World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

A general strike is taking place throughout Spain today aginst the so-called "austerity measures" imposed by the government and capital. Since midnight piquets, blockades, actions and demonstrations are taking place all over the Spanish State. The strike is planned to last for 24h until midnight tonight..

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The Mexican government is losing control Brown Berets and their drug cartel taking over

A quick review of some of the things happening as part of the days of action in the Netherlands to mark the banning of the noble act of squatting, which finally becomes law on october 1. But for sure the squatting won't stop.

One thing the Obama regime has shown me is that the Democrats are also the Party of No: NO peace, NO justice, NO relevant healthcare reform, NO improvement in education, NO civil liberties, NO economic justice, NO environmental sustainability, NO jobs, NO anything that is positive for those who were made weaker after 9/11.

"Between our area and Waziristan is an 8 hour journey. The drone attack happened at night time and we all knew about it by the following morning. People who had witnessed the attack had come to tell us and described what they saw of the remnants and damage in the aftermath. They said the attack was so severe that they could not even distinguish the bodies from one another- even the bones of the people were completely blown apart. The dead were completely unrecognisable. My brother in law’s coffin was tightly sealed and we were not allowed to open it to view anything. We had the coffin with us for 30 minutes before it was taken away for burial."

"In fact the papers filed by the Justice Department attempting to quash the case argue that the court system should have absolutely no oversight over the administration’s sudden, bizarre claim that it can assassinate any American citizen it wants on the basis of national security, arguing that such issues are “for the executive branch of the government to decide rather than the courts.”

The opening week of the United Nations' 65th session was a busy one for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In addition to giving his annual address before the U.N. General Assembly and granting interviews with everyone from ABC's Charlie Rose to Fox News' Eric Shaw, he also found time to meet with groups of Iranian-Americans, Muslim leaders, academics and members of think tanks.

On Sept. 21 – the annual U.N.-declared International Day of Peace, he held a particularly interesting meeting at a midtown hotel with some 130 members of the U.S. peace and social justice movements, including major figures in the Black activist community.

Askia Sabur is a 29-year-old African man who was savagely beaten by a mob of black cops in West Philly in front of a Chinese restaraunt on 55th St. and Landsdowne Ave. On Friday, September 17, organizations such as the New Black Panther Party, MOVE, Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation, the Uhuru Solidarity Movement and the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) marched with the African community and the family of Askia Sabur on the 19th police district, demanding justice for Askia and the entire black community.

Top scientists and intelligence experts dispute the “official US version” of what happened on 9-11 and variously assert that people within the US Government did 9-11 (possibly with Israeli assistance).

President Ahmadinejad’s 9-11 speech at the UN merely advances 3 logical, testable, scientific hypotheses about 9-11 but has immediately elicited hysterical, egregiously dishonest, anti-science and anti-truth responses from Western leaders and Mainstream media.

Wanda Mizolo Tete, Pappy Munona and Ruddy Lelo-Masiala

These 3 DR Congolese nationals are due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Kenya Airways flight KQ101 on Tuesday 28th September 2010 at 20:00 to Nairobi and then KQ554 to Kinshasa DR Congo.

All three are currently detained and have built their lives over the past several years in their local communities since applying for asylum.

Please support the campaigns for Papy Munona, Ruddy Lelo-Masiala and Wanda Tete, Model letters to the Home Secretary are available from their campaign pages, for direct links see end of message.

Kenya Airways flight KQ101 is their notorious daily flight to doom for Africans refused asylum in the UK.

I Tete Wanda-Mizolo, Home Office reference T1104204 nationality Congolese of DR Congo has been living in the UK since January 2005. I'm at the moment detained in Yarl's Wood IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Tuesday 28th September at 20.00 on flight KQ 101/KQ554, I need people in the UK to help me by campaigning to 'Stay' my removal from the UK because it is not safe for me tp return to DR Congo. I'm worried to rape and the suffering for tortures which I have been before. I have a right to live and I feel save and protected in the UK which is the country that knows Human Rights and in the UK it says ladies first.

I am asking you all to Email/fax Kenya Airways for Pappy, Ruddy and myself, the attached model letter is for all three of us.

Tete Wanda, , Yarl's Wood, Monday afternoon,  mizowanda@yahoo.fr

What you can do to help / take urgent action NOW!

