Take the Streets. French protesters urge Paris to ‘wake up’

French protesters urge Paris to ‘wake up’

Sun May 29, 2011 11:10PM

French police forces face protesters during a demonstration in front of the Bastille opera in Paris on May 29, 2011.

French protesters gathered in Paris and rallied against their government, as they modeled Spain’s M-15 movement, with banners calling for Paris to wake up!

About 1,000 protesters gathered on Sunday in Bastille square in Paris according to the French police and demonstrated against the country’s rising unemployment level and corruption, AFP reported.

The demonstration was modeled after the M-15 movement in Spain that has witnessed 2 weeks of violent clashes between security forces and protesters.

The protesters, unfolded giant banners that read; “Real democracy now” and “Paris, wake up”, on the steps of the Opera House in Bastille square.

The Bastille square is known as the place where the French Revolution began.

“There has to be a change in the economic structures to improve the sharing of world resources, because if we continue like this, in unfairness and misery, it could end up badly,” said protester Chantal Piganau.

Security forces monitored the protesters as they called for popular uprising against their government.

Another banner said “The people united will never be defeated.”

Demonstrations are also taking place in other locations in France, such as the southern city of Toulouse and the southwestern city of Bayonne, where people have set up camps and have used other banners saying “We all have reasons to be indignant … join us.”

France has witnessed demonstrations against the government, where many violent clashes between protesters and police forces have occurred, for over a year now.

WINSTANLEY LIVES – SQUATTERS BACK ON ST.GEORGES HILL

St. Georges Hill in Surrey was the site of the Digggers land ocupation – ‘a common treasury for all’ led by Gerard Winstanley. Well now squatters have taken over a house on the posh gated estate that sits on St.Georges Hill with its own golf course and private security. Tops. Whether the squatters know it or not they are following in the tradition and place of Winstanley. DIGGERS ALL – SQUATTERS ALL

Leon Rosselson – World Turned Upside Down

‘A private estate that is home to a host of celebrities – including former Chelsea star Claude Makelele and Big Brother contestant Shilpa Shetty – is being taken over by a gang of squatters.

And well-heeled residents of the gated St George’s Hill community in Weybridge, Surrey, are being asked to be ‘vigilant’ following the arrival of their new neighbours.

Six squatters moved into the abandoned £3million, six-bedroom Woodlawn Cottage on the exclusive estate last month, and claim they are not acting illegally.’

Ideal home: Woodlawn Cottage (circled) is one of many luxury homes on the private estate

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Africa: GMO seeds introduced despite public rejection

By David Njagi

NAIROBI, May 16, 2011 (IPS) – Farming with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is becoming more widespread in Kenya due the promotion of biotechnology through clever schemes, and the lack of a legal framework for these controversial products.

”Because Africans are strongly against GM foods the companies are using their economic muscle and criminal disregard for local opinion to gain a foothold and get the farmers ‘hooked’.‘

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Africa: policy on genetically modified organisms (GMO) and genetically engineered (GE) foods. The Cartagena protocol on biosafety, a supplement to the convention on biological diversity, has strong support in Africa, with a majority of the countries as signatories. In addition, several countries have, in the past, rejected aid (especially unmilled grains) in food imports with concerns for national biosafety. South Africa is so far the only country that is seeing wide-spread use of genetically modified crops.

In Kenya The Sygenta Foundation has triumphed with a novel scheme to insure farmers crops. The Syngenta Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation attached to the Syngenta Company that researches and produces GM seeds. The foundation is involved in the “Safe Biotechnology Management” (SABIMA) project aimed at promoting GM technology among small-scale farmers in Ghana, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Uganda and Malawi.

The Kenya Biodiversity Coalition (KBioC) regards the scheme as part of seed-manufacturing multinational companies’ renewed appetite to use Kenya as a testing ground for GMOs by offering seeds to farmers.
“We suspected that a lot of GM seed, particularly for maize, was being imported from South Africa either as contaminated maize or plain GMOs,” recalls Kamau of KBioC. “We went to the key maize-growing regions and did random sampling. We bought the seed and found it was laced with GM strains.”Controls on seed imports are often slack or lacking.”So even if Kenya has not commercialised GMOs, it is likely that farmers are planting GM seed without their knowledge,” says Kamau.

Despite rejection everywhere but South Africa, Dr. Margaret Karembu, of a pro GMO company, predicts that 10 African countries will have adopted the technology before 2015

Amazonia: Dinho, Claudio and Maria murdered!.Forest criminals to be amnestied!

