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international / arts and media Sunday September 30, 2007 - 13:53 by quang duc
Great news for people who like Youtube, which I suppose are those who never actually become dismayed by reading the comments or want to wander out of their macro-cultural or sub-cultural niche.

Start again -

If you go to Youtube today, you can watch or upload vids of Police Brutality on the brand spanking new "police brutality channel"..........."oh but it's not snuff!" they complain. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday September 29, 2007 - 08:53 by Miriam Cotton & David Manning   text 2 comments (last - saturday september 29, 2007 - 16:41)   image 1 image
All the collapses in US democracy that have occurred over the last fifty years well summed up by Sheehan. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday September 28, 2007 - 10:46 by VP   text 5 comments (last - thursday october 11, 2007 - 00:49)
Jeremy Scahill, former member of the New York Catholic Worker and Jonah House, U.S. mercenary corpotaion Blackwater most recently responsible for killing 11 Iraqi civilians last week. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday September 27, 2007 - 20:35 by Solidarity   text 1 comment (last - monday october 08, 2007 - 18:35)
Four years into the war on Iraq it seems more serious nonviolent resistance is coming from within the military, from veterans of the war and the families of the military war dead than any civilian anti-war movement in the western world. Lt Ehren Watada refused deployment to Iraq declaring the war illegal. His court martial earleir this year collapsed over a legal technicality. His second trial is due to start early October.
Moreinfo read link..... ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday September 27, 2007 - 15:40 by Miriam Cotton   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 27, 2007 - 15:42)
Most people are prepared to kill on command. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday September 26, 2007 - 13:04 by FS
Since 10 July, 135 workers have been occupying a bicycle factory in east Germany. The factory is threatened with closure at any time, but the workers have decided not only to occupy it, but to attempt to manage it themselves. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday September 25, 2007 - 15:01 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 27, 2007 - 20:05)   image 1 image
This is a statement from A group of workers employed in Iran Khodro, Irans largest car plant. It vividly describes the exploitation suffered by Iranian workers both at the hands of Iranian Capitalist employers and from the Iranian Capitalist State. The Iranian Workers issued this statement on September 17. The full text of the statement is at the link.

Friends and fellow workers:

Sharivar 22 [September 13] is the anniversary of the death of our fellow worker, Peyman Razilou. On that day in 2002 he died from exhaustion during the afternoon shift.

His death was four years ago and we haven’t forgotten that tragedy - or the untimely death of our colleague, Mahmood Khayami, who died from stress. And this year we have witnessed another death - this time it was Ali Akbar Shourgashti who was killed because Iranian capitalists pay no attention to health and safety regulations. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday September 25, 2007 - 14:29 by indyjourno
A munich court had issued an extradition request for 13 CIA agents over a notorious abduction of a German citizen Khaled al-Masri. ... read full story / add a comment
Yassmine Mather Speaks at Blockade Of Faslane UK/US Nuclear Submarine Base
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday September 25, 2007 - 11:35 by pat c   image 1 image
This is an interview conducted by Peter Tatchell with Mark Fischer and Yassamine Mather . There is also some commentary below in which Peter Tatchell makes clear the case against US aggresion towards Iran

Neither Washington nor Tehran. A war against Iran would be another disastrous neo-imperial adventure, which would strengthen the Tehran dictatorship. The overthrow of the clerical regime by the Iranian people - not US military intervention - is the best way to resolve the nuclear crisis and prevent a needless, unjustified war.

Peter Tatchell interviews Mark Fischer of Hands Off the People of Iran and Yassamine Mather of Workers Left Unity Iran, 21 September 2007. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday September 25, 2007 - 11:17 by Ed Walsh   text 2 comments (last - tuesday september 25, 2007 - 11:28)

[From the September/October issue of Resistance, the ISN paper]

Resistance in Iraq to US imperialism remains strong 
 
By Ed Walsh (ISN ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday September 24, 2007 - 21:04 by prone
For the geeks who have Second Life accounts, here's you chance to picket
in the virtual world...

"During the talks to renew IBM’s Italian internal collective agreement,
the works council, supported by the majority of IBM Italy employees, asked
for a small salary increase. IBM responded by cancelling their "productive
results benefit", resulting in a loss of €1000 per year for each employee.
For a company that wants to lead in corporate social responsibility, this
is unacceptable." ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment Monday September 24, 2007 - 16:16 by IT READER   text 4 comments (last - tuesday october 02, 2007 - 22:06)   image 1 image
For those without a subscription, here's the text of the long article in last Saturday's IT about the Corrib Gas dispute. It makes interesting reading, and gives a fairly balanced account of the recent history of Shell's scheme. Sadly, the lie that the project will provide 700 jobs is repeated as if it was a fact. Careful readers will notice that Shell never commit themselves to this (or any) figure, instead using meaningless phrases like "up to 700 jobs in the construction phase", etc.

The Shell PR machine now seems to think that if it repeats the notion that the majority of the people in Erris actually support the scheme then it will become accepted.

The company's plan, to install a high pressure pipeline and a huge refinery in a area of bogs which is prone to landslides, has never enjoyed local support, but Shell says the people of the local communities have "moved on". The coming months will show how much support Shell has.

... read full story / add a comment
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