Posted on May 25, 2012 | Theme: Prisoner Resistance!Human Needs Over Profit. With Molly Porzig. An interview with Diana Block (California Coalition for Women Prisoners) and Manuel La Fontaine (All of Us or None) about the Occupy Prisons Movement and the Occupy National Day of Support of Prisoners. View full article »
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In Woodland, the occupation of a foreclosed home by members of Occupy groups and others have caused the bank to grant a 45 day grace period. According to a report by News 10 on why the home went into foreclosure:
The Ponce Family bought their home on Paradise Valley Drive in 2008, but began struggling to hang on to it after Heriberto Ponce lost his job in construction. …
- Woman with cerebral palsy arrested in foreclosure fight with Wells Fargo (activistpost.com)
- Tell Wells Fargo to Stop Evicting Innocent Renters! by Tenants Together (socialactions.net)
- Californian Commits Suicide Two Days Before Foreclosure (revolutioninmedia.com)
What happened to the Occupy movement? |
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Although media coverage has dwindled, Occupy cells are alive and well all over the United S tates – and beyond. |
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Occupy Wall Street was at the pinnacle of its power in October 2011, when thousands of people converged at Zuccotti Park and successfully foiled the plans of billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg to sweep away the occupation on grounds of public health. From that vantage point, the Occupy movement appears to have tumbled off a cliff, having failed to organise anything like a general strike on May Day – despite months of rumblings of mass walkouts, blockades and shutdowns…………
Others note that protests did take place in more than 110 cities on May Day in One can debate whether or not Occupy is still effective, but there is no way to deny income and wealth inequalities have reached historical extremes or that two-thirds of all in the US – and 55 per cent of Republicans – say “there are ‘very strong’ or ‘strong’ conflicts between the rich and the poor,” according to the Pew Research Center.
The media indifference extends to downplaying state repression. Ironically, force is a measure of success because it’s recognition that the movement is a threat:
The repression is aimed at preventing Occupy from reclaiming a space, which novelist Arundhati Roy predicted months ago: “Holding territory may not be something the [Occupy] “Cinematic” is the only way to convey the image of public sidewalks and streets blanketed with thousands of riot police, surveillance units, snatch squads, detectives, beat cops, community police, white-shirted commanders, phalanxes of scooter police, four police helicopters overhead and cars, SUVs, buses, trucks and command vehicles flashing emergency lights. All to clear out a few thousand people, mainly youths, who gathered for a democratic assembly and the faint hope they could recreate the magic of Occupy Wall Street. read full article HEREhttp://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/05/2012521151225452634.ht |
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May 25, 2012
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff today rejected 12 of 84 articles in a controversial bill that aims to relax restrictions on deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. The Brazilian government will announce the full
Burning and deforestation of the Amazon forest to make grazing lands. Source: (NASA LBA-ECO Project)
details of the cuts on Monday.
Environmentalists had pressured Rousseff to outright veto the measure, which they said could reverse Brazil’s progress in reducing its deforestation rate. But a presidential veto could have been overruled by Congress.
The revised version of the Forest Code raised concerns among greens and scientists for provisions that
would have granted amnesty for illegal deforestation and reduced the amount of forest landowners are required to protect. The looser Forest Code seemed to be opposed by the general public, according to surveys conducted by environmentalists. The Forest Code revision was pushed by agroindustrial interests in the Congress. View full article »
| “You can cut down all of the flowers but you cannot stop the spring.” - poster circulating around the strikeTHE LAWS On Friday, May 18, 2012, two new laws came into effect in montréal. Their purpose is to stifle the anti-capitalist revolt that has emerged from the student strike that began in this province fifteen weeks ago, to restore order and clear the way for the implementation of austerity measures in this territory.The first is a municipal by-law. It aims to discourage people from wearing masks at demonstrations by threatening them with fines from $1000 to $5000. It comes as the federal government is contemplating a law, to be implemented across the whole territory of the canadian state, that would punish those who conceal their identities “while participating in a riot” with a maximum of ten years in prison. |
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The second is the provincial government’s Special Law which demands that all public manifestations of popular dissent submit themselves to fastidious control by the state. Any demonstration, anywhere in québec, must submit a start time and a complete route to the local police at least eight hours in advance; if it does not, it is illegal. The route can also be changed at any time by the police. There can be no demonstrations on the grounds of academic institutions, nor even within fifty metres of them. View full article »
resposta al desallotjament del banc expropiat de Guinardó Can baró |
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| per guinardó can baró | 21 mai 2012 |
| Cap agressió sense resposta! Ens volen atemorir, volen slenciar la dissidència, la resistència als seus plans, a la seva política. Enfront nosaltres, teixint espais de vida i enfrontant-nos a la quotidianitat d’haver d’assumir estoicaent la pau dels cementiris, les seves hòsties..una darrera l’altra. Fa temps que varem dir Prou!…HAN DESALLOTJAT EL BANC, PERÒ LES NOSTRES ANSIES DE VIURE NO SÓN DESALLOTJABLES!! View full article » | |
Una ola de represión golpea a los anarquistas de Turquía después de las manifestaciones del Primero de Mayo |
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| Ayer por la noche, el estado turco organizó una redada nocturna en varias casas y centros sociales anarquistas durante la noche en Estambul. 60 personas fueron detenidas. Aún no está muy claro si algunas de estas personas son anarquistas o simplemente parientes o amigos que estaban en esos lugares. View full article » | |
Esta Plataforma además afirma que los policías allí apostados están pidiendo el DNI a todos aquellos ciudadanos que
this bank deceives with criminal tricks
and people from their homes evicts
quieren cerrar su cuenta en Bankia. Preguntándose acto seguido en su cuenta de facebook ¿A quién defiente el estado democrático?.
This Platform further states that police officers stationed there are asking for the ID card to all citizens who want to close their account at Bankia. So who Defends the democratic state?.
Fem una crida a les organitzacions socials, sindicals, …… ia tota la ciutadania, a participar en totes les concentracions i actes es convoquin per la llibertat de Laura Gómez.
Dia 17 de maig
9:00-10:30 hores, concentració davant l’Audiència Provincial (Lluís Companys 14 juntament Arc de Triomf.
11:30 concentració davant del Parlament, fins que acabi la compareixença de Felip Puig sobre el 29M.
17:30 manifestació des Delegació del Govern (Mallorca / Roger de Lluria.
Les detencions i posterior ingrés a la presó de tres estudiants durant la jornada de vaga general del 29 de març de 2012 i la posterior detenció i empresonament de la Secretària d’Organització de la CGT de Barcelona, Laura Gómez, encara 
avui a la presó, són una expressió de la voluntat de la Conselleria d’Interior d’establir, en una societat democràtica, un règim de terror i repressió que fins ara era exclusiu del totalitarisme i el feixisme d’èpoques passades.
Considerem de tot manera inacceptable que siguin certs partits polítics i el Govern de la Generalitat qui, en l’ús del seu poder i capacitat de pressió, atemptin contra drets fonamentals com el dret a la vaga i el dret de manifestació.
Liliana Rojas.
Cientos de nativos de las etnias shawi y awajún de la com
indigenas peruanas luchan para salvar su territorio
unidad de Santa María de Cahuapanas, en la provincia de Datem del Marañón, en Loreto, se han
declarado en pie de lucha contra la petrolera Repsol-YPF, a la que acusan de ingresar a su territorio sin su permiso. View full article »
May 9, 2012 7.00an…The eviction is a brutal provocation just 3 days before the big 12M mobilizations, and with the anarchist Laura Gomez still held for no crime.
