Monthly Archives: December 2009
Free Valentin Urusov!
The campaign to free Valentin Urusov has a Facebook page that you can access here. Our friends at The Commune have also put together leaflets that you can download here and here. Please send word of your protests and other actions … Continue reading
Filed under open letters, manifestos, appeals, trade unions
Manifesto of the January 19 Committee
http://jan-19.livejournal.com/884.html MANIFESTO OF THE JANUARY 19 COMMITTEE On January 19, 2010, a year to the day from the murders of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, we, the organizers of an antifascist march, call on you to join our campaign against … Continue reading
What a World (Copenhagen)
In Copenhagen, the world’s richest leaders continued their fiery fossil fuel party last Friday night, December 18, ignoring requests of global village neighbours to please chill out. Instead of halting the hedonism, US President Barack Obama and the Euro elites … Continue reading
Filed under film and video, international affairs, protests
Is Denmark a Police State? (Release Tadzio Mueller, Luca Tornatore and Other Climate Prisoners!)
Release Tadzio Mueller and the other climate prisoners! To add your signature: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/Tadzio/petition.html To: The Danish Parliament Over the past week, tens of thousands of people from across the planet have taken to the streets of Copenhagen demanding real and just solutions … Continue reading
Free the Belgrade Six!
About the Case On Saturday, September 4, 2009, five* political activists were arrested in Belgrade on trumped up charges. The five, Tadej Kurepa, Ivan Vulović, Sanja Dojkić, Ratibor Trivunac, and Nikola Mitrović, are activists in or associates of the Anarcho-Syndicalist … Continue reading
Blue-Collar Blues (Tallinn)
Blue-Collar Blues Kunsthalle Tallinn & Gallery of Kunsthalle December 22, 2009 – January 31, 2010 Exhibition opening: MONDAY, December 21 at 6 pm Performing at the opening: Paul Cole & The Great Outdoors!!! Artists: Art Center for Dismissed Employees, Francis … Continue reading
Filed under art exhibitions, contemporary art, trade unions
Eight Protest Bystanders Charged with Multiple Felonies after UC Demo
Eight protest bystanders charged with multiple felonies after UC demo PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION Contact: UC Berkeley student, Marika Iyer — marikaiyer@gmail.com Other student Organizers of Live Week: Laura Zelko, student organizer with Live Week: laura_z@berkeley.edu Callie Maidhof, student … Continue reading
Islands in the Stream, Terrorists in the Attics, and Trees on the Chopping Block
Three more dispatches from various fronts of the war being waged by “developers” and bureaucrats against Saint Petersburg and its citizens.
“Pugovka”: A Film about the Battle to Reopen the European University
This film by Ilya Utekhin, an ethnologist at the European University in Saint Petersburg, documents the closure of the university in February 2008 by fire inspectors and the vigorous, highly creative campaign on the part of students, faculty, and their … Continue reading
Filed under activism, film and video, student movements
