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Demonstrators clashed with police in Athens again Thursday, as Greeks took to the streets in anger over the government's austerity plan. Police, firefighters and coast guard officers joined the protest. (11 March 2010)
Protesters attacked a city-sponsored Christmas tree in central Athens, tossing garbage and hanging trash bags from its branches before clashing with riot police. (Dec. 2008)
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Vendredi 7 mai 2010 5 07 /05 /2010 08:37

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On May 4, 1970 the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed students protesting America´s invasion of Cambodia. Four students were killed and nine were wounded. The incident triggered national outrage in a country already divided over the Vietnam War. In the days that followed more than four million students rose up in dissent across 900 campuses, generating the only nationwide student protest in U.S. history. Fearing civil unrest, President Nixon was taken to Camp David for his protection. http://truthtribunal.org Distributed by Tubemogul.



Recap and commentary on the incidents surrounding the May 4th 1970 murders of 4 Kent State college students by members of the National Guard. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kent-state-truth-tribunal Distributed by Tubemogul.



  Jerry M. Lewis is professor emeritus of sociology at Kent State University. As a Kent State faculty member in 1970, he witnessed the May 4 shootings while serving as a faculty marshall. Since then, Lewis has been involved in researching, memorializing, and lecturing about the tragedy, Despite the substantial literature which exists on the Kent State shootings, misinformation and misunderstanding continue to surround the events of May 4. For example, a prominent college-level United States history book by Mary Beth Norton et al. (1994), which is also used in high school advanced placement courses contains a picture of the shootings of May 4 accompanied by the following summary of events: "In May 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, National Guardsmen confronted student antiwar protestors with a tear gas barrage. Soon afterward, with no provocation, soldiers opened fire into a group of fleeing students. Four young people were killed, shot in the back, including two women who had been walking to class." (Norton et al., 1994, p. 732) Unfortunately, this short description contains four factual errors: (1) some degree of provocation did exist; (2) the students were not fleeing when the Guard initially opened fire; (3) only one of the four students who died, William Schroeder, was shot in the back; and (4) one female student, Sandy Schreuer, had been walking to class, but the other female, Allison Krause, had been part of the demonstration. Distributed by Tubemogul.





Bobby Seale tells of the incidents that lead to the formation of the Black Panther Party. Footage of the candle light vigil for the students murdered May 4th 1970. Distributed by Tubemogul.



Related : http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-05-04/news/20883120_1_students-protesting-ohio-national-guard

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/5/4/on_40th_anniversary_of_kent_state



Url of this article: http://www.internationalnews.fr/article-kent-state-shootings-40th-anniversary-videos-50072576.html

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Mardi 23 mars 2010 2 23 /03 /2010 00:04
Internationalnews
Update 23 mars 2010

7th Anniversary of invasion of Iraq

"The Obama administration is carrying out a terroristic agenda around the world.”
Protesters shouting in front of the White House


There was a protest or demonstration in over 150 cities the week of March 20th: Washington DC, New York City,  Madison, Seattle, Tacoma, San Francisco, Chicago, Hollywood, Mineapolis, Los Angeles and many other cities.


This video shows video of maybe twenty events across the country combining interviews, speeches, and demonstration observations.


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Saturday Protest in front of the White House

On the seventh anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, 10 000 demonstrators marched through downtown Washington after a noon anti-war rally at Lafayette Park. The anti-war protest was organized by International ANSWER (Stop War and End Racism) wich drained a broad range of groups and organizations (military veterans, trade-Unions, Peace, labor and student groups, church, Arab American organizations...) which demand the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

The demonstrators defied orders to clear the sidewalk on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. Eight protesters were arrested by U.S. Park Police at the end of the march, after laying coffins at a fence outside the White House, including Cindy Sheehan (a vocal critic of the war since her young son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004) for shouting with a megaphone: “Arrest that war criminal!”, referring to Obama. "We did lose some momentum when Obama came into office, but now we have younger people that are very energetic. They know we can change the world," she said. Four of eight have been charged with disobeying an official order and four, including Sheehan, with crossing a police line. They spent the week-end in jail.


Ralph Nader said that Obama has continued the policies of the Bush administration, and it was foolish to have thought otherwise at the time he was a candidate, according to his constant warnings during his presidential campaign (Cf. Ralph NADER 2008 campaign). “He’s kept Guantanamo open, he’s continued to use indefinite detention,” Nader said. The only real difference, he said is that “Obama’s speeches are better.”

