World Repression Newswire Archive

Fascism of the Heart

16-08-2007 14:15 | Repression | World

Tolerance is learned, not inate. The disabled have practically no lobby. Their interests and their rights are simply ignored. The logic of the National Socialist annihilation policy was the logic of the reduction of the person to his/her economic function.

No olympic in China until Tibet is free

15-08-2007 11:39 | Repression | World

14 Tibetans were on hunger strike, in New Delhi (India) from the 8th of July to the 9th of August. Among their objectives, they wanted to convince international community to boycott the Olympic Games to be held in Beijing in August-September 2008.

Oaxaca Street Art

Some photos taken from the street art, graffiti and stencil work around the centre of Oaxaca city.

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Unruly militias as British recede

14-08-2007 21:09 | Iraq | Other Press | Repression | World

Hameed Hussain who fled the city recently says the Iraqi police and army are not in control of the city. "Practically, the militias have the city under their sway."

Zapatista Communities Attacked

Following the recent Encuentro at Caracol de Oventic Zapatista communities have faced further violence against them.

Oaxaca: Catalan Four Released Without Charge, No Reason For Incarceration

The Catalan Four arrested, beaten, sexually assaulted and threatened were released last night, Monday 13 August 2007.

Help free queer refugee Ali Humayun from Sydney's Villawood detention centre.

Ali Humayun, a queer refugee locked up in Sydney’s Villawood detention centre, needs your support.

A Letter From The Catalan Four: Still Detained In Oaxaca, threatened & beaten!

This letter was received from the four Catalan detainees still incarcerated in Mexico DF.
First is the rough English translation, then the original Spanish. At the bottom is a list of authorities you can write to in order to assist in their release.
A previous article asked for no one to demonstrate, but to write to demand release:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/378075.html

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China to Deploy World's Largest People Tracking Network

13-08-2007 12:28 | Repression | Technology | Terror War | World

Shenzhen, China: 20,000 surveillance cameras with face recognition; ID cards fitted with radio chips, backed by a database containing minute details of a person's life (religion, ethnicity, police record, medical records, landlord's phone number, travel payments, even small purchases). Officially aimed at fighting crime but will also help the Communist Party retain power. The UK Government's ID card/National Identity Register plans are very similar.

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"Do not make political actions for us": Catalan Four

The Catalan four arrested and imprisoned in Oaxaca have asked that no one makes protest for them, as they were not doing anything political.

First in Spanish, then the English translation.

FIT Watch at Climate Camp

FIT Watch will have an active presence at Climate Camp from Tuesday morning both at Staines Station and the camp itself.

We are also hoping to form a rota of people to stand outside camp trying to prevent FIT from taking photos, and adding to our own database of police photos.

Please help us and get involved – let’s show we will not accept their repressive policing.

We will have a workshop on Tuesday at 4:30pm at the camp to set up a rota. This workshop will also deal with the legalities of dealing with FIT Teams and will discuss how we can resist them in the future.

The Cheney Affair

11-08-2007 21:02 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Terror War | World

Now that mainstream media bias is an established fact and recognized as such by the mainstream reading and viewing public, the revelation of Vice President Dick Cheney's total unilateral control over all levels and branches of American government has not only raised eyebrows and concerns of dictatorship, but for those politically astute, begs the question as to why theWashington Post would be the journalistic vehicle to publish the four-part June 24 through June 27 series exposing this reality.

Undercover Notes From Oaxaca: Cops, lies and videotape

It’s been a tough two weeks. From election coverage, police monitoring to murder for timber.

But now, as I should be on a bus out of this hellhole masquerading as a happy tourist resort, but a zone of paranoia for an undercover journalist, I am compelled to get all this down. For one thing, purely to document the situation should I not make it out of here.

East End campaigner and G Galloway party activist Carole Swords arrested !

09-08-2007 16:40 | Analysis | Repression | London | World

East End constituency of Bethnal Green and Bow MP George Galloway ‘RESPECT’ party activist and well known campaigner for the protection of public sector provisions in the East End and for a democratic Tower Hamlets Council Carole Swords was arrested in the East End of London outside polling station being used for today’s council by-election for a vacant seat in the Shadwell Ward.

Four Internationals arrested and detained in Oaxaca for watching a video

Four internationals were arrested on the evening of the election, 5 August, by Federal Police for the crime of watching a video of last year's riots on a television screen set up in the in Zocalo.

If you see something, say something

07-08-2007 00:50 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Terror War | World

Catchy, isn’t it? It’s the theme line of the New York City, Metropolitan Transit Authority’s advertising campaign that has run from 2002 through 2007. It’s a call to keep our eyes open for “terrorists” and to be the eyes of the law wherever we are, as if there weren’t enough eyes and cameras already.

The slogan runs on bus panels and posters in subway cars. It often shows an abandoned black bag looking ominously at you with the theme line above it. Sometimes there’s a robot on wheels about to snatch the case for detonation. Ah well, fellas, I do see something here, and I’d like to say something.

Post election day in Oaxaca

Monday 6 August 2007: The election is over and the result found Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) back in power, but only through a coalition with la Alianza con el Verde Ecologista. But those who refused to vote across Oaxaca were nearly 80 percent.

The War Against Iraqi Women

In other words, “Women had to pick up the pieces” because the men were either mentally or physically damaged by the war, with the situation being exasperated by the “drastically worsened economic situation, as victims of the pauperisation of Iraqi society.”

The Abu Ghraib Whistleblower's Ordeal

05-08-2007 23:21 | Repression | World

The FBI just today raided the offices of the man who blew the whistle on Bush's illegal wiretapping program. Payback seems like standard operating procedure for these criminal Extremists.