West Park Gathering For Peace in Norwich

A gathering of dedicated folks who meet every Saturday at 12:00 noon to 1:00 PM. We've been protesting the US invasion of Iraq since October of 2002.

We meet in front of the Chenango County Courthouse, facing Rt 12.

Please join us!

Location:
West Park, Norwich, NY, courthouse side of Rt 12.

Organizer:

Giornata internazionale in solidarieta' con il popolo Basco

GIORNATA INTERNAZIONALE in SOLIDARIETA' CON IL POPOLO BASCO
SABATO 23 FEBBRAIO - ore 15.30 - Piazza CORDUSIO

EUSKAL HERRIA: DEMOCRAZIA O GUERRA?

La volontà del governo spagnolo di non entrare nel merito dei contenuti politici durante il processo di dialogo e negoziazione, svoltosi con rappresentanti della sinistra patriottica basca (il partito Batasuna), ha minato e poi distrutto il dialogo stesso e il processo democratico in Euskal Herria. Il governo Zapatero ha optato, per l'ennesima volta, per la via repressiva contro i Paesi Baschi nel complesso e, in special modo, contro la sinistra patriottica con l'attuazione di un escalation repressiva senza precedenti.

A giugno del 2007 è stato arrestato il segretario del partito indipendentista e socialista Batasuna Arnaldo Otegi; successivamente sono stati arrestati i delegati della Mesa Nacional di Batasuna (la direzione del partito); poi la condanna e l’incarcerazione, con pene elevatissime (più di 500 anni di carcere in totale), per tutti gli attivisti politici, sociali e per alcuni giornalisti che lavoravano in periodici e giornali della sinistra basca all'interno del processo denominato “18/98”. Lo stesso governo Zapatero permette la tortura selvaggia all'interno dei commissariati delle varie polizie presenti sul territorio basco, come pratica comune per estorcere informazioni o false dichiarazioni, ed infine - solo ultimo in fase temporale - l’arresto di P.Barrena e P. Urrutia e la messa fuori legge dei due partiti (EA/ANV Azione Nazionalista Basca e EHAK Partito Comunista delle Terre Basche) che, guidati dallo stesso Barrera e Urrutia, si apprestavano a presentare le liste alle prossime elezioni politiche del 9 Marzo che avrebbero rappresentato la sinistra indipendentista, patriottica e comunista per la popolazione basca.

Lo stato spagnolo è cosciente del fatto che la sinistra indipendentista basca è uscita rafforzata alla fine del processo di negoziazione e questo perché è stato chiaro che Batasuna ha tentato di usare tutto quello che poteva essere fruttuoso e democratico per questo percorso lasciando palesemente capire chi è che si sottrae ad un accordo politico basato su livelli minimi di democrazia. Il governo spagnolo ha condotto il processo con la sola intenzione di indebolire il movimento indipendentista continuando, seppur allora presente una tregua da parte di E.T.A., ad incarcerare, torturare e reprimere il popolo basco, un governo che fondamentalmente nega il diritto di esprimersi come popolo ai baschi.

Per far fronte alla fermezza del popolo basco e dei suoi rappresentanti politici lo stato spagnolo ha attuato una nuova strategia atta a distruggere la dignità di questo popolo, contro chi difende l’idea che si può arrivare alla risoluzione di questo conflitto andando alla radice del problema e quindi affermare il diritto di decisione e autodeterminazione, nonché il riconoscimento di Euskal Herria come Stato.
La sinistra patriottica è l’unica che ha presentato al tavolo di negoziazione una proposta reale di superamento del conflitto e che ha dichiarato inequivocabilmente “la volontà di mettere fine alla lotta armata e di ripetere in tutti gli angoli del mondo che in Euskal Herria la pace continua ad essere possibile. Tenderemo sempre la mano per avere una pace basata sulla democrazia. Ma che nessuno pensi che siamo disposti a rinunciare ai nostri ideali politici, perché ci troveranno sempre con il pugno alzato”.

