Category: social revolution

28D..Hemos perdido la inocencia! LOST INNOCENCE ACTION DAY

Miércoles 28/12 19:00

Incluimos a continuación la convocatoria de la Coordinadora de barrios:

Políticos, banqueros y otra gente de mal vivir piensan que pueden engañarnos, pero …

Hemos perdido la inocencia!

Por ello, el 28D, desde asambleas y grupos realizaremos acciones autónomas por la mañana para evidenciar lo evidente, denunciando sus mentiras.

Here we include the convening of the Coordinator of districts:

 Politicians, bankers and other unsavory characters think they can fool us, but ...

 We have lost our innocence!

 Therefore, the 28D, from assemblies and autonomous action groups performed in the morning to highlight the obvious, exposing his lies.

Utilizaremos los medios de transporte público para colgar mazas y hacer performances, transmitiendo nuestra pérdida de la inocencia y convocando a la acción conjunta en las plazas.

Nos reuniremos por la tarde a las plazas para llevar y realizar mazas de todos los tamaños, haciendo entre todos una hermosa instalación. Porque no somos inocentes y ya no creemos sus mentiras!

  • 28D: Hemos perdido la inocencia: Convocatoria Barcelona Ciudad,

 

19h. Plaza Catalunya, junto al Monumento a Macià-Vergara.

El 28 de diciembre os convocamos a todas ya todos a celebrar que hemos perdido la inocencia.

A partir de las 7 de la tarde cada asamblea montará un taller de muñecos gigantes (llevar materiales para construir su), arma el pesebre y cantaremos villancicos indignadas.Luego, recorreremos el centro de la ciudad para mostrar que hay vida en este planeta más allá del consumo y la sumisión. Para acabar la fiesta, liberaremos a Helio, el gran muñeco indignado.

Lleve instrumentos (panderetas, zambombas …) para hacer sentir que ya no creemos sus mentiras, que nuestros derechos son pisoteados cotidianamente y que vivimos una broma pesada 365 días al año.

28 de diciembre, Hemos perdido la inocencia, todas y todos a las 19h. en las plazas.

Adhesiones: Asamblea Social Guinardó-Can Baró, Asamblea Barrio Arrabal, Asamblea Gótico, Asamblea Les Corts, ADSEixample Derecha, Barrio San Antonio, Asamblea Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, Asamblea Montaña, Asamblea Carmelo, Acampada Santos, Asamblea San Andrés, Asamblea Masquefa, Asamblea Izquierda Ensanche , UniversitatIndignada15M, PremsaIndignada, Teatro sobre la marcha PAH_Barcelona  Más información en:http:// 28d.espaicoordinacio.cz.cc /

 

 

Kazakhstán Kicks off.. Smash the criminal State!

  kazakhstan kicks off

Kazakh resistance to State massacres

On December 16th (Kazakhstan’s Independence Day) more than 3,000 people met up for a demonstration at the main square of Zhanaozen, a town situated in the oil-rich Mangystau Province in the west of the country.

The people who took part in action were the ex-workers of local oil companies, fired after a bitter seven month strike. Their main demands were the payment of all outstanding salaries and improvement of work conditions.

As expected the oil workers and other town folk announced their intentions to hold a peaceful protest to the authorities of Kazakhstan. However, during the demo, a police Jeep was deliberately driven into the crowd of protesters and ‘peaceful’ went out of fashion from there on in. Angry people turned a police car upside down and set it on fire. A nearby police bus and a yurt (placed on the square “for the celebrations”) were

oil strikers camp Kazakhstan

also torched. Following this, the people, armed with sticks, pipes and molotov cocktails occupied the office of the local gas company and burned rooms on the ground floor of its office building. The local council building and a hotel were also burned. The oil workers surrounded the building and would not let the firemen get to the building. As an encore, they looted the houses of the rich in the exclusive, private area of town.

The state’s answer was to send army divisions, armoured transport and more police. The town’s population defended the strikers and, as a result of the attempt to bring it to ‘order’ more than ninety people (civilians and security) are said to have been killed, with eight hundred injured (these numbers are constantly growing).

