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The workers are demanding a national minimum wage, permanent jobs for contract labourers, social security for informal labourers, pensions for all workers, intervention by the government to stop the rising costs of living, and to end the sell off of publicly owned companies amongst other demands.

http://libcom.org/blog/world%E2%80%99s-biggest-ever-strike-

Transport, postal services and banking have all been hit by the strike which involves around a dozen unions, with a ‘complete shutdown’ of banking in Mumbai being reported. Police have been deployed to try to prevent ‘unlawful’ picketing, with 100 arrests made this morning for obstructing traffic.

A day-long nation-wide strike staged by 11 trade unions may have been  followed by up to 100 million workers. Key sectors like banking and transport took a hit in various parts of the country.

Rajinder Khurana, a 36-year-old bank clerk working in the government-owned State Bank of India in the capital was up early on Tuesday. The previous night he and his colleagues had prepared elaborate placards demanding an amendment to the Minimum Wages Act and an increase in gratuity payout.

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Khurana was among the hundreds of employees who picketed the bank’s entrance dissuading employees from coming into office even as a tight police cordon ringed the bank premises. All clerical staff and non-supervisory staff were on strike, while officers reported for duty.

A driver rests on his yellow ambassador taxi during a country-wide strike in KolkataMany taxi drivers suspended their services to participate in the protests

“We have come together to voice our protest against price rise, breach of labour rights and the government’s free market policies like disinvestment in public sector companies,” Khurana told Deutsche Welle.

Millions of others like Khurana joined the call for tighter labor laws and a minimum wage in a strike that crippled banking services across the country and affected different modes of public transport.
A large number of rickshaw and taxi drivers kept their vehicles off the roads in many parts of the country to take part in the protest.
“I had to pay double the fare to take a rickshaw as most of the rickshaw drivers were on strike. They charged exorbitant rates,” exclaimed Swati Chandan, a daily commuter.
Read more here.. with thanks Author: Murali Krishnan
 http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15774001,00.html?maca=en-aa-news-862-rdf

 

BRITISH authorities moved in to evict the Occupy London tent city outside St Paul’s Cathedral over Monday night.

Occupylsx itself declared on Tuesday morning: “Globalspring is coming this may.

There were reports of people being arrested and dragged off by riot police, shouting: “Long live #occupy !”

Christian protesters praying on the steps of the cathedral were apparently violently pulled away and thrown to the ground – at the request of the church authorities.

Police blocked off the area to stop supporters getting to the scene to express their solidarity.

The move was expected by activists, following the end of legal attempts to gain extra time on the site.

Corporate media are, inevitably, keen to represent the physical removal of the camp as a defeat for the movement against neoliberalism.

But, as one Twitter comment remarked: “I wish the BBC would stop saying that the protest is now over. It’s clearly far from over…”

And Occupylsx itself declared on Tuesday morning: “Globalspring is coming this may. Still united for #globalchange and #globaldemocracy. This is just the beginning.”

Financed by capitalist slush funds the rightwing press has fanned a wave of race hate against southern Europeans, blaming our lazy love of fiesta for their economic woes.
BUT OECD FIGURES PROVE THAT SPANISH, PORTUGUESE, ITALIAN AND GREEK WORKERS DO LONGER HOURS FOR LESS PAY, WORK IS MORE PRECARIOUS, HARDER WITH LESS MECANIZATION  AND UNEMPLOYMENT IS  HIGHER.

The eurozone crisis has sown divisions in the European family, and Greece in particular has often been singled out for criticism. Has Greece been living beyond its means? Are Greeks lazy? On this second point, the statistics tell a surprising story.

This week Greece is facing more spending cuts after agreeing to a deal of 130bn euros (£110bn, $175bn) to help it avoid bankruptcy.

But the statistics suggest the country has not lost its way due to laziness. If you look at the average annual hours worked by each worker, the Greeks seem very hard-working.

Figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) show that the average Greek worker toils away for 2,017 hours per year which is more than any other European country.

Out of the 34 members of the OECD, that is just two places behind the board leaders, South Korea.

On the other hand, the average German worker – normally thought of as the very epitome of industriousness – only manages 1,408 hours a year. source: BBC NEWS

Next solidarity protest on Saturday 25 February at the Greek Embassy

Φεβρουαρίου 19, 2012

After the success of the day of action on 18/2 in London and around Europe, we decided to continue our actions of solidarity! 13:00 at the Greek embassy, at 1A Holland Park W11 3TP. Facebook event:  http://www.facebook.com/events/396894816993798/ Με επισήμανση:, , , , Posted in: Δράσεις

GREEK anarchists have called for international solidarity efforts, as they endure a new brutal wave of repression from the state and its neo-fascists guard-dogs.

Says a statement posted on From the Greek Streets: “Greece is at a critical turning point, and many critical changes are taking place in a societal as well as a political and economic level.

“The disintegration and dissolution of the dominant – until recently – model of power and exploitation is more than evident, so it defines what is commonly called ‘crisis.’

“What we are experiencing now is the total failure of a system that is unable to secure any longer the social consensus, thereby is engaged in a frontal attack that is unconditional and with no pretext.

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The world has lost 10 crucial years in the race to stop a cataclysm of runaway climate change, due to the massive secret funding of US 'climate skeptics', really obscene criminals cashing in on the trashing of our planet....

Now it’s a straight fight with the billionaires and corporations.

 By George Monbiot  Shocking, fascinating, entirely unsurprising: the leaked documents, if authentic, confirm what we suspected but could not prove. The Heartland Institute, which has helped lead the war against climate science in the United States, is funded among others by tobacco firms, fossil fuel companies and one of the billionaire Koch brothers(1).

It appears to have followed the script written by a consultant to the Republican party, Frank Luntz, in 2002. “Should the public come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global warming will change accordingly. Therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate.”(2)

Luntz’s technique was pioneered by the tobacco companies and the creationists: teach the controversy. In other words, insist that the question of whether cigarettes cause lung cancer, natural selection drives evolution or burning fossil fuels causes climate change is still wide open, and that both sides of the “controversy” should be taught in schools and thrashed out in the media.

The leaked documents appear to show that, courtesy of its multi-millionaire donors, the institute has commissioned a global warming curriculum for schools, which teaches that “whether humans are changing the climate is a major scientific controversy” and “whether CO2 is a pollutant is controversial.”(3).

read much more HERE   (with thanks) http://www.monbiot.com/2012/02/20/plutocracy-pure-and-simple/

Heartland Institute's Denialgate includes funding from Microsoft to undermine the IPCC: Breaking Heartless-news for Valentine’s Day: “Dissuading teachers from teaching science …”

We’re coming up on the second anniversary of the BP spill, and the specter of that flaming rig, oiled pelicans, and a sullied Gulf seems to be dimming by the day. Unless, of course, you happened to have your life ruined by the disaster; in that case, it’s not as easy to watch the BP-sponsored TV ads that paint the region as back to its happy, sunny self and assume the hardship is over.

Bloomberg News has a great roundup of the myriad ways that the fallout from the catastropher is still deeply impacting the Gulf economy. Businesses, especially those in the seafood industry, have been ruined. The oyster market has been “destroyed”. Fishermen and distributors must trawl further than ever for shrimp, populations of which have been wiped out.

Tourism took a hit during the year of the spill, but has since fared better. 2010, in fact, was New Orleans’ best year for tourism since Hurricane Katrina hit the city five years before.

BP has been charged with so many counts of wrongdoing that I’m sure the Bloomberg report merely scratches the surface. This kind of thing is typical:

BP rutted nine miles of fragile shoreline with earth-moving equipment and altered erosion patterns with sandbag dams and sheet-metal pilings intended to keep oil out of the marshes … The coastal ecosystem is both a marine-life nursery and critical physical barrier protecting Louisiana’s “underbelly” from hurricane storm surges, according to court papers.

The manager of that beachfront property is suing BP—because the company never bothered to come back and clean up the mess it left. Elsewhere, BP has abandoned cleanup altogether, giant tar balls are still washing ashore, and complaints appear to be falling on deaf ears. In the most egregious case, BP has refused to address the claims of one of the workers who nearly lost his life in the rig explosion, which shattered his knee and covered him in severe burns.

Reading over the whole Bloomberg report really is worthwhile—it’s a stirring reminder of the scars left by reckless drilling and corporate malfeasance.

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We’ve counted some 140 ”Occupied Social Centers”  the Spanish state. (en castellano abajo)

 ”In every neighborhood an occupied social center… The movement is no longer so defensive, enclosed in a comfortable (and sometimes thankless) ghetto, and has begun to expand. It’s a good time to welcome without fear new people from other political traditions, and above all, people never politicized.”

In ‘A las Barricadas’ magazine we published a map some  months ago of social centers (squats or not), cultural associations, think tanks, foundations, social libraries, bookstores and other places of anti-authoritarian character.The very variety of the Iberian anarchism today, makes it difficult to categorize or locate many spaces.

The 15M  Occupy The Streets Movement

One of the results of the huge new assembly based movement of 15M, in 2011 ( an anti party and anti leader movement which is still spreading round the world), has been the number of occupations that its various assemblies have opened up.  Apart from Madrid and Barcelona, the squatters of 15M have occupied centers in  Zaragoza, Cuenca, Murcia, Vigo, Burgos, Oviedo, Palma and Leon. We can not deny that it is positive that they have adopted the practice of direct action.  (note.. this refers to the common complaint that the 15M ‘Take the Streets’ movement is much too pacifist.)

Some of these are squatting symbolically, a flower of one day, others are intended for housing, but some have become neighborhood social centers. Its easy for old activists to be critical of starry eyed kids. However the 15M  intentions of being a social center have identical demands to those of social centers in the  90′s. (Note.. many occupations are of public services threatened with closure.)

