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116 Evictions Every Day!, Reality exposes ‘Progressive’ Spanish Govt

By Víctor Stanzyk Published on Mar 28, 2021 by Izquierda Diario translation thefreeonline

116 daily evictions, a reality that clashes with the progressive discourse of the Government
The scourge of evictions continues despite electoral promises and inter-party pacts.

Stop Desahucios Granada 15M demanda una solución al Sabadell para que dos familias no pierdan su vivienda

The “progressive” government, which boasted they would solve the housing problem, shows once again which side they are on: the banks and vulture funds that take away the right to decent housing. This week in Granada, 2 octogenarians with chronic diseases have been evicted.

The scourge of evictions continues despite electoral promises and inter-party pacts. The “progressive” government, which filled its mouth by saying that they would solve the housing problem, once again shows which side they are on: the banks and vulture funds that take away our right to decent housing. This same week in Granada, 2 octogenarians with chronic diseases have been evicted.

An activist for the right to housing made this reflection on Twitter about the unprecedented news of an eviction in Granada – more than hundreds a week- in which 2 elderly people over 80 years old were thrown out of their house.

“The year we had to stay home. The judges have made it clear for months that the Government Decree does not oblige them to stop evictions. And the worst thing is that the government knows it. Because they told them. “

116 desahucios como este cada día laborable de 2020. El año que nos teníamos que quedar en casa. Los jueces han dejado claro desde hace meses que el Decreto del Gobierno no les obliga a pararlos. Y lo peor es que en el Gobierno lo saben. Porque se lo dijimos. https://t.co/HqwiIJGV73
— Jaime Palomera Zaidel (@JaimePalomera) March 25, 2021

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Seeds Collective plants Life and Abundance in Communities Eng/Esp

from Kaosenlared, by Nicolás Esperante, translation thefreeonline, illustrations added

Argentina. Seed collectivization: life and abundance in the hands of the communities

# #FortaleciendolaAgroecología

| Despite having come with the impulse of the neoliberal governments -which thirty years ago settled in the region-, the industrial model implemented in the agroforestry zone of northeastern Argentina ran into a fundamental resistance factor: the Organic Agriculture Network of Missions. (la Red de Agricultura Orgánica de Misiones.)

A group of farmers, associations and NGOs that understand that production and sustainability are not contradictory terms. We review the history of RAOM and its activism in favor of agroecology in the province and in the region, through the testimony of Gerardo Segovia *.

The province of Misiones, located in the Mesopotamian region, received the impact of the 1990s with the same fate as the rest of the Southern Cone: the monoculture model and its consequent technological package arrived to install the practices that neoliberalism imposed as a plan of looting natural resources in the region.

In the province -one of the smallest in the country, but with enormous water resources and unique biodiversity-, the proposal focused on strengthening a forestry-industrial, tourism and energy plan based on large dams, and on the forestry model of monocultures, planting large areas of pine.

Faced with this growing scenario, in May 1993 the first Organic Agriculture Conference was organized at the Eldorado Agrotechnical School. In those four days of workshops and debates, says Gerardo, “the need arose to create a network that communicates, that articulates the number of farmers who were dispersed in the province and who were developing what historically they knew how to do, which was working with crops that are compatible with the forest and with natural cycles, and that fought for an agroecological development model ”.

Misiones.. Argentina

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20 Nov 1970- Women storm Miss World as 100 million viewers Learn Feminism

‘The spectacle is vulnerable,’ proclaimed the pamphlet Why Miss World? And so it proved to be on 20 November 1970, when activists from the nascent women’s liberation movement deployed rattles, chants, banners, flour, smoke bombs, stink bombs, ripe tomatoes and bundles of cascading leaflets to disrupt the 1970 Miss World pageant at London’s Albert Hall, in front of a global television audience of a hundred million people.

from ·Red Pepper with thanks.. illustrations added

Why Miss World? Misbehaving

A new edited volume emphasises that the personal is political and highlights the power of spectacular direct action, says Alice Robson

Misbehaving: stories of protest against the Miss World contest and the beauty industry tells the stories of those who took part in the action in their own words, but does much more than merely record the night’s events, with writers sharing what brought them to the movement and how it changed their lives. In doing so, it contributes to our understanding of 1970s struggles, and to questions that resonate beyond that historical moment.