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By Peter Lazenby in Britain: Friday, February 14, 2020 Thousands of kids across Britain take to the streets demanding government fights climate change THOUSANDS of students at more than 80 schools across Britain walked out on strike today, demanding government action to fight climate change. Marches, rallies and other events were staged in major towns […]
Big British students’ strike against climate change — Dear Kitty. Some blog
https://bianet.org/english/law/220065-hunger-striking-grup-yorum-member-gokcek-stands-trial-todayİbrahim Gökçek, one of the guitarists of GrupYorum music band, has appeared before the judge for the first time today. Behind bars since March 1, 2019, Gökçek has been on a hunger strike for his right to a fair trial for 240 days.
‘Death Fasting Grup Yorum Members are in Critical Condition’
HDP Foreign Affairs Commission has addressed an open letter to the international community, raising concerns over the critical condition of death fasting Grup Yorum music band members: “Hear the voices of hunger strikers and take immediate action.”
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Hişyar Özsoy, Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Vice Chair, has addressed an open letter to the international community regarding the condition of hunger striking Grup Yorum music band members.
Expressing the HDP’s “full support for the rightful demands of hunger strikers”, HDP Vice Chair Responsible for Foreign Affairs has called upon “all international democratic institutions and progressive forces to hear the voices of hunger strikers, take immediate action, and encourage Turkish authorities to meet their justified demands.”
CLICK – Grup Yorum Music Band to Stand Trial
İbrahim Gökçek, the guitarist of Grup Yorum music band, has been on a hunger strike in prison for 240 days and musician Helin Bölek has been on a hunger strike for 239 days. They demand their right to a fair trial and an end to constant police raids against their cultural center.
original text in Spanish below..
‘The song is addressed to the institutional pillars: “the Police, the judges, the State and the president”, which, as the lyrics say, are complicit in gender violence’.
The viral feminist anthem “The rapist is you” (“Un violador en tu camino”) born in the ongoing Chilean Uprising it is still making waves all over the world.
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It has inspired women to protest sexual harassment, abuse and violent repression, ‘with complicit connivance all the way up to “the Police, the judges, the State and the President”.
Some of the demonstrations are in Bangladesh, where over a thousand people protested came out against the rape of a Dhaka University student. Many protesters performed the Bangla version of the song “The rapist is you”.
The fault wasn’t mine, not where I was, nor what I said, nor how I dressed
The fault is yours, the rapist is you
Screenshot of Rahul Talukder’s YouTube video.
Along with the Chilean revolution, the feminist choreography continues to cause a stir throughout the world, as it inspires women to resist.
This online TV channel did a music video with the Bangla song playing over performances in different countries. Clips of the performances were not broadcast in Bangladeshi mainstream media, but went viral on social media.
London. UK. Call by Green Anticapitalist Front for a rally on February 28. The rally is part of the Green Anticapitalist Week of Action (24/02 – 02/03).
Originally published by Green Anticapitalist Front Facebook event page.
The future of the planet is under attack. We are living through the willful destruction of Earth’s ecosystems and the billions of people who depend on them to survive.
We know what is causing this destruction – the capitalist system we live in and the people who get disgustingly rich while knowing that they are only able to do so by destroying the future for everybody.
Currently they ignore the plight of the global south while stealing resources to pad their pockets all the same; it’s about time we said no more. No more exploitation. No more capitalism. No more climate change!
Join us on the 28th of February at 2pm at in the City of London to tell the bankers, the rich, the powerful that we won’t let them take our planet – the people will not go down without a fight and we’re taking the fight to them to show them what we can do when we organise ourselves.
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You can get a free image editor, a free sound editor, a free word processor, media player, file archiver, PDF creator… the list goes on and on and on. While some of these free apps do not offer quite the same level of polished functionality as their commercial rivals, others far exceed the capabilities of everything else on the market.
by Tom Walker | Last updated Jan 15, 2017 | Tools | 128 comments .. 
Below, we take a close look at the cream of the crop: 20 invaluable and indispensable open source applications that you really should be using, if you’re not already. The vast majority of them are cross-platform and absolutely 100% free! You’re bound to find several that are perfectly suited to your needs.
As you might have suspected, WordPress is #1 on the list, and for good reason! If you like WordPress Themes, make sure to check out the thousands of fully-licensed premium examples found over at Envato Market.
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WordPress is the world’s most popular blogging platform, used by a staggering 202 million websites. As simple or as complex as you want it to be, WordPress is supported by a wide array of plugins which can be used to transform a standard blog into anything you could possibly desire. Besides blogs, WordPress can be used as a straightforward content management system to power anything from online shops using WordPress e-commerce themes, online magazine using a WordPress magazine theme to portfolios using WordPress portfolio themes, WordPress gallery themes are great for photographers and designers showcasing their creations in an online portfolio.
Magento, used by 30,000 merchants, including Samsung, Nespresso and The North Face, is the world’s fastest growing e-commerce platform. Magento Community Edition is offered for free under the Open Software License. The Enterprise Edition, for which you have to pay, offers features like multi-store capability, store credits and gift cards, out-of-the-box.
Firefox currently accounts for 24.43% of the recorded usage share of web browsers, but this figure is on the rise. Already the browser of choice for most web professionals, Firefox’s popularity is growing thanks to its vast selection of third party add-ons, which let users tailor their browsing environment down to the finest detail.
