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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

G20 Finance Ministers fail to agree on Climate Change Finance Package

G20 Finance ministers failed to reach agreement on the financing required for a global agreement to stave off catastrophic climate change, according to WWF Scotland. The Finance Ministers of the G20 countries were meeting in St Andrews, Scotland on 6-7 November.

Outside the G20 Finance Ministers meeting in St Andrews students and civil society gathered with an alternative summit on Saturday and Students Blockading the G20 meeting on the road to the Fairmont Hotel in an attempt to disrupt the G20 finance ministers as they arrived at their St Andrews hotel location. A rally occured in St Andrews to say 'Nae Tae G20.' on November 7. (Photos) The students were protesting against the G20's current policies regarding the economic recession.

Related: International investigation reveals multinational fossil fuel campaign to undermine Copenhagen
Indymedia Scotland | Nae Tae G20 in St Andrews | Climate IMC

Industrialised World Intransigence on CO2 emissions dooms Climate Negotiations

Africa abandons Barcelona's pre COP15 climate talks - Anger in the streets at rich nations inaction. Copenhagen Climate Treaty appears doomed - delays likely. Delay is not an option, delay kills.

This week (Nov 2 - 6) the Barcelona International Climate Change Talks are happening, five days of formal negotiations, in the lead up to COP 15 in Copenhagen in December 2009. Already Barcelona has seen a Manifestation in Barcelona streets - "The climate is not for sale" (Youtube vid | report), Outdoor film screening in city streets of Age of Stupid, TckTckTck wake up call for climate talks, Greenpeace banner drop (Youtube), Anarchist night greeting, Africa boycott U.N. climate talks (Grist report), Evening Water Lobby group targeted, and the Main entrance shut down by activists.

Conservation organisations have warned that the Copenhagen climate treaty threatens to subsidise the destruction of the world's remaining rainforests instead of financing their protection. In Indonesia Greenpeace established a Climate Defenders Camp to preserve Rainforest peatlands (Youtube Video). On October 24, 2009 people in 181 countries came together through 350.org calling for carbon emissions to be capped at 350ppm. It was the most widespread day of environmental action in the planet's history, at over 5200 events around the world, many of them reported on the Indymedia Network. (Photos)

See also: Barcelona IMC | Indymedia Ireland | Climate IMC
Climate Code Red: the Case for a Sustainability Emergency | Carbon Equity

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.

BusinessEurope conference disturbed by climate activists

This morning (28th october) around 9:00am dozens of costumed activists have blocked all access to the Charlemagne Building in Brussels, next to the Commission’s HQ, where Business Europe, the EU lobby of bosses and industrialists, is supposed to hold their conference on Copenhagen and climate change and hear Barroso self-congratulate himself on green capitalism. Belgian activists retort: Our Climate Ain’t None of Your Business!

[press release(En/Fr) | report (fr) | fotos | 1 2 3 | Climate IMC report | Climate Justice Action]

L'interdiction de squatter aux Pays-Bas se rapproche

Cela fait maintenant trois ans que se prépare une politique d'interdiction de squatter Aux Pays Bas. Une nouveau projet visant à interdir de squatter aux Pays Bas a été examinée au Parlement le 15 Octobre. Squatter des maisons vides depuis plus d'un an est toujours légal dans ce pays. Cependant,ce nouveau projet, à l'initiative des chrétiens démocrates, de l'union chrétienne et du parti d'opposition conservateur WD, cherche à faire du fait de squatter un crime passible d'entre un et trois ans d'emprisonnement en cas de refus d'etre expulsé.
Malgré de fortes critiques émanant de la Haute-cours, de l'union des conseils de ville et même des forces de police de la ville d'Amsterdam, la majorité chretienne/de droite à La Hague soutient la loi.

Venezuela: Demarcación sin territorio, criminalización y muerte a los luchadores indígenas

Lucha:
Decía el Viejo Antonio que, la lucha es como un círculo.
Se puede empezar en cualquier en cualquier punto,
pero nunca termina.
Subcomandante Marcos.

El pasado 12 de octubre se consumó lo que, desde hace tiempo denunciamos como parte de la estrategia etnofágica y etnocida del actual Estado-gobierno venezolano: el cuerpo ministerial de Chávez vino a entregar supuestos títulos a tres comunidades indígenas yukpa en la Sierra de Perijá, pretendiendo con ello, dar por saldado el proceso de demarcación de los hábitats correspondientes a este pueblo. Llama la atención la no presencia del Presidente Chávez en un acto esperado en la Sierra desde el año 2002, fecha en la que según disposición constitucional el Estado ha debido culminar el proceso de demarcación de todos los espacios territoriales indígenas del país; en su defecto, un enorme piquete de soldados cubrió el espacio del evento, supuestamente, para brindar seguridad a los Ministros (Interior y Justicia; Ambiente; de Pueblos Indígenas; entre otros funcionarios presentes), y que al menor asomo de protesta de las comunidades no favorecidas se activó de inmediato para aplacar sus abiertos reclamos. Se trató, en fin, de la acción a través de la cual los yukpa debían obligadamente aceptar la entrega de NADA.

Puerto Rico: Paro Nacional del Pueblo

- CMI-Puerto Rico

Más de 150,000 personas marcharon el día del Paro Nacional contra las políticas neoliberales del gobierno de Luis Fortuño y los ricos. Hoy por hoy el país se prepara para organizar la Huelga General.

