Adbusters call for horizontal Revolution

A message from Adbusters: Look at what’s happening in Quebec … the boldness of the media democracy movement in Mexico … the teenagers leading an education revolt in Chile … the Pussy Riot inspired art war unnerving Putin in Russia … and the new post-capitalist ways of living being forged in Greeceand Spain.

Witness the growing tempo of green riots across China, the South African minerstrikes, the corruption protests of India, the freedom fight in Bahrain, the tremors of dissent in Saudi Arabia, the total loss of confidence in America’s corporate-funded Coke-Pepsielection show.

Then, add to that the crippling droughts, looming food scarcity, the end of easy oil and the tipping points hovering ominously on the horizon … Continue reading “Adbusters call for horizontal Revolution”

serial ‘The Free’ chs. 5 and 6, ‘Barney the Play-Worker’ and ‘Testerical Morons”

Maxie arrives back in a thunder shower to Barney’s flat, only to find he’s off the planet…

Act One  Chapter Five

Barney the Play Worker

-‘Just bop Groucho Marx on the nose.’-

Maxie narrating

         The flat was in half dark when I went in. Just a candle stub guttering, shadows from the streetlamp swaying. A black jacket crouched behind the table. Continue reading “serial ‘The Free’ chs. 5 and 6, ‘Barney the Play-Worker’ and ‘Testerical Morons””

Abortion.. every Woman’s right to Choose.

Abortion: It’s every Womans Right to Choose  By Patricia McCarthy.

Anarchists believe that every woman has the right to choose an abortion when faced with a crisis pregnancy irrespective of the reasons for the abortion.

Women worldwide have always sought to control their fertility through abortion no matter how difficult it is for them to get access to abortion and they probably always will.

This is because it is essential for women to be able to control their own fertility and not to be reduced to the level of their biological function as child-bearers only if they are to achieve true equality and liberation. Continue reading “Abortion.. every Woman’s right to Choose.”

Take the Streets. Spanish Revolution update

Witnessing the umpteenth attempt demobilization and distraction by the CCOO and UGT and the institutional left, under the umbrella of an alleged Social Summit, right at the time when we suffer the most savage attacks on the rights of workers by capitalism .
We are not facing a crisis, this is a big scam, before the inevitable consequences of capitalism, promoted by the greedy policies of the IMF, World Bank, European Union and the ECB and its political arm in the Spanish state: the PP, the PSOE and his cohorts.
Attacks on workers over the years have been constant, differing in PP and PSOE forms.

9 Oil wells Occupied by Peru Indigenous

Indigenous Community Occupies 9 Oil Wells of Oil Company, Maple Gas

Community members in Canaan de Cachiaco

By: Ronald Suarez, President of the Network of Peruvian Indigenous Communicators, Ucayali  

*Correction: Maple Energy is a company listed in London and Lima, Peru. It is not a Canadian company.

Over 400 villagers in the Native Community of Canan de Cachiaco in the Ucayali region of the Peruvian Amazon have taken control of nine oil wells, belonging to oil company, Maple Gas, in oil lot 31B. Continue reading “9 Oil wells Occupied by Peru Indigenous”

Who Shot Go Daddy?..I, said the Bot..

Who Shot Go Daddy?..I, said the Bot..again, maybe Not..
One hacker claimed responsibility for downing millions of sites worldwide. But suspicion quickly moved to rival domain host companies. Others pointed the finger at enemies of the CEO Bob Parsons, the famous elephant exterminator and mega ego.

lets see if Google indexes a reblog!

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Barcelona — Psychologist Angels Corcoles recently taught a seminar about self-empowerment for women, and when she finished she got a check with her fee. The amount was in hours, not euros.

But Corcoles didn’t mind. Through a citywide credit network that allows people to trade services without money, the 10 hours Corcoles earned could be used to pay for a haircut, yoga classes or even carpentry work.

At a time when the future of the euro is in doubt and millions are unemployed or underemployed with little cash to spare, a parallel economy is springing up in parts of Spain, allowing people to live outside the single currency.

In the city of Malaga…

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