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  • International Campaign for the Immediate Release of WTO Political Prisoners
    7 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    (Sponsoring organizations: Korean Struggle Mission---Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, Korean Peasants League, and Korean Catholic Farmers Association---Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, Hong Kong People’s Alliance, and Via Campesina)
    Background
    During the 6th World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference that was held in Hong Kong from December 13 to 18, 2005, thousands of participants representing trade unions and labor rights groups, peasant’s, civil society, migrant (…)

  • New "Patriot" Act Creates American Gestapo
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hitler had the brownshirts- his Gestapo that went around the country taking out dissenters. The New "Patriot" Act creates a new American Gestapo: (Section 605)
    There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the `United States Secret Service Uniformed Division’. Subject to the supervision of the Secretary of Homeland Security...
    The new USSSUD will be in DC, but also everywhere Bush travels, or former Presidents, or heads of state, or even at events (…)

  • Impeachment March on State of the Union Jan 31
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    We The People remind Congress that they too took an oath to defend the Constitution, from both enemies foreign and domestic. 1. Call or Fax Congress and let them know, impeachment or else. 2. Organize State of the Union MOSH II protest, gather in DC to put the pressure on Congress the week before the SOTU. 3. Jan 31st, surround the capitol building, project truth videos to the riot cops, remind them that they too took an oath to defend the Constitution.
    Bush attempting to become Dictator (…)

  • Major demonstrations protest Iraq elections
    23 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BAGHDAD, Iraq - Large demonstrations broke out across the country Friday to denounce parliamentary elections that protesters called rigged in favor of the main religious Shiite coalition.
    Meanwhile, a lawyer for Saddam Hussein said he saw evidence his client had been beaten.
    Several hundred thousand people demonstrated after noon prayers in southern Baghdad Friday, many carrying banners decrying last week’s elections. Many Iraqis outside the religious Shiite coalition allege that the (…)

  • Let’s cut trough this deafening silence!
    21 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    BellaCiao Collective UK
    A violent attack is underway in Italy against the law n. 194 which regards the ‘norms protecting maternity and voluntary pregnancy termination’. The attempt is to curb the rights of women to self-determination and to diminish the responsibility women have long exercised and demonstrated in procreation.
    We believe the 194 is a good law which enables women to use their freedom responsibly.
    We believe this law has not boosted abortion but has granted the support (…)

  • Who’s Starting Riots? Who Benefits: New Powers for Police to Crack Down on Sydney rioters
    14 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Police in Sydney will be given tough new powers to crack down on rioters who have rampaged through the city’s southern beachside suburbs for two nights, New South Wales state leader Morris Iemma announced Tuesday. ’’New South Wales parliament will be recalled for a special emergency sitting on Thursday morning to provide police with extra powers to deal with criminals and thugs who are causing disturbances across our city,’’ Iemma said. He was talking after a second night of race riots (…)

  • 100,000 Irish Workers Take To The Streets
    13 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    It is estimated by the police that over 100,000 workers took to the streets of Dublin the Irish capital. While tens of thousand of workers brought the main cities and towns across the country to a complete stand still as they took to the street both in solidarity with the Irish Ferries workers and against the wide spread exploitation of migrant workers. Workers are outraged at the use of migrant workers particularly from Eastern Europe to undermine the wages and conditions of all workers. (…)

  • NEW ORLEANIANS PLAN RALLY IN WASHINGTON DC Wednesday, December 14
    12 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Frustrated by the slow pace of the federal government’s response, Shawna Doremus and Judith Kaufman, both New Orleanians displaced in Pittsburgh, have planned a rally in the nation’s capital on Wednesday, December 14, 2005.
    ”New Orleans is one of America’s most unique cities, and it is heartbreaking to see the city struggling to get back on it’s feet,” said Doremus. “We are Americans, we are taxpayers, and Judy and I both personally represent small businesses. We are asking Congress to (…)

  • AMERICANS TO VISIT GUANTÁNAMO PRISONERS
    8 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    25 U.S.Citizens walk 80 miles across Cuba in an effort to visit prisoners at U.S. Naval Base
    Calling their action Witness to Torture: A March to Visit the Prisoners in Guantánamo, the marchers began morning in Santiago de Cuba and will walk the 80 miles to the gates of the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay to arrive on December 10th, International Human Rights Day. They include War Resisters League (WRL) activists and members of Catholic Worker communities throughout the country.
    Frida (…)

  • Antiwar Protesters Arrested Near Bush Ranch
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Ordinance Limits Parking, Camping
    By Rosalind S. Helderman
    CRAWFORD, Tex., - About a dozen antiwar protesters, including Daniel Ellsberg and the sister of Cindy Sheehan, were arrested Wednesday morning while camping on a roadside near President Bush’s ranch in violation of a new county ordinance.
    The group returned this week as Bush arrived at his Texas home to celebrate Thanksgiving with his family. They came in hopes of reigniting the international attention they attracted in August, (…)