Protest riot at the Ivory Coast
21 February 2010
İVORY COAST | 21 – 02 – 2010 | For decades the Ivory coast is under dictaturhsip and due to this dictatorship many opponents were killed and imprisoned and disappeared. The country I dominated by many capital monopoles so it doesn’t function independent. Yesterday on Saturday February 20th, thousands of opposition supporters have marched through the central Ivory Coast city of Bouake, setting ablaze cars, smashing shops and looting a local government office.
Supportive action for the TEKEL workers in Ankara
20 February 2010
ANKARA | 20 – 02 – 2010 | Thousands of people from all over the country, gathered today in Ankara to show their solidarity with the TEKEL workers that are on strike since more than three month. Today many people will demonstrate their solidarity and support for the workers legitimate struggle by staying inside tents, no one will go away.
İmmediate Freedom for the 43 Health Workers
17 February 2010
CANADA | 17 – 02 – 2010 | The Canada-Philippines Solidarity for Human Rights condemns in the strongest terms the illegal arrest, torture, and continued unjust detention of the 43 health workers forcibly taken by the military and police on February 6, 2010, in Morong, Rizal, Philippines. This group is made up of two medical doctors, a registered nurse, a midwife and 39 community health workers.
Press Release – Basque İndependentist Left
17 February 2010
BASQUE COUNTRY | 17 – 02 – 2010 | Abertzale Left Regional Assemblies gathered this weekend have put an end to the debate “Clarifying the Political Phase and Strategy”. More than six hundred representatives of more than two hundred and seventy local Assemblies concluded the debate and defined and decided the strategy to be developed in the future ratifying the Resolution “Stand Up Euskal Herria”. Those are the main contents of the resolution:
In Solidarity with Indian People
17 February 2010
LONDON | 17 – 02 – 2010 | Many of you receiving this appeal have heard of Operation Green Hunt: the Indian State’s declaration of war against the Indian people. Though, the government of India tries to hide this massive military offensive by devising special tags and brand names for it in different regions and by denying that the Indian Army is deployed in this operation, the democratic sections in India have proved their point by bringing out the hard facts to the fore concretely and loudly.
SOLIDARITY TO THE LAID-OFF WORKERS OF THE ESENYURT MUNICIPALITY!
10 February 2010
GREECE | 10 – 02 – 2010 | Class March (Taxiki Poreia) express our solidarity to the just struggle of the Esenyurt Municipality workers. The struggle for the re-employment of the16 workers, who were fired because they had become members of their Trade Union, is a struggle for democratic and trade union rights and in this way is a struggle that concerns us all.
To the international trade unions and democratic mass organizations that support our resistance in Esenyurt;
6 February 2010
ISTANBUL | 06 – 02 – 2010 | Our determination to struggle against the ‘union busting’ and job lay off’s in Esenyurt has existed since 172 days with the support of national and international solidarity.
ATIK: “International Solidarity With The People’s Movement In India!”
2 February 2010
ATIK | 02 – 02 – 2010 | “My Husband was killed by the Punjab police. My brother in law was arrested and then killed. I was humiliated and then raped. My son, Devinder pal Singh Bhullar is on death row. How can anyone expect me to live my life, should I walk my way into death crying or do I fight for a more human and justfull system in India?” Upkar Kaus, a woman from India
Illegal arrest of LCP activists in northern Minas Gerais
1 February 2010
BRAZIL | 01 – 02 – 2010 | The Cebraspo received another serious complaint about persecution of peasant leaders of the LCP (Poor Peasants’ League), now in northern Minas Gerais, southeast of Brazil. The coordinators Wanderson Antonio and Flavia Avelina, both popular educators, were arrested, falsely charged as illegal possession of weapons. These tricks are used by the apparatus of State repression to criminalize and repress people’s movements and their activists.
A Letter from Bakirköy Womens Prison B/4
1 February 2010
ISTANBUL | 01 – 02 – 2010 | I am an imprisoned journalist at the Bakırköy Women’s Prison. Approximately 5 months ago, I was arrested as a result of an obvious conspiracy. During this past time no formal charges have been placed. I am being imprisoned arbitrarily.
As you will understand, my court hearing date is unknown and there is no clarity on what charges I am being imprisoned. I will briefly touch upon the part of this incident that I call “conspiracy”:
