Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 11:05:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: andrew robinson <ldxar1-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: AUT: On the barricades:  global resistance roundup



COSTA RICA:  General strike planned

http://www.icftu.org/displaydocument.asp?Index=991220410&Language=EN

 

MEXICO:  Protests over mayor’s dismissal

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/07/31/international1651EDT6215.DTL

 

QUETTA, PAKISTAN:  Labour protests planned

http://www.dawn.com/2004/07/26/local23.htm

 

INDIA:  Continuing agitation among tea planters

http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=10&theme=&usrsess=1&id=49999

Vizag port paralysed by strike

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/006200407282132.htm

 

MINDANAO:  Teachers go on strike and win concessions, reinstatements

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/net/2004/07/29/ateneo.de.davao.teachers.end.strike.html

http://www.mindanews.com/2004/07/28nws-ateneo.html

http://www.mindanews.com/2004/07/23nws-ateneo.html

 

HONG KONG:  “A scuffle” occurs when workers storm a battery plant over poisoning of workers.  Workers overpower security guards to enter the building.

http://www.asianlabour.org/archives/002307.php#more

 

INDIA:

BANGALORE:  Simultaneous protests cause traffic disruption; oinkers not happy

http://sify.com/cities/bangalore/fullstory.php?id=13535621

MCD teachers lobby over pay, against harassment

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=794195

Protests against human rights violations in Haryana

http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=93534

 

NEPAL:  Strike over rebel arrests shuts down central Nepal

http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=4706

 

IRAN:  Teachers protest detention of colleagues

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_3166.shtml

Journalists protest closure of newspapers

http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=1F8A4791-5817-44EA-AA813E6DB9200F33

 

ISRAEL:  Port strike limps along

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=66553

Strikers are defying court orders to return to work

http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=66483

The Zionist state union Histadrut admits it has lost control of the striking workers

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/457429.html

“Anarchy in the ports” (If only!!!)

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/455505.html

 

SOUTH AFRICA:  Workers’ protest brings city to a standstill

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=594&art_id=qw1091096822962B255

Bosses’ bullying helps workers overcome racial antagonisms

http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=553&fArticleId=2160265

http://www.bday.co.za/bday/content/direct/1,3523,1669411-6094-0,00.html

 

NAMIBIA:  Ramatex backs down before strike threat by Filipino workers

http://allafrica.com/stories/200407270290.html

 

NIGERIA:  Indefinite public sector strike over new bureaucracy

http://www.thisdayonline.com/news/20040803sta01.html

Picket over airline job losses

http://www.thisdayonline.com/news/20040727news05.html

 

SWEDEN:  Fascist leader confronted

http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos336/ainfos14323.html

Activists mobilise to chase off homophobes

http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos336/ainfos14285.html

 

AUSTRALIA:  Protest against joint US-Aus training area

http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newstories/RANewsStories_1166482.htm

Filipinos protest against foreign minister Downer

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,10295823%255E1702,00.html

Ambulance strikers under attack

http://au.news.yahoo.com/040802/21/q5ie.html

Vigil at Perth detention centre

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/591/591p6e.htm

 

NEW ZEALAND:  People with disabilities protest against airline

http://www.odt.co.nz/cgi-bin/getitem?date=30Jul2004&object=LS93580590LG&type=html

Arrests at Parliament after flag burning protest by peace activists

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_politics_story_skin/439104%3fformat=html

 

NEW CALEDONIA:  Strikes close down docks, airport

http://pidp.eastwestcenter.org/pireport/2004/August/08-03-04.htm

 

CANADA:  Anti-fascists force Nazis to retreat

http://resist.ca/story/2004/7/28/71130/7530

Metropolitan Hotel strikers victimised – AGAIN

http://www.metropolitanhotelsworkers.org/emily_th_3.htm

Border guards plan to stop collecting customs and taxes as part of protest

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000082&sid=aQUHria.h0qA&refer=canada

Man demanding education money scales crane

http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/news/montreal/story.html?id=3ae1ba3c-95dc-4f1e-a84a-d42b71fc9208

The world’s first unionised WalMart?

