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..’one lonely abused schoolgirl OCCUPIES her own life.. and sets off an explosive social and economic revolution’

Happy to let you know The Free is now IN PRINT as a real ‘dead tree’ book… Just in time to take part in the ‘Occupy 2012’ movements planet wide!!

Available here: https://www.createspace.com/3702134    costs 10€, or $14, + post. (postage may be cheaper from Amazon)
Also it’s Out Now as a free download for Ipad, iPhone,Sony, Kobo, Nook, Desktop, etc. Available here: :http://www.mediafire.com/?9sdkp1dyhtjbiym (colour) costs nothing.
Also it’s in Kindle Stores (costs 3€)› US  › UK.. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007EHCF14  ›
And still a free download from its website here: http://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/testing-downloads/ as 362 page colour  pdf, 100 illustrations +all info.

Hope you enjoy the adventure, and build on its ideas to exploit the coming collapse of capitalism! Best of luck to you!  

Adventure/Thriller.. Maxie rebels and runs away, with anarcha feminists, squatters and gays.. Capitalism goes bottoms up. The climate is revolting.. our heroes live the social and permaculture revolution, and the dawn of a money-free world… 

March 2012

Happy to let you know ‘The Free’ is now IN PRINT, on request,  as a real ‘dead tree’ book… Just in time to take part in the ‘Occupy 2012’ movements planet wide!!


Available here: https://www.createspace.com/3702134    costs 10€, or $14, + post. (postage may be cheaper from Amazon here http://www.amazon…. )

..one lonely, abused schoolgirl occupies her own life..and sets off an explosive social and economic revolution


Also it’s Out Now as a free download for Ipad, iPhone, Sony, Kobo, Nook,, etc. Available here:http://www.mediafire.com/?9sdkp1dyhtjbiym for ePub (colour) costs nothing.


Also it’s in Kindle Stores (costs 3€)› US  › UK  https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007EHCF14


And still a free pdf download from its website here: http://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/testing-downloads/ 362 page colour 100 illustrations +all info.


Hope you enjoy the adventure, and build on its ideas to exploit the inevitably coming collapse of capitalism

Best of luck to you all…..mike gilli

Would you like to HELP DISTRIBUTE the printed book? You could just tell your friends.. or ask your local bookstore to stock it by ordering through them. Or ask a library to get it.  Trade stocking details ’The Free’ ISBN 978-1466409323                   .CreateSpace. Direct Reseller Application https://www.createspace.com/pub/l/createspacedirect.do?rewrite=true Also trade distributors like http://www.ingrambook.com/retailers/orderingi.aspx(from April 2012) which unlike Createspace should take returns.  For Libraries the agent is http://www.btol.com/ts3/ 
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

Argentina Investigates Human Rights Crimes of Spain’s Franco Era – IPS ipsnews.net

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Argentina Investigates Human Rights Crimes of Spain’s Franco Era – IPS ipsnews.net: BUENOS AIRES, Dec 28, 2011 (IPS) – A judge in Argentina has begun to investigate human rights crimes committed during Spain’s civil war and the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco (1936-1975).

This month, federal judge Mar�a Servini asked Spain for information on Spanish military officials, as part of a new investigation based on a lawsuit filed in April 2010 by human rights lawyers in Argentina in the name of relatives of victims of the Franco dictatorship.

The judge requested the names of military officers involved in the Franco regime; lists of victims of forced disappearance and summary execution; lists of children who were stolen from their parents during the dictatorship; and the names of companies that allegedly benefited from the forced labour of political prisoners.

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25-N 2011: Que no nos cuenten cuentos. El patriarcado mata

25th Nov.: Don’t tell us Fairy Tales. Patrarchy kills.

Un año más, la cifra de mujeres asesinadas por la violencia machista ha sido espeluznante: 67 mujeres y 14 personas relacionadas con ellas: hijxs, hermanxs, amigxs…Seguramente, cuando estés leyendo esto, haya alguna mujer más muerta.

