Feb 2012 – Page 3

Greek solidarity World Demos Sat 18th

Saturday 18 February 2012 WE ARE FIGHTING FOR OUR FUTURE! + article/global invitation:”Greece shows us how to protest against a failed system” by John Holloway

More than 300.000 people participated at the social revolt that took place in 12 February 2012 in Athens. Many thousands took the streets all over Greece… Thousands of students demonstrated all over Greece in 17 Feb. 2012. The social struggle against misery, inequality and exploitation continues, expands and becomes stronger and stronger. People from all cultural backgrounds come together in the neighbourhood assemblies, in the grass-roots unions, the social centers, the big demonstrations and the riots. People from all ages help each other in the streets to attack against police, against the parliament, against the economy and the inhuman austerity measures that the global and local economic elites imposes to the people of this world

We invite all our friends to participate all over the world in the demonstrations at Saturday 18 February 2012 for Greece, for ourselves, for all the possible reasons, for all the life of this planet! WE ARE FIGHTING FOR OUR FUTURE!

Cleaning your ASS with the last Rainforest ??

American consumers are unwittingly contributing to the destruction of endangered rainforests in Sumatra by purchasing certain brands of toilet paper, asserts a new report published by the environmental group WWF.

0209wwf-report — Wiping your ASS with the Rainforest ??The report, Don't Flush Tiger Forests: Toilet Paper, U.S. Supermarkets, and the Destruction of Indonesia's Last Tiger Habitats, takes aim at two tissue brands that source fiber from Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), a paper products giant long criticized by environmentalists and scientists for its forestry practices on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

The brands — Paseo and Livi — are among the fastest growing, in terms of sales, in the United States. Both brands are commonly marketed for hotels, restaurants, and public restrooms, according to the report.

APP has converted large tracts of Sumatran rainforest for wood-pulp plantations used to produce fiber for paper products. The forests serve as critical habitat for a range of endangered species and generate livelihood for rural communities.

“APP is rapidly expanding into the U.S. market with paper products linked to rain forest destruction, originating from areas that are the last home for critically endangered Sumatran tigers, elephants, and orangutans,” states the WWF report.

Wood is stacked up outside APP’s mill in Riau Province, Sumatra, one of the world’s largest pulp mills. Photo by Daniel Beltra / Greenpeace “The mill is in development by a plantation forest concession holder who currently supplies pulpwood to APP,” an APP representative told mongabay.com, refuting the RISI story.

WWF estimates that APP has destroyed nearly 5 million hectares of forest in Sumatra since it began operations in 1984. APP is still heavily dependent on sourcing fiber from natural forests, a consequence of “historically low investment in plantation development and a strong reliance on plantations located on peat soils and in areas with community conflict,” according to the report. ……

Recent reports by Indonesian groups Eyes on the Forest (a WWF partner) and Greenomics question whether APP’s conservation projects really go above-and-beyond what is required under Indonesian law, while Greenpeace and the Rainforest Action Network have both found rainforest fiber in packaging materials produced by APP, according to independent testing lab results…..

Yet more proof that Asia Pulp and Paper’s green claims don’t stack up (greenpeace.org)

The Sun SINKS on dictator Murdoch

Five senior Sun newspaper employees were arrested this morning over the scandal of payments to police for information. As part of the ongoing police investigation Operation Elveden, which began after the News of the World phone-hacking scandal saw the Murdoch Sunday paper close, a number of high profile journalists were arrested in a series of early morning raids, along with senior police officers and Ministry of Defence employees and a member of the armed forces.

All five were arrested on suspicion of corruption under the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906 – aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office and conspiracy accroding to a police statement, which adding ‘It relates to suspected payments to police officers and public officials’.

The arrests come two weeks after four former and current Sun journalists and a serving Metropolitan police officer were arrested over alleged illegal police payments.

sean hoare — Sean Hoare's death let Murdoch and Cameron off the hook in the NOTW hacking scandal

It’s understood the paper itself is in jeopardy and Murdoch attempted to distance himself further from his UK employees and operation with a statement: “News Corporation remains committed to ensuring that unacceptable news gathering practices by individuals in the past will not be repeated and last summer authorised the MSC to co-operate with the relevant authorities”.

The NUJ on the other hand are less than impressed with Murdoch’s stance stating: “Journalists are reeling at seeing five more of their colleagues thrown to the wolves in what many sense to be a witch-hunt. They are furious at what they see as a monumental betrayal on the part of News International.”

It is also understood the scandal so far has cost the company $200 million in legal fees and compensation pay outs to people who had their phone illegally hacked by Murdoch’s papers.

http://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/2012/02/11/the-sun-goes-down-on-murdoch/

Favela Rising.. See it HERE

FAVELA RISING documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united.

