São Paulo 136 Occupied Schools fight on: Student Victory March

update 12th Dec. VICTORY!. The ‘school decimation’ has been suspended for a year and the Education Minister Voorwald has resigned. Many occupied schools have decided in assembly to CONTINUE OCCUPYING, calling for total cancellation of government plans and solutions for many other issues.

update thurs 10 Dec.. 136 schools are still occupied!!!

BY ERIN GALLAGHER REVOLUTION NEWS Students and teachers in São Paulo continue to protest against conservative Governor Alckmin’s attempts to “reorganize” the educational system in São Paulo which will involve closing almost 100 schools.

The student movement is fully autonomous and self-organized with protesters mostly between the ages of 13 to 18 occupying high schools around the city.

As of the time of this publication, the website keeping track listed a total of 219 occupied schools. Plans for the reorganization have been temporarily suspended so occupation numbers may be dropping. The student movement has gained such support that some students in Italy have now occupied a school in Rome inspired by the student occupations in Brazil.

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Inside Greece’s resurgent anarchist movement

We go inside Greece’s resurgent anarchist movement as it seeks to show that it is about more than just violence. from Tommy Trenchard AJE (photos added).

After seven years of economic and political crisis, Greek youths are looking for an alternative

On a warm evening in August this year, in the quiet residential neighbourhood of Kesariani, in the Greek capital, Athens, several hundred young people gathered in front of a stage as a band fine-tuned their instruments. At first glance, there was little unusual about the scene, but this was not an ordinary concert.

Above the drinks stand, where 20-somethings wearing black waited for their beers, the flag of the anarchist movement swung between two pine trees. Behind the stage, a banner urged the audience, in bold letters, to take up arms against the state.

Soup kitchen activists deliver food to a poor area of Athens

“When confronted by tyranny,” it read, “people choose between chains and guns.”

The atmosphere hovered somewhere between festive and threatening.

“Don’t take photographs of anyone’s faces,” warned one bystander. “They do not like the press.”

“Our passion for freedom is stronger than any prison bars,” chanted the crowd, as the band screamed heavy metal rage into the night air. Continue reading “Inside Greece’s resurgent anarchist movement”

CO2-FREE FUEL REVOLUTION .. by Alex Lightman.. Ted-Talk

After 21 Conferences to ‘Fix The Climate’ we still see CO2 emissions rising and new fossil fuel prospection surging ahead. With the whole biosphere now teetering on the edge of collapse we need every tool possible to postpone disaster

Alex Lightman has challenged the oil giants, with:

his brilliant Ted-talk ‘How To Rid The US of Fossil Fuels by 2030′ see below. ,
slideshow (see below)
his presentation at the NH3 Fuel Conference : NH3, Food Security, and The Transition to Fossil Fuel Free
and his coming book “The Infinite Feast: Food Security via Clean Energy”
WATCH HERE:
NH3 part starts at minute 13.00

At last a major US ‘tech guru’ is in favour of green-NH3, the non-fossil and CO2-free fuel that has always existed, suppressed by the fossil fuel industry. We’ve been saying it for years with zero impact. all combustion motors can be run on green NH3, cutting climate destroying gases by 30% and minimizing air pollution, and saving millions of us from an agonizing death.

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