Unsurprisingly, official media channels tell of much lower numbers. Many workers across the region have stopped work in support of the demonstrators. First oil workers of Mangystau Province started a sympathy strike, then workers of non-oil industries in the region also stopped their work in solidarity. The protests have become a general strike.

In what will probably become a 21st century standard ‘state-under-threat’ response, mobile phones in affected areas cannot be accessed, landlines do not work, Internet social networks and media are being blocked.

Of course, no mention has been made of punishing any police officers for firing on unarmed and peaceful people.The vast majority of the profits from the sale of the country’s resources are not shared with the nation’s poor, and the Kazakh government has a terrible human rights record. Time and time again members of the security forces, torture, beat, and mistreat detainees. The government continues to use arbitrary arrest and detention, and selectively prosecutes political opponents, often detaining them for long periods.

One might say that the spirit of the Arab spring has been taken up by Central Asians, but with the current low media interest (apart from a few newspapers here and there), there isn’t the same pressure on president Nazarbayev that there has been on Middle-Eastern leaders this past year (and they weren’t exactly exactly keen to fold up that pressure in any event).

However, Kazakhs don’t need to look as far away as the Arab world for inspiration. Another ex-Soviet Central Asian country, Kyrgystan, chucked out their despotic president Bakiyev in April 2010, following riots and demonstrations that led to Bakiyev’s ousting and the formation of a transitional government, headed by former philosophy lecturer Roza Otunbayeva. And what country did Bakiyev flee to? Kazakhstan.

No doubt president Nazarbaev has double checked his private jets are full of fuel and that his Swiss bank cashcard is still valid. Just in case.

Read full article HERE http://www.schnews.org.uk/stories/BOLLOCKS-TO-BORAT/

Campaign Kazakhstan demonstrates in Berlin and Cologne
Campaign Kazakhstan activists, Germany

Berlin solidarity Kazakh oil strikers

Berlin

Yesterday, around 50 people protested in the centre of Berlin, criticising torture, repression and murder in Kazakhstan. Trade unionists including, metalworkers, teachers and health workers were joined by activists from the international “CampaignKazakhstan”, as well as members of the German LINKE (LEFT) party, SAV (CWI in Germany) and other left organisations, informing passers-by and tourists at Brandenburg gate of the events since last friday around the oil workers’ strike in western Kazakhstan.

The protesters shouted, “stop the slaughter in Kazakhstan!”

Occupy Seattle: Rent is Theft !

    Squatting has become more and more common (or more conspicuous) as part of the Occupy movement. An unfinished duplex at 23rd and Alder has been occupied by a collective of people since mid November. That group of unnamed defendants have been summoned to court for eviction. The court date has been set for December 28.

occupy Seattle

2:44PM – UPDATE – Slog says they spokewith some of the former residents who told a slightly different story about the house occupation:

They held up the house key. An anonymous “elf” had come by the Occupy Seattle encampment at SCCC a few weeks ago and handed them the key and the address, they said. (A different anonymous donor also gave them a sailboat that they’ll begin using and painting in the spring.) Inside, they’d begun painting a forest landscape, and planned a waterfall down the staircase; they titled the house “Water.” They denied doing damage or being a haven for any kind of destructive activity and said they didn’t know of any complaints from neighbors. Instead, they saw the house as a home base for adding art to the immediate neighborhood. To that end, they’d completed a mural nearby yesterday, on Fir Street between 14th and 15th, on a garage wall offered to them by a resident. Also yesterday, another donor gave them furniture: a futon, bookcases.

Two of their fellow occupiers are still in jail, set to be released on bail this afternoon. The third person arrested was not part of the occupation and never had lived in the house, they say. He, along with about 50 other protesters against the raid, had come to show his support, and when he stepped onto the grass, he was arrested, the occupiers say. He is the one charged with weapons violations, they say: He had a pocket knife in his pants pocket, which he then offered to the police, for which they booked him on the weapons charge.

The Free, 2012 edition, a free solstice gift.

free download HERE  https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/

  Out today, the beautifully done 2012 edition of The Free.

