One of the World Central Kitchen vehicles targeted by Israel as it was passing through a “deconflicted zone” in the besieged Gaza Strip, April 2, 2024. (Photo by Reuters) Press TV – April 2, 2024 Ships loaded with humanitarian aid for the Palestinians trapped in the Gaza Strip will turn back in the wake of […]
Ships to turn back from Gaza with 240 tonnes of undelivered aid: Cyprus
from thefreeonline on 3rd April 2024 at anarchistnews
read in Italian original.. at Il Rovescio
Via Abolition Media
We receive and gladly disseminate this contribution – distributed in Palermo during a solidarity march with the comrades affected by the repression, and at a demonstration of solidarity with Palestine – which rightly frames the precautionary measures against the Sicilian militants of Antudo in the climate of mounting war. From Palestine to Sicily… Solidarity with those who rebel!
GO AND EXPLAIN THAT IT’S SPRING
The winds of war are blowing. From the confrontation between NATO and Russia on Ukrainian soil to the genocide of the Palestinian people perpetrated by Zionist barbarism, the states of the Atlanticist bloc are moving to preserve their geopolitical dominance while those of the other side try to undermine them.
For the exploited on both sides, if the bosses’ plans are not stopped, the prospect is the same: misery, repression and death.
When states are preparing for confrontation with the enemy outside their borders, they begin to mobilize their populations:
it has been reported in recent months that Denmark has extended military conscription to women as well, France wants to raise the age limit for reservists from 65 to 72 years, and Germany, after investing €100 billion in rearmament, is considering reintroducing compulsory military service.
But the mobilization of the population is not only a strictly military issue, it also involves the sphere of the imaginary through war information and the clearance of the presence of the army in the streets and in the places of culture and the production of ideology, as has happened in Palermo these days on the occasion of the International Forum for Peace, Security and Prosperity, an event in which thousands of middle school students, university students and cadets of military academies from different countries met to hear leading exponents of the military world talk about peace and prosperity: freedom is slavery, war is peace, ignorance is strength!
In order for the total mobilization against the external enemy to take place, the State also needs to wage war against its internal enemy: the rebels, those who with their voices and their actions make their negation resound.
It is no coincidence, then, that in recent years we have witnessed a stiffening of penalties for comrades, of which the application of the 41bis prison regime to Alfredo Cospito and the accusation of terrorism to some anarchist comrades from Carrara for the publication of the newspaper Bezmotivny are perhaps the most striking cases.
And it is in this context that on March 21 the Palermo Police Headquarters carried out a pre-trial detention in prison and two signature obligations for three Antudo militants: the charges refer to the publication of a video showing the throwing of a Molotov cocktail at a headquarters of the Leonardo Spa armaments company in the Sicilian capital.
The repressive operation is orchestrated by the National Anti-Mafia Directorate, which in 2015 became the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate, thus also starting to deal with political crimes.
All this should stir the minds of those who live on this island: we know all too well how the spectacle of the anti-mafia subsumes every imaginative impulse under the suffocating cloak of legalism and the cult of the servant of the State and how this spectacle is born and develops right here starting from our minds and our bodies, making it difficult to develop and put into practice the tension to emancipation from all domination.
Initiating a radical critique of all this may be difficult, but it is an increasingly urgent act that is impossible to postpone.
We do not know – nor are we interested in knowing – who attacked the Palermo headquarters of Leonardo Spa on November 26, 2022, but we do know that when individuals find the lucidity and courage to return, in the form of emancipatory violence, some of the indiscriminate violence that this company of death distributes around the world, we can only be in solidarity, as we know that when a counter-information site gives voice to these actions, it is doing its job in the best possible way.
COMPLICITY AND SOLIDARITY WITH THOSE WHO ATTACKED LEONARDO SPA
COMPLICITY AND SOLIDARITY WITH THE COMRADES OF ANTUDO AFFECTED BY THE REPRESSION
LEONARDO SPA SLAUGHTERS AND ASSASSINATES
Source: Il Rovescio
from thefreeonline on 2nd April 2024 Make Rojava Green Again
Every year on April 4th, people, municipalities, and self-government councils plant trees all over Rojava to celebrate the birthday of Abdullah Öcalan.
It is an act of ecological as well as anti-colonial struggle and gained a place in the consciousness of the people of whole Kurdistan and beyond.
Also this year, despite all the attacks on the people and nature of Rojava by the Turkish state, thousands of trees are going to be planted in the region on this date.
As Make Rojava Green Again, we call on all our friends to join the people of Rojava and plant trees everywhere on April 4th to contribute to the ecological revolution and show solidarity with the people of Rojava.
