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  • Democracy, Not Agents Provocateurs (video)
    28 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Caspar Davis British Columbia Editorialist
    I am disgusted, but not surprised, that police agent provocateurs attempted to discredit the peaceful demonstrations at the North American summit in Montebello, Quebec.
    I was at the Seattle WTO meeting in 1999 as an accredited observer, and I followed the events there closely. Although that event is always referred to in the media as "the battle of Seattle" and the epitome of violence, the only violence on the part of the hundreds of (…)

  • Criminalization of critical academic research and political engagement
    20 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Open letter to the Generalbundesanwaltschaft against the criminalization of critical academic research and political engagement.
    On 31st July 2007 the flats and workplaces of Dr. Andrej Holm and Dr. Matthias B., as well as of two other persons, were searched by the police. Dr. Andrej Holm was arrested, flown by helicopter to the German Federal Court in Karlsruhe and brought before the custodial judge. Since then he has been held in pretrial confinement in a Berlin jail. All four people (…)

  • Mexico: Students arrested – urgent solidarity needed!
    13 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Monday August 6th, a force of nearly 1000 police officers attacked a peaceful sit-in demonstration of students who were demanding access to university. The protest had been organised by the Movement of Non-Admitted Students, a campaign launched by the Committee in Defence of State Education - Committee of Student Struggle (CEDEP-CLEP http://cedep.militante.org ).
    As a result of this brutal action by the authorities of the Federal District, eight students were arrested, four of them (…)

  • I’m Gonna Get You Sucker
    13 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    What if just hypothetically, you had spoken out against the government or exposed government corruption. Then you’re pulled over by police and they look at your driver license and say, “Yeah that looks like the guy.” You are arrested and taken downtown and booked on a charge of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
    You protest your innocence but in court the police testify that although they did not find any drugs on you. They observed you holding plastic bags that they believed had drugs in (…)

  • Sheehan Arrested in Impeachment Protest
    24 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Monday at the Capitol for disorderly conduct, shortly after saying she would run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the California Democrat’s refusal to try to impeach President Bush.
    Sheehan was taken into custody inside Rep. John Conyers’ office, where she had spent an hour imploring him to launch impeachment proceedings against Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Conyers, D-Mich., chairs the House Judiciary Committee, where any (…)

  • Operation FALCON - The USA is turning into a Police State
    23 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Operation FALCON - The USA is turning into a Police State
    Mike Whitney
    On 29th June, 1934, Chancellor Adolph Hitler, accompanied by the Schutzstaffel (SS), arrived at Wiesse, where he personally arrested the leader of the Strum Abteilung (SA), Ernnst Roehm. During the next 24 hours 200 other senior SA officers were arrested on the way to Wiesse. Many were shot as soon as they were captured but Hitler decided to pardon Roehm because of his past service to the movement. However, after much (…)

  • Compensation for roughed-up farmer
    24 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Diet Simon
    A German farmer has been awarded 3,000 euros compensation for being roughed up by police during a transport of nuclear waste half a kilometre from his farm.
    In November 2004 the farmer was working with his forklift near the railway line on which caskets containing the highly radioactive waste were to run to a dump in Gorleben, northern Germany.
    Police yanked him brutally from his tractor and threatened him with a pistol. He was led off in handcuffs and taken to a detainee (…)

  • Mothers For Peace Arrested on Capitol Hill
    15 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “Failure is impossible!” - Susan B. Anthony, a leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement
    Washington, DC - On May 14, 2007, under a sunny sky, anti-war activists launched a “SWARM on Congress” campaign to end the Iraqi conflict and to bring the troops home. An estimated 250 peace activists, led by Cindy Sheehan, first assembled at Lafayette Park, opposite the White House, for a spirited noon time rally. After about two hours of speechmaking, they formed a procession, entitled, “Mother of a (…)

  • Christiania - Danish police clash with protesters at hippie enclave
    15 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Monday, May 14 2007
    COPENHAGEN, Denmark: Police fired tear gas on Monday in clashes with rock-throwing rioters protesting the demolition of a decrepit building in Copenhagen’s hippie enclave. At least 16 people were arrested, police said, while one police officer and one protester were injured.
    COPENHAGEN, Denmark: Police fired tear gas on Monday in clashes with rock-throwing rioters protesting the demolition of a decrepit building in Copenhagen’s hippie enclave.
    At least 16 people (…)

  • Police raids in Germany
    13 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    According to mainstream media, over 800 policemen were involved in raiding 40 left-wing political objects with the support of 20 public prosecutors.
    Whilst German television channels reported live from the razzias in the big cities, according to the populist press farms in Schleswig-Holstein, Brandenburg and Niedersachsen were also affected.
    Several reasons were given so far for the raids, which nevertheless seemed to centre on and affect mainly infrastructure and logistics around the (…)