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Freedom Press is in the process of re-printing The Adventures of Tintin: Breaking Free that perennial anarchist classic.
It features our hero, a ordinary working class lad from the inner cities, at the centre of political demonstrations, wildcat strikes, street riots, and eventually a revolutionary uprising.
It graphically depicts scenes of social unrest, workers solidarity and people looting the local Tescos.
Mass rallies in Egypt against Israeli killings of Egyptian soldiers.
Divide and rule..Sure thing the Generals on BOTH sides are secretly delighted.
Using nationalism as always to divide and control
Suddenly interest has switched from Mubarak’s grisly trial.
Dont forget…”Before and after Mubarak was ousted, Egypt’s military arrested, imprisoned, tortured, and disappeared thousands, a practice continuing to ruthlessly stay in power and prevent change.”
and …”Notably, Washington backs brutal junta rule, including violence against growing public opposition to prevent a “second revolution.” So does National Association for Change leader Mohamad ElBaradei, saying he regards the military as the main guarantor of Egypt’s “incipient democracy,” when, in fact, none exists, isn’t planned, and won’t be tolerated by junta generals, top Obama administration officials, or himself, based on his offensive comment and others earlier.
From around March to July 7, Al Jazeera reported little about Egyptian discontent, strikes, street protests and brutal security force crackdowns, including the mass July 1 street protests and a million or more coming out on July 8….”
On sat 20th Aug a massive demo took place against the ongoing Amazon destruction for the Belo Monte dam. Also against the new Forest Law, now in the Senate, which ‘relaxes’ the already unenforced deforestation code. Brazil had been a constructive leader in Climate talks, which came to nothing due to the greedy demands of the West.
Milhares de ativistas protestam contra Usina de Belo Monte
“A represa de Belo Monte significa a última punhalada no coração da Amazônia”, declarou em Belém o presidente do Conselho Indigenista Missionário, Erwin Krautler, que é também bispo prelado do Xingu, região onde as obras inundarão 516 quilômetros quadrados de floresta e que, segundo os povos ribeirinhos, vai obrigar a remoção das famílias de cerca de 50.000 pessoas. Além de Belém, onde 2.000 pessoas se mobilizaram, e São Paulo, houve manifestações similares em Brasília, Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza, João Pessoa, Recife, Salvador, Santarém, Florianópolis, Cuiabá, Manaus e Belo Horizonte.Enquanto você lê isso, centenas de escavadeiras agem ilegalmente na Amazônia, dando início a um dos mais avassaladores e irreversíveis crimes ambientais de nossa história, a construção da hidrelétrica de Belo Monte, que vai acabar com o Parque Nacional do Xingu. No mesmo instante, as emendas feitas no Código Florestal Brasileiro, propostas pelo deputado Aldo Rebelo (PC do B), já foram aprovadas pela Câmara e aguardam apenas a votação no Senado para permitirem aos grandes latifundiários do Agronegócio desmatarem à vontade nossas florestas, sob a desculpa da “necessidade de produção alimentícia”.
Arrested for planting tree on parliament lawn
Jovens são presos após manifestação contra Código Florestal em Brasília
Além de protestar contra o Código Florestal, os manifestantes querem manter o diálogo com a sociedade que, pare eles, está mal informada em relação ao projeto. “O novo Código Florestal nos faz ver que esse é um dos maiores escândalos governamentais desde a guerra do Iraque. Isso se não for mais. E a população precisa saber disso, uma vez que essa aprovação irá alterar suas vidas no futuro”, acrescenta Leandro.
This is what he wrote.. “I think we should start rioting, it’s about time we stopped the authorities pushing us about and ruining this country. “It’s about time we stood up for ourselves for once. So come on rioters – get some. LOL.”
This is an absolute attack on free speech. The 17 year old lives in a small village near Bury St.Edmunds.There is nothing specific in his facebook post to any area – it’s a general statement. He’s been given a curfew, youth rehabiitation order and god knows what else. He’d even deleted it so it ws only up for a short time.
The weekend before last Nik Cohen posted in The Observer ‘Why are there no riots here’ – why aint he been done. Or a thousand pieces you could read in broadsheets giving opinions or on leftie blogs like this. Why pick on teenagers?
This prosecution is worse than the other one because it’s a general statement of opinion by no mean a specific incitement. If a kid in Syria had posted this he’d be hailed a hero. It’s now a crime here to say ‘I think we should start rioting’.
