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Category: Stop State and Capitalist criminals
London: give our kids a future, not a prison!
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 3,000 march through Hackney & Haringey on Saturday 13th August to demand: The march was organised and publicised just 2 days before by the hastily formed North London Unity Assembly initiated mainly by Turkish organisations and the Haringey and Hackney Anti-cuts Alliances [see list of some of the supporters at the end]. The aim was to provide a united community response to the recent disturbances, especially those in Tottenham and Hackney, and to the causes of despair and frustration that can result in riots. The march was led all the way by a dozen children behind a huge ‘Give Our Kids A Future!’ banner, followed by a mass of placards and banners from a wide range of community groups, trades union branches and political organisations as well as hand-crafted placards from scores of individuals. The Unity Assembly is calling for a culture of valuing, not demonising, youth and unemployed people; support for those affected by the rioting, including the immediate rehousing of people made homeless, grants for affected small businesses, and restoration of damaged areas; reversal of all cuts to youth services in our boroughs; no cuts to public services, but instead, investment into community-led regeneration of our communities, including access for all to decent housing, jobs, education and sports facilities; an independent community inquiry into policing methods in our boroughs, and an end to discriminatory stop and search; and availability of legal support for all those people arrested by police. read more here http://www.haringey.org.uk/content/community/34-community/178-unity-march-13th-august |
Repsol criminales destruyen AMAzonia
23 nuevos pozos de Repsol amenenazan
Sábado 30 de julio de 2011, por repsolmemata
por Marc Gavaldá/Alerta Amazónica
Sepahua, 22 de julio, 2011.- El lote 57 de Repsol YPF proyecta hacer sombra a las operaciones gasíferas de Pluspetrol en el Complejo Camisea. Uniendo mediante gasoductos los lotes 57,56 y 88 Repsol y Pluspetrol ampliarán en los próximos meses la frontera gasífera en las entrañas de la selva que separa los ríos Tambo y Urubamba.
A la perforación iniciada de varios pozos exploratorios, se le añaden la apertura de miles de kilómetros de líneas sísmicas y el tendido de varios gasoductos para conectar todos los pozos a la planta separadora de gas en Camisea.
El primer pozo exploratorio de Repsol en el lote 57, el Kinteroni I, ha dado resultados positivos, como se presencia en las llamas gigantes de una foto colgada en la radio de la Comunidad Nativa Nuevo Mundo. En esta comunidad machiguenga, Repsol ha construido una mini ciudad como campo base y ha tendido una trama de relaciones clientelares con sus habitantes.
Cuadricular la selva
Como señalan sus Estudio de Impacto Ambiental, Repsol pretende concluir en 2011 su ambicioso proyecto de exploración sísmica 3D en el interior de las Reservas Comunales Ashanika y Machiguenga, así como en la Zona de Amortiguamiento del Parque Nacional Otuquis.(1)
En total, nada menos que 2.360 Km2 de bosque amazónico será afectado por el tamizado de una matriz de líneas sísmicas que se cruzan perpendicularmente cada 240 metros. Una cuadrícula atroz para los ecosistemas. Pretender que la fauna no será impactada por este barrido sistemático de la floresta, con el denso tendido de caminos y zonas de descarga para helicópteros, pecaría de interés o ingenuidad.
Si el resultado de esta lustrosa campaña fuera negativa, Repsol informa – a modo de amenaza en un afiche colgado en la oficina comunal de Nuevo Mundo- que ejecutará una nueva campaña de prospección sísimica 2D, con la apertura de 892 kilómetros lineales de sendas sísmicas.
23 pozos en las cabeceras
A parte de la plataforma Kinteroni I, con 2 hectáreas de selva sepultadas bajo un manto de cemento y 3 bocas de pozo a punto de escupir gas, en 2011 Repsol pretende construir este año 2 pozos más: el Mashira GX y el Mapi LX y hasta 2022 serían un total de 23. Entre ellos, 10 pozos en la comunidad kakinte de Tsojora, 3 en Poyeni, uno en Nuevo Mundo y otro en un lugar inhóspito de la Reserva Comunal Machiguenga.
Ya es muy conocida la extraña obstinación que describen los pozos hidrocarburíferos para contaminar los recursos hídricos en ecosistemas tropicales. A modo de ejemplo, sólo empezar, Repsol ya tuvo un accidente “inesperado” por unas lluvias “inusuales”, que provocaron el derrumbe de lodos sobre una motobomba del pozo Kinteroni.
