Photographers are demonstrating tomorrow Sunday, 25 January, 11am in front of the Press Syndicate, against police brutality. Bloggers and journalists are urged to join.
Category: Blog
General strike paralyses administration in Morocco
May be it’s time for our activist civil servants to start liaising with their Moroccan counterparts?
Following the collapse of wage talks with the Moroccan government, the Moroccan Workers’ Union, the Democratic Workers’ Organization and the Democratic Workers’ Federation called for a civil service general strike on Friday (January 23rd) and again on February 10th.
UK: Storm of student protest over Gaza gathers force
Sit-ins at 16 universities spell return to radicalism, fueled by social networking and blogs, the Guardian reports:
Over the last week, a storm of student protests has gathered over 16 universities across England, suggesting that students are awakening from the political apathy of which they are often accused. It’s enough to bring a tear to the eye of ageing sixties radicals.
Starting at the School of Oriental and African Studies, occupations in protest at events in Gaza spread to King’s College London and the London School of Economics (LSE), then out of the capital to Sussex, Warwick, Newcastle, Oxford, Essex, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan, Bristol, Nottingham, Salford, and Kingston.
