We continue to demand truth, justice, and .. suppression of the legal obstacles that protect impunity and impede the prosecution of Franco’s crimes.

By José Arturo Val del Olmo Published on Mar 3, 2021 by Kaos En La Red translation thefreeonline illustrations added

JUSTICIA!

Today, like yesterday, winds of struggle are blowing against the capitalist logic that puts private benefits before people’s rights.

Pharmaceutical companies turn vaccines into a business financed with public money, investment funds squeeze the profitability of a basic need such as housing, Iberdrola and Endesa increase their profits 36% in the middle of the pandemic, the Banking continues to abuse thanks to the judiciary, work does not exclude poverty, due to labor reforms that deprive employment of dignity and rights, the protest is repressed through “gag” laws or the penal code.

Continue reading “State impunity: On March 3, 45 years ago, 5 workers were murdered by cops in Vitoria Euskadi -Eng/Esp-“

from AMW English shared with thanks Published March 6, 2021

Two boys, who turned 15 years old last year, Nikita Uvarov and Denis Mikhaylenko, have been in jail since last summer, accused of plotting a terrorist attack.

Kansk is a city with a population of 90,000 in Siberia, Russia. The closest city with a million inhabitants is Krasnoyarsk, 250 kilometers westwards.

According to the charges, they were, among other things, planning to build the headquarters of the Russian security service FSB in Minecraft, and to blow it up there. During the Soviet Era, the FSB had different names, the last before the disintegration of the Soviet union being FSB.

One of the flyers posted by teenagers. Photo: Base // Одна из листовок, расклеенных подростками. Фото: База

Nikita and Denis were arrested after they spread posters demanding the release of anarchist and mathematician Azat Miftakhov, arrested in Moscow. One of the posters was posted on the local FSB building in Kansk.

Denis and Nikita were also planning to organize a Food Not Bombs-event in Kansk, to give food to the homeless.

Continue reading “14 Year Old Anarchists still jailed Facing Terrorism Charges in Russia for ‘Minecraft plot’”

Brazil: Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court has ordered an inquiry into the sale of protected areas of the Amazon rainforest via Facebook.

via Barbara Crane Navarro | Rainforest Art Project – Pas de Cartier ! illustrations added with thanks!

(Newser) – “Enabling deforestation in the Amazon” can be added to the list of Facebook’s misdeeds, according to a BBC investigation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9-G1wWLF0Y

The broadcaster says many plots of illegally deforested land in the Brazilian rainforest can be found for sale via Facebook Marketplace—and some of the sellers who spoke to an undercover operative posing as a lawyer boasted about their connections to politicians.

Facebook has previously indicated it believes the task of trying to deduce which sales are illegal is too complex for it to carry out itself.But one congressman mocked this explanation.

Continue reading “Facebook refuses to ban illegal selling off Amazon rain forest on its Marketplace”

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The following essay examines the explosion of mass struggles in India under the far-Right Modi government while comparing them to the George Floyd uprising in the United States, highlighting the role that mutual aid and self-organization played in each.

To listen to an interview offering an anarchist and anti-colonial analysis of the situation in India, go here.

by Pranav Jeevan P

India witnessed the rise of two large protest movements in last 2 years which saw millions taking to streets against the oppressive laws passed by the government. These were the Anti-CAA protests against the discriminative Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), and the farmers protests against a series of pro-corporate farm laws.

During the Anti-CAA protests, the loudest voices of dissent have been the women; from housewives to grandmothers, lawyers to students, women across India have been at the forefront of this struggle.

Continue reading “Anarchism, Mutual Aid, and Self-Organization: From the George Floyd Uprising to India’s Farmer Rebellion”

By Parth MN 5 Mar 2021 at Al Jazeera. Shared with thanks!

As protest against farm laws enters its 100th day, at least 248 farmers have died on New Delhi’s borders, organisers say.

Farmers attend a rally against farm laws in Barnala in the northern state of Punjab [File: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters]

Karnal, Haryana – For nearly two months, Prem Singh, 65, followed a ritual he had unwittingly slipped into.

He left his village in northern India’s Haryana state on December 1, 2020, to join tens of thousands of Indian farmers staging sit-ins along the borders of the national capital to demand the repeal of agricultural laws passed in September last year.

Continue reading “100 days and 248 deaths later, Indian farmers remain determined + Disha Ravi and Trial by Farcebook”

Posted on March 3, 2021 First part by Megan Redshaw, J.D. shared with thanks

Faced with diminishing demand for fossil fuels, the struggling oil and gas industry is investing billions of dollars in new plants designed to produce millions more tons of plastics — and millions more tons of pollution.  

As oil companies’ profits sink amid decreasing demand for their product, oil and gas giants are setting their sights on a new market — they’re pouring billions of dollars into new plants designed to produce plastic from chemicals sourced from fossil fuels.

Continue reading “Flooding the planet with plastics from US Fracking Glut: Big Oil’s answer to Climate Emergency”