Squat the Basque Country

Speaking of the phenomenon of squatting we need to observe different contexts in the Spanish state. For example, it is known that all the comrades in Euskal Herriak play in another “League” as there are ‘gaztetxes okupados‘ squatted almost everywhere. In Bilbo city alone there are about a dozen. The idea is, more or less,  of a “social center in each neighborhood.” Strongly influenced by the political context, of course. In most of the gaztetxes leftwing nationalism is more or less open. In other cases they are more hippies, with less political content, and others are autonomous or even libertarian. Reflecting the strength of this movement is the huge response to the eviction of Kukutza III in Bilbo, easily the biggest rally in favour of squatting in recent years (probably) in Europe. On the other hand, in  Iruña (Pamplona) there has been a marked decline, from 10 to 1 (Zizur Nagusia) in recent years, the result of brutal continuous and long lasting repression.(represión.)

Revolutionary Barcelona and Catalunya

In the city of Barcelona is also fulfilled the phrase “in every neighborhood an occupied social center.” It is

La Carbonera. Barcelona 2012

possible that even in every neighborhood there are several. According to the weekly info-mural sheet ‘USURPER’ (Info Usurpa) in the city there are about 24 CSOs (Occupied Social centers), to which must be added those that carry out their activities from time to time and do not appear in InfoUsurpa. What’s more, we should add another dozen libraries and social ‘ateneos’ (autonomous workers centers) with more or less explicitly libertarian inspiration. In total at least  40 community centers (including Ateneos and others) in the city (but not all with daily activity). In the past decade the squatcenters have attracted many young (and not so young) who came to the city from all sides. In some neighborhoods the squatting has been endemic, as in Vallcarca or Poble Nou. Now there is a little everywhere, especially in Carmel, Sant Andreu, Sants, Horta, Clot, the Raval … It has lost the strong presence that it had in Gràcia in the past, but it has moved to other neighborhoods.

But the phenomenon of squatting has spread across the whole of Catalonia. CSOs can now be found in the industrial cities around Barcelona..  Molins de Rei, L’Hospitalet, Cornella, Vilamoura, Castelldefells, Santa Coloma, Badalona, etc.. There is also some displacement of squatters into neighboring Sierra Collserola mountains in the municipalities of Sant Cugat, Cerdanyola, Moncada, La Llagosta …  Kan Pasqual and Can Masdeu..  are rur-urban squatters, with one foot in the city and another in the field. This idea has spread to other CSOs around Barcelona.

And of course the rest of Catalonia, Tarragona, Reus, Baix Llobregat, Barcelona Nord, Sabadell, Terrassa, Manresa, Cerdanyola, Girona, Figueres, Lleida, and so on. There are probably as many CSOs outside as inside Barcelona city. Often there is a “squatter emigration” from Barcelona to the villages and smaller towns. In others it is the original people from the villages, that after participating in the Barcelona squatting movement, have decided to return home to OKKUPY.   Note.. The 15M Occupy movement is also strongly attracted back to the land.

A problem that may be associated  is the creation of certain “culture of the snack bar.” This means that the militant social circle in the center evolve a lack of communication with other social centers (of even their own neighborhood), without being coordinated to carry out common good politics. Sometimes more centers can mean more dispersal of social activists.. Managing an occupied social space can be difficult and exhausting. Especially if you enter into the dynamics of judgments, evictions, squatters, enabling space, student holidays … which can lead to disabling social activists for months until they have their own space underway again.

The 1930´s movement and Today

In the 30′s, according to Pere Solà, there were about 200 Ateneo centers run by Catalan workers. Today the number of social and cultural associations – although we may wonder – is not much less than this amount (about 70 between squatted social centers and cultural associations, some 50 of the Catalan independence movement and another 20 or 30 ideologically undefined). But whereas in the years ranging from 1910 to 1939, every Ateneo had 100, 200 or 500 people associated today in every community center there is an affinity group that is managed and how much some groups that give use . That is, if successful, the social center will have a dozen people running it, or if we include supporters who go through the CSO or Ateneo about 50 or 70 people (which is not bad, of course!). In short, if in the 30′s the phenomenon of labor ateneísmo figures moved tens of thousands of members and activists today are just a few hundred people and a few thousand supporters.

Among the short-term needs is the coordination of social centers belonging to the same ideological tradition (eg, CSOs more explicitly anarchist libertarians with the Athenians) and intergenerational generation of spaces in which knowledge is transmitted and take a policy formation process of the new generations (so you do not have to “reinvent the wheel” again and repeating the same mistakes that past generations).

As to what is known as “squatters’ movement” … In the Barcelona squatting no longer dominates the anarcho-punk atmosphere of the past, which made squatting had a certain aesthetic and ideological coherence, but now there are many variations with many political and aesthetic nuances, which makes it impossible to identify the new squatters politically as belonging to the same movement. Some are separatists, communists, autonomous anarchists, women, postmodern, queer, punk, counter-cultural, ravers, undefined, and so on. Is not the same Can Vies, as Kasa de la Muntanya, you can’t compare the series of Rimaia free university occupations with the District VI and the huge ‘circus squats’..

In Barcelona, today we should speak of “squatting” without more adjectives, iunstead of “squatters’ movement.” We believe that what really should matter is whether a social center falls within the libertarian movement or not, whether that’s part of its business or not. And if so, begin to create opportunities for mutual understanding and collaboration. We understand that the root cause of the malfunction la Assemblea d’Okupes of Barcelona is the very fact that the squatter movement is too dispersed. Otherwise, the generations go by without  libertarian practice  evolving ideologically, and centers burn out naturally over the years.

Madrid Squat movement taking off

By number, Madrid would be the third area of the state with more squats. Today there are about 15 in the capital and about 6 in the Community. This is a record. There has never been more occupied social centers. There are also other universities and community centers that complete the picture coming to be more than 40 social spaces. A similar situation occurs in the city of Barcelona, which is sometimes duplicated efforts, and collaborate rather than fall into certain excess of diversity. However, as there are fewer social centers in Barcelona, it is logical to occur later this numerical growth causes the subsequent referral to the various political movements that adhere to different centers (anarchists, communists, postmodern, and so on. .) Since then Madrid is still in growth phase, but at a pace that will squats in the city in a few years will be achieved or install an Athenian social center in each neighborhood.

And all over the place!!!

Galicia is an area that has experienced a remarkable growth occupied social centers, driven mainly by the independence movement there. In some ways trying to emulate their fellow Basques and Catalans, and to some extent have achieved success going from almost zero to twenty social centers in five years. In the more libertarian countryside there are 5 and about 3 ‘athenaeum’ squats and social libraries. There are also 5 other local initiatives which can classed as libertarian.

As for the rest of the peninsula, we have the case of Andalucia, which despite all its extension has little tradition  except in Granada, Seville and Malaga. In any case in recent years there have also been occupations (some failed to take) in Cordoba, Cadiz, Chiclana and Moron. Here its often squats of blocks of flats with neighbors, where social activists join in squatting and which become social centers occasionally (this also happens in Madrid and Barcelona).

There are also new CSOs on the island of Tenerife (2), Murcia (2), Cuenca (2), Burgos (2, 1 and evicted), Logroño, Salamanca, Valladolid, Leon, Salamanca, Oviedo, Palma, Zaragoza .. . and many places that years ago would have been unexpected as Arnedo, Badajoz, Plasencia or even Valdepeñas (who was evicted). And say nothing of smaller towns rhytm, Madrid and Catalonia, with squats (and some even more).

We conclude that the phenomenon of squatting, despite the laws, despite police repression and all the “bad reputation” associated with it, has remained over time, and has even spread throughout the Spanish state . Right now all regions except Cantabria have squatted social centers( although it had one three years ago and has some ‘Atheneos’. According to the map, there are some 140 CSOs counted statewide, but some are probably left out and others already lost.

For several years the libertarian movement has been complaining about the lack of anarchist Ateneos. (traditional workers social centers). Usually these Atheneos were linked with anarcho-syndicalist unions, but by the 70′s some were created in Catalonia which were autonomous anarchist organizations. With the advent of the crisis in the Iberian anarchism in the 80 and 90, the number of Ateneos remained very low and usually associated with anarcho-syndicalist unions who organised them.

Anyway, in the last 5 years or so, we are seeing an upturn,  with the creation of new explicitly libertarian cultural associations . The drive has several sources. On one side are the unions that create them, because they believe it is the line to be followed for the training of its members and to lead them cultural activity. On the other hand, we have different anarchist activists who, instead of creating a social center create an ideologically undefined libertarian ‘ateneo’ . Some of these activists have learned from their experiences in squatted environments , or being in assemblies too pluralistic for their point of view. The fact is that now there are about 50 libertarian cultural associations in the state and every month we hear of new ones.

The creation of free spaces, the generalization of these initiatives in particular areas (cities and districts with several social centers), and horizontal expansion (in terms of territory: new districts, new towns and cities which are receiving social activist groups) cause the spread of anti-authoritarian practices and are fairly widespread.

It is clear that this freedom movement of our time lacks an ideological coherence. Many people involved in these initiatives refuse to be labeled as anarchists. There is no self-consciousness of “liberation movement” out of the unions libertarian or the Athenians, and autonomous or anarchist insurrectionary groups. We need to change this dynamic and work together to include self-managed different libertarian initiatives in a social-political movement, coherent in terms of principles and objectives, while plural as to tactics. But that all members feel part of the project and see their initiatives as complementary.

We must begin to recognize that we are not so few as 15 years ago, and we need to change perspective. The movement is no longer so defensive, enclosed in a comfortable (and sometimes thankless) ghetto, and has begun to expand. It’s a good time to welcome without fear new people from other political traditions, and above all, people never politicized. The emergence of 15M reminds us of the need to be attentive to what happens in the street, not to despise any opportunity to let our message be heard, because after all “there is something left.” And above all, lets take every opportunity to continue building this libertarian infrastructure (spaces, own media, support groups, means of economic self-management, etc..) To be the basis of “parallel society”.

transalation by Google and corrected and slightly edited by this blogger. (one note. In Spanish ‘libertarian’ means ‘left wing anarchist’.

From  http://www.alasbarricadas.org/noticias/node/19600 with thanks


original Spanish version

Hay contabilizados unos 140 CSO en todo el estado, pero como siempre, “ni son todos los que están ni están todos los que son”.

