Anti-prison campaigners from Community Action on Prison Expansion (CAPE) are targeting Kier Construction with “New Year, No Kier” campaign. Kier is being targeted as the company contracted to build the mega-prison HMP Five Wells in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, the most advanced of the new mega-prisons announced in the Prison Estate Transformation Programme in 2016. Kier Construction was awarded a staggering 253 million for the project.
On 5 January 2021, Corporate Watch UK is due to release a scathing report documenting the many failings of the inhumane Kier construction and their subsidiaries. Grassroots campaigners have launched “New Year, No Kier” coinciding with this release. They refuse to stop mobilizing until the shut-down of the already failing company.
On Monday, a British judge will decide if WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be extradited to the United States to face espionage charges for publishing secret US military documents..
WikiLeaks@wikileaks·Mother of Julian Assange’s children says if a British court sends her fiancé to face life in a US jail, this country’s no longer a safe haven for free speech | #Assange
“I hope I am wrong,” the 92-year-old activist added, calling Assange’s incarceration – but power reigns”.
A group of young people has deployed a giant banner in Madrid claiming anti-fascist, anti-racist and feminist values in the face of the climate of tension that the extreme right seeks to generate
“Day by day, from collective work, we build a Madrid in which intolerance has no place,” reads the statement promoted by the platforms that have launched the initiative.
For an antifascist Madrid, working from the neighborhoods, from the collective and from the unity. Now and always #MadridAntifa pic.twitter.com/ZgovZtsvdk
- Antifascist Coordinator Madrid (@AntifaMadrid) December 29, 2020
2021 is here. But what’s the difference? Well, for one thing lots of people from all sides are saying ‘Capitalism Must Fall.. We’re Destroying the Planet!’
With today’s tech Utopia has never been more possible. But we’re locked into a ‘man eat man race to the bottom’. No choice now but to pay impossible bills and slave at anything going.
The future looks bad. How is a transition possible without triggering collapse, climate chaos, famine and a nuclear holocaust?
What use are fine anarchist and socialist theories with no possible way of getting from A to B?
But in reality there are ways. If we could only see outside our Blinkers.
The novel The Free, which you can download here, has been described as ”” the most detailed fictional treatment of the movement from a world recognizably like our own to an anarchist society that I have read.. imagined strongly enough to allow readers to believe that events could happen this way.”
Its not a popular or famous novel. The end of capitalism implies fear and denial. But as the powers that be plan their Great Fascist Reset its past time we were talking about real alternatives. And above all plans for how to get there ..
WHO-commissioned review of ivermectin trials finds 83% reduction in covid mortality. Dr Andrew Hill of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Liverpool (UK) is currently performing a WHO-commissioned review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of ivermectin against covid. In the following 12-minute video, Dr Hill is presenting his preliminary results, which confirm […]
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees at the Hudson County jail began a hunger strike Monday, demanding their release amid a coronavirus outbreak at the facility.
There are an estimated 25 to 28 detainees striking at the jail in Kearny. Detainees at the Essex County jail also launched a hunger strike on Monday.
The hunger strikes come on the heels of an outbreak of COVID-19 cases at the Hudson County jail. As of Christmas Eve, at least 16 county prisoners and one federal inmate had tested positive for the virus. By Sunday, that number rose to 33 prisoners. Hudson County spokesman Jim Kennelly noted on Monday that no ICE detainees are currently infected with the virus.
ICE pays Hudson County $120 a day per detainee as part of the agreement. All ICE detainees in the Hudson County jail are currently New York residents.
ICE detainees in Hudson and Essex counties went on hunger strike in March during the first wave of the coronavirus.
There was a hunger strike in August, as well as a suicide or self-harm attempt, the documents showed.
Meanwhile, a recent hunger strike at the Bergen County jail resulted in two detainee releases and several transfers to other facilities, including one as far as Miami. Those striking in Bergen County were at times denied water, medical care, heat, window access.
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Feds’ Small Modular Reactor Action Plan is a dangerous distraction from climate change mitigation, Corporate Knights BY RICK CHEESEMAN, December 29, 2020 Attractive rhetoric around SMR’s does not equate to viability upon close examination In December 18, the Government of Canada launched its Small Modular Reactor Action Plan, ramping up its support for a new generation of nuclear reactors that will be smaller than the existing fleet, and designed for assembly-line production.
Canada can be a world leader in this promising, innovative, zero-emissions energy technology, and this is our plan to position ourselves in an emerging global market,” Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan said in a statement.
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