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The Grateful Slave by Paines Torch

04-10-2007 09:03 | Education | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

This posted article should be mandatory reading in all schools in the common wealth.
Beginning in pre-school.

Young woman provides new leadership to African liberation struggle

04-10-2007 00:55 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Ivory Muhammad, President of Uhuru black rights organization will speak at African People’s Solidarity Day events in Oakland; says police brutality, discriminatory prison rates, the Jena 6 show that African people in the U.S. are still not free

Tara frontline Action -avin it

04-10-2007 00:36 | Ecology | Free Spaces | Oxford | World

Tara Valley Action-resistance grows as 30 cultural conservationists stop destruction.

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Thousands march in Oaxaca to mark anniversary of 1968 student massacre

03-10-2007 21:29 | Oaxaca Uprising | Repression | Social Struggles | World

On Tuesday 2nd October between 2-3,000 students and members of the local popular resistance APPO ( the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca)marched from the edge of Oaxaca city centre to the Zocalo (central square).

Film: The tenth castor transport to Gorleben

03-10-2007 19:54 | Culture | Ecology | World

Nowhere on earth has the nuclear industry found a safe way to keep waste that will remain dangerous for at least a million years. In Germany politicians decided 30 years ago that a salt deposit near the village of Gorleben in the north of the country should be the permanent repository, and a prefabricated storage hall next door to it the "interim storage". Scientists almost from the outset ruled the salt dome unsafe.

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Leeds Animal Day, Sunday 7th October!

03-10-2007 19:52 | Animal Liberation | Climate Chaos | Social Struggles | World

This event is taking place this Sunday at The Common Place.

Party for Palestine - 12th October - Bristol

03-10-2007 16:48 | Gender | Palestine | Social Struggles | World

A night of live music, dj's and plenty of dancing to raise funds for Palestinian women's groups and international activist legal fees.

The Plough, Kilburn Street, Easton
8pm til real late - £4/£3 donation on the door

Bush's Global 'Dirty War'

03-10-2007 15:33 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

George W. Bush has transformed elite units of the U.S. military – including Special Forces and highly trained sniper teams – into “death squads” with a license to kill unarmed targets on the suspicion that they are a threat to American military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to evidence from recent court cases.

UK-US Iraqi Holocaust And Iraqi Genocide - 3.9 Million Deaths

03-10-2007 14:58 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | World

Undoubtedly what is happening in Iraq is a continuing 2-decade HOLOCAUST (i.e. involves a huge number of deaths).

Medialens - Iraq Body Count: “A Very Misleading Exercise”

The mainstream media are continuing to use figures provided by the website Iraq Body Count (IBC) to sell the public a number for total post-invasion deaths of Iraqis that is perhaps 5-10% of the true death toll.

As we recently reported, only a handful of media outlets covered a new ORB poll revealing that 1.2 million Iraqis had been murdered since the 2003 invasion. BBC Online provided a rare example:

“A UK-based polling agency, Opinion Research Business (ORB), said it had extrapolated the figure by asking a random sample of 1,461 Iraqi adults how many people living in their household had died as a result of the violence rather than from natural causes.

“The results lend weight to a 2006 survey of Iraqi households published by the Lancet, which suggested that about 655,000 Iraqi deaths were 'a consequence of the war'.

“However, these estimates are both far higher than the running total of reported civilian deaths maintained by the campaign group Iraq Body Count which puts the figure at between 71,000 and 78,000.” (BBC Online, ’US contractors in Iraq shootout,’ September 17, 2007;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6998458.stm)

BBC’s Newsnight programme used IBC’s figures in the same way:

“More than a million Iraqis have been killed since the invasion in 2003, according to the British polling company ORB. The study’s likely to fuel controversy over the true, human cost of the war. It’s significantly up on the previous highest estimate of 650,000 deaths published by the Lancet last October... The independent Iraqi [sic] Body Count group puts the current total at closer to 75,000.” (Newsnight, BBC2, September 14, 2007)

These reports again raise serious issues about what IBC’s figures actually mean, how they are being used and misused to cast doubt on higher numbers, and about what IBC is doing to promote or reduce the confusion. (See our 2006 Media Alerts archive for previous analysis, beginning with:

http://www.medialens.org/alerts/06/060125_paved_with_good.php)

Afghanistan: A heroic resistance that puts us to shame

02-10-2007 21:20 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | History | World

Forget the Neo-Con, the Neo-Dem, the Neo-Lib and the Neo-Nuts. The role the demonization and dehumanization of the (many, many, many...) Empire’s enemies has played in supporting imperialism and colonialism can be more easily seen in those Western liberal and progressive writers, journalists, intellectuals and anti-war movement’s planners who always resort to human rights, women rights, gay rights’ violations of the Empire’s enemy of the month as the reason why we, the enlightened people, can’t surely sympathies, let alone support the "other" peoples who try to defend themselves and resist against wars of aggression and occupations, which is to say, colonialism and imperialism.

