We are Back! #Amsterdam: Keizersgracht 318 re-squatted

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Amsterdam. Netherlands. On Thursday a building has been re-squatted at Keizersgracht 318 in Amsterdam. This Sunday afternoon the squatters announced their presence.

Originally published by Indymedia NL.

A statement from the squatters:

Since some time we are living in the building at the Keizersgracht number 318. Today we make our presence known.
The building has been vacant for years. In 2015 it was also squatted. Back then it got evicted pretty quickly, because the owner claimed to still use it. Looking at the state of the building, that wasn’t very apparent. Later, in 2017, the owner got caught illegally demolishing the monumental interior of this building. The municipality decided to put a building stop on the building. It was prohibited for the owner to do anything else with the building, before the monumental interior was rebuild to its original state.

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Home action Day in Den Haag


Now, 3 years later, nothing has changed. The building is still empty, nothing has been restored, and the decay continues.
All this while the homelessness numbers in Amsterdam are rising, the rents are skyrocketing, the waiting lists for social rent are getting close to 20 years and hotel after hotel is being build.
For us, reason enough to start using this building, we want to have a house!


A lot of people showed up for the action, and the 1.5 meter rules where creatively enforced. With ropes and banners, the streets where occupied.
The police came to ascertain the fact that the building was squated. The squatters where told that for now, the police will not take action. The squatters heard this one before, so they will not let their guard down.
If you want to pass by to help barricade, clean, occupy, have a beer, you are more then welcome.

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The Week’s Best Cartoons 7/11 — Filosofa’s Word

Originally posted on Political⚡Charge: By Bill Bramhall, New York Daily News Every week, I enjoy searching for editorial cartoons responding to the news and sharing them with you on Saturdays. This week, there are some recurring themes plus some new ones. Do let me know which ones resonate the most with you in the…

The Week’s Best Cartoons 7/11 — Filosofa’s Word .. shared with thanks

Every week, I enjoy searching for editorial cartoons responding to the news and sharing them with you on Saturdays. This week, there are some recurring themes plus some new ones.

Do let me know which ones resonate the most with you in the comments!

Trump Orders Schools to Re-Open

ByMike Thompson, Detroit Free Press
ByMatt Davies, Newsday

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‘Firewalkers’ by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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A novella that punches above its weight, delivering a well-imagined, skilfully revealed future where a young and poor underclass of ‘Firewalkers’ risk their lives to service the global billionaire elite as they prepare to escape a dying Earth and leave the rest of us to burn.

My experience with Adrienne Tchaikovsky’s books is mixed. I loved his standalone ‘Dogs Of War’ novel about genetically enhanced animals being used as soldiers but I couldn’t get into his very popular ‘Children Of Time’ series.

I decided to try ‘Firewalkers’ because I wanted to see how Tchaikovsky handled the novella ( the book is 165 pages) and because it spoke to a topical theme: the very wealthy insulating themselves from the consequences of the environmental collapse that they have become wealthy by accelerating. I’m certain that the people funding Climate Change Denial see climate change as an opportunity to winnow the world’s population…

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Jail Killer Cops! Smash Racist Capitalism! — Socialist Action – Canada

Cruel racism abounds in the USA. From the slave ships, to the slave auctions, to the schools and prisons of today; from the whippings, rapes and murders of the past to the beatings, racial profiling and killings of today… slavery is endemic to the capitalist system across North America.

Jail Killer Cops! Smash Racist Capitalism! — by Socialist Action – Canada

On the land stolen from the brutalized and decimated Indigenous peoples, capitalism was built on the backs of African and Indigenous slaves, and by impoverished, exploited and oppressed immigrants and racialized workers.

In Canada, the ruling class papered over the violent seizure of land from the indigenous peoples — much of it still unceded.  Those peoples were starved, raped, injured and murdered. 

Their children were seized, imprisoned in residential schools where the “Indian ” in them was suppressed relentlessly, where many were over-worked, underfed, beaten, raped and killed.

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¡Honramos a Anarcha la Esclava! Resistimos el patriarcado racista. Nombrando “anarchagland”

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–  actualización y traducción en castellano .. ¡Honramos a Anarcha la Esclava! Resistiendo el patriarcado racista. Nombrando “anarchagland”

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El Dr. Sims, que no tenía experiencia ginecológica, obtuvo hasta 20 esclavas negras que sufrían lesiones ginecológicas de fístulas desgarradas y experimentó con ellas, sin anestesia, durante 4 años en su “plantación médica” en Alabama.

