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Sakine at imminent risk of execution - what activists can do

06-08-2010 21:37 | Gender | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Sakine is still very much at risk of execution. She represents the face of the Iranian people struggling under the present oppresive Islamic Regime of Iran. Thousands are suffering terrible torture in prisons and hundreds being executed without proper trial. This campaign is here to highlight the cruelty of stoning and to focus the world's mind on the terrible suffering suffered by thousands of Iranians day to day.

Cambridge Activists Target Barclays – SmashEDO!

Target Barclay Smash EDO:

http://www.smashedo.org.uk/target-barclays.html

17 prisoners on hunger strike_under barbaric islamic law

06-08-2010 21:05 | Globalisation | Iraq | Repression | World

It has been a week since 17 political prisoners currently detained in Evin Prison in Tehran, have gone on hunger strike.

This Week in Palestine- Week 30 2010

06-08-2010 17:42 | Indymedia | Other Press | Palestine | World

Welcome to this Week in Palestine, aservice of the International Middle East \Media Center, www.imemc.org, for July 31, through August 6, 2010.

Shell drilling stopped for an hour and a half

06-08-2010 15:30 | Rossport Solidarity | Climate Chaos | World

Rossport Solidarity Campers go out before 7am and successfully prevent workers from accessing the drilling platforms.

Successful Hiroshima & Nagasaki Remembered event addressed by Lord Mayor

Today Merseyside CND held its annual Hiroshima & Nagasaki Remembered event, attended by Liverpool's Lord Mayor Cllr Hazel Williams, the attendance was close to 60 people counted on the day.

Additionally Green Blade sung inspiring songs for peace and against war.

“Countdown to Zero”: Hollywood movie promotes war on Iran

06-08-2010 09:48 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Culture | World

Seductive, fascinating and frightening, Countdown to Zero motivates the public to support complete nuclear disarmament and to fear Iran, which is conveniently the next country the US wants to invade. Framed in no-nuke rhetoric, Countdown to Zero is not-so-subtle agitprop. The film relies on conventional geopolitics to whip up conventional audiences into another conventional state of panic. Islamo-terrorists just can’t acquire this technology! This is painfully similar to what we were told prior to the invasion of Iraq.

Break the Bank - Camp for Climate Action 2010

06-08-2010 08:27 | Education | Energy Crisis | Social Struggles | World

Camp for Climate Action 2010
Break the Bank!
Edinburgh

Four days of training and direct action: 21st--24th August

This year we're targeting the Royal Bank of Scotland, one of the world's largest investor in oil, gas and coal.

Detention of children ends but is the proposed alternative humane?

06-08-2010 08:02 | Migration | Repression | Workers' Movements | World

Families with all legal rights exhausted to be given two weeks to leave the UK voluntarily

If they don't

Children/parents will be forcibly removed from their homes and taken directly to the airport to board the plane.

UKBA will likely ask for a heavy police presence should the family try and build up any form of community protest on the day of removal. UKBA concerned that if they fail to remove family on the day, significant public order problems may occur at any future attempts.

In the event of parents of family resisting on the day, family could be separated, children possibly taken into care, whilst police/immigration officials deal with parents.

Any last minute legal challenges processed through the legal system expediently.

The document at many points, stresses the strength of community resistance, from people in the street, teachers, NGOs, MPs, voluntary groups, faith groups, charitable organisations and the media

( The briefing paper reprinted below has been leaked to the media)

Why World War 2 ended with Mushroom Clouds - Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 1945

06-08-2010 06:49 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | History | World

Sixty-five years ago, U.S. President Harry Truman did not have to use the atomic bomb in order to force Japan to its knees, but he had reasons to want to use the bomb.

The atom bomb enabled the Americans to force Tokyo to surrender unconditionally, to keep the Soviets out of the Far East and - last but not least - to force Washington’s will on the Kremlin in Europe also. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were obliterated for these reasons, and many American historians realize this only too well.

