New York Anarchist Book, Arts and Film Fair .. Sept 6th and 7th.

New York Anarchist Bookfair to feature Ben Morea and Silvia Federici 

Announcing this years New York Anarchist Bookfair, taking place on September 6th and 7th.

 Via It’s Going Down  As climate emergency looms, the specter of war and fascism haunts us. In the media and in the world around us, we watch the super wealthy ruling corporative elites persisting in maintaining the exploitative death-culture hierarchy of white, cis, patriarchal, Imperialist, and colonial capitalism. At the NYC Anarchist Book Fair we believe that can be changed, and it takes a village to invent the future.

In its 13th edition, the book fair pays tribute to the anarchist and activist Willem Van Spronsen, who was killed as he tried to disrupt ICE camps activities, and the counterculture anarchist artist Ben Morea. An exhibition of Morea’s drawings (features in this year’s book fair Poster) will be exhibited during the bookfair and art festival. During the book fair, Morea hosts a workshop/dialogue session around Revolutionary Animism.

Workshops also include Silvia Federici talking about “The Struggle for the Commons”, and debates on queer – trans feminisms, Antifa, immigration and ecology anarchism, among others. The book fair this year will offer a care-space, where healing practitioners and artists will offer group and individual care experiences. Continue reading “New York Anarchist Book, Arts and Film Fair .. Sept 6th and 7th.”

Riseup4Rojava urges participation in demos in many cities today

The international campaign and platform Riseup4Rojava has organised actions all over Europe today and Saturday to protest the appointment of trustees to Amed, Van and Mardin municipalities.

The Platform consists of over 40 organisations from 12 countries, including the CNT and CGT trade unions from Catalonia, the autonomous InfoAut network from Italy, Plan C from the UK and the Internationalist Commune of Rojava.

Demonstrations planned for today are as follows:

Paris, at 5 pm, in Place de la République

Marseille, at 6 pm, in Canebière

Bordeaux, at 7 pm, in Place de la Bourse

Rennes, at 4 pm, in Place du Colombier

Strasbourg, at 1 pm, in Place Kléber

Toulouse, at 6 pm, in Métro Francois Verdier

Grenoble, at 2 pm, in Place Victor Hugo

Lorient, at 5 pm, in Rue du Port

Stockholm, at 1 pm, in Norra Bantorget

Copenhagen, at 1 pm

Amsterdam, at 3 pm, in Dam

London, at 2 pm, in Trafalgar Square

Vienna, at 6 pm, in West Bf

Major and widespread resistance is planned with International Days of Action on 6th and 7th September 2019  .. see poster below  https://riseup4rojava.org

Saudi bloodbath in Yemen with British weapons

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This 28 May 2015 video says about itself:

Saudi-led airstrikes kill at least 80 in Yemen

A day of deadly bombing by Saudi-led warplanes has killed at least 80 people in Yemen’s capital Sanaa and in an area along the border with Saudi Arabia.

Witnesses said many civilians were caught up in the blast.

By Phil Miller in Britain:

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Six billion pounds worth of British weapons licensed to countries in Yemen war

WHITEHALL has licensed £6.3 billion worth of weapons to Saudi-led forces in the first four years of their war in Yemen.

The aerial bombardment of one of the world’s poorest countries has created what the United Nations regards as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

British-made fighter jets, bombs and missiles have all played a central role in the bombing, according to Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), which compiled the latest…

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EZLN creates seven new Caracols

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[A new communiqué from the CCRI-CG of the EZLN was just released in Spanish (link below). This is a translation of a report on the communiqué in La Jornada with a list of the new Caracols and autonomous municipalities. This is awesome news! We’ll post the entire communiqué  once the official translation is out. Of special interest to the Chiapas Support Committee is that San Manuel, our former partner autonomous municipio is now a Caracol with its headquarters located in Dolores Hidalgo. (See photo below!)]

This photo was taken of the commanders entering Dolores Hidalgo for a preliminary meeting of the Other Campaign in 2005.

By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas

The Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) announced that it created seven new Caracols or Zapatista Centers of Autonomous Resistance and Rebellion (Crarez) –the majority will be the seat…

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Record surge in Amazon fires: Our House Is Burning Down!

