Monthly Archives: September 2011
Freedom University (Georgia, USA)
Home / Incio Mission / Misión Board of Advisors / Consejo de asesores Faculty / Profesorado Supporters / Auspiciantes Apply / Solicitud de admisión Take Action! / ¡Actúa! Donate / Done Contact Us / Contáctenos Blog MISSION / MISIÓN Founded in … Continue reading
Social Housing – Housing the Social (Amsterdam)
Social Housing – Housing the Social is the second edition of Actors, Agents and Attendants, a series of symposia initiated by SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Domain. This two-day symposium takes place on November 4 and 5, 2011, … Continue reading
Riot Police Try to Stop Student Counter Forum in Kyiv
edu-factory.org European Education Ministers meet in Kyiv: Counter Forum Prohibited + Protesters detained Friday, September 23, 2011 Education ministers from across Europe met in Kyiv (Ukraine) for the so-called Forum of European Education Ministers hosted by the Ukrainian government today. … Continue reading
Kazakhstan: Support striking oil workers!
www.labourstart.org Kazakhstan: Support striking oil workers! Since May 2011 two towns in Western Kazakhstan have been seeing protest actions in the oil sector that still involve thousands of workers. Massive lay-offs have hit over a thousand workers, affecting their families, … Continue reading
Filed under activism, political repression, trade unions
Meanwhile, in Russia’s “cultural capital”…
(Via Comrade R.) http://vkontakte.ru/event30175913 Митинг с требованием ограничения иммиграции из стран Средней Азии и Закавказья, за введение визового режима со странами СНГ. 1 октября 2011 с 15 до 17 в Петербурге. Организатор – этнополитическое объединение Русские в Петербурге при участии … Continue reading
The News from Occupy Wall Street
(Via the eternally invaluable Louis Proyect) John Halle: Under the Giuliani and Bloomberg regimes the cold precision of the choreography imposed by the NYPD on protests rivals that of the Ballet Russe under Balanchine: since the Feb 15th, 2003 and … Continue reading
“Goldman Sachs rules the world”
Via Richard Murphy: Update: Was this interview a Yes Men hoax? (Via Louis Proyect)
Filed under international affairs
Pen Them Up, Mace Them, and Then Just Walk Away
www.commondreams.org Identified: NYPD Officer Who Maced Peaceful Protesters A photographer has identified the cruel and cowardly NYPD Supervisor who point blank maced a penned in group of young women and then slinked away Saturday at the Occupy Wall Street protests: … Continue reading
Filed under activism, film and video, political repression, protests
America (the Beautiful?)
Georgia: www.DemocracyNow.org — Troy Anthony Davis was killed by lethal injection by the state of Georgia at 11:08 p.m. EDT [on Wednesday] despite widespread doubts about his guilt. The execution occurred shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stop … Continue reading
Committee to Stop FBI Repression: One Year Since the Raids
stopfbi.net Build the Movement Against Political Repression One year since the September 24 FBI Raids and Grand Jury Subpoenas Statement of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression, 9-22-2011 The Committee to Stop FBI Repression (CSFR) is asking you to build … Continue reading
