DEPRIVATION TO END HUMILIATION!!!

        The Greek foreign minister Mr. Venizelos stated that the IMF (International Mankind Fuckers) had failed to “give a definitive and complete answer to the attacks on the Euro.” and said that Greece had been blackmailed and humiliated. His answer to the blackmail and humiliation of the Greek people was the need to do three things.

 1. Greece achieving its 2011 and 2012 fiscal targets. This translates into, slash the living standards of the Greek people and put them in a state of deprivation for the next 15 to 20 years or more. His 2^nd point: Achieve annual budget surpluses “as soon as possible”. Translation, sack thousands of public sector workers, pushing unemployment to previously unseen levels increasing the poverty of the ordinary people. Mr. Venizelos's 3^rd. Point; Carry out structural changes to allow Greece to become more competitive and productive. Translation; Sell off all Greece's public assets at bargain prices to the rich investors of the greed driven corporate world, in so doing, add billions of Euros to the coffers of the banking system and remove any control the Greek people might have over their own assets. This then is the Greek political class's answer to end the humiliation of the Greek people. It sounds to me that the cure is worse than the disease, think of the mess we would be in if they were in the medical profession!!

 

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IMF, CREATING A REVOLUTIONARY SITUATION.

Those who are familiar with history, well Western history, will be looking at Greece and having visions of Germany after the first world war. What the winners in that imperialist war done to Germany in the form of reparations, as a punishment, drove the German people into a spiral of deprivation, creating a revolutionary situation in which the fascists took control, with a little help from their friends. What the winners in the world war of debt, in the shape of the IMF (International Mankind Fuckers) and the others in the financial cartel, are doing to Greece is just the same as reparations, and will drive the Greek people into a spiral of deprivation, with no likelihood of a reversal for at least a generation. All this to protect the debt mountain of the winners club in this insane game of grow the debt, namely Germany and France.

It will not stop there, Portugal, Italy and possible Spain are all in the firing line in an attempt to save the mountainous debt bubble from bursting and hurting those at the top. The people of country after country will be sacrificed by having their living standards slashed at the dictate of the International Mankind Fuckers, at all costs, the billionaires at the top of the festering heap must be saved. The financial system most survive, even if it means the people have to live in rabbit warrens or sewers.

You lot will have to tighten your belt.

We are lead to believe that this is the only game in town and we the people must take our medicine to save the system. This message is of course, pumped out by those very people who created the fantasy world of growth and debt, the very people who will make sure that they will not suffer for their greed and believe that we the people have a duty to suffer so as to save their arses. Why do we accept such shit? We don't need them, they need us. We make and distribute everything on this planet, they do nothing but live off our backs. They could of course be creating their own demise, simply by creating a revolutionary situation in each country in turn could see their selfish self centred greed driven ideology go up in smoke.

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KILLED EARNING YOUR BREAD.

    

      Across the globe people die just trying to earn their crust of bread, some might have been unavoidable, but most of the others were in all possibility caused by lack of proper health and safety regulations being in place or not being enforced. Health and safety often competes with profit and profit comes first in this capitalist system. Money is sacred, money is scarce, but there's always another worker there to take the place of the killed worker.

      The recent mining disaster in Wales where 4 miners lost their lives due to flooding is a stark reminder that even today in this country, mining is still a very dangerous occupation. Today for me, as the son of a miner, is a very poignant day, September 18 is the 52 anniversary of one of the worst mining disasters in the UK. My father worked in the mine and retired just about a month before the disaster.

Memorial to the miners who lost their lives in the Wester Auchegeich Colliery disaster.

      In September 18^th. 1959, 47 men lost their lives in a coal mine near the village of Auchengeich. The cause of the disaster was a faulty fan purifying the air in the colliery that caught fire due to an electrical fault. The men, who were on their way to start their shift at approximately 6:50am. were in bogies travelling to the coal face to start their days work. Forty three were found dead in the bogies, one seemed to have fallen off and three were found some way from the carriage dead by the side of the track. They had all died because of the intense smoke that developed in the tunnel. There were in fact just a few hundred yards from safety. The mine was eventually flooded to put out the fire; there was only one survivor from the crews. The Mining accident was one of the worst within the UK in the 20th century, widowing 41 women and leaving 76 children without a father.

