Direct Action
Another Successful Eviction Blockade for Boston's Working Class Housing Movement!
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 07/20/2008 - 05:52.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 »
How an Indigenous Community Defeated a Logging Giant
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 07/16/2008 - 06:48.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 »
37 arrested at Australian climate protest
Submitted by pirate on Sun, 07/13/2008 - 19:44.
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 »
Homeland Security Agents Seize 31 Computers Bound for Cuba at Texas Mexico Border
Submitted by pirate on Mon, 07/07/2008 - 21:35.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 »
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 »
Vietnam: 330 illegal strikes in six months
Submitted by pirate on Sat, 06/21/2008 - 20:04.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 »
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 »
Poor people of Peru Take Cops Hostage
Submitted by pirate on Wed, 06/18/2008 - 20:11.
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 »
caravanistas!
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 06/18/2008 - 17:51.Click to play
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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
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