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Asylum Seekers at Christmas

02-01-2007 11:05 | Anti-racism | Migration | Social Struggles | World

On the 23rd of December, the last day of Christmas shopping, Asylum Seekers in Leeds gathered to raise awareness of the harsh realities that they face.

30 diciembre: Inicia Encuentro entre los Pueblos Zapatistas y los Pueblos del Mu

01-01-2007 00:12 | Social Struggles | Zapatista | World

combate suroriental, el comandante Felipe, del Comité Clandestino Revolucionario Indígena (CCRI), del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, inauguró el Primer Encuentro Entre los Pueblos Zapatistas y los Pueblos del Mundo, con la asistencia de más de mil personas de 40 países del mundo y aproximadamente 2 mil bases de apoyo de la zona zapatista tzotzil.

The story of a Oaxacan movement prisoner

30-12-2006 14:46 | Oaxaca Uprising | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Dionisio had gone to the demonstration in Oaxaca on the 25th of November. After the demonstration he and his friend Juan de Dios went to get something to eat, during which time confrontations started up between demonstrators and the Federal Preventive Police (PFP). Upon leaving the restaurant, they headed toward the downtown area, which had become filled with tear gas and smoke. When they saw a woman and her children overcome by tear gas, Dionisio stopped to help, while Juan de Dios photographed the situation around them, and that was when the two men were arrested.

21/12/06 - London Colombian Embassy Picket

STOP Coca-Cola’s Continuing Dirty War

Thursday 21 December 2006: A letter was delivered to the Colombian Embassy expressing international concern at Student and Trade Union leaders yet again being targeted by death squads, this time the Aguilas Negras (Black Eagles), for daring to criticise Coca Cola, Nestlé and other private corporations.

Basic Espionage/Warfare for Intelligence Agents

29-12-2006 14:53 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

According to its own mouthpiece, ABC news, the Australian spy agency (ASIO) has embarked on a recruitment drive:

Thursday, December 28, 2006. 11:37am (AEDT)

“The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) is looking to recruit at least 170 people this financial year.

The number of ASIO officers from non-english speaking backgrounds has more than doubled since 2004, and the organisation is looking for people with diverse backgrounds to conduct counter-terrorism and counter-espionage work.

The intelligence organisation spent more than $2 million on recruitment advertising in 2005-6.

The Federal Attorney-General, Phillip Ruddock, says funding for ASIO has also increased considerably.

"I think we have now something of the order of 1,200 staff and that's double the number it had in 2000-2001 and we are continuing with a very active program that will expand the organisation in the near future to reach something in the order of 1,500-1,600 people," he said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200612/s1818848.htm

22/12/06: Solidarity for Oaxaca, Mexico - London, UK

A London solidarity group projected a film show on the front of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square and distributed information leaflets about the deteriorating situation in Oaxaca, Mexico.

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CIA with Ethiopia vs Somalia: another U.S. proxy war

27-12-2006 13:25 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles | World

US: "The press must not be allowed to make this about Ethiopia, or Ethiopia violating the territorial integrity of Somalia,” The same violations as the US junta is guilty of in neighboring Sudan which still refuses an invasion by twenty-two-thousand (22.000) US troops, so called "peace keepers"

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Inanity for Xmas

25-12-2006 05:41 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

The arch-conservative Anglican Dean of Sydney's St. Andrews Cathedral, Phil Jensen, has delivered a Christmas message worthy of the most mindless, inane comment that the infamous neo-con war monger and lunatic Donald “uknown knowns” Rumsfeld could have delivered. The Dean stated that “Christmas is about God giving, that God gave the gift of God and the gift of God, is God," (!) Those Australians who imagined that mindless, unqualified statements only issued from American neo-cons be advised, conservative pro-American Evangelicals are alive and very ‘unwell’ in conservative Anglican Sydney.

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Christian Morality and Economic Reason

23-12-2006 13:52 | Social Struggles | World

Finance capital circling anonymously around the globe seeking only short-term profit must expect the resistance of the affected and of the church that turns to the affected. The question is who really profits from the globalization of the finance world and when the concentration of wealth and creative possibilities in thehands of a few endangers the social peace.

