Monthly Archives: August 2010
Call for International Days of Action in Support of Gaskarov and Solopov
A Call for International Days of Action in Support of Alexei Gaskarov and Maxim Solopov September 17—20, 2010 On July 28, 2010, more than two hundred young antifascists and anarchists carried out a spontaneous demonstration outside the town administration building … Continue reading
Chto Delat: The Urgent Need to Struggle (ICA, London)
ICA London Chto delat? (What is to be done?) The Urgent Need to Struggle 9-12, 15-19, 22-26, 29 September 3, 6-10, 13-17, 20-24 October 2010 Institute of Contemporary Arts The Mall London SW1Y 5AH United Kingdom www.ica.org.uk/chtodelat This autumn, the … Continue reading
Filed under art exhibitions, contemporary art
Putin: Beat Them with Truncheons
The St. Petersburg Times Issue #1605 (66), Tuesday, August 31, 2010 Putin Gives Warning to Demonstrators By Sergey Chernov, Staff Writer While a criminal case about the police excesses during the July 31 demo in defense of the right to assembly … Continue reading
Filed under film and video, political repression, protests, Russian society
Bono: The Russian Police State’s Silent Partner?
It’s a moving moment when the Declaration of Human Rights spools across the screens during MLK and when the Amnesty International lanterns spotlight the plight of Aung San Suu Kyi and the people of Burma. ‘From Burma Action and Amnesty … Continue reading
Filed under international affairs, Russian society
“Corruption as a means to ending poverty”
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67N4DM20100824 The two men also shared jokes about their tastes in music, with Bono declaring: “I come here to cross the great divide between me, a Led Zeppelin fan, and you, the Deep Purple fan.” Medvedev, who has made much … Continue reading
Sarkozy, Pay Back France’s Debt to Haiti!
http://links.org.au/node/1845 CRIME activists fool the media with a fake announcement that France would finally pay its 17 billion euro historic debt. By Derrick O’Keefe August 16, 2010 — rabble.ca — A Bastille Day hoax on the French government helped to … Continue reading
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Capitalism
Andrea Peters, at the World Socialist Web Site, writing on “The political and social roots of Russia‘s wildfire disaster”: The profoundly anti-democratic character of the Russian political system no doubt contributed to the wildfire disaster and the suffering of the … Continue reading
Filed under film and video, Russian society
Save the Pavlovsk Experimental Station! (international petition)
Editor’s Note. When we crossposted Food Democracy Now’s petition to save the Pavlovsk Experimental Station and its unique collection of seeds the other day, we failed to notice that this petition was signable only by US residents. Fortunately, some Australian … Continue reading
A Letter from Moscow
The letter below was sent to us the other day by Petr Bystrov, an artist based in Moscow. We have reproduced it here because it provides vivid, firsthand testimony about the continuing disaster in Moscow and other parts of Russia, … Continue reading
Save the Pavlovsk Experimental Station! (US petition)
Stop the senseless destruction of biodiversity. Save the seeds, save the planet! Act today and save the world’s first seed bank, you may just save the planet! If failing to reach sensible solutions to the impending problems of climate change … Continue reading
Filed under activism, open letters, manifestos, appeals, Russian society
