2012 The Mayan Word
December 17th 2011 6pm

Everyone is talking about the Mayan Prophecies of 2012.
But who is listening to the Maya?

The movement of the etcetera

“As a social forum, a thousand things happen at the same time and this is how thing flow. The square is beginning to fill up. Having a thousand things and a thousand different ways is a path towards no turning back!” Rodrigo Bertame at Occupy Rio.

Occupy Oregon Re-Occupies, Police Violently Evict Then Occupiers Re-Take Park

04-12-2011 22:46 | Occupy Everywhere | Policing | World

In Portland, Oregon, Occupy Oregon (also known as Occupy PDX) re-occupied Shermanski Park last night. They setup tents, tarps, and folding tables at 4:35 pm PST. A police officer drove by and informed the occupiers it was illegal to “camp” in a public park. The occupiers continued to setup the new encampment. Families with their children were there and a kitchen went up in the park too. They even had a bat signal shining on a building that was able to broadcast text messages from people all over the world.

Anniversary of the assassination of African revolutionary leader Fred Hampton

04-12-2011 17:43 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Reparations in Action!
Sunday, 13:00 to 14:00 (2011-12-04)
Host: Penny Hess
This Week: Anniversary of the assassination of African revolutionary leader Fred Hampton

#COP17 : Capitalism is the Cause of Climate Change

04-12-2011 15:48 | Climate Chaos | Policing | World

Yesterday I attended a march for the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice. The atmosphere was lively as thousands of protesters (estimated at 6,500) demonstrated against the failure of parties to negotiate fair and ambitious solutions to the current climate crisis. As the global working class filled the streets of Durban today, one message became very clear. Capitalism is causing climate change.

The event was organized by a coalition of the Democratic Left Front, the Rural Women’s Alliance, Climate Justice Now!, Climate Action Network, and attended by many other organizations in solidarity such as Canada’s own Canadian Youth Climate Coalition, the Polaris Institute, and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. The rally began at 9:00am and started marching around 10:30am. The march went on for about five hours taking the streets from central Durban, past the International Convention Centre, and to the North Beach.

UK foreign aid money is being spent on providing electricity for Walmart in Mexi

A report launched this week by the World Development Movement reveals that UK climate aid is being used to produce cheap electricity for the US multinational Walmart, through a project that violates the rights of indigenous people in Mexico.

Mexican embassy flies Zapatista flag

04-12-2011 12:25 | Social Struggles | Zapatista | World

A solidarity demo in Embassy Quarter, London, began dramatically with the imperialist tri-colour being removed from the Mexican embassy, set on fire, and replaced with the Zapatista red star.

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Egypt: The November Uprising

04-12-2011 10:34 | Occupy Everywhere | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

The Egyptian revolution will not be settled in 18 days or months. It’ll take “years” for the dust to settle, may be four or five, I don’t know. There will be waves, ebbs and flows, battles to be won and others lost.

This November uprising is only one chapter in the Egyptian revolution, but not the final one.

We have come a long way. We can all recall the mood in February when you could have been lynched in a protest by the people if you had chanted against the army. Now there is wide disillusionment with SCAF, and the majority of the public can clearly see today they are nothing but Mubarak’s army generals who are in effect leading the counterrevolution.

Occupiers Launch Hunger Strike to Liberate Outdoor Space

04-12-2011 09:08 | Occupy Everywhere | Policing | Social Struggles | World

On Saturday, December 3, in Liberty Plaza, we—THE OWS HUNGER STRIKERS—began a hunger strike. We are striking to demand outdoor space for a new occupation. We are holding our strike at Duarte Square on Sixth Avenue and Canal Street in Manhattan as part of a continued effort seeking sanctuary on Trinity Church’s unused land.

This is a call for escalation, in response to the escalated levels of government-enacted violence and repression The Occupy Movement has endured over the last few weeks. In dozens of cities across the nation, Mayors chose to stifle freedom of speech and the right to assemble by evicting peaceful occupations using illegal and and unconstitutional force. Here in New York, on the night of November 14, the City—under orders from Mayor Bloomberg—violently evicted our community from Liberty Square.

