Posted on May 25, 2012 | Theme: Prisoner Resistance!Human Needs Over Profit. With Molly Porzig. An interview with Diana Block (California Coalition for Women Prisoners) and Manuel La Fontaine (All of Us or None) about the Occupy Prisons Movement and the Occupy National Day of Support of Prisoners. Continue reading “The Abolitionist, 2012, download here”
In Woodland, the occupation of a foreclosed home by members of Occupy groups and others have caused the bank to grant a 45 day grace period. According to a report by News 10 on why the home went into foreclosure:
The Ponce Family bought their home on Paradise Valley Drive in 2008, but began struggling to hang on to it after Heriberto Ponce lost his job in construction. …
- Woman with cerebral palsy arrested in foreclosure fight with Wells Fargo (activistpost.com)
- Tell Wells Fargo to Stop Evicting Innocent Renters! by Tenants Together (socialactions.net)
- Californian Commits Suicide Two Days Before Foreclosure (revolutioninmedia.com)
What happened to the Occupy movement? |
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Although media coverage has dwindled, Occupy cells are alive and well all over the United S tates – and beyond. |
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Occupy Wall Street was at the pinnacle of its power in October 2011, when thousands of people converged at Zuccotti Park and successfully foiled the plans of billionaire Mayor Michael Bloombergto sweep away the occupation on grounds of public health. From that vantage point, the Occupy movement appears to have tumbled off a cliff, having failed to organise anything like a general strike on May Day – despite months of rumblings of mass walkouts, blockades and shutdowns…………
Others note that protests did take place in more than 110 cities on May Day in |
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May 25, 2012
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff today rejected 12 of 84 articles in a controversial bill that aims to relax restrictions on deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. The Brazilian government will announce the full
details of the cuts on Monday.
Environmentalists had pressured Rousseff to outright veto the measure, which they said could reverse Brazil’s progress in reducing its deforestation rate. But a presidential veto could have been overruled by Congress.
The revised version of the Forest Code raised concerns among greens and scientists for provisions that
would have granted amnesty for illegal deforestation and reduced the amount of forest landowners are required to protect. The looser Forest Code seemed to be opposed by the general public, according to surveys conducted by environmentalists. The Forest Code revision was pushed by agroindustrial interests in the Congress. Continue reading “Dilma vetoes bits of Amazon Law”
| “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!” |
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Tear Gas and Guns Fired at Ngabe Indigenous People for Protesting the Barro Blanco Hydroelectric Projectby 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!”
By Richard Black
Using aerial and ground-based surveys, the team identified about 150,000 methane seeps in Alaska and Greenland in lakes along the margins of ice cover.
Many of the sites were bubbling methane that has been stored for millenniaScientists have identified thousands of sites in the Arctic where methane that has been stored for many millennia is bubbling into the atmosphere. Continue reading “Arctic melt :150,000 methane seeps in Alaska and Greenland”
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