Black Lives Matter Occupy Toronto Police Station

TORONTO, ON- JULY 27 - Uranranebi Agbeyegbe screams into a microphone during a Black Lives Matter protest that marched from Gilbert Avenue to Allen Road on Eglinton Avenue. The protest shut down the southbound Allen Road for around 30 minutes, causing traffic to reverse and exit through Lawrence Avenue. July 27, 2015 Melissa Renwick/Toronto Star
– Uranranebi Agbeyegbe screams into a microphone during a Black Lives Matter protest

 

On March 21st, Black Lives Matter activists pitched tentsat the Toronto Police headquarters and started an occupation to protest
the police killings of Andrew Loku, Jermaine Carby, Alex Wettlaufer,
Melkioro Gahungu, and others. Cops reacted to the peaceful protest by attacking the crowd on two separate occasions, all in order to
extinguish their campfire, confiscate their tents, and pour chemicals
all over their firewood. Since then, the protest has only grown.

Follow Black Lives Matter – Toronto Coalition for facebook for updates,

and check out #BLMTO and #BLMTOtentcity on twitter.

Kurdish areas under Total Attack by Turkish army

Turkey is now the darling of the shameful hypocritical EU states who are showering the neo-fascist dictator with billions as he orders his troops to slaughter and burn alive the civilian Kurdish minority for declaring autonomous self government

Intense attacks, explosions in Nusaybin & Şırnak.  Army still fails to enter rebel barrios.

MARDİN (DİHA) - In Nusaybin district of Mardin where a curfew remains in effect in its eight day, aggression by state forces against civilians continues.
MARDİN (DİHA) – In Nusaybin district of Mardin where a curfew remains in effect in its eight day, aggression by state forces against civilians continues.JINHA

 

ŞIRNEX/MÊRDÎN – Siege and onslaught have continued in . As state forces have attacked the people’s homes in Şırnak, intense explosions have occurred in Nusaybin.

Martial law under the name of “curfew” has entered in the ninth day in the Nusaybin district of Mardin. State forces have continued to attack the neighborhoods with mortar fire and artillery. A fire broke out in a house in the Fırat neighborhood after a shell hit the house. State forces haven’t stopped the fire brigade crew from entering the neighborhood. Smoke rises from the neighborhood.

andrew-gardner-amnestyAmnesty International chief  Gardner said “there is evidence that babies, children, old men and women who were not militants have been killed and there have been no investigations. – See more at: http://www.bestanews.… Continue reading “Kurdish areas under Total Attack by Turkish army”

National: Xochicuautla obtains suspension of highway

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After a decade of struggle for conservation of the natural wealth of their territory, the community of San Francisco, Xochicuautla, Mexico State, obtained the definitive suspension of the construction of the Toluca-Naucalpan highway that threatened their forest. Following ten years of various strategies, political and legal, the suspension opposed the presidential decree of 2015 for the expropriation of 37 hectares of the ejido for the construction of the highway.

The infrastructure project was promoted by the then-governor of the State of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto. The company in charge of the construction of the highway, Autopistas de Vanguardia S.A., is part of the Grupo Higa, which sold the so-called “White House” to the wife of the current President of the Republic for seven million pesos, causing a…

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The Real Irish American Story Not Taught in Schools

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By Bill Bigelow

March 18, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “Zinn Education Project“-  “Wear green on St. Patrick’s Day or get pinched.” That pretty much sums up the Irish-American “curriculum” that I learned when I was in school. Yes, I recall a nod to the so-called Potato Famine, but it was mentioned only in passing.

Sadly, today’s high school textbooks continue to largely ignore the famine, despite the fact that it was responsible for unimaginable suffering and the deaths of more than a million Irish peasants, and that it triggered the greatest wave of Irish immigration in U.S. history. Nor do textbooks make any attempt to help students link famines past and present.

Yet there is no shortage of material that can bring these dramatic events to life in the classroom. In my own high school social studies classes, I begin with Sinead O’Connor’s haunting rendition…

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How Anonymous Just Fooled Donald Trump, the Secret Service, and the FBI

Anonymous  just pulled a fast one on Donald Trump, his campaign staff, the Secret Service, and the FBI — in one brilliant and telling fell swoop.

To support the White Rose Society and the White Rose Revolt, which began as a response to fascist leanings by Trump and his supporters, Anonymous launched #OpWhiteRose — and the billionaire presidential hopeful fell right into the ‘trap.’anonymous-but-thats-none-of-my-business

On Friday, Anonymous announced it had released Trump’s personal information online — including such details as his cell phone number and Social Security number. Backlash from the Trump front promptly followed, as well as an announcement from the Secret Service and FBI that an investigation had begun.

However, the information had not been hacked or leaked. In fact, everything Anonymous posted had been online — and available for anyone to see — for years.

It’s arguably not far from the truth.

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1st ever Testimony by 6 Women on Gender Crimes in Spanish fascist dictatorship 

One case taken up is that of Mercedes and Daria, 2 nurses and sisters who, like very many, were brutally raped and murdered by the Spanish fascists in never before investigated crimes
One case taken up is that of Mercedes and Daria, 2 nurses and sisters who, like very many, were brutally raped and murdered by the Spanish fascists in never before investigated  gender crimes

 Rape by prison officers and the Fascist Party of women involved in politics or only for being relatives of men thought to be opponents of the regime; torture of political prisoners with a gender component, insults and blows (in the genital and reproductive areas); massive baby theft; hair shaving, forced poisoning  […]

These are the main methods by which the western tolerated facist regime  specifically repressed women during the war and 40 year long dictatorship in Spain. A complaint on behalf of 6 victims has been filed with the court run by Argentine judge Maria Servini, head of the mega-court case launched in 2010 against the crimes of Francoism through the principle of universal justice.abusoThe platform Women’s Link Worldwide, is responsible for the complaint and has gathered the testimonies of the six women:…

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Immigrant Solidarity holds Rebel Street market in Barcelona

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On Saturday we made a political act of disobedience with the popular Guild of Barcelona Street Vendors
and the ‘Blamket Stall’ collective in their support and in response to the police and City Hall repression suffered by colleagues Continue reading “Immigrant Solidarity holds Rebel Street market in Barcelona”