solidarity – Page 168

Solidarity Means Attack – Call For Support From Montréal!

“You can cut down all of the flowers but you cannot stop the spring.”
– poster circulating around the strikeTHE LAWS
On Friday, May 18, 2012, two new laws came into effect in montréal. Their purpose is to stifle the anti-capitalist revolt that has emerged from the student strike that began in this province fifteen weeks ago, to restore order and clear the way for the implementation of austerity measures in this territory.The first is a municipal by-law. It aims to discourage people from wearing masks at demonstrations by threatening them with fines from $1000 to $5000. It comes as the federal government is contemplating a law, to be implemented across the whole territory of the canadian state, that would punish those who conceal their identities “while participating in a riot” with a maximum of ten years in prison. Continue reading “Solidarity Means Attack – Call For Support From Montréal!”

Save the Ngabe people..Stop the Dam!

Tear Gas and Guns Fired at Ngabe Indigenous People for Protesting the Barro Blanco Hydroelectric Project

by locaonga

On Friday, May 18th a group of Ngabes and solidarists hiked to the construction site of the Barro Blanco dam on the Tabasara River. They were met with tear gas, bombs and live fire. The indigenous group was unarmed and outnumbered, 300 to 50. One man was wounded from a nearby explosion.

“Yesterday was war. [Martinelli] is massacring our people. He killed one, he killed another and yesterday he nearly killed again. If we killed one of theirs we would be in trouble, but they kill one of ours and deny it,” Rogelio Rodriquez, a prominent Ngabe community member said.

A group Ngabe men blockading a construction bridge that
crosses the Tabasara River in the Veraguas Province, Panama Continue reading “Save the Ngabe people..Stop the Dam!”

60 anarquistas detenidxs en Turquía en redada nocturna

Una ola de represión golpea a los anarquistas de Turquía después de las manifestaciones del Primero de Mayo



Ayer por la noche, el estado turco organizó una redada nocturna en varias casas y centros sociales anarquistas durante la noche en Estambul. 60 personas fueron detenidas. Aún no está muy claro si algunas de estas personas son anarquistas o simplemente parientes o amigos que estaban en esos lugares. Continue reading “60 anarquistas detenidxs en Turquía en redada nocturna”

Indigenas rechazan presencia de Repsol

Jueves, 10 de mayo de 2012 | 4:30 am

Protesta. Los nativos piden que una comisión del Ejecutivo constate su rechazo a Repsol.

Pobladores exigen que se aplique la Ley de Consulta Previa y advierten que no dejarán pasar embarcaciones de petrolera.

Liliana Rojas.

Cientos de nativos de las etnias shawi y awajún de la com

poeru indigena2 — indigenas peruanas luchan para salvar su territoriounidad de **Santa María de Cahuapanas**, en la provincia de **Datem del Marañón**, en **Loreto**, se han

declarado en pie de lucha contra la petrolera Repsol-YPF, a la que acusan de ingresar a su territorio sin su permiso.

Desde hoy, piquetes de nativos impedirán el paso por el río Cahuapanas de embarcaciones al servicio de la empresa española que realiza exploraciones en el lote 109, reveló el Apu Esteban Curimusu Iluma. Continue reading “Indigenas rechazan presencia de Repsol”