En Alasbarricadas publicamos hace meses un mapaque hace las veces de directorio de centros sociales (okupados o no), ateneos, centros de estudios, fundaciones, bibliotecas sociales, librerías y otros espacios de carácter anti-autoritario. Se trata de crear un listado exhaustivo de iniciativas libertarias destinado a convertirse en una herramienta más del movimiento libertario (o de los diferentes movimientos anti-autoritarios). Es importante que la gente que comienza a tener curiosidad por el anarquismo o inquietudes sociales, tenga lugares de referencia en los que encontrar anarquistas. Sin embargo, la propia variedad del anarquismo ibérico actual, hace difícil catalogar o localizar muchos espacios. Por ello el directorio es lo más amplio posible, sin ánimo de excluir a nadie, intentando que cada persona pueda encontrar y desarrollar sus afinades.

Pero también estos mapas sirven para realizar análisis en base a los datos que aportan. Probablemente uno de los resultados colaterales del movimiento del 15M, del 2011, haya sido la cantidad de okupaciones que sus diferentes asambleas han llevado a cabo. Estas okupaciones han afectado incluso a territorios anteriormente libres de okupaciones, extendiendo esta práctica. Además de Madrid y Barcelona, las okupaciones del 15M se han desarrollado por Zaragoza, Cuenca, Murcia, Vigo, Burgos, Oviedo, Palma o León. No sabemos en qué pararán estas nuevas okupaciones, pero no podemos negar que es positivo que hayan adoptado la práctica de la acción directa.

Algunas son okupaciones simbólicas, flor de un día, otras están destinadas a viviendas, pero más de una se convertirá en centro social de barrio. Quienes llevamos ya años en temas políticos habremos leído otras veces comunicados sobre las intenciones de un centro social okupado cualquiera. Por muy del 15M que sean, las intenciones de ser un centro social de “barrio para el barrio”, que realice “actividades para lxs vecinxs”, así como que sea un “lugar de encuentro”… son idénticas a las de los centros sociales de los 90.

Hablando del fenómeno de la okupación observamos diferentes contextos en el estado español. Por ejemplo, de todxs es sabido que en Euskal Herriak juegan en otra “Liga” ya que hay gaztetxes okupados casi por todas partes. Solamente en Bilbo ciudad hay cerca de una decena. Se cumple, más o menos, la idea de un “centro social en cada barrio”. Influye mucho el contexto político, claro está. De hecho la mayoría de los gaztetxes orbitan en torno a la izquierda abertzale de una forma más o menos abierta. En otros casos son más hippies, con menos contenido político, y en otros incluso autónomos o libertarios. Como muestra de la fuerza de este movimiento okupa autóctono está la respuesta al desalojo de Kukutza III, en Bilbo, produciéndose la manifestación en favor de la okupación más grande de los últimos años (probablemente) de Europa. De todas formas en Iruña se ha dado un descenso acusado, pasando de 10 a 1 (el de Zizur Nagusia) en los últimos años, fruto de una brutal represión.

CATALUNYA

En la ciudad de Barcelona se cumple también esa frase de “en cada barrio un centro social”. Es posible que incluso en cada barrio existan varios. Según la hoja mural del Info Usurpa, en toda la ciudad hay unos 24 CSOs, a los que habría que sumar los que realizan actividades propias de vez en cuando y que no aparecen en el Usurpa. Por si fuera poco, habría que sumarle otra decena de ateneos y bibliotecas sociales de inspiración algo más explícitamente libertaria. Fácilmente habrá unos 40 centros sociales (incluyendo ateneos y demás) en la ciudad (pero no todos con actividad diaria). En la pasada década se ha consolidado la okupación, atrayendo a numerosos jóvenes (y no tan jóvenes) que venían a la ciudad de todas partes. En algunos barrios la okupación ha sido endémica, como en Vallcarca o Poble Nou. Ahora se da un poco por todas partes, en especial (además de en esos barrios) en el Carmelo, Sant Andreu, Sants, Horta, Clot, Raval… Se ha perdido la fuerte presencia que hubo en Gràcia en otros tiempos, pero ésta se ha trasladado a otros barrios.

Pero el fenómeno de la okupación se ha extendido por Cataluña entera. Predominan por número los CSOs de las ciudades industriales de los alrededores de Barcelona como Molins de Rei, L’Hospitalet, Cornellà, Viladecans, Castelldefells, Santa Coloma, Badalona, etc. Aunque también se observa cierto desplazamiento de okupas hacia la vecina Sierra de Collserola (a tiro de metro o tren) en los municipios de Sant Cugat, Cerdanyola, Montcada, La Llagosta… Kan Pasqual y Can Masdeu abrieron la veda de las okupas rur-urbanas, con un pie en la ciudad y otro en el campo. Esta idea se ha extendido a otros CSO de los alrededores de Barcelona.

Y por supuesto también en el resto de Cataluña, como en Tarragona, Reus, el Baix Llobregat, Barcelonès Nord, Sabadell, Terrassa, Manresa, Cerdanyola, Girona, Figueres, Lleida, y un largo etcétera. Probablemente existan ya tantos CSO activos fuera de Barcelona como dentro. Muchas veces se produce una “emigración okupa” desde Barcelona hacia los pueblos y ciudades más pequeñas. En otras es la propia gente emigrada desde estos pueblos, que al participar en el movimiento okupa de Barcelona, al retornar a casa decide okupar.

El problema que puede llevar asociado tanto centro social es la creación de cierta “cultura del chiringuito”. Es decir, que la militancia se encierre en su centro social produciéndose una incomunicación con los demás centros sociales (de incluso su propio barrio), sin llegar nunca a coordinarse para llevar a cabo una acción común efectiva políticamente. Así, se podría dar que, a más centros sociales más dispersión de la militancia. Y es que gestionar un espacio cuesta mucho esfuerzo. Especialmente si se entra en la dinámica de juicios, desalojos, okupación, habilitación del espacio, vacaciones estudiantiles… que puede llevar a desactivar militantes sociales durante meses hasta que tienen su espacio propio en marcha otra vez.

En los años 30, según datos de Pere Solà , había en Cataluña unos 200 ateneos obreros. Hoy en día el número de centros sociales y ateneos – aunque nos pueda sorprender – será no mucho menor de esta cifra (unos 70 entre centros sociales okupados y ateneos, otros 50 del movimiento independentista catalán y otros 20 o 30 sin definir ideológicamente). Pero mientras que en los años que iban desde 1910 al 1939, en cada ateneo había 100, 200 o 500 personas asociadas, hoy en día en cada centro social existe un grupo de afinidad que lo gestiona y como mucho algunos grupos más que le dan uso. Es decir, que si tiene éxito, el centro social tendrá una veintena de personas llevándolo, o si contamos los simpatizantes pasarán por el CSO u ateneo unas 50 o 70 personas (que no está mal, claro). En resumen, que si en los años 30 el fenómeno del ateneísmo obrero movía cifras de decenas de miles de socios y militantes, hoy en día son solo unos cuantos cientos de personas y algunas miles de simpatizantes.

Entre las necesidades a corto plazo está la coordinación de los centros sociales pertenecientes a la misma tradición ideológica (por ejemplo, los CSO más explícitamente libertarios con los ateneos anarquistas) y la generación de espacios comunes intergeneracionales en los que se transmitan conocimientos y se dé un proceso de formación política de las nuevas generaciones (para que no tengan que “reinventar la rueda” una vez más y caer en los mismos errores que las generaciones pasadas).

En tanto a lo que se conoce como “movimiento okupa”… En la okupación barcelonesa ya no predomina el ambiente anarko-punk del pasado, que hacía que la okupación tuviera una cierta coherencia estética e ideológica, sino que ahora se dan muchas variantes con muchos matices políticos y estéticos, que imposibilita que los nuevos okupas se identifiquen políticamente como pertenecientes al mismo movimiento. Las hay independentistas, comunistas, autónomas, anarquistas, de mujeres, posmodernas, queer, punks, contra-culturales, raveras, sin definir, etc. No es lo mismo Can Vies, que la Kasa de la Muntanya, ni que la Rimaia o el Distrito VI.

Por ello, en tanto a Barcelona, hoy en día se debiera hablar de “okupación” sin más, sin adjetivos, renunciando a hablar de “movimiento okupa”. Creemos que lo que nos debe importar realmente es si un centro social entra dentro del movimiento libertario o no, si participa de su actividad o no. Y si es así, comenzar a generar espacios de entendimiento mutuo y de colaboración. Entendemos que la causa de fondo de que no funcione laAssemblea d’Okupes de Barcelona es el propio hecho de que el movimiento okupa es demasiado disperso. De otra manera, las generaciones van pasando sin profundizar en la práctica libertaria, sin evolucionar ideológicamente, quemándose de forma natural con los años.

Madrid..

Por número, Madrid sería la tercera zona con más okupaciones del estado. Hoy en día hay unas 15 en la capital y unas 6 en la Comunidad. Se trata de una cifra récord. Nunca ha habido más centros sociales okupados. Además existen otros ateneos y centros sociales que completan el panorama llegando a haber más de 40 espacios sociales. Ocurre una situación parecida a la de Barcelona ciudad, que en ocasiones se duplican esfuerzos, y que en vez de colaborar se cae en cierto exceso de diversidad. Sin embargo, al existir menos centros sociales que en la ciudad condal, es lógico que se produzca ese crecimiento numérico que posteriormente provoque la derivación posterior hacia los distintos movimientos políticos a los que se adhieren los diferentes centros (anarquistas, comunistas, posmodernos, etc.). Desde luego aún Madrid está en fase de crecimiento, pero al ritmo que van las okupaciones en la ciudad en pocos años se logrará instalar un ateneo o centro social en cada barrio.

GALIZA

Galiza, es una zona en la que se ha experimentando un crecimiento más notable de centros sociales, impulsados sobre todo por el movimiento independentista de allí. En algunos aspectos intentan emular a sus correligionarios vascos y catalanes, y de cierta manera han logrado un éxito al pasar de casi cero hasta la veintena de centros sociales en un lustro. En el campo máslibertario hay 5 okupaciones y unos 3 ateneos y bibliotecas sociales. Además hay otros 5 locales en los que pueden encontrarse iniciativas libertarias.

