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Coverage of Haiti Solidarity Efforts

February 2, New York City: A delegation from the December 12th Movement and the Friday Haiti Relief Coalition departed from Kennedy Airport destined for Haiti on Monday morning. In the wake of the tremendous earthquake that shook the island nation, Black people throughout New York came together to begin their contribution to the relief process. More from NYC IMC: Pan African Unity Triumph! Black New Yorkers Deliver for Haiti

January 26, Houston: Sister Mawiyah was in Haiti when the earthquake hit on January 12. She has been doing missionary work there for the last 23 years and made it her home for the last five years. The name of her organization is Haitian American Ministries. Bro. Kofi had been notifying us that she was missing during the earthquake and was not responding. But around 2:00am on the morning of January 14, he received a text message from her that confirmed she was alive in the midst of thousands being found dead. I am still very traumatized from seeing that many dead bodies. Stories from Haiti.

January 23, Los Angeles: Despite the heavy rain, 24 people took part in an emergency vigil for Haiti at the Downtown Federal Building, Thursday eve, Jan 21. The vigil's purpose was asking people "to donate money to go to grassroots women and their families, and therefore communities, rather than to thieving elites and their corrupt NGOs." One very dedicated participant had been waiting for us since noon when the weekly vigil for Haiti usually takes place. Emergency Vigil in Support of Haiti

IMC-US Coverage Roundups: Feb8 | Jan25 | Jan15 | | Indybay Roundup | | Houston Roundup | | Ongoing coverage from Media Hacker

Support: Haiti Action Relief Fund | Partners in Health | Pastors for Peace | Grassroots International | NAMA

Escalating violence against anti-mining capmpaigners

Escalating violence against anti-mining capmpaigners in Cabanas, El Salvador On 26th December, Dora Alicia Recinos Sorto became the third victim of a wave of violence against environmental campaigners in the Cabañas Region of El Salvador, where community members are protesting against the re-opening of a Gold Mine by Canadian Company Pacific Rim.

Dora Alicia was a member of the Cabañas Environmental Committee, and had been active in opposing the mine. She was eight months pregnant when she was shot dead, and her two year old son was also wounded in the attack.

Her murder comes six days after the fatal shooting of Ramiro Rivera Gomez, Vice President of the Cabañas Environmental Committee, who had survived being shot eight times in August this year. In June, another environmental campaigner, Gustavo Marcelo Rivera Moreno, had been tortured and killed. Many other members of the community have received death threats, including youth workers and journalists for the local community radio station Radio Victoria, and the local priest Father Luis Quintanilla narrowly escaped an attempted kidnapping.

In Mexico, Mariano Abarca Roblero campaigned against the environmentally destructive open-pit Barium mine Blackfire, a World Bank project. He was shot to death on the evening of November 27, 2009, in front of his house in Chicomuselo, Chiapas.

[ full report | Amnesty International Campaign | UpsideDown World 1, 2, 3 | cispes | Share - El Salvador | Waves of Change | Chiapas Anti-Mining Organiser Murdered | Germany Indymedia ]

Radio Ñomndaa festeja su V Aniversario: la Palabra del Agua fluye en la música, lazos solidarios y nuevas propuestas

El pasado 20 de diciembre, Radio Ñomndaa, la Palabra del Agua, cumplió cinco años de vida. Es la primera radio comunitaria en el estado de Guerrero y la única en el idioma Ñomndaa. Se escucha por miles de personas de las comunidades amuzgas, y para muchas de ellas, es la primera vez en su vida que han podido escuchar música y noticias en su propio idioma. Desde el principio, Radio Ñomndaa ha estado bajo ataque del gobierno federal, estatal y especialmente el gobierno municipal de una cacique poderosa. Estas agresiones incluyen golpizas, detenciones y el ingreso a las instalaciones de la policía militar de la Agencia Federal de Investigaciones (AFI). La variada programación está orientada hacia fortalecer la comunidad para impulsar la construcción de una nueva sociedad.

Major Hotel Strike is Imminent in Puerto Rico

Hotel workers in Puerto Rico are prepared to strike at three hotels: the Conrad Condado Plaza Hilton Hotel, the Caribe Hilton Hotel, and the El San Juan Hilton Hotel & Casino.

