“Aquest matí a les 8 del mati 5 furgonetes de antidisturbis i Guardia Urbana han aparegut davant del número 28 del c/Marin per desallotjar una familia que vivia des de feia anys en un pis okupat per desesperació. Sense previ avís judicial, sense respectar el dret a defensar-se han desallotjat la familia amb una violència inaudita. 500×20 creu que les poders fàctics estan generalitzant el desnonament sense avís per evitar la defensa que fan de les famílies les organitzacions pel dret a l’habitatge.
Bolivian President Evo Morales has suspended work on a highway being built in the Amazon, amid a national furore over the way opposition to the road has been handled.
On Sunday police fired tear gas and rounded up hundreds of activists staging a march against the road.
A minister quit in protest and Mr Morales condemned the action when he announced the project’s suspension.
He now says he will allow local regions to decide on the future of the road.
“There needs to be a national debate so the two provinces [Cochabamba and Beni] involved in this can decide… In the meantime the project is suspended,” said Mr Morales, according to Reuters news agency.
He did not specify how the two provinces would decide, but on Sunday he said a referendum could be held – though government sources say this could take six months or more to organise.
The issue triggered anti-government protests in Cochabamba, Beni and La Paz – where thousands of protesters, mainly college students, gathered around the Quemado government palace.
Here in Spain things are hotting up, as more and more people lose their jobs.
The cuts forced by the State and Banks are cutting into essential services. (Health, education, Pensions..) and 1000s are evicted for defaulting on mortgages.
The demonstrations and occupations have become daily and hourly.
People recognize that the Capitalist System itself is at fault, and there is intense debate, especially from the Take The Streets (15-M) movement
which has decentralized into hundreds of local non hierarchical Assemblies and sub commissions.
There are many local initiatives setting off, including Mutual Aid Networks.
This Thursday will be a Day of Action as a lead up to the General Strike, and you can choos from over 50 mass demonstrations
due to take place around the country.
MOVILIZACIONES 29S. “La lucha está en la calle. Hacia la Huelga General”
Spain takes to the streets
Convocatorias unitarias de manifestaciones que tendrán lugar en todo el estado en la jornada de lucha del 29 de septiembre, con el lema de “La lucha está en la calle. Hacia la Huelga General”.
MOVILIZACIONES 29S. “La lucha está en la calle. Hacia la Huelga General”
Spain takes to the streets
Convocatorias unitarias de manifestaciones que tendrán lugar en todo el estado en la jornada de lucha del 29 de septiembre, con el lema de “La lucha está en la calle. Hacia la Huelga General”.
(English) The Take the Streets march from Spain to Brussels was viciously attacked by hysterical police in Paris when they held an Assembly with local activists in front of the Paris Stock Exchange. There were more than 50 arrests (finally released) and serious injuries. Despite all they camped in front of the Exchange and continued the long march.
…………….A les 18:30 hores les indignades i indignats van seure costat de l’edifici de France Press, davant de la Borsa de París, i sense deixar-se intimidar pel dispositiu policial que els envoltava, van començar l’assemblea que s’ha retransmès íntegrament per internet via streaming. Segons aquesta avançava, van anar arribant cada vegada més ciutadans, al mateix temps que s’anava formant un cordó policial. Davant l’arrest d’un d’ells per identificar (el motiu esgrimit per l’agent: “és una manifestació il·legal”), un grup de indignats va resistir pacíficament demanant la posada en llibertat del company. Els gendarmes van acabar detenint a un grup de més de 50 persones, que han anat sent alliberats al llarg de la nit. No obstant això, a les 2:30 hores encara es trobaven detingudes 11 persones. Finalment, els altres integrants de la Marxa van poder acampar davant de la Borsa de París……………
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET is a week old and roaring strong. We, the people, are finding our voice, realizing that, yes we can revive our democracy. It is beautiful. It is an achievement. And it has the potential to grow into something even more wild and wonderful over the next few weeks and months. This Saturday at noon at the people’s assembly in Liberty Plaza there will be a celebration of our incredible first week. Last Saturday, 5,000 people flocked nonviolently to Wall Street … this Saturday there will be 10,000. And then in the weeks that follow, we will swell to 50,000 … and maybe even to 100,000+ by mid-October. Wouldn’t that be something!
GDP is nonsense, but all capitalist economics depends on promoting it.
Our whole idea of Gross Domestic Product as a measure of economic success is an absurd fallacy.
GDP is stupid, like having just one orange and measuring your well being by how fast you can eat it.
Some years ago the idea of Green GDP was put forward in China, but rapidly buried when the results turned out too bad.
Independent estimates of the cost to China of environmental degradation and resource depletion have for the last decade ranged from 8 to 12 percentage points of GDP growth.[4] These estimates support the idea that, by this measure at least, the growth of the Chinese economy is close to zero.
The most promising national activity on the Green GDP has been from India. The country’s Environmental Minister, Jairam Ramesh, stated in 2009 that “It is possible for scientists to estimate green GDP. An exercise has started under the country’s chief statistician Pronab Sen and by 2015, India’s GDP numbers will be adjusted with economic costs of environmental degradation
Now the inventor of Chinese Green GDP has come up with a much less green fudge which has been floated semi officially in the Chinese media, ahead of the many such proposals for the Rio Summit next year.
The idea of ‘Green GDP’ is a good one for educating people on the real limitations of the Biosphere we inhabit.
anarchism is permaculture
However this in itself changes nothing, the ruling capitalists and Corporations will only have to add a little greenwash.
If you factor in the exponential costs of climate change and the real costs of environmental destruction every country on Earth already has a plummeting GDP.
The ‘GDP Quality Index’ now being floated in China is one of many proposals worldwide to use economic theory to reverse environmental degradation and encourage sustainable values. No governments have adopted such measurements but they are likely to be given a push as next year’s Rio+20 United Nations summit. Last year, India said it would become the first country in the world to commit to publish accounts of its “natural wealth”.
Allegations of police violence towards protesters triggered further protests in Bolivian cities
The Free 