‘Sputnik V arrived!’ Venezuela gets 1st batch Covid-19 vaccine. Trump Offered Inoculation.

3 Oct, 2020 Get short URL

Russia has delivered the first batch of its Covid-19 vaccine to Venezuela, making it the first Latin American nation to participate in Sputnik V’s clinical trial.

“We are the first country from the Western Hemisphere which will start the Phase III trial of this vaccine against Covid-19,” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro tweeted, expressing his gratitude to Russia.

Red crates containing doses of the Sputnik V vaccine to immunize 2,000 people arrived at the Simon Bolivar International Airport in Caracas on Friday. Vice President Delcy Rodríguez accepted the cargo during a short welcome ceremony, after which it was moved to a lab.

“On behalf of President Nicolas Maduro and the Venezuelan people, we thank our sister Russia and President Vladimir Putin,” she tweeted.

The vaccine, nicknamed after the USSR’s first space satellite, was registered in Russia in August, before a large-scale Phase III trial of the drug was conducted. The decision was criticized by some Western nations, who called it reckless.

Moscow said the medicine was based on a time-tested platform successfully used for other vaccines, assuring its safety.

The batch delivered to Venezuela is part of a post-approval trial, which involves some 40,000 volunteers and is conducted with the help of some of Russia’s foreign allies. The results of the study are expected to be reported within two months.

Creator of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine offers to help White House staff after US President Trump contracts virus

2 Oct, 2020 12:05 Get short URL

If a MAGA Minion on social media says COVID-19 spread is Democrat's fault... show them this

By Jonny Tickle The developer of Russia’s pioneering Covid-19 vaccine has offered the White House administration an opportunity to be inoculated against the virus after Donald Trump confirmed Thursday he and his wife had contracted the disease.

Speaking to Moscow news agency RIA Novosti, Sputnik V creator Alexander Gintsburg advised President Trump’s colleagues to get in touch with Moscow to get a hold of some of the vaccine. “I think we can help them if they contact the Russian authorities officially,” he said.

In a suffocating world, squats are a breath of freedom

from Women Defend Rojava Αρχική, Κείμενα/Ανακοινώσεις

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In the morning of Monday, August 17th, in Thessaloniki, the squat Terra Incognita was evacuated by the repressive forces of the state.

For over 16 years, Terra Incognita has been a meeting place and a melting pot for hundreds of fighters, men and women, thanks to its stable structures, such as a library, a printing house, a gym etc., hosting events, interventions or demonstrations against repression, capitalism, fascism and patriarchy..

A few days later, in the early hours of Saturday, September 5th, the state mechanism chooses to evacuate Rosa Nera squat in Chania (Crete). This attack is not random either, since Rosa Nera in recent years has been the center of investment plans by the administration of the Technical University of Crete, given that the squat is situated on Kastelli hill, one of the most touristic places in the city.,

For 16 years, Rosa Nera hosted people and events, supported and participated in many struggles, local and non-local, had been a stable spot offering practical solidarity towards immigrants but also the local community thanks to its numerous open structures such as library, reading room, children’s workshops, playground, theater groups, community garden, charity bazaars etc.

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Debunking UN’s new Venezuela report: Using human rights to promote US War and criminal Siege

Anya Parampil·October 1, 2020Red Lines Venezuela

Red Lines host Anya Parampil debunks a new report issued by the UN Human Right’s Council which accuses Venezuela’s government of “crimes against humanity”. Transcript below.

By Anya Parampil

A new report by a special mission of the United Nations Human Rights Council was released in September and is making headlines after it accused Venezuela’s government of crimes against humanity.

Because it is getting so much attention, several people have reached out to me asking for clarification regarding the information and allegations presented in the report. So I thought I’d help provide some context.

see also..https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/2019/05/03/stop-us-murder-machine/COMMENT: We do not deny that the Venezuelan State, like almost all others, has used torture against civilians. The ‘Chavez revolution’ can only survive by militarized organisation against the endless subversion, sanctions and coups of strongest Empire in history. But within that State control there are still genuine mass communal solidarity movements, a constituent assembly, gender rights, housing and health rights, etc. now sadly disappearing in mass hunger and poverty.

The first point to understand about this report is that none of its authors set foot in Venezuela in order to produce it..

The Office of the High Commissioner of the UN Human Rights Council, Michele Bachelet, did not author this report.

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Environmental destruction as Fast as the High Speed Train .. English /Spanish

from todoporhacer.org. translation thefreeonline

What do the Isla de Valdecañas, Madrid Central low-emission zone and the high-speed AVE trains have in common?

An island in an environmentally protected area in a reservoir in Cáceres converted into a luxury resort.

A low emission zone in Madrid denounced by the Partido Popular (PP) and annulled for “defects of form” by a judge.

