Last week 11 people were arrested when 450 cops raided anarchist social centers and homes, mainly in Barcelona.
Finally seven of them, five women and 2 men, were denied bail and dragged off to Madrid prisons, on orders of the High Court, notoriously controlled by the neo-fascist ruling PP party in the Spanish State. Continue reading “Actions for 7 jailed for being Anarchists. Campaign Updates.”
Category: feminist
Blaming Women Victims: gaming.. rape.. ‘sexodus’
We say: “No more rape!” And they say: “What? no more sex? Why, that’s unworkable, that’s prudish, that’s man-hating!”
( main text from Feminist Current with thanks)
Between the pulling of Grand Theft Auto V from Target Australia and the increasing number of women who want to be treated like humans, men are under attack like never before.
Continue reading “Blaming Women Victims: gaming.. rape.. ‘sexodus’”
Women to force ban on Buying Sex in Ireland
| by Meghan Murphy . The Irish Times reports that Cabinet has decided to proceed with legislation that will criminalize johns in the Republic of Ireland. Members of the Stormont assembly voted in favour of a bill that would outlaw the purchase of sex last month in Northern Ireland. The decision to adopt this legislation in the Republic of Ireland is part of a growing trend, in terms of prostitution law. |
Contrainfos 87: a weekly video-mag from Catalonia,
26 Nov 2014
Welcome to Contrainfos 87,
with English summary (video and below is in Catalan/Spanish)
Reports
1. Justice for Yassir (min. 2:45)
2. 24 November picket against gender violence (min. 6.6)
2. ‘The Seeds’ Occupied Social Centre eviction resistance (min. 11:12)
3. Anti High Voltage Line movement news, MAT (min. 13:15)
4. Journalists threatened by new Gag law and the police (me. 19:00)
5. Rights Cut Back (min. 22:30)
6. Trees resistance in Hamburg (min.26.10)
7. Tele.cat fined (min. 28.15)
Continue reading “Contrainfos 87: a weekly video-mag from Catalonia,”
Women hold Biggest Ever Feminist Strike Day yet
They talk about: the conservative laws on abortion and assisted reproduction that want to control the woman’s body;
the femicide ; the cuts in health care, social assistence and education;
the repression; the immigration laws and the health care apartheid and – last but not least – the laboral reform that increases the gender discrimination. Women in our society, being responsable quite entirely for care tasks, are now working harder and longer for balancing cuts and privatization of social services out .
Death of Freedom: IS and Turks unite against Kobanê revolution
11/10/2014 MANIFESTACIÓN POR KOBANE.. 5.00 Plaza Catalunya, Barcelona
update: see Roar article below
Latest reports say that IS attackers have been re-armed and have taken more than half of Kobanê the last stand of the progressive YPG Kurdish volunteers.
All of the surrounding countryside has been lost, with nearly 200,000 refugees in Turkey.
Kurdish reinforcements are still held back by the Turkish army in nearby Efrîn i Cizîrê.
Food water and ammunition are running out and the IS forces are massacring, burning, raping, looting and imposing Sharia law.
The Turkish army are sealing the border and giving direct physical and medical aid to the Islamist forces.
In the last few days over 30 people have also died in Turkey in protests against Turkish support of IS and blocking of Kurdish reinforcements.
Arîn Mîrkan and her children
The amazing resistance to barbaric macho IS by the progressive revolutionary volunteers in Kobanê is summed up in the fate of Arîn Mîrkan , among thousands of others.
Arîn Mîrkan was a commander of the Women’s Defense Units (YPJ), defending the Kurdish city Kobanê against the attacks of the Islamic State. Kobanê is on the 21st day of courageous resistance against IS. Arîn was surrounded by the jihadists, but instead of surrendering and falling into their dirty hands, she detonated herself and killed many IS-members with her. Continue reading “Death of Freedom: IS and Turks unite against Kobanê revolution”
Resistance as nazi MSR opens ‘white Spanish only’ occupied center.
en castellano más abajo
Series of big anti-nazi demos against fascist squatters… Anti- fascists seize ‘white Spanish only’ food stall and distribute to all.. Fascist squatters may have owners permission… Squatters movement disowns fascist squat… Police turn blind eye to nazi ”okupas” in Tetuan barrio…. Fascist thugs from MSR squat injure local youths.. Media equates nazi’ Social Home’ with long existing popular and anti racist Squat center ‘La Enrededera’ to demand its eviction.
They are not squatters: they are Nazis
alternative Housing Office Madrid
On 18 August, the neo-Nazi group Social Republican Movement (MSR) announced on social media their entry into an abandoned building in Madrid’s Tetuan barrio and fheir intention to turn it into a social center for ‘those in need’ provided they were white and of Spanish nationality. .
Opening a such center in the district with the largest migrant population of Madrid and the opposition it generated among neighbors attracted media attention, especially after the massive demonstration against held the same day as opening of the center, on August 30.
Since then, it has been common to see the press referred to the center as a “squatted building” and members of the neo-Nazi group as “squatters” in an error which is then repeated in social networks. The center is equated with the squatting movement, which has always had among its main objectives the recovery of abandoned homes to become social centers and buildings.
Continue reading “Resistance as nazi MSR opens ‘white Spanish only’ occupied center.”
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