 For yet another year the figures for women murdered by sexist violence have been horrific. 67 women and 14 related to them: daughters, sisters, girlfriends..Surely just as you’re reading this there’s another woman being killed.Ninguna persona esta a salvo cuando tiene lugar este tipo de agresión. A pesar de que la violencia que mata es escandalosa, consideramos que hay otros tipos de violencia más sutiles y, a veces, completamente invisibles a los ojos de la sociedad, que siguen perpetuando el sistema patriarcal y que impiden nuestra evolución como mujeres libres.…Secretaría de la Mujer CGT

 Nobody is safe when this type of violence takes place. Even though violence that kills is a scandal, there are other types of violence more subtle and sometimes invisible to the eyes of society, which continues to perpetuate the patriarchal system and which blocks our evolution as free women.
Womens´secretary CGT (anarchist union)

LEER MÁS AQUÍ.. READ MORE HERE

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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)

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

Occupy The Planet. Abolish Debt. For a Co-Op world.

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.

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
 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
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
 What a crazy romp this is! I like it!

Rosemary Gonzalez was murdered in 2009, the victim of a war that ended in 1996. One day, 17-year-old Rosemary said good-bye to her mother Betty, walked out of their small house on the outskirts of Guatemala City and was never seen alive again.

Rosemary and Betty lived together in the poor neighborhood of Barcenas, under the constant shadow of violence. Across Guatemala, nearly 5,000 women have been killed in the past decade, attacked for the simple fact of being women. The women of Barcenas know well this fear—they live at the epicenter of this crisis.

In Guatemala, generations of women have faced murderous violence, but at its core is war. Now, the same dynamic is emerging in Iraq.

The Latin American women’s movement has given this crisis a name: femicide. It is defined by various forms of gender-based violence against women, including murder, and characterized by impunity for perpetrators and a lack of justice processes for victims. It occurs in conditions of social upheaval, armed conflict, violence between powerful rival gangs and militias, rapid economic transformation and the demise of traditional forms of state law enforcement.

For Guatemalan women, particularly those who are young, poor or Indigenous, the war against them continues — and Rosemary is one of its victims.

Young women in Rosemary’s community of Barcenas have few options other than backbreaking work in themaquilas (sweatshops) for meager pay. After long shifts, they walk home at night, looking over their shoulders for the attack they know could come at any moment…..

In Iraq, the U.S. invasion in 2003 also triggered a surge in violence against women. The overthrow of the Ba’ath regime ended decades of nominally secular rule, in which women consolidated certain human rights gains. The U.S. occupation brought to power Islamists whose vision of the world hinged on a fundamentalist policing of social roles for women.

Grassroots Responses

In Guatemala, a grassroots organization called the Women Workers’ Committee has created an oasis of safety for women and girls. They organize workshops and community watch groups to help

this body is mine..dont touch..don't rape..dont KILL

women know their rights to life, health and decent work and to enhance their safety. They provide crucial counseling for traumatized women and girls and legal services for families of murdered women. Guatemalan women have learned a bitter lesson. The crucible of war allowed violence against women to become entrenched in communities. Femicide has become the “new normal,” something women must think about every day.

read much more HERE  http://www.peacewomen.org/news_article.php?id=3830&type=news

Guatemala’s long history of slaughter by US and local ‘white’ fascist rulers

School of the Americas Watch is where I first came across the involvement of the Zetas with the cartels. Then I saw a website by Mothers of the murdered young women of Juarez accusing the Zetas of being involved in the torture killings of their daughters. The saddest part of all is that Guatemalan Kaibiles, notorious death squads trained by US Special Forces and known for disemboweling pregnant Mayan women in Guatemala and Chiapas at Acteal, also have been working for the cartels as many of them mutinied as well for more money. “Both Zetas and Kaibiles have been hired as mercenaries in Iraq. Kaibiles were even hired as UN Peacekeepers in the Congo! So called Peacekeepers have been killing and raping in Haiti, the Congo and Bosnia.” There is more information:
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=77215

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By Emilio Godoy

MEXICO CITY, Jul 8, 2011 (IPS) – Reports of extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances, kidnappings and assaults are some of the heavy baggage that U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay is taking home from Mexico.

