75 Anniversary Spanish Revolution

A  propósito  de  la  Spanish  Revolution…

Vivimos tiempos de Spanish Revolution. Pero hoy estamos aquí por otra revolución española, la Revolución de 1936. Para algunos esta fecha resuena a la Guerra Civil. Pero, en paralelo a la guerra, en este país vivió uno de los procesos revolucionarios más importantes de la historia de la Humanidad. La Segunda República no satisfacía el hambre de justicia del pueblo.

Los poderosos, temiendo la revolución popular que acabase con sus privilegios, animaron un golpe de estado con el fin de someter, violencia mediante, el ansia de libertad del pueblo español. Pero se encontraron con una desagradable sorpresa: El pueblo no se quedó de brazos cruzados presentó batalla.

El golpe de estado fracasó en gran parte del país. Por desgracia para las mentes de bien, los golpistas se hicieron fuertes en la otra parte de España. La guerra estaba servida.

Este mismo pueblo que presentó batalla e hizo fracasar el golpe de estado en la mitad de la piel de toro, no se conformó y construyó uno de los ejemplos revolucionarios más importantes de la Historia. Fábricas y granjas fueron tomadas y gestionadas directamente por los obreros.

El  pueblo,  la  clase  trabajadora,  organizada  y  articulada  por  medio  de  las  organizaciones
revolucionarias, tomó las riendas de la gestión de la cosa pública

Pero sin dirigentes ni dirigidos:  Una  auténtica  revolución  socialista,  una  auténtica  revolución  libertaria.  Esta
revolución demostró que el pueblo organizado no necesita del Estado, de los parlamentos, de
los patronos ni de los macarras de la moral.

Es un ejemplo que aún ilumina el espíritu de
muchos de nosotros.

Sean Hoare dead. Police deny suspicions.

Why don’t the police tell the truth?

How can Sean’s death be both ‘unexplained’ and ‘have no suspicious circumstances’??

Are the police qualified to investigate his death…since they themselves are

implicated in the disgusting scandal and even their boss had to resign??

Why would Sean conveniently overdose just when he’s been proved right all along??

See Craig’s report below…

Death of Sean Hoare  by craig on July 18, 2011

The best whistleblower so far from inside News International has just been found dead. Hertfordshire Police, either incredibly stupid or incredibly corrupt, have just been quoted on Sky News as saying there are “No suspicious circumstances”.

Whaether this is a convenient heart attack or a Kelly type “suicide” remains to be seen. Maybe the Met mistook him for a suicide bomber and pumped several shots into his head. With the exception of Kelly, this is possibly the most suspicious death of my lifetime. “No suspicious circumstances”. WTF!!

Sean Hoare’s testimony that Andy Coulson knew of individual phone hacking operations is pretty well certain to be true. I have written many times for national newspapers, and wherever I have written disparagingly about anybody, I have had to give my evidence. I have even, for example, been called in actually to meet the legal advisers at the Mail and discuss my evidence. The idea that journalists were not telling Coulson where they got their stories, or for what purpose they were laying out tens of thousands of pounds, is simply not practically possible. Same goes for the period when Rebekah was editor.

Sean Hoare’s testimony was plainly, absolutely true. His death discourages other whistleblowers a bit, doesn’t it? If the inquiries into News International are going to have any credibility, they are going to need a witness protection programme – from which the Met are totally excluded.

Sean Hoare, key Murdoch accuser, found dead

The police called Sean’s death UNEXPLAINED.

What a coincidence that the key whistleblower in the disgusting  hacking scandal sweeping the Murdoch empire and the British far  right (including  best friend Cameron) should die so conveniently. Every overfed arrogant slug in politics will be celebrating Sean’s death this morning. Especially the American new fascists and the wonderful human beings of Fox News…..

”At a time when the reputation of News of the World journalists is at rock bottom, it needs to be said that the paper’s former show business correspondent Sean Hoare, who died on Monday, was a lovely man.

In the saga of the phone-hacking scandal, he distinguished himself by being the first former NoW journalist to come out on the record, telling The New York Times last year that his former friend and editor, Andy Coulson, had actively encouraged him to hack into voice mail.

That took courage. But he had a particularly powerful motive for speaking. He knew how destructive The News of the World could be, not just for the targets of its exposés, but also for the ordinary journalists who worked there, who got caught up in its remorseless drive for headlines.

Explaining why he had spoken out, he told me: “I want to right a wrong, lift the lid on it, the whole culture. I know, we all know, that the hacking and other stuff is endemic. Because there is so much intimidation. In the newsroom, you have people being fired, breaking down in tears, hitting the bottle.”

SOS Hospital de Bellvitge

SOS Hospital de Bellvitge [KIKO MAKARRO]

L@s trabajador@s del Hospital de Bellvitge llevamos 3 meses luchando en Defensa de la Sanidad Pública, y contra los descabellados recortes que el Gobierno de CIU está imponiendo en todo el sector. Durante 16 semanas los miércoles el personal del Hospital hemos salido en manifestación y hemos cortado la Gran Vía.