The protesters, many directing their anger at the President, carried "indict Bush" and anti-Obama signs and flag-draped symbolic coffins to dramatize the heavy toll of America’s wars among civilians and soldiers. Coffins draped with Iraqi and Palestinian flags were dropped off on sidewalks in front of offices of the war-profiter military contractor Halliburton - where they tore apart an effigy of former Vice-President and Halliburton Chief Executive Dick Cheney and trampled the pieces -, and the Washington Post (protesting the editorial board's positions on the wars).  Protesters stopped at The National Endowment for Democracy, and left poster-size "foreclosure notices" at the front door of the Mortgage Banker's Association's building, held responsible for the "landslide of foreclosures", and the US Department of Veterans Affairs to highlight the "woefully inadequate treatment" of returning veterans
(http://www.washingtonpost.com).


A demonstrator stomps on an effigy of former US Vice President Dick Cheney (denverpost)


"A huge part of the antiwar movement has been focused on the Bush administration and its policies in Iraq and Afghanistan," said Brian Becker, national coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition, which organized the march. "Bush is gone. Millions of people thought his exit would mean an end to these wars. Instead, after one year of real-life experience, they're far from ending." (Ibid).

Anti war group “Funk the War” organized a mobile dance party, with slogans “Funk the war, fund our future”. “We are coming to show that we are in a bad romance with the Obama administration and the government because he is cheating on us with these corporate criminals, these war profiteers and these corporations,” said one  protester.


Participants in the Hollywood “U.S. Out of Afghanistan and Iraq Now!” rally dramatize returning to life after being killed in the Afghanistan or Iraq War. The performers limped like zombies, craddled the heads of dead family members, nursed the wounded and hugged family members that awoke from the dead. (Daily Titan)

Los Angeles Stages P...
Los Angeles Protest

Similar rallies were hold in New York City, where hundreds of protesters gathered near a military recruiting station in Times Square, San Francisco, Chicago, Hollywood, Mineapolis and Los Angeles, where hundreds chanted anti-war slogans and carried mock tombstones. In SF, Daniel Ellsberg compared the protest to the demonstrations against the Vietnam War in 1969. Attorney Stephen Pearcy said the US had "essentially become a country of restrictions rather than a country of freedoms," where the government keeps violating the constitutional rights of peaceful anti-war protesters.


J. Pénochet (synthesis) for Internationalnews, 21 mars 2010

Sources: Agencies, Washington Post, Denver Post, dailytitan, american press, twincities.indymedia.org, Chicago Indymedia, Russia Today, International Answer, http://pjep.org/.




DC Anti-War Protest - 20 March 2010 par m.gross196
How many wars have they protested ? Photo: Flickr
 

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Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark (International Action Center) calling on the Justice Department to investigate the officials who launched the Iraq war.

 
A combat veteran from the Afghanistan war and two students war speak their mind.


People speak about the U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.


The SDS at Lafayette Park


Photos: commons.wikimedia.org, la.indymedia.org, twincities.indymedia.org, Flickr

Url de cet article: http://www.internationalnews.fr/article-manifestation-contre-les-guerres-d-irak-et-d-afghanistan-a-washington-thousands-antiwar-protesters-marched-on-d-c-to-end-u-s-led-wars-47144703.html

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Oct. 27 Anti-War Protests Throughout the US

100's of Protesters Hogtied & Arrested (video)

Anti-War Protest videos DC September 15th 2007 (II)

Anti-War Protest videos DC September 15th 2007

Dec 1st 2008 London World Against War Conference: Videos (I)

Cindie Shehan Camp Casey, Crawford, Texas, Day One (video, 25')

World Against War Demo 15 March 2008 (videos)

George Galloway Attacks Bush & Blair at Antiwar Rally (video, 5'30")

Iraqi Woman speaking on the Invasion (London anti-war Protest, 04/12/03)

CSNY-Kent State Massacre Anniversary-4 Dead in Ohio

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Dimanche 21 février 2010 7 21 /02 /2010 21:06
Can dissident Helen Caldicott really make a difference in todays sophisticated new world of neo-conservative spin, where celebrities are news and war is entertainment, where defence is offence and fire is friendly; the place known as George W. Bushs Land of the Free? Meet Helen Caldicott, a charismatic and emotive women who has always believed that she can change the world. The world knows of her as Dr. Caldicott, the anti-nuclear firebrand who quit her job in 1978 to stop The Bomb.

