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Anarchist Laura Gomez arrested in Barcelona

Detenida Laura Gomez de la CGT por su presunta participación en los disturbios del 29M en Barcelona. Se trata de una detención más con cara a la toma policial por la Cumbre del BCE el 2 de mayo..

They claim she burnt a box of fake money outside the Stock Exchange.

Arrested a leader of the CGT for alleged involvement in riots in Barcelona General Strike 29M. This is one of many arrests leading up to the police takeover for the European bank Summit on 2nd May. There are now daily demonstrations.
A Laura Gómez, secretaria de Organización de la Federación Local de Barcelona del sindicato anarquista, se le imputan los delitos de desórdenes públicos, incendio, coacciones y un delito relativo al ejercicio de los derechos fundamentales y las libertades públicas.
Laura Gomez, Secretary of Organization of Local Federation of Anarchist union Barcelona, is charged with public disorder offenses, arson, extortion or an offense concerning the exercise of fundamental rights and civil liberties.

Demonstration in support of the CGT leader Barcelona Laura Gomez held on Tuesday at the police station in the Catalan police in Les Corts (photo: CGT).
Manifestación de apoyo a la dirigente de la CGT de Barcelona Laura Gómez celebrada este martes ante la comisaría de los Mossos d’Esquadra de Les Corts (foto: CGT).

The Police have arrested Tuesday at the Organizing Secretary of the Barcelona Local Federation of the CGT, Laura Gomez, for his alleged involvement in the burning and destruction caused to the building of the Barcelona Stock Exchange during the day general strike on March 29. Wednesday is scheduled to go to court.

Los Mossos d’Esquadra han detenido este martes a la secretaria de Organización de la Federación Local de Barcelona de la CGT, Laura Gómez, por su presunta participación en la quema y los destrozos causados en el edificio de la Bolsa de Barcelona durante la jornada de huelga general del pasado 29 de marzo. Está previsto que este miércoles pase a disposición judicial.
Carlos Navarro, a spokesman for the CGT, explained that the action took place before the stock was to burn a box containing money and papers that had symbolized a message against capital, and is unrelated to the union of the destruction occurred. In his opinion, the detention serves the objective of “clear that people can protest through organizations and unions not officially controlled.”

Demonstration in defense of the arrested

Carlos Navarro, portavoz de la CGT, ha explicado que la acción que se llevó a cabo ante la Bolsa consistió en quemar una caja que contenía papeles que simbolizaban dinero y que llevaba un mensaje contra el capital, y ha desvinculado al sindicato de los destrozos que se produjeron. En su opinión, la detención responde al objetivo de “desactivar que la gente pueda protestar a través de organizaciones y sindicatos no controlados oficialmente”.

Manifestación en defensa de la detenida

Un grupo de militantes y simpatizantes de la CGT se han manifestado durante este martes por la tarde ante la comisaría de los Mossos d’Esquadra de Les Corts, en Barcelona, para exigir la puesta en libertad de Gómez.

A group of militants and sympathizers of the CGT have emerged during this Tuesday afternoon at the police station of the Autonomous Police of Les Corts in Barcelona, to demand the release of Gomez.

CONCENTRACIÓ DIMECRES 25 D’ABRIL a les 8.30h.

a la Ciutat de la Justícia, entrada per Gran Via.

Si ens toquen a una, ens toquen a totes. Solidaritat.

mès informaciò akì..http://www.kaosenlared.net/compone….

anarchism in Occupied Social Centers.. anarkismo el los CSO (thefreeonline.wordpress.com)
Spanish student uprising spreads (thefreeonline.wordpress.com)

¡Si tocan a un@ tocan a tod@s! /Solidarity with Spanish General Strikers

Llamamiento a todas las organizaciones políticas, sociales y de derechos humanos:
¡Si tocan a un@ tocan a tod@s!

