The Mexican people, she said, “are honest, hardworking and courageous … .. our sisters and brothers in the United States this year sent close to 65 billion dollars to their families”.
On January 12, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, speaking to 350,000 people gathered in Mexico City’s Zócalo plaza, outlined her government’s accomplishments and prospects.
Elected with a 60% plurality on June 2, 2024 as the Morena Party candidate, Mexico’s first woman president took office on October 1. Her approval rating is 80%
Sheinbaum spoke of women: “[T]o those who think that women have no initiative of their own, that … women do not govern because we do not have capacity or intelligence, we say that,
‘Just as we run a home, just as we are mothers and grandmothers, we also have the strength, the fortitude, the mettle and the ability to be firefighters, engineers, astronauts, doctors, lawyers and Supreme Commanders of the Armed Forces.’”
She reported on healthcare: 12,381 new outpatient clinics have been created and healthcare workers soon will be regularly visiting handclapped or elderly citizens in their homes.
New “well-being pharmacies” (farmacias del bienestar) will be located next to “well-being banks.” The one dispenses free medications and supplies; the other disperses money provided by social agencies.
From Antiga Massana they have made an appeal through the social network X for people to gather in Plaça de la Gardunya to protest against the violent ongoing eviction of the Social Center.
Antiga Massana is an occupied social Center in a long abandoned school belonging to the City Council. For 4 years a whole range of social projects have been using the building and it is vital for this neglected city center Raval area.
SOME ORGANISATIONS BASED IN ANTIGA MASSANA «#ConcessióAntigaMassana, Sindicat Habitatge Escoleta, 壘 Gimnas Popular, Esplai del Pi Papiro, Samidoun, OJS La Magrana, 徭 Makipomba»
The square is cordoned off and the gathering is taking place in adjacent streets, such as Carrer de l’Hospital. The police are attacking with extreme violence. “Today will be a very long day for all the politicians and businessmen who think they can impose capitalist misery without consequences,” they warn in a tweet.
“It is a completely illegal action”
Antiga Massana assures that the appeal they filed has not been resolved and that they have not been notified two weeks in advance, as is mandatory. “It is a completely illegal action”, Max Carbonell, from Antiga Massana, told Betevé tv.
He believes that the eviction was carried out without warning in the same week that the Casa Orsola eviction is also planned, to take advantage of the media hype and for this action to go unnoticed.
City Hall surrounded by fences
In parallel with the eviction of the Antiga Massana, fences have been placed around the entrance to Barcelona City Hall, in Plaça de Sant Jaume. There are also members of the Guàrdia Urbana guarding the entrance to the building.
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Antiga Massana @antigamassana We call for a demonstration at 7:30pm in response to the eviction of Antiga Massana. AGAINST THE DICTATORSHIP OF POLITICIANS AND BUSINESSMEN!
COLUMNA SANTS: -WE DEFEND THE OLD MASSANA-.
The Collboni i Batlle City Council has evicted the Old Massana today.
But today is not the end. Today is the beginning of the construction of a revolutionary alternative that will set us free. Column at 6:30 p.m. Plaça Sants
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2000 protest 1st attempted eviction of 9 Collectives in the Old Massana School Occupation, Barcelona
20th October 2024..
This afternoon 1000’s of took to the streets of Barcelona to warn the PSC govt that if they evict Antiga Massana there will be riots in the Old City.
Caitlin Johnstone. January 29, 2025. via… thefreeonline
Well that didn’t take long. President Trump has said he wants to “clean out” Gaza and relocate its population to US client states Egypt and Jordan, which would of course be a textbook case of ethnic cleansing.
It would also align perfectly with longstanding Israeli agendas to remove Palestinians from their homeland so that their territory can be seized and settled by Jews.
Speaking with the press on board Air Force One on Saturday, Trump said he talked to Jordan’s King Abdullah II about taking in large numbers of Palestinians from Gaza, and said he plans to speak with Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi about doing the same.
“I’d like Egypt to take people and I’d like Jordan to take people,” Trump told reporters, saying the Gaza Strip is “a real mess” and “literally a demolition site”.
“You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing,” Trump said.
The president said that this new arrangement could be either temporary or long-term, but one would have to be extremely naive to believe that either Israel or Washington plan on emptying out Gaza of its inconvenient population, rebuilding it, and then bringing them all back to shiny new homes.
Israel has a very extensive history of grabbing land from Palestinians and then refusing to give it back, which is why there are so-called “refugee camps” for displaced Palestinians that are as old as the state of Israel itself.
“Just five days into his second term as president, Trump left no doubt about what his intentions are for Gaza,” Joe Lauria wrote for Consortium News on Trump’s comments, adding:
“He tried to present what he was saying as humanitarian concern, but only the most ill-informed person about Gaza would not see that he is talking about committing the crime of forcibly relocating a population.”
