schools out!..General education strike in Spain

Huelga de toda la educación en protesta por los recortes

General Strike in education vs. the cuts. Massive demos, 100,000 in Madrid and Barcelona. Students arrested for gluing locks. Demos controlled by Unions and Teachers.

Los sindicatos cifran en un 80% el seguimiento; el Gobierno lo rebaja al 19,41
Masivas marchas en las principales ciudades españolas
Las camisetas verdes también llegan al Congreso
Dos detenidos en Madrid -ya puestos en libertad- y cinco en Barcelona
La jornada empezó con encierros nocturnos en las facultades

Varios miles de personas bajan por la Via Laietana de Barcelona en protesta por los recortes en Educación. EFE

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Save the Ngabe people..Stop the Dam!

Tear Gas and Guns Fired at Ngabe Indigenous People for Protesting the Barro Blanco Hydroelectric Project

by locaonga

On Friday, May 18th a group of Ngabes and solidarists hiked to the construction site of the Barro Blanco dam on the Tabasara River. They were met with tear gas, bombs and live fire. The indigenous group was unarmed and outnumbered, 300 to 50. One man was wounded from a nearby explosion.

“Yesterday was war. [Martinelli] is massacring our people. He killed one, he killed another and yesterday he nearly killed again. If we killed one of theirs we would be in trouble, but they kill one of ours and deny it,” Rogelio Rodriquez, a prominent Ngabe community member said.

A group Ngabe men blockading a construction bridge that
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Arctic melt :150,000 methane seeps in Alaska and Greenland

Arctic melt releasing ancient methane

By Richard Black

Using aerial and ground-based surveys, the team identified about 150,000 methane seeps in Alaska and Greenland in lakes along the margins of ice cover.

Many of the sites were bubbling methane that has been stored for millenniaScientists have identified thousands of sites in the Arctic where methane that has been stored for many millennia is bubbling into the atmosphere. Continue reading “Arctic melt :150,000 methane seeps in Alaska and Greenland”

Can you help distribute ‘The Free’..repost please!

Hi there.. I see on Farcebook we are now more than 2000 Friends of ‘The Free’ the new novel set in an Occupy style social revolution, during the COLLAPSE of capitalism due to Climate Chaos. If you haven’t seen it yet you can read online or free download, or even order a paper edition HERE: thefreeonline.wordpress.com

In reality only a tiny handful of those who’d like it have even heard of ‘The Free’..It has no commercial distribution for one thing, and most folks are put off by words like REVOLUTION..