from ANF, shared with thanks

“Today, as people struggle against repressive rule in their own countries, they understand what the Kurdish movement long taught: that resistance is life. This international solidarity gives all our struggles hope.”

• ANF – DEVRİŞ ÇİMEN
• BRUSSELS
• Friday, 20 Dec 2019, 13:44

Various women from Slovenia, Pakistan, Hungary, Croatia, England, USA and Poland show solidarity with the revolution in Rojava and condemn the illegal war of aggression and occupation of Turkey on Northeast Syria since 9 October. They draw parallel between the attack on Rojava and attack on the achievements of the liberation struggle of women worldwide. The revolution in Rojava was marked by the liberation of women and inspires many women in the world. In this context, the following women have spoken for the ANF.

Violeta Tomić, Member of the National Assembly Slovenia – LEVICA (Slovene: Levica = The Left, its political party), Ljubljana, Slovenia

In my hands, I hold the book: »Revolution in Rojava, Democratic autonomy and Women’s liberation in Syrian Kurdistan«, written by Anja Flach, Ercan Ayboga and Michael Knapp.

I am most fascinated about the social experiment of direct democracy, which developed in multi-ethnic and multi-religious areas of Northern Syria during

the Civil War, representing a peaceful democratic alternative for Syria and the Middle East, an alternative for Syria and the whole world.

It represents the possibility of overcoming conflicts, religious, national, and political, which maintain permanent war, and the destructive interventions of regional and foreign military.

In Rojava, you create a model of calm coexistence and self-determination for all communities of the Syrian mosaic. It is priceless that at the core of this project you recognize the liberation of women and deconstruction of patriarchal social patterns and institutions.

With great honor and pride, I accepted the invitation to join demonstrations in Budapest last October in support of revolution in Rojava and to protest against Erdogan’s visit to Orban and Hungary.

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Just some notes.. Planting trees isn’t as easy as I thought. I plant maybe 10 a year and most of them die coz I forgot to water in the Spanish summer heat. But with every climate report more catastrophic and convincing (see below) it seems a basic idea to find out how to plant 1000 trees before I die, at least for the kids sake.

Of course trees just store CO2, and if someone burns or bulldozes my trees I’ve wasted my time. And the science of forest carbon sinks is a welter of contradictions. But all agree that the bigger the forest , the more carbon it stores, especially when growing.

Many researchers claim that reforesting the billions of hectares of degraded, abandoned or arid land could stop Climate Chaos for a generation. Okay, dismantling capitalism is the real answer, but time is running out. (It’s not a betrayal, just as a revolutionary Union accepts a wage rise!) So let’s just make the forests bigger! Indeed the rise in CO2 and nitrogen will help them grow!

First problem is where to plant. Okay, we can put a few trees in gardens and vacant lots, the more the better, and they say don’t forget native plants and bushes that are just as important. But to plant a lot of trees, even living in the country, confronts us with capitalist property rights, and even if you can find the last plot of common land it’s pretty sure someone will grab it or let loose their fucking goats.

One answer is to organize, and meanwhile get those first seedlings going in pots. There’s lots of institutions looking for volunteer tree planters.. most of them pretty capitalist IMHO. Look out for Greenwashers and polluters angling for carbon credit cash!

Continue reading “Biosphere Collapse?! How to plant 1000 trees Before you Die”

Kumbia Kombativa en solidaridad con las revueltas del pueblo chileno. “El que baila pasa” es una nueva forma de protesta en Chile donde l@s manifestantes que bloquean el trafico de los vehiculos instan a sus conductor@s a salir y bailar para mostrar su apoyo a las protestas si quieren seguir avanzando con su coche.

Kumbia Kombativa in solidarity with the revolts of the Chilean people. “The one who dances can pass” is a new form of protest in Chile where the protesters who block the traffic of the vehicles urge their drivers to get out and dance to show their support for the protests if they want to continue moving forward with their car.

Las autoridades aseguran que se trata de una humillacion violenta y han establecido penas de hasta 541 dias de prision para quienes paren el transito de esta manera.

Continue reading “video:Get out and Dance! And we will let you pass .. “El que baila pasa” by Kumbia Kaos”

photo..Amazon: A gold mine swallowed their village. This tribe is here to take it back

Brazil’s Bolsonaro says bill to open indigenous reserves to mining, agriculture ready

partly by Cecilia Jamasmie , shared with thanks

Bolsonaro has vowed to assimilate the country’s 800,000 indigenous people — less than 1% of the total population — into Brazilian society.

