According to a new report by the Wall Street Journal, 7 million Americans are flat-out refusing to pay back their student loans because they feel scammed by their universities and government.
They feel like they were told to go to school and are now left with worthless degrees, no jobs, and no prospects for the future. Continue reading “7 Million Nth Americans Refuse To Pay Student Loans”
While the world’s media is suitably distracted by the Olympic Games in Brazil, the war in Syria and beyond continues to see thousands of people – men, women and children – killed each week and many more attempting the perilous journey as refugees to seek safety.
Meanwhile in the last two months there has been a deafening silence in the media about the plight of the thousands of refugees still stuck in Greece. Only 2500 refugees have so far been granted asylum status – the process is excruciatingly slow and most of those granted this status have yet to be relocated.
A report by the Greek Centre for Disease Control recommended all 16 of the refugee detention centres it inspected be closed due to unsanitary conditions and poor water supply. But while the Greek authorities seem unable to move forward, grassroots activists – anarchists – have yet again taken matters into their own hands and are providing shelter and food to those in need. However, this is not charity, or the result of a philanthropic endeavour, but direct democracy in practice.
Anarchists in Greece have been providing squatted accommodation – abandoned schools, hotels etc – for refugees – since the current conflicts in Syria began. And as soon as the Greek authorities organised evictions of these premises, more buildings have been squatted. Continue reading “Greece: Anarchist Refugee Collectives Displace state Detention Centres”
by JuanJo (explanations in brackets () added)
This morning we have released a video that accuses the BBVA bank of cheating, fraud and stripping the people of their homes. (see below)
PAH is the Movement of Mortgage Victims is many local assembly-run groups which combat criminal practices of banks and politicians with joy and originality. (Famously the new mayoress of Barcelona is an ex militant leader of the PAH,controlling the city police but not the Catalan cops).
Today we have accompanied the release of the video with the occupation of a branch office of BBVA in the center of Barcelona, located at number 84 Paseo de Gracia.
After a day of pressure, BBVA has been in contact with PAH. Again, BBVA assured us of its intent to resolve eight specific cases of affected families for whom we have been campaigning with daily occupations of BBVA banks.
Against this declaration of intent, we have demanded results. The 8 cases of which we speak have been battling for a solution for more than three years.
Their demands are minimal: dation in payment (ie. to stop the abuse in Spain that on default you lose your house but have to keep on paying the mortgage debt for decades), a social rent (ie. not impossibly high due to market speculation) , and IPRH annulment (IRPH is one of many bankers scams: clients were persuaded to sign mortgage agreements by which you pay 200 to 300 euros a month more than with the standard Eurobor interest rate fixing system).
Until the BBVA undertakes to solve the eight cases, we continue with our pressure campaign. At the moment, we are still holding out today in the Barcelona office against a possible eviction by the Mossos d’Esquadra, Catalan police. We will continue campaigning against BBVA till we get solutions for the affected families.
Yes We Can DO IT!
#PAHrap # RíndeteBBVA
When the property bubble burst and Spain was ”bailed out” it was on condition it be written into the constitution that these new mega debts must have their interest paid before anything else ,(like health, pensions education) the total for all banks is over 100 billion!
The sacred Constitution (“impossible to alter’ when it comes to a demanded referendum in Catalonia) was changed in one day flat to protect the dirty scams of the corrupt elite
So Spain, like Greece, is a financial colony, a reliable a ‘cash cow’ being milked forever by international banks and funds. The PAH activists point out that the banks were gifted with billions in public tax money.
Also that Bankia, Sareb, etc were set up or bailed out by the public so their assets of evicted houses should belong to the people, and should not be sold off dirt cheap to international property sharks and corporations. (by Thefreeonline)
Aquest matí realitzem el llançament d’un videoclip que senyalitza al BBVA com un banc que enganya, estafa i tira a la gent de la seva casa. Pràctiques criminals que la PAH combat amb alegria i originalitat: avui mateix hem acompanyat el llançament del videoclip amb l’ocupació d’una oficina del BBVA al centre de Barcelona, situada en el Passeig de Gràcia número 84.
