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  • Neil Young’s Songs of Impeachment
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    LET’S IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT / by Neil Young (Streaming Audio)
    With Neil Young and Pearl Jam releasing devastating anti-Bush albums in the coming weeks, it looks like rock has rejuvenated its protest past.
    By Jan Frel
    Only one friend of mine popped the champagne after the Supreme Court’s 5-4 vote in Bush v. Gore effectively sealed the deal that we’d see a right winger in office.
    The friend, a fan of ’70s and ’80s punk music, was overjoyed because he told me (I’m paraphrasing), "The (…)

  • Italian Communists Move Beyond Communism
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Il Manifesto
    Fausto Bertinotti, Secretary of the Italian Communist Refoundation Party (PRC), talks to Valentino Parlato, founding editor of the Communist daily Il Manifesto, about the challenges facing the next center-left government, the challenges to Marxist orthodoxy posed by the powerful rise of democratic mass movements, and the development of the Party of the European Left, a project which Bertinotti is leading in Italy. (Translated by Vittorio Longhi)
    These days much has been said (…)

  • Italian Court Confirms Prodi’s Victory
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A top Italian court Wednesday confirmed the slim electoral victory of center-left economist Romano Prodi over Premier Silvio Berlusconi, according to Italian television.
    Italian Sky TV news said the Court of Cassation confirmed the result after reviewing 5,200 ballots that were not immediately included in the overall count because they were unclear.
    The court said an official announcement about the review would not be made until later Wednesday.
    Prodi said he would not comment until (…)

  • AGENT ORANGE VIETNAM: Spraying of Agent orange by US Army in Vietnam and its consequences
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Andre Bouny
    1) Historical context - Decision.
    2) Methods - Amounts - Composing - Equivalences.
    3) Stability - Food chain - Entering in the cell.
    4) Visible and invisible consequences - Diseases and photos.
    5) “Redress” - Scientific proof - American Constitution - Multinational companies - Proceedings
    This succinct text enlightened with photos by Alexis Duclos, is the content of the conference by André Bouny for launching of International Support Committee in aid of Agent (…)

  • Stop Bush before he attacks Iran
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jesse Jackson
    Here we go again. The administration says ’’regime change’’ is needed. Warnings are issued about the threat posed by the ’’madman’’ who leads the oil-rich country. Alarming intelligence estimates are leaked about nuclear weapons programs. The vice president warns ’’monumental consequences’’ if the alleged efforts to develop nuclear weapons are continued. Neoconservatives call for military action. Administration operatives express scorn for international monitoring. The (…)

  • General Election in Italy 2006: Great success for the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista in Italy!
    12 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Information on General Election in Italy 2006
    The result of our party is excellent: Rifondazione has increased its votes everywhere, both in percentage and in absolute votes: from 5% achieved at the 2001 election to 5.8% at the Chamber of Deputies or lower house (from 1,867,712 votes to 2,229,604) and 7.4% at the Senate, the upper house (from 1,707,175 to 2,518,624). 41 MPs will represent our party at the lower house (instead of 11) and 27 senators at the Senate (instead of 3). This is (…)

  • France’s political crisis grows as 3 million take to streets
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
    Police fought running battles with rioters in central Paris last night as youths attacked officers with bangers, bottles and concrete at the end of a mass demonstration against a youth employment law that has caused a political crisis for Jacques Chirac’s ruling party.
    Trade unionists and student leaders said up to three million people took to the streets across France yesterday - the second time in eight days that the country has seen its biggest street (…)

  • ONE MILLION WALK OUT BRITAIN’S BIGGEST DAY OF ACTION SINCE 1926 GENERAL STRIKE
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Strike protests in Paris and London
    By Philip Johnston
    It was the best of strikes and it was the worst of strikes.
    Across Britain and France millions of public sector workers stopped work, in the former to protest about pension reforms and in the latter to block new youth employment contracts.
    But whereas in Britain the day was marked by nothing more revolutionary than picket lines and rallies, in France it ended with clashes on the streets. In Paris, where 700,000 marched, police (…)

  • Mass protests on the streets of France, organisers of the marches claimed that three million people
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Organisers claim 3m people join marches Sarkozy floods Paris with 4,000 riot police
    by Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
    Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of France yesterday, disrupting schools and transport in a nationwide strike to pressure the prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, to withdraw his controversial new employment law.
    Organisers of the marches claimed that three million people joined marches with major demonstrations in Marseille, Bordeaux and a dozen (…)

  • Over 1 Million Protest in Los Angeles for Immigrant Rights!
    27 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The largest demonstration in the history of California
    Today in downtown Los Angeles, over 1 million people demonstrated in support of immigrant rights. This was the largest demonstration in the history of California. March organizers announced from the stage that the crowd was over 1 million.
    Univision and other Spanish-language television reported that up to 2 million people marched. The Los Angeles Times, reflecting police estimates, gave the march 500,000 - police estimates have been (…)