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UG#581 - Unmasking the Genocide of Business As Usual (The Hidden Worlds of Comm

The show this week unmasks the moral pretensions of globalized imperialism run amok. Professor Anthony J. Hall speaks on the coming home to roost of USA's history of imperialism and globalization through force of arms. In our second hour, we begin reading A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Economic Relations, the next chapter of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years, on how the mentality and language of 'exchange' is used both to cloak such predatory hierarchical relations and to obscure our innate drive towards communistic relationships of mutual aid.

UG#582 - The Cargo Cult of Money (Money = Hierarchy = Slavery)

26-02-2012 05:08 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

This week we keep our focus on the dark sides of the modern money system, hearing from monologuist Mike Daisy on why he considers money is a cargo cult, and Edward Griffin on the founding of the Federal Reserve system. We continue reading from David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years, reaching chapter 6, Games with Sex and Death.

Reclaim the Fields Spring Gathering 2012 - details & updates

The first Reclaim the Fields Gathering of the year will be taking place this March 9th- 11th at the Wilderness Centre in the Forest of Dean.

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Anonymous & Antisec Take Down GEO Group

24-02-2012 18:05 | Education | Social Struggles | Technology | World

Anonymous have struck a blow against the Prison-Industrial Complex and eliminated the online presence of prison for profit scumbags GEO group from the face of the internet...

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SYRIA: “Human Rights” Warriors for Empire

The largest imperial offensive since the Iraq invasion of March, 2003, is in full swing, under the banner of “humanitarian” intervention – Barack Obama’s fiendishly clever upgrade of George Bush’s “dumb” wars. Having failed to obtain a Libyan-style United Nations Security Council fig leaf for a “humanitarian” military strike against Syria, the United States shifts effortlessly to a global campaign “outside the U.N. system” to expand its NATO/Persian Gulf royalty/Jihadi coalition.

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are swigging the ale with their fellow buccaneers. These “human rights” warriors, headquartered in the bellies of empires past and present, their chests shiny with medals of propagandistic service to superpower aggression in Libya, contribute “left” legitimacy to the imperial project.

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Occupy gets Serious: Chicago Factory (re)occupied!

Workers have re-occupied the 'Republic Windows and Doors' factory that was occupied in 2008. The factory is now owned by 'Serious Materials', and so the occupation has earned the amusing and appropriate title #seriousoccupation on twitter. Circa 65 workers occupying the factory following threat of closure and loss of jobs, eerily reminiscent of situation...

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Political Upheaval Looms Large in Greece

22-02-2012 23:56 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

There is no doubt that Greece is on the verge of a dramatic political change, following years of banker-dictated austerity measures which have slashed living standards for all but the super-rich. But there is much doubt about exactly what will happen next. Are Greek workers about to storm heaven, or will they be crushed under fascist jackboots? I think there seem to be four main possibilities.

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Food is a right not a privilege – statement of solidarity

Birmingham Food Not Bombs would like to issue a statement of solidarity to all groups and people around the world who have been arrested for sharing food with the hungry. There’s been a worrying trend recently in America of new laws being introduced to prevent free food being given out to the hungry which has resulted in many people being arrested and held for days in prison. There has been a call out for people around the world to consider sharing free meals in celebration of our right to food on Sunday 1st April. Food is a right not a privilege.

https://network23.org/brumfnb/2012/02/21/food-is-a-right-not-a-privilege-statement-of-solidarity/

Does Evgeny Lebedev support EVENING STANDARD suppressing the truth?

21-02-2012 23:05 | Analysis | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

Does Evgeny Lebedev support EVENING STANDARD suppressing the truth?

Anti-Prison Gathering 2012

This year on the 28th and 29th of April there will be an Anti-Prison gathering
in Nottingham.

Alkhawaja: “The hungerstrike allows me to shed light on human rights violations

20-02-2012 13:38 | Palestine | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights (BYSHR) has learnt that Human Rights Defender Mr.Abdulhadi Alkhawaja (51 years) is determined to continue in his hungerstrike until he secures his release. Family members have informed the BYSHR that although Mr. Alkhawaja was in high spirits, he looked thin and weak and had obvious problems concentrating.

Mr.Alkhawaja also confirmed that he had collapsed last Wednesday and was transferred to the Bahrain Defense Force Hospital after a sharp drop in his sugar and blood pressure. He was first transferred to the Jaw Prison clinic but when medics saw his condition they quickly called for an ambulance. He was semi unconscious when he was transported via an ambulance to the hospital where he suffered from muscle spasms. He received treatment but refused to end his hungerstrike.

Special Sitting in Ireland for Rossport Campaigners

On Monday February 20th the Belmullet courthouse in Co. Mayo, Ireland will be full of campaigners opposing the Corrib Gas Project. Nineteen people are facing 80 charges between them for civil disobedience, and this week has been set aside as a special sitting for the campaigners.

Ongoing solidarity with the NO TAV arrestees (Italy)

19-02-2012 15:47 | Ecology | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Update on NO TAV arrestees, solidarity initiatives and ways to support them - includes updated address list of people still in prison

Indignation for Pinheirinho

19-02-2012 03:16 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

30 January 2012 (Brazil-Rio de Janeiro) Pedro Rios Leão´s Hunger strike

Translated from the original Portuguese by Kevin Lynch

— There is a brilliant commentary from Paulo Halm (brazilian movie maker) below. Because, if it was Yoani Sánchez handcuffed to a post in Havana and on hunger strike in front of the ´Palace of the Revolution´ asking from the world justice and democracy, Globo (and all of the mainstream press), in the face of any embargo, would send a correspondent to Cuba sending live feeds from the locale or going even further still without and loosing the realism, would make, let us see... a reality TV show! But no, my friends, Pedro is only a Brazilian asking for justice and democracy in the most democratic country in South America, the location of Rio +20, the Olympic Games as well as being the 5th largest economy in the world.

PLM Statement on increased US military presence in the Philippines

18-02-2012 14:53 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

PLM Calls for an Independent Foreign Policy and a Non-Aligned ASEAN

Greece: Steelwork strikers welcome neo-Nazis

18-02-2012 11:15 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Taken from Contra Info:

Aspropyrgos, Attica: Neo-Nazis ‘support’ the Greek Steelworks strikers, and workers’ spokesmen and several other strikers welcome the scum warmly, instead of kicking their ass

Ethical human rights, development, globalization needed to replace Neoliberalism

16-02-2012 09:43 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

It is argued that top-down, bureaucratic neoliberalism threatens to seriously slow the rebuilding of Christchurch, New Zealand's second largest city, after devastating earthquakes. An ethical approach to human rights, development and globalization should replace neoliberalism

NHS Gloucestershire escapes backdoor privatisation after high court drama

09-02-2012 19:09 | Health | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | World

High Court drama resulted in an agreement today, see the statement from the two teams of lawyers below, and a response from Stroud Against the cuts below that.