Arcadi Oliveres: Yes, (Capitalism should be destroyed) it has to be done and it is urgent because it is a perverse system that kills lives...

..Yes, utopias must be pursued.

by Sílvia Marimon at .ara.cat .. shared with thanks .. translation thefreeonline Monday.February 8, 2021 llegiu el missatge en català a continuació

Arcadi Oliveras portrayed at home. foto..CRISTINA CALDERER

On Thursday last week Arcadi was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer with not much time left and, since then, people keep coming to his house. Gone are the nights in the hospital, where he could not receive visits.

Sant Cugat
Arcadi Oliveres (Barcelona, ​​1945) is spending his last days in the summer house that his grandfather built in Sant Cugat, Barcelona, where he has lived for fifteen years.

When we sit down to talk he shows us the drawings of two of his grandchildren. One has drawn the house and the other his grandfather about to speak in public.

Over the years, Oliveres has given thousands of talks on democracy, refugees, capitalism, a culture of peace, climate change, disarmament, responsible consumption …

“These days are happy days, I feel very loved,” he says. He is always surrounded by his wife, Janine.

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Chile. A police station, municipality building, and other government buildings were set on fire by militants in response to the police murder of street juggler Francisco Martínez in Panguipulli on February 5. Originally published by Abolition Media Worldwide. The buildings of the Correos de Chile (Post Office), the Local Police Court, the Civil Registry and…

Government Buildings Set on Fire After Police Murder of Street Performer in Panguipulli, Chile — Enough 14 –

Defenders from Haudenosaunee Six Nations occupied a disputed tract of land in Caledonia, an hour south of Toronto. The dispute about a proposed real estate development escalated to a standoff between the government and the Six Nations Land Defenders. The Ontario Provincial Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the Land Defenders.

Haudenosaunees people, however, say they need the land for their own growing population. They have renamed the tract “1492 Land Back Lane.” They say the band council does not represent them. The land is part of an ongoing dispute, which is complex and builds on 500 years of colonization.

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Day 200: #1492LandBackLane Update

Report from #1492LandBackLane land reclamation published to Montreal Counter-Info.

When Haudenosaunee Land Defenders are required to defy injunctions to protect our territories, we are arrested, charged, threatened and incarcerated.

It is a crime to fight for our lands, but we are still fighting. Land defense criminalization is meant to divide families, nations, and allies, in order to scare us into submission.

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