I think we need a lot of people who write and blog to stand up now and be counted on this one. Maybe some mass signed statement – maybe all put our names to what this kid has said and wait for the knock at the door. First they came for the 17 year old Facebookers…….
The greedy corrupt Brazilian politicians are voting to give free rein to their fascist landlord colleagues and the McDonalds backed Ranching industry to destroy the Amazon Rainforest.
The politicians appeal to nationalist sentiment.. saying we have already destroyed our forests and they have every right.
But 79% of Brazilians are AGAINST the new laws going through.
foto. José and Maria. ‘They gunned them down and cut off their ears”
I blame McDonalds, leading the insane MEAT FRENZY of North American capitalism. A series of major reports including Greenpeace’s ‘Slaughtering The Amazon’ have shown the cheap beef industry to be behind the rapidly increasing destruction of the billion year old Amazon rainforest, which may be the starting gun for catastrophic climate change and global destruction.
The news of the killing of José Ribeiro and his wife came on the same day the Brazilian congress debated a controvers
the root of Amazon slaughter is Meat Frenzy
ial set of new laws called “Forest Code” which, according to environmentalists, would be harmful to the Amazon, reducing the amount of land preserved from clear cutting.
In a video interview posted on YouTube last November, Ribeiro looks off camera and says to the interviewer: “I have received death threats by businessmen who work with loggers, who don’t want the forest standing.”
José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva campaigned to stop logging and deforestation in the Amazon rainforest
After selling the hardwood and obliterating the ecosystems the land quickly degrades but can support low quality cattle for some years. The trade is fuelled by the billion dollar advertising budget of McDonalds Corporation, and others. With suitable chemical taste additives ever increasing quantities are being sold to already obese North Americans, duped into seeing it as a happy party treat or a virility symbol.
Blaming the fascistic landlord class of Brazil is correct, for their infinite crimes against nature and humanity.
But in the case of José and Maria, due to the driving force of the beef industry, we can trace the culprit straight back to Ronald McDonald!
“Radioactive elements get into the testicles and ovaries, and these cause genetic disease like diabetes, cystic fibrosis, and mental retardation,” she told Al Jazeera. “There are 2,600 of these diseases that get into our genes and are passed from generation to generation, forever.” Dr Helen Caldicott (Nobel winner)
radiation crisis 'only beginning'
Caldicott feels the lack of a stronger response to safeguard the health of people in areas where radiation is found is “reprehensible”.
“Millions of people need to be evacuated from those high radiation zones, especially the children.”
Dr Yanagisawa is concerned about what she calls “late onset disorders” from radiation exposure resulting from the Fukushima disaster, as well as increasing cases of infertility and miscarriages.
“Incidence of cancer will undoubtedly increase,” she said. “In the case of children, thyroid cancer and leukemia can start to appear after several years. In the case of adults, the incidence of various types of cancer will increase over the course of several decades.”…..
..Junichi Sato, Greenpeace Japan Executive Director, said: “It is utterly outrageous to raise the exposure levels for children to twenty times the maximum limit for adults.” “The Japanese government cannot simply increase safety limits for the sake of political convenience or to give the impression of normality.”…
…When on August 2nd readings of 10,000 millisieverts (10 sieverts) of radioactivity per hour were detected at the plant, Japan’s science ministry said that level of dose is fatal to humans, and is enough radiation to kill a person within one to two weeks after the exposure.
10,000 millisieverts (mSv) is the equivalent of approximately 100,000 chest x-rays…..
“The situation at the Daiichi Nuclear facility in Fukushima has not yet been fully stabilised, and we can’t yet see an end in sight,” Yanagisawa said. “Because the nuclear material has not yet been encapsulated, radiation continues to stream into the environment.”
World stock markets plunge/ Fears of recession intensify…/. Global recession warning rattles stock…/ European bank funding / Unemployment rises sharply / The System is Ready to Blow / Markets in Meltdown /
The world financial system is now one huge mess, The stupid debt system and dog eat dog mentality
have brought the whole thing rolling to a cliff edge. It appears the Central banks have run out of
ideas to slow things down.
If Capitalism blows it’s NOT the end.. it’s just a new ball game.
‘The West’ is immensely rich in property and assets, yet suddenly will be bankrupt.
This is nonsense.. all we need to do is band together in Local Assemblies, pool our resources , skills
and possibilities, and work out an infinitely better future, without destroying the planet. In some places this is already happening.
The Collapse of Capitalism means the rich will lose their ill gotten gains.. For the rest it will be ‘survival as usual’…
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