The Prosecutor’s Office admits a collective complaint of 56 possible cases of ‘stolen children’


View of a demonstration of those affected by the so-called ‘theft’ of babies.- EFE / Víctor Lerena.

by ANA MARÍA PASCUAL @Anmariapascual

Good news for women who denounce the abduction of their newborns in past decades of democracy and during the dictatorship. The State Attorney General’s Office admits to processing the collective complaint of 56 families, included in half a dozen associations.
Manifestación en Madrid por los niños robados./ EFE

It is the first time that a collective complaint has been filed for cases of ‘stolen children’ with a gender perspective. A new approach that, for now, seems to be working. The complainants understand that the crime was perpetrated against women, both single and married, at the time of delivery.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office undertakes to investigate these cases one by one in order to respond to the mothers and families who suspect that they were victims of an abduction of their babies between 1952 and 1987.

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Support prisoners and Stop torture in Zuera Jail in Spain! Prison Hunger Strike rotates:

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The rotating hunger strike is continuing, now running from January 11-20. The strike is against everything that kills us, more or less slowly, the people who are in prison, beginning with torture and ill treatment.

Juan Manuel Duró Sánchez, a prisoner in the isolation of the Villena prison, has sent a letter in which he relates ill treatment to a couple of his comrades, published in the blog of the Grup de Suport a Presxs, Lleida. We know from other colleagues that in the First Degree of that prison of Villena (Alicante II) reigns the violence of the jailers and that, of course, is not the only place.

Below, we insert part of David Rojas’ story published in the blog of HENAS’ comrades about the harsh conditions in Zuera prison, where violence by the guards against the prisoners, medical abandonment and the systematic cruelty of the punishment regime are also on the agenda, in addition to the deprivation of communications with the excuse that family members can spread the coronavirus to the prisoners, while people enter from the street without any warning and no real preventive measures are taken.

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J20: Close the Camps – A Call to Demonstrate against ICE on Inauguration Day

Originally published by Crimethinc.

So-called USA. We have received the following call to action from a network of anti-border activists. In the wake of Trump supporters’ invasion of the Capitol building, opponents of authoritarianism must maintain momentum against all the oppressive policies that the Biden administration aims to preserve—keeping the focus on social change, rather than simply shoring up the status quo against fascists.

January 20 has a long history as a day of resistance to tyranny; this year, it makes sense to focus on the institutions of oppression that are spread around the country, rather than the ones concentrated in the nation’s capital.

Please circulate this call widely. To endorse this call or have the action you are organizing listed, email abolishice@riseup.net.

J20: Close the Camps

From “Build the Wall” to the Muslim Ban, Donald Trump’s administration made history as the most anti-immigrant presidency in living memory. Though incoming President Joe Biden promised throughout his election campaign that he will roll back Trump’s immigration policies, it is unlikely that he will fulfill that promise unless we compel him to.

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Yemen: US Planning to Blacklist Yemen’s Ansarullah

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100,000 deaths as US and UK profit from racist sectarian Saudi war on Ansarullah Houthis

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Washington is planning to designate Yemen’s Ansarullah revolutionary movement as a foreign “terrorist” group on Monday.

Three sources have told Reuters that the administration of outgoing US President Donald Trump is going to blacklist the resistance movement.

According to two of the sources quoted by Reuters, the decision could be announced as soon as Monday.

The decision also intends to designate three of Ansarullah’s leaders, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, Abd al-Khaliq Badr al-Din al-Houthi, and Abdullah Yahya al Hakim, as ‘Specially Designated Global Terrorists.’

The move comes as the administration of US President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take over from the Trump administration on January 20.

Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back…

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Gravity Energy Storage : A very uplifting technology!

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Gravity energy storage is not actually a new concept. We’ve been doing it with pumped hydro for more than a century. But that’s very expensive to build and needs an awful lot of space. Now though, two new companies have developed systems that mimic the effect of pumped hydro by raising and lowering extremely large and heavy weights up and down over huge height distances. So, do we have yet another addition to the growing grid scale energy storage family?

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Will Pentagon help far right ‘Inauguration Uprising’ as they did Trump’s Coup Bid ?

With all eyes on Biden’s inauguration Trump’s 70 million supporters are planning ‘actions’ across the US.

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Does Trump still control the Pentagon and the National Guard?
Or will they ”arrive too late” as they did in the Storming of the Capitol…

‘Unbelievable’: Right-Wing Militia Found Not Guilty

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Finian Cunningham January 11, 2021 With the likes of Miller and other far-rightists in charge at the Pentagon, there is no guarantee on whose side the military will be, Finian Cunningham writes. The extraordinary breach of security at the US Congressional building wasn’t just a “failure of planning” which allowed thousands of Trump supporters to […]

Pentagon’s Sinister Role in Trump’s Coup Bid — via UPROOTED PALESTINIANS

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Pentagon’s Sinister Role in Trump’s Coup Bid — via UPROOTED PALESTINIANS

Culture of Misogyny and Toxic Masculinity Driving Sexual Violence in Bangladesh — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Human Wrongs Watch By Sania Farooqui* NEW DELHI, India, Jan 11 2021 (IPS)* – In October 2020, Bangladeshi citizens took to the streets, outraged by the reports of gruesome gang rapes and sexual violence that were taking place in the country. According to Ain O Salish Kendra, a Bangladeshi human rights organization, 975 women were […]

Culture of Misogyny and Toxic Masculinity Driving Sexual Violence in Bangladesh — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH