Is blogging a Pyramid Scheme??

maybe the blogosphere is a pyramid scheme

That’s what I first thought, when I first saw this info graphic on Logic and Emotion. Either that, or a big cheeleading squad, with Zeni from BoingBoing on top of the pyramid.

And then I read David Armano’s post. And his updated graphic and post. Geez, this guy is brilliant. The posts are advance peeks at a presentation he’s preparing for his fellow agency employees about blogging. F’ing lucky employees. Some great insight is shared here – both from David and his readers. Nice stuff. David – please share the entire presentation, after you’ve presented! posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:31 AM

a Spring diary..agenda de primavera

 

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

http://titanpad.com/MaydayPlanningGlobalMeeting28enero2012

Blog d’internacional: http://acampadabcninternacional.wordpress.com/

 

Occupy Movement grows despite cops and media

Cops and media FAIL to crush OWS

The Occupy Wall Street movement, despite the efforts of the mass media to belittle it and the efforts of brutal police officers to scare it away, is growing and growing fast. There are a lot of stories from the past few days that we haven’t been able to cover. Check these out:

1. Does Occupy Wall Street spell the end of the Tea Party?
2. Police shutting down Occupy Wall Street/ San Francisco
3. Occupy Wall Street’s first official release
4. Cops get violent vs Occupy Wall Street
5. The Climate Movement Stands with #OccupyWallSt, #OccupyingStateDept
6. Why we should all occupy Wall St.

Source: Planetsave (http://s.tt/13sk3)  WITH THANKS?

Military police crush Seeds of Change..video.

Police Crackdowns on Occupy Protests from Oakland to New York Herald the “New Military Urbanism”

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/11/16/police_crackdowns_on_occupy_protests_from
Wordpress doesnt let me embed ‘ great Democracy Now’ videos.. follow the link!

After a wave of raids across the country in which police in riot gear broke up Occupy Wall Street encampments and arrested protesters, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan acknowledged in an interview with the BBC that she participated in a conference call with officials from 18 cities about how to deal with the Occupy movement.

As police forces violently crack down on protests across the United States and Europe, we look at the increasing influence of military technology on domestic police forces. Stephen Graham is professor of Cities and Society at Newcastle University in the U.K. His book is “Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism.” “What the Occupy movement is so powerful at is demonstrating that by occupying public spaces around the world, and particularly these extremely symbolic public spaces, it’s reasserting that the city is the foundation space for democracy,” Graham says. [includes rush transcript]

Filed under Occupy Wall Street, Police brutality, U.S. Economy, Financial Meltdown, Police

• Ex-New York Times Freelancer Natasha Lennard on Quitting the Corporate Media in an Occupy Era
• As Occupy Enters Third Month, a Look at How Protesters Are Building a Global Movement
• Occupy Wall Street Protesters Return to Zuccotti Park After 200 Arrested, Camping Barred
• Occupy Oakland Encampment Raided for Second Time: Live Eyewitness Report
• Global Day of Rage: Hundreds of Thousands March Against Inequity, Big Banks, as Occupy Movement Grows
• FROM ‘DEMOCRACY NOW’  with thanks.. READ MORE HEREhttp://www.democracynow.org/2011/11/16/police_crackdowns_on_occupy_protests_from

Occupy Rome: stupid violence or the birth of a new anger?

by italycalling|

One week after the now (in)famous Roman 15th October that ended up on worldwide headlines as “the only protest of the Occupy movement that ended in violence and riots”, and here we all are reading and writing about it. At the end of the protests 70 people had been injured, and 12 arrested during the riots in Piazza San Giovanni. All of the arrestees are young and have no previous criminal record, like the ones arrested for the events of December 14 last year (all consequently released without charge). The following days several social centres and private houses were raided by the police (in search of black hooded sweaters, no doubt). Some MPs suggested the re-introduction of anti-terrorism laws that haven’t been used in Italy since the 70s. Rome’s Mayor banned any demonstration in central Rome for a whole month, excluding sit-ins (cos they look nice, I suppose, you know, it’s good for the tourists)…………

The media, politicians and pacifists, right and left, started howling merrily together for revenge and prison. In reality the violent resistance was localized , didn’t attack innocents, and was largely provoked by violent police .. (Comment by blogger)

….Some of the more “socially aware” articles were all about how the violent protesters “ruined the day”, stealing it from the peaceful protesters and turning it into their own battle with the police. A lot of the protesters have also been writing on their blogs and networks. Some were very scared and pissed off about getting caught up in a situation they didn’t want to be in; others were disappointed and critical of the behaviour of some of the protesters; some others were happy about the resistance in Piazza San Giovanni, and the birth of a new, angry generation….

….Most of the Italian public seems to think the Black Bloc is either made of a) random vandals, possibly neofascist; b) anarchists; c) police infiltrators (or a mix of the 3, pick your own flavour!). It does seem very plausible indeed, looking at pictures and videos, that a significant number of infiltrators were there. They are very easily recognisable, because even the most expensive intelligence training could never teach them how to dress like “proper” Black Bloc. I don’t find it surprising, and I really don’t understand why people still do…remember the piece I wrote for Cossiga’s death, remember that strategy?

Back to the same devastating debate that split the Genoa Social Forum and the movement after the G8: violence vs non-violence. There would be so much to say about this that I, or nobody else for that matter, couldn’t summarise in a blog’s article. If I may, I’d like to suggest the reading of this little illuminating book: “How non-violence protects the State” by Peter Gelderloos.

Here’s part of a comment from the  Wu Ming blog post

…”I’ve already written it here on other occasions. The catastrophe has already happened. And before being political and economic, it was cultural. Whoever holds things close to their ‘heart’ (ha!) must multiply spaces like this one – precious not just for the content, but especially for their methods, attitude, pedagogy (it sounds like a swear word). Places that invite confrontation, discussion, personal growth and sharing. And conflict, fuck. Even ours, especially ours. And not just on the web. Actually, conflicts are needed especially outside. They are too scarce still.

But things are moving. October 15 is in the past already. We need a new vocabulary – emotional and political. A new generation won’t be enough to take on the task. But we could be proud to be the ones who started it. Occupy everything. Take care.”

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE   (with thanks)  http://italycalling.wordpress.com/2011/10/23/occupy-rome-one-week-after/

Resistance takes root: Preparing for Capitalist Collapse

Resistance takes root in Barcelona

Hilary Wainwright explores the deepening organization of the Indignados movement

The Catalans have a phrase: ‘em planto’. It has a double meaning: ‘I plant’, or ‘I’ve had enough’. At end of the huge 15 October demonstration of Indignados (‘outraged’) in Barcelona – the papers put it at around 250,000 – we were  greeted with an impromptu garden under the Arc de Triomf, the end point of the march. Campaigners for food sovereignty had planted vegetables in well-spaced rows, ready for long term cultivation.

The point was partly an ecological one. But the surrounding placards indicated that the gardeners also intended it to make a symbolic point about the broader significance of the march. ‘Plantemos’ declared a large cardboard placard, meaning: ‘we plant ourselves’ – ‘we stand firm’. Mariel, who was dressed as a bee – essential to flourishing horticulture and now facing pesticidal destruction – explained that the activists who organised the garden were part of the agro-ecology bloc on the march. The march as a whole had several layers of self-organisation that became apparent at certain moments. There were three main focal themes – all issues on which active alliances had come together over recent months: education (yellow flags), health (green flags) and housing (red flags).

As we approached the Arc de Triomf, someone on a loud hailer announced that the different directions in which those following each of the themes should go, guided by an open lorry carrying the appropriate flag. The idea was that the demonstration would end not with speeches to the assembled masses, on the traditional model. Instead, the plan was to hold assemblies to discuss action and alternatives to cuts and privatisation.

News came through later in the evening that two of these assemblies had taken action, leading an occupation of a third hospital – two that were making redundancies had already been occupied the day before the demonstration. They had also squatted a large unoccupied building to turn it into housing for ten families. Evictions have become a focus of intense conflict in Barcelona as the numbers grow every day.

As well as clusters around themes, it was the regular neighbourhood assemblies, feeding into an occasional assembly of assemblies, that were the organism that gave the demonstration its impressive life.

The neighbourhood assemblies emerged in early summer this year, following the birth of the Indignados movement in the occupations of the squares of Spain and Greece. As the occupation of Barcelona’s Plaça de Catalunya reached its peak towards the end of May and the general assembly in the square began to plan its future, the locus of organised indignation spread to the neighbourhoods – sometimes reviving or connecting with pre-existing neighbourhood associations, sometimes building on quite dense social bonds. For example, the assembly from Sant Andreu, a predominantly working-class neighbourhood in the north of the city, marched for over an hour to reach the demonstration, proudly announcing their assembly on their yellow T-shirts.

Like many on the demonstration, they brought handmade placards. Some of their slogans were specific: ‘education is not for sale’, ‘for high quality education; against the cuts’. Others were more general: ‘nothing to lose; all to gain’, ‘the system is dead, the people are alive’. A lot of these homemade banners highlighted the exhaustion and corruption of the political system, one offering a reward: ’2,000 euro for an honest politician’. Abstentions could be high in November’s elections.

There is disillusionment too with trade unions. In the occupation of the square earlier this year, it was not only parties that were not wanted, but also the unions. They had been part of a social contract with the government that had let workers down, leading to a fall in wages and weak protection. Most significantly, they showed no concern – and often hostility – to the growing numbers of people, especially among the young, who had no chance of a long term job. Yesterday only the CNT (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo), the union founded by the anarchists and still less bureaucratised than other trade unions, dared show its face.

Interestingly, though, there are signs of workers recovering the confidence to organise in their workplaces as a direct result of the collective action taking place on the streets, and waking up the unions in the process.

Bea recently worked in a call centre. She remembers the fear that made her fellow workers timid and passive. She was impressed that after the occupations of the squares, the call centre workers went on strike over injustices they had previously suffered in silence. ‘It was as if the strength of the example of collective action on the square gave them the confidence, broke through the fear,’ she said.

Where this kind of awakening will lead is unclear. General goals are clearly expressed: real democracy based on popular assemblies in the neighbourhoods, reform of the electoral system for different levels of government, the right of referendums including on the European level, an end to cuts and privatisation of public services, banks and finance under public control, economic development based on co-operation, self-management and a social economy – the list is long and elaborate (see here, for example).

The important, distinguishing feature of this vision of change is that it is not centred on what governments should do. Rather it is a guide to action at many levels, starting with what the people can do collaboratively, through spaces they occupy, resources they reclaim, new sources of power they create. There is a self-consciousness that the creation of far-reaching alternatives will take time. In conversation, the slogans are put in context: ‘we’re going slowly, because we are going far’ is a common saying.

One thing is certain: the energy, creativity and will comes from outside the existing institutions. Bargaining, pressure, people and organisations that bridge the outside and the inside will no doubt be part of the process of change, but the established institutions have lost the initiative. There is no bravado about this. Among those I talked to on our way home from the Arc de Triomf and the improvised garden, there was anxiety as well as elation at the size and success of the demonstration. ‘I feel some people are looking for leaders,’ said Nuria, a translator and free culture activist. But in the many levels of organisation producing this impressive show not only of anger but of serious engagement in creating alternatives, it becomes clear that this is not a ‘leaderless’ movement. It is emerging, experimentally perhaps, as movement where leadership is shared and is learnt – a movement that can grow and flourish as well as stand firm.

Oscar Reyes says

October 16, 2011 at 10:10 pm

Hilary’s really captured the spirit of yesterday’s march well, but I think her post also goes some way to correcting a lot of the US/anglocentric/major financial centres bias written in round-ups of the global protests. Inspiring as the Wall Street protests are, it is not really accurate to claim (as the Guardian, New York Times and even activist sites like ZNet have it) that these were the spur to rallies that swept the globe.

An initial call was made several months ago: http://15o.democraciarealya.es/ and the most successful of these have been based on concerted organising, not simply the fact that (as Jon Stewart of the Daily Show recently put it, the media dial has turned from blackout to circus).

It’s easy to over-state the “new model of protest” line too (eg. http://www.redpepper.org.uk/birth-of-a-new-movement/ ). There are many novel elements in this, enabled by the internet as well as the re-organisation of global labour– as Paul Mason has pointed out a while ago
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2011/02/twenty_reasons_why_its_kicking.html
But in other ways it is all decidedly old-school: unemployment, job insecurity and the defence of a welfare state under threat from a massive austerity programme are spurring protests, coupled with a revolt against a banking system that’s totally out of control.

The Barcelona protest was one of the numerous protests in cities across the state of Spain, from 60,000 in Sevilla in the south to over 10,000 reported in Vigo in the north-west, and 500,000 in the capital Madrid. There are reports and videos (in Spanish) at
http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/estado-espanol-recopilacion-cronicas-videos-manifestaciones-15-o
and
http://madrid.tomalaplaza.net/2011/10/15/la-indignacion-sale-a-las-calles-de-todo-el-mundo-el-15-de-octubre/

The story of the three strands of the march that Hilary describes is also worth following. In Nou Barris, a working class suburb in the north of Barcelona, the march was followed by the occupation of an empty block of flats, with the aim of housing families that had faced home repossessions:
http://acampada9barris.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/okupat-un-bloc-de-pisos-buits-a-nou-barris/

A 6,000-strong march continued to the Hospital del Mar, in support of a revolt against health cuts that had already seen the occupation of two hospitals on the night before the main demonstration. The symbolic end point saw a huge die-in, with activists playing dead to symbolise “the deaths of many citizens” as a result of savage health sector cuts.
http://www.setmanaridirecta.info/noticia/la-columna-de-sanitat-la-mes-concorreguda-de-totes

Thousands more formed an education block that met up with an occupation at the Geography and History Faculties of the University of Barcelona, located close to the centre of the city. Once there, convened an assembly to discussed the demands of the recently formed Platform for a Public University (Plataforma Unitària per la Universitat Pública), which has called for a strike on 17 November.
http://www.setmanaridirecta.info/noticia/2000-persones-una-assemblea-la-facultat-del-raval-reocupada-la-columna-vermella

Lesley Wood says:

October 17, 2011 at 8:27 am

Terrific article! Thanks for filling in the gaps. I was there, but the crowd was way too big to get a sense of what was going on!

Oscar says:

October 17, 2011 at 11:31 am

Also worth checking out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq2Wm6GyEr4&feature=youtu.be

Brid Brennan says:

October 18, 2011 at 11:28 am

really insightful article….makes great sense to those who weren’t there…this huge demo…and all the rivers of resistances it symbolises…is trully inspiring …it looks like the ‘indignados’ movement is here to stay and hopefully irreversible.

NOTE . This blogger is preparing a series of cool posts,  on Squat Centers,  Free Universities,  Circus Squats, Anarchist roots, Food and consumption  CoOps,  Mutual Aid Networks, Alternative Banking, etc.  in the Catalunya area.. watch this space for updates….

World demo news: 350,000+ Occupy Barcelona..

15 O..one of many actions in Barcelona

There was no trouble because the police kept away, though I saw dozens of banks and the stock exchange being

heavily ‘redecorated’. The mainstream paper ‘El Periodico’ estimated 350,ooo participants, an enormous turnout

of every imaginable sector in festival mood and yelling anti Capitalist slogans.

Dozens of other Iberian cities were equally swamped with demonstrators. In Madrid a large empty hotel was occupied to accomodate families evicted for failing to pay impossible mortgages .

El grupo de indignados que ha ocupado esta madrugada el hotel Madrid, en la calle Carretas, tiene intención de “resistir pacíficamente” en el edificio y “cederlo” a la Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca.

Participant numbers. Cifras de asistencia en diferentes ciudades, según van contando las agencias: en Vigo, 10.000 manifestantes; Barcelona: 400.000 según la organización (la Guardia Urbana los cifra en 60.000); Alicante: 10.000; Elche: 2.000; Baleares, 5.000; Vitoria, 3.000.

11.56

Las protestas han comenzado ya en Asia y Oceanía. Seúl, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Manila, Melbourne, Sydney y Auckland ya han tenido sus concentraciones de protesta. El simpatizante de Annonymous de la foto es uno de los manifestantes que han salido a la calle en Sydney

ROME 17.02… 70 injured, 3 seriously as the street battle between Occupiers and fascist police develops in Rome

La Policía italiana emplea cañones de agua contra los agitadores de Roma. Lanzaron piedras y petardos a los agentes, convirtiendo en batalla campal lo que era una marcha pacífica y multititudinaria.

