Month: Jun 2011

Congo war on civilians.UN fails to protect.

Abau Adua has been homeless since the LRA descended on his village a year ago. ‘We were out on the river when the LRA attacked,’ he explains. ‘We heard the screams and the shouting. I saw 16 corpses, people beaten and stabbed to death. Two of my close family – my cousin and my nephew – were among them.’

‘Communities continue to live under daily threat of attack,’ says Marcel Stoessel, head of Oxfam in DRC. ‘The UN’s primary role is to protect civilians and to support the national army to become a stronger, more accountable force.’

One of the worst human rights offenders is the government army, which is poorly paid and ill-disciplined. In July 2009, the DRC government said there would be zero tolerance for soldiers who abused civilians, but elements of the army still prey on local people rather than protecting them.

Another year’s renewal of the mission is expected. However, despite this being the world’s largest peacekeeping force (some 18,500-strong), the first quarter of this year has seen a spike in LRA violence. As the UN reviews its mandate, it needs to move faster and more effectively to provide protection to people like Abau Adua.

Anna Ridout nin.tl/iWPf3G  read more HERE

Ferocious Archbishop attacks gay marriage

Sunday, June 19, 2011

The Archbishop vs. the Governor: Gay Sera, Sera

 
Published: June 18, 2011
With his cigars, blogs, Jameson’s and Irish affability, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan prides himself on his gumption.
Certainly his effort to kill the gay marriage bill, just one vote away from passing in Albany, shows a lot of gall.
The archbishop has been ferocious in fighting against marriage between same-sex couples, painting it as a perversity against nature.
If only his church had been as ferocious in fighting against the true perversity against nature: the unending horror of pedophile priests and the children who trusted them.
 

Iceland/Islandia: WE WONT PAY BANKS. Revolution!.

Its first pledge was to break all its promises, making the party almost impossible to attack, then it promised a polar bear to the zoo and a drug-free parliament within 10 years.

The party’s only advertisement was in a newspaper personal column, saying: “The Best Party wishes to meet good people aged between 18 and 90.” Its 10-point plan had 13 points. And the party’s campaign video featured candidates singing Tina Turner’s Simply the Best, with the chorus: “We are the best, the bestest of parties, best for Reykjavik, best city of every week.” It works in Icelandic.

Iceland was ripe for change, having effectively gone bust thanks to the cronyism of a cluster of politicians and bankers who thought that they could turn an island of fishermen with a population of 318,000 into a financial superpower.

In less than four years, the most rapid expansion of a banking system in history saw three privatised banks develop assets 10 times the size of the country’s GDP. It was the Icarus economy. Property prices tripled, the stock market multiplied nine times, and people borrowed heavily – often in foreign currencies – to cash in on the boom. The crash was fast, hard and painful, worsened by the collapse of the krona as the state, unable to bail out the banks, refused to pay foreign creditors.

The strategy looks smart now, compared with events in Greece and Ireland, but the country was angry and frightened. Voters wanted change, and the Best Party caught the mood, capturing Reykjavik with 34.7% of the vote. “No one has to be afraid of the Best Party,” said Jón in his acceptance speech. “Because it is the best party. If it wasn’t, it would be called the Worst Party or the Bad Party. We would never work with a party like that.”

read lots more HERE…

http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20110620010932192

100s of 1000s take the streets in Spain

Latest news is at least 42 cities all over Spain and beyond are now swamped with protestors, calling for ‘Real Democracy’, an end to corruption, No more Cuts, and expecially against the Euro Pact to coordinate the repression. No word yet of injuries or arrests

19 Junio.#spanishrevolution. 42 mega manifestaciones.

 

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Numerosas ciudades se preparan para las marchas del 19-J

 En Madrid, las seis cabeceras confluirán en las proximidades de la plaza de las Cortes. En Barcelona, la manifestación saldrá desde Plaza Catalunya
Seguimiento en twitter:

#19j,#worldrevolution,#spanishrevolution,#acampadabcn ,#acampdasol,

TODAS LAS MANIFESTACIONES A LAS 17:00 VER HASTAG: 

Acampada MadridLugar: Puerta del SolHashtag: #acampadasol

Acampada Barcelona   Lugar: Plaça CatalunyaHashtag: #acampadabcn

 Acampada A Coruña Lugar: Obelisco de los Cantones, frente a Jardines de Méndez NúñezHashtag: #acampadacoruna