“The Brazilian president has called on native communities to be included in society, alluding that they have been unfairly forced to live apart in misery.” That is, stop being yourself; some lazy, lousy and miserable savages, and become citizens of the society of capitalism.

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(Image: Katiabraga | Pixabay.)

Bolsonaro says it, but this racist, ethnocentric, simplifying and energetically false vision of this type of societies has many people disagreeing and the bill will hopefully have big problems in Congress in February.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that a controversial bill allowing mining, agriculture and cattle farms on protected indigenous reserves was ready to be sent to Congress for consideration.

Bolsonaro again claimed indigenous culture, which has cared for the Amazon for millenia, is mere superstition and that they are kept in poverty and forced to be separate and invited them to integrate, ranch cattle and mine the disappearing forest.

This follows his UN intervention in the same vein, which drew the following reaction.. “Bolsonaro’s speech is outrageous, undemocratic, racist, and deeply violent against the indigenous peoples of Brazil and the great indigenous leader Raoni, internationally recognized for his contribution to the preservation of the Amazon.

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December 19, 2019 by actforfreedom, shared with thanks

Athens, Greece: It’s ironic. The greek government has been terrorizing the neighborhood of Exarcheia since the summer with squat evictions, attacks on people inside coffee shops and bars and brutal beatings and arrests for no reason -especially following the protests on 17 November and 6 December, where an atypical martial was imposed in the area.

A few days ago they made an attempt to cover up the riot police crimes against the people in the area, by decorating Square with Christmas lights and a Christmas Tree!

[You can find links to videos documenting some of the police crimes in the area during the last few months r at the end of this]

To get an idea of what is happening in Athens at the moment a few things have to be noted: The greek government has gone to war with anarchists and anti authoritarians, following the end of a 15 days ultimatum issued by the Ministry of “Public Order”, against the dozens of political and refugee squats across Greece (some of them more than 30 years old), threatening them with violent evictions by the riot police and police special forces, if they did not evacuate within the deadline.

The deadline ended on Thursday night on the 5th of December 2019, a political decision by the Greek State aiming to agitate and create an “explosive atmosphere”.

Following the first wave of attacks and evictions, mainly against squats housing refugees during the fall, the second wave of attacks has just begun, this time against political squats and social centers.

Continue reading “Athens: People Burn Down the Christmas Tree amid violent State Attacks !!”

To all those who realize capitalism must be dismantled to save the planet. Every day, every minute the world wealth concentrates in fewer and fewer hands. Billionaires and Corporations hire armies of lawyers to hide their wealth offshore, tax free, milking the population dry.

Already the offshore trillions are bigger than the wealth of blocks of nations, and the process seems impossible to stop, (while scientists suggest that with only 400 billion they could finance reforestation campaigns that could stop runaway climate catastrophe, at least for now).

Impossible to stop? Wikileaks and the transparency collective ‘Distributed Denial of Secrets‘ , among other voluntary heroes are risking their lives to publish online the filthy secrets of the corporate billionaires. Secrets uncovered by anonymous leaks, brave journalists and intrepid anarchist hackers. Then its up to the public to search the material, publish the proof, and pursue the ecocidal criminals.

Below we publish a report, shared by the Unicorn Riot Collective, of a massive new leak published online by the Transparency Collective.

Global Offshore Corporate Networks Exposed in Massive Data Leak

By Dan Feidt, Unicorn Riot December 3, 2019

LONDON, UK – Hundreds of thousands of documents from inside Formations House, a posh British finance firm located in central London, have been released online tonight. Formations House created thousands of companies for ultra-wealthy business-people for offshore banking and international transactions.

The transparency collective ‘Distributed Denial of Secrets‘ obtained these documents from a source dubbed “Babylon” and is publishing them online. More than 100,000 recorded phone calls between Formations House, its customers, and related figures, are included. Full archives of the phone calls are expected to be released in coming days.

Massive Hack Strikes Offshore Cayman National Bank And Trust .Capitalism concentrates wealth in fewer and fewer hands. By now it’s ridiculous and totally immoral .. and an opportunity for hackers who want to save the planet to STRIKE A POWERFUL BLOW. Phineas Fisher ( she, he or they) has shown how insanely rich and powerful criminals who are leading the destruction of the planet can be exposed and held responsible.

• SEE ALSO : Eat the Rich? How Offshore Capital Now Rules the World
• Phineas Fisher Offers $100,000 Bounty to Hack Banks and Oil Companies Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai In Tech November 17 2019

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