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BOMBS AND DEATH OR NURSES?

        Ten years of bloodshed, death, pain and anguish for the Afghan people, over 1500 US deaths and almost 400 UK deaths, for what? The cost of the Afghan 10 year war is shattering both in its cost in human life, also the financial cost. What could that financial package have done other than kill and maim? Billions for death and destruction while at the same time cutting back on social services. It is hardly the hallmark of a civilised society. 

 

The only beneficiaries of war are the arms traders and their associates.

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IT WILL BE WON OR LOST ON THE STREETS.

     While we in this country mobilise against the millionaire bankers' cuts to our living standards, we should not lose sight of the fact that this is not a UK problem. This is a crisis in capitalism across the globe. The financial system is in effect bust, and has to claw in money from the public to save the bankers arses. They have to raise more money from the people and take ownership of all public assets to shore up their greed gotten billions.

      As far as Europe is concerned, Greece is probably at the front line and what is happening there is in all probability coming our way. Recently the Greek government introduced a new tax very much reminiscent of Thatcher’s Poll Tax: every single house owner in the country is to face an “emergency tax” ranging between 3-20 euros per square meter (depending on their property value, location etc). Even people on unemployment benefits are not to be spared of the tax, only offered a discount instead. Practically, this means that an average household of, say, three bedrooms (approx. 100 sq m.) would have to pay an additional of 1,000 euros (!) annually in tax. It doesn't stop there, a staggering increase in VAT (from 13% to 23% for many products), and the effective sacking of thousands of public sector workers. Of course there are the usual exceptions from the new tax, no not the poor hard working, but the more leisurely, religious-use buildings owned by the Church will be exempt. The Orthodox church is the largest property owner in Greece.

      All this information looks innocent on paper, just statistics, percentages, numbers, but when it hits you personally the human effect is a different story. It means poverty in the present time with it likely to continue for decades, destroying the future of the next generation, stress and anguish which at times can be unbearable. Friday 16 September in the Greek Northern city of Thessaloniki, a 55-year old man tried to set himself alight in front of a branch of Piraeus Bank, in protest and desperation for his mounting debt to the bank. He was rescued by passers-by and police and has been transferred to hospital.

      You can write, text, send emails to your MP, decide to change who you vote for at the next election and it will all be to no avail. This is not a national crisis, it is global and it will be won or lost on the streets. It is the system that has to be changed, not the bums on seats of power, nor the smiling faces at the podium.
Some of the details here were taken from

http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/

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WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON ---???

  
       Union busting is part and parcel to the capitalist system, it is not one company nor one coutry it is the way the capitalist system works across the planet. The last thing the capitalists want is for the workers to be organised and work together to improve and protect their pay and conditions. A fragmented and unorganised workforce can easily be exploited, wages and conditions can be eroded when the workers don't stand together. It is obvious that it is in the interest of every worker to be an active member of their union and stand united in solidarity with all workers who find themselves in dispute with their employer.

Stand with Longshore Workers 21! HOORAY FOR UNIONISTS willing to be arrested! In a dispute raging through the summer in Longview, Washington, over 120 members of International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) have been detained by cops, including Local 21 President Dan Coffman and International President Robert McEllrath. The unionists are fighting to stop international conglomerate EGT Development from breaking a longstanding master agreement the ILWU has at the Port of Longview's publicly subsidized grain terminal. Members of the ILWU are contractually entitled to work the 50 jobs at the terminal, but EGT sued the port for the right to bring in nonunion workers, and inflamed tensions by importing members of Operating Engineers Local 701, who have crossed picket lines to work. On September 7, hundreds of ILWU members stood on railroad tracks to block a train carrying grain to the facility. Police in riot gear attacked protesters with clubs and pepper spray. The next morning, police reported that hundreds of ILWU members from Northwest locals and supporters broke down the gates of the EGT terminal, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain. Security guards retreated and no one was hurt or arrested. An emergency meeting of ILWU locals also shut down other Washington ports. THE ILWU SEES THIS BATTLE as critical to thwart unionbusting drives at other grain terminals. It is all that and more. The struggle at Longview is part of the nationwide resistance against the bosses' austerity attacks. It continues the mobilization begun in Madison, Wisconsin last year. Longview originated as a timber town and longshoremen have worked the Columbia river port for more than 80 years. The community and ILWU won't roll over for EGT, scabs or court orders. The challenge for the rest of organized labor is to mount real national support for this struggle, including stopping the Operating Engineers Union Local 701 from providing scabs. Readers can support these brave unionists by defending them in the press, and by sending donations and messages of solidarity to President Coffman, ILWU Local 21, 617 14th Ave, Suite B, Longview, WA 98632, or email: ilwu21@iinet.com. For background information on the struggle see: Here's why Longshore workers are so angry.

