Serialization of’The Free’. sisters.. Ch4 Wonderful Maggie

here’s Ch 4..(every Friday) Linda, now Maxie, has escaped her disastrous family and awful school and is hiding out in Barney’s one room flat when ...

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Act One Chapter Four

Wonderful Maggie

-‘You can trust me, you’re my sister.’-

Maxie narrating

I spent a lot of time in Barney’s bedsitter, mostly hanging about, listening to music and reading. He had loads of books and I started to read them all. I’ve always been a voracious reader. But I soon found this was impossible.. Continue reading “Serialization of’The Free’. sisters.. Ch4 Wonderful Maggie”

Occupy the Roofs: Squatters Resist UK Evictions

A Fight on the Tiles

Rooftop protest as first Brighton squat busted under Weatherley’s new law

With the new squatting laws now in force, the first shot across the bows from Brighton Plod came this week when they waded into a London Road squat that had previously been empty for a year.

The first cops arrived around midday and the squatters explained that, since last week, no one was ‘living’ in the residential parts of the building and therefore no one was committing an offence. Unfortunately the police didn’t buy this explanation and eventually called in backup to smash down the door. While a jeering crowd of about 40 squatters, supporters and bemused passers-by watched, the police spent nearly ten minutes attacking the front door with a battering ram. Continue reading “Occupy the Roofs: Squatters Resist UK Evictions”

News Round-Up from Eco-Rebellion World Wide

By Earth First Newswire

Wow! Its been a wild week, and we’ve gotten a bit behind on the news as several EF! Newswire contributors were tied up in Tampa at the RNC protests. But it looks like that blue moon may have gotten some people pretty riled up! Here’s a compilation of news from the front lines around the world to catch you up

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Spain: fortress Europe: immigrants storm fences, occupy islets

Paramilitary Spanish Civil Guards have evacuated this morning 83 immigrants who remained in the small island of land in the archipelago of Al Hoceima, and delivered to the Moroccan gendarmerie to most of them.

The eviction occurred this morning and concluded at 4:30, according to the sources, who have indicated that they are 73 persons transferred to Morocco, which is a few meters from shore islet of Spanish sovereignty.

Spain, meanwhile, has arrested 10 immigrants, according to the agreement reached last night between the two countries for the evacuation of Earth Island and the distribution of its occupants, in two groups arrived there last week.

The eight children and two mothers who were in the Earth Island this morning have been moved to Melilla, where they received medical care. It is expected that most leave the hospital today to begin the process marked in the Aliens Act, and from there, the Temporary Centre for Immigrants Prison (CETI) Melilla or a shelter, in the case of minors who traveling alone. Continue reading “Spain: fortress Europe: immigrants storm fences, occupy islets”

“Andalusia On Foot” workers long March escorted by Military Police

The SAT agricultural free union resumed the long March ,walking “Andalusia On Foot”.

Previous surprises included a mass supermarket robbery, with the proceeds distributed to free food kitchens , set up against hunger as a big part of the millions of unemployed now receive ZERO state subsidy.

Proposals to extend an emergency 400 euro a month to workers whose social security have run out will be cut further and heavily restricted, with multiple bureaucratic hoops to qualify. Continue reading ““Andalusia On Foot” workers long March escorted by Military Police”

Merkel Go Home.. ACCiÓN 6 Sept.

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Varios movimientos y organizaciones siguen convocando para manifestarse el 6 de septiembre contra Angela Merkel en Madrid lugar donde se reunirá con Rajoy. Quieren salir a las calles para dejar bien clara la repulsa contra los recortes que ‘impone’ la canciller a Europa.

La visita del próximo 6 de septiembre de Angela Merkel a Madrid va a recibir una dura contestación por parte de indignados e indignadas.

Así dabe el diario Público la información:

El movimiento 15-M prepara una concentración para ‘recibir’ a la canciller alemana, Angela Merkel, que vendrá a Madrid el próximo 6 de septiembre, donde se reunirá con el presidente del Gobierno, Mariano Rajoy. Continue reading “Merkel Go Home.. ACCiÓN 6 Sept.”

Durruti in the Spanish Revolution [Paperback]

Buenaventura Durruti (Photo credit: rogiro)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2006 Available HERE

http://www.amazon.com/Durruti-Spanish-Revolution-Abel-Paz/dp/190485950X

“Durruti was the ultimate working-class hero: carrying the future in his heart and a gun in each pocket. Abel Paz’s magnificent biography resurrects the very soul of Spanish anarchism.”—Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums Continue reading “Durruti in the Spanish Revolution [Paperback]”