From June 11th This is my sixth year in prison and has easily been the hardest. After being accused of assaulting a lieutenant on August 17, 2018, I’ve been in the SHU since. The past two years have shown me a wide scope of state brutality: physical beatings and tortures, psychological games like being kept…
June 11, 2020 statement from Eric King — anarchistnews.org
LOS COMITÉS DE DEFENSA DE LA CNT EN BARCELONA, 5ª Edición
PRESENTACIÓN
Este libro, cuya primera edición en castellano es de 2011, ha sido traducido al francés, italiano, inglés, catalán y griego. En la quinta edición en castellano, corregida y ampliada notablemente, se ha decidido incluir esta presentación/introducción.
www.grupgerminal.org/?q=node/1345 LEER AQUI GRATIS EN PDF o EPUB.. (comprobado 2020) LOSCOMITÉSDEDEFENSADELACNTENBARCELONA (1933-1938) Agustín Guillamón 5ªedición, aumentada y corregida, marzo de 2018 adjuntos en formato pdf y epub
Era éste el primer libro que consideraba a los Comités de Defensa como auténticos protagonistas indispensables de la Revolución de 1936. Hasta entonces la historiografía no había tratado a los comités de defensa en profundidad, y sólo aparecían citados furtivamente en algunos autores.
Los imitadores y “descubridores” del tema empiezan a ser legión. Y eso está bien, sobre todo cuando se extienden al estudio de los Comités de Defensa fuera de Cataluña, y no se limitan a un mezquino plagio.
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Endlessly, we hear “why are they looting and burning their own community?” As if by geographic proximity, the Targets and Autozones and McDonalds and even the sacred small businesses have ever belonged to the workers and poor who now light them ablaze.
At a time where historic unemployment and disparity meets skyrocketing corporate profits and the advent of the first ‘trillionaire,’ we hear the scolds and defenders of the present order mobilizing to shame those who are reclaiming their time, their labor and their lives.
They remind us that there is a ‘correct’ way of doing things, that there are channels and representatives we must go through to seek justice. Meanwhile, the stores are burning, people are pushing police into retreat, and dancing in the streets.
George Floyd’s life was stolen by the Minneapolis Police Department. Another name on a long list of black lives that have been cut short by police violence. Oscar Grant, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, Philando Castile, Marcus David Peters, Breonna Taylor…every city has its list.
Yet it keeps happening. The script runs on repeat every time, wearing people down, retraumatizing families and communities, and ultimately leaving the institutions and police forces who perpetuate it in place – with minor reforms, at best.
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Published May 28, 2020. From: https://www.athens.indymedia.org/post/1605149/ Spanish translation below
SOLIDARITY WITH PRISONERS ALL OVER THE WORLD
CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL DAYS OF ACTION
The existing health crisis and its management from governments until now, globally, has unmasked the real character of authority, which was hiding itself behind the democratic mask. This oppressive system imposed an ultimate control of life, forbidding everything. Now, all civil liberties have become senseless words. This extreme condition that we live in, reveals that the prison-model is the true capitalistic model of society.
Prison is the most extreme form of bio-politics and extermination. Prisoners are under constant surveillance and control, something that, nowadays is happening to the whole society.
In this period of time, prisoners in Greek prisons are dying, one after another, from minor causes such as rotten teeth etc. Selim Zerolari and Azizel Demiroglou were two prisoners whose deaths we were informed about this month. Mass media, of course, managed to conceal or distort these news. Furthermore, the state has grabbed the opportunity, due to the curfew, to move the most active prisoners, anarchists and others, into other prisons. Silence in the streets gives more power to the state to repress the voices of the imprisoned people.
Womens prison, Colombia
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Agribusinessbolivia
… They forced us to go the route to catastrophe at the hands of multinationals, the agribusiness elite in Bolivia and, also, a chain of smaller soybean producers; along with the existence of increasingly marginalized rural workers, and indigenous territories and badly affected peasant family agriculture ...
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Bolivia in the agroextractivist whirlpool. Transgenics and the new offensive of the state, multinationals and agribusiness.
In the midst of quarantine by COVID-19, on May 8, 2020, the transitional government of Añez, gave way to the evaluation of GMOs for soybeans, corn, wheat, cotton and sugar cane, implementing the state policy that in the last fifteen years benefited agroextractivism. The state-capital alliance is renewed and multinational companies such as Monsanto-Bayer, Bioceres come with it, with their genetically modified and agro-toxic seeds. The small peasant and indigenous production that uses and protects native seeds, collectives and organizations that oppose this new attack on comprehensive health and food sovereignty have stood up against this offensive.
