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Film of Week: We Are Legion — Story of the Hacktivists

10/09/2013 by Don Quijones

This week’s film of the week is an absolute must-watch documentary for anybody remotely interested in what’s happening in the present and what lies in store for the future. Continue reading “Film of Week: We Are Legion — Story of the Hacktivists”

STOP ARMS FAIR: UK sells billions in Arms/chemicals in Syria,etc..

The DSEI Arms Fair: World’s Despots Descend on London Courtesy of the UK Taxpayer

”the arms industry is just the most obvious insanity in the race of predator capitalism to promote unlimited growth,… to exploit, swindle, consume, pollute, overheat and quickly as possible destroy the biosphere and the planet ..”

Private security firms, despotic regimes and the rest of the military industrial complex will converge on the Excel Centre in London this week, for the DSEI (Defence Systems and Equipment International) Arms Fair. This meeting is like Market Day for the warmongers of the world, and the taxpayer is picking up the bill. Continue reading “STOP ARMS FAIR: UK sells billions in Arms/chemicals in Syria,etc..”

US and Monsato in Chemical Warfare on whole World

Monsanto y Obama en guerra química contra la Naturaleza en castellano abajo

Monsanto and Obama in chemical warfare against Nature

Juan Luis Berterretche ( special ARGENPRESS.info )

The US is deciding a military aggression against Syria, justified by the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Assad government . Here in South America for over a decade we’ve suffered chemical warfare attacks against our territory by Monsanto and their cronies, with the consent, complicity and promotion of the governments of the USA .In 2010 Obama made a shift in agricultural development policy in the U.S. and in foreign markets . Continue reading

California Prison Hunger Strike Ends After 60 Days

Self-Portrait of Billy Sell, who committed suicide on July 22nd Courtesy Prisoner Express

by Sal Rodriguez

s – http://www.prisonerexpress.org / Gary Fine, Assistant Director, Durland Alternatives Library, Cornell University

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) released a statement this morning that all hunger strike participants had resumed eating, ending a two month long hunger strike. 100 hunger strikers were participating as of yesterday afternoon, with 40 on hunger strike the entire 59 days since the launch of the strike. Protesting long-term solitary confinement and sensory deprivation in California’s Security Housing Units (SHUs), 30,000 prisoners in 24 prisons across the state and in out-of-state facilities housing CDCR prisoners launched a hunger strike on July 8th. Continue reading “California Prison Hunger Strike Ends After 60 Days”

Elvira, the Street Brigade and the Sex-work Network

Elvira the radical feminist on the streets , Elvira the zapatista , the companion of sex workers (en español abajo)

by Gloria Muñoz Ramírez

” Getting to La Merced was a shocking stroke of reality. I watched as the council vans arrived from Cuauhtemoc with a lawyer who signalled who had not paid the bribes. I saw them harrass , beat up and rape the girls ” .

Mexico , DF . Working on the streets is not for everyone . The rawness of the corners and the darkest places would make anyone run away. Exploitation , beatings , drug dealing , excess alcohol, people trafficking, all the underground in your face, but not everyone wants to see or feel it, even less to do something to change things.

Elvira Madrid Romero is one of those few people who came to La Merced to stay. Continue reading “Elvira, the Street Brigade and the Sex-work Network”