World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Resources for International Day of Action against Climate Change & G8

Rising Tide has now produced a number of flyers and posters to help publicise the 08.06.07 International Day of Action against Climate Change & G8 - availble to download from the Rising Tide website.

African Reparations Tribunal Pledge Drive Halfway to Goal

06-04-2007 18:06 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

On April 1, the Uhuru African Liberation Solidarity Campaign (Uhuru ALSC) announced a pledge drive to raise €10,000 Euro (or about 7,600 GBP) by April 9th in support of the International Tribunal on Reparations for Afrikan People (ITRAP).

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AUSTRALIA:Our Fascist Welcome Mat John Howard's ABCs

06-04-2007 00:56 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

When someone comes to visit how do you greet him or her? With open arms and a welcome mat or with a list of allegations and a naming and shaming file? True it is Labor this time but not Liberal even though Lab is Lib hence Lib/Lab but what proves the point is that when it's too embarrassing for Lib then it's up to Lab to do the dirty work and attempts to get away with it. But the process is clear it's all about Isamophobia and what mileage John Howard's ABC and their mass media and political allies can make out of it for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)?

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AUSTRALIA:GetUp! delivers 65,000 protest letters for David Hicks

05-04-2007 04:42 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The group says Australians have now lost faith that the Government will come to their aid if they are treated unjustly overseas.

AUSTRALIA: Villawood detainee hospitalised after hunger strike

04-04-2007 22:11 | Migration | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The Refugee Action Coalition says 35 asylum seekers are taking part, but a spokeswoman for the department says she only knows of eight asylum seekers.

Shell Poisoning Erris Water Supply: Don’t Mention The Water, Part Two

The second short movie (a work-in-progress cut of the feature movie Policing The Pollution).
This film documents the visible pollution leaving the Shell Corrib Gas Project construction site.

Shell Poisoning Erris Water Supply: Don’t Mention The Water, Part One

The first of a two part short film (from an in-progress feature movie called Policing The Pollution) investigating the pollution of Carrowmore Lake, the water supply for over 10,000 Erris people in County Mayo. The polluter – Shell. Local resident John Monaghan and myself look over the water tests and confront Mayo County Council.

Swiss Court Ruling Allows Euthanasia For Mentally Ill

03-04-2007 16:11 | Health | Repression | Social Struggles | World

A RULING by Switzerland's highest court has opened up the possibility that people with serious mental illnesses could be helped by doctors to take their own lives.

Switzerland already allows doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients under certain circumstances. The Federal Tribunal's decision puts mental illnesses on the same level as physical ones.

The move has been labelled as "dangerous" as it could lead to a rapid rise in the number of people travelling to Switzerland for assisted suicide.

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81 States and the European Commission sign UN Disability Convention

03-04-2007 16:02 | Culture | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Today at UN Headquarters in the General Assembly plenary room, the UN
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional
Protocol were formally opened for signature, marking the first opportunity
for States to become signatures and start the process to become States
Parties.

Letter to comic releif

02-04-2007 23:49 | Repression | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

This is an email I sent to comic releif, weeks after Blair appeared. I simply can not put it behind me.

Hundreds Defy th checkpoints in Nablus

This one of a series of reports from a Brighton based activist from Occupied Palestine

I will be here for the next month making links with grassroots groups in the Tubas/Jordan Valley Region with other activists from the Brighton Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group (tubas.brightonpalestine.org) and working with the International Solidarity Movement (www.palsolidarity.org).

I will be sending short reports about the effect of the Israeli occupation on everyday life and Palestinian resistance to the occupation…

THE WALL MUST FALL

Reclaim the Future...Riot vans at the gate.

01-04-2007 03:01 | Repression | Social Struggles | London | World

RTF 4 -2.30am report and pix

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Youth Cease Fire 21/4/07

31-03-2007 14:00 | Culture | Social Struggles | London | World

Youth cease-fire and community action,,SE London

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Photos - Police, student protesters clash in Chilean capital

30-03-2007 16:23 | Education | Social Struggles | World

Santiago, March 30, 2007

The government said 159 students had been detained shortly after noon and some clashes continued.

12 April 2007: Day of action in support of imprisoned CO Halil Savda

30-03-2007 15:45 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

On 12 April 2007, Halil Savda faces sentencing for a second charge of disobedience as a result of his conscientious objection - a clear violation not only of the human right to conscientious objection, but also of Article 14 paragraph 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Halil Savda needs international support, to break the vicious cycle of imprisonment, "release", transfer to military barracks, being given a military order, disobedience, and imprisonment. But support will also be crucial to achieve the recognition of the right to conscientious objection in Turkey.

For these reasons, activists in Turkey and War Resisters' International call for an international day of action on 12 April 2007, in support of Halil Savda and all COs in Turkey.

African Student Leadership Conference coverage on Uhuru Radio

30-03-2007 13:24 | Education | Social Struggles | World

This Sunday from 11:00 - 14:00 (U.S. Eastern) Uhuru Radio brings you in-depth coverage of the historic African Student Leadership Conference taking place March 30 - 31 at the Alabama A&M University in Huntsville, Alabama in the U.S.

Best 2007 Activist's Information Source

30-03-2007 08:30 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

Seek & Yee Shall Find! Welcome To America's Best Activist Information Source Of 2007!

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Madrid: demonstration demanding a decent house

29-03-2007 21:55 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Thousands of people took the streets in a new call from the assemblies for a decent home. They propose the massive movilizations, the disobedience, and the squattering, as tools for fighting against speculation.

There is no tranquility in Oaxaca

Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca. Saturday, March 24, 2007
2:50 a.m.
Denunciation:
4 anarkopunk comrades arrested and beaten*

FUNERAL APPEAL: ASYLUM SEEKER UDDHAV BHANDARI

29-03-2007 10:13 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

We are launching an urgent appeal for donations to the Uddhav Bhandari Appeal to return his body to Nepal so that his family can grieve properly and organise his funeral arrangements according to Nepalese culture.

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