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A personal/political missive from the G8 protests... expect a wiki/blog-ified version soon....
Posted: Tue, Jul 5, 2005 11:27am PDT
The Carnival for Full Enjoyment travelled around the streets of Edinburgh on Monday 4th, involving a cast of G8 Summit protesters, clowns, police and local people. The Carnival called upon 'workers, migrants, students, benefit claimers, New Dealers, work refusers, pensioners, dreamers, duckers & divers' to resist the 'daily grind of the institutions that plunge us into overwork, poverty and debt.'...
Posted: Tue, Jul 5, 2005 11:20am PDT
There are still pockets of trouble but, at this stage, it's appears to be local youths who are confronting police....
Posted: Mon, Jul 4, 2005 4:40pm PDT
Some Pictures from July 2nd, in Edinburgh Scotland during the runup to the G8 summit in Gleneagles....
Posted: Sun, Jul 3, 2005 10:57am PDT
Urging the G8 leaders to do more to help Africa is begging the same people for mercy who represent the inhuman systems. And nothing was said about poverty's origins, stopping the illegal wars or the taking of the African oil: again cheating Africa out of trillions....
Posted: Sun, Jul 3, 2005 9:05am PDT
A formidable progressive movement against the Coca-Cola companies’ labor and human rights violations in Colombia and elsewhere continues building in the United States, Canada and many other countries....
Posted: Tue, Jun 28, 2005 8:16am PDT
On June 25, about 300 people marched through the streets of Barcelona, Spain, in solidarity with Italian anarchists imprisoned after a series of raids in May....
Posted: Sun, Jun 26, 2005 9:11pm PDT
Like in the States. It's not only the genocides in Iraq and Afghanistan: in England 22.000 (twenty-two-thousand) old people died as a result of the cold, last winter. In Brussels however, the British PM shamelessly lied about his despised government as 'supporting a social Europe'....
Posted: Sat, Jun 25, 2005 5:07am PDT
On June 24, anarchists occupied the Italian Consulate and Chamber of Commerce in Thessaloniki, Greece, in solidarity with anarchist prisoners in Italy, as a "moment of resistance in the attack on power"....
Posted: Fri, Jun 24, 2005 1:41pm PDT
please, help them out, tell your friends, your community,we need to raise money ASAP to bail them out of jail.We need solidarity,support and help out our friend from Canada who could be totally fucked up for something illegal that he didn't do and for the other to people..please,I know that there's a lot of shit going on out there, than tons of people need help and tons of places are in danger like Chiapas, or the Apallachian Montaintop Removal,Brazil,Biscuits...and etc..but if you got any m...
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 11:34am PDT
A dozen protesters were arrested at the Biodevastation protests in Philadelphia this weekend. They are all still in jail, and need your help to get out....
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 11:02am PDT
Diamond giant De Beers celebrated the opening of its first retail store in the United States amid protests decrying the company's involvement in the eviction of the San Bushmen in Botswana. We speak to the Bushmen organization First People of the Kalahari, rights group Survival International, feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem, and a De Beers consultant....
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 7:44am PDT
Look at the updated newswire at Philadelphia IMC. A biotech Industry conference which was held in San Francisco last year was held in Philadelphia this week, and received a similar protest due to ethical/economic concerns. Yesterday, skateboarders were holding a convergence, and decided to have a parade/protest by skating in Love Park where it had been banned. A police officer who hadn't been in the center of a small conflict suffered a heart attack and died in the stressful situation, and fo...
Posted: Wed, Jun 22, 2005 8:22pm PDT
Far from challenging the G8's role in Africa's poverty, Geldof and Bono are giving legitimacy to those responsible...
Posted: Wed, Jun 22, 2005 12:09pm PDT
Get ready to support anti-G8 prisoners in Scotland
(Please distribute widely!)...
Posted: Wed, Jun 22, 2005 4:59am PDT
Here's the latest report from Leisa Faulkner Barnes from the Hunger Strike for Economic and Social Justice now taking place in Geneva, Switzerland....
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 11:55pm PDT
...Poor Nations Exacerbate Poverty ~ Interview with Bill Fletcher, president of Trans Africa Forum, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 5:08am PDT
The Allied Media Conference is right around the corner: June 17-19.
This is the 7th year that hundreds of zinesters, radio pirates,
copwatchers, podcasters, community journalists, hip hop heads,
librarians and more will be gathering in Bowling Green, Ohio. If
you're building alternative media, you should be there, too....
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 11:57am PDT
Calling all anti-capitalists!! “Capitalism and Other Kids’ Stuff” – a popular new film, which argues the anti-capitalist case in simple language, and which has won much acclaim in recent months - is now re-edited and can be viewed and downloaded as a BitTorrent at www.socialist-tv.com...
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 5:15am PDT
In his speech to the Organization of American States (OAS) extolling the benefits of US-style democracy, President George W. Bush declared Monday that Latin Americans “need to see that in a democratic society, people can walk in the streets in safety.”
Unfortunately, for those who traveled to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for the OAS general assembly, such democratic comforts were in short supply. Rather, the atmosphere surrounding the inter-American meeting was that of a police state, and thos...
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 12:09am PDT