The Spanish debt spiral is still climbing. All social services are being destroyed or sold off to help pay the interest on gigantic grants to save the Banks after the collapse of their capitalist scams. But the debt keeps rising.
With evictions still running near 500 a day and popular anti-eviction laws rejected by the government, community groups are beginning mass occupations.
A buildingin TorreBaró district of NOU BARRIS has been occupied for evictedfamiliesorbecausethey livein extremeprecariousness Thepropertyis owned by asubsidiaryof the Barcelona County Counciland has been empty a long time. Photo:@XaviUrbano… R.T. #habitatgepertothom View full article »
Freedom NOW for the Black Flag ”Facebook Terrorists”
The 5 anarchists arrested Wed 15th have been imprisoned without bail. They appeared in Madrid court on ‘promoting terrorism’ and other charges, that is, just saying things in favour of ETA separatists on their Facebook identities pages. According to the police on Facebook they are ”Kete Follen, Pakete Bomba, Cadenas Libertarias, Eskupe Metralla and Indio Apache Barcelona”.
Police photo of ”terrorist material” seized form Kolectivo Bandera Negra
Of these we only found Eskupe Metralla still up, this page seems like 1000′s of other radical young anarchists, supporting animal rights, prisoners, punk bands, occupy, anti-fascist action etc… Perhaps thism is another police ‘mistake’. We saw no threats to politicians or royals in his/her 1370 great photos, some do advocate violence, but were put on her/his wall by others, so the crime would be ‘not deleting a criminal photo from your Facebook timeline’… Eskupe has not posted since Wednesday when the arrests took place. View full article »
.Supporting terrorism? On the arrest of anarchists in Sabadell and media terrorism,
judicial and police by Anarchists 16 May 2013
From early yesterday morning we’re all longing to know who the detainees are. Who has been dragged off to Madrid in chains to face the High Terrorist Courts? In fact we have no knowledge of who they are or what exactly they are accused of. According to the press are “members” of the anarchist group Black Flag (Bandera Negra), which we had no knowledge of its existence and of which we only found now has a Facebook page.
The truth is that the arrests only serve to realize a situation that many saw coming. In the last few weeks have been going out sporadically in virtual press articles (Cadena Ser, Europa Press, etc.) on anarchists, making a salad of issues that do not relate to reality, but they did serve to create a situation conducive to a coup like this . And there are many colleagues who have spoken through articles about it in blogs, pages and publications. View full article »
The resistance has hampered the evicion of Can Piella that has been extended over six hours
After holding out for more than 5 months since the Court Order the Can Piella ‘Land and Liberty’ occupation was evicted yesterday, on the 2nd anniversary of the start if the 15M ‘Take The Streets’ uprising. The squat had become a symbol of anarchist type collective action, permaculture, and resistance to rampant capitalist speculation, with countless mobilisations and widespread public support, even by local councils.
The eviction comes on the same day as an ”anti terrorist” raid detained 5 local anarchists see here and in the context of a 15M offensive, with demonstrations and new occupations daily. See here, here here and here (Catalan) View full article »
.breaking news… more later… 5 Black Flag’ anarchists detained in dawn raids on the anarchist and CNT center in Sabadell near Barcelona. accused of belonging toterrorist group..byanarca15May2013. translation thefreeonline The Mossos’ Catalan police have arrested five presumed members of theanarchist groupBlack Flag (Bandera Negra) in an operation oftheNational Courtdirected by judgeSantiagoPedraz. According to a noteof thehearing,they are accusedof encouragingterrorismandterrorist groups. View full article »
‘From outrage to rebellion’, thousands of people take to the streets on the second anniversary of the 15-M
by Kaos.
The 15-M movement is very much alive on the second anniversary of his birth ,in that has held marches in Madrid and another 20 Spanish cities under the motto “From outrage to rebellion: ‘Escrache’ the system ‘.
Follow it live on TV http://www.tomalatele.tv/web/?p=6715 y http://bit.ly/Qa6Yv0t (the stream at the foot of the note)
Not only to commemorate his birthday, but to denounce the problems that the May 15, 2011 led to the so-called ‘indignados’ camps in dozens of Spanish cities are still present today. As usual in this movement, its philosophy that the street is of citizens leads them to not communicate officially to the authorities these marches, which will continue throughout the month of May. View full article »
byKaos. Madrid Sunday, May 12, 2013 The goalwas to collect500,000 votesbut inonly five days, the results have exceededall expectations.Aroundone million people, organizersestimated, have participatedin the consultationbypublichealthfullyMadridat the close ofthe day,an initiativefromcitizen groupsandhealthcenter workers…. link to read more: Enlace con la noticiaView full article »
Invisible Anarchist Network – darknet i2p2 – irc #anonops #ian #aaa Hello from the dark-net. We are the Invisible Anarchist Network. A group that was inheritable from the Anon. Anarchist. Action. A sub-group inside anonymous with real experience in political activism from the streets of 99 Seatle to today Barcelona Okupa movement, our Anarcho brothers in Greece and Italy. View full article »
Carbon dioxide in atmosphere at highest level for 5 million years
Atmosphere rising at fastest rate since records began
Tom Bawden The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has breached the symbolically important level of 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in 5 million years after rising at its fastest rate since records began.
