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Palestine Today 11 10 2010

10-11-2010 17:36 | Indymedia | Other Press | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, November 10th 2010.

Day of Action for Shaker Aamer, Brit left to rot in Guantanamo - Sat 11 Dec

SAVE SHAKER AAMER, SHUT GUANTANAMO AND BAGRAM

British Resident Shaker Aamer has been held without charge or trial for over eight years in Guantanamo in the harshest of conditions. All the other UK Guantanamo detainees have now returned home. They have all suffered years of cruel and inhuman treatment as victims of the US policy of abduction, rendition to torture and indefinite detention in the so-called “war on terror.” Despite President Obama’s executive order to close Guantanamo by January 2010, many detainees, including Shaker, are still being held there without hope of an end to their ordeal. Meanwhile, the CIA prison at Bagram , Afghanistan , is the new Guantanamo . Hundreds of detainees are locked away, tortured and abused in absolute denial of all their human rights. They have been silenced but it is up to us to demand an end to their detention and torture.

On Saturday 11 December 2010 there will be a day of action for Shaker Aamer, and calling for the closure of Guantanamo, Bagram and other secret US prisons and an end to the US practices of "extraordinary rendition" and indefinite detention without charge or trial in the name of the so-called "war on terror". A demo, public meeting and film showing are already planned in Battersea, south London, home to Shaker's British wife and children, the youngest of whom he has never met.

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US prepares permanent Iraq occupation

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates signaled Tuesday that the US is preparing to scrap a 2011 deadline for withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq, setting the stage for a permanent military occupation of the oil-rich country.

French police infiltrated protests against Sarkozy austerity program

10-11-2010 14:01 | Public sector cuts | Repression | Sheffield | World

During the recent strike wave in France against the Nicolas Sarkozy government’s austerity measures and pension “reform”, demonstrators observed police infiltrating several contingents and carrying out a variety of provocative actions. The police have very conspicuously decided not to deny that they infiltrated the demonstrations.

Racism, Religion, and the American and UK Armed Forces Decision to use DU

Racism, Religion, and the American and UK Armed Forces Decision to use Uranium Munitions in their Wars in Iraq, the Balkans, and Afghanistan

While there has been much debate about the wars in Iraq, the Balkans, and
Afghanistan, the most important aspect of those conflicts, the clearly
racist, and religiously motivated decision by the American and UK armed
forces to use depleted uranium, and non-depleted uranium munitions which
have irradiated those 3 mostly Muslim, or large minority Muslim places with
enough inhalable radioactive material to kill millions of people, is rarely
mentioned in the major media, which ought to regard the nuclear wars that
the American and UK armed forces have fought over the last 19 years, as the
biggest scandal of modern times, because there is concrete scientific proof
that those wars could kill more civilians than the Holocaust, as I will now
explain.

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Heterosexual couple denied equality

10-11-2010 11:40 | Gender | History | Social Struggles | World

Heterosexual couple denied equality

Civil partnership ban defied, but licence refused

‘Equal Love’ campaign opposes exclusion of straight couples

The "taxing the rich would bring in little money" lie

10-11-2010 10:37 | World

Far from being an empty political gesture, a wealth tax on the rich would reap great dividends

My first CASTOR – "Everything I hate about this country and this system"

10-11-2010 09:44 | Ecology | Energy Crisis | World

A report about my experiences at my first participation in a protest against a CASTOR shipment

Globalise Resistance! Smash The G20!

SMASH SEOUL, SMASH THE G20!
PROTEST/ACTION 2 – 6 pm FRIDAY 12th NOVEMBER, SOUTH KOREAN EMBASSY, LONDON.
ANTI-G20 SOLIDARITY. CAPITAL KNOWS NO BORDERS, SO WHY SHOULD WE?

Peace Held Hostage to Rotating US, Israeli Elections

10-11-2010 08:09 | Analysis | Palestine | World

Once and again, then again and again, U.S. and Israeli elections bring about new players and governments that renege on the commitments, pledges and promises of their predecessors vis – a –vis the Arab – Israeli conflict in general and the Palestinian – Israeli peace process in particular, with an overall effect of being much more harmful to peace making than any forces of ‘extremism.”

