Month: Nov 2016

Mississippi Stand women block Dakota Access Pipeline Drilling Under Des Moines River

from Mississippi Standafp-fv5iyAs the clock struck midnight Mississippi Stand kicked off Global #NoDAPL Solidarity #NationalDayofAction with a double lockdown stopping the boring operation underneath the Des Moines River on the Dakota Access Pipeline.iowa-300x200

As far as we know, this is the second lockdown ever to occur on a Horizontal Directional Drill. Both Drill lockdowns were actions led by Mississippi Stand and all of the Water Protectors who have locked down have been women!! Continue reading “Mississippi Stand women block Dakota Access Pipeline Drilling Under Des Moines River”

L’amenaça de desallotjament ronda el CSO La Figa Tendra de Godella

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La propietat vol enderrocar els dos edificis alliberats fa quasi dos anys a l’Horta Nord de València. Des de dilluns passat, grups de resistència han fet guàrdies per evitar l’expulsió i s’hi ha convocat unas jornadas de convivència.

El centre social nasqué amb la voluntat de dinamitzar un entorn que es trobava totalment abandonat

La Figa Tendra és un espai alliberat amb quasi dos anys d’existència que es troba a Godella (Horta Nord). Es compon de dues casetes que han estat rehabilitades, el terreny cultivable que les envolta i d’una figuera centenària, símbol del projecte. El centre social nasqué amb la voluntat de dinamitzar un entorn que es trobava totalment abandonat i que suposava un risc per a la població del seu voltant a causa de la degradació de l’espai, els incendis que s’han…

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Poem: ““you realize adults know nothing about girls when they ask you extra dumb questions”

jacklynPoem: ““you realize adults know nothing about girls when they ask you extra dumb questions”

from  on the Feminist Wire

By Jacklyn Janeksela

just as i swallowed a spoonful of peanut butter or right when

i swallow a spoonful of peanut butter    she asks me

what do you want to be

when you grow up        but she doesn’t know i’m already grown

just because i cannot manage money or drive a car         doesn’t mean

i don’t see how this life thing works      and just because i don’t

have all the        vocabulary with which to express

myself              i have enough and it does me just fine

thank you

so while you think i’m still a     little girl           because i don’t know

what sex is        or what married is         i can tell you a thing or two

about broken hearts and masturbation    this little body carries

a brain and a heart that light up              the mother fucking world

and no, i might not do big things                      like society’s idea of big

get seen on television or read in the magazines status

imma do big things for me        and for my community

imma make art like i wanna       and think like i wanna   and

pray and worship and eat and love and fuck and write

like i wanna

but of course    i don’t say all that         because

by the time i get the peanut butter down                      she’s

already left the room

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11064519_10204865328926852_604298934_ojacklyn janeksela can be found @ felled limbs, Oddball Magazine, The Nervous Breakdown, Berfrois, Barrelhouse, Uut Poetry, Pig Latin, Thought Catalog, Luna Magazine, & Talking Book. forthcoming in WhiskeyPaper, Reality Hands, & DumDum Magazine. she is in a post-punk band called the velblouds. her baby @ femalefilet. more art @ artmugre & a clip.

US nationwide riots reveal revolutionary undercurrent and plan for general strike

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The shock of a Donald Trump victory in the US presidential elections may finally jolt Americans into rethinking their country’s political structures. And the post-election riots, along with plans for a general strike, may well be an outlet for citizens’ democratic frustrations. The US model of democracy, meanwhile, is not just flawed. It’s also an insult to the intelligence of American citizens; the idea that an occasional choice between two corporate-funded parties is democracy. While Trump may have convinced some voters that he was an anti-establishment candidate, he very much represents the establishment. A slightly different one from the one that Hillary Clinton represents. But still an establishment.

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Death Threats to -Kinetik Justice- Prison strike organiser. Support needed

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On October 21, 2016 Robert Earl Council (aka Kinetik Justice Amun) went on a Hunger Strike based on threats against his life from the Alabama.oct-2016-prison

Department of Corrections (ADOC) administration and staff. He was transferred to a supermax facility, and water was shut off in his cell in an effort to force him out of his hunger strike. His transfers
happened after the media exposed the ADOC during a nationwide prison strike to demand changes to prison conditions and unpaid labor.

As of November 8, 2016, Kinetik Justice is in danger for his life, and
organisers are calling for action.img_5170

Kinetik has been inside for over 22 years and is a co-founder of the
Free Alabama Movement which has organized successful work stoppages to demand basic human rights and has provided education and legal support to hundreds of incarcerated people.10599613_1518395251745511_5416659300835430917_n

CALL WITH DEMANDS TODAY: Call the Alabama Department of Corrections and
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley’s office demanding 1) that Kinetik
Justice be transferred from Limestone Correctional Facility; and 2) that
Pastor Kenneth Glasgow of The Ordinary People’s Society be allowed to
visit him and assess his condition immediately.

Alabama Department of Corrections
Montgomery, Alabama
(334) 353-3883 [1]
webmaster@doc.alabama.gov

Governor Robert Bentley
600 Dexter Avenue
Montgomery, AL 36130
(334) 242-7100 [2]

FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE:

https://freealabamamovement.wordpress.com/

http://theordinarypeoplesociety.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZuuFZDq9Yk

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White House Gives Up On Passing The TPP

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President Trump: Countdown to Apocalypse – From Crimethinc

Posted on November 11, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

After the Trump election, from CrimethInc …

Move the doomsday clock forward another click.

We were right about the direction things are heading, but wrong about the time frame. We thought Clinton would win the election, and would then be discredited by new scandals and the challenges of preserving an increasingly unpopular status quo, producing a reactionary surge like the one that recently toppled Dilma in Brazil.

Instead, the scandal broke before the election, with the announcement of further FBI inquiries into emails associated with Clinton. And, as with the Brexit vote, everyone underestimated just how desperate and reactionary the general public has become—at least the ones who still identify with the ruling order enough to vote at all. It’s later than you think.

It’s significant that the news event that rescued Trump’s presidential bid was essentially an intervention by the FBI. This tells us a lot about the era we are entering: it is the security apparatus of the state that will be calling the shots, not the aspects of government that purport to improve the lives of citizens.

Capitalism, long stabilized in the so-called First World by the compromises that produced the middle class, will henceforth be imposed by force. The surplus of the 20th century has run out; the velvet glove is coming off the iron fist. Sure, demagogues like Trump and Sanders will continue to promise us the moon every four years or so, but it won’t be peace treaties that will preserve the prevailing order—it will be police. Continue reading “President Trump: Countdown to Apocalypse – From Crimethinc”