28 diciembre, 2022 por boletintokata via thefreeonline

NI VIEJAS NI NUEVAS. FUEGO A LAS CÁRCELES

Hay pocos lugares donde la opresión y la injusticia se viven tan fuertemente como en la cárcel.

No es casualidad quien en esta vida acaba presx, básicamente son lxs pobres y lxs rebeldes; lxs que buscan vida fuera de las reglas de la ley, lxs que no quieren someterse a la convivencia impuesta por el Estado… o que simplemente no han tenido muchas oportunidades en la vida.

Obviamente no hay igualdad ni mucha salida ante las distintas realidades que se viven. Acaban presxs aquellxs que no tienen dinero ni privilegios y que viven el racismo y la estigmatización continuamente; a la vez que violencia policial y patriarcal.

Quien acaba presx ya sabe que aquí no es más que un simple número, escoria de una sociedad que pretende dar segundas o terceras oportunidades, pero que en verdad acaba marginalizando a lxs llamadxs delincuentes para siempre.

Hay familias y generaciones que pasan año tras año visitando a lxs suyxs aquí, que no conocen otra vida ni otra vista que la de los muros y barrotes, la de las cámaras de vigilancia, de policías y carceleros, los cuales te dicen por donde puedes ir y lo que está permitido o no.

Y suelen ser las mujeres, siendo presas o familiares, quienes asumen el deber del cuidado familiar, de los hijos, de seguir sacando la familia para adelante, mantenerla económicamente… de esta manera vemos la cárcel como el castigo máximo y el sometimiento a todo tipo de explotación y violencia total.

El discurso de la sociedad de lxs ricos y burguesxs, de los privilegidxs o inconscientes siempre es el mismo: las cárceles sirven para protegerles ante lxs malxs criminales. Pero la verdad es que sirven para mantener sus privilegios obtenidos a lo largo de la historia.

Quieren que se defienda su propiedad privada, sus bienes y su poder, y que se castigue a quienes se atreven a desafiarlo. Quieren hacernos creer que se reeduca y reinserta a la persona presa tras años de encierro, pero la cárcel no soluciona nada, simplemente agrava el problema después de tanta miseria e injusticias.

Luego está el tema de la miserable salud entre muros, de las pocas posibilidades médicas, de la dependencia a las drogas y todo tipo de formas de evadir esta miseria, de la necesidad ruinosa de hacer negocio con la miseria de otrxs, de beneficiarse ya sin código alguno con la pobreza de otrx compañerx.

Y por supuesto el negocio máximo: la explotación laboral de la cárcel. El Estado, con empresas y fundaciones estatales, se lucra de toda esta miseria. Como el CIRE que controla los economatos, los productos en prisión y los trabajos productivos, de los que se beneficia. Así funciona el capitalismo y por esta razón esta sociedad necesita las cárceles.

Pero no compramos su discurso mentiroso. Nosotrxs no queremos ni necesitamos las cárceles, ni su sistema de control y castigo. Queremos vivir en un mundo que no se base en la opresión y la explotación de unxs para que otrxs triunfen. Queremos un mundo donde los problemas se resuelvan de otra forma y el trabajo sea otro.

Tenemos que acabar con toda la manipulación y el discurso que sustenta la necesidad de la cárcel, juntamente con la represión y la violencia por parte del Estado, la policía, los juzgados, carceleros y quienes necesitan y se benefician de su existencia.

NO HAY PAZ NI TREGUA CON QUIENES CADA DÍA NOS ROBAN NUESTRA VIDA Y NUESTRA LIBERTAD.

ABAJO LOS MUROS DE LAS PRISIONES, AQUÍ Y EN CUALQUIER LUGAR.

PORQUE QUEREMOS ABRAZAR A NUESTRXS COMPAÑERXS.
ABAJO LOS CIES, FRONTERAS, CENTROS DE MENORES, PSIQUIÁTRICOS…

ABAJO TODO TIPO DE OPRESIÓN Y AUTORIDAD.
POR LA LIBERTAD, POR LA ANARQUÍA.

Justice delayed and denied for the ‘Abahlali baseMjondolo’ Movement

Dec 27th by Freedom News shared with thanks thefreeonline

Freedom continues its coverage of Abahlali baseMjondolo, a South African movement of shack dwellers who organise land occupations and communes:

The attempt by the local ANC – working with the police, private security, the anti-land invasion unit and forces within the prosecuting authority – to destroy the eKhenana Commune has been relentless.

The attacks on the Commune have included assassinations, assaults, illegal and violent evictions, vandalism, arson, repeated arrests on bogus charges and continual online slander from fake Facebook accounts, including two fake Facebook pages.