En Bellvitge se han cerrado 300 camas, han cerrado quirófanos, han dejado de hacer alrededor de 700 contratos para cubrir vacaciones, jubilaciones etc.
La dinámica del Hospital se está deteriorando desde la Dirección a marchas forzadas no respetando protocolos de infecciones intrahospitalarias ni los protocolos de confort (pacientes que están en sus últimas horas). Nos tememos una puesta en marcha de un plan de desprestigio del Hospital, para en breve (en cuanto aprueben la Ley Omnibus) tener argumento para que desde la Gestión Privada vengan a “rescatar el Hospital”.
Nos tememos que las camas que se han cerrado no se vuelvan a abrir (a las compañeras de limpieza de la empresa Clece les han hecho un ERE).
La pasada semana en el corte de Gran Vía los mossos amenazaron de que si éramos tan poca gente (300 personas) empezarían a abrir expedientes.
Necesitamos mantener las concentraciones todo el verano, puesto que los ataques se mantienen, la ofensiva por parte de la Dirección del centro y de CIU no se toman vacaciones. Además necesitamos seguir porque hay intereses varios de dejar morir las concentraciones y que cualquier día no se pueda cortar la Gran Vía por parte de l@s trabajador@s. Eso causaría un efecto muy desmoralizador.

Por todo ello hacemos un llamamiento URGENTE a tod@s l@s usuari@s de la Sanidad Pública a unirse a las concentraciones de los miércoles en el Hospital de Bellvitge, a las 13h en la puerta. 

Salud y lucha!!

Publicado por TINTA NEGRA, anARTchist blog

Marie Mason: new prison art/ photos.

Check out new photos and prison art from Marie  on her supporters website HERE

http://supportmariemason.org/2011/07/14/new-on-the-website/

About Marie Mason 

22yrs jail for bid to save the planet.

Marie Mason is a loving mother of two and a long-time activist in the environmental and labor movements.

In March 2008, she was arrested by federal authorities for charges related to two acts of property destruction that occurred in 1999 and 2000; no one was injured in either of them.

She accepted a plea bargain and was sentenced on February 5, 2009 to just under 22 years. She is now serving the longest sentence of any “Green Scare” prisoner.

The “Green Scare” is the name given to the recent arrests of animal rights and environmental activists who have been charged with acts of economic sabotage.

Federal authorities have sought outrageous sentences (often Life in prison) and have publicly and legally labeled the activists as “terrorists” – despite the fact that no one has been killed or injured in any of the acts.

Help save The Río Platáno peoples

Paradise in Peril from Skyship Films on Vimeo.

The Río Platáno Biosphere Reserve, Honduras – home to the highest level of tropical biodiversity in Central America, homeland of the Pech and Miskito Indians, and keeper of hundreds of unexplored archeological sites – is in danger. Non-indians are invading the Reserve from all sides, poaching endangered wildlife and fish, slashing and burning ancient forests to sow pastures, and forcing indigenous inhabitants off their ancestral lands. Paradise in Peril follows an expedition organized to document the destruction of this UNESCO World Heritage Site and collect testimony from the native peoples who rely on the Río Platáno for survival.

Show your support for the RPBR: facebook.com/​pages/​Friends-of-the-R%C3%ADo-Plátano-Biosphere-Reserve/​138035182942758

According to Edgardo Benitez of the Green Alliance and the Platform in Defence of the Patuca River, the Tawahkas are under a particular amount of pressure . “This community of Tawahkas is at risk of extinction [if] the dam project at the Patuca River proceeds”.

Watch Paradise in Peril on Vimeo:  http://vimeo.com/26209577
Show some support for the film on facebook: Friends of the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve
Send a letter to Honduras: Don’t Dam the Patuca River!

http://intercontinentalcry.org/2011/paradise-in-peril-the-vanishing-rio-platano-biosphere-reserve/

USA:1000’s on prison hunger strikes

Thousands of inmates in at least 13 prisons across California’s troubled prison system have been on hunger strike for almost two weeks.

Many are protesting in solidarity with inmates held in Pelican Bay State Prison, California’s first super-maximum security prison, over what prisoners say are cruel and unusual conditions in “Secure Housing Units.” We play an audio statement from one of the Pelican Bay prisoners and speak to three guests:

Dorsey Nunn, co-founder of “All of Us or None” and executive director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, and one of the mediators between the prisoners on hunger strike and the California Department of Corrections;

Molly Porzig, a member of the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity coalition and a spokesperson for Critical Resistance; and Desiree Lozoya, the niece of an inmate participating in the Pelican Bay Hunger Strike, who visited him last weekend. [includes rush transcript]

watch program here

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/15/protests_grow_in_solidarity_with_california