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We cum in peace

23-12-2006 13:09 | Anti-militarism | Ecology | Social Struggles | World

I was going to write a piece about yesterdays synchronized global orgasm for peace but see little point wasting my time writing original articles for Indymedia only to have the gatekeepers to open publishing remove them (

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/12/358704.html,

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/12/358696.html). Maybe when the IMC admin team get their act together I might post a proper write up but in the meantime here is a shameless collection cut and paste from various other reports on the event.

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Activenet play at Faslane

The funky peeps from the Midlands travelled up to the abomination at Faslane near Glasgow to be silly in pursuit of a better world.

Chilling: "BNP patriots" Pray For Death and Disaster To Hit Britain

22-12-2006 12:29 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | World

A chilling expose of the BNP's genocidal intentions...

US-based interests push enforced circumcision agenda

22-12-2006 11:30 | Health | Repression | Social Struggles | World

In a concerted and well resourced media campaign, circumcision enthusiasts based in the United States have attempted to dupe us all into believing that male circumcision is a magic bullet for HIV prevention. Whatever your own view on circumcision, this campaign for enforced surgery crosses lines of ethics and consent that are fundamental for personal freedom.

eco-centric - x-mess edition mp3

22-12-2006 10:18 | Analysis | Ecology | Social Struggles | World

a weekly environment show with nimbin community radio, nimfm. 44 minutes, mono 10mb - note, our libsyn server is full this month, sorry for using radio4all.net this time.

2 Barcelona anarchists facing trial - Solidarity needed!

21-12-2006 14:30 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Ruben and Ignasi facing trial on January 11th 2007 - We urgently ask for international solidarity. This trial is a direct attack on the anarchist movement in Barcelona, in the form of a repressive measure against two individuals who have been involved in supporting prisoners and fighting against the State.

RECLAIMING THE SEASON

21-12-2006 02:26 | Culture | Ecology | Social Struggles | World

Disgusted with the personal debt, spiritual emptiness and ecological damage that the holiday seawson now entails, writers and activists began to promote the idea of a downshifted Christmas in the late nineties.

Photos: "Mass Lone Protest" (20.12.06)

Photos: "Mass Lone Protest" (20.12.06)

Pittsburgh IWW Strikes again at Starbucks’ Anti-Union Practices

20-12-2006 14:21 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

"We workers can continue to grovel for these low-wage jobs, or we can just wring our hands in despair, or we can stand up and demand better treatment from these moneymaking corporations. We all know what Starbucks wants its so-called “partners” to do. It’s no mystery why Starbucks is firing workers for organizing, trying to get them to think that a union is unnecessary, and keeping a close eye on those of us who want an independent voice at work.” -- IWW Starbucks Union member

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Busted, for grassing on terrorists

A psychology professor at Florida International University, five years in prison for conspiracy to become an unregistered foreign agent. His wife who also worked at the university, faces up to three years in prison for concealing her husband's participation in that conspiracy. The two are scheduled to be sentenced February 27.

Close Torture Bay

20-12-2006 06:35 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

January 11, 2007 -- Citizens to target illegal Detention Centre

The world today is in no doubt as to the criminal status of the illegal detention centre of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The past three years have not only witnessed unprecedented assaults on the founding principles of the USA by the Bush regime, but also on international law and convention. The government of the USA is clearly rogue, a fact in which its officials delight. The contempt the neo-cons display for their own citizens is only exceeded by the extreme disdain they exhibit toward the international community. Each day that Guantanamo Bay remains operational is a day of unspeakable psychological horror, torture and injustice.

World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Asylum Seekers at Christmas

30 diciembre: Inicia Encuentro entre los Pueblos Zapatistas y los Pueblos del Mu

The story of a Oaxacan movement prisoner

21/12/06 - London Colombian Embassy Picket

Basic Espionage/Warfare for Intelligence Agents

22/12/06: Solidarity for Oaxaca, Mexico - London, UK

CIA with Ethiopia vs Somalia: another U.S. proxy war

Inanity for Xmas

Christian Morality and Economic Reason

We cum in peace

Activenet play at Faslane

Chilling: "BNP patriots" Pray For Death and Disaster To Hit Britain

US-based interests push enforced circumcision agenda

eco-centric - x-mess edition mp3

2 Barcelona anarchists facing trial - Solidarity needed!

RECLAIMING THE SEASON

Photos: "Mass Lone Protest" (20.12.06)

Pittsburgh IWW Strikes again at Starbucks’ Anti-Union Practices

Busted, for grassing on terrorists

Close Torture Bay

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