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Gardai rendered powerless as campaigners blockade Shell’s compound

03-12-2011 23:19 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | World

Work was completely halted at Shell’s compound yesterday for over five hours in a great show of resiliance by local campaigners and their supporters. For the past two weeks now, Shell have been attempting to remove masses of peat from the compound in preparation for the tunnel boring machine which is expected to arrive early next year. Progress has been continuously disrupted as protesters brave the winter weather to stop trucks and a determined resistance is building momentum.

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US Senate backs military detention of American citizens

The US Senate voted Thursday night to approve a military funding bill that codifies into law the criminal state practices begun under Bush—and continued under Obama—in the name of the “global war on terror.”

John Holloway, Hillel Ticktin, Immanuel Wallerstein on Capitalism's Crisis

03-12-2011 18:45 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Marxists have been predicting the disintegration of capitalism for so long that most people - including most Marxists - stopped believing it would ever happen. But today anyone who reads the financial press knows that the system is in an unprecedented crisis with no clear way out. The following articles offer a variety of ways of understanding the crisis so we can begin to create a world beyond capitalism:

Occupy Planet Earth: Resisting the Militarisation of State Power

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed spent the first half of the post 2001 decade analysing the West's Ties With Terror: Western-Al-Qaeda Relations in the Post-Cold War Period (2005), The Secret History of International Terrorism (2006) and the role of the West in Creating Terror (2006). Following this he moved on to analysing the The Hidden Holocaust - Our Civilizational Crisis (2008) and the Food Crisis & Peak Oil (2008). His latest book is A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It (2010), has now been adapted into a documentary feature film, The Crisis of Civilization (2011) and it had it's first UK screening in Leeds, in November. Read on for an analysis of the multiple global crisis's facing humanity and the hope that a movement to change the course the 1% have society set on can be changed by the 99%, Occupy Planet Earth: Resisting the Militarisation of State Power by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed.

WikiLeaks release Spy Files; Veterans for Peace call support action for Monday

03-12-2011 14:29 | Policing | Repression | World

This week, WikiLeaks – working in association with Bugged Planet, Privacy International and media organizations from six countries – released a first selection of documents revealing the international trade in mass interception of phone and email communications, citing 160 companies by name

Across the world, mass surveillance contractors are helping intelligence agencies spy on individuals and ‘communities of interest’ on an industrial scale.

The Wikileaks Spy Files reveal the details of which companies are making billions selling sophisticated tracking tools to government buyers, flouting export rules, and turning a blind eye to dictatorial regimes that abuse human rights.

Call for a 30 second moment of silence on Snip Nua anniversary

03-12-2011 10:49 | Animal Liberation | World

On the second anniversary of Snip Nua's death, campaigners are calling for world wide moment of silence for her and dogs like her

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Thousands take to Cambridge Streets on November 30th

On Wednesday November 30th, we witnessed one of the biggest public sector strikes to take place in the UK since the 1970s, and the people of Cambridge came out in force to support it.

Some estimates place the figure at around 4,000 local people in attendance, although there is no way to confirm (or deny) this.

Zapatista Solidarity Demonstration Saturday 3rd December

02-12-2011 20:09 | Repression | Workers' Movements | Zapatista | World

Global Weekend of action in resistance to Slaughter in Chiapas.
2pm outside Mexican embassy

World Newswire Archive

Leeds ABC 2011 Report

Palestine Today 12 05 2011

Radical queer blogger arrested in Syria

UK Premiere 2012 The Mayan Word (December 17th)

The movement of the etcetera

Occupy Oregon Re-Occupies, Police Violently Evict Then Occupiers Re-Take Park

Anniversary of the assassination of African revolutionary leader Fred Hampton

#COP17 : Capitalism is the Cause of Climate Change

UK foreign aid money is being spent on providing electricity for Walmart in Mexi

Mexican embassy flies Zapatista flag

Egypt: The November Uprising

Occupiers Launch Hunger Strike to Liberate Outdoor Space

Gardai rendered powerless as campaigners blockade Shell’s compound

US Senate backs military detention of American citizens

John Holloway, Hillel Ticktin, Immanuel Wallerstein on Capitalism's Crisis

Occupy Planet Earth: Resisting the Militarisation of State Power

WikiLeaks release Spy Files; Veterans for Peace call support action for Monday

Call for a 30 second moment of silence on Snip Nua anniversary

Thousands take to Cambridge Streets on November 30th

Zapatista Solidarity Demonstration Saturday 3rd December

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