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ON THE BARRICADES: 14th-19th July 2004

ON THE BARRICADES: 14th-19th July 2004

GLOBAL RESISTANCE

PERU: Major workers’ strike declared a success by organisers

The strike is called to resist neoliberalism and call for the resignation of
President Toledo, and it included workers, students, farmers etc.

Hundreds of thousands on strike, 76 arrested

Police steal tyres to stop them being torched, and injure two babies among others

Protesters march and block roads

Stand-offs at roadblocks in northern Lima; Aymara Indians block roads too

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3893715.stm

www.plenglish.com/article.asp={E4463908-559B-4180-A997-AB53969E79C5}&language=EN

www.voanews.com/article.cfm

www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml

www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=CNM5SKHLPDKA0CRBAEZSFFA

edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/07/14/peru.strike.reut/

seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001980081_wdig15.html



SAUDI ARABIA: Land auction stopped by tribal uprising

3,000 people burnt down tents and buildings and trashed cars and offices

9 security personnel were injured, and the sale was stopped

The uprising was about the sale of traditional tribal lands, near Taif

www.arabnews.com/

www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L15108827.htm



ARGENTINA: Protesters attack City Hall with sticks, stones and noise bombs

They also lit fires, smashed windows and tore the fence down

Police attacked with water cannons

This is a protest against planned new laws targeting protesters, sex workers and
pedlars, by dozens of mostly poor and unemployed Argentineans

www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php

www.voanews.com/article.cfm

A pictures of the event

www.argentina.indymedia.org
chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/43918/index.php
www.geocities.com/insurrectionary_anarchists2/



ITALY: Anarchists storm immigrant detention centre, sparking an uprising inside

resist.ca/story/2004/7/15/132957/114



FIJI: Smashing the drug prohibition

Marijuana farmers resist police repression, using sabotage and other tactics

Nails are thrown onto roads to burst tyres on cop vehicles and keep them out the area

Other villagers are supporting the farmers

stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/346/fiji.shtml



BOLIVIA: Indigenous people revolt and may overthrow the government again

www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php



CANADA: Seton Lake First Nation people blockade railway to protest against rail
company takeover – “this is just the beginning”

resist.ca/story/2004/7/16/9045/38616

Another First Nation struggle – the Western Shoshone are resisting a huge land grab
by the US state – the Western Shoshone Defense Project website is:

www.wsdp.org/

Bushmen under attack too

www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php



BIHAR, INDIA: Starving flood victims loot food stations and prisoners break free

www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ct--concertarrests0719jul18,0,6733249.story

Reports from The Statesman, India

PATNA, July 15. — As the raising flood claimed at least 81 lives in Bihar, a food
riot has broken out in the worst-hit Darbhanga district where angry residents looted
relief material from government godowns. Officials said that around 1 crore people
in 16 districts have been affected by one of the worst deluges in recent memory.

Jail break bid: A day after 30 prisoners fled Darbhanga divisional jail taking
advantage of the flood situation, police today fired in the air to control a mob of
inmates, some of whom made an abortive escape bid. Police fired six rounds in air to
control the inmates as they protested police action against some prisoners trying to
escape by burrowing a hole on the wall of the first floor of the jail building.



MANIPUR, INDIA: Protesters torch at least three (maybe five) government office
buildings in protests over the torture and killing of a local woman by soldiers

A group of women also hold a nude protest outside the army HQ, others storm the HQ

Protesters defy curfews, hold demonstrations in their hundreds for three days running

Women’s groups also observe a 2-day general strike

Protesters chant “Indian army rapes us”

Police attack demonstrators with tear gas, rubber bullets, water cannons and batons,
injuring at least 100 women

Demonstrations are reported in a number of towns across the region

Manipur is a border region with a local insurgency, and army abuses are frequent

www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php

www.keralanext.com/news/index.asp

www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php

www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php

www.indolink.com/displayArticleS.php

us.rediff.com/news/2004/jul/15mani.htm

washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040716-061608-7338r.htm

www.telegraphindia.com/1040716/asp/nation/story_3502636.asp

in.rediff.com/news/2004/jul/18mani.htm

www.kanglaonline.com/index.php

southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/90168/1/

www.telegraphindia.com/1040718/asp/nation/story_3510407.asp

www.123bharath.com/india-news/index.php

t2ndtv.m7z.net/template/template.asp

www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp

www.e-pao.net/GP.asp

www.kanglaonline.com/index.php



KENYA: Deschooling insurrection! School students burn down schools in protests
over head appointments, unnecessary exams and other issues

At least six different incidents at schools in Kenya in the last week alone

allafrica.com/stories/200407150644.html



BOLIVIA: Gas wars continue – mass boycott of referendum in El Alto; country shut
down as bosses fear more protests

nyc.indymedia.org/feature/display/97661/index.php



PALESTINE: Uprising against Arafat’s nepotism and corruption

The main force involved is the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, the militant wing of
Arafat’s Fatah movement. They are angry at the appointment of a relative of
Arafat’s as security chief, despite accusations of torture and religious
humiliation.

