Action report on autonomous blockade of petrochemical industry in so-called Beaver, Pennsylvania.
On Thursday morning, a collection of autonomous activists blockaded the sole access road to the Shell Polymer’s office in Beaver, PA to protest the transformation of the Ohio Valley into a manufacturing hub for the petrochemical industry. Shell Polymers is a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, and they are constructing an ethane cracking facility in Beaver that will be used to turn fracked gas into plastic.. Read Full Article—Anonymous Contributor
.Following months of riots, building barricades, and stand-offs with police trying to evict encampments, in late September of 2020, Philadelphia Housing Action was able to claim victory, after the city of Philadelphia offered unsheltered families and individuals access to housing in formerly vacant buildings, a process which people had already begun in the months prior, as homes owned by Philadelphia Housing Authority were squatted. In the end, upwards of 75 homes were handed over by the city, which included many homes which had been previously squatted. Here Philadelphia Housing Action looks back at 2020 with analysis and a timeline on what all went down. Read Full Article—It’s Going Down
A riot broke out in Tacoma, Washington as hundreds took to the streets following a police officer running over people attending a sideshow.
After a pig drove through a crowd of people with a police vehicle, militants set flaming barricades and smashed windows of Pierce County Corrections jail in Tacoma, Washington on Sunday night.
“…GameStop is similar. The business loses tons of money, lost half of its equity last year, and has a net asset value of just $690 million. Yet at yesterday’s close the company was worth $20+ billion….But as the reddit users say, it’s not about the money. It’s personal. It’s emotional. They’re knowingly engaging in destructive (and self-destructive) behavior. They’re OK losing money– because they’re angry. This is a sign of the times”
At precisely 2:32pm Eastern time on May 6, 2010, the US stock market started to drop.
The decline was sudden, and vicious. Within minutes, more than $1 trillion of market capitalization had vanished, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average losing nearly 10% of its value.
This event became known as the ‘Flash Crash’. And early explanations pointed to the big investment banks and their high-tech trading algorithms…
The activists who blocked a deportation flight on Stansted Airport in 2017 have finally had their convictions quashed today in the Court of Appeal.
The appeal judgement states that ‘The appellants should not have been prosecuted for the extremely serious offence under section 1(2)(b) of the 1990 Act because their conduct did not satisfy the various elements of the offence. There was, in truth, no case to answer’.
In March 2017, 15 activists performed a direct action at Stansted Airport, blocking a Titan Airways aircraft hired by the UK government for the purpose of deporting people..
The pandemic struck a hard blow to the labor market in Spain during 2020 with the loss of 622,600 jobs, which raised the unemployment rate to 16.1 percent, according to data published this Thursday in the Active Population Survey (EPA ) of the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
food line in Madrid
The increase in unemployment due to the pandemic is joined by structural problems prior to it such as youth unemployment ( grown to 40.1 percent among those under 25) or gender inequality (the unemployment rate among women is of the 18.3 percent, while in men it is 14.1)…..
But the reality is much much worse, an unknown number, perhaps a million more people are unemployed.
‘The evidence that switching to plant-based foods can manage or reverse this condition is hugely valuable, particularly as we navigate the peak of this pandemic’
Plant-based diets can slash the risk of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes, according to the huge UK study.
Health check service Medichecks surveyed 10,000 Brits to explore the effects of a plant-based diet versus eating meat.
Chances are, the works of the world’s insects touch your lips every day. The coffee or tea you savor, both are insect pollinated. Apples, oranges, cabbages, cashews, cherries, carrots, broccoli, watermelon, garlic, cinnamon, basil, sunflower seeds, almonds, canola oil — all are insect pollinated. Honey, dyes, even some vaccines require insects to come to fruition.
Vital to the world’s food web, nested in nutrient cycling, and embedded in industries — the closer we look, the more we see insects as vital to maintaining life’s frameworks. Referring to this fact, famed biologist E.O. Wilson wrote in 1987, “[I]f invertebrates were to disappear, I doubt the human species could last more than a few months.”
I don’t even know which jail they will take me to or how long. Among all the causes that I accumulate for fighting back, some with sentences pending appeal and others pending trial, I can spend up to almost 20 years in prison.
-”Freedom is the Crime they are Persecuting”
This constant harassment that I have suffered for many years and that materializes beyond prison sentences, is not only due to my revolutionary songs, but also because of my militancy beyond music and writing.
The Prosecutor herself recognized literally: “He is dangerous because it is so well known and incites social mobilization.” Putting the struggle I speak of in my songs into practice is what has put me especially in the spotlight, in addition to supporting organizations that have fought the State, being in solidarity with their political prisoners and raising awareness by denouncing injustices by pointing out loud and clear to their culprits.
It is very important to be clear that it is not an attack only against me, but against freedom of expression and therefore against the vast majority who are not guaranteed it like so many other democratic freedoms.
When they repress one, they do it to scare the rest. With this terrorism they want to prevent their crimes and policies of exploitation and misery from being denounced, we cannot allow it.
They know that I’m not going to give up because I’m in prison, that’s why they do it especially so that the rest do. By not internalizing that it is an aggression against any anti-fascist, solidarity has been lacking to avoid my imprisonment like so many others.