1. Email, fax and phone, Sam Okwulehie, Group Area Manager Kenya Airways. Urge him not to carry out the forced removal of  Wanda Mizolo Tete, Pappy Munona and Ruddy Lelo-Masiala, and to consider the airline's reputation. A model letter letter  ThreeDR Congolese.docKA.doc is attached. You can copy, amend or write your own version - if you do please quote  Wanda Mizolo Tete, Pappy Munona and Ruddy Lelo-Masiala due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Kenya Airways flight KQ101 on Tuesday 28th September 2010 at 20:00 to Nairobi and then KQ554 to Kinshasa DR Congo.

Put as much pressure on this airline as you can, to make them consider if it's worth the damage to their reputation to continue as one of UKBA's deportation airlines.

E-mail:  contact@kenya-airways.com
Fax: 020 8745 5027 (Or from outside the UK + 44 20 8745 5027)
Phone: 020 8759 7366 (Or from outside the UK + 44 20 8759 7366)

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This week, we look at what Peter Phillips of Project Censored terms a "truth emergency", the routine way in which deceitful messages are fabricated and distributed en masse by the corporate media. We start with his presentation to the May 2010 Understanding Deep Politics conference in Santa Cruz. We conclude with an audio adaptation of Scott Noble's effort to combat this tide of misinformation, the video Psywar, about the history of propaganda and psychological war. Focusing on psyops as tools of the class war, Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, Howard Zinn and other speakers tell the story of the origins of truth misrepresentation as an industry, and we look at its role in the US military and political establishments.

// Joint Communiqué MLC-GALSIC (Cuban Libertarian Movement – Support Group for Libertarians and Independent Sindicalists of Cuba)

Exposing raciosm and intolerance online.

The BNP have been beaten but still racists are mobilising.

info and link to video agenda

As a continuation of Rossport's Beat the Boreholes campaign, this Monday 20 September two protesters from the Rossport Solidarity Camp tied themselves to a drill on one of Shell's platforms, and remained up there stopping work for a total of 12 hours, from 7am to 7pm.

While it is recognized that through the use of meta-analysis and randomized controlled trials the standard of excellence in evidenced-based medicine (EBM) stands alone on a pinnacle, there is nonetheless an evidence-based methodology that can be applied across the board in other decision-making areas. Though research into the events of 9/11 has not yet attained the rigor achieved by EBM, it is still possible to rank the research in this field according to evidence-based principles. This article explains the principles, points to sources that exemplify them, and argues the ethical obligation of librarians and journalists to advance those sources.

Yarl's Wood five update, Sheffield Family Campaign, Iraqi deportations, Vietnam, EDM

"How is the process of manufacturing dissent achieved?
Essentially by "funding dissent", namely by channelling financial resources from those who are the object of the protest movement to those who are involved in organizing the protest movement.
Co-optation is not limited to buying the favors of politicians. The economic elites --which control major foundations-- also oversee the funding of numerous NGOs and civil society organizations, which historically have been involved in the protest movement against the established economic and social order. The programs of many NGOs and people's movements rely heavily on both public as well as private funding agencies including the Ford, Rockefeller, McCarthy foundations, among others.
The anti-globalization movement is opposed to Wall Street and the Texas oil giants controlled by Rockefeller, et al. Yet the foundations and charities of Rockefeller et al will generously fund progressive anti-capitalist networks as well as environmentalists (opposed to Big Oil) with a view to ultimately overseeing and shaping their various activities."

We need to challenge the right of the "Globalizers" to rule. This requires that we rethink the strategy of protest. Can we move to a higher plane, by launching mass movements in our respective countries, movements that bring the message of what globalization is doing, to ordinary people? For they are the force that must be mobilized to challenge those who plunder the Globe.

Teresa Lewis in USA will be executed by lethal injection on Thursday, September 23, becoming the first woman to be put to death in Virginia since 1912. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani in IRAN , who has confessed to premeditated murder and adultery and is awaiting the finial decision on her sentence.

This years new Project Censored 2011 Book has been released including numerous stories and references to the 9/11 cover up. Dr. Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff explain in this interview that they have been censored by so called "alternative" left wing publications because of their refusal to drop 9/11 truth content!