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  • Stop the War on Iran before It Stars : Only the People will stop the war
    18 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary Rice, Secretary Rumsfeld, Secretary General Annan, Senators and Representatives,
    It is with grave concern that I observe the growing threat of a new U.S. war—this time against the people of Iran.
    The media is filled with reports of an alleged nuclear threat posed by Iran and the assumed need for the U.S. to take military action. These reports recall the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" stories issued in the months leading up to the war on (…)

  • Join The ExxonMobil War Boycott - Buy Citgo - VOTE WITH YOUR DOLLARS Consumers For Peace
    18 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ExxonMobil has been selected for boycott because of its apparent active involvement in U.S. policy in the Middle East in general and Iraq in particular, and its power to help change these policies.
    Campbell Soup, Carlson Companies (Radisson Hotels, TGI Friday’s), Corning Inc., Metlife, Novartis, Pfizer, Verizon, Wells Fargo and Wyeth are also selected for boycott because these firms can influence ExxonMobil through board members they share in common with ExxonMobil.
    When governments (…)

  • On March 18 and 19, the Third Anniversary of the War- by tht TRopps out coaliton
    17 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Troops Out Now Coalition joins the world movement against the war in calling for coordinated mass protests and resistance to the war and occupation of Iraq on the weekend of March 18 and 19, the third anniversary of the U.S. invasion. It must be clear that the people will not be fooled by partial withdrawal plans. We Demand the withdrawal of all occupation troops now.
    Let’s stand together with our sisters and brothers across the world against all colonial occupations from Iraq and (…)

  • Protests Heat Up as France Feels the Chill of Change
    17 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    PARIS, March 16 - Once again, students are on the barricades in France, evoking comparisons to the uprising of May 1968. But this is not a revolt. It is not 1968 revisited.
    Certainly, students are taking to the streets and shutting down universities, and tear gas penetrated the heart of Paris. Today, hundreds of thousands of protesters, most of them students, filled the streets and marched in cities throughout France. With teachers, workers, labor union leaders, the jobless, even retirees (…)

  • When a young Frenchman’s fancy turns to revolution
    17 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    William Pfaff: When a young Frenchman’s fancy turns to revolution
    Governments in France are unwise to launch initiatives affecting students and the young when springtime approaches and the sap rises. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has put himself in a difficult situation at a moment when the French already suffer depression connected with unemployment, a sense of economic vulnerability and what seems like political futility. This week, Villepin confronts street demonstrations of (…)

  • Student protests erupt across France
    17 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Students want a controversial labour law scrapped
    French students have clashed with riot police across the country, as hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched against a new government youth employment plan.
    At least 250,000 people took to the streets on Thursday in up to 80 towns and cities across France, according to police. Organisers put the figure as high as half a million.
    Student leaders said 120,000 people marched through Paris’s university quarter, although police said (…)

  • French students in new rebellion
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Protests and occupations against the right wing government’s CPE labour law swept France’s universities last week. Danièle Obono, a student at the Sorbonne university in Paris and member of the anti-CPE mobilising committee, writes in a personal capacity about the revolt
    Over half of the 82 universities in France are taking part in strike action against the Tory government’s plans. Twenty five universities are in occupation.
    The anti-CPE movement at the Sorbonne started a week ago - we (…)

  • France : students clash with riot police
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Students clash with riot police protesting first job contract
    Dominique de Villepin showed no signs of bending to student and opposition demands that he abandon a hotly contested measure to combat youth unemployment.
    Hundreds of students clashed with riot police near the Sorbonne University in Paris on Tuesday. The student protests were presenting French President Jacques Chirac’s supposed preferred successor with one of his sternest tests yet in his nine-month tenure as prime minister. (…)

  • Riots in France - against the government’s youth jobs plan
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Students invade Paris school
    Scores of angry students and other demonstrators invaded one of Paris’ most elite schools on Monday and clashed with police in a new escalation of protests against the government’s youth jobs plan.
    About 200 high school and university students swarmed into the College de France to press their demand that Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin withdraw a plan that they fear will hurt job security.
    The protests came a day after Villepin, hoping to defuse the (…)

  • Students and Teachers Unite for Campus Walkout in Protest of War
    11 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    NEW BRITAIN — About a hundred Central Connecticut State University students participated in a walkout Thursday, in protest of federal cuts in student aid and inflation of the military budget. The "M9 Walkout," organized by the Progressive Student Alliance, a student activist group, took place outside the student center one month after Congress passed a budget cutting $12 billion from student loan programs and the same day Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed for a $91 billion spending (…)