Roleplay Games using ‘#Feminism: A Nano-Game Anthology’

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by  Mirella Machancoses López        A couple of months ago, I received my copy of #Feminism: A Nano-Game Anthology. It took me only two days to read all the games, and I was very excited about testing a lot of them.So, first of all, I needed to figure out how to set up a time and place where we could play. I realised that some of the games are written to be played by only women but others required the presence of men for play to be the most interesting.

The second problem was choosing a space. We (as Producciones Gorgona) don’t have a meeting place so, we needed to find one. After thinking a lot about it, we highlighted the characteristics of the place we need:

  • Two or more rooms (so we can play at least two games at the same time).
  • Intimate
  • Places we could sleep

So, finally, to avoid paying a lot of money, I decided to offer my parents’ house in the countryside. We could sleep there, it was big enough, and it was intimate. In addition, we decided to go for a whole weekend of feminism games, where Saturday and Saturday night would be for women only, and the Sunday the men would be welcome.

And we did so last weekend (May 14-15, 2016). We loved all the games we had time to test. So, I will not focus this review on the anthology as a whole, but on our experiences of running the games we chose.

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Israel offered $40 billion ‘US gift’.. then Cuts Water to Palestinian families in Heatwave

..on the same day the USA offers Israel a free gift (from their unlucky taxpayers) of $40,000,000,000 we hear that Israel has cut off the water supply to 1000’s of besieged Palestinians..wsater war

$40 billion aid to Israel is ‘largest ever’ to any country, boasts Susan Rice

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 WASHINGTON, June 14 (UPI) — U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice said the proposed military aid package to Israel is larger than any the United States has ever offered to any country.


Top Criminal Banker freed after 2 months, thanks to Fascist Connections

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Disgraced banker freed thanks to Franco fans

Mario Conde, 67, was arrested in April amid allegations of money laundering a vast fortune embezzled when he was head of Banesto bank.1460641528_380900_1460718809_noticia_normal

He was remanded in jail pending an investigation but could be granted release for €300,000 bail to await trial from the comfort of his one of his several homes in Spain.

It emerged on Wednesday that the financial guarantee has been given by the Alonso Garcia brothers, Jaime Francisco and Jose Angel, who used four properties on the Canary Island of Fuerteventura as a guarantee.  You can be sure Mario has millions of black money stashed around the globe to pay back his fascist friends.imagen-sin-titulo

The brothers are high ranking members of the Francisco Franco Foundation, an organization dedicated to the memory of General Franco, the dictator who ran Spain with an iron fist for 40 years until his death in 1975.

Conde, who became a symbol of the “get-rich-quick” culture in Spain in the late 1980s and early 1990s, was chairman of Banesto when it was taken over in 1993 after an audit revealed a shortfall of €3.6 billion euros ($4.1 billion).

He was sentenced to 20 years in jail in 2002 for embezzlement and fraud but was released on parole in 2005 and declared himself insolvent to avoid paying the compensation ordered by the courts when he was sentenced for his offenses at Banesto.

He was arrested, along with his son, daughter, and her husband in April on suspicion of using front companies to channel some €13m stashed in accounts in the UK, Switzerland and Luxemburg, back to Spain.    from The Local with thanks

Since the fall of Mario Conde hundreds of politicians and businessmen have been charged with corruption in Spain, but all except one or two are still free.

videos. France Turns Up The Heat + Police Violence and Resistance + comments


1025586768In this SUBMEDIA  report, we catch up with some of the recent developments in France, where the Nuit Debout movement is going strong, workers everywhere are going on strike, and a growing, decentralized movement is turning into a laboratory for innovative street fighting tactics. And to top it all off… Euro2016 has just started!

France Turns Up the Heat from subMedia.tv on Vimeo.


GENERAL STRIKE: DEFYING FRANCE’S STATE OF EMERGENCY.

via Ross Domoney   on SUBMEDIA..   As the worlds media attention is focused on football violence in France: yesterday (14/06/16) Paris witnessed some of it’s worst political violence in decades as protesters defied the countries state of emergency and fought battles with heavily millitarized police units. Unions called for a general strike over the governments plans to change labour laws, making it easier for bosses to fire workers. The government refuses to back down as resistance grows across the country with unions calling for more strikes.