En Bruselas, 6.000 manifestantes han arrojado zapatos contra la fachada del edificio de la Bolsa. Los activistas han gritado en castellano «¡culpable!»

Berlin En Alemania ha habido manifestaciones en diferentes ciudades. Las más concurridas han tenido lugar en Berlín y Francfort. En la capital, un grupo de activistas ha intentado sin éxito adentrarse en el Bundestag, el Parlamento alemán. La foto es de AP.

New YorkUnas 2.000 personas del movimiento Ocupa Wall Street han marchado este sábado por el distrito financiero de Neuva York secundando la convocatoria global de protesta de este 15 de

15 Oct Rome. A more typical image than the burning cars.

octubre. Esta es la primera gran marcha del día, que culminará con una concentración en Times Square.

….Al menos 71 arrestados y cerca de 5.000 personas han secundado este sábado en Nueva York la manifestación celebrada en el marco de las marchas a nivel global con motivo del día 15-O que se han extendido a más de 80 países, según ha confirmado el Departamento de la Policía neoyorquina.

London La Policía Metropolitana que hay un solo detenido en las protestas de Londres, informa The Guardian. AHy discrepancias sobre las cifras de participación, la Policía habla de unos mil asistentes y la BBC estima que hay entre 3.000 y 4.ooo manifestantes. La protesta está dividida entre la «zona cero» de la jornada, en torno al edificio de la Bolsa, con quienes logran pasar el cordón policial, y varios cientos que se han quedado fuera, más diluidos, y no siempre bien recibidos por los residentes del barrio

 

15 Oct. How to Occupy. Download your Guide here..

Occupy! Your guide to the international Occupation Movement

October 13, 2011  (Peoples’ Assemblies) (#OccupyTogether, #OccupyWallSt, #OCCUPYWALLSTREET)

An occupation guide out of Santa Cruz and Baltimore that provides an introduction to consensus decision-making, know your rights info, and contextualizes US occupation in the context of recent international uprisings.

The ultra-rich have us by the throats and they’ve had us by the throats for a long, long time.

While the rest of us suffer through a worldwide economic crisis, the people at the top are just getting richer. In a 2011 study, the richest 20% of the country had 85% of the privately held wealth. For the rest of us, nothing’s getting better: the state is closing schools and libraries, rolling back social services, shutting down bus lines and state parks.

But an international movement has sprung up to challenge the foundations of our global system of corporatism and greed. It’s a protest movement qualitatively different from any that has come before, a uniquely 21st century form. It’s a movement without party politics. It’s a movement inspired by the advances of communication that have allowed us to function without authority, allowing every voice to at last be weighed truly as equal. It’s a movement that doesn’t bring a list of demands to the powers that be but instead suggests that we can build a different society.

The wealth that it takes to get us out of this mess is right in front of us—we know because we are the ones who created it. We designed and built the cities. We # y the planes, crunch the numbers, grow the food, write the software, and do everything it takes to keep this society running. All the wealthiest do is sit there and watch their money make more money.

The wealth is right in front of us and yet they tell us there isn’t enough to feed us, to educate us. They’re lying. Maybe they’re lying to themselves, maybe they’re lying to us—it doesn’t matter. They don’t matter. We don’t need them.

We are the 99% and we are more powerful than they’ll ever be.

http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2011/10/12/occupy-imposed.pdf

15 Oct 2011. One step for millions of Occupiers.

In my opinion, it is very likely that the historians of the future will look upon tomorrow as the day a truly global anti-capitalist movement was born. Following the example of Occupy Wall Street, Los Angeles, Boston, and hundreds of US towns and cities, a huge number of small and large occupations will begin on every continent except Antarctica (see Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America).

All proclaim their opposition to the capitalist status quo – with its obscene riches at one pole and sickening poverty at the other. All of this has been organised online, completely outside the clutches of the decaying trade union bureaucracies, for whom ‘international solidarity’ is just some words they used to say a few decades back. The old organisations of timid protest seek influence on the margins, but they are ignored and seen to be as irrelevant as they actually are. It is highly appropriate that this moment has been crowned by the apparently successful resisting of the attempt by New York’s mayor and second richest man to retake Liberty Park. There is a sense that the powers that be are losing control by the hour, if not the second if you follow it all on Twitter.

If you are can't occupy from tomorrow, you can follow the action on the #occupy Twitter hashtag, your local Indymedia site, and maybe even your local corporate media, if you've got the stomach for it.

Read much MORE http://infantile-disorder.blogspot.com/2011/10/15th-october-2011-birth-of-global-anti.html
 





Scuffles, arrests overnight at Occupy Wall Street
Although a massive march and rally in Lower Manhattan by Occupy Wall Streeters and their union supporters went off without a hitch Wednesday afternoon, the scene turned ugly again overnight when some protesters rushed police barricades where they were met with nightsticks, pepper spray and handcuffs.

Occupy Movement gives US Rulers the shits

” New York Times, finance columnist Andrew Sorkin revealed some of the fear now churning the guts of the ruling class:

“Is this Occupy Wall Street thing a big deal?” the C.E.O. asked me. I didn’t have an answer. “We’re trying to figure out how much we should be worried about all of this,” he continued, clearly concerned. “Is this going to turn into a personal safety problem?”

The ‘Occupy’ movement is exciting, but it must reach out to the wider working class if it is to have any lasting effect on the political landscape. Beyond the occupations of town centres and squares, working people must fight for control of their own workplaces, neighbourhoods, and communities. Only then can “the 99%” dictate terms to those who have run roughshod over their basic needs for so long.

. As sections of the union bureaucracy, plus fellow reactionaries such as former World Bank Vice President Joseph Stiglitz and multi-billionaire financier George Soros voice their ‘support’ for the demonstrations, they do so with the intention of making them safe for capitalism.”

But they wont find it so easy.. In Europe every splinter party under the sun tried to  hijack the movement without much success so far, partly due to the direct democracy ‘Assemblies’, and because the young demonstrators are not at all stupid.

read more HERE  http://infantile-disorder.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-movement-scares-us-ruling-class.html

Here’s my ‘Wish List’ for the 15th October World Movement

Destroying the Banks in favour of a phased in Money-Free system.  Banning Hierarchical, sexist and homophobic organizations.  A minimum world wage, or free rations of basic goods. Abolishing armies and war. Community Co-operatives instead of companies. Phasing out of the Oil Economy in favour of renewables and NH3 fuel.  Banning GMO’s.  Collectivising excess private property.  Abolition of the Prisons and police system…. 

El 15 de Octubre del 2011 va a ser una fecha inolvidable para la raza humana. Este sera el primer encuentro UNIVERSAL de ciudadanos por un mundo mejor.
NO es un tema de ideas políticas, religión o filosofía.
El asunto es sobre cuanto nos importa nuestro futuro y el futuro de la Tierra

Read more HERE  http://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/oct-15-world-strike-vs-capitalism-part-1/

 

 

Oct 15: World Strike vs. Capitalism (part 1)

Oct 15th will be 6 months since the ‘Take The Streets’ movement took off in Spain and is still spreading like wildfire around the world. For the first time we can start talking about a worldwide movement without controlling Parties, leaders and authoritarian manipulation. We’re all equally important and deserving to not be mistreated and exploited. The movement is inspired by the obvious lunacy of the Capitalist system, the catastrophic destruction of the biosphere and runaway Climate change, and maybe also by the rise of the Internet, which by its nature pushes horizontal not hierarchical society….

IMAGINE there’s no money.. It isn’t hard to do..

We need a new system. This one measures ‘Progress’ by how fast we can destroy the planet! 

October 15th 2011 is a key date in the collective search for a new system. For the first time really on a global level. And may be the precursor to greater actions.

When the Capitalist money system collapses all kinds of unthinkable options may become possible.

Oct 15th 500 demos worldwide

It’s about time  people began preparing for the inevitable,  instead of desperately trying to keep the Juggle Balls of Capital in the air.

