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July 23, 2009 - 10:43am -- Anonymous Comrade (not verified)
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Burning Message to the State in the Fire of the Poor’s Rebellion Richard Pithouse

DU NOON, Diepsloot, Dinokana, Khayelitsha, KwaZakhele, Masiphumelele, Lindelani, Piet Retief and Samora Machel. We are back, after a brief lull during the election, to road blockades, burnt-out police cars and the whole sorry mess of tear gas, stun grenades and mass arrests. Already this month, a girl has been shot in the head in KwaZakhele, three men have been shot dead in Piet Retief, and a man from Khayelitsha is in a critical condition.

July 21, 2009 - 10:56am -- stevphen
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Prisons & Prisoners

Refugee Camp in Greece Destroyed Movement for the Rights of Refugees and Immigrants in Patras.

The consequences of the war by EU and US in Afghanistan are more than apparent in Greece. This war created thousands of refugees who are trying to survive by traveling to “democratic” Europe. Thousands have died on this “journey” and those that arrived alive face a “fortress Europe.” The following is a report about the destruction of a point of arrival, a refugee camp, in the third biggest town in Greece, Patras.

July 16, 2009 - 11:42am -- anaamorim
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Ecology

“Our Bolivian Model is not Communist, but Community Based” Michelle Amaral da Silva

Fernando Huanacuni, one of the most important Aymara intellectual references in Bolivia, defends that the foundation for the process of change in the country is structured around the return to their original culture.

Fernando Huanacuni, uma das principais referências intelectuais dos aymara na Bolívia, sustenta que a base do processo de mudança no país está na retomada de culturas originárias

July 14, 2009 - 9:43am -- stevphen
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Economy

B'Eau-Pal Water Scares Dow Execs Into Hiding

A new, beautifully-designed line of bottled water - this time not from the melting Alps, nor from faraway, clean-water-deprived Fiji, but rather from the contaminated ground near the site of the 1984 Bhopal catastrophe - scared Dow Chemical's London management team into hiding today.

Twenty Bhopal activists, including Sathyu Sarangi of the Sambhavna Clinic in Bhopal, showed up at Dow headquarters near London to find that the entire building had been vacated.

July 12, 2009 - 5:46am -- stevphen
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Culture

Robert Jasper Grootveld: Artist and activist who helped found the Dutch Provos in the 1960s David WinnerThe Independent

July 11, 2009 - 3:19pm -- Anonymous Comrade (not verified)
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In the Streets

Calais No Border Camp 2009, (In)visible Subjects?

July 11, 2009 - 12:06pm -- jim
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In the Streets

Petition in Solidarity with Italian Arrestees

Please sign and circulate (http://www.petitiononline.com/wave/petition.html)

The perfect Wave cannot be arrested! Call in solidarity with the students arrested the 6th of July in Italy

In the night between the 5th and the 6th of July, 21 students were arrested in a sweeping police operation. They were charged with being involved in the mobilization of the 19th of May in Turin against the G8 University Summit. On that day more than 10,000 undergraduate and PhD students, as well as

June 30, 2009 - 11:11am -- jim
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Independent Media

Pirate Bay Website Sold for $7.8 Million

Today, Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X AB has announced it has acquired The Pirate Bay website for 60 million SEK, which is roughly the equivalent of $7.8 million USD.

This was almost immediately confirmed by The Pirate Bay. Although the title of their post is entitled “TPB might change owner,” from the text of the post it is obvious that the site has indeed been sold.

June 19, 2009 - 5:55pm -- stevphen
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Independent Media

World Leaders Thank Arrestees, Avert Climate Disaster

In a front-page ad in today's International Herald Tribune, the leaders of the European Union thank the European public for having engaged in months of civil disobedience leading up to the Copenhagen climate conference that will be held this December. "It was only thanks to your massive pressure over the past six months that we could so dramatically shift our climate-change policies.... To those who were arrested, we thank you."

There was only one catch: the paper was fake.

June 17, 2009 - 8:37pm -- Anonymous Comrade (not verified)
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History

Patrons Lacking for Debord's ManuscriptsLe Monde, 17 June 2009 http://www.notbored.org/BNFa.html

Bruno Racine, the president of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France (BNF) hosted 200 potential patrons on Monday, 15 June, at a dinner gala in the Hall of Globes. The dinner guests were encouraged to give as much money as possible to help the BNF acquire the archives of Guy Debord, the leader of situationism. According to Mr. Racine, these archives constitute "a unique collection for the literary avant-gardes."

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