Per tutto questo invitiamo tutti i compagni e le organizzazioni politiche a mostrare tutta la loro indignazione davanti a questa brutale offensiva repressiva partecipando solo con bandiere basche

alla GIORNATA INTERNAZIONALE DI MOBILITAZIONE
IN SOLIDARIETA' AL POPOLO BASCO
SABATO 23 FEBBRAIO - ORE 15,30 - PRESIDIO in Piazza Cordusio

La comunità’ KURDA solidarizza attivamente con la causa del popolo basco e partecipa al presidio per evidenziare la lotta di liberazione del popolo kurdo contro la repressione, per la fine dei bombardamenti, per la liberazione di Ocalan, contribuendo così a definire una giornata unitaria di mobilitazione per il diritto all’autodeterminazione dei popoli con un

CORTEO che partirà dal presidio (P.zza Cordusio) alle ore 18,00
per recarsi al consolato Turco con termine in piazza Duomo
Invitiamo tutti e tutte a partecipare dietro lo striscione unitario della rete AMICI E AMICHE DI EUSKAL HERRIA:

ASKATASUNA

Euskal Herriko Lagunak /Amici e amiche di Euskal Herria
eh-lagunak-AT-gnumerica.org

Location:

Larunbatean, arratsaldeko 20:00etan, manifestaldia burutuko dugu plaza biribiletik abiatuta. 7Katu Aurrera !!

7-Katu Gaztetxeak eta Bilboko Okupazioa Mugimenduaren (BOM) manifestatzeko deia luzatu dute.

Sare Antifaxistatik, Euskal Antifaxistei dei egiten diegu manifestaziora joateko eta gure gaztetxeekiko eraso faxistak salatzeko.
Noiz : larunbatean, hilak 23
Non : Bilboko plaza biribiletik abiatuta.
Ordua : Arratsaldeko 20tan

Desalojorik ez !! un desalojo otra okupacion !!
Auzo bat, herri bat, Gaztetxe bat !!
Gaztetxeak defenda ditzagun !!!
OKUPAZIOA ETA ERRESISTENTZIA ANTIFAXISTA !!

Gure Askatasunaren Alde
Duintasunagatik: Faxismo, Gehiagorik Ez !!
Erresistentzia Antifaxista !!

SARE ANTIFAXISTA -- Antifaxismoa / Antifascismo / Antifascisme
Euskal Herriko Antifaxistaren Taldea.

BLOG : sareantifaxista.blogspot.com/
E-MAIL: ANTIFAXISTA-AT-terra.es

* LEE Y DIFUNDE ...............Kontrainformazio Antifaxista

100% ANTIFAXISTA - 100% ANTIARRAZISTA.
OROIMENA, DUINTASUNA ETA BORROKA...
KAPITALISMOA AKATU !!!

Location:
Non : Bilboko plaza biribiletik abiatuta.

Glasgow May Day planning meeting

This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the spectacular events of the 1968 Paris uprising. May and June of that year saw over 9 million French workers on strike allied with rebelling students of Nanterre and other universities.
May Day itself is of course an international workers holiday in commemoration of the Anarchists executed in Chicago during the struggle for the 8 hour day.
The struggles fought by the workers and students of France and the executed Anarchists of Chicago continue to this day. Capitalism still runs roughshod over the workers of this world, it destroys our environment and turns our homes, the towns and cities where we live into glass fronted temples of greed fit only to shop in. We want a world we can live in. Not where we are a mere source of labour and profit for the wealthy few.
For this reason our May Day celebration and Protest should be bigger and better than ever.
If you are interested in making this years May Day bigger and better than ever please come along to Mono, Kings Court, Glasgow on the 23rd of Febuary. We will meet inside at 4p.m. Look out for the May Day sign.

