Barça change screen venue for #spanishrevolution

A giant screen for the Wembley European Cup Final has been moved from Plaza Catalunya to nearby Arc de Triomf to avoid any conflict as the square is still full of revolutionaries, and getting even fuller.

T CEL·LEBREM LA VICTÒRIA DEL BARÇA
AMB INDIGNACIÓ!!

Estem fent història.
Mai més els barcelonins tornarem a veure la plaça Catalunya com era.
A partir d’ara tothom quan passi per plaça Catalunya veurà la plaça de #acmpadabcn, la plaça de les indignades.
Una plaça al cor de la bèstia que ens hem fet nostra, tant pel procés d’empoderament col·lectiu que s’està generant a través de les assemblees multitudinàries com per tot allò que dia a dia es va construint a través de la feina voluntària de milers de persones coordinades en comisions. Mai s’havia vist a Barcelona tanta solidaritat i suport mutu. Hem deixat de ser persones aïllades en les nostres vides individuals per prendre les places com a espais de trobada. S’està tornant a discutir de política en petites àgores creades espontàniament a diferents racons de la plaça, així com als bars, botigues, centres mèdics, escoles… Tot això és quelcom del que ens hauriem de sentir orgulloses i que hauriem de defensar.
LA INDIGNACIÓ HA VINGUT PER QUEDAR-S’HI!

take the streets. Invitation From Spain.

”there’s a mini revolution going on in the square! they’ve been there ten days or more, I helped plant tomatoes, had a free haircut, free food.. it’s all money free, and slept with 700 people Tuesday under the stars…….”

May 25, 2011 at 4:16am With this mail we want to animate others to organize more sit-ins outside of Barcelona, around the world, which will be organized by you. We propose not to target on the Spanish embassies in your countries, also because the Spanish press practically does not cover those actions.

Our proposal is that you join in with your local struggle, to occupy the central places of your city while following the model of organization used during the Arab revolutions (and Spaniards), which means connecting with groups and local organizations and organize a sit-in in the main squares, to work in commissions and to write up your own documents (manifest, calls, proposals, minutes of meetings, etc). To make it public, spread it, use the internet networks to expand your message and to self-manage.

What is happening in different Spanish cities is not accidental nor specific of our society, we fight to recover our dignity, our freedom and our social rights, for direct democracy where we can participate in the course of our lives. We are a spontaneous and independent network, we don’t need leaders thus we offer that you will organize independently, according to what is possible and relevant in your area. We would like that everywhere people will take the streets, but in each place people will think themselves on the local alternatives to the capitalist and cruel world to which our governments are ‘leading’ us and the whole planet.

For us the borders do not exist, the network is ours and the street also! Another world is possible now! More concretely, we propose to you that you squat in your city during the next days of THURSDAY AND FRIDAY 26 AND 27 OF MAY to take advantage of the international days of mobilization against the G8 against the world-wide oligarchy, we invite you to take the street and to establish si-ins in sufficiently big places which will receive a consequent infrastructure that allow you to work and to mobilize in the best conditions.

These two days and their nights could be the beginning of a long global struggle of the Indignados, please add your sit-in to the world-wide map of: http://www.thetechnoant.info/campmap/ We use the social networks to coordinate and to maintain informed. We encourage you to create an international commission to communicate with us, to share materials and strategies of organization in the Web n-1.cc to look for the group https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/104127/take-the-square-international and open a space with your location.

In that link you will find a guide. In the chat (http://ur1.ca/48ogs) you can contact with us and others sit-ins simultaneously or to contact us by e-mail comisiointernacional@gmail.com. Our content commissions is working on a document which formulate the very elaborated agreements which are agreed on in the general assembly.

The document is available on web http://acampadabcn.wordpress.com/ Take the street! Real Democracy Now! Hugs, International Networks of the International Commission of the Barcelona Camp Barcelona Information: #acampadabcn http://acampadabcn.wordpress.com/ e-mail general: acampadabcn@yahoo.es Internacional commission – Barcelona Camp: https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/103405/akbcn_int/ e-mail international commission: comisiointernacional@gmail.com Internacional coordination: http://www.thetechnoant.info/campmap/ e-lists: https://lists.takethesquare.net/mailman/listinfo/cominterm https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/104127/take-the-square-international/ Chat irc.freenode.net # takethesquare http://ur1.ca/48ogs

José & Maria killed by loggers/ranchers.

foto. José and Maria. ‘They gunned them down and cut off their ears”

An Amazon environmental activist and his wife were killed late on Monday and the crime is being investigated as a possible assassination to silence the outspoken forest defender, according to police.

José Claudio Ribeiro da Silva, also known by his nickname of “Ze Claudio,” was shot and killed along with his wife, Maria do Espírito Santo da Silva, in Nova Ipixuna, a rural town of 15,000 people in the northeast Brazilian Amazon state of Para, about 40km from the nearest city, Maraba.

