Category: solidarity

Banksy backs rioters with petrol bomb poster

Latest creation: Banksy has launched a new poster of a lit petrol bomb in a Tesco Value bottle – with profits being donated to help legal costs for those arrested during the Bristol riots

The artist will put the work up for sale just days after bloody battles over a new Tesco Express in the Stokes Croft area of Bristol – his home city.

It is believed profits from the £5 poster will go towards funding the legal defence for more than 30 rioters arrested following the two nights of violence.

via Banksy backs Bristol Tesco rioters with new petrol bomb poster | Mail Online.

Sweat shops..criminal capitalists

Bar worker had one week off in 18 months and it was UNPAID Tens of thousands of employees are being denied their legal right to time off work and paid holidays, a report revealed today. Citizens Advice said their bureaux had dealt with ‘widespread’ cases where people were forced to work without a break or could only take unpaid leave. Care home workers, hairdressers, bar staff, cleaners and shop employees were among the 87,000 cases reported to them in the last three years. No time off: 87,000 cases of people not being given time off or being given unpaid leave were reported to Citizens’ Advice in three years Most of those involved were…

The Daily Mail 2011-04-21

via Sweat shop: Retail staff among tens of thousands of workers ‘denied holiday entitlement by rogue employers’ – Worldnews.com.

Free Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal’s 1982 Death Sentence is Again Declared Unconstitutional

The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has unanimously declared that Mumia Abu-Jamal’s death sentence is unconstitutional. In today’s decision, the Court of Appeals reaffirmed its 2008 finding that Mr. Abu-Jamal’s sentencing jury was misled about the process for considering evidence supporting a life sentence. The Court found that, in violation of the United States Supreme Court’s 1988 decision in Mills v. Maryland, the jury was improperly led to believe that that it could only consider unanimously agreed upon evidence favoring a life verdict.

Mr. Abu-Jamal he has been on death row in Pennsylvania for 29 years.

via Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, NYC.

Happy May Day 2011 Everyone!

Never forget the martyrs who fought against the wage system and capitalist exploitation. Never forget the millions of workers who continue the struggle today. There is nothing greater on earth than fighting for total freedom, and that means freedom from all forms of authority.

Keep the struggle going. Never make peace with your oppressors.

Solidarity and (A).

via Propaganda Lalaland: Happy May Day 2011 Everyone!.

Christiania: last stand after 39 years

Lars Eriksen in Copenhagen and Alexandra Topping

The closed entrance to Christiania, Copenhagen

An inhabitant of Copenhagen’s free city of Christiania, long a refuge for hippies and artists stands at the entrance to the city. Photograph: Jens Noergaard Larsen/AFP/Getty Images

For four decades, the freetown of Christiania has existed as a testimony to an alternative way of life, where hash was sold openly and squatters’ shacks jostled comfortably with architect-designed eco-sheds.

For some, the commune was a human jungle in the centre of Copenhagen; for others a bastion of irreverence.

But now residents have erected its last line of defence against the Danish government attempts to “normalise” one of Europe’s most famous squats after 40 years of legal wrangling.

Residents have erected fences at entrance points which they patrol, handing out flyers which declare that “Christiania will be temporarily closed until further notice”. Cafes and shops were closed as residents began meetings to debate their future.

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via Christiania, one of Europe’s most famous communes, faces last stand | World news | The Guardian.

Anti-Racist Action Beat Nazis

– A clash between neo-Nazis and members of an antiracist organization Friday evening left four Nazis in the hospital and prompted two arrests, according to the New Jersey State Police.The fight involved about 50 people and took place on the eve of a neo-Nazi rally Saturday in Trenton.

via The Woman Rebel “No Gods, No Masters”: Anti-Racist Action Network Beat the Crap Out of Nazis, Hospitalize 4.

BAHRAIN: U.S. Quiet over Repression

More than two dozen people have been killed by security forces since the government declared martial law Mar. 15…… At the White House, however, silence has prevailed, suggesting to many observers that Obama is effectively acquiescing in, if not condoning, what is taking place… More than 400 others have been arrested or are otherwise unaccounted for, according to international rights groups. Three detainees have died in custody, at least one apparently from “horrific abuse”, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday.   Continued

via BAHRAIN: U.S. Keeps Quiet over Repression – IPS ipsnews.net.