In late June, the CDHM closed down its Mexican Northern Border Initiative due to threats and intimidation. The Initiative ran several shelters in border areas, providing assistance to Central American migrants attempting to reach the United States and to Mexicans deported from that country.
Since 2005, 27 activists have been killed, according to the governmental National Human Rights Commission (CNDH)

So far this year there have been at least seven cases of assault on migrant rights activists, compared to two cases between October 2009 and October 2010, according to human rights groups.

Since 2000, 73 reporters have been killed, and 12 are still missing, according to the CNDH – making Mexico the most dangerous country in Latin America for journalists.

“A large number of attacks committed by agents of the state have not been investigated, because there is complete impunity,” Juan Gutiérrez, director of the non-governmental Mexican Commission for the Defence and Promotion of Human Rights (CMDPDH), told IPS. The activist met this week with Pillay, a South African judge who was appointed U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights in July 2008.

After taking office in December 2006, Calderón dispatched military troops to fight the powerful drug cartels disputing the smuggling routes to the lucrative U.S. market. Since he declared his “war on drugs”, more than 40,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence, according to government figures.

The CNDH has received 5,055 complaints against the defence ministry for abuses committed since 2006.

Read more HERE     http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=56420

To paraphrase George Dubya: misogynists never stop thinking of ways to harm women, and neither does America. The latest joyous news from the motherland (a term I use advisedly) is that troubled women are being prosecuted for murder after suffering miscarriages or still-births. This is more than insane. It’s baffling. Despite the pro-life palaver America doesn’t generally give a damn about post-natal child welfare………

……..Rennie Gibbs was just 16 when her baby was stillborn. The state is trying her as an adult, for murder, alleging that the still-birth was caused by cocaine use. For some mush-headed moralists this is enough (“What kind of terrible human being takes drugs while pregnant?” etc.) Before galloping off on their high-horse, however, they should consider the fact that all sorts of things cause miscarriage and still-birth. As the Gibbs brief notes:

People wrongly believe that women have a high degree of control over their pregnancy outcomes. The longstanding and constant medical reality, however, is that as many as 20-30 percent of all pregnancies will end in miscarriage or stillbirth.

Not just crackhead pregnancies, teen pregnancies, women-of-colour pregnancies, or unwed pregnancies – all pregnancies. Including those of law-abiding suburban wives who drive SUVs and take their vitamins. The difference is the latter are more likely to get flowers than be slapped with a murder charge. The Gibbs brief spells it out: “Low income women… [are] particularly vulnerable to punishment” (italics mine).

The same theme emerges in the case of Amanda Kimbrough. Her premature son died shortly after birth. She was sentenced to ten years in prison after admitting to having smoked methamphetamine once during her pregnancy. Ms Kimbrough was denied funding to call experts witnesses who could have testified on her behalf that: “Amphetamine abuse does not seem to be associated with any consistent increase in congenital abnormalities… [And] cocaine is no more harmful to a fetus than nicotine use, poor nutrition, lack of prenatal care, or other conditions commonly associated with the urban poor (italics mine).

These women weren’t prosecuted for taking drugs; they were prosecuted for being poor. In a culture that worships money, anyone without it is not just disposable, but potentially dangerous. The richest twenty percent of the US population holds eighty percent of its wealth and economic apartheid, like all other forms of oppression, requires brutal enforcement. Rennie Gibbs and Amanda Kimbrough are being persecuted to remind women that bodily autonomy, like everything else in America, is a privilege of those who can afford it.