Available as a free download, it’s made lighter for faster online working.

plus you can send it easily as a present in an ordinary Email

 This book is a gas, terrific writing a wonderful and likely  prophetic story for the near  future ..  Jim Mac.

It creates poetry out the strange internal rhythms and logic of the main character, full of off-beat rhythms and lyrical leitmotifs...Rob Stewart

“The Free. An unbelievably exciting book, not because of its stupendous pace  and action filled plot, but because of the depth of character holding us breathless as we explore one after another of these amazing people.’’ Gerry McCullough-

 Yahoo! It is in acts, has skin and is feminist, what more can one want .Truly supported.  A Zoomer

 This book is truly unique. The characters and plot flow like water, and are tasty like chocolate. A.A.

 It’s sexy and wonderful and just pure joy… a breathless celebration of life.. Gold in its purest literary form. Bec

‘History of ‘The Free’

 The first version came out in 1986 in Brixton, by the class-less Hooligan Press from the gang who ran 121 Anarchist Bookshop, Brixton Squatters Aid, with its revolting paper The Crowbar, and Sth London Stress etc, linked to both Black Flag and Class War. It sold out and was reprinted in 1992 by Attack International, and in German by Killroy Press.

In 2007 I began to update it and realised it needed a rewrite. Inspired by the Barcelona anarcho-squatting scene, where I live, this new edition is 3 times as long and 10 times better, with lots more humour, sex and triumphing alternatives. It does have some following, a huge number of Fiends on Farcebook, plus the Wordmess blog for free downloads (https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com). Also available on Scribd, Authonomy, Google, Issuu and the Anarchist Library,etc.) but still needs piles of word of mouth publicity to be more widely read…

That’s where you could help..

 About The Writer

  ‘Here I play around with gardens and mechanics and look after children and horses. I can cook a deadly vegetarian paella, and my hobbies include solar powered Internet and, um, rooting in bins… we have a wizard windmill and dispose of excellent compost toilets..’

(continued page 334)

 Glossary

 

CoOp Pool*

  A combined consumers and producers cooperative, including a voluntary pooling of resources

and skill sharing. Typically the CoOp Pools provide a ration of goods and services Money Free, …

Free Credit Cards*

 

Introduced before the uprising, popular everywhere,You don’t have to pay for Pools goods or services

 but the Wurt Value is recorded, ..

Gay Rescue*

..See ‘Women’s Rescue’. If you’re oppressed  for being gay you can get and give help discreetly online..

Shit-Ons*

A Shit-On is an attempt to control or intimidate using unfair authority or power, usually sexist or racist..

CLAN Fashions*

  We include here the prevalent hot climate body art. Stick-Ons are removable tattoos which tend to replace clothes in CLAN crazes and belonging symbolism. Various fashions include; Functioning Air-Tails and Crests that mimic birds and animals. Peek-suits and pants,are….

 

(Continued page 330)

Friends of ‘The Free’..ways you could help

 

We think the book is great and the illustration of ideas an important inspiration, but till now it’s reached a tiny fraction of those who would enjoy and use it.. If you agree please help distribute

Now at last you can also read this edition on paper. It’s a rare book! So please pass it round your friends if you like it

On Mayday, 2011 ‘The Free’ came out as a free download, relying on its friends to distribute.

By year’s end it had over 1700 friends on its Facebook page,

plus over 50,000 visits to its blogsite, and can be read and downloaded online……

 (cont. page 340)

  free download HERE  https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/

Sparks Massive Wildcat Strike

  Sparks Defy Anti-Union Laws With Massive Wildcat Strike

Hundreds of electricians took wildcat strike action on Wednesday, defying the bosses who want to slash their wages, the anti-union laws which the bosses use to pick holes in strike mandates, and the union bureacracy which had to be dragged kicking and screaming to holding a ballot at all. The country’s biggest ‘unofficial’ walkout in decades represents a new stage in the UK class war – a stage in which workers recognise the limitations of their own leaderships, and consciously move beyond them. By cutting out the utterly compromised middle men and women in this way, working people come face to face with their ultimate enemy – huge corporations and the capitalist state………..

