Melbourne, Australia: Occupation of the STELaR Weapons Research Centre Site in Carlton

Press Release, 21 Feb 2017

STELaR Weapons Research Centre site in Carlton Occupied

Peace protectors are presently occupying the Carlton site of the future Lockheed Martin weapons research lab.

Now an empty building and lot on the site of the former Women’s Hospital near the University of Melbourne, building will soon begin to make it the largest Lockheed Martin weapons research centre outside of the United States.

The weapons research centre will be known as the STELaR Lab (Space, Technology, Engineering and Research) and it is a joint project of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, the University of Melbourne, the Australian Department of Defense and Lockheed Martin (Australia).

“Whilst thousands of people are homeless across Australia, it’s outrageous that our government is giving money to large corporations like Lockheed Martin” Eli Jessup a spokesperson for the group said.

“The government claims that funding the building of this lab…

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Stop the imminent Standing Rock Eviction

Indigenous Rising Media

URGENT.

Militarized law enforcement have now surrounded their camp. In less than 24 hours, at 2pm on THIS WEDNESDAY Feb. 22, law enforcement will try and raid the camp and arrest any water protectors who attempt to remain.

THIS IS NOT OK. This is their treaty land. This is their water at stake.

Water Protectors are asking media, supporters and those who can come to come NOW. Right now. Please pay attention & share their truths. Come if you can. This is the front line in the battle against #TrumpTyranny.

ALSO:

Survival • Self Determination • Liberation

This is why we march. Stand with us. Organize a caravan.
March 7- 9 : Native leaders and organizers will erect tipis on the National Mall and for three days they will hold space to make our voices and presence heard. They will also lobby in the halls of Washington D.C. to protect Indigenous Rights.
March 10 : Native Peoples and their allies will gather for a march through Washington D.C. On this day we will stand together by the thousands making our demands known and collectively we will tell the new administration they can no longer disrespect our rights, our ancestral lands and the sacred water that gives us life.
#NativeNationsRise
#NoDAPL
#NoKXL
#ProtectChaco
#SaveOakFlat
#NoNewLeases
#IndigenousRising
#StandWithStandingRock

INDIGENOUS WOMEN OF STANDING ROCK ISSUE HEARTBREAKING PLEA FOR HELP AHEAD OF EVACUATION | MIC

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Indigenous women of Standing Rock issue heartbreaking plea for help ahead of evacuation | Mic – Monthslong demonstrations at Standing Rock are scheduled to end Wednesday; the United States Army Corps of Engineers and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum have issued an evacuation order for the morning of Feb. 22, according to the official website for the Oceti Sakowin camp.

Peaceful protesters gathered there seemed to score a victory in early December, when the Army Corps of Engineers denied a permit that would have allowed construction of the Dakota Access pipeline to continue along its previously planned route, under Lake Oahe. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe opposed the pipeline on the grounds that it threatened ancient tribal lands and could pollute a crucial water source, the Missouri River.

dis-ARM Madrid: NO NO NO to the HOMSEC Arms Fair in Madrid

from… utopia contagiosa collective part translation by the free… en castellano más abajo

When you walk through the streets of Madrid or simply go to work the next 14, 15 and 16 March you may see some fancy cars, we assume they’ll be black, big, with tinted glass and reinforced to endure bomb attacks.

Maybe in some hotel or restaurant of the expensive ones you will spot some men that we suppose will go well dressed, jacketed, corked and with their hair well cut. But you would not suspect that they are death-dealing, that they are warlords.

They will be in Madrid making the inhabitants of our city ashamed. During those days Madrid will become the world capital of ”legal” arms trafficking (will the illegal arms trade be here, taking advantage? We do not know, but we can assume …).

14, 15 and 16 March 2017the HOMSEC arms fair will be held in Madrid . It is sponsored by the Atenea Group, which we have already mentioned on several occasions, highlighting its military leadership, its previous involvement in the 23-F attempted Fascist Coup and its contacts with the PP.

Its objective is to sell weapons, to the highest bidder. May Madrid host the institutional sellers (or perhaps not) of arms so that, comfortably, taking advantage of Madrid’s hospitality, they can contact, exchange news, needs, inventions and proposals? Will millions of € move on armaments? Possibly.

It will be the sixth time, 5 fairs have already taken place in Madrid. But almost no one has heard about it. That is the key for death-dealing, to go unnoticed. Continue reading “dis-ARM Madrid: NO NO NO to the HOMSEC Arms Fair in Madrid”

New Mooncup campaign says ‘Own Your Period’ and save the Planet

Ecologist Reporter

Mooncup campaign offers a more eco-friendly alternative

Reusable sanitary product pioneer Mooncup have come up with a film that shines a light on the drama of disposable sanitary products, inviting us to leave the past behind and choose another way (models posed here are look-alikes)

The new ‘Own Your Period’ Campaign by Mooncup – the eco-friendly alternative to disposable sanitary-ware – aims to persuade women to make the switch

‘From day one we’ve had one aim: to make the experience of periods more positive, healthy and eco-friendly’ – Su Hardy, founder of Mooncup
‘Reusable sanitary product pioneer Mooncup have come up with a film that shines a light on the drama of disposable sanitary products, inviting us to leave the past behind and choose another way. Continue reading “New Mooncup campaign says ‘Own Your Period’ and save the Planet”

‘Take them in!’ 500,000 march for Refugees in Barcelona

‘Take them in!’ Massive Barcelona march urges Madrid to welcome refugees

read all in English on RT HERE Up to half a million activists have flooded the streets of Barcelona demanding the government in Madrid lives up to the EU-set refugee quota and welcome thousands more of asylum seekers into the country.

“Enough Excuses! Take Them In Now!” and “No More Deaths, Open The Borders!” slogans have been heard since 4 pm in Barcelona when hundreds of thousands gathered in support of the refugees. Over 5000 people died by drowning in the Mediterranean last year trying to escape to Europe. Continue reading “‘Take them in!’ 500,000 march for Refugees in Barcelona”

Fascism in Action: Waves of 800 dawn Arrests of Left, Feminist and pro-Kurdish

There are already 800 more pro-Kurdish, feminist and left-wing civilians detained in Turkey in just 48 hours.

Meanwhile theTurkish state is receiving billions from European taxpayers in blackmail money to not to send refugees North.

And both the USA and Russia are wooing the dictator Erdogan as a strategic partner and customer in their insane capitalist expansion, To the extent that both give permission to invade Syria and to bomb and shell SDF and YPG/YPJ areas practising non ethnic, non religious and anti sexist direct democracy.. to replace them with factions of whatever crazed jihadi drug addicts they can find, as long as they are pro-Turkey.

Sara Kaya the Kurdish mayoress of Nusaybin now jailed in Solitary without trial

According to Reuters the Turkish police have detained more than 800 people for alleged links with Kurdish militants in the last two days. A measure of repression that the parliamentary party Halkların Demokratik Partisi (HDP, People’s Democratic Party) said was intended to leave them out of the referendum. Continue reading “Fascism in Action: Waves of 800 dawn Arrests of Left, Feminist and pro-Kurdish”