Watch online: http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/favela_rising

Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, Anderson Sá is a former drug-trafficker who turns social revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro’s most feared slum.

Download: http://fileserve.com/file/Dmz5acm/Favela.Rising.DVDRip.XviD-pedr1nho.avi

Through hip-hop music, the rhythms of the street, and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police.

Torrent: http://thepiratebay.se/search/favela%20rising/0/99/0

TRAILER You Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5_DnxeEkts

Subtitles: Not found.
You might also like:Blowing Up Paradise (2005)The Shock Doctrine (2009)Many Straws Make A Nest (2010)Rachel Corrie: An American Conscience (2005)

See More HERE..(with thanks) http://fuckcopyright.blogspot.com/2012/02/favela-rising-2005.html

a Spring diary..agenda de primavera

Global mobilization for May 2012
May 1: strike (in Latin America and the U.S.)
May 12: day global rally
May 15: Global Strike / day Transition
info: Minutes of the meeting of the International via Mumble 28/01/2012

http://titanpad.com/MaydayPlanningGlobalMeeting28enero2012

Blog d’internacional: http://acampadabcninternacional.wordpress.com/

Suport a l’Espai Alliberat / Support the occupied space

Suport a l’Espai Alliberat d’UB-Raval
Email: espaialliberatubraval (nospam) gmail.com (verificat)	08 feb 2012 Modificat: 05:25:45
Des de les Facultats d’Universitat de Barcelona-Raval ens estem organitzant per alliberar un espai en desús de la nostra facultat.
Volem convertir-lo en un punt de trobada entre estudiants i gent del barri, on crear coneixement més enllà del marc acadèmic i sense cap tipus de mediació. Tenim la intenció d’organitzar activitats des de tots els col·lectius d’estudiants i desenvolupar el pensament crític i col·lectiu. Un espai on crear alternatives econòmiques i autogestionades, trobades d’intercanvi i un banc d’apunts, exàmens i treballs. Volem un espai on desenvolupar-nos lliurement! Si vols donar-nos un cop de mà, aquest és el material que necessitem: – Estanteries- Taules- Cadires- Fotocopiadora- Suro d’anuncis- Maons, ciment i fusta- Endolls, cables d’energia- Pintures- Pintura de garatge, parquet, moqueta (pel terra) I qualsevol cosa que creieu necessària!I difusió! Pel tema de recollida, poseu-vos en contacte amb espaialliberatubraval (at) gmail.comEnglish transalation (google) Support Freedom of Space UB-Raval on From the faculties of Barcelona University-Raval we are organizing to free unused space on our faculty. We make it a point of contact between students and local residents, which create knowledge beyond the academic framework and without any mediation. We plan to organize activities from all groups of students and develop critical thinking and collective. A place where self and create economic alternatives, meetings and exchange of bank notes, exams and assignments. We want a space to develop ourselves freely! If you can give us a hand, this is the material we need:- shelves- Tables- Chairs- Photocopying- Cork Ad- Bricks, cement and wood- Plugs, power cables- Paintings- Painting of garage flooring, carpet (by land) And anything that you feel necessary! And spread! please contact espaialliberatubraval (at) gmail.com

Mavis’s miracle Maringa farm

CAPE TOWN, Jan 25, 2012 (IPS) – When a food crisis hits the continent, African countries tend to look to the international donor community to mobilise aid. But a fast-growing, drought- resistant tree with extremely nutritious leaves could help poor, arid nations to fight food insecurity and malnutrition on their own.

A 15-hectare plantation of the “miracle tree” with the botanical name Moringa oleifera has already started to make a positive change in the rural village of Tooseng, which is located in one of South Africa’s poorest provinces, Limpopo.

Moringa leaves are dubbed a “super food” because scientists found that they contain the calcium equivalent of four glasses of milk, the vitamin C content of seven oranges, the potassium of three bananas, three times the amount of iron found in spinach, four times the amount of vitamin A found in a carrot and twice the amount of protein in milk. It is like a supermarket on a tree……

Mavis Mathabatha, a former school teacher from Tooseng, has been working hard to set up a Moringa farm over the past three years that will produce enough leaves to make a positive difference in her community and further afield. “I want to make an impact in my area, province and across the country through this project,” she explains….

Today, Mathabatha’s farm produces and packages up to 10,000 tonnes a year of Moringa leaf powder, which is distributed not only within South Africa, but also exported to Botswana, Swaziland and Lesotho. “I am hoping to further extend my market in the next few years. There is a lot of interest in my product,” Mathabatha says….