23rd Feb was the biggest yet. More than 300 organizations have come together in protest at the cuts and to demand genuine democracy. Thousands and thousands have flooded the streets of the cities … But the crackdown has been felt again: indicriminate police charges in Madrid have left 12 people injured and 40 arrested.
A leak thwarts the eviction of the Gracia youth squatters center
A leak has frustrated this morning eviction attempt o The Catalan police had planned the assault on the building located in Ros de Olano 39 at quarter to seven, when it was still dark in the town of Gracia (Barcelona City). The intentions of the police, however, reached the ears of the youth who for 11 years have been managing this social center.
From six in the morning a concentration of about a hundred people at the doors of the building and several containers with fences and barricades in the streets adjacent commands surprised police and politicians in the district. Undercover officers have visited the area and reported back. The intendant of Police, Richard Fernandez, accompanied by another person has control of the police Avenue Vallcarca and announced the suspension of the action during the day. TV3 cameras have recorded the moment. Continue reading “Leak of Police attack plan saves Youth Squat Center”
Anarchist Robin Hood DOESNT SHOW UP for Trial in Barcelona
Earlier the Court had rejected the suspension in Barcelona of Enric Duran’s trial in Barcelona which was to take place on Tuesd2y 12 February.. SEE DETAILS BELOW
Latest update 12 Feb
Enric presented again a request for more time which was apparently refused..VERY fishy business with his lawyer.
The trial began but Enris DID NOT APPEAR-
photo: Judicial Farce Reading of Enric Duran’s ‘disobedience manifesto’ outside court he didn’t attend and was declared an outlaw
he issued a statement saying ”disobedience is the only way I can be sure of getting my rights” and called for general disobedience and integral horizontal revolution.
The prosecution called for his immediate capture and arrest.
Enric Duran Giralt (Vilanova i la Geltrú, 23 April 1976) also known as Robin Bank, Robin Banks or the Robin Hood of the Banks is a Catalananticapitalist activist[1] and member of the Temps de Re-volts collective.[2] From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.On September 17, 2008, he publicly announced that he had ‘robbed’ dozens of Spanish banks of nearly half a million euros as part of a political action to denounce what he termed the predatory capitalist system. Continue reading “Anarchist Robin Hood skips trial, Declared an Outlaw.”
The Court rejects the suspension in Barcelona of Enric Duran’s trial in Barcelona which will take place on Tuesday 12 February.. SEE DETAILS BELOW
Latest update 12 Feb
Enric presented again a request for more time which was apparently refused..VERY fishy business with his lawyer.
The trial began but Enris DID NOT APPEAR-
he issued a statement saying ”disobedience is the only way I can be sure of getting my rights” and called for general disobedience and integral horizontal revolution.
The prosecution valled for his immediate capture and arrest.
Enric Duran Giralt (Vilanova i la Geltrú, 23 April 1976) also known as Robin Bank, Robin Banks or the Robin Hood of the Banks is a Catalananticapitalist activist[1] and member of the Temps de Re-volts collective.[2] From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.On September 17, 2008, he publicly announced that he had ‘robbed’ dozens of Spanish banks of nearly half a million euros as part of a political action to denounce what he termed the predatory capitalist system.
From 2006 to 2008, Duran took out 68 commercial and personal loans from a total of 39 banks with no guarantees or property as collateral. He had no intention of repaying the debts, and used the money to finance various anti-capitalist movements.[3] In 2008, Duran released both an online article entitled “I have “robbed” 492,000 euros from those who rob us the most, in order to denounce them and build alternatives for society” (translated), and an online video, each explaining what he had done and that he had left the country to view the reaction and consider his next move. This was also published in the free magazine Crisis, in Catalan, of which 200,000 copies were printed and distributed by volunteers throughout Catalonia. A second newspaper, We can! Live Without Capitalism was distributed on March 17, 2009, and a third, We on September 17, 2009.[4][5] Continue reading “Anarchist Robin Hood on Trial in Barcelona”
General Mulcatty and Commander Bruton were ushered in without ceremony for the Emergency Rule session in Lerriman’s back office. Leaving a crowd of security men and bodyguards, chatting and smoking in the patio.
Lerriman watched coldly. His bulging eyes shot red from the sleepless night.
While Mulcatty eased himself painfully into his seat, his hemorrhoids itching like crazy.
Perhaps the biggest challenge anarchists face is combating the masses of disinformation out there about anarchism, to educate the 99% and explain ourselves, and what anarchism means rather than what government and other propaganda tells us that it means. That’s part of the reason we set up Forest of Dean Anarchists. So here is the first in what we hope to be a series of asking prominent anarchists what it’s all about!
Stuart Christie, since 1962 has been an active anarchist, through writing, publishing and action. The Glaswegian author of Granny Made Me An Anarchist, General Franco Made Me A Terrorist and Edward Heath Made Me Angry (his entertaining and inspiring three-part autobiography), and The Christie File: Enemy Of The State, first achieved notoriety in 1964 when at the age of 18 he hitch-hiked to Madrid to assassinate Franco, and was caught and imprisoned. Continue reading “KILL the DICTATOR: Stuart Christie, thoughts of an Anarchist”