Sometimes a film-maker gets lucky. I saw a good example earlier this year, watching Knock Down the House. Someone had to be there, filming Alexandria Ocasio Cortez talking about her political ambitions while polishing glasses in a New York bar. If she hadn’t won, the footage might never have been used. As it is, they got to be there to see history being made.
Nathan Grossman is another such film-maker, booking in a couple of days at short notice to film a solo climate protest after a suggestion from a friend who was working with Greta Thunberg’s mum. And so he was there on day one of her school strike outside the Swedish parliament.
There was no way of knowing at that point that Greta would become a media sensation and launch a global movement. In the event, and unlikely though it may seem, that day of filming became…
by. Marco Aurelio: Posted on 11/30/2020 by Pepe Galindo
In countries where HUNTING is FORBIDDEN, the ban was first talked about and they said it was impossible. Then it was accepted as possible and beneficial. And finally hunting was prohibited. Moral: Let’s talk about PROHIBITING HUNTING because it is possible, legitimate and ethical.
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Junta de Andalucía (PP) authorizes hunters to move freely while the rest of us cannot go from one town to another. There is more freedom to kill than to enjoy Nature while respecting it. You cannot change your location to have a sandwich in the countryside, but if you go hunting you can freely roam Andalusia (and even go to Castilla-La Mancha). It is another of the aberrations of the PP against animals and the environment.
On November 27 Eric King and 95 other prisoners tested positive at FCI Englewood. Per a letter from the 22nd it seems that someone in Erics unit had been sick for 6 days and was not tested or isolated from even his cellmate. Despite the fact Englewood has had a rapid screen machine since may per FOIA documents. (https://www.bop.gov/foia/docs//Current_AbbottIDNow_Machine_Locations_5192020.pdf) They also failed to follow protocol and because of that in a single day they had 95 positive tests.
This is incredibly frustrating because at the End of October Englewood had no active COVID cases when the BOP thought it was a good idea to sent employees from FCI Florence where there were active staff cases to FCI Englewood to seemingly intimidate him (https://supportericking.org/2020/11/02/11-2-2020-update-eric/). Within 10 days the first staff positive showed up and within a month there are at least 126 active prisoner cases and 30 active staff cases.
Florence isn’t doing too much better. Yet the two complexes are STILL sharing staff.
We received this message to folks prior to him getting sick he wanted to share
Hello hello hello!
I want to check in with everyone who cares ( and all the government creeps stalking the page, we see you we still hate you FTTP) this was supposed to be the month my Mail “privileges” were returned. Apparently a differing opinion about what six months means might push it back to January. I’m working with the admin here to have that corrected. I really miss letters. I missed my friends, caring about your lives, adventures, pets all of it hopefully soon we can get to chatting again and building/ maintaining strong friendships. I’ve been getting some magazines recently, either in bundle packages or subscriptions THANK YOU so f’n much. magazines and books are so crucial, when you’re stuck in the damn SHU forever, they can be a lifeline to the world. Thank you billions to everyone who have looked out for me in any way.
We are still pending trial, still in the SHU, still going through it and things have not been pleasant really. I commend everyone who took to the streets, who continue to fight in 1000 different ways. Trump’s gone, Barr’s gone, nothing is changing though. Police and prisons still exist, our enemies still exist, hunger still exists, patriarchy, imperialism, capitalism all still exist.
I love you all, thank you for everything!
Until All Prisons Are Rubble, Antifa ALWAYS (A)
-EK (A)
Eric’s book list has been closed because the prison has been super sketchy about sometimes just choosing to and all the books he receives back. he feels really bad about the funds that are wasted when this happens. But he has been regularly receiving his books so we’re going to give this another go and open his book list again!
We just received news that Erics mail ban has expired however he was told there was a 99.9% chance that they will give him another 6 month correspondence restriction. 6 more months cut off from the world during a global pandemic. Mail is the only actual right that a prisoner has in prison. And the Bill Barr BOP has found a way to take it away from him for a year. As well as TWO years of illegal phone restrictions at this point.
If you can or feel so inclined to do so and want to send some love as fast as you possibly can please today drop something in the mail
Eric King 27090045 FCI Englewood 9595 W Quincy ave Littleton Co 80501
Please keep it light, nothing about his case, COVID, or mail ban.
He misses everyone SO MUCH and just wants to hear from his friends. He was pretty sick but feels he may be on the mend.
Without the embrace of profound experimentation with existence, we cede the future and our lives to the billionaires and petty warlords, technocrats and politicians.