Vivisectionist Animal Torturers Chief Recipients of Billionaire "Charity"

While Gates and Buffett ostensibly work to increase charitable giving by the wealthiest Americans, the recipients are often animal torturers.

Forgetful Mullen's 'unintended consequences'

05-08-2010 20:21 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | World

"It is therefore pertinent to question Mullen's passing reference to such an attack's "unintended consequences". Mullen seems to have forgotten his own insight, shared with an audience at Columbia University in April, that an attack on Iran could be "incredibly destabilizing", perhaps as much as the possession of nuclear bombs by Tehran itself.

That was then. Now, all of a sudden, the US media is inundated with hatched commentaries on "the case for attacking Iran", often by pro-Israel pundits trying to minimize the risks of an attack on Iran, some portraying this as a convenient "surgical strike" to knock off Iran's nuclear installations and thus set back Iran's program for many years.

More serious US pundits on the other hand are somewhat more cautious. A recent "war game" at Brookings Institution concluded that an attack on Iran "could easily spin out of control''. Any idea that Iran would respond to an attack with a great deal of huff and puff but ultimately self-restraint in the face of overwhelming US-Israeli firepower would be a recipe for disillusionment."

BNP Leadership Challenge

05-08-2010 17:41 | Anti-racism | South Coast | World

“Meanwhile things are hotting up in the BNP alright,
Conspiracies on the internet, knives in the night.”

English Defence League [EDL] pre Bradford meet & party Sat 7th August in Seaham

The English Defence League are an Islamophobic and racist organisation whose leadership and foot soldiers have links to the BNP, Combat 18, Blood and Honour, White Pride, English Shieldwall, English Nationalist Alliance and UKIP. The EDL have rioted in Stoke, Luton, Bolton, Dudley etc. They have been photographed and filmed giving Nazi salutes and with swastika flags. They are planning yet another riot in Bradford on the 28th August described by them as "the big one" [partly because the UAF have stirred it up as the "big one"]. This Saturday 7th August the EDL or "North East Infidels" are meeting at the Red Star Seaham for a pre Bradford meeting & an EDL party.

Dissident Island Radio - 3 years old tomorrow!

05-08-2010 13:51 | History | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Ian Tomlinson speeches // Sean Rigg two year anneversary // Louise Michel // Polyamory // Belgrade 6 exclusive // Ronin

Take action for Omar Khadr

Next week, on Tuesday 10 August, 23-year old Canadian Omar Khadr, who has spent over a quarter of his life illegally detained at Guantánamo Bay, will become the first person to be tried at Guantánamo under the Obama administration and the first person to be tried for offences allegedly committed as a child (when aged 15) anywhere in the world in over 60 years. International law considers child soldiers like Omar Khadr to be victims and not criminals and in practice is against any form of trial for them.

Preparing for World War III, Targeting Iran - Part I: Global Warfare

04-08-2010 18:58 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | World

War preparations to attack Iran are in "an advanced state of readiness". Hi-tech weapons systems including nuclear warheads are fully deployed. Public opinion, swayed by media hype is tacitly supportive, indifferent or ignorant as to the likely impacts of what is upheld as an ad hoc "punitive" operation directed against Iran's nuclear facilities. The prospect of war against Iran is presented to public opinion as an issue among others. It is not front-page news. The devastating consequences of a nuclear war are either trivialised or simply not mentioned. The fact that an attack on Iran could lead to escalation and potentially unleash a "global war" is not a matter of concern. The scale of anti-war protest in relation to Iran has been minimal in comparison to the mass demonstrations which preceded the 2003 bombing and invasion of Iraq.

Stop the EDL! Ask EDL coach company Johnsons not to transport the EDL Nazis

04-08-2010 17:02 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The English Defence League are an Islamophobic organisation with links to the BNP, Blood and Honour, Combat 18, White Pride, British Peoples Party, White Nationalist Party, English Nationalist Association, English Shield Wall, National Front and other racists. They have rioted in Stoke, Dudley, Luton, Bolton etc, have put pig's heads on Mosques & have pulled off Muslim women's clothing in attacks.