World Repression Newswire Archive

Denmark, Kopenhagen: Heavy Streetfights. PICS

18-12-2006 18:23 | Free Spaces | Repression | World

Sunday December 17 - More than 300 demonstrators were arrested in the Danish capital on Saturday after violent clashes between police and youths who were protesting against the planned closure of a youth centre in the city. "Ungdomshuset-The Youth House Stays" .

Abbas attempts a political coup on behalf of Washington

18-12-2006 15:21 | Other Press | Palestine | Repression | World

Mahmoud Abbas, the Fatah president of the Palestinian Authority, has announced that he will dissolve the recently elected parliament and call new presidential and parliamentary elections. Abbas aide Yasser Abed Rabbo told Associated Press that the president would set the date within a week, and that new elections would be held within three months.

Letter about basque prisoner Iñaki De Juana Chaos

17-12-2006 21:30 | Repression | World

Letter to British Press and European Parlamentary Groups about Iñaki De Juana Chaos in prison because the content of two articles. You can sign and send it too.

Violent protests in Copenhagen - "Ungdomshuset-The Youth House Stays"

17-12-2006 11:16 | Free Spaces | Repression | World

Sunday December 17
More than 300 demonstrators were arrested in the Danish capital on Saturday after violent clashes between police and youths who were protesting against the planned closure of a youth centre in the city.
"Ungdomshuset-The Youth House Stays"

NYCLU on surveillance cameras: a critique

17-12-2006 04:21 | Analysis | Repression | Technology | World

The New York Civil Liberties Union (USA) has released a study on NYPD use of surveillance cameras in public places. This is our critique.

A visit to Palestine

This is an account of a week long visit made to Palestine (East Jerusalem and the West Bank) in November 2006. The visit was organised by the olive co-op in Manchester and had an agricultural/ economic development theme. I wrote this piece descibing our visit upon my return in order to give a picture of life in Palestine and to convey the strong impression the visit made on me.

Australian lawyers launch court bid to secure David Hicks’s release from Guantán

15-12-2006 08:49 | Repression | World

The ongoing imprisonment of Hicks, which is designed to psychologically destroy him, has further underscored the contempt for legal precedent and democratic rights that characterises the entire Australian political establishment.

Fear not God, Fear the X-tians who take away the young people's house.

Mobilisation video:

http://video.indymedia.org/en/2006/12/633.shtml

Help save the house which for more than a hundred years has been instrumental in political organising on the left. From the Youth House to the Father's House - need we say more?

250th day of Behiç Aşçı’s hunger strike

13-12-2006 22:27 | Repression | World

Please act urgently and spread the word.

Harvard documents abuses in Ethiopia's Gambella region

13-12-2006 22:15 | Repression | World

The International Human Rights Clinic of Harvard Law School's Human Rights Program issuing forthcoming report, documenting that Ethiopia's military is committing atrocities against Anuak civilians in the Gambella region of the country.

Media release : David Hicks torture details

13-12-2006 21:12 | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

Media release : David Hicks torture details

Puppet leadership in Western ‘Democracies’

Corporate power and rulership in western societies is complete, governments either conform to corporate dictates or are quickly replaced by compliant political alternatives. The management of information via the monopolised mass media and the complete domination of the economy maintain and sustain corporate supremacy. The masses suffer increased subjection (debt slavery) and vulnerability (limited options) as a result of decreased representation by governments. Corporate rule has reduced the real status of the public to servility and subservience, not dissimilar to the ancient Roman model of kept house-slaves. The belief that Roman slaves were constantly maltreated is based on erroneous images (whipped galley-slaves) that Hollywood and the entertainment industry have popularised. Ancient Roman slaves lived in basic but tolerable conditions, similar (in relative terms) to the servile masses of today.

Philippines: Charter Change is Arroyo's Cover-up

12-12-2006 23:57 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

AKBAYAN (Citizens Action Party) today stepped up efforts to derail attempts at the House of Representatives to initiate Charter Change (Cha Cha), calling the move as nothing more than an attempt to cover up the seething political crisis hounding Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA).

Stomach disease, parasites and civil war - where have all the Federales gone?

One the last day in a town tittering on uncertainty the police pressence decreases as the undercovers double: Oscar Beard in San Cristobal de Las Casas.

In Oaxaca, Questions Abound About 11/25 Fires By Sean Donahue

During the battle for control of Oaxaca on November 25, fires damaged a hotel, comsumed cars, and gutted government offices. Few doubt that protesters armed with molotov cocktails were responsible for some of the blazes. But many Oaxacans are asking questions about who really started the fires that destroyed offices housing key records of the administration of Gov. Ulisses Ruiz.

Prepare the glasses… The death of Pinochet

11-12-2006 11:11 | Other Press | Repression | World

Gen. Pinochet, who overthrew Chile's democratically elected president in a bloody coup and ruled this Andean nation for 17 years, died Sunday, Santiago, Chile, Dec. 10, 2006, dashing hopes of victims of his regime's abuses that he would be brought to justice. He was 91. Pinochet suffered a heart attack a week ago and underwent an angioplasty, and the brief announcement by the Santiago Military hospital said his condition worsened suddenly on Sunday. Dr. Juan Ignacio Vergara, spokesman for the medical team that had been treating him, said his family was with him when he died.

Pinochet, Chile’s former US-backed dictator, dead at 91

11-12-2006 10:28 | Other Press | Repression | World

News of the death of Chile’s former military dictator Augusto Pinochet sparked spontaneous demonstrations in Santiago and other Chilean cities Sunday.

Thousands poured into the streets or drove in horn-honking caravans to celebrate the death of the 91-year-old retired army general, who came to power in a 1973 CIA-backed coup against the elected government of Socialist Party President Salvador Allende.

Turkey, Istanbul: burning barricades and clashes on the streets

11-12-2006 01:12 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Massive fights in the streets of Istanbul:

200 Eritreans Protest outside the Eritrean Embassy in London.

(London 08-12-04) Nearly two hundred Eritreans gathered together protesting the Human Rights abuse that continues unabated in Eritrea....

Originaly posted (along with many photos) on

http://news9.asmarino.com/content/view/696/188/

See also

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/12/358021.html
and

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/12/357956.html