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Colombia: US backed Right murders over 313 Community Activists

Over 313 Murders of Human Rights and Environment Defenders, Denounce Colombian Activists.. Government Silent

‘With the guerrillas finally withdrawing and disbanding in a ‘Peace Process’ the rightwing capitalists, oligarchy and landlords are sending their hired mercenaries to torture and kill hundreds of activists in Unions, community and environmental groups. In Cauca [in the Colombian countryside] alone, there are now a reported 12 different such armed groups operating with impunity, also as narco-trafficking organizations’.

Posted on July 20, 2018 by GJEP staff Activists from various organizations worldwide [1] protested against the murders of at least 313 human rights defenders in front of the United Nations headquarters two days after the Colombian government reported at the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) in New York [2].

During the last two days of the event dated from 16-18 July, at least four new murders took place in Colombia, which the Colombian government blatantly ignored, said the activists. Continue reading “Colombia: US backed Right murders over 313 Community Activists”

Mobilising for Climate Justice: Eco-anarchism in the UK

Vote NO Heathrow on Facebook

from Libcom.org A direct action group shut down roads in London’s political district Friday evening to oppose new runway construction at London’s Heathrow Airport.

The rush-hour road-block in Parliament Square was the culmination of a campaign by Vote No Heathrow, an autonomous branch of the Rising Up direct action network. It saw a 14 day hunger-strike, solidarity fasts and arrests for non-violent civil disobedience.

Around 30 activists blocked a busy intersection next to the UK parliament demanding UK Labour and the Scottish National Party vote against the runway at Monday’s crucial parliamentary vote. Some were on the final day of a two-week hunger strike. Continue reading “Mobilising for Climate Justice: Eco-anarchism in the UK”

Masiva manifestación en apoyo a Fraguas .. Fraguas: Occupiers resist Eviction

see English below

La movilización ha contado con asistentes de un “gran espectro social”.

Por Kaos. Guadalajara

El sábado se celebró la manifestación contra la sentencia a lxs repobladorxs de Fraguas en Guadalajara. Cientos de personas se acercaron a apoyar a estxs jóvenes sobre lxs que pesan multas de decenas de miles de euros, incluyendo la propia demolición del proyecto (todavía por determinar, podría sobrepasar los 45.000 euros) que podrían convertirse en varios años de cárcel para cada unx. Casi un millar de asistentes.

ver también: #FraguasRevive : Resistencia contra Desalojo, Carcel y Multas

Lxs convocantes de la manifestación eran la Asociación de Repobladores Rurales de la Sierra Norte de Guadalajara y la Plataforma Antirrepresiva de Guadalajara.

La movilización ha contado con asistentes de un “gran espectro social”; entre otrxs con la presencia de vecinxs de Sigüenza, Pelegrina, Ures y de la capital, entre otros puntos, con antíguxs pobladorxs de Fraguas que fueron expulsadxs de allí, y también con asociaciones y colectivos ecologistas, de reforestación, y de la Sierra de Guadalajara, así como de otras partes del Estado español (Huesca, Euskal Herría, Catalunya) y de Francia y Alemania. Continue reading “Masiva manifestación en apoyo a Fraguas .. Fraguas: Occupiers resist Eviction”

Animal Rights from an Anarchist Perspective

from Red Black Green, shared with thanks.

”Ultimately though it is class struggle that drives change and that means we will not see the end of capitalism and human and animal exploitation until the vast majority embrace it”.

… In my view animal rights needs libertarian ideas more than ever before. In the recent years the movement in Britain has suffered unparalleled repression. This country is not unique in this either – as animal liberation has across the world, so in its wake has followed a state and corporate backlash.

Anarchism – with its critique of power, hierarchy and capitalism – can help us understand how repression works and how we can work to resist it.

The threat of far right and racist infiltration has grown as well. Attempts in the past to use AR as a vehicle for fascism failed. Now thanks to the internet, social media, low morale and fragmentation – and the naïve belief some hold that fighting for animals takes precedence over everything else- extreme right wing groups are trying to gain a foothold.

