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Rebels hold a defiant commemoration in the Spanish capital to say they are ‘still here resisting’.

By Marta Vidal13 Aug 2021

Madrid, Spain – In the summer of 1521, Spanish conquistadors led by Hernan Cortes looted and destroyed the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.

Today, 500 years later, Mexico’s indigenous Zapatistas are holding their own “invasion” of the Spanish capital to mark the anniversary. Keep readingIndigenous chief to Trudeau: Turn over residential school recordsBrazil Indigenous group sues Bolsonaro at ICC for ‘genocide’This Land Is … whose land?: The history of Woody Guthrie’s songWhite is not a colour – white is an ideology

A delegation of seven Zapatistas set out by boat from Mexico’s most eastern point, Isla Mujeres, weeks ago in May, following the inverse route Spanish invaders took half a century earlier.

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The skies above many places across Yakutia are now red and everything is covered in thick smoke, he reported from the scene, adding that the conditions are “taking a toll on our eyes; on our breath [and] lungs. Very rough out there.”

from RT, shared with thanks

RT’s Dmitry Pauk, who has been doing a series of reports from the area, visited a local village that is threatened by fire from two sides, and observed the enormous efforts of the rescuers. 

Continue reading “‘Plow, manage, extinguish, saw’: RT reports from battle against record Climate wildfires in Russia’s Yakutia”

Aug 12 2021from CrimethInc. via Anarchist News collective see full article HERE

An earlier version of this text appeared in Portuguese here.

Ahead of the 2022 elections, Brazil is now reprising the same dramatic showdown that the United States faced in 2020. As the pandemic intensifies alongside corruption scandals and the unrestrained plundering of Indigenous lands, Jair Bolsonaro’s government faces pressure from the streets and the left wing of the state.

But what will it take to unseat him and break out of the patterns that brought him to power?

The parallels between Brazil and the United States run deep. Both are settler colonial states founded on slavery. The United States has largely completed its frontier phase, while Brazil continues to expand extraction efforts into Indigenous territories.

Continue reading “Brazil: Only Revolt Can Bring Down Bolsonaro”