En tanto al resto de la península, tenemos el caso de Andalucía, que a pesar de toda su extensión y población la okupación política no tiene tradición más que en Granada, Sevilla y Málaga. De todas formas en los últimos años se han producido okupaciones (algunas no lograron durar) en Córdoba, Cádiz, Chiclana o Morón. Aquí se dan más las okupaciones de bloques de viviendas con vecinos, en los que también se meten a vivir activistas sociales, convirtiendo la okupación en un centro social ocasional (ocurre lo mismo en Madrid y Barcelona).

También se observan nuevos CSOs en la isla de Tenerife (2), Murcia (2), Cuenca (2), Burgos (2; 1 desalojado ya), Logroño, Salamanca, Valladolid, León, Salamanca, Oviedo, Palma, Zaragoza… y muchos lugares que hace años habría sido insospechado como Arnedo, Badajoz, Plasencia o incluso en Valdepeñas (que fue desalojada). Y esto sin hablar de pueblos más pequeños en Euskal Herria, Madrid o Cataluña, que tienen okupaciones (y algunos con incluso varias).

Se puede concluir que el fenómeno de las okupaciones, a pesar de las leyes, a pesar de la represión policial y de toda la “mala fama” que lleva asociado, ha permanecido en el tiempo, e incluso se ha extendido por todo el estado español. Ahora mismo todas las comunidades autónomas excepto Cantabria tienen centros sociales okupados, aunque ésta tuvo uno hace tres años y mantiene algunos ateneos. Según el mapa, hay contabilizados unos 140 CSO en todo el estado, pero como siempre, “ni son todos los que están ni están todos los que son”.

Desde hace varios años el movimiento libertario ha venido quejándose de la falta deAteneos Libertarios. Normalmente estos ateneos estaban vinculados con los sindicatos anarcosindicalistas, pero hacia los años 70 se crearon algunos en Cataluña que eran autónomos de las organizaciones anarquistas. Con la llegada de la crisis del anarquismo ibérico en los años 80 y los 90, el número de ateneos permaneció muy bajo, y generalmente ligados a los sindicatos anarcosindicalistas que los montaban.

De todas formas, desde hace unos 5 años, se está produciendo un repunte mediante la creación de nuevos ateneos explícitamente libertarios. El impulso tiene varios orígenes. Por un lado están los sindicatos que los crean, porque creen que es la línea que deben seguir para la formación de sus militantes y para derivar en ellos su actividad cultural. Por otro lado, tenemos a diferentes activistas anarquistas, que en lugar de crear un centro social sin definir ideológicamente crean un ateneo libertario debido a sus ideas previas. Algunos de estos activistas vienen quemados de sus experiencias en entornos okupados, o bien, de estar en asambleas demasiado plurales para su punto de vista. El caso es que ahora hay unos 50 ateneos libertarios en el estado y cada mes tenemos noticia de nuevos.

La creación de espacios liberados, la generalización de estas iniciativas en puntos concretos (ciudades y barrios con varios centros sociales), y su expansión en horizontal (en cuanto a territorio: nuevos barrios, nuevos pueblos y ciudades que van recibiendo grupos de activistas sociales) hacen que la difusión de las prácticas anti-autoritarias esté bastante generalizada.

Está claro que a este movimiento libertario de nuestro tiempo le falta una coherencia ideológica. Muchas personas que participan en estas iniciativas se niegan a etiquetarse como anarquistas. No existe una conciencia propia de “movimiento libertario” fuera de los sindicatos libertarios o los ateneos, y de los grupos insurreccionalistas o anarquistas autónomos. Es necesario cambiar esta dinámica y aunar esfuerzos para incluir las diferentes iniciativas libertarias autogestionarias en un movimiento político-social coherente en cuanto a principios y objetivos y a la vez plural en cuanto a tácticas. Pero que todos sus integrantes se sientan parte del mismo proyecto y quieran que sus iniciativas se complementen.

Tenemos que empezar a reconocer que ya no somos tan poca gente como hace 15 años, y que es necesario cambiar de perspectiva. El movimiento ya no está tan a la defensiva, encerrado en un cómodo (y a veces ingrato) ghetto, y comienza a expandirse, pero debe saber acoger sin miedo a nuevas gentes provenientes de otras tradiciones políticas, y, sobre todo, a personas nunca antes politizadas. La irrupción del 15M nos recuerda la necesidad de estar atentas a lo que ocurre en la calle, no despreciar ninguna oportunidad para que se escuche nuestro mensaje porque después de todo “algo queda”. Y sobre todo aprovechar cada situación para seguir construyendo esta infraestructura libertaria (espacios, medios de comunicación propios, grupos de apoyo mutuo, medios de autogestión económica, etc.) que será la base de la “sociedad paralela”.

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Miles de personas, principalmente jóvenes, se manifiestan desde las 15.30 horas de este martes frente a la estación del Norte en la calle Xàtiva de Valencia tras unirse una concentración que se realizaba en las puertas del Instituto Lluís Vives.
Thousands of people, mainly young, manifest from 15.30 hours on Tuesday against North station Xativa Valencia Street after joining a concentration that was made in the doors Lluís Vives Institute.

Entre las proclamas más escuchadas de los participantes, muchos de ellos exhibiendo sus libros en señal de protesta, se ha podido oír la petición de la dimisión de la delegada del Gobierno, Paula Sánchez de León, por la actuación policial y para pedir la libertad de los estudiantes detenidos con las frases ‘Detinguts llibertat, delegada dimissió’ (Estudiantes detenidos libertad, delegada dimisión).

Among the most heard proclamations of the participants, many of them displaying their books in protest, it was possible to hear the call for the resignation of the government delegate, Paula Sánchez de León, policing and to demand the release of students detained by the phrases ‘Detinguts llibertat, delegate dimissió’ (Students arrested freedom, delegated resignation).

Desde las 15.30 horas la calle permanece cortada, con escasa presencia policial, aunque un helicóptero de la Policía Nacional sobrevuela constantemente la zona. De hecho, es la Policía Local la que mantiene cerrada la calle Xàtiva a la circulación.

   From 15.30 hours the street is cut, with little police presence, although a National Police helicopter flies over the area constantly. In fact, the local police is keeping the street closed to traffic Xativa.

A las 14.00 horas han comenzado a concentrarse varios cientos de personas frente a las puertas del cercano Instituto Lluís Vives. Media hora más tarde, los asistentes han comenzado a cortar la calle Marqués de Sotelo frente al centro, pidiendo la liberación de los jóvenes detenidos en las protestas de ayer y la dimisión de Sánchez de León. Algunos de los concentrados portaban libros en las manos que alzaban como señal de protesta.

   At 14.00 hours have begun to focus several hundred people outside the gates of the nearby Lluís Vives Institute. Half an hour later, participants have begun to cut the Calle Marques de Sotelo front and center, demanding the release of youths arrested in yesterday’s protests and the resignation of Sánchez de León. Some of the books carrying concentrated in the hands raised in protest.

   Hasta allí ha desembocado la manifestación que ha salido de la Facultad de Geografía e Historia sobre las 15.00 horas, donde ayer se reunieron unos 400 estudiantes tras los incidentes de todo el día. En esta marcha, unos 1.000 participantes se han dirigido por la calzada de la avenida Blasco Ibáñez al centro mientras coreaban cánticos en los que pedían la dimisión de la delegada del Gobierno y criticaban la actuación policial de los últimos días.

   There has led the rally that has left the School of Geography and History of 15.00, which met yesterday some 400 students following the events of the day. In this way, some 1,000 participants have gone on the road of Avenida Blasco Ibáñez center chanted hymns in calling for the resignation of the government delegate and criticized the police action in recent days.

Los participantes han coreado lemas como: ‘Menos policía y más educación’; ¡Que valents detenen als xiquets’ (Qué valientes, detienen a los niños’) y ‘Éstas son nuestras armas’, que han gritado mientras alzaban sus libros en la mano.

   Participants chanted slogans like, “Less police and education ‘; That valents detenen Xiquets als’ (How brave, stop children’) and ‘These are our weapons’ that have screamed lifting up his books in hand .

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Mass Police brutality fails to stopValencia Uprising (Spain)
The Spanish National Police condemned the “aggression” of school students, who they considered the “enemy”
20/02/2012 Rights and Freedoms

Huge seige of students at the Lluis Vives High School | Author: @ JoanaRibes
The student revolt takes more strength than ever despite the efforts of the Spanish government and police to quell it. more than a hundred demonstrators , many of them minors,  have been wounded, and there have been dozens of detained since the protests began last week.

On Monday,  there were about twenty prisoners, and the emergency services had to meet four people who were injured by the loads of riot, they have not stopped all afternoon.

As usual,the fourth day of protests, has started at 14:45 the doors of the IES Luis Vives High School, the school that sparked the protests. From there the demonstration went to cut the main roads of the Valencian capital, where there were severe persecutions and police charges throughout the evening, even with rubber bullets and tear gas. The police occupied the city in helicopters and the Civil Guard(militarised) controls the different access roads of the Orchard North suburbs.

At nightfall, groups of demonstrators were still protesting in the streets Bailen and Xativa. In addition, the Faculty of History at the University of Valencia has been occupied about 400 students and teachers to protest the police action with the intention of spending the night. 60 vanloads of riot police were deployed, the police chief refused to reveal their numbers wuith the phrase ?’I don¡t tell my enemies how majny we are”. The un iversity declared the students were refugedthere with permission, but most left to resume the struggle.

Students rebelled against cuts in education, which have led schools to Valencia suffered an extreme situation, to the point of cutting light or heating.

Police condemned the “aggression” of students, who considered the “enemy”

The Spanish National Police, for their part, spoke of aggressiveness. In a hearing this Monday afternoon, the upper head of the police in Valencia, Antonio Moreno, spoke to students as the “enemy” and justified the police charges against students for “aggressiveness” of young. As he said, the protesters have acted with “a surplus of aggression” that has led police officers to provide “a fair response.”

