World Repression Newswire Archive

EU Court of Auditors Fraud: Shooting the Messenger

06-06-2008 07:27 | Repression | World

An EU official blows the whistle about the Secretary General and President of the European Court of Auditors reacting to his reporting fraud and blackmail suspicions and evidence with a disciplinary procedure against...the official!

Compare Language in “Hitler’s Laws” with Pending U.S. Senate Bill S.1959

06-06-2008 02:16 | Repression | World

Americans might ask Senators McCain and Obama if they support S.1959.

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Binyam Mohamed, British torture victim in Guantánamo: an update

Andy Worthington, author of “The Guantánamo Files”, reports on the latest news about British resident Binyam Mohamed, who has just been put forward for trial by Military Commission at Guantánamo, at the same time that a UK court has made a ruling in his favour regarding his demand that the UK government reveal evidence of what it knew about his rendition to torture.

International call for actions against "anti-terrorist" repression In France

05-06-2008 20:29 | Migration | Repression | World

You'll find below a letter from jail as well as an international call for
action and solidarity with 4 people locked up in french jails since a few
months. They are accused of planning terrorist activity (sometimes just because
they were going to a demonstration with DIY smoke bombs) or taking part in
sabotage actions. They, amongst others, are pointed out as symbolic figures of
the « the resurging threat of anarcho-terrorists preparing for armed
struggle ». The french State is trying to build up this myth as a reaction to
ongoing revolts (migrants', workers', students', struggles against jails...).

Update on the 10 anti-fur activists in prison, Austria

05-06-2008 13:56 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | Repression | World

Information Update from the Legal Support Team: 05/06/08

See also details on hunger strikes:

https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/399991.html

Barack Obama’s Pernicious Refusal to Defend the Causes of Black/Brown People

05-06-2008 07:37 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Obama's "fierce" critiques of Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Father Michael Pfleger puts him in opposition to the sentiments of "millions of black people" and puts him in the camp of those "who view the majority of black pain as illegitimate." By pursuing an agenda that refuses to recognize "black" or "white" issues, Obama is playing with a 400-year-old fire.

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Italy’s leap into the dark: Smells, signals and symptoms of fascism

05-06-2008 06:33 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Repression | World

Corporatism implies the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism and militarism, in effect a dictatorship of the extreme right. In practice corporatism and fascism are one and the same. As in Cold War years, so in the Berlusconi era, the fear of leftist communists and the desire of many Italians to be a normal nation has led to today’s unconscious toleration of the rise of a nascent form of authoritarian government with many characteristics of fascism.

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Heavy sentences for demonstrators against EU summit 2003

03-06-2008 09:05 | Saloniki Prisoner Support | Thessaloniki EU | Repression | World

On May 28 the judge sentenced seven demonstrators who had been arrested during the protests against the EU summit in Thessalonica, Greece in 2003.

Fight Speciesism #1 - Out Now!

The first issue features: occupations in Paris, Antispe vs. Novartis, news from the UK frontlines, the Sequani Six trial, SHAC watch and more.

Versions to read and print are available below.

Free Sean Kirtley

02-06-2008 21:00 | Animal Liberation | Repression | World

Sean Kirtley was sentenced to four and a half years by Judge Ross on Friday, Sean has done nothing but hold peaceful demonstrations against Sequani and its suppliers. He was identified as a main target by police as he updated the SSAT website and phone and internet records according to police showed a hierarchy and some form of organisation! (Which is clearly illegal now…)

We have designed some stencils for those willing to raise awareness of what has happened to Sean and our right to protest!

Letter from Ivan and Bruno from the prisons of Fresnes and Villepinte

01-06-2008 23:14 | Migration | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Greetings to all friends, to all those who are not resigned to the situation in which we live: police occupation of the streets, of the cities, raids, deportations, arrests, daily difficulties, the dispossession of our lives; the situation that pushes us to cede a major part of our lives to the bosses of every genre, to those who preside over our destinies, to power. If we've taken the road of revolt, it's for all these reasons, to retake the power over our lives, for the freedom to live.

The Roma and security: ana appeal from EveryOne Group

01-06-2008 21:09 | Anti-racism | Repression | World

THE ROMA AND SECURITY, AN APPEAL FROM EVERYONE GROUP, DOCTORS AND HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS: “HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY IN ITALY NEXT WINTER FOR 70,000 PEOPLE”

Proposed Treaty Turns Internet Into a Virtual Police State

01-06-2008 20:45 | Analysis | Repression | Technology | World

Leaked documents are one of the banes of modern western politics. They reveal exercises and actions being proposed that are generally objectionable to the public. Such a leak occurred with the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) which seeks to turn the internet into a virtual police state.

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