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Joe Strummer, Class War and the ‘Rock Against the Rich’ tour, 1988.

In 1988, Joe Strummer embarked on a tour across Britain called ‘Rock Against the Rich’.

The tour was endorsed and organised by the anarchist group, Class War. Ian Bone, former leading member of Class War, has published this on the history of the tour.

..”Remember, in the late ‘80s, rock had zero street credibility – hip hop and sound system bass ruled the streets of the inner cities. The music may have changed, but the politics of the street remained the same: Class conflict, with a varying intensity of class warfare, raged the length and breadth of Britain. Strummer recognised this, and saw in the Class War people he met, the passionate intensity that he lacked and needed. He tried to use the media’s fixation with Class War to re-launch his career with a radical edge. And to a degree it worked well for him…”

Amongst a collection of newspapers and journals that I recently obtained, I found a copy of Class War that featured Joe Strummer and the Rock Against the Rich tour.

A scan of the paper can be found here.

I also found this on YouTube which is a recording from the tour: https://www.youtube.com/embed/UqoKwtRCS9I?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent

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We are Back! #Amsterdam: Keizersgracht 318 re-squatted

Posted on July 13, 2020 by enough14

Amsterdam. Netherlands. On Thursday a building has been re-squatted at Keizersgracht 318 in Amsterdam. This Sunday afternoon the squatters announced their presence.

Originally published by Indymedia NL.

A statement from the squatters:

Since some time we are living in the building at the Keizersgracht number 318. Today we make our presence known.
The building has been vacant for years. In 2015 it was also squatted. Back then it got evicted pretty quickly, because the owner claimed to still use it. Looking at the state of the building, that wasn’t very apparent. Later, in 2017, the owner got caught illegally demolishing the monumental interior of this building. The municipality decided to put a building stop on the building. It was prohibited for the owner to do anything else with the building, before the monumental interior was rebuild to its original state.

https://nl.squat.net/wp-content/uploads/nl/2020/07/2020_Housing_Action_Days_Den_Haag.jpg — Home action Day in Den Haag

Now, 3 years later, nothing has changed. The building is still empty, nothing has been restored, and the decay continues.
All this while the homelessness numbers in Amsterdam are rising, the rents are skyrocketing, the waiting lists for social rent are getting close to 20 years and hotel after hotel is being build.
For us, reason enough to start using this building, we want to have a house!

A lot of people showed up for the action, and the 1.5 meter rules where creatively enforced. With ropes and banners, the streets where occupied.
The police came to ascertain the fact that the building was squated. The squatters where told that for now, the police will not take action. The squatters heard this one before, so they will not let their guard down.
If you want to pass by to help barricade, clean, occupy, have a beer, you are more then welcome.

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#Berlin: Out of the defensive – August 1 – Defend projects

Statement by “Wir besetzen Dresden”, “LEIPZIGBESETZEN” & “#besetzen” about Rigaer 94 and the threat of a wave of evictions in Berlin (and beyond).

Jail Killer Cops! Smash Racist Capitalism! — Socialist Action – Canada

Cruel racism abounds in the USA. From the slave ships, to the slave auctions, to the schools and prisons of today; from the whippings, rapes and murders of the past to the beatings, racial profiling and killings of today… slavery is endemic to the capitalist system across North America.
Jail Killer Cops! Smash Racist Capitalism! — by Socialist Action – Canada

The officers have a shot someone in the head with what appears to be an impact munition, there is a lot of blood. #blacklivesmatter #pdx #portlandoregon #oregon #blm #acab #portland #justicecenter pic.twitter.com/8JmR3QA0AN
— Garrison Davis (Teargas Proof) (@hungrybowtie) July 12, 2020

On the land stolen from the brutalized and decimated Indigenous peoples, capitalism was built on the backs of African and Indigenous slaves, and by impoverished, exploited and oppressed immigrants and racialized workers.

In Canada, the ruling class papered over the violent seizure of land from the indigenous peoples — much of it still unceded. Those peoples were starved, raped, injured and murdered.

Their children were seized, imprisoned in residential schools where the “Indian ” in them was suppressed relentlessly, where many were over-worked, underfed, beaten, raped and killed.

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¡Honramos a Anarcha la Esclava! Resistimos el patriarcado racista. Nombrando “anarchagland”

read English version HERE..

– actualización y traducción en castellano .. ¡Honramos a Anarcha la Esclava! Resistiendo el patriarcado racista. Nombrando “anarchagland”

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El Dr. Sims, que no tenía experiencia ginecológica, obtuvo hasta 20 esclavas negras que sufrían lesiones ginecológicas de fístulas desgarradas y experimentó con ellas, sin anestesia, durante 4 años en su “plantación médica” en Alabama.

En 2015, #Anarchagland, un proyecto de investigación autónoma de #GynePunk en Catalunya, cambió el nombre de las glándulas sexuales femeninas a 3 esclavas, Anarcha, Betsey y Lucy, que fueron maltratadas como conejillos de indias médicos por el ”doctor” J Marion Sims.

“Si había algo que odiaba”, escribió desde el principio, “estaba investigando los órganos de la pelvis femenina”.

No sabemos cuántas de sus víctimas murieron o si realmente dieron su consentimiento, como afirmó en su extravagante autobiografía (era un delito de pena de muerte para los esclavos escribir o grabar algo), pero Sims era un ‘showman’ y se jactaba de operar más de 30 veces en Anarcha, que tenía 17 años al principio, y casi mató a Lucy en su primera intervenión.

marion sims tiene muchas estatuas en norteamerica pero su fama viene del abuso racista y cruel de las esclavas negras de su propriedad.

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Estas esclavas sufrieron fístulas desgarradas, lágrimas en las paredes entre sus vaginas, uretras y rectos, por lo que gotearon orina y no fueron capaces sexualmente, por lo que sus dueños perdieron ganancias potenciales en esclavas. ..

Estas lesiones fueron causadas por partos difíciles, condiciones de trabajo atroces (por ejemplo, 15 horas diarias durante el embarazo) o violación legal (las esclavas eran propiedad y podían ser violadas con impunidad y con fines de lucro cuando tenían hijos).

A surgeon experimented on slave women without anesthesia. Now his ...

Dr Marion Sims experimented on slave women without anesthesia. Now his statues are under attack. This one on Central Park NY was finally removed but many more remain.

.ver …VICTORIA!… J Marion Sims: controversial statue taken down

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Diane Collier y Marina Ortiz quieren que la estatua del Dr. Marion Sims sea retirada de East Harlem. “Obviamente es ofensivo para las mujeres de color, pero debería ser ofensivo para las mujeres en general”, dijo Collier. “Mi posición es si Yale puede cambiar el nombre de Calhoun College … Parks debería poder hacer algo en una ciudad progresista como Nueva York. Así es como lo estoy mirando “.

De hecho, el mismo Sims probablemente causó la enfermedad en Anarcha al usar pinzas para sacar a su bebé con cero experiencia, como él mismo admitió. Sims dedica muchos capítulos a alabarse a sí mismo, pero no nos deja ninguna nota sobre si los niños o las pacientes sobrevivieron.

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