Solidarity with students from all over the country

Solidarity with the Valencian revolt has spread throughout the country. In this respect, concentrations were held in the Plaza Sant Jaume de Barcelona, Plaça de la Font in Tarragona, in the Plaza Wine Girona and Alicante Montanyeta Square. Tuesday at 7 they held another in the Plaza of the Town Council of Lleida at half past eight in the square of the President Ferrer Olot. Sunday he held a Palma.

There was also a big demo in Madrid, etc.

Students have demanded the release of detainees without charge.

The SEPC ask the whole school community to join the general strike of February 29.

Teachers reported the siege of Vives High School bypolice

The assembly of teachers of IES Lluis Vives Valencia has also denounced the siege of students. He recalled that on Wednesday, in the vicinity of the institute, there was “a violent and disproportionate” police action against a student group focused out to protest against cuts in education. The result several students were injured and bruised, and even arrested, injured, handcuffed and taken to the police Sapadors.

Thursday and Friday also saw “these violent actions, disproportionate and out of any democratic logic against children and adolescents, treated like criminals.”
All in all, the teachers expressed their “strongest condemnation of such actions” and that “stem from the repeated attempts of our authorities to discredit public education and criminalize us all that we are engaged as teachers, non-teaching staff, students and families in the dignity of public education. “

original Catalan

La brutalitat policial no apaga la revolta estudiantil valenciana

La Policia Nacional espanyola denuncia l’”agressivitat” dels estudiants, a qui considera l’”enemic”
La revolta estudiantil pren més força que mai tot i els esforços del govern espanyol i la policia per sufocar-la. No és de franc: es compten per més d’un centenar els manifestants –molts d’ells menors d’edat- que han resultat ferits, i hi ha hagut desenes de detinguts des que van començar les mobilitzacions, la setmana passada.

Aquest dilluns, en la quarta jornada de protestes, hi ha hagut una vintena de detinguts, i els serveis d’emergències han hagut d’atendre quatre persones que han resultat ferides per les càrregues dels antiavalots, que no han cessat en tota la tarda.

La mobilització, com cada dia, ha començat a les 14.45 h a les portes de l’IES Lluís Vives, l’institut que va encendre les protestes. D’allí n’ha partit una manifestació que ha tallat les principals vies de la capital valenciana, on s’han produït persecucions i severes càrregues policials durant tot el vespre, fins i tot amb pilotes de goma i gasos lacrimògens. La policia ha ocupat la ciutat, amb helicòpters i controls de la guàrdia civil per diferents accesos de l’Horta Nord.

Ben entrada la nit, grups de manifestants segueixen protestant entre els carrers Bailén i Xàtiva. A més, a la Facultat d’Història de la Universitat de València s’hi ha tancat al voltant de 400 estudiants i professors en protesta per l’actuació policial amb la intenció de passar-hi la nit.

Els estudiants es rebel•len contra les retallades en educació, que han dut els centres educatius valencians a patir una situació límit, fins al punt de tallar la llum o la calefacció.

La policia denuncia l’”agressivitat” dels estudiants, a qui considera l’”enemic”

La Policia Nacional espanyola, de la seva banda, ha parlat d’agressivitat. En una compareixença aquest mateix dilluns a la tarda, el cap superior de la policia de València, Antonio Moreno, s’ha referit als estudiants com l’”enemic” i ha justificat les càrregues policials contra els estudiants per “l’agressivitat” dels joves. Segons ha afirmat, els manifestants han actuat amb “un plus d’agressivitat” que ha portat els agents policials a donar “una resposta equitativa”.

De la seva banda, la responsable política de l’actuació, la delegada del govern espanyol al País Valencià, Paula Sánchez de León, s’ha limitat a donar suport en tot moment a l’actitud de la policia, que actua “davant d’una situació de desordre i desacatament”, afirma. “No hi ha repressió, ni instruccions ni intent de control del dret a la manifestació”, ha asseverat.

Solidaritat amb els estudiants des de tots els indrets del país

La solidaritat amb la revolta valenciana s’ha estès per tot el país. En aquest sentit, s’han celebrat concentracions a la Plaça Sant Jaume de Barcelona, a la Plaça de la Font de Tarragona, a la Plaça del Vi de Girona i a la Plaça de la Montanyeta d’Alacant. Aquest dimarts a les 7 se’n celebrarà una altra a la Plaça de la Paeria de Lleida i a dos quarts de vuit a la plaça del Rector Ferrer d’Olot. Diumenge se’n va celebrar una a Palma.

Aquest cap de setmana s’ha portat a terme diverses mobilitzacions arreu dels Països Catalans per denunciar les brutals agressions

luis Vives High School yesterday

contra els estudiants a València, després que les càrregues policials de la setmana passada se saldessin amb una desena de detinguts i diversos ferits.

Els estudiants adverteixen que seguiran rebel·lant-se

Els estudiants han rebutjat en bloc la brutalitat policial i han exigit l’alliberament sense càrrec dels detinguts. El SEPC ha remarcat que es repeteix la violència i repressió que es va viure al Principat amb el Pla Bolonya i denuncia que el govern espanyol “està disposat a les retallades i les polítiques privatitzadores per sobre de la voluntat de les classes populars”. En aquest sentit, considera “indignant que haguem de patir la incompetència dels nostres governants” i “lamentable la negació del diàleg per part del Govern de la Generalitat Valenciana”, així com l’ús de la violència contra els manifestants, especialment els estudiants d’institut.

Per tot plegat denuncia que les retallades “s’estan aplicant amb violència, per precaritzar l’educació pública i hipotecant el futur del nostre país” i exigeix l’aturada de la violència per part de la policia espanyola i la fi de les retallades i de l’EU2015 que hipotequen el futur del país.

El SEPC demana al conjunt de la comunitat educativa que s’adhereixin a la vaga general del 29 de febrer.
De la seva banda, Endavant OSAN ha exigit la dimissió de Paula Sánchez de León i d’Antonio Moreno, “per actuar sobre la ciutat de València com en una zona de guerra”. Així mateix, exigeix l’absolució sense càrrecs de totes les persones detingudes i convida tota la ciutadania a mobilitzar-se.

I la COS ha condemnat la repressió policial però ha lloat la resposta dels estudiants. Una afiliada del sindicat ha estat agredida per un policia espanyol a l’IES Lluís Vives. Segons informa la COS, la càrrega li ha provocat una síncope cardiaca i ha hagut de ser avacuada en ambulància.

La COS celebra que “comença l’autèntica primavera valenciana, l’autèntica primavera dels Països Catalans” i denuncia que “l’Estat, i el cap major dels torturadors, Jorge Fernandez Diez, ha tornat a usar València com a laboratori de proves repressives pel conjunt del nostre país”. Però “només estan aconseguint que tota la ràbia accumulada comence a brollar com l’aigua neta i bona dels brolladors de l’Albufera de València”, proclama.

Els professors del Vives denuncien el setge policial

L’assemblea del professorat de l’IES Lluís Vives de València també ha denunciat el setge contra els estudiants. Ha recordat que dimecres, a les proximitats de l’institut, es va produir “una violentíssima i desproporcionada” actuació policial contra un grup d’estudiants concentrat a fora per protestar contra les retallades en Educació. El resultat foren diversos alumnes ferits i contusionats, i fins i tot un detingut, lesionat, emmanillat i portat a la comissaria de Sapadors.

Dijous i divendres es van produir també “aquestes actuacions violentes, desproporcionades i fora de qualsevol lògica democràtica contra adolescents i menors, tractats com a delinqüents”.

Per tot plegat, els professors expressen la seva “més enèrgica repulsa a aquesta mena d’actuacions” i assegura que “s’emmarquen en els intents reiterats de les nostres autoritats per tal de desprestigiar l’ensenyament públic i criminalitzar-nos a tots els que estem compromesos com a professors, personal no docent, estudiants i famílies en la dignificació de l’educació pública”.

A més, anuncien que denunciaran formalment les actuacions i reclamaran responsabilitats penals i polítiques per als qui han promogut “aquest despropòsit”. També adverteixen que continuaran denunciant els atacs als serveis públics i “la criminalització que els governants intenten fer dels seus empleats per desprestigiar-los”.

Indignació política

El síndic de Compromís, Enric Morera, ha demanat que s’alliberin sense càrrecs tots els joves que es troben detinguts a la comissaria i que es retirin tots els expedients sancionadors oberts contra els estudiants de l’IES Lluís Vives de València. Morera considera que amb el PP “han arribat les retallades en democràcia, perquè la resposta del govern a les protestes estudiantils ha sigut desproporcionada i més pròpia d’un règim dictatorial que d’una societat democràtica, la qual cosa lamentem”.

De la seva banda, la coordinadora general d’Esquerra Unida al País Valencià (EUPV), Marga Sanz, ha demanat la dimissió de Paula Sànchez de León, a qui ha acusat de “saltar-se els principis democràtics i ha deixat el poder a mans de la policia”. Segons Sanz, “el que està passant a València és propi d’èpoques no democràtiques, que ens recorden massa el franquisme i les persecucions dels grisos a les revoltes estudiantils contra la dictadura”.

I quant al PSPV, simplement ha telefonat al president de la Generalitat Valenciana, Alberto Fabra, perquè cessi la violència contra els estudiants, segons ha informat el secretari general dels socialistes, Jorge Alarte, a través del Twitter.

On March 11 2011, at 2:46pm, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck Japan. The earthquake, followed by a colossal tsunami, devastated the nation, together killing over 10,000 people. The earthquake also triggered the start of a triple nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, run by Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco).

Of the three reactors that melted down, one was nearly 40 years old and should have been decommissioned two decades ago. The cooling pipes, “the veins and arteries of the old nuclear reactors”, which circulated fluid to keep the core temperature down, ruptured….

..Tepco has long been a scandal-ridden company, caught time and time again covering up data on safety lapses at their power plants, or doctoring film footage which showed fissures in pipes. How was the company able to get away with such long-standing behaviour?

According to an explosive book recently published in Japan, they owe it to what the author, Tomohiko Suzuki, calls “Japan’s nuclear mafia… A conglomeration of corrupt politicians and bureaucrats, the shady nuclear industry, their lobbyists…” And at the centre of it all stands Japan’s actual mafia: the yakuza…..

