World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

mental health excluded from financial services

new evidence shows that peoople experiencing longer term mental health problems are having to lie to access financial services or walk away from them altogether because of discrimination

Auto organise now

02-03-2004 13:37 | Education | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

www.autoorganisation-04.org

a gathering of gatherings..

ERIO calls for urgent measures for Roma in Slovakia

01-03-2004 20:34 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

ERIO Press release on Roma prostest in Eastern Slovakia and call on the Slovak Government and the European Union to work towards the improvement of the situation of Roma across Europe.

Callout to International Mobilization Against the FTAA/bFTA's for April 17

01-03-2004 18:47 | Bio-technology | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

This is a callout from the anti-FTAA campaign based in Quito, Ecuador. Recognising that bilateral free trade agreements with the United States have replaced the FTAA as the new and immediate threat for the Andean and Central American nations, we call out for an international network of solidarity to fight neoliberalist politics and mobilize on April 17 international day of peasant struggles

S. Korea: Migrant Workers Struggle (updated)

01-03-2004 18:44 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Since more than 100 days we, migrant workers from different countries, are occupying Myeong-dong cathedral's compound downtown Seoul to fight against gov't's policy of mass deportation.

PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP MEMORIAL AT MIDPOINT

01-03-2004 11:27 | Analysis | Social Struggles | World

The Partition of British India in 1947, which created the two independent states of Pakistan and India, was followed by one of the cruelest and bloodiest migrations and religious and ethnic cleansings in history and resulted in the forced transfer of an estimated 14 to 18 million people between the two countries.

Eyewitness Says Aristide did NOT Flee - US Soldiers forced him out at gunpoint

01-03-2004 03:50 | Social Struggles | World

A French reporter on the scene in Haiti found a terrified old man - a palace caretaker, he believes - cowering in a corner. The old man said US soldiers came in and forced Aristide to leave at gun point.

Urgent action to save the lives of two women

01-03-2004 00:40 | Gender | Social Struggles | World

The lives of Nazila and Farideh are in great danger

BNP targets Howard's seat.

28-02-2004 13:48 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | London | World

Unsurprisingly the BNP is now targetting Michael Howard's constituancy.

Burlington's Oil Projects Vs. Indigenous Communities and Rainforest Protection

27-02-2004 22:30 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Burlington Resources, a Houston-based oil company, has plans to explore for oil in three highly controversial oil concessions in remote Amazon regions of Ecuador. These concessions were carved out of the traditional territories of four indigenous nations--the Shuar, Achuar, Kichwa, and Zapara--without their consultation or consent.

Clare Short. I Salute You!

27-02-2004 12:59 | Social Struggles | World

All Power to The Whistle Blowers

China Labour Action Express No. 43

27-02-2004 11:00 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Peaceful village election meeting broken up by more than 30 armed police in Dazhu Village, Ningbo, China

Published by China Labour Bulletin
P.O. Box 11362, General Post Office, Hong Kong
Fax: (852) 2359 4324 Tel: (852) 2780 2187 Email:

bulletin@clb.org.hk
Website:

http://www.clb.org.hk

Liberal alternative to Drudge launches...

26-02-2004 21:36 | Analysis | Indymedia | Social Struggles | World

A team of fresh-out-of-college progessives have teamed up to launch the liberal alternative to Drudge: The Raw Story (www.rawstory.com).

CyberMarxist Web Site is Back, New & Improved!

26-02-2004 04:41 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Technology | World

Return of Noted cyberMarxist Web Site

Progressive Radio Station Shut Down by Free Traders

24-02-2004 20:41 | Social Struggles | World

Radio for Peace International (RFPI) one of the few world wide progressive short wave voices broadcasting to rural and third world communities has been evicted by the UN’s University for Peace (U-Peace) in Cost Rica.

Our War Too - Gay Heroes, and Gay Necessities

A Gay Praise of the War Against Terror

Protests in Argentinia: 107 Strassen blockaded

23-02-2004 18:30 | Free Spaces | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Thursday, the 19th of february, has been the day of the "Piqueteros" in Argentina: 107 streets were blockaded in the whole country for more than 17 hours, also some train stations have been shut.
Additionally several demonstartions took place, and a rally at the government.

The underlying causes were the new laws made for increasing flexibility at work, cutting down of the social and benefit system, repression and else...

Here some pictures. More reports under Argentina Indymedia.

http://argentina.indymedia.org
Hopefully, a translation will be finished soon.

Report back on Anti Wall demonstation at the Hague.

23-02-2004 17:55 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Report back on this afternoon's demonstration called by Pengon/Anti Apartheid Wall campaign and the Dutch Coalition against the Wall.

Just another day in Palestine

23-02-2004 16:57 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Eyewitness report from an Oxford resident travelling in the West Bank

South Korea: Migrant Workers Protest (updated)

23-02-2004 04:04 | Migration | Social Struggles | World

Yesterday’s migrant workers demonstration in Seoul – a victory on the whole line (we thought in the beginning, but read until the end of the article…).