The regime grows in the face of the lack of resistance and every day it takes away more rights and freedoms without thinking twice when it comes to touching us, we need to organize self-defense against its systematic attacks.
Many people write to me asking what you can do. It takes a lot of diffusion so that everyone knows what they are doing and is aware of it, but above all the organization is urgent not only to bring solidarity to the events in the streets and coordinate it well, also to defend all the rights that they trample on. with impunity.
It is also necessary to call out the so-called “progressive” government for allowing this and so much more, while protecting the Monarchy and increasing its budget, they do not touch the gag law and other repressive laws, they have also added the “digital gag law”, they continue to have jails full of fighters in terrible conditions, in addition to other policies against the working class.
There is no doubt that if they imprisoned us with a government of PP and VOX there would be much more scandal, but it is these phonies who, claiming to be left-wing , have not firmly opposed this.
I will not repent to reduce the sentence or avoid jail, serving a just cause is a pride that I will never renounce. If they release me before the end of my sentence, it will be because solidarity pressure conquers him.
Prison is another trench from which I will continue to contribute and grow, like so many other people I began to fight inspired by the example of resistance and other contributions of numerous political prisoners.
I hope that this serious outrage will be used to add more people to the fight against the regime, an enemy of our dignity, that if they imprison me to silence the message, they will have a much greater voice and lose out.
Respecting exile, I decided to stay here so that this opportunity can be used to expose them even more. This blow against our freedoms can turn against them, let’s get down to work.
Pablo Hasél.
Comunicado de Pablo Hasel ante su encarcelamiento inminente
En 10 días vendrá a secuestrarme a la fuerza el brazo armado del Estado para encarcelarme porque no voy presentarme de forma voluntaria en prisión.
En 10 días vendrá a secuestrarme a la fuerza el brazo armado del Estado para encarcelarme porque no voy presentarme de forma voluntaria en prisión. No sé ni a que cárcel me llevarán ni cuánto tiempo.
Entre todas las causas que acumulo por luchar, unas con condenas pendientes de recurso y otras de juicio, puedo pasar hasta casi 20 años en prisión. Este constante acoso que sufro desde hace muchos años y que se materializa más allá de las condenas de cárcel, no sólo es debido a mis canciones revolucionarias, también por mi militancia más allá de la música y escritura..
La propia Fiscal reconoció literalmente: “es peligroso por ser tan conocido e incitar a la movilización social”. Llevar a la práctica la lucha de la que hablo en mis canciones es lo que me ha puesto especialmente en el punto de mira, además de apoyar a organizaciones que han combatido al Estado, ser solidario con sus presos políticos y crear conciencia denunciando las injusticias señalando alto y claro a sus culpables.
Es muy importante tener claro que no es un ataque sólo contra mí, sino contra la libertad de expresión y por tanto contra la inmensa mayoría que no la tenemos garantizada como tantas otras libertades democráticas. Cuando reprimen a uno, lo hacen para asustar al resto. Con ese terrorismo quieren impedir que se denuncien sus crímenes y políticas de explotación y miseria, no podemos permitirlo. Saben que no voy a claudicar por estar preso, por eso lo hacen especialmente para que el resto lo haga. Por no interiorizar que es una agresión contra cualquier antifascista, ha faltado solidaridad para evitar mi encarcelamiento como tantos otros.
El régimen se crece ante la falta de resistencia y cada día nos quita más derechos y libertades sin pensárselo dos veces a la hora de tocarnos, necesitamos organizar la autodefensa ante sus ataques sistemáticos. Muchas personas me escribís preguntando qué podéis hacer.
Hace falta mucha difusión para que todo el mundo se entere de lo que hacen y se tome conciencia, pero sobre todo urge la organización no sólo para llevar la solidaridad a los hechos en las calles y coordinarla bien, también para defender todos los derechos que pisotean con impunidad.
También es necesario señalar al tan mal llamado Gobierno “progresista” por permitir esto y tanto más, mientras protegen a la Monarquía y le aumentan el presupuesto, no tocan la ley mordaza y otras leyes represivas, han añadido además la “ley mordaza digital”, siguen teniendo las cárceles llenas de luchadores en pésimas condiciones, además de otras políticas contra la clase trabajadora.
Qué duda cabe de que si nos encarcelaran con un gobierno de PP y VOX habría mucho más escándalo, pero son estos farsantes quienes diciéndose de izquierdas ni se han opuesto firmemente a esto.
No voy a arrepentirme para reducir la condena o evitar la cárcel, servir a una causa justa es un orgullo al que jamás voy a renunciar. Si me liberan antes de finalizar la condena será porque la presión solidaria lo conquista.
La cárcel es otra trinchera desde la que seguiré aportando y creciendo, como tantas otras personas yo empecé a luchar inspirado por el ejemplo de resistencia y otros aportes de numerosos presos políticos.
Espero que este grave atropello sea aprovechado para sumar más personas a la lucha contra el Régimen enemigo de nuestra dignidad, que si me encarcelan para silenciar el mensaje tenga mucha más voz y salgan perdiendo.
Respetando el exilio, decidí quedarme aquí para que esta oportunidad sea aprovechada para desenmascararlos aún más. Este golpe contra nuestras libertades puede tornarse contra ellos, pongámonos manos a la obra.
The Free 