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  • BELLACIAO ATHENS: Media control and freedom of speech, Italy before and after Berlusconi
    4 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thursday 4th of May from 2.00 pm to 5.00 pm at the ESF in Athens Room S 208 screening of of the Italian film by Sabina Guzzanti
    followed by a debate on
    "Media control and freedom of speech: Italy before and after Berlusconi"
    organised by Collettivo Bellaciao with: Luciana Castellina (co-founder of Il Manifesto, author, reviewer) Gigi Sullo (director of the weekly Carta) Doriana Goracci (Women in Black, Bellaciao Italia) Cecchino Antonini (journalist, Liberazione) Angelo Mastrandrea (…)

  • Frankfurt : preparation of women’s meeting
    18 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dear friends,
    The next women’s meeting of the European Preparatory Assembly will take place in Frankfurt on Friday 3.3.06 at 16 -18 am.
    Some propositions for the agenda.
    A) Discussion about the programme of the seminars of the feminist’s axe and the meanstraming of the seminars.
    B)Proposal of the text for the Manifesto (or Appeal) for the Women Assembly, and
    C) Preparation of the Women Assembly.
    Unfortunately, Hugo Braun has told me that we will have no interpretation. That is (…)

  • Women on the move, let’s change Europe, let’s change the world!
    18 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    INVITATION To the Women’s Assembly Of the 4th European Social Forum, Athens 4-7 May 2006 Dear friends in the women’s and feminist movement and women’s and feminist organisations, As you probably know, women are subject to attack by a holy alliance of conservatism, neoliberalism and the Vatican, which is sharpening sex discrimination and which has as its goal to erode or even abolish our hard-won rights.
    And yet, at the same time, we have more than 200,000 women “emerging from the silence” (…)

  • Bush Threatens U.N. Over Clinton Climate Speech
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush-administration officials privately threatened organizers of the U.N. Climate Change Conference, telling them that any chance there might’ve been for the United States to sign on to the Kyoto global-warming protocol would be scuttled if they allowed Bill Clinton to speak at the gathering today in Montreal, according to a source involved with the negotiations who spoke to New York Magazine on condition of anonymity.
    Bush officials informed organizers of their intention to pull out of (…)

  • Friday Night Congress: What Was That?
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Swanson
    During the middle of the day on Friday, I spent an hour or two on a conference call with activists and congressional staffers discussing next steps to end the war. We planned, among other things, to organize support for Congressman John Murtha’s bill, H.J.Res. 73, which he introduced on Friday. The bill resolves that:
    "The deployment of United States forces in Iraq, by direction of Congress, is hereby terminated and the forces involved are to be redeployed at the (…)

  • UW-Madison News Release—Globalization Forum
    21 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11/21/05
    CONTACT: Thomas W. Smith, (608) 263-7426, twsmith@wisc.edu
    INDUSTRY FORUM TO EXPLORE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON ENGINEERING
    MADISON - Increasingly, U.S. companies are looking overseas for the deployment and development of engineering resources. The globalization of the engineering enterprise affects all aspects of engineering, from information systems through product design, manufacturing and plant and facilities.
    Sales support and service functions are (…)

  • Bush faces Latin fury as popularity sinks at home
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Rupert Cornwell
    President George Bush, his presidency foundering and his popularity at record lows at home, ran into new protests abroad yesterday at a Western hemisphere summit in Argentina - a gathering that is theoretically focussed on trade but which has so far only served to highlight the battered image of the US across Latin America.
    Mr Bush went into the 34-nation meeting intent on promoting traditional US doctrines of free trade and liberal market economics, with the goal of a (…)

  • Robert Fisk in London
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sarah Meyer
    On 11 October, the reporter Robert Fisk made one of his rare appearances in London. The bookshop, Bookmarks arranged for Mr Fisk to speak to an audience of about 250 in a church hall close to Tottenham Court Road. The event marked the publication of Mr. Fisk’s new book, The Great War of Civilisation, the Conquest of the Middle East, published by Fourth Estate, London.
    Robert Fisk is an outstanding journalist. His clarity, courage and in-depth knowledge have, throughout his (…)

  • Hands Off Venezuela at the Fête de l’Humanité
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    We were there. Bellaciao
    By Greg Oxley
    A series of very successful meetings were held in solidarity with the revolution in Venezuela at the annual Communist Party festival - la Fête de l’Humanité - which was held in the Paris area last weekend. Overall, more than 400 people heard Jorge Martin speak at the Fête.
    A series of very successful meetings were held in solidarity with the revolution in Venezuela at the annual Communist Party festival - la Fête de l’Humanité - which was held in (…)

  • Invitation to event - Planning and the Mayor’s London Food strategy
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dear friend I would like to invite you to a one day event looking at how plannning can help the Mayor’s London Food Strategy deliver better health, social inclusion and more sustainable communities. The event will be held at City Hall on 19th September 2005. It will: introduce the London Food Strategy and explain how the strategy will affect planners expore the practical links between planning, health, social inclusion and sustainable communities provide practical case studies (…)