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Up to 200,000 UK jobs are likely to be lost in the biggest industrial collapse since manufacturing was decimated in the early 1980s. Analysts predict a total of 2 million jobs will migrate from Western Europe to India by 2008.

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von Boutet F. from Touluse - 31.08.2003 00:57

The debate on software patentability also addresses old philosophical questions : are computing machines intelligent ? Can we think of making software applications patentable withtout asking what represents these applications for humans and for the european society ? If programmed machines are intelligent, can we patent intelligence ?

Vote with your money if you want your vote to count

Defund the war machine? Yes we can!

Colombia: mass demonstration in Bogotá
Of Indymedia Colombia; translation: Kh. - 24.08.2003 11:32
Chronology of the 12th of august

There was a general strike on the 12th of august in Colombia, however this strike was only carried out in total in the petroleum industry, and there was also a mass demonstration of 100,000 persons in Bogotá, most of whom involved are employed in the agricultural sector.
Thereby acts of violence were committed by the police.
The protests are against the planned American free trade contract ALCA, that threatens the existence of the national economy.
Just in these days Bush's trade delegate Zoellick visted Bogotá in order to persuade the Colombian government to the conclusion of a bilateral trade contract.
Here is a chronological report of Indymedia Colombia about the events in Bogotá and different parts of the country.

source:  http://de.indymedia.org/2003/08/60342.shtml

George Farquar - scotish anti electronic warfare activist committed to mental ward in Edinburgh hospital

NB: No doctor was present at his "trial!"

of paula - 26.08.2003 06:39

The president of the trade union umbrella organization CUT, Juan Carlos Galvis, was attacked in Barrancabemeja by two men, near the office of the CUT in Barrancabermeja, on the 22 August at 12 o'clock at noon.

source:  http://germany.indymedia.org/2003/08/60345.shtml

of paula - 26.08.2003 06:33

In the framework of a huge military operation, carried out by the district attorney's office Saravenas, army and CTI (police units), the flats of numerous social activists in Saravena were raided and many persons have been arrested on the 21st of August 2003.

source:
 http://de.indymedia.org/2003/08/60342.shtml

Paramilitaries prepare attack on Caracol in Roberto Barrios

posted by "Direct Solidarity with Chiapas" - 24.08.2003 13:43
source. Imc Germany:  http://germany.indymedia.org/2003/08/60255.shtml
La Jornada, Sunday, 24 August 2004
Hermann Bellinghausen

In Venezuela, this week opposition and left have demonstrated against or for the government. Today, this Saturday, Caracas was a sea in red.

If we are to defeat the systems of oppression, we must in fact combat the very systems themselves.

The dispute over whether General Efrain Ríos Montt can run for president has dramatically escalated. Today [July 24], in a coordinated campaign of violence, busloads of followers of Ríos Montt, including paramilitaries, entered the capital city and attacked groups of people, journalists, and critics of the general. They have threatened media offices and human rights organizations. Héctor Ramírez, a journalist, died of a heart attack while escaping from an aggressive mob, and other journalists narrowly escaped lynching. This very dangerous development may be the prelude to a coup.

 http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2003/08/124999.php , August 7th.

The U.S. and many terrorist organizations engage in killing civilians to achieve their goals. When the U.S. kills civilians as part of a war they excuse it with the term "Collateral Damage" or "Incidental Casualties".

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A RESPONSE TO A PREVIOUS POST

The New World is in initiative for a New World community, based on Pacifism, Socialism, and Environmentalism. Heiko de Graaf and Erik van Luxzenburg have created it at December the 12, 1996 after a medium period of discussing how a New World order has to look like with additions of Ronald Visser. At December the 12 1996, Erik van Luxzenburg completed this report. He also made this translation at February 29 2000. Now it is a years old project of Peacefull Young Idealists from the Netherlands. though created in 1996 it is stil a valid dream. The New World tries to give a general philosophy based on socialist, anarchist and partly kibbuts ideals to create autarkic communities and the ways these communities co-operate as parrallel societies next to the nowadays society.

An update is necessary to invent communities based on this philosophy living in cities or urbanised areas there the original philosophy was based on "empty" areas in Asia

The noborder-camp in in cologne, germany has been surrounded by heavy police forces the press group reports that the water has been cut off (temperatures are around 40° celsius / 100 (?) fahrenheit) temporarily people are being chased, teargassed and taken into cutsody inside the camp injuries are reported todays anti racist demonstration was thwarted

largest representation and gathering of architectural students in Europe are petitioning George Bush to change US energy policy and support the Kyoto agreement

At approximately 7am this morning, Palestinian, Israeli, and international human rights activists were detained while attempting to block the demolition of part of a Palestinian family’s home, near the village of Mas'ha. The building that had been slated for demolition by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) - because it lay in the path of Israel’s controversial Separation Wall – is now being destroyed.