“It was solidarity that won the reversal,” said Sharon Black of the Peoples Power Assembly. She pointed out that there was no avenue to restore the pages until the targeted groups alerted supporters and media and threatened legal action.
Social media network Facebook is relied upon by millions of people around the globe for communication. But under billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow owners, Facebook serves the interests of profit, not people. Facebook launched its latest attack on leftists and people’s organizations shortly after the inauguration of President Joe Biden.
Tunisia. Tunis. January 26. 2021. Confidence vote for the government reshuffle.. parliament besieged by young people from popular neighborhoods and opposition movements.. repression and arrests….
This day of rage, as it was called, represented the first conscious attempt to merge the two moments of the anti-government protest movement of these days: the mass and proletarian one of the periphery (not only from the city but from the most marginalized regions of the country) and that of the youth of the opposition. militant and framed in parties and organizations of the revolutionary and student left..
Once again the Mechichi government responded with repression: every single street leading to the square in front of the parliament was cordoned off and manned by hundreds of policemen and dozens of armored vehicles, even the entrances to the neighborhood within a radius of two kilometers were closed and garrisoned by vehicles equipped with water cannons, even from within the parliament some Social Democratic deputies as well as a liberal from a party of the ruling coalition expressed their complaints about a session held in a “parliament transformed into a besieged barracks”.
But the interior ministry has focused most of its forces on an intersection along the 4 km freeway connecting Ettadhamen to the Bardo which was heavily manned with the aim of not letting the demonstration leave the borders of the district and not letting it reach the young people in front of parliament. Despite the great participation in both the march and the sit-in, the huge deployment of men managed to stop the march, not without a fierce opposition, while at the Bardo the young people who tried to break through the police cordon to reach the parliament square, 50 meters ahead, once again they were loaded and targeted with tear gas. VIDEO(Video ->Warning Facebook Link)
The day of mobilization, however, ended in the heart of the capital: in fact, some of the demonstrators from both the march and the sit-in reached the center in small groups where they reassembled a few hundred meters from Avenue Bourguiba but also here the presence large numbers of police forces rejected and dispersed the young people.
On the same day, the funeral of the young Haykel Rahchdi the first martyr’s movement, who died after being hit in the face by a tear gas canister fired by the police, was held in the town of Sbeitla, 250 km from the capital, the funeral was attacked with charges and tear gas, reigniting the revolt in the city throughout the day and until late at night.
On the whole, the day of January the 26th showed a strong determination on the part of young Tunisians, often adolescents and who have not experienced the 2010-2011 Uprising, to take back the streets, not to retreat or be frightened by the police intimidation by expressing the will to bring down the system or the government and reactionary opposition to it.
Their slogans full of anger and yearning for social gains and freedom and, once again for the liberation of the 1.500 youth arrested in the last days, show once again that in post-revolt Tunisia the restoration of a police regime in the form of parliamentary democracy is underway, who still speak of “democratic transition” in good faith he should “go to school to the masses”.
A report warns that radiation levels in some areas of the nuclear plant are high enough to kill a person in a few hours.
With just over a month to go before the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the accident at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant, the Japan Nuclear Regulatory Authority published on Tuesday a draft of the internal report on the investigation of the breakdown that indicates that in some Radiation levels remain extremely high in areas of the plant, which could delay the process of dismantling the complex, local media report.
According to the document, the contamination concentration was located near the fifth floor of the reactor buildings in Units 2 and 3. In terms of dose, the radiation detected would be equivalent to several sieverts per hour, which means that if a person entered the affected area they would absorb a fatal dose in just a few hours. In addition, analyzing the work carried out after the accident in March 2011 following an earthquake and subsequent tsunami, the document underlined the importance of ensuring the operation of ventilation within the plant units.
Action report on autonomous blockade of petrochemical industry in so-called Beaver, Pennsylvania.
On Thursday morning, a collection of autonomous activists blockaded the sole access road to the Shell Polymer’s office in Beaver, PA to protest the transformation of the Ohio Valley into a manufacturing hub for the petrochemical industry. Shell Polymers is a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, and they are constructing an ethane cracking facility in Beaver that will be used to turn fracked gas into plastic.. Read Full Article—Anonymous Contributor
.Following months of riots, building barricades, and stand-offs with police trying to evict encampments, in late September of 2020, Philadelphia Housing Action was able to claim victory, after the city of Philadelphia offered unsheltered families and individuals access to housing in formerly vacant buildings, a process which people had already begun in the months prior, as homes owned by Philadelphia Housing Authority were squatted. In the end, upwards of 75 homes were handed over by the city, which included many homes which had been previously squatted. Here Philadelphia Housing Action looks back at 2020 with analysis and a timeline on what all went down. Read Full Article—It’s Going Down
A riot broke out in Tacoma, Washington as hundreds took to the streets following a police officer running over people attending a sideshow.
After a pig drove through a crowd of people with a police vehicle, militants set flaming barricades and smashed windows of Pierce County Corrections jail in Tacoma, Washington on Sunday night.
“…GameStop is similar. The business loses tons of money, lost half of its equity last year, and has a net asset value of just $690 million. Yet at yesterday’s close the company was worth $20+ billion….But as the reddit users say, it’s not about the money. It’s personal. It’s emotional. They’re knowingly engaging in destructive (and self-destructive) behavior. They’re OK losing money– because they’re angry. This is a sign of the times”
At precisely 2:32pm Eastern time on May 6, 2010, the US stock market started to drop.
The decline was sudden, and vicious. Within minutes, more than $1 trillion of market capitalization had vanished, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average losing nearly 10% of its value.
This event became known as the ‘Flash Crash’. And early explanations pointed to the big investment banks and their high-tech trading algorithms…
The activists who blocked a deportation flight on Stansted Airport in 2017 have finally had their convictions quashed today in the Court of Appeal.
The appeal judgement states that ‘The appellants should not have been prosecuted for the extremely serious offence under section 1(2)(b) of the 1990 Act because their conduct did not satisfy the various elements of the offence. There was, in truth, no case to answer’.
In March 2017, 15 activists performed a direct action at Stansted Airport, blocking a Titan Airways aircraft hired by the UK government for the purpose of deporting people..
The pandemic struck a hard blow to the labor market in Spain during 2020 with the loss of 622,600 jobs, which raised the unemployment rate to 16.1 percent, according to data published this Thursday in the Active Population Survey (EPA ) of the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
food line in Madrid
The increase in unemployment due to the pandemic is joined by structural problems prior to it such as youth unemployment ( grown to 40.1 percent among those under 25) or gender inequality (the unemployment rate among women is of the 18.3 percent, while in men it is 14.1)…..
But the reality is much much worse, an unknown number, perhaps a million more people are unemployed.
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