Echoes from the Class War (Oct 23)

From the Greek strike (source)

Along the week I have already mentioned some most relevant news:

• Occupy Hong-Kong
• Global protest camps and Greek General Strike
• Greek General Strike (second day)
• ETA declares the "definite cessation" of armed activity (plus politicians' reactions, plus opinions from prisoners' relatives)

Here comes all the rest, what found no niche or what is newer:

Occupy the World and related class struggles

It is really getting global. No wonder.

• Occupy Karachi
• Occupy Stockholm
• Occupy Dame Street, Dublin
• Occupy Toronto
• The ol' good Occupy Wall Street (NYC) grows bigger
• Arrest of nonviolent protesters
• Verizon striking workers
• Occupy London, which is becoming one of the references
• At The Guardian
• Occupy Berlin 
• Yesterday's demo  
• Clashes between antifascists and police on anti-bank action[es]
• North California
• Teachers' demo at Madrid
• Athens clashes' video
• Eviction of Traveler camp in London[es]
• Police against attacks students in Chile[es]
•  Chilean students take Senate (10 arrested)
• Protests in Palestine (Beit Ummar, Bil'in, Kafr Kadum, Nabi Saleh, Ni'ilin, Bituniya, Sheikh Jarrah, Tel Aviv, Walaje)
• Sana'a: women protest against the regime
• Occupy Jakarta
• Violent repression of peaceful protests in Malaysia
• Violent repression of peaceful 'Occupy' protest at Melbourne, Australia
• Indonesian troops storm independence march at West Papua city
• West Papua: it's a gold mine (by C. Pottins)
• Violent repression in West Sahara
• Opinion articles:
• A. Ford at The Commune: 15th october 2011: birth of a global anti-capitalist movement? 
• P. Escobar at ATOL: Occupy World Street

Basque Country: huge demo for 'solution':

Yet another demo numbering thousands occupied the streets of Bilbao yesterday (Gara[es], SA[es])

The Basque People (= Nation, Country) wants a solution

Video at Branka[eu]


Nuclear Japan

• Large anti-nuclear demo at Shibuya, Tokyo
• Third Fukushima worker dies (septic shock caused by cancer)
• Former IAEA expert: Fukushima as serious as Chernobyl
• Radioactive ash piles up
• Councilor of Minamisoma campaigns for co-citizens to evacuate
• $13,000 for decontaminating your home: no guarantees it won't be recontaminated right after we leave
• Neutron ray measured in Tokyo (not detectable by Geiger counters)
• Japan allows triple radioactive cesium in food than USSR did after Chernobyl. More than 50% of seafood radioactive
• 'Nothing left to eat' (that is not radioactive)
• German comedians make fun of Japanese nuclear criminal irresponsibility (huge success in Japan, where nothing like that is shown in TV)
• Radioactive steam continuously leaking from destroyed reactor #3
• Gundersen: this should not happen if reactors in 'cold shutdown'
• Massive amounts of groundwater flowing into reactors 1-4
• Destroyed reactor #3: video of upper floors
• Storing radioactive debris at  river heads

Other news

• German security agency plants spyware in computers while appealing for 'less democracy'
• Spanish cops ask to use sky masks so they can't be identified in videos when they beat protesters[es]
• Hungarian Nazis visit Auschwitz in uniform and performing their hate rituals[es]
• Central America suffers heavy floods[es]
• Honduras: missing farmer Segundo Mendoza was murdered[es]
• Canada: protest against George Bush Jr.
• Canada: radiation in country much worse than admitted
• Canada: mothers demonstrate for decriminalization of raw milk
• USA: alfalfa contaminated by Monsanto artificial genes
• USA: FDA allowed dangerous levels of pollutants in seafood after BP oil spill
• Hawaii: Japanese radioactive debris arriving faster than thought
• Bolivia: road through reserve not to be built
• Pakistan: 7-hours emergency declared after heavy water leak at nuclear reactor near Karachi
• Pakistan: protest against Clinton visit
• Kurdistan: PKK ambushes Turkish Army, kills three Turkish soldiers and injuries 6 more[es]
• Sea levels to keep rising for 500 years if we do not act now radically