Europe
400 peliculas de 72 paises en madrid
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 08/17/2008 - 14:58.Festival Cinematográfico Internacional El ojo cojo
400 películas de 72 países
Éxito absoluto de convocatoria para un festival cinematográfico que ha crecido en prestigio y calidad.
Este año el Comité de preselección que debió visionar los 400 títulos propuestos al festival estuvo integrado por:
Sergio Hernández (México) Licenciado en Psicología Social por la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana en México, Master en Estudios Superiores Iberoamericanos, Doctorado en Historia de la Comunicación Social. En el Ayuntamiento de la Ciudad de México fue responsable del área de Cultura zonas de escasos recursos, organizando festivales, exposiciones y talleres. read more »
12 released after Corrib pipeline protest
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 21:47.
RTE NEWS July 22, 2008
Twelve people arrested in Co Mayo following a protest against the Corrib gas pipeline have been released without charge.
The 11 men and one woman were held over public order offences and were taken to Bellmullet Garda Station.
Gardaí say a file is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
The 12, who are members of a newly formed community group, were taking part in a protest at Glengad Beach where the pipeline is due to brought ashore.
The group is opposing the location of the €300m gas refinery 9km inland at Bellanboy. read more »
Athens: Supermarket target of Robin Hood raid
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 20:19.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 »
Clothing company beating of Bangladeshi workers in Athens met with wildcat collective action
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 22:42.
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 »
Climate change protesters hijack coal train
Submitted by pirate on Thu, 06/19/2008 - 22:10.
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 »
Irish voters veto EU treaty
Submitted by pirate on Fri, 06/13/2008 - 23:17. DUBLIN, Ireland - It took years to negotiate, weighs in at 260 pages, is virtually unreadable — and now could be a dead letter. Irish voters vetoed a painstakingly drafted treaty Friday that had been designed to streamline the European Union. Politicians from all of Ireland's major parties worked hard to sell the complex, deeply technical document to a confused and suspicious public. read more »
by SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press June 13, 2008
Berlin - In Chaos!
Submitted by pirate on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 20:36.
A personal report from last week's action days for autonomous spaces in Berlin. This report reflects the thoughts and opinions of the authors, not of any campaign, although these opinions may be shared by others.
(Report from) Action Days for Autonomous Space May 27 to June 1 2008
"If we do not wish to find ourselves in a world where no one really lives, where no one really knows anyone else, where everyone has become a mere cog in a machine meshing with other cogs but remaining truly alone, then we must have the strength to attack alienation in every way we can." read more »
Fishermen in Spain, Portugal and Italy Strike to Protest Fuel Prices
Submitted by pirate on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 23:03.
30 May 2008
Thousands of Spanish, Portuguese and Italian fishermen have launched strikes, following the example of their French colleagues as they protested escalating fuel prices.
In Madrid, fishermen gathered outside the Environment, Agriculture and Fishing Ministry, where they handed out more than 20 tons of fresh fish free to passers-by. read more »
Eco-warriors mark two-year demo
Submitted by pirate on Sat, 05/24/2008 - 17:57. 
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 »
Greece's "Strawberry Slaves" Protest Work Conditions
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 05/11/2008 - 22:24.May 11, 2008
PATRAS, Greece (AFP)--Hundreds of protestors demonstrated in the southern Greek Peloponnese region to protest the working conditions of migrant farm labourers, police sources and union organisers reported.
More than a thousand people, including members of the communist-affiliated Workers Militant Front, or PAME, and several of the seasonal workers themselves, attended the demonstrations, which were called by PAME.
The protests took place in several towns in the region, including Nea Manolada and Vardas, Nikos Gontikas, a PAME official told AFP.
