Category: dictators

Long and shocking history of total repression of women

How Frightened Patriarchal Men Have Tried to Repress Women’s Sexuality Through History

Nasty conservative attacks on women would have been well received in the Roman senate, the Greek agora or most halls of religious power in early Europe

The sexual revolution was not sparked by a single incident and no particular group can claim credit (or blame) for carrying it forward. But all of us agree that it has indeed taken place and that American society has been transformed. A good gauge of the scope of the sexual revolution comes from its opponents. If it’s not Rick Santorum, it’s another conservative leader decrying the threat to our way of life posed by the loosening of traditional codes of sexual behavior.

But the opposition to the sexual revolution goes much further than sex. Continue reading “Long and shocking history of total repression of women”

Solidarity Means Attack – Call For Support From Montréal!

“You can cut down all of the flowers but you cannot stop the spring.”
– poster circulating around the strikeTHE LAWS
On Friday, May 18, 2012, two new laws came into effect in montréal. Their purpose is to stifle the anti-capitalist revolt that has emerged from the student strike that began in this province fifteen weeks ago, to restore order and clear the way for the implementation of austerity measures in this territory.The first is a municipal by-law. It aims to discourage people from wearing masks at demonstrations by threatening them with fines from $1000 to $5000. It comes as the federal government is contemplating a law, to be implemented across the whole territory of the canadian state, that would punish those who conceal their identities “while participating in a riot” with a maximum of ten years in prison. Continue reading “Solidarity Means Attack – Call For Support From Montréal!”

La policía desaloja Sol //Cops evict Sol Square 4 times

por tercera vez consecutiva y hay 8 nuevos detenidos

Los ochos detenidos se suman a las 18 realizadas en el primer día y a las dos de ayer, todas ellas por desobediencia y atentado a agentes de la autoridad.En total, en estos tres días la Policía Nacional ha detenido a 28 personas durante los desalojos de estos días en Madrid.

The eight prisoners are added to the 18 held on the first day and two of yesterday, all of them for disobedience and attack on Authority. in total, these three days, the National Police have arrested 28 people during evictions these days in Madrid.

La Policía ha desalojado por tercera noche consecutiva a los ‘indignados’ que han decidido Continue reading “La policía desaloja Sol //Cops evict Sol Square 4 times”

Free Laura NOW..Laura Llibertat!!

Llibertat immediata per a la Laura! Ja n’ni ha prou de repressió!

Laura Gomez, of the anarchist CGT union is still being held for burning symbolic ‘money’ in front of the Stock Exchange

Immediate freedom for Laura! Enough of repression! in English below

Les persones i organitzacions sotasignades ens adherim al següent manifest i ens solidaritzem amb la companya Laura Gómez exigint la seva immediata posada en llibertat.

El 25 d’abril la Jutgessa del Jutjat d’Instrucció núm. 23 de Barcelona va decretar presó sense fiança per a la Secretària d’Organització de la CGT-Barcelona amb els càrrecs d’incendi i subsidiàriament de danys, coaccions, delicte de desordres públics i delicte contra els drets fonamentals.

Els i les adherents considerem que han donat resultat les pressions polítiques, tant al jutjat com a la fiscalia, ja que consideren que una persona sense antecedents penals, amb domicili i treball fix i amb una filla, té risc de fugida i de reincidir abans fins i tot de ser jutjada i condemnada. Aquests barems no s’apliquen als banquers, ni als polítics investigats per la fiscalia anticorrupció als quals es deixa en llibertat. Realment ens qüestionem l’anomenada “independència” del poder judicial pel que fa a la resta de poders dins d’un mal anomenat “estat de dret”. Continue reading “Free Laura NOW..Laura Llibertat!!”

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Felip Puig, psicópata, locks down Barcelona

Felip Puig: the psychopath who keeps Barcelona on lock-down

by Carlos Delclós on May 4, 2012

Post image for Felip Puig: the psychopath who keeps Barcelona on lock-downWith Barcelona on lock-down over a European Central Bank meeting, the Minister of the Interior of Catalonia is making a name for himself as a tyrant. Continue reading “Felip Puig, psicópata, locks down Barcelona”

Let’s break free..Mayday reports

DemocracyNow.org – As Occupy Wall Street plans nationwide protests marking International Workers Day, or May Day, we discuss the movement with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Chris Hedges; Amin Husain, editor of Tidal Magazine and a key facilitator of the Occupy movement; Marina Sitrin, author of “Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina” and a member of Occupy’s legal working group; and Teresa Gutierrez, of the May 1st Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights. We also get an update from protests on the streets of New York City from Ryan Devereaux, former Democracy Now! correspondent, now with The Guardian. Continue reading “Let’s break free..Mayday reports”