Monthly Archives: December 2010
Solidarity with Arrested Belarusian Students
Editor’s Note. The following appeal for solidarity has been lightly edited to make it more readable. http://worvik.livejournal.com/201416.html Dear colleagues and partners, We address to you with the request for help in connection with the fact that in Belarusian higher education establishments … Continue reading
Italy: You Cannot Arrest a Generation (Petition)
Please sign and circulate: http://www.petitiononline.com/edu2010/petition.html http://www.edu-factory.org/wp/petition-you-cannot-arrest-a-generation/ Call in solidarity with the students and precarious workers arrested the 14th of December in Italy The 14th of December was another great moment of struggles in Italy. One hundred thousand high school and university students, precarious researchers … Continue reading
Free Voina!
FREE VOINA! When, during the course of an act of civil disobedience in September of this year, the art group Voina (“War”) overturned several police cars in Saint Petersburg, the Russian people’s unhappiness with the actions of law enforcement agencies acquired … Continue reading
Defend Glodeni Sugar Mill Workers! (Moldova)
www.iuf.org Glodeni sugar workers, Moldova – Arrested for trying to get their unpaid wages Five union leaders from the Glodeni sugar mill workers’ union, Moldova, have been placed under house arrest to prevent them from trying to make sure their … Continue reading
Jody McIntyre versus the BBC
Watching the BBC’s live, continuous coverage of the December 9 student protests in London against the ruling coalition’s plan to raise fees and slash funding, one couldn’t help but come away with the impression that this august and taxpayer-funded allegedly journalistic … Continue reading
Filed under film and video, interviews, political repression, protests, student movements
It’s a War on War (The Persecution of Voina)
To find out more about the work and history of the Voina group, the story of their arrest and updates in this case, and how you can help the arrested activists with their legal defense and in spreading the word … Continue reading
London’s Finest
Mob must be punished, says Cameron David Cameron today demanded that tuition fee thugs face the “full force of the law” amid calls for an independent inquiry into the mob attack on the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of … Continue reading
Filed under film and video, political repression, protests, student movements
Sarah Smith: I Am Being Subpoenaed by the FBI
Editor’s Note. Below is a statement by Sarah Smith, a young Chicago woman subpoenaed by the FBI to appear before a grand jury – apparently for the “crime” of going on a trip to Israel and Palestine. The statement was read … Continue reading
Defend Julian Assange and Wikileaks!
Editor’s Note. The following is the text of a speech delivered by Australian leftist activist Gary MacLennan today at a protest in support of Julian Assange and Wikileaks outside the Ministry of Defence in Brisbane. We thank Gary for permission … Continue reading
