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On September 2, around 11pm, windows of a flat of one of anti-fascists, Vladimir Skopintsev, who is registered in Troitsk, Moscow region, were shot at using a gun. When the shooter saw a silhouette of a person in the window — that was Vladimir’s younger brother, Andrey, – a shot was made and a bullet passed near Andrey’s head.

Police was called to the crime scene, but instead of investigating the case, policemen have taken Andrey and his father to the local police station. Andrey’s father was asked to wait in the corridor, while his son was taken into a room, where the policemen threatened him with criminal prosecution for extremism and started to beat him up. Read the entire article here »»

http://khimkibattle.org/?p=450&lang=en

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Summary (excerpts) : Juan Pablo is an Argentinian documentary film-maker and independent journalist, visiting Canada for several months. [...] He has spent most of his time visting Montreal, but travelled, like many Canadian residents, to Toronto last June to document the movement opposing the G20, publishing on online alternative media outlets including cmaq.net and 2010.mediacoop.ca.

Juan Pablo Lepore, 28, was arrested on the morning of September 2 in Montreal, for participating in the G20 Summit in Toronto this June. Juan Pablo was transferred to Toronto the same night and appeared in court Friday morning. The crown has refused his release.

"It's stunning to refuse Juan a release on bail, because every day the Canadian legal system allows defendants their release before trial even though they are accused of more serious crimes than Juan. It's clear that if you're poor, and you can't offer cash or assets as a guarantee, you don't have the same rights," said Marie-Ève Blais, one of the members of the "Friends of Juan Pablo Lepore" committee that has formed since his arrest.

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Résistances et luttes des peuples africains
Resistance and struggle of African peoples
Resistencia y lucha de los pueblos de África
Resistência e luta dos povos africanos

En 2011, le Forum Social Mondial retournera en Afrique. Après Nairobi (Kenya), la capitale du Sénégal, Dakar, accueillera l’édition centralisée du FSM du 6 au 11 février 2011, marquant un changement avec les années précédentes, quand le FSM était organisé pendant le Forum Économique de Davos.

Mettant l’accent sur l’histoire des résistances et des luttes des peuples africains, le FSM 2011 devrait parvenir à créer une interface utile entre les luttes globales et les stratégies communes en Afrique, au Sud, et dans le reste du monde.

Ainsi, les axes thématiques du Forum tiendront compte des préoccupations majeures des mouvements sociaux partout dans le monde. Une consultation publique sur ces axes se poursuit jusqu’au 10 septembre.

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The World Social Forum returns to Africa in 2011. After Nairobi (Kenya), the Senegalese capital Dakar will host the centralized edition on February 06th to 11th 2011, this time differently from previous years, when it was held during the Economic Forum in Davos.

Focusing on the history of resistance and struggle of African peoples, the 2011 WSF should find the necessary interface with global struggles and strategies that are common with those of Africa, the South and the rest of the world.

Therefore, the thematic axes of the Forum should take in consideration the major concerns of social movements around the globe. There is a public consultation of the axes up until September the 10th.

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El Foro Social Mundial volverá a África en 2011. Después de Nairobi (Kenya), será Dakar, la capital de Senegal, que va a recibir la edición centralizada entre el 6 y el 11 de febrero de 2011 - diferentemente de lo que sucedía en los años anteriores, cuando el Foro ocurría en los mismos días del Foro Económico Mundial de Davos.

Centrándose en la historia de resistencias y luchas de los pueblos africanos, el FSM 2011 debe encontrar la interfaz necesaria entre las luchas y las estrategias comunes a nivel global comunes a África, al Sur y a todo el mundo.

Por lo tanto, los ejes temáticos del Foro deben tener en cuenta las principales preocupaciones de los movimientos sociales a través el mundo. Los ejes estarán en consulta pública hasta el 10 de septiembre.

