NO TO THE PERSECUTION OF SOCIAL AND LABOR ACTIVISTS!
NO TO THE REPRESSION OF TRADE UNIONS!
NO TO THE WHITE TERROR AGAINST THE LEFTIST MOVEMENT!
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FREE CONCERT
December 1, 2008, 9:00 p.m. Proekt OGI, Moscow (Potapovsky per. 8/12, bldg. 2; Metro: Chistie Prudy)
Chronicle of a Single Day (November 13, 2008):
The second attack on Alexei Etmanov, leader of the labor [...]
Entries from November 2008
November 29, 2008
“We Won’t Pay for Your Crisis”: A Pamphlet about Italy’s Anomalous Wave
If you download and read one short .pdf-format pamphlet today, this should be it:
The Anomalous Wave So Far: The Education Rebellion in Italy (October-November 2008)
Produced by folks at London’s 56a Infoshop Social Centre, this little piece of enlightenment gives readers a brief history of the wave of student protests and mobilizations that has rocked Italy [...]
November 27, 2008
Take Back the Land!
[We would like to thank Comrade V. for alerting us to the work of these wonderful activists.]
Miami New Times
Squatters
Don’t cry. Just move into one of those empty homes around the corner.
By Natalie O’Neill
November 20, 2008
Her knee-length dreadlocks wrapped in a green cloth, Cassy hoists her two-year-old daughter up on a hip [...]
November 26, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving
A National Day of Mourning for Indians
Following are excerpts from a statement written by Mahtowin Munro (Lakota) and Moonanum James (Wampanoag), co-leaders of United American Indians of New England. Read the entire statement at www.uaine.org.
Every year since 1970, United American Indians of New England have organized the National Day of Mourning observance in Plymouth at noon [...]
November 25, 2008
Giorgio Agamben: Terrorism or Tragicomedy
Terrorism or Tragicomedy
Giorgio Agamben
Free the Tarnac Nine
On the morning of November 11, 150 police officers, most of which belonged to the anti-terrorist brigades, surrounded a village of 350 inhabitants on the Millevaches plateau, before raiding a farm in order to arrest nine young people (who ran the local grocery store and tried to revive the [...]
November 25, 2008
Chto Delat Weekly Reader No. 8: Can We?
Here at Chtodelat News, we’re awfully tired of having to translate endless reports of assaults on Russian activists. So we’re glad that once in a while we can turn our gaze from the troubled Eurasian plains and forests to the bright shining shore of America—where President-Elect Obama is rapidly filling his cabinet with dubious DNC [...]
November 25, 2008
The Truth in Khimki (More on the Case of Mikhail Beketov)
Chtodelat News has already reported on the recent attacks on Russia social and labor activists. The most serious of these assaults was made on Mikhail Beketov, the editor-in-chief of Khimkinskaya Pravda. Beketov has bravely campaigned to save the Khimki Forest from destruction, and he has exposed the corruption of the local administration. Now he lies [...]
November 20, 2008
The Attacks on Russian Activists: Who Stands to Gain?
We here at Chtodelat News are pleased to announce the launch of an important new online resource for social activists in Russia and those of you who read Russian and are interested in keeping abreast of how the fight for civil, labor, environmental, housing and human rights is going in the world’s largest country. Dvizhenie—“(The) [...]
November 17, 2008
End the Terror Against Social Activists in Russia!
End the Terror Against Social Activists in Russia!
Public Statement on the Attacks against Social Activists
Recently, criminal attacks against the leaders of trade union and social movements have clearly increased. Among the latest such incidents, we should note the attacks against Carine Clément, a member of the working group and a leader of the Union of [...]
November 15, 2008
Leader of Deceived Land Shareholders Assaulted in Moscow Region
The Leader of the Movement of Deceived Land Shareholders of the Moscow Region Is Assaulted
The violence against social activists is escalating. We have learned that yesterday, November 13, at 6:45 p.m., Sergei Fedotov, the leader of the movement of deceived land shareholders of the Moscow Region, was attacked.
The incident took place in the village of [...]