Send us the pictures of your planted trees: makerojavagreenagain@riseup.net
By Julia Conley Common Dreams Concerns about the safety of paraquat, a highly toxic herbicide, pushed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2021 to ban its use on golf courses — but the weedkiller is still permitted for agricultural use, and a new first-of-its-kind analysis shows how the EPA’s continued approval of the substance […]
EPA Allows Highly Toxic Weedkiller on Food Crops — But Not Golf Courses
El ejército israelí confirma su retirada, tras días de combates, de la zona del hospital de Shifa
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El ejército israelí ha anunciado este lunes que 600 de sus soldados han muerto desde el 7 de octubre de 2023, inicio de la guerra con el movimiento islamista palestino Hamas en la Franja de Gaza. “Nadav Cohen, de 20 años, de Haifa (…) murió en acción en el sur de la Franja de Gaza”, ha anunciado un portavoz del ejército israelí en su página web oficial, lo que eleva a 600 el número de soldados israelíes muertos en Israel y los Territorios Palestinos desde el comienzo de la guerra.
De los 600 soldados, al menos 256 han muerto en la Franja de Gaza desde el 27 de octubre, inicio de la operación militar terrestre lanzada en represalia por el ataque de Hamás en el sur de Israel el 7 de octubre, según un recuento de AFP basado en datos oficiales israelíes. Más de la mitad de las 600 personas muertas lo fueron en el ataque sin precedentes de Hamas contra Israel el 7 de octubre.
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Otros soldados murieron en Cisjordania ocupada o en la frontera con Líbano, donde los intercambios de disparos han sido casi diarios desde el 7 de octubre. Además, más de 1.523 soldados han resultado heridos en territorio palestino desde el inicio de la operación terrestre, siempre según el ejército israelí.
La lista de “bajas de guerra” publicada por el ejército israelí y en la que figuran los fallecidos desde el 7 de octubre de 2023 incluye a soldados y reservistas. Los israelíes que han cumplido el servicio militar, es decir, una gran parte de la población judía adulta, están obligados a ser reservistas hasta los 40 años, aunque algunos israelíes deciden seguir sirviendo después de esa edad. 169.500 soldados están bajo contrato (de servicio y profesional).
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from thefreeonline on 2nd April 24 by Vox Political
It seems landlords on the Tory benches in the House of Commons have sabotaged new legislation intended to end ‘no fault’ evictions.
Immigration and drug addiction caused huge rise in homelessness, according to Tory minister’s LIES-.. Oh, and the Tory plan to eliminate homelessness by 2027? It requires the death of anybody who is homeless.
It seems Housing Secretary Michael Gove is abandoning a promise to abolish a regulation known as Section 21, which gives landlords power to evict without giving a reason, by the next general election.
Instead, protection against so-called “no-fault” evictions, is being watered down to apply only to new tenancies.
Family who can’t afford 1 bed flat show bleak reality of Britain’s housing crisis – Mirror Online
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This will leave 90 per cent of England’s 12 million existing tenants vulnerable to being thrown out of their homes.
There may be fewer private landlords – but they are fleecing us more than ever
You can tell the Tories don’t have any hope for the next election; that’s why they’re still looking after their own and sticking the boot into everybody else. This is a taste of their true colours.
Britain’s landlords are living in the past, it seems, with many of them determined to exclude benefit claimants by using the archaic statement “No DSS”.Benefit claimants are the modern equivalent of dogs to private landlords, say MPs
Source: Government accused of turning renters reform legislation into a landlords’ charter | Morning Star
from thefreeonline on 2nd April 2024 by Al Mayadeen English
Immense destruction has befallen the area, caused by the killing and terror machine of this barbaric and lawless Israeli army ..
The Government Media Office in Gaza says that the Israeli occupation detained around 300 people from Al-Shifa Hospital and its vicinity while 100 individuals remain missing.
Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas condemned the brutal Israeli crimes in the Al-Shifa Medical Complex and its surroundings, which have gone beyond the bounds of civilization and humanity, and held the administration of President Joe Biden responsible for the “horrific crime” as it continues to back and support the occupation.
After 14 days of seige and occupation of the medical facility, Israeli occupation forces withdrew from the Al-Shifa late Sunday, leaving behind hundreds of bodies both inside the hospital and in its vicinity, in addition to mass destruction, leaving the hospital completely out of service.
Read more: Italian doctor details horrific Israeli crimes in Gaza’s al-Shifa
The Resistance group highlighted some vital points “in light of this morning’s revelations following the withdrawal of the terrorist occupation army from the Al-Shifa Medical Complex and its
surroundings,” in addition to “the immense destruction that has befallen the area, caused by the killing and terror machine of this barbaric and lawless army .. and the horrifying executions discovered, as well as the bodies of martyrs found tied-up and buried alive .. or those crushed by tanks, in addition to other atrocities.”
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