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/business/9304442.htm

 

US:

Anti-Bush protest in Springfield, Missouri

Police suddenly decide to force Bush opponents (but not supporters) back from the street, leading to anger

Opponents with tickets were not allowed to enter and were threatened with arrest if they argued; two were arrested for “not moving quickly enough”

http://www.joplinindependent.com/display_article.php/jcollins1091290323

Bus tour recreates Freedom Summer

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBDHPUYBXD.html

GOLD BEACH:  Timber sales blockade

http://newswire.indymedia.org/en/newswire/2004/01/807085.shtml

http://newswire.indymedia.org/en/newswire/2004/01/806939.shtml

Mass protest by fat activists

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/03/1091476446084.html?oneclick=true

Gang may be planning uprising against cops over prison brutality

(click on “outside US” to bypass registration)

http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/news-2/1091437876207920.xml

Environmentalists salute Cheney with chainsaws

http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0804/163358.html

Sudan protest – Christian leaders arrested

http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_04083prot.shtml

Protesters rally against needle exchange ban

http://www.thedailyitemoflynn.com/news/view.bg?articleid=6802

Protesters decry immigrant roundups

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-nj--immigrantsprotest0801aug01,0,6918389.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire

Primate centre protested

http://www.davisenterprise.com/articles/2004/08/02/news/152new2.txt

Feminists protest against unnecessary hysterectomies

http://www.thewmurchannel.com/news/3601111/detail.html

Truckers protest against conditions at yards

http://www.etrucker.com/apps/news/article.asp?id=44509

Problems continue over fascist anti-protest law in Sacramento

http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/10214079p-11134586c.html

Fair Bluff protest over alleged racial attack by store owner

http://www.wect.com/Global/story.asp?S=2104186&nav=2gQcPIvB

Protest against coyote killings

http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/news/3579790/detail.html

Protest against Cheney in Portland

http://www.dailyvanguard.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/07/28/41073d26c409a

Activists arrested for wearing underwear

http://www.savannahnow.com/stories/073004/2337816.shtml

Teamsters picket cemeteries

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=509&ncid=509&e=33&u=/ap/20040730/ap_on_bi_ge/union_cemeteries_1

Sugar lockout sends ripples through local community

http://www.workdayminnesota.org/view_article.php?id=71d96ed0298e5d3dbe3bfd654b48da0d

 

UK:  East Anglia workers force giant company to back down with strike threat

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/295548.html

Marks and Spencer demos still going strong – and getting stronger

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/295539.html

Braintree: protesters demand baby care unit at hospital

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/295545.html

Sheffield:  bus strike

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/295294.html

Pictures from Critical Mass, 30th July

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/07/295601.html

Two-day strike by 90,000 low-paid civil servants

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=1257

Labour reports

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=1250

Rally in London against fundamentalist attacks on workers in Pakistan

http://www.marxist.com/Asia/pak_picket_london0704.html

Protest against Chinese appearance at Scottish tattoo

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3282475

Protests outside asylum prisons in Salford, Dungavel, Harmondsworth

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/s/125/125619_prison_targeted_in_asylum_protest.html

http://www.theherald.co.uk/politics/21117.html

Rooftop protest by child access campaigners

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3285982

Trade unionists call for beer boycott

http://www.sundayherald.com/43669

Police close down Marks and Spencer after Zionists attack pickets

POLICE VIOLENTLY PUSH ILL PEOPLE AND IGNORE ZIONIST ATTACKS

One protester is arrested

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/s/124/124992_shoppers_caught_in_demo_fury.html

Civil servants take strike action which crashes the tax computer system

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=1335

Reclaim the Streets Edinburgh

http://www.scotland.indymedia.org/feature/display/660/index.php

Greyhound racing targeted by demonstrators

http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0150swarksnews/tm_objectid=14463429&method=full&siteid=50003&headline=dog-track-visitors-met-with-protest-name_page.html

 

BRITISH-OCCUPIED IRELAND:  Uprising by Loyalists after police raid

http://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=48656&pt=n

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3278371


		
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