On June 5, 6, and 7, the National University of Luján (main campus) will open its doors to welcome attendees to the 1st Congress on People’s Agroecology, promoted by the Meeting of ‘Peoples Fumigated’ by Agroecology and Good Living of the Province of Buenos Aires (EPFBA).
Hundreds of people will gather there to exchange knowledge, experiences, sensations, and proposals related to environmentally friendly production practices and to strengthen the never-before-considered socio-community networks that agroecology intertwines.
This collective initiative, conceived by producers, consumers, researchers, teachers, professionals, members of Indigenous Peoples, social organizations, and others who directly or indirectly suffer the consequences of agribusiness, aims to highlight and debate a multitude of issues that affect those who undertake the task of contributing, through practice and theory, to a true transformation of the current production matrix based on extractivism.
Eight thematic axes will frame the presentations of the participants, who, through posters, workshops, book presentations, and artistic interventions, will address problems and develop solutions related to:
TRANSITION TOWARDS AGROECOLOGY OR COEXISTENCE WITH AGRIBUSINESS?
Quality of agroecological foods: flavors, aromas, textures. Crop varieties. Abundance. Solidarity and sharing. Practices and ways of consuming agroecological foods.
Transformations of individual and collective lives through agroecology. Let’s talk about agribusiness and extractivism.
HANDS IN THE EARTH. EXPERIENCES AND POSSIBILITIES
What does agroecological production entail?
How to design such production? Healing degraded soil and the use of substrates and amendments: mulches, husks, pruning chipping, bokashi, compost and vermicompost, slurry, and broth.
Sustainable use of water: collection, storage, and distribution. Is extensive agroecological production possible within this framework?
Agroecological animal, mixed, and silvopastoral production. Confronting agroecology vs. production with agrotoxins based on:
sustainability; Gender and age issues; autonomy or dependence (inputs, financing, markets, seasonality, prices, etc.); position regarding climate change;
profitability and costs (is agroecological production “expensive”? Is it low-yielding?).
Contributions of each system to agrobiodiversity as a union between the biological and the cultural.
Resilience to change and/or disturbance. Regeneration. Use, creation, and appropriation of technologies.
Participation of indigenous peoples and migrants. Systems that include or expel (rootedness/return to the countryside or search for it in the city).
“Our rulers are Unmasked- none will sanction Israel. Our Democracies are window-dressing for two-faced power and greed. Dictators and billionaires are worse, but racist single religion States are worst of all”.-World Revolution!
I will never forget the ongoing Gaza holocaust. I will never let anyone else forget about the Gaza holocaust.
I will never forget the Gaza holocaust. I will never let anyone else forget about the Gaza holocaust.
No matter what happens or how this thing turns out, I will never let anyone my voice touches forget that our rulers did the most evil things imaginable right in front of us and lied to us about it the entire time.
I will never stop doing everything I can with my own small platform to help ensure that the perpetrators of this mass atrocity are brought to justice.
I will never stop doing everything I can to help bring down the western empire and to help free Palestine from the Zionist entity.
I will never forget those shaking children. Those tiny shredded bodies. Those starved, skeletal forms. The explosions followed by screams. The atrocities followed by western media silence.
I will never forget, and I will never forgive. I will never forgive our leaders. I will never forgive the western press. I will never forgive Israel. I will never forgive the mainstream US political parties. I will always want for them exactly what they wanted for the Palestinians.
No matter what happens or what they do in the future, they will always be the people who did this to Gaza. They will always be the people who inflicted this nightmare upon our species. That will always be the most significant thing about them. It will always be the single most defining characteristic about who they are as human beings.
And the same is true of all the ordinary members of the public who continued to stand with Israel long after evidence of its criminality became undeniable. They are genocide supporters, first and foremost.
If you stood on the side of Israel during the Gaza holocaust, then that is the most important thing about you, and it always will be. It doesn’t matter if you go to church on Sunday. It doesn’t matter if you are nice to your children and your pets. It doesn’t matter if you give money to charity, support local farmers, or drive an electric vehicle. The thing that matters most about you as a person is that you supported history’s first live-streamed genocide, and it always will be the thing that matters most about you.
I will keep bringing this up. Year after year. Decade after decade. I will keep rubbing everyone’s face in it. I will never tire of doing so. I will always do my part to remind the world who these people are, and what they did to Gaza.
BREAKING: Three women attacked a US war supply plane at Shannon Airport, spraying it with red paint and carrying an Irish flag that read “US MILITARY OUT OF NEUTRAL IRELAND” and closing down the airport
The plane pictured following the protest.Looks like women entered putting sleeping bag over barbed wire
The attacked plane is an Omni Air N351AX contracted to the US military. These planes are key purveyors of genocide in Palestine and must not be allowed to continue!
