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| GLOBAL : ENVIRONMENT Sep 28 2003 imc generale ZANZA Reclaim the Streets Car Free Day Stalls in U.S. |
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| The recent Car-Free Day in Canada was apparently wide-spread, while European Mobility Week was observed by 289 participating cities in most of Europe. In the U.S. some driver knocked over a cyclist. Welcome to the 21st century where the richest, most autoholic nation on Earth seems oblivious to the threats presented by the internal combustion engine (an invention of the 19th century, no less) while the rest of the world tries to deal with it. But not all industrialized nations are so blind and apathetic. Organizing for European Car Free Day/Mobility Week 2003 involved government, NGO's, and activists. The event was broad-reaching and seemingly effective. Though some feel more effort needs to be made in Central and Eastern Europe, the Czech Republic called attention to the harmfulness of car transport in the city, as well as supporting public transportation, bicycling, and walking, and encouraging a more positive relationship between city dwellers and their environment. Meanwhile, In parts of Asia efforts are underway to foster people-centred, equitable and sustainable transportation. While in Bogota, Colombia Car Free Day is celebrated in February where it briefly prohibited to use a private vehicle in Colombia's capital. It seems obvious many people around the world want to Reclaim the Streets, stop new roads, and challenge the exportation of the the auto-plague to developing nations. Okay, so there were a few Critical Mass bike riders in Portland, Oregon and a few other cities took their Car Free Day actions on their anniversary. Did your city or town have an event? Post it here. |
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| Il presidente della neo-eletta Assemblea nazionale irachena, Fuad Maassum, ha convocato i 275 deputati scelti dal voto popolare lo scorso 30 gennaio per il prossimo 16 marzo, quando si svolgerà la seduta d’insediamento dell’organo legislativo transitorio. La data scelta è altamente simbolica, poiché il 16 marzo 1988 Saddam Hussein fece bombardare con agenti chimici la città curda di Halabja, uccidendo circa 5.000 persone. La cerimonia d’inaugurazione si svolgerà nel Centro congressi nella cosiddetta ‘zona verde’ di Baghdad, protetta dai militari statunitensi. Le elezioni dello scorso 30 gennaio sono state vinte dall’‘Alleanza Unificata Irachena’ – movimento che fa capo al Grande Ayatollah sciita Ali al-Sistani – alla quale sono andati il 48,2% dei voti e 140 seggi; la seconda lista più votata è stata quella dell’‘Alleanza curda’, che si è aggiudicata 75 seggi in conseguenza del 25,7% dei suffragi a favore; la lista sciita laica dell’ex-primo ministro ad interim Iyad Allawi, il grande sconfitto, ha ottenuto invece solo 40 seggi. |
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| Marchers Worldwide Demand Iraq Pullout indy generale ZANZA by AP 1:54am Mon Sep 29 '03 The protests, the first major demonstrations since Saddam Hussein was ousted earlier this year, come as the United States tries to gain international help in rebuilding Iraq. LONDON - Thousands of protesters demanding an end to the occupation of Iraq took to the streets Saturday in London, Athens, Paris and other cities around the world, chanting slogans against the United States and Britain. The protests, the first major demonstrations since Saddam Hussein was ousted earlier this year, come as the United States tries to gain international help in rebuilding Iraq. The demonstrations were organized in each country by local activist groups that have informal contacts with each other. Demonstrators march down Piccadilly, London, September 27, 2003. Thousands marched to Trafalgar Square in a protest against the Allied invasion of Iraq, in a demonstration organised by the Stop the War Coalition. London's was the biggest protest, drawing 20,000 people. Demonstrators turned out in a dozen other countries, including South Korea and Egypt. "No more war. No more lies" proclaimed a banner pinned to the pedestal of Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square, where demonstrators rallied after a march through the city. People of all ages, from gray-haired couples to toddlers in strollers, joined the orderly stream of protesters marching from Hyde Park. Some young marchers chanted, "George Bush, Uncle Sam, Iraq will be your Vietnam!" "I don't believe the war with Iraq was right and the proof is we haven't found any weapons of mass destruction," London protester Emma Loebid, 20, said. "I think they should hand Iraq back to the Iraqis and get the troops out." Demonstrators, including those in London, also added the Palestinian cause to their campaign. Some 3,000 people marched in Paris, where a wide banner read, "American Imperialism: Take your bloody hands off the Middle East." Others held posters that read "Wanted: George W. Bush War Criminal." In Beirut, thousands of Lebanese and Palestinian protesters demanded that U.S. forces leave Iraq and that Israel to stop its attacks in the Palestinian territories. Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, addressed the crowd by phone from his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. "Together with you until victory and together until (we liberate) Jerusalem," Arafat said, his voice blaring over loudspeakers. Outside the U.S. Embassy in Athens, demonstrators hurled bottles and yogurt at riot police. About 3,000 protesters, chanting "Occupiers Out" and "Freedom for Palestine," joined the rally. Protests were also staged in other parts of Greece and on island of Crete, outside an American naval base at Souda Bay. The base supports the U.S. 6th Fleet and spy planes. In Spain, thousands of people carrying anti-war banners, banging drums and wearing white smocks marched through the streets of Madrid, Barcelona, Seville and Malaga. "Oil kills," read a banner in Madrid. In Seoul, thousands of activists protested a U.S. request to send South Korean troops to Iraq. Protesters chanted "No war!" and carried banners saying "End the occupation in Iraq" and "Oppose a plan to dispatch S. Korean combat troops to Iraq" Some 4,000 protesters in the Turkish capital, Ankara, shouted slogans and unfurled banners to support the Palestinian cause and demand an end to the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. Hundreds more gathered at a similar rally in Istanbul and burned American and Israeli flags. In downtown Cairo, about 50 political activists and journalists staged a peaceful protest against Israeli attacks and the U.S.-led occupation. In Warsaw, 100 young people protested the Polish military presence in Iraq, marching with banners saying "Down with the global U.S terrorism" and "We don't want to occupy with Bush." An estimated 1,200 demonstrated in Brussels, while about 400 people marched through downtown Berlin. In Stockholm, police said about 250 people staged a demonstration. Opposition to the war has always been strong in Britain. Several large peace protests were held during the war, though none matched a huge rally on Feb. 15, before the conflict began, when between 750,000 and 2 million people marched through central London. Now, questions about Prime Minister Tony Blair's tactics in trying to win public support before invading Iraq have left his government struggling through its worst crisis. The ruling Labor Party is still well ahead of the opposition in opinion polls, but the public's faith in the government and in Blair has eroded. A new poll taken Sept. 11-16 and published Saturday in The Financial Times found 50 percent of those questioned said Blair should step aside. The newspaper did not give the sample size or margin of error. The London protest Saturday was timed for the eve of the governing party's annual conference for "maximum political impact," said Andrew Burgin, spokesman for Stop the War Coalition, one of the rally's organizers. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, another organizer of Saturday's march, said a big demonstration would send a strong message to the government that the public did not condone what it called "lies" used to justify the war. Twenty-year-old Liban Kahiye, also in London, said, "I don't believe British and American troops should still be in Iraq. Everyday you hear stories of innocent people being killed that's not justice." |
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| Il presidente libanese Emil Lahoud ha incaricato il primo ministro dimissionario Omar Karami di formare il nuovo governo. Il premier uscente, filo-siriano come Lahoud, ha accettato invitando tutti i partiti del Libano al dialogo e a prendere parte a “un governo di unità nazionale”. Karami dovrebbe ‘traghettare’ il Paese fino alle elezioni politiche del prossimo maggio, momento che si prospetta decisivo per il futuro del Libano. Intanto continua il ripiegamento delle truppe siriane nella Valle della Bekaa. In particolare, i soldati di Damasco avrebbero lasciato la zona di Batrun, a nord di Beirut, vicino alle installazioni radar di Ras al-Shaqia. Sarebbero già circa 6.000 i militari siriani ridispiegati nella Valle della Bekaa, nel Libano orientale e a ridosso del confine con la Siria. |
GiornaleRadio 10 marzo 2005
iraq
Il presidente della neo-eletta Assemblea nazionale irachena, Fuad Maassum, ha convocato i 275 deputati scelti dal voto popolare lo scorso 30 gennaio per il prossimo 16 marzo, quando si svolgerà la seduta d’insediamento dell’organo legislativo transitorio. La data scelta è altamente simbolica, poiché il 16 marzo 1988 Saddam Hussein fece bombardare con agenti chimici la città curda di Halabja, uccidendo circa 5.000 persone.
- La cerimonia d’inaugurazione si svolgerà nel Centro congressi nella cosiddetta ‘zona verde’ di Baghdad, protetta dai militari statunitensi. Le elezioni dello scorso 30 gennaio sono state vinte dall’‘Alleanza Unificata Irachena’ – movimento che fa capo al Grande Ayatollah sciita Ali al-Sistani – alla quale sono andati il 48,2% dei voti e 140 seggi; la seconda lista più votata è stata quella dell’‘Alleanza curda’, che si è aggiudicata 75 seggi in conseguenza del 25,7% dei suffragi a favore; la lista sciita laica dell’ex-primo ministro ad interim Iyad Allawi, il grande sconfitto, ha ottenuto invece solo 40 seggi.
libano
Il presidente libanese Emil Lahoud ha incaricato il primo ministro dimissionario Omar Karami di formare il nuovo governo. Il premier uscente, filo-siriano come Lahoud, ha accettato invitando tutti i partiti del Libano al dialogo e a prendere parte a “un governo di unità nazionale”.
- Karami dovrebbe ‘traghettare’ il Paese fino alle elezioni politiche del prossimo maggio, momento che si prospetta decisivo per il futuro del Libano. Intanto continua il ripiegamento delle truppe siriane nella Valle della Bekaa. In particolare, i soldati di Damasco avrebbero lasciato la zona di Batrun, a nord di Beirut, vicino alle installazioni radar di Ras al-Shaqia. Sarebbero già circa 6.000 i militari siriani ridispiegati nella Valle della Bekaa, nel Libano orientale e a ridosso del confine con la Siria.