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Bossnapping wave continues in France
Posted in Action on April 8, 2009 by pastor2Bosses from Sony, Caterillar, 3M now Scapa have been apprehended during sit-ins and other anti-redundancy protests. 3 British execs are now in working class custody.
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Moldova: last Stalinist enclave in Europe is about to collapse
Posted in Moldova on April 8, 2009 by pastor2
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Mass anti-government protests in Thailand
Posted in Thailand on April 8, 2009 by pastor2Axed workers stage payout our protest
Posted in Action on April 8, 2009 by pastor2
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G20 protest death sparks outrage online
Posted in Action on April 8, 2009 by pastor2Read the Guardian story plus video here
Hundreds of thousands rally in Rome to protest economic policies
Posted in Action, Italy with tags Italy on April 5, 2009 by pastor2
The police said 200,000, CGIL said more than 2 million. In any case a huge mobilisation.
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“Strasbourg state of siege made trouble inevitable” – Besancenot
Posted in Anti-Nato protests, France on April 4, 2009 by pastor2Saturday, April 04, 2009
STRASBOURG, France – Police fired tear gas and water cannons in clashes with demonstrators yesterday as NATO leaders gathered for a summit in this eastern French city and over the border in Germany.
Officials said two officers were slightly injured, apparently by a firework, during several hours of sparring between riot police and hardcore protesters near an anti-NATO camp on the outskirts of Strasbourg.
The protesters tried but failed to get to the heavily protected venues of the summit talks, protected in huge city centre security zones behind metal barriers and thousands of riot officers.
A coalition of groups has organised a march that is expected to draw tens of thousands of people today to protest against the summit, western policy and NATO’s military operations.
The gathering of NATO’s 28 member states, attended by leaders including US President Barack Obama, marks its 60th anniversary and is also focused on beefing up the alliance’s operations in strife-torn Afghanistan.
Groups such as the German-based Anti-Nato Koordination say they are against the “imperialism and military barbarism that NATO represents.”
With around 25,000 police on standby ahead of Saturday’s march, protesters have repeatedly failed to make it to the locked-down centre of Strasbourg.
Protesters said yesterday’s trouble kicked off after around a hundred people dressed as clowns were turned back to the camp.
A similar number of Black Block militants – masked, black-clad protesters who are known for clashing with security forces at summits around the world – then barricaded the camp with waste-bins and wood posts which they set on fire.
Around a hundred police officers responded by charging the protesters and used water cannons and tear gas to bring them under control.
However, police in most other areas avoided confrontation with the anti-NATO protesters, and did not make any arrests – in contrast with Thursday, when 300 people were detained and a German photographer was injured.
French far-left leader Olivier Besancenot blasted the “state of siege” in Strasbourg, saying it had made trouble unavoidable.
- Jamaica Observer
Police attack peaceful demonstrators in G20 climate camp, 1 April 2009
Posted in G20 protests on April 4, 2009 by pastor2
Anti-NATO protesters burn buildings in French city
Posted in Action on April 4, 2009 by pastor2Read Reuters story here
Anti-Nato demonstrators in Strasbourg
Protesters Mark 6th anniversary of Iraq invasion – washingtonpost.com
Posted in Action on March 23, 2009 by pastor2
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 22, 2009; Page A16
Thousands of demonstrators marked the sixth anniversary of the war in Iraq with an impassioned protest of the nation’s military policies yesterday, demanding that President Obama bring U.S. troops home. Full story below
Protesters Mark Milestone – washingtonpost.com
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Anti-deportation campaigners blockade Tinsley House immigration prison
Posted in Action on March 21, 2009 by pastor217March
About 20 anti-deportation campaigners blockaded Tinsley House detention centre at Gatwick airport, where some Iraqi refugees due for deportation were being held. Using D-locks and superglue, the aim of the protest was to try and prevent the deportees being taken from the detention centre to Stanstead airport, where a special charter flight to Iraqi Kurdistan was scheduled that afternoon.
The blockade was violently removed by police after about 6 hours and Tinsley deportees, along with some 50 others brought from Campsfield and Dover detention centres, were put on the flight, which landed in Sulaimaniyya around 10pm. Nine protesters, including the six locked and glued to the gate, were arrested under Section 69 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (failure to leave land after a warning) and taken to Crawley police station. They were released on conditional bail later that night and are due in court on 30th March.
Police try to forestall ‘innovative’ G20 summit protesters | Business | The Guardian
Posted in Action, G20 on March 21, 2009 by pastor2Police are facing two days of unprecedented protest by a collaboration of “innovative and clever” direct action groups during the G20 summit in London, a senior officer said yesterday.
All leave has been cancelled in the Metropolitan police and extra officers are being drafted in from forces across the country to help the capital’s force during a week that will see the first visit to London by Barack Obama, the arrival of 39 other delegations from across the world and some of the best organised environmental and anarchist groups combining to try to bring the capital to a standstill.
Senior police are meeting next week to attempt to predict what the protesters are planning on 1 and 2 April when world leaders descend on London for the summit. But they know hundreds of anarchist, anti-globalisation, anti-war and environmental protest groups are forming alliances to storm buildings, seal off roads, set up impromptu climate camps and launch inflatable dinghies in an attempt to breach the summit security at the Excel centre in Docklands via the river Thames.>>>>Read full story below.
Police try to forestall ‘innovative’ G20 summit protesters | Business | The Guardian
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