From 6:45 o’clock in the morning two units of the Mobile Brigade of the Catalan police (fourteen vans) are evacuating the building of the University Lliure The Rimaia in 12 Ronda Sant Pau in Barcelona. The agents have come by balconies with ladders and have burst the door of the building to the surprise of the people living there, because the trial court ordered 22 of Barcelona’s criminal case file two years ago it was understood an abandoned building for two decades and, therefore, was not committing any criminal offense against property developer Camat, owner of the property. (the trial had been archived) View full article »
Desde las 6:45h de la mañana dos unidades de la Brigada Móvil de los Mossos d’Esquadra (catorce furgonetas) están desalojando el edificio de la Universitat Lliure La Rimaia, en la ronda de Sant Pau 12, en Barcelona. Los agentes han entrado con escaleras por los balcones y han reventado la puerta del edificio ante la sorpresa de la gente que vive allí, ya que el juzgado de instrucción 22 de Barcelona ordenó el archivo de la causa penal hace dos años entendiendo que se trataba de un edificio abandonado desde hace dos décadas y, por tanto, no estaba cometiendo ningún delito penal contra la promotora inmobiliaria Camat, titular de la finca. View full article »now also with ENGLISH subtitles
NOSALTRES (ENGLISH). MANIFESTO AGAINST REPRESSION IN BARCELONA (15Mbcn.tv)
by Carlos Delclós on May 4, 2012
With Barcelona on lock-down over a European Central Bank meeting, the Minister of the Interior of Catalonia is making a name for himself as a tyrant. View full article »  |
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Freak weather is not climate change… up to a point..when it suddenly becomes clear fromn all the evidnce, that runaway climate change is happening.
Finally we can join up the dots.
Jeremy Hance mongabay.com May 03, 2012 View full article »
Spain tightens borders to stem ECB protests |
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Visa-free travel suspended ahead of European Central Bank meeting, overriding Schengen Protocol.
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Spain has suspended visa-free travel and re-instituted border checks ahead of a meeting of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Barcelona next week.It is an unprecedented move that overrides the Schengen Protocol that was first instituted in 1985. The agreement means there are no int
 Community police remove a dangerous terrorist ernal border controls for the 26 European countries and their combined population of more than 400 million people. Spain says it needs to regulate its borders to prevent foreign protesters disrupting the ECB meeting . It is not the first time Schengen Protocol has been called into question. Germany and France also want new rules to make it easier to suspend passport-free travel. Al Jazeera’s Sonia Gallego reports from Madrid. |
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Laura Gómez és traslladada a un centre penitenciari
e la plantilla de SEAT. Dos coneguts delegats sindicals han estat detinguts aquest matí per agents dels mossos d’esquadra. Es tracta de Javier Jiménez Oya (CCOO) i Javier Espin (UGT), tots dos fa molts anys que són representants sindicals a l’empresa. Els agents els han tret de la fàbrica, els han emmanillat i els han ficat a un vehicle dels mossos que els ha conduït fins els calabossos de la…GOOGLE TRANSLATION FROM CATALAN laura gomez jailed The instruction judge 23 in Barcelona, Rosa Maria Berenguer Agulló, has issued an order of remand without bail against Laura Gomez, 46, current Secretary of Organization of the CGT in Barcelona. The judge's decision was preceded by a request from the prosecutor on duty, who had received prior orders of the Attorney General of Catalonia, Teresa Account. It has often been the modus operandi of Saturday, when the prosecution asked for prison for three .. Operation 'witch hunt' by Felip Puig The two young men arrested CCOO and UGT delegates by the Seat of the general strike pickets Jesus Rodriguez | 25.04.2012 The news ran like wildfire for a time among the staff of SEAT. Two known stewards have been arrested this morning by agents of the police. This is Javier Jimenez Oya (CCOO) and Javier Espin (UGT), both for many years that are union representatives at the company. The agents have been removed from the factory, they are handcuffed and put in a vehicle of loaders that have led to the dungeons of the ... View full article »
FASH, BANG, WALLOP
Yesterday’s counter-protest against the March for England exceeded all expectations. Although the fascists did march they did so inside a mobile police kettle continuously surrounded and occasionally bombarded by counter-protestors. Their march route was cut short and for once the chant “Police protect the fascists” was 100% accurate.
Last year the police successfully kettled most of the anti-fascists, allowing the MfE free rein through the city. They took full advantage of the opportunity to hand out racist abuse and attack alternative looking types. Brighton anti-fascists were determined to avoid a repeat.
Aware that the cops plan was to push the march straight down the road 
from the railway station to the sea front, the anti-crowd was encouraged to spread themselves thinly along the route. This prevented a pre-emptive kettle.
For a while it looked as if the cops were going to throw the towel in and refuse to allow the MfE out of the station. At half-twelve jogging lines of cops and the arrival of horses let everyone know that the fash were on the move.
It didn’t take long after the march set off before the first few antis were in the road behind a banner. From then on the march became a rugby scrum as the cops used horses, truncheons and pepper spray to force the MfE through. Every time the cops broke through an anti-fascist line, another would form ten or twenty metres down the road.
BATTLE OF CHURCH ST
The pressure only intensified as the police decided to abandon the planned high-profile route and try to smuggle the nationalists down the back-streets. Anti-fascists got ahead of the game and running around the side got in front of the march on Church St to build barricades. Fascists and police came under attack with bottles. It was at this point that some-one set a bin on fire, irritating everyone, right and left, with the acrid smoke.
What was totally remarkable was the level of solidarity for the counter-demo by folk 
from all walks of life in Brighton. There was no support for the MfE. Pensioners and kids shouted abuse at the fash. The UAF stood shoulder to shoulder with Antifa punks.
Final word to Brighton Anti-fascists “Brighton showed the racists today that their brand of hatred isn’t welcome in our city. Brighton has always historically seen off the fascists, in the the thirties , the seventies and now today. Big thanks to all who turned out! – Up the punks!”
As far as SchNEWS knows no-one on our team got nicked- If you were arrested and require support then please contact stopmfe@ymail.com
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and check out..http://www.schnews.org.uk/stories/FASH%2c-BANG%2c-WALLOP/
Detenida Laura Gomez de la CGT por su presunta participación en los disturbios del 29M en Barcelona. Se trata de una detención más con cara a la toma policial por la Cumbre del BCE el 2 de mayo..
Arrested a leader of the CGT for alleged involvement in riots in Barcelona General Strike 29M. This is one of many arrests leading up to the police takeover for the European bank Summit on 2nd May. There are now daily demonstrations.
A Laura Gómez, secretaria de Organización de la Federación Local de Barcelona del sindicato anarquista, se le imputan los delitos de desórdenes públicos, incendio, coacciones y un delito
relativo al ejercicio de los derechos fundamentales y las libertades públicas.
Laura Gomez, Secretary of Organization of Local Federation of Anarchist union Barcelona, is charged with public disorder offenses, arson, extortion or an offense concerning the exercise of fundamental rights and civil liberties.
Demonstration in support of the CGT leader Barcelona Laura Gomez held on Tuesday at the police station in the Catalan police in Les Corts (photo: CGT).
Manifestación de apoyo a la dirigente de la CGT de Barcelona Laura Gómez celebrada este martes ante la comisaría de los Mossos d’Esquadra de Les Corts (foto: CGT).
The Police have arrested Tuesday at the Organizing Secretary of the Barcelona Local Federation of the CGT, Laura Gomez, for his alleged involvement in the burning and destruction caused to the building of the Barcelona Stock Exchange during the day general strike on March 29. Wednesday is scheduled to go to court.
Los Mossos d’Esquadra han detenido este martes a la secretaria de Organización de la Federación Local de Barcelona de la CGT, Laura Gómez, por su presunta participación en la quema y los destrozos causados en el edificio de la Bolsa de Barcelona durante la jornada de huelga general del pasado 29 de marzo. Está previsto que este miércoles pase a disposición judicial.
Carlos Navarro, a spokesman for the CGT, explained that the action took place before the stock was to burn a box containing money and papers that had symbolized a 
message against capital, and is unrelated to the union of the destruction occurred. In his opinion, the detention serves the objective of “clear that people can protest through organizations and unions not officially controlled.”
