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Arte Anti Religioso..concurso/competition.

¡Peligro, que viene el Papa! Campaña de CNT-AIT Madrid contra la Jornada Mundial de la Juventud 2011

The POPE is coming to Madrid. The CNT union announces an anti religious sticker/design competition

Concurso de viñetas/diseños ateos o anticlericales

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Anti Religious sticker/design Competition.

Desde la Federación Local de CNT-AIT Madrid queremos dar por iniciado con este comunicado el concurso de viñetas ateas contra la Jornada Mundial de la Juventud. A través de este concurso pretendemos estimular la creatividad de todos los simpatizantes de la Campaña ¡Peligro que viene el Papa!. La convocatoria es sencilla:
1. Al concurso se podrá presentar cualquier trabajo gráfico de tema religioso, clerical, sobre la JMJ, o relacionado. Los trabajos deben ser originales del autor y remitidos al correo peligroquevieneelpapa@gmail.com.
2. Los trabajos serán valorados por su ingenio y su mensaje crítico y simpático, siendo la habilidad técnica un elemento secundario a tener en cuenta. En caso de ser una obra dibujada y no un fotomontaje o un diseño gráfico, pedimos que nos

Religion OUT of Schools!

enviéis una copia escaneada.
3. El fallo del concurso se hará público durante la visita del Papa.
4. Las aportaciones mejor valoradas que realicéis al concurso serán publicadas cada semana (aproximadamente) para escarnio de las instituciones religiosas y de Dios.
5. Dado que la CNT es pobre y se niega a recibir subvenciones públicas o privadas, el premio será un humilde pero apreciado recuerdo de la JMJ 2011.

Salud, ateísmo y anarquía!

Publicado por TINTA NEGRA, anARTchist blog

Somali aid blockade: Killing kids to revenge 9:11 ?!

—–The Somali Civil War broke out twenty years ago, when the US removed its support for dictator Siad Barre. Most of the country is currently presided over by al-Shabaab, who the western

the political Aid Blockade to Al Shabaab continues the cruel punishment for imagined crimes against America, starting 30 years ago when uninvited US troops were kicked out after the Black Hawk fiasco.

media routinely link to al-Qaeda, though the US government’s own National Counterterrorism Center has found no organisational links. The US backs its rivals in the so-called Transitional Federal Government, which is more open to western interests than al-Shabaab….

…Now, as famine grips the region, the Obama administration sees a potential opportunity to re-establish US hegemony. In her speech last week Hillary Clinton stated that: “The relentless terrorism by al-Shabaab against its people has turned an already severe situation into a dire one that is only expected to get worse”. Even by the standards of imperial realpolitik, this is staggering hypocrisy.

In reality, it is the US and United Nations which has long denied aid to the 2.8 million people who live in the territory controlled by the al-Shabaab, by designating any such aid material assistance to a terrorist organisation.

 This was exactly the pretext the Obama administration used two years ago, when it forced the World Food Programme to close its programmes for mothers and malnourished children on the grounds that it was assisting a terrorist organisation.
 
 As initially happened in Libya, US regional allies are proposing a no-fly zone over the al-Shabaab territory. However, al-Shabaab has no air capability whatsoever. The aim of any western military intervention would be to overthrow al-Shabaab, and replace it with a dictatorship of the west's choosing. Already, US-backed African Union forces have launched an offensive against al-Shabaab in the capital Mogadishu, as well as the town of El Wak.
 
 The threat of starvation cannot be solved by the replacement of one capitalist ruling class with another. Every day, enough food to feed the hungry of the world is destroyed, in order to keep profits high. Many farmers are paid not to grow food for the same reason. Like the overwhelming majority of the Earth's population, the interests of starving Somalis lie in an economic system based on human need, not elite greed.

Read Full article HERE   http://infantile-disorder.blogspot.com/2011/08/scandal-of-usas-somalia-aid-blockade.html

Riots against Repression sweep UK

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Open Revolt Spreads Across Britain

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A fourth night of riots have spread across Britain, including the cities of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, West Bromwich, Greater Manchester and Salford. The riots were sparked by police brutality and systemic ongoing violence against the working class and poor.

