World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

"Oaxaca Libre!"

19-12-2006 22:39 | Oaxaca Uprising | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Local school-children caught a large dose of ‘Zapatismo’ in Edinburgh city centre on Saturday, when they spontaneously joined a UK wide week of action to raise much needed awareness of the ongoing and systematic repression of Mexican people in Oaxaca amidst an almost total lack of media coverage in the western mainstream press.

Smash the royal wedding

19-12-2006 11:58 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Movement Against the Monarch (MAM) is preparing their glad rags for the street party of the centuary, a right royal knees up on the event of the wedding of Prince William and his college shag Kate Middleton. With the eyes media turning on this grand royal distraction it is the perfect time to agitate people on the iisue of abolishing these parasites once and for all.

Anti Lydd Airport statement from LAAG.

Lydd Airport bossses have today lodged a planning application to Shepway District Council for expansion.
Both group in the area are gearing up to respond to this and fight it all the way during next year. SDC are likely to put the plans out for wide consultation during first half of 2007.

UK Meeting to discuss G8 Mobilisation for 2007, Jan 27th, Nottingham

18-12-2006 12:15 | G8 Germany 2007 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

A UK-based meeting to discuss the mobilisation against the 2007 G8 Summit to be held near Rostock in Germany (June 6-8).

"Support action for Ungdomshuset" DK

18-12-2006 02:50 | Culture | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

Riots broke out in copenhagen as court decide to shut down Ungdomshuset youth', cultural and social center.

US Call to Action: Days of Resistance to the War - March 19 and 20th, 2007

17-12-2006 10:09 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

This call to action comes from a number of different organizations and individuals involved in the anti-war movement. Our organizing experiences have left us feeling disappointed in ourselves and in the movement as a whole. Organizing against the war in Iraq has led us to believe that marching and chanting has not made enough of an impact nor done enough to end the brutal realities of the occupation. This has got to change.

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.

Caught on Tape: Olmert Filmed 'Coaching' Prodi

Israeli television broadcast footage that appeared to show Ehud Olmert coaching his Italian counterpart

Raping and lynching in exotic Greece

Raping and lynching in exotic Greece

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U.S. Vice-President, Dick Cheney, today praised the outgoing U.S. Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, for his contribution in spreading ‘democracy and liberty’ to the Middle East; Cheney also claimed that Rumsfeld was the “best” Secretary of Defence in U.S. history – additional evidence that the U.S. administration is INSANE is no longer required!

bilaterals.org now in Spanish and French

15-12-2006 11:33 | Globalisation | Other Press | Social Struggles | World

15 December 2006: Starting today, the bilaterals.org website is available in Spanish and French, apart from the original English version. This new multilingual interface is meant to broaden access to information in a way that strengthen people's resistance movements against free trade agreements (FTAs).

Copenhagen: Ungdomshuset, Now or Never!

14-12-2006 21:34 | Culture | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

Coverage of Thursday’s events. The most recent news first.

Zionist inversion of values (video-cartoon by Latuff)

14-12-2006 21:26 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | World

Another example of moral inversion, largely used by those who support the State of Israel and its crimes.

G8 2007 in Germany - some information

The G8 summit 2007 will take place at the start of June in the north-east of Germany, in the luxurious Hotel Kempinski, which is situated directly at the Baltic Sea in Heiligendamm, at Bad Doberan near Rostock.

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?

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.

Dept of Health replies to camapign on New record system (Spine)

11-12-2006 22:07 | Health | Social Struggles | Technology | World

Long letter to all those who sent in dissenting letters regarding the introducton of the centralised NHS Care Record System (starting in 2007) aka Spine.

How New Labour is creating slave labour

Whatever the merits of Tony Blair's recent retrospective apology for Britain's leading role in the slave trade it would be less hypocritical if his government was not developing a modern system of slavery and the reintroduction of sweated labour through the reshaping of immigration controls.

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