On March 18, 2019, the government of Evo Morales, along with private entrepreneurs and the Association of Oilseed and Wheat Producers (ANAPO), an affiliate of the powerful Eastern Agricultural Chamber, signed an agreement to allow the brief evaluation of two GMO soybean seeds (INTACTA and HB4) resistant to glyphosate and glufosinate ammonium, in order to produce the so-called “biodiesel”, according to the “new era of biofuels” in Bolivia and the “ethanolazo” decreed by MAS 2018.
It was a second big step for the agribusiness sectors in Bolivia, after the first one that took place in July 2005, during the transitional presidency of Eduardo Rodriguez Veltzé, who approved the use of the transgenic soybean RR 40-3-2 [1] .
Soybean Producers Conference, March 2019 (Photo: ANF)
The representatives of ANAPO, the Agricultural Chamber of Small Producers of the East, (CAPPO), and the Single Federation of Peasant and Producer Workers of the Four Northern Provinces, who had signed a statement that March 2019, demanding the approval of the use of seeds transgenics, expressed their satisfaction at the new achievement of approval of transgenic evaluation for the production of “biodiesel”. However, they announced that they would also seek the go-ahead for new GMO events for corn, cotton, and sugar cane:
The executive secretary of the producers of the northern Santa Cruz, Deisy Choque, [and candidate for deputy for the MAS] said that it is expected that in a short time the decree will be enacted allowing the use of these biotechnological events of the grain in the summer campaign […] For the president of the Small Producers Agricultural Chamber (CAPPO), Isidoro Barrientos, this measure is a fundamental advance for Bolivian agriculture, but work will continue to access genetically improved seeds for corn, cotton and sugar cane plantations of sugar.
The events of October and November 2019, temporarily stopped the requests and negotiations that the producers were supporting, which resumed this 2020, when in March of this year the transitional regime of Añez authorized the National Biosafety Committee to continue the evaluation for seed HB4 and other transgenic seeds. Business is business and continues no matter what government it is.
On March 6, 2020, in a brief press release, the Vice Ministry of Environment, Biodiversity, Climate Change and Forest Management and Development, as National Competent Environmental Authority (AACN), announced that the National Biosafety Committee had accepted the evaluation of the HB4 transgenic event, based on Supreme Decree 3874 approved by MAS on April 17, 2019.
MONSANTO and Bioceres: Business and state alliances for the health of the population
The introduction of HB4 seed is directly linked to global mega-companies that set the pace and geopolitics of the capitalist “agri-food industry”. In February 2019, the Argentine company Bioceres and ANAPO had presented HB4 seed in Bolivia, resistant to drought and announced as a great alternative for soy producers in the country.
Bioceres is the Argentine company that made a public-private alliance with experts from the UNL – National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), from Argentina, creating INDEAR, which is in charge of “providing R&D services to facilitate the development of new technologies and pro
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Two years after the invasion of this canton of Rojava, Islamist factions under Turkish control continue to plunder the territory and clash with the civilian population, which nevertheless refuses to leave. Most of them have had to live in very poor conditions in the Shehba refugee camp, under military control of the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad.
A refugee child of Afrin in the camp of Serdema Ferran Domènech
A fuel truck exploded in late April in the central market of the city of Afrin (in the canton of Rojava, in the northwestern part of the Syrian state), killing about 50 people. While the Turkish government in Ankara blamed the Kurdish forces for the attack, they denied any involvement. Meanwhile, several Syrian opposition parties and organizations, some loyal to Turkey, blamed Turkish authorities for the blast.
This is another chapter in the instability in the canton of Afrin, in the northwestern tip of Syria, a region with a Mediterranean climate where olive trees, streams and small mountains give shape and character to its inhabitants. . There is not a single person in Afrin who is not in love with his land and speaks of it with devotion. Afrin is also one of the three historical cantons of Rojava where Democratic Confederalism – the ideology according to which the Kurdish movement is organized – had developed most successfully.
Paid by the Turkish State., the jihadi mercenaries are given free reign to loot,'confiscate' property and kill or expel residents.
But since 2018 it has been under Turkish occupation. Since then, Ankara has carried out a demographic shift by establishing Arab and Turkmen populations in the area, whether they are Islamist fighters under Turkish orders or displaced families from other parts of Syria.