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INTERNATIONAL BRIGADES ANNIVERSARY CYCLE RUN.

       A group of cyclists will set off from Edinburgh next Monday (19 September) for a tour of Britain and Ireland to remember the volunteers from the British Isles who joined the International Brigades.

       Organised by the National Clarion Cycling Club 1895 (NCCC), the IBMT-supported ride will mark the 75th anniversary of the formation of the International Brigades in October 1936 to fight General Franco’s fascist-backed revolt against the Spanish Republic.

       Seven cyclists will complete the entire 645-mile itinerary, with others joining them for shorter parts of the route. They will call at International Brigade memorials along the way, where wreaths will be laid and homage paid to the 527 men and women from Britain and Ireland who were killed in the war in Spain.

       The cyclists will arrive in London in time for the IBMT’s annual general meeting on 1 October and the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street on the following day.

       IBMT members are invited to support the riders, by joining them for parts of their route or by attending the ceremonies of remembrance at International Brigade memorials.

ITINERARY.

19 September: Assemble 9.30am at IB memorial, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh; to Glasgow via Blantyre and Rutherglen IB memorials; 60 miles.

20 September: Assemble 9.30am at “Pasionaria” IB memorial, Custom Quay, Glasgow; to Cairnryan; 85 miles.

21 September: Cairnryan by ferry to Larne; onwards to Belfast; 25 miles.

22 September: Assemble 9.30am at IB memorial, Saint Anne’s Square, Belfast; to Dundalk; 55 miles.

23 September: Dundalk to Dublin; 55 miles.

24 September: Assemble 9.30am at IB memorial, Liberty Hall, Dublin; to Arklow; 62 miles.

25 September: Arklow to Rosslare; 58 miles.

26 September: Rosslare by ferry to Fishguard; onwards to St Clears; 33 miles.

27 September: St Clears to Cardiff via IB memorial in Swansea; 62 miles.

28 September: Assemble 9.30am at IB memorial, Cathays Park, Cardiff; to Bristol; 55 miles.

29 September: Assemble 9.30am at IB memorial, Castle Park, Bristol; to Streatley; 35 miles.

30 September: Streatley to London via Reading IB memorial (at 9.30am); join more cyclists at Olympia at approximately 3pm; arrival at IB memorial and mural in Cable Street at approximately 5pm; 60 miles.

MORE INFORMATION

NCCC clarioncc@yahoo.co.uk

IBMT secretary@international-brigades.org.uk

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UK SHOW TRIALS.

         As usual The Commune  has come up with an excellent article on the upper class hatred of the working class as displayed in the recent "show trials" after the August riots. Taimour Lay explains the meaning of these post-riot show trials'.

         The criminal courts’ reaction to the riots was to instinctively follow the hysteria of a panicking government and a shocked police. Of 3000 people arrested, 1000 were charged in August alone. Magistrates have been sending hundreds to jail (an average of five months for theft or handling stolen goods), with the majority remanded in custody until a Crown Court can hand down an even longer term.

- 3000 arrested nationwide

- London’s Met police set ‘target’ of 3000 convictions

- six months jail for stealing a £3.50 bottle of water

- five-month sentence given to mother-of-two who ‘handled’ stolen pair of shorts

- burglary charge and jail threat for stealing two scoops of ice-cream

- rioters’ families face being turfed out of council houses, benefit cuts

        It is hard to overstate quite how extraordinary this spasm of rushed ‘justice’ has been. Sentencing principles have been thrown out the window: it hasn’t helped defendants to plead guilty, be young, have a clean record, turn themselves in, express remorse, come from an abusive home or take a bottle of water as opposed to a plasma TV. Bail rights have been systematically disregarded. These are show-trials if the only aim is deterrence.