With its speedy searches, built-in RSS feeds, strong security and superb add-ons, Thunderbird has to be the best, free email application available. If you’re prepared to spend some time tailoring your email environment with add-ons, you’ll absolutely love it, but it’s probably not ideal for complete novices.
FileZilla is a hugely successful, cross-platform FTP client. It’s also available as a server, for Windows only. Created in January 2001 by Tim Klosse as a class project, FileZilla has gone on to become the 5th most popular download of all time from SourceForge.net.
GnuCash provides a great, free alternative to paid-for accounting software. Designed for personal and small business use, it offers bank account, stock, income and expense tracking, in addition to double-entry accounting.
Music software like Cubase and Logic Pro can be incredibly expensive, which is why an increasing number of people are turning to Audacity, a free, cross-platform sound editor. Users can record and edit live audio; cut, copy, splice and mix sounds; and convert ageing tapes and records into digital format.
Just like sound editors, industry standard image editing software is prohibitively expensive for a lot of people, but GIMP provides a free alternative. It performs every major function you could desire, except for, vitally, CMYK separation functionality necessary for prepress work.
With the ability to create text documents, spreadsheets, presentations and databases, OpenOffice is an accomplished rival to Microsoft Office, which clearly influenced OpenOffice’s design. Microsoft Office users will feel completely at home and find that OpenOffice performs just as well, if not better.
At last count, VLC media player had been downloaded 300 million times. Unlike some paid-for alternatives, VLC supports practically every audio/video codec and file format. The most recent VLC release also offers live recording of streaming video, frame-by-frame advancement and superb speed controls.
Handbrake rips/converts DVDs to MPEG-4 for playing back on your iPod or archiving. It doesn’t have the ability to decode DVDs, but can do so if you have VLC, which includes a DVD encoder, installed on your computer.
Pidgin is the ultimate, free instant messaging tool. It provides you with one window through which you can simultaneously interact with different people, whichever instant messaging platform they’re using.
Freemind is a terrific mind-mapping tool, which lets you get all your thoughts down as quickly as possible with the use of icons, shapes and colors. Besides the ordinary nodes and links, you can add hyperlinks and even documents to your maps.
Reliable, customizable, intuitive and free, Notepad++ is the most popular Windows-based CSS editor around. It offers everything: syntax highlighting; folding and auto-completion for CSS, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, XML and PHP; multi-file viewing; tabbed editing; zoom in/out; and bookmarks.
7-Zip is an extremely popular file archiver for Windows, which, although free, outperforms Winzip. It can unpack the vast majority of archive formats and can create TAR and GZ archives, commonly used on Unix and Linux systems, as well as its own 7z format, which easily outshrinks ZIP files.
Blender is a 3D content creation suite which can be used for everything from modeling to skinning, particle simulation, animating and texturing. Unlike some other free apps in this list, Blender has not been designed to “imitate” other 3D graphics software, which means it takes a bit of getting used to, but once you’ve familiarized yourself with all the shortcuts, you’ll be hooked.
Windows users can consider PDFCreator a credible rival to Adobe Acrobat. Creating PDFs is as easy as printing, literally, as once installed, you can select PDFCreator as your printer, letting you create PDFs from practically any application.
According to Calibre, it’s the “one stop solution to all your e-book needs”. I’m inclined to agree. Besides letting you catalogue and manage your e-book collection, sorting, tagging and commenting on them as you please, you can download content from the internet and convert it into e-book form.
TrueCrypt really is the best free encryption program around for anyone worried about their security. It offers 11 algorithms for encrypting your files, as well as a comprehensive help manual, which gives advice on complex password creation, hidden volumes and erasing encryption giveaways.
Named after an African philosophy of community, sharing and generosity, Ubuntu is a free operating system for Linux that’s quick and easy to use. Recent figures suggest that around 50% of Linux users have Ubuntu installed. With its focus on usability, Ubuntu comes with OpenOffice, Firefox Empathy, Pidgin, GIMP and other tools pre-installed.
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original en castellano abajo by Agencies / La Haine .. translation by The Free
In the early hours of Friday a man died asphyxiated during the fire of a supermarket in the south of Santiago, because he could not flee the fire due to police repression outside the business. The premises had been looted by protesters protesting the latest police killings and the police did not allow those left inside to leave. There were two injured by gas inhalation and one a young man of about 30 years dead.
In this way Chile added its third death in three days after protests were revived after the murder of a Colo Colo fan last Tuesday when a police truck ran over him on purpose. And one more since.
While his wake was being carried out, on Friday afternoon, police officers repressed with chemical water cannon and tear gas. Another supermarket was also looted and police arrested 16 people. In several streets of the city there were barricades and sources of fire.
Police violence in the mobilizations had reduced its intensity in recent weeks. But on Tuesday night the riots revived after the death of the fan of the club Colo Colo. Jorge Mora had been hit on purpose by a police truck in the midst of repression after a major football game.
A day later, the demonstrations seized Santiago and other areas of the country again. A protester was hit by a bus that refused to stop at the demonstration and died. In response to the violent repression there was looting of shops, public offices and violent confrontations with riot police thugs.
Likewise, the young Ariel Jesús Moreno Molin remained in critical condition, with brain death, in the Central Post, after receiving a police bullet impact on his head during the repression at dawn of this Thursday in the commune of Padre Hurtado. Yesterday his death was reported. On the other hand, on Sunday night, police officers fired a tear gas bomb at the head of a 17-year-old girl who was participating in the “Popular Concert” in Puerto Montt. The victim resulted in a sinking of the skull and underwent surgery.
The Free 