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OpenESF - A platform for social activism and networking

provided by the European Social Forum

www.openesf.net

+ + Read more . . posted Tuesday 26 February 2008

Shell’s Mayo Pipeline Goes Back To London

Gluaiseacht are calling on all those opposed to the gas giveaway to join us on a bus trip to London.

Read more.

. . posted Monday 11 February 2008

EYFA NETWORK NEWS! February 2008

The new EYFA newsletter is out. With big anti- NATO protests coming up and the 5th anniversary of the Iraq war, and with tension rising between the EU and Russia, we thought it was time for a newsletter on 'Militarization'.

Read EYFA Network news . on Militarization

. . posted Thursday 07 February 2008

10th International Animal Rights Gathering

Thursday 21st - Sunday 24th August 2008, near Vienna, Austria

It's now 10 years since the Animal Rights Gatherings went international. Come and celebrate the first decade of international get-togethers at a beautiful spot to the South of Vienna, Eastern Austria, at the foot of the massive Schneeberg mountain.

See: www.ar2008.info/

+ + Read more . . posted Wednesday 06 February 2008

art2stay - work and stories of 'illegal' artists

Art2stay is a digital platform for 'illegal' artists, a place where they can share their artworks and their stories with each other and a larger audience. A website that is both a gallery and a statement that shines a different light on illegality.

Check out art2stay

. . posted Thursday 24 January 2008

Campaign to save Stara Planina, Serbia

Another nature park has to make way for another ski-resort. The Serbian Government is breaking her own laws and decrees with the implementation of her 'mountain tourism development program' in the area of Stara Planina Mountain. Local groups need all the support they can get to stop these draconian plans.

See Save Stara Planina

+ + Read more . . posted Tuesday 08 January 2008

EYFA .on Over-Consumerism Newsletter

The December release of EYFA's thematic newletters is now available on our website. This month focuses on over-consumerism at Christmas, and during the rest of the year.
.on Over-Consumerism looks at causes and effects of environmental problems, and the impact of initiatives such as Buy Nothing Day on the public understanding of these issues.

. . posted Saturday 22 December 2007

Africa-Europe Alternatives Declaration, Lisbon, 7-9 december 2007

Towards peoples alternatives in Africa and Europe

We, civil society activists engaged in a wide range of peoples’ movements and organisations in Africa and Europe met in Lisbon from 7-9 December 2007 to express our opposition and resistance to the neoliberal free trade and investment policies that European and African governments are implementing in our countries, and which they propose as a framework for the “Africa- EU Strategic Partnership”. While the leaders of two continents gathered in Lisbon to decide the future of Africa, we came together to further the social and political dialogue among our peoples because we defend our right to resist concretely and to propose alternatives, and we are confident of our capacity to put them into practice.

+ + Read more . . posted Wednesday 12 December 2007

Shannon Peace Camp - the 5th. Anniversary

The members of Cosantoiri Siochana call on all groups and individuals, and on any who feel the need to join our vigil, to join us once again at the camp outside the War Port [Also known as Shannon Airport] on the 6th to the 7th of January 2008.

+ + Read more . . posted Wednesday 05 December 2007

Indian court issues international arrest warrants for Dutch labour activists

NGOs, Unions outraged at attempt to imprison human rights defenders.

Amsterdam, December 3 2007 - An Indian magistrate Court ruled on Saturday that international warrants will be issued for the arrest of Dutch human rights activists, report the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) and the India Committee of the Netherlands, two of the organizations whose staff are being charged in connection with their efforts to raise awareness of rights violations at an Indian factory supplying Dutch jeans company G-Star. On the 4th of December, the court will send the case to the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs, asking it to execute the arrest warrants and request extradition of the 8 Dutch nationals.

+ + Read more . . posted Tuesday 04 December 2007
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