Exact details and circumstances of the death are not yet clear. However, Felicio Pontes a federal prosecutor in Para state, as well as Marcos Augusto Cruz, the local civil police investigator, told Al Jazeera by phone late on Tuesday that the killings have all the signs of a cold-blooded murder for hire.

“We are working on a hypothesis that this was an execution because the shooters cut off one ear of each of the victims,” Cruz told Al Jazeera.

“Usually this is done as proof to give back to whoever ordered the killings,” Cruz told Al Jazeera, before adding that is was likely he was killed in retaliation for speaking out against illegal loggers.

Ribeiro was a community leader of a rural Amazon sustainable reserve that produces nuts and natural oils native to the forest.

But as loggers moved into Para state, Ribeiro increased his candid denouncements of illegal clear cutting in the region, which earned him praise from environmentalists but allegedly scorn from logging and business interests who hold enormous influence in the heavily deforested region.

Death threats

Ribeiro received many death threats.

He told an audience at a TED summit last November that before the loggers moved in, the region where he lived had 85 per cent native Amazon vegetation.

“Today with the arrival of loggers… there is only 20 per cent of the native negotiation left,” Ribeiro said at the TED Summit. “It’s a disaster for people like me who live off of the forest.

“I protect the forest in any way I can. That is why I live at gunpoint all the time, because I don’t just sit down, I stand up and denounce loggers, and coal burners and that is why they think I shouldn’t exist.”

In another video interview posted on YouTube last November, Ribeiro looks off camera and says to the interviewer: “I have received death threats by businessmen who work with loggers, who don’t want the forest standing.”

The news of the killing of Ribeiro and his wife came on the same day the Brazilian congress debated a controversial set of new laws called “Forest Code” which, according to environmentalists, would be harmful to the Amazon, reducing the amount of land preserved from clear cutting.

At the time of writing, the law was still being debated in congress.

In Brazil, Ribeiro’s killing has quickly been compared to that of Dorothy Stang, the American born Roman Catholic sister who was brutally shot and killed – also in a rural area of Para state – by two men after her vocal defense of the Amazon angered local loggers. (Four men in total have gone to trial for that murder and are serving jail time).

For environmentalists, rural parts of Para state are often known as the “land without law”, because of its reputation as a place where powerful loggers exact revenge on anybody who dares cross them.

State of impunity

“Para state is a place with a lot of impunity; there are over 400 murder cases unsolved involving people in rural areas,” Pontes, the state federal prosecutor told Al Jazeera.

President Dilma Rousseff reportedly ordered Federal Police to oversee the investigation on Tuesday.

While details of the killing are still unclear, more details have started to emerge.

Maria do Espirito Santo Silva and José Claudio Ribeiro da Silva, were killed in the northeast Brazilian Amazon state of Para [Conselho Nacional das Populacoes Extrativistas]

Ribeiro’s niece, Clara Santos, told Al Jazeera by phone: “He left (Monday night) from the house to go to Maraba on his motorcycle with Maria. About eight kilometers from the house there were other men on motorbikes with their faces covered, waiting for them. The men shot Maria first. She fell from the motorcycle and right after they shot him.”

Ribeiro’s sister, Claudelice Silva dos Santos, told Al Jazeera on Tuesday her family is devastated.

“They have practically destroyed our family,” dos Santos said. “We want justice. We want the people that ordered this killing, as well as the shooters to be brought to justice. We don’t want this to end in impunity. We don’t want him to be just one more environmentalists killed.”

Despite the threats against him, Ribeiro reportedly never asked for protection.

Ribeiro is survived by two children from a previous marriage, and one adopted son, age 16.

The funeral services could be as early as Wednesday in Maraba, Brazil.

Gabriel Elizondo is an Al Jazeera correspondent based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Follow him on Twitter: @elizondogabriel

toma la calle. Marruecos/ disuelto violentemente protestas 22M

Marruecos/ disuelto violentemente protestas 22 mayo

La policía marroquí ha disuelto violentemente las protestas del 22 de mayo, que se estaban llevando a cabo a pesar de la prohibición. En Rabat los manifestantes intentaron reunirse en la plaza fuera del parliamento; pero el régimen marroquí, por el miedo de una situación tipo plaza Tahrir, hizo lo posible para evitarlo.

By: Yassine Channouf. Del holandés al inglés: Mariam El Maslouhi.

No es una novedad que en los paises árabes se asocie Marruecos con la magia negra. Pero ahora están realmente pasando cosas estrañas, en este reino. El 26 de abril cinco activistas del movimiento 20 de febrero han muerto en Guercif mientras iban de camino hacia una asamblea del movimiento revolucionario en Rabat. ¿Accidente?

El 28 de abril algunos “desconocidos” explotaron un bar en Marrakech, en una de las plazas más turísticas de Marruecos. 16 muertos, casi todos turistas occidentales. “Es un trabajo de los servicios secretos” susurran algunos marroquies. La pregunta es: qué interés tienen en un ataque terrorista en Marruecos?