Playing reluctant cynic to her idealistic aunt, filmmaker Anna Broinowski follows Helen on a one year road trip through the States as she promotes her latest book, "The New Nuclear Danger George W. Bushs Military Industrial Complex". Anna reveals the woman behind the crusade; an intractable yet vulnerable campaigner, a fearless yet imperfect prophet who misses her grandchildren, while looking for new ways to steer us away from destruction.



http://www.internationalnews.fr/article-helen-caldicott-s-war-portrait-of-a-dissident-video--37957165.html
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Mardi 2 février 2010 2 02 /02 /2010 00:51

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Pour son anniversaire, le Forum social mondial (FSM) a organisé un séminaire à Porto Alegre, la ville brésilienne qui l’a vu naître. Pendant cinq jours, les grands acteurs du FSM ont été invités à dresser le bilan de cette décennie de rencontres.
Avec une interview d'Ignacio Ramonet.



http://www.internationalnews.fr/article-l-altermondialisme-10-ans-apres-reportage-a-porto-allegre-44167159.html

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Lundi 1 février 2010 1 01 /02 /2010 18:27

Agone le 29 janvier 2010

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Le 27 janvier à Santa Monica (Californie), Howard Zinn, âgé de 87 ans, a succombé à une crise cardiaque après une réunion publique, en se rendant à une manifestation. Sa fin aura ressemblé à tout ce qui la précéda.

Dans les années 1930, jeune ouvrier dans la réparation navale, à New York, faisant son éducation politique et syndicale avec la lecture des classiques du communisme et de l'anarchisme, sa première rencontre avec la liberté d'expression réelle prend la forme d'une matraque policière lors d'une manifestation.


C'est alors la période du New Deal, véritable « mythe familial » de sa famille d'immigrants : il en fera, vingt plus tard la critique, en historien, celle des limites de l'État-providence et de l'ordre social et économique inspiré par les classes dirigeantes et promues par leurs officines médiatiques.


En 1943, il anticipe son engagement dans l'US Air Force pour se battre contre le fascisme, le racisme et pour la démocratie ; il en reviendra pacifiste convaincu et, en historien, mettra en doute l'idée, vendue par les États, que ce conflit fut une « guerre juste ».


Au milieu des années 1950, diplômé en histoire à la Columbia University, il enseigne au Spelman College (Atlanta) à des jeunes Noires de la classe moyenne du Sud. Engagé aux côtés des militants dans la lutte pour les droits civiques, il prône l'action directe non-violente et devient l'un des historiens des groupes militants radicaux comme le SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee).


Dans les années 1960, licencié de son poste d'enseignant pour insubordination, il trouve un emploi à la Boston University. Jusqu'au milieu des années 1970, sa vie sera rythmée par les luttes contre la guerre du Vietnam. Le discours qu'il propose (en vain) au président Lyndon Johnson, afin d'expliquer au peuple américain pourquoi les États-Unis doivent se retirer du conflit, atteint rapidement une dizaine d'édition.


Les années 1980 sont marquées par la parution de son livre A People's History of the United States, dont le succès démultiplie ses interventions publiques ; qui s'ajoutent aux nombreuses qu'il mène à titre d'historien des traditions de désobéissance civile et de spécialiste de la constitution américaine dans des procès intentés aux amateurs d'action directe ou aux côtés des étudiants, dans des batailles pour la liberté d'expression et la justice sociale. Sa carrière d'enseignant se termine en 1988 ; mais il mènera jusqu'au dernier moment son activité d'inlassable conférencier contre la guerre et pour la défense d'une société sans classes où le racisme ne serait plus qu'un mauvais souvenir. Aussi le retrouve-t-on aussi bien au cœur des mobilisations contre la politique de « guerre contre le terrorisme », avec les interventions militaires des États-Unis en Afghanistan puis en Irak, que contre la réponse si impudiquement partisane que l'État a donnée à la crise bancaire de 2008.


En 2009, son enthousiasme pour l'élection de Barack Obama s'arrêtait à la nécessité, pour que cette élection ne soit pas une nouvelle source de désespérance, d'une mobilisation populaire sociale et politique. Un diagnostic confirmé, au moins pour la politique étrangère américaine par son analyse de l'attribution du prix Nobel de la Paix au nouveau Président.


Howard Zinn aura fait paraître une trentaine de livres, recueils d'entretiens et d'articles et ouvrages collectifs. Son œuvre a reçu de nombreuses distinctions - dont l'American Historical Association's Beveridge Prize, l'Eugene V. Debs Award et le prix des Amis du Monde diplomatique. Et sur la base de son autobiographie, Deb Ellis et Denis Mueller ont réalisé un documentaire qui en reprend le titre, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004).


Son œuvre majeure, A People's History of the United States, traduite dans de nombreuses langues, a fait l'objet d'une série exceptionnelle d'adaptations. Outre plusieurs versions abrégées, dont une pour la jeunesse, et une adaptation en bande dessinée, la partie consacrée au XXe siècle existe en CD-audio, lue par l'acteur Matt Dammon. Si plusieurs lectures publiques ont été organisées depuis quelques années, la mise en scène et la lecture d'extraits de A People's History« The People Speak », sur le site History Channel - documentaire de Chris Moore, Anthony Arnove et Howard Zinn.


Les éditeurs et éditrices


Photo Jean-François Nadeau (Montréal, 2008)
Titre original: Howard Zinn n’est plus

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http://www.internationalnews.fr/article-howard-zinn-nous-a-quittes-44142339.html

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  • « Une histoire du peuple des Etats-Unis »
    par Pierre Dommergues, avril 1980.
    A People’s History of the United States est une histoire du peuple, par le peuple, pour le peuple. C’est aussi la première synthèse qui propose, à partir des centaines d’études spécialisées, une vision d’ensemble de la politique intérieure et étrangère des Etats-Unis, du débarquement de Christophe Colomb en 1492 à l’embarquement dans l’austérité de l’année 1980.
L’impossible neutralité. Autobiographie d’un historien et militant, un livre de Howard Zinn (à commander sur la boutique en ligne).
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Lundi 1 février 2010 1 01 /02 /2010 00:54
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Bliar at Iraq Inquiry

Video and photos of protests on Tony Blair Judgement Day


A selection of the many videos, pictures and poems from Stop the War supporters, which record the spirit and purpose of the all-day protest on 29 January 2010, when Tony Blair gave evidence to the Iraq Inquiry. Go to:
http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1726/1/

Blair behind bars



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Mercredi 27 janvier 2010 3 27 /01 /2010 00:29
Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

IN THIS SCENE: A look at Dr. Zinn's views on non-violence and civil disobedience and his actions as a leader seeking to bring an end to the Vietnam War.

ABOUT THE FILM: In these turbulent times, Howard Zinn is inspiring a new generation. This acclaimed film looks at the amazing life of the renowned historian, activist and author. Following his early days as a shipyard labor organizer and bombardier in World War II, Zinn became an academic rebel and leader of civil disobedience in a time of institutionalized racism and war. His influential writings shine light on and bring voice to factory workers, immigrant laborers, African Americans, Native Americans and the working poor.


Featuring rare archival materials and interviews with Zinn and colleagues such as Noam Chomsky, You Can't Be Neutral captures the essence of this extraordinary man who has been a catalyst for progressive change for more than 60 years.


Narrated by Matt Damon. Featuring music by Pearl Jam, Woody Guthrie & Billy Bragg!  "Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train" go here: http://firstrunfeatures.com/shopsite_...


http://www.internationalnews.fr/article-43816780.html
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Dimanche 3 janvier 2010 7 03 /01 /2010 01:44
The Real News

International, Israeli, and Palestinian activists demonstrate around Gaza against Israeli imposed siege. January 1, 2010



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http://www.internationalnews.fr/article-gaza-freedom-march-in-israel-reportage-sur-la-marche-de-gaza-4-40--42342979.html
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Samedi 2 janvier 2010 6 02 /01 /2010 02:05
Mercredi 30 décembre 2009 (9' 30)


Marche pour Gaza /Le Caire 29 décembre 2009 (4' 35)
Demonstrators being forcibly ejected from street in Cairo 31 décembre 2009



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