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Madrid, 5 June 2021 (SPS) – President of the Sahrawi Body against Moroccan Occupation (ISACOM), Aminatou Haidar noted an upsurge of violations by the Moroccan occupation against Sahrawi people since the resumption of the armed struggle last November, saying that “Spain must not only assume its responsibility towards the Sahrawi people but also lead the…
Spain must lead decolonization process in Western Sahara — Sahara Press Service
from iaf-fai.org
The context in Latin America and Africa is very similar, in many respects, to that of the Middle East. These similarities exist because of the inhuman exploitation of the European nation-states in their period of colonialist and imperialist expansion.
Since the beginning of the “discovery” of the African and American continents, the original peoples have been suffering from the external intervention of capitalist states and their economic interests, motivated by monopoly aspirations.
Democratic Confederalism / Stateless Democracy explained …
Continue reading “Beyond the Nation-State.. Anticolonial Resistance and the Paradigm of the PKK..”
By: Isaín Mandujano
Today, a control judge of the El Amate Prison issued the binding to criminal proceedings of the 17 teachers college students (normalistas) and 2 displaced indigenous people, but granted them the precautionary measure of facing their proceedings at liberty and prohibited them from repeating their political activism while they continue in those proceedings.
The State Judicial Power reported this morning that giving continuity to Due Process, and at the request of the Defense before the evidence of the State’s Attorney General, a judge decided a change of the Precautionary Measure for the 17 Mactumactzá Rural Teachers College students (normalistas) and 2 people displaced from the Ejido Puebla, in Chenalhó, setting for them a periodic sign-in and the restriction of activism in public spaces.
The 17 teachers college students and two people displaced from the Ejido Puebla, in Chenalhó, will face charges for the crimes of Robbery…
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via https://freedomnews.org.uk/ shared with thanks!
News, Jun 6th
This is an escalation– it hasn’t been like this in the UK in years. Not that this is new. No, we see this as part of a long and brutal history of the repression of marginalised communities, and anyone who shows resistance or alternatives.
The police and state media will try and paint this as the result of us being ‘anti-social’ – but isn’t it the police who hurt and intimidate us?
Continue reading “Squat Repression in Bristol; Criminalizing Shelter is State Violence!”
from medyanews.net, shared with thanks
Turkey’s Erdogan Cuts off Water to One Million Syrians
Despite warnings of the possible consequences, as well as the deal made in 1987 with Syria and Iraq, Turkey continues to cut the water supply into Syria.
For centuries, Turkey has been staining humanity
Turkey currently provides Syria with only 200 cubic metres of water per second instead of the 500 cubic metres per second stipulated by the agreement. For this reason, there has been a serious decrease in the water provided by the dams and many villages now have no access to fresh water.
from mpr21.info/la-cosecha-es-un-campo-de-c.. translation TheFreeOnline
Some names that appear in this report have had to be modified to protect the identity of the people who have seen fit to give their testimonies. “A lot of money moves here and for 100 euros they can bring someone to scare you,” says one of them.
The red fruit business in Huelva is a mega industry that generates a turnover of around one billion euros, with a production close to 350,000 tons that have made this Andalusian province one of the world’s largest exporters of the fruit and vegetable sector. The 11,630 hectares of arable land employ about 100,000 seasonal workers each year, of which 48 percent are foreigners, mostly from Eastern Europe and the Maghreb countries.
Growth has been exponential in recent years, but not so the housing, transport and supply infrastructures necessary to guarantee decent living conditions for the thousands of immigrant workers who have been condemned to survive in the 44 shanty towns scattered throughout the the whole province.
Miles de personas se manifiestan en Huelga, una convocatoria organizado por el SAT, CNT y CGT / Raúl Bocanegra
Continue reading “The Harvest is a Concentration Camp for the Day Labourers of Huelva. Eng/Esp”
by Anarcha-Feminist Group Amsterdam via Enough 14 and Indymedia NL.
This building has been empty for a long time. today we ended this situation of emptiness and speculation by giving
the house back its purpose.
Fuck Blackstone, eat the rich!
Stop speculation , squat the world
We are told that there are not enough houses for everyone, that there are not enough spaces for the refugees and migrants coming here fleeing imperialist wars and economies that have been destroyed by (neo)colonialism. It is unacceptable that the media blame migration for the fact that we all seem to struggle to find a home.There is no problem of a lack of space, there is no “housing crisis”, the only problem is the unequal distribution of wealth. The problem is capitalism.
We are being pushed out of our city by rising rent prices and gentrification. Social housing is being sold off privately and the lack of affordable housing means people are forced to leave the city. People struggle to pay rent while investors are given free range to do as they please.
The owner of this building, Blackstone is an International company that speculates on the prices of housing to make the rich richer. Blackstone is one of the largest commercial owners of housing in the world with 140 billion dollars in property, and is notorious for its abuse of renters and violent evictions.In 2019, they purchased 250 million euros worth of housing in the Netherlands. Through these mass purchase of housing, the company profits off the privatization of housing, making it increasingly inaccessible and turning basic needs into a commodity. This is unacceptable, rent is theft! Blackstone abuses and exploits its tenants so that its investors can get richer.
We don’t want corporations to own our city, we want housing for all!
Our cities are not board games for the rich to play. We will not stand by as they speculate our space away.
We, anarcha feminist group Amsterdam squat this building as a protest against property for profit and against the privatization of our city. We squat this building out of a belief that no houses should remain empty while others are homeless. The state that criminalizes homelessness and lets homes sit vacant for years is the real criminal. To Blackstone, this building is one out of the thousands that sit rotting on the market but for us this building will become a home for many and a queer feminist political centre from which our community will flourish. So Blackstone can Fuck off!
We are in a pandemic, another crisis and while multinationals receive billions in bailouts it is those already in precarious positions that are forced to carry the burden.
First we are called essential workers- then we are evicted from our houses when we can not afford the rent any more. It is time to take backs space. To say: enough is enough. It is only when we get organized, take action and fight back against the harm done to our bodies and minds that we stand any chance. Let there be no illusion, if we want anything we will have to fight for it ourselves. The only way to win ground, to find sanity and to survive is through fighting together against the exploitation done by this capitalist system.
So lets take back the streets & the houses left empty.
Today is a collective act of taking back a space from those in power. We might not succeed all the time, we might fail and we might fail hard. We have been through many evictions in the last months. But we are more angry than we are tired. With every direct action we learn. Our actions must serve to extend the networks of solidarity, to contribute to the construction of a society based on mutual aid, to destroy all authority based on violence.
It is in these moments that we get together and experience our collective power, that we can imagine what could be possible. It is these moments that allow us to dream.
