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Spain boils over..huelga General Strike..29M Espanya
29M. HUELGA GENERAL. NI TRABAJES, NI CONSUMAS
29M. GENERAL STRIKE Lets not work or consume
Todos los sindicatos de clase y combativos, así como los colectivos, partidos o movimientos sociales de base CONVOCAN a la HUELGA GENERAL DEL 29 DE MARZO contra este nuevo ataque brutal a l@s trabajador@s y parad@s que significa la Reforma Laboral.
All class and militant unions and groups, parties or social movements based CALL to GENERAL STRIKE FROM 29 MARCH against this brutal new attack the worker @ s @ s @ s parad means the Labor Reform.
CNT
http://www.cnt.es/noticias/la-cnt-convoca-huelga-general-el-pr%C3%B3ximo-29-de-marzo
Manifestaciones preparativos
Ayer se celebraron 57 manifestaciones en toda España contra la reforma laboral, en vigor desde el pasado 12 de febrero. En la comunidad aragonesa hubo dos principales: en Zaragoza y en Huesca, aunque también hubo concentraciones en otros núcleos como en Benasque. las protestas de ayer escenificó un salto cuantitativo, por la multitudinaria asistencia, y cualitativo, por el hartazgo de jóvenes, parados y trabajadores que se sienten los únicos paganos de una crisis que parece no tener fin. “Se puede y se debe 
hacer lo que haga falta para no morir de rabia”, comentaba Soledad, de 61 años, que junto a Paqui –de 44 años y que encadena más de 30 contratos eventuales en los últimos once años– encarnaban la viva imagen del inconformismo.
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‘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/
Shell sets sail to Trash the Arctic
Shell oil rig set for landmark Alaska journey
by Kim Murphy,—After one of the biggest environmental fights in decades, exploratory drilling is expected to begin in July off the state’s north coast. The company has plans in case of a spill; opponents say normal operations will still release damaging chemicals.
Shell Oil's Kulluk rig set to leave Seattle for the north coast of Alaska to drill in the Arctic at the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas with no spill plan, also releasing thousands of tons of industrial carbon, methane, nitrogen dioxide, adding toxic chemicals to the pristine environment
Shell Oil’s Kulluk oil drilling rig, with downtown Seattle in the background. By July it’s expected to be at work off the north coast of Alaska. (Elaine Thompson, Associated Press) Continue reading “Shell sets sail to Trash the Arctic”
Cleaning your ASS with the last Rainforest ??
American consumers are unwittingly contributing to the destruction of endangered rainforests in Sumatra by purchasing certain brands of toilet paper, asserts a new report published by the environmental group WWF.
The brands — Paseo and Livi — are among the fastest growing, in terms of sales, in the United States. Both brands are commonly marketed for hotels, restaurants, and public restrooms, according to the report.
APP has converted large tracts of Sumatran rainforest for wood-pulp plantations used to produce fiber for paper products. The forests serve as critical habitat for a range of endangered species and generate livelihood for rural communities.
“APP is rapidly expanding into the U.S. market with paper products linked to rain forest destruction, originating from areas that are the last home for critically endangered Sumatran tigers, elephants, and orangutans,” states the WWF report.
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WWF estimates that APP has destroyed nearly 5 million hectares of forest in Sumatra since it began operations in 1984. APP is still heavily dependent on sourcing fiber from natural forests, a consequence of “historically low investment in plantation development and a strong reliance on plantations located on peat soils and in areas with community conflict,” according to the report. ……
Recent reports by Indonesian groups Eyes on the Forest (a WWF partner) and Greenomics question whether APP’s conservation projects really go above-and-beyond what is required under Indonesian law, while Greenpeace and the Rainforest Action Network have both found rainforest fiber in packaging materials produced by APP, according to independent testing lab results…..
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Mavis’s miracle Maringa farm
CAPE TOWN, Jan 25, 2012 (IPS) – When a food crisis hits the continent, African countries tend to look to the international donor community to mobilise aid. But a fast-growing, drought- resistant tree with extremely nutritious leaves could help poor, arid nations to fight food insecurity and malnutrition on their own.
A 15-hectare plantation of the “miracle tree” with the botanical name Moringa oleifera has already started to make a positive change in the rural village of Tooseng, which is located in one of South Africa’s poorest provinces, Limpopo.
Moringa leaves are dubbed a “super food” because scientists found that they contain the calcium equivalent of four glasses of milk, the vitamin C content of seven oranges, the potassium of three bananas, three times the amount of iron found in spinach, four times the amount of vitamin A found in a carrot and twice the amount of protein in milk. It is like a supermarket on a tree……
Mavis Mathabatha, a former school teacher from Tooseng, has been working hard to set up a Moringa farm over the past three years that will produce enough leaves to make a positive difference in her community and further afield. “I want to make an impact in my area, province and across the country through this project,” she explains….
Today, Mathabatha’s farm produces and packages up to 10,000 tonnes a year of Moringa leaf powder, which is distributed not only within South Africa, but also exported to Botswana, Swaziland and Lesotho. “I am hoping to further extend my market in the next few years. There is a lot of interest in my product,” Mathabatha says….
Read full story HERE… with thanks! http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106539
China orders first CO2 limits in 5 Cities
17 Jan 2012: China Sets First-Ever Cap
On Greenhouse Gas Emissions
”The Chinese government has ordered five cities and two provinces to set caps on greenhouse gas emissions in preparation for a series of regional carbon markets. Last week, China’s National Development and Reform Commission urged Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing and Shenzhen, as well as the provinces of Hubei and Guangdong, to set “overall emissions control targets” and submit strategy proposals on how to achieve them. A plan developed by Guangdong — which commits the province to achieving 20 percent of its total energy consumption from non-fossil fuels by 2015 — has already been approved by the central government. The province must also cut its “carbon intensity,” or the CO2 emissions per unit of economic growth, by 19.5 percent. China as a whole, which has already passed the U.S. as the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter, has committed to reducing its carbon intensity by 40 to 45 percent by 2020. According to a new government report, China’s urban population surpassed its rural population for the first time ever in 2011.”
http://e360.yale.edu/digest/china_sets_first-ever_cap_
Ironically a centralised authoritarian government is more able to respond to the imminent scientifically proven climate disaster.
Environmental activists have been repressed again, just like unions an all ‘wage slaves’. It’s also ironic that to help stop climate chaos
(and supply a plus 12% p.a. energy demand) the state is pressing ahead with the biggest and most destructive mega dam projects in history. Green Activists Feel Sting of Chinese Government Crackdown
Meanwhile back in the USA, the other great CO2 producer, politicians who ”believe” in climate change can’t survive, and reports of Climate disasters are disappearing from the media. The climate deniers are having a field day, with false or manipulated evidence spread by right wing and oil company funded media and white male bloggers.
The latest this week, featured again by the BBC, says CO2 emissions have averted an Ice Age.. perfect propaganda to keep on destroying the planet, while even they admit levels would have to be below 240ppm for icing to even begin, way below even pre industrial levels.. no matter, damage done, and a name made for some happy researchers.Carbon emissions ‘will defer Ice Age’
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