Let us act to lift the blockade on the population of Ifni.
Since Saturday, June 7 early in the morning,a fierce repression has fallen on the citizens of the town of Sidi Ifni Aït Baamran, in the South of Morocco and against its youth that, fed by false promises of employment and economic advancement of the region, have been blocking the port for the last week. The police and rapid intervention forces have been displaced by thousands from several regions of Morocco . Police forces (...)
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’ATTAC Morocco: Let us act to lift the blockade on the population of Ifni
16 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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Protesters clash with police in attempt to storm Whitehall
16 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Protesters clash with police in attempt to storm Whitehall
june 16th, 2008 3:01 am
By Cahal Milmo / The Independent
LONDON — Police wielding batons clashed with protesters last night when a demonstration against George Bush’s farewell visit to Britain turned violent a few hundred metres from where the US President was dining with Gordon Brown.
Within the shadow of the Houses of Parliament, officers dressed in riot gear skirmished with several hundred demonstrators who had been (...) -
Photos of the anti George Bush manifestation at Paris the 13 june 2008
14 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
By John MITCHELL Herblay FRANCE
Bonjour ,
at the link below you have some photos taken during the manifestation against G.BUSH last night the 13 june 2008
All the photos :
http://911blogger.com/node/16111
Yours John -
may day in indonesia 2008
12 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Thousands join May Day rally, urge fair treatment
The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Fri, 05/02/2008 1:33 PM | Headlines
The heat of the capital’s sweltering sun on Thursday did not stop thousands of people from joining the World Labor Day rallies, closing down Jakarta’s major thoroughfares and halting traffic.
Some 18,000 people held two large rallies in front of the State Palace and the House of Representatives, shouting out their demands for higher wages and their objections to (...) -
Anti-war protesters banned from demonstrating against Bush
11 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
London police have announced a ban on anti-war campaigners hoping to protest against President George Bush’s visit to Downing Street this Sunday. The Whitehall ban has been immediately condemned as a "totalitarian act" by the playwright Harold Pinter, while Stop the War organisers are urging people to defy it and to demonstrate nearby in Parliament Square.
"In what is supposed to be a free country the Stop the War Coalition has every right to express its views peacefully and openly. This (...) -
Dozens hurt in South Korea beef protest
7 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Dozens hurt in South Korea beef protest
By JAE-SOON CHANG – 3 hours ago
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Dozens were injured in the largest protest yet over an agreement to resume U.S. beef imports to South Korea, according to authorities and media reports Saturday.
A crowd estimated by police at 65,000 demonstrated in central Seoul on Friday night. Some marched on a road leading to the presidential Blue House but were blocked by a barricade of police buses.
Riot police later clashed (...) -
PROTEST AGAINST GEORGE BUSH’S VISIT TO LONDON
5 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsWhen journalist George Monbiot was asked last week why he had tried to exercise a citizen’s arrest on neocon John Bolton - one of the prime instigators of the Iraq war - he replied, "We must ensure that people do not forget. This is not an ordinary political mistake which was committed in Iraq. This was the supreme international crime, which led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Those people were not killed in the ordinary sense; they were murdered.
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Calling all activists! THIS SUNDAY take part in Allentown PA
23 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
As some may have read in a letter to the editor in The Morning Call, Mayfair, a past family oriented event, plans to have military recruiters each day. A rally is being organized to get a group on the corner of Hamilton & Ott. St. Allentown, PA this Sunday, May 25th 2008 from 2- 4pm... As this was such late notice, there was no time to get a permit but there is a right of way in which we should be OK with our signs but if we are asked to move or leave we will politely abide by this (...)
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Shut down holding centers for migrants in Europe
8 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
JOIN THE CAMPAIGN TO SHUT DOWN TEMPORARY HOLDING CENTRES FOR MIGRANTS IN EUROPE BY SIGNING THIS PETITION please sign the petition here:
These days, immigration is one of the main issues on the European Union’s agenda. Currently, the European Parliament is debating a proposal for a directive establishing "Common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegal staying third-country nationals". The proposed directive is applicable to all third-country nationals, (...) -
US dockworkers’ union holds eight-hour work stoppage to protest Iraq war
2 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
US dockworkers’ union holds eight-hour work stoppage to protest Iraq war
By Fred Williams 2 May 2008
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) carried out an eight-hour work stoppage at West Coast ports on May 1 to demand an end to the war in Iraq.
The work action halted activity at 29 ports from San Diego, California to Washington State. According to both the ILWU and the employers’ organization, the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA), 25,000 dockworkers represented (...)