Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 11:02:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: andrew robinson <ldxar1-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: AUT: On the barricades:  Phillipines, Korea, India, Slovakia, Australia &more



PHILLIPINES:  Protesters stand their ground against police at a rally to protest at the president’s State of the Nation address.

http://www.indymedia.org/en/2004/07/111543.shtml

 

KOREA:  Peace protesters clash with riot cops over Iraq deployment

Hundreds of activists tried to march on a military airport and near Parliament

Activists are vowing to block deployments to Iraq

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5AB9BE19-5BBE-4AC1-BEC9-8845827EF8FD.htm

http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newstories/RANewsStories_1167382.htm

 

INDIA:  Angry villagers block roads for days over Iraq kidnappings

Relatives of the kidnap victims are among those protesting

Protesters have threatened to torch government villages unless hostages are released

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2004/8/1/latest/18249Indianvil&sec=latest

http://abcasiapacific.com/news/stories/asiapacific_stories_1165896.htm

http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitems.asp?ID=IEP20040726072247&Title=States&Topic=0&

Protesters briefly kidnap foreign tourists

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_31-7-2004_pg7_8

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1091182986127&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724

http://www.whnt19.com/Global/story.asp?S=2110663

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/212/world/Angry_Indian_villagers_detain_:.shtml

 

INDIA:  Police lathi-charge protesters resisting slum clearances

Protesters throw stones at cops and occupy, trash government offices

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=798197

 

MANIPUR:  Protests continue: protesters are demanding the repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act which allows army attacks in restive provinces

Hundreds break through police cordons and march on a courthouse in Lamlong

Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets, hospitalising 15 protesters

Other “incidents” flare up across the city

Sit-downs organised in Wangoi bazaar, at Bampn Kampu and in Nupilal

Schoolchildren stage a musical protest

One man slashed his hands at the gate of the Assam Rifles

http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=3.12.020804.aug04

http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=12.12.310704.jul04

http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=14.16.310704.jul04

http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=4.12.290704.jul04

http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=4.15.280704.jul04

http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=3.15.280704.jul04

http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=2.12.270704.jul04

 

KASHMIR:  Protests by parents of the disappeared

http://www.paknews.com/flash.php?id=9&date1=2004-07-26

More protests against killings by Indian forces

http://www.pakistantimes.net/2004/07/29/kashmir5.htm

 

SLOVAKIA:  Students protest against government “reform”

(pictures)

http://www.poplatky.kis.sk/foto/protest/page_01.htm

 

QUITO, ECUADOR:  Americas Social Forum

Quito paralysed for an hour as protesters block roads

Mass march to mark the forum is attacked three times by cops with teargas

http://newswire.indymedia.org/en/newswire/2004/07/807102.shtml

 

AUSTRALIA:  Pickets fight off attempts to get scabs and goons through picket lines

Bosses shipped in scabs to try to break a miners’ strike in the outback town of Yandi

Scabs had to sleep rough because the residential area is inside the pit

Two workers were hit by a car on the first day of the strike

Workers are now back at work after negotiations

The strike is over pay inequalities unfavourable to unionised workers

http://workers.labor.net.au/231/news1_desert.html

 

FLORIDA:  Protesters shut down Baywalk in a protest over plans to close the area to protesters, at the whims of the bosses

http://www.legitgov.org/front_stpete_schiffler_072504.html

 

JAPAN:  Protest delays building at US base in Okinawa

Protesters have been staging a sit-in for 100 days!!!!

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=306742

 

RUSSIA:  Hundreds protest against welfare “reforms”

Up to 2000 turned out for the protest

Several protesters stormed the health ministry; others threw petards and fireworks

Some protesters blocked a road by handcuffing themselves together

Protesters were confronted by riot cops and some were arrested and beaten

The rally was called by the Communist Party and included many CP supporters as well as World War II veterans, Chernobyl survivors, human rights activists and poor, ill and elderly people

Some protesters tried to barricade themselves into the health ministry

(one of the participating groups, the National Bolsheviks, looks rather nazi…)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3528644.stm

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2004/08/6a955707-b57c-4f3e-9d65-d5930ba3a52d.html

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/08/02/protests.shtml

http://www.iht.com/articles/531857.html

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1084316&PageNum=0

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/07/28/leftists.shtml

Police hospitalise two liberal activists at an “unauthorised” rally

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/07/27/yabloko.shtml

 

KOREA:  Migrant workers protest; clashes with cops

http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/24231/index.php

 

BULGARIA:  “Many hundreds” gather in Sofia to protest against the presence of Bulgarian troops in Karbala, Iraq, as a US official visits the Bulgarian government

http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos336/ainfos14329.html

 

GREECE:  Prisoners on hunger strike after the state steals their days of leave during the Olympics; anarchist solidarity demo takes pigs by surprise

http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos25938.html

Pictures:  http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=250534

 

FARNBOROUGH:  Air show protests

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/295407.html

 

 

ITALY:  Solidarity demo with arrested anarchists

http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos336/ainfos14238.html

 

FRANCE:  Protesters trash GM crops

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3924623.stm

 

BOSTON:  Angry tenants take on landlords

“Housing is a right” – and the Boston Angry Tenants are preparing to take direct action to defend it

http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos336/ainfos14327.html

CHICAGO:  Residents resist land grab

http://chicago.indymedia.org/feature/display/44446/index.php

Protest against Bush in Springfield

http://springfield.news-leader.com/opinions/today/0803-Bushrallyw-147362.html

Protest against Bush in Grand Rapids

http://newswire.indymedia.org/en/newswire/2004/01/807240.shtml

 

KENYA:  School shut after protest against harsher marking

Protesters destroyed property and staged a strike

http://allafrica.com/stories/200407290569.html

 

KOREA:  Transport workers refuse to transport troops to Iraq

http://www.iraq-news-net.de/?/news/news/543/

State tries to smash oil strike

http://money.cnn.com/2004/08/02/news/international/lg_caltex.reut/index.htm

KOREA:  Ssanyong strike ends

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/biz/200407/kt2004072816114711910.htm

Subway strike ends, apparently due to splits in the union

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200407/kt2004072516054110440.htm

 

CHINA:  30 villagers hurt in clash with cops over land sales

Villagers were reportedly trying to prevent the arrest of protest leaders

http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=774B2CAF-3040-45C2-967AC19DF9163D7F

Protesters march on hospital to protest AIDS infections, treatment; 2 arrested

Protesters reportedly entered a hospital and carried away equipment

http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=62F74D40-A8EF-4218-8644DB65E9D5BB39

http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newstories/RANewsStories_1166673.htm

Unfairly sacked workers in Inner Mongolia demand their jobs back

Dozens have been forcibly returned from Beijing by police

http://www.china-labour.org.hk/iso/article.adp?article_id=5620&article_id=5620

 

SOUTH AFRICA:  Students who burnt down classrooms succeed in winning a fee cut

But not until after the university tried to evict thousands of students

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1563384,00.html

 

COLORADO:  Prison transfers out of the state are stopped!  Victory to the insurgents!

But the scumbag screws still have the place on lockdown and are stopping visits

http://www.wkrn.com/Global/story.asp?S=2096762

 

SHEFFIELD:  Evil chairman uses illegitimate powers to ban protesters from a football ground

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/headlinenews?id=305780&cc=5739


		
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