Direct Action

Libcom.org July 23, 2008

A round-up of recent strike activity in Iran, including the car industry and agriculture.  read more »

July 25, 2008 PGA North America

A group of activists blocked access to the Westin Bayshore marina on Wednesday July 23 to protest the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region (PNWER) summit. In doing so, they prevented PNWER delegates from boarding a 190-person luxury boat tour of the Vancouver harbour. Approximately 10 people stood with a banner reading People Not Profit! and prevented access to the luxury yacht though the public boardwalk.

Police arrived - surprisingly a bit late although the Westin Bayshore already had a relatively strong police and security presence - and threatened arrests, however given the tight timeframe that the PNWER delegates were on, the luxury boat tour was cancelled and the PNWER delegates were forced to retreat after about 20 minutes!  read more »

Ainfos Sat, 19 Jul 2008

On the July 15th eviction blockade led by Paula Taylor and the City Life/ Vida
Urbana Bank Tenants Union ---- Today, Paula Taylor of the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, her family, friends, the City Life/ Vida Urbana (CLVU) Bank Tenants Union, and various community allies successfully resisted an eviction attempt by Countrywide Financial in another win for Boston's working class movement! Paula- with the bank tenant union and community allies by her side- is asking Countrywide to accept rent money instead of kicking her out on the street and keeping the property vacant. Paula was attacked by the foreclosure scandals sweeping the country, and is now offering money to rent what she once owned.  read more »

By Jessica Bell; June 23, 2008 - AlterNet

It was below zero degrees Fahrenheit on the night of Dec. 2, 2002, when sisters and young indigenous mothers Chrissy and Bonnie Swain from the Grassy Narrows First Nation drove from their reserve, located in the southern fringe of the vast Boreal Forest in northern Ontario, to the logging road just a few miles from their home.  read more »

Sun Jul 13, 2008

SYDNEY (AFP) - Thirty-seven people were arrested at a climate change protest in Australia on Sunday when they blocked a railway line delivering coal, police said.

Organisers said as many as 1,000 people attended the protest march from Newcastle to the nearby Carrington coal terminal, where some demonstrators broke through a fence and chained themselves to a stationary coal train.  read more »

July 3, 2008

Pastors for Peace Caravan Threatened With Arrest for Exercising Their Right to Protest

Despite previous agreements, federal agents seized 31 computers from the
Pastors for Peace as they attempted to cross Pharr International Bridge
early this morning at the US-Mexico border.

The U.S. government has forced the issue by turning back on previous
actions and agreements" said Rev. Lucius Walker, Executive Director of
IFCO/Pastors for Peace. " They have intentionally provoked and harass us
he continued.

"We will not be intimidated. We have made every effort to be cooperative
and they have responded with aggression. These computers are the same  read more »

ekathimerini.com July 1, 2008

Self-styled anarchists claimed responsibility yesterday for raiding a supermarket in the Athens neighborhood of Nea Smyrni and then distributing the stolen goods to shoppers at a fruit and vegetable market in the fourth such incident during the last month. A group of some 20 people, all wearing hoods or helmets, entered the Marinopoulos supermarket on Evdoxou Street, loaded up trolleys with food and simply walked out of the store unchallenged.  read more »

Libcom.org June 25, 2008

Bangladeshi workers in clothing sweatshop in Athens, Greece, were attacked by company thugs for refusing to work on Sunday. When their co-workers walked out in solidarity, the company fired 120 out of 180 of the working force. In response the workers have sealed the factory off forcing the company to withdraw the lay-offs and negotiate.  read more »

June 20th, 2008 Libcom.org

A total of 330 strikes have been recorded so far this year and all of them were illegal because they were not led by the trade union and didn’t follow the law, reported the Vietnam National Confederation of Labour at a conference in Hanoi on June 16-17.  read more »

by Martin Wainwright guardian.co.uk Friday June 13, 2008 Link to video

Climate protesters hijack coal train heading for Britain's biggest power station, Drax, in North Yorkshire  read more »

BombsandShields June 18, 2008

Moquegua, Peru - Poor residents of the copper rich southern state of Moquegua have taken 48 police officers hostage and captured a police station, which they burned.  read more »

A team of Caravanistas are moving through the United States, on their way to Cuba with humanitarian aid. From Seattle, a short discussion with Hazel Roy of Manchester England. We'll be in Bremerton tonight (June 18), Olympia tomorrow (June 19, at Media Island), and in Portland on June 20th. For more information check the website at pastorsforpeace.org. And there's a blog - cubajourney.blogspot.com

by Mouctar Bah Mon Jun 16, 2008

CONAKRY (AFP) - Guinean police officers took a dozen of their superiors hostage in the capital Conakry on Monday as part of a pay protest, officials said, just a week after a deadly pay protests by s  read more »

By NOOR KHAN and JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press June 14, 2008

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - U.S. and NATO troops aided Afghan forces with reconnaissance in a hunt Saturday for 870 inmates who escaped prison after a sophisticated Taliban assault that even NATO conceded was a success for the militants.  read more »

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Time: 4pm to 10 pm

Cost: any one of these; a rock or stone, incense, or a candle.

All must bring something to share:
food and water
Love, cups and eating utensils
respect and peace

ALL must leave:
hatred, alcohol, and smoking green

There will be provided seperate tables for...  read more »

BBC May 24, 2008

Environmental campaigners have marked two years of their campaign to save woodland in West Sussex by gathering on the steps of Worthing Town Hall.