Barin Kobane-Avesta Xabur and Anna Campbell-our-heroes-murdered by Turkish invasion in-Afrin
The same demographic engineering is taking place in Sere Kaniye and Tell Abyad, areas occupied in October 2019, according to various human rights organizations. However, hundreds of people are reluctant to leave these territories, especially the elderly, who face harsh reprisals from pro-Turkish factions: from rapes to kidnappings in exchange for money or disappearances.
Hasan Hasan ran an English academy in the city of Afrin, which he was forced to abandon due to the invasion. He is currently a member of the Afrin Human Rights Association and is dedicated to documenting violations of rights by the Turkish state. He explains that “Afrin was the richest area of Rojava, or even Syria.” For this reason, the occupation has not been limited to repression of the local population and theft of property, but has taken other forms, such as the plundering of natural resources.
“At least 200,000 olive trees and hundreds of thousands of pines, oaks and other varieties have been cut or uprooted,” says Hassan. Much of the olive trees would have been sold to other regions such as Idlib or Urfa, or processed into firewood and charcoal to cope with the high price of oil and diesel.
This plunder has also affected centuries-old trees in Sufi, Alevi and Yazidi religious shrines. Xudiret Betar, a member of the Yazidi minority, explains that the Proturant militias looted nineteen Yazidi sacred sites. “They steal what they can and destroy what is left.”
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by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy Originally posted May 26, 2019 May 24, 2020 The U.S. Army tweeted a harmless rah-rah tweet and got hit with a burst of reality never encountered on corporate-controlled media. Score one for the internet.
U.S. Army: 0 — Internet: 1 by David Swanson — Dandelion Salad
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
Originally posted May 26, 2019
May 24, 2020
The U.S. Army tweeted a harmless rah-rah tweet and got hit with a burst of reality never encountered on corporate-controlled media. Score one for the internet.
The Army asked: “How has serving impacted you?”
Here’s a tiny sample of the responses:
Karen@educatorsresist 5h
Replying to @USArmy
I lost my virginity by being raped in front of my peers at 19. Got married to a nice guy who was part of my unit. He was in the invasion of Iraq. Came home a changed man who beat the shit out of me. He’s convinced y’all are stalking him and he’s homeless so great job there!
KrissyK@krissyk262 58m
Replying to @USArmy
My sweet friend David can’t answer you. He committed suicide a few years ago after a couple tours of Afghanistan.
Daniel GBO@danny_m94 5h
Replying to @USArmy
The strain of my deployment was too much for my wife to bear. She committed suicide in our home when I had just one month left. When my mental state deteriorated, I was sent to counseling so my COC could check off a box and say “they did everything they could”. (1/2)
I turned to alcohol and other vices. I begged to be sent to any other unit in a different state, just needing a change of scenery. Instead, I was demoted and discharged. Dumped like a bag of trash when I had at one time shown great promise as a leader and soldier. (2/2)
J-Fixx@Chromedominium 5h
Replying to @USArmy
My wife walked in the garage and found me hanging from an extension cord. What’s worse she had to lift me up, cut the cord and resuscitate me all while screaming for help. My black ass is 6ft 245 pounds and she is 5’2 130 pounds. But hey at least I got to shoot some cool shit.
KnitWit@maraomaude 5h
Replying to @USArmy
a friend’s father, 20 years after Vietnam, was still managing massive ptsd, and would have nightmares so big that he’d wake us up convinced we were under attack. he called us by names of his former unit soldiers and would cry when we told him about it.
Skitter@ghostedarmy 4h
Replying to @USArmy
My grandfather served in Vietnam. When I was 6, he shot himself in the head because of his depression and PTSD. I never got to learn who he was because of you.
Molin@Molindawolf 1h
My mom served at ft. McClellan and is still suffering from being poisoned to this day.
Jeffrey Scott@Jscott916 4h
Replying to @USArmy
I am a Navy vet, I was a happy person before I served, now I am broke apart, can’t even work a full 30 days due to anxiety and depression, I have Fibromyalgia and nobody understands because I am a guy. I am in constant pain everyday. And I think about killing myself daily……..
gay rat wedding minister@skydovva 12h
Replying to @USArmy
My grandparents were used as pawns serving the US army in aiding them on the Ho Chi Minh trail. They served in The Secret War, and when the US lost the Vietnam war the Hmong were left to die in genocide. To this day Hmong veterans are not recognized by the US army.
More than half of my people were wiped out through genocide. Only about a third of what once was the Hmong population are scattered in diaspora around the world. Many in the US who deal with PTSD through alcoholism, abuse, and addiction to opium.
And the children are left to pick up the pieces and navigate a delicate past, present, and future for the years to come while inheriting intergenerational trauma.
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