Transition is an idea that has gone viral, a social experiment that is about responding to uncertain times with solutions and optimism. In a world of increasing uncertainty, here is a story of hope, ingenuity and the power of growing vegetables in unexpected places. Continue reading “Transition Movement explodes into Life: watch film here”
CORALIE ALISON **Trigger Warning** *Sexual Assault Themes*
Rape threats are to social media as catcalling is to walking down the street for women–commonplace. If I had a dollar for every time a man has threatened me on Twitter, I would have my mortgage payment every month.
It’s the ugly side of social media–the very thing that allows women to connect with other women all over the world, especially on feminist issues, also allows men from all over the world to harass us. Yes, you can protect your account on Twitter, but that pretty much defeats the purpose of getting your message out to a wider audience. Continue reading “Why 100’s of Men Want to Rape and Kill Coralie Alison”
This week we have known the plans of the British company Oxitec to release to the environment genetically modified olive flies in Catalonia. It is a manipulation that makes female larvae die within the olive. The intention of the company is to release transgenic flies up to 5,000 per week in Spain for one year (1,825,000 in total) near the city of Tarragona. Continue reading “Oxitec plans to release Genetically Modified Olive Flies in Catalonia”
In parts of Spain it’s a good moment for social occupations . In Barcelona, Madrid and other cities local council elections have suddenly swept street revolutionaries into power, with a mandate to slow down mass evictions by the predator banks, etc.
Strange things can happen. For example in her 1st days in power Barcelona’s mayoress Ada Colau turned up at a family eviction herself and just ordered the riot police to go home. We translate here the press release of a more traditional anarchist takeover in a traditionally communist workers town of 70,000 in Catalonia…… Continue reading “2 new Anarchist Social Centres Occupied: Rubí and Transformadors”
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Courtesy of http://www.AirPano.com360° Aerial Panorama • 3D Virtual Tours Around the World
AirPano is a not-for-profit project focused on high-resolution virtual tours from a bird’s eye view. AirPano has already photographed over two hundred most interesting locations on our planet and it is the largest resource for 360° aerial panoramas in the world. There are more than two thousand spherical panoramas on our website at the moment.
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In the face of increasingly catastrophic climate news – rising sea levels, wildfires, drought – a team of Russian photographers with the not-for-profit AirPano, have taken to the air in helicopters, airplanes, dirigibles and hot air balloons to offer virtual and often panoramictours of 200 of the planet’s most stunning locations, urban to wilderness, to remind us what’s at stake. Take note.
![Protesters wear bras over their shirts during a demonstration in support of local female protester Ng Lai-ying [Reuters]](https://i0.wp.com/www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2015/8/2/bd3cf2a8124d43159dc766224d710501_18.jpg "Hong Kong 'breast walk' held over court ruling")
Wearing a rainbow of patterned bras over their shirts, dozens of protesters have gathered outside Hong Kong’s police headquarters to protest against the conviction of Ng Lai-ying, who was deemed guilty of assaulting a police officer with her breast during a protest. Continue reading “‘Breast Walk’ demo: Woman jailed for hitting Cop with Breast.”
Israel accused of killing 75 children during day of ‘carnage’ and war crimes in Gaza war
Israeli forces have been accused of carrying out war crimes during a day of “carnage” in the Gaza Strip that has been called Black Friday.
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