25-N 2011: Que no nos cuenten cuentos. El patriarcado mata
25th Nov.: Don’t tell us Fairy Tales. Patrarchy kills.
Un año más, la cifra de mujeres asesinadas por la violencia machista ha sido espeluznante: 67 mujeres y 14 personas relacionadas con ellas: hijxs, hermanxs, amigxs…Seguramente, cuando estés leyendo esto, haya alguna mujer más muerta.
For yet another year the figures for women murdered by sexist violence have been horrific. 67 women and 14 related to them: daughters, sisters, girlfriends..Surely just as you’re reading this there’s another woman being killed.Ninguna persona esta a salvo cuando tiene lugar este tipo de agresión. A pesar de que la violencia que mata es escandalosa, consideramos que hay otros tipos de violencia más sutiles y, a veces, completamente invisibles a los ojos de la sociedad, que siguen perpetuando el sistema patriarcal y que impiden nuestra evolución como mujeres libres.…Secretaría de la Mujer CGT
Nobody is safe when this type of violence takes place. Even though violence that kills is a scandal, there are other types of violence more subtle and sometimes invisible to the eyes of society, which continues to perpetuate the patriarchal system and which blocks our evolution as free women.
There was no trouble because the police kept away, though I saw dozens of banks and the stock exchange being
heavily ‘redecorated’. The mainstream paper ‘El Periodico’ estimated 350,ooo participants, an enormous turnout
of every imaginable sector in festival mood and yelling anti Capitalist slogans.
Dozens of other Iberian cities were equally swamped with demonstrators. In Madrid a large empty hotel was occupied to accomodate families evicted for failing to pay impossible mortgages .
El grupo de indignados que ha ocupado esta madrugada el hotel Madrid, en la calle Carretas, tiene intención de “resistir pacíficamente” en el edificio y “cederlo” a la Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca.
Participant numbers. Cifras de asistencia en diferentes ciudades, según van contando las agencias: en Vigo, 10.000 manifestantes; Barcelona: 400.000 según la organización (la Guardia Urbana los cifra en 60.000); Alicante: 10.000; Elche: 2.000; Baleares, 5.000; Vitoria, 3.000.
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Las protestas han comenzado ya en Asia y Oceanía. Seúl, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Manila, Melbourne, Sydney y Auckland ya han tenido sus concentraciones de protesta. El simpatizante de Annonymous de la foto es uno de los manifestantes que han salido a la calle en Sydney
ROME 17.02… 70 injured, 3 seriously as the street battle between Occupiers and fascist police develops in Rome
La Policía italiana emplea cañones de agua contra los agitadores de Roma. Lanzaron piedras y petardos a los agentes, convirtiendo en batalla campal lo que era una marcha pacífica y multititudinaria.
En Bruselas, 6.000 manifestantes han arrojado zapatos contra la fachada del edificio de la Bolsa. Los activistas han gritado en castellano «¡culpable!»
Berlin En Alemania ha habido manifestaciones en diferentes ciudades. Las más concurridas han tenido lugar en Berlín y Francfort. En la capital, un grupo de activistas ha intentado sin éxito adentrarse en el Bundestag, el Parlamento alemán. La foto es de AP.
New YorkUnas 2.000 personas del movimiento Ocupa Wall Street han marchado este sábado por el distrito financiero de Neuva York secundando la convocatoria global de protesta de este 15 de
15 Oct Rome. A more typical image than the burning cars.
octubre. Esta es la primera gran marcha del día, que culminará con una concentración en Times Square.
….Al menos 71 arrestados y cerca de 5.000 personas han secundado este sábado en Nueva York la manifestación celebrada en el marco de las marchas a nivel global con motivo del día 15-O que se han extendido a más de 80 países, según ha confirmado el Departamento de la Policía neoyorquina.
London La Policía Metropolitana que hay un solo detenido en las protestas de Londres, informa The Guardian. AHy discrepancias sobre las cifras de participación, la Policía habla de unos mil asistentes y la BBC estima que hay entre 3.000 y 4.ooo manifestantes. La protesta está dividida entre la «zona cero» de la jornada, en torno al edificio de la Bolsa, con quienes logran pasar el cordón policial, y varios cientos que se han quedado fuera, más diluidos, y no siempre bien recibidos por los residentes del barrio
Radiation hotspot detected in Tokyo: As the nightmare scenario of evacuating the 13 million from the Tokyo Metropole came a step closer, the British Government announced there is NO PROBLEM and it has identified eight potential sites in England and Wales for new nuclear power stations by 2025.
TOKYO — […] Japanese media said researchers found radiation levels of 3.35 microsieverts per hour along a street in the west of [Tokyo] — 220 kilometres (136 miles) from Fukushima — much higher than previously reported levels. […]
[…] Radiation levels in the area have not fallen since [Setagaya] ward’s efforts to decontaminate it on October 6, and authorities are instructing children to avoid the walkway as they go to school.
Setagaya Mayor Nobuto Hosaka told TBS: “I thought the reading must be a mistake when I first heard” […]
Later reports claimed the radioactivity is coming from ’empty bottles in an abandoned basement’ and is ‘unconnected with Fukushima’.
So… what the hell? Police forces in five major cities all just happened to decide to make a major alpha-male display on the same night? And all backed down, except for Boston – where the cops took out the smaller, overflow camp.
This is weird. And creepy. And stinks of some kind of national coordination.
Both the mayors from Boston and Seattle told us one thing, but the police followed different orders. Where did these orders come from?
Boston police used the lamest excuse in history for why they had to arrest the occupiers: “To protect the new delicate plantings in the park”. Watch this great video, which shows Boston police violently throwing demonstrators through the oh-so-delicate plantings they were protecting from those messy, inconsiderate occupiers:
This is not an official statement from the #OWS 99% Movement. As a decentralized leaderless movement, in our opinion, there is no one group, organization, website or individual who can speak for the movement as a whole.
