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12M / 15M: Back to the Streets in May in Barcelona

On May 15th 2011, millions of people started a process of social change, giving a clear and unmistakable signal that we are not merchandise in the hands of politicians and bankers, we have been publicly and massively expressing that the representative democracy is dying. The political class have not understood the message. Despite the growing protests and the outcry of upset people, these ruling classes are using this crisis to plunder the common wealth, risking the lives of people. Continue reading “12M / 15M: Back to the Streets in May in Barcelona”

Permaculture Project: reinvent ourselves

Why start with: what permaculture means? Because many people don’t know what it means, A lot of people think that it’s the normal agriculture with nothing different and that you are crazy because in this time of crisis, catastrophes and war you think only about nature and having some lush vegetables in your garden…but permaculture or synergistic agriculture, as you prefer, is not only a method to work the soil and have lush and sane vegetables but it’s above all “taking care of people”. Continue reading “Permaculture Project: reinvent ourselves”

Barcelona Prison Demo against torture and police violence

the ''Model''Prison in Barcelona — the ”Model”Prison in Barcelona

Hundreds of people have marched on Saturday through the streets of El Raval, San Antonio and the Left Eixample to denounce violence exercised in prisons, detention centers for foreigners and demonstrations by the police. Monday begins the trial of new prison officers accused of torture after forty inmates rioted in April 2004 .. Continue reading “Barcelona Prison Demo against torture and police violence”

Starving the Poor to Stuff the Rich. one billion can’t afford bread!

Starving the Poor to Stuff the Rich: The Global Agri-Business Model

04/05/2013 by Don Quijones

A daily ration of bread is now beyond the reach of roughly a billion people on planet Earth. What’s more, hunger is spreading like a pandemic, making incursions from its traditional strongholds in the global south to towns and cities across depression-hit Southern Europe. Continue reading “Starving the Poor to Stuff the Rich. one billion can’t afford bread!”

Who’s to blame for 258,000 dying of hunger in Somalia?

Almost 260,000 people, half of them young children, died of hunger during the last famine in Somalia, according to a UN report, with the world body admitting it should have done more to prevent the tragedy. Senait Gebregziabher, director of the aid group Oxfam in Somalia, said “The world was too slow to respond to stark warnings of drought” and that “these deaths could and should have been prevented.”