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Deborah Walter (2008-05-07)
The media’s role in supporting democracy and development has long debated. Increasingly, this debate has extended to how activists use media to advance their own agendas. Objectivity is one of the core principles of journalism. Yet, everyone comes fr...
Egypt: New strike to greet Mubarak
2008-05-02
Hundreds remain in detention following a nationwide protest Apr. 6 against rising food prices and political stagnation. But this has not deterred activists from calling for a second general strike on May 4, timed to coincide with President Hosni Muba...
Morocco: Trade unions reject government proposals
2008-04-25
Morocco's trade unions announced a blanket rejection Monday (April 21st) of the government’s proposals in the third round of negotiations between the two sides. The Democratic Workers’ Confederation (CDT) complicated matters further by tendering its ...
Kenya: Kenyan citizens' press statement
2008-04-25
We are citizens drawn from different groupings of grassroot Kenyans meeting under the umbrella of Bunge La Mwananchi. We want to state that the ongoing celebration of the grand coalition is wholly a political class affair that the ordinary Kenyan has...
South Africa: Pavement dwellers building a new world - one child at a time
2008-04-18
Over the past month, the Delft-Symphony Pavement Dwellers and their elected Anti-Eviction Campaign leadership have been working hand-in-hand to improve the lives of residents. While it may be an exaggeration to assume (as was reported recently in th...
Zimbabwe: An open letter to nakaThabo ( Mrs Govan Mbeki) from WOZA
2008-04-18
Kuwe nakaThabo, Siyakubulisa ngesihle samakhosikazi ngolimi lwethu! Siloba lincwadi singabomama besizwe seZimbabwe esibhekane lokuhlukuluzeka sidinga uncedo kubomakhelwane. Ngomgqibelo mhlaka 12 April umntanakho uThabo wezakuleli eleZimbabwe ezoxoxis...
Burkina Faso: General strike over cost of living
2008-04-11
Workers from the public and private sectors throughout the country launched a two-day strike on 8 April to protest high living costs and demand salary increases. In Ouagadougou, the capital, few shops were open. In Bobo-Dioulasso, the second largest ...
Egypt: Technology helps spread discontent of workers
2008-04-09
What began as a widespread call for a general strike ended Sunday as the police cracked down across the nation, dispatching thousands of riot troops, arresting more than 200 demonstrators and fighting with protesters in the north. While two schools w...
Morocco: Trade unions, government to continue negotiations
2008-04-11
The latest round of negotiations between trade unions and the Moroccan government failed to yield a comprehensive solution. The talks will continue in the coming weeks, in hopes the two sides will agree on increases in wages and benefits for Moroccan...
Burkina Faso: Cost of living coalition threatens more action
2008-03-28
A coalition of civil society organisations that on recently mobilised several thousand people to take to the streets of Ouagadougou and other towns and cities in Burkina Faso has threatened a nationwide strike if the government does not find a way to...
South Africa: All charges against the Kennedy 6 dropped
2008-03-28
All charges against the Kennedy 6 have been dropped. 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, ...
Burkina Faso: Protests on price rises spread to the capital
2008-02-29
Violence spread to the capital, Ouagadougou, early on 28 February as demonstrators took to the streets to denounce the high price of food and fuel. Shops and petrol stations were shut down. The unrest took place throughout the day with young men burn...
Morocco: Trade unions strike for change
2008-02-22
Despite pleas from Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi, three of Morocco's five national trade unions held a 24-hour strike on Wednesday (February 13th), paralysing the nation’s civil service. The FDT (Democratic Labour Federation), UNMT (National Union of...
South Africa: Informal settlement residents to appear in Regional Court
2008-02-06
This Thursday, 7th February 2008, eight Joe Slovo residents charged with public violence last year are due to appear in the Cape Town Regional Court in Parow (Court Number 4). The Joe Slovo Task Team is very disturbed that the case has been moved fro...
