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Theses on the Basic Income Discussion

11-07-2008 11:14 | Social Struggles | World

Poverty can only be overcome globally. A change of perspective is necessary so social assistance is seen as positive and not as negative. Without a committment to human dignity and a human future, barbarism seems inevitable given the vast numbers of economic refugees. Radical redistribution, nationally and internationally, is the command of the hour. More articles are available at www.basicincome.org.

Class struggle, not the market, to save the planet

A political economist and activist who directs the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, Patrick Bond was a featured guest speaker at the Green Left Weekly Social Change — Climate Change conference (

http://www.greenleft.org.au/conference.php ) held in Sydney in April.

Author of a range of books, including Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society, Looting Africa: The Economics of Exploitation, and Walk left, Talk Right: South Africa’s Frustrated Global Reforms, Bond is a long-time advocate for radical solutions to the climate and social catastrophe wraught by global capitalism.

Lauren Carroll Harris spoke to Bond at the conference about responses to climate change.

French sans-papiers occupation : two months !

10-07-2008 08:56 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

French undocumented immigrants, workers but isolated, begun the occupation of the Center of the Unions in Paris two months ago !

G8 solidarity action for Food Sovereignty - Portugal

10-07-2008 00:52 | G8 Japan 2008 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Last Friday, July 4th, a group of activists occupied the building where the Japanese Embassy was located on a 6th floor, in Lisbon - Portugal. Holding a 6 metres where it read “G8 at the table, One Planet starving”, with the objective of exposing the real consequences of the anti-democratic neo-liberal policies of the G8, and their fake recipes for the current world crisis: food, climactic and social..

Challenge to the G8 Governments

09-07-2008 17:45 | G8 Japan 2008 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Below is the statement of more than 100 international, regional, national, and local organizations and individuals, challenging the G8 governments to acknowledge their responsibility for the food and climate crises and the continuing problem of debt, and take decisive action to:

Sister Helen Prejean and Dennis Fritz Meet in Chicago

09-07-2008 00:12 | Culture | Social Struggles | World

Noted authors’ Dennis Fritz and Sister Helen Prejean, teamed up together in Chicago, Illinois, to speak at the Saint Vincent Catholic Church at DePaul University—against the arbitrary use of the death penalty.

Scientology's KGB: Inside the Office of Special Affairs

08-07-2008 14:13 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

"These were enemies of the church. You shut them down. You find out what you can about them. You find their weak spot and you expose it. You make it so that they cannot survive or exist. You literally destroy them."
Frank Oliver, former OSA Agent. From ABC 20/20 - Scientology. Transcript

http://www.xenutv.com/us/20.htm

"In my opinion the church has one of the most effective intelligence operations in the U.S. rivaling even that of the FBI."
Ted Gunderson, former head of the FBI's Los Angeles office. Quoted in Time Magazine, 6 May 1991.

http://www.xenu.net/archive/judge_quotes.html

Happy Birthday Binyam! actions

08-07-2008 12:31 | Social Struggles | Terror War | London | World

The last Londoner in Guantánamo Bay turns 30 on 24/7 - after six years of illegal detention, he is suicidal and on hunger strike and facing the prospect of an unfair trial and the death penalty. In the run up to his 30th birthday, take action to get the British government to stop his trial and have him returned to this country.

Scandal of Diego Garcia rendition flights strains US-UK relations

Andy Worthington, author of “The Guantánamo Files”, reports on the latest developments relating to the British Overseas Territory of Diego Garcia: the exiled islanders’ latest salvo in their 40-year pursuit of justice, and the British government’s failure to tackle its US allies over the use of Diego Garcia for “extraordinary rendition” flights.

'On The Verge': Smash EDO Film July 21st South London

Film Screening: ON THE VERGE: The Smash Edo Campaign
The film the cops tried to ban!!!

Call for Solidarity with Counter-G8 Protesters in Japan

Activists and organizers are asking local groups and individuals to call, e-mail, visit and protest at Japanese embassies over the unjust arrests, detentions, deportations, and repression occurring around counter-G8 mobilization in Japan.

Conditions in Soetwater refugee camp near Cape Town.

