Every day the demos are getting bigger, pickets become gigantic and merge into marches and rioting.
It’s not just a case of changing Prime Minister, half the government are implicated in mass bribery. If Rajoy goes others and the maybe the whole government will fall.
Then the ‘Troika’ program of closing all public services, schools, hospitals, pensions.. plus 500 mortgage evictions a day and general unemployment.. may grind to an halt.
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The sleeping giant is waking up. Brazil is awakening from the Fake Progress Dream of the 1%. Brazilians are taking the streets, but the media only talks about macro politics. Brazilian youth-and-not-so are demanding other economic, civic and social ways. But the media hides the facts:
political assemblies in public, occupations of municipal assemblies (as Belo Horizontes´s occupation),
new networked collectives fighting for the right to the city, for political participation… Continue reading “Brazil: If I can´t dance, it is not my #BRevolution”
According to a report released by the United Nations World Heath Organization (WHO), 35 percent
of women around the world experience some form of physical or sexual violence, whether by an intimate partner or stranger, and the problem is so widespread that it is now considered a global public health problem.
While legislative actions are commendable, to date these measures have not led to a world free from violence—women continue to be subject to it, the media continues to report it, activists continue to fight against it and we end up in a perpetuating cycle of institutional inertia.
Perhaps we need to look more closely at the history and present day use of Patriarchal Power…..
Since our last story on the Edward Snowden affair, three countries – Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua – have offered asylum and three others – Cuba, Ecuador and Uruguay – may offer too. Also, several people – including John Cusack and J P Barlow, Birgitta Jonsdottir – have offered, if needed, to be ‘human shields’ for Snowden on his flight. Continue reading “Freedom Flight: save hero Snowden from Obama, stop 1984”
Hacker makes public all accounts showing the corruption of the PP between 1990 and 2011.
(translated from Kaos. en castellano abajo)
Files with all accounting PP since 1990-2011 are hosted on a website file hosting service. They were uploaded by a hacker and announced through the Anonymous network.
The prime minister Rajoy is specifically listed as taking ”commissions” but his party (PP) say he wont even have to explain himself in Congress
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