SLAUGHTERING THE AMAZON.. With the new Forest Law and amnesty for Forest crimes the ranchers and loggers are taking their opportunity by terrorist murders. Their business is the destruction of the Amazon, now with more impunity, to satisfy the demands of criminal capitalist transnationals like Burger King and MacDonalds.

Adelino Ramos was killed for openly confronting the beef and timber mafia. Shot to death by cowardly bastards at his street stall while selling his forest produce.

He was a famous ex leader of the Movimiento Campesino Corumbiara and had survived a fascist massacre a decade ago. Un motociclista lo mató a tiros en Rondonia, norte del país.

Just 3 days before they got José Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Maria do Espírito Santo da Silva, shooting her first and cutting off her ears. Claudio and Maria were outspoken forest defenders and cultivated Amazon produce.

At the time of murder Adelino, or ‘Dinho’, was busy setting up a camp for people displaced by the wholesale massacre of the forest. He had been repeatedly threatened and recently denounced the escalating forest destruction in Acre, Amazonas y Rondonia states.

El debate sobre la explotación del Amazonas ha tomado gran vuelo en Brasil después de que en una semana se siguieran dos noticias contradictorias: la publicación de un alarmante aumento de los niveles de deforestación, y la aprobación en la noche del martes, por aplastante mayoría en el parlamento, de una reforma del Código Forestal brasileño que establece una amnistía general para todos aquellos que incurrieron en delitos contra la vegetación hasta 2008.

In just a few days we have the news of a seven fold increase in deforestation, the disgraceful passing of the new Forest Law (see other posts) by fascist landlords allied with greedy corrupt politicians, companies, and media, the go ahead and 1st contracts for the Belo Monte dam, and the signing of deals to let BP, of all companies, exploit the ultra deep oil bonanza near Rio.

International resistance has failed miserably despite the best efforts of Avaaz and Greenpeace. Resistance needs to be informed and intelligent, or it plays into the hands of nationalists who argue that ‘rich parasitic 1st Worlders have no right to lecture us after decimating their own forests, etc’.

Amazonía: Adelino Claudio y Maria matado!..amnestía para destructores!

Adelino, Claudio y Maria

”Con la amnestía para crimenes contra la selva los terroristas rancheros y maderistas ven su oportunidad de hacer dinero con la destrucción de la Amazonia para satisfacer la demanda de los criminales corporaciónes internacionales, como Burger King y MacDonalds.”

Adelino fue asesinado cuando estaba vendiendo verduras de su producción por enfrentar a la mafia maderera en la Amazonia de Brasil. Era dirigente del Movimiento Campesino Corumbiara y se llamaba Adelino Ramos. Un motociclista lo mató a tiros en Rondonia, norte del país.

Tres días antes fueron ejecutados José Claudio Ribeiro da Silva y su esposa, Maria do Espírito Santo da Silva, en el municipio de Nova Ipixuna. También eran dirigentes comunitarios y peleaban contra la tala ilegal en el estado de Pará. La presidenta Dilma Rousseff mandó a investigar el hecho.

líder campesino superviviente de una masacre es asesinado en el Amazonas

Adelino Ramos había denunciado recientemente a explotadores ilegales de madera

EFE – Sao Paulo – 28/05/2011 .El líder campesino Adelino Ramos, conocido como Dinho, uno de los supervivientes en 1995 de la masacre de Corumbiará, fue asesinado ayer en el estado de Roraima y se convirtió en la tercera víctima por conflictos de tierras esta semana en la Amazonía brasileña.
Dinho, que sobrevivió a la matanza en la que 12 campesinos, entre ellos varios niños, murieron a manos de presuntos paramilitares, fue asesinado cuando vendía verduras de sus cultivos en el barrio de Vista Alegre do Abuna, en Porto Velho, capital del Estado de Rondonia, según la organización católica Pastoral de la Tierra. La organización detalló en un comunicado que Dinho fue asesinado a balazos por pistoleros que viajaban en una motocicleta.
El líder campesino, presidente del Movimiento Campesino de Corumbiará, había denunciado ecientemente a explotadores ilegales de madera en los estados de Acre, Amazonas y Rondonia y pedía la instalación de un campamento para campesinos desplazados. “Dinho venía siendo amenazado hace años y en julio del año pasado denunció otra vez amenazas contra su vida”, apuntó la Pastoral.

El martes, en el también amazónico estado de Pará, fue asesinado a balazos el matrimonio compuesto por José Claudio Ribeiro da Silva y María do Espírito Santo, reconocidos ambientalistas de la región y exlíderes del Movimiento de los Trabajadores Rurales Sin Tierra.