06-07-2008 10:13 | Social Struggles | World

It is winter in Cape Town. The climate in this region is Mediterranean; with cold, wet and windy winters. Soetwater is in a remote and exposed corner of the region, colder and windier than many other places refugees might be located. The Cape is not named Cape of Storms for nothing as you will read in Karin Chubb's report

Rights granted for Great Apes in Spain

05-07-2008 03:03 | Animal Liberation | Education | Social Struggles | World

"If you look at the course of western history you'll see that we're slowly granting basic rights to everyone. A long time ago only kings had rights. Then rights were extended to property-owning white men. Then all men. Then wymyn [women]. Then children. Then the mentally retarded. Now we're agonizing over the extension of basic rights to homosexuals and animals. We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights." -- Moby (1)

The Great Rwanda "Genocide Coverup"...UK US involvement

04-07-2008 23:56 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Everyones seen Hotel Rwanda. What they may not be aware of is that the 'genocide' in Rwanda in 1994,which had its origins with the assassination of president Habyarimana (a Hutu), seems to have been carried out by now president Kagame.
Whereas Habyarimana was backed by France and Belgium, Kagamas supporters are UK and US....the same pair who have been attacking Zimbabwes government. The evidence is that the pentagon enabled the assassination of president Habyaimana to facilitate 'regime change' in Rwanda. This implicates US and UK govts in genocide.
THATS NOT ALL. There is evidence US interfered in the ICTRs investigations, as reported by australian policeman-turned-lawyer Michael Hourigan.

Bush-Arroyo Axis Plans Deeper U.S. Intervention In The Philippines

Via the corrupt Arroyo regime, Bush/Pentagon is planning deeper intervention in the "killing fields" of its former colony, in the name of the war against "terrorism." But this is bound to resuscitate the Furies of the Filipino-American War of 1899-1902, and arouse the revolutionary energies of 90 million Filipinos against US imperialism and global capital--a future that Washington is not yet prepared to contemplate.

stephen Gowans in inteview on Zimbabwe

02-07-2008 03:06 | Social Struggles | World

good interview, to learn what you cant on Western media, MSM and 'alternative'

Must Read Book - Crack House true story by Harry Keeble @ Stokey and Haringey

30-06-2008 13:39 | Other Press | Social Struggles | London | World

A book about Stoke Newington aka "Cokey Stokey" and Haringey Drugs Squad has arrived. Having found a flyer on becoming a cop in the bin, Harry Keeble joins Cokey Stokey drugs squad and then Haringey drugs squad. He describes them as "drug dealers" and "naughty lazy coppers". They give him a cardboard desk, a box for a chair, a huge 80's phone, steal his answerphone & give him a decrepit purple car.

BBC should not lie about Zimbabwe

30-06-2008 02:16 | Social Struggles | World

CAN the BBC tell the truth about Zimbabwe when its senior managers are appointed by the United Kingdom government and will they be fired if they step out of line and become realistic about Zimbabwe?
Along with others like the New York Times, Sky News and CNN, the broadcaster is notably egregious, given its reputation that's now decidedly undeserved.
The BBC has muted its criticism of Zimbabwe and framed it in the continuing “cycle of violence and impunity that has plagued the Southern African country for so many years.”
However, the agenda of the BBC, New York Times and ‘their friends’ is clear: ignore realpolitik, press for Mugabe’s exit, and in the process, disenchant members and supporters of his Zanu PF party.

Colombia accompaniment training weekend: July 19-20

30-06-2008 00:12 | Culture | Repression | Social Struggles | World

On 19th and 20th July Espacio Bristol-Colombia are holding our second training weekend for people interested in accompanying social organizations as a volunteer in Colombia.
Solidarity accompaniment involves both providing an international presence to deter the army or paramilitaries from interfering with social activists and working with Colombian organisations building solidarity links.

World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Update- AR2008 Moved

Theses on the Basic Income Discussion

Class struggle, not the market, to save the planet

French sans-papiers occupation : two months !

G8 solidarity action for Food Sovereignty - Portugal

Challenge to the G8 Governments

Sister Helen Prejean and Dennis Fritz Meet in Chicago

Scientology's KGB: Inside the Office of Special Affairs

Happy Birthday Binyam! actions

Scandal of Diego Garcia rendition flights strains US-UK relations

'On The Verge': Smash EDO Film July 21st South London

Call for Solidarity with Counter-G8 Protesters in Japan

Conditions in Soetwater refugee camp near Cape Town.

Rights granted for Great Apes in Spain

The Great Rwanda "Genocide Coverup"...UK US involvement

Bush-Arroyo Axis Plans Deeper U.S. Intervention In The Philippines

stephen Gowans in inteview on Zimbabwe

Must Read Book - Crack House true story by Harry Keeble @ Stokey and Haringey

BBC should not lie about Zimbabwe

Colombia accompaniment training weekend: July 19-20

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