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Rechazo a las nuevas sentencias en el caso Atenco

“¡También exigimos seguridad contra el secuestro!”

El martes 26 de agosto manifestantes acompañaron a los abogados presentando una apelación contra las nuevas sentencias dictadas en el caso Atenco la semana pasada sin una sola prueba plena. El juez primero Alberto Cervantes, quien reconoció que la decisión sobre las sentencias “venía de allá arriba”, ha sido reemplazado. A la vez hay un aumento de hostigamiento contra el plantón fuera de la prisión. El Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra anuncia una serie de acciones.

Former Indymedia Journalist Among Ten Foreigners Detained in China

Former Boston Indymedia journalist and media activist, Bryan Conley, founder of grassroots media videoblog Alive in Baghdad, is one of six US citizens detained in China for covering actions of Students for Free Tibet during the Olympics. The other five pro-Tibet activists are Jeffrey Rae, Jeff Goldin, Michael Liss, Tom Grant, and James Powderly. On August 21, the Chinese government handed them and four other European activists a 10-day detention sentence.

Related: Statement by Eowyn Rieke, wife of Brian Conley | Interview with Eowyng Reike | Free Tibet 2008

Direct Action Shuts Down Heavy Industry Projects in Iceland

Iceland has a reputation for clean energy, and is usually the textbook example of clean, green geothermal energy. But recently, aluminium corporations ALCOA, RioTinto-Alcan and Century Aluminium are pushing for large scale, intensive geothermal development to power new smelters on the subartic island, destroying large tracts of silent, empty, undeveloped wilderness. And this is not enough. If all the heavy industry plans are executed, all major glacial rivers would also be dammed.

Saving Iceland is holding it's fourth direct action camp in the Icelandic wilderness. Over the last weeks, work on the Century Aluminum Helguvik smelter construction site was stopped for a day. Century's existing smelter as well as a steel factory were blockaded, holding up a shift change for several hours. A Reykjavik Energy geothermal drill site at Hellisheidi, being built for Century, was completely shut down for a day as activists locked to machines, climbed the drill and occupied the power control room. The national power company Landsvirkjun had it's office invaded, and it's CEO Fridrik Sophusson had his home visited. Saving Iceland nailed an eviction notice to his door. Landsvirkjun want to remove farmers from the Thjorsa river valley to build a number of dams to provide energy to a Rio Tinto Alcan smelter. In the north of Iceland, they are deep drilling geothermal boreholes for an ALCOA smelter in the north, affecting large tracts of wilderness. Outside Iceland, there were demonstrations at Icelandic embassies and consulates and the Glencore, ALCOA and Impregilo headquarters in Switzerland and Italy.

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UK Climate Camp Besieges Power Station

As the UK Camp for Climate Action 2008 managed to breach the security fences at Kingsnorth Power Station, despite a huge police presence, activists across the world are setting up similar camps and convergences to build resistance to the ever demanding fossil fuel industry and more importantly, to tackle the root causes of climate change, through direct action.

The Climate Camp in the UK took place in Kent this year, near Kingsnorth power station. Its owners (German owned EON) want to expand the plant and this would mean the first new coal fired power station in the UK for over 30 years. A site was occupied about a mile from the power station and although the police illegally confiscated a lot of essential materials for the camp (and raided it twice) they didn't manage to stop up to 2,000 from taking direct action against the development. People from across Europe and beyond joined the camp and took part in blockades, bannerdrops and pickets across the South East region. During the main day of action on 9th August, activists managed to breach both security fences at the power plant in an effort of olympic proportions which saw the plant besieged by land, sea and air.

Coverage of the UK camp: Indymedia UK | Full UK Climate Camp 2008 Coverage | Climate Camp Radio | Vision On TV daily news shows | the very latest: UK Climate Camp timeline

Climate Camps: UK | Belgium | Germany | Quebec | Australia | New Zealand | Climate Convergence US | Climate Convergence South East | Climate Convergence North East | Climate Convergence West

Collected features: Climate Camp: Kingsnorth Power Station Breached | Climate Camp: How The Police Radicalized An Entire Generation | Climate Camp: Down With the Eastside | Climate Camp Day 6: Action Spreads Across South East | Heathrow to Kingsnorth Climate Caravan 2008 | Climate Camp: Site Taken | Carry on Camping | Vandaag: Bestorming E.ON-kolencentrale UK (Nederlands) | Eco-activistas tomaron planta de carbon en Kingsnorth (Español)

