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Save/Salvar Tipnis. Highway to Ethnocide and Ecocide

Various big demonstrations have taken place in support and unfortunately against the Indigenous marchers against the new highway, now under construction and backed by Evo Morales and his Govt. The new road will destroy the lives and culture of various indigenous nations,, as well as opening the Isiboro National Park and environs to rapid destruction, trashing a world renowned center of diversity, ‘the most beautiful jungle in the world’. The battle is not yet lost, however, and all support is welcome.

Marcha Masiva en Cochabamba

Con una primera marcha que recorrió las principales calles de la ciudad, la denominada Coordinadora de Defensa del Territorio Indígena del Parque Isiboro Sécure (Tipnis) expresó su apoyo público a los pueblos indígenas de las tierras bajas que marchan rumbo a La Paz desde el pasado 15 de agosto.

Disfrazados de animales salvajes y portando pancartas con consignas contrarias a la construcción de la carretera y de apoyo a la marcha indígena, la Coordinadora de grupos de voluntarios estudiantes de secundaria y universitarios, maestros urbanos, organizaciones vecinales, gente de a pie y agrupaciones de defensa del medioambiente, se concentró en la plaza principal para demandar respeto al parque, según comentó Juan Carlos Antezana, fundador de la Comunidad Inti Wara Yasi.

DEL OTRO LADO

Del otro lado, el denominado Comité Impulsor Interinstitucional, confirmó para este sábado, a las 10:00, a la altura del viaducto, kilómetro 3,5 de la avenida Blanco Galindo, una “concentración multitudinaria” de organizaciones e instituciones representativas de Cochabamba, en respaldo a la construcción del tramo II de la carretera Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos.

Dale Farm: Stop the eviction.. Sept 10th.

The most depressing thing this week has been the level of bile spewed about people at Dale Farm, now set for an eviction on September 10th. Unlike most, I’ve actually been there.

A few years back I travelled down to Basildon in Essex. I got in a taxi and asked to be taken to Dale Farm on Cray’s Hill. The court case was raging at the time, tensions were high in the local community and when we got to the end of the track up to the site, I was told “this is as far as I go.”

I don’t know what I was expecting as I walked up to the spit of land which has for many years been the focal point for some of the national presses’ worst bigotry and hatred. I’d only seen photos taken from afar, blurry shots by snappers eager to show the squalid conditions Those People were living in.

And in fairness, when I got there a lot of rubbish was lying around, in piles of black bin bags or drifting around the fences and hedgerows. Basildon Council doesn’t do rubbish clearing on illegal sites. But the actual plots? They ranged from the spotless to the scruffy – pretty much as you’d expect on any estate in Britain. There were a fair few dogs around as well, usually off the leash, but they were friendly and looked well-fed. And of course there were a lot of caravans.

But what might be surprising to the critics is the number of actual houses. Fully plumbed-in, connected homes built on land they paid for and set up in exactly the manner which has been touted as the “solution” to the Traveller “problem” since way back when.

from Rob Ray at LibCom READ MORE HERE

http://libcom.org/blog/travellers-tale-dale-farm-02092011

‘Ethnic Cleansing in England’ CLICK HERE https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/dale-farm-ethnic-cleansing-in-england/

Obama allows poison air massacre for Big Oil

note. posts on NH3 the CO2-Free fuel now have their own blog HERE.. http://co2freefuelexistsnow.wordpress.com/

If the 1-in-6 African-American kids with asthma could just hold their breath until 2013, they should be fine.

In his latest attack on the environment, President Barack Obama today announced that he is directing the EPA to withdraw standardsthat would have cut smog pollution from automobiles, power plants, and refineries. Obama might want to consider that wheezing kids, no jobs, and caving to Big Oil do not a reelection make.

The standards Obama blocked could have saved up to 120,000 lives by 2020, and slashed tens of thousands of children’s asthma attacks and other respiratory problems. The environmental justice organization Green for All summed it up when it tweeted (referring to Obama’s delaying action on ozone until at least 2013, when he may be out of office):

More broadly, by blocking the smog standards, Obama is jettisoning one of the few remaining major job creation programs he can create without Congress. Notwithstanding oil industry propaganda, the EPA’s analysis shows that the smog rules would have created a whopping $17 billion in economic benefits — everything from health care savings from avoided asthma attacks to job creation in American-made pollution controls. Continue reading “Obama allows poison air massacre for Big Oil”

Comença Universitat Indignada 1 – 10 Set

Comença la Universitat Indignada 15M! Fruit de la feinada i la il·lusió d’onze Assemblees de Barri i de veïnes i veïns de tota Barcelona neix la Universitat Indignada d’Estiu. El proper dimecres 31 a les 18h s’inaugurarà a la Plaça Catalunya amb una presentació del projecte de la Universitat. Seguirà a la presentació, a les 18h15, la xerrada “El més violent és el rescat de Grècia” amb la participació Vicenç Navarro, Miren Etxezarreta, Ada Colau. I tancarà l’acte, a les 20h15, u

