Direct Action

Roundup of a month of strikes in Iran

pirate — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:38:32 -0400

Libcom.org July 23, 2008

A round-up of recent strike activity in Iran, including the car industry and agriculture. read more »

No Smooth Sailing for PNWER Elites: Marina Entrance Blocked by Activists

pirate — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:17:58 -0400

July 25, 2008 PGA North America

A group of activists blocked access to the Westin Bayshore marina on Wednesday July 23 to protest the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region (PNWER) summit. In doing so, they prevented PNWER delegates from boarding a 190-person luxury boat tour of the Vancouver harbour. Approximately 10 people stood with a banner reading People Not Profit! and prevented access to the luxury yacht though the public boardwalk.

Police arrived - surprisingly a bit late although the Westin Bayshore already had a relatively strong police and security presence - and threatened arrests, however given the tight timeframe that the PNWER delegates were on, the luxury boat tour was cancelled and the PNWER delegates were forced to retreat after about 20 minutes! read more »

Another Successful Eviction Blockade for Boston's Working Class Housing Movement!

pirate — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:52:16 -0400

Ainfos Sat, 19 Jul 2008

On the July 15th eviction blockade led by Paula Taylor and the City Life/ Vida
Urbana Bank Tenants Union ---- Today, Paula Taylor of the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, her family, friends, the City Life/ Vida Urbana (CLVU) Bank Tenants Union, and various community allies successfully resisted an eviction attempt by Countrywide Financial in another win for Boston's working class movement! Paula- with the bank tenant union and community allies by her side- is asking Countrywide to accept rent money instead of kicking her out on the street and keeping the property vacant. Paula was attacked by the foreclosure scandals sweeping the country, and is now offering money to rent what she once owned. read more »

How an Indigenous Community Defeated a Logging Giant

pirate — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:48:07 -0400

By Jessica Bell; June 23, 2008 - AlterNet

It was below zero degrees Fahrenheit on the night of Dec. 2, 2002, when sisters and young indigenous mothers Chrissy and Bonnie Swain from the Grassy Narrows First Nation drove from their reserve, located in the southern fringe of the vast Boreal Forest in northern Ontario, to the logging road just a few miles from their home. read more »

37 arrested at Australian climate protest

pirate — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:44:05 -0400

Sun Jul 13, 2008

SYDNEY (AFP) - Thirty-seven people were arrested at a climate change protest in Australia on Sunday when they blocked a railway line delivering coal, police said.

Organisers said as many as 1,000 people attended the protest march from Newcastle to the nearby Carrington coal terminal, where some demonstrators broke through a fence and chained themselves to a stationary coal train. read more »

Homeland Security Agents Seize 31 Computers Bound for Cuba at Texas Mexico Border

pirate — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:35:35 -0400

July 3, 2008

Pastors for Peace Caravan Threatened With Arrest for Exercising Their Right to Protest

Despite previous agreements, federal agents seized 31 computers from the
Pastors for Peace as they attempted to cross Pharr International Bridge
early this morning at the US-Mexico border.

The U.S. government has forced the issue by turning back on previous
actions and agreements" said Rev. Lucius Walker, Executive Director of
IFCO/Pastors for Peace. " They have intentionally provoked and harass us
he continued.

"We will not be intimidated. We have made every effort to be cooperative
and they have responded with aggression. These computers are the same read more »

Athens: Supermarket target of Robin Hood raid

pirate — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:19:19 -0400

ekathimerini.com July 1, 2008

Self-styled anarchists claimed responsibility yesterday for raiding a supermarket in the Athens neighborhood of Nea Smyrni and then distributing the stolen goods to shoppers at a fruit and vegetable market in the fourth such incident during the last month. A group of some 20 people, all wearing hoods or helmets, entered the Marinopoulos supermarket on Evdoxou Street, loaded up trolleys with food and simply walked out of the store unchallenged. read more »

Clothing company beating of Bangladeshi workers in Athens met with wildcat collective action

pirate — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:42:22 -0400

Libcom.org June 25, 2008

Bangladeshi workers in clothing sweatshop in Athens, Greece, were attacked by company thugs for refusing to work on Sunday. When their co-workers walked out in solidarity, the company fired 120 out of 180 of the working force. In response the workers have sealed the factory off forcing the company to withdraw the lay-offs and negotiate. read more »

Vietnam: 330 illegal strikes in six months

pirate — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:04:23 -0400

June 20th, 2008 Libcom.org

A total of 330 strikes have been recorded so far this year and all of them were illegal because they were not led by the trade union and didn’t follow the law, reported the Vietnam National Confederation of Labour at a conference in Hanoi on June 16-17. read more »

Climate change protesters hijack coal train

pirate — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:10:12 -0400

by Martin Wainwright guardian.co.uk Friday June 13, 2008 Link to video

Climate protesters hijack coal train heading for Britain's biggest power station, Drax, in North Yorkshire read more »