World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Martin Luther King’s historic plea to break the silence on militarism

15-01-2014 07:02 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” — Martin Luther King, in his famous speech at the Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967

King’s Riverside Church speech was titled “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.” It was delivered exactly one year before his April, 4, 1968 assassination in Memphis.

The people who heard that speech recognized it as one of the most powerful speeches ever given articulating the immorality of the Vietnam War and its destructive impact on social progress in the United States.

TEXAS: Impending Wrongful Execution of Mexican Citizen

13-01-2014 01:37 | Social Struggles | World

The American state of Texas continues to flout International Laws:

Mark Duggan murder: How the establishment did cover up a political killing?

It takes one very simple sentence, to explain -how- an Inquest Jury in the High Court, erroneously produced the widely reported media headlines, that Mark Duggan was "lawfully" killed by the Metropolitan Police.

The Judge improperly -directed- the Inquest Jury, over what could be called evidence, and the Duggans' lawyers, did not properly challenge that.

Ultimately if the Duggan family had proper legal representation, a European Court ruling, would lead to the proper verdict of unlawful killing.

Petition of Unconditional Basic Income for the UK

A developed country with a developed society; every adult receives an unconditional basic annual Income of £11, 375... farewell hidden inequality, benefit fraud and fragmented communities and hello new horizons of an evolved society and true democracy.

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Zapatistas: the wealth of dignity

How the Zapatistas, on their twentieth anniversary, are still changing the world

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International Solidarity Hunger Strike for Syria

30-12-2013 19:32 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

MOADAMIYA, SYRIA, December 29, 2013: The Food Justice Baton Is Passed to the World by the Hunger Striker of Syria, and We Shall Uphold It

EZLN Support Bases in San Marcos Avilés, Chiapas, Mexico, Denounce Aggressions

A renewal of the attacks on the Zapatistas in the community of San Marcos Avilés. Report by the human rights centre published.

Zapatistas: twenty years after

Mexican journalist Luis Hernández Navarro reflects on the enormous significance of the Zapatista movement, on the 20th anniversary of the uprising.

UG#673 - The Language of The Vast Machine (The Ubiquitous Matrix Of Lies)

Similar in spirit to UG#670, we look at what Charles Eisenstein termed "The Ubiquitous Matrix Of Lies". We examine a range of lies spun by the vast machine as part of its efforts to perpetuate hopelessness, including a particularly obvious fraud from this August, a Nurse Nayirah style effort to drum up support for an attack on Syria. We focus loosely on war propaganda in Syria, but use a wide range of examples to illustrate the interwoven, interlocking nature of the matrix of lies while reflect on its implications for those determined to seek truth.

Tucker-v-The Guardian PRISM hoax

Like many stories run by the Guardian, the PRISM story, is simply not true. The PRISM Hoax is however, yet another vehicle, being used by the mainstream media and government, to dangerously continue escalating, that it is an ever increasing number of human lives, that are really at stake, over violent state censorship. The whole world would be a much safer and more peaceful place, without violent state censorship, in the U.K, that is endorsed by the mainstream media, including the Guardian.

UG#672 - Mainstream or Extreme? (7-7, Islamophobia & CCM as Establishment Tools)

If asked to imagine a terrorist, do you see a mental picture of an Islamic suicide bomber? This episode we examine how the appearance - and quite possibly also the reality - of Islamic terrorism is cultivated by the UK political establishment. A wide variety of voices on this episode centered around the events of July 7th, 2005 explore David Miller's claim that the UK government uses the self-styled 'mainstream media' to promote Islamophobia through the security services.

MPS should move Scrap the 'Honours' replace them with peoples audit and approval

This is the month when new names are added to the so-called honours list in Britain.
But it is deeply biased in favour of known crooks who get honours or buy those through donations to Parties

Socialist International honours the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela

20-12-2013 05:59 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

The Socialist International is deeply moved by the passing of Nelson Mandela, the man who, representing the struggle for freedom of an entire nation, became a symbol for justice, reconciliation and peace for the entire world.

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Say No UK government taking money from the Poorest UK Children

19-12-2013 21:29 | Social Struggles | London | World

Parents on State Benefits shouldn't have to pay a percentage to the government from money meant for children

Join Barcelona In Ending Bloody Barbarism Of Bullfighting

Please contact the Spanish, Mexican, Argentinian and other Hispanic population embassies to end the archaic savagery of bullfighting.

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A question of the full extent of complicity in Child exploitation BY THE MEDIA

I have two recordings here made today early evening 17/12/2013 I ask for a public announcement from CELCIS here in Scotland to end the secrecy in Secret Courts and Tribunals and state and religious institutions

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Amsterdam - 100 refugees squat place

15-12-2013 02:18 | Free Spaces | Migration | Social Struggles | World

After a camp and several previous squats (church / office / flat), the 'We Are Here' group has now squatted the office part of a derelict parking garage, deep in the south of Amsterdam...

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The WTO pushes through bad deal; Developed countries and TNCs are the big winner

11-12-2013 10:38 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Bali, Indonesia - The 9th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) pushed through a Bali Package in the final hours, extending the Conference to December 7, but at the cost of the developing countries, the poor and the hungry.

AgainstGreece: Day for Alexis, day for students Cops intrudeattack on university

06-12-2013 13:36 | Free Spaces | Repression | Social Struggles | World

On the days demonstration, cops intrude on gathering in front of University senate, 'kettle' hundreds, arrest some 14-15 year old schoolkids

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Local youth attack police station in Aigaleo, Athens, "in the name of what is proper"

Starving school pupil in Patras eats garbage food binned by clasmates, not the first time she was hungry.
Elswehere 1000s are forced to go to school hungry and return home with an empty belly.

A town in N Greece has no heating oil for schools, all are closed.

The main demo for Alexi is at 6pm.

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