Making Utopia: building the Commons in Iberia. part 2

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Image of a popular party.  Zaharraz Harro Vitoria.   https://lagenterula.wordpress.com/original en castellano abajo

Neighborhood movement in Vitoria / Gasteiz“We want to make the neighbors themselves decide and build the neighborhood”

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TTIP Corporate Power Grab BLOCKED …then allowed through as Senators SELL OUT !

LATE NEWS UPDATE

Only 2 days later in a new vote 14 Senators changed their mind after MASSIVE GRAFT AND POLITICAL PRESSURE.
Not only are they now in favour but have voted away their power to delay the ‘fast tracking’ of the Corporate Coup d’Etat by the 1%.
So much for printing good news.. the article below is CANCELLED
http://riseuptimes.org/2015/05/14/reversing-grassroots-win-us-senate-approves-fast-track-trade-measure/

Are the Wheels Starting to Fall Off TTIP?

‘The battle isn’t over,’ writes Dearden, ‘but yesterday’s vote should give campaigners everywhere real hope.’ (Image: Global Justice Now)

In a shock vote for President Obama yesterday, the Senate blocked a bill that would have allowed him to ‘fast track’ trade agreements like TTIP. Although only a procedural vote, the fact that Democrats in the Senate united to dismiss the motion makes it significantly less likely that Obama will succeed, with commentators saying Obama’s trade strategy is now ‘in tatters’.

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Police Drones.. Coming Soon to Your Barrio

0202125..’it’s only a matter of time until we have Police Drones filming us 24 hours a day”

Illinois Police Get Approval for Drone Use (just don’t call them drones ok?)

By on 05/12/2015 Americas, USA

If it looks like a drone and smells like a drone, it’s a drone. The Illinois State Police was recently granted permission by the  Federal Aviation Administration to use drones. But the police department clearly senses the PR nightmare over their use, because it’s trying very hard not to call a drone a drone.cop drones

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Feminist activist Grace Mann murdered; blogger blames her death on feminist jokes about misandry

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Last month, police say, University of Mary Washington student and feminist activist Grace Mann was murdered — bound and asphyxiated by a male housemate and fellow student.

An antifeminist blogger is blaming her death on feminist jokes about misandry. 

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Have you Ever Thought… you Might be an Anarchist?

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Anarchists organize everywhere: The Catalan anarchist federation

We share and translate news from the A las barricadas …

We introduce the public campaign of the Anarchist Federation of Catalonia, launched during these days to complement an earlier effort made under the slogan “Maybe you thought you were an anarchist?”. It is an outreach campaign of libertarian ideas and and the effort to connect with people who are not politicized but who may sympathize with our ideas and methods of struggle. This time it is a matter of presenting a series of struggles that libertarian people are pursuing in different areas…

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Contrainfos 102.. video mag presented on a bicycle.

Program presented on a bicycle.  (in Catalan/Spanish)
1- Sentenced for surrounding Parliament
2.  We want a night bus in Vallvidrera 
3- Studemts Evicted
4- Acquittal  of the lleida three. 
5 – Palestinians under Israeli occupationencausadesDemo for the 8 sentenced for surrounding Parliament

– Presentat sobre una bicicleta.1- Jutjats per rodejar el parlament2- Volem nit bus Vallvidrera3- Desallotgen estudiants4- Absolucio 3 joves lleida5- Palestina sota l´ocupació d´Israel

Massacre of Migrants: Fighting Apartheid State Borders

All the outrage means nothing unless you are prepared to fight against the borders themselves.

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  first part from rabble with thanks.       traducción de ‘Google en castellano abajo    Another week, another inexcusable tragedy at the borders. 40 more people flounder to their watery graves, just as a ship was approaching to rescue them.Another figure to add to the 2000-odd refugees who’ve lost their lives in the Mediterranean this year already. The corporate press and Twitterati-spectators deliver their depressingly inevitable, yet sensationally-packaged contribution to the endless ‘debates’ about immigration: “2015 On Pace To Break Record For Migrant Deaths”.

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