Category: feminist

Serial of The Free 29/30: Lerriman’s Plan and Bye Bye Maggie

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Act Three Chapter twenty nine

Lerriman’s Plan

-‘We need them dead. Just announce they’re dead’-

 General Mulcatty and Commander Bruton were ushered in without ceremony for the Emergency Rule session in Lerriman’s back office. Leaving a crowd of security men and bodyguards, chatting and smoking in the patio.

Lerriman watched coldly. His bulging eyes shot red from the sleepless night.

While Mulcatty eased himself painfully into his seat, his hemorrhoids itching like crazy.

And Bruton shuffled in his briefcase, smiling his ice cold smile. Continue reading “Serial of The Free 29/30: Lerriman’s Plan and Bye Bye Maggie”

Do we still need Feminism?..Of COURSE, it’s a Way of Life!

Do we still need feminism?

by Teresa Mollá Castells *Friday, January 25, 2013 (en español abajo)
Of course we do! For me it’s a way of life  not just demanding equal rights . Because it sees that power and authority are not the same thing, because it seeks horizontal human relations . Because it treats people NOT as objects and restores integrity and dignity ...Source:  Cimac, with thanksfeminism is a way oif life

This week someone asked me if feminism was still needed in the times in which we live. I’ve heard he arguments to justify not needing feminism in today’s society not thousands, but maybe millions of times, here are some of them: Continue reading “Do we still need Feminism?..Of COURSE, it’s a Way of Life!”

Libertad Ya. Freedom for Noelia on Hunger Strike

Exigimos, como mínimo, que Noelia SALGA DE LA CÁRCEL DE BRIEVA CUANTO ANTES.
We demand that Noelia be freed immediately from Brieva Prison

La Huelga de Hambre de Noelia continúa y su lucha persiste por mucho que intenten lo contrario.
Her Hunger Strike continues (20 Jan) despite their fierce attempts to stop her.

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Noelia Cotelo Riveiro, la compañera presa que denunciaba recientemente abusos sexuales y malos tratos a manos de los carcleros de la prisión de Brieva, inició, 1 de noviembre, una huelga de hambre en protesta por lo que le ha sucedido.

Entre la noche del 23 y 24 de Octubre se despertó cuando uno de los carceleros la estaba sobando mientras dormía. Al día siguiente mientras hablaba con su madre y le contaba lo ocurrido, los carceleros se acercaron para que colgara, finalmente le arrancaron el teléfono de las manos y le rompieron la muñeca, desde entonces hasta la mañana siguiente le tuvieron esposada a la cama de su celda. La mañana del 25 consiguió que le llevaran al hospital para poder ser atendida.

Noelia Cotelo Riveiro, our imprisoned comrade whorecently denounced sexual abuse and mistreatment at the hands of the prison warders in Brieva prison began last November 1 a hunger strike to protest what has happened.
Between the evening of October 24 23 and she woke up when one of the jailers was rubbing her in her sleep. The next day while talking to her mother and she told her what had happened, the guards came to make her hang up and finally tore the phone from her hands and broke her wrist, from then until the next morning she was left handcuffed to the bed of her cell. The morning of 25th she managed to make them bring her to the hospital to be treated…. Continue reading “Libertad Ya. Freedom for Noelia on Hunger Strike”

Serial of The Free.Ch 28. Revolution Day

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Act Three

Chapter twenty eight

‘Revolution Day’

I could hear wild cheering as the crowds merged

Barney narrating

I’m up here on the eleventh floor preparing my talk, for trying to win over the soldiers when they arrive at dawn. I’m all psyched up and shitting myself. The appeal probably won’t work, and then what?.

It’s two thirty in the morning here. I got keys of the manager’s office, in the occupied Customs and Excise building. This floor is in use, but empty now, the rest of the block was all abandoned till today. It isn’t because of the strikes that the Port is stopped. It’s down to economic collapse and impossibly stormy weather. Continue reading “Serial of The Free.Ch 28. Revolution Day”

ZAD anti-airport Camp: an Insurrectionary Imagination Lab

 

“This isn’t a normal traveling theatre company you know!” Scotland Yard.

PART 2 of RURAL REBELS AND USELESS AIRPORTS.

by laronceblog   Until 18th January 2013

PART 2 of Rural Rebels and Useless Airports  (for part 1 see previous blog )

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Preface:

This update should have been posted weeks ago. But the turn of events meant that we had little time to sit, write and reflect. Words may well be weapons, but in the heat of struggle bodies speak louder than words.

Saturday, November 17th – Day of Reoccupation.

A yellow forklift truck leads the way; walking close behind is a block of Zadists carrying a fortified banner declaring: No to the airport and its world.  Behind them 20 tractors pull huge agricultural trailers filled with building materials: piles of pallets, straw bales, tyres, doors, windows, prefabricated wooden walls, hundreds of planks, corrugated iron roofing, tools – pretty much anything you can think of, including kitchen sinks. Continue reading “ZAD anti-airport Camp: an Insurrectionary Imagination Lab”

Serial of The Free. Act 3 Ch 27. Imploding Institutions

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Act Three

Chapter twenty seven

Imploding Institutions 

-‘running and laughing together down the concrete highway’-

            Barry stood up, calm as usual, and surveyed the scene, at nine a.m., in the big, low, badly lit basement. There were about two hundred of us there, all sweating buckets, mostly men, and stripped off to the waist.

The place was buzzing with loud excited talk. All the tattooed Clanners milling down the back, in kilts and thongs and caps and hanging pockets.

Young fresh faces and faces lined and balding. some contending with wobbly bellies.  Others old already, with alcohol and frustration, plus a bit of hard labour as well.

Muscles bulging and males bonding. Continue reading “Serial of The Free. Act 3 Ch 27. Imploding Institutions”

Idle No More: support the Indigenous Movement!

by Nozomi Hayase on January 5, 2013  The indigenous movement sparked in Canada has gone beyond borders and across the ocean to countries like New Zealand and England. It has been gaining strength as a force of healing and regeneration. Idle No More calls for all to join in and participate.Chief Theresa Spence has now entered the 24th day of her hunger strike. At the end of a recent interview, she remarked that “I’m doing this for the children, not just [the] First Nations children, but for all.. children.”

Post image for Idle No More: the rise of an indigenous movementCan you hear that sound deep beneath the malls and streets? It is the voice of our ancestors reminding us that we have the power to heal this planet.

At the end of 2012, the sounds of drumming began to resound in an unexpected place — in an American shopping mall. On Saturday in Minneapolis, the usual scenery of typical consumer life was interrupted for a moment. Uplifting beats and joyful singing rang out as if to break down the walls. It was contagious, inviting passing shoppers one by one into the circle. Welcome to Mother Earth!

At the center of the mall, a large circle emerged. Thousands gathered, chanting and dancing. The message delivered through the moving flash mob was simple, yet profound: no more colonization, attacks on indigenous rights, or violation of protected land and water!

Continue reading “Idle No More: support the Indigenous Movement!”