It was in Nea Manolada that seasonal workers held a three-day strike in early April, the first time that they had staged this kind of action. read more »
French docks blockaded in strike action
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 22:00.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 »
Reports: Estimated 2,000 Protest Against US Radar Near Planned Site In Czech Republic
Submitted by pirate on Sat, 04/19/2008 - 17:24.April 19, 2008 RTTNews
On Saturday, police spokeswoman Ilona Tymlova said that an estimated 2 thousand people gathered in a Czech village to protest against the placing a US missile shield base in a nearby military zone, according to reports. The protesters then marched in rain from Misov, southwest of Prague, to the limits of the Brdy military zone in what was one of the largest protests against the US radar.
The Czech Defence Ministry said that Czech and US negotiators are likely to wrap up missile defence talks next week. The Czech-US agreement requires approval in parliament where the centre-right ruling coalition so far lacks clear support for the project. read more »
Thousands of workers protest in Croatia for higher wages
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 04/13/2008 - 05:49.Sat, 12 Apr 2008 Earth Times Zagreb - Over 40,000 workers from all over Croatia took part in Zagreb Saturday in a mass protest calling for higher wages to keep pace with the rising cost of living. Despite very heavy rain and low temperatures, the demonstration - under the banner "together for higher wages" - turned out to be the biggest such event of its kind in over a decade, Croatian HRT television reported.
The peaceful demonstration cheered trade union leader Kresimir Sever's declaration that "Croatia is split - there are a few super- rich people, and countless poor." read more »
antifa demo in moscow on 19 march 2008
Submitted by pirate on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 04:59.
Russia: Commemorating Aleksey Krylov in Moscow anti-fascist murdered by Neo-Nazis
19th of March, 3 days after murder of Aleksey Krylov on his way to concert of Petrozhavodsk oi!-band Nichego Horoshego, anti-fascists of Moscow gathered to commemorate him. read more »
UK top cop who led CIA probe found dead
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 03/11/2008 - 21:55. 
By ROB HARRIS, Associated Press Mar 11, 2008
MANCHESTER, England - A city police chief who led an investigation into charges that Britain cooperated with secret CIA flights to transport terrorism suspects without formal proceedings has been found dead, his deputy said Tuesday. read more »
Pirates Washed Up
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 03/04/2008 - 10:03.
hackney gazette 29 February 2008
PIRATE radio stations operating in Hackney have been taken off air.
Four illegal stations were targeted as part of a swoop across London by the broadcasting regulator, Ofcom, and the police.
Officers stormed addresses across Hackney, as well as in Haringey, read more »
Anti-EU protesters climb crane near Parliament
Submitted by pirate on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 21:14.
Protesters have scaled a crane opposite the Houses of Parliament to call for a referendum on the European treaty, in the third such stunt seen in the last week.
Days after green demonstrators mounted the roof of a British Airways plane at Heathrow and a separate group staged a rooftop protest at the House of Commons, two men climbed hundreds of feet late last night and were still there this morning. read more »
Armenia declares state of emergency
Submitted by pirate on Sat, 03/01/2008 - 20:43.
By AVET DEMOURIAN, Associated Press March 1, 2008
YEREVAN, Armenia - Armenia's president imposed a state of emergency Saturday after police used tear gas and fired shots into the air to disperse demonstrators protesting alleged fraud in last month's presidential election. read more »
Environmentalists climb on Heathrow jet in airport protest
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 02/26/2008 - 08:09.
Mon Feb 25,2008
LONDON (AFP) - Four activists from environmental campaigners Greenpeace breached security at London Heathrow to stage a protest on top of a jet against the airport's planned expansion, the group said Monday. read more »
Serbs break into US Embassy, set fire
Submitted by pirate on Fri, 02/22/2008 - 02:53.
By SLOBODAN LEKIC, Associated Press Feb. 21, 2008
BELGRADE, Serbia - Angry Serbs broke into the U.S. Embassy and set fire to an office Thursday night as rioters rampaged through Belgrade's streets, putting an exclamation point of violence to a day of mass protest against Western support for an independent Kosovo. read more »
GREECE CLOSED DOWN BY WORKERS
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 12:10.Attack on Pensions by Right Wing Government Resisted
Thomas Riggins
“Options in favor of the European Union are incompatible with any concept of measures in favor of the popular strata”—A.Papariga, General Secretary, KKE
Two days ago the Greek working class closed down Greece for 24 hours to protest another attempt by the right wing capitalist state, run by Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, to mess with the pension system.
