Mexicans connect anti-capitalist resistances

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MEXICANS CONNECT ANTI-CAPITALIST RESISTANCES

Delegation from Ayotzinapa speak at the Festival of Resistances & Rebellions against capitalism in Amilcingo. Photo: Arturo Vazquez Ayotzinapa presentation at the Festival of Resistances & Rebellions against Capitalism in Amilcingo. Photo: Arturo Vazquez

A surge of grassroots organizing for fundamental change is underway in Mexico. The September 26-27, 2014 police attack on students from the Ayotzinapa rural teachers college, which took place in Iguala, Guerrero, and the subsequent disappearance of 43 of those students, exposed the complicity and corruption between government officials, political parties, police and organized crime; it shocked Mexico’s conscience and left a deep wound in the nation’s heart. A few examples of the growing momentum for radical change are described below.

After the police attack and enforced disappearance of 43 students, the State Coordinator of Education Workers of Guerrero (Ceteg), the state affiliate of the National Coordinator of Education Workers, a lefty labor union, wasted no time in calling a meeting in Ayotzinapa. Participants in the October 15 meeting, held…

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Aylesbury Occupations: 12 story block seized for homeless

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 Aylesbury estate: 12 storey building occupied after yesterday’s demo

  March 15, 2015 Rabble 

stop demolitionYesterday (14 March) there was a “March for the Aylesbury” demo, called by “Southwark Defend Council Housing”. At 12 noon on a cold grey day, 150 plus people gathered in Burgess Park on the corner of Old Kent Road and Albany Road. We took the road and marched off through the Aylesbury, past the new yuppy developments springing up around the area, then along the busy Walworth road where there were lots of people out doing their shopping, taking leaflets, shouting greetings and honking horns and some joining in the march.

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Free the Women’s Day Five! – Chinese Feminists and Workers unite

Free the Women’s Day Five! – Statements from Chinese workers & students

 Translation of a statement by the partner of “Da Tu” (Giant Rabbit), one of the feminists detained on March 7, focusing on mutual aid between feminists and workers, with solidarity photos workers have posted online. Followed by translation of a petition by students at Da Tu’s alma mater, Sun Yat-sen University (one of many petitions circulating in China, despite censorship).  domestic violence awareness demo

Feminists in Danger, Workers in Support

By Wei Lizhi

Translation of 《女权陷牢狱 工人来声援——工人声援3月7日被带走的女权行动者》from iLabour.org (March 10, 2015)

“When you’re in a battle against an enemy so much bigger, so much stronger than you, to find out you had a friend you never knew existed, that’s the best feeling in the world.”

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Contrainfos 98. (from the Hospitalet Anti-Fascist Demo).

Contrainfos 98.(Gravat l´11 de març a la manifestació Untiat contra el Feixisme d´Hospitalet)

1.- Esmorzar contra el desallotjament Llamborda..Breakfast meeting against eviction of LLamborda squat centre

2.- Prou Complicitats amb Israel…STOP agreements with Israel

3.- Convocatòria Vaga de Totes,,call for new  ALL WOMENS´ STRIKEwomens strike

4.- Mani nocturna feminista  Feminist Night time Demo

5.- Concentracions Leonard Peltier  Pickets

6. Comunicats Zapatistes Communiques

7. Occupy Banking

CNT communique: Women against Patriarchy and Capital

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 March 8: CNT Women against patriarchy and Capital
Mujeres-LibresNo more empty word and hypocritical speeches. Heading into a new March 8, the union CNT has warned about situations of exploitation, unemployment and discrimination that women continue to suffer, “the main victims of the crisis of a system in decay.” Against this, the anarcho-syndicalist union supports the struggle against patriarchy and capitalism: “A revolution that does not have us in their ranks is doomed,” she underlined.
  Below is the statement of CNT on a new March 8:
One more year, one more day, one more day, one more of the thousands of ephemeris flooding the calendar. Yet this is no ordinary day. It is the day when women stop putting up with being victims of gender violence to become the heroines of the day, always with the tagline of “much remains to be done.”seperate_and_equal_mujeres_libres_martha_ackelsburg

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Contrainfos 97. weekly video-mag. in Spanish/Catalan)

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Gravat i amb entrevista al col.lectiu nou bloc Oficina d´Habitatge de Gràcia.
1.-Mani Estudiantil 26 F
2.- Jose Antonio Becerra en Vaga de Fam
3.- Campanya Mdemierda
4.-Madrid desalojo y derribo de Ofelia Nieta
5.- Enderrocaments Vallcarca
6.- Vaguistes Isma i Dani
7.- Jornades de llenya a Sieso
8.- Policia de Los Angeles mata a un indigent
9.-Teaser documental ingobernables

més info: http://latele.cat/contrainfos

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Here’s what happened when Bogota decided to let graffiti artists do their thing? WONDERFUL ARTS. INDEED!

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