Press Release – Collectif Bellaciao sued in defamation by Mario SANDOVAL
By : Collectif BELLACIAO - Wednesday January 11, 2012 On January 12, 2012, Roberto Ferrario, one of the spokesmen of the Collectif BELLACIAO, will appear before the Criminal Court of Auxerre, assisted by his lawyer, Maître France WEYL, following a libel suit that Mr. Mario Sandoval filed against several media, including Marianne2, Mediapart, Le Grand Soir, Courrier International, France Info, El Correo, Calpa ... Mr. Mario Sandoval, a former Argentine police officer, sues BELLACIAO for the publication, on our forum, of an article released by (...)
read more, comments... 50 Arrested in the Tokyo High Court Building
By : doro chiba - Saturday May 21, 2011 Unprecedented mass arrests in a court building May 20, in the Tokyo High Court, 50 people, including the Secretary General of the Farmers’ League against Narita Airport Construction, KITAHARA Koji and almost all of the farmers who attended the court this day, the president of Zengakuren (All-Japan Federation of Student Autonomous Bodies), ODA Yosuke and other students and workers. After less than one minute “explanation of the reasons”, Judge INOUE Shigeki issued a (...)
read more, comments... Israel’s Masada Attack Palestinian Prisoners
By : leaksource - Friday April 22, 2011 Hundreds of Palestinian have died inside Israeli prisons and now an Israeli television channel has aired shocking footage of Israel’s so-called Control and Restraint unit, or Masada, attacking Palestinian prisoners. Activists have demanded people in charge of the operation, carried out in 2007, be charged and the family of one of the victims told Al Jazeera that they would consider suing Masada. Al Jazeera’s Nisreen El-Shamayleh reports from Seida in the occupied West Bank. (...)
read more, comments... Paris: Week of solidarity and struggles against repression (20-27 february 2011)
By : semainedesolidarite - Saturday February 19, 2011 To control population movements is one of the States priorities. It is, in particular, to select with care the labour force needed for the economy, and this in a general context of deterioration in the standard of living. This selection requires the reinforcement of imprisonment of people called “undesirable”, border controls and raids, dropping visas and an intensification of the struggle against the ones who in one way or another go against keeping under control population (...)
read more, comments... BREAKING VIDEO: Egypt: Speeding police vehicle plows into protestors
By : Mubarak & Suleiman must Go!!! - Saturday February 5, 2011
read more, comments... Police Brutality in the USA: Americans, Too Are Oppressed
By : Paul Craig Roberts - Saturday February 5, 2011 Police Brutality in the USA: Americans, Too Are Oppressed by Paul Craig Roberts Global Research, February 4, 2011 Police in the US now rival criminals, and exceed terrorists, as the greatest threat to the American public. Rogelio Serrato is the latest case to be in the news of an innocent person murdered by the police. Serrato was the wrong man, but the Monterey County, California, SWAT team killed the 31-year old father of four and left the family home a charred ruin. The fact that (...)
read more, comments... PROOFS OF MOROCCAN BRUTAL REPRESSION IN WESTERN SAHARA
By : Luali brigade - Wednesday November 17, 2010 Photo showing a Moroccan Army truck carrying corpses covered with sheets. El Aaiun, Occupied Territories, Western Sahara, November 9, 2010. Will the UN do something to avoid the beggining of a new war between the Sahrawi people and the Kingdom of Morocco?? Will the MINURSO members do something to protect the civilians, instead of staying in their hotels like they were turists?? Due to Morocco’s imposed media blackout, only a few documents show the face of the Moroccan occupiers: (...)
read more, comments... TENS OF THOUSANDS DEMONSTRATE IN MADRID FOR THE WESTERN SAHARA
By : Luali brigade - Monday November 15, 2010 Tens of thousands (100,000 according to the organizers, 30,000 according to the police) demonstrate last saturday in Madrid supporting the Sahrawi people and against the Moroccan occupation. Representatives of the two main Spanish labor unions (UGT & CCOO), from national political parties (PP, IU, UPD) and many artists joined the act. With shouts like "Zapatero traitor", "Morocco guilty, Spain responsible", "If this didnt get arranged, war, war, war", "Morocco kills, Spain sponsor it", (...)
read more, comments... BLACK PRISON IN EL AAIUN IS ON FIRE!!
By : Luali brigade - Wednesday November 10, 2010 Guinguibali.com "This is like Baghdad." The description was made by a citizen’s telephone contact about the panorama of the city of Laayoune, he ensures that currently the cells of the Black prison are burning. According to him, everything has started a riot between the police and the Saharawi detainees, some of whom escaped. Although they not get very far. In their escape, he says, they were persecuted by the army, which moved massively into the area, even by helicopter, and as he (...)
read more, comments... SLAUGHTER IN THE AAIUN - 15 dead, hundreds wounded and missing
By : Luali brigade - Tuesday November 9, 2010 After the serious incidents yesterday in the Occupied Territories of Western Sahara, the provisional balance is 11 Saharawi civilians dead, 5 Moroccan policemen dead, 723 injured Sahrawi, 159 missing and 65 Sahrawi Sahrawi detainees. This morning the riots returned to the neighborhood of Colomina between Moroccan settlers & Sahrawis. The city is taken by the Moroccan army and police, which in turn have armed Moroccan settlers to assault the houses of the Saharawis. About the missing, (...)
