After huge solidarity Chanti Ollin has been reoccupied.. though at least 9 people are still arrested, needing bail money, and some injured, the damage is huge, things have been robbed, children terrorised, workshops ransacked, etc.
Freedom of Speech? The Spanish regime has accused the comedian Facu Diaz for a video simulating the dissolution of the far right ruling Partido Popular, because all are in jail for corruption.
”The day after the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris, Spanish satirist Facu Díaz is ordered to court under glorification of terrorism laws to answer questions on the “mocking tone” of a sketch.
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And to those who say not every religion is reactionary, we say: to justify one religion is to justify all and to differing degrees they have…
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The ‘Expropriated Bank’ is one of 7 occupied social centers in ex banks in and around Barcelona. Though long overdue for eviction the State has hesitated, perhaps a bit nervous after failing to evict Can Vies last year due to huge solidarity.
Maybe they don’t want to coincide with widespread public anger at the jailing of 7 activists for being anarchists. (Mass Demos vs. Gag law and Arrest of Anarchists)
Perhaps they wish to avoid more opposition to their corrupt banks which have presided over the eviction of up to half a million people to balance their crooked books.
Whatever the reason the ‘Expropriated Bank’ in Gracia barrio is still going strong. Here’s a translation of their latest communiqué….. Continue reading “The Expropriated Bank: Communiqué as Eviction Delayed Again.”
Garden Pool claim to ‘ f source for ideas and information..
by Jonathan Schoenfeld One family in Phoenix, Arizona responded to the worlds agriculture issues and ensuing food crisis with their own self sufficient pool farm.
Continue reading “Backyard Ecosystem Made out of a Swimming Pool.”
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dominating most prison colonies is a type of punishment not handed down by any judge: the denial of the right to human dignity.
Nadya and Masha, the last 2 Pussy Riot to be released, have gone back to Russia and are have set up Zona Prava (Zone of Rights) , which campaigns against the horrific penal system.
Nadya and Masha are veterans of art protest group and Pussy Riot and have spent over a year in jail on flimsy charges, really for ridiculing the rampant misogyny and corruption of the Russian state and patriarchal religious leaders. Continue reading “Pussy Riot women focus on Prisoners Aid”
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