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Social war in France: In the heat of autumn (photo-roman)

10-11-2010 03:32 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

This french "roman-photo" has been made in the beginning of november, during the social struggle that goes on in France... It has been distributed in Grenoble and some other cities during demonstrations, and it is here translated from french to english.

Bonne lecture !

Obama backs India’s bid for permanent UN Security Council seat

10-11-2010 00:58 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Terror War | World

"Obama explicitly criticized India for not slavishly following Washington’s self-interested and selective human rights campaigns. Routinely governments that are viewed as obstacles to US interests, be they Iran, Cuba, or Zimbabwe, are pilloried for their repressive polices so as to isolate and destabilize them, while the crimes of authoritarian regimes that are US allies, like Saudi Arabia and Egypt, are excused and covered up—to say nothing of the horrific crimes perpetrated by the US military, most recently in Iraq and Afghanistan."

Medialens: WikiLeaks - The Smear and the Denial - Part 2 - The Denial

The UK and US media smears described in Part 1

http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2010/11/467342.html should be kept in mind when considering the gravity and importance of the latest WikiLeaks. In addition to thousands of previously unreported civilian killings, the leaks revealed more than 1,300 claims of torture by Iraqi police and military between 2005 and 2009. More than 180,000 people were detained at some point between 2004 and 2009, or one in 50 Iraqi males.

Smash EDO: Callout for noise demonstrators!

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Scandalous police repression against anti-nuclear activists in France

09-11-2010 20:04 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Repression | World

Activists from the French nonviolent direct action group GANVA were seriously injured and hospitalised by police while being cut out of lock-on tubes during a blockade of a train transporting nuclear waste between France and Germany. Immediately upon their release from hospital, they were held in police custody for 24 hours. They will go back into custody until their trial next month if they do not pay bail of €16,500 by 15 November.

National United Kingdom Census – 2011

09-11-2010 16:47 | Analysis | World

In 2011 there will be the 10-yearly compulsory national census that records a wide range of information on every person in every household in the United Kingdom.

Griffin's Last Gasp?

09-11-2010 11:50 | Anti-racism | South Coast | World

'And now, the end is near, and so he'll face the final curtain.' Or will he?

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Name In Lights!

09-11-2010 10:50 | Other Press | World

Zine Festival Leeds

UG#524 - Dispatches from The Chemical Civil War

08-11-2010 22:25 | Analysis | Ecology | Sheffield | World

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This week we continue looking at the toxic nature of the human separation from nature; we bring you 3 different pieces about the human engineering of toxic chemicals. First, an adaptation of Adam Curtis' BBC documentary Goodbye Mrs. Ant, on the rise and fall of the pesticide industry as purveyors of miracle cures, and how discovery of the pernicious effects of DDT lead to the growth of ecology and the environmentalist movement. Secondly, a 2009 interview with about the world's most fatal industrial chemical leak, the 1984 disaster in which a pesticide factory exploded in Bhopal. Finally, an interview with Emanuelle Schick-Garcia about her film, The Idiot Cycle, on how multinational chemical companies are both the world's biggest produce carcinogens and are intimately connected with the cancer treatment industry.

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Palestine Today 11 10 2010

Day of Action for Shaker Aamer, Brit left to rot in Guantanamo - Sat 11 Dec

US prepares permanent Iraq occupation

French police infiltrated protests against Sarkozy austerity program

Racism, Religion, and the American and UK Armed Forces Decision to use DU

Heterosexual couple denied equality

The "taxing the rich would bring in little money" lie

My first CASTOR – "Everything I hate about this country and this system"

Globalise Resistance! Smash The G20!

Peace Held Hostage to Rotating US, Israeli Elections

Social war in France: In the heat of autumn (photo-roman)

Obama backs India’s bid for permanent UN Security Council seat

Medialens: WikiLeaks - The Smear and the Denial - Part 2 - The Denial

Smash EDO: Callout for noise demonstrators!

More smashing radion from Dissident Island - 5 Nov show ready to download...

Scandalous police repression against anti-nuclear activists in France

National United Kingdom Census – 2011

Griffin's Last Gasp?

Name In Lights!

UG#524 - Dispatches from The Chemical Civil War

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