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Anarchist and Conscientious objector Mehmet Tarhan is free!

12-03-2006 01:38 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

Anarchist gay conscientious objector Mehmet Tarhan has been released (March 9th, 2006) following the decision of the Military Criminal Court of Cassation located in Ankara. Mehmet has been in Sivas military prison since April 2005 and was sentenced to four years of imprisonment by the local military court.

Autonomous Spaces at Athens ESF 2006 -open public ephemeral zone

12-03-2006 00:53 | Free Spaces | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

During the first week of May 2006 the European Social Forum will take place in Athens. At the same time the open assembly for the creation of the “Autonomous Spaces” / Open Public Ephemeral Zone will use a university space in the centre of Athens and will produce an ephemeral autonomous zone that will try to bring together all the grassroots anticapitalist, autonomous and antiauthoritarian collectives, groups and movements.

Community action only hope against anti-democratic Crossrail councillors

11-03-2006 23:38 | Analysis | Indymedia | Social Struggles | World

The London EVENING STANDARD is denounced by London mayor Ken Livingstone as a crass, racist paper. In fact the hatred between Ken Livingstone and the EVENING STANDARD has been rendered unforgettable now by the Nazi jibe affair.

So where does the EVENING STANDARD ‘disagree’ with Ken Livingstone
over the Crossrail Bill ?

Nowhere!

Not really. They are BOTH madly fanatical about Crossrail.

So much so that the EVENING STANDARD has published some rare pro-Ken Livingstone pieces in the past three years which can only have been so because both the Standard Livingstone utterly agrees on the Crossrail plan.

How come?

Because Ken Livingstone endered the interests the people affected by Big Business plan in return for ‘tolerance’ by the Blair regime. And in doing so, Livingstone has helped to discredit the office of Mayor in a more permanent way than is realised by any of the ‘mainstream commentators. Least of all by Livingstone himself.

In this discrediting of public office, the local Councils are not far behind Livingstone.

The role played by one London local Council, Tower Hamlets in London’s
East End, in allowing the Crossrail hole project to be prepared in the way that it ahs been so far as its contents affect m large parts of the community in the East End, has been the subject of ever heightening political tension in the area. With the scheduled local council elections on 4 May 2006, that role is expected e to be the cause of the loss of political Control by the Blair-loyalist Tower Hamlets Council But what will be the difference if an alliance of Opposition candidates is in a position the next tower Hamlertsncil? Will that Council make any significant will the people East be able to fend off the Crossrail attacks?

The QUICKTIME REPORT 12/3/06 - SEE GLOBALLY!

11-03-2006 21:00 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

A review of news, opinion, and photography recorded, from the Indymedia Newswire. With times and freqs for tuning in anywhere you can, at your leisure. Free to rebroadcast. The world & recorded for the community archive!

French filth riot against student revolt.

Riot police have stormed the Sorbonne University in Paris, forcing out students who have been occupying the building since Wednesday in protest against government labour laws.

2nd Renaissance -14

11-03-2006 10:46 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

Withdrawing Support For Militarism [179]
The problem with revenge is that it lowers the humanity of those who exercise it down to the same level, of even below, those who committed the original crime. Although we can't yet know who was responsible for 911 or 1012, we do now know that forces of the Coalition of the Willing (CoW) have, on occasions, been just as barbaric as the people who killed on those dates. This has been amply demonstrated in Afghanistan and again in Iraq. If you doubt this, seek out more facts about the CoW's use of DU and NDU weaponry and cluster bombs. These horror weapons continue, to this day, to put young children and adult civilians at risk of injury or death from unexploded munitions, radiation, and toxic substances in the ground water and the food chain.

Did Israel President Moshe Katsav aid Muslim Terrorism or only fraud ?

The land of International penny stock fraud makes for strange bedfellows and here often right wing cons of all stripes lie together.So it should come as no surprise that by touting or allowing his name to be used to tout a Michael Zwebner pump and dump penny stock scam(one of many over the years) President of Israel Moshe Katzav not only mixes his name and reputation with American mafia and international crooks and gangsters but also Mr.Zwebner's business partner in a number of scams over the years including UCSY or Universal Communications Systems is the infamous Mohamed Hadid,a Palestinian of ill repute connected to the Herndon,Virginia Muslim charity suspected in both money laundering and terrorist funding activities,including Al Qaeda.

