spain: anarchist workers UNITE for General Strike

Towards the General Strike

The Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT), Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), Solidaridad Obrera (SO) and Coordinadora Sindical de Clase (CSC) trade unions met in Madrid to evaluate a response to the unprecedented attack on the workers suffering as a result of cuts and the loss of political rights imposed on them by the government and the European institutions at the behest of the bosses and the markets, and against which we must respond with a coordinated campaign based on class unity and action. ……..
The situation demands that we respond proportionally with a force that is equal to that of the measures imposed on the workers. We thus believe it is essential not only to continue with the labour struggles we are carrying on at the moment, but also to move ahead, break once and for all with the model of institutionalized trade-unionism and create a precendent in which it is the class-struggle trade unions who set the pace through offensive action to achieve our goals. ……

HACIA LA HUELGA GENERAL

Las organizaciones sindicales Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT), Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), Solidaridad Obrera (SO) y Coordinadora Sindical de Clase (CSC) nos reunimos en Madrid para valorar las respuestas que, ante el ataque sin precedentes que trabajadores y trabajadoras estamos sufriendo por la política de recortes y pérdida de derechos impulsada por el gobierno y las instituciones europeas, a instancias de la patronal y los mercados, debemos oponer en un proceso de lucha coordinada desde la unidad de acción y de clase. …….
La situación nos exige una respuesta proporcionalmente igual de contundente que las medidas que estamos sufriendo los trabajadores y trabajadoras y por ello consideramos necesario no sólo continuar con las luchas sindicales que llevamos a cabo, sino dar un paso que rompa definitivamente con este modelo de sindicalismo institucionalizado y generar un precedente en el cual seamos los sindicatos de clase quienes empecemos a marcar los tiempos desde la acción ofensiva para conseguir nuestros objetivos……

Smash EDL, don’t ban them.Today them, tomorrow us!

http://networkedblogs.com/l2Dh5 Liverpool ANTIFA

Ban the EDL march. The current chant right now of the Left. They are insane….Some people are getting into the old rhetoric “We are proud of Tower Hamlets, a vibrant multiracial area, which has along and proud history of resistance to racism & fascism. From Cable Street in the 1930s, to Brick Lane in the 1970s and to Millwall in the1990s, the people of Tower Hamlets have come together to see off racism and fascism before. We will now stand united against the racist and extremist EDL.” Reads a letter from Hope not Hate in which they repeatedly ask for a ban….

Banning their march’s only further legitimises their arguments. A tiny tiny tiny minority of orthodox Islamic followers do need to be criticised and protested. If their march’s are banned their narrative of victimisation, that all Muslims are a problem and that the Left are willing to allow this country to fall into this minority hands becomes more acceptable, despite lacking any proof. If their marches are banned it makes them seem right, their numbers will grow, this is unacceptable. They must be stopped. And they must be stopped by the only language they know. On the streets.

The only thing that is certain is that a ban on the EDL march in Tower Hamlets will be a nightmare.

Without the EDL on the 3rd Sept to protest, our community will be attacked by another invading army, the police as seen before on June 20th last year. The groups that turn out to oppose the absent EDL will have the shit kicked out of them by the police. Kids will be rounded up beaten, arrested and months later sent to jail………

If the EDL are not beaten on our streets they will never go away, if they are not smashed to atoms – physically and ideologically – then they will continue to grow and infect. If the EDL are banned and go underground without being definitively defeated on the streets we will never be able to operate without a fear of them. They will become the bogeyman to radical politics……..

We don’t need to campaign for them to ban political groups. Today the EDL, tomorrow us.

http://networkedblogs.com/l2Dh5 Liverpool ANTIFA

Unschooling is NOT ‘Hands Off’.

Posted in Unschooling Thoughts

It’s not enough to leave a child to fend for themselves when it comes to discovering new interests and the world around them. Unschooling parents should look for opportunities to expose their children to to a variety of people, new ideas, the community outside your immediate one and activities that don’t normally come up in your daily life.

If your family life is rich and full, there will be things to do, places to go, projects to tackle, interesting things to discuss. Don’t watch and wait for signs of an interest. Go out and bring them to your child…..to your family.

And when they find interests, support them! Get interested yourself, at least enough to understand what they’re doing so they can discuss it with you.

This is not about money either. Go to the library, free concerts, museums that have free admission, activities in your local parks….there’s tons of stuff if you look for it and are open to new things.

Unschooling is anything by passive and direction-less.

It’s about lighting a fire.

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DeSchooling for Social Revolution…Read ‘The Free’

This site is hosting 'The Free', a novel set in the coming collapse of Capitalism. In the story schools, along with most State institutions,  close down due to lack of funds, but community based free schools  take over. Based on self education groups and online OpenUni courses these youth culture gangs are recruited by the Free CoOps as the 'clan militias' which defend the anti capitalist revolution.  You can download the amazing 462 page book here for free, or read it online.

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permaculture:Eat Fresh Food all Year

Enjoy Fresh Food in Winter

Be more self-reliant by using natural cold storage.

Picture yourself on a frosty Christmas Day(okay in the Nth Hemisphere) serving your own tomatoes or carrots so sweet they’re like candy. And there you are in January, pulling crisp, fresh, raw heads of Chinese cabbage from a box in your cool cellar. Now it’s February, and in one hand, you’re hefting one of those big, rough-looking but fine-grained ‘Long Season’ beets for dinner and, in the other hand, several apples for the lunch box.