Continue reading HERE.

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ANARCHITECTURE.

        I have just listened to a new release by a group called Beltaine's Fire, this is their third album and has 14 tracks and is called ANARCHITECTURE. It goes under the heading of Anarchist Jazz/funk folk-rap with Celtic roots. Though the music is not my style, I found the lyrics excellent and in some cases inspiring. Some of the lyrics manage to express the disgust and loathing most folks have for the job they need to do just to earn their crust of bread, the deep resentment at continually having to accept a servile role in a pointless society of consumption, where all we seem to do is make an elite bunch of parasites richer. The album is priced at $8 and I think it is well worth a visit to their site. They claim, "this is what revolution sounds like" see what you think.

It's crime & punishment, rhyme & reason

and when we fight back, they call it treason

So I say what I mean, mean what I say

our future's been stolen so I live for today

crime, punishment, rhyme, reason

burnin up inside but outside - freezin'

balanced on a wire like 10 miles high

desperately tryin' to remember how to fly

most ya'll ain't prepared for the truth I spit

I fight back like Warsaw while ya'll walk into Auschwitz

ya'll think I'm the one who's crazy?!! What's your malfunction?!

Understand where we stand, we're at history's junction

consumption can't save you, you can't fill the hole

put your coupons away, they won't save your soul

ya'll so indoctrinated, can't even tell what's right

addicted, conflicted, conscripted to fight

crusades and wars as they treat us like whores

and when we fight back they control us with force

sensational tv violence desensitizes

so that when it's real no one realizes

or understands the impact of culture combat

distressed, dissociated, can't even contact

our own histories, long memory gone

so we don't know who we are or where we've come from

 

     You can listen to Anarchitecture online as streaming mp3s
and read all the lyrics at
http://beltainesfire.bandcamp.com/album/anarchitecture -

No download required.

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UNITE AGAINST FASCISM - -SUCCESS.



        Unite Against Fascism is proud that the protest on Saturday kept the racists
and Nazis our of the city centre of Edinburgh. As over 400 people,
overwhelmingly from Edinburgh, joined the protest, we demonstrated that the
streets of Edinburgh belong to anti-racists.

       The hand written placard stating “We love haggis pakora” best summed up the
spirit that made the march so positive. The diverse groups represented on our
march, from LGBT groups to Muslims, black and white was a living example of our
city maintaining it’s proud tradition of welcoming all communities.

       As our march held the city centre the racists in the Scottish Defence League
and their violent friends were humiliated as they were hidden on a quiet
street, invisible to the people of Edinburgh. Instead of the mobilization of
500 they had boasted about bringing, less than a hundred made it to their
assembly area.

         And their day got even worse……
Some members of the SDL went down to a bar in Leith to drink after the march.
However someone called the police and the SDL were then held inside before
being bussed out.

Join or donate
We desperately need money to keep up the fight against the far right, please
join or donate at:
http://uaf.org.uk/join-donate/

And finally…..

Stv coverage
http://local.stv.tv/edinburgh/news/269741-far-right-protest-passes-without-incident/

Photos from the demo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/duncanbrown/sets/72157627520500767/

BBC Coverage
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-14861594#story_continues_1


Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Edinburgh-Against-the-Racist-SDL/243430722357693

COMING UP
Love Music Hate Racism Gigs - Sat 26th and Sun 27th November.
Sat will be a all Ska night with 3 of Scotland’s biggest ska bands "Big Fat
Panda" "This R2 Tone" and "Red2RED"
Sun will be Indie/rock with "Diego" "SaucyJack" and either "after me the flood"
or "Morris Major"
More information to follow.

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SAVE TROY DAVIS.

