Swindled, evicted and denounced as ‘The New Nazi of Spain’

from Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com

On Saturday, Popular Party Secretary-General María Dolores de Cospedal, number two of the governing party in Spain, said that she knew she was going to get criticized, “but this is pure Nazism.” On Sunday, rather than resigning, she repeated it. For more precision, she added that going to a politician’s house to “harass” him “is a totalitarian attitude comparable to what occurred in the thirties in a European country.” A reference to Nazis marking the homes of Jews.

But these “Nazis” are folks who are standing up to the banks and draconian mortgage laws that the government is hell-bent on protecting. Continue reading “Swindled, evicted and denounced as ‘The New Nazi of Spain’”

Help tp Outlaw Ecocide: interview with Polly Higgins

Healthy Planet and the Law of Ecocide – an Interview with Polly Higgins

Alternatives to Political Systems, Biodiversity, Deforestation, Economics, Global Warming/Climate Change, People Systems, Society, Soil Erosion & Contamination, Water Contaminaton & Loss — by Marcin Gerwin April 18, 2013 Continue reading “Help tp Outlaw Ecocide: interview with Polly Higgins”

The Bear, Wolf and Lynx: coming back in Spain

It’s not all bad news in Spain, while environmental laws are being repealed (eg the Coastal Protection law), CO2 reduction measures scrapped, clean energy subsidies abolished and budgets for parks and reserves decimated, some more progressive measures are still filtering through the system. also one side effect of people abandoning ‘uneconomic’ farms is more habitat for wildlife. Now the almost extinct lynx, brown bears and above all wolves are making a comebeck.

‘Court confirms the ban on wolf hunting south of the Douro River. The lynx population triples in Andalusia in the last ten years

The Supreme Court has upheld a ban on the hunting of wolves south of the Douro River. The ruling rejects virtually all grounds of appeal filed by the Junta de Castilla y León against the judgment of the Supreme Court of Justice of the territory … Continue reading “The Bear, Wolf and Lynx: coming back in Spain”

Guantanamo guards try to break Hunger Strike

Many detainees, who have been refusing food since February, moved into solitary cells to be force-fed and monitored.

Guards clashed with prisoners as they sought to move hunger strikers out of communal cells [GALLO/GETTY]

Guards have swept through communal cellblocks at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and moved the inmates into one-man cells in an attempt to end a hunger strike that began in February.”Some detainees resisted with improvised weapons, and in response, four less-than-lethal rounds were fired. There were no serious injuries to guards or detainees,” Navy Captain Robert Durand said in a news release on Saturday.

He said the action was taken because detainees had covered windows and surveillance cameras to block the guards’ view into the cellblocks. Continue reading “Guantanamo guards try to break Hunger Strike”

#REVOLUCIÓ3D: Free University Rimaia Re-Occupied.

It´s OFFICIAL.. The site for the Revolució3D festival is

the newly re-squatted site of the evicted Free University Rimaia

Es oficial la nova seu de les jornades #revolució3D. Serà la #Rimaia Universitat Lliure!

#Revolució 3D is an explosion of alternatives, solidarity, mutual support, collective action and coordination in the center of Barcelona. For three days into 13 i April 15, a conference where we converge initiatives latent struggles in the city and outside it, creating spaces, lectures, debates and much more

Fecha: 13/04/2013 – 13:00 to 15/04/2013 – 23:45 Ciudad: Barcelona

#Revolució3D es una explosión de alternativas, solidaridad, apoyo mutuo, acción y coordinación de colectivas en el centro de Barcelona. Durante tres dias entre en 13 i el 15 de abril, haremos unas jornadas donde confluiran iniciativas, luchas latentes en la ciudad y fuera de la misma, espacios de creación, charlas, debates y mucho más...