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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)”
Beneath the worldwide outrage of the massacre of staff at Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical magazine, is an unspoken truth rarely spoken in the bourgeois circles of mass media and the centrist establishment: that all religions are by their very nature repressive and based on fear and ignorance. For decades tolerance of religions has been fatally conflated with respect for equality and ethnicity. It’s time now to say loud and clear that they have no connection and that in the evolution of humankind the most reactionary force we have all had to contend with over centuries is religion – all religions – Islam, Christianity, Judaism, etc – whether in the Middle East, in India, in Northern Ireland, or anywhere where barbarism has shown itself.
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