read more, comments... URGENT - Dignity camp dismantled by force by Moroccan Army - El Aaiun is burning
By : Luali brigade - Monday November 8, 2010 The Dignity camp of Gdeim Izik (near El Aaiun) have been dismantled by force by the Moroccan Army, who burned the jaimas (Sahrawi tents) and attacked the people with gas grenades and rubber bullets. The people had to leave the camp and go by foot through the desert to the city of El Aaiun, where the young Sahrawis are confronting the violence of Moroccan Police and Army. There are reports of several people dead in the streets or in the camp (between 5 and 12 dead killed by Moroccan troops). (...)
read more, comments... Ecuador’s president attacked by police
By : Ecuador - Friday October 1, 2010 Country’s leader trapped in hospital after assault, as government declares a one-week state of emergency Ecuador teetered on the brink of chaos early today as rebellious police officers protesting against austerity measures blocked airports and roads, occupied the national assembly and besieged the president in a hospital after physically assaulting him. The government called the revolt a coup and declared a one-week state of emergency which put the military in charge of public (...)
read more, comments... Video: Obama’s FBI Gets Earful from Protesters at Washington, D.C. Rally
By : William Hughes - Wednesday September 29, 2010 Obama’s FBI Gets Earful from Protesters at Washington, D.C. Rally from William Hughes on Vimeo. On Tuesday afternoon, September 28, 2010, a demonstration was staged in front of the FBI’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The protest action was in response to recent “FBI raids and Grand Jury subpoenas,” which targeted activists associated with the Antiwar Movement, according to the press release of the organizers. For background, see: (...)
read more, comments... Video: Demonstration at FBI’s Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
By : William Hughes - Wednesday September 29, 2010 On Tuesday afternoon, September 28, 2010, a demonstration was staged in front of the FBI’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The protest action was in response to recent “FBI raids and Grand Jury subpoenas,” which targeted the Antiwar Movement, according to the press release of the organizers. For background, see: http://www.counterpunch.org/jacobs0... and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opd3... This video contains excerpts from today’s rally. A fuller version will be (...)
read more, comments... The Fraudulent Criminalization of Marijuana
By : William John Cox - Thursday September 16, 2010 For almost 40 years, the United States has waged a war on its own citizens who have used marijuana as a part of a drug culture originally encouraged by the government. The war was commenced despite the government’s own findings that marijuana posed less of a risk to American society than alcohol, and that the greatest harm that would result from criminalization would be the injury caused to those arrested for possession and use. The harm caused by the war extends beyond its 15 (...)
read more, comments... Inside Mexico’s Drug War, Americans Allege Abuse
By : NICHOLAS CASEY - Monday July 19, 2010 Inside Mexico’s Drug War, Americans Allege Abuse By NICHOLAS CASEY CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico—Two Americans were driving back to El Paso, Texas, last December after an afternoon across the border in Ciudad Juárez. A few blocks from the border, they were surrounded by Mexican army trucks and pulled from their Dodge Ram. Violence escalates in the drug wars in Mexico as a car bomb set off by a cell phone kills at least three people. Deborah Lutterbeck reports. Video Courtesy of (...)
read more, comments... Europe Attacks Kurds
By : Garbis Altinoglu - Tuesday March 16, 2010 Europe Attacks Kurds Garbis Altinoglu, 13-15 March 2010 Facts and Fallacies At 5 A.M. on March 4, Belgian police raided the offices of ROJ TV, the voice of Kurdish people, BDP’s European office and several other addresses in Belgium. 30 people were taken into custody, including Remzi Kartal and Zubeyir Aydar and several journalists. Belgian media sources said around 300 officers took part in raids in Brussels, Antwerp and other Belgian cities. The Belgian police (...)
read more, comments... Citizen’s Arrest of George Bush Justified, Court Hears
By : johnny canuck - Tuesday March 9, 2010 Calgary Sun March 8, 2010 Political activist John Boncore [Splitting the Sky] was entitled to try to arrest US President George W Bush for war crimes, his lawyer told a Calgary court Monday. Defence counsel Charles Davison said his client’s attempts at breaching a police barrier to gain access to Bush was justified. Boncore is charged with obstructing a peace officer for repeatedly trying to get past security and into the Telus Convention Centre last March 17. "Mr. Boncore had (...)
read more, comments... Nude Protest: Airport Body Scanners in Germany (video)
By : Alan - Monday March 1, 2010 The underwear bombers Christmas Day attack has prompted calls for the increased use of full-body scanners at airports. So to protest, members of the Pirate Party in Germany organized a fleshmob of people who stripped down to their skivvies last Sunday and converged on the Berlin-Tegal airport. The protesters marked their bodies with a number of messages such as, Something to hide? and Be a good citizen — drop your pants. One woman has the word diaper scrawled on her lower back with (...)
read more, comments... Video: Doctors Flowers and Paris Arrested, Re: Obama and Medicare for All
By : William Hughes - Friday January 29, 2010 On Jan. 29, 2010, Doctors Margaret Flowers and Carol Paris were arrested outside a hotel, at the Inner Harbor, in Baltimore, MD, where President Barack Obama was to give a speech. They were on a sidewalk outside the Renaissance hotel holding a banner. The doctors had a letter that they wanted to give to the President and/or one of his aides, re: Medicare for All. They were arrested for trespassing, according to to a police officer at the scene. Later after getting into a police car, this (...)
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