Tate Gallery liberated from Fossil Fools (+ video)

Seven reflections on Liberating Tate

As BP’s sponsorship of the Tate ends, Kevin Smith of Liberate Tate looks back at the successful campaign to get the oil firm’s dirty money out of the art gallery

After six years of Liberate Tate spilling oil, squirting paint tubes, flapping huge squares of cloth, counting carbon levels with our voices, learning how to give tattoos, installing giant wind turbine blades and melting Arctic ice, we learned last week that the Tate-BP relationship was over. Here’s some of what we learned from our efforts to push big oil out of the arts.

1) This was about Tate, but much more about BP

Our work on Tate is about trying to kick some of the supporting legs out from underneath BP’s chair – taking a relationship that nurtures and sustains BP and transforming it into one that was actively damaging for the company.

London, 19/03/2016.- Activistes del moviment Liberate Tate celebren que la companya British Petroleum retira el patrocini del museu Tate Modern. Durant anys, han estat fent accions creatives per denunciar el rentat verd d´aquesta contaminant petroliera. Continue reading

‘Live Wolf Protected Wolf’ yell 10,000 in Madrid ‘Lobo vivo, lobo protegido

sale en español + el video más abajo

There are over a million licensed hunters in Spain.. and most of them would love to shoot a wolf. But last week over 10,000 people marched in Madrid demanding more protection for wolves, the biggest ever demo in favour of one species and the environment..

Existing law gives minimal protection and compensation for losses of livestock.

In the last decades millions have abandoned rural life in Spain, forest and wildlife have recovered and the wolf has increased its territory somewhat, despite continual repression.

The wolf is a ‘top predator’ and a key factor in the ecological chain built up over millions of years. Studies in the US show that reintroducing wolves completely transformed the habitats. eg. they controlled the plague of deer which had destroyed tree shoots, leading to forest regeneration, leading to stabilising watersheds leading to beaver dams, leading to fish revival leading to….etc.. (see video)

How Wolves Change Rivers: For more from George Monbiot, visit http://www.monbiot.com/ and for more on “rewilding” visit http://bit.ly/1hKGemK and/or check out George Monbiot’s book Feral: rewilding the land, the sea and human life: http://amzn.to/1fjgirx Watch the full TED talk, here: http://bit.ly/N3m62h Continue reading “‘Live Wolf Protected Wolf’ yell 10,000 in Madrid ‘Lobo vivo, lobo protegido”

Horrific ITV Exposé of Terrorist Saudi State and West’s support

New Eye-Opening Documentary Completely Exposes Barbaric Saudi Regime…finally!

from The Anti-Media.org with thanks

A British television crew filmed an undercover docu in Saudi Arabia and penetrated the world’s most secretive and murderous regime. Working with a team of undercover Saudi cameramen, the one hour eye-opener, Exposure: Saudi Arabia Uncovered reveals the horrific side of the regime, which buys billions of pounds worth of British arms, accepts training from British security forces, sells oil back to the U.K., and enjoys nothing less than red carpet treatment from the British royal family. Continue reading “Horrific ITV Exposé of Terrorist Saudi State and West’s support”

Against Democracy? Tyranny of the most Voted

…..”Okay Democracy is a farce, but better than dictatorship?” you say.. but what if 51% vote for the extermination of the 49%, ? and so on..? The immense power of the modern nation state ensures that reactionary parties almost always get a majority as we are all rather dependant and brainwashed.

Starting new parties only means they can win with a smaller percentage. Then even if revolution could ever win it’s just in one State, while the real power stays with International Capitalists. And in the rare case that people’s power triumphs we see our delegated candidates sell out and change sides as if by a law of nature… And if we ever did vote for revolution? That’s when the army takes power….

Is there a better alternative ????…..

Direct Democracy?..Consensus Democracy?.. Anarchism?.. Autonomy? Topless Federations?..

The anarchist critique of democracy: by CrimethInc.

Posted on March 19, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

The anarchist collective CrimethInc. initiated this month a critical analysis and discussion of “democracy”, promising a series of reflections, the first of which we help to diffuse below. Preceding it is the introduction to the series … Continue reading “Against Democracy? Tyranny of the most Voted”