Turkey: Mega victory demos as killer police retreat

Police retreat as protesters rally in Istanbul square

After viciously attacking peaceful protestors for 36 hours with tear gas and pepper spray to hold onto the area, Turkish police retreat as thousands of protesters pour into Istanbul’s Taksim Square….

By Guldenay Sonumut in Istanbul

Police have started withdrawing from a main Istanbul square to allow in tens of thousands of protesters campaigning against the potential construction of a shopping centre in a park.

State-run Private Dogan news agency said officers removed barricades after brief scuffles with demonstrators who hurled fireworks at them.

Riot police in Istanbul have fought running battles with thousands of people who turned out to protect a park in the city’s central Taksim Square.

Water cannon and tear gas were used as protesters tried to reach the square and the parliament building in the capital, Ankara.

It all started with a peaceful protest over plans to redevelop the Gezi Parka but it has become bigger than just an environmental protest. It is now a demonstration against the Islamist-rooted government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

First pictures, then videos of brutal police attacks on unarmed protesters in Istanbul caused the protests to spread to other cities, with riot police being deployed in Ankara overnight. Continue reading “Turkey: Mega victory demos as killer police retreat”

Libertad 5 Anarquistas de Facebook: Concentración HOY Sevilla.

Libertad 5 Anarquistas de Facebook: Concentración HOY Sevilla.

Día: Lunes 27 de Mayo.

Lugar: Plaza Nueva.

Hora: 20:00h.

Fuente: CSOA Sin Nombre

Libertad 5 Anarquistas de Facebook.Concentración HOY Sevilla.

Lxs compañerxs del CSOA Sin Nombre convocan para el próximo lunes 27 en Plaza Nueva a las 20:00 de la tarde una concentración de solidaridad con lxs 5 compañerxs detenidxs en Barcelona y falsamente acusadxs de integrar una organización terrorista, entre otros cargos que nacen de la manipulación informativa de los medios de comunicación y de las mentiras deliberadas y reiteradas de la policía.
Lxs compañerxs fueron, por cierto, encarceladxs en prisión preventiva en Soto del Real (Madrid) donde afrontan nada más ni nada menos que un régimen FIES de tercer grado.Todo por expresar sus opiniones en una red social y en las calles, y por movilizarse contra un sistema que depreda la vida y la sustituye por máquinas y mercancía.

contacto para ayudar: cincdebarcelona (at) riseup.net

Libertad 5 de Barcelona: ‘la droga fue un químico no ilegal’ + 22 comentarios Libertad 5 Anarquistas de Facebook: Concentración HOY Sevilla. 5 Black Flag anarchists seized in Catalonia Police Raids + update
Bandera Negra (Black Flag) statements on anarchist Arrests
Help Femen activist Amina, ‘condemned to Death’ for protest Photo
Kolectivo Bandera Negra: No bail for 5 anarchist ‘Facebook Terrorists’

Friends of the Anarchist 5 / Amigs de ls 5 Anarquistas de Facebook +UPDATE

UPDATE: In a blatant attack on dissent the neo-fascist Madrid government still keeps 5 young people, including a mother of 2 small kids, without bail in anti terrorist punishment cells. Their only crime.. sharing anti state images with friends in accounts already deleted by Facebook.!!

UPDATE de los 5 de Barcelona

Pedimos por favor que NO MANDÉIS CARTAS a los compañeros, es peligroso para ellos y para vosotros mientras estén en FIES3.  Aprovecho para puntualizar que estamos llevando a cabo un duro trabajo, pero que lo que podemos publicar es mínimo, nuestro trabajo es desde 
apoyo a los presos, la familia y contactar con decenas de 
organizaciones. Pedimos por favor que nadie actué por su parte, haciéndolo  con
 la mejor de las intenciones puede convertir su acción en un problema 
grave para nuestros compañeros. Los que pedís como ayudar, podéis 
preparar acciones de recogida de dinero (bolos, cafetas etc...) ya que 
en breve tendremos lista la cuenta para el apoyo económico, también 
organizar concentraciones solidarias todo y que nosotros no 
organizaremos nada mientras eso no pueda ayudar a nuestros compañeros. 
 Salud y gracias por la compresión....See MoreYou, Ricardo Mauriz, Ste Blacknoise, Abel Garcia and 91 others like this.View 12 more comments

