Check out whether you can get the front page of "Democracy Now" grassroots news site.
I only could get the audio podcast page up once this morning.
The second attempt gives me only a blank page.
I hope it's just a glitch, and not a "blankout".
The Australian and Melbourne Indymedia Collective stand in solidarity with Wikileaks and its spokesperson Julian Assange and condemn their unprecedented persecution. In making this statement we join other members of the IMC networks including IMC Brazil and IMC Sucre. Around the world and Australia people are joining the movement in support of Wikileaks. Australia wide protests have been called in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Hobart. A new website has been site up too promote these rallies at www.rally4wikileaks.com Globally resistance is taking the form of over 500 websites mirroring Wikileaks and Operation Payback taking down a bank that froze Julian Assange’s defence fund. The Indymedia Network is hosting one of these Mirrors. As Assange has now been taken into custody and Wikileaks sustained ever more attacks on its ability to function, it is not overstating it to say the freedom of whole internet is now at stake. Will we allow Wikileaks and Julian Assange to be destroyed for daring to tell the world the truth about wars and the criminal deeds of governments around the world?
A group of Internet activists calling themselves Operation Payback have taken credit for shutting down the website of a bank that earlier Monday froze funds belonging to WikiLeaks.
Announcing its successful hack on a Twitter account, the group declared, "We will fire at anyone that tries to censor WikiLeaks."
Earlier in the day, Swiss bank PostFinance issued a statement announcing that it had frozen 31,000 euro ($41,000 US) in an account set up as a legal defense fund for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/kaputtradio/wicked_leaks.mp3
Poem with sounds
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/kaputtradio/kr_hemphour_2010-12-03.mp3
Drug War News Commentary with Bob and Crew
[ sorry for poor sound due to transmission fault ]
Julian Assange's Nimbin background, more on Wiki's Leaking, Kim Ill jokes and China, Ras-Putin dealing from the cold, Paki-nuke-istan, national political spectrum, Michael's Report from Ethan Nadleman's recent talk in Brisbane, new legal police powers to come, Bluey's rave, poor old Willy Nelson
Reporters Without Borders condemns the blocking, cyber-attacks and political pressure being directed at cablegate.wikileaks.org, the website dedicated to the US diplomatic cables. The organization is also concerned by some of the extreme comments made by American authorities concerning WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.
New Zealand has been given another chance to free itself from discriminatory collectivism while the US seems to be still battling with it. NZ was saved by the emerging truth of human rights omissions and one of life's miracles, the major Christchurch earthquake (no one killed). The past 20 years in NZ was based on the simple idea that 'the collective is everything and the individual is nothing' driven by the bureaucracy, the status seekers, and supported by governments not, as often believed, by the corporations, the wealth seekers, who however have benefited considerably.
New Zealand has been given another chance to free itself from discriminatory collectivism while the US seems to be still battling with it. NZ was saved by the emerging truth of human rights omissions and one of life's miracles, the major Christchurch earthquake (no one killed). The past 20 years in NZ was based on the simple idea that 'the collective is everything and the individual is nothing' driven by the bureaucracy, the status seekers, and supported by governments not, as often believed, by the corporations, the wealth seekers, who however have benefited considerably.
This site is about anarchism, for and by anarchists worldwide. Hopefully it will be a resource and a community place where people can get together and organize, or just make friends with like minded people.
Some of the goals of this site is :
* To promote Freedom, Solidarity, Direct Democracy, social revolution, Equality, free speech, atheism, ecology and science/progress.
* To counter the propaganda of both the "left" and "right" and all those threatened by anarchism.
* To spread news and events in order to organize and encourage people to participate.
By Diet Simon
Update
On Sunday (12 Dec) in classic winter weather 700 people celebrated the cancellation of nuclear waste transportation to Russia from Ahaus by forming a human chain around the temporary dump there. A new demo was called for 30 January outside a nuclear research facility in Jülich, near Cologne, from where 152 containers of waste are shortly to go to Ahaus. Also on 12 December 850 people demonstrated in Freiburg, southwest Germany, for immediate cessation of nuclear power production. There was a Franco-German summit in the town at the time.
