Category: crooks and liars

all who usurp and abuse authority

Huelga general. Grecia.11 Mayo. General Strike.

Huelga general en Grecia el 11 de mayo contra la plutocracia y sus manejos

General strike in Greece on May 11.

Rechazamos hacer más sacrificios para la plutocracia. Exigimos medidas de protección para los desempleados, los trabajadores y sus familias….

….Trabajadora, trabajador, mujer, jóven, desempleado, jubilado, inmigrante económico,

La gravedad de la huelga del 11 de Mayo es muy alta. No es sólo una huelga más. Debemos convertir esta huelga al inicio de nuevas luchas para derrocar la politica antipopular. Las calles deben inundarse de gente del trabajo, los lugares de trabajo deben ser vacíos.

La troika y el gobierno no deben invocar el consentimiento de los trabajadores.

Rechazamos hacer más sacrificios para la plutocracia. Exigimos medidas de protección para los desempleados, los trabajadores y sus familias.

Todos en Omonia, el 11 de Mayo a las 10 a.m.

via Huelga general en Grecia el 11 de mayo contra la plutocracia y sus manejos – cinabrio blog.

One year after the IMF landed in the country, the people in Greece prepare for a fresh round of mobilisations

Tomorrow (May 6th) marks the first anniversary of the IMF, EU and ECB troika arriving in Greece. In response, base unions, the I won’t Pay movement and struggle committees in workplaces call for a demonstration today, May 5th at 7pm at the Propylea in Athens. They also call for participation to the General Strike of May 11th, and for the struggle to continue and to intensify up to May 15th, which is when the new round of cuts is to be announced.

Today, May 5th, also marks the first anniversary of the tragic death of the three bank workers at Marfin bank. In an effort to capitalise on their memory, the neonazis of Golden Dawn have called for a gathering outside the bank this evening, approximately at the same time with the base union demonstration only a few yards away.

More information as it comes.

http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/

Patricia suicides after false conviction

Patricia Heras kills herself after being sentenced for a crime she did not commit (Catalunya)

Background: Barcelona / February 4 2006: There was a fight with the police outside a massive party in a squatted building (not run by people from the movement though) where some 1500 people were attending. In the confused events that followed a cop was hit by a potted plant thrown from a balcony causing him severe injuries that left him paraplegic. Importantly, the original police report that attributed the injuries of the cop to a potted plant has mysteriously vanished. The arrested and hunted of that moment were randomly taken from among passers-by; people leaving from the party, even a couple of young guys who happened to have the bad luck of having a motorbike accident driving through the area.. a well known and classic tale of police revenge… they were brutality beaten and fitted up.

The municipal police, instead of investigating properly, decided to blame this on the entire squatter movement- in conjunction with the municipal authorities and the media they intensified an existing campaign of media smears and violent repression. The story spouted by the authorities changed several times to fit the ‘facts’ as it suited them, the disgusting mayor of the city at the time self-importantly pontificating with lies. First they decided that the building in question was “related” somehow to the squatter movement, something everyone knows in the movement is false, then they changed the story of the potted plant for a stone, finally they accused this girl, Patricia Heras, of throwing not the stone but a mobile fence in the course of the confusing struggle.

She always denied it. She denied being there at all, she claimed to be a politically motivated scapegoat. She also denounced, like most others arrested in this confusing episode of likely political revenge, her torture while in detention.

She was sentenced to three years of prison. Being a free spirit, she could not put up with it and she killed herself before going to jail again.

There are many ways to kill:
they can stab you,
they can take your bread,
they can not cure your illness,
they can push you to suicide…
Bertolt Brecht

via Patricia Heras kills herself after being sentenced for a crime she did not commit (Catalunya).

Sweat shops..criminal capitalists

Bar worker had one week off in 18 months and it was UNPAID Tens of thousands of employees are being denied their legal right to time off work and paid holidays, a report revealed today. Citizens Advice said their bureaux had dealt with ‘widespread’ cases where people were forced to work without a break or could only take unpaid leave. Care home workers, hairdressers, bar staff, cleaners and shop employees were among the 87,000 cases reported to them in the last three years. No time off: 87,000 cases of people not being given time off or being given unpaid leave were reported to Citizens’ Advice in three years Most of those involved were…

The Daily Mail 2011-04-21

via Sweat shop: Retail staff among tens of thousands of workers ‘denied holiday entitlement by rogue employers’ – Worldnews.com.

Stop nationalist mind control!

Anti-Nationalist Front in Cyprus

First steps in order to establish anti-nationalist front.

Against hysteria and extremism there is only one solution: REVOLUTION!

via Anti-Nationalist Front in Cyprus.

Free Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal’s 1982 Death Sentence is Again Declared Unconstitutional

The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has unanimously declared that Mumia Abu-Jamal’s death sentence is unconstitutional. In today’s decision, the Court of Appeals reaffirmed its 2008 finding that Mr. Abu-Jamal’s sentencing jury was misled about the process for considering evidence supporting a life sentence. The Court found that, in violation of the United States Supreme Court’s 1988 decision in Mills v. Maryland, the jury was improperly led to believe that that it could only consider unanimously agreed upon evidence favoring a life verdict.

Mr. Abu-Jamal he has been on death row in Pennsylvania for 29 years.

via Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, NYC.

Christiania: last stand after 39 years

Lars Eriksen in Copenhagen and Alexandra Topping

The closed entrance to Christiania, Copenhagen

An inhabitant of Copenhagen’s free city of Christiania, long a refuge for hippies and artists stands at the entrance to the city. Photograph: Jens Noergaard Larsen/AFP/Getty Images

For four decades, the freetown of Christiania has existed as a testimony to an alternative way of life, where hash was sold openly and squatters’ shacks jostled comfortably with architect-designed eco-sheds.

For some, the commune was a human jungle in the centre of Copenhagen; for others a bastion of irreverence.

But now residents have erected its last line of defence against the Danish government attempts to “normalise” one of Europe’s most famous squats after 40 years of legal wrangling.

Residents have erected fences at entrance points which they patrol, handing out flyers which declare that “Christiania will be temporarily closed until further notice”. Cafes and shops were closed as residents began meetings to debate their future.

Continued…///

via Christiania, one of Europe’s most famous communes, faces last stand | World news | The Guardian.

Extract – Noam Chomsky’s new book – Power and Terror:

The Arab world is in revolutionary turmoil. How will America react and adapt? To understand the role of the US in the Middle East we need to understand some simple – but concealed – truths. In a new book published this month Noam Chomsky does just that.

Mohammed Ameen/Reuters
Mohammed Ameen/Reuters..When the US is involved in, say, Iraq or Afghanistan, that’s called ‘stabilization’. If Iran tries to increase its influence, that’s destabilization..

Extracted with permission from Noam Chomsky’s latest book, Power and Terror:
continued here,,New Internationalist