The Punishment is the Process (A human rights report on the repression of the eKhenana Commune)

Three comrades have been assassinated this year: Ayanda Ngila, Nokuthula Mabaso and Lindokuhle Mnguni. The arrests on bogus charges, followed by the denial of bail and then, after as long as six months in prison, the dropping of charges, continue.

Continue reading “Solidarity with oppressed Commune and shack dwellers in Sth Africa”

nuclear-news

from nuclear-news on 27th Dec 2022 by thefreeonline

After months of feigned confidence and optimism from both the West and Ukraine’s senior military leadership, cracks are beginning to appear. During Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief General Valery Zaluzhny’s recent interview with the Economist, Ukraine’s desperate need for additional arms and the consequences for not receiving them was made very clear.

The discussion revolved around the desperate need for resources – everything ranging from air defense missiles to tanks, armored vehicles, artillery pieces and artillery shells themselves – all things that both the West and now Ukraine are admitting are in short supply, and perhaps cannot be supplied any time in the near or intermediate future.

From “Extending Russia” to “Demilitarizing” NATO

We are careening directly into an abyss of war, pain and misery, and our leaders are thunderously applauding as it happens.  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy came to Washington this week because he wanted more money, and our politicians in Washington definitely did not disappoint him.  Even though we had already given Ukraine far more money than the rest of the world combined, our politicians agreed to give him another colossal mountain of cash.  On some level, we all have to respect Zelenskyy’s skills as a con man.  Even though he has banned the main opposition party in Ukraine, and even though he has banned all television stations that were critical of him, and even though he just banned an entire ancient Christian denomination, our politicians continue to worship him like some sort of a pop music star.  Zelenskyy has become an extremely oppressive dictator that has set himself up to rule Ukraine for as long as he wants, but members of Congress from both parties continue to hail him as a “champion of democracy” that deserves our unquestioning support.

What makes this so dangerous is that Zelenskyy has been trying very hard to pull the United States into his war with Russia.

Throughout 2022 the U.S. has been getting increasingly involved in the conflict, and at this point we are “providing most of the funding, most of the equipment, most of the ammunition, most of the high level intelligence and much of the training” for the international army that is fighting the Russians in Ukraine.

In other words, we are essentially a direct participant in the war.

For years I have been warning my readers that there would be a war with Russia, and now it is here.

If we had rational leaders in Washington, they would be trying to end this conflict before the nukes start flying.

But instead, they are pledging to give Zelenskyy whatever he needs for as long as it takes to defeat the Russians.

When Zelenskyy visited Washington this week, the White House literally rolled out the red carpet for him.

To see such an honor bestowed upon a cruel foreign dictator that is ruthlessly oppressing anyone that opposes him should nauseate all of us.

And when Zelenskyy arrived to deliver his speech to a joint session of Congress, he was greeted with a standing ovation.

It isn’t just the Democrats that have fallen for Zelenskyy’s act.

At this point, Mitch McConnell says that showering Ukraine with money should be our “number one priority”…………………………………….

 once a con man has identified a “golden goose”, he is just going to keep coming back again and again.

So even though we have already given Ukraine more money than everyone else combined, it will never be enough to satisfy Zelenskyy…………………………….

In addition to cold, hard cash, the U.S. also continues to give the Ukrainians some of our best military equipment.

The Biden administration just agreed to send Patriot missile systems to Ukraine, and that represents another huge escalation…………….

If both sides just keep escalating matters, we will eventually reach a point where somebody crosses a line that will never be able to be uncrossed.

We have been pushed to the brink of nuclear war, and the Russians are getting ready to officially deploy their new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles in January…….

The Sarmat is the most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile in the entire world by a wide margin, and we have no way to defend against them.

So maybe we should think twice before getting into a nuclear war with Russia.

Unfortunately, our leaders seem to have gone completely mad at this point, and of course our leaders in Washington are simply a reflection of what has happened to the rest of our society.  http://endoftheamericandream.com/feverishly-racing-toward-our-own-destruction/

by Vox Political on 27th Dec 2022 via thefreeonline

This post concerns Richard Drax, one of the richest MPs in the Brit Parliament, whose inherited fortune was apparently built on the slave trade.

Richard Drax: he likes to dress the part of the landed gentry, but it seems his fortune is built on something sordid. Time to face reality?

His family owned plantations in Barbados that were farmed by slaves; he still has one there now, although working practices have changed with the times. As a result, he now owns a large amount of Dorset.

‘Of course the entire wealth of the UK is based on slavery and centuries colonial looting, which continues today via its vast overseas ‘holdings’ and the great fraud machine of the ‘City’ of London’.

Barbados has recently become a republic and its people are asking him to make reparation for the slave-profiteering that built his fortune.

Here’s the report:

Will this MP make amends for his family’s sordid past? Or will he deny responsibility?

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