*************-‘I settled down to spend the long day crying.’–
Maxie narrating
I woke with a throbbing headache. It was day, but still dark and gloomy. A bullet or bit of metal had grazed my left arm, causing a cut, that’s all. If it had passed a bit deeper, they told me later, I’d have bled to death. And I didn’t even know I’d been hit! Continue reading “Serial of The Free. Ch37 Maxie’s Fall. Ch38 Macker’s Goats”
GlobalSquare is a series of online and physical meetings and assemblies whose participants and organisers are individuals linked to the 15M, Occupy, Student Movements, Yo Soy 132!, Tharek, Idle No More!, VIA22 as well as other movements.
Our objective is to prepare a lively open space for physical contact and exchange during the World Social Forum (WSF) which will take place from 26-30 March 2013 in Tunisia where the flames of the global intifada first sparked in January 2011. …
Anna Betz, cofounder of the School of Commoning in London, has amassed a remarkable listing of commons-related conferences, lectures and other notable events in Europe, Asia and Africa in the next four months. (See her longer blog post here.) I’ve added Brooklyn to her list, just to add a US event.
Oxford, England, March 16
Commons and Commoning – Ideas and practices for a connected world. A one day programme with international commons activist and author, Silke Helfrich to facilitate and share new thinking and practices on the commons, commoning and commons creation in all areas of our lives: our communities, organisations, networks, disciplines.
Barcelona, Spain, March 20-21
Sharing Commons Spring Institutions for/of the Commons. State & Commons: An Impossible Match? Reflections from a worldwide perspective by Michael BauwensGraphic from “Making Worlds” gathering in Brooklyn. Continue reading “An Explosion of Commons Gatherings”
Hello from Barcelona,
This is the (almost) weekly newsletter that will inform you about the activities of 15M movement in Barcelona, Catalonia and occasionally the main events in Spain.
1. “Let’s get rid of them, together we can” 50 cities against the financial dictatorship
2. A week of non-stop protests in Barcelona
3. Public health care system alternative: 2 cooperatives in Barcelona Continue reading “Barcelona #15M Newsletter 40: General Revolt”
******************-‘All nature was just.. wiped out?’
‘Uncle Barney. Uncle Barney, can I take a baby rabbit home?’- asked Josie, holding up a terrified bunny by the scruff of its neck. Continue reading “Serial of The Free ch 36. The Ice Queen”
“You, the latest representative in Spain of the band of drunks, pimps, idiotic, brainless, bastards, nymphomaniacs and vagrants that over the centuries have shaped the Bourbon royal line.”After his arraignment, Martinez had some words for the press. “I came out of respect for the law, not for these judges. I have not committed any crime, because, apart from military, I’m a writer and historian who has the right to freedom of expression. I have not slandered the head of state, or even care, I just want him to go. ”
In the Hall of the Central Criminal Court, the trial continued without witnesses or accused. The prosecution has maintained its request for conviction for “libel and slander to the Crown”
Regarding the parts designated as criticism without criminal offense, the prosecutor referred to the article quotes “the King uses (military aircraft and others) to attend grands prix of Formula I or international tennis tournaments.” Continue reading “King called a ”drunken idiotic brainless bastard pimp..”..State demands 15 months prison”
Victims of pedophile priests “break” in the Vatican conclave
From the United States, Mexico and Belgium, victims of pedophile priests “broke” in the debate surrounding the conclave to require that certain prelates are not considered to become the next pope, having covered or minimized the sexual abuse scandals in the Church.
“If the Church elects a new pope whose balance in combating pedophile priests is poor, it means that nothing has changed,” he told AFP James Salt, director of Catholics United Association (Catholics United), who called “All cardinals splashed by the caucus scandal to apologize.”
Present and active for several days in Rome, the U.S. network of victims of SNAP issued a “black list” of 12 papabili who urged not choose for inaction, including two of those listed as favorites: the Canadian Marc Ouellet and Italian Angelo Scola. Continue reading “Victims of Pedophile Priests crash Vatican conclave”
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