Some names that appear in this report have had to be modified to protect the identity of the people who have seen fit to give their testimonies. “A lot of money moves here and for 100 euros they can bring someone to scare you,” says one of them.
The red fruit business in Huelva is a mega industry that generates a turnover of around one billion euros, with a production close to 350,000 tons that have made this Andalusian province one of the world’s largest exporters of the fruit and vegetable sector. The 11,630 hectares of arable land employ about 100,000 seasonal workers each year, of which 48 percent are foreigners, mostly from Eastern Europe and the Maghreb countries.
Growth has been exponential in recent years, but not so the housing, transport and supply infrastructures necessary to guarantee decent living conditions for the thousands of immigrant workers who have been condemned to survive in the 44 shanty towns scattered throughout the the whole province.
Miles de personas se manifiestan en Huelga, una convocatoria organizado por el SAT, CNT y CGT / Raúl Bocanegra
Amsterdam. Today we squatted Sint Willibrodrusstraat 15 owned by ‘evil corp’ Blackstone.
This building has been empty for a long time. today we ended this situation of emptiness and speculation by giving the house back its purpose.
Fuck Blackstone, eat the rich! Stop speculation , squat the world
We are told that there are not enough houses for everyone, that there are not enough spaces for the refugees and migrants coming here fleeing imperialist wars and economies that have been destroyed by (neo)colonialism. It is unacceptable that the media blame migration for the fact that we all seem to struggle to find a home.There is no problem of a lack of space, there is no “housing crisis”, the only problem is the unequal distribution of wealth. The problem is capitalism.
We are being pushed out of our city by rising rent prices and gentrification. Social housing is being sold off privately and the lack of affordable housing means people are forced to leave the city. People struggle to pay rent while investors are given free range to do as they please.
The owner of this building, Blackstone is an International company that speculates on the prices of housing to make the rich richer. Blackstone is one of the largest commercial owners of housing in the world with 140 billion dollars in property, and is notorious for its abuse of renters and violent evictions.In 2019, they purchased 250 million euros worth of housing in the Netherlands. Through these mass purchase of housing, the company profits off the privatization of housing, making it increasingly inaccessible and turning basic needs into a commodity. This is unacceptable, rent is theft! Blackstone abuses and exploits its tenants so that its investors can get richer.
We don’t want corporations to own our city, we want housing for all! Our cities are not board games for the rich to play. We will not stand by as they speculate our space away.
We, anarcha feminist group Amsterdam squat this building as a protest against property for profit and against the privatization of our city. We squat this building out of a belief that no houses should remain empty while others are homeless. The state that criminalizes homelessness and lets homes sit vacant for years is the real criminal. To Blackstone, this building is one out of the thousands that sit rotting on the market but for us this building will become a home for many and a queer feminist political centre from which our community will flourish. So Blackstone can Fuck off!
We are in a pandemic, another crisis and while multinationals receive billions in bailouts it is those already in precarious positions that are forced to carry the burden. First we are called essential workers- then we are evicted from our houses when we can not afford the rent any more. It is time to take backs space. To say: enough is enough. It is only when we get organized, take action and fight back against the harm done to our bodies and minds that we stand any chance. Let there be no illusion, if we want anything we will have to fight for it ourselves. The only way to win ground, to find sanity and to survive is through fighting together against the exploitation done by this capitalist system.
So lets take back the streets & the houses left empty.
Today is a collective act of taking back a space from those in power. We might not succeed all the time, we might fail and we might fail hard. We have been through many evictions in the last months. But we are more angry than we are tired. With every direct action we learn. Our actions must serve to extend the networks of solidarity, to contribute to the construction of a society based on mutual aid, to destroy all authority based on violence.
It is in these moments that we get together and experience our collective power, that we can imagine what could be possible. It is these moments that allow us to dream.
Facing the triple threat of climate change, loss of nature and pollution, the world must deliver on its commitment to restore at least one billion degraded hectares of land in the next decade—an area about the size of China.
Countries also need to add similar commitments for oceans, according to a new report by the UN Environment Program (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), launched as the U.N. Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030 gets underway.
Continúa la mesa de diálogo el Comité Nacional del Paro y el gobierno de Iván Duque, aunque sin avances concretos, dado que continúan las protestas callejeras y los bloqueos de carretera, cuyo levantamiento es la condición gubernamental para negociar. En este marco, el Comité reconoció que no representa ni controla a toda Colombia ni a las movilizaciones.
En tanto, Duque responde con más represión y militarización. Mientras, las organizaciones que integran el Congreso de los Pueblos hacen un llamamiento al pueblo colombiano a conformar «una Asamblea Nacional Popular en Bogotá los próximos días 6, 7 y 8 de junio, como un mecanismo amplio y democrático de articulación y proyección de las luchas populares, territoriales, sectoriales y poblacionales».
Los organismos de DD.HH. continúan relevando y denunciando casos de personas desaparecidas, asesinatos policiales, centros clandestinos de tortura, diversas formas de violencia represiva y sexual. En este contexto, mientras el gobierno pone el foco en los bloqueos de carreteras, este jueves Colombia rompió dos nuevos récords sanitarios: 28.624 nuevos casos de covid-19 y 545 muertes. Por ANRed.
The risk of arrest and even imprisonment led to occupants deciding that resistance to eviction was not feasible and so moved out voluntarily, in contrast to the eviction of the PigeonShit Collective in March.
Squatters occupying two buildings on High Street have finally been ousted by court order.
Research obtained by a group of scientists shows the COVID vaccine spike protein can travel from the injection site and accumulate in organs and tissues including the spleen, bone marrow, the liver, adrenal glands and in “quite high concentrations” in the ovaries.
COVID vaccine researchers had previously assumed mRNA COVID vaccines would behave like traditional vaccines. The vaccine’s spike protein — responsible for infection and its most severe symptoms — would remain mostly in the injection site at the shoulder muscle or local lymph nodes.
But new research obtained by a group of scientists contradicts that theory, a Canadian cancer vaccine researcher said last week.
“We made a big mistake. We didn’t realize it until now,” said Byram Bridle, a viral immunologist and associate professor at University of Guelph, Ontario. “We thought the spike protein was a great target antigen, we never knew the spike protein itself…
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