Japan July 7th-9th - In the lead up to the G8 Summit in Japan from July 7th through 9th, Japanese authorities have arrested domestic activists and have detained numerous foreign independent media journalists and anti-G8 protesters. At least six independent journalists and ten academics have been detained by Japanese immigration officials in the past weeks, including Andrej Grubacic, professor of sociology at the University of San Francisco. Police arrested eight protesters on June 29, as 1,500 people marched against the G8 Summit in Tokyo's fashionable fashionable Shibuya and Shinjuku districts. Earlier this month, workers in Kamagasaki clashed with police and security in ...

Agenda: 13.9.08 Grosse Bleiberechtdemo in Bern 13.30 Schützenmatte (bewilligt) ---- 1. G8 Gipfel in Toya-ko und die Proteste ---- 2. Solidaritätmit der Rote Hilfe in Belgien! ---- 3. Antifa Festival in Bern 1/2 August 2008 ---- 4. Infoveranstaltung zur FLA und Argentinien ---- 5. Massive Angriffe gegen gegen CSD in Ungarn ---- 6. Globaler Aktionstag gegen Starbucks - Erster Eindruck ---- 1. G8 Gipfel in Toya-ko und die Proteste ------------------------------------------ ...

We plan to replace the faltering left wing with a political ideology that is more sound, sensible, and able to combat the dominance of right wing dogma than previously. ---- What has happened to the left? ---- The traditional left is dying. UK politics are dominated by three parties who argue only about how people's hard work should be distributed to the rich. Old style trade unions often refuse to fight because they rely on state backing to keep their funds and influence. The communists and socialists are totally discredited, hiding secret agendas and wanting change only for their own power base. The left has relied for decades on a partnership with big business, where each ...

REPASSANDO: Por Moésio Rebouças Algumas palavras... Antes de mais nada, gostaria de expressar meus sinceros agradecimento à todo/as os/as amigo/as e companheiro/as que me enviaram mensagens de apoio, solidariedade e força, que fizeram a notícia correr mundo afora. Muito obrigado! ...

05 de julho/2008 Texto adaptado - SAPPORO (Reuters / por Yoko Kubota e Edwina Gibbs) Milhares de pessoas protestaram neste sábado nas ruas de Sapporo, no Japão, contra um encontro do G8 que será iniciado na próxima semana em um luxuoso hotel, localizado a 70 quilômetros da cidade. Quatro manifestantes foram presos, disse um policial da ilha de Hokkaido, que tem Sapporo como capital. Duas pessoas foram detidas por violar leis de ...

Bonjour, Au moment ou L'Etat annonce la construction d'un nouveau réacteur EPR, je fais suivre quelques informations sur les différentes actions qui ont eu lieu ces dernières semaines autour du chantier EPR (Greenpeace), des THT et des transports de déchets radioactifs. Tout d'abord greenpeace a organisé durant plusieurs jours (à partir du mardi 24 juin) le blocage de l'accès aux différentes carrières (La haye du puits, Lieusaint, Montebourg) fournissant le chantier EPR de Flamanville. ...

Quand redressera-t-on enfin un peu ce monde à l?envers ? (Franz Kafka) *** RENCONTRES LOURMARIN (VAUCLUSE) : du 5 juillet au 24 août 2008. En octobre, se tiendront les XXVes Rencontres méditerranéennes Albert Camus sur le thème Albert Camus et les libertaires. Auparavant, on pourra visiter l?exposition intitulée Le don de la liberté : Albert Camus et les libertaires. Elle a été réalisée avec le concours du Centre Albert Camus (Aix-en-provence), de la librairie du Monde libertaire (Paris) et des CIRA de Lausanne et Marseille. ...

Direct Action for Direct Democracy: Shut Down the Republication National Convention ---- Monday, September 1, will be a day of civil disobedience and direct action to shut down the opening of the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Minneapolis-Saint Paul. Pittsburgh Organizing Group (POG) will join these actions in opposition to a two-party system incapable of meeting basic human needs that is bankrupting and decimating our communities through a culture of war and fear. ---- The RNC Welcoming Committee (RNC-WC), a Minneapolis-Saint Paul-based group, has been publicly organizing to shut down the RNC through a three-tiered strategy of blockades. Dividing downtown St. Paul into seven ...

Organise! and the WSM Belfast branch picketed Starbucks in Belfast city centre today from 12 to 1 pm. Despite the miserable weather around 12 people joined the picket and leafleted passers by and potential customers outside the coffee shop. At the start of the picket 3 people had gone inside to leaflet customers and staff. There was a very positive response to the picket however one person was falsely accused of assaulting a Starbuck's member of staff after leafleting staff and customers inside. ---- As part of the Global Day of Action against Starbucks called by the AIT/IWA and IWW Organise! and the WSM picketed Starbucks in Belfast today (5th July) to demand the reinstatement of Monica, a member of ...

Remember on April 1 when four people who really hate the unspeakable devastation caused by the mining and burning of coal locked themselves down to one of its primary funders, a Bank of America branch (for more info, see BAAM #8, page 1)? They were charged with trespassing, disturbing the peace and resisting arrest. On May 6 the courts threw out our bogus resisting arrest charges and gave us all a year of pre-trial probation. ---- Our lawyer said this was the best possible scenario, given the circumstances. Pre-trial probation isn't like `real' probation and it's going to be less invasive (no ankle bracelet). ...