We, a working group of people currently occupying Liberty Park and many other locations throughout the US, are growing increasingly concerned about divide and conquer attempts being made to co-opt the movement. In the following message, we are issuing our first proposed statement. If you agree with the statement, please post it to your website and/or spread it throughout your social networks, both online and offline at occupations throughout the country. If you would like to read this statement at your local GA meetings and vote or edit it, feel free. If you disagree with the statement, please air your disagreements – this is what democracy looks like.
We appreciate, respect and encourage endorsements from individuals and organizations. We invite them. However, just because an individual or organization endorses our movement, does not mean that they in any way have a leadership role in deciding the future direction of this movement. We will not be co-opted by hierarchical organizations. No matter how wonderful their cause may be…….
…We the People, We the 99%, are not the pawns of either wing of the two-party oligarchy.
We emphatically reject the attempted leadership of any political party, organization or individual. If there are elected officials or organizations who endorse our movement, we welcome them….
However, they must do so knowing this: Your voice will be just as loud as any other voice. We are led by no one. You cannot co-opt We The People.
We get a lot of stories about Iran’s efforts to get the Nuclear Bomb.
Because our Rulers hate the Iranians and want their oil.
But the Indians have already got there, with lots of help and juicy bribes from the West.
And now they’re hell bent on Fast Breeder Reactors, a technology abandoned for being too dangerous.
Indian macho gangster politicians are frantic to get the plutonium economy.
Diverting billions stolen from Indian workers to the obscenely competing Russians and Nth American war criminals.
To throw bigger and better bombs at the Pakistanis, next time round
and annihalate everybody many times more quickly.
Tamal Nadu heroes take on the Nuclear State
”On Aug. 17, a group of activists started a hunger strike near Koodankulam at the southern tip of Tamil Nadu state. The action was directed against Indian government plans to commission a 1000 MW Russian- built nuclear plant. Kalpakkam has already proven to be a dangerous hotspot. Here, in January 2003, a valve connecting a high-level radioactive liquid waste tank and a low level waste tank leaked, leading to radiation exposure for at least six employees, an unknown number of deaths, and temporary closure of Kalpakkam’s main plant. The Kalpakkam nuclear complex also holds the dubious distinction of having been flooded when the devastating tsunami of 2004 struck.
Kalpakkam hence is an additional reason for worries. Not least because the nuclear complex harbours a test reactor constructed towards enabling India build a plutonium economy. Indian peace activists have expressed suspicions that the plutonium separated at Indian civilian reprocessing facilities will be diverted and used to increase the country’s stock of atomic weapons.
These suspicions have not been allayed by recent developments. Since the beginning of this year, India boasts three reprocessing plants. Further, the U.S. government has in principle granted the Indian government permission to domestically reprocess fuel elements from reactors to be supplied under the 2008 U.S.-India deal. Hence, diversion of plutonium towards India’s weapons’ programme is well possible.
Every day 10,000 people or more would gather from the surrounding area to demonstrate their support. And every day support kept expanding, as students boycotted schools, merchants closed their shops, and gruel kitchens were set up in adjacent villages where fisher folk refused to go out to catch fish.
The reactors being installed at the plants in Koodankulam are Russian in origin. They are known as the VVER-1000/392 design. Though based on light-water reactors in use for long, the design is a new variant. Indian scientists have long questioned whether Russia’s VVER-1000 technology is safe. Doubts have further been fuelled by last March’s Fukushima disaster in Japan, and by the new assessments on nuclear safety made since then. In a report leaked to environmental organisations in June, an amalgam of Russian state agencies admitted that Russia’s nuclear industry is extremely vulnerable to natural and man-made disasters. Some 31 security flaws were listed.
The Anti Nuclear resistance is the biggest ever in India and deserves all support possible
As Occupy Wall Street protests intensify around America, it’s important to examine possible solutions
Eric Blair Activist Post ( shortened and slightly adapted, with thanks)
Barack Obama and his 2008 presidential challenger John McCain both received more money from Wall Street donors than their combined lifetime government salaries. It was a billion-dollar-plus campaign. In fact, all of Congress makes more from Wall Street and corporate campaign contributions than their public salaries.
So what could be done if a huge movement could really force change??
Complete Debt Forgiveness:
I have been one of the advocates for a complete write-off of all fraudulent debt, essentially hitting the economic reset button. This act would zap all of the power that the banking cartel has over governments and individuals. Although I truly believe this to be the only way out of this mess, it may require an entirely new free and fair financial structure in place when the button is pushed, or the same group of thugs will likely maintain their control over the system. (blogger’s comment: Seems to me impossible, if most US debt is ‘owned’ by the Chinese, they’re hardly likely to forfeit their savings .)
End the Wars:
Yes, yes, and yes. End the foreign wars. End the phony war on “terror”. And end the war on drugs. They only benefit those funding the wars (with interest) and the pirates who the government gives the spoils to. Because no average citizen ever wants war, it leads some to believe that all wars have been baited by these beneficiaries — and they wouldn’t be wrong. Unfortunately, for too long we have taken the bait and they have gotten their spoils. It is time to stop this insanity. Significantly, this is one of the only practical solutions that will have minimal blowback. It will save trillions in public spending and immediately bring more harmony to the planet. However, America will face the very real challenge of creating new employment for returning soldiers, contractors, and laid-off weapons manufacturers, as well as DEA agents, prison guards and others who participate in perpetuating the war on drugs. So, even though ending all wars is the only sane policy, by itself it is not a silver bullet for economic woes………
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