Average daily CO2 levels jumped by 2.74 ppm in the first 17 weeks of 2013, compared to last year, the biggest increase since the benchmark monitoring stations high on the Hawaiian volcano of Mauna Loa began taking measurements in 1958.
Experts blamed most of the increase on rising emissions from China and India, which still rely heavily on coal for their energy, but said other factors could also be partially responsible, such as a reduced absorption of CO2 by forests and plants.
Registering a huge landmark on the climate change map – albeit a predictable and inevitable one – the monitoring stations recorded a CO2 concentration of 400.03 ppm on Thursday.
The elevated carbon emission reading harks back to the Pliocene period, between 3m and 5m years ago, when global average temperatures were 3 or 4C hotter than today, the Arctic was ice-free, sea levels were about 40m higher and jungles covered northern Canada.
It fuelled fears that CO2 emissions – widely, although not exclusively, regarded as being at least partially responsible for the sustained rise in temperature since the Industrial Revolution – were increasing at a faster rate than previously thought, with potentially disastrous consequences across the world.
Ed Davey, Energy and Climate Change Secretary, said: “This isn’t just a symbolic milestone, it’s yet another piece of clear scientific evidence of the effect human activity is having on our planet.”
He added that the development further underlined the need to decarbonise the UK economy and secure the legally binding deal that the world’s leading economies have agreed to finalise by 2015.
Al Gore added: “Take this day and the milestone it represents to reflect on the fragility of our civilisation and the planetary ecosystem on which it depends.”
Jon Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, said: “This is a landmark moment for humankind, a milestone every bit as important as when the global population passed six then seven billion.”
During the month of May, take action to enhance local food systems, conserve energy and water, and build community resilience.
The Hawaiian monitoring stations are run by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. They have been the benchmark since 1958 because Hawaii is so far from large population centres.
The first reading, made in March 1958, was 315ppm. In the early 1960s the CO2 emissions reading was going up at a rate of 0.7ppm a year, but the increase has since accelerated to 2.1ppm.
The concentration of CO2 typically peaks in May, before falling until October, as plant growth in the northern hemisphere’s summer absorbs the gas, and then goes up again during winter and spring.
Experts said it could take hundreds of years for the full effect of the higher CO2 concentration to be felt, for example by gradually changing ecosystem through the melting of ice caps in Antartica and Greenland.
Thousands of teachers and students have taken to streets across Spain to protest spending cuts they say are destroying the country’s public education system.
In Madrid, the protesters – many of them wearing green T-shirts that have become a symbol of their movement against the budget cuts – marched to the education ministry on Thursday. The demonstrators called on Jose Ignacio Wert, education minister, to resign. View full article »
‘Finally they’re not letting anyone out at all. It’s not just your friend.’- said Bruno to Damo, with a glance and a shrug at Macker’s support group. View full article »
On May 15th 2011, millions of people started a process of social change, giving a clear and unmistakable signal that we are not merchandise in the hands of politicians and bankers, we have been publicly and massively expressing that the representative democracy is dying. The political class have not understood the message. Despite the growing protests and the outcry of upset people, these ruling classes are using this crisis to plunder the common wealth, risking the lives of people.View full article »
We’re not angry because we’re feminists. We’re feminists because we are sick and tired and so very frustrated that we have to repeatedly defend our desire for equal rights. Listen to this speech by Jessica Valenti and just try to get a little bit angry too.
At 1:56 find out the annoying question every feminist gets asked, at 7:00 things get emotional in a good way, and at 7:44 you don’t want to miss it when she basically “drops the mic” and answers that annoying question with an even better one.
comment: ”Great how he exposes the rampant male violence against women, children and other males in Nth American society. Then we find out his day job is controlling such violence inside the US military,! That is, to make them more efficient at State and Capitañlist violence against the rest of us. The US now has Special Forces in 92 couintries acting with zero democratic control.”
Another victimof thesilent genocide: Appears hangeda man in hishouse whenhe was going tobe evicted byKaos. HumanRights Monday, May 6,
A manhas appearedhangedinsidehis house inBarcelona when hewas going tobe evicted, as reported by the Mossosd’Esquadra. To carry onin the number ofsilentgenocide victimsthatstate terrorismis leading tothe population. View full article »
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hola hola.. disculpas que sale todo en inglés, el idioma del libro. Ahora se puede ver la traducción Google (clickea un poco más arriba).Se trata de la novela 'The Free', de amor y aventuras.: aprovechando el caído del Capitalismo, el cambio climático y las okupaciones generales, nuestros/as heroes viven la Revolución Social, la permacultura y la sociedad sin dinero. Se puede leerlo ya en su Blog aqui,( y bajarlo en PDF), con un buen diccionario de palabrotas ingleses! un abrazo....... mike...
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