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WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER, 9.30AM, THAMES MAGISTRATES' COURT, BOW ROAD E3

Two activists who occupied the offices of Windrush communications – the organizer of a string of Iraq-related business conferences – will challenge the legality of privatization measures imposed on Iraq by the US and UK
at their trial next Wednesday. A motley collection of pirates, carrying a banner saying ‘STOP THE CORPORATE PLUNDER OF IRAQ’ will be outside the court from 9.30am to help draw attention to the case.

Steven Barnes (30) and Ewa Jasiewicz (27) – who were arrested for
‘Aggravated Trespass’ – during an occupation of Windrush’s offices last December – will argue that they were attempting to prevent a crime, namely the illegal sell-off of Iraqi assets. This case represents the first ever legal challenge to the economic reforms imposed on Iraq.
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A mislead gay and lesbian movement mobilizes against Iran at the height of conflict between the West and the Teheran regime.
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FESTIVAL ANTI-CRISE: La seconde édition du "Festival Anti-Crise" se déroulera le samedi 10 septembre 2005, au Zico House (Sanayeh).
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I just left New Orleans a couple hours ago. I traveled from the apartment I was staying in by boat to a helicopter to a refugee camp. If anyone wants to examine the attitude of federal and state officials towards the victims of hurricane Katrina, I advise you to visit one of the refugee camps.
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A request is being put out to have Cat Stevens do a benefit concert for survivors of the storm, Katrina, in New Orleans Louisiana. The email is after this header. One of the saddest pictures I ever saw was a child screaming with blood on her hands. It reminded me of the deepest horrors of my childhood.
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Tomorrow the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will - concerning Iran - report the figures below. The question of course is: with Iran under daily control, who are the criminals within the European Union advocating more war, and who profits* from it?
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It was a rather unfortunate day when we chose this particular area to establish our small businesses as shop keepers in our capital city Baghdad. We never predicted that there will come a time when our neighborhood will be inflicted upon by the presence of a dangerous entity that will someday suffocate our lives and affect whatever left of our minimal incomes in this drastic way.
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The Block slashed their incomes

It was a rather unfortunate day when we chose this particular area to establish our small businesses as shop keepers in our capital city Baghdad. We never predicted that there will come a time when our neighborhood will be inflicted upon by the presence of a dangerous entity that will someday suffocate our lives and affect whatever left of our minimal incomes in this drastic way.

Our small cluster of shops is located very close to the Italian embassy in Baghdad. A few months ago due to the increasing security concern all over Iraq, the embassy without consent placed large concrete blocks all around it completely blocking the way to our shops as well. Displaying a little concern for the poor shop keepers a path of one meter was left between the shops and the blocks to allow people to visit these shops. This big gesture of generosity soon turned into irritated customers, who seized to come to our shops due to the two security guards the embassy ordered to stand at the entrance of this one meter path and check all our customers walking in to buy our offerings. This blockage has declined our customer base to less than half and our already war stricken lives are on a continuous decline. With this huge decrease in our income not only us but our families are suffering as well.

Given our poor situation we would like to raise a question according to the principles of human rights, especially the right of work: Who gave the Italian embassy the right to cut our incomes and the incomes of our employees???

We met the security officer at the Embassy, but he did not have any solution to this problem! The matter did not seem to affect him at all!! We tried to submit a case in front of the Iraqi Authorities in court. But the inaccessibility to authorities prevented us.

To our Italian Friends… we would like to say "you know very well that any diplomat or a diplomatic mission is a guest in the host country where it serves. The diplomats should at least show some respect to the people of their host country.

In the end we don't want only our rights but we demand a compensation for the period the blocks were inflicted upon us in addition to the removal of the blocks.

