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4. September: Proteste gegen Abschiebungen von Roma aus Frankreich

No-Racism - Mon, 08/30/2010 - 4:00pm
Gegen die rassistische Registrierung von Menschen. Solidaritäts- kundgebung am Samstag, 4. September 2010 um 14 Uhr vor dem Haus der Europäischen Union, Wipplingerstraße 35, 1010 Wien.
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Die Repressionswelle gegen MigrantInnen setzt sich fort

No-Racism - Mon, 08/30/2010 - 4:00pm
Mehr als hundert MigrantInnen nach gewalttätiger Razzia in Marokko Herkunft vorläufig festgenommen. Presseinformation des ABCDS.
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Police raid against migrants in Oujda, Morocco

No-Racism - Mon, 08/30/2010 - 4:00pm
Sunday nigtht the moroccan security forces conducted a heavy raid against more than one hundred refugees in Oujda. They destroyed or burnt their simple dwellings in the forests and all their belongings.
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Roma people victims of the French government racism

No-Racism - Mon, 08/30/2010 - 4:00pm
Using the incidents that happened in the center of France in July 18th 2010 as a pretext, the French President asked for a meeting about "problems that arised behavior from some people inside Travelers and Roma" in order among others, "to decide the deportation of all camps in an irregular situation".
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Project Samosa Anti Terror Arrests: A Spiced Up and Deep Fried Narrative

Mostlywater.org | Migration - Mon, 08/30/2010 - 9:25am

By No One Is Illegal-Vancouver - August 29th, 2010

The mainstream corporate media has played a crucial role in stirring public frenzy by uncritically parroting government rhetoric such as “homegrown terrorists” and “Jihad generation” and that the suspects were “inspired by Al Qaeda”, without providing any evidence to substantiate such a claim. Such stigmatizing statements will have a permanent damaging effect on the men and their families and their “guilt” will surely continue even if the charges are dropped or the men are acquitted.

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Einladung zum Aktionsmonat Rassismusfreie ZoneN 2010

No-Racism - Sun, 08/29/2010 - 4:00pm
Vor der Gemeinde- ratswahl 2010 findet in Wien von 10. September bis 10. Oktober ein <stong>Aktionsmonat Rassismusfreie ZoneN</strong> statt. Der folgende Text ist eine Einladung zur Beteiligung an dem Aktionsmonat.
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September 6th, ... The Infamous French Summit against Roma!

No-Racism - Sat, 08/28/2010 - 4:00pm
Appeal to all fundamental rights of Roma and supporters worldwide. Stop the ethnic cleansing policy of the French government!
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§278a-Prozess: Antirepressions Termine im Herbst

No-Racism - Sat, 08/28/2010 - 4:00pm
Ende der Sommerpause im §278a-Prozess in Wr. Neustadt - Termine ab 1. September. Treffen zur Prozess- beobachtung am 2. September. Aktionstage 22. - 24. Oktober 2010.
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What's Happened to Canada's Compassion?

Mostlywater.org | Migration - Sat, 08/28/2010 - 10:20am

By Seth Klein - August 27, 2010

Among the common reactions to the arrival of the MV Sun Sea is the proposition that Canada's alleged lax immigration laws make us a global sucker — a target for many of the world's migrants. This is absurd.

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URGENT: No Drinking Water for Recreation

Arizona Indymedia - Sat, 08/28/2010 - 7:54am
AZ Snowbowl plans to destroy the northern Arizona environment & desecrate sacred sites
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Protesters Halt Smart Meter Installation in Santa Cruz County

Indybay - Fri, 08/27/2010 - 6:29pm
Early morning on August 26th, outraged Santa Cruz County residents gathered at the gates of Wellington Energy at 38th and Portola in Capitola to protest what they say is a forced installation of radiating 'smart' meters against the will of residents and nearly two dozen local governments throughout the Greater Bay Area. Despite the fact that the $2.2 billion program is being funded by ratepayers, and the new meters installed on people's homes, there has been virtually no public consultation in advance of what PG&E itself admits is one of the largest rollouts of technology in history.
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Banner Drop and Literature Distro at CSU Monterey Bay

Indybay - Fri, 08/27/2010 - 12:22pm
Student organizers handed out literature and dropped a banner during the "Presidents Barbeque" at CSU Monterey Bay on Sunday, August 22. This year a group of students contributed to the event by passing out copies of CSUMB's Otter Disorientation Guide, a guide to a more realistic college experience. It also echoed the recent statewide call to action to defend public education on October 7th.
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On Women's Equality Day Women in Bay Area Ask: Just How Far Have We Come?

Indybay - Thu, 08/26/2010 - 11:02pm
The Bay Area is commemorating the 90th anniversary of women's suffrage this week with speakers, films, costumes, and concerns. Members of the national organization Radical Women put out a call on the occasion of Women's Equality Day this year saying, "It's time to reclaim and re-energize a fighting, militant feminist movement!" In San Mateo, US Congresswomen Jackie Speier and Anna Eshoo warned that women's reproductive rights continue to be threatened.
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Statement from Women in Resistance from the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala

El Enemigo Comun - Wed, 08/25/2010 - 3:03pm

TO THE PEOPLE OF MEXICO AND THE WORLD
TO ALL THE WOMEN OF THE GREAT TRIQUI NATION
TO ALL THE COMPAÑERAS OF SOCIAL AND CIVIL ORGANIZATIONS
TO THE BRAVE WOMEN OF OAXACA
TO THE BROAD WOMEN’S MOVEMENT

We are the women of the red huipil who have always remained silent when the powerful has sent pain and death to our soil, those who have seen a son, a father, a brother, a comrade die without saying a word. This has been convenient for those interests who have turned our silence into a great business, filling their pockets with money, while our communities, in the midst of the 21st century, continue to be marginalized and forgotten with hundreds of women caring for their children by themselves because our men are murdered, persecuted or in the best of cases have to migrate in order to maintain their family.

