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  • Italy G8 ’brutality’ trial opens
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    See footage of the violent clashes between protestors and police
    Forty-five Italian police and medical staff have gone on trial accused of brutality against protesters arrested during the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001.
    The case, which opened at a court in Genoa, was adjourned until November.
    The defendants - which include senior officers from Genoa - deny the charges, including unlawful violence.
    On Friday, in a related case, 28 officers are due appear in court over a raid at a school (…)

  • "This is not ’streamlining’ the appeal system as the government claims. It is subverting and stackin
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Appeals Clauses of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill 2005
    by bellaciao GB
    Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) is anxious to inform affected agencies and individuals about the changes to immigration appeals in the latest immigration legislation, the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill 2005, which is currently being considered by Parliament.
    The government gave no hint of their intention to make the proposed changes. They have not explained the full (…)

  • Rwandan : World Day Against the Death Penalty
    10 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Paul Kagame
    This letter was delivered on October 10, 2005
    World Day Against the Death Penalty
    Dear...,
    We are pleased and honoured to address you and the Rwandan people. We want to assure you that we are in solidarity with the efforts of all Rwandan citizens who aim to restore justice and human rights after a long period of terrible tribulations in your Country. It is in a spirit of deep friendship and humility that we request that you do your best to achieve, as soon as (…)

  • Did Bush administration attack peace movement with military grade biological bacteria?
    5 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What do we make of the Saturday, October 1 Washington Post headline “Poison Found in Air During Anti-War Protest”?
    Washington D.C. Public Health Director Greg A. Pane posed the right question in the Post article, “Why that day? That’s what is not explained.” Pane pointed that it was “just this 24-hour period and none since.”
    The Post noted that Pane found “. . . it was puzzling that the finding was from a day when the mall was packed with people.”
    Puzzling? Indeed. Biohazard sensors (…)

  • France : a million protesters...
    5 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A nationwide one-day strike in France has disrupted travel and business and dealt the first major challenge to the economic program of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.
    Official figures showed turn-out from the public sector, with 30 percent of railway staff and teachers, 23 percent of electricity workers and between 15 and 30 percent of post office staff joining the stoppages.
    Demonstrations were staged in cities from Marseille in the south to Le Havre in the north, with the largest (…)

  • The Anti War Rally Failed at Sending a Message
    3 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Mary MacElveen
    As a person that is against the war in Iraq, I must say that I am disappointed with that anti war protest that took place this past weekend in Washington, D.C. In my opinion it failed in its objective for several reasons.
    As I viewed the front page of Truthout.org, they have featured on it a video feed of a woman who is bare breasted who marched with several other women also not wearing tops stating how they appeared was more natural than the killings that are taking (…)

  • War protests, by the numbers
    28 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Crowd counting isn’t an exact science. And even at its best, it’s not much of a proxy for a well-conducted public opinion poll. But still, isn’t it at least a little interesting to compare the numbers generated by the big antiwar protest in Washington Saturday with the two pro-war rallies that came before and after it?
    As Jeff Horwitz writes in Salon, the organizers of Saturday’s protest "claimed as many as 250,000 demonstrators attended; though D.C. police estimates were more (…)

  • A WHIFF OF TURD
    26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A WHIFF OF TURD
    By Peter Fredson
    September 26, 2005
    Yesterday I returned from a walk around the block, turned on my TV and saw a blurry picture of Cindy Sheehan, with muffled sound. The picture was shot from below the lady, perhaps surreptitiously, at a bad angle. I could not make out what Ms. Sheehan said.
    Then the picture changed. A woman was shown in full clarity, with full clear sound and from the front. The contrast between presentation of the two speakers was remarkable, and (…)

  • Imagine one hundred thousand people marching on New Orleans
    26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    One hundred thousand people. I read the news from Washington DC that one hundred thousand protestors are marching on the capital, sharing a flood of outrage on our faltering King George, who frankly, doesn’t care if one hundred million demonstrated. I look at the pictures from the day and I see marches with multitudes of people, smiles and laughter, and creative props, costumes and actions. I’m sure the people who are participating feel empowered and alive.
    Hundreds of thousands of people (…)

  • Sunday on the National Mall about 400 people in the DC pro-war rally
    26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ELISABETH GOODRIDGE
    Support for U.S. troops fighting abroad mixed with anger toward anti-war demonstrators at home as hundreds of people, far fewer than organizers had expected, rallied Sunday on the National Mall just a day after a massive protest against the war in Iraq.
    "No matter what your ideals are, our sons and daughters are fighting for our freedom," said Marilyn Faatz, who drove from New Jersey to attend the rally. "We are making a mockery out of this. And we need to stand (…)