[IMC-News] IMC NEWS UPDATE | December 1, 2002

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IMC NEWS UPDATE | December 1, 2002

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CONTENTS

FEATURE COMPILATIONS:

      BUY NOTHING DAY 2002
      WTO PROTESTS IN AUSTRALIA 
      SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS PROTESTS 

RECENT IMC FEATURES

UPCOMING ACTIONS AND COVERAGE

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FEATURE COMPILATION: BUY NOTHING DAY 2002

Happy Un-Holiday: Buy Nothing Day 2002
November 29, 2002
http://www.indymedia.org/archive/features/2002/11/2002-11.html#6227
As shoppers gear up for the holidays, people around the world are 
questioning the corporate insistence that we can buy comfort, love, 
companionship, happiness and community with money. Friday, 
November 29 marked the eleventh year of the anti-consumption 
holiday, Buy Nothing Day. The "un-holiday" has become 
increasingly popular over the years, with upwards of thirty different 
countries participating. See articles from 10 IMCs at the link above.

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FEATURE COMPILATION:  WTO PROTESTS IN AUSTRALIA 

Day 1 Action Roundup
November 16, 2002
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/archive/features/2002/11/2002-11.html#6018
Protestors converged on Sydney's streets last week to rally against 
the WTO's corporate agenda at their mini-ministerial meeting at 
Homebush. The 25 trade ministers were meeting to privately push 
forward trade agreements in anticipation of next year's ministerial 
meeting in Cancun, Mexico. The talks came at a crucial time with the 
Federal Government entering into negotiations over a 'free trade' 
agreement with the USA in three months' time.

Photos from Day 1
http://sydney.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=23010&group=webcast
Friday in Sydney, a lively crowd of about 2000 persons protested 
talks amongst 25 trade ministers from the WTO. Protesters were 
outnumbered about 2 to 1 by police.

Day 2 Action Roundup
November 17, 2002
http://sydney.indymedia.org/archive/features/2002/11/2002-11.html#5988
The day started out with a 2 kilometre march from Flemington train 
station to the Homebush bay site. Once at the site, several 
scuffles broke out and there was an attempt to pull the fence down 
which led to 35 arrests as well as allegations police harassment. 
One of the main actions of the day was held by a peace bloc who 
sat silently on the road meditating.

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FEATURE COMPILATION:  SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS (SOA) PROTESTS 

SOA Watch and the ACLU file injunction 
November 15, 2002
http://indymedia.org/archive/features/2002/11/2002-11.html#6022
SOA Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) attempted 
to file an injunction against the City of Columbus, Georgia (U.S.), 
based on new security measures implemented during the demonstrations.

Speakers, Puppetistas - Festivities Begin on Saturday.
November 16, 2002
http://indymedia.org/archive/features/2002/11/2002-11.html#6039
The first mass protests against the School of the Americas at Fort 
Benning began on Saturday, November 16. Although the city-sanctioned 
police searched all of the attendees and the weather wavered between 
fair and cloudy, the crowd still maintained an optimistic mood.
 
http://atlanta.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=9734
Part of Saturday's events featured street theater by Argentine 
puppeteers:  Passionate Puppetistas Perform Political Pageant.

Over 10,000 Protesters Demand Closing of 'School of Assassins'.
November 17, 2002
http://atlanta.indymedia.org/archive/features/2002/11/2002-11.html#6027
As the massive protests at Fort Benning came to a close, 95 people 
were placed under arrest for conscious acts of civil disobedience.

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RECENT IMC FEATURES

USA: 
American Indians Hold Thanksgiving Day of Mourning
November 28, 2002
http://www.indymedia.org/archive/features/2002/11/2002-11.html#6212
The myth of Thanksgiving in the U.S. has been exposed annually 
for the past 33 years by United American Indians of New England 
(UAINE) and other American Indian activists. On Thanksgiving 
Day at high noon, native people and their supporters gather 
above Plymouth Rock on Cole's Hill beneath the statue of the 
Wampanoag chief, Massasoit, for an annual Day of Mourning.

INDYMEDIA: 
Three Years of Media Resistance
November 24, 2002
http://www.indymedia.org/archive/features/2002/11/2002-11.html#6157
The resistance remains global. Three years into our shared 
experiments in open publishing, a growing number of Indymedia 
centers around the world continue to seek out and mobilize 
media forms which dramatically alter the balance of power 
between multinational corporations and grassroots community 
organizing. Our work extends beyond the bounds of the Internet, 
through local media production centers, radio networks, 
community newspapers, film and video. Locating the silences 
where social and economic injustices are perpetuated, IMC 
journalist/activists challenge information monopolies based on 
wealth and power. This is only the beginning. 

