watch contrainfos 92..Pandora 7, Palmira Party, Dead City, etc

Sorry there are no English subtitles. The Contrainfos weekly program is made on a zero budget by just a few people

Latele.cat of news broadcast live on 01.21.2015:

Anniversary Occupation of CSO Palmira A festive start to the program as we visit the first anniversary party of an Occupied Social Center in Valldoreix outside Barcelona.
Dead City…The Ciutat Morta scandal blows up. Continue reading “watch contrainfos 92..Pandora 7, Palmira Party, Dead City, etc”

Ciutat Morta- Dead City- watch here + Review (English subs)

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This is the award winning ‘DeadCity’ (Ciutat Morta) with English subtitles, finally seen on TV in Catalonia by over half a million this week (with 5 minutes censored).

Ciutat Morta (Dead City)

It tells the story of a police vendetta, torture, and frame-up of 5 obviously and totally innocent people in vengeance for an ‘accident’ when a plant pot fell or was thrown on a policeman’s head, leaving him paraplegic, during a mass raid on a squatters party in Barcelona. How police, politicians, press and Courts at every level combined to blame bystanders who looked like anarcho punks and hound to her death a lesbian poet who wasn’t even there.

Patricia Heras poeta

The documentary is an eye-opener on how rampant fascism, racism and sexism still rule in never reformed police and judicial systems, but more than that it’s a moving immersion into suffering and struggle, using the poems of Patricia Heras, written before she was finally driven to suicide.

After the docu was shown to a record audience on the 2nd channel people spontaneously took to the streets for a 1.00am demo through the city. Continue reading “Ciutat Morta- Dead City- watch here + Review (English subs)”

‘Robin Hood’ fugitive to Kick-start Post Capitalism?

Last week saw two major internet stories from ‘Robin Hood’ (aka, Enric Duran) and his plans to short circuit Capitalism.

‘Robin’ is a Catalan activist who took out bank loans of 500,000 euros and gave the cash to occupiers, anarchists and Coops. Then he helped found the fast growing CIC (Integral Coop), a group of leaderless assembly-run, coops with their own ‘anti-money’, the ECU, which aims to evade the inbuilt exploitative control of the world money system.

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Zapatista squat center Violently Evicted but Reoccupied

After huge solidarity Chanti Ollin has been reoccupied.. though at least 9 people are still arrested, needing bail money, and some injured, the damage is huge, things have been robbed, children terrorised, workshops ransacked, etc.

here’s the reoccupation video….

Spanish comic Facu Diaz accused after mocking PP corruption

Freedom of Speech? The Spanish regime has accused the comedian Facu Diaz for a video simulating the dissolution of the far right ruling Partido Popular, because all are in jail for corruption.

”The day after the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris, Spanish satirist Facu Díaz is ordered to court under glorification of terrorism laws to answer questions on the “mocking tone” of a sketch.
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