Trump supporters will no doubt defend his stated plans as a compassionate effort to rescue Palestinians from unfortunate circumstances, because Trump supporters are chowder-brained bootlickers who would defend literally anything their president did.
But make no mistake: this is the advancement of an agenda to end the existence of the Palestinian people in their historic homeland, and would fulfill the darkest desires of the most depraved political factions in Israel.
Mere days after the Hamas attack on October 7 2023, Israel’s Intelligence Ministry produced a document proposing the removal of Gaza’s population to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
At around the same time, an Israeli think tank called the Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy published a paper arguing that:
“There is at the moment a unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the whole Gaza Strip in coordination with the Egyptian government.”
Since that time both the Israeli government and the Israeli media have gotten much less shy about saying that ethnic cleansing is the plan for Gaza.
A few weeks ago multiple far-right Knesset members wrote a letter to Israeli defense minister Israel Katz demanding the “complete cleansing” of northern Gaza using siege warfare and attacks on civilians to drive the population out of the area.
In November of last year, former Israeli defense minister Moshe Yaalon stated unequivocally that Israel was indeed in the process of ethnically cleansing Gaza.
In October, the Israeli outlet Haaretz published an editorial titled “If It Looks Like Ethnic Cleansing, It Probably Is”.
Trump: ‘Clean Out That Whole Thing,’ Meaning the Gazan People
President Trump has said he wants to “clean out” Gaza and relocate its population to US client states Egypt and Jordan, which would of course be a textbook case of ethnic cleansing.
Well that didn’t take long. President Trump has said he wants to “clean out” Gaza and relocate its population to US client states Egypt and Jordan, which would of course be a textbook case of ethnic cleansing. It would also align perfectly with longstanding Israeli agendas to remove Palestinians from their homeland so that their territory can be seized and settled by Jews.
Speaking with the press on board Air Force One on Saturday, Trump said he talked to Jordan’s King Abdullah II about taking in large numbers of Palestinians from Gaza, and said he plans to speak with Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi about doing the same.
“I’d like Egypt to take people and I’d like Jordan to take people,” Trump told reporters, saying the Gaza Strip is “a real mess” and “literally a demolition site”.
“You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing,” Trump said.
The president said that this new arrangement could be either temporary or long-term, but one would have to be extremely naive to believe that either Israel or Washington plan on emptying out Gaza of its inconvenient population, rebuilding it, and then bringing them all back to shiny new homes. Israel has a very extensive history of grabbing land from Palestinians and then refusing to give it back, which is why there are so-called “refugee camps” for displaced Palestinians that are as old as the state of Israel itself.
“Just five days into his second term as president, Trump left no doubt about what his intentions are for Gaza,” Joe Lauria wrote for Consortium News on Trump’s comments, adding, “He tried to present what he was saying as humanitarian concern, but only the most ill-informed person about Gaza would not see that he is talking about committing the crime of forcibly relocating a population.”
Trump supporters will no doubt defend his stated plans as a compassionate effort to rescue Palestinians from unfortunate circumstances, because Trump supporters are chowder-brained bootlickers who would defend literally anything their president did. But make no mistake: this is the advancement of an agenda to end the existence of the Palestinian people in their historic homeland, and would fulfill the darkest desires of the most depraved political factions in Israel.
Mere days after the Hamas attack on October 7 2023, Israel’s Intelligence Ministry produced a document proposing the removal of Gaza’s population to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. At around the same time, an Israeli think tank called the Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy published a paper arguing that “There is at the moment a unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the whole Gaza Strip in coordination with the Egyptian government.”
Since that time both the Israeli government and the Israeli media have gotten much less shy about saying that ethnic cleansing is the plan for Gaza.
A few weeks ago multiple far-right Knesset members wrote a letter to Israeli defense minister Israel Katz demanding the “complete cleansing” of northern Gaza using siege warfare and attacks on civilians to drive the population out of the area.
In November of last year, former Israeli defense minister Moshe Yaalon stated unequivocally that Israel was indeed in the process of ethnically cleansing Gaza.
Says he is asking Jordan and Egypt to take as many as 1.5 million Gazans in what would be an historic act of the crime of ethnic cleansing, reports Joe Lauria.— Consortium News (@Consortiumnews) January 26, 2025
Obviously if you make a place completely uninhabitable and refuse to rush massive amounts of aid to them so that they can live, you are forcing them to relocate as surely as if you’d forced them at gunpoint.
Giving people the choice to relocate or starve is not giving them a choice at all.
Israel’s plan for Gaza once its ethnic cleansing agenda is complete is of course to begin building Jewish settlements there.
Last year Israeli forces sparked a minor controversy by sneaking extremist settlement movement leader Daniella Weiss into northern Gaza so that she could scout the land for future use.