Today, the trial in the Lionbridge case of a dismissed trade union member took place in Warsaw. ---- It was also a day of actions at Lionbridge offices in Dublin, Copenhagen, Madrid and Warsaw. ---- This marked the end of a week of actions against Lionbridge, started by actions in Zilina (Slovakia), Paris, Brussels and Lisboa. ---- During the court session, the company's lawyers were not able to present even the flimsiest evidence justifing the firing of a trade union organizer. One of the documents they have presented today, was an interview with the activist describing the illegal firing and working conditions in Lionbridge. The interview was made after the union-organizer was fired, but ...

I militari che abbandoneranno l'esercito per ragioni personali e senza demeriti saranno reinseriti nel mondo del lavoro grazie a particolari facilitazioni, venendo segnalati ai centri per l'impiego dalle istituzioni stesse visto l'importante ruolo svolto dai suddetti nel corso del periodo di leva: questo è quanto emerge dal vergognoso accordo siglato nella giornata di ieri tra la provincia di Pistoia, il comando militare dell'esercito e l'ente per l'inserimento nel mondo del lavoro dei militari congedati, il tutto senza che nessuna forza politica, sinistra radical-chic compresa, lanciasse un grido di sdegno nei confronti della vicenda. ...

Sète, 14 heures [28 juin 2008], un cortège commence à se constituer. Une demi-heure plus tard il s'ébranle et parcours les rues du centre ville. Il se dirige alors vers le centre de rétention au son de slogans comme « pierre par pierre, mur par mur, détruisons les centres de rétentions (ou toutes les prisons) », « ni prisons, ni frontières, ni centres de rétentions » ou « des papiers pour tous (ou pour personne !)». Passant par le quartier alloué aux immigrés, des rencontres se font. Petit à petit le cortège grandit. C'est environ 150 personnes qui se retrouvent devant le Centre de rétention de ...

Les rencontres des médias libres se dérouleront à partir du 9 juillet au Boulon à Villeurbanne (entre autres). Vous trouverez ci-dessous le programme des ateliers et débats, ainsi que celui des projections. Le détail de toutes les activités est disponible sur le site des rencontres : http://mediaslibres.lautre.net L'appel aux journées est reproduit tout à la fin du mail? Rendez-vous le 9 juillet ! ...

Ni'lin demo 1-7-08 - link to video in walla http://news.walla.co.il/?w=//1306203 link to Ni'lin video on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e65CzPG4nc Watch Um salmuna demonstration, 27.6.08 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a36oUMi4h5Y ...

During the week we were busy in Ni'ilin joint struggle and two solidarity demonstrations in Tel Aviv. At Ni'ilin, Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday demonstrations against the separation fence and occupation. In Tel Aviv we had vigils in front of the German embassy on Monday and in front of the Austrian embassy on Wednesday (see below). On Friday we demonstrated as usual against the separation fence and occupation in Bil'in - the 176th since February 2005. Our people also participated in the joint struggle at Um Salmuna, and in Ni'ilin, the new intensive front, with intense confrontation on Friday when the state forces declares closer at dawn and entered at noon as provocation/revenge. ...

The Dyke March offers, according to their website, "a non-commercial, fundamentally grassroots alternative to Boston's Pride Celebration." Started in Washington DC in 1993 by The Lesbian Avengers, the Dyke March is inclusive of all "sexualities, genders, races, ages, ethnicities, sizes, economic backgrounds, and physical abilities," and strives to provide visibility for queers who do not fit into mainstream Pride's white, cisgendered (non-transgendered) and monied gay male majority. This year, though The Lesbian Avengers have long since become inactive, all lost to either normalcy or travels, there was a small but spirited Anarch@-Queer Liberationist contingent ...

Como no Brasil temos pouquíssimas lojas da starbucks, geralmente em Shopings com segurança interna - que impossibilitariam a manifestação em frente ao estabelecimento - resolvemos proceder a uma campnha pública de denúncia da rede, concentrada nas regiões onde mantém lojas e realizando comícios relâmpago em frente aos estabelecimentos. O manifesto abaixo, distribuído pelo Comitê de Luta Contra a Carestia/Santo Amaro-SP, é parte das atividades da FOSP/COB-AIT em solidariedade internacionalista à Seção da CNTE-AIT/Sevilha. ...

*** Présentation du collectif Né en juin 2006, le Collectif Libertaire Anti-Sexiste est un collectif d'individus. Nous nous sommes réuni-e-s car nous voulons créer un outil de lutte contre le sexisme et le patriarcat, et nous ne nous retrouvons pas dans les organisations et collectifs présents sur Lyon. Le CLAS!!, collectif mixte -car tous les êtres humains quel que soit leur genre subissent le sexisme est anarchiste : nous refusons tous les rapports de pouvoir et de domination quels qu'ils soient. ...

On the Tuesday 24th there was a strike against government reform, announced by a lot of labour unions. According to pre-estimates, almost one million people joined the strike. There was strike in health service, in railways, transport in many cities was totally or partly stopped, in many factories and bureaus there was no work for one hour, taxi drivers in Prague blocked the airport, farmers blocked the Prague’s artery, and many more... ---- The striking and the strike-breakers ---- Both trade unionists and unorganised working people joined the strike. Some people didn’t stop their work, however, they expressed their solidarity with the demands of the striking at least with posting banners in ...