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  • Global Warming Calls For Action
    21 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Diana Lee
    We don’t need to ask experts to know that our planet is slipping into a deep crisis. We see daily news of people dying from increasing natural disasters all over the world - floods, hurricanes, storms, droughts, heat waves, and earthquakes. We feel the weather in each approaching season getting extreme - hotter, colder, dryer, or wetter. We hear reports of an alarming rate of animal, insect, and plant species on the brink of extinction. And we fear the spread of deadly (…)

  • A different ESF is possible
    7 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    People participating in the UK Local Social forum network met in Sheffield during on the 4/5th december and found consensus on this document to be brought to the Assembly which is going to be held in Paris the 18/19 December
    1. The British process to build for the ESF has been, from the proposal of having it in London, organized without an open, democratic, inclusive process. No link has been created with the UK Local Social Forum and, in fact, the very same groups which played a (…)

  • Territory and Deterritory: Inside and Outside the ESF 2004, New Movement Subjectivities
    28 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Rodrigo Nunes
    1 - From Paris to London
    The path that led from the ESF in 2003 to the following edition in London was a lot less straightforward than a mere crossing of the channel; it went through a lot more detours and accidents, and raises important questions as to the present situation of European movements in their processes of deterritorialisaton and reterritorialisation.
    The London bid for the ESF was presented in Paris during the second edition as the result of an agreement (…)

  • Bush assassination plot foiled in 2001
    26 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the summer of 2001, just months before 9/11, George W. Bush flew to Genoa, Italy to attend the economic summit of 8 leading industrialized nations. What did 50,000-80,000 protesters have to do with a terrorist assassination plot? Nothing.
    July 21, 2004 (revised Nov 26, 2004) 2nd-Op
    The G8, as it’s called, includes the leaders of Germany, France, Russia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Britian and the United States. They met in Genoa in late July 2001, 7 weeks before 9/11. 7 weeks before the (…)

  • Manu CHAO : new album, "Sibérie m’était contéee"
    25 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bellaciao chats: conversation with Manu Chao in french
    As an offspring of the French alternative scene, Manu Chao has remained faithful to his first ideals, regardless of the huge success he has met as a solo artist. Shunning the ‘star system’, the anti-globalisation activist does not hesitate to mix politics with music, drawing his inspiration from his Spanish origins and his relentless globetrotting.
    Manu Chao - singer, songwriter, musician and globetrotter extraordinaire - has (…)

  • Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising
    26 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    An Essay from the Book We Are Everywhere
    by he Notes From Nowhere Collective
    “It is not only by shooting bullets in the battlefields that tyranny is overthrown, but also by hurling ideas of redemption, words of freedom and terrible anathemas against the hangmen that people bring down dictators and empires.”
    Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, 1914
    The new century is three days old when the Mexican army encampment of Amadór Hernandez, nestled deep in the Lacandón jungle of Chiapas (…)

  • Israel bides its time on Iran
    25 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Harinder Mishra
    JERUSALEM - While Israel is at daggers drawn with Iran, its preoccupation with its daunting domestic concerns that are tearing apart the Jewish population and the non-conducive international environment are likely to deter it from the earlier posturing of carrying out a preemptive strike to foil the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions.
    The indications here suggest that Jerusalem instead would prefer sticking to its already-launched diplomatic initiatives that it sees (…)

  • Indymedia: the tale of the servers ’nobody’ seized
    24 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By John Lettice ( john.lettice at theregister.co.uk )
    Nobody seized Indymedia’s servers, apparently. On the 7th October hosting company Rackspace ’acted in compliance’ with a court order and two servers belonging to Indymedia were removed from Rackspace’s premises in London.
    But the denials of involvement roll in, the latest coming from UK Home Office minister Caroline Flint, who in answer to Parliamentary questions said: "I can confirm that no UK law enforcement agencies were involved (…)

  • The dangers of playing hardball
    24 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Kaveh L Afrasiabi
    TEHRAN - The month of November in a US presidential-election year is not supposed to be particularly eventful, but this year may be an exception, in the light of the gathering storm over Iran’s nuclear program, due to be reviewed by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in late November. November is also important because of the Egypt summit on the future of Iraq, bringing the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized countries (…)

  • Hundreds excluded from ’antisocial’ forum
    15 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Matthew Tempest
    A near stampede marred the opening ceremony of the 2004 European Social Forum in London last night, as up to a thousand rain-soaked activists were barred entry to the Southwark Cathedral reception.
    Up to two thousand delegates queued in the London dusk and repeated cloudbursts for the event which was due to kick off the three-day conference of European global justice activists, only to find around half turned away. A potentially dangerous bottleneck was created as (…)