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  • Iraq War Supporters Lose in European Elections
    14 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dutch opposition parties critical of the Iraq war scored significant gains at the start of elections for the European Parliament, while Prime Minister Tony Blair lost support across Britain in local voting, key tests since the invasion last year.
    Iraq, as well as domestic issues, concerned voters as the 25 nations of the recently expanded European Union began electing legislators a four-day process that started Thursday in Britain and the Netherlands.
    While Britain’s results in the EU (…)

  • Blair suffers severe electoral drubbing over Iraq
    12 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Severe election blow for Labour
    · Labour loses 211 council seats
    · Tories +101, Lib Dems +67
    Hélène Mulholland, Tom Happold and agencies
    http://politics.guardian.co.uk/elections2004/story/0,14549,1236480,00.html
    Tony Blair suffered a drubbing today as Labour limped into third place in the local elections, losing control of at least eight councils.
    With about half of the results declared, Labour has lost over 200 councillors, with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats both (…)

  • Infamous ‘Miami Model’ of Protest Clampdown, Coming to a Town Near You
    9 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Christopher Getzan
    The News Standard http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=488
    Jun 8 - When thousands of demonstrators converged in Miami last November to protest the latest round of negotiations over a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), city authorities dreaded a repeat of the failed police response that allowed activists to hobble the 1999 World Trade Organization ministerial in Seattle.
    Before the activists arrived in Miami last year, police warned (…)

  • Bush Faces Italian Anger Over Iraq on Rome Visit
    4 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    ROME (Reuters) - Italians greeted American soldiers as liberators when they marched into Rome 60 years ago but President Bush faces deep anger on his visit on Friday over the actions of a new generation of U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
    Authorities fear violent demonstrations during Bush’s two days in Rome, and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, worried by the prospect of clashes in the streets, urged Italians to show "maturity and understanding of history."
    While Berlusconi has been among Bush’s (…)

  • UFPJ condemns "State of Emergency" declared by Georgia Governor
    31 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) condemns an executive order issued by Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue declaring a “state of emergency” throughout six coastal counties in Georgia. Perdue issued the highly unusual declaration to spread fear and interfere with fundamental constitutional rights to protest at an upcoming summit of international leaders. A private island of the coast of Georgia, Sea Island, will be the site for a Group of Eight (G-8) meeting June 8-10. The island is (…)

  • Minutes of UK European Social Forum (ESF) NGO Meeting, House of Commons 10th May 2004
    30 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Attendance
    Dave Timms (World Development Movement), Hannah Griffiths (Friends of the Earth), David Hillman, Lily Grimes (Tobin Tax Network), Steve Tibbett, Tom Marchbanks (War on Want), Alison Cairns (Oxfam), Atieno Ndomo (Bretton Woods Project), Kim Trathen (Jubilee Debt Campaign), Sam Goddard (Action Aid), Hannah Morley (Peru Support Group), Jenny Ricks (Trade Justice Movement), Martin Gordon (Christian Aid), Jennifer Hadley (CAFOD), Patricia Gilbert (Development Education (…)

  • Italians may make ’small doses’ of torture legal
    24 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Torture may be acceptable provided it is administered in small doses, says a
    bill under discussion in the Italian parliament that has outraged human
    rights organisations.
    The Chamber of Deputies yesterday passed an amendment, tabled by the
    far-right Northern League, to the bill which opposition MPs denounced as a
    green light to "limited" torture but which government supporters said was
    essential for police.
    The amendment says violence and threats must be used repeatedly to qualify (…)

  • G8 : Open Wounds
    15 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    From an outside perspective, Genoa is still very much linked to the bloody G8 summit from 2001. In the following interview, which was conducted by the publishers of "Genoa etc." [www.etc-publications.com], Enrica Bartesaghi talks about her project to support the victims of the G8 summit in correlation with the city’s transformation into the European Capital of Culture.
    How do you remember the G8-meeting?
    Genoa and the G8 was, and still is, an open wound for me both as a mother and as an (…)

  • US Plan for Global Domination Tops Project Censored’s...
    22 September 2003 par (Open-Publishing)

    US Plan for Global Domination Tops Project Censored’s Annual List
    By Kari Lydersen, AlterNet September 17, 2003
    We know a lot more now about the dangers and disasters of U.S. empire building in Iraq - the ongoing bloodshed on the ground, expansion of terrorist activities, the huge budget busting costs of occupation, the stretching and undermining of the military, and the increased sense of fear and insecurity that many Americans feel as a result of the invasion and its potential for (…)