 For his book, The Yakuza and the Nuclear Industry, Suzuki went undercover at Fukushima to find first-hand evidence .

….The initial work, directly after a series of hydrogen explosions in March, was extremely dangerous. Radiation was reaching levels so high that the Japanese government raised the safety exposure levels and even ordered scientists to stop monitoring radiation levels in some areas of the plants

. Tepco sent out word to their contractors to gather as many people as possible and to offer substantial wages. Yakuza recruited from all over Japan; the initial workers were paid 50,000 yen (£407) per day, but one dispatch company offered 200,000 yen (£1,627) per day.Even then, recruits were hard to find. Officials in Fukushima reportedly told local businesses, “Bring us the living dead. People no one will miss.”

‘SAFETY’ LEVEL RAISED TO OVER 500 TIMES HIGHER

The labour crunch was eased somewhat when the Japanese government and Tepco raised the “safe” radiation exposure levels at the plant from pre-earthquake levels of 130-180cpm (radiation exposure per minute) to 100,000cpm…. OVER 500 TIMES HIGHER

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/japan-earthquake-and-tsunami-in/9084151/How-the-Yakuza-went-nuclear.html

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NO to disguised slave labour!

Tagged as: boycottworkfare cuts solidarity tescos ukuncut workers_struggles workfare
Neighbourhoods: westminster

Right to Work and unemployed activists and supporters occupied Westminster Tesco on Saturday. Police issued warning over trespass and refused to answer why they weren’t arresting Tesco bosses for breaching minimum wage legislation. Defiant protesters demanded that Tesco withdraw immediately from all government schemes that force slave labour on the disabled and unemployed chanting: Tesco bosses hear us say, we won’t work if you won’t pay. And ‘first they stole our ema, now they want to steal our pay’.

Tagged as: free_spaces occupylondon school_of_ideas squatting
Neighbourhoods: city old_street

this week, ‘occupy london’ activists opened up a new community squatted building in the city, near old street. it is a deserted primary school with loads of beautiful airy classrooms, a small gym, and some pleasant outdoor space. it has lain unused for three years and the owners are awaiting planning permission before demolishing. in the meantime, the hope is to put it to good use for the community. see photos and report and watch video of the new ‘school of ideas’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to the Spanish Slave State

Slave Britain

Arbeit Mach Frei, the Nazis proclaimed above their concentration camps. Well, in 21st century Britain we now have a government offering cheap or even completely free labour to employers using the most vulnerable people imagineable – prisoners, the unemployed, the physically disabled and the mentally ill. And the dying.

No, it is not a sick joke. Cameron and Clegg’s Britain has today seen three blows to what little civilised restraint remained among Coalition policymakers.

1. The “Justice” Secretary hosted a seminar for employers on his plans to create 10,000 new jobs in British prisons where employers of all shapes and sizes can boost companies’ profitability by in-sourcing their work to jails. Prisoners are exempted from the national minimum wage and have no employment rights. So, anything from call centres to finishing kitchen units will be carried out by prisoners earning less than £1 per hour.

2. Tescos in East Anglia had the audacity to advertise PERMANENT “jobs” paying out of work people – nothing! The jobs were advertised in partnership with the appropriately named “Monster” website. As part of a government workfare scheme, they will continue to get their unemployment benefit – Jobseekers’ Allowance – plus unquantified “expenses” in return for working all night. If they turn down the work, their benefits will be cut. Tescos made profits of £1,900,000,000 in the six months to October 2011.

3. And now, sneaking in behind the controversial Welfare Bill, the Government has briefed a range of charities that disabled people will be forced to work for free for charities, public bodies and high street retailers on open-ended work experience placements or face losing their disability benefits. This will include people who are terminally ill with cancer, but assessed as having more than six months left. 

 

From Void Network

Saturday 18 February 2012 WE ARE FIGHTING FOR OUR FUTURE! + article/global invitation:”Greece shows us how to protest against a failed system” by John Holloway

More than 300.000 people participated at the social revolt that took place in 12 February 2012 in Athens. Many thousands took the streets all over Greece… Thousands of students demonstrated all over Greece in 17 Feb. 2012. The social struggle against misery, inequality and exploitation continues, expands and becomes stronger and stronger. People from all cultural backgrounds come together in the neighbourhood assemblies, in the grass-roots unions, the social centers, the big demonstrations and the riots. People from all ages help each other in the streets to attack against police, against the parliament, against the economy and the inhuman austerity measures that the global and local economic elites imposes to the people of this world

We invite all our friends to participate all over the world in the demonstrations at Saturday 18 February 2012 for Greece, for ourselves, for all the possible reasons, for all the life of this planet! WE ARE FIGHTING FOR OUR FUTURE!

American consumers are unwittingly contributing to the destruction of endangered rainforests in Sumatra by purchasing certain brands of toilet paper, asserts a new report published by the environmental group WWF.

Wiping your ASS with the Rainforest ??The report, Don't Flush Tiger Forests: Toilet Paper, U.S. Supermarkets, and the Destruction of Indonesia's Last Tiger Habitats, takes aim at two tissue brands that source fiber from Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), a paper products giant long criticized by environmentalists and scientists for its forestry practices on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

The brands — Paseo and Livi — are among the fastest growing, in terms of sales, in the United States. Both brands are commonly marketed for hotels, restaurants, and public restrooms, according to the report.

APP has converted large tracts of Sumatran rainforest for wood-pulp plantations used to produce fiber for paper products. The forests serve as critical habitat for a range of endangered species and generate livelihood for rural communities.

“APP is rapidly expanding into the U.S. market with paper products linked to rain forest destruction, originating from areas that are the last home for critically endangered Sumatran tigers, elephants, and orangutans,” states the WWF report.

Wood is stacked up outside APP’s mill in Riau Province, Sumatra, one of the world’s largest pulp mills. Photo by Daniel Beltra / Greenpeace “The mill is in development by a plantation forest concession holder who currently supplies pulpwood to APP,” an APP representative told mongabay.com, refuting the RISI story.

WWF estimates that APP has destroyed nearly 5 million hectares of forest in Sumatra since it began operations in 1984. APP is still heavily dependent on sourcing fiber from natural forests, a consequence of “historically low investment in plantation development and a strong reliance on plantations located on peat soils and in areas with community conflict,” according to the report. ……

Can this be the end of Murdoch's reign of terror at the SUN ??Five senior Sun newspaper employees were arrested this morning over the scandal of payments to police for information. As part of the ongoing police investigation Operation Elveden, which began after the News of the World phone-hacking scandal saw the Murdoch Sunday paper close, a number of high profile journalists were arrested in a series of early morning raids, along with senior police officers and Ministry of Defence employees and a member of the armed forces.

All five were arrested on suspicion of corruption under the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906 – aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office and conspiracy accroding to a police statement, which adding ‘It relates to suspected payments to police officers and public officials’.

The arrests come two weeks after four former and current Sun journalists and a serving Metropolitan police officer were arrested over alleged illegal police payments.

Sean Hoare's death let Murdoch and Cameron off the hook in the NOTW hacking scandal

It’s understood the paper itself is in jeopardy and Murdoch attempted to distance himself further from his UK employees and operation with a statement: “News Corporation remains committed to ensuring that unacceptable news gathering practices by individuals in the past will not be repeated and last summer authorised the MSC to co-operate with the relevant authorities”.

The NUJ on the other hand are less than impressed with Murdoch’s stance stating: “Journalists are reeling at seeing five more of their colleagues thrown to the wolves in what many sense to be a witch-hunt. They are furious at what they see as a monumental betrayal on the part of News International.”

It is also understood the scandal so far has cost the company $200 million in legal fees and compensation pay outs to people who had their phone illegally hacked by Murdoch’s papers.

http://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/2012/02/11/the-sun-goes-down-on-murdoch/

 

FAVELA RISING documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united.

Watch online: http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/favela_rising

Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, Anderson Sá is a former drug-trafficker who turns social revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro’s most feared slum.

Download: http://fileserve.com/file/Dmz5acm/Favela.Rising.DVDRip.XviD-pedr1nho.avi

Through hip-hop music, the rhythms of the street, and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police.

Torrent: http://thepiratebay.se/search/favela%20rising/0/99/0

TRAILER  You Tube  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5_DnxeEkts

Subtitles:   Not found.
You might also like:Blowing Up Paradise (2005)The Shock Doctrine (2009)Many Straws Make A Nest (2010)Rachel Corrie: An American Conscience (2005)

See More HERE..(with thanks) http://fuckcopyright.blogspot.com/2012/02/favela-rising-2005.html

 

 
Global mobilization for May 2012
May 1: strike (in Latin America and the U.S.)
May 12: day global rally
May 15: Global Strike / day Transition
  info: Minutes of the meeting of the International via Mumble 28/01/2012
 

Suport a l’Espai Alliberat d’UB-Raval  
Email: espaialliberatubraval (nospam) gmail.com (verificat) 08 feb 2012
Modificat: 05:25:45
Des de les Facultats d’Universitat de Barcelona-Raval ens estem organitzant per alliberar un espai en desús de la nostra facultat.
Volem convertir-lo en un punt de trobada entre estudiants i gent del barri, on crear coneixement més enllà del marc acadèmic i sense cap tipus de mediació.
Tenim la intenció d’organitzar activitats des de tots els col·lectius d’estudiants i desenvolupar el pensament crític i col·lectiu. Un espai on crear alternatives econòmiques i autogestionades, trobades d’intercanvi i un banc d’apunts, exàmens i treballs. Volem un espai on desenvolupar-nos lliurement!
Si vols donar-nos un cop de mà, aquest és el material que necessitem:
- Estanteries- Taules- Cadires- Fotocopiadora- Suro d’anuncis- Maons, ciment i fusta- Endolls, cables d’energia- Pintures- Pintura de garatge, parquet, moqueta (pel terra)
I qualsevol cosa que creieu necessària!I difusió!
Pel tema de recollida, poseu-vos en contacte amb espaialliberatubraval (at) gmail.comEnglish transalation (google)   Support Freedom of Space UB-Raval  on
From the faculties of Barcelona University-Raval we are organizing to free unused space on our faculty.
 We make it a point of contact between students and local residents, which create knowledge beyond the academic framework and without any mediation.
We plan to organize activities from all groups of students and develop critical thinking and collective. A place where self and create economic alternatives, meetings and exchange of bank notes, exams and assignments. We want a space to develop ourselves freely!
If you can give us a hand, this is the material we need:- shelves- Tables- Chairs- Photocopying- Cork Ad- Bricks, cement and wood- Plugs, power cables- Paintings- Painting of garage flooring, carpet (by land)
And anything that you feel necessary! And spread!
 please contact espaialliberatubraval (at) gmail.com


CAPE TOWN, Jan 25, 2012 (IPS) – When a food crisis hits the continent, African countries tend to look to the international donor community to mobilise aid. But a fast-growing, drought- resistant tree with extremely nutritious leaves could help poor, arid nations to fight food insecurity and malnutrition on their own.

