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  • Global Warming Calls For Action
    21 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Diana Lee
    We don’t need to ask experts to know that our planet is slipping into a deep crisis. We see daily news of people dying from increasing natural disasters all over the world - floods, hurricanes, storms, droughts, heat waves, and earthquakes. We feel the weather in each approaching season getting extreme - hotter, colder, dryer, or wetter. We hear reports of an alarming rate of animal, insect, and plant species on the brink of extinction. And we fear the spread of deadly (…)

  • Debtors of the World, Unite!
    16 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The "bankruptcy reform" bill "passed the House on a 302-126 vote on Thursday, a month after the Senate voted 74-25." It is time for the American wing of the global justice movement, which has been struggling to force the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to drop the debt under which peasants and workers of the global South groan, to take on the finance and credit industry that oppresses US workers by usury.
    Why not begin this weekend, when global justice activists gather in (…)

  • Don’t be fooled by the spin on Iraq
    14 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The US is failing - and hatred of the occupation greater than ever
    by Jonathan Steele
    Saddam Hussein’s effigy was pulled down again in Baghdad’s Firdos Square at the weekend. But unlike the made-for-TV event when US troops first entered the Iraqi capital, the toppling of Saddam on the occupation’s second anniversary was different.
    Instead of being done by US marines with a few dozen Iraqi bystanders, 300,000 Iraqis were on hand. They threw down effigies of Bush and Blair as well as the (…)

  • Quit Iraq: "The Largest Popular Demonstrations in Iraq since 1958"
    12 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Up to 300,000 demonstrated to demand an end to the occupation of Iraq on April 9, 2005, in Firdos Square (translated as ’Paradise Square’ in English) in Baghdad, Ramadi, and Najaf. Juan Cole says that "[i]f it were even half that, these would be the largest popular demonstrations in Iraq since 1958!"
    FULL TEXT:
    – http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/0...

  • Massive "End the Occupation" Protest in Baghdad Dwarfs the "Saddam Toppled" rally: Photos
    9 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Chanting "No! No to terrorism!" and "No! No to America," thousands of supporters of a radical Shiite cleric who once led uprisings against U.S. troops called Saturday for American forces to withdraw from Iraq, staging a massive protest at the same square where - two years ago to the day - protesters pulled down a towering statue of ousted Saddam Hussein.
    Compare the protests- which one looks like the ’voice of the people’ to you?
    The protest reflected frustration with the U.S. (…)

  • Sunni and Shiites converge on Baghdad to call for end to occupation
    9 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Anti-US protests in Baghdad
    April 9, 2005
    TENS of thousands of Shiites converged on the centre of Baghdad for an anti-US protest to mark two years since the city fell to coalition troops.
    Police cars blocked off main roads in central Baghdad and two major bridges across the Tigris River that cuts the capital in half as thousands marched through the street, chanting: “No, no USA, no, no America, no, no to the occupation.”
    Radical preachers had called on their congregations to rally in (…)

  • 10,000 people in San Francisco prevent Arnold Schwarzenegger from attending his own fundraiser
    6 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Tim Tagaris
    (Note: This is the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen in America since the civil rights movement! 10,000 people in SF tonight prevented $chwarzenegger from attending his own fundraiser for the $pecial election. Cops joined in to protect the protesters outside the Governor’s fundraiser. Follow the liveblog of these astounding events)
    This is one thing I love about California, and San Francisco in particular, they don’t play around. Bob Brigham is on-the-ground right now, (…)

  • Tom "two-second" Delay Exposed
    30 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    VALUES
    DeLay Exposed
    Majority Leader Tom DeLay began the month of March besieged by charges of corruption and ethics violations. In the past, the Hammer had weathered such storms by scurrying back into the tool shed ? avoiding press coverage and public appearances, and using surrogates to deflect accusations. Not this time. Instead, DeLay sought out media attention, assuming a highly visible leading role as Congress politicized the tragic case of Terri Schiavo and intervened in the (…)

  • Manchester : April 2nd European day of action Demonstrate against Deportations Rally against Racism
    23 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    European day of action Demonstrate against Deportations Rally against Racism Saturday April 2nd 2005 South Manchester March March with Mansoor Hassan and family 12.30pm, Whitworth Park Wlimslow Road Manchester North Manchester March March with Farhat Khan and family 12.00 noon, Goldstone Park, Cheetham Hill Road/Waterloo Road Manchester Central Manchester March March with Debbie Mgijima and Moses Kayiza 12.30pm at the HIV memorial, "the beacon of hope", Sackville Park, Sackville (…)

  • March 19th 2005: Anti-war actions in two places in Iceland
    21 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    There were 50-60 people on a meeting in the small town of Akureyri in the
    northern part of Iceland.
    In Reykjavik, the capital, some 800 people were in the demonstration. First
    there was a meeting were the people got a peace of paper with the name of a
    victim of the war, in all 730 names, one for each day since the invasion,
    and then they nailed it on a black banner that was brought to the government
    building (Iceland is one of the willing states) were some young people had
    an (…)