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Season for change in Britain? Citizen-led democracy

28-08-2010 11:31 | Ecology | Gender | Social Struggles | World

More citizen-led democracy (the original rule-by-the-people) could become an important tool-kit for positive social and environmental change.

Stop the racists of the English Nationalist Alliance MFE & EDL Monday 30th Aug

The racists and Islamophobes of the interconnected groups the English Nationalist Alliance, March for England and English Defence League will be holding a hate rally in Brighton over the bank holiday. They have claimed that they are "marching against Palestinian militants of Brighton" and their supporters, "extreme socialist students and anarchists". They will be meeting at 12.30 noon 30th August.

Dear friends of justice

27-08-2010 18:40 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

"Iraq and Afghanistan are U.S. imperial wars. Imperialism means simply invading other people’s homelands and killing them in order to secure something that our rulers want. This is how they are “removed,” or otherwise encouraged to get the hell out of the way. This is the “mission” of the troops. Forget “Democracy,” liberation, “nation building,” bravery, heroes, anything you hear from the talking head “experts” you may have heard on some NPR talk show, or any other pretty words on the subject."

Norway Divests from Leviev Companies Due to Israeli Settlement Construction

27-08-2010 09:18 | Anti-racism | Palestine | Social Struggles | World

August 23, New York, NY – In a major victory for the international movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, the Norwegian government announced today that it has divested from Lev Leviev’s company Africa Israel Investments and its construction subsidiary Danya Cebus due to their construction of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The move followed a campaign of more than a year by affected Palestinian villages of Bil’in and Jayyous and by Norwegian, Palestinian, Israeli, and international activist groups, including Adalah-NY, calling on the Norwegian government to divest from Africa Israel.

The companies of Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev have been the target of a boycott campaign that led UNICEF and Oxfam to renounce donations from Leviev, the British government to sever business ties with Leviev, celebrities to seek distance from him, and divestment by other major investment firms.

The United States Federal Government and Property Value Manipulation

27-08-2010 06:45 | Culture | Other Press | Social Struggles | World

President Obama said; “Failure is not an option”. I agree, failure is not an option, failure is a given.

JB SPRAY SQUAT, Nottingham, resistance is still strong,

As most 'activists' in the squatting community will confirm, the legal wrangling of bailiffs turning up and people being evicted from a site usually run along the same lines...The bailiffs turn up, with some lock smith looking (usually) blokes with tools and then get in any available entrance to get people out...Anarchist Zones are not so easy to get rid of though, as the following article on the current resistance at JB SPRAY SQUAT will show...(apologies for the shoddy google translations, but hey, im trying to show solidarity, not perfect language skills)

No Voluntary Deportations, Not Now, Not Never

25-08-2010 13:23 | Migration | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Mother and Children required to deport themselves

Mildred Okpara and her two young children and baby are still in their Sheffield accommodation. They have received a letter from UKBA to report to Heathrow airport on Thursday the 2nd September.

Kirklees Refugee Forum are supporting a campaign to keep the family in Sheffield and would like your presence (if possible) in Sheffield this Friday.

Join the protest outside the Home Office UK Border Agency

Keep the Okpara family safe in Sheffield!

Come and join us on the demonstration and bring as many people as possible. Please bring placards and banners

UK Border Agency
Vulcan House
Riverside entrance
6 Millsands
Sheffield
S3 8NU

Friday 27th August 12:30 to 1:30

For more information or if you want to help with the campaign contact:
Stop the Deportation of the Okpara
Family c/o Sheena 07792605138
or email

memesheena@blueyonder.co.uk

Kirklees Refugee Forum

http://www.kirkleesrefugeeforum.org.uk/

Welcome to Chile, country of jails and jailers.

25-08-2010 10:57 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

This past Saturday the 14th of August, in the cities of Santiago and Valparaíso, a coordinated action of police special task forces violently raided 3 squatted social centers and many private homes in 5 communes. The police intimidated people with weapons of war, broke windows and doors, and took many personal items with them from all of the houses.
14 people were detained without being informed of the reason for their detention for 3 hours.