A 15-hectare plantation of the “miracle tree” with the botanical name Moringa oleifera has already started to make a positive change in the rural village of Tooseng, which is located in one of South Africa’s poorest provinces, Limpopo.

Moringa leaves are dubbed a “super food” because scientists found that they contain the calcium equivalent of four glasses of milk, the vitamin C content of seven oranges, the potassium of three bananas, three times the amount of iron found in spinach, four times the amount of vitamin A found in a carrot and twice the amount of protein in milk. It is like a supermarket on a tree……

Mavis Mathabatha, a former school teacher from Tooseng, has been working hard to set up a Moringa farm over the past three years that will produce enough leaves to make a positive difference in her community and further afield. “I want to make an impact in my area, province and across the country through this project,” she explains….

Today, Mathabatha’s farm produces and packages up to 10,000 tonnes a year of Moringa leaf powder, which is distributed not only within South Africa, but also exported to Botswana, Swaziland and Lesotho. “I am hoping to further extend my market in the next few years. There is a lot of interest in my product,” Mathabatha says….

Read full story HERE… with thanks!  http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106539

 

U.S.  Using Drones to Target Rescue Workers and Funerals in Pakistan

The CIA’s drone campaign targeting suspected militants in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to rescue victims or were attending funerals.

So concludes a new report by the London-based Bureau of Investigative

Syed Wali Shah Age7 Killed In CIA Pakistan Drone Attack

Journalism. It found that since President Obama took office three years ago, as many as 535 civilians have been killed, including more than 60 children. The investigation also revealed that at least 50 civilians were killed in follow-up strikes when they had gone to help victims. More than 20 civilians have also been attacked in deliberate strikes on funerals and mourners.

We speak to Chris Woods, award-winning reporter with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. “We noted that there were repeated reports at the time, contemporaneous reports in publications like New York Times, news agencies like Reuters, by CNN, that there were these strikes on rescuers, that there were reports that there had been an initial strike and then, some minutes later, as people had come forward to help and pull out the dead and injured, that drones had returned to the scene and had attacked rescuers,”

Woods says. “We’ve been able to name just over 50 civilians that we understand have been killed in those attacks. In total, we think that more than 75 civilians have been killed, specifically in these attacks on rescuers and on mourners, on funeral-goers.”

More info HERE   http://www.democracynow.org/2012/2/6/us_accused_of_using_drones_to

Asko hipokresía, asko kapitalismo, asko konsumismo, asko de de tí, asko de mí..

 Disgusting consumers Disgusting capitalism Disgusting hypocrisy
Disgusting you….Disgusting ME

A todas esas mentes borregas que son carne fácil del fascismo, que se han creído el cuento de que somos occidentales de una raza superior, apoyado en el falso Darwinismo económico y social más absurdo y se les llena la boca diciendo que los inmigrantes vienen a robarnos trabajos de mierda que cuando nos iba falsamente bien nadie quería, cuando estos vienen aquí huyendo de situaciones como la de la foto, que creamos nosotros como “occidentales”, con nuestros negocios neoliberales, con el mercado libre que ahoga el mercado interior en estos países, con nuestras guerras interesadas, nuestros golpes de estado encubiertos, por el petróleo, el gas, el coltan, los diamantes, el oro… que fomentamos el movimiento indiscriminado de millones de personas buscando refugio en otros países para acabar en campos de concentración…
Yo os digo ¡¡¡que os follen bien, borregos hijos de la gran puta!!!
Victor Cerdá
TODOS SOMOS KULPABLES!

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From The F Word- by Natalie DzerinsDisclaimer: This article will discuss my personal feelings about anti-capitalism, anarcho-communism and their relationships with feminism (and other systems of oppression). Because of this, I will not be discussing the histories of the movements. If you wish to learn about these, the origins section on the wiki-page for anarcha-feminism will point you in the right direction.When I was about seven years old, I asked my mother why everyone couldn’t just do what they were good at and share everything equally. This was my first foray into anti-capitalism, and my opinions haven’t changed much in the past fifteen years.It has always been very important to me to strive for social equality, and capitalism simply does not provide that. I could wax lyrical all day about the oppressive and unjust nature of the capitalist society, in which we are told that the only value of a human being lies in their ability to make profits for a CEO, but this is a feminist website, and I have a 700-word limit. So I will merely outline why I believe that capitalism is inherently anti-feminist and that the solution to smashing patriarchy will necessarily involve smashing capitalism.

It is in capitalism’s best interests to oppress women. The main reason for this is that by devaluing and denigrating 51% of the population as useless and inferior, it seems legitimate to pay them less, or to not pay them at all, for their work – no matter how good it may be for society. Childcare and housework are two prime examples of this. They are services essential to humankind, yet we expect women to a) be the sole or primary providers of these services and b) perform them for free as well as generating capital by holding down other jobs. This is what is known as the “double burden” on women. In a truly equal society, not only would these roles be seen as suitable for everyone, they would be seen as equally important to other work. As it stands, “Women work two-thirds of the world’s working hours, produce half of the world’s food, but earn only 10% of the world’s income and own less than one percent of the world’s property” (Global Poverty Project).

Another way in which capitalism exploits women is by creating problems for them to worry about, then offering to sell them a solution. This usually takes the form of making women feel disgusted about their own natural bodies, and convincing them they must change – see pantyliners, douches and pretty much the entire make-up industry. If we smashed capitalism, we’d smash the need for people to sell us things by making us ashamed of who we are.

There are many more examples of this, but once again, I am writing a blog post, not a doctorate. So – why do I believe that once we have smashed capitalism, anarchism is the solution?

Honestly, it’s mainly because I don’t believe in anything else. Any hierarchical system of government or community, be it feudalism, the current parliamentary system or party-led communism will necessarily contain inequality. The needs of the few who make the decisions will outweigh the needs of the many who have decisions made for them. We can see this with the current coalition, whose members have both simultaneously claimed £35,000 on a “second home” when their first home is literally down the street and demonised people with severe disabilities wanting to live normal lives as “scroungers”. Four legs good, two legs better indeed.

However, people in the anarchist movement have been brought up in the same prejudiced, patriarchal societies as the most rabid capitalist, and that has to be overcome. Whether it’s women’s needs not being taken care of in an anarchist environment, or silencing women in group discussions, manarchism seems to constantly rear its ugly head, and we need a feminist movement-within-the-movement to counter it, and that movement-within-the-movement is anarcha-feminism.

So, that’s a very short version of why I am an anarcha-feminist. I’m not claiming to be 100% right, or to speak for all anarcha-feminists(!), but this is what I believe we need to do to create a fair, just and equal society for all.

For more on anti-capitalist feminism in the current UK climate, this article is a very worthwhile read.

Comments From You

Saranga // Posted 24 January 2012 at 13:04

hear hear!

k gallagher // Posted 24 January 2012 at 13:43

Brava! It’s so good to see anarcha-feminism getting a voice in the “Big Feminist Blogosphere!”
http://anarcha.org/ is another great resource for information :)

tom hulley // Posted 24 January 2012 at 19:22

What a refreshing article, thanks Natalie.

From The F Word- by Natalie Dzerins

By dropev in English below
Nuestras familias tienen el dolor físico y psíquico anclado en la memoria: el aceite de ricino, las cabezas rapadas , los paseos denigrantes por los pueblos, los insultos, la discriminación por ser madre, padre, hijo, hija o mujer de un “rojo”, la miseria alimenticia, la expropiación de bienes personales, el llevar una comida o enseres a un padre en la cárcel y la respuesta... “
...the shot still alive a well, spraying gasoline, beaten with numerous fractures and then the "coup de grace", the belly of a woman burst expecting a baby, the outcasts of his people, the stolen children, building a new road passes over the mass grave without anyone ... prevent violation of graves and take bodies to Cuelgamuros. The absurdity of a country under the repression of a dictatorship......
Un amplio abanico de informaciones y fotografías llenan las páginas de los periódicos y los reportajes de muchas cadenas de televisión. El eco que llega a un público de gran audiencia es notable. Los testimonios aportados por los familiares de las víctimas del franquismo en defensa del Juez Garzón son relatos que ponen los pelos como escarpias  y sin ninguna duda ocurrirá hasta que  testifiquen  todos.

María Martín López, de Pedro Bernardo (Toledo), de sus 81 años, testificando ante los magistrados del Supremo. / … (EFE).Maria Martin Lopez, Pedro Bernardo (Toledo),  81 years, testifying before the judges of the Supreme. / … (Reuters)

La valentía y la firmeza de estos “memoriadores” es un gran ejemplo para todos los ciudadanos de este país amnésico. Muchos de nosotros empapados de esas micro biografías, que hacen parte de nuestra propia  historia individual como familiares de víctimas, las hemos contado y publicado en nuestros blogs o webs.

Fotográfias de desaparecidos portadas por un sipatizante de Garzón delante del TS foto SUSANA VERA (REUTERS)

En nuestras familias las palabras dolorosas asociadas a nuestros desaparecidos son similares a las que estos días suenan en los media. Muerto por hemorragia intestinal, por colapso  respiratorio,…, por arma de fuego…por traumatismo craneoencefálico, sin especificar cuál y quien es el causante, figuran en el acta de defunción ( cuando la hay) fechada a posteriori de los hechos, sin firmas legibles, sin autopsia, sin lugar de enterramiento o simplemente en un registro parroquial con una “D” delante del nombre de una persona.

