Contrainfos 89.NIKOS RIOTS.Free Marina.ANTI OIL SWIM-IN

[Contrainfos 89]video in Catalan and Spanish
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Welcome to contrainfos 89, again live from l’infoespai in the Plaza del Sol. This week we present a panorama of some calls to action and some self-organisation

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Nikos Romanos ends strike. World solidarity helps Triumph

nikos-romanosNikos Romanos has triumphed. After 31 days of hunger strike and thirst strike beginning today the Greek government has yielded to his demands and has agreed to allow leave to study, as Nikos claimed and to which he was legally entitled.With this agreement consisting of about 6 months distance learning from prison first, then exit permits on electronic tracking device to study later, Nikos Romanos abandoned today the hunger strike and thirst having not only jeopardized the Greek state, but having overcome with a historic hunger strike.

Few is any similar examples can be found of the solidarity movement that has risen with this hunger strike.ÓÕÍÅÄÑÉÁÓÇ ÕÐÏÕÑÃÉÊÏÕ ÓÕÌÂÏÕËÉÏÕ Continue reading “Nikos Romanos ends strike. World solidarity helps Triumph”

280 homeless occupy together in Bologna

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A large building in Bologna, immediately in front of the Municipality’s offices, has just been occupied by 280 people. Many have been living on the streets or in the train station after losing their jobs and homes during the crisis. Continue reading “280 homeless occupy together in Bologna”

No land..No House……. NO VOTE..! Abahlali squatters fight back

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Abahlali baseMjondolo (Zulu[aɓaˈɬaːli ɓasɛmdʒɔnˈdɔːlo], Shack Dwellers), also known as AbM or the red shirts is a shack-dwellers’ movement in South Africa which is well known for its campaigning against evictions and for public housing.

The movement grew out of a road blockade organized from the Kennedy Road shack settlement in the city of Durban in early 2005 and now also operates in the cities of Pietermaritzburg and in Cape Town.

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Contrainfos 87: a weekly video-mag from Catalonia,

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Welcome to Contrainfos 87,

with English summary (video and below is  in Catalan/Spanish)

Reports

1. Justice for Yassir (min. 2:45)
2. 24 November picket against gender violence (min. 6.6)
2. ‘The Seeds’ Occupied Social Centre eviction resistance (min. 11:12)
3. Anti High Voltage Line movement news, MAT (min. 13:15)
4. Journalists threatened by new Gag law and the police (me. 19:00)
5. Rights Cut Back (min. 22:30)
6. Trees resistance in Hamburg (min.26.10)
7. Tele.cat  fined (min. 28.15)

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70m toxic frack barrels pumped into California aquifer

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3 Billion Gallons Of Fracking Wastewater Pumped Into Clean California Aquifiers: “Errors Were Made” State Admits

Dear California readers: if you drank tapwater this morning (or at any point in the past few weeks/months), you may be in luck as you no longer need to buy oil to lubricate your engine: just use your blood, and think of the cost-savings. That’s the good news.

Also, the bad news, because as the California’s Department of Conservation’s Chief Deputy Director, Jason Marshall, told NBC Bay Area, California state officials allowed oil and gas companies to pump up to 3 billion gallons (call it 70 million barrels) of oil fracking-contaminated waste water into formerly clean aquifiers, aquifiers which at least on paper are supposed to be off-limits to that kind of activity, and are protected by the government’s EPA – an agency which, it appears, was richly compensated by the same oil and gas companies to look elsewhere.

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Free Prisoners NOW: Amèlie,Fallon and Carlos get 2yr 7months

  On Nov 6th Amélie Trudeau Pelletier, Fallon Poisson Rouiller and Carlos López Marín were sentenced to 2 years, 7 months and 15 days in prison, and ordered to pay damages of 108,000 pesos, on charges of attacks to public peace and aggravated damages.

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 Freedom for all! Down with the prison walls!

and  solidarity with Carlos, Amélie and Fallon!

Letter from Carlos López Marín

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