For more info on the Paris uprising see

libcom.org/history/1968-the-may-june-uprising-in-france

For more on the origins of May Day

libcom.org/history/articles/mayday-haymarket-martyrs

Location:
Mono, Kings Court, Glasgow

Talk by Keith Mann (Author of 'From Dusk till Dawn') and screening of Behind the Mask

Talk by Keith Mann (Author of 'From Dusk till Dawn') and screening of Behind the Mask
23rd Feburary, 7.30pm Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh, 17 West Montgomery Place, Edinburgh EH7 5HA

See edinburghfurfreecity.co.uk/events.php

Location:
Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh, 17 West Montgomery Place, Edinburgh EH7 5HA

Cost: FREE

Organizer: varda.mehrotra-AT-gmail.com

URL: http://edinburghfurfreecity.co.uk/events.php

A global day of Protest to End the Gaza Siege

*The slow genocide is still under way in Gaza ! Act Now ! *

February 23th.. A global day of Protest to End the Gaza Siege!

*Free Gaza! *

We were all pleased to see a new wall tear down, but unlike the Berlin Wall,
this does not mean that the occupation is over and Gazans are free.

Egypt closed the border back and the 5 days of freedom the Gazans
courageously allowed themselves by demolishing the walls of their prison
didn't allow them to erase 6 months of blockade, without medicines, without
drinking water, without electricity, without fuel, without food balanced,
without freedom.

The mainstream media reported that Israel will resume its fuel deliveries to
Gaza, but they forget to mention that it will deliver only 20% of the amount
necessary to the Gaza needs.

Israel has also announced that on February 7, it would reduce by 5% its
electricity supplies to Gaza where power is severely lacking.

In Gaza, the humanitarian situation is still dramatic:

86 patients have been killed by Israeli Occupation due to Closure!

1562 patients are in need of treatment outside Gaza Strip and 322 patients
have reach a critical stage. If the siege continues, 470 cancer patients
will die.

107 class of basic medicines are depleted from Gaza Strip and 97 sorts of
medicines are on the verge of depletion

The hospitals treat only urgent cases due to the lack of power and fuel for
back-up generators

*The mobilization must go on. *

We must pursue the work and ask this inhuman siege, which constitutes a war
crime involving our governments, be lifted.

Ask your MPs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the European Union, your
representatives to the United Nations how they can sleep the night when
people are dying due to their decision

Ask them if the Palestinian genocide is the only way they found to solve the
Jewish issue.

Get out in the streets, demonstrate, and organize candlelight vigils in
solidarity with the people of Gaza.

Show to your government that you do not agree to be witnesses of that slow
genocide without saying anything

Take part in the global effort organized on February 23th calling for the
End of the Gaza Siege!

Free Gaza!

The action of protests will be across European, Arab, southern and Latin
American countries.

Contact us, the Popular Committee Against Siege in Gaza (PCAS), and let us
know what you are preparing for this global action!

Please, forward this call around you.

We need your help to Free Gaza !

Freegaza.ps-AT-gmail.com

www.freegaza.ps




--
Popular Committee Against Siege(PCAS),
PCAS Manager,
Sam AK
Gaza - Palestine
Mob:00972598873055
Freegaza.ps-AT-gmail.com
Website: www.freegaza.ps

اللجنة الشعبية لمواجهة الحصار
غزة- فلسطين

Location:

Encounter Point screening in Jaffa

אילו איבדת את היקר לך מכל
אילו ישבת בכלא עשר שנים
אילו נאלצת לעזוב את ביתך
מה היית עושה?

סיפורם של אנשים שמסרבים לשבת בחיבוק ידיים



והתיאטרון הערבי-עברי ביפו Just Vision
מזמינים אתכם להקרנת הסרט התיעודי

"נקודת מוצא"
"Encounter Point"


לאחר ההקרנה נציגי ההפקה והמשתתפים יענו על שאלות

האירוע יתקיים בתיאטרון הערבי-עברי ביפו
רחוב מפרץ שלמה 10, יפו העתיקה (ליד החמאם)
במוצ"ש 23 פברואר 2008
בשעה 20:30


כרטיסים ניתן לרכוש בקופת התיאטרון

לפרטים נוספים:
Info-AT-arab-hebrew-theatre.org.il
03-5185563

www.justvision.org/he/about_the_filmעוד אודות הסרט אפשר לקרוא ב-


IF YOU LOST YOUR LOVED ONES TO VIOLENCE
IF YOU SPENT TEN YEARS IN PRISON
IF CONFLICT DROVE YOU FROM YOUR HOME
WOULD YOU SEEK REVENGE? OR STRUGGLE FOR PEACE?