More and more people are realizing that irreversible Climate change is happening now. This coincides with the far right takeover of the Brazilian State, hitching it to the insane policies of greed and destruction of the US Regime. But the militarist and misogynist Brazilian right is not yet all powerful. We can still exert pressure in many ways, perhaps in Europe by supporting threats to cancel the upcoming EU/Mercosur trade agreement if the Brazilian regime continues its policies and its campaign to destroy the Amazon Rainforest, which belongs to nobody and us all.

Amazon burning: Brazil reports record surge in forest fires

Brazilian Amazon beset by 9,500 new forest fires since Thursday, prompting fresh scrutiny of President Bolsonaro’s environmental stewardship.

Fires raging in Brazil‘s Amazon rainforest have hit a record high number this year, according to new data from the country’s space research agency, as concerns grow over President Jair Bolsonaro‘s management of the environment.

7 Steps You Can Take to Help Save the Amazon Rainforest

Nearly 73,000 fires were recorded between January and August, compared with 39,759 in all of 2018, the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) said on Monday. The surge marks an 83 percent increase over the same period last year and is the highest since INPE records began in 2013.

Satellite images spotted more than 9,500 new forest fires since Thursday alone, mostly in the Amazon basin, home to the world’s largest tropical forest and seen as vital to slowing the pace of global warming.

SAVE THE AMAZON and stand with the forest guardians.  Losing the Amazon means losing the home of indigenous and traditional communities, precious habitats, and the fight against climate change. Preserving rainforests can contribute to fighting the climate crisis we’re facing. Continue reading “Record surge in Amazon fires: Our House Is Burning Down!”

DÍA INTERNACIONAL DE ACCIÓN .. RiseUp4ROJAVA 6/7 Sept

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Interrumpir, Bloquear, Ocupar
6/7 de septiembre de 2019
en Italia, Alemania, Grecia, Cataluña, Suecia, Reino Unido, Suiza y muchos otros países

https://riseup4rojava.org/es/inicio/

Mientras los pueblos de Rojava y el Noreste de Siria continúan su lucha por la autodeterminación, la liberación de las mujeres y la democracia de base y se defienden contra los ataques de las bandas yihadistas y el Estado fascista turco, los representantes de gobiernos hipócritas se dan la mano con los déspotas turcos.

Mientras cientos de miles de personas han sido desplazadas de Afrin por bandas yihadistas apoyadas por el ejército turco, estos yihadistas y sus familias se están estableciendo en la zona y explotando los recursos de la gente. Están vendiendo el símbolo de Afrin, el aceite de oliva de olivos, a través de Turquía a España y a otros países europeos. Esto es lo que quiere decir el Estado turco cuando dice estar asegurando su…

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Indigenous and Country Women hold 100,000-Strong March in Brasília

 From August 9 to 13, the First March of Indigenous Women of Brazil was carried out, with the slogan “Territory: our body, our spirit”. This march then joined the 6th country women’s March of the Margaridas, and the Tsunami of Education in defense of the education system. The Indigenous Women’s March joined the mobilization in Brasília
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Maria Anecy Martins arrived in Brasília this week with glowing eyes to join the 2019 ‘Daisies’ (=Margaridas) March. The 45-year-old small farmer is one of the 100,000 peasant women who joined the 2-day event .

The sixth edition of the ‘Daisies’ March took place in Brasília on Aug. 13 and 14. The name of the event, originally Marcha das Margaridas, pays tribute to Margarida Maria Alves, a union leader in the northeastern state of Paraíba who fought for rural workers’ rights and was murdered by contract killers hired by big landowners in 1983.

A New Wave of Attacks on Brazil’s Amazonian Indigenous … Invasions of Indigenous territories by land grabbers have spiked since Bolsonaro took office and immediately rolled back federal protections.

A huge banner reads “Women from Maranhão for a Fairer Country” | Andressa Zumpano via Midia Ninja/Collaborative Media Coverage

Since 2000, organized female workers from rural areas, water communities, forests, and urban areas hold the Daisies’ March to continue Margarida Alves’ struggle, demanding workers’ rights and the end of land conflicts and all forms of violence and oppression. Continue reading “Indigenous and Country Women hold 100,000-Strong March in Brasília”