                                                                                                             An appeal from Amnesty International, this could be our last chance the life of Troy Davis. A judge in the US state of Georgia has ordered the execution of Troy Davis to take place on Wednesday 21 September 2011. After 20 years on death row, Troy has exhausted every avenue  for appeal from the state level to the Supreme Court. We now  have only one hope: clemency. The Georgia parole board meets on Monday 19 September. They could decide to allow Troy’s execution to go ahead as scheduled – or they could grant clemency and therefore commute  his sentence to life in prison or life without parole. This is Troy’s last chance to avoid execution. Please email the Georgia parole board and urge them to grant clemency Over 300,000 of you have already signed a global petition for Troy, and many more have written to him personally over the years.  But right now we must continue to remind the state of Georgia that in a matter of life and death there is no room for doubt - and there are massive doubts in this case: No physical evidence links Troy to the crime of which he was convicted. Seven of the nine non-police witnesses on whose evidence he was convicted have since recanted or contradicted their testimony. Many witnesses stated they were pressured or coerced by police. Nine individuals have signed affidavits implicating an alternative suspect. As long as there is hope we must continue to fight – for Troy, for his family, for his fundamental human right to life and to be spared this ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. Take action – send an email now These are dark days for Troy and all of us who have supported him over the years – but remember: execution is not inevitable. I will be in touch soon to update you on events and any other ways you can help. However, for now it is essential that you email the parole board straight away. Time is fast running out for Troy. In hope, Clare Bracey Death Penalty Campaigner ann arky's home.

WRONGLY CONVICTED.

        There are lots of reasons why there should be no such thing as the death penalty. There is the cold blooded barbarity of deciding to kill someone, preparing the site for the killing, people and method being selected to do the killing and the actual act of someone or group actually carrying out the killing. Then of course there is the fact of giving someone or institution the right to life or death over another human being, but above all that, there is the catalogue of innocent people who have spent years in prison for crimes they did not commit and those executed who were later proved to be innocent.

      The following is just a very small list from America of those who were convicted of crimes they never committed,a is not unique in this field, here in the UK we have had innumerable case of people serving years in prison for crimes they never committed, thankful, in the UK we don't have the death penalty.

       The U.S. justice system is far from perfect, and the evidence is all in the numbers. According to the Innocence Project, there have been 273 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States, and 17 of these people have served time on death row. Some of these cases happened when DNA testing wasn’t available, and others were caused by human and systematic errors, but either way, these innocent inmates have paid an unfortunate price. Here are 10 infamous inmates who were wrongly convicted.

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THE WORLD'S MOST BRUTAL ORGANISATION - THE STATE.

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       As far as organisations and institutions go, there is none more brutal nor causes more deaths than the state. With it endless wars killing millions across the globe, all sanctioned as legal by the state apparatus. Then there are the thousands of executions that go on a daily basis, legalised killing by an organisation that attempts to weild supreme power over everybody. Innocent or guilty, no man has the right to take another man's life and it is just men that order and carry out the killing. It may get all dressed up in the trappings of power, ritual and ceremony, but at the end of the day it is just other men killing other men. This mythical thing the state, becomes more powerful than the people it is meant to serve. There is no place for legal murder in any civilised society. 

Act NOW to STOP THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS!

EMERGENCY: EXECUTION SET FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. ACT NOW! Take Action on the Global Day of Solidarity for Troy Davis, Friday, Sept. 16.

 LIST YOUR LOCAL ACTIVITY AT iacenter.org/actions/troydavissept16listlocalaction

SIGN ONLINE PETITION AT iacenter.org/troydavis

All anti-death penalty activists in the U.S. and worldwide should prepare NOW to organize coordinated actions on FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16.

Plan an activity - a rally, demonstration, petitioning drive, teach-in, community leafletting, etc on that day in your city.

Post your event at iacenter.org/actions/troydavissept16listlocalaction and justicefortroy.org

In ATLANTA, at 6pm on September 16th there will be a March assembling at Woodruff Park, Peachtree and Edgewood and concluding at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 407 Auburn Ave with a service featuring national civil rights, community and religious leaders, Martina Correia and other family members of Troy Davis,and exonerated prisoners.

NEW YORK CITY:

ALL OUT FOR EMERGENCY DEMO

FRIDAY SEPT 16 4:30- 6 PM

TIMES SQUARE, 43rd ST AND 7th AVE.