Bernabé Gómez, monitor machiguenga del Equipo de Monitoreo Medioambiental Comunitario de Nuevo Mundo, informó al equipo de Alerta Amazónica que este derrumbe, producido el 15 de diciembre de 2010, provocó un vertido de diesel a las aguas del arroyo Huitricaya.
A estas alturas del partido, cualquier nueva perforación en la selva genera gran desconfianza sobre cuánto tiempo las aguas de los arroyos de la zona seguirán siendo limpias y cristalinas. Porque aparte de los ríos tributarios Tambo y Urubamba, una docena de cursos fluviales menores serán afectados por la perforación de los 23 pozos.
Por los vertidos, o por el bombeo de agua necesario para la perforación de pozos a 2 kilómetros de profundidad, entre los ríos amenzados por la perforación de pozos en sus cabeceras, destacamos el río Cheni, Erite, Poyeni, Mapayo, Sepa, Sensa, Huitricaya y Mapaya.
Gasoductos que acortan el camino hacia el mar
Para facilitar la exportación del gas perforado en las comunidades kakintes y machiguengas, se construirá desde Kinteroni I, un tubo de 16 pulgadas y 14,5 km hasta la estación de Repsol en la Comunidad Nativa de Nuevo Mundo. Ahí se le sumará el flujo proveniente de Mipaya (pozo de Pluspetrol en el lote 56) para conectarlo a otro pozo, el Pagoneri A, con un ducto de 42 kilómetros.
Desde allá, se conducirá el gas a la planta de Malvinas (Camisea) por tres gasoductos, dos de Pluspetrol ya existentes, y un nuevo ducto de 22 kilómetros que construirá Repsol en los próximos meses. Para todo este proyecto de desarrollo Repsol ha proyectado 202 millones de dólares.(2)
Vulnerabilidad para el pueblo Kakinte
El pueblo Kakinte, de la familia etnolingüística Arawak, está conformado por aproximadamente mil personas, ubicadas en 6 comunidades alejadas, en el distrito de Río Tambo: Taini, Tsoroja, Quitepampani, San Luis de Corinto, Maseka y Mangariari.
El aislamiento geográfico, la falta de información oportuna e independiente, la presión territorial de otros pueblos y la falta de titulación de tres de sus comunidades han ocasionado una débil negociación con Repsol YPF, la empresa que convertirá sus territorios en un rentable negocio gasífero.
En el 2006 el pueblo kakinte solicitó una compensación por el ingreso de la empresa a sus territorios obteniendo un pago efectivo y donación de un teléfono satelital, un local comunal y algunas casas de cemento. Pero “ Lamentablemente, la compensación no ha servido para asuntos de fondo como el fortalecimiento de la identidad cultural de los kakinte, la educación bilingüe intercultural, ni para fortalecer la seguridad territorial de las comunidades, especialmente las no tituladas” informaba Servindi en 2010.(3)
La desinformación, mal información y las ofertas compensatorias a corto plazo, juegan a favor de Repsol YPF en su irreversible intervención de los territorios comunales de los pueblos ashanikas, kakintes y machiguengas. Mientras tanto, el desarrollo gasífero avanza como una infrenable apisonadora cultural.
Liverpool fans still boycott Murdoch’s SUN
Liverpool fans to demonstrate for boycott of the Sun
Posted by Phil Dickens at 19:10
Prior to this Sunday’s match against Sunderland, Liverpool supporters backed by the Hillsborough Justice Campaign will be holding a demonstration in support of a continued boycott of the Sun. This serves as a timely reminder of the real and lasting damage media sensationalism can cause.
Fans will be distributing leaflets explaining the boycott around the Anfield area, but the hope in this demonstration is to spread awareness beyond those who are already very unlikely to buy the paper. Fans are encouraged to collect posters from the shop opposite the Kop and display them in the ground prior to kick off. There is also the possibility of escalating this campaign by displaying a mosaic at the subsequent Bolton match.
Of late, it was the Sun’s sister paper – the News of the World – which came under intense scrutiny, for the phone hacking scandal. However with that paper’s closure, and the sacking of a significant number of people, much of the furore has since died down. But it would be a mistake to presume guilt lay entirely with this one newspaper, or even stopped at News International.
As Adam Ford pointed out a while back, “every newspaper is subject to exactly the same pressures, in a dwindling but highly competitive market. Murdoch merely acted to introduce a lowest common denominator, a barrel-scraping standard against which all other papers must measure themselves.”
