Website / newspaper / journal / web based media updates: Jan 18th - Jan 25th

by ec Sun Jan 18, 2004 15:27

This Blog is always amazing if you are interested in US politics and media and you can find it thru front page of the Mediachannel Website. Yesterday's entry is particularly informative and scary.

http://www.newsdissector.org/weblog/indy_post.cfm?logID=71D96B97-F864-401E-86730EE4F8FC716C

by boggler Mon Jan 19, 2004 16:42

Sluggerotoole is a group blog from Northern Ireland which attracts contributors and commentators from across the political Spectrum in NI.

This Entry is part of the ongoing argument (familiar to readers here) on SFs Left Credentials.

http://www.sluggerotoole.com

by David C. Mon Jan 19, 2004 19:34

Jewish activists opposing the Israeli government's colonization policies face intimidation and harassment via email and on the internet, according to an article by Brian Whitaker in today's Guardian.
Deborah Fink is a singer and music teacher living in London. She is also Jewish. Last month, out of the blue, she received a deluge of hateful emails - more than 150 in the space of a week.

One came from a rabbi in New York, informing her: "Your soul, my dear, is petrified and lost." Another said, menacingly: "Hitler killed the wrong Jews."
Yet another - ostensibly from a Jewish doctor of medicine in the US - elaborated on the Holocaust theme. "Too bad Hitler didn't get your family," it said. "With six million Jews dieing [sic] 60 year [sic] ago it's a shame scum like you somehow managed to survive."

What, exactly, had Ms Fink done to deserve this vitriol? The short answer is that she had been planning to sing. Ms Fink is a member of Just Peace UK, a mainly, but not exclusively, Jewish group opposing the Israeli occupation and seeking "a viable and sovereign Palestinian state alongside a safe and secure Israel, with Jerusalem as the shared capital of both states". Just before Christmas, she helped to organise an alternative carol concert in Trafalgar Square, at which traditional Christmas songs were sung with new words. One of them went like this:

Oh little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie.
A wall is laid where tourists stayed,
And tanks go rolling by ...

The full article is at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1126294,00.html

by boggler Mon Jan 19, 2004 20:31

This from Riverbend - Girl Blogger from Iraq - always excellent http://www.riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2004_01_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#107418574968764277

by boggler Tue Jan 20, 2004 17:17

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17592

There are now several Indian communities that have lodged complaints against Coca-Cola factories. The most celebrated of these is the Plachimada village in Kerala state, home of one of Coca-Cola's biggest bottling plants in India. This was one of the first villages to allege that the plant was draining water from wells, drying up ponds and destroying the livelihood of more than 2,000 farm families.

Researchers found that the plant had drilled 65 bore holes into the ground, siphoning off a million gallons of water a day. In addition, they also found that Coke was washing bottles with chemicals which were then released, without treatment, into local ground water. British NGO Actionaid has investigated the village and concluded that it was a thriving agricultural community until the arrival of the bottling plant in 1998. Under pressure from activists, 300 of whom were arrested during various protests, the local panchayet announced that it would cancel the plant's operating license.

by rellgob Tue Jan 20, 2004 17:36

From another great site:

http://www.guerrillanews.com/globalization/doc3764.html

by redjade Wed Jan 21, 2004 15:35

Nazi bomb attack on the house of Joe Hill

Three fire bombs (molotovs) were thrown at the House of Joe Hill in Gävle, Sweden, on Sunday morning January the 18th.

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/01/19/1412606

by ipsiphi Wed Jan 21, 2004 15:48

20th of January 2004.
the occupied social centre "unemployed of Cornella", situated at 23 C/Barcelona in Cornella an adjoining urban area to Barcelona was the oldest space in continuing occupation in Catalonia.

It was closed by the National Police of Spain yesterday morning.

communique:
http://www.sindominio.net/ateneucornella/comunicado.html

home site:
http://www.sindominio.net/ateneucornella/intro.php

The BCN council was asked by local youth groups in this area which suffered exceptionally high rates of unemployment to provide a community space in 1987. The council delayed, and those groups thus occupied the site. Where they have remained since.
http://www.sindominio.net/ateneucornella/historia.html
They developed a non heirarchial autonomous space open to all over the years since and have since the end of 2003 expected their eviction which only serves to continue the present drive to urban speculation in the Greater Barcelona area which has seen the cost of living space suffer the sharpest increases in the European Union.
there will be full report in english later on UK indymedia when I get the time away from work which thank to the current cost of living takes up more and more of my precious time.

Eviction = Occupation.

by ec Wed Jan 21, 2004 17:25

http://india.indymedia.org

by John Meehan Thu Jan 22, 2004 16:17

Phil Hearse's website

http://www.marxsite.com/

has recently been updated with original documents, including :

Conference Next Saturday to establish new broad left wing party in England and Wales, called RESPECT

European Anti-Capitalist Left

Documents on Brazilian PT (Workers' Party) support for right wing pension reforms and the expulsion of left wing critics, including Senator Helena Heloisa

