Tale of two Liberated Gardens in Barcelona.. L’Horta Alliberada: shoots of resistance to elitism

by Guillem Martí guimmart at La Directa. shared with thanks translations The FreeOnline June 16, 2021

In one year the group of anarcho squatters have phased themselves out while creating a horizontal assembly-based organisation of 100 families and 61 different family plots and tghe rest communal. Congratulations!!!! An example to us all!
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The one-hectare estate, owned by CaixaBank, was occupied in June 2020 and has since become a community garden that gives space to a hundred families. The celebration of the first anniversary of the project took place on Saturday 12 June.

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Dr Cyren (Asteraceya) Wong talks to us about finding his place in nature… Rainbow Research: LGBTQ2S, Indigenous Peoples of Colour

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Dr Cyren (Asteraceya) Wong talks to us about finding his place in nature.

Dr Cyren Wong Chilling at the waterfall in front of our home
Chilling at the waterfall in front of our home

Most people know me as “Dr Cyren (Asteraceya) Wong” of Naturetalksback, but I did not always go by this name. I started coming out to my family and community at the age of 14. I believe they have always had my best interests at heart, but the pre-existing norms and values of our society got in the way and only succeeded in pushing me to a point where I felt effectively estranged for years. By the age of 16, I believed that I could only be happy if I was like “everybody else”. There were always expectations that I have never been able to fulfil which have always instilled within me a sense of profound inadequacy, anxiety, and insecurity. Giving myself a new name was a powerful…

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Radical Resistance for Prison Abolition .. by Comrade Frank Talk, a Captive New Afrikan Revolutionary

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Published June 15, 2021 by .. https://www.amwenglish.com/ shared with thanks

Introduction

We do not believe that real prison abolition can happen without there first being a revolution or radical social transformation of society as we know it.

With that being said, we have to ask our selves: then what is our vision and what is the strategy to make that vision a reality?

Radical Resistance for Prison Abolition by Comrade Frank Talk, a Captive New Afrikan Revolutionary

We believe in a two-pronged or multi-pronged approach. We do not support a strategy that involves making prisons more comfortable or kinder, gentler places of oppression.

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Belfast Anarchists /Ainrialaithe Bhéal Feirste: Helping build working class resistance on streets and in the workplace!

Jun 20, 2021 by https://derryanarchists.blogspot.com .. shared with thanks

In Belfast today, a small group of anarchists, abolitionists, and anti-authoritarian communists has formed around old and new anarchist infrastructure.

For wont of a better label, we are Belfast Anarchists/Ainrialaithe Bhéal Feirste – leave the fancy names and acronyms to the statists, we’re here to build community solidarity, smash the state, and abolish capitalism (if the sea doesn’t swallow us before the insurrection).  

We are a group with shared anarchist values but representing slightly different tendencies inside the anarchist, autonomist, and abolitionist family. Anarchists often struggle to pass on the flame to the next generation as by our very nature we tend to prioritise the here and now over long-term building, so while there have been many anarchist groups before us but most of us only know of them through myth and legend. 

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We ARRIVED! Chiapas/National/International: Zapatista Squadron 421 Disembarks in Vigo, Spanish State

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On June 20th, “Squadron 421” arrived at the Bay of Bayona, Galicia, in the Spanish State aboardLa Montaña. On June 22nd, after 47 days crossing the Atlantic, the seven EZLN delegates landed in the European country amid a reception that included activists, artists, support groups of the Zapatista movement in that country, among others.

Upon their arrival they were received by a group of people with banners and some boats“with compas from rebellious Europe”who went to greet them. In addition, the Spanish Civil Guard went to “La Montaña” to do“routine checks.”

In the“Llegamos”communiqué it stated:“The European sky cries, moved. Its tears are confused with those that moisten the cheeks – tanned by the sun, sea, anguish and adrenaline – of the intrepid 421 Squadron. In their steps, in their glances, in their heartbeats, the Mayan peoples…

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Woman sentenced again for organizing Holy Rebel Pussy Procession’

from Church of the Sacred Pussy via https://laicismo.org/la-mu etc. June 11, 2021 translations TheFreeOnline

The woman sentenced to 3000 euro fine for organizing Holy Rebel Pussy Procession in 2013 regrets said if she had painted swastikas she`d have avoided the conviction. (referring to a series of Nazi parades allowed recently in Madrid).

The Hearing in Malaga has confirmed the conviction of the organizer of the pussy procession for crimes against religious feelings. The judge dismissed the womens right to protest saying ”women’s situation is perfect and there is nothing to criticize or claim ”.

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The defense has indicated that it is suspicious that, in this case, freedom of expression is below the offense of religious feelings and that in cases of apology for fascism, freedom of expression is above respect for human rights.

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Egypt’s women TikTok stars get 10 and 6 years jail for ‘invented human trafficking’ conviction

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Haneen Hossam posted a video in which she tearfully pleaded for clemency

A TikTok star has been detained in Egypt, two days after she and another influencer were convicted of human trafficking and given long jail terms.

Haneen Hossam, 20, posted a video on Monday in which she asked for clemency, saying she had never harmed anyone.

On Sunday, a court in Cairo sentenced her in absentia to 10 years in prison. Co-defendant Mawada al-Adham, 23, who was present, was sentenced to six.

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