Month: Sep 2015

Urgent: your help needed: Sweets Way to the barricades!

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A big showdown is brewing at the Sweets Way estate in Barnet, North London. High court bailiffs and cop reinforcements are preparing to swoop on the estate in a major operation to clear those defending the homes and fighting social cleansing. Already things have started getting heavy, as a new firm of security thugs (“Dorman & Co”) arrived yesterday and starting attacking people last night.img_7175

But the squatters are ready to resist. Numbers are growing, and the heart of the estate is now barricaded off. They are calling for support: get down this weekend to build and reinforce the barricades and prepare for action. The eviction is expected any time from Monday. Below we post a new call-out from the occupiers. See also thesweetswayresists blog and you can check their twitter account for updates. Continue reading “Urgent: your help needed: Sweets Way to the barricades!”

UN: Gaza Could Become ‘Uninhabitable’ By 2020

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Israeli military action and economic blockade have rendered the coastal strip unfit for civilian life, report says.

By AFP   Mint Press News  September 2, 2015   

An elderly Palestinian walks past a destroyed building in GazaAn elderly Palestinian walks past a building which was damaged in last summer’s war, in the Shijaiyah neighborhood of Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Feb. 23, 2015.

The Gaza Strip, ravaged by successive wars and nearly a decade of Israeli blockade, could become uninhabitable for residents within just five years, the United Nations development agency said Tuesday.

“The social, health and security-related ramifications of the high population density and overcrowding are among the factors that may render Gaza unliveable by 2020,” the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) wrote in its annual report.

Gaza, a tiny enclave of about 225 square miles squeezed between Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea, is home to about 1.8 million Palestinians, making it one of…

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[Spain] About comrade Gabriel Pombo Da Silva and maxi prisons

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Translated by Act for freedom now!:

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A year has passed since comrade Gabriel Pombo Da Silva was transferred to the Topas penitentiary centre (Salamanca). He continues to resist the harsh experience of the deprivation of liberty (after already more than 30 years behind bars), but also various stratagems that the prison administration is continuing to come up with in the best of its interests and those commanding it.

Topas prison was created as part of the program of construction of about twenty maxi-prisons promulgated in the early 90s by the PSOE government of Felipe González.

At the same time, the left and socialist head of the AP, Antoni Asunción, introduced the internal directive governing the FIES regimes. So Topas prison has the characteristics of these new mass incarceration factories – in Spain, the number of imprisoned persons has doubled in 20 years, from roughly 35 000 –…

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Indigenous Brazilians send Urgent Plea for Help

‘WE ARE FACING A VIOLENT GENOCIDE’

by September 2, 2015

Pictured: Daiara Tukano (Source: Daiara Tukano)

Pictured: Daiara Tukano (Source: Daiara Tukano) “The Indigenous genocide of America is the biggest genocide in the world, and we must join forces and fight for the end of this violence.” Daiara Tukano

An urgent plea for help has surfaced from the state of Mato Grosso do Sul in southern Brazil, where a local Indigenous activist has accessed various social media platforms to broadcast the current state of crisis, and ongoing genocide of Indigenous Peoples in the region.

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Sevilla: 53 on Trial by Spanish State for Occupying Utopia

53 PEOPLE on trial for OCCUPATION

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On Friday September 4th the first two trials will take place, the first of 53 of which are due against people who lived in Utopia occupied in Seville in May 2012 by families who were homeless or about to lose  their homes. by Gladys Martinez Lopez

Max and Jesus will go to the criminal courts in Seville accused of squatting (illegal in Spain under the term ‘usurpation’.) in May 2012 a building of Ibercaja Bank that had remained empty for two years . More than 30 families, many of them homeless or about to lose by failing to pay the mortgage, were rehoused in the building, which they called Corrala Utopia, and many continued giving the place life until it was exicted in April 2014.untitled

The prosecution asked from each a 720 euro fine. In fact, the state prosecution is the only one who has submitted an indictment, as Ibercaja, the main interested party, has declined to prosecute the 53 cases. “The prosecution’s case is exactly the same for everyone. It takes no notice of the personal circumstances of any of them “says Anabel Segado Diagonal, a lawyer for several of the accused. Continue reading “Sevilla: 53 on Trial by Spanish State for Occupying Utopia”

I dreamed I heard Joe Hill last night.. Inspiring you and me..

  With three bullets to the heart, the State of Utah executed Joe Hill on November 19, 1915. In one of the most disputed cases to date, Joe Hill, the most prolific songwriter in the history of the Industrial Workers of the World, was convicted of murdering John Morrison, owner of Morrison Grocery, and his son Arling on the night of January 10, 1914 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Continue reading “I dreamed I heard Joe Hill last night.. Inspiring you and me..”

Day of the Disappeared in Spain: 150,000 dead in ditches

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for 40 years Spanish rulers have blocked attempts to
dig up the missing 150,000

Spain commemorates International Day of the Disappeared with 150,000 dead in ditches                      By María Garzón Molina

Spain holds the terrible title of being the second state in number of missing after Cambodia.

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Silence. Silence or empty words, is all they get, the mothers and fathers, daughters, sons, brothers, nieces … people looking for their lost relatives who, either by deliberate State action or, or calculated inaction, have long been and continue to be victims of enforced ‘disappearance’. Continue reading “Day of the Disappeared in Spain: 150,000 dead in ditches”