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The People's Commission Network and No One Is Illegal Montreal call for solidarity with Muslim communities and individuals in Canada and Quebec who are experiencing even more intense Islamophobia and racism as a result of the media coverage of last week's "Project Samossa" arrests of Hiva Alizadeh, Khurram Sher and Misbahuddin Ahmed. Journalists have actually visited mosques where the people arrested have prayed, thereby greatly intensifying feelings of being vulnerable, under surveillance, marginalized and profiled simply for being Muslim or being perceived as such.

The People's Commission and No One Is Illegal Montreal are also concerned for the well-being of the three men who have been named by media as part of the alleged plot and are currently overseas. In recent years, we have seen similar RCMP and CSIS suspicions - even without intense media attention - result in the overseas detention and torture of Maher Arar, Abousfian Abdelrazik, Abdullah Almalki and others. None of these individuals were ever charged with any crime and their names were later officially cleared. However, their lives continue to be marred by the immediate consequences of CSIS and RCMP actions, consequences that include tarnished reputations, the loss of freedom of movement, and, in one case, a freeze on all assets.

( See below for what you can do )

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Assemblée publique pour la suite de la mobilisation anticapitaliste en milieu étudiant, UQAM 19h

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Here are some photos from an August climate camp gathering and protest in Dunham, Quebec. A tar sands pipeline and pumping station project ("Trailbreaker") was our main target at the camp.

For more information, see this invitation, and this camp publication.

The main campaign around the climate camp is a way of blocking tar sands expansion, while helping out local victims, at the same time. The pipeline project cuts across Maine, Quebec, Ontario, Michigan, Chicago, and other areas -- so there are plenty of points of intervention, and plenty of grounds for solidarity.

These photo sets (below) are from the "convergence days" between August 18th and August 22nd.

Our climate camp was one of several during 2010; here is a list of 2010 climate camp web sites, in various Anglo and European countries.

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Sounds and music recorded during the G20 protests in Toronto in June 2010.

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As members of the Research Group on Collective Autonomy, we join our voices to those who are speaking out against unprecedented State violence and police repression in the wake of the G20 Summit held in Toronto in June. This violence has affected our friends, our colleagues, our comrades, our partners, our communities. In the same vein, we wish to denounce the misinformed and sensationalist discourses that have been emerging in the media.

Repressive forces deliberately targeted those dressed in black. The media, also seemingly concerned with anarchist dress-codes, broadcast, over and over, images of supposed “young thugs” and focused their analyses on the now famous Black Bloc tactics. This kind of media coverage gives the impression that the acts in the streets of Toronto were void of political content and that anarchists are scary individuals who should be placed behind bars for the protection of all.

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It’s been almost two decades since the federal government handed off responsibility for housing to the provinces, making Canada the only G-8 country without a national housing strategy. The end result is a housing crisis that the UN described as a “national emergency.”

Red Tent is an open source campaign spearheaded by Vancouver-based Pivot Legal Society. Across the country, individuals and organizations have become a part of the Red Tent Campaign to work toward the common goal of a funded national housing strategy that will end homelessness and ensure secure, adequate, accessible and affordable housing for all people living in Canada.

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Montreal, July 28, 2010

Excerpt : Tuesday morning, Israeli police demolished the Bedouin village Al-Arakib, located in the southern Negev desert, and evicted its 300 residents – 200 of them children. [...] around 1500 armed police surrounded the village at 4:30 a.m. The police removed the villagers’ belongings into prepared containers, then proceeded to bulldoze the villagers’ homes, sheep pens, fruit orchards and olive groves. [...]

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OPP seeks to silence alleged G20 protest ringleaders.

July 29, Toronto – The OPP have warned two alleged G20 protest ringleaders, Leah Henderson and Alex Hundert, that their recent media interviews are a violation of bail conditions not to organize, participate or advise protests. On the morning of July 28, OPP officers called their sureties and threatened to re-jail them if they persist in speaking to the media. Leah and Alex were released on bail on Monday July 19, three weeks after they were arrested at gunpoint in a pre-emptive nighttime raid on their Toronto home.