A TRUE STORY ABOUT THE EVERYDAY LEADERS THAT REFUSE TO SIT BACK AS THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT ESCALATES



Just Vision and the Arab – Hebrew Theatre
Invite you to a screening of the documentary film


Encounter Point


At the Arab – Hebrew Theatre in Jaffa
10 Mifratz Shlomo St., Old Jaffa (next door to the Hamam)
Saturday 23rd February
20:30

Tickets can be purchased at the theatre's ticket office

After the screening the film's director, producer and participants will answer questions


For more details:
info-AT-arab-hebrew-theatre.org.il
03-5185563

For more details on the film visit www.justvision.org/en/about_the_film

Location:

Rock-N-Romp presents Neal Pollack and Thrushes

Rock-n-Romp productions specializes in putting on kid-friendly rock shows, for parents who can't make it out to late night shows and their kids who'd get trampled if they came along.  We're super excited to welcome a special morning Rock-n-Romp show  with Baltimore's own  Thrushes. plus a special appearance by author Neal Pollack, reading from his book Alternadad.

Location:

URL: http://redemmas.org/event/882

Film: "Hold Fast"

A personal story of a journey of adventure and danger on the high seas. Over the course of two winters, four members of the Anarchist Yacht Club rescued a derelict boat from the inhospitable waters of Ft. Lauderdale, named it the S/V Pestilence, and sailed south to Haiti. Hold Fast describes what drew these friends to the ocean, and tells the story of what they discovered in the sea. It paints a picture of the S/V Pestilence in the context of all the sailing maniacs who have come before, and ultimately attempts to suggest that the secret is always to begin.  Filmmaker on hand for discussion after the film!

Location:

URL: http://redemmas.org/event/883

Palestinian Solidarity

every Friday, 4:15 - 5:30 pm

Vigil to end the occupation of Palestine

Location:
Snelling and Summit Avenues, St Paul

The Boston Globe Travel Show

From kangaroos to limbo contests, trip giveaways and culinary delights from around the world, there is something for everyone at the 2008 Boston Globe Travel Show.

From the Azores to Africa, Malaysia to Tahiti more than 200 exhibitors representing destinations from around the world will be onsite. Special show travel deals will be available for those looking to book their next vacation with exhibitors readily available to help research, plan, and book dream getaways.

Beyond booking the next dream getaway, The Boston Globe Travel Show is the perfect excursion for the entire family with ongoing demonstrations, cultural performances and interactive activities taking place throughout the entire day, including, but not limited to:

•Anheuser-Busch Adventure Parks, Children’s Area showcasing the SeaWorld–Busch Gardens Animal Adventure Tour Vehicle. Exotic and endangered animals such as a kangaroo, a lemur, a python, frogs, birds, a sloth and many more will be on site for educational animal presentations, interactive games and entertainment.

•The Jamaica Tourist Board will sponsor a Jamaican Limbo Demonstration & Contest on Saturday and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Contestants will have the opportunity to win a 3-night all-inclusive land-only package for 2 to Point Village Resort in Negril, Jamaica.

•Stage Presentations throughout the weekend, featuring a host of cultural performances and demonstrations. Featured acts will include the Jamx Reggae Band, courtesy of the Jamaica Tourist Board, Traditional/Folk Dance Group of Sociedade Cultural Açoriana, Puerto Rico Now… Salsa Time! and Celebrate Carnival in Aruba, featuring flamboyantly dressed dancers and live Aruban music.

All information on the show, entertainment, and trip giveaways as well as a full list of exhibitors can be found on the Boston Globe Travel Show website at www.bostonglobetravelshow.com.

Location:
Seaport World Trade Center Boston, Boston, MA, 02210

Cost: Tickets for the show are $10 and are available at the show or in advance at www.bostonglobetravelshow.com.

URL: www.bostonglobetravelshow.com