URUGUAY:
Uruguay Social Forum a Success
November 19, 2002
http://www.indymedia.org/archive/features/current#6082
The Uruguay Social Forum was a three-day marathon of workshops, 
debates, dance, theater, music, exhibitions, and interchanges of 
experiences. The forum, in which there were approximately 90 
workshops, like other branchings of the World Social Forum, aspired 
to create spaces to share visions about an alternative society and 
to strengthen bonds between people with diverse views and between 
movements and non-capitalist networks. 

NEW ZEALAND:
10,000 March for a Genetic Engineering Free Aotearoa
November 18, 2002
http://www.indymedia.org.nz/front.php3?article_id=1886
As a part of protest actions during the 8th International Pacific 
Rim Biotechnology Conference, ten thousand people marched in 
Auckland Saturday for a GE Free Aotearoa. The colorful, diverse 
crowd comprised a wide range of groups including the Green Party, 
Alliance, Mothers Against Genetic Engineering, and Eco Labour to 
name a few.

GERMANY: Social Center Evictions
November 17, 2002
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=217709&group=webcast
The largest evictions seen in years in Germany took place in Hamburg 
in the early hours of Monday, November 4, and protests against this 
have continued through this weekend. A city with a long history of 
strong autonomist movements, Hamburg was awakened immediately 
with protests against the eviction of the "Bambule" Wagenplatz - one 
of several sites in Hamburg and other German cities where people live 
in lorries and trailers. Many of those living on such sites are 
involved with local political activism, including social centres, 
anti-racist organizing, and more.

ITALY: Activists Imprisoned in Italy Following Raid
November 15, 2002
http://www.indymedia.org/archive/features/current#6002
http://italy.indymedia.org/features/napoli/#341
http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2002/11/112020.php
42 people were arrested with charges of conspiracy and 
"subversive association". The charges against them are of political 
conspiracy to disturb government activity and creating subversive 
propaganda aimed at subverting economic order. The people 
charged are directly connected to the G8 protests in Genova 
and the Napoli Global Forum.

ITALY: Massive Peace Demonstration in Florence
November 10, 2002
http://www.indymedia.org/archive/features/current#5893
http://italy.indymedia.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=343
Reportedly, up to 1 million people (police estimate 450,000) took to 
the streets of Florence to demonstrate their opposition to the War 
during the European Social Forum.

U.S.A, WASHINGTON, DC: Black Voices for Peace Protest Media Coverage
November 15, 2002
http://www.indymedia.org.nz/front.php3?article_id=1886
Black Voices For Peace and the Black Voices For Peace Peoples Action 
launched a Fairness In Media Campaign Friday with a protest in front 
of the Washington Post. The campaign is targeting the Washington Post 
and other media outlets that have not been fair, balanced and accurate 
in their reporting on the antiwar movement and the participation of 
people of color in antiwar activities.

USA: U.S. House Passes Orwellian Homeland Security Bill
November 13, 2002
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=217718&group=webcast
The bill has a number of effects, including compromising the Freedom 
of Information Act, increasing sentences for so-called "hackers," and 
establishing a pervasive and integrated surveillance system intended 
to collect information on as many persons as possible.

CHILE: Police Shoot Mapuche Youth
November 12, 2002
http://www.indymedia.org/archive/features/current#5929
http://www.mapuche-nation.org/
This week, Chilean police shot 17-year-old Mapuche activist Edmundo 
Alex Lemun Saavedra in the head, critically wounding him. The 
shooting was part of an attack against a nonviolent occupation of the 
Mininco forest by the indigenous Mapuche. The police violence comes 
on the heels of the murder of two community leaders in Alto Biobo and 
the arrest of another under dictatorship-era terrorist laws being 
used by the current, 'democratic' government to repress social and 
political movements.

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UPCOMING ACTIONS

December 1  Rally for Peace in Australia
http://www.vicpeace.org/
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/

December 5-7  OSCE 
Autumn of Global Fight in Portugal
http://www.azine.org/?centro=corpo_noticias.php&nr=8857

December 8-9  Anti-Nazi action in Sweden
http://sweden.indymedia.org/archive/features/2002/11/2002-11.html#5771
http://sweden.indymedia.org/

December 12-15  EU Summit in Copenhagen
http://www4.nadir.org/nadir/kampagnen/kopenhagen2002/
http://www.modkraft.dk/

December 20  Argentina Solidarity
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/imf/argentina/txt/2002/0923Argenti
na_Solidarity.htm
http://argentina.indymedia.org/

January 2-7  Asian Social Forum
http://www.wsfindia.org/
http://india.indymedia.org/

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