Mar 2016 – Page 2

Coal rail transport line sabotaged in Avon Gorge (UK)

reblogged from Via 325.

Attacking UK’s coal transport system – Severing the lines that feed the machine

Severing the lines that feed the machine is not impossible. When people take up civil uprising in the UK, if people are able to shove their obligations to one side to open up an avenue, they mainly have the ability and possibility to be able to grasp their will for something new. The war is not over when those moments stop, it sparks up in little raptures here and there, showing that we are not crushed, things can be brought to a grinding halt again, even for a split second.

It just takes a few bright spirits and we see it clear, when the smug confidence of authorities is knocked, a few pins get hit out and things can be seen in a different light. Out of synch and off balance, everything no longer appears structurally sound, life feels more up for grabs.

The new horizon peaked through our cloudy day, Sunday 6th March, and we hope this uncomplicated act of sabotage we have undertaken exposes the vulnerability of their complex matrix. Continue reading “Coal rail transport line sabotaged in Avon Gorge (UK)”

CORPRO-FASCISM: TTIP, Fake Freedom Moves Closer to Open Slavery – By Sam Gerrans

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Source – geopolitics.co

– The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is not just meant to isolate China from global trade but to weaken what’s left of the protective trade barriers that nations are struggling to sustain.

It’s not only that republics have long been reduced covertly to corporation, they are also waging an open war on the minimum safety, health and environmental regulations which are still keeping the planet from complete devastation, and the population, from annihilating each other through economic starvation.

TTIP: Fake freedom moves closer to open slavery

Sam Gerrans @SamGerrans

The new trade negotiations – TTIP – sound dull. It combines the US and EU markets to make the process of fleecing the sheep simpler and cheaper for the wolves. Standard procedure, you may say – and you would be right.

But what is interesting is that any pretense at democracy has been dropped from the propaganda…

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Lesbos Greeks, refugees demonstrate against Europe-Turkey anti-refugee deal

Dear Kitty. Some blog

This video says about itself:

Greece: Protesters rally against EU-Turkey refugee deal in Lesbos
26 March 2016
Protesters rallied in Mytilene port on the island of Lesbos on Saturday against the agreement between the EU and Turkey for the return of refugees.
Refugees, local residents and volunteers from NGOs marched in solidarity with refugees and to denounce the EU’s refugee policies and NATO’s involvement in tackling the refugee crisis.
Starting from the port, protesters marched through the city to stop by a Greek Ministry of Shipping and Island Policy building, where police were deployed to prevent any violent incidents. The protesters then marched back to the port.

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Tate Gallery liberated from Fossil Fools (+ video)

Seven reflections on Liberating Tate

As BP’s sponsorship of the Tate ends, Kevin Smith of Liberate Tate looks back at the successful campaign to get the oil firm’s dirty money out of the art gallery

After six years of Liberate Tate spilling oil, squirting paint tubes, flapping huge squares of cloth, counting carbon levels with our voices, learning how to give tattoos, installing giant wind turbine blades and melting Arctic ice, we learned last week that the Tate-BP relationship was over. Here’s some of what we learned from our efforts to push big oil out of the arts.

1) This was about Tate, but much more about BP

Our work on Tate is about trying to kick some of the supporting legs out from underneath BP’s chair – taking a relationship that nurtures and sustains BP and transforming it into one that was actively damaging for the company.

London, 19/03/2016.- Activistes del moviment Liberate Tate celebren que la companya British Petroleum retira el patrocini del museu Tate Modern. Durant anys, han estat fent accions creatives per denunciar el rentat verd d´aquesta contaminant petroliera. Continue reading

‘Live Wolf Protected Wolf’ yell 10,000 in Madrid ‘Lobo vivo, lobo protegido

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There are over a million licensed hunters in Spain.. and most of them would love to shoot a wolf. But last week over 10,000 people marched in Madrid demanding more protection for wolves, the biggest ever demo in favour of one species and the environment..

Existing law gives minimal protection and compensation for losses of livestock.

In the last decades millions have abandoned rural life in Spain, forest and wildlife have recovered and the wolf has increased its territory somewhat, despite continual repression.

The wolf is a ‘top predator’ and a key factor in the ecological chain built up over millions of years. Studies in the US show that reintroducing wolves completely transformed the habitats. eg. they controlled the plague of deer which had destroyed tree shoots, leading to forest regeneration, leading to stabilising watersheds leading to beaver dams, leading to fish revival leading to….etc.. (see video)