Demonstration in defense of the arrested
Carlos Navarro, portavoz de la CGT, ha explicado que la acción que se llevó a cabo ante la Bolsa consistió en quemar una caja que contenía papeles que simbolizaban dinero y que llevaba un mensaje contra el capital, y ha desvinculado al sindicato de los destrozos que se produjeron. En su opinión, la detención responde al objetivo de “desactivar que la gente pueda protestar a través de organizaciones y sindicatos no controlados oficialmente”.
Manifestación en defensa de la detenida
Un grupo de militantes y simpatizantes de la CGT se han manifestado durante este martes por la tarde ante la comisaría de los Mossos d’Esquadra de Les Corts, en Barcelona, para exigir la puesta en libertad de Gómez.
A group of militants and sympathizers of the CGT have emerged during this Tuesday afternoon at the police station of the Autonomous Police of Les Corts in Barcelona, to demand the release of Gomez.
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From Riseup.net:https://riseup.net/
On Wednesday, April 18, at approximately 16:00 Eastern Time, U.S. Federal authorities removed a server from a colocation facility shared by Riseup Networks and May First/People Link in New York City. The seized server was operated by the European Counter Network (“ECN”), the oldest independent internet service provider in Europe, who, among many other things, provided an anonymous remailer service, Mixmaster, that was the target of an FBI investigation into the bomb threats against the University of Pittsburgh.
“The company running the facility has confirmed that the server was removed in conjunction with a search warrant issued by the FBI,” said May First/People Link director Jamie McClelland. “The server seizure is not only an attack against us, but an attack against all users of the Internet who depend on anonymous communication.”
Llamamiento a todas las organizaciones políticas, sociales y de derechos humanos:Este curso el movimiento estudiantil viene respondiendo con fuerza a los ataques lanzados desde el Gobierno central y el de la Generalitat. El pasado 29M los estudiantes también salimos a luchar junto a la clase trabajadora contra la Reforma Laboral y todos los ajustes. La respuesta del Gobierno del PP, de CiU y el conjunto del Régimen está siendo la criminalización de la protesta. Tres compañeros, Dani e Isma de la UB de Físicas, y Javi del barrio de El Clot, están en prisión preventiva a modo de “cabeza de turco”. Quieren mandar un mensaje de miedo, a la vez que preparan fuertes recortes de derechos democráticos y libertades.
Desde No Pasarán creemos que la campaña anti-represiva que proponemos al conjunto de las organizaciones debe implementarse también con fuerza en nuestros centros de estudio. Las asambleas de facultad, la PUDUP y el conjunto de sindicatos y agrupaciones de estudiantes, PAS y PDI, debemos sumarnos con fuerza a la lucha contra la represión, sumando la defensa de nuestros derechos democráticos a la lucha cont ra los ajustes y la liquidación de la universidad pública.
The student movement has responded forcefully to attacks launched from the central government and the Generalitat. (Catalan Gov.) Last 29M (General Strike) students also went out to fight alongside the working class against the Labor Reform and all the Cuts. The Government’s response PP, CiU and the whole scheme is still the criminalization of protest. Three colleagues, Dani and Isma UB Physics and Javi in the neighborhood of El Clot, are in custody as “scapegoats.” They want to send a message of fear, while they prepare deep cuts in democratic rights and freedoms. Here at ‘No Pasarán’ we believe the anti-repressive proposals of all the organizations should be implemented , and also featured strongly in our study centers, assemblies, faculty meetings, the PUDUP and all trade unions and student groups, PAS and PDI, we must adhere strongly to the struggle against repression, adding the defense of our democratic rights to the fight against extreme Cuts and the liquidation of the public university.
Desde No Pasarán denunciamos la campaña de criminalización y la durísima represión de los Mossos en particular y la Policía en general, contra los trabajadores y jóvenes de la Huelga del 29M. Creemos que el repudio a esta política que la mayoría de las organizaciones de derechos humanos, sindicatos de izquierda, asociaciones, asambleas barriales y grupos políticos de izquierda están llevando a cabo mediante una gran cantidad de declaraciones, podría transformarse en una gran campaña en c
omún en todo el Estado.
From ‘No Pasarán’ we denounce the campaign of criminalization and harsh repression of the Autonomous Police in particular and generally against young workers and the general strike of 29M. We believe that the present repudiation of this policy by most human rights organizations, leftist unions, associations, neighborhood assemblies and leftist political groups , could lead to a common campaign throughout the state.
Desgraciadamente otros grupos como como Iniciativa per Catalunya i Esquerra Unida i Alternativa han publicado declaraciones condenando a sectores de los trabajadores y la juventud indignada como ”violentos”. Así también lo han hecho las direcciones de CCOO y UGT. Y lo más lamentable, es que la CGT también se ha declarado “ajena” a la respuesta de los jóvenes y trabajadores a la represión policial. Estas organizaciones también están sufriendo este ataque represivo: dos estudiantes del AEP (Asociación de Estudiantes Progresistas) están en prisión preventiva, fueron encarcelados trabajadores de CCOO, criminalizados y reprimidos manifestantes de la izquierda sindical.
Interior ha expedientado a los sindicatos de CGT y CNT por convocar la manifestación.
Reject calls against ‘violence’ by Unions and politicians.
Unfortunately, political parties such as the Initiative for Catalonia, Esquerra Unida and Alternativa have issued statements condemning sectors of youth and workers and indignant as “violent.” So too have the leadership of the majority of CCOO and UGT trade unions. And most unfortunate is that the CGT has also declared itself to be “alien” to the response of young people and workers to police repression. These organizations are also suffering this repressive state attack: two students in the AEP (Association of Progressive Students) are in custody, CCOO workers were jailed, left wing trade union protestors have been criminalized and repressed .
The Interior Ministry has brought charges against the trade unions CGT and CNT for convening the event.
Por eso llamamos a las compañeras y compañeros de estas organizaciones a que reconsideren esta posición. Ante la ofensiva del Estado es necesario conformar la más amplia movilización en defensa de nuestros derechos y poner en pie una campaña en todo el Estado para enfrentar la política de represión y criminalización de la protesta social que la Audiencia Nacional, el Gobierno Central y el 
Govern de Catalunya están llevando a cabo contra las trabajadoras, trabajadores y el pueblo.
Por la dimisión del Conseller de Interior de la Generalitat Felip Puig y el Ministro del Interior del Gobierno central, Jorge Fernández Díaz.
Solidarity Call
Therefore we call upon the comrades of these organizations to reconsider this position. Against the offensive of the state it is necessary to form the largest mobilization in defense of our rights and put in place a statewide campaign to address the policy of repression and criminalization of social protest that the Courts , the Central Government and the Govern Catalonia are carrying out against workers, employees and the people.
We call for the resignation of Councillor of Interior of the Felip Puig and the Minister of Interior of the Central Government, Jorge Fernandez Diaz.
Al mismo tiempo que exigimos la libertad inmediata y sin cargo alguno de todas las personas detenidas y encarceladas durante esta jornada, proponemos a todas estas organizaciones y sindicatos como una de las primeras medidas a tomar en común, formar una “gran caja de resistencia” que pueda afrontar las multas y fianzas impuestas a los encarcelados; como se ha exigido a 5 personas que paguen entre 3.000 y 4.000 euros y uno de ellos no ha podido pagar por lo que se quedó en prisión.
Free the prisoners .. Call for Bail fund
At the same time we demand the immediate release without charge of all persons arrested and detained during the General Strike, we offer all these organizations and trade unions, as one of the first measures to be taken together, the formation of a “big Fund of resistance” that can stand up to fines and pay bail bonds, imposed on the prisoners, as 5 people have been required to pay between 3,000 and 4,000 euros and one of them could not pay and remained in prison.
¡Libertad a los presos por luchar!
¡Anulación de las causas y procesos judiciales a todos los activistas del 29M!
¡Basta de persecución y criminalización a los luchadores!
¡Puig y Fernandez Díaz Dimisión!
Juicio y castigo a los responsables políticos y policiales de la represión
Por la mayor unidad contra la represión del régimen con manifestaciones,
campañas y cajas de resistencia.
