World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Social Centre Plus 1 in Deptford evicted this morning

06-05-2011 11:58 | Free Spaces | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | World

Social Centre Plus 1, the originally occupied Job Centre site on 122 Deptford High St, was finally evicted this morning by a group of bailiff thugs from Locksbury Services backed up by around 10 police officers.

Thousands of militant workers march for higher pay in the Philippines

05-05-2011 12:42 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Manila, Philippines - Thousands of workers led by the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) and its allied organizations converged in key cities on Labor Day to reiterate their demand for better wages, improved economy, jobs, security of tenure for workers and an end to demolition of squatter shanties.

Italy: wave of arrests among radical student group in Florence

04-05-2011 18:33 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

A second wave of arrests among radical circles has hit Italy again this morning. The operation, that was led by the police and secret service departments, has concluded with 22 banning orders and a total of 78 people under investigation in Florence, 5 under home arrest.

Charlie Veitch, Soho Square Arrest and War!

Having just watched the video of Charlie Veitch's arrest, which you can see here -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UscFYYCKOxg - and equally sad and disturbing 'soho square arrest', which you can see here -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj4yn1RBxHs - I cannot contain my anger or frustration and so NEED to say the following stuff:

New Banksy Fundraising Print at The Bristol Anarchist Bookfair

04-05-2011 01:25 | Culture | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The Bristol Anarchist Bookfair was contacted on Tuesday by Banksy's associates advising that he has produced a poster to be exclusively sold at the Bookfair - as a fundraiser for local groups in the Stokes Croft/Bristol area who support local art, squatting and those arrested & harassed as a result of the recent Stokes Croft disturbances.

Ian Tomlinson Verdict Jury Deciding Now

Ian Tomlinson was murdered by a copper during the g20 protests a couple of years ago - the jusy at the inquest into his death are right now considering their verdict....please follow the news today and wait for their answer. thank you.

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Keep the A's out of San Jose

03-05-2011 10:07 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

we need your help!

Update on situation of Rote Flora in Hamburg and squatting actions

02-05-2011 16:41 | Culture | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

Last weekend, a bigger demonstration in hamburg took place with 4000 to 6000 people for support of Rote Flora squat and against commercialisation of the city.
The media attention was high, as there had been lots of discussions in the last weeks about the Rote Flora squat and also about gentrification in generell.
Another bigger event was taking place last weekend, as several people squatted a house in the district altona, demanding a social centre "autonomes centrum altona bahnhof (acab)" and staying inside the former building of the fiscal authorities.

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Bristol.. Oops we did it again. Stokescroft/ St Pauls riots again

29-04-2011 02:44 | Culture | Health | Social Struggles | World

The helicopter's still up, so it must still be rocking out there at 3.20am . I got in a while back because im working in the morning..... but i saw..

Bahrain's military court has sentenced four protesters to death!

28-04-2011 14:57 | Social Struggles | World

Bahrain's military court has sentenced four anti-government protesters to death, in a move to further crush the ongoing revolutionary movement in the small Persian Gulf country.

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EDLers To Appear On Strictly!

28-04-2011 00:08 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

Neo-Nazi EDLers are learning to compete on Strictly Come Dancing, inspired by the racism of Tony Beak (Anton du Beke).

UG#546 - How The Environmental Movement Died of Success (& What To Do About It)

The show this week looks at the soft underbelly of the corporate system - the growing awareness that it is destroying the planet. First we hear from the ALF/ELF spokesman, Steve Best, who advocates any and all kinds of direct action to defend the earth and prevent its plunder. Then it's a talk from John Stauber on how the environmental movement died as a result of cooptation by big corporations.

Picnic and Party Against Atos Origin - part 2 - 9/5/11

23-04-2011 14:12 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

As part of the National Week of Action Against Atos Origin, beginning on Monday 9th May, a second Party and Picnic against Atos will take place on the 9th May from 2pm at their Head Office in Triton square, near Euston.

To Farm or to Die, Resist the Iron Mine! Indonesian Embassy Visit.

21-04-2011 16:35 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles | World

On the afternoon of Thursday the 21st of April 2011 we visited the Indonesian Embassy in London, UK to deliver a letter to the Indonesian Government in Jakarta. This was done in solidarity with the people of Kulon Progo, whose lives and land are threatened by the Iron Sands Mining Project being carried out by the Australian Mining Company PT Indomine and the Indonesian State.

Request by New Zealand Human Rights outsider to appear before UN committee

21-04-2011 05:41 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Human rights omissions in the New Zealand Bill of Rights were designed to strongly favor a Pakeha/Maori 'tribal' elite partnership under the Treaty of Waitangi and to created a 'tribal New Zealand'. The results were tragic - New Zealand lost its human rights innocence - there was a major tragedy at the bottom of the social scale also including many 'tall poppies' from all social classes and all born out by the social statistics.

May 7: A Bristol Anarchist Ball

19-04-2011 21:30 | Culture | Social Struggles | World

At the end of a week of meetings, film shows, gigs and communal meals, culminating in Bristol's Anarchist Bookfair on Saturday 7 May, KebeleSound will do what it does best - put on the party!

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Americans protest Saudi role in Bahrain - Saudis OUT of Bahrain !!

16-04-2011 21:01 | Social Struggles | World

More than 4,000 demonstrators attended the rally to show solidarity with Bahraini people and to condemn Saudi Arabia's involvement in the crackdown of protesters in Bahrain, on Saturday

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UG#541 - Outing Prison 1 (Mass Incarceration Is The New Jim Crow)

This week we hear author Sasha Abramsky and professors Viviane Saleh-Hanna and Michelle Alexander on the US incarceration industry, or as they call it, the "Prison Industrial Complex". How can a country which used to style itself the "land of the free" lock up far more of its own population than any other country? Why has the US prison population exploded? And what is the connection with racial segregation and Jim Crow?

UG#547 - Outing Prison 2 (FASD and What is Prison For Anyway?)

This week we continue our investigation into the incarceration industry. Firstly, a look at FASD, a congenital brain deficiency caused by mothers who drink excessive alcohol while pregnant. Second, a speech by prison reformer Vivien Stern on how the terrifying reality of the prison system in UK. We conclude with a rebroadcast of a section from Charles Eisenstein on 'life under contract' about the deeper reasons behind the push to incarcerate ever more of the population.

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Bahraini protester dies under torture

15-04-2011 20:18 | Social Struggles | World

While the international community and the left organizations and parties do not observe the fact that there is occupation in Bahrain from the Saudi invasion and the on going tortures in Bahrain, so far there have been recorded four deaths from torture and 800 people are "missing".