Read more     here

 

 

COMMENTS

This applies to all the cases. I’ve heard of, seen, and experienced government agents hounding people just because they could, but this is obscene! The law that is supposed to protect these people is being used against them to turn them into criminals. While that in itself isn’t uncommon, this is a particularly disgusting case. Some poor young girl, who had a drug addiction (a sickness of the mind) and happened to lose her baby is now a murderer. A woman who gave birth to a child that didn’t have a chance at survival to start with, is a cold blooded killer.

So who can I blame here? It’s just so hard for me to pinpoint a story like this. Where do I start? Alright, so I already made a note that the drug war is a major contributor to this injustice. Secondly the “pro-life” groups who are in favor of this are absolutely ludicrous! These people are not merely “pro-life” but are undeniably anti-woman. Ironic how these “pro-lifers” are in favor of the slow death penalty.   DANNY

Anonymous said…

I totally agree!

A word about right-to-lifer’s: they act like they are about saving and protecting children, but it’s really about sexual control. These are the same people who go ape-shit when birth control gets handed out in pulic schools. Why? because women have no sexual rights outside of marriage in thier culture.
Another odd trend I’ve noticed is how these people like babies, but they seem to hate inmates and animals too. I personally am a vegetarian and against the death penalty, but I always get proded and called a “damn liberal hippie” by the “lifers” for being either. You’d think that right to life covers all forms of life?

July 7, 2011 9:42 PM

 

By Portia Crowe
NEW YORK, Jul 1, 2011 (IPS) – Despite questions about her credibility, the Sofitel maid who is accusing former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault is still a victim and should be treated as one, according to her attorney.

“The victim here made some mistakes, but that doesn’t mean she’s not a rape victim,” her attorney, Kenneth Thompson, told reporters on Friday.

He claimed that District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. was trying to drop the case in order to save face, and stressed that the 32-year-old alleged victim still deserved justice.

On Friday, Strauss-Kahn was released from house arrest in New York without bail, after prosecutors brought documents before the court challenging his accuser’s credibility.

Strauss-Khan’s lawyers say the accuser confessed to fabricating the details of her asylum application. They also claim that she lied on income tax documents, and fudged the specifics of her whereabouts after the alleged attack.

But many are questioning the relevance of those confessions to the trial.

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El Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos ha condenado en varias ocasiones al Estado español por no investigar de manera adecuada las denuncias de tortura. “En 2010 continuaron estas denuncias”, inciden. De hecho, en lo que va de 2011 una docena de personas han denunciado haber sufrido torturas durante el periodo de incomunicación; los últimos, los hermanos Aitor e Igor Esnaola, de Legorreta, y el vecino de Villabona Lander Etxeberria.

Amnistía Internacional recuerda que Naciones Unidas recomendó al Estado español “la abolición del régimen de incomunicación a personas sospechosas de actividades `terroristas’”, y que el Gobierno volvió a rechazar estas sugerencias. Es más, la organización matiza que “España es el único país de la Unión Europea que conserva un régimen de detención con restricciones tan severas de los derechos de las personas detenidas”. Éstas pueden verse privadas de acceso efectivo a un abogado o a un médico de su elección, y no tienen la posibilidad de informar de su arresto a su familia ni a sus amistades. Asimismo, destaca que el periodo de incomunicación puede imponerse antes o después de que la persona detenida comparezca ante una autoridad judicial y que puede alargarse, incluso, hasta trece días.

AI también considera necesario que se lleven a cabo “investigaciones independientes” sobre las denuncias y que se garantice una reparación plena a las personas que hayan resultado perjudicadas. “Las víctimas, sus familias y la sociedad en su conjunto tienen derecho a conocer la verdad sobre, incluida la identidad de los autores”, enfatiza.

