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duckdaotsu writes
Jeremy
Hinzman Leads The Way For U.S War Resistors In Canada

Gerry Condon



Five days a week, Jeremy Hinzman, a native of South Dakota, doggedly rides his bicycle through the snow-laden streets of Toronto (now
thawing). Since receiving his Canadian work permit, he has been employed as a bicycle messenger, a job he had “been wanting to try for
eons.” Jeremy is 26 and in excellent shape. He is a long distance runner and has run a couple of marathons since he arrived in Canada in January 2004. Nonetheless, he admits to being exhausted
when he arrives home from work. “It’s a good thing I started this job at the most difficult time of year,” he says. “It can only
get easier from here.”

War Resisters League Tax Day Demo

New York City, April 13, 2005

"Let them march all they want, just so long as they continue to pay their
taxes." — Alexander Haig, U.S. Secretary of State, 1982

Friday, April 15, is Tax Day — the last day for Americans to file their
income taxes or receive an extension. That means Post Offices and Internal
Revenue Service offices all over the country will be working overtime to
make sure that Washington rakes in the dollars it needs to perpetuate its
brutal and destructive occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq and continue to
menace world peace by bringing more Middle Eastern countries under its
thumb.

The NYC War Resisters League says "Enough!" and is bringing its opposition
to Bush's war to the IRS office at 110 West 44th Street, just west of Sixth
Avenue in Manhattan, from noon to 2 p.m. on Friday.

FoD writes:


"Festival of Dissent" Prepares for G8 Summit


From Wednesday the 6th to 10th of April, over three hundred people from across Scotland and beyond met in rural Lanarkshire at the “Festival of Dissent!” They met to plan resistance to the G8 summit, to further educate themselves, and to build and discuss better ways of living and working together with their local communities. The public gathering made its decisions collectively and consensually.

Traditional "Pagan" Celebration Turns Into Street Fights Against Regime Forces
SMCCDI (Information Service)Mar 15, 2005



Violent clashes rocked, this evening, main Iranian cities as brutal militiamen attacked Iranians who transformed the already hardly
tolerated celebration of the traditional "Tchahr Shanbe Souri" (Fire Fiest) into protest action and show of "un-Islamic" joy. Most areas of the Capital and cities, such as, Esfahan, Mahabad, Shiraz, Rasht, Kermanshah, Babol, Sannandaj, Mashad, Khoram-Abad, Zabol, Tabriz, Hamedan and Oroomiah (former Rezai-e) were scenes of sometimes unprecedented street fights between the regime forces and groups of Iranians.

Armed clashes have been reported from several cities and especially from Tehran, as small groups of armed and determined masked individuals were seen rushing to the rescue of some of those arrested by the official forces. Powerful home made incendiary devices and fire crackers also responded to the Islamic regime's militiamen and plainclothes agents' use of brutality against celebrators and women who were not observing the mandatory veil.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

Seven Theses on the Anti-War Movement and Student Resistance
Asad Haider

The old SDS dictum, ‘People have to be organized around the issues that really affect their lives,’ is really true… That is to say, that racism and imperialism really are issues that affect people’s lives. And it was these things that people moved on, not dorm rules, or democratizing university governance, or any of that bullshit.” — Mark Rudd, “Columbia — Notes on the Spring Rebellion”

THESIS ONE: The war on Iraq represents, among other things, a crisis in education. It has been proven beyond a doubt that the war was waged on false pretenses, that the consent for the ongoing imperial occupation has been based on the inability of the American public to access real and useful information. Often, when students are exposed to alternative information in progressive classes their reaction is one of frustration. They realize that our education has failed us: we have not been provided with the intellectual resources to understand political questions within the context of history, we have not been trained to practice the public debate and civic engagement that are the necessary precondition of democracy (as argued in Henry Giroux’s writings, http://www.henryagiroux.com). Instead, the academic-military-industrial complex has trained us in the logic of empire, leaving us prey to the invasion of our campuses by the empire’s vultures: military recruiters who promise to make up for the state’s unwillingness to fund our education.

anti-G8 writes:

G8 Employment Protests

July 6–8, 2005, Gleneagles, Scotland

On 6-8 July this year at the exclusive golf and hotel complex at Gleneagles, Scotland, leaders of the world's biggest economies will put their heads together and decide what they'll do with us in the coming year. We will gather there and say a resounding NO to their plans.

Meet: 10 March 2005
12.00 @ Department of Trade & Industry
Victoria Street, London SW1
Local actions on 11 March at selected venues.

Anonymous Comrade writes


International Anti-G8 Meeting, Tuebingen

Dissent! International Networking Group

From 26th-27th February 2005, people involved in anti-capitalist groups and networks from twenty-three different countries, gathered in Tuebingen, Germany to continue planning resistance to the 2005 G8 Summit.

The meeting declared, "This year's Summit professes to address issues important to us all, amongst them: climate change and poverty. Yet these are issues produced by a system from which the G8 was born and which it attempts to manage. Resistance is the obvious and growing response to the current order. Our aim is not merely to oppose the Summit, but to contribute to the daily struggle to create new worlds."


A number of action plans were developed over the weekend, reflecting the diversity of the perspectives from which those attending were coming.

s0metim3s writes:

"Another Riot in Another Town"

Following on from the recent riots in Australia on Palm Island and Redfern, rioting at Macquarie Fields entered its fourth night (as of March 1st).

In each of these cases (Palm Island, Redfern and Macquarie Fields), rioting was sparked by local anger at extrajudicial killings: deaths in custody and deaths as a result of police chases. This follows the wave of riots in Australia's extrajudicial internment camps of 1999-2000 -- and parallels the expansive resort to violence and direct coercion against poor people generally by the Australian state. Changes to welfare conditions have denied welfare to many young people while forcing others into work-for-the-dole schemes. Police violence has been legitimated by recourse to racial stereotyping, including in this more recent case of Macquarie Fields, where many of the residents are 'white' (but apparently not 'white' enough). The Labor Party has backed police and called for 'compulsory citizenship training' in schools, various media commentators have talked about the residents as 'hardly human'.

Below is a GLW interview with a local resident of Mac Fields.

Anonymous Comrade writes "Neither Hariri, Nor Syria: An Alternative Take on the Growing Protests in Lebanon"
Hariri: Hot Diary of an Affair!
by !-Mad

Beiruit indymedia

I have known Rafik Al Hariri for quite some years now. Our acquaintance involved a lot of physical interaction and deep-throat cries! He is much older than me, but our relation deepened beyond belief. I was obsessed by him, and where ever I went... I sabotaged his pictures.

I have been beaten by his men, arrested by his police, teargassed, water-cannoned and smothered by his “riot” control! I have held banners against his policies, demanded his dismissal from office, refused to collaborate or even be seen next to any of his followers, took non-violent direct actions against his projects, policies... and presence – I was not alone; I was/still am one of many. Today I am outraged!

Anonymous Comrade writes:

Global Resistance 2005

A Call to Action

Throughout 2005 the institutions of global capitalism will continue to meet, attempting to manage and bring stability to a system that creates war, famine and destroyed ecologies, whilst removing any sense of humanity from all of our lives.


Over the last years, meetings of the institutions have been fiercely contested by the worlds people, providing much needed spaces for more localised, day to day struggles to converge and realise the possibilities that can be unleashed when we begin to co-operate. From these mobilisation has emerged a global 'movement of movements' that is in many ways unprecedented.

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