World Repression Newswire Archive

Hunger and thirst strikes in the Netherlands

10-05-2013 01:15 | Migration | Repression | London | World

CALL FOR SOLIDARITY WITH HUNGER AND THIRST STRIKERS IN DETENTION CENTERS IN THE NETHERLANDS
public indictment against the system of repression we call Fortress Europe.

Protest in London

Demand for an End to the Attacks on the Zapatista Support Base Community of San Marcos Avilés

Attacks in Chiapas

In Chiapas there is a latent threat of forced displacement against the Zapatistas, and there has been a new political assassination.

Further aggressions in San Marcos Aviles

Caravan of human rights observation attacked and threatened. Human rights violations include: attacks against the autonomous families: seizure of land, robbery of crops and animals, sacking of coffee fields, death threats, false accusations, suspension of electric service and attacks with arms and rocks.

Athens: Cops detained comrades during solidarity action with Athens IMC and 98FM

24-04-2013 19:23 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

In the morning of April 24th, as part of solidarity actions with counter-information media that were recently gagged by the Greek State with the aid of the rector of the National Technical University of Athens, Simos Simopoulos.

Private security fine the public on Public streets in Leeds

23-04-2013 10:47 | Repression | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

Leeds Council sign cosy deal in which a Tory councillor run private security firm will fine the public on public streets in a breathtaking reduction of civil rights.

s144 - Damned Lies and No Useful Statistics

To tie in with the courtcase starting Monday in Brighton, when three squatters are going on trial under s144 and will not be pleading guilty, here's some analysis of the criminalisation of squatting in England and Wales..

Tomorrow: emergency demo in Solidarity with Guantánamo Hunger Strikers

[Description]

The London Guantánamo Campaign invites you to an emergency demonstration

outside the US Embassy, Grosvenor Square, London, W1A 1AE
(nearest underground: Bond Street/Marble Arch)

on Thursday 18 April
at 6-8pm
open mic and banners - feel free to bring your own

in support of the Guantánamo Hunger Strikers
now in their third month of protest at
11 years of torture, abuse and arbitrary detention

The current hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay, now in its 11th week, turned nasty at the weekend, when new orders were issued to separate prisoners, resulting in an invasion of their cells and plastic bullets being fired at prisoners allegedly putting up resistance, in spite of being weakened after 11 weeks without food. Their lawyers report that some have lost over 30lb in weight in that time and the US Defense Department states that at least 13 are being force fed. Nearly all the prisoners are on hunger strike. Most have been held without charge or trial for over 11 years with little prospect of release.

Radiozones of Subversive Expression

17-04-2013 05:58 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Athens IMC and 98FM radio station are under repression by the State

Hero, Actor James Cromwell, Arrested In Animal Rights Action

In the U.S., actor James Cromwell, star of Babe and many other movies, has been
arrested at the University of Wisconsin for speaking out against cat torture there.
The University of Wisconsin has also been involved in primate torture, tasering of pigs for the US Justice Department, and furthering the enslaving of cows for their milk.

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Attacks on Mitie in Bristol

15-04-2013 15:42 | Migration | Policing | Repression | World

Arson and damage against Mitie vehicles in Bristol

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Lesvos GR: entry to Uni conference of paramilitary coastguard to 'control ID'

12-04-2013 20:43 | Anti-militarism | Policing | Repression | World

University of the Aegean, Lesvos 10 April
Entry of paramilitary coastguards and cops to the international conference ''World Research Day: Political Freedoms, Human Rights and Europe' in the grounds of the University of the Aegean to 'gather details of the organizers' and to 'control ID of visitors'.
Nothing to do with Statewatch, though... surely! It happens regularly.

These fascistic actions were criticized by the central committee of the academics...

Buckingham Palace, Church & Whitehall getting cold feet over Thatcher funeral

12-04-2013 17:34 | Public sector cuts | Repression | London | World

Margaret Thatcher worship FAIL - the carnage continues...

Athens Indymedia "under attack", down

TVXS news site quotes that Athens.Indymedia is likely 'under occupation'

Quotes a call for open meeting tomorrow (

http://tvxs.gr/sites/default/files/article/2013/15/125428g-arkheio_lepses.png)

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Benefit for Greek Anarchist Prisoners & Squats - Nottingham

10-04-2013 11:30 | Free Spaces | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Our Solidarity Is Non-Negotiable!

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Freedom Flotilla West Papua

Indigenous Elders from Australia & West Papua are planning a Freedom Flotilla to West Papua in solidarity against the apartheid of colonisation and destruction caused by multinational mining companies on Indigenous land in West Papua & Australia.
They are being actively supported by a coalition of environmental and
human rights activists, artists and musicians from all over Australia.

Refugee solidarity demonstration in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk (ger)

09-04-2013 22:19 | Anti-racism | Migration | Repression | World

Spontaneous demonstration in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk (Germany), calling attention to armed police raids against refugees/non-citizens in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

State Funeral for Margaret Thatcher?

08-04-2013 12:20 | Anti-racism | Public sector cuts | Repression | World

State funeral for the friend and ally of mass-murderer, torturer and war-criminal Margaret Thatcher?
Should tax-payers be forced to pay for such an insult?

UG#628 - Asking Forbidden Questions (Why Do People Put Up With Capitalism?)

This week we learn how much effort has been put to making people assume that the virtues of capitalism are beyond question. We hear three Marxian commentators offering their own angles on the development of capitalism in USA, interspersed with a reprise of Noam Chomsky from episode 29 on the elite's determination to control the public mind lest the democratic state serve the wishes of the majority rather than the privilege of the few.

Internal deportation in Tower Hamlets

16-03-2013 12:47 | Public sector cuts | Repression | World

Tower Hamlets Council is ranked at the top of the deprivation league. Whoever is counting, the position hardly changes. The borough is deprived. Most people in it are in low income. So why is the Council's own "newspaper" not reporting this?