Los 5 de Barcelona Sentimos mucho la confusión, esto nos viene de nuevo, no tenemos experiencia con estos temas y eso nos dificulta el trabajo. Después de hablar con abogados y distintos colectivos con mas experiencia lleguemos a la conclusión de no publicar esa información como nos recomendó todo aquel que tenia experiencia en el tema, perdón por la confusión.
el blog de Los 5 encarcelados:http://freedomforthefive.wordpress.com/

el Facebook de los 5 de barcelona: https://www.facebook.com/Los5DeBarcelona

CAMPAIGN DEMANDING THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THE 5 ANARCHISTS FROM BARCELONA IMPRISONED IN SOTO DE REAL PRISON

If you would like to collaborate you can contact us at :
cincdebarcelonaATriseup.net

On 15th May were arrested at their homes, in the province of Barcelona, Yolanda, Silvia, Juan, Xabier and José by order of the Spanish National Court in a police operation that resulted also in the smashing and seizure of material from Catalan anarchists premises. Continue reading “Friends of the Anarchist 5 / Amig*s de l*s 5 Anarquistas de Facebook +UPDATE”

Womens ‘Red Brigades’ confronts India sex abuse

Group of Delhi women enforces its own vigilante style of justice, even using physical intimidation against harassers.

The December 16 gang-rape in Delhi sparked protests across the country and opened India’s eyes to atrocities committed against women and girls on a daily basis.

The demonstrations and media scrutiny forced the government to respond. It drew up a new sexual offences bill that updated the archaic piece of judiciary that once constituted as laws to protect women. Continue reading “Womens ‘Red Brigades’ confronts India sex abuse”

US set to bomb #Syria with Ridiculous Pretext.

UPDATE 6th MAY

Re-Blogging this from a few months baxck as the US gets ready to start bombing, with the ridiculous pretext of chemical weapons, see here Washington fabricates chemical weapons pretext for war against Syria and Israel already started bombing...

STOP STOP STOP THEM NOW

The final logic of Capitalism is war. The excuse of a ‘chemical weapons’ in Syria is as false as Saddam’s secret weapons. This time round more millions of innocents will die, to boost the profits of the US ‘War Economy’ Corporations who control the US Congress. This time round there is little protest, nobody believes they can be serious, but this war is becoming daily more certain. Now is the time for the US and UK public to stop a barbaric air blitz…

NATO poised to invade Syria – U.S. fleet on Syrian coast, 10,000 troops ready to go

In fact, we may be so close to another mid-eastern war that Syrian President Bashir Al-Assad is emphatically trying to find an exit: Continue reading “US set to bomb #Syria with Ridiculous Pretext.”

Who’s to blame for 258,000 dying of hunger in Somalia?

Almost 260,000 people, half of them young children, died of hunger during the last famine in Somalia, according to a UN report, with the world body admitting it should have done more to prevent the tragedy. Senait Gebregziabher, director of the aid group Oxfam in Somalia, said “The world was too slow to respond to stark warnings of drought” and that “these deaths could and should have been prevented.”

SO WHY DID IT HAPPEN?

First we have racism, if this was a western country it would never have been let happen. Continue reading “Who’s to blame for 258,000 dying of hunger in Somalia?”

Montreal police arrest 447 at May Day

International Workers Day rally yields unlawful assembly fines for participants

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Montreal police arrested 447 people last night during a May Day demonstration in Montreal organized by a group called the Anti-Capitalist Convergence, or CLAC.

Those arrested at the demonstration that coincided with International Workers’ Day were released over the course of the night and handed a $637 fine for unlawful assembly.

The noisy, colourful rally Wednesday was almost festive when it began early on the unseasonably warm evening.

Restaurant patrons watched from outdoor terraces as drummers, musicians and chanting, flag-waving demonstrators gathered in Place Jacques-Cartier.

However, police declared the gathering illegal shortly after it started under the controversial Montreal public order bylaw P-6. The bylaw makes it illegal to participate in an assembly with a face obscured by a scarf, hood or mask, and requires protesters to disclose to police in advance the location and itinerary of their demonstration.

Police said they issued a dispersal order, and also confirmed criminal acts, which consisted mainly of wielding sticks and throwing billiard balls at officers, were performed.

“It was getting dangerous for peace and safety and the public order,” said police Sgt. Jean-Bruno Latour.

Dozens of demonstrators tried to make their way to the march’s destination, a private club known by its street number, 357c.

Witnesses at Quebec’s inquiry into corruption in the construction industry have referred to the club in testimony as a meeting place for entrepreneurs, high-level bureaucrats and politicians to discuss business.

However, the demonstrators never reached the club.

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Hundreds of police encircled the protesters at the intersection of de la Commune Street and St-Sulpice Street. They herded — and in some cases, physically carried— those detained into awaiting buses.

The CLAC denounced the police intervention, saying they used disproportionate force against protesters.

Latour could not say if anyone would face criminal charges.