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Mugabe Said to Be Negotiating Possible Exit
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Advisers to President Robert G. Mugabe of Zimbabwe
are in talks with the opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, amid signs
that Mr. Mugabe may be preparing to resign, a Western diplomatic source
and a prominent Zimbabwe political analyst said Tuesday. The
negotiations about a possible transfer of power away from Mr. Mugabe
come after he apparently concluded that a runoff election would be
demeaning, a diplomat said.
Jules Dassin, Filmmaker on Blacklist, Dies at 96
By Richard Severo, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/movies/01dassin.html?ei=5070&en=b71f41...
Jules Dassin, an American director, screenwriter and actor who found success making movies in Europe after he was blacklisted in the United States because of his earlier ties to the Communist Party, died Monday in Athens, where he had lived since the 1970s. He was 96.
A spokeswoman for Hygeia Hospital confirmed his death but did not give a cause, The Associated Press reported.
http://www.abahlali.org/node/3424
Yesterday all charges against the Kennedy 6 were dropped just over a year after the men were first arrested.
The basic chronology of events is as follows:
The Kennedy 6 were arrested on a clearly trumped up murder charge on 21 March 2007 after a well known criminal died in police custody. While in custody they were assaulted and an attempt was made, by Senior Superintendent Glen Nayager, to force them to chant anti-Abahlali slogans. They refused.
23 Polish Antimilitarist Activists Violently Arrested
From Krzysztof Krol
23 Polish antimilitarist activists were violently arrested on Sunday (30/03/2008) at a private flat of one of them morning after coming back from a demonstration after-party in Slupsk in nothern Poland.
On Saturday (29/03/2008) noon a demonstration against the plans of locating up to ten silo-based long-range missile defence interceptors in Poland took place in Slupsk, a city in northern Poland. The military base where the shield would be placed is located near this city. Around 500 people took part in a peaceful march in the city centre, after that around 50 people came to the military base and tried to come inside but were stopped by the police. Nobody was arrested, one person got a fine for using swearwords and drinking beer.
At night a techno party organized by anti-war activists was organized at one of the local pubs in Slupsk. The activists came back to their flat and around 6 a.m. cops raided their house and arrested the people inside, aged 18 to 35. The police used heavy violence, beating up the activists with batons and using pepper spray. One of the activists had his arm broken and later managed to run away from the hospital.
After an immediate reaction of other activists, lawyers and media cops gave their official version of the event which says that the activists were arrested for „violating the night silence”, some of them are charged with an physical assault and verbal insult of a police officer. First activists were released after 12 hours of interrogation, cops claimed that the activists were drunk and had to sober up before they were questioned. So far (Sunday, 10 p.m.), around 10 people are out, 9 who are charged are still detained and they are said to leave the arrest tomorrow (Monday, 31/03/2008) by 3 p.m. The cops had no legal warrant to come inside the flat. It is not common to send a dozen or so cops to silence people at night, so the argument about them being too loud is clearly a lie.
New York City Subpoenas Creator of Text Messaging Code
By COLIN MOYNIHAN, New York Times
When delegates to the Republican National Convention assembled in New
York in August 2004, the streets and sidewalks near Union Square and
Madison Square Garden filled with demonstrators. Police officers in
helmets formed barriers by stretching orange netting across
intersections. Hordes of bicyclists participated in rolling protests
through nighttime streets, and helicopters hovered overhead.
These tableaus and others were described as they happened in text
messages that spread from mobile phone to mobile phone in New York
City and beyond. The people sending and receiving the messages were
using technology, developed by an anonymous group of artists and
activists called the Institute for Applied Autonomy, that allowed
users to form networks and transmit messages to hundreds or thousands
of telephones.
The Police & Abahlali baseMjondolo
A List of Key Incidents of Police Harassment Suffered by Abahlali baseMjondolo (2005-2007)
- compiled by Stephanie Lynch and Zodwa Nsibande
The "Marxist-Humanist Tendency" has publicized a crisis in News and Letters Committees. By posting their statement on international Leftist websites without the response made by the majority of the organization, they tell one side of the story to garner favor with activists. Below, I am posting the News and Letters Committees response.
--Youth columnist Brown Douglas
Setting the Historic Record Straight
March 14, 2008
Dear Friends:
Crisis From Internal Split in News & Letters Committees
Statement from the Marxist-Humanist Tendency of News and Letters Committees - March, 2008
Dear Friends,
We are writing to alert all readers and friends of a serious crisis afflicting News and Letters Committees (N&LC)—a crisis that places its very existence in jeopardy.
In response to philosophic disputes within N&LC over the past several years, an organized group within N&LC has usurped control of the organization and is acting in complete disregard of the democratically approved perspectives and principles that have defined it since it founding in 1955 as a decentralized, non-hierarchical group based on the unity of worker and intellectual, theory and practice, and philosophy and organization. Those wanting to continue our democratic and humanist heritage have formed the Marxist-Humanist Tendency of N&LC. It constitutes almost half of the membership of N&LC, and we appeal to you to support us in our effort to reverse the crisis that threatens America’s only Marxist-Humanist organization.
Court: Mumia Deserves New Hearing But Not New Trial
Kathy Matheson
PHILADELPHIA (AP) A federal appeals court on Thursday said former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal cannot be executed for murdering a Philadelphia police officer without a new penalty hearing.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Abu-Jamal's conviction should stand, but that he should get a new sentencing hearing because of flawed jury instructions. If prosecutors don't want to give him a new death penalty hearing, Abu-Jamal would be sentenced automatically to life in prison.
Video Evidence of Illegal Police Action To Be Presented at Friday New York City Rally
On-line version of press release with photos and links:
http://times-up.org/index.php?page=still-we-speak-rally
www.times-up.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts: Media: Barbara Ross 917.494.8164;
John McGarvey: 917.572.0206
Legal: Wylie Stecklow 212 566 8000
VIDEO EVIDENCE OF ILLEGAL POLICE ACTION TO BE PRESENTED AT STILL WE SPEAK RALLY
Cyclists join forces with community supporters to stop NYPD First Amendment abuses, one year after unconstitutional parade permit rules were enacted
WHAT: Still We Speak rally followed by Critical Mass Ride
WHEN: Friday, March 25th at 7:00 pm
WHERE: Union Square Park North, 17th Street & Park Avenue
New York, NY (March 26, 2008) This Friday, March 28th, Critical Mass participants will be joined by a diverse group of videographers, artists, activists and politicians outraged over NYPD regulatory constraints on the civil liberties of New Yorkers. Prominent speakers from the community will participate in the "Still We Speak" rally to denounce the NYPD's First Amendment abuses, including the parade permit rules which limit the number of people who can legally assemble in a public place.
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