Two Youth Murdered As Israel Tries To Suppress Ni'ilin Uprising

For almost 4 months residents of Ni'ilin Village in the occupied West Bank, along with their Israeli and international supporters, have been trying to defend their lands through grassroots popular resistance, which includes almost daily demonstrations, attempts to block bulldozers and clashes. After losing much of its land in 1948 and due to the massive construction of settlements on its lands since 1967, Ni'ilin is now left with merely 7,000 dunams (1,700 acres). 2,500 dunams (about 620 acres) of these lands are expected to be left isolated and effectively confiscated behind Israel's illegal segregation wall according to the current trajectory.

The Israeli army has employed severe and brutal violence in its attempt to suppress the Ni'ilin uprising, that has so far caused hundreds of injuries and has included arrests, the imposing of siege and curfew as collective punishment, the the shooting of a cuffed and blindfolded detainee, and most recently the cold blooded murders of ten year old Ahmed Mousa and 17 year old Ahmed Amireh who was mortaly injured on the eve of Mousa's funeral, and succumbed to his wounds five days later.

The village of Ni'ilin remains undeterred, and after three days of grieving over Ahmed Mousa, struggle struggle has already resumed. Villagers vowed to continue the struggle against the theft of their lands and their livelihood.

Fugitive Rice makes narrow escape in Auckland

United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a narrow escape from justice, with the assistance of the New Zealand Police, in Auckland on Saturday 26 July. The police can now consider themselves accessories to war crimes. Rice met with government leaders in Auckland but was chased by 150 protesters spurred on by a bounty of $10,000. They called for her arrest, under the Geneva Convention, for war crimes and for her role in authorising the use of torture.

Photos: [ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 ]
Links: Condi Must Go | Our World is Not For Sale | Uriohau: Haere Atu Condoleezza | TV3 Video Coverage
Rice Bounty: AUSA offers $5000 for citizen's arrest of Rice | AUSA to lodge police complaint over Rice visit | AUSA: Further Development Regarding Citizen's Arrest | VUWSA Doubles Bounty On Condy's Head

Supporters Mobilize as Mumia Abu-Jamal Appeals for New Trial

Last week, death row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal filed an appeal of a March 27 US Third Circuit Court ruling that rejected his bid for a new guilt-phase trial.

On the 4th of July in Philadelphia, over 75 supporters of Abu-Jamal gathered at the Liberty Bell, including NYC rappers Rebel Diaz (pictured), former Ossining NAACP President Sundiata Sadiq, Theresa Shoatz, and Pam Africa. [View Photos and Video Here] Issue #3 of Abu-Jamal-News was released, spotlighting Freedom Archives, this fall's CR10 conference in Oakland, CA, organizing to abolish the prison industrial complex, the NYC Jerchico March to the United Nations demanding freedom for all political prisoners and POWs, and updates on the cases of political prisoners Ruchell Magee, Hugo Pinell, Leonard Peltier, the San Francisco Eight, Kansas City Five, and Omaha Two. [View PDF Here.]

RELATED: 4th of July report by Betsey Piette; photos by Joe Piette | | New articles on The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal by Carolina Saldaña, Linn Washington Jr., Dissident Voice and radio shows Law and Disorder, Jazz and Justice, and KOWA | | Philadelphia events for Mumia and the MOVE 9 on Aug. 8 & 9 | | Online Video Series | | FreeMumia.com

4th Anniversary to Hague Ruling: Repression and Resistance Intensify

Four years after the International Court of Justice published an advisory ruling against Israel's Apartheid Wall, without a change on the ground, the Palestinian popular resistance intensifies in actions, courtrooms, and prisons.

In Bilin, Ramallah area, Israeli settlers and army expand illegal settlement on Bilin's land, in contempt of a ruling by Israel's High Court from more than a year ago, leaving Bilin residents to commence legal proceedings against profiting Canadian companies. Like other areas, Bilin has also seen an upsurge in army violence during weekly demonstrations aimed at the fence, a month ago Ibrahim Burnat was shot by three live bullets in the thigh, and is still in hospital.

Nilin village, neighboring Bilin, has been holding nearly daily demonstrations for several weeks and this week faced a full on siege (video) by Israel's army. Curfew and closure were imposed Friday to Tuesday by Israeli soldiers in an attempt to stop protests against annexation of the village's lands under the illegal excuse of needing to wall off a settler-only apartheid road that runs through the village deep in the West Bank. On Monday (video) and Tuesday (video) demonstrators broke the siege, then continued with demonstrations marking 4 years to the Hague ICJ ruling Wednesday and Thursday (video). Demonstrations are also being held in several other villages and towns, including: Dier Al Ghson in Tulkarem, Azzoun Atmeh and Jayyus in Qalqiliya, Beit Hanina in Jerusalem, Beit Iba in Nablus, and Al-Masara, Umm Salamuna, and Al-Khader in Bethlehem.

Among those spending these days in prison for participation in resistance is a Palestinian organizer from Beit Omar, Mousa Abu Maria, in administrative detention since April 11th. Demonstrations will continue tomorrow as well.

Appello internazionale per azioni di solidarietà e contro la repressione dei G8

Libertà per gli arrestati! Protestiamo contro lo stato di polizia e il summit dei capitalisti! Organizziamo azioni simultanee per sabato 12 luglio (ing) (giap)

Tre nostri amici sono stati ingiustamente arrestati il 5 luglio durante una manifestazione contro il summit dei G8. Uno degli arrestati (video, giap) è fra l'altro un attivista di indymedia ed è membro del G8 Media Network. La polizia ha usato una violenzta ingiustificata. Per esempio ha bloccato il furgone del sound system con la forza, [1] [2] [3] rompendo un vetro con un manganello (video, giap) ecc., e ne ha trascinato fuori il conducente. Questo avvenimento è solo un nuovo atto caratterizzante la brutalità della polizia giapponese, come riportato dai media indipendenti.

Mentre la gran parte dei media giapponesi si concentravano sul summit, a Osaka un attivista che si occupa dei senzatetto è stato arrestato il 4 luglio. Il motivo era quello di possedere un telefonino non registrato a suo nome. Il gruppo di cui è attivista aveva in programma di unirsi, durante le contestazioni, al workgroup sulla povertà e il lavoro della rete Couter G8 Action Network, ma non ha potuto visto che ha preferito stare vicino al compagno, e visto che un altro attivista del gruppo era già stato arrestato lo scorso mese per simili piccolezze burocratiche. Queste motivazioni sono cose di poco conto, ma hanno come ovvio effetto la soppressione del dissenso.

Denunciamo la repressione dalla polizia durante il corteo del 5 luglio e tramite la messa a tacere dell'attivista per i senzatetto, e domandiamo l'immediato rilascio per tutti. Il 12 luglio azioni di protesta simultanee verranno organizzate a Sapporo, Tokyo, Osaka, ecc. contro lo stato di polizia capitalista. Questo è un appello alla solidarietà internazionale! Organizzate azioni! Protestate contro gli ingiusti arresti, contro la violenza della polizia e contro il summit dei capitalisti.

July5th Relief Association for Sapporo Sound Demonstration (giap)in solidarietà con Indymedia japan.

VIDEO: cameraman arrested [file] | policemen smash window [file] | Indymedia activist arrested/Declare Independence
STATEMENTS: international activists | Lawyers (WATCH) | No Vox   G8 LINKS
G8 MEDIA: G8 Media Network [video] | No-G8 | Alt-G8 | IMC Japan | Teiko (ru) | J5 Solidarity (ja)

The Real Operation to "Rescue" Ingrid Betancourt and US Mercenaries

In order to understand the "rescue operation" of Ingrid Betancourt and the Northrop Grumman Corporation mercenaries who were released with her, it is necessary to piece together articles published in the media, filter the content and out of this is formed a true understanding of the facts of what happened here.

1. On June 3rd, Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba revealed that she possessed information that the government of Colombia was negotiating a deal with FARC to trade money for the release of Betancourt and the mercenaries. The official policy of the United States is that they don't "negotiate with terrorists," even as many leaders of Latin American countries accuse President Uribe of supporting the AUC paramilitary death squads and accuse the United States of providing safe harbor to known terrorists such as Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles.
   
   
2. Careful observers began to question the strange circumstances under which the "dramatic rescue" of Ingrid Betancourt happened. Some guys with Che Guevara t-shirts simply showed up and redirected them into another helicopter? If it were that easy, why didn't they do that years ago? The French media also found strange the fact that Betancourt didn't resemble the gaunt and hungry images we have been seeing in the media -- she seemed well-fed and healthy, as if she were being prepared for release.
   
   

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