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3.000 anarchists march in solidarity to Athens Indymedia & 98 FM


by @	27 Apr 2013
3.000 anarchists in Greece march in solidarity to Athens Indymedia & 98 FM

Taking the fight from the internet to the streets. On April 25th, 2013 approximately 3.000 anarchists marched in solidarity to Athens Indymedia and 98 FM that have been censored by the greek State since April 11th, amongst dozens of solidarity actions all over Greece and some parts of Europe. On April 24th, 2013, a massive solidarity banner was hanged at the main univeristy building in one of the busiest streets in the center of Athens. 72 anarchists were detained for almost 12 hours by the police and 6 were charged with offending the greek national flag by replacing it with the red black of anarchism! Continue reading “3.000 anarchists march in solidarity to Athens Indymedia & 98 FM”

Anonymous: OpGuantanamo Demand Obama shut it down

Good day my friends.

Close to half of the population at Guantanamo Bay are now hunger striking. It is time to stand in solidarity with them by demanding

the Obama Administration to live up to it’s promises to shut the center down. Please take just a minute to sign a petition, send an email, and post a tweet.

Some relevant facts:

There are 166 detainees currently housed in Guantanamo Bay.

86 have been approved for release.

30 Yemenis are being “conditionally detained” because of an “unstable” homeland.

46 are being detained indefinitely without trial.

Some have been waiting more than 11 years for their release. Continue reading

Dhaka collapse: Walmart and C and A implicated: nearly 1000 killed. more demos today.

Hundreds of thousands of Bangladesh’s garment workers protest over factory deaths

Among the garment makers in the building were Phantom Apparels, Phantom Tac, Ether Tex, New Wave Style and New Wave Bottoms. The New Wave companies, according to their website, make clothing for major brands including North American retailers The Children’s Place and Dress Barn, Britain’s Primark, Spain’s Mango and Italy’s Benetton. Ether Tex said Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest retailer, was one of its customers.

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Hundreds of thousands of garment workers walked out of their factories in Bangladesh Thursday, police said, to protest the deaths of up to 1000 people in a building collapse, in the latest tragedy to hit the sector.

Grief turned to anger as the workers, some carrying sticks, blockaded key highways in at least three industrial areas just outside the capital Dhaka, forcing factory owners to declare a day’s holiday.

“There were hundreds of thousands of them,” said Abdul Baten, police chief of Gazipur district, where hundreds of large garment factories are based. “They occupied roads for a while and then dispersed.”

Police inspector Kamrul Islam said the workers had attacked several factories whose bosses had refused to give employees the day off.

“They were protesting the deaths of the workers in Savar,” he said, referring to the town outside Dhaka where Wednesday’s collapse of an eight-storey building housing five garment factories took place, injuring more than 1,000 people. Continue reading “Dhaka collapse: Walmart and C and A implicated: nearly 1000 killed. more demos today.”

“Lesbian” is not a dirty word

by Thé Tulloch In many ways, being a gay woman that is also a feminist feels like being the punchline to a bad joke. I am one of those hairy feminists. I am a lesbian: the sweater vest, sensible shoe, cat-loving kind; not the edgy-leather-and-studs-cool-haircut kind. You know, the one you trip over yourself to emphasise you’re not when the subject of your politics comes up, out of fear people think you’ve become a lavender menace. It’s sad that an ideology that concerns itself with the freedom of women from patriarchy is willing to engage in lesbophobia unashamedly.

reblogged with thanks from http://www.thefword.org.uk

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Swindled, evicted and denounced as ‘The New Nazi of Spain’

from Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com

On Saturday, Popular Party Secretary-General María Dolores de Cospedal, number two of the governing party in Spain, said that she knew she was going to get criticized, “but this is pure Nazism.” On Sunday, rather than resigning, she repeated it. For more precision, she added that going to a politician’s house to “harass” him “is a totalitarian attitude comparable to what occurred in the thirties in a European country.” A reference to Nazis marking the homes of Jews.

But these “Nazis” are folks who are standing up to the banks and draconian mortgage laws that the government is hell-bent on protecting. Continue reading “Swindled, evicted and denounced as ‘The New Nazi of Spain’”