SWP's French Affiliate joins the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire (LCR) as a tendency

by iosaf Fri Jan 23, 2004 14:32

As you might know, there are more French Muslims than French Gays.
As you might know there are more French Gay muslims than Irish muslims.
a community numbered in millions naturally has a great spectrum of diversity from spirituality to religious practise to politics and expression. the more people you have, the uglier the extremes.
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"CAIRO, Dec. 30 — The French government and the leader of the Muslim world's most prestigious center of Sunni Islamic learning found common ground on Tuesday on a contentious French proposal that would stop Muslim girls from wearing head scarves in French state schools.
The grand sheik of Al Azhar, Muhammad Sayed Tantawi, told reporters that although wearing the head scarf, or hijab, was a religious duty, governments of non-Muslim countries had the right to pass any laws they liked.
He said this applied even on dress codes.
He spoke before talks in Cairo with the French interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, who assured him that France guarantees its Muslim citizens freedom to practice their religion."

read the article at the link---

by maalox - teh h4x0r Fri Jan 23, 2004 15:57

The software/logic patenting row continues. Really, this isn't as boring a subject as you'd think.

by secularise resistance! Fri Jan 23, 2004 16:15

link to British Police service recruitment advising young gay people considering a career in law enforcement, if you are gay or lesbian in Ireland, you might prefer to pursue your career in neighbouring Wales or England. check the "could you" site at:
http://www.policecouldyou.co.uk/default.asp?action=article&ID=5
in addition the gay police association page which interestingly doesn't link to irish groups.
http://www.gay.police.uk/
www.specialconstables.gov.uk/output/Page27.asp

by redjade Sun Jan 25, 2004 04:26

Newsweek Poll: Campaign 2004
Saturday January 24, 11:12 am ET

Kerry Leads Dems With 30 Percent; Edwards Follows at 13 Percent; Dean Slips, Even With Clark at 12 Percent

52 Percent of Voters Don't Want to See Bush Re-Elected (44% Do), 37 Percent Strongly Want to See Him Re-Elected, 47 Percent Strongly Do Not

But a Large Majority (78%) Says That it is Very Likely (40%) or Somewhat Likely (38%) That he Will Get a Second Term

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040124/nysa010a_1.html

by redjade Sun Jan 25, 2004 17:21

CIA: Iraq at risk of civil war
The warning, at odds with Bush's upbeat view, was delivered this week to Washington. His aides are pushing to save a transition plan.
By Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay
Inquirer Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - CIA officers in Iraq are warning that the country may be on a path to civil war, current and former U.S. officials said yesterday, starkly contradicting the upbeat assessment that President Bush gave in his State of the Union address.

The CIA officers' bleak assessment was delivered orally to Washington this week, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the classified information involved.

The warning echoed growing fears that Iraq's Shiite majority, which has until now grudgingly accepted the U.S. occupation, could turn to violence if its demands for direct elections are spurned.

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/7765782.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

by Mankind Sun Jan 25, 2004 17:33

Read about the funders of Mary Robinson's Ethical Globalisation Iniative on pages 3 and 4 of the 16th to 29th of January 2004 issue of Phoenix magazine, 'Mary Robinson's Career Network'.

Phoenix fails to mention another funder of the EGI that can be found at:
www.worldforum.org
Amongst the chairs of this latter outfit is Ted Turner of AOL Time Warner.

Is she kicking from within? Is that possible?

by iosaf - 23 Sun Jan 25, 2004 22:26

which has now been published in the Peninsular press, as part of the Spanish 2004 general elections.
The leader of the Spanish opposition has declared that if he doesn't get more votes than Rajoy (Aznar's appointee) he will not be president.
This was a very clever move and excellent politics. But it doesn't look good on his CV yet.
Anyway the general gist is:-
No More PP.
and incidently whilst we are all @ it
no more Bush
no more Burlusconi (with or without the facelift).

across two pages from the Secretary General of the Catalan Party CiU.
The Party which ruled Catalonia for 23 years.
The Party that no longer rules Catalonia.
The Party that has 23 new members in parliament, has issued on the 23rd day of January a letter to Señor Aznar.

long overdue.
So we know the tripartite government opposes and opposed Aznar. CiU however gave us "Aznar the mediator" in a hotel room years and years ago in the first term of the popular Spanish President who really doesn't seem to go.
He's been touring the world saying "goodbye" for about four months now, and no doubt will tour the world afterwards full of "quasi-crypto-Thatcherite shite" long after.
Oh Mr Aznar, I must admit I never liked you, and let's be honest you really don't like us.
But the problem is there really are so many people who you don't like.
So the CiU adjusting to their new found role in :opposition: to the tripartite perhaps "have to" wave the little flag a bit more...
the letter:
from senor Josep Antoni Duran Lleida to
Señor Jose Maria Aznar.
seems to say:-
1. no coalition with PP this time.
2. more than one way to do the Basque.
3. we don't like you Mr aznar. and there will be no more PP & one thing we all appear to be sure of is there will be more "catalúnya".
whatever that means.

http://www.plus.es/codigo/noticias/ficha_noticia.asp?id=335772
http://www.cadenaser.com/articulo.html?xref=20040125csrcsrnac_6&type=Tes

incindently the Okupe movement have lost title deeds on number 23 Barcelona road from the suburban district of Cornella which served as communtiy arts centre, theatre centre, residence and home to perhaps the finest graffiti work [like you know] and the offices of the worknig groups representing both local neighbourhood groups and more traditional concerns such as civil and human rights stuff. (the usual) {THE USUAL}

on the Ïrish side of things, another Casement letter was passed around the parlour game table this week.