Europe
A Complexion Change, Film Festival, Berlin Germany
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 12:38.
http://www.wavemagazine.net/culture/black-international-cinema-berlin.ht...
International, Intercultural Diplomacy undertakings in Berlin Germany & elsewhere.
....And Still We Rise....
Britain Told to Stop "Stop and Search"
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 01/12/2010 - 16:02. Britain Told to Stop "Stop and Search"
Oread Daily http://oreaddaily.blogspot.com/
Well now. How will the British respond to the European Court of Human Rights ruling that Britain's stop and search policies in the six counties of northern Ireland are illegal and a violation of human rights. I'll tell you how. They'll ignore it. AFP reports reacting to the ruling, London's Metropolitan Police said that, as the British government is seeking to appeal the ruling, Section 44 "remains in force in specified locations across London". I'd guess that would apply to the occupied north of Ireland as well. read more »
[David Rovics] Report from Cop-enhagen
Submitted by rick on Tue, 12/15/2009 - 14:25.The signs up all over the airport and various places elsewhere in town
are calling it Hopenhagen, but everybody I know is calling it
Cop-enhagen, which seems far more appropriate. The international media
has been giving this lots of coverage, and rightly so. Of course much
of the media is unable to walk and chew gum at the same time, so other
things, such as the reason the protests are happening in the first
place, can get lost.
Inside the Bella Center lots of stuff is going on. Namely the US,
Australia and others leading the way in making sure nothing meaningful
takes place there, while many other delegates and activists within try
to make the best of it, or at least make the effort to thoroughly read more »
Italy Convicts Former CIA Agents in Renditions Trial
Submitted by rick on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 19:28.Published on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 by Reuters
MILAN - An Italian judge sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight
years in prison Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric in a
symbolic ruling against "rendition" flights used by the former U.S.
government.
years in prison Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric in a
symbolic ruling against "rendition" flights used by the former U.S.
government.
The
Americans were all tried in absentia after the United States refused to
extradite them. But the verdict, the first of its kind, was welcomed by
rights campaigners who have long complained the renditions policy
violated basic human rights.
read more »
UK protestors say "No Deportations to Iraq!"
Submitted by wildleaf on Sat, 10/24/2009 - 09:41.No Deportations to Iraq
Release the Hunger Strikers Now
Demonstrate at the Home Office
2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF
Nearest tubes: Westminster, Victoria
Monday, 26th Oct, 4:30-6:30pm
Iraqi refugees locked up in Brook House and Colnbrook detention centres are on hunger strike since Monday, 19th October, to protest against their inhumane treatment and demand their immediate release. The hunger strikers include some of those who were forcibly deported to Baghdad in the first mass deportation to southern Iraq last week but were returned to the UK after the Iraqi authorities refused to accept them, as well as some who have just been given 'removal directions' to Iraqi Kurdistan (northern read more »
More than 100,000 German students protest
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 13:33.
June 18, 2009 TVNZ
More than 100,000 university students, children, and teachers took to the streets in cities across Germany to protest at an educational system they called underfunded and unfair.
Activists blocked the entrances to university buildings, occupied administrative offices, and marched in protest parades in cities including Berlin and Munich, as well as in university towns such as Heidelberg and Goettingen. read more »
Oil refinery wildcat enters third day
Submitted by pirate on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 18:06.
Libcom.org June 16, 2009
Strikes at the Lindsey oil refinery in North Lincolshire entered their third day today as talks between business leaders and employees broke down.
The unofficial strike action began at Lindsey Oil Refinery on Saturday as in protest over the loss of 51 jobs, cut by a sub-contractor while another employer on the site was hiring workers. read more »
Battles in Athens during march against police racism, many protesters injured
Submitted by pirate on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 15:30.May 22 2009 Libcom.org
Extended clashes broke out in Athens on Friday 22/5, during the second protest march in two days against police racism, after a cop tore the Koran and brutalised Muslims during anti-immigrant sweeping operations. During the clashes many protesters were injured arrested and hospitalised. read more »
Moscow police arrest 40 at Eurovision gay protest
Submitted by pirate on Sat, 05/16/2009 - 12:15.
May 16, 2009
MOSCOW (AFP) – Russian police arrested about 40 people at a gay rights protest Saturday just hours before the Eurovision Song Contest final was to start in Moscow.
Protest organisers called for musicians to show solidarity by boycotting the contest, which Russia is hosting for the first time this year. read more »
Radio station "Imagine" occupied in Salonica in the run-up to the cross-country marches in solidarity to anarchist squats.
Submitted by pirate on Fri, 05/01/2009 - 12:34.Infoshop News April 27, 2009
As the right-wing government in Athens has revealed its proposed
anti-anarchist legislation amidst procedures of impeachment that may
lead to immediate elections, anarchists, antiauthoritarians,
libertarians and the entire spectrum of the social antagonistic
movement is stepping up its response to State repression by holding a
series of cross-country protest marches in solidarity to political and
residential squats that have come under fire by the general persecutor
of the country, Mr. Sanidas, who, besides being notorious for having
built his career through right-wing support for his services at read more »
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