Arafat forced to back down and demote his cousin.

story.news.yahoo.com/news

www.nytimes.com/2004/07/20/international/middleeast/20mide.html

www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/452860.html

news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer

www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2004/07/19/548255.html

edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/18/mideast/

bellaciao.org/en/article.php3



PALESTINE: Peaceful protesters under attack

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT

17 July 2004

For Immediate Release



Israeli Military Continues to Provoke the Unrecognized Village

Residents of Izbat Tabib after Today's Peaceful Protest



[Izbat Tabib, Qalqilia] Israeli border police and soldiers continue

to enter the village of Izbat Tabib and threaten the residents with

arrest and home demolitions after a nonviolent demonstration

confronted the roadblock on the western side of the village. The

Israeli military has said it will arrest and harass the residents

late at night and remove and arrest all international activists from

the area that has now been deemed a "closed military zone."



At approximately 11:30 AM, 175 Palestinians were joined by 70

international and Israeli peace activists from groups such as

Ta'ayush and ISM for a peaceful action calling for recognition of

Izbat Tabib and its 300 residents and basic human rights for the

local Palestinian population. After many speeches, including those

given by MKs Jamal Zahalka and Mohammed Baraki, the demonstrators

marched towards the roadblock cutting off Izbat Tabib from vehicles

entering from the western side of the village. The demonstration was met by
approximately six jeeps and one hummer of Israeli soldiers and border police
officers. The villagers attempted to negotiate for the removal of the roadblock,
but the soldiers and police prevented such an action from occurring.



After the failed negotiations, five to ten young boys began throwing

stones towards the military. After everyone was back in the

village, the military announced the closed military zone and

threatened to enter homes and arrest Palestinians, demolish homes

and remove all international activists. The villagers believe eight

Palestinian children between the ages of 12 and 16 have already been

detained.



Izbat Tabib has never been recognized by the Israeli government, and

as a result, 16 of the 40 homes in the village are scheduled to be

demolished. The Apartheid Wall, which runs close by the village,

took 50% of the lands of Izbat Tabib. Today's demonstration was a peaceful means to
protest the strangulation of this small, 300-person village and the attempts of the
Israeli government to transfer the local population. However, the Israeli military
would not allow for such a protest and it continues to suppress the voices of Izbat
Tabib that demand recognition and human rights.



Israeli soldiers and border police are currently in the village, and

over a dozen international activists are still there documenting the

situation.



For more information, please contact:

Mohammed T.: +972.52.354.065

Bayan (head of village council): +972.59.743.239

Mohammed Q. (ISM): +972.54.379.876 / +972.52.769.958

Pat (ISM): +972.66.253.451



MASS PROTESTS ACROSS PALESTINE

TEAR GAS IN PALESTINE REPLACES THE NORMAL HAIL OF LIVE AMUNITION

BECAUSE THE WORLD IS WATCHING....

Guardian Newspaper



Israeli troops today fired tear gas at Palestinians protesting at the

barrier being constructed in the West Bank as a court case on its

legality opened in The Hague. More than 10,000 Palestinian demonstrators, including
many government employees and students, marched in most West Bank towns against the
controversial barrier. Near the towns of Jenin and Tulkarem, soldiers fired tear gas
to keep

thousands of marchers from coming too close to the barrier. In Bethlehem and the
Jerusalem suburb of Abu Dis, tear gas was also used to disperse stone throwers.
Heeding a call from Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian President, to "make their voices
heard", protesters in Ramallah stopped work and brought traffic to a halt with a
march to mark the international court hearing. "The wall must fall," read one
banner. Marches also took place in Nablus and Qalqiliya, a town ringed by a tall
wall.



ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA: Squat Klima evicted – but not without a fight

Squatters attacked by police and thugs, the squat trashed and squatters beaten

Some squatters fight back with baseball bats and Molotov cocktails

www.ainfos.ca/ainfos336/ainfos14036.html



AUSTRALIA: Protesters disrupt kangaroo massacre

Protesters may put themselves between shooters and roos to stop the killing

They also storm a gate at a water compound

www.iol.co.za/index.php

www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/26072/story.htm

www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,10179846%255E1702,00.html

www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/17/1089694603406.html

www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,10154620%255E1702,00.html

www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10158896%255E30417,00.html

news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/animals/newsid_3903000/3903077.stm



TAIWAN: Aboriginal protesters vow to escalate action after protest is repressed

Police attack peaceful hunger-strikers, leading to scuffles

Protesters refuse to seek permits because they lay claim to the area they target

The protests are in response to anti-Aboriginal remarks by a leading politician

www.etaiwannews.com/Taiwan/2004/07/18/1090117961.htm

www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2004/07/18/2003179417

www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/detail.asp



CHINA: Miners march to Beijing to protest arrests

washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040716-061844-3051r.htm

origin.rfaweb.org/front/article.html



SEATTLE: Disability protesters block roads

seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001982856_protest19m.html



ECUADOR: Anti-petroleum assembly; 2000 attend

www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/294930.html



MINDANAO: Protest against plans for mining

www.mindanews.com/2004/07/17nws-mining.html



CHILE: Striking workers at Indalum factory in Santiago attacked, 50 hospitalised

www.indymedia.org/en/2004/07/111422.shtml



BRAZIL: Thousands march to protest against unemployment, recession

www.brazzil.com/2004/html/articles/jul04/p132jul04.htm

www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2004/07/18/2003179470

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3902393.stm

www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi

www.voanews.com/article.cfm

washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040717-101926-5815r.htm

Is this the beginning of a revolt against Lula?



CHINA: Miners head to Beijing to protest arrests

Hundreds march from Heilongjiang to Beijing

washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040716-061844-3051r.htm

origin.rfaweb.org/front/article.html



PALERMO, SICILY: Police attack families at protest about housing

The protesters were peacefully blocking roads and were attacked without warning

www.ainfos.ca/ainfos336/ainfos14117.html



GERMANY: Striking workers shut down Daimler-Chrysler

“It’s war”

www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1432_A_1269654_1_A,00.html

www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/docmain.asp={B1311FCE-FBFB-11D2-B228-00105A9CAF88}&doc={EB3560EB-ACFD-418A-8456-354E066B3274}



ITALY: Fleet protests against whaling

www.terradaily.com/2004/040718162221.3cozyk7m.html



COSTA RICA: Agrarian conflict continues

(don’t know the exact details… the article’s in Spanish…)

www.ainfos.ca/ainfos336/ainfos14110.html



PERM, RUSSIA: Protest camp against ecologically harmful missile destruction

www.ainfos.ca/ainfos336/ainfos14086.html

www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/294928.html



JAPAN: Peace movement under attack (report from IndyMedia)
Police brutality against peace movement in Japan is mounting
TOKYO, Japan – Three anti-war activists affiliated to World Peace Now (WPN) were
brutally harrassed by Japanese police officers by detaining them for a week and
later released, after the July 4th "VOTEforPEACE" parade rally that was held in
Shibuya district.

According to reports, during the peaceful parade organised by WPN urging the
japanese government to withdraw its SDF in Iraq, police officers started to
violently provoke the protesters by pushing their back and forced them to walk
faster. “Then the police force suddenly got a full nelson on two participants and
arrested them, without warning,” Nanashi Solidarity Collective added.

After the incident, some of the WPN contingent immediately held an indignation rally
infront the Shibuya Police Station to demand the release of their comrades. But the
activists were only assaulted again by the police and grabbed one more innocent
detainee.

SEATTLE: Protest at governors’ conference smaller, quieter than expected

www.komotv.com/stories/32231.htm



BOSTON, US: Prisoners planned strike and mass protests

Screws stage lockdown in response and rant about how terrible it is that prisoners
get a sense of “entitlement”

news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg



SENEGAL, MALI: Protests by journalists in Senegal continue, with solidarity
demonstrations outside the Senegalese embassy in neighbouring Mali

www.voanews.com/article.cfm



ISRAEL: Port workers on strike

www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/452574.html



LEBANON: Consumers hold cellphone strike to protest fees

www.newsday.com/technology/business/wire/sns-ap-lebanon-celluar-boycott,0,2684019.story



TURKEY (report from Insurrectionary Anarchists)

July 10, Istanbul (Turkey) - Three cops were hospitalized after assailants threw a
gasoline firebomb at their vehicle. The pigs opened fire on their attackers, but
missed their target.



