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UK Biggest Strike Ever!!!

November 30 – biggest strike day EVER Print E-mail
Thursday, 24 November 2011 00:31
 Wednesday will see about three million public sector workers walking out on strike, as civil servants join teachers in opposing government cuts to pensions.PCS, UCU, NUT and ATL had all previously balloted for further industrial action, so their members will be out.  But added to them are a seemingly ever-growing list of other trade unions, including Unison, GMB, Unite, UCATT and NASUWT. (To see a more comprehensive list with breakdowns of ballot results, see Who’s out on Nov 30 on libcom.org.)

Nov 30: We’re All In It Together

As UK Prepares for Biggest Strike in Generations….

Well, it’s been a long time coming… Wednesday 30th November will see the first mass strike in the UK for four decades. 17 unions, including the biggest ones Unite, UCU, Unison, various teaching unions and PCS, have balloted to strike on pension reform which will see an estimated 3 million off work and, hopefully, cause massive disruption. Demonstrations and pickets are planned across the country – see http://www.n30strike.org for a complete list. Amongst the strikers are some unlikely suspects: 18,000 Border Agency workers are expected to strike leaving the government having to employ sinister private security firm Serco to take over for a day. Even the National Union of Probation Officers voted to join the strike four-to-one.

The government wants public sector workers to forgo 3% of their salary as pension contributions, which equates to a pay cut. So far workers have had to accept a two year pay freeze during a time of high inflation (in other words a pay cut), if they haven’t already been thrown out on their arse during the waves of mass redundancies (a total pay cut). The government’s arguments are designed to play on long term disgruntlement among the private sector that they have to deal with, on the whole, a shockingly shit pensions scenario and the public sector have had it a bit better off. Rather than aiming to sort out the private pensions mess which leaves millions in poverty on retirement, the PM wants the country to believe the public sector pensions are ‘gold plated’, unfair and unsustainable. Actually, most public workers end up with less than £5000 a year pension. They’ve also been reformed already: through a mix of negotiated and underhand changes, public sector pensions have been reduced to the tune of 25p in each pound over the last few years.

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http://www.schnews.org.uk/stories/Nov-30-Were-All-In-It-Together/

The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy

The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy


The violent police assaults across the US are no coincidence. Occupy has touched the third rail of our political class’s venality

guardian.co.uk, US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students at UC Davis being pepper-sprayed by phalanxes of riot police went viral online; images proliferated of young women – targeted seemingly for their gender – screaming, dragged by the hair by police in riot gear; and the pictures of a young man, stunned and bleeding profusely from the head, emerged in the record of the middle-of-the-night clearing of Zuccotti Park.

 The New York Times reported that “New York cops have arrested, punched, whacked, shoved to the ground and tossed a barrier at reporters and photographers” covering protests. Reporters were asked by NYPD to raise their hands to prove they had credentials: when many dutifully did so, they were taken, upon threat of arrest, away from the story they were covering, and penned far from the site in which the news was unfolding. Other reporters wearing press passes were arrested and roughed up by cops, after being – falsely – informed by police that “It is illegal to take pictures on the sidewalk.”
In New York, a state supreme court justice and a New York City council member were beaten up; in Berkeley, California, one of our greatest national poets, Robert Hass, was beaten with batons. The picture darkened still further when Wonkette and Washingtonsblog.com reported that the Mayor of Oakland acknowledged that the Department of Homeland Security had participated in an 18-city mayor conference call advising mayors on “how to suppress” Occupy protests.

I noticed that rightwing pundits and politicians on the TV shows on which I was appearing were all on-message against OWS. Journalist Chris Hayes reported on a leaked memothat revealed lobbyists vying for an $850,000 contract to smear Occupy. Message coordination of this kind is impossible without a full-court press at the top. This was clearly not simply a case of a freaked-out mayors’, city-by-city municipal overreaction against mess in the parks and cranky campers. As the puzzle pieces fit together, they began to show coordination against OWS at the highest national levels.

Dangerous Emma Goldman documental/documentary

Documental] Emma Goldman, una mujer sumamente peligrosa

Documental dirigido por Mel Bucklin. Título original: Emma Goldman: An exceedingly dangerous woman, 2003. Duración: 90 min.

Emma Goldman considerada durante más de treinta años como el enemigo público número uno en Estados Unidos, no por cometer actos violentos, sino por utilizar el arma más peligrosa que está a la mano de todo ser humano: la razón.

Enviado por redaccion ryn el Mar, 15/11/2011 – 23:40.
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Documental de Mel Bucklin que gira en torno a la figura de Emma Goldman considerada durante más de treinta años cómo el enemigo público número uno en Estados Unidos, no por cometer actos violentos, sino por utilizar el arma más peligrosa que está a la mano de todo ser humano: la razón.

