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More than 60,000 people shouting " no nukes", joined a rally and demonstration in Tokyo on September 19.

This solidarity statement is still open to signatures. To add a signature, pease send your name/organization to:
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Baba Jan was tortured by the Pakistan security services, the ISI while he was whisked away from jail for two days on Wednesday September 14. Baba Jan is a climate change prisoners who raised his voice for the compensation of Atta Abad lake effectees. He is now facing over a dozen police cases.

With 6.7 per cent and 12 MPs the Red Green Alliance has tripled its electoral support at the elections for national parliament on September 15 compared to the elections in 2007.

The citizens of Puerta del Sol and Syntagma Square express our indignation and invite all the ‘indignados’ in all the squares around the world to join us.

On February 15 and 16, 2011 after the fall of Ben Ali and Mubarak, it was the turn of Libya to see a popular movement develop against a 42 year old dictatorship. The arrest of a human rights activist in Benghazi led to riots to demand his release, which Gaddafi met with violent repression. This was the opposite effect which happened: resistance, the liberation of Benghazi from the yoke of Gaddafi’s representatives and the extension of the revolt to the neighbouring towns and regions.

On August 5, 400 workers turned up to show solidarity with the protesting Pakistan Telecommunication workers at GPO Chouck Lahore. among them were over 200 women workers. National Trade Union Federation had announced a Dharna today on Mall Road to demand the reinstatement of the PTCL terminated workers. The Etsalat company who had bought PTCL in 2005 had terminated the services of 83 trade union leaders who had organised a national protest in 2010 to demand a wage increase. Instead of listening to workers, Etsalat suspended 600 workers and eventually reinstated most of them apart from the 83 main leaders of the PTCL trade unions.

On 29 July 2011, six members of the Malaysian Socialist Party who had been detained since July 2 under an "Emergency Ordinance" on undefined charges were released frome Jinjang police station, following public outrage and sustained protests over their arbitrary detention.

Surya Anta, a leading member of People’s Liberation Party (used to be KPRM-PRD), was under arrest at Police Resort Metro Central Jakarta at noon 1st August 2011. He was arrested after given solidarity speech in protest action of West Papua National Committee (KNPB) this afternoon in front of Presidential Palace, Jakarta. This protest action was a support action to International Summit Conference of International Lawyers for West Papua: http://www.ilwp.org/index.php?optio... , held on August 2nd 2011, in London. The similar action was also held in several cities in Papua: http://westpapuamedia.info/2011/08/...

“I’ve just listened to a press conference with Eskil Pedersen, chairman of the Norwegian Labour Party Youth League. Despite his lack of sleep and all tears during the night he had the strength to firmly establish that what had occurred was an attack on the Norwegian labor movement. The horrendous blast in Oslo City and the carnage in the idyllic island Utoya were political attacks.”