Este curso el movimiento estudiantil viene respondiendo con fuerza a los ataques lanzados desde el Gobierno central y el de la Generalitat. El pasado 29M los estudiantes también salimos a luchar junto a la clase trabajadora contra la Reforma Laboral y todos los ajustes. La respuesta del Gobierno del PP, de CiU y el conjunto del Régimen está siendo la criminalización de la protesta. Tres compañeros, Dani e Isma de la UB de Físicas, y Javi del barrio de El Clot, están en prisión preventiva a modo de “cabeza de turco”. Quieren mandar un mensaje de miedo, a la vez que preparan fuertes recortes de derechos democráticos y libertades.

Desde No Pasarán creemos que la campaña anti-represiva que proponemos al conjunto de las organizaciones debe implementarse también con fuerza en nuestros centros de estudio. Las asambleas de facultad, la PUDUP y el conjunto de sindicatos y agrupaciones de estudiantes, PAS y PDI, debemos sumarnos con fuerza a la lucha contra la represión, sumando la defensa de nuestros derechos democráticos a la lucha cont ra los ajustes y la liquidación de la universidad pública.

Calling all political, social and human rights groups:
If they touch one of us they attack us all!!

The student movement has responded forcefully to attacks launched from the central government and the Generalitat. (Catalan Gov.) Last 29M (General Strike) students also went out to fight alongside the working class against the Labor Reform and all the Cuts. The Government’s response PP, CiU and the whole scheme is still the criminalization of protest. Three colleagues, Dani and Isma UB Physics and Javi in the neighborhood of El Clot, are in custody as “scapegoats.” They want to send a message of fear, while they prepare deep cuts in democratic rights and freedoms. Here at ‘No Pasarán’ we believe the anti-repressive proposals of all the organizations should be implemented , and also featured strongly in our study centers, assemblies, faculty meetings, the PUDUP and all trade unions and student groups, PAS and PDI, we must adhere strongly to the struggle against repression, adding the defense of our democratic rights to the fight against extreme Cuts and the liquidation of the public university.

Desde No Pasarán denunciamos la campaña de criminalización y la durísima represión de los Mossos en particular y la Policía en general, contra los trabajadores y jóvenes de la Huelga del 29M. Creemos que el repudio a esta política que la mayoría de las organizaciones de derechos humanos, sindicatos de izquierda, asociaciones, asambleas barriales y grupos políticos de izquierda están llevando a cabo mediante una gran cantidad de declaraciones, podría transformarse en una gran campaña en común en todo el Estado.

From ‘No Pasarán’ we denounce the campaign of criminalization and harsh repression of the Autonomous Police in particular and generally against young workers and the general strike of 29M. We believe that the present repudiation of this policy by most human rights organizations, leftist unions, associations, neighborhood assemblies and leftist political groups , could lead to a common campaign throughout the state.

Desgraciadamente otros grupos como como Iniciativa per Catalunya i Esquerra Unida i Alternativa han publicado declaraciones condenando a sectores de los trabajadores y la juventud indignada como ”violentos”. Así también lo han hecho las direcciones de CCOO y UGT. Y lo más lamentable, es que la CGT también se ha declarado “ajena” a la respuesta de los jóvenes y trabajadores a la represión policial. Estas organizaciones también están sufriendo este ataque represivo: dos estudiantes del AEP (Asociación de Estudiantes Progresistas) están en prisión preventiva, fueron encarcelados trabajadores de CCOO, criminalizados y reprimidos manifestantes de la izquierda sindical.

Interior ha expedientado a los sindicatos de CGT y CNT por convocar la manifestación.

Reject calls against ‘violence’ by Unions and politicians.

Unfortunately, political parties such as the Initiative for Catalonia, Esquerra Unida and Alternativa have issued statements condemning sectors of youth and workers and indignant as “violent.” So too have the leadership of the majority of CCOO and UGT trade unions. And most unfortunate is that the CGT has also declared itself to be “alien” to the response of young people and workers to police repression. These organizations are also suffering this repressive state attack: two students in the AEP (Association of Progressive Students) are in custody, CCOO workers were jailed, left wing trade union protestors have been criminalized and repressed .

