Category: dictators

sigue la Acampada Sol ..Rain fails to stop ‘Egypt’ camp

sigue la Acampada Sol 08:45h | lainformacion.com Cuarto día de concentración en la Puerta del Sol de Madrid y en otras plazas de España en protesta por el actual modelo social, político y económico.

La lluvia no pudo con la Acampada SolNo piensan moverse de allí, al menos durante esta semana. Los seguidores del movimiento ciudadano que ha “tomado” la Puerta del Sol para pedir un sistema “más democrático” llevan cuatro noches durmiendo al raso. La ocupación de la plaza madrileña -que tiene réplicas en muchos otros lugares públicos de España- comenzó de manera espontánea el domingo, cuando un grupo de los que habían participado esa tarde en la marcha convocada por Democracia Real Ya decidió quedarse a pasar la noche en la calle para mostrar el alcance de su descontento.

10.30 La Junta Electoral Provincial de Madrid se reunirá a lo largo de esta mañana para analizar la acampada, después de que ayer se incumpliera su resolución en la que no se autorizaba la concentración. Fuentes cercanas a este organismo han explicado que la decisión es “vinculante” y de “obligado cumplimiento”, por lo que ahora tendrán que analizar qué medidas tomar ante la comprobación de que se ha pasado por alto.

9.30 Un grupo de internautas promueve una petición popular para que la Junta Electoral Central revoque hoy la decisión de la Junta madrileña y de otras jurisdicciones que ayer desautorizaron las concentraciones del movimiento nacido el 15M. La iniciativa tiene hasta el momento unas 39.000 adhesiones. La Junta Electoral Central tiene previsto estudiar este jueves la incidencia de las movilizaciones en la campaña electoral y en la jornada de reflexión del sábado.

8.30 Los manifestantes recogen, una vez más, tiendas, cartones y lonas y se ocupan de limpiar la plaza, mientras ajustan el calendario de asambleas y reuniones de comités para este jueves.

8.00 Alrededor de dos centenares de personas han dormido la noche de este miércoles en la madrileña Puerta del Sol, a pesar de la intensa lluvia, y orgullosos del seguimiento que ha conseguido el movimiento 15M desde el pasado domingo. “Llueve y llueve y la plaza no se mueve”, han coreado los participantes en la cuarta noche de acampada, que ha transcurrido sin incidentes después de una nueva concentración multitudinaria durante la tarde.

2.10 Se celebran comités para organizar la acampada, que se ocupan de buscar provisiones, mantas y tiendas para pasar la noche. También hay grupos que limpian la plaza y que intentan controlar que no se beba. “La gente está respondiendo muy bien”, ha dicho un portavoz del movimiento identificado como Charly, que ha explicado que los bares de la zona les facilitan alimentos y les permiten usar los baños. Asimismo, varias personas se ofrecen voluntarias para traducir a distintos idiomas el manifiesto del movimiento 15M. Los manifestantes debatieron en una asamblea las propuestas para construir “una democracia real desde la base, desde las personas”, en palabras del portavoz.

Stop nationalist mind control!

Anti-Nationalist Front in Cyprus

First steps in order to establish anti-nationalist front.

Against hysteria and extremism there is only one solution: REVOLUTION!

via Anti-Nationalist Front in Cyprus.

China’s internet censorship

China has set up a new government body to control information on the internet.

The State Internet Information Office will take over responsibility from a number of lower-ranking directorates.

The new set-up will enable the government to keep a tighter grip on the content available to Chinese internet-users inside the country.

Beijing operates vast internet censorship, dubbed the “great firewall of China”. Websites deemed sensitive by the government are routinely blocked.

via BBC News – China tightens internet censorship controls.

Christiania: last stand after 39 years

Lars Eriksen in Copenhagen and Alexandra Topping

The closed entrance to Christiania, Copenhagen

An inhabitant of Copenhagen’s free city of Christiania, long a refuge for hippies and artists stands at the entrance to the city. Photograph: Jens Noergaard Larsen/AFP/Getty Images

For four decades, the freetown of Christiania has existed as a testimony to an alternative way of life, where hash was sold openly and squatters’ shacks jostled comfortably with architect-designed eco-sheds.

For some, the commune was a human jungle in the centre of Copenhagen; for others a bastion of irreverence.

But now residents have erected its last line of defence against the Danish government attempts to “normalise” one of Europe’s most famous squats after 40 years of legal wrangling.

Residents have erected fences at entrance points which they patrol, handing out flyers which declare that “Christiania will be temporarily closed until further notice”. Cafes and shops were closed as residents began meetings to debate their future.

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via Christiania, one of Europe’s most famous communes, faces last stand | World news | The Guardian.

Facerias: Urban Guerrilla Warfare


Facerias: Urban Guerrilla Warfare (1939-1957) by Antonio Téllez Solà (book sponsorship sought)

Anarchist urban guerrilla and member of the Iberian Federation of Libertarian Youth (FIJL) since 1936, José Lluis Facerías fought on the Aragón front during the Spanish Civil War, where he was taken prisoner and held until 1945. Following his release he rejoined the clandestine anarcho-syndicalist trade union, the CNT, and dedicated himself to the armed struggle against the Francoist dictatorship. From March 1946 until his death in a police ambush in 1957, Facerias was the driving force behind the anarchist defence groups operating in Barcelona. To get this book out are hoping for sponsorship of £2,300 ($3,750/2,630 Euro) towards the publication costs. So far (April 19 2011) we have $40.00 (£24.00/28.00 Euro) in the bank… not much, but it’s better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick… http://www.christiebooks.com/ChristieBooksWP/?p=3611

via Facerias: Urban Guerrilla Warfare (1939-1957) by Antonio Téllez Solà – Infoshop News.

Syria: ‘Thousands occupy Homs after funerals’

Thousands of anti-government protesters have occupied the centre of Syria’s third largest city, Homs, according to opposition activists.

Video footage uploaded onto the internet appears to show people sitting on the ground in the main square.

Earlier, funerals were held for some of those killed in Sunday’s violence in the city, with crowds calling for the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad.

Syria’s interior ministry has said the unrest amounts to armed insurrection.

an armed insurrection by armed groups belonging to Salafist organisations, especially in the cities of Homs and Banias”

Interior ministry statement

Eight people died in Homs on Sunday after soldiers fired on crowds protesting at the death of a tribal leader in state custody

via BBC News – Syria protests: ‘Thousands occupy Homs after funerals’.

Isn’t This How Hitler Started?

by L. S. Carbonell    On January 30, 1933, German President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler as Chancellor. Hitler quickly pushed Hindenburg aside and eliminated the non-Nazis in his coalition government. The regime used excessive military spending to ease unemployment and create prosperity……….

……..Governor Scott Walker is planning to introduce a bill into his highly co-operative legislature to give him virtually unlimited power to take over a local government. Michigan’s Gov. Rick Snyder already has that power. The trigger for the take-over would be Walker’s personal opinion that a locality is financially unfit. Since his budget cuts over $1 billion from local governments and forbids the raising of local taxes, he has created the circumstances by which he could seize every locality in the state, dismiss the local………….  continued

via The Woman Rebel “No Gods, No Masters”: Isn’t This How Hitler Started?.