Como parte de las actividades programadas para el día del Paro Nacional del 15 de octubre, hubo dos grandes concentraciones: la de la coalición Todo Puerto Rico Por Puerto Rico comandada por el liderato de la Coalición Sindical compuesta de sucursales de uniones burocráticas estadounidenses, y la del Frente Amplio de Solidaridad y Lucha comandado por la UTIER. Pero en el Expreso Las Américas, en el área del elevado que pasa por encima de la Ave. Roosevelt, se dio una tercera concentración de manera improvisada.

Ver foto reportaje

Además- Del Paro Nacional a la Huelga General (Foto reportaje de las marchas y concentración)

Solidaridad en Nueva York- Foto reportaje y Comunicado | Video de manifestación

Videos- Marcha en la Milla de oro y concentración en la Ave. Roosevelt | Tensión en el Expreso Las Américas | Entrevistas en el Expreso bloqueado | FMPR dice Presente en el Paro Nacional

Costa Rica: Marche Populaire pour la Dignité du Sud

Le 6 octobre, deux ans après la fraude qui a décidé l’approbation du Traité de Libre Échange avec les Etats-Unis , a été réalisé une marche populaire pour la dignité de la région Sud du Costa Rica. Plus de 150 militants-e-s ont marché depuis l’entrée du Territoire de Térraba,  jusqu'au centre du de Buenos Aires. Pas à pas a été parcouru le chemin de 13 kilomètres. Plusieurs communautés du sud luttent contre l’expansion de la production de l'ananas, la construction du  "P.H. Diquís", la construction de l’aéroport international dans le territoire de la Finca 9, les tentatives dede construire des portset des fermes industrielles de thon dans le golf Dulce et les communautés luttent aussi pour la Loi sur l’Autonomie Indigène.

South Africa's Shackdwellers Under Violent Attack

DURBAN — On Saturday, September 26, about 40 heavily armed men ambushed a meeting of the Kennedy Road Development Committee of Abahlali baseMjondolo, South Africa's shack dwellers’ movement. The men were apparently shouting, “the AmaMpondo are taking over Kennedy. Kennedy is for the amaZulu!” The ensuing violence has resulted in between two and eight deaths, and hundreds of homes burned. As of Sunday night only leaders of Abahlali baseMjondolo have been jailed --- many of whom are members of the movement's security team and some of the youth who were not present at the time of the attack. Many have fled the settlement and people's homes are being destroyed, including the home of Abahlali President, S'bu Zikode.

It is clear that the attacks have been on political and ethnic grounds, and there is growing concern regarding the involvement of local authorities including the police, ANC, and ward council. The violence appears to be a planned attempt to break this peaceful and democratic movement. Please read and sign a petition demanding an end to the violence.

More Info: Sept29 Press Release from Durban Action Against Xenophobia | Sept28 Video & Story from Media Mobilizing Project | Sept 27 statement from Abahlali baseMjondolo | | | UPDATES: South Africa’s Poor Targeted by Evictions, Attacks in Advance of 2010 World Cup from Democracy Now! | Armed Guards and Checkpoints As Repression Continues in Durban South Africa from MMP

Résistance Populaire – Micheletti et les escadrons de la mort de 1980 

Depuis le coup d'Etat du 29 juin, la dictature de Micheletti intègre des membres des escadrons de la mort de 1980, dont des membres du "Battalion 3-16" [1] [2] , Billy Joya [1] [2] , Nelson Willy Mejía Mejía [1] [2] et Napoleón Nassar Herrera [1] [2], qui a violé les Droits Humains qui a fait disparaître au moins trois personnes depuis le coup d'Etat du 28 juin 2009, fait exécuter une dizaine de personnes et détenu des centaines d'autres [1] (es) | [2] (en) (es) | [3] (en) (es) . Par ailleurs, des manifestations sans précédent ont culminé le 11 août 2009 à Tegucigalpa avec plus de 70,000 (es) manifestants et à San Pedro Sula des milliers d'autres, coordonnés par le Front contre le coup d'Etat. Le 19 ème communiqué du Front stipule que si Micheletti ne démissionne pas dans les prochains jours et rend le pouvoir à Zelaya, le Front multipliera les actions de désobéissance civile (es) qui ont déjà paralisé l'économie du pays. Le Front exigera en outre l'ouverture de procès nationaux et internationaux contre les responsable des exécutions extrajudiciaires et des autres violations des Droits de l'Homme.

A part quelques exceptions, la presse occidentale a très peu relayé les informations sur la participation de l'escadron de la mort «  Battalion 3-16 » dans le gouvernement de facto de Micheletti. Il n'y a pas eu mention non plus des « disparitions ». Les chiffres des exécutions extrajudiciaires ont étés réduits, et les connexions entre l'escadron de la mort de 1980 ont étés passées sous silence. Dans le gouvernement de Zelaya il y a aussi des membres des escadrons de la mort (es), contre lesquels se sont positionnés le CODEH et d'autres organisations de défense des Droits de l'Homme du Honduras. Le plan appelé "Arias" par Obama-Clinton-Lula ne fait aucune référence à l'exclusion possible des escadrons de la mort des institutions gouvernementales.

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