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Soaring Capital Profits and the Mountain of Corpses

06-12-2007 13:59

For the first time in the history of humanity, a surplus of goods could satisfy the basic needs of all earthlings. The moral imperative lives in all of us. Capital rule, the rule of finance capital over the economic events of the world, is nearly total.

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Save the John Howard Cottages

05-12-2007 11:12

Stop the Royal College of Nursing evicting 20-30 elderly residents

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Bali Bombings Cover-Up: New documentary

05-12-2007 10:14

A new documentary exposing the Australian government's lies about the East Timor massacres, the cover-up of the Bali bombings and finally the subsequent anti-terror legislation forced through parliament.

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The Problem With Christmas

05-12-2007 09:58

Christmas - a time for peace, happiness and family; a time to sell vast quantities of seasonal goods, toys and cheap electrical items. What is it that people love about Christmas, and is that being taken away from us for the sake of a retail dream?

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Sussex students visit Occupied Paris Universities

04-12-2007 15:44

On Sunday 25th November, four Sussex University students travelled south to Paris to meet with the University students in Paris and to express their solidarity with those students occupying their Universities in the fight against the CPE laws and the threat of privatisation of their University education.

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Climate Justice Newsletter *1 at the Bali Climate Talks

04-12-2007 12:43

For an alternative take on the Bali climate talks, check out Alter Eco – Offsetting Emissions, which you can download from  http://www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?act_id=17652

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Lost History In Laos

04-12-2007 08:32

Just four decades ago it was the world’s most bombed country per capita. Yet today Laos is Asia’s latest little tiger, a nation chasing the greenback with the thirst of the long parched and anxious to forget its past.
For nine years during the Vietnam War U.S. warplanes rained an average two million dollars worth of bombs on this landlocked country, accumulating a startling total drop volume of 2,093,100 tons of bombs worth 7.2 billion dollars to the American taxpayer.

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Documentary Film Festival Spain

03-12-2007 21:57

Call for entries for CINESTRAT 08, competition for docs about climate change, peak oil, ecology, nature, etc. Deadline febr. 29 / 2008. Check regulations and get more info at www.cinestrat.es.

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The Hidden Holocaust--Our Civilizational Crisis Part 2: Exporting Democracy

03-12-2007 13:07

Part two (part one) of an article by Nafeez Ahmed on the history of imperial genocide follows, the subject of this article was the subject of recent public meeting, The Hidden Holocaust - Our Civilizational Crisis.

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Appeal for International Support from Polish Anti-Coke Campaign

03-12-2007 12:41

Join Santa in boycotting Coca-Cola, his former employer, this Christmas!
International appeal for support: Polish Humanitarian Action should cease their Christmas campaign collaboration with Coca-Cola immediately.

For decades the Coca-Cola company has been embroiled in controversy for breaching the basic human rights of its workers and harming the environments in which it operates........

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Ten Reasons to Suspect "Save Darfur" is a PR Scam to Justify US Military Interve

02-12-2007 22:54

The star-studded hue and cry to "Save Darfur" and "stop the genocide" has gained enormous traction in U.S. media along with bipartisan support in Congress and the White House. But the Congo, with ten to twenty times as many African dead over the same period is not called a "genocide" and passes almost unnoticed. Sudan sits atop lakes of oil. It has large supplies of uranium, and other minerals, significant water resources, and a strategic location near still more African oil and resources. The unasked question is whether the nation's Republican and Democratic foreign policy elite are using claims of genocide, and appeals for "humanitarian intervention" to grease the way for the next oil and resource wars on the African continent.

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The price of Chinese corruption: what is the next in China's politics, finance?

01-12-2007 13:04

Watch out on the runaway corruption inside China! Has China's ongoing reform altered the nation's political-economic landscape as far as government corruption is concerned? What is the next if this corruption goes deeper? Surpring findings in new reports.

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Tuareg Rebels Gathering Strength in Niger, by Gunter Wippel.

30-11-2007 23:01

The article also reveals how URANIUM is part of the background of the whole conflict.