Breaking News

*Riots flare in more English cities and towns
*Canning Circus police station firebombed
*Up to 2,000 rioters stormed shops in the city of Manchester. At least 47 people have been arrested, and public transport across the city has been suspended.
*Elsewhere in the West Midlands, rioters have smashed shop windows and started fires in West Bromwich – and roads have been closed in Wolverhampton.

Websites*Indymedia UK*Libcom*Freedom Press

Opinion

earlier March 15 demo
*Freedom: North London Solfed’s response to the London riots
*Ian Bone: Fucking Hell! Veteran anarchist Ian Bone gives us his view on the riots
*Socialism And/Or Barbarism: An open letter to those who condemn looting
*The UK riots: the psychology of looting

http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=2011080uk-riots

Police forced to retract ‘Report All Anarchists’ call.

The Metropolitan police initiated an embarrassing climbdown after a police station in Belgravia, west London, published a leaflet asking the public and businesses to report anyone with anarchist sympathies.

The call for information on a political rather than criminal group echoed a similar appeal for information about al-Qaida activity and “could have been better worded”, Scotland Yard admitted.

City of Westminster police’s “counter-terrorist focus desk” had last week called for anti-anarchist whistleblowers, stating next to an anarchist emblem: “Anarchism is a political philosophy which considers the state undesirable, unnecessary and harmful, and instead promotes a stateless society, or anarchy. Any information relating to anarchists should be reported to your local police.”

The move angered some anarchists who insisted that being an anarchist does not imply criminal behaviour, indeed the biggest problem with the anarchist movement is the predominance of Pacifists..

Capitalists, on the other hand are unanimously criminal and should be reported immediately

The City of Westminster is not a fan of anarchists, it seems, after their counter-terrorism unit sent out a document that includes a warning about the dangers posed by anarchists.  Helpfully, the document defines anarchism for us. In fact, it defines anarchism in exactly the same words (and with exactly the same punctuation) as the Wikipedia entry for anarchism. Isn’t that a coincidence? Anyway, the document urges the reader to report any instances of anarchism to the police.

Special Force terrorists do 70 attacks a day!

”By NICK TURSE

SECRET WAR in 120 Countries..

Somewhere on this planet an American commando is carrying out a mission. Now, say that 70 times and you’re done… for the day. Without the knowledge of the American public, a secret force within the U.S. military is undertaking operations in a majority of the world’s countries. This new Pentagon power elite is waging a global war whose size and scope has never been revealed, until now…….

One of its key components is the Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, a clandestine sub-command whose primary mission is tracking and killing suspected terrorists. Reporting to the president and acting under his authority, JSOC maintains a global hit list that includes American citizens. It has been operating an extra-legal “kill/capture” campaign that John Nagl, a past counterinsurgency adviser to four-star general and soon-to-be CIA Director David Petraeus, calls “an almost industrial-scale counterterrorism killing machine.”

This assassination program has been carried out by commando units like the Navy SEALs and the Army’s Delta Force as well as via drone strikes as part of covert wars in which the CIA is also involved in countries like Somalia, Pakistan, and Yemen. In addition, the command operates a network of secret prisons, perhaps as many as 20 black sites in Afghanistan alone, used for interrogating high-value targets.

Growth Industry  From a force of about 37,000 in the early 1990s, Special Operations Command personnel have grown to almost 60,000, about a third of whom are career members of SOCOM;”

read much more in Counterpunch   http://counterpunch.com/turse08042011.html

 