Though negotiations between the workers and the Hilton Corporation are expected to continue, a strike is considered imminent. Major disruptions in most services would occur as the strike would involve more than 1,100 employees, including those in housekeeping, restaurants, kitchen, bars, room service, banquets, front desk, bell and door staff, swimming pool, telephone, maintenance, croupiers and slot cashiers. All the beaches of Puerto Rico are, by law, open to the public, and for the duration of the strike, the beaches adjacent to the hotels will be occupied by striking workers and hundreds of their friends and supporters.

Full Report from Newswire: Puerto Rico Hotel Strike | Huelga en Hoteles de Puerto Rico | puertoricohotelstrike.com

100mila in marcia per un System Change, non Climate Change

Global Gli accordi sul clima (COP15)stanno procedendo a Copenhagen dove oltre 100 capi di stato parteciperanno ai lavori nela prossima settimana. Con un anno come il 2009, che è stato tra i 5 più caldi, è ancora più urgente firmare un trattato, le emissioni globali stanno aumentando e il mare si sta acidificando e perdendo biodiversità.

Ci sono grandi differenze tra le nazioni industrializzate, le grandi nazioni in rapido sviluppo come India Cina, e le nazioni più povere e più vulnerabili come Tuvalu che ha proposto di rafforzare gli accordi di Kyoto, e la Bolivia. Sommario del senatore verde australiano Christine Milne (video)

In Copenhagen 100,000 hanno manifestato, ma poco dopo le 3 del pomeriggio, la polizia ha caricato e ha fatto arresti arbitrari, fermando circa 1000 manifestanti. Altre proteste verranno organizzate per la prossima settimana dentro al centro delle conferenze e nelle strade. Guardare anche Denmark Indymedia per dettagli e reportage.

Migliaia di persone hanno partecipato al week end organizzato da by 350.org e altre proteste daWalk Against Warming In Australia hanno raccolto 90,000 prsone, di cui oltre 40,000 hanno partecipato al Melbourne rally. (Video)

Aggregation and Video: icop15 aggregation | cop15live video
Radio: Climate Radio | Radio Mundo | Radio Indymedia - Urban War in Copenhagen?, 9 hour detention for Japanese man for nothing
Background on Tuvalu: Climate Adaption Issues | Speech at Melbourne Climate Rally

Cop15 Conferenza sul clima: Cambio di sistema, non di clima

Cop 15, la Conferenza delle Nazioni Unite sul clima, si terrà a Copehagen dal 7 al 18 dicembre. Doveva rappresentare l’ultima possibilità per salvare il nostro futuro, ma sta facendo in realtà preoccupare. Recentemente la campagna 350.org ha messo in evidenza la volontà della gente di ridurre drasticamente le emissioni in tutto il mondo, e c’è già stata un’ampia espressione politica, come le manifestazioni contro la guerra nel 2003, che però hanno avuto uno scarso impatto sui governi. E non è solo una questione di emissioni, Il sud del mondo che ha contribuito in modo molto inferiore all’effetto serra, sta subendone ora i maggiori effetti. E sempre di più gli attivisti per il clima stanno dicendo che non possiamo affidare il nostro futuro a regole di mercato e non possiamo basarci su false soluzioni.

Indymedia.us and the EFF successfully fight back against bogus FBI subpoena

Indymedia.us is happy to announce that we've managed, after nearly a year of legal action on our behalf by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), to successfully fight back against a bogus subpoena request issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in conjunction with a grand jury investigation. The request demanded we turn over all IP address logs for a day in June of 2008 - not only did Indymedia.us object to this blatantly illegitimate and overly broad request, but, per accepted Indymedia best practices, we do not keep such logs in the first place, in order to maximally ensure the privacy of our site users. Also troubling was the fact that the indymedia.us sysadmin who received the subpoena was also bound by its gag order provision, making her unable to discuss the legal issue with the broader network of collectives cooperating on the indymedia.us site. We're happy that the EFF was ultimately able to get this demand for silence shown to be illegitimate as well --- one can only wonder how many ISPs silently capitulate to similarly broad and unconstitutional requests.

