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By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas
With a march in which dozens of people, the General Council for the southern zone initiated a national and international campaign in defense of the San Cristóbal wetlands, which encompass some 200 hectares and are protected by official decrees.
Nicolás Gómez Velasco, one of the representatives of the grouping, explained that as part of the Let’s Save the Mountain Wetlands of the Jovel Valley, which began this past Sunday and will end April 22, Earth Day, they will carry out artistic, cultural and popular environmental and agroecology educational activities in different districts of the city.
He explained that the first action was the march-pilgrimage yesterday, in the Las Minas neighborhood, as well as a traditional ceremony at the Navajuelos spring, located in the wetlands of María Eugenia.
In a statement, the council, made up of 14 neighborhoods, called on the inhabitants of the city to “take photographs and videos of each dump truck, landfill and construction that destroys mountain wetlands to report them to the State Attorney General’s Office.”
Gómez Velasco said in an interview that as part of the defense actions, they created Las Minas, a sustainable colony that has community gardens. In addition, they have carried out reforestation campaigns (last year they planted more than a thousand endemic trees in the wetland area) and a rainwater collection tank was built, among other actions.
He said: “we seek that agroecology is the element of unity to defend wetlands, as well as food sovereignty through the creation of gardens, compost, chicken coops, cleaning campaigns, etc.”
Photo exhibitions will also be presented, films will be shown, and there will be cultural and sporting events.
Rallies against the U.S.-led NATO bloc, the EU, supply of weapons to Ukraine and anti-war have been held across France, and in Italy and Germany. At protest sites, demonstrators defaced and tore down NATO and EU flags.
Berlin
Tens of thousands of Germans braved the elements to attend the Uprising for Peace, a massive rally organized by Die Linke (Left Party) politician Sahra Wagenknecht and author Alice Schwarzer on Saturday.
The demonstrators massed at the Brandenburg Gate, calling for peace talks to end the conflict in Ukraine and demanding Berlin cease supplying Kiev with weapons.
Wagenknecht slammed the German government for trying to “ruin Russia,” urging leaders to make Moscow an “offer” so that peace talks could begin. The rally, she said, represented the “start of a citizens’ initiative” and the launch of a “new, strong peace movement in Germany.”
The rally welcomed protesters from across the political spectrum, declaring anyone who wanted peace “with an honest heart” was welcome, though neo-Nazi provocateurs jostling for media attention were not.
The organizers counted some 50,000 participants, while the police gave a lowball figure of 13,000.
Wagenknecht and Schwarzer earlier this month published a Manifest for Peace urging Chancellor Olaf Scholz to “stop the escalation in weapons deliveries.” It has since been signed by over half a million people, including well-known public intellectuals and political figures.
SUCCESSFUL XVI NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF The National Federation of State Service Workers, With pleasure, the National Executive Committee of “FENALTRASE” expresses a warm greeting and thanks to the delegations attending.
This is the result of a process oriented from the EXTRAORDINARY MEETING OF NATIONAL BOARDS, on November 3, 2022, which welcomed the roadmap for the design and compliance of the FENALTRASE ACTION PLAN for the NATIONAL STATE NEGOTIATION 2023, which was endorsed by the NATIONAL PLENARY held in Bogotá, D.C., on December 6 and 7, 2022.
“CHANGE.. FOR CHANGE!”
2. As a pillar of this plan, we proceeded with the collective and pedagogical construction of the thematic axes; tactics and strategy for the general negotiation of the specifications, as well as the specifications for negotiations of a singular nature to be carried out;
all this stems from the IV NATIONAL STATE seminar OF OFFICIAL WORKERS AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES, FENALTRASE – CORPEIS, held in person from January 23 to 27, 2023, culminating finally and successfully with the XVI NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF FENALTRASE, held in person at the UNEB Bogotá headquarters, this past and recent Wednesday, February 22,, as agreed and with a remarkable 48% presence of women union leaders.
3. In a fraternal atmosphere, the contradictions of the economic political situation in which the national state negotiation 2023 will take place were identified; the historic opportunity to advance, with the structural reforms in the health, pensions and work sectors, as well as the active and determined role that union organizations have to play, each day more fragmented into numerous ombudsmen, reduced in digits of affiliations and prolific in multiple affiliations.