Con una vida apasionante, Emma Goldman, junto a Alexander Berkman, se encontrará en el ojo del huracán del movimiento anarquista. Célebre anarquista de origen lituano conocida por sus escritos y sus manifiestos radicales, libertarios y feministas, también fue una de las pioneras en la lucha por la emancipación de la mujer.

Portal Libertario OACA – http://www.portaloaca.com

Ocupat un Banc/ Occupan otro Banco / Banks occupied in Barcelona

Ya son dos o tres los bancos ocupados por Barcelona en pocos dias.

Los indignad*s de La Floresta hacían una Cercavila por los Bancos de Sant Cugat, luego la Paella Popular

en la Plaza, y actuaron una pequeña drama que terminó..SORPRESA con la entrada en un banco anterior en La Plaza.

Participaron hasta 200 personas incluyendo l*s niñ*s.  El Banc Indignat está cerca al Castillo CSO, ocupado hace 10 dias,

así que hay movimiento, también una cooperativa de consumo y varias cosas más

 

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Now there are I think 3 ex banks OCCUPIED around Barcelona. And on Friday a big crowd played cat and mouse with the baffled police, before successfully occupying another huge building as a ‘home for evicted mortgage defaulters’.

The latest Bank was taken in the La Floresta suburb. After a leafleting and graffiti march around local banks the local  ‘Indignats’ cooked an enormous veggie Paella for up to 200 people. Finally they enacted a drama in the street which ended..SURPRISE in the occupation of an adjoining abandoned bank.(Still going strong). La Floresta is close to the new Occupied Castle Social Center (see post), begun just last week, so there’s plenty of local action, including a small consumers CoOp, an occupied  community garden.. and more stuff.

 

#spanishrevolution, Taking the Streets Today..

The Spanish OCCUPY movement, 15M, is re-taking 100’s of streets and squares today, despite a ban, to protest the ZERO CHOICE elections. Yesterday 1000’s gathered in Madrid and elsewhere to protest arrests in Thursday’s students General Strike. Health Centers and Hospitals have recently been occupied, and the law has decided NOT TO EVICT  buildings occupied after the massive Oct demos to house people evicted for mortgage arrears.…

El movimiento 15M está en plena acción, con centenares de actos ,  la toma Asamblearia de Plazas en todo el país por motivo de Las Elecciones, una mani de miles por los detenidos en la Huelga General Estudantil de Jueves 17 Nov, vigilias por la muerte del Sistema de Salud Pública,  y varios occupaciónes más….

The right wing Partido Popular are expecting a majority, while offering only blood sweat and tears to ‘make us competitive’ and ‘restore market confidence’. (Really to protect their own fortunes, mostly inherited from the fascist  40 year occupation or gained by  blatant corruption which is rife in the party.)

 

Occupy Movement grows despite cops and media

Cops and media FAIL to crush OWS

The Occupy Wall Street movement, despite the efforts of the mass media to belittle it and the efforts of brutal police officers to scare it away, is growing and growing fast. There are a lot of stories from the past few days that we haven’t been able to cover. Check these out:

  1. Does Occupy Wall Street spell the end of the Tea Party?
  2. Police shutting down Occupy Wall Street/ San Francisco
  3. Occupy Wall Street’s first official release
  4. Cops get violent vs Occupy Wall Street
  5. The Climate Movement Stands with #OccupyWallSt, #OccupyingStateDept
  6. Why we should all occupy Wall St.

Source: Planetsave (http://s.tt/13sk3)  WITH THANKS?

London: Huge ‘Bank of Ideas’ Occupied.

Occupied 'Bank of Ideas, London

Bankrupt Banks to be Occupied Centers?

Junction of SUN STREET/CROWN PLACE north of Liverpool street station

Brilliant work . Huge building with over 500 rooms seized by Occupy london as a ‘BANK OF IDEAS’ for the winter. Near Liverpool Street station – all support needed. Tops – keep the rolling occupations mobile. Very encouraging move – congratulations!.

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A car load of City police have just turned up. For some reason the police are heavily armed – even a machine gun. No idea why they’re here.

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Bank of Ideas

Welcome!

The Bank of Ideas is situated on Sun Street, Hackney in an abandoned office block purchased several years ago by the bank UBS. It is an enormous space complete with a 500-seater lecture hall.

It has been opened to the public for the non-monetary trade of ideas to help solve the pressing economic, social and envionmental problems of our time.

There is also room for community groups, youth clubs, nursuries and other public services that have lost their space due to Government spending cuts.

Artists, performers and creatives are welcome to come entertain and to help transform the space. We also encourage games, workshops and skillshares on anything from yoga to yahtzee.

The only prerequisite is that this space is not for financial transactions. Trade in ideas or skills, but no one should need to pay to take part in the Bank’s activities.