Imagine there’s no Prison.. and no policemen too..

Here’s one ‘thing to do’ list..Destroying the Banks in favour of a phased in Money-Free system.  Banning Hierarchical, sexist and homophobic organizations.  A minimum world wage, or free rations of basic goods. Abolishing armies and war. Community Co-operatives instead of companies. Phasing out of the Oil Economy in favour of renewables and NH3 fuel.  Banning GMO’s.  Collectivising excess private property.  Abolition of the Prisons and police system…. 

El 15 de Octubre del 2011 va a ser una fecha inolvidable para la raza humana. Este sera el primer encuentro UNIVERSAL de ciudadanos por un mundo mejor.
NO es un tema de ideas políticas, religión o filosofía.
El asunto es sobre cuanto nos importa nuestro futuro y el futuro de la Tierra

 

Protesters plan to occupy London Stock Exchange

A group of protesters are organising an occupation of the London Stock Exchange to bring attention to what they see as unethical behaviour on the part of banks, following a similar demonstration on Wall Street.

In a Facebook group called Occupy the London Stock Exchange organisers call on crowds to march on the exchange’s headquarters at Paternoster Square and fortify it with tents and barricades “for a few months”.

“Beginning on October 15, we want to see at least over 20,000 people flood in, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy the London Stock Exchange for a few months. Once there, we shall incessantly repeat one simple demand in a plurality of voices,” reads the description of the protest on Facebook.

According to the group the protest will begin on Saturday October 15 and run until 11am on December 12.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?31468-Occupy-London-Stock-Exchange-October-15th

See details of 306 demonstrations worldwide on Oct 15th 2011

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OccupyWallSt: Cops arrest 700 / Big Unions joining in

700 arrested marching over Brooklyn Bridge

More than 700 people from the Occupy Wall Street protest movement have been briefly arrested for marchimng on New York’s City’s Brooklyn Bridge, police say.

They were part of a larger group crossing the bridge from Manhattan, where they have been camped out near Wall Street for two weeks.

“We are unions, students, teachers, veterans, first responders, families, the unemployed and underemployed. We are all races, sexes and creeds. We are the majority. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants.” read more at Occupy Wall Street website and occupytogether.org.

NYPD Mass Arrests of Occupy Wall Street Protesters

UPDATE, 6:07 pm Kristen reports via text: ”Now it’s raining. There are still hundreds of us, people are putting backpacks on their fronts, so cops don’t take them when we’re arrested.”

She says that rumors in the crowd include the suggestion that the Lawyers Guild is working on bail money for the arrested protesters and negotiations with the cops. She says, “a friend told me there’s a rumor this is over. It’s not over.”

As for morale? The remaining protesters are huddled together under umbrellas singing “this little light of mine.”

A Massive Union Just Voted To Side With Protesters

According to Daily Kos, The New York Transit Workers Union (TWU) voted to support the Wall Street Protestors at their meeting last night. A member of TWU Local 100 told a reporter that they would join the protest Friday at 4PM.

Here’s more about them from their website: The TWU has four main divisions: Railroad; Gaming; Airline; Transit; and Utility, University and Service. The Union has 114 autonomous locals representing over 200,000 members and retirees in 22 states around the country.

Occupy Wall Street has been picking up some decent support from unions in the past few days. Yesterday we reported that the Teamsters Union declared their support for protestors, and we also found out that the United Pilots Union had members at the protest demonstrating in uniform.

Today we learned the Industrial Workers of the World put a message of support on their website as well.

UPDATE: Verizon union workers have joined the protestors in NYC.

http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20111001135826694

Click here to see the protestor’s list of demands >

 

Occupy Wall St: 1000s defy brutal police

Several thousand anti-Wall Street protesters marched through downtown Manhattan on Friday night to protest against incidents of police brutality at a previous demonstration.

The group was part of the Occupy Wall Street movement which has camped for almost two weeks in a New York square to protest against the finance industry, among other grievances.

The group had attempted a march last weekend which ended in scores of arrests. Numerous incidents of police roughing up protesters were caught on film including one senior officer spraying mace at several female demonstrators being kept behind a police barrier.

Video of that attack went viral on the internet prompted mainstream media – which had mostly ignored the protests – to give them sympathetic attention. Computer hackers also released the name and address of the officer caught on film. Since then the occupation has garnered many new supporters and global press attention.

It has attracted celebrity visits from liberal figures such as filmmaker Michael Moore and actor Susan Sarandon. On Friday an apparently false rumour that the band Radiohead were to play an impromptu gig at the square caused a temporary Twitter storm.

But Friday night’s march was aimed at highlighting the police violence at the previous protest. A long line of placard-carrying demonstrators wound the short distance from Zuccotti Park where the protesters are camped near Wall Street to Police Plaza, where the New York Police Department has its headquarters.

The march was led by a group of elderly grandmothers wearing yellows bibs emblazoned with the words: “Grannies for peace”. That seemed to symbolise the protest’s good-natured mood which appeared to be matched by the police’s willingness to give the group the freedom to demonstrate.

Michele Moore, a former bank worker from Georgia, said she had been on the previous week’s march that had ended in violence. “The videos of those events were completely accurate,” she said. But she added that Friday’s protest had felt completely different. “Everything I saw today was peaceful and positive. It was delightful,” Moore said.

The protest was filled with the usual mix of Occupy Wall Street supporters. But there was also a smattering of people wearing T-shirts with trade union logos as well as ordinary working New Yorkers

Policia attack 1000k marcha in Paris

(English) The Take the Streets march from Spain to Brussels was viciously attacked by hysterical police in Paris when they held an Assembly with local activists in front of the Paris Stock Exchange. There were more than 50 arrests (finally released) and serious injuries. Despite all they camped in front of the Exchange and continued the long march.

…………….A les 18:30 hores les indignades i indignats van seure costat de l’edifici de France Press, davant de la Borsa de París, i sense deixar-se intimidar pel dispositiu policial que els envoltava, van començar l’assemblea que s’ha retransmès íntegrament per internet via streaming. Segons aquesta avançava, van anar arribant cada vegada més ciutadans, al mateix temps que s’anava formant un cordó policial. Davant l’arrest d’un d’ells per identificar (el motiu esgrimit per l’agent: “és una manifestació il·legal”), un grup de indignats va resistir pacíficament demanant la posada en llibertat del company. Els gendarmes van acabar detenint a un grup de més de 50 persones, que han anat sent alliberats al llarg de la nit. No obstant això, a les 2:30 hores encara es trobaven detingudes 11 persones. Finalment, els altres integrants de la Marxa van poder acampar davant de la Borsa de París……………

Read More…..here

Take The Streets: victories in Spain

MALAGA, Spain, Sep 23, 2011 (IPS) – “I want to thank the 15-M. I will not forget them,” Algerian immigrant Sid Hamed Bouziane, whose deportation order was revoked after a group of activists from this burgeoning Spanish protest movement held an 11-day demonstration on his behalf, told IPS

The 15-M held protests to demand that the deportation be halted, and that the CIEs be closed “because they violate the most fundamental rights of human beings,” according to the members of the movement, who call themselves the “indignados” or “indignant” or “angry” ones.

“Managing to stop Bouziane’s sentencing to death was a success for our movement. No human being is illegal,” said Cosín. He also noted that the government cancelled the deportation order in August after the Algerian activist married his Spanish girlfriend, Candela Mayorgas, thus gaining the right to stay in Spain.

Four months after the original May 15 sit-in protest stretched into a full-fledged tent camp at Madrid’s Puerta del Sol square, giving rise to a growing wave of massive rallies and protests around Spain, the “Spanish revolution” – as it has been dubbed by the press – has been making bigger and bigger waves.

The movement has so far blocked more than 65 evictions, although an average of 175 evictions a day were carried out in Spain in the first quarter of 2011 as a result of the real estate bust. Due to the economic crisis, thousands of people have failed to keep up on their mortgage payments and have been forced out of their homes under a law “that shamefully protects banks and leaves citizens completely defenceless.

The 15-M set up camps outside the health centres, where they demonstrated alongside health professionals, neighbourhood associations and health consumers.

On Sunday Sep. 18, the “indignados” poured onto the streets of Spain’s largest cities to protest the reduction of budgets for public services, demanding the right to health care and quality education.