With the announcement of the Ninth Central, the position of demanding the certification of the number of affiliates is maintained and justified, so that representativeness and proportionality are the democratic axes of the formation of collective bargaining commissions.
Ukraine readies to invade Transnistria to provoke a Wider War?
The Transnistrians and Moldovans are mostly ethnic Russians and Putin can hardly abandon them to the Ukrainian buildup on the border, both are breakaways from US controlled Rumania. . The Ukies want to seize a huge WW2 soviet arms cache and hope to provoke Russia, which has no direct border, and bring Rumania, a NATO pawn into the war with Russia.
There are only 1500 Russian ‘peacekeepers’ stationed in Transnistria, but they have local support and stacks of WW2 era weapons!
Today I have this piece by reporter Alexander Grishin. Who reminds us that we need to keep our eyes on that slice of territory wedged between Ukraine and Moldavia (=Moldova). Nobody can predict the future, but it is very possible that a new front will open there, in the current war. Hence, if you are a worrier, like me, then here is something else to worry about.
First recall that, like Russian dolls, there are several levels here: Transnistria is a break-away region from Moldavia; which, in turn, is a break-away from Romania (well, at least according to the Romanians). In the end, Romania would like to have all of these lands under its belt. Problem: Romania = NATO. Meanwhile, poor old Moldavia is squeezed from all sides: Russians in its break-away, Ukrainians to the East, Romanians to the West. Trying to be all things to…
The latest attempt by the far right to harass a drag Queen Story Hour event in London fell flat on its face today in Honor Oak following their previous annihilation at Tate Britain a couple of weeks ago.
Fabulous anti-fascists
The obsessive weirdos of Turning Point Uk called a protest which attracted around 20 racists & reactionaries including some of their tiny membership and a handful of local z-list DFLA types who’d clearly seen better days.
They didn’t manage to get anywhere near the pub hosting the event as a large police presence kept their ‘protest’ 200 yards down the road for their own protection.
Their attempts at speeches where completely drowned out by jeering and booing from hundreds of anti fascists, LGBTQ+ people and local trade unionists.
The exception was hate preacher & GB News pundit Calvin Robinson who was rendered inaudible by the deafening and thoroughly accurate chant of “You’re not a real vicar!”
The cops made a provocative & unnecessary push into the calm counter protest at one point resulting in one arrest but otherwise the event was a peaceful and resounding victory.
Grumpy fash
The bigots were totally outnumbered and their live streaming social media wannabes were harassed & removed from the area.
Our new generation of fascists should probably learn some basic history about places like Lewisham if they don’t want to be humiliated like this.
see SCF Report Below..Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abuse of asset freezing mechanisms under the pretext of prevention of terrorist financing . Download PDF
Turkish authorities ban access to 340 more URLs and websites
A Turkish court on Wednesday blocked access in Turkey to 340 more websites and URLs, including news websites, blogs and social media accounts, at the request of the Security Directorate General, the Mezopotamya news agency (MA) reported.
According to a decision by the Ankara 4th Criminal Court of Peace, the URLs and websites were blocked due to their attempts to legitimize the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and for disseminating terrorist propaganda.
More than 349,000 websites banned in Turkey in last 5 years (Aug 16, 2021). A total of 349,763 websites were banned in Turkey between 2016 and 2020, according to the 2020 annual report of the Freedom of Expression Association’s (İFÖD) EngelliWeb initiative. The number since 2006 has reached 467,011, with 58,809 website bans in 2020, the report says.
The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey and much of the international community.
The blocked addresses include the website of Dutch freelance journalist and author Frederike Geerdink, the pro-Kurdish media group Rudaw, Avesta Publications and the Kurdish Twitter account of MA.
Geerdink said she would take legal action against the decision.
see SCF Report Below..Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abuse of asset freezing mechanisms under the pretext of prevention of terrorist financing . Download PDF
it's much bigger even. pages full of twitter accounts (incl mine) of journalists/media, analysts, politicians (incl mp's), kurdish centers in europe etc, fb-pages, telegram channels, all informing about kurdish matters, also blocked. #elections are coming. https://t.co/vr91VLv6Ar
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