Karamanlis wants to reduce benefits and extend the working age past 65 (men) and 60 (women) despite the fact that he won re-election last year after pledging to do neither.
The typical politicians ploy of promising one thing to get elected and then reneging. read more »
Italy: Women protest in major cities to defend abortion rights
Submitted by pirate on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 22:23.
Rome, 14 Feb.(AKI) - Thousands of women were expected to protest to defend abortion rights in nationwide rallies being held in major Italian cities late on Thursday.
The protests followed a raid by police on a hospital in the southern city of Naples earlier this week, on what was thought to be an illegal abortion.
Rallies were being held in Rome, Milan, Bologna and Naples and Italian Health Minister Livia Turco was expected to attend one of them. read more »
Greece: Massive riots, police cooperates with fascists, during Antifa demo
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 02/05/2008 - 08:51.
imc athens translation Feb 3, 2008 UK Indymedia read more »
'Route Irish'
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 01/27/2008 - 21:19.
'Route Irish', a feature length verité/essay film on the campaign(s) against Irish facilitation of the US/UK Invasion of Iraq.
New Caledonia: police attack striking workers
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 01/23/2008 - 07:09.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 »
Hotel staff in barricade protest
Submitted by pirate on Fri, 01/04/2008 - 22:36.BBC Jan. 4, 2008
Two workers have spent three weeks barricaded in the bedroom of a closed hotel in protest at losing their jobs.
Assistant manager Mark Craig, 20, and kitchen porter Steven Black, 16, staged their protest at the Meldrum Arms Hotel in Oldmeldrum, Inverurie.
The pair live on food delivered in a bucket pulled up on a piece of string. read more »
Michel Montecrossa - peace-musician and consciousness-expansion artist
I want to share this information and links for the music & films 6 books by Montecrossa: read more »
Greenpeace protest against carbon dioxide emissions – halfway up a power plant’s smokestack
Submitted by pirate on Fri, 12/07/2007 - 20:58.
[07-12-2007] By Rosie Johnston
On Thursday, 11 members of the environmental organisation Greenpeace set up camp halfway up one of the chimneys at the Prunerov power plant in northern Bohemia. read more »
Transport strikes across Italy
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 12/05/2007 - 07:18.
Dec. 4, 2007 Libcom.org
Italy's biggest transport strike in 25 years forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights, idled trains, anchored ships, and stalled buses across the country on Friday.
Aero-news.net reported that Italian carrier Alitalia canceled 217 domestic and international flights before a four-hour walkout by pilots, flight crew and ground staff beginning at 11 am. Air One, Italy's number two carrier, only guaranteed nine flights there. read more »
Relative calm in riot-hit French suburb
Submitted by pirate on Thu, 11/29/2007 - 05:06.
By Kerstin Gehmlich Wed Nov 28, 2007
VILLIERS LE BEL, France (Reuters) - Hundreds of French riot police deployed on Wednesday night in the tense Paris suburb where the death of two boys in a motorcycle accident triggered violent clashes this week. read more »
GREEK & ITALIAN WORKERS FIGHT BACK (ITS NOT JUST FRANCE)
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 11/27/2007 - 23:10.Thomas Riggins
"GREECE : STRIKES AGAINST PENSION CHANGE BEGIN" so begins a World Briefing entry by Anthee Carassava in today's New York Times International section (11/27/07).
The capitalist neoliberal assault on worker's rights in the EU is not confined to France. There is a general trend, since the fall of the USSR and the Eastern European worker's states, to roll back the gains of the European working class since the end of WW2.
