The formation in 1816 of the Society for the Promotion of Permanent & Universal Peace in London also inspired the creation of further societies throughout the country, and in particular Darlington and Newcastle, thus the Newcastle Upon Tyne Peace Society (1817 â 50) was born. The Newcastle society…
By Tristan PartridgeThe community meeting house in San Isidro, in Ecuadorâs central Andes, had been specially decorated for an important occasion. On the outside wall hung a large rainbow banner celebrating the regional Indigenous organization, MICC (Movimiento IndĂgena y Campesino de Cotopaxi)…
The shape of the YTL/Wessex Water public relations response to the death of four of their staff in an explosion at their Avonmouth sewage plant on Thursday is becoming apparent. Fronted by Merchant Venturer sleazeball Colin Skellett, thereâs a focus on this Bath residentâs attachment to Avonmout…
Translation of the eyewitness report of Nikos Romanos, who describes what happened on the night of December 6, 2008, and how the police shot his friend Alexandros Grigoropoulos. Originally published by Libcom. The following eyewitness report of Nikos Romanos was made on December 7, 2008. I go to the…
The Extinction Chronicles [] Production must fall by 6% a year to avoid âsevere climate disruptionâ but Covid-19 funding is supporting increases Damian CarringtonEnvironment editor@dpcarrington Wed 2 Dec 202009.00ESTLast modified on Wed 2 Dec 202023.37EST Shares473 Nations are planning productio…
Above photo: Saturday, March 12, 2011: A boy from Somalia is carried by his mother, who used to work in Libya and fled the violence in the country, as other in the background wait in line for food in a refugee camp at the Tunisia-Libyan border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia. Lefteris Pitarakis/AP. The app…
Above photo: The Norwegian Nobel Committee 2020. From left: ThorbjĂžrn Jagland, Henrik Syse (vice chair), Berit Reiss-Andersen (chair), Anne Enger, Olav NjĂžlstad (secretary), Asle Toje. Heiko Junge / NTB scanpix. NOTE: âBetraying the Nobelâ by Unni Turrettini, provides more history to the artic…
ï»ż What It Can Teach The World. âThis is something that can take place in every corner of the globe & it needs to take place because we face the same problems.â The return of Evo Morales was possibly the most important moment in Bolivian history. This time last year, far-right protesters kidnap…
By Lee Camp Consortium News November 30th, 2020 We can make all sorts of noise and even scare âem, but the A-Holes are here to stay. Biden-Harris presidential drive-in rally at Broward College, Coconut Creek, Florida, Oct. 29, 2020. (Adam Schultz, Biden for President) It doesnât matter when you…
This year the Bristol Palestine Film Festival celebrates a decade of important films. This is an important event as while global events of Trump and COVID-19 has dominated the news cycle for most people, the occupation of Palestine by the Israeli state continues and so the importance of getting to h…
By G. H. Mosson These stay-at-home days offer lagoons of time to hang out together and to reflect. Music has been a big part of many peopleâs home-based, pandemic routines. Grooves connect us. Listening to the radio can enlarge. For me, many mornings begin again with jazz favorites, like Cookinâ…
Above photo: Hospital staff look on as the United States Navy Blue Angels pass over Medical City Dallas on May 06, 2020 in Dallas, Texas. Tom Pennington/Getty Images. But Came Together to Fund the Pentagon for $740 Billion. There is always money for war. The annuÂal approval of the garÂganÂtuÂan…
BLM Chapters Demand âAccountabilityâ From Trio That Cashed In On The Movement Above photo: Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi Ten chapters of the national Black Lives Matter organization are in open revolt against the individuals that have treated the mass movement as their persona…
Dannenrod. Germany. December 5, 2020. 800 activists have been blocking the highway construction site in Dannenrod forest in the German state of Hesse since the early morning hours. They are protesting against climate destruction by new highways and for an immediate change in traffic policies. Submit…
Amsterdam. Netherlands. Neither Iran, nor Greece, the persecuted anarchist Abtin Parsa should stay in the Netherlands. Tuesday December 8, at 02:00pm (14:00) in front of the IND office in Amsterdam (Pieter Calandlaan 1, Amsterdam). Submitted to Enough 14. Tuesday December 8 is the deadline that I…
       There is a pattern on a globe floating around in the milky way, and it is a macabre picture of poverty, destitution, wars, inequality, and injustice, the main species on that globe is engaged in a suicidal war with it's ecosystems. Some are forming groups and rebelling against this in…
First published in Coils of The Serpent: In his discussion of the transition from the cinema of the movement-image to the cinema of the time-image, Deleuze famously makes way for the traumatic intrusion of history. This transition, he writes, is not purely internal to cinema, but the result of the e…
Call for green recovery, recognition of ecocide. âMock COP26 sends a strong message to world leaders that young people can coordinate global negotiations and we have the solutions.â The youth-led Mock COP26 virtual conference concluded Tuesday with a treaty they hope world leaders will sign ah…
Above photo: A nurse holds a swab taken from a patient for testing at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Andy Abeyta / The Gazette / AP. The story of the coronavirus in the state is one of government inaction in the name of freedom and personal responsibility. Updated on December 4, 2020…
Pramen contacted a comrade, the anarchist Vlad M. after 30 days he spent in prison and talked about the detention and interesting people who you can meet at the administrative arrest. We didnât forget to ask him about his hunger strike, as well as the situation with the coronavirus in prison. Pram…
Sunday December 6th, at noon Metro Parc The Canadian Border Services Agency has just announced its decision to resume deportation proceedings starting this week, even as the COVID-19 crisis continues to escalate. Join Solidarity Across Borders on Sunday December 6, 12pm to condemn this reckless atta…
Above photo: Former Google employee Laurence Berland, who was fired by the company in 2019 for labor organizing, says he feels vindicated by the NLRBâs complaint, which comes âat a time when weâre seeing the power of a handful of tech billionaires consolidate control over our lives and our soc…
Above photo: La Voz de Zacate Grande. Efforts to develop semi-privately governed jurisdictions called Economic Development and Employment Zones (ZEDEs) in Honduras have recently emerged anew. ZEDEs, first legislated as Special Development Regions (REDs) and informally known as âcharter cities,â…
A bodyâs persistence in letting a single form-of-life affect it, despite the diversity of situations it passes through, depends on its crack. The more a body cracks upâthat is, the wider and deeper its crack becomesâthe fewer the polarizations compatible with its survival there are, and the mo…
By Ray Noll and Elizabeth Topp As cases of COVID-19 continue to surge inside Michigan prisons, those confined inside the Charles Egeler Reception and Guidance Center (RGC) in Jackson County are fighting back and taking collective action against deplorable conditions. While these conditions existed f…
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