May 1st has been celebrated for more than a century as International Workers Day, commerating the struggle for the eight hour workday in the US and the state murder of anarchist labor organizers in Chicago in 1887. The militant labor movement in Chicago was largely due to the influence of radical immigrant workers from central Europe, who were the most exploited of the working class. May First is celebrated worldwide with the exception of a handfull of countries including the United States.

Diese Woche auf Afrikanet lesen Sie über folgende Themen:
1- Nigeria hat als erstes afrikanisches Land seine Auslandsschulden beglichen.
2- Rassismus streichen in Wien

Die Kampagne Rassismus streichen! thematisiertsiert die rassistischen Beschmierungen, die ueberall in Wien zu finden sind.

Wie die email-adresse verraet, handelt es sich um eine Aktion, die von SOS Mitmensch gemeinsam mit der Wiener Integrations Konfernez und ZARA ins Leben gerufen wurde. Als Medienpartnerin wird afrikanet.info angefuehrt. Die Organisationen wollen auf die Beschmierungen hinweisen, damit die Stadt Wien das Problem endlich loest.

Award-winning film focuses on the experience of African refugees in Germany

Shackled and spread-eagled out on the ground in a forest clearing the Africans and other asylum-seekers are spared not even a side glance as the smartly-dressed woman high steps past them, gets into her car and speeds away. Her face is the only recognisable one to be seen in the final seconds of the documentary film, Forst (The Forest).
The preceding 50 minutes are for the voices of the refugees, clips of their interviews set to grainy black-and-white views down long corridors, through windows and out into dense forests.

http://thevoiceforum.org/node/373

Am Mittwoch, 19. April 2006 trafen sich mehr als 100 Leute vor dem Innenministerium, um die verantwortlichen PolitikerInnen zu einer Entschärfung des Fremdenrechts zu bewegen. Doch diese überlegen weitere Verschärfungen. Deshalb gibt es ab sofort jeden Mittwoch um 17:00 eine Kundgebung vor dem BMI in der Herrengasse 7, 1010 Wien.

Over the weekend, more than ten thousand students and workers and their children marched thru the streets of downtown Los Angeles. They protested the death of Anthony Soltero, a 14-year old student who on March 30th 2006 committed suicide, and rallied against the anti-immigrant attacks from US politicians.

http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/133410/index.php