Back in April a Knesset member named Limor Son Har-Melech stated on Israeli television that there are secret plans within the Israeli government to settle Gaza after military operations are complete.
This past November numerous Israeli officials attended an event brazenly titled “Preparing to Resettle Gaza,” just in case you needed it spelled out even more clearly where all this appears to be headed.
Trump’s comments help illuminate what he meant when he gushed about all the wonderful things that could be done with Gaza when speaking to the press the other day.
“Gaza’s interesting, it’s a phenomenal location,” he said on Monday. “On the sea, the best weather. Everything’s good. Some beautiful things can be done with it. It’s very interesting. Some fantastic things can be done with it.”
It remains to be seen if Jordan and Egypt can be bribed or coerced into participating in the empire’s ethnic cleansing plans for Gaza, but either way the last word I would use to describe those plans is “fantastic”.
Says he is asking Jordan and Egypt to take as many as 1.5 million Gazans in what would be an historic act of the crime of ethnic cleansing, reports Joe Lauria.— Consortium News (@Consortiumnews) January 26, 2025
One narrative Israel and its apologists like to push is that this forced mass displacement would be “voluntary migration”, which is ridiculous nonsense. Obviously if you make a place completely uninhabitable and refuse to rush massive amounts of aid to them so that they can live, you are forcing them to relocate as surely as if you’d forced them at gunpoint. Giving people the choice to relocate or starve is not giving them a choice at all.
Israel’s plan for Gaza once its ethnic cleansing agenda is complete is of course to begin building Jewish settlements there. Last year Israeli forces sparked a minor controversy by sneaking extremist settlement movement leader Daniella Weiss into northern Gaza so that she could scout the land for future use. Back in April a Knesset member named Limor Son Har-Melech stated on Israeli television that there are secret plans within the Israeli government to settle Gaza after military operations are complete. This past November numerous Israeli officials attended an event brazenly titled “Preparing to Resettle Gaza,” just in case you needed it spelled out even more clearly where all this appears to be headed.
Trump’s comments help illuminate what he meant when he gushed about all the wonderful things that could be done with Gaza when speaking to the press the other day.
“Gaza’s interesting, it’s a phenomenal location,” he said on Monday. “On the sea, the best weather. Everything’s good. Some beautiful things can be done with it. It’s very interesting. Some fantastic things can be done with it.”
It remains to be seen if Jordan and Egypt can be bribed or coerced into participating in the empire’s ethnic cleansing plans for Gaza, but either way the last word I would use to describe those plans is “fantastic”.
Trump Reveals Plan For The Ethnic Cleansing Of Gaza
esident Trump has said he wants to “clean out” Gaza and relocate its population to US client states Egypt and Jordan, which would of course be a textbook case of ethnic cleansing. Caitlin Johnstone January 27, 20255 minutes Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Well that didn’t take long. President Trump […]
Warning: Serious technogeekery ahead. But it’s important. Here’s the thing:
Google makes most of its money selling advertisements that pop up when you do a Google search.
Put another way, using the Google search tool gets you advertising first, and useful search results later.
And, most importantly, Google doesn’t screen those advertisements, or not carefully.
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It also mixes ads with genuine sites further down the page.
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Aunque la crisis está zanjada, la reflexión del mandatario colombiano deja asentado el primer ‘encontronazo’ con Washington. El presidente de Colombia, Gustavo Petro, desafió a su homólogo Donald Trump a través de las redes sociales, en plena crisis diplomática desatada después de que el estadounidense anunciase sanciones contra Bogotá por no aceptar dos vuelos con migrantes deportados del país norteamericano. “No […]
Trump left the Paris Agreement amidst a flurry of Executive Orders, and he wants us to feel overwhelmed and powerless. We must refuse, and we must find our agency. Let’s Fight Back!
Activists from Extinction Rebellion demonstrate on Oxford Street in central London. Picture date: Saturday April 9, 2022.
Climate activists engaged in non-violent direct action. Some of them hold signs saying “Our Lives Matter More Than Your Money”
Shock and awe: A far-right tactic we must resist
Trump released a flurry of Executive Orders this week, as we knew he would. He and his government want us to be dazzled, distracted, overwhelmed.
There are already legal challenges under way, so it won’t all last. But amidst the smoke and mirrors is profound danger, and at the root is people in power prioritizing profit for a select few above all else. AKA exactly what led to the climate crisis.
So it’s time to set the record straight in no uncertain terms: the reason Trump left the Paris Agreement is not because he believes that climate change is a hoax. He believes it’s an opportunity to acquire more power for himself, and he doesn’t care if the rest of us die.
It’s easier to say you don’t believe in climate science than that you don’t care. Or that you care about how you and your friends can make the most money off of it in the short-term and what you can claim as yours in the continuous wake of destruction.
The Free 