STOP THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS

Other important dates:

Thursday, Sept. 15: delivery of petitions to the Georgia Pardon and Parole Board;

Monday, Sept. 19: hearing on clemency for Troy Davis by Georgia Pardon and Parole Board

For more information on the campaign, go to www.aiusa.org or gfadp.org

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On March 28, 2011, the US Supreme Court failed to take up the appeal of Troy Davis. AND NOW HIS EXECUTION HAS BEEN SET FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21.

TELL THE GEORGIA GOV., LEGISLATURE, PARDONS AND PAROLE BOARD, PRESIDENT OBAMA, ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDER, CONGRESS AND THE MEDIA:
STOP THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS!

Please join the online campaign to STOP THE EXECUTION! FREE TROY DAVIS NOW!
YOUR EMERGENCY ACTION IS NEEDED NOW! Click HERE to Sign the Online Petition

Tell Gov. Deal and the Georgia Pardons and Parole Board:

STOP THE EXECUTION! FREE TROY DAVIS!

On March 28, 2011, the US Supreme Court failed to take up the appeal of Troy Anthony Davis, the Savannah, Ga. man whose scheduled execution has been halted three times in the past because of the growing evidence and public belief in his innocence. AND NOW HIS EXECUTION HAS BEEN SET FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21.

Troy Davis is an African American on death row in Georgia. Davis was convicted in the 1989 killing of a police officer despite what Amnesty International calls "overwhelming doubts about his guilt." No physical forensic evidence was presented at Davis' trial, and 7 of the 9 non-police witnesses have recanted their testimony, with at least two saying they were pressured by police to finger Davis as the killer.
CLICK HERE TO TAKE ACTION NOW to let the Georgia Parole Board, Governor, Legislature, and congressional delegation as well as President Obama, U.N. Secretary-General Ban, Congressional leaders and members of the media know you demand No Execution of Troy Davis!

Your messages will go to hundreds of public officials, including the Governor of Georgia, the entire Georgia legislature, each member of the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, the full Georgia Congressional delegation, as well as President Obama, Attorney General Holder, Congressional leaders, U.N. Secretary-General Ban, and national and local media representatives.
SIGN ONLINE PETITION AT iacenter.org/troydavis

The text of the message reads as follows (you will have the opportunity to edit it if you wish):

To: Governor Deal, Georgia Pardons and Parole Board, Georgia Legislature, Georgia Congressional Delegation, President Obama, Attorney General Holder, Congressional Leaders, U.N. Secretary General Ban

cc: members of the media

STOP THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS, NOW SET FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21!

On March 28, 2011, the US Supreme Court failed to take up the appeal of Troy Anthony Davis, the Savannah, Ga. man whose scheduled execution has been halted three times in the past because of the growing evidence and public belief in his innocence. He was convicted solely on eye witness testimony, and 7 of the 9 non-police witnesses have since recanted, several alleging that police coerced them into making false statements.

I join with millions in the US and around the world in demanding that you stop the execution of Troy Davis. Serious doubt remains. I call on all those with authority and influence in this decision to grant clemency to Troy Anthony Davis and overturn the death sentence.

Innocence matters to me. Justice matters to everyone.

I urge you to act now.

Sincerely,

SIGN ONLINE PETITION AT iacenter.org/troydavis

 International Action Center
c/o Solidarity Center
55 W 17th St Suite 5C
New York, NY 10011
212-633-6646 iacenter@iacenter.org www.iacenter.org

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WHAT'S YOUR PENSION WORTH???

         As our well manicured millionaires that haunt the Westminster Houses of Hypocrisy and Corruption force us to work longer and contribute more to our pensions, for less at the end, while spouting about us all being in this together and other crap about the broadest shoulders taking the greatest load, etc. we should take a look at their millionaire CEO chums’ pension pots. Jeroen van der Veer, former boss of Royal Dutch Shell, £1.4m a year. Former Barclays boss John Varley £1.2m. Sir Frank Chapman, CEO of BG Group, and David Brennan, CEO of AstraZeneca, more than a million a year. Diageo's CEO Paul Walsh, more than £930,000 a year. Yea, we’re all in this together!!!  What will this bunch of parasites care about cuts in social services, lack of opportunities, deteriorating education system. How much thought will they give to this year’s heating bills, Their unimaginable wealth will shower them with choices, where as most of us, this winter, will be faced with one choice, to eat or to heat.

