May 2012
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PIJIP Trade Agreement Table Updated: Compares TPP,... →
Recently, Inside U.S. Trade reported that Australia, New Zealand and Singapore have proposed replacing some elements of the U.S. proposed TPP chapter on IP with provisions from ACTA. The table below compares the provisions from the two texts (as well as with TRIPS and the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement). Overall, the comparative analysis shows that TPP contains a plethora of TRIPS-plus...
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Free Trade Agreements Kill People!
We, representatives of peasants, workers, consumers, urban and rural poor, social movements and civil society organizations are gathering in Chiba and Tokyo, Japan from 12 to 15 October 2011. La Via Campesina South East and East Asia region with FTA Watch (Thailand), Shokkenren (Japan) and Task Force against Korea-US FTA (Republic of Korea) organize a strategic meeting to discuss Free Trade...
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The Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement
The Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement: NAFTA for the Pacific Rim?
Read CTC’s Most Current Fact Sheets
The Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement What Corporations Want in Trans-Pacific Trade Negotiations The Trans-Pacific FTA’s Threats to Public Health The Trans-Pacific FTA and the Environment
Trade negotiators from the United States and eight other countries have been busily negotiating the...
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Statement TPPA Food Sovereignty Network
La Via Campesina / Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance
La Via Campesina and the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance jointly make this statement at the conclusion of the APEC meeting in Hawaii regarding the further negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).
This statement is to express our alarm about the implementation and pursuit of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) across the...
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Japan: “We will continue farming on Japanese...
NOUMINREN Youth held its 20th conference in Tokyo on February 11thand 12th this year. Approximately 100 people participated in the conference (the largest ever). For NOUMINREN, this conference was probably its most important in last 20 years as it was the first conference after 3.11 earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plant accidents. All participants were eager to share and reflect on what they...
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Pilipinos Fighting Against NATO →
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Right now it’s about 5:40pm, and I’m watching TV where hundreds of protesters are at an impasse with hundreds of police officers, many of whom are starting to don riot gear. This isn’t happening in some country undergoing a revolution – this is happening less than a half mile from my place in Chicago. Just a few hours earlier, I attended the beginning of the march that was...
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NATO: Just why are people protesting? →
amodernmanifesto:
The backstory:
NATO — the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — was formed in 1949 to make the world safe from communism and safe for capitalism. Today, NATO includes 28 nations, including many in the east previously within the political orbit of the former Soviet Union.
On a practical level, NATO worked to contain the political, military and economic reach of the Soviet Union...
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NATO approves $1.7 billion for new drones →
CHICAGO — At the end of the first day of the NATO Summit in Chicago, the transatlantic alliance signed a $1.7 billion contract with Northrop Grumman for five Global Hawk UAVs.
The Block 40 Global Hawks, which are unarmed reconnaissance UAVs, are part the Allied Ground Surveillance (AGS) system.
NATO first announced the purchase in February but officially closed the deal May 21. A NATO official...
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The role of anarchists in the Quebec student...
Linchpin: Can you tell us what your role is in the anarchist and student movements in Quebec?
Rémi: At the moment, I’m a “supporter’’ of the Union Communiste Libertaire and I have been a member of the UCL for several years in the past. As for my role in the student movement, since I am not taking any courses in the current session, I’m not a member of any student union. But I am a...
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Quebec Inches Closer to Martial Law
On Friday, May 18, the Québec legislature signed a special “emergency law” to “restore order” in the province following three months of student protests in a strike against the government’s proposed 80% increase in the cost of tuition. A legislative debate lasted all night and resulted in a vote of 68-48 in favor of the legislation. The legislation has three main focal points: it “suspends” the...
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Texans Demand Transparency in Secretive TPP Trade...
As trade negotiators from throughout the Pacific Rim gathered outside Dallas for a trade summit aimed at speeding the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Free Trade Agreement towards conclusion, Texans were out in force to demand a public voice in the negotiating process. With the help of Citizens Trade Campaign and the Texas Fair Trade Coalition, local labor, environmental and community...
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Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Talks Advance in...
Addison, Texas – The United States said today that TPP partners – Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam – made better-than-expected progress at the twelfth round of negotiations that formally concluded today outside Dallas, Texas. U.S. negotiators have reported to U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk that the progress achieved...
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Why the protests?
lostdollsclub:
This is a very good outline of what those protests in Chicago are about: NatoProtest.org
via The People’s Record.
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Occupy Journalists Stopped, Searched, Handcuffed &... →
existentialistmumbojumbo:
Under cover of the night around twelve police cars stopped five journalists when they were heading back to where they are staying in Chicago during the NATO summit. All five have been covering protests against the NATO summit for the past few days.