………But despite yesterday’s burning of ‘sign or be sacked’ Balfour contracts, the company will soon want to make good on their threats. In this, they will have the assistance of Unite fat cats. If Wednesday 7th December is to be the high water mark of the rank and file resistance, Sparks will lose this historic battle. If they are to win, they must now organise completely independently of both Unite and the anti-union laws, and immediately make an appeal to the wider working class for support.

Click here for my analysis of why workers and union bosses are enemies.

READ MUCH MORE here.. WITH THANKS

http://infantile-disorder.blogspot.com/2011/12/sparks-defy-anti-union-laws-with.html

Dia Acción Global / World Action Sat. Dec 11

  Llamamiento a un día de Acción Global en el Día de los Derechos Humanos, el    ENGLISH CLICK HERE..:http://dec10.takethesquare.net/
El éxito del 15 de Octubre ha generado un impulso sin precedentes para  la acción global. La humanidad se ha unido a través de las fronteras en  la lucha por la democracia real y los derechos individuales. Es  esencial en esta lucha el respeto por la vida humana y las condiciones  de vida, incluido el medio ambiente.
La sociedad civil global está siendo amenazada por un sistema basado  en el poder y no en los valores humanos. Día tras día reprime libertades  básicas y favorece sistemáticamente la avaricia de unos pocos en  detrimento de las necesidades de la mayoría. El poder financia guerras,  monopolios alimentarios y farmacéuticos, apoya regímenes dictatoriales  en todo el mundo, destruye el medio ambiente, manipula y censura los  flujos de información e impide la transparencia.
Convocatoria de Ágorabcn
Desde la asamblea permanente de AgoraBcn, en Plaça Catalunya,   convocamos a toda la ciudadanía a una concentración por los Derechos  Humanos.
Con  todos estos ataques que sufre la ciudadanía lamentablemente, lo  único que hacen es pisotear cada vez más unos Derechos que son  irrenunciables. Cada vez más gente lo pasa muy mal a costa de la felicidad de una clase que de derechos tiene muchos pero de humanos poco.
Convocamos para que el día de los Derechos Humanos sea de reivindicación por lo que nos corresponde.
Más información:

OCCUPYing evicted homes in 20 Cities

‘Occupy’ protesters reclaiming foreclosed homes in 20 cities

#OccupyOurHomes, By David Edwards. The 99 percent movement, which has been evicted from many of their encampments across the country, is finding common cause with thousands of homeowners who are also being evicted from their homes.

Even though the movement has often been criticized for a lack of defined goals, Tuesday’s “Occupy Our Homes” action in at least 20 cities makes it clear that they are standing up to banks to reverse foreclosures.

“We’re in the neighborhood in New York City that had the highest number of foreclosure filings in 2010 to send a message that the economy is failing the 99 percent,” Vocal New York organizer Sean Barry told Raw Story from a Brooklyn neighborhood as about 200 protesters chanted in the background.

“We’re here because [there are] a lot of empty buildings owned by Wall Street banks and we’re going to liberate them.”

Tasha Glasgow, the single mother of a 9-year-old daughter and a 5-year-old son, was expected to be one of the first occupants of a reclaimed home. Barry said that Glasgow, who had been in and out of the shelter system in New York City, had been slated to get a Section 8 voucher before budget cuts by Mayor Michael Bloomberg put an end to that promise.

“We’ve gained access to the home, and we’ve got the support of the neighbors,” Barry explained. “They’re going to start occupying it. … And then, there’s going to be 24/7 eviction defense by Occupy Wall Street.”

There were over 40 events planned in more than 20 cities Tuesday, but that is just the beginning.

“When it comes to Wall Street’s control over our economy, our democracy and our lives, there’s few better examples than the housing crisis,” Barry noted. “Occupy Wall Street is going to continue to support this national Occupy Our Homes campaign, and both defend homeowners who are being threatened with eviction due to foreclosure, and to move families that need homes into vacant buildings that banks are just sitting on.”

David Edwards has served as an editor at Raw Story since 2006.  Follow him on Twitter at @DavidEdwards.

Related: Occupy protesters take over foreclosed homes

http://incorporealcommittee.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/occupy-protesters-reclaiming-foreclosed-homes-in-20-cities/