IRAN: Teachers protest outside parliament over detentions

www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_2999.shtml



KOREA: Petrochemical workers on strike

www.koilaf.org/index_init.php



NEPAL: Part-time teachers’ protest draws political backing

www.nepalnews.com.np/archive/2004/jul/arc_jul04_17.htm



INDIA: Gujarat shipbuilders on strike over customs duties

www.123bharath.com/india-news/index.php

Sikh pilgrims block road to protest harassment by state forces

www.keralanext.com/news/index.asp



SOUTH AFRICA: Massive carmakers’ strike planned

Bosses could not even withstand a 2-day strike without huge losses, but threaten to
pull out of South Africa instead

www.bday.co.za/bday/content/direct/1,3523,1660301-6079-0,00.html

Directory service workers go on strike

www.sabcnews.co.za/economy/labour/0,2172,83562,00.html

Soweto residents keep up protests against debt evictions

www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1557412,00.html



NAMIBIA: Strike at salt refinery

allafrica.com/stories/200407140213.html

Workers occupy fish factory; cops kick them out and they occupy somewhere else

allafrica.com/stories/200407140218.html



MOZAMBIQUE: Former migrants occupy German embassy

allafrica.com/stories/200407140634.html

The day before, the migrants were violently “dispersed” by cops

allafrica.com/stories/200407130458.html



KENYA: Sugar cane workers protest

allafrica.com/stories/200407190460.html

www.eastandard.net/headlines/news18070411.htm



NIGERIA: Traders protest levies and extortion

www.thisdayonline.com/news/20040717news07.html



AUSTRALIA: Workers use work bans and work-to-rule

awu.net.au/national/news/1089730403_3410.html

Aborigines in Tasmania protest law changes

www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1156060.htm

Angry protests against PM Howard; man arrested for throwing stuff at his car

www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1154216.htm



Protest at asylum detention centre over forced relocation

Two mothers and children are up on the roof

www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,10136676%255E1702,00.html

www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/14/1089694426302.html

www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/14/1089694398441.html

www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10134408%255E1702,00.html

www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/14/1089694424307.html



NEW ZEALAND: WE WON!!!!

LabourStart appeal (which I put on Barricades too) has been successful

Report from Eric Lee, LabourStart

Ten days ago, I appealed for your support regarding a union delegate in a
New Zealand casino who was sacked by his employer.

Today, I'm delighted to tell you that thanks to your efforts -- and in
particular to the 1,178 of you who sent off protest messages via the
LabourStart website -- Andrew Bolesworth has been re-instated in his job.

The union in New Zealand (the SFWU) has written the following: "Thank you
to everyone who sent emails, wrote letters of support, signed the
petitions, turned up at the pickets -- the members at Dunedin are really
energised about unionism after a brief introduction and a big win."

This is a wonderful victory, and we join with our brothers and sisters in
Dunedin in celebrating.

But we are not going to forget all the other workers who are appealing for
our support today.



COLOMBIA: Sintraemcali under attack – 60 workers sacked

www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/294866.html



BRAZIL: Students at a university in Bahia are on strike

newswire.indymedia.org/en/newswire/2004/07/806320.shtml



GUYANA: Sugar workers protest against EU

www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2004/07/19/ap1460712.html



GREECE: More anti-Olympics mobilisations (picture; report in Greek)

athens.indymedia.org/features.php3



U.K.: A bad week for Oxford University and their builders, RMC, over the building
of a new animal torture centre – roundup of events

www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/294977.html

RMC trucks blown up!

www.arkangelweb.org/modules.php

LATEST: MONTPELLIER BUILDERS PULL OUT!

www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/295084.html



Zionists attack Marks and Spencer picket again

And apparently managed to shut down M&S for the picketers…

www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/294979.html

www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/294946.html

www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/s/124/124337_ms_demo_rivals_clash.html



Solihull: protest against Caterpillar outside court

Activists are on trial for “not kissing pig ass” or something like that

icsolihull.icnetwork.co.uk/news/local/tm_objectid=14432270&method=full&siteid=91411&headline=protest-outside-court-name_page.html

Railworker chains himself to railings after sacking; union may strike

news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm

Post Office closure protesters wheel out tank (picture and report)

www.cwu.org/news.asp

Oxford vigil against Palestine occupation

www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/294969.html

Manchester anti-fur demo

www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/294968.html

Manchester activists occupy Aussie consulate over ecocidal logging

www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/294836.html

Sherborne targeted in protest against Sainsbury’s GM milk

www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/294990.html

Grieving parents resist church ban on placing flowers

iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=14425068&method=full&siteid=50020&headline=grieving-parents--graves-protest-name_page.html



CANADA: Vancouver IWW strike solidarity report

resist.ca/story/2004/7/14/141425/015

BC strikers hit by truck driven by city clerk

www.cupe.bc.ca/index.php4



U.S.:

New urban guerrilla group formed

www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/294951.html

SHAC continue to hit effectively at HLS animal torturers in the US

www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php

OAKLAND: Medical marijuana protesters plant marijuana outside pig office

www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread19179.shtml

www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread19184.shtml

TAMPA: Protesters unwelcome Bush

www.legitgov.org/front_tampa_schiffler_071604.html

More Bush protests

www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/local_16911215.shtml

AUSTIN: Protesters urge university not to take over a nuclear site

www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2685833

MINNEAPOLIS: “Billionaires” greet Cheney

twincities.indymedia.org/feature/display/17340/index.php

SAN FRANCISCO: Macy’s workers on strike

www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp

DENVER: Police shooting causes protest

The death, the third fatal police shooting in Denver this year, sparked a protest
Tuesday outside the mayor's office, with activists chanting "stop killer cops” (LA
Times)

Another report:

www.bouldernews.com/bdc/state_news/article/0,1713,BDC_2419_3035452,00.html

PHILADELPHIA: Crafty protesters elicit AIDS promise from Kerry

www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/9167407.htm

IOWA: Nurse-ins continue

www.press-citizen.com/news/071804breast.htm

MODESTO: Protests against animal abuse in circuses

www.ainfos.ca/ainfos336/ainfos14061.html

CADILLAC: Anti-Nazi protest

www.ainfos.ca/ainfos336/ainfos14053.html

BISCUIT BURN: Logging sales resisted

rogueimc.org/en/2004/07/2944.shtml

www.cascadiarising.org/en/2004/07/434.shtml

200 Americans defy the ban on travelling to Cuba

newswire.indymedia.org/en/newswire/2004/07/806297.shtml

www.wivb.com/Global/story.asp

Ozzy concert includes Bush protest message (Bite his head off, Ozzy!)

www.drudgereport.com/flash5.htm

‘Computer Ate My Vote’ protests in US cities, & massive petition

star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp



SMASHING THE NAZIS IN NEBRASKA (fwd from Stateyourcause) slightly cut

Neo-Nazi rally met screaming protesters

by matthew hansen



Leaders of the National Socialist Movement looked peeved. They

scurried in and out of the state Capitol, looking for a replacement,

looking for a little help. The message remained garbled even after they plugged a
backup mike into a speaker. They went ahead anyway with 100 minutes of speeches on
the Capitol steps, the meat of the much-ballyhooed neo-Nazi rally. Which begged the
question: Could you hold a rally if no one could hear the rallying cry? Yes, you
could. You could hold it with hand signs. You could hold it by screaming.



"White power!" bellowed the approximately 40 neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan

members and their affiliates. "Nazis suck!" screamed the most vocal of several
hundred opponents, a mishmash of young and old, black, white and brown, hippie and
preppy. Vintage Nazi poses with outstretched arms were answered with outstretched
middle fingers. Both sides fired off expletives with abandon. Hate was tossed about

like confetti. "This isn't a debate," observed Frank Rodriguez of Omaha. "This is a
screaming match." The opponents, displayed a sign proclaiming that Adolf Hitler
had one testicle, and another

saying, "I don't see white power. I see white trash!" Kristy Theilen, a recent
University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate, sat behind the barricades, playing a
djembe drum because, she said, it added a wholesome tribal experience to the rally.
"I believe in freedom of speech," Theilen said. "It's just sad we believe in things
like hate and violence."



Everywhere, police officers stood on foot, sat on bikes, leaned

against their cars - on Centennial Mall, inside a nearby parking

garage, high atop the Capitol with binoculars and long-range rifles. More than 150
police in all, according to the Lincoln Police

Department. Police Chief Tom Casady estimates the department spent

$25,000 Saturday on this rally and a counter-rally staged at

Pioneers Park.



And so it went, always with an exclamation point. Midway through the

rally, police officers in riot gear separated protesters from

demonstrators after members of the anti-Nazi group ventured into the

area set aside for Nazi supporters. Later, two neo-Nazi sympathizers ventured into
the anti-Nazi crowd only to leave after being screamed at. Police arrested two
people at the rally - one man on an outstanding warrant and a 35-year-old Lincoln
man for refusing to stop trying to set a T-shirt on fire - and took another to
detox.



As the rally ended, the National Socialist Movement and Ku Klux Klan

leaders disappeared from the podium and eventually to their waiting

bus. Their supporters on Centennial Mall were escorted away by police who could
stop violence but not the yelling. "Are you scared?" a woman screamed at Mike
Hubbard, a National Socialist Movement member from Nemaha. "Are you scared?"
Hubbard screamed back. Both said they weren't. And then they stood staring at each
other, having run out of things to say.



ANOTHER REPORT:

About 400 or so people showed up across from the north steps of the

State Capitol to gawk or protest. Many hurled insults at the

30 "white unity" rally participants and the dozen or so supporters

of the Nazi group based in Minneapolis.



Meanwhile, another rally titled "No Place for Hate" attracted an

estimated 1,200 people to Pioneers Park in southwest Lincoln.