         Britain's top company bosses have stashed away pension pots that have soared by 70 per cent in less than a decade and are now at record levels, according to new statistics to be published this week. The five biggest pension pots of FTSE 100 directors are worth more than £84m combined – nearly 600 times greater than the £150,000 that the average retirement fund of five working Britons would amount to. Income inequality in the UK is nothing short of mind-boggling. The average income of a FTSE 100 chief executive, according to the most recent Guardian survey of executive pay, is over £3m per year, including bonuses and pension contributions. Jaw droppingly more than 100 times

median household income. It is common for CEOs to soar 200 or 300 times as much as the median pay of their employees or, in the case of Terry Leahy's final year at Tesco, for a CEO to be paid 500 times the average take-home pay of his employees.

   

        Amid what we are told is austere times, while we, the ordinary people, are having cuts forced on us in every aspect of our lives, and our standard of living being undermined, it is safe to say that the millionaire cabal of parasites have never had it so good. Ah, that’s capitalism for you!!!

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TODAY'S WORLD??

      "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." "Fascism is an extreme right-wing ideology which embraces nationalism as the transcendent value of society. The rise of Fascism relies upon the manipulation of populist sentiment in times of national crisis. Based on fundamentalist revolutionary ideas, Fascism defines itself through intense xenophobia, militarism, and supremacist ideals. Although secular in nature, Fascism's emphasis on mythic beliefs such as divine mandates, racial imperatives, and violent struggle places highly concentrated power in the hands of a self-selected elite from whom all authority flows to lesser elites, such as law enforcement, intellectuals, and the media."

                                                                   Il Duce Benito Mussolini, 1935

       Look familiar?? Have a real look at what is going on in this world of ours, after all it is OUR world, isn't time we took it back and sorted it out for the benefit of all our people?

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WORLDWIDE FANANCIAL DICTATORSHIP.

            Anarchists have always said, “Why vote, it changes nothing” and this has become more apparent in recent years than ever before. In this corporate capitalist system, when it comes to fiscal policy, all national governments follow the instructions of the IMF (International Mankind Fuckers). Country after country introduces austerity cuts and in so doing devastate the living standards of its people. Elections come and elections go, Liberals win here, Democrats win there, Socialist win next door and Conservatives win down the road a bit. However, it matters not one jot, as the policies will all be much the same, it will just be a matter of how fast, how deep to make the cuts. Is this because the politicians of all persuasion want to screw the public? Or is it because the have no alternative but to follow the dictate of the financial world, The IMF, World Bank etc.?

          Because of the financial sector's unbridled greed and gambling addiction, they went bust, so to get their money back and start their binge all over again, they had to plunder the world's public purse. This is the process we are going through at the moment. The following statement by Peter Gauweiler, CSU representative of the German Bundestag, is from an interview with Welt Online, “We’re on the way to a worldwide financial dictatorship governed by bankers, -- We don’t support Greece, We support 25 or 30 worldwide investment banks and their insane activities.” I believe he is away off the mark, we are not “on our Way”, we have reached, worldwide financial dictatorship. The policies they will pursue will be to create conditions in which all public assets will be transferred to the private sector, this will help to swell their coffers by billions of pounds worldwide.

        National governments are no more than regional managers for worldwide corporate capitalism. The anonymous unelected financial rulers of the world will sit in a few offices scattered around the world and make the decisions that will protect and enhance their wealth and power at the expense of the ordinary people, their managers, (national governments) sitting in the capitals across the globe, will carry out those instructions. It's called corporate fascism, it is here now, and it is worldwide.

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THE RIGHT TO PROTEST.

      A release from the Glasgow Defence Campaign in support of the right to protest. No matter what the state and its minders say, everybody has the right to peaceful protest, unless of course we live under fascism, which is a very strong possibility.