Chanting slogans like “divert military spending to schools and hospitals” and “less corruption, more education”, hundreds of people responded to the 15-M’s calls to march through the streets of Málaga behind a huge banner reading “free quality public health care and education for all”.

In Catalonia, hundreds of health clinics and wings of hospitals have been closed; in Castilla-La Mancha in central Spain hundreds of pharmacies went on strike to protest the non-payment of bills by the government health authority; and in Madrid, teachers protested cuts in education, a 15-M statement says.

Read More HERE     http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105217

 

Day 4..Wall St. Camp grows despite Repression

Stop Capitalist Criminals plundering the Planet

#OCCUPYWALLSTREET started last Saturday, when 5,000 people descended on to the financial district of Lower Manhattan,
 held a people’s assembly and set up an encampment in Zuccotti Park on Liberty Street, a stone’s throw from Wall Street
and a block from the Federal Reserve Bank of NewThree hundred spent the night, several hundred reinforcements arrived the next day and dug in for a
long-term stay. Call in sick, invite your friends, hop on a bus or plane to New York City … join us! We’re now in DAY 4.

Day 4: At least five arrested, one may be in critical condition

Published 2011-09-20 05:01:04 UTC by OccupyWallSt

Early this morning at least five protesters were arrested by NYPD.

The first arrest was a protester who objected to the police removing a tarp that was protecting our media equipment from the rain. The police said that the tarp constituted a tent, in spite of it not being a habitat in any way. Police continued pressuring protesters with extralegal tactics, saying that a protester on a bullhorn was breaking a law. The protester refused to cease exercising his first amendment rights and was also arrested. Then the police began to indiscriminately attempt to arrest protesters, many of them unsheathed their batons, in spite of the fact that the protest remained peaceful.

The new residents of Liberty Square continued to serve as shining examples of law abiding behavior in spite of police harassment and the loose interpretation and selective enforcement of New York’s laws by the NYPD.

Third Communiqué: A Message From Occupied Wall Street

Published 2011-09-20 12:50:30 UTC by OccupyWallSt

We’re still here. We intend to stay until we see movements toward real change in our country and the world. This is the third communiqué from the 99 percent.

Today, we occupied Wall Street from the heart of the Financial District. Starting at 8:00 AM, we began a march through the Wall Street area, rolling through the blocks around the New York Stock Exchange. At 9:30 AM, we rang our own “morning bell” to start a “people’s exchange,” which we brought back to Liberty Plaza. Two more marches occurred during the day around the Wall Street district, each drawing more supporters to us.

Hundreds of us have been occupying One Liberty Plaza, a park in the heart of the Wall Street district, since Saturday afternoon. We have marched on the Financial District, held a candlelight vigil to honor the fallen victims of Wall Street, and filled the plaza with song, dance, and spontaneous acts of liberation.

Food has been donated to the plaza from supporters all over the world. Online donations for pizza, falafels, and other food are coming in from supporters in Omaha, Madrid, Montreal, and other cities, and have exceeded $8,660 [admin: now $10,000]. (Link to donate: www.wepay.com/donate/99275)

On Saturday we held a general assembly, two thousand strong, based on a consensus-driven decision-making process. Decisions were made for the group to occupy Liberty Plaza in the Wall Street corridor, bedding down in sleeping bags and donated blankets. By 8:00 PM on Monday we still held the plaza, despite constant police presence.

https://occupywallst.org/

twitter #OccupyWallStreet ..NOW

twitter #OccupyWallStreet ..NOW

Occupy Wall Street’ protest

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Live updates

• 4:42PM GMT Sep 17, 2011

@ows0917

More and more people keep showing up around the bull. #occupywallstreet http://t.co/JfAgrvsJ

• 4:36PM GMT Sep 17, 2011

@lacymacauley

“We the people, not we the banks!” #OCCUPYWALLSTREET http://t.co/pWCaN2cG

Protesters prepare to ‘Occupy Wall Street’; Reports of police barricades near NY Stock Exchange, bull. Photos:

• 4:21PM GMT Sep 17, 2011

@Korgasm_

“This is what democracy looks like.” #takewallstreet #occupywallstreet #sep17 http://t.co/OIP1lFeL

• 4:14PM GMT Sep 17, 2011

@julpepitone

wall street bull protected by barricades and police. #occupywallstreet protesters parading around it http://t.co/6ercmypz

• 4:10PM GMT Sep 17, 2011

@amaeryllis

NYPD checking IDs to get within 2 blocks of the NYSE on Wall. http://t.co/xaZpkjJp

• 4:07PM GMT Sep 17, 2011

@julpepitone

entrance 2 new york stock exchange blocked off. nypd officer confirmed to me its bc of planned demonstration” http://t.co/oh6w7MAw

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• 3:56PM GMT Sep 17, 2011

Protesters prepare to ‘occupy’ Wall Street – @NY1headlines

race for ‘New Earth ‘ planet..Nasa to win 23 Sept?

The race is on to announce the discovery of the first rocky Earth sized planet with water in the habitable zone of a nearby star… NEW EARTH ONE.

'New Earth One' discovery imminent. the first rocky Earth sized planet with water to be found in the habitable zone of a nearby star.

13th Sept  European Astronomers believe they have found a second planet outside our solar system that seems to be in the right zone for life, just barely., among 50mnew plant discoveries a

nnounced Monday, but it’s about 3.6 times the mass of Earth, temperatures there may range from 85 to 120 degrees with plenty of humidity, 35 light years away an

d may not have water .

We are living through an ast

onishing rush of new discoveries of planets in deep space.

Dozens of teams around the world are  competing frantically to  find such planets.

On 23rd Sept  up to 1000 new planets may be announced by Nasa’s Kepler project which includes the orbiting detector, ground telescopes and supercomputers and focuses just on 1/400th part of the sky

Only in the last year have humans been able to detect Earth size planets, combining supercomputing, the latest techniques and space based observatories.

2011 Feb 2: Kepler-11 is a small, cool star around which six planets orbit

Only in the last months has it been proven that Earth sized planets are relatively common, so statistically there must be MILLIONS of th

em in the Universe

The latest batch of data from Kepler will be publicly released on Sept 23rd. Dozens of scientific teams are working flat out on the mass of new data already out.

Just 3 months ago an amazing new technique called BLENDER has come on line  The blend of the foreground target star and the background eclipsing binary using the NASA supercomputer, Pleiades, to make more than 10¹⁵ (a 1 followed be 15 zeros or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000) or a quadrillion calculations to test a transiting planet.

Only last February the first roc

ky planet near Earth size was discovered. But it turned out to be an inferno.

Now there are 1000s of new candidates being discovered in just Kepler’s small field of vision, plus new planets being found by dozens of other discovery centers around the world, and huge new precision instruments being built.

Very soon the quest will not be  for NEW EARTH  ONE, but  for which of many such planets really harbours life.

There are various interactive sites where you can follow the story. For the Kepler project  Nasa is  the best.. see HERE

 

http://kepler.nasa.gov/

 

New Earth One.. discovery maybe on 23rd Sept

We are living through an astonishing rush of new discoveries of planets in deep space.

2011 Feb 2: Kepler-11 is a small, cool star around which six planets orbit

The race is on to announce the discovery of the first rocky Earth sized planet with water in the habitable zone of a nearby star… NEW EARTH ONE.

The Kepler orbiting detector data, to be released on 23rd Sept could include up to 1000 new planets.

Only in the last year have humans been able to detect Earth size planets, combining supercomputing, the latest techniques and space based observatories.

Only in the last months has it been proven that Earth sized planets are relatively common, so statistically there must be MILLIONS of them in the Universe

The latest batch of data from Kepler will be publicly released on Sept 23rd. Dozens of scientific teams are working flat out on the mass of new data already out.

Just 3 months ago an amazing new technique called BLENDER has come on line  The blend of the foreground target star and the background eclipsing binary using the NASA supercomputer, Pleiades, to make more than 10¹⁵ (a 1 followed be 15 zeros or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000) or a quadrillion calculations to test a transiting planet.

Only last February the first rocky planet near Earth size was discovered. But it turned out to be an inferno.

