Posted on May 25, 2012 | Theme: Prisoner Resistance!Human Needs Over Profit. With Molly Porzig. An interview with Diana Block (California Coalition for Women Prisoners) and Manuel La Fontaine (All of Us or None) about the Occupy Prisons Movement and the Occupy National Day of Support of Prisoners. Continue reading “The Abolitionist, 2012, download here”
In Woodland, the occupation of a foreclosed home by members of Occupy groups and others have caused the bank to grant a 45 day grace period. According to a report by News 10 on why the home went into foreclosure:
The Ponce Family bought their home on Paradise Valley Drive in 2008, but began struggling to hang on to it after Heriberto Ponce lost his job in construction. …
- Woman with cerebral palsy arrested in foreclosure fight with Wells Fargo (activistpost.com)
- Tell Wells Fargo to Stop Evicting Innocent Renters! by Tenants Together (socialactions.net)
- Californian Commits Suicide Two Days Before Foreclosure (revolutioninmedia.com)
What happened to the Occupy movement? |
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Although media coverage has dwindled, Occupy cells are alive and well all over the United S tates – and beyond. |
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Occupy Wall Street was at the pinnacle of its power in October 2011, when thousands of people converged at Zuccotti Park and successfully foiled the plans of billionaire Mayor Michael Bloombergto sweep away the occupation on grounds of public health. From that vantage point, the Occupy movement appears to have tumbled off a cliff, having failed to organise anything like a general strike on May Day – despite months of rumblings of mass walkouts, blockades and shutdowns…………
Others note that protests did take place in more than 110 cities on May Day in |
Debt originated with slavery: when someone conquered a country they “allowed” the conquered to live but in exchange the conquered owed the conquerors their life. The US is a nation of debtors, most of the country is in debt and therefore enslaved. The Vatican has taken a stand against the proposed universal right to education including references to gender equality, family planning and reproductive health.
| “You can cut down all of the flowers but you cannot stop the spring.” – poster circulating around the strikeTHE LAWS On Friday, May 18, 2012, two new laws came into effect in montréal. Their purpose is to stifle the anti-capitalist revolt that has emerged from the student strike that began in this province fifteen weeks ago, to restore order and clear the way for the implementation of austerity measures in this territory.The first is a municipal by-law. It aims to discourage people from wearing masks at demonstrations by threatening them with fines from $1000 to $5000. It comes as the federal government is contemplating a law, to be implemented across the whole territory of the canadian state, that would punish those who conceal their identities “while participating in a riot” with a maximum of ten years in prison. Continue reading “Solidarity Means Attack – Call For Support From Montréal!” |
General Strike in education vs. the cuts. Massive demos, 100,000 in Madrid and Barcelona. Students arrested for gluing locks. Demos controlled by Unions and Teachers.
The Free 