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  • Statement of Protest and Solidarity with Northwest Strikers
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Statement of Protest and Solidarity with Northwest Strikers
    Submitted to Portside by Peter Rachleff
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    Sisters and Brothers:
    As I am sure you know, 4,400 mechanics, cleaners, and custodians represented by the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association have been on strike for 4 days at Northwest Airlines. The issues they are facing will soon face all of us. They have dug in for a substantial fight and they intend to win, despite NWA’s "preparations" which have been lauded on page (…)

  • Guantanamo Inmates Declare Hunger Strike
    22 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Guantanamo Inmates Declare Hunger Strike
    By JOHN J. LUMPKIN
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Some 50 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have declared they are on a hunger strike, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday.
    They went on strike three days ago, spokesman Bryan Whitman said. Some have already begun eating again, he said. The spokesman said he did not know why they went on strike and said the health of the striking detainees is being monitored.
    The Pentagon’s version of this incident contrasted (…)

  • 8th day of hunger strike of the State prisoner Francesco Pazienza
    28 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    PRESS RELEASE Hunger strike in prison of the Italian citizen Francesco Pazienza D. aimed at soliciting the U.S. Department of Justice to deliver an answer.
    In 1987 the then Government of the Republic of Italy decided to seal under the STATE SECRET restraining order the whole extradition file of Dr. Francesco PAZIENZA D. from the U.S. kept in the Italian Ministry of Justice to forestall s request for consultation submitted by the International Law Department of the Rome University of Tor (…)

  • AMNESTY ITALY! Sign on
    29 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Amnesty the movement of the movements Amnistie
    For medical reasons (impossibility of perfuser serum on base of glucose to a patient in the grip of the aftereffects of a hepatitis), Oreste Scalzone was forced to stop the hunger strike on April 26th in the evening, further to an illness. He pursues to call up to the movement of the movements for the amnesty, after being supported by many emails mainly coming from Italy and now having been reunited by the main confederacies and the Italian (…)

  • Amnesty Italy/ Call Oreste Scalzone for Life!
    24 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hungry Strike to amnesty Italy. Call for the life!
    * PETITION (EN/ US): translation of the contextualized French version
    APPEAL FOR ORESTE! Initiative of support to the battle of Oreste Scalzone for the amnesty and explicit demand why it suspends the hunger strike and does not put ulteriorly in danger its already difficult state of health. This appeal upon request leaves of friends and companions, preoccupied from the determination of Oreste to continue to oltranza the hunger strike: (…)

  • Iraqi police on strike in Tikrit, demanding release of police chief
    3 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    TIKRIT, Iraq, - Iraqi police in Tikrit, north of Baghdad, went on strike Wednesday demanding the release of a police chief captured by the US troops and guarantees from the foreign forces to respect the local police, a police officer said.
    Police stations and streets of Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, were devoid of police who went on strike in a protest against the capture of Brigadier Hatem al-Juboury, chief of the homicide department in Salahudin provincial headquarters, (…)

  • General strike in U.S.
    25 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by John Kalmus
    I wonder what anyone else out there thinks about using general strikes in the U.S. as one way of many to end the utter insanity of the current administration in Washington D.C. Where do I begin listing the lives and liberties damaged and lost, the care for children and adolescents with disabilities’ lack of receiving medical and educational services, the sacred legal system we have used for centuries overturned, or the attacks perpetrated on U.S. people of color, (…)