Informe íntegro

http://www.gara.net/agiriak/20110626_informe_ai.pdf

Strauss-Kahn: a metaphor for IMF practices.   “Lo que Dominique Strauss-Kahn hizo con la camarera negra Nafissatou Diallo, de Guinea, musulmana, viuda y madre de una hija de 15 años, es una metáfora de lo que estaba haciendo con los países con dificultades financieras. Merecería la cárcel no sólo por la violencia sexual contra la mujer sino mucho más por el estupro económico al pueblo, que él articulaba a partir del FMI. Estamos desolados.

 

Leonardo Boff One might think that it is a tragedy that the head of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, succumbed to his vice, the obsessive search for perverse sex. Running naked after a Black maid in suite 2806 of the Sofitel Hotel in New York City, he grabbed and forced her to have sex. The details were thoroughly described by the New York District Attorney. For the sake of decency, I will not repeat them. It was not a tragedy for him: it was just one more person in this world whom he has victimized. Afterwards, he got dressed, and went directly to the airport. What is funny is that he left his cell phone in the hotel suite, and because of that, the police were able to detain him, after he had already boarded the plane. The tragedy was not what happened to him, but to the victim, which no-one wants to know. Her name is Nifissatou Diallo, an African, Moslem, from Guinea, a widow and mother of a 15 year old daughter. The police found her hiding behind a cupboard, crying and vomiting, traumatized by the violence suffered at the hands of the hotel guest, whose name she did not even know. Most of the French media, cynically and openly machista, tried to hide the facts, claiming even possible entrapment of the future socialist candidate for President of the French Republic. …….Strauss-Kahn is a metaphor for the present neoliberal system. It sucks the blood of countries in crisis, such as Iceland, Ireland, Greece, Portugal, and now Spain, as was previously done with Brazil and the countries of Latin America and of Asia. To save the banks and enable repayment of debts, it devastated societies, forced workers out of their jobs, privatized public goods, cut salaries, delayed retirement ages, mandated longer work hours.  All because of capital.  The enforcer of these world policies is, among others, the IMF, of which Strauss-Kahn was the central figure. What he did to Nafissatou Diallo is a metaphor for what he was doing to the countries in financial difficulties. He deserves jail not just for the sexual violence against the hotel maid, but even more, for the economic rape of the people, that he committed from the IMF. Español  El lector o la lectora pensará que es una tragedia que el Director-gerente del FMI, Strauss-Kahn, diera alas a su vicio, la obsesiva búsqueda de sexo perverso, corriendo desnudo detrás de una camarera negra en la suite 2806 del hotel Sofitel de Nueva York, hasta sujetarla y forzarla a practicar sexo, con detalles que la Fiscalía de Nueva York describe minuciosamente y que, por decencia, no voy a decir. Para él no era una tragedia, sino una víctima más entre otras que ha hecho en este mundo. Se vistió y se fue directo al aeropuerto. Lo cómico fue que olvidó el móvil en la suite y así pudo ser detenido por la policía cuando estaba dentro del avión. Read full article HERE  http://cinabrio.over-blog.es/

One of the defenses of the macho ethic is that it encourages men to be tough to protect their families. Even if that were true, you can’t protect if you’re not there.

A study last month revealed a truth many of us have long suspected: men with “macho” attitudes are more reluctant to seek health care—and as a result experience shorter life expectancy and greater medical problems—than men who hold less traditional views. According to the Rutgers University researchers, men who believed in rigid gender roles (like the idea that women should be homemakers while men work) were 46 percent less likely than their more progressive peers to seek out vital life-saving preventative health care.

via Macho Men Die Early: The Destructive Rules of Traditional Masculinity | Gender | AlterNet.

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Military Culture of Rape

On February 15, 17 women service members filed a lawsuit against Defense Secretary Robert Gates and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, alleging that the military’s repeated failures to take action in rape cases encouraged a culture of violence against women. In Ms., Natalie Wilson has in-depth report on the military’s rape culture from the 17 women who lived it. Read more…

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