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  • Blaming Islam Is Dishonest
    21 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Blaming Islam Is Dishonest Michael Coren November 19, 2005 Last week I wrote that the riots in France were more about the culture of 50 Cent than bin Laden and that to blame the violence solely on Islam was a gross misreading of the situation.
    The neo-con web world had a fit, reminding me that when it comes to abuse and stupidity the right and the left are similarly gifted. In fact, neo-conservatives increasingly resemble the left in their simplistic and formulaic analyses and responses (…)

  • France : Riots Are a Class Act - And Often They’re the Only Alternative
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    France now accepts the need for social justice. No petition, peaceful march or letter to an MP could have achieved this
    by Gary Younge
    ’If there is no struggle, there is no progress," said the African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass. "Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without ploughing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters ... Power concedes (…)

  • Is Paris burning or Watt?
    10 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by William Bowles • Wednesday, 10 November 2005
    "We must leave our dreams and abandon our old beliefs and friendships of the time before life began. Let us waste no time in sterile litanies and nauseating mimicry. Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them, at the corner of every one of their own streets, in all the corners of the globe. For centuries they have stifled almost the whole of humanity in the name of a so-called (…)

  • Web, mobiles help French plan riots
    10 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Young French rioters are using blogs to incite violence and mobile phones to organise attacks in guerrilla-like tactics they have copied from anti-globalisation protesters, security experts say.
    So the government is policing cyberspace as well as rundown suburbs in the battle to end two weeks of rioting.
    Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has diverted resources to monitoring blogs to anticipate the movements of the protesters, who have set fire to thousands of cars since the unrest (…)

  • European Free Arts Sound Systems demonstration POSTPONED
    9 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Due to the recent riots in France, the Demonstration and the Teknival that were supposed to happen the 12th November 2005 in Strasbourg have been postponed !!!!!!
    After receiving authorisation for both events we were told today to postpone them. This is based on the Emergency State that has been declared in France by the President of the Republic, Jacques Chirac.
    >> Restrictions on all kinds of events and on press freedom is possible:
    Furthermore the law allows the closing of meeting (…)

  • France to Impose Curfews to Quell Rioting
    7 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JOCELYN GECKER
    France will impose curfews under a state-of-emergency law and call up police reservists to stop rioting that has spread out of Paris’ suburbs and into nearly 300 cities and towns across the country, the prime minister said Monday, calling a return to order "our No. 1 responsibility."
    The tough new measures came as France’s worst civil unrest in decades entered a 12th night, with rioters in the southern city of Toulouse setting fire to a bus after sundown and pelting (…)

  • Rage of French Youth Is a Fight for Recognition
    7 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Spreading Rampage in Country’s Slums Is Rooted in Alienation and Abiding Government Neglect
    By Molly Moore
    LE BLANC-MESNIL, France - Mohammed Rezzoug, caretaker of the municipal gymnasium and soccer field, knows far more about the youths hurling firebombs and torching cars on the streets of this Paris suburb than do the police officers and French intelligence agents struggling to nail the culprits.
    He can identify most of the perpetrators. So can almost everyone else in the (…)

  • The day George Bush came face to face with Latin America’s revolt
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thanks to a powerful indigenous movement from Colombia to Bolivia, US free-trade policies are in tatters
    by Naomi Klein
    When Manuel Rozental got home one night last month, friends told him two strange men had been asking questions about him. In this close-knit indigenous community in south-west Colombia, ringed by soldiers, rightwing paramilitaries and leftwing guerrillas, strangers asking questions is never a good thing.
    The Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca, which (…)

  • PARIS : THE FIRE RAISER
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Patrick Apel-Muller
    Situation assessment, sad! French Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, claimed that efficiency shall guide his policy... But the impacts of his provoking statements, of his visits in the neighbourhoods where he nags the populations, of his shying away from prevention policy can be measured against burned cars, stones and fire bombs thrown at civil servants, and increasing unrest in some French cities.
    Situation assessment, sad! French Interior Minister, Nicolas (…)

  • International Petition to Ban Uranium Weapons
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    International Petition to Ban Uranium Weapons
    Uranium weapons, often called ’depleted’ uranium (DU) weapons, are manufactured from radioactive waste materials produced during the nuclear fuel chain and the production of nuclear weapons. They cause widespread and long lasting radioactive contamination of the environment. These weapon systems are radiologically and chemically toxic.
    Many people - innocent civilians especially children, military veterans, industry workers - have illnesses (…)