The three women, affiliated with Palestine Action Éire, claim the plane that landed at Shannon Airport is transporting troops and munitions to active warzones in the Middle East, including Israel and Yemen. They argue that this violates Ireland’s constitutional commitment to neutrality and breaches international law.
Trump inspects an F-35 arsenal at Luke airbase. The US owns all spare parts globally. (Photo: Alexander Cook / Alamy)
Palestine Action Éire claim Action-
This action, “Operation Siren,” raises awareness of violations of neutrality and disrupts the war machine during Nakba Week, which commemorates the violent displacement of the Palestinian people from their homelands in 1948 by the settler colony. The three women are calling for support in the fight against Irish complicity in the genocide. Support them at Shannon Airport and share this on your social media.
Once the security breach was detected, operations at the Co Clare airport were brought to a standstill.
The three heroic women were reportedly unhurt. They were charged with criminal damage to the illegal flight, but not with injuring the hospitalized policewoman, suggesting that she hurt herself while violently arresting the women.
Anti genocide sources called for an extension of such attacks to all airports and bases importing and handling the millions of tons of western donated armaments destined for Israeli massacres in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Yemen.
«MILITARES ESTADOUNIDENSES FUERA DE IRLANDA NEUTRAL».
ÚLTIMA HORA: Tres mujeres atacaron un avión de guerra estadounidense en el aeropuerto de Shannon, rociando con pintura roja, portando una bandera irlandesa que decía «MILITARES ESTADOUNIDENSES FUERA DE IRLANDA NEUTRAL». El avión atacado es un Omni Air N351AX contratado por el ejército estadounidense. ¡Estos aviones son proveedores clave del genocidio en Palestina y no se debe permitir que continúen!
Esta acción, «Operación Sirena», alerta sobre las violaciones de la neutralidad y desbarata la maquinaria bélica durante la Semana de la Nakba, que conmemora el violento desplazamiento del pueblo palestino de sus tierras natales en 1948 por parte de la colonia de colonos.
La organizacionPalestine Action Éire afirma que esto viola directamente el compromiso constitucional de Irlanda con la neutralidad y el derecho internacional. El grupo afirmó que las tres mujeres que participaron en la protesta de hoy alegan que el Boeing 767-300 CRAF de Omni Air, que aterrizó hoy en el aeropuerto de Shannon, está suministrando tropas y municiones a zonas de guerra activas en Oriente Medio, incluyendo Israel y Yemen.
Las tres mujeres piden apoyo en la lucha contra la complicidad irlandesa en el genocidio. ¡Apóyalas en el aeropuerto de Shannon y comparte esto en tus redes
“…the Omni Air Boeing 767-300 that landed at Shannon Airport today is supplying troops and munitions to active war-zones in the Middle East, including Israel and Yemen…”
THREE MORE WOMEN have been arrested following a new protest at Shannon Airport this afternoon……
En todo el EEUU, está acelerándose el regreso de la institucionalización psiquiátrica, reempaquetada y presentada como “atención moderna en salud mental”Ya han eliminado 20,000 puestos de trabajo cerrando agencias de salud mental con la excusa de bajar costes, mientras el presupuesto militar llega a 1000,000,000,000 dolares.
Desde el impulso de la gobernadora Kathy Hochul para ampliar la hospitalización involuntaria en Nueva York, hasta la propuesta de Robert F. Kennedy Jr. de crear “granjas de bienestar” bajo su iniciativa Make America Healthy Again (MAHA), los responsables políticos están reviviendo la lógica del encierro bajo el pretexto de cuidados.Además el gobierno de Trump va a cortar radicalmente los impuestos para los ricos y dejar miliones de pobres sin Medicaid y suplementos de comida, entre otros nedidas represivas.
lEstas propuestas pueden diferir en su forma, pero comparten una misma función: ampliar el poder del Estado para vigilar, detener y “tratar” a personas marginadas consideradas disruptivas o desviadas.
Lejos de ofrecer apoyo real, reflejan una fuerte inversión en el control carcelario, especialmente sobre personas con discapacidad, sin hogar, racializadas y LGBTQIA+.
Comunidades que a menudo han visto cómo se presenta la institucionalización como “tratamiento”, ocultando tanto su historia violenta como su legado persistente.
Más del 40 % de las personas privadas de libertad en Italia sufren de al menos un trastorno mental. La cifra ronda el 30 % en España, el 35 % en Inglaterra y el 60 % en los Países Bajos. ….Las puertas de la prisión se han abierto para dejar entrar a las personas que sufren de enfermedades mentales. Sin embargo, la escasez de recursos y la calidad de la atención psiquiátrica, cuando la hay, no permiten responder a sus necesidades.
