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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.

 

Visit the Occupied Bank..Ocupat un Banc!

Why have we OCCUPIED a bank?
These are the ultimate expression of capitalism, one of the clearest signals that may be taking profits from the suffering of the majority of the population
Every day, in Spain there are approximately 300 evictions, where banks tend to be those responsible for the evictions of families for non-payment of mortgages. In Barcelona there are thousands of people homeless or living in extreme poverty. On the other hand, just in our neighborhood there are 800 empty flats, and as many other sites continues beyond the residents in the neighborhood.

Per què hem ocupat un banc?
Aquests són la màxima expressió del capitalisme, sent una de les senyals més evidents el fet que puguin estar traient beneficis del patiment de la majoria de la població. Cada dia a l’Estat espanyol hi ha aproximadament uns 300 desnonaments, on els bancs acostumen a ser els responsables dels desnonaments de les famílies per impagament de les hipoteques. A Barcelona hi ha milers de persones sense casa o vivint en extrema pobresa. Com a contrapartida, només en el nostre barri hi ha uns 800 pisos buits, i com a tants altres llocs es segueix fent fora els veïns i veïnes del barri.

What are we doing?
Gradually the activities and workshops are being made (kind of guitar, vegan eatery, etc.). Or are being started (salsa classes, Jiu-Jitsu, etc..), Many people have passed to fix the space or bring things that could be  used (tables, food, books, etc.).. Come and find out what equipment is needed, what activities are being organised or simply to collaborate with the project in the bank and drop a question.

Què estem fent?
Poc a poc són més les activitats i tallers que s’estan realitzant (classe de guitarra, sopadors, etc.) o que estan en procés de començar (classes de salsa, jiu-jitsu, etc.), com molta és la gent que s’ha passat a arreglar l’espai o a portar coses que poguessin servir (taules, menjar, llibres, etc.). Si vols saber què material fa falta, quines activitats s’estan fent o simplement per col·laborar amb el projecte passa’t pel banc i pregunta.

If there is the eviction of the bank:
Concentration-time in front of the space.
-Demonstration at 20pm the same day in Revolution Square.
We can be found every day from 17h to 22h or 19h every Thursday at the assembly space.

Si es produís el desallotjament del banc:
-Concentració en el moment davant de l’espai.
-Manifestació a les 20h del mateix dia a plaça Revolució.


Ens pots trobar cada dia de 17h a 22h o cada dijous a les 19h a l’assemblea de l’espai.
VINE I PARTICIPA!ALLIBERANT ESPAIS, CONSTRUÏNT ALTERNATIVES!

oThursday 10: 19pm meeting space. If you have any activity or part of the project, this is your time.ogle Translation

Wednesday 9: Sopador vegan (20h) + Season Video (21h): “End VIC: resist or die”

“Franklin Lopez Movie which examines addiction to violence and the systematic exploitation of the environment that dominates the culture” civilized “West. Based on the books “Endgame” by Derrick Jensen in which the author asks: If your land is invaded by aliens who are destroying forests, poisoning the air and water, and contaminate crops, resist the occupation? “

MORE INFO…AGENDA CLICK here

http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/433822/index.php

27 Oct.. Dia d’acció..Day of Action vs.Banks

Our Lives or Their Profits.... Day of Action against the Banks

27 Octubre: Dia d’acció contra els bancs i caixes

 Hola companyes i companys indignats, des de el 15M del Vallès occidental proposem que el dia 27 d’octubre sigui un dia ple d’accions a tot el territori català contra bancs i caixes. /

The Sabadell Assembly have cxalled  Day of Action in all Catalunya against the Banks this Thursday 

/ La idea és que cada localitat o cada territori s’organitzi per fer l’acció, aquesta proposta ja va ser aprovada a l’ assemblea general que es va realitzar a Plaça Catalunya.
The idea es that each area organizes to do an action. This proposal was already approved in the General Assembly held in Plaza catalunya.
Salut i revolució

INDIGNADES SABADELL

 

Stalinists and 15K police defend Greek ‘Parliament’..why bother?

Protecting the parliamentarians from the people they pretend to represent were fifteen thousand riot cops. But remarkably, supporters of the misnamed Communist Party of Greece formed their own battalion, protecting the police and the parliament from those they called “provocateurs” and even, bizarrely, “anarcho-fascists”. They might as well have accused demonstrators of being meat-eating vegetarians!

5000.000 demonstrators. The communist/stalinist union, anxious as ever to control, joined the police to save the Parliament. This allowed sold out politicians to rubber stamp still more cuts to try and save the European Capitalist System. There followed another Battle of Syntagma Square., with one unlucky stalinist dying of a heart attack.

Let Capitalism FALL. Lets make something Better!

This was the biggest general strike and demonstrations yet against the Greek austerity measures, which continue to drive many into desperate poverty, destitution and even death.

