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Activism NewsVets for Peace Booted from National Memorial Day ParadeThursday, May 29th, 2008 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 in D.C. It’s named after a World War II vet who fought in Italy and then worked for the VA for many years designing programs ...
Appeal from Tony Benn / Stop the War CoalitionWednesday, May 28th, 2008 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 infrastructure shattered. In Afghanistan the US military is spending $65,000 a minute and there are four times as many air strikes than in Iraq.The occupations of ...
Students Denied Legal AidTuesday, May 27th, 2008 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 refused legal aid to seven students up in front of his bench for ‘aggravated tresspass’ (punishable by up to three months inside) on the grounds ...
Lorry drivers to shut down London roads in protestMonday, May 26th, 2008 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 average cost of diesel passing far beyond the 120p-a-litre mark.
Led by lorry drivers from Kent, the protest is expected to attract hundreds of hauliers from all around the ...
Monbiot plans citizen’s arrest of John BoltonMonday, May 26th, 2008 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 the byelection campaign in Crewe. The press and public attention have moved on and focused on more pressing matters, like the price of property.
But this mistake has ...
Indymedia and Anti-SemitismSunday, May 25th, 2008
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 photo stories mixed in with the odd action or demonstration report. However, the number and diversity of articles on the newswire are more than an inconvenience. Most exasperating are the countless posts obsessed with ...
100 arrested in Indonesia over fuel protestSaturday, May 24th, 2008
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 of fuel by nearly 30 percent from Saturday in response to soaring global oil prices, and a ballooning subsidy bill, leaving hard-pressed households facing even more economic woes.
"More than 100 people have been detained for questioning," ...
Top Activist’s Detention Blot on DemocracyThursday, May 15th, 2008 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 of Chhattisgarh.
Sen, national vice president and Chhattisgarh general secretary of the well-known People's Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL), was arrested under allegations of helping left-wing ...
Heckler at the BackMonday, May 12th, 2008 SchNews | Campaigners in Nottingham have the world’s second largest seller of small-arms, Heckler and Koch, firmly in their sights. One would have thought that a city infamous for its gun crime would be a poor location for a warehouse full of guns. Not according to H&K, who do great business equipping war-mongers on any side.
Proud owners of H&K weaponry include ...
Roads blocked in Beirut anti-gov’t protestsWednesday, May 7th, 2008 Press TV | Demonstrators have blocked roads in and around Beirut with burning tires, protesting against the govt's economic and social policies. Witnesses said the main road leading to Beirut's international airport was among routes blocked by the protesters, who support the Hezbollah-led opposition, Reuters reports.
On Tuesday, Hezbollah called on all workers and employees to demonstrate on May 7, blaming ...
The Pentagon vs. AmericaWednesday, May 7th, 2008 By Scott Ritter | I recently heard from an anti-war student I met while I was speaking at a college in northern Vermont. The e-mail included the following query: “I told you about how I wanted to build a career around social activism and making a difference. You told me that one of the most important things was to make myself ...
Brian Haw Arrested Again - SOCPATuesday, May 6th, 2008 Rikki - Indymedia | At around 1.30 this afternoon, a community support officer started hassling Aqil Shaerer who is a pro-Palestinian protestor associated with Brian Haw and often around Parliament Square. It is unclear what grounds they had for this. Brian became involved and explained to them that Aqil was part of his authorised demonstration. Two more CSO officers became involved, ...
Banksy throws London stencil partyFriday, May 2nd, 2008 By Raphael G. Satter | Graffiti impresario Banksy and airbrush-wielding guerrilla artists blanketed the walls of an abandoned London tunnel with offbeat murals as part of a three-day stencil-art street party this weekend.Banksy marshaled more than three dozen international artists for what he's calling the "Cans Festival" — and is encouraging visitors to contribute their own graffiti starting Saturday.
"I'm hoping we ...
Nepal police detain 100 Tibetan protestorsFriday, May 2nd, 2008 AFP | More than 100 Tibetan exiles, mostly young monks and nuns, were detained Friday at a pro-Tibet protest in front of a Chinese embassy building in the Nepalese capital, police said.
"More than 100 Tibetans have been taken to various police stations and will be freed by nightfall," Kathmandu police officer Hom Jung Chauhan told AFP.
Demonstrators shouted slogans such as "China liars," ...
Anti-War T-Shirter Sued for $40BThursday, May 1st, 2008 AP - PHOENIX | A Tennessee couple who lost their son in Iraq want an Arizona merchant to pay more than $40 billion in damages to survivors of soldiers whose names are on the anti-war shirts he is selling online.
A complaint seeking class-action status for the lawsuit by Robin and Michael Read says Dan Frazier of Flagstaff has no right to ...
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