These problems don’t affect animal rights alone. Anarchism and the libertarian left also face them. The Earth First Journal published an article entitled “The New Face of the Radical Right” about Anarchist Nationalism. Sounds like a contradiction in terms, doesn’t it? But some on the so-called radical right are suggesting building alliances with groups such as Earth First! to spread an anti-state but also nationalist/fascist agenda. Continue reading “Animal Rights from an Anarchist Perspective”

#FraguasRevive : Resistencia contra Desalojo, Carcel y Multas

#Fraguasrevivefirma la petición: NO AL DESALOJO DE FRAGUAS

La Justicia condena a los repobladores de Fraguas a un año y 6 meses de prisión

Los acusados temen su entrada en prisión al no poder sufragar los 50.000 euros de multa impuestos por el juez
El incumplimiento de las sanciones se traduce en tres años de prisión para cada uno de los procesados
La defensa alegará en su recurso la ‘legitimidad’ del proyecto y la posibilidad de resolverlo por la vía administrativa

Raquel Gamo Follow @gamopascual 08/06/2018 – (primera parte de eldiario)

Los jóvenes repobladores de Fraguas, durante el juicio Los repobladores de Fraguas, durante el juicio Nando Rivero

Los repobladores de Fraguas deberán demoler el poblado de esta antigua aldea de la Sierra Norte de Guadalajara que llevaban reconstruyendo desde 2013.

Así lo recoge la sentencia emitida hoy por el Juzgado de lo Penal de Guadalajara que condena a cada uno de los seis encausados por el caso Fraguas a penas de un año y seis meses de cárcel por un delito contra la ordenación del territorio y a una multa de 12 meses a razón de seis euros de cuota diaria (2.160 euros). Continue reading “#FraguasRevive : Resistencia contra Desalojo, Carcel y Multas”

Fraguas: Occupiers of Abandoned Village resist Eviction, Fines and Prison

#Fraguasrevive ”Justice” condemns the re-occupiers of Fraguas to a year and 6 months of prison, eviction and 50,000 euros fines.

sign petition: NO To EVICTION OF FRAGUAS *74,000 so far!

If we’re not kicked out there’ll be a Ziccini Garden

The defendants fear their entry into prison for not being able to pay the 50,000 euros in fines imposed by the judge
Failure to comply with the sanctions translates into three years of imprisonment for each of the defendants
The defense will argue in its appeal for the ‘legitimacy’ of the project and the possibility of resolving it by administrative means

first part by Raquel Gamo @gamopascual 06/08/2018 –

Continue reading “Fraguas: Occupiers of Abandoned Village resist Eviction, Fines and Prison”

Spain: A Insumisa social centre evicted

World, May 26th

Last Wednesday, the municipal police have evicted the A Insumisa social centre in Galician city A Coruña. The space originally belonged to the Ministry of Defense until, after more than 15 years of abandonment, it was ceded to the city council. In November 2016, it was reclaimed by residents of A Coruña and since then it has been carrying out a range of social and cultural activities organized through open assemblies.

After it was occupied and set up as a social centre, the city council came up with their own proposal to turn the space to a cultural project similar to the one already set up by the citizens: except that it was to be managed by the council. The council’s proposal was rejected by the local residents and participants of A Insumisa, who defended the local self-managed project that already worked well without the intervention of the town hall and without public funding. After this defeat, the city council initiated the eviction process, which was finalised last Wednesday.

On Wednesday morning, fifteen hours after the deadline for the eviction, the local police turned up at the door, and were met with locals gathered outside to defend the space. During the eviction there have been police charges that have resulted in several people being injured, some with blows to the head. The police also used tear gas.

Two women climbed the roof of the Insumisa and resisted police attempts to take them down while the solidarity gathering remained at the doors. Continue reading “Spain: A Insumisa social centre evicted”