World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Is the CIA behind the China-bashing Olympics protests?

The “Save Tibet,” “Save Darfur,” and “Help Falun Gong” movements are as deceptive as the “war on terrorism.” The “causes” are controlled by Anglo-American intelligence apparatuses and/or co-opted by them, in order to provide the masses with the propaganda justification for wars and intervention, and resource conquest.

Thereasa an eyewitness to the repression.

12-04-2008 14:21 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Theresa Peres Mendez explains why she and other women from San Isidro Aloapam chose to defend the forest from armed paramilitaries at considerable personal risk.

Press Conference by CIPO-RFM at the their Oaxaca headquarters.

Before we travelled up into the mountains to the threatened forest, CIPO-RFM gave a press conference to explain the nature of the dispute and also to highlight the serious repression that they have been experiencing for a number of years. It took place at their headquarters in Oaxaca city. Many representatives from the Mexican corporate media were present but nothing that the CIPO people had to say was reported in the mainstream press. The local Indymedia did give the event a good write up and also attended the Encuentro (gathering) in the mountain village of San Isidro Aloapam.

Entering the threatened Forest in Oaxaca.

Upon entering the forest one of the villagers gave us some of the history of the region as well as the recent events which had ended so violently for the local people. Visitors were encouraged to ask questions and verify any facts about the situation which were unclear. The forest itself is breathtaking and stretches up the mountain as far as the eye can see. The companero gave a pretty detailed account of what happened during the repression and also named the man believed to be responsible for the confrontation to begin with and the deaths that resulted from it.

We were also shown a tree that had been placed across the road by the villagers from San Isidro Aloapam. Its purpose was to stop armed paramilitaries from the nearby town of San Miguel from attacking the village by road in pickup trucks. The closure of the road has added over an hour to the journey made by villagers wishing to reach Oaxaca city.

New Project Meeting | Sat 12th April, 1-3pm | All Welcome

11-04-2008 22:23 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | London | World

Making UK Human Rights Compliant by 2012

New Ungdomshus agreement in Copenhagen

10-04-2008 22:52 | Culture | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

At the last Monday meeting of the Ungdomshusets, consensus was reached to agreeing to an offer of a new building in Northwest of Copenhagen on Dortheavej 61.

Follow SF Olympic Torch Tibet Protests here:

09-04-2008 20:31 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles | World

On March 19, Direct Action to Stop the War successfully used Twitter for coordinating protest information. Today, Olympic Torch SF will attempt to pick up where DASW left, and expand the use of twitter into an open-publishing platform for news on the San Francisco Olympic Torch relay and the related protests.

For ongoing text-based coverage, please follow the SFTorch twitter account.

http://twitter.com/sftorch

and of course here:

http://www.indybay.org

PLUS:

LIVE VIDEO (if it works ;)

from Students for a Free Tibet:

http://blog.studentsforafreetibet.org/livesf/
from Direct Action to Stop the War:

http://www.justin.tv/dasw
from OlympicTorchSF.com:

http://www.olympictorchsf.com/
from Dimension7:

http://www.justin.tv/dimension7

TEXT UPDATES

from Students for a Free Tibet:

http://textmarks.com/sftorch
from Team Tibet:

http://twitter.com/teamtibet
from OlympicTorchFS.com:

http://twitter.com/sftorch

Berlin Mayday Radio Jingle!

09-04-2008 16:32 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

New Berlin Mayday Radio Jingle! For German speakers only, unfortunately!

Two indigenous radio announcers killed and four injured in ambush in Oaxaca

Two announcers of the radio station ´´La Voz que Rompe el Silencio`` (the Voice that Breaks the Silence) were assasinated on April 7th whilst travelling by car to the west of the city of Oaxaca according to the civil society organisation Centro de Apoyo Comunitario Trabajando Unidos (CACTUS - Centre for Community Support Working in Unity).

N.S.W. Government Medical Officer of HealthQuest Terminated

09-04-2008 12:59 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

HealthQuest is the N.S.W. Government Medical Office which has been for years accused of serious human rights violations. Activists believe doctors at HealthQuest have 'certified insane' many public service whistleblowers in order to sack them for allegedly being unable to carry out their duties. The most notorious of the HealthQuest doctors was an English G.P., Dr Helia Gapper, who was forced to resign in the late 1990s after negative publicity. It is not known whether she has returned to England and is practising under another name.

Berlin Mayday Promo Video

09-04-2008 10:36 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Berlin Mayday Promo Video now on YouTube!

No result in Zimbabwe elections

08-04-2008 21:24 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Zimbabwe’s elections have not resulted in a fair decision since the day of voting. An MDC activist, granted asylum and living in Nottingham has offered his speculation on this stalemate.

Tibetan Freedom Torch Relay, London April 6, 2008

07-04-2008 14:49 | Repression | Social Struggles | London | World

The Tibetan Freedom Torch Relay also came to London on April 6, on its way around the world from Olympia, Greece to Tibet. Several thousand attended a packed rally in London.
Pictures copyright (C) 2008, Peter Marshall. All rights reserved.

Chinese Torture Torch Relay Shames Olympic Ideals

07-04-2008 13:59 | Social Struggles | London | World

Nude torch run against Olympic flame in San Fran, April 9th

07-04-2008 12:48 | Health | Social Struggles | World

April 9, 2008 is the date of the Official Beijing Olympic Torch Run in San Francisco.
This is the only U.S. city on the Torch's world tour. The national and international media will be here. A nude torch run is being planned to coincide.

PARIS: Officials extinguish Olympic torch again

07-04-2008 11:58 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

More trouble for the Olympic flame as it wends its way through Paris today

Euromayday Berlin 2008 demo

07-04-2008 10:31 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Text of the German language EUROMAYDAY Berlin 2008 flyer, translated via EuroMayday email list.

Mayday Parade // 1 May '08 // 2pm // Boxhagener Platz // Friedrichshain // Berlin.

"Freedom wins" says the Sun

It is deeply saddening that so many fellow activists fall for this Whitehall-orchestrated stunt on Tibet...

They seem to forget all too easily that for five hundred years, hundreds of millions of indigenous peoples were slaughtered, decimated, deported, enslaved, starved, exterminated, impoverished, and forcibly assimilated into an emerging world system dominated by Western Europe.

Parody of Justice: Toronto 18 Suspects undergo Trial by Media

07-04-2008 00:51 | Repression | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

The trial of the only remaining youth in the Toronto 18 case commenced last week in a Brampton courtroom. The new details disclosed in the Crown factum filed in the case elicited depressingly new emotional lows in all of the accused and their families. Reminiscent of that fateful day in June, 2006, the media sensationalism started all over again, with the reporting of incomplete evidence and outrageous headlines.