Freedom for those imprisoned for fighting back!
Cancellation of the charges and prosecutions for all activists of 29M general strike!
No more persecution and criminalization of the fighters!
Diaz Fernandez and Puig … Resign NOW!
Trial and punishment for policy makers and police repressers
For the greatest possible unity against the repressive regime, 
with demonstrations,
campaigns and resistance bail funds.
Thousands of rural workers in Honduras have occupied land as part of a dispute with large landowners and the government.
The coordinated invasions took place in several locations across the country, activists and officials say.
Farmers groups say the areas taken over are public lands where poor farmers have the right to grow food under Honduran law.
The government said the seizures were illegal and targeted private holdings.
The director of the National Agrarian Institute, Pedro Ham, said the coordinated occupations were politically motivated and aimed at destabilising the government of President Porfirio Lobo.
Violent disputes over farmland are common in Honduras, with dozens of rural workers killed in recent years.Organisations representing rural workers say successive governments have failed to fulfil promises to distribute farmland using agrarian reform legislation.
They also accuse the authorities of acting in the interests of large landowners.Thousands of Honduran farm 
workers Wednesday launched a coordinated land occupation, squatting on 12,000 hectares nationwide and fueling new tensions over land rights, authorities said.More than 3,500 families started squatting on 29,652 acres of farmland in the departments of Yoro, Cortes, Santa Barbara, Intibuca, Comayagua, Francisco Morazan, El Paraiso and Choluteca on Tuesday — the International Peasant Day of Struggle.
Leaders of the farmers in the impoverished Central American nation say they are worried authorities will violently kick them off the land they are occupying.National Agrarian Institute chief Cesar Ham blamed leftist lawmaker Juan Barahona at least in part for the land use tensions.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Sunday, April 15 2012 Occupy Wall Street
First they silenced our uprising with a media blackout… then they smashed our encampments with midnight paramilitary raids… and now they’re threatening to neutralize our insurgency with an insidious campaign of donor money and co-optation. This counter-strategy worked to kill off the Tea Party’s outrage and turn it into a puppet of the Republican Party. Will the same happen with Occupy Wall Street? Will our insurgency turn into the Democrats’ Tea Party pet?
Tactical Briefing #29 – Battle for the Soul of Occupy
Alright you jammers, occupiers and Springtime dreamers,
It’s up to you to decide if our movement goes the way of Paris ’68, the dust bin of could-have-been-insurrections, or something more daring, more inspiring, something not yet dreamed.
Will you allow Occupy to become a project of the old left, the same cabal of old world thinkers who 
have blunted the possibility of revolution for decades? Will you allow MoveOn, The Nation and Ben & Jerry to put the brakes on our Spring Offensive and turn our struggle into a “99% Spring” reelection campaign for President Obama?
We are now in a battle for the soul of Occupy… a fight to the finish between the impotent old left and the new vibrant, horizontal left who launched Occupy Wall Street from the bottom-up and who dreams of real democracy and another world.
Whatever you do, don’t allow our revolutionary struggle to fizzle out into another lefty whine and clicktivist campaign like has 
happened so many times in the past. Let’s Occupy the clicktivists and crash the MoveOn party. Let’s #DEFENDOCCUPY and stop the derailment of our movement that looms ahead.
for the wild, Culture Jammers HQ
OccupyWallStreet.org / Tactical Briefing #25, #26, #27 and #28 / Check out Oakland occupier Mike King’s take on MoveOn’s 99% Spring
P.S. For Adbusters #102, we’re looking for intimate portraits of life inside art/activist/visionary communes worldwide. Also, a lucid, incisive critique of the continuing anti-Palestine bias at the NY Times. Plus inspiring, strategic takes on the future of Occupy. Send to editor@adbusters.org.
Away from its busy capital city and famous canal, Panama is one of the world’s most ecologically diverse nations.
Yet huge new hydroelectric dam projects now underway are seeing pristine rivers damned and virgin rainforest flooded.
The government says it is vital for economic growth, big business is cashing in and even the UN has awarded carbon credits on the basis that
the resultant energy will be ‘sustainably’ produced.
But for the indigenous Ngabe people – whose homes are vanishing under water – it is a catastrophe. So they have been fighting back. Filmmaker Glenn Elis went to Panama for People & Power to find out more.
Iceland ”partly forgives Mortgage Debt ”
”This is awesome. It shows when the people DO STAND UP they have more power and win against the corrupt bankers and politicians of a country. Iceland is forgiving and erasing the mortgage debt of the population. They are putting the bankers and politicians on the “Bench of the Accused.” Which means I assume they are putting them on trial for corruption.
Now the rest of people of the world need to start doing the same thing. We all need to stand up and against all the corruption and fraud of the banks and politicians that are puppets of the banks and corporations.” Sherrie
The country’s banks forgave loans equivalent to 13% of gross domestic product, according to a Bloomberg article Richard cites. The equivalent in the United States would be about $1.95 trillion of mortgage debt writedowns. Icelandic banks agreed to forgive all mortgage debt over 110% of a home’s value. “I think I may have been one of the first commentators with a wide audience to point out how relatively well Iceland was doing.” What he didn’t mention, though his commentator “iInfoliner” did, is that the credit rating agency Fitch upgraded Iceland’s debt to investment grade last week. Moreover, according to the Business Week story, the country can now borrow in U.S. dollars at a mere 4.77%. Compare this to Greece at 35.98% and Portugal at 12.77%; even Spain and Italy are a little over 5% (the FT link has no rates listed for Ireland, which has no 10-year bond).The moral of the story is that a different approach to dealing with the banks is necessary. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/24/1067831/-Iceland-Solves-Banking-Crisis-by-Indicting-Bankers-Forcing-Mortgage-Relief
There is one misunderstanding apparent when Iceland and Ireland are compared. People seem to sometimes think that Icelandic people said “Oh, hell no! We’re not going to save your arses, you just have to go bankrupt and that’s the end of it” to the banks. Some people make a gesture to Icesave referendum to justify that point of view. Furthermore, the “splendid” 110% debt write-off that was passed by the parliament is considered to a fantastic success and shows on top of that the will of the people to simply get the banks to understand that debts that cannot or should not be repaid, won’t be repaid.
Sorry, there is a bit of romanticism in this story.
First, the Icelandic government tried absolutely everything it could possibly do in 2008 to save the banks. It was Iceland’s “fool’s luck” to have allowed the banks to grow up to 1,000% of GDP that made the government rescue impossible. There was no other choice than to let the banks go bankrupt, even though it has been painted in the foreign media as “Iceland chose to let the banks go bankrupt instead of shoring up their broken pieces.”
Second, the Icesave agreement was forcibly passed through the parliament by the government. It was the president that stopped the bill to become a law after the world of bloggers had been on fire for months while the public anger against the government ascended day by day. More importantly, the Icesave dispute had nothing to do with Icelandic “banksters” as they were called by that time. It was and is an international quarrel regarding how to interpret the EU/EEA treaty concerning deposit insurance schemes and passport-banking within the EU. Icesave wasn’t and isn’t a question of bailing out the banks.
Third, the 110% debt write-off that was introduced by the government hasn’t been that successful and certainly not very influencing in the overall scheme of things.
Hanged-Man-Project! :-summary of the Icelandic revolution: -resignation of the whole government -nationalization of the bank. -referendum so that the people can decide over the economic decisions. -incarcerating the responsible parties -rewriting of the constitution by its people Have we been informed of this through the media? Has any political program in radio or TV commented on this? No! The Icelandic people have been able to show that there is a way to beat the system and has given a democracy lesson to the world ...See MoreWall Photos ICELAND. No news from Iceland?… why? How come we hear everything that happens in.. By: RePeace
In Iceland, the people has made the government resign, the primary banks have been nationalized, it was decided to not pay the debt that these created with Great Britain and Holland due to their bad financial politics and a public assembly has been created to rewrite the constitution.
