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Adventure/Thriller.. Maxie rebels and runs away, with anarcha feminists, squatters and gays.. Capitalism goes bottoms up. The climate is revolting.. our heroes live the social and permaculture revolution, and the dawn of a money-free world….The E Book came out on Mayday…. as a FREE  pdf download

Bolivia: Long march against Amazon Highway

BOLIVIA
Amazon Road Plan Has Native People on the March Again
By Franz Chávez

LA PAZ, Aug 12, 2011 (IPS) – Indigenous people in the eastern lowlands of Bolivia are again preparing to make the long march to La Paz, 21 years after their first such protest. They have vowed to make the trek in defence of their lands, which they say are threatened by plans for a highway to be built with the backing of the Brazilian government.

The 600-km march in repudiation of the projected road for heavy vehicle traffic through Bolivia’s Amazon region will set out Monday, Aug. 15 from Trinidad, the capital of the northeastern province of Beni, to La Paz in the western highlands, the seat of the Bolivian government.

The decision to mount the protest march follows the breakdown of talks between the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of Eastern Bolivia (CIDOB) and the authorities in charge of the road project, which will affect a vast area between Beni and the central province of Cochabamba that is rich in biodiversity and where coca leaf cultivation is expanding.

The goal of the protest is to protect 13,000 people belonging to the Yuracaré, Trinitario and Chimán ethnic groups living in the area to be traversed by the road, indigenous leader Adolfo Moye of the autonomous Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS) told IPS. He is an outspoken opponent of the 306-km road that would link Villa Tunari, in Cochabamba, to San Ignacio de Moxos, in Beni.–

Read More Here   http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=56835

 

Help Yuracaré, Trinitario and Chimán fight for their Amazon


permaculture:Eat Fresh Food all Year

Enjoy Fresh Food in Winter

Be more self-reliant by using natural cold storage.

Picture yourself on a frosty Christmas Day(okay in the Nth Hemisphere) serving your own tomatoes or carrots so sweet they’re like candy. And there you are in January, pulling crisp, fresh, raw heads of Chinese cabbage from a box in your cool cellar. Now it’s February, and in one hand, you’re hefting one of those big, rough-looking but fine-grained ‘Long Season’ beets for dinner and, in the other hand, several apples for the lunch box.

Fast-forward to March, and you’re returning to the warm kitchen with a fistful of carrots. Even in April? Of course. That’s you proudly adding your own garden-grown potatoes and garlic to the dinner menu.

In May, you might even find yourself, as we have, eating homegrown sweet potatoes. If you don’t grow a garden, you can buy carefully grown local vegetables in the fall, when they are at peak condition and prices are low, and store them for winter………..

Natural cold storage dovetails beautifully with the best use of your garden space. Many storage crops can be grown as succession crops after early peas, lettuce, radishes, spinach and snap beans.

This fall crop is the second half of the growing season, the half we miss out on if we don’t replant. When you have a cold place waiting for them, these fall-harvested vegetables can carry you well into a new-year bonus of productivity from the same patch of garden soil.

Runaway Ice Melt NOW in Arctic

Here in Spain we’re having a cool summer. The Atlantic has been blocked by high pressure, giving us north winds. But in the Arctic temperature are up to 10 degrees C above normal, and ice melting may set a new all time record, causing unexpected and possible ‘runaway’ climate events worldwide.. Far from being a wakeup call, climate talks are ‘dead in the water’, and the arctic ice melt has sparked an obscene capitalist  power struggle to exploit natural resources in this fragile wilderness.

After a 10,000-year absence, massive wildfires have returned to the Arctic tundra

Arctic sea ice extent declined rapidly through the first two weeks of July, at a rate averaging nearly 120,000 square kilometers (46,000 square miles) per day. Ice extent is now tracking below the year 2007, which saw the record minimum September extent.” So far this summer, Arctic sea ice has been melting at a record pace. Satellite data, which go back to 1979, show that ice extent is currently lower than it was at the same time in 2007, the year that went on to shatter all previous records for low ice extent in September, the end of the melt season. Global Warming is both a cause and an effect of the ice melt-  Runaway Climate Change is caused by ‘Feedback’ or ‘Loop’ effects.. Less ice means heat is absorbed instead of reflected melting more ice which… Melting permafrost releases methane which raises temperature which melts more permafrost which…… Unheard of tundra fires release methane and blacken earth raising temperature , melting permafrost and causing more fires…. ETCETCETC We live in a fragile skin of breathable gas in an immense vacuum. The imminent danger is of uncontrollable climate change which could make the whole planet uninhabitable, like all others in our Solar System. The only solution is to immediately begin transition to an economy without CO2 releases..  This is perfectly possible. See other posts on NH3 fuel,.. cheaper, safer and CO2 -Free! https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/category/ammonia-nh3-co2-free-fuel/

Libertad Silvia, Costa, Billy. Anarchists sabotage IBM nanotech.

     3 yrs jail..  3 a por resistir la NanoTech

Este viernes 22 de julio fueron condenadxs lxs tres compañerxs bajo los cargos de “actos preparatorios para cometer un atentado incendiario” y “comercio ilegal de explosivos”. Según el Tribunal, son culpables de “incendio voluntario” contra un centro de invetsigación de IBM en Rushlikon, en al ribera de un lago en Zurich; y también fueron consideradxs culpables de “dismulación de explosivos”, lo que explicaría las condenas tan duras
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   El cargo por “transporte ilegal de explosivos” se derrumbó ya que hay no evidencias sólidas que afirmen el contrabando desde Italia. Sin embargo lxs compañerxs fueron sentenciadxs a condenas más largras que las solicitas por el fiscal.
   Billy fue condenado a cumplir 3 años y 6 meses, más 22 días de una condena anterior. Costa, acusado como el principal organizador del atentado fallido, condenado a 3 años y 8 meses. Silvia fue condenada a 3 años y 4 meses.
   A lxs tres compañerxs se les descontará el tiempo que pasaron en prisión preventiva, es decir les restaran 1 año y 3 meses a la condena dictada.