The Names of shop keepers

1. Ali kidwa Omed
2. Khalil khour yazdin
3. Ammar abdulsattr
4. Amin Samwa
5. dilwar Khalil khidzir
6. Shukur Mahmmod Nasrat Haji
7. Adil Fadhil
8. Suliaman Haji
9. Issam Sabah
10. Lanaa Sony Hana
11. Idwa Breem
12. Dawood Silmin
13. Nail Nathir Butrus
14. Isam Sabah

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Listen to an interview with Leila Hatoum staff writer at Lebanon's Daily Star newspaper, the largest English Daily in the Middle East. This interview focuses on the economic policies of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who was assassinated in downtown Beirut in February 2005.
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القبض على الرئيس حسني مبارك في شرم الشيخ
محمد عبد المجيد,

طائر الشمال
أوسلو في 29 أغسطس 2005

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Workers stage Qatar's first-ever strike
tamba,

DOHA: About 600 foreign construction workers have gone on strike in Qatar's first official labour dispute since the Gulf state amended its labour laws last year.
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Reflections on the VI Declaration of the Lacandona Jungle and the new Latin Amer
Cuban Libertarian Movement,

* The Cuban Libertarian Movement (CLM; in Spanish: Movimiento Libertario Cubano - MLC) presents for collective debate its reflections on the declarations made by the EZLN (the Zapatista rebels) in July 2005 in the state of Chiapas, Mexico.
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The path to peace.
Jaap den Haan.,

Pax Cultura.
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معتقلون صحراويون يواصلون اضرابهم عن الطعام
.,

السبت 27 أغسطس

اعلنت الجمعية المغربية لحقوق الانسان (مستقلة) في الرباط ان ثلاثين معتقلا صحراويا واصلوا اضرابهم عن الطعام الذي بدأوه في الثامن من اب/اغسطس في سجون العيون (كبرى مدن الصحراء الغربية) واغادير والدار البيضا.

وقال المصدر ان هؤلاء المعتقلين ومن بينهم علي سالم تامك وهو مغربي يطالب علنا باستقلال الصحراء الغربية، كانوا اعتقلوا اثر تظاهرات رافقتها مواجهات مع قوات الامن في مدينة العيون نهاية ايار/مايو الماضي.

وفي 11 اب/اغسطس، اعلن ادارة السجون في المغرب ان "بعض" السجناء الصحراويين ينفذون اضرابا عن الطعام في سجن العيون ولكنها لم توضح ما اذا كان الامر يتعلق بسجناء الحق العام او مناضلين من اجل الاستقلال.

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Release Borhan Dyvargar immediately
I-Mad,

Urgent action needed to save the life of a well known Iranian
Labour activist

25 Aug 2005

read more:
http://www.uuiraq.org/english/206.htm
http://www.workersliberty.org/comment/reply/4658
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Bush's Obscene Tirades Rattle White House Aides
FPF-fwd.: Doug Thompson - Capitol Hill Blue,

“I’m not meeting with that goddamned bitch,” Bush screamed at aides who suggested he meet with Cindy Sheehan, the war-protesting mother whose son died in Iraq. “She can go to hell as far as I’m concerned!”

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أن تتظاهر يعني أنك إرهابي كافر منحل وسكير...
زينب غصن,

على جسر أو كوبري الجامعة الذي يوصل بين منطقتين من القاهرة هما وسط البلد والجيزة تقع بناية محصنة. هنا العمارة التي يتحدث عنها عادل إمام في فيلمه الأخير وتقوم فيها السفارة الاسرائيلية. طبعا لأي زائر عادي لا يشنق عنقه للنظر إلى أعلى العمارة لرؤية العلم، لن يعرف أنه يمر أمام السفارة الاسرائيلية في القاهرة.

لكن عادل إمام أخبر الجميع بمكان وجودها من خلال فيلمه الجديد. لكن ما لم يخبره الفيلم أنه ومنذ مدة قليلة قامت على الجهة الثانية من الجسر وفي البناية المقابلة > ساكنة أميركية بوضع علمي فلسطين ومصر على شرفتها... طبعا العلمان ما زالا صامدين فمرتكبة هذا العمل تحصنها جنسيتها...

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