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Gurgaon Workers News - Newsletter 12 (August 2008)
Submitted by anthony on Saturday, 2 August, 2008 - 15:35
Gurgaon Workers Gurgaon in Haryana is presented as the shining India, a symbol of capitalist success promising a better life for everyone behind the gateway of development. At a first glance the office towers and shopping malls reflect this chimera and even the facades of the garment factories look like three star hotels. Behind the facade, behind the factory walls and in the side streets of the industrial areas thousands of workers keep the rat-race going, producing cars and scooters for the middle-classes which end up in the traffic jam on the new highway between Delhi and Gurgaon.
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Submitted by mute on Thursday, 24 July, 2008 - 12:08
Paula Cerni The fate of Tibet and its unelected superstar figurehead has captured the attention of western liberals, not to mention the US government. But the real fascination of Tibet is not its exoticism but its similarity to the rest of an undemocratic global system, argues Paula Cerni
subject: Activism | Asia | Democracy | Globalisation | N. America | Olympics
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Submitted by outreach on Tuesday, 8 April, 2008 - 21:42
jabber Antipsychiatry, without scruplousness and ebundant detalisation, could be reduced to two postulates: all the diseases and conditions, which are coded in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) with the “F†letter – present the result of the pathogenic character of the society. subject: Activism
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Submitted by anthony on Thursday, 31 January, 2008 - 20:24
Various Some US protests against sub-prime evictions in text and pictures subject: Activism | N. America | Urbanism
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Submitted by mute on Friday, 11 January, 2008 - 17:22
Loren Goldner Loren Goldner will be giving a talk on the subject of the Korean working class at Housmans bookstore in Kings Cross, London at 6pm on Saturday 19th of January. subject: Activism | AntiCapitalist | Asia | Class | Labour Struggles | Marxist | Neoliberal | Politics | Social Movements
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Submitted by mute on Monday, 7 January, 2008 - 17:09
Jaya Klara Brekke Jaya Klara Brekke talks to four UK based groups working to improve conditions for migrants and asks ‘how does one organise in the dark?’
subject: Activism | Border Activism | Globalisation | Immigration | Labour Struggles | Mute Vol 2 #7
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Submitted by saladofpearls on Monday, 29 October, 2007 - 13:33
London Coalition Against Poverty CALL TO ACTION: Halloween Picket at Hackney Council Meeting to demand housing rights! WEDNESDAY 31 OCTOBER 6 - 7:30 PM Hackney Town Hall Contact: 07932241737 londoncoalitionagainstpoverty@gmail.com This Halloween we demand our rights! 'A NIGHT LEFT ON MARE ST' - Hackney council turns the homeless away London Coalition Against Poverty have called for people to picket the Hackney Council meeting this Halloween.
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Submitted by unterschreber on Tuesday, 9 October, 2007 - 21:03
 From 'Private Eye' subject: Activism | Art | Climate Change | Environment | Graphic | Institutional Critique | Politics | Posthumanist | Socially Engaged
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 9 October, 2007 - 14:27
Wildcat The following is a report from Wildcat on the occupation of a bicycle factory in Nordhausen, Germany by its workers. It appears by kind permission of the excellent Prol-Position newsletter and will appear in the next issue (number 9): http://www.prol-position.net/
subject: Activism | AntiCapitalist | Europe | Finance & Trade | Labour Struggles | Occupations | Politics
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Submitted by unterschreber on Friday, 17 August, 2007 - 21:15
Nathalie Rothschild An all-too-believeable first-hand account from Spiked (http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/3730/) of the heroic Civil Obedience at the pro-Behaviour Modification protest camp outside Heathrow. (Although Spiked's habit of labelling this lot 'Puritans' seems a bit unfair on 17th century Calvinists, given the latter group's social-levelling tendencies, hatred of superstition and insistence on independent thought.) There are particularly telling moments when protest spokesman John Jordan says the muddy austerity of the camp exemplifies the kind of 'simple life' subject: Activism | Climate Change | Environment | Festivals | Games | Marketing | Media | NGO | Performance | Site-Specific | Slums
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 26 June, 2007 - 17:09
Chris Carlsson The anti-G8 summit demonstrations in Rostock this June had something of the atmosphere of a music festival and a detention camp — and not all the constituents of the decentralised protests were happy campers. Chris Carlsson reports back
subject: Activism | Agriculture | AntiCapitalist | Environment | Europe | Finance & Trade | Globalisation | Immigration | Independent Media | Media | Politics
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