Jim - TACT1 writes: "

HUB - a discussion document

social - political - collective

www.hub.org.uk


Introduction



There has been a lot of discussion recently around the idea of some kind of co-ordination mechanism for the extra-parliamentary opposition movements - the Anarchists, anti-Capitalists, progressive non-Party organisations and the grassroots Left (amongst others). We think this is a very interesting discussion, but what is vital is that it moves from being a discussion into a real network for real change: the fine words must be followed by action.

Anonymous Comrade submits

From the International Solidarity Office

Friday, May 9, 2003, For Immediate Release



Iraeli Forces Raid ISM Office



[Beit Sahour, Occupied Palestine] Israeli forces raided the ISM office this morning, confiscating equipment and material and snatching three women. At 12:30pm on Friday, May 9, approximately 20 military vehicles, army jeeps and a large armored personnel carrier (intended for many arrests) surrounded the ISM media office in Beit Sahour. Dozens of soldiers, border police and civilian police officers raided the ISM office, confiscating all computers, not only in the ISM office but in the nearby office of the Palestinian Centre for Rapprochement. Files, CD, and photos were all pillaged, while soldiers broke equipment and damaged office space. Israeli forces kidnapped Palestinian volunteer, Fida, American volunteer, Flo, and a worker with Human Rights Watch visiting the office. At the time of this writing, Fida has been released, and the internationals seem to have been moved to the office of the Israeli Ministry of Interior, most probably for deportation.

nolympics submits:

Israel Intensifies Assualt on International Groups

As of Thursday, May 8, humanitarian organizations working within the Gaza Strip, Occupied Palestine began receiving a new declaration created by the Israeli military. This document (included below) demands signature of all international groups working within the Gaza Strip and any internationals attempting to enter the Gaza Strip. In addition to stipulations of not holding the Israeli Government responsible for the death of internationals, the declaration specifically states that the individual signing can have no connection to the International Solidarity Movement(ISM). The ISM, a Palestinian led non-violent group which attempts to provide protection to the Palestinian people and to enable them to non-violently resist the Israeli military occupation of Palestine, has recently come under attack from the Israeli Government and Army. This attack, including the targeting of ISM volunteers that left one dead, one comatose and one severely injured, and now this new declaration, are all aimed at discrediting and inhibiting the peace work of the ISM.

nolympics submits:

"http://www.southbaymobilization.org/web/otherthanw ar/HomelandOffense2002.pdf"

Anonymous Comrade submits:

"Which War Are You Watching? The View from Spain"

Dwight Reynolds

The American media's portrayal of the routing of Saddam Hussein as a great
military victory and a step toward world peace is almost incomprehensible
outside of the U.S., for the rest of us have been watching a very
different war.

nolympics submits:

Reuters Says At Least 13 Iraqis Killed by U.S. Fire in Falluja

FALLUJA, Iraq -- U.S. troops shot dead at least 13
Iraqis demonstrating against their presence at a
school in a town west of Baghdad, residents told
Reuters on Tuesday.

Angry witnesses who were burying their dead after the
shooting on Monday night in Falluja, 50 km (30 miles)
from the capital, told Reuters correspondent Edmund
Blair that dozens more people had been wounded and the
protesters were not armed.

nolympics writes:

I was a human shield

By Billie Moskona-Lerman

I visited hell and I came back in one piece. It happened on the night
between Thursday and Friday last week [March 20-21] when I
accompanied Joe and Laura,two 20-year old human rights activists, in
acting as a human shield facing the IDF. When they asked me do I
join in and I answered "yes", I did not fully realize what I was
getting myself into. It was my first experience under fire:so close
to death, so anonymous, my life so easily abandoned in somebody else's
hands. Never did I feel so weak, so defenceless. I did say "I am
coming" and we set out. It was 7.30 PM. we walked through the main
street of Rafah, a town which is in fact just a big refugee camp. We
walked in darkness, through ruins, pot-holes and puddles, torn bits
of nylon and plastic, barbed wire and piles of rubbish. Here and
there some stores were open. Groups of young boys were walking around
us, shouting "Sa'lam Aleikum, Sa'lam Aleikum".

hydrarchist writes:

"Iraq Is A Trial Run"

Noam Chomsky interviewed by Frontline India

April 02, 2003

On March 21, Chomsky spoke from his office for half an hour to V. K.
Ramachandran on the current attack on Iraq.

V. K. Ramachandran: Does the present aggression on
Iraq represent a continuation of United States'
international policy in recent years or a
qualitatively new stage in that policy?

Noam Chomsky: It represents a significantly new
phase. It is not without precedent, but significantly
new nevertheless.

This should be seen as a trial run. Iraq is seen as an
extremely easy and totally defenceless target. It is
assumed, probably correctly, that the society will
collapse, that the soldiers will go in and that the
U.S. will be in control, and will establish the regime
of its choice and military bases. They will then go on
to the harder cases that will follow. The next case
could be the Andean region, it could be Iran, it could
be others.

nolympics writes:

"British Peace Activist Shot by IDF Troops in Gaza Strip"

By News Agencies

Israel Defense Forces troops shot a British peace activist working with the International Solidarity Movement on Friday, witnesses said.

Doctors said the Briton was brain dead.

nolympics writes
"A Note on the "Euro" Explanation of the War


by
George Caffentzis

The relationship between the euro, the dollar and (in distant third, the
yen) is an important issue for understanding the dynamics of world
capitalism, but it clearly cannot be used in a one-step explanation of the
US/Iraq war.