More information: From EFF's Secret Files: Anatomy of a Bogus Subpoena --- How the Government Secretly Demanded the IP Address of Every Visitor to Political News Site Indymedia.us | Interview with Indymedia sys admin Kristina Clair | Interview with EFF lawyer Kevin Bankston | List of previous incidents of legal repression of Indymedia centers | US-Behörde wollte illegal an Nutzerdaten von indymedia.us gelangen

I ministri delle finanze degli Stati del G20 non sono riusciti a raggiungere un accordo sul finanziamento necessario a un trattato internazionale per ritardare il cambiamento climatico. I ministri si sono incontrati a St Andrews, in Scozia, gli scorsi 6 e 7 novembre.

All'esterno del meeting dei ministri studenti e società civile si sono radunati in un'assemblea alternativa. Inoltre sabato gli studenti hanno bloccato i ministri sulla strada verso il meeting, cercando di disturbarne l'arrivo. Gli attivisti hanno formato una catena umana che bloccava entrambe le corsie e la polizia ha effettuato 5 arresti. E' stato organizzato anche un corteo contro il G20 (foto) in cui gli studenti hanno denunciato le politiche economiche introdotte dal G20 in tempo di crisi.

Gli scarsi progressi dei ministri del G20 ricordano l'insuccesso delle negoziazioni di Barcellona della scorsa settimana, che probabilmente ha compromesso l'esito della conferenza delle Nazioni Unite sul clima di Copenhagen (COP 15).

A Barcellona l'Africa abbandona la sessione preparatoria alla conferenza sui cambiamenti climatici delle Nazioni Unite. Nelle nazioni ricche la rabbia inizia a invadere le strade. Il trattato sul clima di Copenhagen sembra essere destinato a venir posticipato. Ma un ritardo non è un'opinione: un ulteriore ritardo ucciderà.

Settimana scorsa (2-4 novembre) a Barcellona si è tunuta l'ultima delle sessioni preparatorie in vista della conferenza sui cambiamenti climatici (COP 15) che si terrà a Copenhagen nel prossimo mese di dicembre. Durante la settimana molte realtà hanno manifestato il loro scontento per le strade della cittadina : il corteo "il clima non è in vendita" (cronaca - video), la proiezione all'aperto del film Age of Stupid, la sveglia ticchettante per il clima, l'affissione dello striscione di Greenpeace (video), la notte di benvenuto degli anarchici, l'azione di disturbo durante la riunione delle lobby idroelettriche e l'occupazione dell'entrata principale. Inoltre i delegati delle 50 nazioni africane hanno interrotto collettivamente i negoziati in attesa che le nazioni sviluppate si decidano a considerare con serietà il problema.

Alcune organizzazioni ambientali avvisano che il trattato di Copenhagen sovvenziona la distruzione delle rimanenti foreste tropicali invece di finanziarne la protezione. In Indonesia Greenpeace ha creato un accampam ento per difendere le torbiere della foresta tropicale (video). Lo scorso 29 ottobre in 181 paesi le persone si sono riunite attraverso 350.org auspicando la riduzione delle emmissioni di anidride carbonica a 350 ppm. E' stato la mobilitazione per l'ambiente più diffusa della storia, con più di 5200 manifestazioni in tutto il mondo (foto), molte delle quali documentate su Indymedia.

Vedi anche:
Barcelona IMC | Lombardia IMC | Indymedia Irlanda | Climate IMC | Climate Code Red: the Case for a Sustainability Emergency | Carbon Equity | versuscop15.noblogs.org

Opposition to EDL Rally in Leeds, UK

On 31st October 2009 in City Square, Leeds, the English Defence League held a rally. The EDL is a nationalist, islamophobic organisation formed earlier this year and is widely viewed as racist.

A counter-demonstration was organised by Unite Against Fascism (UAF). Participants described it variously as being dull, jubilant and tightly controlled. Meanwhile, other anti-EDL groups attempted to confront EDL directly. Reports suggest that at least two large groups attempted to reach EDL to confront them at City Square, but were turned back towards the UAF rally by police (see time-line for first-hand accounts).

Reports from the area around City Square were that most of the EDL supporters didn't go into their pen. Some were held between police lines and others regrouped on Boar Lane, before being brought back to the railway station by the police. Another group of EDL marched around the Albion Street area and responded violently when challenged about their inflammatory chanting.

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