World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

!! G 8 BREAKING NEWS !! police declares protest march on june 7th illegal

Incredible! As reported today on indymedia Germany

http://www.germany.indymedia.org/2007/05/176460.shtml a spokesman of the Einsatzleitung of the police declared the planned international anti-G 8 protest march in Rostock on june the 7th for illegal and forbidden!

This struggle is not over, it has just begun...

10-05-2007 20:25 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

Worldwide demonstrations against the terrorist Posada more important than ever!

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the police raids and the kids riot (Hamburg, may 9th, 2007)

Riots in Hamburg after a demonstration against the police repression in Germany.

Al Jazeera on Shell and Ireland case

Here is a link to a new film for Al Jazeera about the farmers in Mayo who are fighting Shell's plans to build a gas pipe over the land.

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Nobody's victory rally at the Welsh Assembly

09-05-2007 17:54 | Culture | Social Struggles | World

Here's a video of the victory rally outside the senedd after Nobody got 56.3% of the vote in the recent Welsh assembly elections

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Demonstration Friday 11 6pm London: Against The G8 and Police Repression

This morning (Wednesday May 9th) police raided about 40 buildings in Germany, including several social centres and private homes in Berlin and Hamburg, as well as the alternative web provider so36.net . Police forces searched the "Rote Flora" in Hamburg as well as parts of the "Bethanien" in Berlin. Both places are planning to be decentralised convergence centres for the G8 protests of early June.

We want to show solidarity with the German movement and express our right to protest against the upcoming G8 in June. We want to defy police repression and show we are not intimidated by it!

Friday May 11, 6pm
Kempinski Courthouse Hotel
19-21 Great Marlborough St, London, W1F 7HT

Iraqi infant mortality soars by 150 percent—a damning revelation of US war crime

09-05-2007 07:38 | Repression | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

“A child in the poorest fifth of a population is more than twice as likely to die compared to a child from the richest fifth,” the study finds. “Eliminating health-care inequities—and bringing mortality rates among the poorest 80 percent of the population down to those prevailing among the richest 20 percent—would prevent about 4 million of the 10 million deaths each year.”

Are Gangsters Forcing Child Slaves to Work Illegally in London?

Extraordinary allegations that child slaves are being smuggled into Britain by gangs of armed robbers who steal Big Issue magazines from the street vendors at knife point, and then force terrified children to sell them on the streets of London are being investigated by the BBC.
The accusations that international criminals involved with people smuggling and child slavery may have been behind the attacks, were made on the Indymedia UK website by readers commenting on a story about the arrest of a young lady on 27 April 2007.

Nobody at the Welsh Assembly

08-05-2007 14:02 | Culture | Social Struggles | World

After the whopping 56.3% victory for South Wales Anarchists' Vote Nobody campagin, the victors went down to the Senedd to celebrate.

More photo's and film to follow.

2nd night of riots in FRANCE

08-05-2007 12:34 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

France after right-wing candidate Sarkozy won the presidential elections. Yesterday night barricades were built in Paris, Nantes, Lyon, Tolouse, about 800 cars burned in the cities (some as barricades), 74 police men were severly hurt, 564 protesters are detained.

Video G8-bike-caravan Utrecht

08-05-2007 10:29 | G8 Germany 2007 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Peoples Action Net made a nice video about the anti-G8 Bicicle demonstration, of which more than 100 people got arrested saturday May 5th in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Strangers into Citizens, Refugee Rights March, London

Video Rush of the Refugee Rights March from Westminster Cathedral to Trafalgar Square, 07 May 2007.

G8 Bike Caravan Action Nijmegen

07-05-2007 17:19 | G8 Germany 2007 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Today a bicycle demo against the G8 was held in Nijmegen, Holland..

Ignored by the left…

07-05-2007 15:03 | Analysis | Health | Social Struggles | World

Why are extremely vulnerable sick and disabled people being ignored by progressive forces of all kinds?

Switch off Capitalism...[temporarily as a test run] mp3s out

07-05-2007 01:56 | Analysis | Social Struggles | World

Mardi Grass Hemp Hours, Playspace and Scan Dot Org out now.

LibertyWalk 2008: A 4,913 Mile Walk For The United States Constitution

05-05-2007 00:20 | Social Struggles | World

In 2008, the LibertyWalk group will walk 4,913 miles, or 26.5 miles per day, for the United States' constitution and liberties, in the shape of a star, symbolizing "hope." The money raised during the walk will go towards local charities nationwide. The event will begin on New Year's Day and end on the Fourth of July, crossing 20 states in 185 days.

Anti-nuclear activists needle German power giant's annual general meeting

04-05-2007 14:36 | Ecology | Social Struggles | World

Anti-nuclear activists have been demonstrating outside and inside the annual meeting of stockholders of one of Germany’s electricity giants, the transnational EON. A coalition of environmental groups protested in Essen against EON’s plans to expand nuclear power production. Some of the countries where EON is planning new nukes are Finland, Great Britain, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria.

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1st + 2nd May: Riots in Madrid

04-05-2007 09:27 | Mayday 2007 | Social Struggles | World

Spain, Madrid. On may the 1 st and may the 2 nd streetfights in the city centre. About 3000 people against an unknown number of cops. 80 people hurt (20 cops). 20 people captured by police. barricades were built and many police vans demolished. banks and shops looted.

May Day in INDONESIA

04-05-2007 04:45 | Mayday 2007 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

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