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UPDATES ON EARLIER EVENTS



BRITISH-OCCUPIED IRELAND

Sinn Fein – protecting the Brits!

www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/294786.html



The chairman of the Policing Board today backed PSNI handling of the Twelfth in
Ardoyne as he called for a full report on this year's parades. (Belfast Telegraph)

Andy’s comments: Pigs of a feather oink together!

Headline should be: Cops let themselves off the hook!



BOLIVIA: International Crisis Group report on social conflict

Reformist nonsense but worth a read

newswire.indymedia.org/en/newswire/2004/07/806097.shtml



G8 GEORGIA: Why did so few people show up?

www.coastalpost.com/04/07/22.htm



Pics from June anti-war demo in LA – newly online

www.telepoetic.com



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FORTHCOMING ANTI-CAPITALIST MOBILISATIONS



Official European Social Forum terms and conditions amount to fascistic repression –
attendees are to be filmed but not to film, may be stopped and searched, may be
refused entry or expelled from the forum for unspecified reasons, may not engage in
“unauthorised trading” (including paper sales?). . . etc. etc.

www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/294968.html

So much for inclusive, horizontal politics.

SUPPORT THE ALTERNATIVE ESF INSTEAD!!!!



REPUBLICAN CONVENTION

Map showing locations of warmongers

www.m27coalition.org/warprofiteers.html

Bike protests planned

www.times-up.org/bnc/index.php



DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION

CCTV installed to persecute protesters, and use handheld cameras on demos

www.boston.com/news/politics/conventions/articles/2004/07/18/surveillance_targeted_to_convention/

And the fuckers aren’t going to take then down afterwards, either.



Judge bans blanket bag searches and inescapable pig-pens, but leaves cops let-outs

www.nytimes.com/2004/07/20/nyregion/20protest.html



WATCH OUT! There’s a Nazi about

“conservatives” plan counter-protest at RNC

www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4324812,00.html

Be careful! – Citizens for a Legitimate Government (bad name, good site) say these
Protest Warriors are neo-Nazis trained in combat tactics (nothing a few AFA
activists couldn’t handle though)



Links to trailer for Miami Model film

santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/10318/index.php



US draft would lead to massive demonstrations and unrest

www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.draft11jul11,0,706171.story

Watch for anti-student prejudices in this article though. Why is the “refusal to
grow up” – the core of revolutionary politics for Herbert Marcuse – treated as an
ANTI-political factor?



Repression prepared at Farnborough airshow

www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/294912.html



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OINK OINK (selected stories)



Marks and Spencer are trying to get ASBO’s against picketers

www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/294946.html

www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/s/124/124258_marks_in_free_speech_storm.html

I ALWAYS SAID ASBO’S ARE FASCIST AND WILL SMASH FREE SPEECH!!!



Amazingly enough, some of these idiots who write to this paper actually SUPPORT the
idea of jailing people for 5 years for protesting too noisily!

www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/comments/view.html



Art is still biowar, according to the US government

They’ve dropped the big charges but still want to press some petty crap which has
big sentences attached. Looks like they won’t subpoena Autonomedia after all though

www.antiwar.com/orig/coyne.php



Political control technologies

newswire.indymedia.org/en/newswire/2004/07/806303.shtml



Oinkers kill elderly man with disability in bed

www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php

he was wielding a loaded soda can

he wasn’t even the fucking suspect!

Disband the police!!!!!!



More drug war atrocities – cops threw a bomb into a civilian house, starting a fire,
then stormed in with guns; a farmer shot by cops as he came down the stairs with a
gun, to see who had just broken in; an innocent grandmother literally died of fear
in another incident after being attacked with a stun grenade… and so on

www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp

Militarised stormtrooper thugs are on the rampage across America



Florida Cops to Use Repairmen, Exterminators to Spy on Citizens
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,125598,00.html

And use spies to “repair” and exterminate citizens?



Drug cops want kids to spy on parents

www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread19179.shtml



Minnesota Republican Party wants its activists to snoop on neighbours

(snipped from Washington Post report)

The state Republican Party has developed a Web site that allows its activists to tap
into a database of voters whose political allegiances and concerns it would like to
know. But it is not just any group of voters -- they are the activists' neighbors.
The project, dubbed WebVoter, gives GOP activists the names and addresses of 25
people who live, in most cases, within a couple of blocks from them. The party has
asked 60,000 supporters from across the state to figure out what issues animate
their neighbors and where they stand in the political spectrum, and report that
information back to the party -- with or, possibly, without their neighbors'
permission.



