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Eat the Rich: One week of Occupy London

On Saturday 22 October at 1pm in London, the general assembly is geared up to receive a swell of visitors, as many who work are inspired by the camp and plan to come and visit and see what it’s all about. It will be an important test for the assembly facilitators, to hold the camp together as more voices enter the equation…Posted by Jamie Kelsey-Fry |

Saturday will mark a week since OccupyLondon claimed its space at the feet of St Paul’s Cathedral. It has been a difficult but utterly uplifting experience for all.

People are gravitating to the camp constantly, drawn by what is really still an idea taking shape, but an idea that is already inspiring.

The camp is determined and committed to channelling peoples voices through general assembly and consensus. The aims of the London assembly and others around the world are cut from the same cloth. We all want to challenge the fundamental assumptions that underlie the world’s political and financial systems, which are failing us at all levels.

It’s an easy criticism to make that the assembly ‘offers no solutions’. Of course not, not yet. But the process of building a movement that asks the right questions, and considers that another world is possible, has begun. The systems of general assembly and consensus can be painstaking but they do mean that all those people involved have their voices heard.

The camp came up with their first statement in 48 hours. It’s now only six days in. I would suggest that if this process of forming a concrete vision of a fairer, safer more just world is anything as erudite as the way the London camp has organised itself, then we are in for something of great value. Perhaps an idea whose time has come.

If you plan to visit, I have no doubt that you will find the camp to be, at the very least, a source of hope. At best, you may find yourself deciding that you belong here, and the next thing you know, you’ll be collecting a sleeping bag and joining a working group. See you soon.

Fascists and Church stole and sold 300,000 babies, executed 150,000..

When the fascist government finally fell apart in Spain there was a ‘transition’ and an amnesty law. After 40 years in power the ‘rabid right’ and the Church owned most property and wealth and to this day they hold power behind the scenes, controlling the police, army and judiciary.( really, they control the High Court).

Half a million died in the fascist takeover, and they executed over 100,000 more afterwards. All Spain is littered with mass graves and associations of relatives pay to have them dug up and analyzed. You can’t get any official help, even the invented crimes for the mass summary executions are still legally valid.

The amnesty law still stands-. There is no closure. No justice. The Spanish State, monarchy and religion are founded on gigantic mass butchery, life sentences and the worst tortures imaginable. No wonder they’re not popular!

The criminals and their heirs are still managing their fortunes and living in luxury. The Church owns half the country and pays no tax. Britain, France and the USA of course helped set up the regime. They always armed, aided and shared profits from the Fascist reign of terror for 40 years.

Now another well known but buried fascist crime has gone public, due to a documentary by the BBC, boosting their ratings and income.

Over 300,000 babies were taken from their parents, often by nuns who controlled the hospitals, and sold, right up till the 1970s.

”The practice of removing children from parents deemed “undesirable” and placing them with “approved” families, began in the 1930s under the dictator General Francisco Franco.

At that time, the motivation may have been ideological. But years later, it seemed to change – babies began to be taken from parents considered morally – or economically – deficient. It became a money-spinner, too.

The scandal is closely linked to the Catholic Church, which under Franco assumed a prominent role in Spain’s social services including hospitals, schools and children’s homes.

Nuns and priests compiled waiting lists of would-be adoptive parents, while doctors were said to have lied to mothers about the fate of their children.

The name of one doctor, Dr Eduardo Vela, has come up in a number of victim investigations. Dr Vela is confronted with the allegations in the documentary.

In 1981, Civil Registry sources indicate that 70% of births at Dr Vela’s San Ramon clinic in Madrid were registered as “mother unknown.”read lots more on BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15335899

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Permaculture at Occupy Wall Street

permaculture design at occupy wall street

Like many of you, I’ve been watching the Occupy Wall Street (and local OccupySTL) protests with fascination. While I know the mainstream media hasn’t gotten too creative in its reporting (once it started reporting), the little bit of digging I’ve done on “on-the-ground” reporting has turned up more than just angry kids, but an ongoing experiment with political participation and governance itself.

Sure, unemployment, income disparity, and the American dream have been at the forefront of the movement… but I wondered early on if environmental sustainability was getting a “place at the table” as this movement forms and grows.

The answer: yes (as I suspected). This morning, I received email from the OWS Sustainability Working Group and Seismologik Media about a short film the latter had produced in partnership with One Pack Productions (unfortunately, embedding Vimeo wasn’t working for me today, so you’ll have to click through). Of course, I’m happy to see permaculture on display at Occupy Wall Street; I’m even happier to see that there’s more than protest going on there, but also experimentation with alternative, sustainable ways to meeting needs (which, of course, is its own form of protest).

Take a look at the film (it’s just under five minutes long), and let us know what you think. What other kids of sustainability experimentation could be going on in the midst of this activism?

World demo news: 350,000+ Occupy Barcelona..

15o — 15 O..one of many actions in Barcelona

There was no trouble because the police kept away, though I saw dozens of banks and the stock exchange being

heavily ‘redecorated’. The mainstream paper ‘El Periodico’ estimated 350,ooo participants, an enormous turnout

of every imaginable sector in festival mood and yelling anti Capitalist slogans.