Venezuela 2006: Anarchism against all odds

10-03-2006 21:36 | Analysis | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Our friends from abroad continuously ask us to explain our views about the current situation in Venezuela. This reply is based on two recent texts by the editing team of El Libertario, already published in their entirety in the internet (in Spanish), and from which we extract our main points.

Xrail hole Bill MPs will need to be vigilant of slippery Xrail-backer

10-03-2006 20:15 | Analysis | Indymedia | Social Struggles | World

The UK House of Commons hybrid draft piece of legislation, the Crossrail Bill, is being ‘scrutinised’ by a small group of MPs, collected from mainly the three ‘major’ Political Parties. The process has been overstated in its relevant capacity to alter the substantive contents of any Bill. Given that the Crossrail Bill contains monumental powers that will enable the destruction of entire communities in the East End of London, the ability – or the chances - of the MPs committee on the Crossrail Bill to make any difference must be examined against the performance of another committee which in October 2002 ‘heard evidence’ from one Michael Keith, a councillor on the East End Borough of Tower Hamlets Council. The same Michael Keith is now leader of the same council and is widely associated with the promotion of the Crossrail Bill and plan as a whole. Keith is set to be among Tower Hamlets Councillors who would enjoy the chance to appear before the Crossrail committee to make the case for the Council’s defiance of the local community. The MPs need to be much more alert and vigilant this time round then their counterparts were on Tuesday 15 October 2002.

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4 crucial things to remember re: iran '53 . . . . ( + first hand accounts)

10-03-2006 19:32 | Anti-militarism | Culture | World

. . . . that every journalist working on the iran story should make themselves aware of . . . . since its the forgetting that causes the very worst tragedies.

Youth Against Heavy Industry invade offices of Icelandic National Power Compnay

10-03-2006 14:23 | Ecology | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

The Reykjavík offices of the much loathed Landsvirkjun, the Icelandic National Power Company, were gatecrashed yesterday by over thirty angry young people who banged drums, shouted and blew whistles in defiance against Landsvirkjun, heavy industry and ecocidal dams in the Icelandic highlands.

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Glowing in the Dark

10-03-2006 13:24 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

The prospect of Iran developing a nuclear capability (which would realistically entail at least a five-year time frame) did not prevent John Bolton, US representative to the UN, stating that a “painful” response would be inflicted on Iran if it failed to comply with UN (American) dictates! Questions of the UN’s independence aside, is the focus on Iran a distraction from the debacle that is Iraq or is the USA following their PNAC strategy with little regard for consequences?

France: Students mobilise against the CPE

10-03-2006 13:13 | French CPE uprising 2006 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

In France, students mobilise against the CPE: All together in the struggle against capitalism! University and high-school students, future unemployed, future part-time or temporary workers: All together in the struggle against capitalism!

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Paris: Sorbonne is occupied

Since yesterday evening, the legendary university Sorbonne in the Latin
Quarter of Paris is occupied. Even though the CRS (French Riot Police)
was present, the occupation could be held throughout the night...A new
chance for social change?

United Against Repression EuroDemo + Teknival: Strasbourg: 15th April

10-03-2006 11:34 | Culture | Free Spaces | Repression | World

MOBILISATION - united forces of soundsystems and peoples...

We ask you to mobilize yourselves, your sound systems and your friends and head for Strasbourg to the European Alternatives Resistance (E.A.R) protest to make yourselves seen and heard peacefully. We will be assembling at 14.00 hours at Place de l'Universite in strasbourg city center and will be marching on the European Parliement and Council and the Court of Human Rights.

We ask you all to bring the carnival atmosphere with whistles, horns, drums and anything else you can make some fucking noize with !!! We do not want a violent protest and ask everyone to be on there best behavior, dont give them the excuse to turn this on us, the worlds press will be watching... [then party after...]