En 2015, #Anarchagland, un proyecto de investigación autónoma de #GynePunk en Catalunya, cambió el nombre de las glándulas sexuales femeninas a 3 esclavas, Anarcha, Betsey y Lucy, que fueron maltratadas como conejillos de indias médicos por el ”doctor” J Marion Sims.

“Si había algo que odiaba”, escribió desde el principio, “estaba investigando los órganos de la pelvis femenina”.

No sabemos cuántas de sus víctimas murieron o si realmente dieron su consentimiento, como afirmó en su extravagante autobiografía (era un delito de pena de muerte para los esclavos escribir o grabar algo), pero Sims era un ‘showman’ y se jactaba de operar más de 30 veces en Anarcha, que tenía 17 años al principio, y casi mató a Lucy en su primera intervenión.

marion sims tiene muchas estatuas en norteamerica pero su fama viene del abuso racista y cruel de las esclavas negras de su propriedad.

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Estas esclavas sufrieron fístulas desgarradas, lágrimas en las paredes entre sus vaginas, uretras y rectos, por lo que gotearon orina y no fueron capaces sexualmente, por lo que sus dueños perdieron ganancias potenciales en esclavas. ..

Estas lesiones fueron causadas por partos difíciles, condiciones de trabajo atroces (por ejemplo, 15 horas diarias durante el embarazo) o violación legal (las esclavas eran propiedad y podían ser violadas con impunidad y con fines de lucro cuando tenían hijos).

A surgeon experimented on slave women without anesthesia. Now his ...

Dr Marion Sims experimented on slave women without anesthesia. Now his statues are under attack. This one on Central Park NY was finally removed but many more remain.

.ver …VICTORIA!… J Marion Sims: controversial statue taken down

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Diane Collier y Marina Ortiz quieren que la estatua del Dr. Marion Sims sea retirada de East Harlem. “Obviamente es ofensivo para las mujeres de color, pero debería ser ofensivo para las mujeres en general”, dijo Collier. “Mi posición es si Yale puede cambiar el nombre de Calhoun College … Parks debería poder hacer algo en una ciudad progresista como Nueva York. Así es como lo estoy mirando “.

De hecho, el mismo Sims probablemente causó la enfermedad en Anarcha al usar pinzas para sacar a su bebé con cero experiencia, como él mismo admitió. Sims dedica muchos capítulos a alabarse a sí mismo, pero no nos deja ninguna nota sobre si los niños o las pacientes sobrevivieron.

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Farmers Could Absorb an Extra 2 Billion Tonnes of CO2 a year if paid to spread Rock Dust

Good News at last. A part of our CO2 release could be saved….

Or could it?? This post doesn’t analyze the emissions of crushing, transporting and spreading the rock dust

Originally posted on The Extinction Chronicles: https://scitechdaily.comBy UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD JULY 11, 2020

2 Billion Tonnes of CO2 Could be Absorbed From the Atmosphere Each Year by Applying Rock Dust to Farmland Adding crushed rock dust to farmland could draw down up to two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the…

Shockingly Simple: How Farmland Could Absorb an Extra 2 Billion Tonnes of CO2 From the Atmosphere Each Year — Alexanders’ Blog

Adding crushed rock dust to farmland could draw down up to two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air per year and help meet key global climate targets, according to a major new study led by the University of Sheffield.

  • Major new study shows adding rock dust to farmland could remove carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent to more than the current total emissions from global aviation and shipping combined — or around half of Europe’s current total emissions
  • Research identifies the nation-by-nation potential for CO2 drawdown, as well as the costs and the engineering challenges involved
  • Findings reveal the world’s highest emitters (China, India and the US) also have the greatest potential to remove CO2 from the atmosphere using this method
  • Scientists suggest unused materials from mining and the construction industry could be used to help soils remove CO2 from the atmosphere

The technique, known as enhanced rock weathering, involves spreading finely crushed basalt, a natural volcanic rock, on fields to boost the soil’s ability to extract CO2 from the air.

In the first nation-by-nation assessment, published in Nature, scientists have demonstrated the method’s potential for carbon drawdown by major economies, and identified the costs and engineering challenges of scaling up the approach to help meet ambitious global CO2 removal targets. The research was led by experts at the University of Sheffield’s Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation, and the University’s Energy Institute.

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Fuck the Police march descends on DC Jail for noisy solidarity protest

On the 11th of July, a fiesty “Fuck the Police” march out of Dupont Circule wound their way though wealthy areas of Capitol Hill chanting “Fire, fire, Gentrifier!” The march ended at DC Jail, where statements of support for people held captive inside were read and noisy chants reached those held inside. People held prisoner […]

Fuck the Police march descends on DC Jail for noisy solidarity protest — DC Direct Action News