And all of this in a peaceful way. A whole revolution against the powers that have created the current global crisis. This is why there hasn’t been any publicity during the last two years: What would happen if the rest of the EU citizens took this as an example? What would happen if the US citizens took this as an example.
This is a summary of the facts:
2008. The main bank of the country is nationalized.
The Krona, the currency of Iceland devaluates and the stock market stops. The country is in bankruptcy
2008. The citizens protest in front of parliament and manage to get new elections that make the resignation of the prime minister and his whole government.
The country is in bad economic situation.
A law proposes paying back the debt to Great Britain and Holland through the payment of 3,500 million euros, which will be paid by the people of Iceland monthly during the next 15 years, with a 5.5% interest.
2010. The people go out in the streets and demand a referendum. In January 2010 the president denies the approval and announces a popular meeting.
In March the referendum and the denial of payment is voted in by 93%. Meanwhile the government has initiated an investigation to bring to justice those responsible for the crisis, and many high level executives and bankers are arrested. The Interpol dictates an order that make all the implicated parties leave the country.
In this crisis an assembly is elected to rewrite a new Constitution which can include the lessons learned from this, and which will substitute the current one (a copy of the Danish Constitution).
25 citizens are chosen, with no political affiliation, out of the 522 candidates. For candidacy all that was needed was to be an adult and have the support of 30 people. The constitutional assembly starts in February of 2011 to present the ‘carta magna’ from the recommendations given by the different assemblies happening throughout the country. It must be approved by the current Parliament and by the one constituted through the next legislative elections.
Debt write off was only partialThe 110% debt write-off was simply a measure that was offered to over-indebted households. It was very simple on the surface: if your mortgage was higher than 110% of the estimated market value of the property, you could have the debt written off down to the 110% mark.
The total debt that was written off based on this jubilee was 43.6 billion krona. On top of that came 6.2 billion due to “special measures”. In comparison, the debt that was written off due to illegal foreign-exchange-linked loans was 146.5 billion krona. In September 2008 (the last point in time where it is known how high the face value of household debt was) the debt of households was 1,890 billion krona (128% of GDP). The government induced debt write-off has been roughly 2.5% of the total debt of households. Is that meant to be a huge turning point? Give me a break! The indexed debt of households has in the meanwhile risen by a rough estimation of 200 billion ISK due to rise in consumer prices since 2008. This is not a typo.
Longer term view
The debt dynamics in the Icelandic economy are scary! The mortgage and financial system is built to collapse, it is an unmissable feature of the organisation of the system.
Shit on the system! Tögg: english When Elections took place in Iceland one voter decided to use his rights to vote. Showed up at the voting station and literally took a dump on the political party system, the power abuse and the general democracy distortion, wiped his ass on the ballot, neatly folded it and slipped into the ballot box. HEHEHE The video is here http://aftaka.rusl.org/tag/english/
All the pain in Spain… Millions refuse to lie down and see their lives smashed for the benefit of a few bankers, says Escobar.
Zaragoza, Spain – Make no mistake; the future of the euro is being played in Spain. The euro may win – but at a price; millions of Spaniards as “collateral damage”.
It took less than 100 days in power for the right-wing Popular Party (PP) government led by Mariano Rajoy to face its first general strike, on March 29.
The strike was mostly called by minority unions; the major ones, the opportunistic and bureaucratic CCOO and UGT, have been in bed with the
powers that be for years.
The strike was a response to Rajoy’s EU-imposed labour market reforms that, according to Antonio Carretero from the CGT union, are “a counter-reformation that erases with a single stroke many labour and union rights acquired by the working class in decades and generations”. That includes extremely harsh cuts in health, education and social services.
Predictably, the spin war was relentless. Madrid insisted “only” 800,000 workers took part in over 100 demonstrations nationally. According to unions, 900,000 people marched in Madrid, 800,000 in Barcelona and hundreds of thousands more in 111 cities, especially Valencia and in the Basque country (the unionist vanguard in Spain). In Zaragoza, a city of 700,000, at least 150,000 people may have been in the streets; it certainly looked like it by late afternoon.
The country virtually stopped – at a 77 per cent overall rate (much higher than the 18 per cent predicted by corporate media). In the manufacturing sector, it was 80 per cent; in mining and construction, a whopping 97 per cent. Only 30 per cent of the national transportation system was active. And even though scores of cities kept the streetlights on all day – or used other tricks to bump up the numbers – consumption of electricity in Catalunya, for instance, fell by 24 per cent.
Austerity ergo sum
The catalogue of Spain’s “austerity” is the usual catalogue of neoliberalism in trouble. A previous, nominally socialist and now an ultra-conservative government have furiously decimated unemployment, retirement and severance benefits; turned virtually all labour contracts into precariousness hell; steeply raised fees for education and transportation; vastly militarised the police; and spent fortunes to bail out banks.
Spain inevitably follows the post-modernist mantra that democracy controls protest and rebellion by managing it – sort of. That’s where the cooption of those unions, CCOO and UGT, fits in; as they had already tamed rebellion in exchange for funds from Madrid, they called the strike virtually at the last minute.
Corporate media – and Spain is a small market run by monopolies – also fit in with the usual script. There will be violence by “anarchists”. The strike will be bad for tourists. Everyone has the right to work. No one will show up for this strike.
In Zaragoza, repression was harsher in the dead of the night and in suburbs, with no cameras watching. Morning pickets concentrated on banks across its mini Wall Street, driven by Brazilian-style samba drums and demonstrators dressed up as bankers. That sparked an internal debate among the protesters; with many shouting that this was not a party, in the end the samba drums were sent packing.
By late afternoon, during the massive main demonstration that crisscrossed the city centre, everyone and his neighbour seemed to be there – immigrants, whole middle-class families, the unemployed, the precariously employed, anarchists, socialists, progressives, and every indignado in town.
In powerhouse Barcelona, there were riots but mainly sparked by people’s rage against infiltrated cops [SP], some of them chased down and 
beaten up.
Significantly, more people in Barcelona took part in a spontaneous protest in landmark Catalunya square than in the official union protest. In Barcelona, and to some extent in Zaragoza as well, it was clear that the strike was not a union thing, but a collective effort of a loose network; neighbourhood assemblies; workers’ assemblies; smaller anti-authoritarian unions like the CNT and CGT; groups that sprang up out of the indignados movement – the precursor of Occupy Wall Street.
In Zaragoza and Barcelona, there were flyers, posters and stickers all over town. Neighbourhood assemblies and average workers went door to door – and shop to shop – to talk about the strike; and crucially, there was as much criticism of the major unions as criticism of the government………
“Your debt – we won’t pay it.” The mood during the March 29 Spanish general strike [Al Jazeera/Pepe Escobar]
The Harpies are coming to get you
The destruction of Greece may eventually be seen as an Aristophanes comedy compared to the Sophocles tragedy in store for Spain. Spain is the fourth largest economy in the eurozone. If it goes down, the EU goes down.
The infernal mechanism is the same; more “austerity” is followed by steeper Wall Street-engineered interests rates on Spain’s debt so every single euro in budget cutting is diverted to higher interest payments – and then some.
Of course Madrid will never have the guts to tell Spaniards that this budget-cut hysteria has less than zero chances of improving their lives. For 2012, Madrid has budgeted a whopping 29 billion euros for interest payments alone; that’s 30 
per cent more than in 2011.
On top of it Rajoy offered an “amnesty” for major tax cheaters – thus encouraging future tax cheating.
And this in a country with a staggering 6 million unemployed. The official unemployment rate is 24 per cent – higher than Greece and the highest in Europe. In reality it’s more like 30 per cent. Among young people, it’s between 45 per cent and 50 per cent. An extra 600,000 Spaniards will definitely lose their jobs in 2012.
…..
The US has a budget deficit of 10 per cent of GDP. Its colossal $4 trillion-plus national debt is already 100 per cent of GDP. Compare it with Spain a few points above the EU’s debt ceiling of 3 per cent of GDP, and a national debt of 79.8 per cent of GDP. Of course, if you are Washington/Wall Street you can get away with anything.
