The Abolitionist, 2012, download here

Issue #17 / Summer 2012

Posted on May 25, 2012 | Theme: Prisoner Resistance!

Human Needs Over Profit. With Molly Porzig. An interview with Diana Block (California Coalition for Women Prisoners) and Manuel La Fontaine (All of Us or None) about the Occupy Prisons Movement and the Occupy National Day of Support of Prisoners. Continue reading “The Abolitionist, 2012, download here”

Police and media send OCCUPY underground

What happened to the Occupy movement?

 Although media coverage has dwindled, Occupy cells are alive and well all over the United States – and beyond.
Occupy Wall Street was at the pinnacle of its power in October 2011, when thousands of people converged at Zuccotti Park and successfully foiled the plans of billionaire Mayor Michael Bloombergto sweep away the occupation on grounds of public health. From that vantage point, the Occupy movement appears to have tumbled off a cliff, having failed to organise anything like a general strike on May Day – despite months of rumblings of mass walkouts, blockades and shutdowns…………

“Compared to a year ago, the level of activity is amazing today. There is a whole new generation of high school and college students being radicalised.”

Others note that protests did take place in more than 110 cities on May Day in recognition of worker resistance and solidarity, no mean feat given the hostility to labour among the ruling elite i the US. Continue reading “Police and media send OCCUPY underground”

60 anarquistas detenidxs en Turquía en redada nocturna

Una ola de represión golpea a los anarquistas de Turquía después de las manifestaciones del Primero de Mayo

Ayer por la noche, el estado turco organizó una redada nocturna en varias casas y centros sociales anarquistas durante la noche en Estambul. 60 personas fueron detenidas. Aún no está muy claro si algunas de estas personas son anarquistas o simplemente parientes o amigos que estaban en esos lugares. Continue reading “60 anarquistas detenidxs en Turquía en redada nocturna”

Desert Lizard Painting by eco-prisoner Marie Mason

Desert Lizard Painting by Marie Mason

About Marie Mason

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 oDesert Lizard watercolor painting by Marie Masonf 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.

“A friend of mine sent me a really lovely photo of this desert lizard as she let me know that she was heading out for her Pacific Trail hike. I hope she has an easier time than the author Cheryl Strayed did doing the same hike. It seems like a grueling but amazing adventure. I will just be grateful to be able to walk in a straight line for a few blocks, feel grass (and not cement) under my feet, see the moon without a fence in between… and I am patient and content to wait for that day.”

-Marie Mason

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Fort Worth, TX 76127 Continue reading “Desert Lizard Painting by eco-prisoner Marie Mason”

Laura Libertad…Freedom for Laura

Fem una crida a les organitzacions socials, sindicals, …… ia tota la ciutadania, a participar en totes les concentracions i actes es convoquin per la llibertat de Laura Gómez.

Dia 17 de maig

 9:00-10:30 hores, concentració davant l’Audiència Provincial (Lluís Companys 14 juntament Arc de Triomf.

 11:30 concentració davant del Parlament, fins que acabi la compareixença de Felip Puig sobre el 29M.
 17:30 manifestació des Delegació del Govern (Mallorca / Roger de Lluria.

Free Laura NOW..Laura Llibertat!! (thefreeonline.wordpress.com) Continue reading “Laura Libertad…Freedom for Laura”

Free Laura NOW..Laura Llibertat!!

Llibertat immediata per a la Laura! Ja n’ni ha prou de repressió!

Laura Gomez, of the anarchist CGT union is still being held for burning symbolic ‘money’ in front of the Stock Exchange

Immediate freedom for Laura! Enough of repression! in English below

Les persones i organitzacions sotasignades ens adherim al següent manifest i ens solidaritzem amb la companya Laura Gómez exigint la seva immediata posada en llibertat.

El 25 d’abril la Jutgessa del Jutjat d’Instrucció núm. 23 de Barcelona va decretar presó sense fiança per a la Secretària d’Organització de la CGT-Barcelona amb els càrrecs d’incendi i subsidiàriament de danys, coaccions, delicte de desordres públics i delicte contra els drets fonamentals.

Els i les adherents considerem que han donat resultat les pressions polítiques, tant al jutjat com a la fiscalia, ja que consideren que una persona sense antecedents penals, amb domicili i treball fix i amb una filla, té risc de fugida i de reincidir abans fins i tot de ser jutjada i condemnada. Aquests barems no s’apliquen als banquers, ni als polítics investigats per la fiscalia anticorrupció als quals es deixa en llibertat. Realment ens qüestionem l’anomenada “independència” del poder judicial pel que fa a la resta de poders dins d’un mal anomenat “estat de dret”. Continue reading “Free Laura NOW..Laura Llibertat!!”

MayDay Rebellion.. Libertad Detenid@s..Free the Prisoners

26 abr 2012
GOOGLE TRANSLATION FROM CATALAN    
  laura gomez jailed
The instruction judge 23 in Barcelona, Rosa Maria Berenguer Agulló, has issued an order of remand without bail against Laura Gomez, 46, current Secretary of Organization of the CGT in Barcelona. The judge's decision was preceded by a request from the prosecutor on duty, who had received prior orders of the Attorney General of Catalonia, Teresa Account. It has often been the modus operandi of Saturday, when the prosecution asked for prison for three .. Operation 'witch hunt' by Felip Puig
 The two young men arrested CCOO and UGT delegates by the Seat of the general strike pickets
 Jesus Rodriguez | 25.04.2012
 The news ran like wildfire for a time among the staff of SEAT. Two known stewards have been arrested this morning by agents of the police. This is Javier Jimenez Oya (CCOO) and Javier Espin (UGT), both for many years that are union representatives at the company. The agents have been removed from the factory, they are handcuffed and put in a vehicle of loaders that have led to the dungeons of the ... Continue reading "MayDay Rebellion.. Libertad Detenid@s..Free the Prisoners"