Brazil: Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court has ordered an inquiry into the sale of protected areas of the Amazon rainforest via Facebook.

via Barbara Crane Navarro | Rainforest Art Project – Pas de Cartier ! illustrations added with thanks!

(Newser) – “Enabling deforestation in the Amazon” can be added to the list of Facebook’s misdeeds, according to a BBC investigation.

The broadcaster says many plots of illegally deforested land in the Brazilian rainforest can be found for sale via Facebook Marketplace—and some of the sellers who spoke to an undercover operative posing as a lawyer boasted about their connections to politicians.

Facebook has previously indicated it believes the task of trying to deduce which sales are illegal is too complex for it to carry out itself.But one congressman mocked this explanation.

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The following essay examines the explosion of mass struggles in India under the far-Right Modi government while comparing them to the George Floyd uprising in the United States, highlighting the role that mutual aid and self-organization played in each.

To listen to an interview offering an anarchist and anti-colonial analysis of the situation in India, go here.

by Pranav Jeevan P

India witnessed the rise of two large protest movements in last 2 years which saw millions taking to streets against the oppressive laws passed by the government. These were the Anti-CAA protests against the discriminative Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), and the farmers protests against a series of pro-corporate farm laws.

During the Anti-CAA protests, the loudest voices of dissent have been the women; from housewives to grandmothers, lawyers to students, women across India have been at the forefront of this struggle.

Continue reading “Anarchism, Mutual Aid, and Self-Organization: From the George Floyd Uprising to India’s Farmer Rebellion”

By Parth MN 5 Mar 2021 at Al Jazeera. Shared with thanks!

As protest against farm laws enters its 100th day, at least 248 farmers have died on New Delhi’s borders, organisers say.

Farmers attend a rally against farm laws in Barnala in the northern state of Punjab [File: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters]

Karnal, Haryana – For nearly two months, Prem Singh, 65, followed a ritual he had unwittingly slipped into.

He left his village in northern India’s Haryana state on December 1, 2020, to join tens of thousands of Indian farmers staging sit-ins along the borders of the national capital to demand the repeal of agricultural laws passed in September last year.

Continue reading “100 days and 248 deaths later, Indian farmers remain determined + Disha Ravi and Trial by Farcebook”

Posted on March 3, 2021 First part by Megan Redshaw, J.D. shared with thanks

Faced with diminishing demand for fossil fuels, the struggling oil and gas industry is investing billions of dollars in new plants designed to produce millions more tons of plastics — and millions more tons of pollution.  

As oil companies’ profits sink amid decreasing demand for their product, oil and gas giants are setting their sights on a new market — they’re pouring billions of dollars into new plants designed to produce plastic from chemicals sourced from fossil fuels.

Continue reading “Flooding the planet with plastics from US Fracking Glut: Big Oil’s answer to Climate Emergency”

CNT-AIT, Granada: solidarity with the imprisoned comrade and all the accused #MestreLibertad
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Source – EL MILICIANO – CNT-AIT, Granada: solidarity with the imprisoned comrade and all the accused #MestreLibertad 28.2.2021

Us esperem a tots!@mestrelibertad @CarlesLlibertat @AlertaSolidaria @LlibertatHasel pic.twitter.com/4arkbUDoES

— mestrellibertat (@mestrellibertat) March 5, 2021

On the morning of February 22, Cristian (Mestre), a CNT-AIT Granada colleague, was prosecuted, decreeing provisional imprisonment without bail and being assigned to Albolote prison.

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March 4, 2021 by actforfreedom… shared with thanks

video 3/3/2021 Athens, Thousands of protesters flood the centre of Athens for the third day in a row.

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Saturday, March 6, 2021. 2nd International day of solidarity with the hunger strike of Dimitris Koufontinas.

At the end of last December the Greek government approved a reform of the national penitentiary system that, in addition to  other measures that worsen prison conditions, establishes that those convicted of terrorism cannot access the “rural prisons”, more “open” institutions to which long-term prisoners have access.

The approval of this law has immediately activated the bureaucratic process for the transfer of Dimitri Koufontinas from the rural prison of Kassevitia.Dimitri is a comrade convicted for participation in the revolutionary organization 17 November, in prison since 2002.

Continue reading “Greece: Saturday, March 6, 2021. 2nd International day of solidarity with the hunger strike of Dimitris Koufontinas.”