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Sydney Morning Herald August 29, 2010 - 11:25AM Detainees at Darwin's immigration detention centre have been rioting this morning. Indonesians from asylum seeker boats are protesting against the time it takes for their cases to be heard in Australian courts.

The war in Iraq led to a loss of focus on the threat from al Qaeda, emboldened the group's leader Osama bin Laden, and helped to breed a generation of homegrown terrorists, Britain's former director of the MI5 Eliza Manningham-Buller, has told an inquiry. 

American officials are searching for Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks in an attempt to pressure him not to publish thousands of confidential and potentially hugely embarrassing diplomatic cables that offer unfiltered assessments of Middle East governments and leaders.

The following is an URGENT call for solidarity in order to highlight the increased militarization in Oaxaca and in other communities throughout the world. We recognize that the recent armed attack against the compañeros participating in the Support and Solidarity Caravan for San Juan Copala, Oaxaca (which includes two dead, one wounded, and many disappeared) have deep roots extending to histories of imperialism and white supremacy. Imperialism, because repression is historical and based on domination, subjugation, and displacement. White supermacy, because violence is systemically and institutionally perpetuated against indigenous peoples, so-called third worlds, people of color, and other marginalized groups in an effort to maintain privileges of wealth and power. We recognize this broader context, that the injustices in Oaxaca do not operate in a bubble, that repression is a global phenomena situated in very different local contexts.