We as women have decided to raise our voices and to become a part of this great autonomous project. Today, we are also in resistance, with much pain and hurt, and introduce ourselves to you in order to communicate to you that the first great action called for and coordinated by us, alone, as Triqui women has not been allowed to happen.

Today, August 23, 2010, a mobilization-march was planned that was to leave from our Triqui region and was to pass by the encampment we have in the city of Oaxaca, arriving in Mexico City, a march that was to be led by us, as women, from the autonomous municipality of San Juan Copala, where as you all know, we continue living under the constant harassment of this paramilitary group linked to the government and which for more than nine months has impeded the normal development of our lives.

This past August 21, a group of comrades from our Autonomous Municipality were attacked in the community of Hierba Santa, as they were carrying out actions to coordinate the march. But this attack was not the only one. Unfortunately on this occasion three of our comrades died and several more were wounded, but since that day and up to now the violence has increased and has blocked our comrades from carrying out the planned mobilization.

After the August 21 ambush, around San Juan Copala, in the communities of Agua Fría Copala, several shootings have occurred against the houses of comrades who belong to our movement, there have also been attacks on the streets of some nearby communities, which has prevented our comrades from being able to leave their communities.

While in their statements to the media the other organizations that are not a part of this autonomous project have said that they have the intention of seeking peace talks, in their actions their message is different, and we don’t need any more speeches nor do we need to continue to be under the control of leaders who use us as figures or numbers to meet their needs and to obtain money, we need for there to be in action and amongst our communities true respect and no more violence, the facts are those which our comrades are communicating and we will not allow ourselves to be fooled.

In order to support our movement, on the seventh of this month a group of us women with our children decided to begin an indefinite encampment in the zócalo of the city of Oaxaca and to not leave until the conditions exist that will allow us to live in our community. To another group of women we have tasked with the work of raising our voices and sharing it with all of society so that we are heard.

This same group of women who today write this statement want to report that our struggle and resistance continues, that today we suffered yet another blow but this has strengthened our resolve to continue onward, we want to report to you that a delegation of ours will attend the National Feminist Meeting in the city of Zacatecas next week in order to seek solidarity from our comrades from all over the country and to denounce the politics of violence that we are living under in our region.

Finally, we want to denounce that the comrades in the Oaxaca encampment have informed us that they have seen several suspicious men around the area of the encampment, some of whom have been identified as members of these armed groups that have besieged and terrorized our Autonomous Municipality, we only desire that civil society is aware of these facts should they take any aggressive or provocative action against our peaceful encampment.

WOMEN IN RESISTANCE FROM THE AUTONOMOUS MUNICIPALITY OF SAN JUAN COPALA

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Veranstaltung zum Noborder Camp in Brüssel

No-Racism - Tue, 08/24/2010 - 4:00pm
Information und Diskussion zu Hintergründen des Camps von 25.09. bis 3.10.2010 und organisatorische Fragen, wie Anreise, Teilnahme usw. am Do, 9.9.2010 ab 20:00 Uhr im Politdiskubeisl im EKH, Wielandgasse 2-4, 1100 Wien. ([urlext http://no-racism.net/upload/329833551.pdf]Flyer als pdf[/urlext])
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Das No Border Camp in Brüssel: Wer sind wir und was wollen wir?

No-Racism - Tue, 08/24/2010 - 4:00pm
Der folgende Text gibt Einblick in die Arbeitsweise und die Forderungen des No Border Camps in Brüssel vom 25. Sep bis 03. Oktober 2010.
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Nurses Accuse St. Luke's of Discriminating Against Filipinos

Indybay - Tue, 08/24/2010 - 12:38pm
The California Nurses Association held a press conference August 19th accusing Sutter's California Pacific Medical Center, which operates St. Luke's Hospital, of discriminating against Filipino nurses. The nurses presented declarations from three former hospital managers documenting a policy of discrimination and data showing a precipitous decline in the number of Filipino nurses hired at St. Luke's. Union and community leaders suggested that the decline is related to Filipino nurses' leadership in the 2008 campaign to save the hospital.
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My Interrogation at the U.S. Border

Mostlywater.org | Migration - Tue, 08/24/2010 - 10:22am

By Stefan Christoff - August 24, 2010

Under fluorescent lights at the U.S./Canada border, south of Montreal, questions on the war in Iraq and the Palestinian Intifada were fired towards me by officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security..."Can you tell me what you think about the war in Iraq?" questioned the young American man in uniform.

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Fix Fell Demonstrators Shut Down Arco/BP Station for Three Hours

Indybay - Mon, 08/23/2010 - 6:00pm
Five people were arrested on August 20th for chaining themselves to bicycles and blocking an entrance to the Arco/BP gas station at the corner of Fell and Divisadero in San Francisco. Friday evening's action was the 11th since the group Fix Fell began demonstrations to demand that the city and the Department of Public Works take measures to make the street safe for bicyclists.
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New "No Trespassing" Zone Closes City Hall Grounds at Night from 10pm to 6am

Indybay - Sun, 08/22/2010 - 4:37pm
In another move clamping down on public use of previously public space, the city of Santa Cruz posted "closing hours" on the City Hall grounds for the first time, without any kind of public hearing, announcement, or rationale. When then-Mayor Mike Rotkin tried to close down City Hall in 1996 to end another homeless protest against the Sleeping Ban, the City Council declined to back him and Judge Samuel Stevens ended up granting a very limited injunction requiring that folks there "obey all laws." This time, without a hearing, Parks and Recreation, which controls virtually all the public space around public buildings, issued an edict closing the area.
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