The reasons are the same in Greece as in France. "Striking teachers marched through Athens streets, part of a planned wave of strikes against what unions describe as government plans to raise retirement ages and cut benefits to millions of future retirees." read more »
EUROPE AT WAR 1939--1945: NORMAN DAVIES' FALSIFICATION OF HISTORY
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 11/27/2007 - 12:13.Thomas Riggins
These comments are based on Adam Tooze's review of the Davies book [Europe at War] in the TLS of 11-16-2007. Tooze has a low opinion of both the book and of Davies' scholarship. This is why.
Davies has a right wing revisionist view of the history of WW2 and uses his book as the basis for an attack on the USSR wherein he argues for the moral equivalency of the USSR and Nazi Germany. "The war in Europe was dominated by two evil monsters, not by one. Each of the monsters consumed the best people in its territory before embarking on a fight to the death for supremacy." read more »
Ukraine marks Soviet-era famine
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 11/25/2007 - 07:33.
By OLGA BONDARUK, Associated Press Nov. 24, 2007
KIEV, Ukraine - Holding candles, thousands of people from all over Ukraine gathered Saturday on a square in Kiev to mourn the millions who died of starvation during a famine engineered by the Soviet authorities 75 years ago. read more »
Sabotage hits French railways
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 11/21/2007 - 18:20.
By Crispian Balmer Nov. 21, 2007
PARIS (Reuters) - Saboteurs staged a coordinated attack on France's high-speed rail network early on Wednesday, causing nationwide delays to services already hit by an eight-day transport strike, the SNCF state railways said. read more »
Transport strike cripples France again
Submitted by pirate on Fri, 11/16/2007 - 01:58.
By JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press Nov. 15, 2007
PARIS - France's transport strike eased but did not end Thursday, after President Nicolas Sarkozy accepted negotiations while refusing to budge on his campaign-trail promise that cushy retirement benefits must go. read more »
Ukraine implicated in CIA renditions
Submitted by pirate on Thu, 11/15/2007 - 01:03.By JAN SLIVA, Associated Press Nov. 14, 2007
STRASBOURG, France - An EU investigator said Wednesday he has evidence to suggest that a Ukrainian airstrip was used by CIA-operated planes involved in the U.S. extraordinary rendition program.
Giovanni Fava said he was also looking into possible CIA use of a military facility at a Ukrainian base. Fava, an Italian member of the European Parliament, drafted a report last year identifying more than 1,000 secret CIA flights with stopovers on European territory since 2001. He identified several of them as being used to transfer terror suspects. read more »
Strike hobbles French traffic
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 11/14/2007 - 19:28.
By ELAINE GANLEY, Associated Press Wed Nov 14, 2007
PARIS - Striking transport workers cut train service and forced Parisians to walk, bike or skate to work Wednesday in a pivotal standoff with President Nicolas Sarkozy over his bid to pare down labor protections. read more »
Dublin: Anarcha-Feminist Magazine RAG #1 - Rape Culture
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 09:13.Saturday, November 10 2007 Infoshop News
Sexual violence is a huge problem in our society. Sexual assault is not something that happens to other people elsewhere but is something that has happened to a significant number of people in any community, group or setting. Yet sexual violence is rarely talked about, the extent of it is not widely known and outside the feminist movement it is seldom taken up as a political issue. ---- This article sprang from a case of rape in a community of activists which, in the various meetings, workshops and discussions that followed, forced people to try to deal with a problem which is usually hidden. read more »
Italy: FdCA statement on the Vicenza demonstrations against the US military base
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 11/07/2007 - 19:47.November 06 2007 read more »
State of emergency in nation of Georgia
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 11/07/2007 - 19:40.
By MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI, Associated Press Nov. 7, 2007
TBILISI, Georgia - U.S.-allied President Mikhail Saakashvili declared a state of emergency Wednesday in the capital of Georgia, where six days of demonstrations have fueled a worsening crisis. read more »
Police break up anti-government protest in Georgia
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 11/07/2007 - 09:02.