The Interior Ministry has brought charges against the trade unions CGT and CNT for convening the event.

Por eso llamamos a las compañeras y compañeros de estas organizaciones a que reconsideren esta posición. Ante la ofensiva del Estado es necesario conformar la más amplia movilización en defensa de nuestros derechos y poner en pie una campaña en todo el Estado para enfrentar la política de represión y criminalización de la protesta social que la Audiencia Nacional, el Gobierno Central y el Govern de Catalunya están llevando a cabo contra las trabajadoras, trabajadores y el pueblo.

Por la dimisión del Conseller de Interior de la Generalitat Felip Puig y el Ministro del Interior del Gobierno central, Jorge Fernández Díaz.

Solidarity Call

Therefore we call upon the comrades of these organizations to reconsider this position. Against the offensive of the state it is necessary to form the largest mobilization in defense of our rights and put in place a statewide campaign to address the policy of repression and criminalization of social protest that the Courts , the Central Government and the Govern Catalonia are carrying out against workers, employees and the people.

We call for the resignation of Councillor of Interior of the Felip Puig and the Minister of Interior of the Central Government, Jorge Fernandez Diaz.

Libertad Deteni*s YA

Al mismo tiempo que exigimos la libertad inmediata y sin cargo alguno de todas las personas detenidas y encarceladas durante esta jornada, proponemos a todas estas organizaciones y sindicatos como una de las primeras medidas a tomar en común, formar una “gran caja de resistencia” que pueda afrontar las multas y fianzas impuestas a los encarcelados; como se ha exigido a 5 personas que paguen entre 3.000 y 4.000 euros y uno de ellos no ha podido pagar por lo que se quedó en prisión.

Free the prisoners .. Call for Bail fund

At the same time we demand the immediate release without charge of all persons arrested and detained during the General Strike, we offer all these organizations and trade unions, as one of the first measures to be taken together, the formation of a “big Fund of resistance” that can stand up to fines and pay bail bonds, imposed on the prisoners, as 5 people have been required to pay between 3,000 and 4,000 euros and one of them could not pay and remained in prison.

¡Libertad a los presos por luchar!
¡Anulación de las causas y procesos judiciales a todos los activistas del 29M!
¡Basta de persecución y criminalización a los luchadores!
¡Puig y Fernandez Díaz Dimisión!
Juicio y castigo a los responsables políticos y policiales de la represión
Por la mayor unidad contra la represión del régimen con manifestaciones,
campañas y cajas de resistencia.
Freedom for those imprisoned for fighting back!
Cancellation of the charges and prosecutions for all activists of 29M general strike!
No more persecution and criminalization of the fighters!
Diaz Fernandez and Puig … Resign NOW!
Trial and punishment for policy makers and police repressers
For the greatest possible unity against the repressive regime, with demonstrations,
campaigns and resistance bail funds.

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Upcoming Riot in Berlin 1st May

per (A) Berlin 1st May 2012 – 25 years of hope for a different life On the 1st of May in 1987 the district Kreuzberg in Berlin exploded because of rage against the state and the cops, who defend violently the capitalist system.
Since then there are every year demonstrations and clashes against the metropolis of the rich and oppressor, against Germany, war and fascism.

In the last 25 years these violent clashes have become a ritual. Sometimes the cops get the upper hand, but very often also we achieved to be out of control.
Street battles are risky at the 1st of May in Berlin, because the cops here are one of the most effective ones in Europe. But there is a big amount of stones everywhere.
To the 25th time this year´s 1st of May symbolises the hope of going one step further to the end of the ruling form of society.
Everybody has to come to Berlin – between 30th April and 2. May it´s getting hot!!!
Against state and capital, against the state of the murderous pigs!!!

