World Repression Newswire Archive

Repression in Osaka, Japan, as city bids for G8 2008

There has been a series of arrests in Osaka against the homeless liberation movement. Several activists, including anarchists, have been detained on serious charges. These arrests follow a number of attacks by Osaka city against homeless people and their supporters.

Shell and Irish State forcibly break picket,injuries reported,solidarity needed!

03-10-2006 11:08 | Rossport Solidarity | Ecology | Repression | World

Hundreds of police present (170 directly at Ballinaboy according to police figures).
Riot police brought up from Cork and held on stand by.
Mood among protesters resilient.

Electronic-Voting and the U.S. & Brazilian Elections

03-10-2006 04:49 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Technology | World

Whenever these machines have been used, there is a surprisingly strong showing for conservative candidates regardless of the exit polls ,
These electronic voting machines can be altered in minutes to throw elections

Australian charities boycott “welfare to work” measures

03-10-2006 01:27 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

It is no coincidence that the Welfare to Work measures have been imposed alongside the new workplace relations laws, because they go hand in hand. The industrial legislation is designed to force workers onto individual contracts that will rip up wages and basic conditions. Having no choice but to accept sub-standard jobs, the unemployed, single parents and the disabled will be used to undermine the conditions of all workers.

Canberra’s dirty tricks ahead of Solomon Islands no-confidence vote

02-10-2006 20:54 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Whatever the outcome of this week’s parliamentary session in the Solomon Islands, the Howard government has made clear that it will stop at nothing to oust Sogavare and impose a government more in tune with Australian interests.

BRITAIN: The mysterious case of the disappearing 'terror’ plots

I've been wondering about this myself. The outrageous claims are made, the Government gets its "fear spike", then retractions are made quietly, if at all.

Missing Link Atta “Martyrdom” Video Appears Five Weeks Before Election

02-10-2006 11:54 | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

Suddenly, with the midterm election five weeks away, a previously undiscovered video emerges, showing Mohammed Atta “reading his ‘martyrdom’ will inside Afghanistan at Usama bin Laden’s headquarters.”

The idea here is to keep the American people on point as the Bushcons attempt to remain in control of Congress, not that Democrats can be expected to wander much from the neocon forever war agenda, inflated by fake terrorism and elusive, one-step-ahead terrorists, Freddy Kruger phantoms designed to keep the “clash of civilizations” going indefinitely.

PHILIPPINES: The Killings Must Stop

02-10-2006 11:23 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

This is a Statement by European Church and Civil Society Organisations regarding the recent upsurge of political killings in the Philippines.

The Zapatistas and the Other: The Pedestrians of History

01-10-2006 23:54 | Repression | Social Struggles | Zapatista | World

This document is especially intended for and directed toward the adherents of the Sixth Declaration and the Other Campaign. And, of course, to those who might sympathize with our movement.

Bilingual Bulletin from Oaxaca

01-10-2006 19:22 | Repression | Social Struggles | Zapatista | World

A rough translation of recent events in Mexico from Irene. Streets have been renamed to honour the disappeared. Anybody who can make a better translation from the Spanish to the English is invited to do so.

The War They Do Not Want You to See; The Lughing 9/11 Bombers - New Video

01-10-2006 18:35 | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

- Blood & guts: At the front with the poor bloody infantry

- The laughing 9/11 bombers: Video: Osama Bin Laden's HQ Chilling message of the 9/11 pilots and more

“A Total Rollback Of Everything This Country Has Stood For”:

30-09-2006 08:27 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The Senate has agreed to give President Bush extraordinary power to detain and try prisoners in the so-called war on terror. The legislation strips detainees of the right to challenge their own detention and gives the President the power to detain them indefinitely. The bill also immunizes U.S. officials from prosecution for torturing detainees who the military and the CIA captured before the end of last year. We get reaction from Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights

The QUICKTIME REPORT 30/ 09/06 - SEE GLOBALLY!

30-09-2006 01:36 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

A review of news, opinion and photography recorded from the Indymedia Newswire. Free to rebroadcast. The world & recorded for the community archive!

Asylum Seeker documentary - Ahlam's Story

Ahlam Souidi speaks frankly about her time as an asylum seeker in Maryhill, Glasgow. Her family are at the moment threatened with deportation back to a country, Algeria, where they face grave danger.

PHILIPPINES: The worst regime post-Marcos

29-09-2006 23:09 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

AKBAYAN (Citizens Action Party) commemorates Martial Law with condemnation of worst regime post-Marcos.

Bush and Islam: Words versus Deeds

28-09-2006 15:50 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Repression | World

The wide gap between U.S. President George W. Bush’s words and deeds vis-à-vis Islam and Muslims doomed to failure his speech at the United Nations on September 19, which could neither appease Muslims nor pacify the ever growing Islamophobia.

Afghanistan: The Other Lost War

28-09-2006 15:41 | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

US directed repression of the Afghan people aided by its brutal Northern Alliance regional "warlord" proxies has led to the beginning of a growing insurrection against an intolerable situation that's unsustainable. It has the upper hand in Iraq and is fast becoming more of the same in Afghanistan. It's what always happens because no unwanted occupier is ever accepted by the people it subjugates, especially one whose prime mission is to terrorize the civilian population to pacify it. The mission is doomed to fail as eventually it becomes inefficient, ineffective and people back home no longer will tolerate it. By now it would seem cooler heads in Washington and at the Pentagon would have made some headway convincing the hard line neocons behind this growing misadventure and the out-of-control one in Iraq that it was time to cut losses, pull out, and go another way. Those among them with enough good sense have to realize even the most powerful military in the world has no chance to defeat a determined guerilla force gaining strength because it has most of the people in the country behind it.

Homeless families in Iraq seek government action

28-09-2006 11:34 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Hundreds of homeless people demonstrated in Baghdad on Monday in protest over being evicted from government buildings and schools they had been squatting in.

URGENT - Witch hunt in Chile: Six anarchists arrested after police raid squat.

28-09-2006 04:01 | Free Spaces | Repression | Social Struggles | World

This is what progressive democracy looks like.

On the ground: Time to go - the Manchester conference protest

26-09-2006 14:38 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Repression | World

£4.9 million indeed. And it could easily be seen. Police, horses, dogs, helmets, body armour - even the horses had kneepads. They looked ready for some kind of weird sporting spectacle that crossed horse-racing and skateboarding.