Nov. 7, 2007
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian police armed with batons on Wednesday broke up a six-day protest outside parliament calling for the resignation of U.S. ally President Mikhail Saakashvili, but opposition leaders vowed not to be defeated.
The protesters accuse Saakashvili of economic mismanagement and corruption, accusations he refutes.
An opposition leader told Reuters some of the police hit protesters with plastic batons. read more »
Russian pensioners protest against high food prices
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 11/04/2007 - 21:06.
By Denis Pinchuk Sat Nov 3, 2007
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - About 1,500 people, half of them pensioners, marched through Russia's second city on Saturday chanting anti-Kremlin slogans and banging saucepans in protest against rising food prices. read more »
Huge crowds protest against Georgian president
Submitted by pirate on Fri, 11/02/2007 - 19:31.
by Michael Mainville Fri Nov 2, 2007 read more »
Strike wave sweeps Finland
Submitted by pirate on Sat, 10/27/2007 - 05:28.Finland is experiencing its worst outbreak of industrial unrest for a generation after relations between the right-leaning government coalition and powerful trade unions collapsed over wage negotiations.
The Financial Times reports:
Strikes have either broken out or are threatened in industries spanning the economy, affecting some 40,000 workers in core areas including shipping, forestry, postal services and steel.
In the most serious development, 12,800 nurses have decided to resign en masse next month if their demands for a 25 per cent wage increase over the next two years are not met. read more »
Huge strike hampers French commute
Submitted by pirate on Thu, 10/18/2007 - 18:32.
By JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press Oct. 18, 2007
PARIS - Commuters roller-skated, drove and biked to work, or simply stayed home. read more »
Hungarian demonstrators protest planned NATO radar facility
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 10/14/2007 - 10:50.People's Daily Online Oct 14, 2007
About 1,000 to 1,500 demonstrators rallied in Pecs, southwest Hungary, on Saturday, to protest plans to build a NATO radar facility on nearby Tubes Hill, according to local media.
Organized by two local groups, activists from Greenpeace and the Humanist Movement also joined the protest, arguing that they do not want a radar station so close to the city. They also voiced their opposition to all wars and military conflicts throughout the world. read more »
Italian gays plan "kiss-in" protest in Rome
Submitted by pirate on Mon, 07/30/2007 - 18:35.Gay.com Monday, July 30, 2007
Italian gays will hold public "kiss-ins" near the Colosseum this week to protest the detention of two men by police for kissing in front of the famous Rome monument, gay rights groups said.
Some lawmakers said they would discuss the incident in parliament, while gay rights groups accused the police of discrimination Saturday.
There were contradictory versions of the events that led to the detention. read more »
Japanese atomic bomb survivors arrested during Faslane protest
Submitted by pirate on Thu, 07/26/2007 - 17:55.July 26, 2007 CRAIG BROWN Scotsman.com
SURVIVORS of the Nagasaki atomic bomb attack were among those arrested at Faslane naval base yesterday during a protest at plans to renew the Trident nuclear weapon system.
The five men, two of whom are A-bomb survivors, linked themselves together with bamboo sticks and sat in the road in front of the base, near Helensburgh in Argyll.
A local woman who joined the protest was also arrested, police said. Five Japanese women were detained during the protest but freed later. read more »
Rabbis protest construction on Jewish cemetery
Submitted by pirate on Thu, 07/26/2007 - 17:47.July 26, 2007 Jewish Telegraphic Agency
European rabbis held a protest and prayer vigil today in Brussels over a 600-year-old cemetery in Vilnius, Lithuania that they say is being used for construction. read more »
Detainees' hunger strike protest
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 20:14.
July 24, 2007 BBC
About 60 Sri Lankans awaiting deportation have gone on hunger strike at detention centres across the UK.
The detainees have been protesting against their enforced removal to Sri Lanka since Monday.
There are 28 detainees on hunger strike at Harmondsworth in London; 23 are refusing to eat at Oakington, Cambs; and 10 are protesting at Haslar, Hants. read more »
