update 25th march

AMINA MAY HAVE BEEN SENT TO A PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL BY PARENTS..SEE DETAILS AT BOTTOM OF ARTICLE

Radical Tunisian islamists represented by Imam Adel Almi call for death penalty by stones for young tunisian girl, who took a naked picture of herself and posted on Facebook to support FEMEN movement. 26th of February a Tunisian woman, Amina Tyler, sent an email to FEMEN with attached photo of herself in the style of FEMEN with written message on her body “Fuck your morals!”.

The picture was posted on fan pages of FEMEN. Then Amina has created a fan page FEMEN Tunisia to support the movement from her country. Today the information about death threats to Amina from islamists was spread by mass medias, the call for death penalty was made the by Tunisian political figure and leader of the Association of centrists reforms Adel Almi. After getting info about threats for Amina FEMEN activists tried to get in touch with the tunisian supporter by phone, but the phone is switched off.

FEMEN cares for the life of a youn

g Tunisian activist Amina.

Femen denounces the disastrous Islamization of Arab spring with full devaluation of all revolutionary achievements! Bearded monsters will never intimidated brave acts for freedom made by women! http://femen.org/en

Sign Petition HERE: http://www.change.org/petitions/petitioning-tunisian-government-amina-must-be-safe?utm_campaign=action_box&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share_petition Continue reading “Help Femen activist Amina, ‘condemned to Death’ for protest Photo”

Serial of The Free. Ch37 Maxie’s Fall. Ch38 Macker’s Goats

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Act Four

Chapter thirty seven

Maxie’s fall

-‘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”

Follow GlobalSquare at World Social Forum in Tunis:

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. …

Activities in Tunis – GlobalSquare Continue reading “Follow GlobalSquare at World Social Forum in Tunis:”

An Explosion of Commons Gatherings

Tue, 03/12/2013 – 09:50

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”

Barcelona #15M Newsletter 40: General Revolt

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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”