Nor is this a recent phenomenon, as the involvement of the Hillsborough Justice Campaign tells us. Scousers have no love for “the Scum” because of its horrendous reporting of that disaster, in which 96 people died as a result of a human crush, whereby it falsely accused fans of stealing from and urinating on the dead.
The boycott has severely impacted sales of the rag in Liverpool, and is reasoned by some as the reason for continual price cuts and promotions in an attempt to boost sales.
read much more here
Bolivia: Long march against Amazon Highway
BOLIVIA
Amazon Road Plan Has Native People on the March Again
By Franz Chávez
LA PAZ, Aug 12, 2011 (IPS) – Indigenous people in the eastern lowlands of Bolivia are again preparing to make the long march to La Paz, 21 years 
after their first such protest. They have vowed to make the trek in defence of their lands, which they say are threatened by plans for a highway to be built with the backing of the Brazilian government.
The 600-km march in repudiation of the projected road for heavy vehicle traffic through Bolivia’s Amazon region will set out Monday, Aug. 15 from Trinidad, the capital of the northeastern province of Beni, to La Paz in the western highlands, the seat of the Bolivian government.
The decision to mount the protest march follows the breakdown of talks between the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of Eastern Bolivia (CIDOB) and the authorities in charge of the road project, which will affect a vast area between Beni and the central province of Cochabamba that is rich in biodiversity and where coca leaf cultivation is expanding.
The goal of the protest is to protect 13,000 people belonging to the Yuracaré, Trinitario and Chimán ethnic groups living in the area to be traversed by the road, indigenous leader Adolfo Moye of the autonomous Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS) told IPS. He is an outspoken opponent of the 306-km road that would link Villa Tunari, in Cochabamba, to San Ignacio de Moxos, in Beni.–
Read More Here http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=56835
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Facebook try to delete ‘Loot only The Rich’ badge.
The rightwing press and politicians are screaming “scum”, “riff raff”, “feckless” rioters. Thus branding the half million rebels with the bad crimes of a few.
Criticism of the rich is less welcome. The ‘Loot only the Rich’ badge published here yesterday was blocked from tagging and then banned by Facebook. Though this failed, maybe as it had already gone all over. (see here http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001284179241)
The badge/graphic was tagged to about 200 of the 1200 ‘friends’ on the page before Farcebook could block it.
Then the page of ‘TheFree Mikegilli’ displayed the following, which still appears on the Homepage. But the Badge was not deleted.. maybe as its too widely copied already.
WARNING. You uploaded a photo that violates our Terms of Use, and this photo has been removed. Facebook does not allow photos that attack an individual or group, or that contain nudity, drug use, violence, or other violations of the Terms of Use. These policies are designed to ensure Facebook remains a safe, secure and trusted environment for all users, including the many children who use the site.
HERE’S SOME MORE CRITICISM OF THE BRITISH RICH
Grant Shapps, Housing Minister, declared today that it would be to empower councils and housing associations to evict tenants found to be involved in the riots. The definition of anti-social behaviour is to be extended from the immediate vicinity of their houses to almost anywhere.
Such are the men who run our country in the Cabinet of Millionaires,
including the one who claimed £7,000 of our money for soft furnishings. Who is looting who?
The BBC interviewed two girls this morning, drinking stolen wine at 9.30 am, laughing about the fun they had had and eagerly anticipating another night “showing the rich” they could do what they wanted.
Our bankers, exposed for their ineptitude and greedy speculation, have been bailed out to the tune of nearly £40,000,000,000 of taxpayers’ money – over £1,000 per British adult – yet continue to receive tens of billions in bonuses. The richest dodge their taxes, with the authorities writing of billions, like Vodaphone (£6 billions excused). Public services are being closed to keep our rich elite in champers.
Our police, the London Met most of all, have been shown to be riddled with corrupt practices – with cops receiving payments from newspapers for confidential information; investigations tainted by officers receiving gifts, lunches and even jobs from the people under suspicion; and just last week a Chief Constable and his deputy suspended for alleged fraud.
And of course, we have our Prime Minister, David Cameron. In his own youth, Cameron was, along with London Mayor Boris Johnson, a member of the Bullingdon Club at Oxford University (see picture on right ; Cameron is in the center). This society of toffs was known for its practices of pot-smoking, drinking and eating to excess before carrying out some “robust” redecoration of the restaurants they used for their revelry, the main difference with this week’s rioters being that Mr Cameron’s associates had their Daddies’ money to pay for the damage they wreaked.
READ MORE HERE (copied with THANKS) http://viridislumen.blogspot.com/2011/08/from-bullingdon-to-brixton-rulers.html
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