But even if Spain is now a barely disguised protectorate, still elections, strikes and a powerful concept of citizenship are kept alive. There’s serious talk of organising a European general strike. After all, the indignados started their movement in Spain, in May 2011 – the inspiration for Occupy Wall Street, a new, self-organised push for a global solidarity culture, way beyond the old, tired institutions of the organised Left, and the washed-up categories of Left and Right, East and West, North and South.
The future may be grim, but a global ola of rebellion may still be at hand. As I left Barcelona’s airport back to Asia I couldn’t help erase the verse of a classic Echo and the Bunnymen song ringing in my head: “See you in the barricades, 
babe.”
Pepe Escobar is the roving correspondent for Asia Times. His latest book is Obama Does Globalistan (Nimble Books, 2009).
per (A) Berlin 1st May 2012 – 25 years of hope for a different life On the 1st of May in 1987 the district Kreuzberg in Berlin exploded because of 
rage against the state and the cops, who defend violently the capitalist system.
Since then there are every year demonstrations and clashes against the metropolis of the rich and oppressor, against Germany, war and fascism.
In the last 25 years these violent clashes have become a ritual. Sometimes the cops get the upper hand, but very often also we achieved to be out of control.
Street battles are risky at the 1st of May in Berlin, because the cops here are one of the most effective ones in Europe. But there is a big amount of stones everywhere.
To the 25th time this year´s 1st of May symbolises the hope of going one step further to the end of the ruling form of society.
Everybody has to come to Berlin – between 30th April and 2. May it´s getting hot!!!
Against state and capital, against the state of the murderous pigs!!!
A very hot riot happened 1st May 1989: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqeOferbqcs
this was 1st May 1999: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhzICpPhLBk
also very good was 1st May 2001: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toyaQOCUPd4
and 1st May 2002 with more looting:
one of the best years 1st May 2003: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO592dCoh3M
or this 1st May 2009 with again lots of injured cops: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMD7OPMVcgc
more information about this year: http://erstermai.nostate.net/web/
Dont miss it! See you in Berlin 1st May 2012!
By Joel Poindexter Much has been written about The Hunger Games and the underlying libertarian themes in that story.
Jeffrey Tucker recently described the similarity between the fictional games and voting. Brent Railey noted just the other day the realities of the black market springing up to provide what the state can’t, or won’t, and the futility in relying on political figures for salvation. I’d like to draw attention to the allegory of the games and the modern warfare state….
A co-worker of mine suggested that another lesson is that when fighting one evil, it’s important not to become just as evil yourself; a lesson from later in the series.
…So right off the bat it’s pretty clear: An impoverished underclass, already forced to pay tribute to the government, has its youth pressed into violent service by the wealthy and politically powerful, for the entertainment and enrichment of this ruling elite. This pretty well describes the nation-state in virtually all times and all places, but it goes far beyond this.
The next similarity one finds is the way in which children are selected for the games: a draft. Each child’s name is placed in a bowl, and a representative from the Capitol draws the “winner.” There is a slight twist, one that makes the process even more similar to the actual draft. Each child may be entered additional times in exchange for greater food rations for their family.
The obvious effect is that poorer families are at greater odds of having their children selected for the games. In similar fashion, special rules applied during the draft allowed wealthy draftees to receive deferments, effectively allowing them to avoid military service. In modern times the ranks of the military are almost exclusively made up of the middle class and poor, who are promised better-paying jobs and opportunities otherwise not available at home.
While the people of most districts generally dread the “reaping,” in others, participation in the games is a coveted experience. In these districts, children, known as “Careers,” volunteer to go after training their whole lives. In very much the same way, militar
y service is a generational endeavor. There are many soldiers now serving who can trace their family’s participation in wars going back many generations. It’s not uncommon for recruits to explain that their reason for joining was, at least in part, because their fathers and grandfathers served; “it’s just what we do.”
It continues.
The games are of course a spectacle. The players are paraded in front of adoring crowds; politicians make grand speeches, the Capitol showers praise on the children, who are costumed and trained before being sent to their deaths. Those who die have their portraits broadcast at the end of each day, in memoriam, not at all unlike the nightly news here when troops are killed in overseas combat.
One point that stands out, as Tucker notes, is that none of the participants would have any real reason to fight one another outside the arena. They are forced to do so, to adopt a base mentality and become uncivilized animals in order to survive. This is also true in virtually all wars. The people of at least one side, if not both, are pressed into service and sent to kill other people they’ve never met, and have no real quarrel with.
As with all contemporary conflicts, the games are televised, and huge profits are realized for those who organize them. Cameras are set up everywhere, ensuring that no detail goes unnoticed. Highlights are routinely played, not just of current games, but of those past…..
….There is one major deviation, to
be sure. “Winners” are treated to special accommodations and never want for any material thing, unlike many of the troops who return from war with broken minds, bodies, and souls. A staggering number of returning veterans are often unable to function in normal society. Having been used up by their government, unfit to continue fighting, they’re no longer valuable and may be left and forgotten.
It’s no surprise that so many parallels exist, given that the series’ author, Suzanne Collins, was inspired when watching news reports about the wars. The two are so strikingly similar I can only hope that the millions of people, mostly teenagers, will make the same connection.
Following Wednesday’s National Day of Action for Public Transit that saw Occupiers and unions take part in coordinated actions across dozens of cities, Occupiers in Boston flooded the state capitol and have now set up an encampment outside in protest of fare hikes and service cuts to mass transit. Occupy Boston says they will occupy the area for 10 days, or until the state government agrees to revise the budget for transit.
from Occupy Boston: This evening, Occupy the MBTA, a working group of Occupy Boston, launched Camp Charlie, a ten day occupation of the State House steps to protest fare-hikes and service cutbacks on the MBTA. Having survived the depths of the recession, the 99% now faces additional taxes in the
State House yesterday
form of escalating T fares and the loss of essential transport routes. This is a further transfer of public wealth to the banks. These are the same institutions that were bailed out by the American taxpayer after being rendered insolvent by their own, criminal recklessness. The only debt in need of servicing is their debt to us.
Camp Charlie will be a place for public debate, conversation, and outreach – a living testament to the refusal of the people to be further abused by a clutch of corporate interests, multinational banking cartels and consolidated oil interests.
All those in Boston are encouraged to join or stop by Camp Charlie! Follow @Occupy_Bostonhttps://twitter.com/#!/Occupy_Boston and @OccupyMBTAhttps://twitter.com/#!/OccupyMBTA for updates.
No service cuts!
No fare hikes!
No layoffs!
No privatization of our treasured public transit system!
A comprehensive plan for affordable and sustainable transportation that works for the 99%!
http://occupywallst.org/article/occupy-boston-builds-camp-charlie-state-house-step/
Athens, Greece. Angry protests erupted after a 77 year old man committed suicide outside Parliament in Syntagma Square.
From the Greek Streets reports that the suicide note left by Dimitris Christoulas said: “The Tsolakoglou* [Quisling] occupation government literally nullified my ability to survive on a decent pension, for which I had already paid (without government aid) for 35 years.
“I am of an age that prevents me from offering a decent individual response (without of course ruling out the possibility of being the second person to take arms, should one person decide to do so), I find no solution other than a dignified end, before resorting to going through garbage in order to cover my nutritional needs. “One day, I believe, the youth with no future will take up arms and hang the national traitors at Syntagma Square, just like the Italians did with Mussolini in 1945 (at Milan’s Piazzale Loreto)”
Montreal, Canda: Police arrested about 60 students opposed to planned university tuition hikes as they roved through downtown Montreal on Wednesday morning, at one point setting off a “pyrotechnic device,” reports the National Post.
California, USA: About 100 students protesting a plan to offer high-priced courses at Santa Monica College this summer tried to storm into a meeting of the college’s Board of Trustees on Tuesday evening.