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Context : the www.Wikileaks.org network allows the publication of thousands of military and governmental reports, by offering those who reveal them a highly secured Internet system. This shocks governments, but offers information to citizens worldwide.

Leaked files: death toll
The classified reports contain detailed logs of fatalities - both military and civilian.

Afghanistan expert and author Stephen Grey, who wrote Operation Snakebite, has analysed the data for Channel 4 News and calculated the number of deaths revealed in the report.

• Enemy killed : 15,506
• Civilians killed : 4,232
• Afghan Army (ANA) killed : 3,819
• Nato forces killed : 1,138

The 'underreporting' of civilian deaths by NATO forces

In 2008, a AC-130 "Spectre" gunship carried out a ground attack on the village of Azizabad in Herat Province. The target was a Taliban commander. The report at the time said that no civilians had died. It only refers to 30 insurgents killed in action.

In fact, according to a UN report, 90 civilians died - 60 of them children as well as 15 women.
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In September 2006, troops taking part in Operation Medusa moved into a large area around Panjwayi, west of Kandahar, and a known Taliban stronghold.

A Nato report found that 31 civilians had died - 20 of them from the same extended family following an airstrike.

The leaked documents record 181 civilian deaths.

Source: TheREALNews Network

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Public tells Toronto Police Services Board that any inquiry must include police actions on the ground as well as all police forces involved in G20 policing.

Prominent attorney says board cannot investigate itself.

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FEDERAL TRANSPARENCY: the record of the Harper government on the Alberta Oil Sands

Their cynicism and contempt for the public is unbelievable.
More unbelievable still: WHY exactly does the public tolerate this crap on the part of those paid to be "public servants"?

New blog: http://transparencycanada.blogspot.com/ Let's fight back!

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The group responsible for a fake announcement pledging that France would repay Haiti 21 billion USD for the independence debt France extorted from Haiti held its first press conference, on Thursday, July 22. The conference, by the Committee for the Repayment of the Indemnity Money Expropriated from Haiti (CRIME), was held in Montreal.

The same day, the French government responded with new threats of legal action, and declared that France would continue its efforts to “cleanse” the internet of the hoax.

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In April 2000, I put up a poster for Montreal's inaugural Anarchist Bookfair. I was arrested and ticked by the Montreal police. I challenged the legality of the municipal by-law against postering. Ten years later, the Quebec Court of Appeal has ruled the by-law invalid.

* The court decision (in French) »»

* Two news articles :

— Mobilier urbain à partager
La Ville de Montréal porte atteinte à la liberté d'expression en interdisant d'afficher sur ses poteaux ou ses lampadaires, tranche la Cour d'appel
— Jaggi Singh gagne devant la Cour d'appel

INFO: Jaggi Singh
www.twitter.com/JaggiMontreal

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In l986 Mordechai Vanunu told the world that Israel had a Nuclear Weapons Programme and he was given 18 years imprisonment for doing so. In May,2010, after a moment of freedom, this man was returned to prison to serve three months for allegedly breaking his prison release restrictions and speaking to Foreign Media.

Please read the following appeal from Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire and use whatever contacts and influence you may have to assist Mr Vanunu. His continuing imprisonment is a human tragedy and a stain upon the government of Israel.

- Bill Thomson

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Deb Cowen, Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Toronto speaks to a crowd of thousands who gathered at police headquarters in Toronto on June 28th 2010 to show solidarity with those arrested and detained as part of the G20 police sweeps.

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CLAC 2010 denounces the criminalization of dissent

Montreal, July 13 - The two remaining Montrealers (Jaggi Singh and Patrick Cadorette) detained in Toronto following the G20 protests were released yesterday afternoon. Montreal's Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC 2010) is happy to announce their release on bail as well as the release of hundreds of other Quebecers arrested during the summit. However, this announcement is severely dampened by the unprecedented criminalization of social movements and political repression unleashed upon protesters who converged in Toronto from June 25 to June 27.