A-Infos (en) Australia, Sydney, anarchist collective and zine Mutiny #32 - Brief News

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-----------------Brief News----------------------

Asuncion, Paraguay

Hundreds of campesinos and activists
demonstrated in front of the Prosecutor
Office building to demand reforms in
judicial power and agrarian structure. At
least 14 police and 50 protesters were
injured after clashes broke out when
police tried to prevent protesters from
entering the building.
It is part of an ongoing struggle
in Paraguay against the growth of
  genetically modified soy monocultures in
the countryside. A wave of paramilitary
violence has been unleashed upon those
struggling against the expansion of GM
soy, with murders of peasant leaders,
unlawful arrests and detentions.
  See: http://www.mediaisland.
  org/en/solidarity-paraguayan-farmers-
attacked-soja-paramilitaries
New Zealand - Update

on the Operation 8 Terror Raids

Crown prosecutors have re-instated all
charges against 18 people arrested in the
raids of October 15th, 2007 despite these
charges having been dismissed outright
by a judge during a recent month long
depositions hearing. The charges had
been dismissed outright due to a lack of
evidence.
The prosecution has also added charges
for 5 of the 18 with participation in a
criminal gang. This seems a desperate
attempt by the government to save face
after the Solicitor-General had found
insufficient evidence to proceed with
the terrorism related charges that were
originally brought against the arrested.
Northern Territory
Police have been given new powers to
enter "prescribed areas" without warrant,
many police have been brought into town
who have no experience dealing with
local communities.
Heavy-handed behaviour by Intervention
police was responsible for the death of a
young man in Arnhem Land last week.
NT Justice Minister Chris Burns and the
Australian Police Federation have also
recently criticised Intervention police for
culturally insensitive behaviour.
Local residents, along with the
Intervention Rollback Action Group,
staged a protest outside the Alice Springs
police station on Monday October 13 at
9am, before the delivery of an official
complaint to the police.

Greece

On 21st of October, Greece entered a state
of a general strike, which was followed
by a 24 hour strike of all shop workers
on the following day. The industrial action
which saw all the public sector including
transport closed, and a large part of the
private sector in standstill. These actions
have been in response to the neoliberal
measures of the government and especially
it's pension and social security reforms.
These have brought condemnation from
working people in the country since their
introduction last spring. During the central
protest march of the trade unions, strikers
and students attacked banks and one
bookshop that was operating on scab-
labour, forcing them to close.

USA

On the morning after election day, a spoof
newspaper resembling the USA Today
and decrying capitalism were released
all over the United States. In e-mails
to news outlets, an anarchist group said
it distributed 30,000 copies in at least
10 cities. The spoof paper's lead story
announced that "2008 marks the 56th
consecutive victory in the presidential
elections for capitalism, which has
successfully weathered crises ranging
from the abolition of slavery to the
Great Depression and the Summer of
Love over the course of its 219-year
administration."

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US TODAY
AMERICA IN UNREST election coverage
special edition
Civil unrest increases across US: read more A6

THE WORLD TOMORROW Capitalism on the brink
Capitalism Wins at the Polls
Newsline
uesday
  voting booths through-
  ut the country, cardboard
ballot boxes" were set
  p so that the children of
  oters could also register
heir views. To make this
vics lesson in the impor-
nce of voting complete,
he paper "votes" were
  romptly discarded at the
nd of the day.
Read more A2
Over the weekend
  2 different executives
  om banks across the
ountry were held up at
  unpoint. Though police
  elieve the incidents to be
  nrelated, all 12 of the as-
ailants demanded exactly
  2300, an amount roughly
quivalent to dividing
  700 billion by the num-
  er of people currently
  ving in the US.
Anarchy Brewing in the Streets
Read more A3

Another victim
of the financial crisis,
Huntington Life Sciences,
has declared bankruptcy.

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Japan - No Nike Park!

On the 13th October, hundreds of people
marched around Miyashita Park and
demanded that the park stay in public
hands. Miyashita Public Park is located
near Shibuya, which is one of the busiest
train stations in central Tokyo. It has
long been a popular venue for activists
organising rallies as well as being a
firm pillow for approx. 400 homeless
people every night. NIKE JAPAN recently
purchased the naming rights for the park
from Shibuya City Council for 150 million
yen. NIKE will also be spending a further
450 million yen clearing out the homeless
to build a skate park and trendy cafe
this plan would unquestionably deprive
groups and individuals of a space for their
freedom of expression, and for their daily
lives. The soon to be named NIKE Park
will. The campaign continues to talk to
NIKE as well as city councillors and it
is said that NIKE are nervous about the
protests/reputation.
The Coalition to Protect Miyashita Park
from Becoming Nike Park
Email: miyashita@riseup.ne
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