This afternoon and relying on the new Gag Law the Madrid police denounced a person carrying a bag with the phrase “All Cats Are Beautiful”. ACAB.
Already 40,000 people have been sentenced under the Gag Laws. Previous cases of wearing T shirts with the ACAB logo received 600 euro fines!
google translation I live next to the Calderón stadium and today will play the final of the Copa del Rey. The police here for the occasion must have very little to do, ‘ cause when i was going quietlyto my house, all of a sudden two officers of the law and order ran after me to ask me for the documentation and informed me that they are going to proceed to Sanction me for wearing this bag. I asked for explanations and told them that I doubt very much that I’m calling antone’s attention or committing any crime, but theyb tell me ‘explain that to the judge’. They gave me the notification, which of course I refused to sign, and I see the reason for punishment is something that my bag doesn’t put anywhere, and when I tell them that they say that’s a lie and tell me to prove it to the judge, .. giving me the explanation that they are punishing the acronym on my bag. I’m trying to talk calmly with them to talk some sense into them, but it is impossible and I’ve got to shut up if I don’t want to be punished more. I can also tell them that there are many more important things for them to be doing. Bloody sick of this country. Well, yes, all cats are beautiful. And anyone who says otherwise is lying.
The hunger strike in Madrid of 15 members of the Andalusian Union of Workers (SAT) for the release of trade unionist and former councillor of Jaen, , passed its sixth day Saturday.
It was accompanied by trade unionists from around the state to support the campaign of SAT and “raise the social amnesty and the cessation of social and trade union repression,” as they reflected to a press conference convened for 11 am in the Plaza de Lavapies, located in this central neighborhood of Madrid.
The call wasattended representatives of the field of alternative unionism like CGT, CNT, Solidaridad Obrera, the Catalan inter-union (IAC), Aragon and Valencia, or the Confederation of Traballadores (CUT) Galician.
The historic leader of the Andalusian Union of Workers (SAT) Diego Cañamero and 15 companions of the organization have camped in the Puerta del Sol to start a hunger strike in order to get a pardon of Andrés Bódalo, municipal councilor Jaen, and member of SAT, who was sentenced to prison.
“These are organizations we have been working with for a long time and with whom we have unity of action,” explained Nestor Diagonal Salvador, one of the 15 strikers……….”
La manifestación partió a las 19:00 de Atocha y recorrió la zona centro hasta Sol al grito de “Hogar social, hogar criminal”
Esta tarde estamos presentes en la manifestación convocada por la plataforma unitaria “Madrid para todas” ante el avance de los mensajes racistas y fascistas.
Recordamos que otra manifestación, de corte neo-nazi recorrerá también las calles de Madrid tras haber sido autorizada por la delegada del gobierno de Madrid. La misma delegada que intentó prohibir las esteladas en el partido de fútbol que también tendrá lugar hoy en Madrid por considerar que “incitaban a la violencia”.
Numerosos colectivos han apoyado esta iniciativa que ya ha estado durante estas semanas realizando distintas actividades en varios barrios de Madrid.
‘Oh what a gigantic stinking pile of human monstrosity.. Isn’t Obama a monstrous coward? ..Or simply a monster himself, but either way the US government and military are monstrous blots on humanity. Release them all, close the damned prison, return the base to Cuba, apologize to the world, and go crawl into a hole’.
The prisoner’s lawyer told the Miami Herald that “not only was he innocent of war crimes, Obaidullah did not speak Arabic before he got to Cuba, making him an unlikely al-Qaida fighter.” (Photo: Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty)
An Afghan man detained for 14 years in Guantánamo—without ever being convicted of a crime—was on Friday recommended by the Pentagon for release.
Obaidullah
The man, known as Obaidullah, was arrested and detained in 2002, when he was about 19, but the U.S. government failed to successfully prosecute him for any crimes, AP reported. Charges were eventually made against him in 2008, but were dismissed in 2011.
“This young man should have been released years ago,” Marine Maj. Derek Poteet, who has represented him since 2010, told the Miami Herald. “He was taken from his bed at his home peacefully without resistance. He was subjected to real abuse at Bagram.”
Obaidullah was allegedly arrested by U.S. special forces in 2002 because unarmed land mines were discovered buried near his house. The U.S. government did not formally bring charges against him until 2008.
“He was charged in the military tribunals in September 2008 with conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism, which appeals courts have said cannot be pursued as war crimes at Guantánamo for conduct that occurred before 2006,” explained AP. “The government dismissed the charges in 2011 and his lawyers have been pressing for his release ever since.”
Poteet told the Miami Herald that “not only was he innocent of war crimes, Obaidullah did not speak Arabic before he got to Cuba, making him an unlikely al-Qaida fighter.”
The newspaperdescribed the U.S. government’s stated rationale for Obaidullah’s years of detention:
A 2008 Guantánamo prison profile said he was brought there to provide information on al-Qaida recruiting, electronic devices, terrorism-related facilities and anti-tank land mines. An updated November 2015 intelligence profile, which was prepared for the parole board, said the Taliban trained him to handle explosives, and was part of an al-Qaida-linked improvised explosives device cell that targeted U.S. and allied troops
“In 2013,” the Miami Herald reports, “Poteet described the Afghan as having withered to a ‘bag of bones’ during the prison’s paralyzing hunger strike. Obaidullah also described for his lawyers the April 2013 raid by Guantánamo troops that forcibly moved hunger strikers into single-cell lockdown, something he considered collective punishment.”
The Pentagon parole board that made the determination (pdf) for Obaidullah’s release praised the detainee for his “positive constructive leadership in detention,” including “mediating concerns raised between other detainees and between other detainees and the guard staff” at Guantánamo.
The transcript of the parole board’s hearing was not made public, however, so it is unknown precisely what transpired to convince the board to recommend Obaidullah for release.
Guantánamo has lately seen an uptick in prisoners recommended for release, according to the Miami Herald:
The Pentagon released the decision Friday during a busy period for the Periodic Review Board. The Board has scheduled an unprecedented nine hearings this month, and released the Obaidullah decision exactly one month after he went before them.
With this approval, 28 of the 80 captives currently at Guantánamo prison are formally cleared to leave to security arrangements that satisfy Secretary of Defense Ash Carter. Ten others are in war crimes proceedings and the rest are awaiting hearings, their results or have had their indefinite detention upheld.
It remains to be seen when Obaidullah and other prisoners cleared for release will leave Guantánamo. As Common Dreams has previously reported, the Department of Defense has “routinely and deliberately undermined” President Obama’s efforts to move toward closing the notorious prison.
Monsanto, the folks who brought you Roundup and all those patented Roundup Ready genetically modified crops they peddle, was the target and marches and rallies in more than 400 cities across the global today by folks angry at the firm’s control of so much of the world’s food supplies.
Big Agra’s been in a state of flux of late, with major mergers in the offing, as BBC News reported Thursday, when Bayer announced it wanted to buy the company:
There has been speculation for some months that Monsanto, the world’s biggest seed company, could become a target for either Bayer or BASF.
Bayer, which has a market value of about $90bn, is the second-largest producer of crop chemicals after Syngenta.
Monsanto, which has a market capitalisation of $42bn, attempted to buy Swiss rival Syngenta last year.
tengo el placer de anunciarles que el bailongo de esta primavera casi esta!!! la fecha es el 28 de mayo y el lugar el cso kan paskual!
todo empezara a las 18.00 con una propuesta para todas las edades. una divertida caza del tesoro por la finca, con dificilísimas pruebas, premios, regalos y una rica txokolatada para todxs!!!
a las 19.00, habrá un teatro forum, “la manzana de la discordia” que seria destinado a adultos. pronto tendréis mas información sobre el lugar y la temática.
a las 21.30 se abre el telón en el escenario. cabaret con actuaciones variadas que iremos anunciando!
a las 23.00 conciertazo con disaster jacks (skatepunk, sabahell)
y luego sesiones de djs hasta que se pueda!!!
paralelamente, a partir de la 20.00 y hasta las 3.00 habrá pizzeria en el
Today in Greece an independent authority examining appeals claims ruled that Turkey was not a safe country to which refugees can be returned. The authority also ruled that a Syrian refugee, who had appealed against an earlier decision that he be returned to Turkey, should not be deported. This decision will provide the opportunity for hundreds of similar appeals by refugees in Greece. Furthermore, the ruling now means that the entire EU-Turkey deal is in jeopardy. The implications of this are enormous. Firstly, the ruling may mean that thousands of refugees from the war zones will not now be sent back. Secondly, if the EU-Turkey deal collapses, the arrangement for visa-free roaming for Turks could be cancelled, as also discussions to agree on a date for Turkey to join the EU.
The collapse of the deal will also be a severe blow to the authority of President Erdogan, who…
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This afternoon and relying on the new Gag Law the Madrid police denounced a person carrying a bag with the phrase “All Cats Are Beautiful”. ACAB.
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La manifestación partió a las 19:00 de Atocha y recorrió la zona centro hasta Sol al grito de “Hogar social, hogar criminal”
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