An estimated 500,000 took to the streets of Athens  – which is the equivalent of 2.5 million in London. It was the largest show of Greek working class power since the fall of the military junta in 1974.

But so long as the profit system remains in place, true power remains in the hands of the ultra-wealthy international financiers. As the debt bubble reaches the point of bursting, there are divisions within this group. Despite the divisions, the combined will of the international financiers in represented by the so-called ‘troika’ – unelected European Commission bureaucrats, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. The politicians who meet in the Greek parliament are therefore the puppets of the troika, though they still try to maintain a facade of democracy by arguing a bit before they pass each round of austerity cuts.

Protecting the parliamentarians from the people they pretend to represent were fifteen thousand riot cops. But remarkably, supporters of the misnamed Communist Party of Greece formed their own battalion, protecting the police and the parliament from those they called “provocateurs” and even, bizarrely, “anarcho-fascists”. They might as well have accused

demonstrators of being meat-eating vegetarians!….

”When there’s a Revolution..The PARTY puts it down”
And yet – from the perspective of the trade union bureaucrats who form the base of that party – it makes a lot of sense. Though their website talks of

''if THEY don't pay then WE won't pay at all, then Humpty Dumpty will fall off the Wall!''

the PASOK government enforcing the will of the “plutocracy” by “fire and sword”, their worst fear is a working class movement that they cannot control, which organises on a rank and file basis, and will not accept sell-out after sell-out…..

The whole of Greek society is now in turmoil. Aside from the events of the last two days, almost every day sees fresh strikes and occupations. In response, the PASOK government is mobilising the military to crush resistance by refuse workers. But perhaps in doing so, it is preparing its own demise, one way or another.

Most economists now talk of a Greek default – or at least a huge debt ‘haircut’ – being inevitable. When this happens, the shockwaves will be felt around the world. Sooner or later, the Greek situation is coming to a town near you, and when it does, the international working class will need to organise itself at a grassroots level, and face down the threat of brutal dictatorship….

Read more HERE…(with thanks)

http://infantile-disorder.blogspot.com/2011/10/decoding-battle-of-syntagma-square-as.html

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.

IMF predicts collapse of Capitalism!

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.

India, not Iran, to unleash next Nuclear horror?

We get a lot of stories about Iran’s efforts to get the Nuclear Bomb.

Because our Rulers hate the Iranians and want their oil.

But the Indians have already got there, with lots of help and juicy  bribes from the West.

And now they’re hell bent on Fast Breeder Reactors, a technology abandoned for being too dangerous.

Indian macho  gangster politicians are frantic to get the plutonium economy.

Diverting billions stolen from Indian workers to the obscenely competing Russians and Nth American war criminals.

To throw bigger and better bombs at the Pakistanis, next time round

and annihalate everybody many times more quickly.

Tamal Nadu heroes take on the Nuclear State

”On Aug. 17, a group of activists started a hunger strike near Koodankulam at the southern tip of Tamil Nadu state. The action was directed against Indian government plans to commission a 1000 MW Russian- built nuclear plant. Kalpakkam has already proven to be a dangerous hotspot. Here, in January 2003, a valve connecting a high-level radioactive liquid waste tank and a low level waste tank leaked, leading to radiation exposure for at least six employees, an unknown number of deaths, and temporary closure of Kalpakkam’s main plant. The Kalpakkam nuclear complex also holds the dubious distinction of having been flooded when the devastating tsunami of 2004 struck.

Kalpakkam hence is an additional reason for worries. Not least because the nuclear complex harbours a test reactor constructed towards enabling India build a plutonium economy. Indian peace activists have expressed suspicions that the plutonium separated at Indian civilian reprocessing facilities will be diverted and used to increase the country’s stock of atomic weapons.

These suspicions have not been allayed by recent developments. Since the beginning of this year, India boasts three reprocessing plants. Further, the U.S. government has in principle granted the Indian government permission to domestically reprocess fuel elements from reactors to be supplied under the 2008 U.S.-India deal. Hence, diversion of plutonium towards India’s weapons’ programme is well possible.

Every day 10,000 people or more would gather from the surrounding area to demonstrate their support. And every day support kept expanding, as students boycotted schools, merchants closed their shops, and gruel kitchens were set up in adjacent villages where fisher folk refused to go out to catch fish.

The reactors being installed at the plants in Koodankulam are Russian in origin. They are known as the VVER-1000/392 design. Though based on light-water reactors in use for long, the design is a new variant. Indian scientists have long questioned whether Russia’s VVER-1000 technology is safe. Doubts have further been fuelled by last March’s Fukushima disaster in Japan, and by the new assessments on nuclear safety made since then.
In a report leaked to environmental organisations in June, an amalgam of Russian state agencies admitted that Russia’s nuclear industry is extremely vulnerable to natural and man-made disasters. Some 31 security flaws were listed.

The Anti Nuclear resistance is the biggest ever in India and deserves all support possible

Read much more HERE. From Peter Custers at IPS with thanks http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105342