Police attacked protesters with pepper srapy for chanting, “Let us in, let us in” and “No cuts, no fees, education should be free,” reports the LA Times.
Dozens of bodies bludgeoned to death pop up in Baghdad’s dusty streets like the remains of a wreckage on a beach. They are the corpses of homosexuals and followers of the ‘emo’ fashion who dare to break with the strict canons of the Shia orthodoxy in power.
“They crushed his head with a concrete block. His name was Saif Asmar an
d he was a close friend of mine; tomorrow it could be me”.
Ruby (fake name) can hardly cope with his anger and fear as he holds a photo of his friend, barely recognisable after the brutal murder. Since the beginning of the year, death squads have been targeting gay men as well as those who dress in a distinctive Western-influenced style called ‘emo’.
Ruby talks about a surge in the attacks since Feb. 6 that, according to unofficial sources, has led to the killing of more than 80 homosexuals.
“That day they killed Ahmad Arusa in Sadr City and four other people in Geyara – two Shia neighbourhoods in eastern Baghdad. Earrings, nose rings, tattoos…all those are synonymous with either being homosexual, worshipping the devil or both things at a time,” says this young man who left home a month ago after he was threatened.
POLICE JOIN IN GAY WITCH HUNT Colonel Mushtaq Taleb Muhammadawi, director of the community police of the Iraqi Interior Ministry, stated on 6 February that they had observed the so-called Satanists and emos. He added that the police have an official approval to eliminate emo people because of their ‘notorious effects’ on the community. The colonel declared to Iraq News Network that: ‘Research and reports on the emo phenomenon has been conducted and shared with the Ministry of Interior which officially approves the measures to eliminate them. ‘The Ministries of Education and Interior are taking this issue seriously and we have an action plan to “eradicate them”. I will be leading the project myself and we have the necessary permits to access all schools in the capital,’ added the colonel, thus possibly indicating at the very least Iraqi state complicity with the massacres. Speaking with Gay Middle East and Gay Star News, 'O', a university student from Baghdad, explained that emo youth are wrongly perceived as gays who worship satan and are also labeled "vampire groups" falsely believed to suck blood from each other’s wrists in their satanic gatherings.O stated: ‘There is no religion that would dictate the killing of those who look different. Even if we credit the ridiculous assumption that emos might be worshiping Satan, the Quran says “you have your religion and I have mine”. There are so many myths around them. They are being killed for being perceived as too feminine and gay.’
It wasn’t a letter on a wall but an email that made Madi (also fake name) run away from her family five weeks back.
“They threatened to tell my family that I am a lesbian if I didn’t leave the country immediately,” recalls this 26-year-old woman in an interview with IPS at an undisclosed location in Baghdad. Apparently, Madi’s fears were far from being groundless.
“Many lesbians die in Iraq at the hands of older brothers. It is yet another ‘honour killing’, a ‘domestic matter’ over which the government will never conduct any investigation.”
London-based NGO Iraqi LGBT estimates that more than 720 gays have been killed in Iraq by extremist militias in the past six years. Madi says she’s lost many close friends.
“Moqtada al-Sadr’s militiamen and Iraqi Security Forces are the most aggressive against us, especially since a fatwa (a ruling in Islamic law) released four years ago said that homosexuals ‘should be executed in the most severe way.’”
Madi says many have been dismembered or burnt alive. She says doctors know the nature of such crimes by the state in which the bodies arrive. IPS has confirmed such claims with doctors who preferred to remain anonymous.
The Americans have come and gone, leaving half a million dead and their companies in the Oilfields. Under Sadaam at least there were basic services, education and jobs, and the police controlled religious fanatics. This is the middle ages. this is predator capitalism gone mad.
Emo, short for emotional or emocore is a US originated hardcore punk-rock music that appeared in the 80s attracting mostly teenagers. According to a report by a local LGBTQ activist the first murder occurred on 6 February in Sadr City district in Baghdad, the last was reported on 7 March of two female victims in their 20s from Shaab district of Baghdad.
Moral panic has been stirred up by militias about emo youth for the last year, alleging they are adulterers, Satanists, vampires and sexually depraved.
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Libyan migrants 'left to die'
The Council of Europe found that a "catalogue of errors" by Nato and coastguards resulted in the deaths of 63 refugees sailing in a small boat from Libya last May.
Only nine people on board survived after the craft drifted in open seas for two weeks. Two Nato ships nearby failed to respond to distress calls, and no country launched a rescue mission, the council said. It concluded there were many opportunities to rescue the survivors.
It’s spring, and while most of us are already organising our summer holidays, some people have very different journeys in mind. In Northern Africa, migrants from all over the continent try to reach the Sicilian coast by any means. Crowds of men, women and children leave in little boats at the mercy of the sea, without knowing whether they’ll get to the other side alive. A few days ago an inflatable boat with more than 50 people on board was rescued in the Sicilian Channel just before sinking due to a broken engine. It was coming from Lybia, and it’s not the only one. Another boat was rescued south of the island of Lampedusa – renamed “The New Alcatraz” for its infamous detention centre. The Maltese authorities hadn’t done anything about it because it carried “illegal immigrants”. Many more boats have been sighted, some rescued, some left to their destiny: a story so common we’ve got used to it.
For those who make it to Sicily hoping to build a new life, hell begins: most of them get locked up in detention centres, waiting to be identified by the Italian authorities, and in most cases, eventually deported back to their countries of origin. The conditions people endure in detention centres can be compared to those of Nazi concentration camps. In one centre, the local authorities decided to bury 5 people in a mass grave with no marker.
Recently, a Tunisian man who was to be deported threw himself from the deck of the boat in Palermo’s docks and ended up in hospital with serious injuries. The 
newspapers talked of a “tragic accident”, deliberately blind to the truth: he preferred to die rather than to be taken back to his country. In the local detention centre in Pozzallo, a group of Tunisian migrants who had been informed of their imminent deportation, started a hunger strike and other protests against the guards of the centre. They were immediately moved to a different centre and then deported anyway. The newspapers are full of stories like these, that people read as if they were soap operas, without realising the protagonists of these stories are real people, flesh and bone like us.
In the meantime, a little 
beacon of hope sparkles for people born in Italy from migrant parents. Two Bosnian brothers had been locked up in a detention centre in Modena to pay for the “mistakes” made by their parents: they’d lost their job and consequently their permit. The children, then still minors, had become “illegal” and had eventually been locked up with their parents.
The brothers were finally released a few weeks ago, after the judge decided that children of migrants, who are born in Italy, cannot be imprisoned in detention centres. The sentence didn’t go unnoticed by right-wing parties: Maroni, from the Northern League, defined it a “crazy decision”, and Bertolini, from Berlusconi’s People of Freedom, painted the justice system as a tool in the hands of the lefties, accusing the judge of bypassing the decisions made by the Parliament.
This sentence is but a grain of sand, but it’s a beginning, a domino that didn’t fall as planned. While some politicians keep referring to people locked up in detention centres as “guests”, we will keep calling these centres what they really are: concentration camps.
Inspiration for this article: here http://www.infoaut.org/and herehttp://www.infoaut.orgAn ever interesting blog to read about migration in the Mediterranean is Fortress Europe http://fortresseurope.blogspot.co.uk/ (now available in several languages).
In a sane world, a 2011 filled with spectacularly bizarre weather followed by a winter and spring that are record-shatteringly hot – out of control hot; Biblical hot – would have everyone in the U.S. freaking the f*ck out about climate change.
We never quite get there, though. We don’t seem to be grappling with the fact that this kind of volatility is rapidly becoming the new normal — or that we are totally unprepared.
If the public does tune in to what little media coverage there is of the climate-weather connection, they end up wading through technical discussions about attribution…………
What the public needs to know is that volatility like we’ve seen recently is on the rise because of climate change. Even if we stopped emitting greenhouse gases tomorrow, global average temperature would continue rising for a good half-century just in response to past GHG emissions. Rising temperature will drive more and more extreme 
weather. This will create all sorts of health, agricultural, energy, and economic issues for which we are grossly unprepared.