Global: Fighting FTAs
2008-02-06
bilaterals.org, GRAIN and BIOTHAI are launching a collaborative publication, "Fighting FTAs: The growing resistance to bilateral free trade and investment agreements". While global trade talks at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) stagnate, governmen...
South Africa: Khulumani outrage at appaling attacks on asylum seekers
2008-02-06
On the Night Of January 30, members of the South African Police Service accompanied by officials of the Department of Home Affairs conducted a brutal and violent raid on the premises of the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg at around midnight,...
Nigeria: Assassination of trade unionist
2008-01-21
The TUC General Council, expresses shock and outrage at the brutal murder of Mr Alhaji Saula Saka, Lagos State Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) on 6 January 2008. Our information is that Mr Saka was shot at his home in...
Global: Wsf bulletin January 18th
2008-01-21
As the Global Day of Action and Mobilization in January 26th approaches, the number of participants in WSF 2008 international journey increases. Men and women from all over the world will take the streets, promote discussions, protests, music concert...
AFRICOM threatens the sovereignty, independence and stability of the African continent
A position paper of the the National Conference of Balck Lawyers (2008-01-18)
The National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL) concludes that the mission of Africa Command (Africom) infringes on the sovereignty of African states due to the particularity of Africa’s history and Africa’s current economic and political relationshi...
Liberia: Firestone challenge advances
2008-01-18
Workers at the Firestone Rubber Plantation in Liberia have for the first time won representation under a free union vote, throwing out the officials of a company-controlled union. The vote took place in July last year, but it took two court decisions...
South Africa: Communities placing their own stamp on the N2 Gateway project
2008-01-14
On 3rd January more than 1000 backyarders from Delft and other areas of Cape Town, who occupied N2 Gateway houses in Delft before Christmas and were granted a stay of eviction by the Cape High Court, return to the Court. They claim that the order thr...
Countdown to Global Day of Action
2008-01-11
The Global Call for Action is asking social movements and civil society worldwide to mobilize together in the week culminating on January 26, 2008. The Call was generated inside the World Social Forum and was launched in June 2007 in Berlin by many i...
Message of solidarity with the people of Kenya
2008-01-11
The Global Zimbabwe Forum in partnership with its local regional affiliate, the Zimbabwe Diaspora Forum would like to confirm that it successfully participated in a public protest outside the Kenyan High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa....
Kenya: Reach Out concert
2008-01-11
The Reach Out concert on January 13 will be a fund raising effort through which, with your help we can achieve several objectives: 1) Help those displaced and affected by the election violence. 2) All gate proceeds from the show will be donated to...
Gabon: government suspends 'political NGOs'
2008-01-11
Gabon has temporarily banned the activities of up to 20 non-governmental organisations for their alleged interference in politics. Interior Minister Andre Mba Obame said the ban would be lifted as soon as each NGO clearly defined its mission and stru...
EU Africa Final Declaration
2007-12-19
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 E...
Political Declaration of the Euro-African Civil Society Forum
2007-12-11
We, African and European Civil Society Organizations, having met at the Lisbon Euro-African Forum, state that partnerships are the cornerstone of development. However, building a new partnership between Europe and Africa takes time. It requires more ...
South Africa: Where are Durban's street children?
2007-11-27
Durban's usually bustling street child colonies have all but disappeared from the city after what is believed to be a major police crackdown ahead of this week's Fifa preliminary draw. City officials remain at odds over the fate of dozens of children...
Senegal: Violent strike rocks Dakar
2007-11-23
Senegalese police fired tear gas to contain thousands of protesting street sellers barred from selling in the streets of the capital Dakar on Wednesday. The irate protesters invoked anti-government sentiments, threw stones, burnt vehicles and smashed...
Ghana: Teachers demonstrate in solidarity with demoted colleague
2007-11-20
A group of teachers in the Tema Municipality in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana on November 15, 2007 threatened to embark on an indefinite strike, should the Ghana Education Service (GES) fail to reinstate Helen Abrokwa, former head teacher of Padm...
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