An underused and overrated high speed train network.

Three conflicts where, once again, the environmental movement has always been on the frontline against politicians, businessmen and judges who strive to increase every day more social and territorial inequalities and environmental catastrophes.

For more than 50 years, different sectors of society have been warning of the irreversible path that humanity is taking with respect to the environment that surrounds it. Climate change, the end of fossil resources, the loss of biodiversity, population concentration in large cities, long-distance tourism, the transmission of diseases, the financialization of the economy, industrial relocation … are indicators that something is going very badly.

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#Liebig34, #Berlin: Turning the eviction into a disaster – but how?

CALL FOR DEMO AGAINST EVICTION OF L34 ON THE 3RD – CHAOS INSTEAD OF EVICTION

DEMO October 3rd – Friedrichshain – 9pm

We are angry! Angry that Liebig34 is about to be taken away from us. Angry that every attempt at a self-determined life is being tried to be crushed. We are fed up with all the harassment by cops in the neighborhood and everywhere else.

We are fed up with their repression, the state and its servants, who make it impossible for people to shape the city they live in.

We shit on investors for whom Berlin is nothing more than a Monopoly board on which they can move their houses around. We don’t give a shit about the yuppies who, with their new buildings and condominiums, are displacing the people who spend their lives here, for whom the street and the Dorfplatz is more than just the way to the co-working space.

We demand a city from below. We want to occupy houses. We want to decide for ourselves how we want to live.

Liebig34 presents: CosyColdKitchenTalks – soft words in rough times

The Liebig34 must stay! Not only because it is the home of so many people. But above all because Liebig tells the story of a Berlin where not only people with capital and an SUV could meet for a beer. Because it is a place far away from consumerism. A place of lived solidarity and feminist utopia.

The neighborhood has changed so massively in recent years and decades that many old-established residents have had to leave. Spaces of the neighborhood have given way to yuppie cafés, and condominiums are displacing house projects.

When Liebig leaves, another ball of gentrification is set rolling. We don’t want to let that happen.

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Trashing the Last Paradise. World’s biggest Pantanal Wetlands still Ablaze

As Brazil’s wetlands burned, neo-fascist Bolsonaro regime did worse than nothing to help

Tatiana Pollastri And David Biller / The Associated Press

September 30, 2020 02:53 PM

As Brazil’s wetlands burned, government did little to help

Jair Bolsonaro’s government says it has mobilized hundreds of federal agents and military service members to the region to douse the flames. However, all along the only highway through the northern Pantanal, dozens of people — firefighters, ranchers, tour guides and veterinarians — told The Associated Press that the government has exaggerated its response and there are few federal boots on the ground.

The world’s largest wetland is on fire: how can we save the Pantanal?

https://blog.ecosia.org/what-is-the-pantanal-and-why-is-it-burning/

*These are small outtakes of the devastating fires happening in the Pantanal, shared with us in late September 2020 by Reinaldo Nogales.*

PORTO JOFRE, Brazil — After hours navigating Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands in search of jaguars earlier this month, Daniel Moura beached his boat to survey the fire damage. In every direction, he saw only devastation. No wildlife, and no support from federal authorities.

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Thinking about Work from Ecofeminism. English/Spanish

By Joana Bregolat .. via Kaos .. shared with thanks.

Translation by The Free Online

The covid-19 pandemic has disordered and accelerated processes that have been defining our lives for some time.

The confluence of a global health crisis with permanent economic and financial crises, the climate, energy and food crises that we have been observing for some time, and the crises of care, sovereignty and social reproduction that are embodied in our bodies and territories on a daily basis, they have modified our ways of living and inhabiting the planet.

Instability appears again as a constant adjective that describes our day to day.

It is in this context that we find ourselves in the end of 2020 full of uncertainties, doubts and tensions, seeing how monsters grow and old and usual economic recipes return and we we lose out.

Cutbacks, privatizations, bank bailouts announce more pressure, more precariousness, more anguish…

We are once again at a turning point.

But in this desperate trench of struggle for survival, there are opportunities to rethink ourselves, to rethink everything.

The youth climate movements have taken up the challenge and porganised on September 25 a mobilization of agitation on the need to transform a structural axis of our system: work.

Fight Like a Girl: How Women's Activism Shapes History

Reviewing the notion of work

In general terms, classical political economy has defined the concept of work around views that only understand production, exchange values, wages and benefits, reducing their understanding to a commodity and forgetting the systemic link between the (re) production of goods and services and the (re) production of life (Pérez Orozco, 2006: 38).

It is a look at the uprooted, disembodied economy, which in the process of compartmentalizing and hierarchizing the realities and experiences that go through our daily lives has turned our backs on our own survival (Federici, 2010).

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