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On the barricades: Phillipines, Korea, India, Slovakia, Australia &more

PHILLIPINES: Protesters stand their ground against police at a rally to protest at the president’s State of the Nation address.

www.indymedia.org/en/2004/07/111543.shtml



KOREA: Peace protesters clash with riot cops over Iraq deployment


Hundreds of activists tried to march on a military airport and near Parliament


Activists are vowing to block deployments to Iraq


english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5AB9BE19-5BBE-4AC1-BEC9-8845827EF8FD.htm


www.abc.net.au/ra/newstories/RANewsStories_1167382.htm




INDIA: Angry villagers block roads for days over Iraq kidnappings


Relatives of the kidnap victims are among those protesting


Protesters have threatened to torch government villages unless hostages are released


thestar.com.my/news/story.asp


abcasiapacific.com/news/stories/asiapacific_stories_1165896.htm


www.newindpress.com/Newsitems.asp&


Protesters briefly kidnap foreign tourists


www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp


www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer


www.whnt19.com/Global/story.asp


www.boston.com/dailynews/212/world/Angry_Indian_villagers_detain_:.shtml




INDIA: Police lathi-charge protesters resisting slum clearances


Protesters throw stones at cops and occupy, trash government offices


timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow




MANIPUR: Protests continue: protesters are demanding the repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act which allows army attacks in restive provinces


Hundreds break through police cordons and march on a courthouse in Lamlong


Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets, hospitalising 15 protesters


Other “incidents” flare up across the city


Sit-downs organised in Wangoi bazaar, at Bampn Kampu and in Nupilal


Schoolchildren stage a musical protest


One man slashed his hands at the gate of the Assam Rifles


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KASHMIR: Protests by parents of the disappeared


www.paknews.com/flash.php


More protests against killings by Indian forces


www.pakistantimes.net/2004/07/29/kashmir5.htm




SLOVAKIA: Students protest against government “reform


(pictures)

www.poplatky.kis.sk/foto/protest/page_01.htm


QUITO, ECUADOR: Americas Social Forum


Quito paralysed for an hour as protesters block roads

Mass march to mark the forum is attacked three times by cops with teargas

newswire.indymedia.org/en/newswire/2004/07/807102.shtml

AUSTRALIA: Pickets fight off attempts to get scabs and goons through picket lines

Bosses shipped in scabs to try to break a miners’ strike in the outback town of Yandi

Scabs had to sleep rough because the residential area is inside the pit

Two workers were hit by a car on the first day of the strike

Workers are now back at work after negotiations

The strike is over pay inequalities unfavourable to unionised workers

workers.labor.net.au/231/news1_desert.html

FLORIDA: Protesters shut down Baywalk in a protest over plans to close the area to protesters, at the whims of the bosses

www.legitgov.org/front_stpete_schiffler_072504.html


JAPAN: Protest delays building at US base in Okinawa

Protesters have been staging a sit-in for 100 days!!!!

www.japantoday.com/e/

KOREA: Migrant workers protest; clashes with cops


boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/24231/index.php




BULGARIA: “Many hundreds” gather in Sofia to protest against the presence of Bulgarian troops in Karbala, Iraq, as a US official visits the Bulgarian government


www.ainfos.ca/ainfos336/ainfos14329.html




GREECE: Prisoners on hunger strike after the state steals their days of leave during the Olympics; anarchist solidarity demo takes pigs by surprise


www.ainfos.ca/ainfos25938.html


Pictures: athens.indymedia.org/front.php3




FARNBOROUGH: Air show protests


www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/295407.html






ITALY: Solidarity demo with arrested anarchists


www.ainfos.ca/ainfos336/ainfos14238.html




FRANCE: Protesters trash GM crops


news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3924623.stm




BOSTON: Angry tenants take on landlords


“Housing is a right” – and the Boston Angry Tenants are preparing to take direct action to defend it


www.ainfos.ca/ainfos336/ainfos14327.html


CHICAGO: Residents resist land grab


chicago.indymedia.org/feature/display/44446/index.php


Protest against Bush in Springfield


springfield.news-leader.com/opinions/today/0803-Bushrallyw-147362.html


Protest against Bush in Grand Rapids


newswire.indymedia.org/en/newswire/2004/01/807240.shtml




KENYA: School shut after protest against harsher marking


Protesters destroyed property and staged a strike


allafrica.com/stories/200407290569.html




KOREA: Transport workers refuse to transport troops to Iraq


www.iraq-news-net.de//


State tries to smash oil strike


money.cnn.com/2004/08/02/news/international/lg_caltex.reut/index.htm


KOREA: Ssanyong strike ends


times.hankooki.com/lpage/biz/200407/kt2004072816114711910.htm


Subway strike ends, apparently due to splits in the union


times.hankooki.com/lpage/200407/kt2004072516054110440.htm




CHINA: 30 villagers hurt in clash with cops over land sales


Villagers were reportedly trying to prevent the arrest of protest leaders


www.voanews.com/article.cfm


Protesters march on hospital to protest AIDS infections, treatment; 2 arrested


Protesters reportedly entered a hospital and carried away equipment


www.voanews.com/article.cfm


www.abc.net.au/ra/newstories/RANewsStories_1166673.htm


Unfairly sacked workers in Inner Mongolia demand their jobs back


Dozens have been forcibly returned from Beijing by police


www.china-labour.org.hk/iso/article.adp




SOUTH AFRICA: Students who burnt down classrooms succeed in winning a fee cut


But not until after the university tried to evict thousands of students


www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1563384,00.html




COLORADO: Prison transfers out of the state are stopped! Victory to the insurgents!


But the scumbag screws still have the place on lockdown and are stopping visits


www.wkrn.com/Global/story.asp




SHEFFIELD: Evil chairman uses illegitimate powers to ban protesters from a football ground


soccernet.espn.go.com/headlinenews
 
 

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