That’s it. Why can’t that simple message seem to capture the popular imagination? How much freaky weather does it take?
Read more: Article, Climate Change, media
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3 million Filipinos affected by 2 typhoons http://feww.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/3-million-filipinos-affected-by-2-typhoons/
Up to 10 Million People Affected in Pakistan Floods http://feww.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/pakistan-flood-death-toll-tops-1000/
Mega Heatwaves Could Kill Tens of Thousands in the U.S. (FIRE-EARTH Forecast) http://feww.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/mega-heatwaves-could-kill-thousands-in-the-u-s/
Back to the Primordial Future http://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=post
Mass Die-offs (FIRE-EARTH Forecast) http://feww.wordpress.com/mass-extinction/
The First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities (EDRO Forecast) http://edro.wordpress.com/collapsing-cities
2011 Disaster Calendar http://feww.
wordpress.com/2011-disaster-calendar/
(Download a PDF of press release here) http://in-Isolated-Confinement.pdf
On the evening of Friday March 9th, Tim DeChristopher was summarily removed from the minimum security camp, where he has been held since September 2011, and moved into the FCI Herlong’s Special Housing Unit (SHU). Tim was informed by Lieutenant Weirich that he was being moved to the SHU because an unidentified congressman had called from Washington, DC, complaining of an email that Tim had sent to a friend.
”We firmly believe the only way Tim will be returned to the Minimum Security Camp he’s been housed in for the last
six months is to place outside pressure on elected and appointed officials in Washington DC, specifically the
Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and the members of Congress charged with overseeing the BOP. Peaceful Uprising
wishes to express their solidarity with Tim by making a national call to action, asking Tim’s supporters to call
officials at the Federal Correctional Institution in Herlong CA, the Bureau of Prisons in Washington DC, and
members of Congress that sit on the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security,
demanding that they immediately return Tim to the Minimum Security Camp from which he came.
It has come to our attention that William Koch entered into an antitrust settlement where his company, Gunnison Energy, and SG Interest, a Texas energy company, conspired to orchestrate the bidding at a BLM oil and gas lease auction in Colorado. They memorialized this conspiracy in a memorandum of understanding that was subsequently revealed by a whistleblower. The Department of Justice settled the matter by having each company pay a $275,000 fine, <http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/press_releases/2012/280273.htm> and allowed the conspirators to retain their successful BLM oil and gas leases. Tim’s actions stopped any such conspiracies without doing any violence or harm to anyone, and now he is in isolation at Herlong potentially for the remainder of his sentence.
For more details please visit: www.peacefuluprising.org or the complete blog
post at http://www.peacefuluprising.org/breaking-tim-dechristopher-placed-in-isolated-confinement-20120327
FOR YOUR ATTENTION: A press Conference with Tim DeChristopher’s Legal Defense Team will be held on the
steps of the Frank E. Moss Federal Courthouse (350 South Main Street, SLC Utah) on Thursday March 29th at
1:30pm.
During an international meeting in December 2011 in Frankfurt am Main, several left wing organisations and grassroots unions from Greece, Spain, Poland, Austria and Germany decided to launch a joint effort against capitalist reforms under the current crisis. On march 31st, there will be a “European Day of Action … http://march31.net……Continue Reading]
EUROPE: M31-member …umsGanze! has released their Clip for March 31st. It’s entirely in English, and might be useful in other countries, too. M31 – The Movie will be re-released in English this Sunday.
M31 in Spain
By Rebecca Solnit Violence is what the police use. It’s what the state uses. If we want a revolution, it’s because we want a better world, because we think we have a bigger imagination, a more beautiful vision. So we’re not violent; we’re not like them in crucial ways.
When I see a New .York City policeman pepper-spray already captive young women in the face, I am disgusted; I want things to be different. And that pepper-spraying incident, terrible though it was for the individuals, did not succeed in any larger way.
In fact, seen on Youtube (704,737 times for one posted version) and widely spread, it helped make Occupy Wall Street visible and sympathetic to mainstream viewers. The movement grew tremendously after that. The incident demonstrated the moral failure of the police and demonstrated that violence is also weak. It can injure, damage, destroy, kill, but it can’t coerce the will of the people, whether it’s a policeman assaulting unarmed young women or the US Army in Vietnam or Iraq…..
We Are Already Winning
The powers that be are already scared of the Occupy movement and not because of tiny acts of violence. They are scared because right now we speak pretty well for the 99%. And because we set out to change the world and it’s worki
ng…..
This movement is winning. It’s winning by being broad and inclusive, by emphasizing what we have in common and bridging differences between the homeless, the poor, those in freefall, the fiscally thriving but outraged, between generations, races and nationalities and between longtime activists and never-demonstrated-before newcomers. It’s winning by keeping its eyes on the prize, which is economic justice and direct democracy, and by living out that direct democracy through assemblies and other means right now.
It’s winning through people power direct-action tactics, from global marches to blockades to many hundreds of Occupations. It’s winning through the creativity of the young, from the 22-year-old who launched Move Your Money Day to the 26-year-old who started the We Are the 99% website. And by tactics learned from Argentina’s 2001 revolution of general assemblies and politica afectiva, the politics of affection. It’s winning by becoming the space in which we are civil society: of human beings in the aggegate, living in public and with trust and love for one another. Violence is not going to be one of the tools that works in this movement.
What Actually Works
The language of Crimethinc is empty machismo peppered with insults. And just in 
this tiny snippet, incoherent. People who don’t like violence are not necessarily fearful or obedient; people power and nonviolence are strategies that are not the same as the ideology pacifism. To shut down the whole central city of Seattle and the World Trade Organization ministerial meeting on November 30, 1999, or the business district of San Francisco for three days in March of 2003, or the Port of Oakland on November 2, 2011—through people power—is one hell of a great way to stand up. It works. And it brings great joy and sense of power to those who do it. It’s how the world gets changed these days.
Crimethinc, whose logo is its name inside a bullet, doesn’t actually cite examples of violence achieving anything in our recent history. Can you name any? The anonymous writers don’t seem prepared to act, just tell others to (as do the two most high-profile advocates of violence on the left). And despite the smear quoted above that privileged people oppose them, theirs is the language of privilege. White kids can do crazy shit and get slapped on the wrist or maybe slapped around for it; I have for a quarter century walked through police lines like they were tall grass; people of color face far more dire consequences. When white youth try to bring the police down on a racially diverse movement—well, it’s not exactly what the word solidarity means to most of us……………….
Another Occupy Oakland witness, a female street medic, wrote of the ill-conceived November 2 late-night antics, “watching black bloc-ers run from the cops and not protect the camp their actions had endangered, an action which ultimately left behind many mentally ill people, sick people, street kids, and homeless folks to defend themselves against the police onslaught was disturbing and disgusting in ways I can’t even articulate because I am still so angry at the empty bravado and cowardice that I saw.” She adds, “I want those kids to be held accountable to the damage that they did, damage made possible by their class and race privilege.” And physical fitness; Occupy Oakland’s camp includes children, older people, wheelchair users and a lot of other people less ready to run………….-
Read much more here... WITH THANKS http://occupy.infoshop.org/blogs-mu/2011/12/01/throwing-out-the-master%E2%80%99s-tools-and-building-a-better-house/
A las 0.00 horas del jueves se paró el metro de Lisboa. La interrupción del servicio es uno de los primeros efectos de la huelga general que hoy vivirá Portugal y que durante la madrugada ya se ha dejado sentir en la recogida de basuras, la suspensión del servicio de bomberos y cierre de actividades
Portugal, paralizado por una huelga contra el ajuste del FMI
At 0.00 hours on Thursday the Lisbon Metro stopped. Interruption of service is one of the first effects of the general strike today live in Portugal and am already making itself felt in the collection of refuse, the suspension of the fire service and the close of business
Portugal, paralyzed by a strike against IMF adjustment
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