A very hot riot happened 1st May 1989: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqeOferbqcs

this was 1st May 1999: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhzICpPhLBk

also very good was 1st May 2001: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toyaQOCUPd4

and 1st May 2002 with more looting:

one of the best years 1st May 2003: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO592dCoh3M

or this 1st May 2009 with again lots of injured cops: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMD7OPMVcgc

more information about this year: http://erstermai.nostate.net/web/

Dont miss it! See you in Berlin 1st May 2012!

Mira també/see also: http://revolte.blogsport.eu/

Migrant stories from Fortress Italy

63 Libyan migrants 'left to die' 
The Council of Europe found that a "catalogue of errors" by Nato and coastguards resulted in the deaths of 63 refugees sailing in a small boat from Libya last May.

Only nine people on board survived after the craft drifted in open seas for two weeks. Two Nato ships nearby failed to respond to distress calls, and no country launched a rescue mission, the council said. It concluded there were many opportunities to rescue the survivors.

It’s spring, and while most of us are already organising our summer holidays, some people have very different journeys in mind. In Northern Africa, migrants from all over the continent try to reach the Sicilian coast by any means. Crowds of men, women and children leave in little boats at the mercy of the sea, without knowing whether they’ll get to the other side alive. A few days ago an inflatable boat with more than 50 people on board was rescued in the Sicilian Channel just before sinking due to a broken engine. It was coming from Lybia, and it’s not the only one. Another boat was rescued south of the island of Lampedusa – renamed “The New Alcatraz” for its infamous detention centre. The Maltese authorities hadn’t done anything about it because it carried “illegal immigrants”. Many more boats have been sighted, some rescued, some left to their destiny: a story so common we’ve got used to it.

For those who make it to Sicily hoping to build a new life, hell begins: most of them get locked up in detention centres, waiting to be identified by the Italian authorities, and in most cases, eventually deported back to their countries of origin. The conditions people endure in detention centres can be compared to those of Nazi concentration camps. In one centre, the local authorities decided to bury 5 people in a mass grave with no marker.

Recently, a Tunisian man who was to be deported threw himself from the deck of the boat in Palermo’s docks and ended up in hospital with serious injuries. The newspapers talked of a “tragic accident”, deliberately blind to the truth: he preferred to die rather than to be taken back to his country. In the local detention centre in Pozzallo, a group of Tunisian migrants who had been informed of their imminent deportation, started a hunger strike and other protests against the guards of the centre. They were immediately moved to a different centre and then deported anyway. The newspapers are full of stories like these, that people read as if they were soap operas, without realising the protagonists of these stories are real people, flesh and bone like us.

In the meantime, a little beacon of hope sparkles for people born in Italy from migrant parents. Two Bosnian brothers had been locked up in a detention centre in Modena to pay for the “mistakes” made by their parents: they’d lost their job and consequently their permit. The children, then still minors, had become “illegal” and had eventually been locked up with their parents.

The brothers were finally released a few weeks ago, after the judge decided that children of migrants, who are born in Italy, cannot be imprisoned in detention centres. The sentence didn’t go unnoticed by right-wing parties: Maroni, from the Northern League, defined it a “crazy decision”, and Bertolini, from Berlusconi’s People of Freedom, painted the justice system as a tool in the hands of the lefties, accusing the judge of bypassing the decisions made by the Parliament.

This sentence is but a grain of sand, but it’s a beginning, a domino that didn’t fall as planned. While some politicians keep referring to people locked up in detention centres as “guests”, we will keep calling these centres what they really are: concentration camps.

Inspiration for this article: here http://www.infoaut.org/and herehttp://www.infoaut.orgAn ever interesting blog to read about migration in the Mediterranean is Fortress Europe http://fortresseurope.blogspot.co.uk/ (now available in several languages).

Reblogged with thanks from http://italycalling.wordpress.com

Tim DeChristopher, Eco prisoner, Held in Solitary..