Treetop protesters moved into Titnore Wood in May 2006, after the land was earmarked for 875 new houses, a supermarket and new road.

Up to 210 threatened trees appeared to be spared when plans were changed.  read more »

ainfos May 21, 2008

"This is going to be a different type of occupation," say the people of Tierra y
Libertad (Land and Freedom), a land occupation on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The name of their group gives an idea of what they intend. The occupation began on March 29th this year when 40 families entered a small parcel of land in La Matanza and began setting up a community. Since then the occupation has grown to over 135 families and has continued to organize and resist eviction in the face of intimidation and violence.  read more »

Latest: Tense native standoff ends; six protesters arrested

Canadian Press

April 25, 2008

DESERONTO, Ont. — Mohawk protesters and provincial police officers were involved in a tense standoff in Deseronto, Ont., on Friday after officers said they spotted at least one gun among the demonstrators.

Police say they saw a “long gun” being pointed at them from a location inside an occupied quarry, which protesters have controlled since March, 2007.

The protesters said they had no weapons at the quarry.

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Libcom.org April 23, 2008

Workers at France's seven biggest ports went on strike today to protest a government plan to sell dock-equipment management to private companies and take staff off public payrolls.

Sixty-seven vessels including thirty-nine tankers stranded at the harbor's entrance. Government officials, port managers and union representatives are yet to tally the costs of the strike. A 17-day walkout last year in Marseille alone cost Manutention Generale Mediterraneenne, the port's biggest cargo- handler, €1.5 million ($2.4 million).  read more »

by Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front - ZACF from anarkismo.net Friday, Apr 18 2008

 We welcome and support the decision by the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union for their workers neither to unload nor transport the shipment of Chinese-made armaments destined for Zimbabwe. This is a very encouraging sign of working class solidarity and internationalism, and we hope that such actions will indeed prevent this weapons consignment from reaching its destination - the Zimbabwean Defence Force.  read more »

The anarchist infoshop newspaper box has about 100 zines so far. Please feel free to take borrow and add zines to the collection.

 Located at 4th Ave. and Washington St. in Downtown Olympia

By TOM HAYS, Associated Press March 6, 2007

NEW YORK - A small bomb caused minor damage to a landmark military recruiting station in the heart of Times Square before dawn Thursday, and police were searching for a hooded bicyclist seen on a surveillance video pedaling away.  read more »

Tuesday, January 29 2008 Infoshop News

Israel's national labour center Histradut is giving full support to workers at Tel Aviv's Ibn Gvirol street branch of the international coffee roaster and restaurant franchiser Coffee Bean, where workers have been on strike since January 22 against a union-busting management. Coffee Bean, originally a US-only roasting and coffeehouse chain, now operates over 500 outlets (270 direct owned) in 15 countries in the USA, Middle East, Asia, and Australia. None of the 14 Israeli establishments are currently union organized.  read more »

January 21st, 2008 by jef costello Libcom.org

Some 400 strikers fought overnight with police who tried to prevent them occupying group headquarters.  read more »

By IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press Jan. 22, 2008

RAFAH, Gaza Strip - Masked gunmen blew holes in the wall separating the Gaza Strip from Egypt early Wednesday and thousands of Palestinians poured across the border to buy supplies made scarce by an Israeli blockade of the impoverished territory.  read more »

Jan. 22, 2008

CANBERRA, Australia (AP)- Environmentalists again clashed with Japanese whalers Tuesday in the Antarctic Ocean, with Greenpeace activists failing in a risky attempt to prevent the fleet's factory ship from refueling.  read more »

indymedia.org 20 Jan 2008

In an operation that began at 5:00 today [January 15], using a helicopter and coordinated by the police, Patricia Troncoso Robles, a political prisoner in hunger strike since October 10th 2007, is being transferred to a hospital. Patricia, condemned by the Antiterrorist Law, has spent five years in prison and will spend other five to serve her 10-year term, due to the irregular judgment of the case "Poluco Pidenco".  read more »

Jan 20, 2008 from Infoshop News

The barricade at the end of the road is decorated with freshly-planted poinsettias in a mound of earth. Yellow plastic sunflowers, two graffitied TV sets and an oversize truck tire line a meter-wide trench just past the pavement’s end. They mark the boundary between the city of Langford and a protest camp occupied by feral humans.

These environmentalists bear no resemblance to the throngs of sandal-wearing, long-haired, peacenik hippy tree huggers seen at Clayoquot Sound in the 1990’s and more recently at Eagleridge Bluffs in West Vancouver. Vancouver Island is home to a whole new breed of forest defenders: the Raccoons.  read more »

Wednesday January 16, 2008

Workers Strike Over Wages at Mexico's Largest Lead Mine

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Workers at Mexico's largest lead mine went on strike Tuesday to protest a wage hike that they say fails to reflect corporate profits from high metal prices.

The 350 members of the National Mining and Metal Workers Union stopped work at the Naica mine in the border state of Chihuahua at midday, the union and mine owner Industrias Penoles SAB announced in separate statements. The impact on production was not clear.  read more »

Jan. 6, 2008 Earth Times

Cairo - Around 150 reporters, most of them working for state-owned newspapers and magazines, picketed Egypt's Dar al-Tahrir publishing house on Sunday to protest overdue benefits. They claimed that the publisher paid high-level media workers, including the managing directors of its publications, outstanding benefits but refused to do the same for its reporters.

The journalists' strike came amid a series of workers' protests in Egypt in recent months.  read more »

BBC Jan. 4, 2008