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S. Koreans fire water cannons at Bush protesters
SEOUL, South Korea – Police fired water cannons at thousands of protesters Tuesday as President Bush got a volatile reception in South Korea at the start of his three-nation Asian trip. Dueling demonstrations reflected
Read More »Climate camp raided for a second time
Six people have been arrested at Medway’s climate camp. The first arrest was at 12.30am today, when a 40-year-old man was quizzed on suspicion of possession of a prohibited weapon The other five were
Read More »PROTEST OVER CHAVEZ ‘BLACKLIST’
Thousands of Venezuelans protested in the capital Caracas to demand the Supreme Court overturn a “blacklist” blocking key opponents of President Hugo Chavez from running in elections. Chanting: “Freedom!” and waving Venezuelan flags, the
Read More »Online Activists Keep the Pressure on Obama
By Ari Melber | If Obama is lucky, he will continue to benefit from these energized, sophisticated activists who support his candidacy while they press his hand. He responded. While most Americans settled into a
Read More »‘We have no alternative than peaceful protest’
Guardian.co.uk | Israeli troops have surrounded a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank after several weeks of demonstrations against the latest stretch of the West Bank barrier. For at least the past two days
Read More »Protesters train at camps before Japan G8 summit
By Danielle Demetriou | Dreadlocks flailing in the wind, the man emitted a fierce cry as he ran down the quiet country lane towards me, brandishing a bamboo stick in each hand. Normally, I would
Read More »Nine held in ID card demo
NINE protesters were arrested in Edinburgh yesterday following a demonstration at government plans to introduce ID cards. The arrests, all in connection with breach of the peace offences, were made at the Barcelo Carlton
Read More »Creating the Next Society: Your Revolutionary Ideas Needed Now
By Mike Adams | It’s fairly obvious to anyone paying attention that the American Empire, as currently configured and operated, is simply not sustainable. Financial collapse is inevitable (and accelerating, it seems), and even
Read More »We can strike back
Socialist Worker | Gordon Brown says we must all take a wage cut – but up to 800,000 local government workers are set to walk out over pay. Gordon Brown, chancellor Alistair Darling, and
Read More »Activists, Journalists Harassed Ahead Of EU Meeting
Radio Free Europe | Ahead of an EU-Turkmen meeting on human rights in Ashgabat, civic activists and independent journalists in the country have been reporting widespread harassment, intimidation, and even the detention of government
Read More »Lorry drivers to stage M62 fuel protest
By Jon Land | Police monitoring a proposed fuel protest by truckers on one of the UK’s busiest motorways said today their primary aim is to keep traffic flowing on the route. Organisers of
Read More »Picket killed in fuel protest in Spain
By Daniel Woolls | Truckers angry over soaring fuel prices blocked highways across Spain on Tuesday, disrupting supplies of food, gasoline, auto parts and other goods. A protester was killed when he was run
Read More »Spain grinding to a halt as fuel protest takes effect
By Ciaran Giles | MADRID – Gas stations in the capital and the northeastern Catalonia region began running out of fuel yesterday as an indefinite strike by truckers began to bite. The protest over
Read More »Senate Intelligence Report: Can You Say “Impeachment”?
The Progressive | With the release of the Senate Select Committee Report, impeachment is more urgent than ever. Here we have the proof that the President and the Vice President repeatedly misled the nation
Read More »“Enough Is Enough, It’s Time to Get Out”
Dozens of veterans from the U.S. occupation of Iraq converged in this west coast city over the weekend to share stories of atrocities being committed daily in Iraq, in a continuation of the “Winter
Read More »Urgent Appeal from Iraqi Oil Workers
From US Labor Against the War | We have just received an urgent message from Hassan Juma’a Awad, President of the Iraq Federation of Oil Unions. A translation follows below. The action he reports
Read More »On Trial for Protesting a Weapons Maker
By Socialist Worker | Eamonn McCann is a founder of the 1960s civil rights movement in Northern Ireland, a veteran socialist and trade unionist, and one of Ireland’s most widely read journalists. He is the
Read More »Vets for Peace Booted from National Memorial Day Parade
By Matthew Rothschild | There is one group of veterans that isn’t allowed to march in the national memorial parade in Washington on Monday. That’s the Veterans for Peace, Delwin Anderson Memorial chapter, based
Read More »Appeal from Tony Benn / Stop the War Coalition
By Tony Benn | The destruction of Iraq continues; its people killed amidst bombings and atrocities, a million or more dead, many more than two million driven from their homes, the social and economic
Read More »Students Denied Legal Aid
SchNews | Reckon students are all bone-idle skiving filth who haven’t even got the wit to tie their shoelaces properly? Well then you’d be in disagreement with Judge Parsons (of Brighton magistrates). He’s just
Read More »Lorry drivers to shut down London roads in protest
Lorry drivers are to pour into London tomorrow for what organisers hope will be the largest-ever fuel duty protest in the capital. Hauliers are angry at soaring fuel prices which have resulted in the
Read More »Monbiot plans citizen’s arrest of John Bolton
By George Monbiot | We have all but forgotten the war with Iraq. We tend to see it now as little more than a “political mistake”, like the 10p tax fiasco or Labour’s mishandling of
Read More »Indymedia and Anti-Semitism
Shift Magazine | For many of us a visit to Indymedia UK is a frustrating experience. Its open publishing newswire reveals an array of bizarre opinion posts, advertisements for activist meetings, petition requests and
Read More »100 arrested in Indonesia over fuel protest
AFP | Police arrested more than 100 protesters in the Indonesian capital Saturday after some burnt tyres and threw molotov cocktails during a rally over fuel price rises, police said. Indonesia hiked the cost
Read More »Top Activist’s Detention Blot on Democracy
By Praful Bidwai | Protests are mounting all over the world against the year-long detention of Dr. Binayak Sen, a distinguished Indian human rights and health activist, under draconian laws in the central state
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