(Download a PDF of press release here) http://in-Isolated-Confinement.pdf

On the evening of Friday March 9th, Tim DeChristopher was summarily removed from the minimum security camp, where he has been held since September 2011, and moved into the FCI Herlong’s Special Housing Unit (SHU). Tim was informed by Lieutenant Weirich that he was being moved to the SHU because an unidentified congressman had called from Washington, DC, complaining of an email that Tim had sent to a friend.

”We firmly believe the only way Tim will be returned to the Minimum Security Camp he’s been housed in for the last
six months is to place outside pressure on elected and appointed officials in Washington DC, specifically the
Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and the members of Congress charged with overseeing the BOP. Peaceful Uprising
wishes to express their solidarity with Tim by making a national call to action, asking Tim’s supporters to call
officials at the Federal Correctional Institution in Herlong CA, the Bureau of Prisons in Washington DC, and
members of Congress that sit on the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security,
demanding that they immediately return Tim to the Minimum Security Camp from which he came.
It has come to our attention that William Koch entered into an antitrust settlement where his company, Gunnison Energy, and SG Interest, a Texas energy company, conspired to orchestrate the bidding at a BLM oil and gas lease auction in Colorado. They memorialized this conspiracy in a memorandum of understanding that was subsequently revealed by a whistleblower. The Department of Justice settled the matter by having each company pay a $275,000 fine, <http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/press_releases/2012/280273.htm> and allowed the conspirators to retain their successful BLM oil and gas leases. Tim’s actions stopped any such conspiracies without doing any violence or harm to anyone, and now he is in isolation at Herlong potentially for the remainder of his sentence.

This is not justice, it is political persecution. Join us in stopping it. The time for action is now.

For more details please visit: www.peacefuluprising.org or the complete blog
post at http://www.peacefuluprising.org/breaking-tim-dechristopher-placed-in-isolated-confinement-20120327
FOR YOUR ATTENTION: A press Conference with Tim DeChristopher’s Legal Defense Team will be held on the
steps of the Frank E. Moss Federal Courthouse (350 South Main Street, SLC Utah) on Thursday March 29th at
1:30pm.

‘The Free’ now Available as a Book! (+ free ebook)

March 2012

Happy to let you know ‘The Free’ is now IN PRINT, on request, as a real ‘dead tree’ book… Just in time to take part in the ‘Occupy 2012’ movements planet wide!!

Available here: https://www.createspace.com/3702134 costs 10€, or $14, + post. (postage may be cheaper from Amazon here http://www.amazon…. )

..one lonely, abused schoolgirl occupies her own life..and sets off an explosive social and economic revolution

Also it’s Out Now as a free download for Ipad, iPhone, Sony, Kobo, Nook,, etc. Available here:http://www.mediafire.com/?9sdkp1dyhtjbiym for ePub (colour) costs nothing.

Also it’s in Kindle Stores (costs 3€)› US › UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007EHCF14

And still a free pdf download from its website here: https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/testing-downloads/ 362 page colour 100 illustrations +all info.

Hope you enjoy the adventure, and build on its ideas to exploit the inevitably coming collapse of capitalism

Best of luck to you all…..mike gilli

Would you like to HELP DISTRIBUTE the printed book? You could just tell your friends.. or ask your local bookstore to stock it by ordering through them. Or ask a library to get it.  Trade stocking details ’The Free’ ISBN 978-1466409323                   .CreateSpace. Direct Reseller Application https://www.createspace.com/pub/l/createspacedirect.do?rewrite=true Also trade distributors like http://www.ingrambook.com/retailers/orderingi.aspx(from April 2012) which unlike Createspace should take returns.  For Libraries the agent is http://www.btol.com/ts3/

Spanish youth rebellion takes off ..videos

You can see videos of cops attacking kids in the 70,000 strong demo in Barcelona here..Plus many more on You Tube from all over Spain as the Spring 2012 Youth Rebellion takes off !