SAVE SHIVA - HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST IN IRAN

24-08-2010 17:42 | Gender | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Shiva Nazar Ahari, an Iranian human rights activist and a political prisoner in Evin prison (Tehran) since December 20, 2009, is now facing the charge of Moharebeh (enmity against God), and she can be sentenced to death for it. Shiva’s trial date is set for September 4, 2010. We must act now to help and support her.

Stop the deportation of 26 year old Raba Hamad to Iraq

24-08-2010 17:24 | Iraq | Migration | Social Struggles | World

Stop the deportation of Raba Hamad to Iraq. It is likely he wil be killed if he is deported to Iraq. He is 16 years old, has no money and will not be able to cope or survive if deported. We have pasted the information from a facebook page made in support of Raba Hamad. See below for details.

100 cities protest against ecxecution of Sakine

24-08-2010 16:51 | Gender | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Protests are taking place this coming saturday against the execution of Sakineh Ashtiani. Feel free to join the actions organised. Here are the ones listed so far... Protests are organised by mission free Iran and International Committee against Stoning

Keep EDL out of Covent Garden! Boycott Ahava demo 28th August 2010.

The racist, nazi, Islamophobic and Zionist English Defence League have joined in protests to defend an Israeli cosmetic company, Ahava, in Covent Garden in opposition to FREE Palestine campaigners protesting against Ahava who sell Dead Sea Skin Care products. The Israeli Ahava cosmetic company sell Dead Sea products taken from Palestinian territory. Stolen goods from stolen land.

“Countdown to Zero” — or to War on Iran?

Countdown to Zero is now playing in a theater near you, at least if you live in a very “blue state” or a “blue neighborhood,” for example, Cambridge, MA, my hometown, or San Francisco. The movie is aimed squarely at the antiwar, anti-nuclear pro-Obama audience, which dwells therein and is all too susceptible to the “humanitarian” streak of imperialism. It is a very shrewd propaganda flick, as Darwin Bond-Graham demonstrated in his superb review, a film which in fact helps to pry open a little bit further the door to a war on Iran.

The Long Road to The Hague: Prosecuting Former Prime Minister Tony Blair

Ex-Prime Minister and post-Downing Street millionaire Tony Blair, to celebrate the publication of his book A Journey, is holding a ‘signing’ session at Waterstones, Piccadilly on 8 September. That this man, responsible for taking us into an illegal war, playing his part in the ruination of an ancient country because he ‘believed he was right’, should advertise himself in this way has caused outrage. Time, I think, to look at where we, and Blair, actually stand in terms of what we can and cannot do to call him to account.

Newcastle protest against BBC's pro-Israeli propoganda

More than a dozen pro-Palestinian activists gathered outside the BBC in Newcastle today in a lively protest against the biased reporting of the Panorama programme in it’s recent documentary ‘Death on the Med’ about the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in May 2010. The demonstration was supported in Newcastle by the Palestine Action Group and other independent activists.

Rally to Free Diop Olugbala!

22-08-2010 16:41 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

A rally to show unity with the struggle to free Diop Olugbala is planned for Monday, August 23, 2010, at North Broad Street and Erie Avenue in North Philadelphia.

Workers' Fightback: Indianapolis and South Africa Wage Battles

22-08-2010 11:39 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

We support... rank and file workers' struggles against the chaotic profit system!

We believe... workers know how to run our workplaces far better than business people, the government, or trade union leaders!

We aim for... workers' control over our own jobs and our own lives!

Bradford EDL organiser revealed. Stop the EDL in Bradford!

The English Defence League are the racist football thugs that by now everyone has heard of. They have attacked mosques, put pigs heads on mosques, attacked Muslims women & pulled off their hijabs. They have smashed up shops, cars, homes & rampaged through Luton, Bolton, Stoke, Dudley, Aylesbury, causing trouble. They now plan to riot in Bradford in Yorkshire on the 28th August.

Burial of Nuke Waste in Cumbria

21-08-2010 15:30 | Analysis | Energy Crisis | Social Struggles | World

A West Cumbrian Councillor has proposed that Allerdale should withdraw from the dodgy process designed to force Cumbria into "geological disposal" of nuclear waste.
The new government like the last is desperate to have been seen to have solved the problem of nuclear waste - to pave the way for new nuclear build.