Copies of flyers below - full size + posters + more infos at:

http://www.free4euroalternatives.org

Why? Against the repression of parties, squats, cultures and people: eg: "One dead and over 50 injured as police spread chaos at Czech Tekno Festival" 06.08.2005

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/08/320508.html?c=on#comments

See you there!

Khoodeelaar! reports on Blair plot to 'involve' victims of Xrail hole in attack

10-03-2006 09:43 | Analysis | Indymedia | Social Struggles | World

While UK Prime Minister Tony Blair seems destined to go down as the holder of the 'highest political office in the land' who most disgraced that office by his contempt for 'the constitution' and in abusing the democratic associations with that election-linked office of Prime Minister [the Prime Minister is NOT elected in the UK, yet, contrary to the overwhelmingly banal assertors in the media that it is] , the legacy he is likely to leave behind for the denegation of parts of the UK inner cities will linger even longer than the Daily Mail-type headlines about his sleazy regime. That Blair is bent on letting Big Business defile the East End under the cover of Crossrail is seen in his administration’s frequent appearances in the Brick Lane area, pleading with the community for 'cooperation' with the Crossrail hole programme of destruction of the very same community! These EXCLUSIVELY written Khoodeelaaronline items are linked with the way that the CROSSRAIL hole attacks on the East End have been conceived and are being pushed against the community

The SHORTWAVE REPORT 3/10/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!

09-03-2006 23:10 | Analysis | 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, China, Cuba, and Russia.

Global anti-war demonstrations March 18th and March 19th 2006

09-03-2006 23:05 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Workers' Movements | World

This is an announcement of the Global anti-war demonstrations on the weekend of March 18th and March19th.

THE STORY BEHIND THE FEB 4 PRISONERS - BARCELONA

09-03-2006 15:41 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

For anyone who has heard something about the prisoners arrested on 4th February in Barcelona but is unclear on the details, here's the story. If it's unfamiliar, you too should read on. This a story of overt police repression in Europe. If we don't resist, we'll be next...

Tower Hamlets Council is set to be sunk down the Xrail hole

09-03-2006 14:20 | Analysis | Indymedia | Social Struggles | World

The campaign in the Brick Lane London E1 area against the hybrid 'Crossrail Bill' [UK House of Commons] is getting heightened this week. Campaigners are setting out conditions for individual councillors to show their full commitment to oppose the Crossrail hole attacks. The constitutional implications of this are significant. This includes the possibility of individual councillors being taken to court on their undertaking. Of they refuse to give such clear undertaking then the claim that local democracy works will be exposed as seriously false. Ordinary people will have to defe3nd the community against the Crossrail; attacks. And against similar environemntal, economic and social attacks moiyunted under covers of democracy.

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World Newswire Archive

Anarchist and Conscientious objector Mehmet Tarhan is free!

Autonomous Spaces at Athens ESF 2006 -open public ephemeral zone

Community action only hope against anti-democratic Crossrail councillors

The QUICKTIME REPORT 12/3/06 - SEE GLOBALLY!

French filth riot against student revolt.

2nd Renaissance -14

Did Israel President Moshe Katsav aid Muslim Terrorism or only fraud ?

Venezuela 2006: Anarchism against all odds

Xrail hole Bill MPs will need to be vigilant of slippery Xrail-backer

4 crucial things to remember re: iran '53 . . . . ( + first hand accounts)

Youth Against Heavy Industry invade offices of Icelandic National Power Compnay

Glowing in the Dark

France: Students mobilise against the CPE

Paris: Sorbonne is occupied

United Against Repression EuroDemo + Teknival: Strasbourg: 15th April

Khoodeelaar! reports on Blair plot to 'involve' victims of Xrail hole in attack

The SHORTWAVE REPORT 3/10/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!

Global anti-war demonstrations March 18th and March 19th 2006

THE STORY BEHIND THE FEB 4 PRISONERS - BARCELONA

Tower Hamlets Council is set to be sunk down the Xrail hole

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