Los únicos interesados en desestabilizar el país es el estado marroquí mismo, y elementos contrarevolucionarios de fuera. Pueden acusar al movimiento 20 de febrero de contribuir a la desestabilización del país con sus manifestaciones.

CONTINUAR::mucho mas……

via Indymedia Barcelona: Magia en Marruecos durante la primavera árabe.

#spanishrevolution.. para destruir el capitalismo…

Si no es para destruir el capitalismo… ¿para qué?
	24 mai 2011
Huracanes en EEUU, terremotos en Centramérica, tsunamis en Japón. Contaminación nuclear con opacidad informativa, destrucción del territorio por grandes empresas en todos los lugares del mundo, guerras imperialistas en Libia, Irak, Afganistán, por el control de los recursos naturales y la posición geoestratégica. Empeoramiento de condiciones de trabajo en Occidente (perdida de pensiones, aumento del paro, disminución de salarios, desmantelamiento de sanidad, educación y asistencia social), mantenimiento (o empeoramiento) de condiciones de vida en países pobres, destrucción de modos de vida locales en todo el mundo, revueltas en el Magreb y otros países árabes, huelgas y manifestaciones en Grecia, Chile, Reino Unido, Francia, España, Italia…

El capitalismo, como sistema basado en el dinero y la mercancía, en la esclavitud del trabajo asalariado y el miedo a la exclusión social, es responsable de lo que pasa. Hasta que no cuestionemos la esencia del Capital y el Estado que lo respalda, no habrá cambios sustanciales. No queremos la gestión de los hospitales, de las escuelas, de la asistencia a lxs necesitadxs (necesitadxs precisamente por la misma precariedad que produce este sistema), mientras exista dinero, mercancías y relaciones mediadas por ellos. No queremos la gestión de algo basado en los mismos presupuestos. Queremos su desaparición. Y sabemos (al menos intuimos por la fuerza de la memoria, de la historia) que no habrá cambio sin violencia porque lxs que viven bien a costa de esto no querrán perder sus derechos. Entre ellxs políticos, empresarios, banqueros, especuladores de todo pelaje, comerciantes… Esto, a nuestro pesar. Desde hoy los telediarios ya empiezan a cuestionar las acampadas. Ahora ya dan problemas. Desde lxs que llevan un negocio al lado y se ven afectados en sus ventas hasta los que distribuyen mercancías y ven dificultado el paso. Porque habrá problemas para celebrar la victoria del Barça o porque hay que hacer un desfile militar. Las excusas son variadas. La noticia ya no satisface el ansia de novedad. Es lo que tiene la vida de consumo y el consumo de la vida. Si se quiere seguir adelante habrá que decidir si sequiere cuestionar realmente el status quo del capitalismo o replegarse hasta desaparecer tras 5, 10 ó 15 propuestas formales de mejorar lo existente (en nuestro ámbito nacional[1]) y esperar a que ‘nuestros políticos’ las hagan realidad. Y luego… hasta ´el próximo momento de indignación. La alternativa pasa por interrumpir la circulación del capital, la toma de lo que necesitamos, la ruptura con los gestores de la salud, de la educación, de la seguridad, de la defensa, de la cultura… y la propia organización y autogestión. Seguro que todxs no estaremos de acuerdo, pero habrá que arriesgarse. [1] No olvidemos que lxs griegxs dependen también de lo que hagamos el resto de explotadxs de otros países. En los últimos días piden solidaridad internacional. Allí las condiciones son ya insostenibles y el Capital no tiene nada que ofrecerles, por lo que la represión es la respuesta del Estado. La revuelta permanente es la mejor solidaridad con nuestrxs hermanxs.
Mira també: http://amotinadxs.blogspot.com/

toma la calle Londres.”They all must go!” .take the streets.

“They all must go!” …

Published: May 21, 2011 17:47 by maqui & px | Share

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Neighbourhoods: belgravia spain westminster

… people kept shouting last night outside the Spanish embassy in Belgravia. Since Wednesday 18th large crowds of mainly spaniards living in London are following a call to demonstrate and to express anger about the “political, economic, and social outlook which we see around us: corruption among politicians, businessmen, bankers, leaving us helpless, without voice.”

On Friday 20th around 300 people showed up at Chesham Place for a ‘pots & pans’ protest, coinciding with hundreds of ‘cacerolazo’ protests called thorughout Spain as part of the ‘Spanish Revolution’ currently taking place all over the country. After the protest, a public assembly took place where, amongst other things, people debated the practicalities of setting up camp till Sunday 22nd. As a result, around 50 people spent the night outside the embassy, and there are plans for further demonstrations today Saturday and Tomorrow Sunday [See Real Democracy London blog]

Latest: Protest set to continue this week. Daily popular assembly takes place from 7 to 9pm.

See pics of the London protest and read about the background story …

Crowd gathering outside the Spanish embassy
front view of the crowd