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Muslims should show some respect to others' religions

20-05-2005 19:17 | Anti-racism | Repression | World

The desecration of religious texts and symbols and intolerance of varying religious viewpoints and beliefs have been issues of some controversy inside Saudi Arabia. Ruled by a Wahhabi theocracy, the ruling elite of Saudi Arabia have made it difficult for Christians, Jews, Hindus and others, as well as dissenting sects of Islam, to visibly coexist inside the kingdom.

NEW FILM POOKS FUN AT NORTH KOREA,US AND CANADA

20-05-2005 18:14 | Indymedia | Repression | Social Struggles | World

New Film Cheney's Tomorrow Never Comes.Political Action/comedy About a liberal newscaster that makes fake/slanted reports.He himself terorrist working for North Korea.Hunted by the CIA,FBI,Canadian GOV,US Department of State.The trailer www.customflix.com/207135

IWCA BENEFIT GIG

20-05-2005 16:38 | Anti-racism | Culture | Indymedia | World

IWCA BENEFIT GIG IN LONDON ON 2ND JULY 2005

Is the Social State Ending?

20-05-2005 15:58 | Social Struggles | World

Socially just means people have comparable chances to develop in their lives, may have work, are protected against the great risks of life and can age with dignity. To that end, social systems and personal effort are necessary.

ISRAEL’S SILENT NUCLEAR ATTACK REVEALED

20-05-2005 14:46 | Health | Repression | World

The uranium level in El-Khalil valley reaches 237 becquerel (bcq) per kilogram3, which equals about 10 times the permitted concentration, which is 25 bcq. The Thorium 232 (Th) level reaches 152 bcq where the permitted concentration level is also 25 bcq. The readings on Cesium 137 (Cs), another radio-active isotope that only emerges from nuclear explosions or nuclear activities is equivalently high.

What the Americans are doing to Iraq, our world

20-05-2005 13:51 | Anti-militarism | World

I watched the news about the aforementioned statements by al-Dahri on Al-Jazeera with one of my close Iraqi friends here. As we watched the large funeral procession with the body of the murdered cleric while al-Dahri made his ferocious statements, I watched her head drop into her hands as she said softly, "This is so horrible what has happened to my country since the Americans came."

Mark Thomas Live political Comedy DVD

20-05-2005 12:37 | Globalisation | World

Watch the trailer!

The SHORTWAVE REPORT 5/20/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!

19-05-2005 23:31 | Analysis | Globalisation | World

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.

WEF takes place at Dead Sea this weekend

THis is a 500 word piece with one photo about the scarcely publicised WEF meeting which is taking place in Jordan this weeekend.

Freedom according to the Stock Market (Gunter Grass)

19-05-2005 13:50 | Social Struggles | World

"Our freely elected delegates are not free in their decisions.. Profit maximization is passed off as a basic value instead of the social obligation of property.. The freely elected members of parliament submit to the internal and global pressure of large capital. Democracy perishes.."

'Zarqawi' figment of the US imagination, used time, and time again

19-05-2005 11:26 | Anti-militarism | World

But you've got to believe that? And he also allegedly said he was going to blow the whole world to bits, just by winking his eye? Therefore the US and its war criminal mates can go on killing and killing and killing.

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Malcolm X - gay black hero?

19-05-2005 11:14 | Anti-racism | Gender | Social Struggles | World

On Malcolm X's 80 birthday, Peter Tatchell reveals the hidden gay past of the American black nationalist leader

Indigenous People occupy their lands in Brazil

19-05-2005 11:14 | Ecology | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

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.

G8 Gleneagles Road Closures, Exclusion Zones and offer of rally for just 5000

On Monday 6th May, Tayside police announced the initial security cordon plan (or as it's been labelled the 'traffic management plan') for the Gleneagles Summit in July. This will see local road closures to the west of Auchterarder, as well as the closure of rights of way through the southern part of the Gleneagles estate. Police will also be stationed at the junctions at Blackford, Loaninghead, Auchterarder and Aberuthven, an no doubt Braco and other junction locations.

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Demonstrate against the Uzbek massacres - Uzbek Embassy, London, 12 noon, Saturd

19-05-2005 08:33 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

*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.

[PRISONACT] FOR THE MILLIONS WHO CARE! A Call to Arms

19-05-2005 02:42 | Repression | World

Too many citizens have been cruelly touched by the flawed system of justice in our country - because 'justice' apparently no longer means truth and equality and basic human rights for all.

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Christian Aid Week

18-05-2005 18:38 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

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.

GASHcollective FREE party

18-05-2005 17:46 | Free Spaces | Manchester | World

For a night of rockin and heavy drinking.....

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John Bolton and the Decline of the US

18-05-2005 17:40 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | World

Is the nomination of John Bolton calculated to mask the deteriorating status of the US as a hyperpower? And if so, should the anti-war movement be encouraged by this? A brief discussion.

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Medialens and Democrat's Diary on George Galloway

18-05-2005 17:27 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | World

A discussion on George Galloway's place and role in media coverage of Iraq.

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Muslims should show some respect to others' religions

NEW FILM POOKS FUN AT NORTH KOREA,US AND CANADA

IWCA BENEFIT GIG

Is the Social State Ending?

ISRAEL’S SILENT NUCLEAR ATTACK REVEALED

What the Americans are doing to Iraq, our world

Mark Thomas Live political Comedy DVD

The SHORTWAVE REPORT 5/20/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!

WEF takes place at Dead Sea this weekend

Freedom according to the Stock Market (Gunter Grass)

'Zarqawi' figment of the US imagination, used time, and time again

Malcolm X - gay black hero?

Indigenous People occupy their lands in Brazil

G8 Gleneagles Road Closures, Exclusion Zones and offer of rally for just 5000

Demonstrate against the Uzbek massacres - Uzbek Embassy, London, 12 noon, Saturd

[PRISONACT] FOR THE MILLIONS WHO CARE! A Call to Arms

Christian Aid Week

GASHcollective FREE party

John Bolton and the Decline of the US

Medialens and Democrat's Diary on George Galloway

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