Desalojos parados/ Evictions stopped!

Y ya van 59! Hoy la PAH junto a la ciudadanía ha paralizado de nuevo 2 desalojos previstos, el de Santa Coloma y el de Terrassa, además de suspender con antelación el de Sant Adriá.
No nos van a parar! No van a poder silenciarnos! ¡No permitiremos más desalojos! ¡No dejaremos que el banco nos eche de casa! Miles de familias se encuentran en esta situación y exigimos soluciones justas para ellas:
La moratoria inmediata del desahucio. Que la familia pueda permanecer en régimen de alquiler asequible en la vivienda.
Condonación inmediata de la deuda.
Regulación de la dación en pago de forma retroactiva.
Convocamos a toda la ciudadanía, vecin@s, asociaciones, indignad@s y medios de comunicación a apoyar tod@s junt@s a las familias para impedir que los desahucien. Próximas convocatorias:
http://stopdesahucios.tomalaplaza.net/main

Somos quienes en 2011 decidieron participar en un rescate histórico que ya han iniciado las Plataformas de Afectados por la Hipoteca: Rescatar a nuestros vecinos y vecinas víctimas de la estafa inmobiliaria inducida por los mercados financieros y la corrupción de la clase política.

2011 es el año en que decidimos parar el expolio, el año en el que nos juntamos pacíficamente en los portales para interponer nuestros cuerpos ante el mercado, los bancos y sus representantes. Tomamos los portales, las escaleras y las calles para rescatar a las personas ante el abandono de las instituciones, todo un ejemplo de ciudadanía activa, participativa y solidaria que dará una lección de civismo a la clase política, a los mercados financieros y que impulsará la regeneración democratica de este país.

Cientos de miles de vecinos en nuestros barrios nos necesitan, podemos ser un ejemplo de la ciudad y del barrio que queremos, un barrio con gente que se protege y apoya, que comparte sus problemas y que se implica en la vida social que le rodea.

Esto es solo el principio, un aviso de la ciudadanía al poder: Ante el abandono de las responsabilidades democráticas con la ciudadanía por parte de la clase política hoy paramos desahucios, mañana ¡ya veremos!

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International Land Grab..Save the Commons

A massive international land grab is now underway as investors and national governments buy up millions of acres of farmlands in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It amounts to an unprecedented and novel set of enclosures of worldwide land, much of it customary land that rural communities use and manage collectively.

Hundreds of millions of rural poor people rely upon the land for their families’ food, water and material — but they don’t have formal property rights in the land. Those rights typically belong to the government, which is authorizing the sale of “unowned” lands or “wastelands” to investors, who will then use the land for market-based farming or biofuels production.

The implications for global hunger and poverty are enormous. Instead of commoners having local authority to grow and harvest their own food, they are being thrown off the land so that large multinational corporations and investors can feed their own countries or make a speculative killing on the world land market. A commons is converted into a market, with all the attendant pathologies.

The 2008 financial crisis and the recent round of rising food prices on world markets have spurred much of the interest in buying up arable lands in poor countries. Food-insecure countries figure they should take care of their own future even if it means depriving commoners in poor nations thousands of miles away. So Saudi Arabia is spending $1 billion for 700,000 hectares of land in Africa for rice cultivation. South Korea is buying up 700,000 hectares of African land as well. India is assembling investment pools to buy up farmlands.

These are some of the disturbing facts to be found in Liz Alden Wily’s remarkable report, “The Tragedy of Public Lands: The Fate of the Commons Under Global Commercial Pressure,” released by the International Land Coalition in January 2011.

A copy of Liz Alden Wily’s report can be downloaded here as a pdf file. Farm Land Grab is also closely monitoring this odious, little-known enclosure of the commons. Finally, see a report by GRAIN, a small international NGO concerned about farmers’ control over biodiversity and local knowledge: “Seized: The 2008 Land Grab for Food and Security.”

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Roundup Ready for your front lawn

In press release titled “ USDA Responds to Regulation Requests Regarding Kentucky Bluegrass,” agency officials announced their decision not to regulate a “Roundup Ready” strain of Kentucky bluegrass—that is, a strain genetically engineered to withstand glyphosate, Monsanto’s widely used herbicide, which we know as Roundup. The maker of the novel grass seed, Scotts Miracle Gro, is now free to sell it far and wide. So you’ll no doubt be seeing Roundup Ready bluegrass blanketing lawns and golf courses near you—and watching anal neighbors and groundskeepers literally dousing the grass in weed killer without fear of harming a single precious blade.

According to Doug Gurian-Sherman, senior scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Food and Environment Program, the documents released by the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) along with the announcement portend a major change in how the feds will deal with genetically modified crops.

Notably, given the already-lax regulatory regime governing GMOs (genetically modified organisms, click here for a primer), APHIS seems to be ramping down oversight to the point where it is essentially meaningless. The new regime corresponding with the bluegrass announcement would “drastically weaken USDA’s regulation.” This is perhaps the most serious change in US regs for [genetically modified] crops for many years….

…In its July 1 response, the USDA agreed: “[N]one of the organisms used in generating this genetically engineered (GE) glyophosphate tolerant Kentucky bluegrass…are considered to be plant pests,” so Roundup Ready bluegrass “does not meet the definition of a ‘regulated article’ and is not subject” to the Plant Protection Act. In other words, go forth and multiply.

The agency also retracted its only other hook for regulating GM crops—the noxious-weeds provision. The Center for Food Safety had petitioned the USDA to classify genetically modified bluegrass as a noxious weed. The case for this is strong: bluegrass has light pollen that can be carried for miles on the wind, meaning that genetically modified bluegrass can easily transfer its genes to established conventional bluegrass.

Read lots more + photos HERE http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2011/07/10/did-the-usda-deregulate-all-new-genetically-modified-crops/

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IT’S ALL OVER….GREED ALL ABOUT IT AS LAST EDITION OF SCHNEWS OF THE WORLD GOES TO PRINT…

Yes the world of alternative jounalism was rocked to it’s core this week as SchNEWS International’s mogul boss Rupert Makepeace announced the sudden closure of the paper. Britain’s most well-loved anarcho-newsheet has been serving up it’s unpopular brand of poorly researched facts, corporate and political sleaze, eco-terror propaganda and non-gender specific titillation for 168 months, and commentators are still in shock that it will be no more.

Making the announcement Rupert didn’t say, “It’s a minor shame that I have to do this, but the hacking scandal [where rogue employees were found to have been hacking together articles stealing bits of Indymedia articles] has engulfed and tainted the whole SOTW brand.

When big important activists start saying they’ll boycott the listings pages – and people are calling for the head of my flame-haired right-hand man, Jo Makepeace [under whose stewardship the whole scandal began] – well I’d rather just close the whole thing down… and open up a near identical SchUN on Sunday from next week, with fewer staff on worse contracts with reduced biscuit supplies.

Right, now can I get on with my takeover bid for Reel News?”