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NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- 11.23.08

23-11-2008 18:38 | Iraq | Workers' Movements | World

This is not change we can believe in.

NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- 11.22.08

22-11-2008 21:56 | Analysis | Workers' Movements | World

"This is more 'Groundhog Day' than a fresh start."

The global crisis is a crisis of capitalism

22-11-2008 02:49 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

It is time for the workers and the poor in the Philippines to prepare for the worse the moment its government keeps on repeating the mantra that the economic fundamentals remain good and thus there is little to worry about effects of the global recessionary trend. The world found itself in the present mess precisely because of such blind faith in neoliberal fundamentalism.

Bilingual publication "Talk on Anarchism"

21-11-2008 19:49 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Publication in English and Serbo-Croatian language which is result of ten debates on anarchism held between May 2006 and May 2007 at the Cultural Center "Dom omladine" in Belgrade/Serbia.

Spanish bank squatters evicted

Following their successful occupation of the offices of BBVA bank over 200 members of SAT (Andalucian workers union) spent the night there, resisting police and council efforts to force them to leave.

NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- 11.20.08

20-11-2008 20:20 | Palestine | Workers' Movements | Liverpool | World

Some "Antiwar" Groups Excuse Obama's Pro-War Cabinet:
Kevin Martin, executive director of the group Peace Action, said. . . . "There's so much Obama hero worship, we're having to walk this line where we can't directly criticize him" . . . . Tom Andrews, national director of Win Without War, said that although he finds Sen. Clinton's views "very troubling," Obama should be given the benefit of the doubt.

Spanish bank occupied by workers

19-11-2008 18:40 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | South Coast | World

In the southern Spanish city of Granada today, a powerful workers demonstration has been taking place. It includes the simultaneous occupation of the offices of a local developer/estate agents and the main branch of the BBVA bank.

NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- 11.18.08

18-11-2008 22:49 | Palestine | Workers' Movements | Liverpool | World

[I]t will be interesting to see how antiwar activists react to this. Are they antiwar or just anti-Republican?

BNP Membership List Leaked

The full BNP Membership List has been leaked online to an anonymous blog.

Philippine social movements storm US Embassy

18-11-2008 08:18 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Philippine social movements hit G-20 summit’s exclusivity, call for a new and democratic world order

G20 leaders told to back off by Filipino workers

Filipino Workers to heads of G20: Creating a better world order is no more your business

'Anomalous Wave' demo today, Rome. 100,000 expected!

14-11-2008 13:17 | Education | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

100.000 EXPECTED TO SHOW UP
The newspaper La Repubblica gives updates about tomorrow’s mass demonstration of students and universitarians. The headline says “The wave brings 100.000 students to the piazza”.

Solutions to economic & climate chaos: politics of self-interest or society?

09-11-2008 14:05 | Climate Chaos | Globalisation | Workers' Movements | World

Many economies and livelihoods are dependent on discretionary spending. It's quite clear that following years of increases in employment and business creation, that there looks set to be an increase in unemployment and business failures, which will have an enormous impact on workers. What lessons can we learn from socialism, unity and positive and constructive environmental action in both dealing with the downturn and helping the climate and the proletariat alike?

Omali Yeshitela's Statement on Obama Election

08-11-2008 20:37 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

(Join African People's Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela, Black Agenda Report senior editor Glen Ford, African Socialist International General Secretary Luwezi Kinshasa, direct from London, and Africanist Movement Director Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, direct from Freetown, as they discuss reaction to the U.S. elections from the U.S. to the UK to Sierra Leone, Sunday, November 9th at 16:00 UTC / 11:00 am U.S. Eastern on UhuruRadio.com.)

Escalating U.S. Attacks Stir Opposition and Outrage in Pakistan

08-11-2008 09:25 | Anti-militarism | Terror War | Workers' Movements | World

Secular-minded workers, students, professionals, and concerned citizens joined a mass protest in the streets of Karachi, demanding an immediate end to the deadly raids by U.S. forces on Pakistani villages from bases in Afghanistan. The current U.S. policy of shifting combat focus from Iraq to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, apparently backed by both Republicans and Democrats, is galvanizing Pakistani public opinion decisively against the U.S. (Photos by Abira Ashfaq and Faris)

Class, climate change and coal Conference. Sat 1st NOV

This is the presentation given by a climate/environmental activist to the Conference

Philppines: Labor export policy is anti-women, anti-development

02-11-2008 00:57 | Globalisation | Migration | Workers' Movements | World

MANILA, Philippines – The country should not take pride in being the model in terms of labor migration, according to women’s groups who are engaging the Second Global Forum on Migration on Development (GFMD).

Filipino Workers hold March to protest against the GFMD

30-10-2008 23:25 | Migration | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

As the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) opened today in Manila, at least 5000 workers from the Philippines and other countries in every region of the world came together in one of the broadest labor mobilizations ever organized in the entire history of the global trade union movement.

NYCLAW Antiwar Digest (10.28.08)

29-10-2008 01:58 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Workers' Movements | World

"In the States, if police burst into your house, kicking down doors and swearing at you, you would call your lawyer and file a lawsuit. Here, there are no lawyers. Their resources are limited, so they plant IEDs (improvised explosive devices) instead."

NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST

26-10-2008 17:33 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Workers' Movements | World

Change Colin Powell can believe in is exactly the kind of change we should fear.

World Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- 11.23.08

NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- 11.22.08

The global crisis is a crisis of capitalism

Bilingual publication "Talk on Anarchism"

Spanish bank squatters evicted

NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- 11.20.08

Spanish bank occupied by workers

NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- 11.18.08

BNP Membership List Leaked

Philippine social movements storm US Embassy

G20 leaders told to back off by Filipino workers

'Anomalous Wave' demo today, Rome. 100,000 expected!

Solutions to economic & climate chaos: politics of self-interest or society?

Omali Yeshitela's Statement on Obama Election

Escalating U.S. Attacks Stir Opposition and Outrage in Pakistan

Class, climate change and coal Conference. Sat 1st NOV

Philppines: Labor export policy is anti-women, anti-development

Filipino Workers hold March to protest against the GFMD

NYCLAW Antiwar Digest (10.28.08)

NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST

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