dis-ARM Madrid: NO NO NO to the HOMSEC Arms Fair in Madrid

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When you walk through the streets of Madrid or simply go to work the next 14, 15 and 16 March you may see some fancy cars, we assume they’ll be black, big, with tinted glass and reinforced to endure bomb attacks.

Maybe in some hotel or restaurant of the expensive ones you will spot some men that we suppose will go well dressed, jacketed, corked and with their hair well cut. But you would not suspect that they are death-dealing, that they are warlords.london-uk-a-large-crowd-o-013

They will be in Madrid making the inhabitants of our city ashamed. During those days Madrid will become the world capital of ”legal” arms trafficking (will the illegal arms trade be here, taking advantage? We do not know, but we can assume …).

14, 15 and 16 March 2017the HOMSEC arms fair will be held in Madrid . It is sponsored by the Atenea Group, which we have already mentioned on several occasions, highlighting its military leadership, its previous involvement in the 23-F attempted Fascist Coup and its contacts with the PP.

Its objective is to sell weapons, to the highest bidder. May Madrid host the institutional sellers (or perhaps not) of arms so that, comfortably, taking advantage of Madrid’s hospitality, they can contact, exchange news, needs, inventions and proposals? Will millions of € move on armaments? Possibly.81f5aada2054c679bb7eb0f0b9ece5f9

It will be the sixth time, 5 fairs have already taken place in Madrid. But almost no one has heard about it. That is the key for death-dealing, to go unnoticed. Continue reading “dis-ARM Madrid: NO NO NO to the HOMSEC Arms Fair in Madrid”

New Mooncup campaign says ‘Own Your Period’ and save the Planet

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Mooncup campaign offers a more eco-friendly alternative

Reusable sanitary product pioneer Mooncup have come up with a film that shines a light on the drama of disposable sanitary products, inviting us to leave the past behind and choose another way (models posed here are look-alikes)

The new ‘Own Your Period’ Campaign by Mooncup – the eco-friendly alternative to disposable sanitary-ware – aims to persuade women to make the switch

‘From day one we’ve had one aim: to make the experience of periods more positive, healthy and eco-friendly’ – Su Hardy, founder of Mooncup
‘Reusable sanitary product pioneer Mooncup have come up with a film that shines a light on the drama of disposable sanitary products, inviting us to leave the past behind and choose another way. Continue reading “New Mooncup campaign says ‘Own Your Period’ and save the Planet”

Simon Chapman, A Very Distinguished Fucking Anarchist

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Over the last couple of days the strangest thought has plagued me.  Two simple ugly words have kept emerging, only for me to lock them out and ridicule them as bizarre.  Simon’s dead.  Just to write it down feels like treachery.  Part of me looks forward to seeing him, to sharing a drink and dispelling this nonsense.  He’d say something wry, and witty and that would be that.  He was good like that.  Was.  Sometimes the shittiest word to ever have to use about a friend.

As part of a (temporary, and self-imposed) exile from all politics, I didn’t know his health had deteriorated so much.  We weren’t the kind of friends who lived out of each other’s pockets.  There are many who were closer to him than me and I wish them all my love.  But for almost 15 years he was always there.  At crap protests and good…

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Fascism in Action: Waves of 800 dawn Arrests of Left, Feminist and pro-Kurdish

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There are already 800  more pro-Kurdish, feminist and left-wing civilians detained in Turkey in just 48 hours.

Meanwhile theTurkish state is receiving billions from European taxpayers in blackmail money to not to send refugees North.

And both the USA and Russia are wooing the dictator Erdogan as a strategic partner and customer in their insane capitalist expansion,  To the extent that both give permission to invade Syria and to bomb and shell SDF and YPG/YPJ areas practising non ethnic, non religious and anti sexist direct democracy.. to replace them with factions of whatever crazed jihadi drug addicts they can find, as long as they are  pro-Turkey.

Sara Kaya the Kurdish mayoress of Nusaybin now jailed in Solitary without trial sara-kaya

According to Reuters the Turkish police have detained more than 800 people for alleged links with Kurdish militants in the last two days. A measure of repression that the parliamentary party Halkların Demokratik Partisi (HDP, People’s Democratic Party) said was intended to leave them out of the referendum. Continue reading “Fascism in Action: Waves of 800 dawn Arrests of Left, Feminist and pro-Kurdish”

Thousands rise up against Shell and Exxon in the Netherlands

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Almost 5000 came out for the largest protest against gas extraction in Dutch history.  In the northern city of Groningen, people arrived in huge numbers, carrying torches and home-made banners.  Children and adults marched through the city centre demanding an end to gas extraction in the region.

They also called on Shell and Exxon to pay for the damage to their homes caused by over a thousand earthquakes induced by extraction, and for the Dutch government to break its ties with the gas industry and speed up the energy transition away from fossil fuels. Continue reading “Thousands rise up against Shell and Exxon in the Netherlands”

Sara Kaya the Kurdish mayoress of Nusaybin now jailed in Solitary without trial

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Sara Kaya was detained by police of Erdogan last January. The democratic mayoress of the devastated border town is accused of “wanting to break the unity and integrity of the Turkish state.”

She was decreed jail without bail on 27 January. She was detained in prison of Mardin E-type but now has been transferred to solitary confinement in a high security prison of the type E, Wan.nusaybin-destructionChildren shelter from the indiscriminate police and army attacks on Nusaybin

No one knows why. E-type prisons are a high security level but below the dreaded F-type prisons where torture is practiced regularly.

Sara Kaya is one of dozens of Turkish mayors and Deputies arbitrarily imprisoned without trial in Turkey

Genocide in Europe: Nusaybin surrenders after 74 days ..in total ruins and  deafening silence Continue reading “Sara Kaya the Kurdish mayoress of Nusaybin now jailed in Solitary without trial”

IOTD …. Image of the day, #627 …. “GENERAL STRIKE …. tomorrow …. “!!

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~~February 16, 2017~~ 

NATIONAL STRIKE

First National Strike Against Donald Trump Planned For 2/17

A growing number of activists are calling for a general national strike against President Drumpf on February 17, 2017

… the Friday before President’s Day.
In addition to the nationwide marches and protests, the first of possibly many general non-violent strikes are meant to send a message of widespread disapproval to Trump, his administration and to the Republicans who enable him.

This grassroots movement is calling for a national general strike on February 17th, 2017 in defense of our nation’s constitution.

Participants pledge to be non-violent. On the day of the strike, we will not go to work (unless absolutely necessary). We will not go to school (unless necessary). We will not spend any money (unless necessary).

Instead, we will show dissent with unconstitutional governance through gatherings and activities to be organized at the local/personal level. Some communities are planning a…

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