Nuestras familias tienen el dolor físico y psíquico anclado en la memoria: el aceite de ricino, las cabezas rapadas , los paseos denigrantes por los pueblos, los insultos, la discriminación por ser madre, padre, hijo, hija o mujer de un “rojo”, la miseria alimenticia, la expropiación de bienes personales, el llevar una comida o enseres a un padre en la cárcel y la respuesta “ a este ya no le hace falta”, el “las manos atadas con un alambre”, el tirado aun vivo a un pozo, el rociado de gasolina, el apaleado con numerosas fracturas y luego el “tiro de gracia”, el vientre reventado de una mujer esperando un bebé, los desterrados de su pueblo, los hijos robados, la construcción de una nueva carretera que pasa por encima de la fosa común sin que nadie lo impida…violación de sepulturas y traslado de los cuerpos a Cuelgamuros.  El esperpento de un país bajo la represión de una dictadura.

Simpatizantes y partidarios del juez Baltasar Garzón esperan su llegada su llegada hoy al Tribunal Supremo, en donde continúa el juicio contra él por declararse competente para investigar los crímenes de franquismo.SERGIO BARRENECHEA / EFESimpatizantes y partidarios del juez Baltasar Garzón esperan su llegada su llegada hoy al Tribunal Supremo, en donde continúa el juicio contra él por declararse competente para investigar los crímenes de franquismo.SERGIO BARRENECHEA / EFE Photographs of missing realatives on a sympathiser of Garzon

La sala de audiencias del TS decorada de terciopelo y molduras doradas, con jueces que no arrugan sus togas y con las puñetas bien almidonadas, es como una fosa donde los cadáveres de las cunetas llenan el espacio hasta asfixiar los presentes al juicio. Los abogados de la acusación contra Garzón, ajenos a este dolor, ningunean a los testigos cortándoles la palabra, sacando a relucir el tan recurrido “Paracuellos del Jarama”.

Siendo la primera vez que delante altas instancias judiciales estos relatos son expuestos, y que definen claramente una violación de los Derechos Humanos, crímenes contra la Humanidad, no debemos olvidar, bajo ningún espejismo, que NO ASISTIMOS A UNA COMISIÓN DE LA VERDAD , QUE NO SE ESTÁ APLICANDO REPARACIÓN NI JUSTICIA. Solo son testigos llamados por la defensa del Juez Garzón.

Un simpatizante de Garzon porta la imagen de Wenceslao Romero de Castilla Lopez, asesinado en Mérida en Septiembre de 1936 .foto ARTURO RODRÍGUEZ (AP)  A supporter of Garzon bears the image of Wenceslao Lopez Romero de Castilla, killed in Merida in September 1936. Photo ARTURO RODRIGUEZ (AP)

Baltasar Garzón,  quien recibió a esos familiares, intentando darles el amparo judicial que les corresponde, promovió con su auto, de hace dos años sobre los crímenes de la dictadura, la difusión mediática de esos crímenes como nunca había ocurrido en nuestro país. Entonces y ahora el mundo entero escucha los relatos que se contaban en las cocinas de nuestras familias en voz baja “por si se enteran los vecinos”.

Puede que sea la última vez que la Justicia nos escuche.

En memoria de nuestros familiares desaparecidos, en agradecimiento al Juez Garzón, en reconocimiento al valor y la tenacidad de los testigos, (son  compañeros nuestros), en solidaridad con todos ellos, reclamando  VERDAD, JUSTICIA Y REPARACIÓN, un abrazo fraternal.

Pedro-Vicente Romero de Castilla Ramos, nieto de Wenceslao, desaparecido, y de Eustaquio represaliado.

Algo de la prensa de estos días:

Los nietos buscamos con la misma dignidad pero sin el miedo de nuestros padres

http://www.publico.es/especiales/memoriapublica/420017/los-nietos-buscamos-con-la-misma-dignidad-pero-sin-el-miedo-de-nuestros-padres

“Dijeron que le habían reventado la tripa a mi abuela embarazada”

http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2012/02/02/actualidad/1328180875_064552.html

ENGLISH GOOGLE TRANSALATION

Garzon’s trial and witnesses in his defense
by dropev
A wide range of information and photographs fill the pages of newspapers and the stories of many television networks. The echo that reaches a large public is remarkable. The testimony given by the families of the victims of Franco in defense of Judge Garzon are stories that make your hair like hooks and no doubt will happen until they testify all

The courage and firmness of these “memoriadores” is a great example for all citizens of this country amnesiac.

 Many of us steeped in these micro biographies, which are part of our own individual history as relatives of victims, we have had and posted on our blogs or websites.

In our families the painful words associated with our missing are similar to the sound these days in the media. Died from intestinal bleeding, by respiratory collapse, …, … gunshot head injury, without specifying what and who is responsible, are listed in the death certificate (if any) dated subsequent to the facts without legible signatures no autopsy, no burial or simply in a parish register with a “D” before the name of a person.

Our families have the physical and psychic pain rooted in memory: castor oil, shaved heads, walking through the villages demeaning, insulting, discriminatory treatment for mother, father, son, daughter or wife of a “red” , food poverty, expropriation of personal property, carrying a meal or appliances to a parent in prison and the answer “to this and does not need” the “hands tied with wire,” the shot still alive a well, spraying gasoline, beaten with numerous fractures and then the “coup de grace”, the belly of a woman burst expecting a baby, the outcasts of his people, the stolen children, building a new road passes over the mass grave without anyone … prevent violation of graves and take bodies to Cuelgamuros. The absurdity of a country under the repression of a dictatorship.

Sympathizers and supporters of Judge Baltasar Garzon arrival await your arrival to the Supreme Court today, where he continued the trial against him had jurisdiction to investigate crimes franquismo.SERGIO BARRENECHEA / EF
The TS courtroom decorated with velvet and gilding, with judges who do not wrinkle their robes and starched the heck it is like a pit where the bodies of the space-filling ditches to stifle the present trial. Lawyers for the prosecution against Garzon, oblivious to the pain, the witnesses ningunean cutting off the floor, bringing out the much used “Paracuellos Jarama.”

Being the first high courts before these stories are set, and defining a clear violation of human rights, crimes against humanity, we must not forget, under any illusion that NO COMMISSION TO ASSIST THE TRUTH, NOT REPAIR IS BEING OR JUSTICE. Only witness called by the defense of Judge Garzón.

Baltasar Garzon, who received these family members, trying to give them their proper legal aid, promoted his car two years ago about the crimes of the dictatorship, the media coverage of such crimes as never before in our country. Then and now the whole world listens to the stories that were told in the kitchens of our families in a low voice “for if they know the neighbors.”

It may be the last time we heard Justice.

In Memory of our missing relatives, in gratitude to Judge Garzon, in recognition of the courage and tenacity of the witnesses, (they are our companions) in solidarity with them, claiming TRUTH, JUSTICE AND REPAIR, a fraternal embrace.

Pedro Romero de Castilla-Vicente Ramos, grandson Wenceslas gone and Eustachian reprisals.

Some of the press these days:

The grandchildren look with equal dignity without fear of our parents

“They said they had busted the guts to my grandmother pregnant”

http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2012/02/02/actualidad/1328180875_064552.html

According to the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), “more than 4 million innocent New Yorkers were subjected to police stops and street interrogations from 2004 through 2011.” Predictably, “black and Latino communities continue to be the overwhelming target of these tactics. Nearly nine out of 10 stopped-and-frisked New Yorkers have been completely innocent, according to the NYPD’s own reports.”

“As we march up Third Ave.,” Jamel tells the group assembled beneath the cloudy skies to protest the practices, “your job is to recruit everyone you see. You’ve been drafted. You ain’t got no say-so.” Jamel is a photographer, digital media artist and educator, who has been instrumental in organizing many of the Stop Stop and Frisk rallies in black and Latino majority neighborhoods around New York. Rallying the troops to march, he tells the crowd that we are here so that “no more generations of our youth will continue to be brutalized because of the way that they look. We’re here to say, ‘No more of this shit.’”

Read full story HERE  http://wammtoday.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/occupy-

 

Wave of arrests among the NO TAV movement

(The ‘TAV’ here is a stupid, useless expensive high speed train that was set to destroy the unique Soussa valley till a mass uprising got in the way)

With charges such as violence, property damage and injuries to police officers, more than 40 activists of the NO TAV movement have been put under investigation: 25 are under arrest, while the remaining ones are under house arrest and similar banning orders. The operation started at dawn on January 26, saw more than 150 officers involved, and took place all over Italy (and even parts of France, where some local activists were prohibited to travel to Italy). The majority of arrests were made in Turin, but many other towns and cities were also targeted by the raids: Milan, Palermo, Rome, Padua, Genoa, and many more. The operation is specifically linked to the clashes that took place between NO TAV activists and police officers in the two big action days of summer 2011, June 27 and July 3.

Many of the arrestees are prominent activists, linked to various radical movements. In Milan the police arrested Paolo Ferrari, an ex-Red Brigade member who’d got out of prison in 2004 after a 30-year sentence, and who’d been recently linked to a local social centre. In Turin one of the historical founders of the social centre Askatasuna was also arrested, and many other social centres were raided. Guido Fissore, a retired Councillor famous in th

NO TAV: it's impossible to stop us!

e No TAV movement for going on hunger strike last summer as part of the protests, was arrested and his house searched. He’s now under house arrest and can only communicate with his close family.

Also arrested Tobia Imperato, employee of Piedmont’s Institute for the History of Resistance and author of the book Le scarpe dei suicidi (The suicidees’ shoes, PDF downloadable here), about 3 anarchists arrested in the 90′s in Turin accused of sabotage. Two of them, Edoardo Massari and Soledad Rosas, committed suicide while still in jail. Also under investigation are four editors of Radio Black Out, the most prominent radio in the world of political activism in Italy.

Please show solidarity with prisoners, the NO TAV website.

Sources: notav.info (the main NO TAV website), and other random articles.

Translated by Italy Calling   http://italycalling.wordpress.com
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