Now there are 1000s of new candidates being discovered in just Kepler’s small field of vision, plus new planets being found by dozens of other discovery centers around the world, and huge new precision instruments being built.

Very soon the quest will not be  for NEW EARTH  ONE, but  for which of many such planets really harbours life.

There are various interactive sites where you can follow the story. For the Kepler project  Nasa is  the best.. see HERE

http://kepler.nasa.gov/

 

Day of Rage. Sat 17th #OCCUPYWALLSTREET

 

US Day of Rage’s Tactical Plan for Sept 17th

Published 2011-09-09 01:41:36 UTC by OccupyWallSt

US Day of Rage, a group participating in the September 17th occupation of wall street, has just released a tactical plan and “HowTo” for holding a legal and nonviolent demonstration in New York City. Their plan clarifies many legal concerns that have been raised and offers a viable strategy for holding a prolonged occupation. This information can be found on their website:

NYC & Nationwide Official Occupation and Tactical Plan for #horizontal #mesh-protest #Sept17 #occupywallstreet #usdor

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99 Percent Project Now Live!

Published 2011-09-09 01:24:51 UTC by OccupyWallSt

We’ve just received our first five photo submissions for the We Are the 99 Percent project. Thank you very much to everyone who submitted a photo and we hope to see more soon!

Click here to submit your own photo and/or story.

For more details on this project, see our original article.

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Nine Arrested & Released Without Charge in Occupy Wall Street Test Run (Video)

  Saturday 17th #OCCUPYWALLSTREET

Published 2011-09-08 02:53:49 UTC by OccupyWallSt

http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/occupywallstreet-less-two-weeks-away.html

Hey you jammers, dreamers, patriots and revolutionaries out there,

Our occupation of Wall Street is less than two weeks away … do we have it together?

The perpetrators of the massive financial fraud have been allowed to slip quietly from the scene and continue business as usual. Our elected representatives in Washington have become so tightly intertwined with the financiers and bankers that public accountability has all but vanished.

#OCCUPYWALLSTREET is all about breaking up that cosy relationship between money and politics and bringing the perpetrators of the financial crash of 2008 to justice.

On September 17, 20,000 of us will descend on Wall Street, the iconic financial center of America, set up a peaceful encampment, hold a people’s assembly to decide what our one demand will be, and carry out an agenda of full-spectrum, absolutely nonviolent civil disobedience the likes of which the country has not seen since the freedom marches of the 1960s.

From our encampment we will launch daily smart mob forays all over lower Manhattan … peaceful, creative happenings in front of Goldman Sachs; the SEC; the Federal Reserve; the New York Stock Exchange … and maybe even, if we can figure out where they’re being held, at the sites of Obama’s private $38,500 per person fundraising events happening somewhere in Manhattan on Sept. 19 and 20.

Our strategy will be that of the master strategist Sun Tzu: “appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected.”

With a bit of luck, and if fate is on our side, we may be able to turn all of lower Manhattan into a site of passionate democratic contestation – an American Tahrir Square.

We will do all this with peace in our hearts. Our unshakable commitment to nonviolence will give us the spiritual strength we need to inspire the nation and to ultimately triumph in the weeks and maybe months of struggle that will unfold after September 17.

for the wild, Culture Jammers HQ

occupywallstreet.org / occupywallst.org / Reddit / Facebook

PS. Last week Anonymous endorsed #OCCUPYWALLSTREET with a video that attracted over 70,000 views. The Department of Homeland Security has warned the nation’s bankers to be prepared. Corporate owned media is taking notice. Yesterday, a columnist for MarketWatch.com posted a rousing portrait of what may now unfold:

“Listen closely. This is not another internecine political squabble. These revolutionaries are pushing America back to its roots. You sense they’re drafting a new Declaration of Independence, driven by the same powerful motivations as the 57 original signers who wrote: ‘Whenever any form of government becomes destructive … it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.’ Back in 1776 King George III was the destructive force far away. Today greed is the corruptor, from within.”

S17 occupations of financial districts are also being planned in Milan, Madrid, Valencia, London, Lisbon, Athens, San Francisco and hopefully many other cities still to be announced. S17 could well be the catalyst that ushers in a new global economic order.

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love and rage: life after the collapse of capitalism

Greetings to all, especially you FoFees  (friend of the Free)  hope you’re enjoying the book

Set in the Collapse of Capitalism our heroes escape their School and Family and fall in with the squatters, anarchists and gays, who are busy getting ready for the final confrontation and the Dawn of a co-op Money Free world.. It’s a thriller as well..

Just to say it is selling well..Not a surprise as it’s FREE  (lol). It also makes a very economical present.

It now has 1322 Friends of The Free on FARCEbook (FoFoFs), and I havent a clue who’s who.  http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001284179241

Plus its Blog has had 36.218 page views in 7 months. Seems like a lot.

Of course most people just  passed by the blog looking at other stories. http://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/

Here’s a few more of the hundreds of reviews the book has had on the ‘Authonomy’ website  http://www.authonomy.com/books/4458/the-free/

Abuse of power being consistent in our culture, where fear colludes with the bully, it is cheering to see victims organising and supporting each other . This will appeal to a great many young people.
You give us moments of delight:… rolling her big eyes back to us girls … such scandal would zoom round and round the area – like a bee in a jar … Then her daffodil moment of glory: dancing and swirling, waving the flowers at the grey building … the golden snow. I’ve never heard of ‘testerical laughter’, but it kind of hits the mood of the moment.I really like your book and back it with pleasure.  Pia (Course of Mirrors)

JJBrazman

Wow; I can’t stop reading! I’ve just finished chapter 8, and I’m only stopping because it’s 1AM! It seems to remind me a little of ‘A Clockwork Orange’, combined with ‘A Child Called It’. I cannot wait to read on. I’m still not entirely sure about a lot of things (such as the political situation) but everything I’ve read so far has been wonderful. If I get the chance, I will buy this book.

Karen Eisenbrey I read three chapters and the glossary. I like your ideas for remaking society, especially the mix of practical, earnest things with more whimsical ideas of fashion etc. I especially like how in the first chapters, it’s not obvious that the story takes place in (I would guess) the near future in a shifting, alternative society. But there are little clues all over the place that things are falling apart and changing, present but not taking over the story. We start with Linda, a real, relatable character. You’ve nailed the voice here. She’s articulate and smart, but not at all formal; young, angry, scared, beaten down but ready to stand up. Good luck with The Free!…Karen Eisenbrey

Aaron Pattis wrote After three chapters, nothing will stop me from reading the rest of this book! Who couldn’t pull for a kid like this and wonder where she’s going to end up? There are some terms that I have difficulty with sometimes, like “lekky” and such, but soon enough figure it out. But I wouldn’t change that voice for this story because it adds to the richness realism in the characters. Great job and backed with pleasure..Aaron,”80 Grit”

Lmfrenchwrote   Wow, what can I say? I love how you capture Linda’s voice. It wasn’t too long ago that I was a fifteen year old girl and…well…wow. I read some of this the other day and wasn’t too

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impressed, but I re-read it and trudged on to see what happened beyond the first page and I must say, I am very glad I did. I found myself giggling a bit and read on with a smile. It is a fun story. I am not normally a fan of 1st person POV but you seem to be able to still bring your characters to life. Very nice.

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Funny and wonderful. Loved it. J.

CamilleS wrote

What a uniquely funny read.  Really cracked me up!  Camille…Curse of the Golden Fly/The Hobble Knobble Gobble Tree

Emma Philips

 Great opening. Fast-paced and spirited way of writing. I like the talk about men drooling over Janice (lol); very typical. It’s real! and the “like a pack of randy dogs snifting after her”…This is what happens most of the time, in real life. Good job Mike. This work is so rich and moving, good humored. I can’t stop reading it.GOOD LUCK!!    Emma Philips…The Dark Intruder

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Well Mikey…a huge HUGE contemporary tale. Brutal and brave..comical and painful.  Your style is enviably quirky. The language stripped yet so incredibly weighted. Congratulations, I wish you every success with THE FREE. .    Dawn:ARK

deltawriter wrote

 What a crazy romp this is! I like it!

17yr Facebooker arrested for ‘start rioting’ quip.

FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE FACEBOOK KIDS………….

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This is what he wrote.. “I think we should start rioting, it’s about time we stopped the authorities pushing us about and ruining this country.  “It’s about time we stood up for ourselves for once. So come on rioters – get some. LOL.”

This is an absolute attack on free speech. The 17 year old lives in a small village near Bury St.Edmunds.There is nothing specific in his facebook post to any area – it’s a general statement. He’s been given a curfew, youth rehabiitation order and god knows what else. He’d even deleted it so it ws only up for a short  time.

The weekend before last Nik Cohen posted in The Observer ‘Why are there no riots here’ – why aint he been done. Or a thousand pieces you could read in broadsheets giving opinions or on leftie blogs like this. Why pick on teenagers?

This prosecution is worse than the other one because it’s a general statement of opinion by no mean a specific incitement. If a kid in Syria had posted this he’d be hailed a hero. It’s now a crime here to say ‘I think we should start rioting’.

I think we need a lot of people who write and blog to stand up now and be counted on this one. Maybe some mass signed statement – maybe all put our names to what this kid has said and wait for the knock at the door. First they came for the 17 year old Facebookers…….

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Riots against Repression sweep UK

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A fourth night of riots have spread across Britain, including the cities of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, West Bromwich, Greater Manchester and Salford. The riots were sparked by police brutality and systemic ongoing violence against the working class and poor.

Breaking News

Riots flare in more English cities and towns

Canning Circus police station firebombed

Up to 2,000 rioters stormed shops in the city of Manchester. At least 47 people have been arrested, and public transport across the city has been suspended.

Elsewhere in the West Midlands, rioters have smashed shop windows and started fires in West Bromwich – and roads have been closed in Wolverhampton.

WebsitesIndymedia UKLibcomFreedom Press

Opinion

earlier March 15 demo

Freedom: North London Solfed’s response to the London riots

Ian Bone: Fucking Hell! Veteran anarchist Ian Bone gives us his view on the riots

Socialism And/Or Barbarism: An open letter to those who condemn looting

The UK riots: the psychology of looting

http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=2011080uk-riots

Malaysia:massive multicultural movement

criminal police tear gas Bersih rally

KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 27, 2011 (IPS) – Following a major rally involving tens of thousands of protesters calling for electoral reforms in Malaysia, someone set up a Facebook page calling for Prime Minister Najib Razak to step down. Within ten days, the number of people who said they “like” the page crossed 200,000.

The rally and the subsequent backlash on social media are a sign of the anger that has been building up among a segment of the population that Najib may have overlooked at his peril: the urban middle class.

And crucially, the response has come from across Malaysia’s ethnic spectrum.

Malaysia is a multiracial country with a relatively young population. Around 70 percent of Malaysians live in urban centres, with rapidly improving Internet connections.

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On July 9, police fired tear gas and hosed down tens of thousands of Bersih supporters who took to the streets calling on the government to reform the election processes. A total of 1,667 people were arrested, said to be the largest haul of protesters in one single day in the history of the country.
Bersih estimated the turnout to be 50,000 and condemned police heavy-handedness which led to severe injuries, and a loss of life.

There have also been numerous photographs and videos surfacing online of instances of police beating protesters before arresting them. In one controversial case, the police are also alleged to have fired tear gas into the compound of a maternity hospital.

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Political analysts say Najib’s handling of the demonstration showed he is out of step with the sentiment of many Malaysians, in particular, a growing population of young, internet-savvy people who are less afraid to express themselves than their forebears.

“In the 21st century everybody has a mind and wants to express themselves. People were saying we are the boss, we elected you. But this was lost on the government,” says Jahabar Sadiq, chief executive officer of the news portal ‘Malaysian Insider’.

“Peter”, who doesn’t want to be identified by his full name, says he was inspired by video and photos of a frail, elderly lady at the rally who was defiant in the face of tear gas and water cannon. So he set up the Facebook page called Aunty Bersih.

Read more HERE  http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=56637

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@ntisec Hacking the Pentagon .. Pt.1.

Anonymous, the international cyberactivist network, has announced the release of 90,000 military email logins which its members obtained in one of the biggest-ever hacking operations. The group promised that the publication of the documents on several websites on Monday is only the first in a series of leaks intended to show the intelligence community’s vulnerability.

Cyberactivist sub-group “AntiSec” penetrates database maintained by military consultancy firm Booz Allen Hamilton

Anonymous, the international cyberactivist network, has announced the release of 90,000 military email logins which its members obtained in one of the biggest-ever hacking operations.

There were hints that other similar military or intelligence contractors may be next to catch attention in the emerging “Antisec” movement.

With its support for the Arab uprisings, it went from being largely based in Western countries to gaining popularity among like-minded activists in North Africa and the Middle East.

In recent months, the movement has come under growing international pressure. Its members have been arrested in Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom, while in the US, its members have been targeted by subpoenas.

Yet, as Monday’s operation demonstrated, the Anons are growing bolder than ever. A defiant press release followed the crackdown in Italy, reiterating that the groups’ lack of leadership or structure made it impossible to dismantle.

“All Anonymous members operate at the same level. Those arrested are not ‘dangerous hackers’ as the media calls them, but people like you. They have been arrested while peacefully protesting for their and your rights. Our protest will continue louder than ever.”

Read more here

Spanish Cops site downed by Anonymous

 A member of Spain’s Technological Investigation Board displays an Anonymous mask

Related Stories..Spain arrests Anonymous suspects

The website of Spain’s national police force has been briefly knocked offline by hacker collective Anonymous.

The attack on the site was carried out in retaliation for the arrest of three Spanish men the police claimed were ‘core’ members of the group.

The hackers managed to keep www.policia.es offline for about an hour from 2130 GMT on 12 June.

Spanish authorities would not confirm that Anonymous was behind the attack, saying only that the site was offline.

However, a statement was posted on a website linked to Anonymous, claimed responsibility for the hack, which it called #OpPolicia.

Anonymous: peering behind the mask

Are members of the ‘hacktivist group’ Anonymous defenders of truth and seekers of knowledge, or simply a bunch of cyber terrorists? Jana Herwig investigates

Researcher Jana Herwig dons the mask of Anonymous

When Anonymous first made big headlines in early 2008 with its protests against the Church of Scientology, dubbed Project Chanology, it was not yet apparent that Anonymous would be here to stay.

Three years later, Anonymous has not only gained a sizeable collection of adversaries and critics – including government agencies, IT security companies and digital rights advocacies who criticise its methods – it has also won scores of secret and not so secret admirers, especially among the highly social media literate, digital creative class.

The reputation of its members as defenders of truth and seekers of knowledge, digital avengers who cannot be lied to because they will hijack the emails of those who try, seems to strike a chord with many.

What has remained unclear is just who or what Anonymous is.

read more here

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/may/11/anonymous-behind-the-mask

Making the WORLD camp map. Toma la calle

http://www.thetechnoant.info/campmap/ Este s l estado actual d worldrevolution 1 mundo cansado de corrupción politica y esclavitud bancaria (20.05.2011 13:15)

RT @ferdulo: il y a une convocation a Lyon dans consulat vendredi 11’00 acampadasol globalcamp @lyonactus @leprogresdelyon http://j.mp/m4E11d (20.05.2011 13:12)

Esto ya Es MUNDIAL http://www.thetechnoant.info/campmap/ (live at http://ustre.am/yQWE) (20.05.2011 13:02)

RT @colectivoperife: Ayúdanos a completar el mapa!!! #worldrevolution > europeanrevolution > #spanishrevolution http://t.co/blWyuUY esto acaba de empezar (20.05.2011 12:52)

RT @colectivoperife: Ayúdanos a completar el mapa!!! #worldrevolution > #europeanrevolution > #spanishrevolution http://t.co/blWyuUY esto acaba de empezar (20.05.2011 12:51)

#globalcamp http://xurl.es/ejq4h #acampadasol notenemosmiedo estoesreflexion (20.05.2011 12:49)

La #spanishrevolution va a todo el mundo. Going worldwide!

