Cuban Anarchists get going: Crowdfunding a Center

Crowdfunding campaign to create a Libertarian Social Center in Cuba. TLAL

by Pablo Heraklio at ANA Agencia de Noticias Anarquistas,

TLAL statement: The borders are opening after many years, and changes in Cuba are bringing new possibilities and dangers for Cuban society. It is essential, therefore to reinforce the work of those from Cuba who defend a critical, anti-capitalist and antiauthoritarian struggle against the capitalist world system, expressed every day more clearly in national life. Continue reading “Cuban Anarchists get going: Crowdfunding a Center”

Stop new Fossil Fuel Extraction to Stop Climate Crimes

The following joint statement from the global climate justice movement was released by Attac and 350.org. by This Changes Everything

We are at a crossroads. We do not want to be compelled to survive in a world that has been made barely livable for us. From South Pacific Islands to the shores of Louisiana, from the Maldives to the Sahel, from Greenland to the Alps, the daily lives of millions of us are already being disrupted by the consequences of climate change. Through ocean acidification, the submersion of South Pacific Islands, forced migration in the Indian Subcontinent and Africa, frequent storms and hurricanes, the current ecocide affects all species and ecosystems, threatening the rights of future generations.

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Court Finds Monsanto Guilty of Chemical Poisoning

Demonstrators protest Monsanto Co. in Paris on May 23. The company says it will appeal a ruling by a French court that its herbicide Lasso poisoned a French farmer. (Mal Langsdon/Reuters)

An appeals court in Lyon, France has upheld a 2012 ruling against Monsanto, in which the agribusiness giant was found guilty of the chemical poisoning a farmer named Paul François. by Lorraine Chow at EcoWatch with thanks

The grain grower said that in 2004 he became ill due to Monsanto’s weedkiller, Lasso. François claimed he suffered from neurological problems, memory loss, headaches and stammering after inadvertently inhaling the herbicide. Continue reading “Court Finds Monsanto Guilty of Chemical Poisoning”

latest..March To Save Cizre: Turkish Police attack

An armed Kurdish militant stands near a barricade in the Turkish town of Cizre in Sirnak province, near the border with Syria. Photograph: STRINGER/TURKEY/ ... — An armed Kurdish militant in the Turkish town of Cizre in Sirnak province, near the border with Syria. Photograph: STRINGER/TURKEY/ …

Over 5,000 Turkish police and army have descended on the remote, embattled town of Cizre in recent days, cutting off roads and doing a door-to-door operation against the community’s defiant street youth. Cizre is the first, the State threatens to ”send 5000 troops to each of 20 Kurdish cities”. Over 40 Kurdish deputies are on the March to Save Cizre, which began as a convoy but was blocked by police. As a response to the Turkish crackdown dozens of Kurdish towns have declared autonomy, following the anti authoritarian and anarchist feminist program of the long imprisoned leader Abdullah Öcalan. Turkey is a NATO country controlled and supplied by the US, which agreed to ignore the anti-Kurd war in exchange for use of the Incirlik airbase.

Kurdistan News In Bakur, it seems like a number of areas have now declared self-governance and are treating AKP-state as illegitimate LIBCOM.ORG

Kurdish politicians attacked by police on their way to Cizre

ŞIRNAK – ANF /ANF 2015-09-10

Riot police forces have blocked the delegation of Kurdish politicians on their way from İdil to Cizre district of Şırnak Thursday morning. The prevention was grounded on an order from the Ministry of the Interior. Continue reading “latest..March To Save Cizre: Turkish Police attack”

Erdogan’s Anti-Kurd War Exploding Out Of Control

The bell tolls for Turkey and the PKK

As the armed conflict deepens in Turkey, political leaders are burning political bridges needed to end the violence.

08 Sep 2015 .. from Al Jazeera with thanks

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced the government’s intent to ‘wipe out’ the PKK fighters [Reuters]

Nearly two months after renewed fighting between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Turkish security forces dashed hopes for an historic ceasefire, a deadly cycle of violence gripped Turkey’s Kurdish southeast, recalling the darkest days of the three-decade-long conflict.

08/09/2015 HDP HQ in Ankara burned with 100's of other Kurdish targets across Turkey — 08/09/2015 HDP HQ in Ankara burned with 100’s of other Kurdish targets across Turkey

But two deadly attacks by the PKK have recently seen the government pledge to escalate the conflict further, raising alarm before scheduled national elections on November 1. Continue reading “Erdogan’s Anti-Kurd War Exploding Out Of Control”