Fast-forward to March, and you’re returning to the warm kitchen with a fistful of carrots. Even in April? Of course. That’s you proudly adding your own garden-grown potatoes and garlic to the dinner menu.

In May, you might even find yourself, as we have, eating homegrown sweet potatoes. If you don’t grow a garden, you can buy carefully grown local vegetables in the fall, when they are at peak condition and prices are low, and store them for winter………..

Natural cold storage dovetails beautifully with the best use of your garden space. Many storage crops can be grown as succession crops after early peas, lettuce, radishes, spinach and snap beans.

This fall crop is the second half of the growing season, the half we miss out on if we don’t replant. When you have a cold place waiting for them, these fall-harvested vegetables can carry you well into a new-year bonus of productivity from the same patch of garden soil.

Nigeria: Shell admits 2 oil spills to deny 6800

Restoration of Nigeria’s environmentally devastated oil-producing Niger Delta region could take up to 30 years, cost $1 billion and become the largest cleanup operation in history, the United Nations said Thursday. A landmark report from the U.N. Environmental Program (UNEP) concluded that pollution from more than 50 years of oil operations in Nigeria’s Ogoniland region is more far-reaching than thought. The assessment, commissioned by the Nigerian government and funded by oil giant Shell, comes on the heels of the company admitting liability for two spills in Nigeria. Nigeria’s Niger Delta, the world’s third largest wetland, is diverse and rich with mangroves and fish-rich waterways. But oil drilling has turned it into one of the most oil-polluted places on Earth with more than 6,800 recorded oil spills, accounting for anywhere from 9 million to 13 million barrels of oil spilled, according to activist groups. But the environmental disaster has never received the kind of attention paid to last year’s oil catastrophe along the U.S. Gulf Coast. Amnesty International, which has researched the human rights impacts of pollution in the Delta, said people in the region have experienced oil spills on par with the Exxon Valdez disaster every year for the last half century. This has been going on for 50 years, with corruption, Neo Colonialism and the criminal Oil Corporations working together. The damage would take at least 50 years to remedy, but this will never happen-.

Shell's defeat is also important for the future in that it highlights the effectiveness of taking court cases in the main homeland of a Corporation.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/04/nigeria.oil.cleanup/

15M Madrid: Fracasan las Cargas..Police Attacks FAIL

Lxs manifestantes, tras ser disueltos por la fuerza y con gran dureza, han retornado hacia las inmediaciones de la Puerta del Sol, donde la policía ha reforzado aún más el dispositivo de seguridad que tenía montado para hacer inexpugnable la plaza

Brutales cargas policiales contra manifestación pacífica de Indignadxs en Madrid

@acampadasol informa acerca de la carga policial frente al Ministerio de Interior. Calcula en torno a una decena de heridos. “No hubo provocación por parte de los indignados”, según la web Toma la plaza. Se puede leer aquí: http://cort.as/166r

Al menos 20 heridos por acción de la policía

Al menos 20 personas resultaron heridas por la represión de la Policía a la marcha de los indignados en la noche de este jueves en las cercanías de la plaza Puerta del Sol de Madrid (España), confirmò la corresponsalía de teleSUR en España. El movimiento 15-M ha salido a las calles para intentar retomar estos espacios de los que fueron desalojados por la fuerza el pasado martes.

“Indignados dicen que hay al menos 20 heridos tras represión policial cerca a Ministerio del Interior de España”, reportó a través de su cuenta en Twitter @teleSUREspana la corresponsalía de teleSUR en el país europeo.

Según versiones que circulan por Twitter “la Policía sube a golpes por La Castellana”. No obstante, tras superar este obstáculo y con mayor determinación los miles de “manifestantes se reagrupan y se dirigen a (Puerta del) Sol”, informan estas fuentes.

Agitación, Madrid – Castilla La Mancha – Extremadura, Madrid· 04.08.2011

Detenciones en la Puerta del Sol

Con las dos detenciones producidas ayer, ya son cuatro las personas detenidas por la policía en las protestas desarrolladas en el entorno de la puerta del Sol de Madrid. Las protestas que se volvieron a desarrollar durante la pasada noche por los alrededores de la Puerta del Sol de Madrid, que permaneció bloqueada por la Policía, se han saldado con otros dos detenidos, según ha informado a Europa Press un portavoz de la Jefatura Superior de Policía de Madrid.

La policía ha realizado la pasada noche (4 de julio) varias cargas brutales contra una manifestación pacífica de varios cientos de personas indignadas que se encontraban ante la sede del Ministerio del Interior en el Paseo de la Castellana de Madrid.

Agitación, Madrid – Castilla La Mancha – Extremadura, Madrid· 04.08.2011

La policia cierra por segundo día consecutivo la Puerta del Sol. Las manifestaciones prosiguen

Con ayer, miércoles 3 de agosto, son ya dos los días consecutivos que las calles adyacentes a Sol y las estaciones de metro y cercanías han sido cerradas para impedir el acceso de personas a la plaza. Al mismo tiempo las policías nacional y municipal han vuelto a tomar Sol cerrando la misma al tránsito de personas. Se han instalado cordones de vallas en todos los accesos a la puerta del Sol y el comportamiento de la policía ha sido más áspero y maleducado. Se han producido demasiados momentos de tensión, amenazas y violencia verbal. Como en el día anterior el despliegue policial ordenado por el Ministerio del Interior y el Ayuntamiento de Madrid ha sido espectacular. Se han repetido los registros de las pertenencias que portaban las personas, las identificaciones y la toma de datos personales, que luego se convierte en una sanción económica administrativa.