Dozens of other Iberian cities were equally swamped with demonstrators. In Madrid a large empty hotel was occupied to accomodate families evicted for failing to pay impossible mortgages .

El grupo de indignados que ha ocupado esta madrugada el hotel Madrid, en la calle Carretas, tiene intención de “resistir pacíficamente” en el edificio y “cederlo” a la Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca.

Participant numbers. Cifras de asistencia en diferentes ciudades, según van contando las agencias: en Vigo, 10.000 manifestantes; Barcelona: 400.000 según la organización (la Guardia Urbana los cifra en 60.000); Alicante: 10.000; Elche: 2.000; Baleares, 5.000; Vitoria, 3.000.

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En directo: Un grupo de indignados ha ocupado esta madrugada el hotel Madrid, en la calle Carretas

Las protestas han comenzado ya en Asia y Oceanía. Seúl, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Manila, Melbourne, Sydney y Auckland ya han tenido sus concentraciones de protesta. El simpatizante de Annonymous de la foto es uno de los manifestantes que han salido a la calle en Sydney

ROME 17.02… 70 injured, 3 seriously as the street battle between Occupiers and fascist police develops in Rome

La Policía italiana emplea cañones de agua contra los agitadores de Roma. Lanzaron piedras y petardos a los agentes, convirtiendo en batalla campal lo que era una marcha pacífica y multititudinaria.

En Bruselas, 6.000 manifestantes han arrojado zapatos contra la fachada del edificio de la Bolsa. Los activistas han gritado en castellano «¡culpable!»

Berlin En Alemania ha habido manifestaciones en diferentes ciudades. Las más concurridas han tenido lugar en Berlín y Francfort. En la capital, un grupo de activistas ha intentado sin éxito adentrarse en el Bundestag, el Parlamento alemán. La foto es de AP.

New YorkUnas 2.000 personas del movimiento Ocupa Wall Street han marchado este sábado por el distrito financiero de Neuva York secundando la convocatoria global de protesta de este 15 de

indignati — 15 Oct Rome. A more typical image than the burning cars.

octubre. Esta es la primera gran marcha del día, que culminará con una concentración en Times Square.

….Al menos 71 arrestados y cerca de 5.000 personas han secundado este sábado en Nueva York la manifestación celebrada en el marco de las marchas a nivel global con motivo del día 15-O que se han extendido a más de 80 países, según ha confirmado el Departamento de la Policía neoyorquina.

London La Policía Metropolitana que hay un solo detenido en las protestas de Londres, informa The Guardian. AHy discrepancias sobre las cifras de participación, la Policía habla de unos mil asistentes y la BBC estima que hay entre 3.000 y 4.ooo manifestantes. La protesta está dividida entre la «zona cero» de la jornada, en torno al edificio de la Bolsa, con quienes logran pasar el cordón policial, y varios cientos que se han quedado fuera, más diluidos, y no siempre bien recibidos por los residentes del barrio

15 Oct. Occupy to kill Capitalism, .. now 955 demos +..

They say Capitalism is about to collapse. Lets give it a push! Time to jump in! Only if we all jump together can we change the lunatic system we live under.

For an end to debt and money… No leaders , No parties, just us.. For a co-op world!

The map now marks 648 Occupations and demos, with 4 days to go!

Destroying the Banks in favour of a phased in Money-Free system. Banning Hierarchical, sexist and homophobic organizations. A minimum world wage, or free rations of basic goods. Abolishing armies and war. Community Co-operatives instead of companies. Phasing out of the Oil Economy in favour of renewables and NH3 fuel. Banning GMO’s. Collectivising excess private property. Abolition of the Prisons and police system….

El 15 de Octubre del 2011 va a ser una fecha inolvidable para la raza humana. Este sera el primer encuentro UNIVERSAL de ciudadanos por un mundo mejor.
NO es un tema de ideas políticas, religión o filosofía.
El asunto es sobre cuanto nos importa nuestro futuro y el futuro de la Tierra

Police attack/ threaten Occupy Wall Street Camps

cops-camera-baton — nasty looking NY cop spots an Occupier

What happened tonight? Occupy Wall Street camps in (at least) Atlanta, Dallas, St. Louis, Seattle, and Boston were all threatened with eviction and arrest. Police moved in with a show of force in the late hours… but only in Boston did they actually make arrests, and only to shut down camp #2.

So… what the hell? Police forces in five major cities all just happened to decide to make a major alpha-male display on the same night? And all backed down, except for Boston – where the cops took out the smaller, overflow camp.

This is weird. And creepy. And stinks of some kind of national coordination.

As Randi Harper (@freebsdgirl) tweeted:

Both the mayors from Boston and Seattle told us one thing, but the police followed different orders. Where did these orders come from?

Boston police used the lamest excuse in history for why they had to arrest the occupiers: “To protect the new delicate plantings in the park”. Watch this great video, which shows Boston police violently throwing demonstrators through the oh-so-delicate plantings they were protecting from those messy, inconsiderate occupiers:

Source: Red Green & Blue (http://s.tt/13uh2)