Police brutality at rock concert

One man is thrown to the ground by five officers, for… unlicensed vending

www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ct--concertarrests0719jul18,0,6733249.story



Photographer persecuted, probably for being black

seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2001979027_locks14m.html



Crap arrest: for wearing a T-shirt

www.wvgazettemail.com/static/stories/2004071346.html



And so it begins…

Mexican politician and his aides are microchipped

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5439055/

So scary, Orwell didn’t even THINK of this… Giving a whole new meaning to
“programmed” conformity…



Big Brother at school: some Japanese kids are to carry trackable ID cards

Radio ID cards track Japanese pupils
Japanese children will soon be taking ID cards equipped with the latest tracking
technology to school.
Alarmed at a spate of violent crimes involving children, a school in western Japan
will next month introduce radio frequency identity cards (RFID) which enable parents
to keep tabs on their children all day. As soon as the pupils scan their cards
across tag readers at the school entrance the time and location are recorded and
sent via email or phone to their homes. They scan the cards again on their way out,
so parents will know what time to expect them.
www.guardian.co.uk/japan/story/0,7369,1259845,00.html



The state funds itself by stealing from its victims

Seizures By Police Help Fund Drug War
www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread10223.shtml
CannabisNews Articles - Forfeiture
cannabisnews.com/thcgi/search.pl
Government Property Seizures out of Control
makeashorterlink.com/



German state plans fascist “anti-fascist” law which menaces the right to protest

Shadows of the Weimar Republic

www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jul2004/germ-j14.shtml



Yuck! We’re all eating bugs!

Companies are working on putting nanotech devices into food

news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp

Prince Charles has spoken out against this stuff

“A millennium of inbreeding in the Royal Family has shown the dangers involved in
playing around with genetics” (hee hee, not really what he said by the way)



CCTV: A rapist’s charter

San Francisco cop accused of using surveillance systems to ogle women

www.modbee.com/state_wire/story/8859090p-9748597c.html

This is NOT a one-off case, it happens a lot. Andrea Dworkin says the core of male
domination is “men watching women” – women are seen but not heard… yet no-one is
drawing the link to CCTV. Smash the cameras!



New Blairite fascistic crackdown planned, and hedged around with Nazi rhetoric (“no
more liberalism”, pledges Blair; OF COURSE, fascism and liberalism are incompatible)

Plans include satellite tracking, and quotas for police to victimise people in poor
areas

politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,1264292,00.html

“They want the society of respect and responsibility, they want a community where
the decent law-abiding majority are in charge, where those who play by the rules do
well and those who do not get punished," (Blair)

WHAT A SURPRISE! THE BIGOTED MAJORITY WANT POWER FOR THEMSELVES AND TO SUPPRESS
EVERYONE ELSE

Why does this mean they should get it?

Rules, order and obedience are for brain-dead zombies! Crackdowns are the lynchpin
of slave morality!

Smash all dictatorships, including the dictatorship by the “law-abiding” statist
conformist sheep!!!!! Victory to deviants and rebels everywhere!!!!!



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INTERNATIONAL NEWS, AND MISCELLANEOUS STORIES



Suicide as political gesture? – suicidal Asian farmers and western psychiatrists

www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php

Andy’s comments: a very well-written piece, well worth a read – it’s always
worthwhile to challenge dominant psychiatric ideas. What is so strange about
intensive commitments to political causes? Let’s not identify people who commit
suicide as “irrational”, but instead understand the phenomenology of their actions.



I KNOW POLITICIANS ARE MURDERERS BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS

New Iraqi “President” Allawi personally pulls a gun and shoots six suspected
insurgents, hours before becoming president!

(the guy’s an ex Saddam spook by the way)

www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/16/1089694568757.html

Not that I’d put it past Texas electrifier Bush to pull the trigger of death row
inmates



Philippine withdrawal from Iraq was due to the clout of overseas workers

straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,4386,261716,00.html

Globalisation has its down-side for the imperialists! This is an interesting
development in the globalisation of labour struggles.



The Great Chinese Land Grab is on!

www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FG17Ad03.html

Background from Andy: the Chinese peasants make up the majority of the population,
and have been largely protected from being expropriated since the 1949 seizure of
power by Mao, even with Deng’s “market reforms”. China has recently joined the WTO
and the WTO wants Chinese agriculture taken over by western multinationals, which,
as everywhere else, would lead to massive displacement of peasants as companies take
over and concentrate land and expel existing residents. The same as is going on
everywhere from Kenya to Colombia – except in China, there’s HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of
peasants who will be displaced if this continues. Where will they go? This is a
global crisis waiting to happen.



