Category Archives: international solidarity

French arts workers threaten to shut down main festivals with strike

Posted on June 15, 2014 by ellenpolus

Industrial action over plans to reduce rights to extra benefits and social security has already led to cancellations. Strikes by performers, actors and technicians are threatening to shut down some of France’s leading arts events, including the renowned Avignon festival. … Continue reading →

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Activists vandalised the anti-homeless spikes

Posted on June 12, 2014 by ellenpolus

The war against London’s “anti-homeless” spikes escalated today from sign-waving to radical criminal action. In the small hours of the morning, some activists dressed as builders poured concrete over the metal spikes outside a Tesco Metro on Regent Street, before … Continue reading →

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Stop Targeting Civil Society in Hungary!

Posted on June 12, 2014 by ellenpolus

Background: After the widespread criticism due to the elimination of independent institutions, the dismantling of the framework of parliamentarianism, the opening of the second term of the Orban’s government in 2014 has seen even more challenges: new impetus was given … Continue reading →

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Young anti far-right protesters urge France to ‘wake up’

Posted on May 31, 2014 by ellenpolus

Thousands of students rallied across France Thursday to protest against the anti-immigration National Front party, whose historic success in EU polls they said threatened democracy. Waving banners that read “No to the National Front”, and “Wake up, France,” demonstrators rallied … Continue reading →

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Time to act and counteract the alarming rise of far-right and neo-Nazi parties in the European Parliament

Posted on May 27, 2014 by ellenpolus

It’s time to act and counteract the alarming rise of far-right and neo-Nazi parties in the European Parliament. “Minority rights, such as those of Roma, are currently at risk in many countries. At the EU level, this could entail heavy … Continue reading →

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Artists Win Appeal Against National Gallery of Canada

Posted on May 15, 2014 by ellenpolus

Today, CARFAC—a non-profit corporation that is the national voice of Canada’s professional visual artists—won its appeal against the National Gallery of Canada in the Supreme Court of Canada. The unanimous decision from a panel of judges was made just a … Continue reading →

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Prevent the erection of a memorial planned for Budapest which tries to whitewash Hungary’s role in the Second World War.

Posted on May 9, 2014 by ellenpolus

Petition by George Gomori Support us in our protest against the Budapest monument planned to commemorate the German invasion of Hungary in March 1944. Reject the government’s abdication of Hungarian responsibility for the wartime treatment of Hungarian Jewish and Gypsy … Continue reading →

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