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  • (en) Poland, ZSP* Picket and H&M in Warsaw

    Syndicated from A-Infos (English) on Sun, 2010-06-20

    18 June ZSP held a picket at an H&M shop in the center of Warsaw. The protest was related
    to two cases of violating workers' rights - from Bangladesh and from Spain. - We remember
    the horrible tragedy at the Garib garment factory in Bangladesh, On February 25, 22
    workers were killed in a fire.

    »  Read more | 126 reads «

  • Legal Advocates Complain of Lousy Cases Against 'Overpaid' Welfare Recipients

    Syndicated from The Tyee
    Promoted by blackandred on Sun, 2010/06/20 - 2:09am

    By Andrew MacLeod - 16 June 2010

    Lawyers with the British Columbia Public Interest Advocacy Centre are criticizing the Housing and Social Development Ministry's attempt to take welfare recipients to court to collect money for overpayments and are asking the ministry to give them what they need to help people...Most disturbingly...the claims they've seen all rely on allegations that the defendants signed repayment agreements with the ministry and failed to meet them, even though the government stopped requiring such agreements and its now government policy not to take them for overpayments.

    »  Read more | 701 reads «

  • "Cumulative Voting" Method Gaining Attention

    Syndicated from Slashdot on Sun, 2010-06-20

    Local ID10T writes "The AP reports on a system of voting, called 'cumulative voting,' which was just used under court order in Port Chester, NY. Under this system, voters can apportion their votes as they wish — all to one candidate, one to each candidate, or any combination.

    »  Read more | 131 reads «

  • Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world

    Syndicated from Oil Sands Truth on Sat, 2010-06-19

    Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world
    Naomi Klein, June 19, 2010

    The Deepwater Horizon disaster is not just an industrial accident – it is a violent wound inflicted on the Earth itself. In this special report from the Gulf coast, a leading author and activist shows how it lays bare the hubris at the heart of capitalism

    »  Read more | 159 reads «

  • BP oil disaster demonstrates need to end offshore drilling

    Syndicated from Infoshop News on Sat, 2010-06-19

    <p>Destroying our coastal environment is not worth a few years of oil production, whether it is three years or nine, or 19 if the experts are way o...

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  • Markets, Government and the Environment

    Syndicated from Infoshop News on Sat, 2010-06-19

    <p>I stand by my previous observation that without some practical acknowledgment of ecological realities, no institution can properly address a pro...

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  • A Syrian anarchist speaks: &quot;We need to start analyzing our situation in a libertarian way&quot;

    Syndicated from Infoshop News on Sat, 2010-06-19

    <p>The following interview with Syrian anarchist Mazen Kamalmaz, is a follow up conversation to the publication of his Call for an Anarchist Manife...

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  • Dublin, Ireland: Stop the Bailouts. End the Dictatorship of the Markets

    Syndicated from Infoshop News on Sat, 2010-06-19

    <p>The Workers Solidarity Movement has called for support for the national protest against the Bank Bailouts and &quot;the dictatorship of the mark...

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  • Introduction to Max Stirner's Der Einzige und sein Eigentum

    Syndicated from Infoshop News on Sat, 2010-06-19

    <p>In books, each person finds what he or she seeks. No text demonstrates this better than Der Einzige und Sein Eigentum (translated into English a...

    »  | 81 reads «

  • Twin Cities Anarchist Bookfair 11-12 September 2010

    Syndicated from Infoshop News on Sat, 2010-06-19

    <p>The 11th and 12th of this September, anarchists will be having a Bookfair and Festival in the Twin Cities! Filled with radical distros,publisher...

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  • Toys for Gaza, after three years

    Syndicated from Infoshop News on Sat, 2010-06-19

    <p>Israel says the siege on Gaza is about security and making sure the deposed government of Hamas doesn't get its hands on any more weapons.</p>
    ...

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  • Organise workplaces where we are strong rather than where we are weak

    Syndicated from Infoshop News on Sat, 2010-06-19

    <p>Ireland - In the aftermath of the summit protests many on the libertarian left followed a set of tactics which concentrated on marginal workers ...

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  • Why Protest the G8 and G20?

    Syndicated from Media Co-op on Sat, 2010-06-19

    Most people, even those of us who don't know squat about the mechanics of the global economic system, find the whole set-up of the G8 and G20 summits distasteful: economic big-wigs from the world's richest regions will descend next weekend into military zones built by our government, and these rich and powerful men (they're mostly men) will meet and make policies that will affect you, me, and t

    »  Read more | 594 reads «

  • Global Forces Making Vancouver a Major Oil Port

    Syndicated from Oil Sands Truth on Sat, 2010-06-19

    Global Forces Making Vancouver a Major Oil Port

    China craves oil sands fuel. Ottawa wants to diversify its US market. So huge amounts of crude will have to pass through a risky Second Narrows.

    By Mitchell Anderson,
    17 Jun 2010,
    TheTyee.ca

    Burrard Inlet and Second Narrows bridge

    »  Read more | 126 reads «

  • What Happened on the BP Oil Rig?

    Syndicated from Oil Sands Truth on Sat, 2010-06-19

    What Happened on the BP Oil Rig?

    The facts, now out, are detailed here. The moral reckoning has yet to begin.

    By Rex Weyler, TheTyee.ca
    June 18 2010

    Red flags were ignored.

    »  Read more | 178 reads «