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The Citizenist Impasse: Contribution to a Critique of Citizenism

30-11-2007 16:03

"The Citizenist Impasse: Contribution to a Critique of Citizenism" is an essay, originally penned in French, that works toward criticizing the ideology of citizenism. Previously available only in French, Pygmalion Books in association with NOT BORED! is releasing the first English translation on November 30th, eighth anneversary of the Seattle WTO protests, in order to mark the work's critical perspective of that event insofar as it relates to citizenism.

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Blast From The Past: Short 2005 Scottish G8 Protest Video Rush

28-11-2007 21:02

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A short video rush of a few select moments from the Scottish G8, all filmed on the 2nd and 4th of July in Edinburgh.

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Branded from birth - baby milk monitoring report reveals latest marketing trends

28-11-2007 17:38

Nestle brands babies from birth in China
A new monitoring reports shows Nestlé continues systematic violations of the baby food marketing requirements and that regulation of the industry is essential. The Philippines recently introduced strong measures.

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Khalid Awan a victim of "creative legal theories" and religious profiling.

28-11-2007 17:03

http://www.indymedia.org/en/2007/10/893910.shtml Khalid Awan
"I am not a terrorist, I do not know any terrorists," U.S. officials presented incriminating evidences in court. Mr. Awan was caught on tape calling a leader of the Sikh terrorist group in India, from prison. And several modified,Bogus,False Sikh witnesses testified against Mr Awan by FBI, including one he had met in jail .Mr. Awan has filed court documents that assert he falsely confessed to crimes because FBI agents threatened him with lethal injection and said that they would have RCMP officers arrest his sisters in Montreal. "I tried to give answers so they would be pleased and not give me the death penalty," Mr. Awan wrote in court documents ,

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Move into the Light?: Postscript to a turbulent 2007

28-11-2007 16:34

"Move into the Light?: Postscript to a turbulent 2007"

By Turbulence

At the beginning of 2007, the Turbulence collective commissioned 14 articles from around the global 'movement of movements', asking authors: "What would it mean to win?" We edited their responses into a newspaper and printed 7,000 copies, most of which were distributed at the mobilisation against the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, in June. A few months later, we want to return to the question of winning.

As we resume our search it's no surprise that we keep coming across the problem of visibility. When we think about winning, our eyes are drawn to things that are highly visible or easy-to-measure, such as institutional or legislative change, the opening of a social centre or an increase in membership. That's where the light is. But we also need to assess victories in the less tangible though just as real realm of possibilities. Winning in this realm may involve increased potential, changes in perception or patterns of behaviour. Yet these seem to exist at the very edge of the luminous zone.

This problem leads into another: our experiences create their own luminosity and consequently their own areas of darkness. When we think about winning we are drawn to movements, people and events that are familiar to us; and we have expectations about how things should turn out if they are to constitute a victory.

So how can we overcome our night-blindness once we move beyond the familiar?...


To download the new Turbulence booklet, "Move into the Light?", as a PDF go to:  http://www.turbulence.org.uk/Resources/postscript_1107.pdf

To help distribute the booklet, or to offer a translation, please write to:  editors@turbulence.org.uk

A web-banner linking directly to the article can also be downloaded from:  http://www.turbulence.org.uk/Resources/banner_234x60.jpg

Copies of the booklet can be ordered via our website, www.turbulence.org.uk

And, as ever, we're keen for comments, criticism and feedback on the text.

The Editors

www.turbulence.org.uk
 editors@turbulence.org.uk

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Beating exploitation: No Sweat conference, Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 December

28-11-2007 15:47

The seventh annual No Sweat conference takes place this weekend in London.

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"Northern Rock"

28-11-2007 15:31

Northern Rock, Northern Wreck, Northern Crock, Northern Crook or whatever they're calling it this week was last week leaking deposits at a rate of £200 million per day. Hence the anxiety to get a big brand name on board in the shape of the Virgin conglomerate. And so the zombie staggers on to continue devouring the newly printed money being fed to it by Browns Bank of England.