Los tres están acusados ​​de un intento de ataque en el centro de investigación en nanotecnología de IBM en Rüschlikon, que por entonces aún se encontraba en construcción. Deben responder a las acusaciones de actos intencionales de preparación para un  incendio, ocultación y  transporte de materiales explosivos no autorizados.

Luego de permanecer mas de un año en prisión, con transferencias, restricciones y censura postal, el aparato represivo estatal tratará de dar un nuevo golpe a lxs tres compañerxs, acusadxs de: actos preparatorios de un incendio intencional contra un centro de investigación de nanotecnología IBM en construcción, ocultación y transporte de material explosivo y trafico no autorizado de explosivos.

Esta maniobra represiva no sólo apunta a golpear a lxs compañerxs investigadxs, sino que también será dirigida a todxs aquellxs que rechazan el actual estado de cosas, que sienten la urgente necesidad de atacar y subvertir el orden existente, considerando la acción directa como un paso fundamental en el camino de la lucha por la libertad en contra de la sociedad actual.Un guión que ya se vivió hace varios años, cuando llegan a Marco Camenisch, pensando en intimidar su oposición a la energía nuclear. Un golpe vacío, ya que Marco, a pesar de su encarcelamiento, nunca se inclinó y sigue luchando, animado por el espíritu revolucionario y rebelde!

Hoy, con este ataque, piensan que pueden aplastar la lucha contra las nuevas tecnologías (biotecnología, nanotecnología), una lucha que en Suiza no era aún muy activa, pero que después de la detención de lxs tres compañerxs se está radicalizando y ramificando con luchas de crítica social.En nuestra opinión, el deseo de subvertir lo existente, es el indicio que anima a la solidaridad con Billy, Costa y Silvia, por esto llamamos a la movilización para asistir al proceso, reiterando que cualquier ataque a unx compañerx es un ataque hacia todxs aquellxs que luchan fervientemente por la libertad contra Estado y capitalismo!

Presencia en el salón y fuera, para estar al lado de Billy, Costa y Silva. Para no dejar que la solidaridad se convierta en una palabra estéril, sino más bien para garantizar ánimo en nuestros ojos y en nuestros actos.

Esos ojos que brillan ante la idea de libertad y se llenan de sangre y rabia al pensar en todxs lxs compañerxs que el Estado arrancó de la lucha y aquellos actos que nos hacen tener aún a nuestro lado a lxs compañerxs rehenes del enemigo.

¡LIBERTAD PARA BILLY, COSTA Y SILVIA!
¡LIBERTAD PARA MARCO CAMENISCH!

LEER MÄS

http://libertadalos14a.blogspot.com/2011/07/ya-han-caido-condenas-sobre-lxs.html

Marie Mason: new prison art/ photos.

Check out new photos and prison art from Marie  on her supporters website HERE

http://supportmariemason.org/2011/07/14/new-on-the-website/

About Marie Mason 

22yrs jail for bid to save the planet.

Marie Mason is a loving mother of two and a long-time activist in the environmental and labor movements.

In March 2008, she was arrested by federal authorities for charges related to two acts of property destruction that occurred in 1999 and 2000; no one was injured in either of them.

She accepted a plea bargain and was sentenced on February 5, 2009 to just under 22 years. She is now serving the longest sentence of any “Green Scare” prisoner.

The “Green Scare” is the name given to the recent arrests of animal rights and environmental activists who have been charged with acts of economic sabotage.

Federal authorities have sought outrageous sentences (often Life in prison) and have publicly and legally labeled the activists as “terrorists” – despite the fact that no one has been killed or injured in any of the acts.

Help save The Río Platáno peoples

Paradise in Peril from Skyship Films on Vimeo.

The Río Platáno Biosphere Reserve, Honduras – home to the highest level of tropical biodiversity in Central America, homeland of the Pech and Miskito Indians, and keeper of hundreds of unexplored archeological sites – is in danger. Non-indians are invading the Reserve from all sides, poaching endangered wildlife and fish, slashing and burning ancient forests to sow pastures, and forcing indigenous inhabitants off their ancestral lands. Paradise in Peril follows an expedition organized to document the destruction of this UNESCO World Heritage Site and collect testimony from the native peoples who rely on the Río Platáno for survival.

Show your support for the RPBR: facebook.com/​pages/​Friends-of-the-R%C3%ADo-Plátano-Biosphere-Reserve/​138035182942758

According to Edgardo Benitez of the Green Alliance and the Platform in Defence of the Patuca River, the Tawahkas are under a particular amount of pressure . “This community of Tawahkas is at risk of extinction [if] the dam project at the Patuca River proceeds”.

Watch Paradise in Peril on Vimeo:  http://vimeo.com/26209577
Show some support for the film on facebook: Friends of the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve
Send a letter to Honduras: Don’t Dam the Patuca River!

http://intercontinentalcry.org/2011/paradise-in-peril-the-vanishing-rio-platano-biosphere-reserve/