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12 Spanish Video reports on Contrainfos 104

01. Eviction Gràcia habitage Office.
02 Telefònica strike
03 International Day Against Oil Chevron
04. squatting Meeting in Barcelona
05. Patio Maravillas collective
06.action by mothers of those awaiting prison for “lets stop the Parliament”
07. eviction of auditorium workers on strike
08 III Freedom Flotilla to Gaza
09 Ni Una Más campaign
10. Taking of premisis in Mexico and Mother Ayotzinapa
11. Offset promotional fest. Can Batlló Printing col·lectiva
12. Promotional Circus Festival Somia Barrets

01. Desalojo Oficina de habitage Gràcia02. Huelga Telefònica03. Dia internacional contra Petrolera Chevron04. Encuentro de okupación en Barcelona 05. okupación colectivo Patio Maravillas06. Acción deMadres de Encausados por “Aturem el Parlament”07. Desalojo trabajadadores de auditorio en huelga08. III Flotilla de la Libertad Rumbo a Gaza09. Campaña Ni Una Menos10. Toma de Caseta en Mèxico i Madre Ayotzinapa11. Promocional de Offset fest. Imprempta Can Impremta Col·lectiva Can Batlló12. Promocional Festival de Circo Somia Barrets

Adventures in the New Economies of Catalonia: Film Project

Autogestió: Adventures into the New Economies of Catalonia from Enfable on Vimeo. article AVAILABLE IN Castellano and Catalan

Hello! We’re filmmakers, and we’re called Enfable. We want to make a research film about the New Economy in Catalonia, Spain, exploring cooperatives, local currencies, and community governance.

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Occupy Benetton! Still don’t Compensate 1134 Sweatshop Deaths

Corporation Still Hasn’t Paid for Rana Plaza Collapse

Like others they are delighted to scoop mega profits by exploiting quasi slave labour in poor countries. After the world outcry at the Rana plaza disaster they were delighted to whitewash their image promising to pay out 5 million dollars… BUT THE BASTARDS HAVE PAID JUST A FRACTION SO FAR…

‘ last week 5 activists occupied United Colors of Benetton, St. Stephen’s Green [Dublin] asking Benetton to honour their pledge of 5 million dollars to the victims of the Rana Plaza Collapse [deadliest garment factory incident in history] which claimed the lives of 1134 people and left over 2500 casualties.

Within 16 minutes of entering the shop 4 Gardaí arrived and asked the manager to tell us to leave…. Continue reading ” Occupy Benetton! Still don’t Compensate 1134 Sweatshop Deaths”

Eleven Feminisms in One: Going Viral Despite Internet Patriarchy

Feminism is under fierce attack on the internet. When looking for illustrations for this post I found many anti feminist sites. In the images I saw stacks of doctored photos denigrating feminism by mockery, divide-and-rule, inventions, junk science, misandry, rape celebration, patronizing, etc.

Mostly it seemed to me like pathetic bleating by Nth American men about losing any of their socially permitted patriarchal privileges,… But switch language on Google and you get similar results in different contexts..

Seems like we’re living through giant social battles that are going on around the world, in which millions of women feel empowered by a perceived freedom and individuality on social media, threatening to undermine long established systems of cultural semi slavery, and provoking ‘testerical’ reactions from religious and authority figures.

One classic sexist tactic is to single out and exaggerate separatist ideas and continuously brand all feminists as ‘smelly, hairy, man haters’ etc. Continue reading “Eleven Feminisms in One: Going Viral Despite Internet Patriarchy”

Spain’s Citizen Candidates to “Lead by Obeying your Orders” ?

…the new wave of local politicians arrive with anarchist methods of direct democracy… but how long before they are sucked int the mashine?…

Spain’s ‘citizen candidates’ shake up politics

At municipal elections, grassroots politicians are gaining support with pledges to fight corruption and austerity.

Katharine Ainger

*A man gestures with his mouth gagged as dozens of protesters shout slogans before local elections [AP]*

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Brazilian Anarcha Feminist Revolutionary: Maria Lacerda de Moura, 1887-1944

Here is the story of Maria Lacerda de Moura, brave pioneer of progressive anarcha feminism on Brasil. It is thanks to the efforts of Maria and her comrades a century ago that today we have a diverse and vibrant anarchist movement.