Month: Jan 2021

J20: Close the Camps – A Call to Demonstrate against ICE on Inauguration Day

Originally published by Crimethinc.

So-called USA. We have received the following call to action from a network of anti-border activists. In the wake of Trump supporters’ invasion of the Capitol building, opponents of authoritarianism must maintain momentum against all the oppressive policies that the Biden administration aims to preserve—keeping the focus on social change, rather than simply shoring up the status quo against fascists.

January 20 has a long history as a day of resistance to tyranny; this year, it makes sense to focus on the institutions of oppression that are spread around the country, rather than the ones concentrated in the nation’s capital.

Please circulate this call widely. To endorse this call or have the action you are organizing listed, email abolishice@riseup.net.

J20: Close the Camps

From “Build the Wall” to the Muslim Ban, Donald Trump’s administration made history as the most anti-immigrant presidency in living memory. Though incoming President Joe Biden promised throughout his election campaign that he will roll back Trump’s immigration policies, it is unlikely that he will fulfill that promise unless we compel him to.

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Yemen: US Planning to Blacklist Yemen’s Ansarullah

100,000 deaths as US and UK profit from racist sectarian Saudi war on Ansarullah Houthis

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Don’t submit on your knees to US terror regime and get labeled terrorist

Washington is planning to designate Yemen’s Ansarullah revolutionary movement as a foreign “terrorist” group on Monday.

Three sources have told Reuters that the administration of outgoing US President Donald Trump is going to blacklist the resistance movement.

According to two of the sources quoted by Reuters, the decision could be announced as soon as Monday.

The decision also intends to designate three of Ansarullah’s leaders, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, Abd al-Khaliq Badr al-Din al-Houthi, and Abdullah Yahya al Hakim, as ‘Specially Designated Global Terrorists.’

The move comes as the administration of US President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take over from the Trump administration on January 20.

Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back…

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Gravity Energy Storage : A very uplifting technology!

Energy Vault Gets $110 mn Investment From Softbank Vision Fund
Energy Vault Proposes An Energy Storage System Using ...

Energy Vault Proposes An Energy Storage System

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Gravity energy storage is not actually a new concept. We’ve been doing it with pumped hydro for more than a century. But that’s very expensive to build and needs an awful lot of space. Now though, two new companies have developed systems that mimic the effect of pumped hydro by raising and lowering extremely large and heavy weights up and down over huge height distances. So, do we have yet another addition to the growing grid scale energy storage family?

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Will Pentagon help far right ‘Inauguration Uprising’ as they did Trump’s Coup Bid ?

With all eyes on Biden’s inauguration Trump’s 70 million supporters are planning ‘actions’ across the US.

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Does Trump still control the Pentagon and the National Guard?
Or will they ”arrive too late” as they did in the Storming of the Capitol…

‘Unbelievable’: Right-Wing Militia Found Not Guilty

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Finian Cunningham January 11, 2021 With the likes of Miller and other far-rightists in charge at the Pentagon, there is no guarantee on whose side the military will be, Finian Cunningham writes. The extraordinary breach of security at the US Congressional building wasn’t just a “failure of planning” which allowed thousands of Trump supporters to […]

Pentagon’s Sinister Role in Trump’s Coup Bid — via UPROOTED PALESTINIANS

Ku Klux Klan training members in armed combat.

Pentagon’s Sinister Role in Trump’s Coup Bid — via UPROOTED PALESTINIANS

Culture of Misogyny and Toxic Masculinity Driving Sexual Violence in Bangladesh — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Human Wrongs Watch By Sania Farooqui* NEW DELHI, India, Jan 11 2021 (IPS)* – In October 2020, Bangladeshi citizens took to the streets, outraged by the reports of gruesome gang rapes and sexual violence that were taking place in the country. According to Ain O Salish Kendra, a Bangladeshi human rights organization, 975 women were […]

Culture of Misogyny and Toxic Masculinity Driving Sexual Violence in Bangladesh — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Thousands of Kurds demonstrate in France to remember the murder of 3 Kurdish militants in Paris

from Kurdish Cat gener 09, 2021 translation TheFreeOnline

The Tevgera Jinên Kurd France / Mouvement des Femmes Kurdes en France (TJK-F) organized the march from the Gare de Nord at 2 pm to the Place République on January 9 and requested participation.

Thousands of exiled Kurds have taken part. There have been simultaneous demonstrations by Kurdish communities in Rennes (Brittany), Marseille and Toulouse (Occitania) and Strasbourg (Alsace).

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Victory at Last! High Court BANS Rare Earth mining projects in Castilla, Spain

by Ecologistas en Acción/translation The Free Online

The ruling of the Superior Court of Justice of Castilla-La Mancha rules finally on the impacts of mining in protected areas

The joint struggle of ecologists, rural landowners, farmers, ranchers and academics against the new wave of speculative mining.

Una de las manifestaciones contra la mina de tierras raras de Torrenueva y Torre de Juan Abad, a la que la Junta dio carpetazo en 2017 / Lanza

The sentence of the Superior Court of Justice of Castilla-La Mancha has put an end to the claims of Quantum Minería S.L. to carry out a rare earth mining mega-project in Campo de Montiel (Ciudad Real). This project, intentionally divided into several phases to avoid a strategic environmental assessment, would have affected 17,330 hectares of land with high agricultural and natural value, including the controversial “Matamula” and “Remataminas” concessions.

The anticipated impacts mobilized broad social sectors, including not only environmental organizations such as Ecologistas en Acción but also the agricultural sector and other rural entities. Thus, five agro-livestock companies presented themselves as co-defendants to defend the negative Environmental Impact Statement issued by the Junta de Castilla-La Mancha in October 2017.

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