Nigeria: Shell admits 2 oil spills to deny 6800

Restoration of Nigeria’s environmentally devastated oil-producing Niger Delta region could take up to 30 years, cost $1 billion and become the largest cleanup operation in history, the United Nations said Thursday. A landmark report from the U.N. Environmental Program (UNEP) concluded that pollution from more than 50 years of oil operations in Nigeria’s Ogoniland region is more far-reaching than thought. The assessment, commissioned by the Nigerian government and funded by oil giant Shell, comes on the heels of the company admitting liability for two spills in Nigeria. Nigeria’s Niger Delta, the world’s third largest wetland, is diverse and rich with mangroves and fish-rich waterways. But oil drilling has turned it into one of the most oil-polluted places on Earth with more than 6,800 recorded oil spills, accounting for anywhere from 9 million to 13 million barrels of oil spilled, according to activist groups. But the environmental disaster has never received the kind of attention paid to last year’s oil catastrophe along the U.S. Gulf Coast. Amnesty International, which has researched the human rights impacts of pollution in the Delta, said people in the region have experienced oil spills on par with the Exxon Valdez disaster every year for the last half century. This has been going on for 50 years, with corruption, Neo Colonialism  and the criminal Oil Corporations working together. The damage would take at least 50 years to remedy, but this will never happen-.

Shell's defeat is also important for the future in that it highlights the effectiveness of taking court cases in the main homeland of a Corporation.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/04/nigeria.oil.cleanup/

15M Madrid: Fracasan las Cargas..Police Attacks FAIL

Lxs manifestantes, tras ser disueltos por la fuerza y con gran dureza, han retornado hacia las inmediaciones de la Puerta del Sol, donde la policía ha reforzado aún más el dispositivo de seguridad que tenía montado para hacer inexpugnable la plaza

Brutales cargas policiales contra manifestación pacífica de Indignadxs en Madrid



@acampadasol informa acerca de la carga policial frente al Ministerio de Interior. Calcula en torno a una decena de heridos. “No hubo provocación por parte de los indignados”, según la web Toma la plaza. Se puede leer aquí: http://cort.as/166r




Al menos 20 heridos por acción de la policía 


Al menos 20 personas resultaron heridas por la represión de la Policía a la marcha de los indignados en la noche de este jueves en las cercanías de la plaza Puerta del Sol de Madrid (España), confirmò la corresponsalía de teleSUR en España. El movimiento 15-M ha salido a las calles para intentar retomar estos espacios de los que fueron desalojados por la fuerza el pasado martes.


“Indignados dicen que hay al menos 20 heridos tras represión policial cerca a Ministerio del Interior de España”, reportó a través de su cuenta en Twitter @teleSUREspana la corresponsalía de teleSUR en el país europeo.


Según versiones que circulan por Twitter “la Policía sube a golpes por La Castellana”. No obstante, tras superar este obstáculo y con mayor determinación los miles de “manifestantes se reagrupan y se dirigen a (Puerta del) Sol”, informan estas fuentes.











Con las dos detenciones producidas ayer, ya son cuatro las personas detenidas por la policía en las protestas desarrolladas en el entorno de la puerta del Sol de Madrid. Las protestas que se volvieron a desarrollar durante la pasada noche por los alrededores de la Puerta del Sol de Madrid, que permaneció bloqueada por la Policía, se han saldado con otros dos detenidos, según ha informado a Europa Press un portavoz de la Jefatura Superior de Policía de Madrid.


La policía ha realizado la pasada noche (4 de julio) varias cargas brutales contra una manifestación pacífica de varios cientos de personas indignadas que se encontraban ante la sede del Ministerio del Interior en el Paseo de la Castellana de Madrid.














Agitación, Madrid – Castilla La Mancha – Extremadura, Madrid· 04.08.2011


La policia cierra por segundo día consecutivo la Puerta del Sol. Las manifestaciones prosiguen


Con ayer, miércoles 3 de agosto, son ya dos los días consecutivos que las calles adyacentes a Sol y las estaciones de metro y cercanías han sido cerradas para impedir el acceso de personas a la plaza. Al mismo tiempo las policías nacional y municipal han vuelto a tomar Sol cerrando la misma al tránsito de personas. Se han instalado cordones de vallas en todos los accesos a la puerta del Sol y el comportamiento de la policía ha sido más áspero y maleducado. Se han producido demasiados momentos de tensión, amenazas y violencia verbal. Como en el día anterior el despliegue policial ordenado por el Ministerio del Interior y el Ayuntamiento de Madrid ha sido espectacular. Se han repetido los registros de las pertenencias que portaban las personas, las identificaciones y la toma de datos personales, que luego se convierte en una sanción económica administrativa.