La #spanishrevolution se extiende a todo el mundo

Hay convocadas concentraciones en Italia y sentadas en Londres, París, Berlín, Bruselas y Copenhague. México DF y Buenos Aires preparan acampadas

La #spanishrevolution ha dejado de ser un movimiento sólo de España y ha empezado a traspasar fronteras, sobre todo en Europa

Juan Cobo, portavoz de #acampadasol, ha declarado a Público.es que están sobrepasados por la cantidad de llamadas que están recibiendo de otros países del mundo. “Nos llaman de Colombia, Costa Rica, México, Venezuela, Argentina… Quieren entrevistarnos e informarse del movimiento”, ha se

ñalado. Por el momento, les consta que ya se están preparando acampadas en México DF y en Buenos Aires.

En Europa, las convocatorias para concentrarse se han ido multiplicando a lo largo de la mañana y en países como Italia (#italianrevolution), Reino Unido (#ukrevolution), Francia (#frenchrevolution), Alemania (#germanrevolution), Bélgica, Dinamarca y Portugal ya son toda una realidad.

Fuerte apoyo en Italia

Italia ha sido el país que más se ha movilizado. La voz empezó a correr ayer a través de dos grupos en Facebook: Italian Revolution – Democrazia Reale Ora y Democracia Real Ya – Roma, que han conseguido convocar protestas en 13 ciudades, incluidas Roma, Turín, Milán Bolonia o Florencia.

Las concentraciones están siendo organizadas por los estudiantes erasmus pero se han adherido los jóvenes italianos

El movimiento se transmitió también gracias a Twitter con el hashtag #italianrevolution y consiguió llamar la atención del Popolo Viola y del grupo Anonymous italiano.

La iniciativa se divide en dos grupos. Por una parte están los estudiantes erasmus y trabajadores españoles que decidieron movilizarse siguiendo el ejemplo de la Puerta del Sol y por otro, los propios italianos que han adoptado el cartel de Democracia Real Ya y le han colocado en medio la frase “La Italia de nuestro descontento”. En cualquier caso, es seguro que ambos grupos se van a juntar en cada una de esas ciudades

Tanto en Twitter como en Facebook se han querdio transmitir las ideas que están inspirando al movimiento 15M y se ha llamado a respetar unas normas para que todas las manifestaciones tengán la máxima credibilidad. Se pide que la gente acuda sin banderas de ningún partido ni de sindicatos y que elaboren “carteles personales, de grupo, lo que se os ocurra que mejor pueda representarnos”.

Como sucede en Madrid, se recomienda llevar “cualquier dispositivo con el que nos podamos conectar con las redes sociales de Twitter o Facebook” para “difundir lo que vamos a hacer en todos los medios”.

Los organizadores advierten de que “es posible que legalmente no estaremos amparados: no hemos avisado de la sentada aún porque todo esto se ha organizado esta tarde en cuestión de horas. Mañana [por hoy] intentaremos comunicarnos con las autoridades [...] Es importante que este viernes todo se lleve a cabo con  el mayor de los respetos”.

Por último, recuerdan que no se lleve “ningún tipo de  bebida alcoholica. No se trata de un botellón [...] Es importante que la imagen que mostremos al exterior tenga credibilidad”.

Londres, París, Copenhague, Amsterdam…

En el resto de países, las concentraciones se realizarán en las respectivas embajadas españolas: en Londres a las 19.30 horas ante la embajada de España; en Francia desde el perfil de Facebook Pour une vrai démocratie, se llama a manifestarse en París a las 20.00 horas también delante de la embajada española. En Alemania se han convocado manifestaciones en Berlín, siempre frente a la embajada española, para esta tarde y mañana, informa Patricia Baelo.

“Se recomienda llevar cualquier dispositivo con el conectarse a Twitter o Facebook” En Dinamarca, la concentración será el próximo sábado 21 a las 18.00 horas en la embajada española en Copenhague; y en Bélgica, tendrá lugar en Bruselas mañana viernes a las 18.30 horas. La convocatoria también está siendo seguida desde Amsterdam, Holanda, con una concentración convocada esta tarde para las 20.00 horas; y en Lisboa, la manifestación tendrá lugar a las 19.00 horas de hoy.

take the streets.. Egypt style Spanish rallies. BBC

Spanish youth rally in Madrid echoes Egypt protests

The Madrid crowd are rallying supporters and building momentum through social media networks

Continue reading the main story

About 2,000 young people angry over high unemployment have spent the night camping in a famous square in Madrid as a political protest there grows.

A big canvas roof was stretched across Puerta del Sol square, protesters brought mattresses and sleeping bags and volunteers distributed food.

The nature of the peaceful protest, including Twitter messages to alert supporters, echoed the pro-democracy rallies that revolutionised Egypt.

The Madrid protests began on Sunday.

On the first evening, police dispersed the protesters, but on Tuesday they let them stay overnight.

Spain’s 21.3% unemployment rate is the highest in the EU – a record 4.9 million are jobless, many of them young people.

Spanish media say the protesters are attacking the country’s political establishment with slogans such as “violence is earning 600 euros”, “if you don’t let us dream we won’t let you sleep” and “the guilty ones should pay for the crisis”.

The atmosphere in the square has been quite festive, with the crowd singing songs, playing games and debating.

They are demanding jobs, better living standards and a fairer system of democracy.

About 50 police officers are deployed in side-streets off the iconic square and outside the Madrid municipal government building.

The protesters are not identifying with any particular political party, Spanish media say, but they are getting more organised.

In another echo of the Cairo rallies that eventually forced President Hosni Mubarak from power in February, the Spanish protesters have set up citizens’ committees to handle communications, food, cleaning, protest actions and legal matters.

toma la calle..1000 personas acampadas en Madrid

Alrededor de mil personas continuaban esta madrugada acampadas en la Puerta del Sol de Madrid, mostrando su desacuerdo con la situación política y económica actual de nuestro país.

Mediante un manifiesto elaborado por ellos mismos, se han autoproclamado ‘Acampada Sol‘ y reivindican su derecho a “Indignarse”, además de realizar llamamientos a todos los ciudadanos para que se movilicen bajo el lema “democracia y política real“.

Además, los concentrados han instalado una “fuente” bajo la estatua del Oso y el Madroño para poder permanecer en la zona y muchos de ellos han pasado esporádicamente con bolsas de basura para recoger los desperdicios.

Personajes públicos como el actor Willy Toledo, conocido activista, han mostrado su apoyo a los manifestantes, llegando a convertirse en protagonista involuntario del evento en las redes sociales, tras ser trending topic en Twitter por sus comentarios a favor de la protesta.

YouTube también está aportando su granito de arena, distribuyendo una gran cantidad de vídeos sobre la manifestación del pasado domingo y las acampadas convocadas en las principales ciudades de España.

The Freecycle Network

changing the world one gift at a time

Welcome! The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,941 groups with 8,429,212 members around the world. It’s a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It’s all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by local volunteers (them’s good people). Membership is free. To sign up, find your community by entering it into the search box above or by clicking on ‘Browse Groups’ above the search box. Have fun!

via The Freecycle Network.

New Streaming Film: END:CIV

May 1, 2011 at 12:03 am

To mark the coming of May Day, we’re delighted to take part in the online debut of the subMedia film END:CIV, now available in it’s entirety—for free, of course—at our movie sub-site, the CrimethInc. Emergency Broadcast System.

The 76 minute film examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. Based in part on Endgame, the best-selling book by Derrick…… Cont/

via CrimethInc. Far East Blog.

SssHH…. I’m just SAVING the PLANET!

Let’s make everything FREE!..

 

The Free World Charter is a document that proposes an advanced alternative society that uses no money, is free, fair, and sustainable.

It is neither political nor religious. It is simply sense, science and survival.

This is our world and we can choose a better society now if we want it.

Please read and sign The Free World Charter today at http://www.freeworldcharter.org

via Let’s make everything FREE! An introduction to The Free World Charter. – Money-Free.

Ghadaffi–our enemy’s enemy

Libya removes itself from the net… scared of a mouse?

‘Aware of the fact that Ghadaffi was an anti imperialist in his day.

Conscious that the US state tried to kill him and his family

Mindful that his successor will be bought and sold by capitalist vultures…

…We totally condemn this autocratic, sexist, butchering dictator! Our enemy’s

enemy is NOT our friend’.

via TheFree Mikegilli (3).