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SOS: Trade unions in Colombia

16-03-2005 22:58 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The director of the department for human rights of the Colombian trade union federation CUT informs the national and international public about the existence of a strange plan. This plan is to murder trade unionists who are critical towards the current negotiations between government and paramilitaries in Colombia.

18th of march: Day of the political prisoners 2005 (in Germany)

16-03-2005 21:53 | Globalisation | Repression | World

This article is a translation of an article posted on Indymedia Germany about the background, activities, history and recent histroy of the 18th of march as the international day of the political prisoners.

POLICE CRACK DOWN ON CLIMATE PROTESTERS

Police arrested two activists protesting G8 policies on climate change on 15 March at a demonstration outside a G8 ministerial meeting in the City of London.

International Anti-G8 Meeting Minutes: Tuebingen, Germany 26-27 Feb 2005

15-03-2005 11:15 | G8 2005 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

International Anti-G8 Meeting Minutes: Tuebingen, Germany 26th-27th February 2005

The following are the minutes of a two day international meeting to co-ordinate radical resistance to the 2005 G8 Summit to be held in the UK. The meeting took place in Tuebingen, Germany and was hosted by the Tuebingen Infoladen. The meeting was organised by the Dissent! International Networking Group.

To contact the Dissent! International Networking Group for comments upon, or corrections to, these minutes, email:

info-g82005@riseup.net

For more information about Dissent! see: www.dissent.org.uk or email the above address.

Norwich 2nd Anarchist Bookfair

Waterloo Park, Angel Road, Norwich

WTO: 10 years on and none the wiser

08-03-2005 11:29 | Globalisation | World

The World Trade Organization (WTO) turns 10 this year. It claims to have changed for the better. But the reality looks different. The WTO undermines development and environmental protection, argues Daniel Mittler of Greenpeace International.

A STEP FORWARD FOR AUTONOMY IN THE CHIAPAS HIGHLANDS

05-03-2005 23:48 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Zapatista | World

The 16th February saw 1,500 people gather in the zapatista autonomous municipality of that name, to celebrate the construction of their new Autonomous Council building. Meanwhile at the same time in Scotland, supporters of Edinburgh-Chiapas Solidarity Group held an event to show solidarity with their twinned zapatista municipality.

Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army desperately needs a LOGO !!!

The clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown has set up a competition for graphic designers and friends to design them a logo !!!

Coca Cola distribution plant in Bristol is being Blockaded

04-03-2005 09:35 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Currently in Bristol eight people are locked on in a circle of armtubes outside the main gate of coca Cola's distribution plant in Bristol. They have been there since 4.45 this morning.

News For Sale

02-03-2005 00:53 | Globalisation | Indymedia | London | World

Context of NEWS FOR SALE: information in the age of market-driven journalism - a conference 12 March, Camden Hall, London WC1 - Organised to highlight commodification of the media. Features 14 speakers from 6 countries and will cover Ownership, control and distribution, Impact of GATS and TRIPS agreements, internet, EU policies, Regulation vs. deregulation.

Fascism: Alive and Well in US

The following articles are the attempt to speak of events and attitudes in the US, which also have global consequence due to the "spread of democracy" currently falsly under way by the Neo-Con cultists in the US....

GLOBAL (COLON) IZATION

22-02-2005 15:22 | Globalisation | World

"Where they smell a prey, they speak of terrorists. Where they see windmills, they speak of weapons of mass destruction that cannot be found."

Seeking a Theology for Another Possible World

17-02-2005 18:21 | Globalisation | World

"The other world we are thinking of is the one we have, not a world beyond," said Rev. Orlando Santos de Oliveira.

kyoto smiles? yea or nay?

16-02-2005 00:19 | Analysis | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

here is an interesting and well written article about kyoto and other related topics.. p.s. can i just object to personal carbon trading (in principle) before its back in the news... it doesn't seem to be any more workable than carbon trading was int d first place..although tis a good idea- capping the amount of cabon we may each use but...

Kyoto Protocol Comes Into Effect

On 16 February 2005, the Kyoto Protocol comes into effect, legally binding most industrialised countries to greenhouse gas emission reductions by 2012. The treaty was signed by over 180 countries in 1997 and has since been watered down by special provisions for countries like Canada and Russia as well as limited in its effect by US non-ratification.

Climate change demo pictures.

13-02-2005 17:11 | Ecology | Globalisation | London | World

Thousands take to the streets of London to make their feelings known about the small matter of our planet being destroyed by greedy profit obsessed scum like George Bush.

Austrian woman arrested in Turkey

11-02-2005 19:56 | Globalisation | Repression | World

Sandra Bakutz, an Austrian citizen, was arrested at Istanbul Airport on the way to join a delegation observing a trial. She has been charged with belonging to a banned organisation and has gone on hunger strike. Below is a statement dated February 11, 2005:

The SHORTWAVE REPORT 2/11/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!

11-02-2005 00:21 | 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. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, Russia, Spain, and Cuba.

Amazing, how Gloria Arroyo can smile and at the same breadth strangle and starve

In all of this, one thing is reaffirmed: a government cannot be subservient to foreign corporate interests without, at the same time, strangling and starving the Filipino people. And if there is no solution to this crisis that isn’t within the unwritten rule of this regime’s obedience to foreign capital, then it is hard to know what is— without actually having to dismantle it.

SchNEWS on the G7 Finance Minister's Meeting

Here's this week's SchNEWS article on the G7 Finance Minister's Meeting in London today>>>

World Globalisation Newswire Archive

SOS: Trade unions in Colombia

18th of march: Day of the political prisoners 2005 (in Germany)

POLICE CRACK DOWN ON CLIMATE PROTESTERS

International Anti-G8 Meeting Minutes: Tuebingen, Germany 26-27 Feb 2005

Norwich 2nd Anarchist Bookfair

WTO: 10 years on and none the wiser

A STEP FORWARD FOR AUTONOMY IN THE CHIAPAS HIGHLANDS

Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army desperately needs a LOGO !!!

Coca Cola distribution plant in Bristol is being Blockaded

News For Sale

Fascism: Alive and Well in US

GLOBAL (COLON) IZATION

Seeking a Theology for Another Possible World

kyoto smiles? yea or nay?

Kyoto Protocol Comes Into Effect

Climate change demo pictures.

Austrian woman arrested in Turkey

The SHORTWAVE REPORT 2/11/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!

Amazing, how Gloria Arroyo can smile and at the same breadth strangle and starve

SchNEWS on the G7 Finance Minister's Meeting

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