Brown's Britain: 'Mother of Hypocrocies'

02-10-2007 21:02 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Repression | World

So Britain lectures Burma on the right of people to protest, the U.N., sends an envoy there and the U.S. - whilst behaving in Iraq and Afghanistan as Burma's Junta, shooting, beating, torturing, imprisoning without trial - go in to broken record mode about the right to peacefully demonstrate and 'freedom and democrocy'. Meanwhile, the British government, under the new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown (who as Chancellor of the Exchequer write the cheques for the Iraq and Afghanistan bloodbaths) has instructed the police to ban a peaceful march and Lobby of Parliament - on 8th October, the day that Parliament re-convenes after the summer break - demanding that British troops leave Iraq and Afghanistan.

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US Politicians, Not Ahmadinejad, Have Blood on Their Hands

02-10-2007 19:09 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Terror War | World

How American politicians can call Iran a dangerous country and claim that it poses a threat to the U.S. is a mystery. On second thought, it is not a mystery. It just tells you that the politicians think you and I are so stupid that we will fall for the exact same parade of lies and exaggerations that was used to justify the war against Iraq.

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Palestine Today – 100207

02-10-2007 17:22 | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday October 2, 2007.

Media and War

02-10-2007 13:10 | Anti-militarism | World

The news media in times of crisis and war reproduce and do not question the consciousness and attitudes of the elites. Wars are seen as exceptional situations by the media in which patriotism outweighs the journalistic self-image of critically distanced reporting.

Nov 30th - Call to Action On Sexual Assault

02-10-2007 10:05 | Anti-racism | Gender | Social Struggles | World

International Day of Action for Radical Community Responses to Sexual Assault - November 30th 2007

Iraq Will Have to Wait: Get Ready for the War against Iran

02-10-2007 08:35 | Anti-militarism | History | Iraq | World

The long-awaited “progress report” of Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker on the status of the occupation of Iraq has been made, providing Americans, via the compliant media, with the spectacle of loyal Bush yes men offering faith-based analysis in lieu of fact-based assessment. In the days and weeks that have since passed, two things have become clear: Neither Congress nor the American people (including the antiwar movement) have a plan or the gumption to confront President Bush in anything more than cosmetic fashion over the war in Iraq, and while those charged with oversight mill about looking to score cheap political points and/or save face, the administration continues its march toward conflict with Iran unimpeded.

Syrian Kurds to protest in London against 45 years of discriminatory policies

02-10-2007 00:53 | Repression | World

Tens of Syrian Kurds from across the UK will gather in London on Friday, October 5th, to remember the 1962 exceptional census, which stripped around 120,000 Kurds of their nationality and civil rights. The demonstration, called by the Syrian-Kurdish community in the UK, will start at 13:00 and last for about two hours. A delegate will then go into 10 Downing Street to hand the Prime Minister's office a letter explaining their problems and demands.

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The Military Drills of September 11th: Why a New Investigation is Needed

01-10-2007 23:54 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Terror War | World

We bring to the attention of our readers this carefully researched analysis.

"Given the warnings of incipient terrorist attacks that had been repeatedly received by the Administration and the FBI, why would anyone coordinate two major annual air training exercises at this time, and divert key resources to the North Pole on an outdated mission? Who was in a position to do this?"

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Sheffield protest against repression in Burma

Members of the Karen community in Sheffield were joined by activists and others to express solodarity with those opposing the regime in Burma.

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World Newswire Archive

The Grateful Slave by Paines Torch

Young woman provides new leadership to African liberation struggle

Tara frontline Action -avin it

Thousands march in Oaxaca to mark anniversary of 1968 student massacre

Film: The tenth castor transport to Gorleben

Leeds Animal Day, Sunday 7th October!

Party for Palestine - 12th October - Bristol

Bush's Global 'Dirty War'

UK-US Iraqi Holocaust And Iraqi Genocide - 3.9 Million Deaths

Medialens - Iraq Body Count: “A Very Misleading Exercise”

Afghanistan: A heroic resistance that puts us to shame

Brown's Britain: 'Mother of Hypocrocies'

US Politicians, Not Ahmadinejad, Have Blood on Their Hands

Palestine Today – 100207

Media and War

Nov 30th - Call to Action On Sexual Assault

Iraq Will Have to Wait: Get Ready for the War against Iran

Syrian Kurds to protest in London against 45 years of discriminatory policies

The Military Drills of September 11th: Why a New Investigation is Needed

Sheffield protest against repression in Burma

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