Després de tot un dia de pressió, el BBVA s’ha posat en contacte amb la PAH. De nou, el BBVA assegurava tenir voluntat de resoldre 8 casos de famílies afectades per les quals hem estat ocupant diàriament oficines del BBVA.
Enfront de la seva declaració d’intencions, nosaltres hem exigit resultats. Els 8 casos dels quals parlem porten batallant per una solució desde fa més de tres anys. Les seves demandes són de mínims: dacions en pagament, lloguers socials, quitacions i la nul·litat del IPRH.
Fins que el BBVA es comprometi a donar solució als 8 casos, pensem continuar amb la nostra campanya de pressió. De moment, ens quedem avui en l’oficina de Barcelona sota un possible desallotjament per part dels Mossos d’Esquadra. Continuarem senyalitzant al BBVA fins a aconseguir solucions per a les famílies afectades.
Sí Es Pot!
#PAHrap #RíndeteBBVA
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UPDATE: see the GOOD NEWS: Greece: Refugee solidarity anarchists Found Innocent by Court
As explained by the Marea Refugees Support Collective, thirty people have been expelled to other “unspecified” camps and there have been some 50 arrests. |
translated from La Marea with thanks redaccion@lamarea.com
Three houses where dozens of refugees were staying in Thessaloniki have been vacated by order of the government of Tsipras , according to reports from support collectives on the scene.
One building, a former orphanage, is being demolished. As they explained to La Marea, 32 refugees have been transferred to other “unspecified” camps and there have been around fifty arrests.
In protest, support groups, refugees have occupied the headquarters of Syriza: “In quick response to government action to evict the squatters for refugees, have occupied the headquarters of Syriza in Thessaloniki, demanding the release of our colleagues and halt the demolition of Orfanotrofio, because within it has been a lot of material necessary for the daily life of refugees (clothing, food, medicines …) “they say. Continue reading “Protests as 3 Refugee Occupations evicted in Greece”
see also the BAD NEWS:
A Greek court has released 26 anarchists who had disrupted a Sunday Orthodox church service to protest against refugee evictions, a judicial source said.![Refugees and activists who live in squats have protested the Greek government's evictions [File: Orestis Panagiotou/EPA]](https://i0.wp.com/www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2016/8/1/052e744d5ee046b4bdf2410314df4573_18.jpg "Greece: Refugee solidarity activists cleared by court")
Refugees and activists who live in squats have protested the Greek government’s evictions [File: Orestis Panagiotou/EPA]
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| The entrance to the EL CHEf food collective in Athens’ Exarcheia neighbourhood [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera] |
Among those arrested were nine foreigners from Austria, Britain, Germany, Morocco, Spain and Switzerland.
The Thessaloniki court threw out charges of “disturbing a religious gathering”. Continue reading “Greece: Refugee solidarity anarchists Cleared by Court”
from Counter Vorte shared from Earth First, with thanks
Members of Mapuche Ancestral Resistance in the pre-dawn hours of July 19 burned two excavator machines belonging to British business magnate Joe Lewis, that were being used to build a hydroelectric dam at El Bolsón, in Argentina’s Río Negro province.
The dam is planned for the headwaters of the Río Escondido, on Lewis’ private property, and is being built in cooperation with Edenor electric company, of which Lewis is the biggest stock owner. 
The militants left leaflets headlined “Lewis Out of Patagonia,” and listing their demands for the release of political prisoners and the eviction of oil, mining and hydroelectric companies from Mapuche traditional territories. Continue reading “Mapuche resist British Billionaire: Burn Dam excavators “
La Batalla naval toma las calles de Vallecas from Diagonal on Vimeo.
… Any weapon is good enough if it can be used to pour, squirt or bomb water. Over 20,000 people splashed into action in the annual Naval Battles in Vallecas Naval, the Queen of the Festival of Karmela, Continue reading “Soaked against Sexism: Vallecas holds massive Water Battle against Gender Violence”
The Free 