A falta de soluciones adaptadas, se recurre con frecuencia al aislamiento, la sujeción mecánica, y la administración de altas dosis de tratamientos farmacológicos…..La opinión pública desconfía o incluso es hostil con los enfermos mentales, quienes, al cometer un delito, dejan de verse como pacientes que requieren cuidados para convertirse en individuos “que amenazan o comprometen la seguridad o la existencia de alguien o de algo”. ….
Al hacerlo, estas políticas erradican alternativas comunitarias, socavan la autonomía y refuerzan los mismos sistemas de encierro que dicen superar.
Tomemos como ejemplo la propuesta de Hochul, que busca reducir el umbral para la hospitalización psiquiátrica involuntaria en Nueva York. Según su plan, las personas podrían ser detenidas no porque representen un peligro inminente, sino porque se considere que no pueden satisfacer sus necesidades básicas debido a una supuesta “enfermedad mental”.
Este criterio vago y subjetivo abre la puerta a un control estatal generalizado sobre personas sin hogar, personas con discapacidad y otras que luchan por sobrevivir en medio del abandono sistémico.
Hochul también propone ampliar la autoridad para iniciar tratamientos forzosos a un abanico más amplio de profesionales —incluidas las enfermeras de psiquiatría— y exigir que se tome en cuenta el historial de una persona, patologizando así angustias pasadas como justificación para futuras detenciones.
Esto no es una propuesta marginal. Se suma a una creciente ola de esfuerzos por reinstaurar la institucionalización en todo el país. En 2022, el alcalde de Nueva York, Eric Adams, ordenó a la policía y a los equipos médicos que hospitalizaran por la fuerza a personas consideradas “enfermas mentales”, incluso sin señales de peligro inminente.
En California, el gobernador Gavin Newsom implementó tribunales de atención que obligan a las personas a someterse a “tratamiento” ordenado por un juez.
Ahora, estos esfuerzos están siendo acelerados a nivel federal. La iniciativa MAHA de RFK Jr. propone un modelo de trabajo llamado “granjas de bienestar” como respuesta a la falta de vivienda y las adicciones. Una idea que recuerda inquietantemente a las granjas institucionales del siglo XX, donde se confinaba, vigilaba y explotaba a personas con discapacidad y racializadas bajo la excusa de rehabilitación.
Recientemente, el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de Estados Unidos anunció una amplia reestructuración que desmantelará agencias clave y consolidará el poder bajo una nueva “Administración para una América Saludable” (Administration for a Healthy America, AHA). A
lineada con la iniciativa MAHA de RFK Jr. y con la directiva de Donald Trump sobre “eficiencia gubernamental”, el plan fusiona agencias como la Administración de Servicios de Salud Mental y Abuso de Sustancias (SAMHSA), la Administración de Recursos y Servicios de Salud (HRSA) y otras en una estructura centralizada que, en teoría, se enfocará en combatir enfermedades crónicas.
Pero, a través de esta reestructuración —y del despido masivo de empleados del HHS—, el gobierno federal está desmantelando la infraestructura especializada que apoya la salud mental, los servicios para personas con discapacidad y las comunidades de bajos ingresos.
La reestructuración ya está en marcha: se han eliminado 20,000 puestos de trabajo, se han reducido oficinas regionales y la Administración para la Vida Comunitaria ha disuelto sus programas esenciales para personas mayores y con discapacidad, redistribuyéndolos en otras agencias sin transparencia ni rendición de cuentas.
“The PKK’s 12th Congress decided to dissolve the PKK’s organizational structure and end the armed struggle, with the practical process to be managed and carried out by Leader Apo [Abdullah Ocalan ..”,
March 2nd….
“The announcement of a ceasefire by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) (and the intention to dissolve disarm and disband following Ocalan’s call) should be heralded as a seismic moment in the modern history of resistance movements, yet beneath the diplomatic formalities and cautious optimism lurks a far more sinister truth-this is not a triumph of peace, but an orchestration of submission.
A war waged for over four decades, fuelled by the unyielding will of a people who have been denied, erased, and slaughtered, is now being dismantled at the behest of the very state that has waged an unrelenting campaign of annihilation against them.
The imprisoned leader of the PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, once the architect of the most formidable Kurdish insurgency, has now called for its dissolution, a move that reeks not of ideological evolution but of coercion, isolation, and calculated political expediency.
The world will praise this as the end of bloodshed, a necessary step towards reconciliation, but history will record it as yet another betrayal in a century-long catalogue of false promises, broken treaties, and unpunished atrocities against the Kurdish people.
