Police in Ottawa, Canada, used pepper spray and stun grenades and arrested nearly 200 who were part of the Freedom Convoy to protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions. Police also had more than 50 vehicles towed in an attempt to clear out demonstrators who have been protesting in the area for weeks.
At least 191 protesters were arrested and 57 vehicles were towed in the city’s downtown area as of Sunday evening, Ottawa Police tweeted, adding, “streets cleared.”
Late Sunday, the police department tweeted, “A Coventry Road location previously occupied by an unlawful assembly is now clear. 20 vehicles were towed and a police presence will remain in place to prevent anyone from returning.”
As a result of the police action, the Freedom Convoy was moved out of Ottawa after three weeks of demonstrations, CTV News Ottawareported Sunday.
Before the crackdown, police tweeted: “If you are involved…
Kit Knightly As Canada falls further and further down a “new normal” rabbit hole, every day there are worrying signs of outright fascism creeping into society.
Last week Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act, enabling the government to order banks to freeze the assets of protesters (or even just people donating money to them.
Attempting to criminalize and censor the presentation of a board game: ” Come and Occupy too!”
Joint statement from the Mataró Cooperators Union, the Mataró Housing Union and the Cafè de Mar Culinary Space.
Yesterday, Wednesday 16 February, various media outlets reported that the mayor of Mataró, David Bote, had requested in writing to the Union of Cooperators of Mataró, the cancellation of the event which will take place on the 23rd of February at the Cafè de Mar, stating that: “Trivializing the right to access housing contributes to generating more tension and social unrest.”
Faced with this serious fact, the Cafè de Mar Culinary Space, the Mataró Cooperators Union and the Mataró Housing Union want to express the following:
Bonobos, sometimes called the “forgotten ape” due to their recent discovery and small numbers, titillate the democrat’s imagination. Before the 1970s, certain primatologists thought bonobos were strange chimpanzees because females govern in this primate society. Frans de Waal, the primatologist and popular writer, has done much to explain the fascinating lives of these “peace-loving apes” and how they are changing the story of human evolution. Jean-Paul Gagnon, University of Canberra Bonobos are unique among apes for how they settle day-to-day conflicts. Personalities and social standing are evident in their society. Squabbles are frequent within or between groups. Bonobos defuse[…]
Today I have this piece by war reporter Alexander Kots. He set out to find human interest stories among the over 10,000 refugees who have crossed over from the Donbass region into Russia, just in the past couple of days.
Roughly half of these refugees are technically Russian citizens already, holding Russian passports. The other half being Ukrainian citizens who are resident in the Separatist-controlled Donetsk Peoples Republic (DPR) and Luhansk Peoples Republic (LPR).
The order (issued by the leaders of those republics) to evacuate women, children, and elderly was given this past Thursday, after the Ukrainian army opened massive artillery barrages on the line of demarcation, threatening massive damage and loss of life to the residential communities.
War correspondent Alexander Kotz
Kots: “How many of you are Russian citizens?” I asked, of the people in one of the 30 buses…
Direct Action protesters reportedly caused millions in damages and evicted workers at the -illegal- pipeline through Wet’suwet’en territory. With no arrests police suspect either local indigenous to the pipeline on their land, or outside climate extinction activists, or even a professional
AFP / Coastal GasLink
Violent protesters reportedly left a Coastal GasLink pipeline worksite in Houston, British Columbia in ruins, causing millions of dollars in damages in what the company claimed was a “highly planned” and “unprovoked” assault on its property.
The controversial pipeline has come under attack before, facing multiple blockades last year. Authorities have attempted to enforce court injunctions, arresting demonstrators in 2019 and 2020. A more recent blockade by one of the local Wet’suwet’en Nation, who have never ceded their lands to anyone, stranded 500 workers near the site, leaving a bridge partially destroyed.
About 20 vandals cut the lock off a gate late Wednesday night, before entering the worksite and surrounding Coastal GasLink employees, according to a statement issued by the company on Thursday. Some of the demonstrators allegedly wielded axes, destroying trucks, sheds, and other property. “Flare guns were also fired at workers,” the statement claimed.
Gabriel Pombo da Silva is a well-known Galician anarchist militant who has spent more than 30 years in prison. Always at the crossroads of repression, both Spanish and from other European States, for his commitment to the anti-capitalist struggle, he wrote a book during his stay in jail – Diario e ideario de un delincuente -, as well as different booklets – gathered in the book Parte de un appido— and other writings
Gabriel Pombo remains kidnapped in prison after serving 33 years, even though his sentence expired for more than 6 years ago, according to the rules of a fallacious and criminal “rule of law”.After finally getting 3 and a half years of freedom, he has been illegally detained again, and we are campaigning still for his release
***********
The court no. 2 of Girona uses bureaucracy and cynicism as an instrument to prolong the incarceration of the anarchist prisoner, to whom the 1973 Penal Code applies, which is not in force Legal subterfuge has also managed to delay the response of the Supreme Court for five months regarding the possibility of recasting 20 years of the sentence, which would leave him free.
(Statement/Last update on the legal situation of Gabriel Pombo da Silva)
With this statement we want to report on the current legal situation that continues to prevent the release of our anarchist comrade, despite the fact that 2 years have passed since his arrest (we remember illegal).
..”I am not a theoretician, but one of the oppressed, enamored with the freedom (and liberty) that infects the oppressed with the passion for a worthy life…” Gabriel Pombo da Silva,
The will of the executioners in toga to continue kidnapping Gabriel becomes evident. By whatever means their (almost) limitless powers allow, they abuse it by demonstrating their will to continue weaponizing time.
Now unavailable… 2022
The sadness of the legal message (which we use in a synthetic and cold way) becomes strength knowing that our colleague is in very good health and spirits, despite this situation, and despite the discriminatory treatment he has been suffering for months after having refused the anti-Covid “vaccine” (they do not allow you to have vis-a-vis and you can receive visits exclusively through the visiting room).
As always, he is investing his time (in his hands as well as in ours, time can also become a weapon) reading books, receiving and writing letters, dedicating himself to translations and physical exercises and freedom projects that we hope can materialize as soon as possible.
-The interception of communications has been retroactively annulled (before last summer the Provincial Court, with a final judgment, established the “non-dangerousness of the inmate”).
In response, the prison took revenge by denying the second permit for “belonging to armed gangs” (the appeal has been dismissed with the excuse of the “remoteness of the compliance date” -November 2030-, without going into the matter of the unjustified and false accusation of “armed gangs”…look at the plural! Until that compliance date is modified, it is not possible to request another permit.
– The Supreme Court’s response regarding the possibility of a 20-year recast should have arrived last fall, but the attorney responsible for processing the appeal did not process it, making us lose 6 months (state legal sewers part 1). The same court admitted the appeal again and another 5 or 6 minimum waiting months must be recomputed.
The Free 