Chile. Amidst widespread mobilizations inside Chilean prisons for the restitution of dignified visits for prisoners, and 10 years since the massacre in the San Miguel Prison, Mónica Caballero, together with two other prisoners from the “Connotación Publica” module, have begun a hunger strike, uniting with the hunger strike already launched in the high-security prison.
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Below we share the communique from Mónica, who provides a historical recollection of the different events of resistance and struggle that have marked this prison:
Without doubt, there are places which store thousands of histories. If the high walls of the prisons could speak of the experiences of those who were (and are) locked up behind them, perhaps they would tell us many histories. They would tell us histories where poor people would be the protagonists, or perhaps they would tell us of the immense yearning for freedom that fills the hearts of those who populate the dungeons and cells.
Follow RT on Washington’s willingness to punish WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange won’t change with Joe Biden in office – and the UK government will do anything to help the US achieve this goal, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has told RT.
A decision by a British court on Assange’s extradition to the US, where he is wanted on espionage charges over his leaks of classified documents, is to be announced on January 4, 2021.
But Rogers, speaking to RT’s Going Underground, believes the upcoming ruling is quite easy to predict. UK authorities will “continue as they do – poodles as they are – to follow the instructions of Washington DC, which will be exactly the same, I suspect, from Joe Biden as they were from Donald Trump,” he said.
The whole extradition trial, which took place in London in the autumn, was “completely a setup job,” Rogers argued.
Serious concerns over the WikiLeaks founder’s health have been repeatedly raised, with a UN special rapporteur saying previously that there were signs the journalist had been subjected to “psychological torture” during his incarceration.
“The powers that be are hoping that Julian will die in prison,” Rogers told Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi.
Authorities in the UK “take no notice of the universal declaration on human rights… or law, or justice” by keeping Assange, who “committed no crime except a minor bail infringement,” behind bars, he added.
Rogers has long been a strong critic of Trump, but he’s not too excited about him being replaced in the White House by Democrat Joe Biden, who last year labelled Assange “a high-tech terrorist.”
“Biden is the servant of the oligarchy of the US. He’s not to be trusted,” he warned.
The president has changed his hat or his name. He’s called ‘Biden’. He was called ‘Trump’. The policies aren’t going to change.
Indeed, the only likely changes will be superficial, as Biden “won’t be quite as vile in public as Donald Trump was,” the Pink Floyd co-founder suggested.
“Who knows, maybe in four years’ time the DNC [Democratic National Committee] will wake up and will support a candidate that represents the needs and aspirations of ordinary working American people,” he added.
Noam Chomsky Turns 92 Today. He’s Celebrating With a Livestream on Planetary Peril and Democratic Uprisings.
It was just seven years ago that Mother Jones ran an article by Noam Chomsky titled “Destroying a Planet Without Really Trying.” In his sights: “dangers like pandemics.”
Noam Chomsky thinks the biggest news of November 8 was actually ‘barely noted’
He saw epidemiological and environmental threats as intertwined, on top of oil profiteering, labor exploitation, Indigenous rights violations, and institutional inaction and obstacles. “That’s what the future historian—if there is one—would see,” he wrote.
“If you ask what the world is going to look like, it’s not a pretty picture. Unless people do something about it. We always can.”
That last bit—we always can—is the takeaway not just of his 2013 article, but of his life’s work. If there’s a throughline in his canon of criticism of imperialism and capitalism’s wreckage, it’s that idea. Action is takable. Solutions are available. “It’s not that there are no alternatives. The alternatives just aren’t being taken.”
Chomsky marks his 92nd birthday today with a livestream on “the future of democracy, nuclear threat, and the looming environmental catastrophe in a post-Trumpian world.”
BBVA and the investment fund Cerberus want to evict 38 families with minors in La Pobla de Vallbona
by Ester Fayos December 2, 2020at La Directa. translation the freeonline
80% of Divarian’s assets are owned by Cerberus vulture fund, managed in Spain by the eldest son of former far-right Spanish President José María Aznar, José María Aznar Botella, through Haya Real Estate; while the bank retains 20%.In 2018 it closed its accounts in Spain with profits of more than 274 million euros.
Last Wednesday, the PAH, @EntreBarris and the affected families held a mobilization, from the PSOE headquarters to the headquarters of Haya Real Estate – a company created by Cerberus to manage and market the properties – located on Avenida Cardenal Benlloch of Valencia, to stop the eviction, scheduled for December 9.
They also demand a housing alternative, as well as the approval of a royal decree to stop evictions and cuts in basic supplies until 2023.
Castellón, Vila-real, the Vall d’Uixó, Valencia, Torrent, Catarroja, Alicante, Elche… The Divarian real estate investment fund is everywhere. This is the company created by BBVA and the American vulture fund Cerberus Capital Management, which in 2018 closed its accounts in Spain with profits of more than 274 million euros.
According to its website, it has at least 3,561 properties spread between Barcelona and Valencia and, together with Blackstone, is the largest investor in the Spanish tile market, with almost 50 billion euros invested in recent years.
Faced with speculation with the house by this large landlord, this Monday, in Barcelona, the Guerra a Cerberus movement confronted him with an action at the headquarters of Haya Real Estate – a company created by Cerberus to manage and sell real estate.
Bolsonaro’s latest sales pitch? Come exploit the Amazon rainforest
Brazil’s Environment Minister Ricardo Salles has been called a ‘termite eating the ministry from the inside’ by his predecessor.
By Simone Preissler Iglesias and Shannon Sims.. at Al Jazeera English shared with thanks!
After fires devastated Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, US President-elect Joe Biden said the government of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro should face consequences if he continues to fail to protect it [File: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters]
Brazil’s environment minister has a vision for the Amazon — as a money-making venture open to business.
In meetings with international fund managers, Ricardo Salles pitches the rainforest as a novel opportunity ripe for investment. Where conservationists see a fragile region in urgent need of protection, Salles sells an image of cosmetics and pharmaceutical companies exploiting the jungle’s myriad exotic herbs, nuts and fruits.
“We have to attract private capital to the Amazon,” Salles, 45, said in an interview last month in his office in Brasilia, a large map of Brazil’s environmentally protected areas on one wall and a view of the capital’s treetops behind him. “This is my approach in all of the meetings that I have in Europe and the U.S.”
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Nations are planning production increases of 2% per year and G20 countries are giving 50% more coronavirus recovery funding to fossil fuels than to clean energy. Photograph: Dazman/Getty Images
The world’s governments are “doubling down” on fossil fuels despite the urgent need for cuts in carbon emissions to tackle the climate crisis, a report by the UN and partners has found.
The researchers say production of coal, oil and gas must fall by 6% a year until 2030 to keep global heating under the 1.5C target agreed in the Paris accord and avoid “severe climate disruption”. But nations are planning production increases of 2% a year and G20 countries are giving 50% more coronavirus recovery…
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