Bolivia: background on the gas referendum – American imperialism and its stooges

resist.ca/story/2004/7/16/204541/440



Report from inside Fallujah’s resistance movement

atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FG20Ak01.html

“Islamic leader has an annoying habit of speaking only classical Arabic, which is
like using Shakespearean English in ordinary conversation”



Nigerian government occupies a village, and a hundred people vanish

allafrica.com/stories/200407160389.html



Homes bulldozed in Goa as the Indian government carries out a major land grab,
targeted against the red light district of Goa, ostensibly for “moral” reasons

newswire.indymedia.org/en/newswire/2004/07/805953.shtml

How come the same attacks are going on in Birmingham UK, Buenos Aries and Goa? As
capitalism globalises, so does the repression which follows it



Australia sends troops to Papua New Guinea

Does the word “colony” come to mind?

www.socialistpartyaustralia.org/modules.php



Racism at root of Sudan's Darfur crisis
The Darfur pogrom is part of a historic continuum in which successive Arab
governments have sought to entirely destroy black Africans in this biracial nation.
www.csmonitor.com/2004/0714/p09s02-coop.html



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CALL FOR ACTION: UK: DISRUPT I.D. CARD PREPARATIONS!

www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/294917.html



CALL FOR ACTION: US: Free Peltier!

newswire.indymedia.org/en/newswire/2004/07/806101.shtml



CALL FOR ACTION: Protest against Oxford animal torture lab

Email builders and architects

EMAIL BLOCK FOR BUILDERS & ARCHITECTS

Addresses from SPEAK website:

www.speakcampaigns.org.uk/emailalerts/20040314.php



CALL FOR ACTION: Email to protest demolitions in Goa

See report: newswire.indymedia.org/en/newswire/2004/07/805953.shtml

Email: cmgoa (at) goa.nic.in



CALL FOR ACTION: Protest against kangaroo slaughter

800 KANGAROOS (PLUS JOEYS) TO BE KILLED AT GOOGONG DAM BY ACT

GOVERNMENT



Animal Liberation ACT has found out today that the ACT Government

wants over 800 kangaroos to be shot at Googong Dam (a main water

supply for the Canberra area). Chief Minister, Jon Stanhope, claims

the water supply at Googong is at risk of being contaminated by the

large number of kangaroos gathering there. NSW National Parks and

Wildlife provided permits for the shooting to take place as Googong is in NSW. The
shooting at Googong, a nature reserve, started last night. At least a third of the
kangaroos will have joeys who will also be killed either by being decapitated or
having their head bashed against the shooters truck (these methods are approved by
the Code of Practice). The shooting will be a cruel and gruesome blood bath. The
ACT Government conducted NO community consultation before deciding to shoot the
animals. They also did not attempt any other methods of trying to prevent the
animals from using the dam. The dead animals will be used by the commercial
kangaroo industry – to be sold as meat, pet food or used for leather. This will be
the first time the commercial kangaroo industry has 'harvested' animals from this
region. The industry has be trying to open its operations up in the region and this
appears to be the first sign they have succeeded.



PLEASE STOP THE SHOOTING!

CALL & EMAIL JON STANHOPE NOW!



PHONE: (02)6205 0104

EMAIL: stanhope (at) act.gov.au



Ask Mr Stanhope to:



* stop the shooting because it is very cruelty, especially for the

joeys;

* try humane methods to prevent the animals using the dam water, such as fencing
and supplying an alternative water source for the animals; and

* not allow the commercial kangaroo industry to use the dead kangaroos for
commercial profit. By doing this they increase the demand for kangaroo products and
the industry gets a foot hold into the ACT/South NSW region.



CALL FOR ACTION: Protest against the impending execution of the oldest man on
Alabama’s death row – James Barney Hubbard is 74 – he was sentenced to death in 1977
– he repeatedly claimed his alleged victim committed suicide, but confessed while
very drunk and under pressure from police. He is seriously ill.



According to the Birmingham News, a petition signed by

numerous other death row prisoners in Alabama urged

the governor to grant clemency to Hubbard. The

petition stated, ""Mr. Hubbard has been ill for

several years suffering from prostate cancer, colon

cancer and ulcers to name some of his health problems.

Given the condition of this elderly and sick man I

respectfully submit that the pending execution of Mr.

Hubbard is offensive to every civilized Alabamian....

"This is not an issue of the death penalty per se, but

rather of justice, mercy and morality. ... I urge you

to grant clemency to Mr. Hubbard." The petition was

confiscated by Alabama Corrections authorities because

petitions are a threat to prison security and the

correspondence between the death row prisoners was not

approved in advance.

If like me you find this repugant, we need to let the

Governor of Alabama know this and request clemency for

Hubbard:



Governor Bob Riley

State Capitol

600 Dexter Avenue

Montgomery, Alabama 36130

USA

Fax: 334 353 0004

Email:

www.governor.state.al.us/contact/contact_form.aspx
 
 

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