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| AUSTRALIA:
PEACE ACTIVISM |
Feb 12 2003 |
 Return To
Sender
All
over the nation, Australians are marking as "return to sender"
the anti-terror kits being sent to them by the Howard
Government and popping them back in the post-box.
The
campaign started with the Mayor of Brisbane's suggestion
that "Australians who did not support the Howard government's
backing of America's war should simply return the package to
sender. "
The package contained information about what to
do if terrorists attacked and many Australians see this as
US-backed government scare-mongering. Many critics suggest the
package contained nothing of real informative value.
Another grassroots action consists of sending small bags of
rice per post to US President Bush, Australian Prime
Minister Howard,
UK PM Blair and others.
[ Sydney IMC | Rice for Peace
]
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| GLOBAL: MANUFACTURING CONSENT |
Feb 11 2003 |
 Wall
Street Journal Makes News...
Literally!
Last week the line between news reporting and news
creation in the corporate media became all the more thin. It
was learned that the letter
of support written by leaders of eight European nations (three
of them not part of the EU) for the Bush regime's war
in Iraq that appeared on the editorial page of the Wall
Street Journal (WSJ) was actually solicited
from signitories by the deputy editorial editor of the
Journal's European edition. Upon publication, the letter
suddenly became "news", appearing in WSJ's news pages, The New
York Times, and throughout the corporate
media.
Initial reports of the story's manufacture seem to have
come from Spain.
WSJ editors, unabashedly pro-war and allied with the far-right
regime in Washington, published a brash
defense of their practice that avoided the ethical issue
of turning their own editorial initiatives into news. That
practice is a regular feature of many mainstream
papers in the US.
Read: entire
feature | Janurary
23 feature
[ Fairness and Accuracy in
Reporting ]
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| JOHANNESBURG:
HUMAN RIGHTS |
Feb 10 2003 |
Anti-Privatisation
Activist Murdered, Attacks
Continue
Early in the morning of February 8 in Orange Farm (an
informal settlement of 1.5 million people south of
Johannesburg), 61 year-old Anti-Privatisation Forum APF) and
Orange Farm Water Crisis Committee (OWCC)activist Emily
Nengolo, was shot
dead in her home by two unknown assailants in what appears
to be a politically motivated attack. Over the last year, the
OWCC has been actively and effectively involved in resisting
water and electricity cut-offs and evictions in their
community as well as building community organisation and
struggle for meaningful socio-economic development in response
to the neoliberal policies of the South African government.
Read: entire
feature
[ South Africa IMC
| Anti-Privatisation
Forum ]
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| SAN FRANCISCO:
GAY BASHING |
Feb 7 2003 |
Queer Anti-Capitalist Protestors
Attacked by SFPD
Local activists were given a taste of what to expect
from Police in the case of war as Police bashed Gay activists
outside the local Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender
Center in the predominantly Gay Castro district in San
Francisco. Gavin Newsom, a local supervisor favored by the
Police and City Politicians was in the center to buy up Gay
votes as he prepares to run for San Francisco Mayor. Members
of queer anti-capitalist group, Gay Shame gathered to protest
his anti-poor policies and were beaten by the Police.
Read: entire
feature
[ San Francisco Bay Area IMC
| Gay Shame
]
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| GLOBAL: ANTIWAR REPORT |
Feb 6 2003 |
F15 Taking
Off
February
15 looks to be a huge day of protest against the Bush/Blair
war machine. The British government recently caved in to
public pressure and granted a permit for that day's demonstration
in Hyde Park. In contrast, in New
York City, the Police Department continues to obstruct
efforts to hold a peaceful rally and march at the United
Nations, despite reports of many thousands of people making
plans to come to the city for the event. The growing list
of cities preparing actions for February 15 suggests this
may be the largest global protest yet.
Other cities are not waiting. A group of 60 people rallied
in Albany, NY, this past Tuesday. And Urbana, Illinois,
just became the 64th US city to pass
an antiwar resolution.
Read: Feb
2 feature
[ NYC IMC | UK IMC | United For Peace
]
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| AUSTRALIA: FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT |
Feb 6 2003 |
Escape and Capture at
Woomera
Six
asylum seekers have been recaptured by police after breaking
out of Australia's Woomera detention centre with the help of
outside activists. Four others have also been arrested and
charged with aiding, abetting and harbouring the escapees.
The break-out occurred on the morning of Monday, 3 February
when two cars drove up to the centre and used a car jack to
break through fences. According to authorities two guards were
injured in the get-away. On the run for two days in the
desert, all were eventually captured by Wednesday night.
In a .gif) video
release, one person involved in the break-out stated:
The physical and psychological abuses that has been
occurring in these detention centres has led ordinary
Australians, like us, to take extreme measures.
Read: entire
feature | full
statement
[ Melbourne IMC | no one is
illegal | Baxter
Watch ]
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| GLOBAL: HOUSING RIGHTS UNDER ATTACK |
Feb 6 2003 |
Homes Demolished, Squatters
Evicted
While the right to a roof is a fundamental human right
the process of corporate globalization has left no room for
the basic right of each individual for a space as people
die on the streets. Recently, in occupied Palestine homes
were demolished by Israeli bulldozers, and in San Francisco,
30 people were evicted from the Mansion Squat. Direct
Actions were engaged in to defend the squat which is now
under continual police custody as capitalists pay the police
to deny housing to the cities homeless. The resistance to
capitalist hording of resources grows as Palestinians and
American Activists each in their own way fight back against
the hording of land by the powerful and wealthy.
[ IMC SF | Homes Not Jails | San Francisco
Protest Video ]
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