The five journalists included Luke Rudkowksi, who streams as @Lukewearechange, Tim Pool, who streams as @Timcast, Jeoff...
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“By Any Means Necessary!” Essential Documentary... →
aburningrage: (Read More)
“We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent to us. But we are not nonviolent with anyone who is violent with us.” Malcolm X
Malcolm X: His Life and Legacy
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
The Best of Malcolm X
Malcolm X: Speeches and Interviews (1960-65)
Malcolm X Interview at UC Berkeley (Oct. 11, 1963)
Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Debate (spliced...
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“What you see happening in Europe is really going to happen in December [in the...”
– U.S. Politicians Eye Europe Warily As Austerity Fatigue Ousts Governments
(via socialuprooting)
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LONG LIVE THE OAKLAND COMMUNE! →
givemeanarchy:
” […] In the rebel town of Oakland, we built a camp that was not so much the emergence of a new social movement, but the unprecedented convergence of preexisting local movements and antagonistic tendencies all looking for a fight with capital and the state while learning to take care of each other and our city in the most radical ways possible.
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This is what we began to call...
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A N T I F A ! (A): Unmasking the Anarchists:... →
paintingarevolution:
Just before noon, the explosive echo of a deployed tear gas canister rings through Frank Ogawa Plaza. Moments before, demonstrators — some wearing black bloc garb, others with their faces uncovered — had been munching on free cupcakes. Now they dash into the intersection to confront riot police.
It’s May 1. If you had somehow missed the banners and signs, or the panicky...
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WatchKeyhole Gardens in Lesotho
Dr. Debs Sustainable Living Keyhole Gardens
A great little video made in Lesotho, showing how a group of schoolchildren made a keyhole garden. The charity Send a Cow showed them how to make it and the children can now make their own at home and have more food.
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“In the political domain I would like to see people energized to think for...”
– Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
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Noam Chomsky: What's next for Occupy?
The Occupy movement built a global sense of community and put unprecedented inequality on the agenda. In an exclusive extract, the eminent US thinker asks where it goes now.
Professor Chomsky, the Occupy movement is in its second phase. Three of our main goals are to: 1) occupy the mainstream and transition from the tents and into the hearts and the minds of the masses; 2) block the repression...
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Occupy and May Day: Moving Forward As A Global...
San Diego Celebrates May Day With A Broad Coalition Of Unions And Community Organizations by Carlos Huerta San Diego, California, Pictures by Nicholas Paget-Clarke (Original article taken from www.inmotionmagazine.com, and can be found here)
It was almost 8 months ago, September 17, 2011, when New Yorkers took over the financial district where Wall Street is located and settled into Zuccotti...
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Occupy Jobs →
We are going to take jobs back from predatory Capitalists whose rapacious greed has impoverished nations, plundered our resources and polluted the planet. We will create jobs with dignity and democracy as worker cooperatives where the workers own the business, including the means of production, share the profits, and make decisions democratically.
“Young people need viable economic...
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Premiering May 1: Occupy Wall Street, the sequel
Protest group set for mass demonstrations against banks; ‘spring offensive’
The world’s biggest banks are working with one another and police to gather intelligence as protesters try to rejuvenate the Occupy Wall Street movement with May demonstrations, industry security consultants said.
Among 99 protest targets in midtown Manhattan on May 1 are JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM)...
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Private Prison Corporations Are Modern Day Slave...
The Corrections Corporation of America believes the economic crisis has created an opportunity to become landlord, as well as manager, of a chunk of the American prison gulag.
http://www.alternet.org/story/155199/Private_Prison_Corporations_Are_Modern_Day_Slave_Traders/ [[MORE]]
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Walden and Civil Disobedience (Penguin American... →
wc4tovh75:
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Nonviolence and It's Violent Consequences →
The ideology of nonviolence has come to play a major role in political struggles in the United States of America and, indeed, in nations around the world. Almost every organization seeking radical change in the USA has been targeted by organizers for the nonviolence movement. Organizations like Earth First!, which originally did not subscribe to the ideology of nonviolence, have since then...
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There have now been at least 7,106 arrests in 114...
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The People's Record: Banks cooperate to track... →
thepeoplesrecord:
The world’s biggest banks are working with one another and police to gather intelligence as protesters try to rejuvenate the Occupy Wall Street movement with May demonstrations, industry security consultants said.
Among 99 protest targets in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday are JPMorgan Chase and…
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FBI Wants Backdoors in Facebook, Skype and Instant... →
socialuprooting:
The FBI has been lobbying top internet companies like Yahoo and Google to support a proposal that would force them to provide backdoors for government surveillance, according to CNET.
The Bureau has been quietly meeting with representatives of these companies, as well as Microsoft (which owns Hotmail and Skype), Facebook and others to argue for a legislative proposal, drafted...
