Month: Jun 2011
take the streets.Barcelona camp to decentralise.
Last nights Assembly in the Pl Catalunya decided to close down most of the camp on Sunday 5th. But one point at least will continue.
The idea to give priority to the dozens of local district camps (barrios) and street Assemblies now springing up like mushrooms after the rain.
Another argument was to short cut the possible growth of personal power relations.
This decision may yet be changed at the Sunday meeting.
India: Queer Film Fest Triumphs.
By Sujoy Dhar
MUMBAI, May 27, 2011 (IPS) – More than a decade ago, when India’s first lesbian-themed film – ‘Fire’ by Deepa Mehta – was released, it was booed and met with protest and vandalism, forcing many fear-stricken theatre owners to take the film off their screens.
Thirteen years on and nearly two years after decriminalisation of homosexuality by a high court in India, a queer film festival in Mumbai is drawing audiences fearlessly from both within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community and outside it.
KASHISH 2011 is the second edition of India’s largest queer film festival that showcases LGBT films, and it is passing without a murmur of protest from any moral brigade.
Final go ahead for Belo Monte. Amazon Tragedy.
Brazil Green Lights Controversial Amazon Dam
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
IBAMA authorizes installation of Belo Monte Dam Complex despite escalating local, national and international opposition
Brasília, Brazil – The Brazilian government has issued the full installation license allowing the Belo Monte Dam Complex to break ground on the Amazon’s Xingu River despite egregious disregard for human rights and environmental legislation, the unwavering protests of civil society, condemnations by its Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPF) and the request for precautionary measures by the OAS Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The license was granted by Brazil’s environmental agency IBAMA despite overwhelming evidence that the dam-building consortium Norte Energia (NESA) has failed to comply with dozens of social and environmental conditions required for an installation license.
The risky $17 billion Belo Monte Dam Complex will divert nearly the entire flow of the Xingu River along a 62-mile stretch. Its reservoirs will flood more than 120,000 acres of rainforest and local settlements, displace more than 40,000 people and generate vast quantities of methane – a greenhouse gas at least 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
The installation license will allow for NESA to open access roads, initiate forest clearing at dam construction sites encompassing some 2,118 acres, and begin construction on the complex immediately. It also instigates publically subsidized funding from Brazil’s National Development Bank (BNDES) to finance 80 percent of the project’s spiraling costs. The bank has come under increasing scrutiny from the Public Prosecutor’s office and civil society due
to alarming evidence that approval is based on political grounds, often downplaying problems of economic viability and compliance with social and environmental safeguards.
“This is a tragic day for the Amazon,” said Atossa Soltani, Executive Director at Amazon Watch. “By turning a blind eye toward the tragic consequences of this dam, President Dilma Rouseff is undermining the positive environmental and social advances Brazil has made in recent years and miring its image on the global stage just as it prepares to host the UN Rio+20 Earth Summit next year.”
Hybrid human animals..Chimeras tomorrow..
Chinese scientists at the Shanghai Second Medical University in 2003 successfully fused human cells with rabbit eggs. The embryos were reportedly the first human-animal chimeras successfully created. They were allowed to develop for several days in a laboratory dish before the scientists destroyed the embryos to harvest their stem cells.
In Minnesota last year researchers at the Mayo Clinic created pigs with human blood flowing through their bodies.
And at Stanford University in California an experiment might be done later this year to create mice with human brains.
Scientists feel that, the more humanlike the animal, the better research model it makes for testing drugs or possibly growing “spare parts,” such as livers, to transplant into humans.
Watching how human cells mature and interact in a living creature may also lead to the discoveries of new medical treatments.
But creating human-animal chimeras—named after a monster in Greek mythology that had a lion’s head, goat’s body, and serpent’s tail—has raised troubling questions, this is even worse than experimenting on normal animals: What new subhuman combination should be produced and for what purpose? At what point would it be considered human and have human rights?
There are currently no U.S. federal laws that address these issues.
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greekrevolution. 50,000 trap politicians for 4 hrs!
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Police Mobilized by Syntagma Square’s Peaceful Protestors
Posted on 01 June 2011 by Lorraine Eyre
A strong police contingent was mobilized late Tuesday night to enable Greek MPs and Parliament employees to leave the Parliament building. It was blocked off by protestors of the movement in downtown Athens on the seventh day of peaceful protests.
The entrance to the Parliament building was blocked for several hours by protestors who converged in central Syntagma Square in growing numbers, to demonstrate against harsh austerity measures.
50.000 rodean el parlamento griego #greekrevolution
| by v | 31 May 2011 |
| http://www.esperantia.com/2011/05/50000-personas-toman-el-parlamento.html | |
A última hora de la tarde de este martes 50.000 personas han rodeado el parlamento griego en la plaza Sintagma de Atenas y retienen en su interior a los parlamentarios.
Los hechos se pueden ver en directo, aunque si quieres conocer la noticia en sí, te dejo este enlace que está en griego y su traducción al español. Parece que los diputados han conseguido romper el cerco. Es una acción más de la #greekrevolution. Llevan acampados más de una semana en la plaza a imitación de la #spanishrevolution y nuestras acampadas. Piden lo mismo que nosotros: Que los chorizos vayan al trullo, que los políticos no secuestren la democracia, que el Gobierno no venda a los ciudadanos como esclavos a las multinacionales, a los bancos y a las grandes corporaciones y, en definitiva, poder vivir en libertad y en una verdadera democracia. Curiosamente el hecho de que 50.000 personas en Atenas hayan tomado el parlamento y mantengan encerrados en su interior a los parlamentarios, no es noticia para los medios españoles. Tampoco hay que cargar las tintas contra ellos. Ni Belén Esteban ni José Mourinho están en la plaza. Aquí te dejo el enlace para que puedas seguir en directo los acontecimientos: Live Streaming – Sintagma Square, Aganaktismenoi por Dailymotion_gr_live Actualización: Los diputados consiguen romper el cerco y consiguen salir del parlamento griego. Noticia traducida del griego al español. |
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| See also: http://www.esperantia.com/2011/05/50000-personas-toman-el-parlamento.html |
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