To the untrained observer, the PKK has long been cast as an irritant to Turkish sovereignty, a violent and inconvenient force that defied the global order of neatly defined nation-states.
Turkey’s Ministry of National Defense said on May 15 that it will continue to conduct operations against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in regions where the group is present until it is “certain” the “threat” is removed. But members of every single Kurdish and leftist group have been jailed for allegedly ‘supporting the PKK’ even by singing in Kurdish, and this ‘witch hunt’ could go on forever. Earlier in the week, the Kurdish guerilla group announced that it would dissolve itself and end a decades-long conflict with Turkey. The Turkish military will “continue to act in the regions used by the separatist PKK terrorist organization with determination until it is certain the region is cleared and will no longer pose a threat to Turkey”, a ministry spokesman said in a briefing.The spokesman referred specifically to “land search and scan activities, the detection and destruction of caves, shelters, mines and hand-made explosives”.👉Read More HERE (https://southfront.press/turkey-vows-to-continue-military-operations-as-pkk-disarms/)
But to those who have traced the scars of history across the bodies of Kurdish villages razed to the ground, families massacred in the name of nationalist purity, and a culture suffocated under the suffocating weight of enforced assimilation, the PKK was never merely an armed insurgency.
It was a defiant answer to a genocidal campaign of erasure.
The so-called Turkish Republic, built upon the Kemalist doctrine of unyielding nationalism, embarked on a mission not just to suppress the Kurdish identity but to erase it from the annals of existence itself.
When the Treaty of Sevres in 1920 offered the Kurds the promise of statehood, it was swiftly undone by the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923, which instead legitimised the violent partitioning of their lands among Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria.
Kurdish names were stripped from maps, their language was banned, their mere existence was reduced to the derogatory moniker of ‘Mountain Turks,’ and any attempt at resistance was met with fire and steel.
When Xenophon chronicled the Carduchi-believed to be the ancestors of the Kurds-he wrote of a people who defied the Persian Empire, a people whose spirit was untameable, whose warriors fought not for conquest but for survival.
Injured Palestinian children receive medical treatment at Nasser Hospital after Israeli air strike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on May 16, 2025 [Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu]
‘Where are the Sanctions against Israel?.. Russians claim they suffered over 20,000 sanctions by Western rulers for invading to protect ethnic Russians – Meanwhile the same Western rulers refuse to even sanction Israeli Genocide, making themselves complicit in an ongoing terrorist massacre… No Gods No Masters!‘
JERUSALEM/CAIRO, May 17 (Reuters) – Israel’s airforce killed at least 146 Palestinians in new attacks on Gaza over the past 24 hours and injured many more, local health authorities said on Saturday, as the country appeared set to press ahead with a new ground offensive.
Israeli strikes since Thursday have seen one of the deadliest phases of bombardment since a truce collapsed in March. The latest strikes came as U.S. President Donald Trump ended his Middle East tour on Friday with no apparent progress towards a new ceasefire.
Air strikes have reportedly killed hundreds of people in Gaza as Israel intensified its bombardment in line with a plan for “conquest” of the enclave.
Although reports vary, health officials told Al Jazeera that at least 100 people had been killed by Israeli attacks on Friday, with many more missing under the rubble.
Palestinians try to dig under a building in Gaza City that was destroyed in an Israeli attack on Friday [Khames Alrefi/Anadolu]
That added to the 143 reported killed the previous day, and pushed the overall death toll in the Palestinian territory to more than 53,000 since Israel launched its onslaught in October 2023 after a Hamas attack that killed around 1,200 Israelis and saw 250 or so taken captive.
Hamas has called on the international community to hold Israel to account for what it described as a “barbaric escalation”. The Israeli military has not commented on the strikes.
Earlier this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated a promise to push ahead with a promised escalation in pursuit of his aim to destroy Hamas, the Palestinian armed group that governs Gaza.
Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip intensify, killing at least 13 more Palestinians since dawn today, including three members of the same family.
Palestinians transport their belongings as they flee Gaza City on Friday [Bashar Taleb/AFP]
The Red Crescent renews call for Israel to reopen crossings with Gaza for the entry of humanitarian aid, warning that the besieged and bombarded territory has been “left to starve and ache”.
Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Friday [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 53,272 Palestinians and wounded 120,673, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. The Government Media Office updated the death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
Relatives of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on northern Gaza, mourn for their deceased loved ones, at the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza City on Friday [Khames Alrefi/Anadolu]
Smoke rises following an Israeli army air strike in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday [Maya Alleruzzo/AP Photo]
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