 Acampada AlicanteLugar: Plaza de la MontanyetaHashtag: #acampadaalicante

 Acampada BilbaoLugar: Teatro ArriagaHashtag: #acampadabilbao

 Acampada BurgosLugar: Plaza Mayor Hashtag: #acampadabu

 Acampada CáceresLugar: Plaza MayorHashtag: #acampadacaceres

 Acampada CádizLugar: — Hashtag: #regaloteofila

 Acampada CórdobaLugar: El BulevarHashtag: #acampadacdb

 Acampada GranadaLugar: Paseo del SalónHashtag: #acampadagranada

 Acampada GijónLugar: Plaza del AyuntamientoHashtag: #acampadagijon

 Acampada HuelvaLugar: Plaza Antiguo ColombinoHashtag: #acampadahuelva

 Acampada Las PalmasLugar: Parque de San Telmo Hashtag: #acampadalaspalmas

 Acampada LleidaLugar: Plaza Ricard VinyesHashtag: #acampadalleida

 Acampada LeónLugar: Plaza Botines Hashtag: #acampadaleon

 Acampada LogroñoLugar: Plaza del MercadoHashtag: #acampadalgño

 Acampada MálagaLugar: Plaza de la ConstituciónHashtag: #acampadamalaga

 Acampada MurciaLugar: La GlorietaHashtag: #acampadamurcia

 Acampada OviedoLugar: Plaza EscandaleraHashtag: #acampadaoviedo

 Acampada Palma MallorcaLugar: Plaza de España Hashtag: #acampadapalma

 Acampada PamplonaLugar: Plaza del AyuntamientoHashtag: #acampadapamplona

 Acampada TenerifeLugar: Plaza de la CandelariaHashtag: #acampadatenerife

 Acampada ToledoLugar: Plaza de ZocodóverHashtag: #acampadatoledo

 Acampada SantiagoLugar: Plaza del ObradoiroHashtag: #acampadaobradoiro

 Acampada San SebastiánLugar: Kiosko del Boulevard Hashtag: #acampadadonostia

 Acampada SevillaLugar: Plaza de la encarnaciónHashtag: #acampadasevilla

 Acampada SegoviaLugar: Plaza Acueducto Hashtag: —

 Acampada ValenciaLugar: Plaza AyuntamientoHashtag: #acampadavalencia

 Acampada ValladolidLugar: Plaza Fuente DoradaHashtag: #asambleavalladolid

 Acampada VigoLugar: Calle del Príncipe, frente a MARCOHashtag: #acampadavigo

 Acampada ZaragozaLugar: Plaza del PilarHashtag: #acampadazaragoza

 Acampada GuadalajaraLugar: Plaza Mayor Hashtag: #acampadaguada

 Acampada Ciudad RealLugar: Plaza Mayor Hashtag: #acampadaciudadreal

 Acampada ElcheLugar: Plaça de Baix (Ayuntamiento)Hashtag: #acampadaelche

 Acampada PalenciaLugar: Plaza MayorHashtag: #acampadapalencia

 GironaLugar: Plaça del Vi Hashtag: #acampadagirona

 CastellónLugar: Plaza María AgustinaHashtag: #acampadacastellon A partir del 18 a las 20.00

AlmeríaLugar: Plaza del Educador (Juan Cassinello)Hashtag: #acampadaalmeria

 PontevedraLugar: Praza da Peregrina Hashtag: #acampadaPonte #acampadaPontevedra

 SalamancaLugar: Plaza Constitución Hashtag: #acampadasalamanca

 CádizLugar: Plaza del PalilleroHashtag: #regaloteofila #acampadacadiz

 SantanderLugar: Plaza de la PorticadaHashtag: #acampadasantander

 TeruelLugar: Plaza de San Juan / Torico (por confirmar)Hashtag: #acampadateruel Desde el viernes a las 20h

 

 

Brasil:Ofensiva dos latifundiários

 

“Estamos diante da tentativa do governo do PT/PCdoB/PMDB e seus aliados latifundiários assassinos de frear a luta pela reforma agrária” O líder sem-terra José Rainha Júnior foi preso na cidade o­nde mora na quinta-feira (dia 16) pela Polícia Federal na chamada Operação Desfalque.

Para a ação, a Justiça expediu dez mandados de prisão de sem-terra, sete mandados de condução coercitiva (quando a pessoa é encaminhada para depoimento) e 13 mandados de busca e apreensão…..

…- Pela imediata libertação de José Rainha Jr. e de todos os presos políticos da luta pela terra!

MAIS AQUIM…http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/brasil-ofensiva-dos-latifundiarios

Destroy the Amazon: Cashing in on Impunity..


Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon from August 2009-May 2011
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon from August 2009-May 2011.The analysis by Imazon suggests that the Forest Code debate may be a factor in rising deforestation. It found a 363 percent increase in forest degradation — logging and burning of forest that typically precedes deforestation — over the past 10 months, reaching 6,081 sq km. Most of the degradation occurred in major agricultural states: Mato Grosso (42 percent of degradation in May), Para (27 percent), and Rondônia (22 percent). The majority of deforestation also took place in these states: 39 percent in Pará, 25 percent in Mato Grosso, and 21 percent in Rondônia.

More tellingly, two-thirds of clearing occurred on private lands, which are most likely to benefit from changes in the Forest Code. Private landowners — particularly agroindustrial interests — have been pushing Forest Code reform, while small landowners and indigenous groups have generally opposed changes. Accordingly, deforestation over the past 10 months in indigenous territories and areas of agrarian reform (usually small-holder zones) amounted to only 12 percent and 1 percent, respectively. 22 percent of deforestation in May 20111 occurred in conservation areas.

Deforestation in May was highest in the municipality of Altamira, Para, where the controversial Belo Monte dam is to be constructed. Critics say the project will drive deforestation in surrounding areas as well as inundating large areas of forest and displacing thousands of indigenous people. Altamira accounted for 13 percent of total deforestation. It was followed by Porto Velho, Rondonia (8 percent), which serves as a key hub for the newly paved Trans-Oceanic Highway that links the heart of the Amazon to Peruvian ports. The highway will facilitate shipping of agricultural and timber products from the Amazon to China

Revised Forest Code may cost Brazil climate commitments
(06/14/2011) The proposed revision of Brazil’s Forest Code could prevent the country from meeting its lower emissions target and is unlikely to ease rural poverty, concludes a new study by the Brazil-based Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA).

read lots more here

http://news.mongabay.com/2011/0617-imazon_2011.html