World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

UK ID card tests - details and venues

16-07-2004 17:34 | Indymedia | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Contact details of UK ID card testing/experiments.
Use this resource creatively - disruption needed!

Here's the latest from my quest to become part of the test group for the ID card nightmare that is poised to make the seeminly innocuous "Papers, please." as feared a sentence in the UK as it was in wartime Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russia.

Nazila’s Life is in Great Danger!

According to the latest news from IFIR’s branch in Turkey, Nazila Mohamad Hasani Zamani’s life is in serious danger and she is threatened to be deported back to Iran by the Turkish Government. She was told by the Turkish police that the Iranian embassy has asked the Turkish police to hand Nazila over to them.

Nazila’s life can only be saved by an international pressure on the UNHCR.

THE NON-TAXATION REVOLUTION

The following "article" is more of an announcement of research in progress concerned with a radical way of thinking about money, and the world.

Mugabe's 'Red-Eye'

15-07-2004 15:08 | Social Struggles | World

Ageing dictator Mugabe's paranoia bans the colour Red

Dissent! Gathering Minutes (Bradford 3rd-4th July 2004)

12-07-2004 18:20 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

The minutes from the Dissent! anti-G8 Gathering in Bradford from 3rd-4th July 2004 are now available to be viewed on the enrager.net anti-G8 web forum. Visit:

http://enrager.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=67&sid=c47a1248dd6b3b3e671fdbf6cad0c37c

Support The International Court of Justice!

10-07-2004 09:52 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

An attempt to organise a campaign for the boycott of Israeli products in light of the decision of the International Court of Justice and the blatant disregard for this decision by both Israel and America.

Another "Right of Return" That Will Not Be Honoured.

09-07-2004 16:04 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

The rightful residents of Chagos are not to be allowed to return. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has decided to legislate against it , despite a clear ruling from the High Court in November 2000 that the Chagossians had a lawful right to return, without conditions...

Death4Bush

07-07-2004 05:47 | Social Struggles | World

Candidate for state office David Blomstrom is publicly advocating the death penalty for George W. Bush.

250,000 protest in hong kong

02-07-2004 01:47 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Hong Kong voices dissent

Gay Pride, Labour Shame

01-07-2004 12:07 | Gender | Social Struggles | London | World

OutRage! exposes Labour's 20 failings on queer human rights. These are 20 concrete, specific instances when Labour had an opportunity to overturn homophobia, but chose to maintain discrimination. Labour talks a lot about equality, but often fails to deliver. When it comes to the crunch, the government seems more interested in appeasing the homophobes of Middle England than in enacting rights for queers.

AmnestyIntl-BookLaunch-Sex,Love&Homophobia.

01-07-2004 11:04 | Social Struggles | World

Amnesty Intl launches new book to help combat homophobia.

engineered bt soil virus in commercial use

28-06-2004 19:16 | Bio-technology | Education | Social Struggles | World

it has come to my attention that certain products are available pesticide free and are sold near to and next to organic produce... it has become clear that in some cases these products are maintain and grown with the use of genetically modified bt soil virus's. a batch of them were registered back in 94 and i am sure others have been registerd since. i understand that many were not employed until 97 or later.

UK group takes aim at anti-Arab media bias

25-06-2004 09:53 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | World

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Send your Used Stamps to Help Charities and Organisations

24-06-2004 20:54 | Ecology | Social Struggles | London | World

Choose from a long list of charities and organisations who will take your used stamps to raise money.

Open Letter from Western Shoshone

June 22, 2004 Message from Hugh Stevens, Chairman Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone. For
more information call Te-Moak Tribal Office at 775-738-9251.

SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL NEWS RELEASE

23-06-2004 12:47 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

BOTSWANA PRESIDENT PERSONALLY GIVES BLANKETS TO
BUSHMEN AND TELLS THEM NOT TO GO HOME
In a surprising move, last week the president of
Botswana personally visited New Xade, one of the
government sites where the 'Bushmen' were taken
after being expelled from their ancestral land.
Although it was only 3 weeks before the Bushmen
take his government to court for the right to
return to their land, President Festus Mogae was
accompanied by Sidney Pilane, the lawyer acting
for the government in the case.

Livingstone back gay Jamaica vigil

22-06-2004 15:39 | Social Struggles | World

Mayor of London backs the vigil for murdered Jamaican activist Brian Williamson.

Vigil for murdered Jamaican gay leader

21-06-2004 09:56 | Gender | Social Struggles | London | World

Outrage is urging lesbians and gay men and their friends to join a vigil for slain Jamaican gay rights activist Brian Williamson outside the Jamican High Commission (1 Prince Consort Rd, London SW7) from 7 - 9PM, Wednesday 23 June.

Anarchist action in Turkey

19-06-2004 15:05 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

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Nek Mohammad: Shalid - The Man Bush Feared the Most

18-06-2004 23:57 | Social Struggles | World

Nek Mohammad was the kind of man the US fears the most – more than Osama or Ayman al-Zawahri, because he was young, fearless, has strong roots in the Afghan border areas and was respected by the tribal chiefs in Pakistan. Bush and Rumsfeld feared Mohammad enough to risk the deaths of Karazi (the US Afghan puppet) and the military dictator stooge Pervez Musharraf, in Pakistan. Few in the West could compare to this 27 year old fighter.

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