by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
East Africa
Crossposted from PressTV
Feb. 1, 2015
Image by Danie van der Merwe via Flickr
‘I see a bad moon rising
I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightning
I see hard times today’
— John Fogerty, Bad Moon Rising (1969)
John Fogerty’s classic rock song ‘Bad Moon Rising’, from the 1960s, could be the foreboding soundtrack for what is rumbling in America’s Midwest today.
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After worldwide solidarity actions the judge finally ordered the release on bail of € 3,000 each of the anarchists imprisoned for Pandora operation. 4 others arrested already got bail.
Seven anarchists Beatriz, Lisa, David, Noemi, Anna, Enrique, Alba, five women and 2 men, had been jailed after dawn raids for being terrorists on no apparent evidence.
By ”coincidence” the far-right PP government is pushing through nazi type ‘punish everything’ laws against general opposition, while bogged in a mire of corruption scandals but still having an inherited absolute majority in parliament. Demos vs. Gag law Continue reading “PANDORA 7 FREE: Beatriz, Lisa, David, Noemi, Anna, Enrique and Alba, Out on Bail!”
Following closely on his brother Jeremy, jailed for 10 years for hacking the truth, and Barret Brown just a few days before, Jason Hammond becomes the latest US political prisoner, getting 3.5 years prison.. just for resisting the spread of cruel and inhuman fascist organization. He eloquently tells his own story below…
from the Jason Hammond Support Network, via Denver Anarchist Black Cross
I write this statement after pleading guilty to state charges against me for my participation in an organized direct action taken against a group of white supremacists in May of 2012. I would like to share my thoughts about this action. Continue reading “Jason Hammond gets 3.5 years for resisting Fascist Thugs+ his brother Jeremy’s Resistance Callout”
Sorry there are no English subtitles. The Contrainfos weekly program is made on a zero budget by just a few people
A festive start to the program as we visit the first anniversary party of an Occupied Social Center in Valldoreix outside Barcelona.
This is the award winning ‘DeadCity’ (Ciutat Morta) with English subtitles, finally seen on TV in Catalonia by over half a million this week (with 5 minutes censored).
Ciutat Morta (Dead City)
It tells the story of a police vendetta, torture, and frame-up of 5 obviously and totally innocent people in vengeance for an ‘accident’ when a plant pot fell or was thrown on a policeman’s head, leaving him paraplegic, during a mass raid on a squatters party in Barcelona. How police, politicians, press and Courts at every level combined to blame bystanders who looked like anarcho punks and hound to her death a lesbian poet who wasn’t even there.
Patricia Heras poeta
The documentary is an eye-opener on how rampant fascism, racism and sexism still rule in never reformed police and judicial systems, but more than that it’s a moving immersion into suffering and struggle, using the poems of Patricia Heras, written before she was finally driven to suicide.
After the docu was shown to a record audience on the 2nd channel people spontaneously took to the streets for a 1.00am demo through the city. Continue reading “Ciutat Morta- Dead City- watch here + Review (English subs)”
‘Robin’ is a Catalan activist who took out bank loans of 500,000 euros and gave the cash to occupiers, anarchists and Coops. Then he helped found the fast growing CIC (Integral Coop), a group of leaderless assembly-run, coops with their own ‘anti-money’, the ECU, which aims to evade the inbuilt exploitative control of the world money system.View original post 853 more words
‘Robin’ is a Catalan activist who took out bank loans of 500,000 euros and gave the cash to occupiers, anarchists and Coops. Then he helped found the fast growing CIC (Integral Coop), a group of leaderless assembly-run, coops with their own ‘anti-money’, the ECU, which aims to evade the inbuilt exploitative control of the world money system.Continue reading “‘Robin Hood’ fugitive to Kick-start Post Capitalism?”
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