Free street university in Barcelona

92c3523de61d06eebdc515f2babb64b9_S — free street university Barcelo

http://universitatindignada15m.wordpress.com/

Politicos prohíben acampadas y asambleas

4163_Prohibiciones — mad politicians ban everything

La nueva Ordenanza de Convivencia Ciudadana obliga a pedir autorización previa para dibujar en el suelo, cantar, bailar, tocar instrumentos, sacudir el mantel desde el balcón o regar los tiestos. No solo el PP pero también el PSOE votaron en favor. Hasta sacudir el mantel o la alfombra desde el balcón o regar los tiestos si el alcalde lo considera “molesto para los vecinos”. Asimismo, no se puede tomar vino en un parque, pelearse, gritar, “ni darse un masaje, jugar a las cartas o tumbarse en un banco

El municipio madrileño de Guadalix de la Sierra, de 2.500 habitantes y gobernado por el PP, se ha convertido en el primero del que se tenga noticia en España en cambiar sus ordenanzas para impedir la celebración de asambleas populares y acampadas de protesta en la calle tras la irrupción del Movimiento 15-M. No solo ambas actividades están desde hoy prohibidas en este pueblo de la sierra, famoso por acoger el rodaje de Bienvenido, Mister Marshall y la casa de Gran Hermano, sino que se invita a los vecinos a denunciar a quienes lo hagan. El texto contempla un amplio régimen de sanciones desde los 750 euros para infracciones leves, 1.500 para las graves y hasta 3.000 para las muy graves.

-“se prohíbe la práctica de juegos en el espacio público que por su naturaleza puedan causar molestias”, reza el texto, que en concreto pone fin a “acrobacias y juegos de habilidad con motos, bicicletas, patines o monopatines fuera de las áreas destinadas a tal efecto”-, dibujar en el suelo -“por tanto, se prohíbe la rayuela”-, hacer graffitis, colocar carteles o pegatinas, lanzar octavillas, cantar, bailar, tocar instrumentos… “.

Leer MuuCho MÁs…http://www.grupotortuga.com/Guadalix-de-la-Sierra-prohibe-las

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Help Zad Airport Camp resist Vinci

ZAD: BREAKING DA VINCI CODE

zad_17_aout_2011_non_a_l_aeroport_de_nddl — Plane Stupid,,French Action Camp

The occupiers of the ZAD were facing court last week as the authorities began the eviction process against the anti-airport community. The ZAD -Zone d’Aménagement Differé (dubbed the Zone A Defendre by the activists) is an area of 6 square miles in the French countryside near Nantes due to be flattened in order to make way for a new international airport, high-speed train and motorway (see SchNEWS 750).

Activists held a demonstration of 300 people outside the court last Monday 17th August. The court cases were postponed until September 6th and 15th which allows more time to plan and prepare for eviction attempts……..

This environmentally catastrophic project is inevitably sold to us with the full green wash package, claiming to be ‘the first airport to have a positive energy balance …with the aim of preserving the natural state of the site and protected natural spaces’. The specifics of how they actually plan to do this seemingly impossible task are, unsurprisingly, no-where to be seen.

The corporate face of this is Vinci, an international transport infrastructure company, amongst other things, that also claim to have built France’s first ‘eco-motorway’. They own many of France’s motorways so they are the people who profit every time anyone drives on one of their paege (toll) roads.

Anti-airport activists have taken advantage of this, however, by creating a popular and effective action. They hold the barrier of a pay point open allowing people to travel for free. All drivers get a flyer about what Vinci are up to and many donate money thus raising funds for the campaign whilst at the same time denting the pocket of Vinci.

Activists from the ZAD have made a call out for people to come and get involved and help create ideas for actions and strategies against the forthcoming eviction. Their eviction wish list includes scaffolding, steel cables, barbed wire, nets, fencing, metal cutters / pliers, rope, banner material, fire extinguishers, saws, hammers, nails, gas masks, goggles, helmets, pallets, welding materials, megaphones, paint, blankets, bicycles, monsters…

How to get there: The ZAD is north of Nantes, near the towns of Notre-Dame des Landes and Vigneux Grandchamp des Fontaines. It is made up of many different squats but the best place to head first is les Planchettes, the welcome centre (someone will be there to welcome everyday between 12-2pm) which is on the D28. It’s a big farmhouse with big banners hanging above it.

If you can’t make it to France, Vinci also have their fingers in many pies in the UK including motorway and airport construction as well as offices across Britain which can be visited.

* For more info visit zad.nadir.org or keep an eye on Nantes Indymedia. Email zad@riseup.net