General Strike: defying France’s state of emergency. from Ross Domoney on Vimeo. Continue reading “videos. France Turns Up The Heat + Police Violence and Resistance + comments”

Inspiring Activists disrupt obscene Paris arms fair

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Activists in Paris kicked off a week of action against the Eurosatory arms fair by covering an armoured vehicle in paint.

WFYcuVbO_400x400People from Belgium, Germany and England have joined French activists to take action against one of the world’s biggest arms fairs that takes place every two years.

Actions will continue throughout the week. Follow #EurosatoryKills for updates. Continue reading “Inspiring Activists disrupt obscene Paris arms fair”

Spain – Update and words from the anarchist comrade threatened with extradition

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Some days ago, as we had already taken the extradition of the comrade arrested on 13th April for granted, we got news that extradition to Germany would be postponed for a month, a postponement decided by the Audiencia Nacional in response to our lawyer’s request as preparation of her marriage documents had begun before her arrest.1_ni_domesticades_ni_emmordasadesA5

As soon as the tribunal’s decision was made known, the comrade was transferred to the women’s prison of Brieva (Avila), from where we thought they were making arrangements for the flight to Germany.

From the prison we received her words, which we are going to publish immediately. At the moment the comrade is being held once again in the prison of Soto del Real (Madrid), in solitary confinement and with the possibility to go to the exercise yard with the other prisoners, at least until 30th June, the day when the delay for the wedding ceremony expires.

In the meantime we are making a callout for solidarity with the comrade in the streets, for support to all imprisoned fighters and for showing deep contempt at the system that keeps them kidnapped in order to defend its miserable order.

Words from the comrade arrested on 13th April:

La Plata. Argentina. La carcel 25 de la provincia de Buenos Aires, es la unica en el mundo esclusiva para presos evangelistas. Para que un preso pueda acceder a este pequeño paraiso dentro del sistema carcelario argentino, debe ser evangelista. Actualmente hay 253 presos entre sus muros.Comrades, I’m writing from the prison of Brieva, Avila, where I’ve been just taken after a month and a half of imprisonment in Soto del Real, Madrid, always in FIES and solitary confinement. I wanted to write earlier but communications and information are very slow and restricted, so I haven’t done so till now.

I truly appreciate all the gestures and demonstrations of solidarity and support.

I felt them so strongly that they passed through the walls, bars and systems of security and control. No matter how much they try they will never manage to break or stop our will and determination to rebel against the world of total misery in which they force us to live.

It is precisely the most difficult circumstances that give us more strength and determination to improve and sharpen the many possibilities of conflict we have, both inside and out. The struggles for liberation from all forms of oppression are numerous, as are the methodologies and the just and legitimate practices of struggle.anarcha feminist

From the mere refusal to recognize whatever authority to the attack and expropriation of a bank.

The most important thing with actions is that they can be understood by themselves: their objectives, ends and values.

When different struggles intertwine in a wider context, they complete and strengthen one another, putting an end to the distinction between political and personal; for all the personal decisions we make in our lives end up being political while political choices directly affect our private lives.

Clearly we must be alert at every step we take in order not to fall in the clutches of the state and its servants.

But we know well that the struggle has a price.

The state and the media respond every time with more repression and increasingly insistent media persecution against all those who set themselves against.1_anarchist_prison

For now I’m here but it’s likely that I’ll be soon extradited to germany. I feel strong in the face of the situation and anything that will come. Above all proud of our ideas, values and anarchist practices, of the life that we have chosen and continue to choose day by day.

Strength and solidarity with all the persecuted and imprisoned fighters!

The struggle continues, they will never stop us!

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 Translated from Italian by  Actforfreedomnow!

Athens, Greece: Banner action in solidarity with the 3 comrades arrested in Warsaw, Poland — Insurrection News

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On May 23rd 2016, three comrades were arrested in Poland, accused of attempted arson attack on a police car. They will be held for three months on remand, awaiting trial, and face up to 8 years imprisonment. The comrades denied involvement in the action; one of them was seriously beaten by cops. The Polish State […]

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