Stephanie Wakefieldresearches human-environment relations, urban resilience, and social-ecological systems thinking
In the Anthropocene—the current terminal period of neoliberal capitalism marked by climate change, environmental degradation, and social-political unraveling—calls to rethink human life abound. In response, a powerful subframe of Anthropocene theory—what we might name “precarious entanglement” or “dwelling in the ruins” thinking—forwards one way of doing so. For proponents of this perspective, the infrastructures, promises, and aspirations of modernity are seen as ruins themselves.1To think otherwise would be to miss the lessons the Anthropocene holds for us: modern humanism…
En los países en los que está PROHIBIDO CAZAR, primero se habló de la prohibición y decían que era imposible. Luego, se aceptó como algo posible y beneficioso. Y finalmente se prohibió cazar. Moraleja: Hablemos de PROHIBIR LA CAZA porque es posible, legítimo y ético.
En plena pandemia por el COVID-19, la Junta de Andalucía (PP) autoriza a los cazadores a moverse libremente mientras los demás no podemos pasar de una localidad a otra. Hay más libertad para matar que para disfrutar de la Naturaleza respetándola. No puedes cambiar de localidad para tomarte un bocadillo en el campo, pero si vas a cazar puedes recorrer Andalucía libremente (e incluso ir a Castilla-La Mancha). Es otra de las aberraciones del PP contra los animales y el medioambiente.
Los cazadores alegan que son imprescindibles para el mantenimiento de las poblaciones. Ese es su principal argumento para existir. Y es…
The Environmental Protection Agency released a draft biological evaluation today finding that glyphosate is likely to injure or kill 93% of the plants and animals protected under the Endangered Species Act.
The long-anticipated draft biological evaluation released by the agency’s pesticide office found that 1,676 endangered species are likely to be harmed by glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup and the world’s most-used pesticide.
La Revista Blanca (The White Magazine), with a fortnightly circulation and fundamentally individualist anarchist content, was born in 1898. In both its stages you could read texts by anarchist writers and workers.
Anarcho-feminists at the dawn of the 20th century:
la Revista Blanca (The White Magazine). at Anselmo Lorenzo Foundation.
The cultural revolution launched in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by the Spanish libertarian movement is a clear example of the strength that the working class has to reverse the established order in pursuit of a more just and egalitarian society.
As Alejandro Civantos points out, in a chapter of the book Cultura (s) obrera (s) en España, “in a period of barely fifty years […] Spanish anarchism promoted the most important cultural transformation in all of contemporary history.”
However, the dominant historiography has made sure that this story remains a mere marginal note. But what did this revolution consist of?
To answer this question, we must give a brief brushstroke of History. After the Spanish delegation of the International Workers Association (AIT) was founded in 1870, which culminated in the creation of the Spanish Regional Federation of the AIT, new cultural channels were established in the Spanish State where social and political structures were denounced since the anarchist postulates.
For the anarchism of the time, culture and education were fundamental pillars that should be available to the popular classes, this is how they could achieve their own emancipation: thanks to their own knowledge of their status as exploited.
With a population whose illiteracy rate was alarming, since anarchism it has been known to see in culture and literature a call to direct action. The objective was clear, to get the women and men who put their workforce at the service of the powerful out of ignorance through a comprehensive liberation project.
Athenaeums, libraries, plays and theatrical performances, but above all numerous anarchist newspapers flourished everywhere. For the anarchism of the late nineteenth century, culture and education were fundamental pillars that should be available to the popular classes.
Spread throughout cities and towns, the libertarian press reached all corners of the Spanish state. From big cities to small towns with few inhabitants. More than a hundred titles in which the real problems of the workers could be read and where, contrary to the bourgeois or socialist press, the workers, from the factories or the workshops, wrote their own problems without censorship.
For example, Teresa Claramunt, an anarcho-feminist pioneer, would write in newspapers such as La Tramontana, Los Desheredados or El Productor about the terrible conditions of working women and the need for culture and their organization in unions.
Production widened with other types of publications appearing, such as sociological magazines, in which the proletariat began to meet authors such as Darwin, Galileo or Copernicus. Science, in fact, was a very important subject for anarchism, since in it there was a way of explaining the universe as opposed to religious explanations. Magazines such as Acracia or La Revista Blanca were true encyclopedias for male and female workers.
La Revista Blanca: art, science, literature and sociology
On this occasion, and due to the debates around the female question that were published on its pages, I would like to focus on La Revista Blanca, that seminar that already warned on its cover”Reader, what you see here may be contrary to your opinions.. Right here you can refute it “, and “Whatever your condition and gender, reader, don’t stop reading this magazine. “