GLASGOW DEFENCE CAMPAIGN - ONE YEAR ON.

http://glasgowdefencecampaign.blogspot.com/2011/09/glasgow-defence-campaign-one-year-on.html

       The British state - the police, courts, parliament and media - has responded to the uprisings in English cities with a visciousness and hypocrisy that only the imperialist ruling class and its defenders are capable of. They ranted about destruction, anarchy, violence, disorder and lawlessness while the Royal Airforce had flown over 15,000 missions against the people of Libya and dropped high explosives on residential areas killing innocent men, women and children. What causes the greatest damage, we ask, a half brick or a jet fighter loaded with murderous missiles! Which is the more anti-social crime? Helping yourself to a pair of jeans or helping yourself to a country's oil?

      In this context, the reality of ruling class violence and lawlessness, we look back at the last year of the Glasgow Defence Campaign's work and the argument that we made in July of 2010 that the British state was preparing to attack the living standards of the working class through the cuts budgets and would attempt to control and criminalise all resistance to the rule of the wealthy. As a Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! (FRFI) supporter stated at a May Day rally in Dundee this year: the defence of working class living standards is the defence of democratic rights.

     Comrades from FRFI got out onto the streets of Govanhill, Glasgow last year to protest at the austerity budget of the newly elected Tory-Con Dem government. Within hours we were facing Strathclyde police's attempts to immediately close down our leafletting and petitioning. Regulations were cited and invented to try to force us off the streets. Our human rights to expression and association - clearly upheld in law- were ignored by the bullies in uniform as newspapers and stalls were seized and charges issued against FRFI supporters.

      We stood firm in the face of this political policing and fought back by openly challenging the police censorship and gathering support from every group and individual sharing our concern about the attack on democratic rights. We urged unity and public protest to defend those rights and warned that we were only at the begining of the state's attempts to limit and make any protest innefective and isolated.

      Towards the end of that year as students took to the streets everywhere to protest at education cuts we recognised the emergence of new police tactics to control, intimidate and criminalise protest. From Parliament Square in London to George Square, Glasgow, the kettle was on. FRFI supporters were targeted and arrested by police on protests in December and January and hauled in front of sham courts. Delayed arrests, house raids, frame ups, surveillance and assault were evidence of the state giving the green light to the police to close down protest. The Glasgow Defence Campaign was established to meet these attacks in kind, recording and exposing every incident of police harassment, naming and shaming the officers involved, taking protests to the doors of the District and Sheriff courts and the streets of Glasgow. The aggressive, bundled police operation to evict the Free Hetherington occupation on 22 March educated new layers of young people in the need to organise rapidly against such repression. On 16 April, following another week of arrests and convictions of FRFI and other anti-cuts activists, the GDC held a defiant rally in Glasgow city centre to demand an end to the political attacks, uniting progressive forces. Five days later, all charges against seven activists were dropped as they were due to appear in court.

       Now, faced with the anger of inner city youth facing poverty and unemployment - sparked off by another police killing - the British state's real methods of operation are obvious to many more people. Their idea of justice is to ignore the theft of billions by the wealthy elites represented in the cabinet and parliament or the corruption of policemen and women by the millionaire press and to treat the working class as criminals deserving only of a prison cell should they rebel.

      The Glasgow Defence Campaign states its commitment to the argument that the defence of democratic rights is the defence of the working class. We define that working class as workers in jobs, youth in revolt on the streets, the disabled and poor, immigrants and asylum seekers- all those who the rich are trying to make pay for an economic crisis not of their making.

       The police who tried to close down our political activity last year and who were made to back off by the campaigning work of the Glasgow Defence Campaign have been made bolder and more arrogant by recent developments. At the time of writing this statement, concern is rising about a steep rise in deaths at the hands of police - 3 killings in 8 days. Recent arrests in Glasgow and the return of police interference in legitimate and legal political organisation should put us all on alert and demands that unity and solidarity must be fought for and built in the struggle to defend democratic rights and in the fight for real justice.

POLICE HANDS OFF PROTEST!
DEFEND DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS!
AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL!
Issued by the Glasgow Defence Campaign, 6 September 2011
glasgowdefencecampaign.blogspot.com

Contact: glasgowdefence@yahoo.co.uk

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