Tag: Canarias

The Opening Borders Caravan (Abriendo Fronteras) dumps 150 kilos of Manure at the Frontex offices .. Eng/Esp

by grupotortuga .com/ Caravana Abriendo Fronteras translation TheFreeOnline

“It is not about reforming or improving Frontex”, says the association’s statement, but rather the work is focused on “dismantling the industrial complex of the borders and building a society in which people can move and live freely”

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This afternoon, a group of participants in the Abriendo Fronteras Caravan spread 150 kilos of manure at the entrance to the offices used by Frontex in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to demand the closure of the European Border Agency.

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Roberto wrote ‘Feed Royals to the Sharks’ on Facebook before his Arrest

13 Spanish policemen broke into Roberto’s home at 7.30 am, took his laptop and cellphone and dragged him away. The Canary Island activist  had written ”Bourbons to the Sharks” and ”I Shit on the Royals, the King and his Repressive Forces” on his Facebook page.
The case comes after a long series of ‘gagging arrests’ especially of singers, rap artists, twitter critics,  especially Catalan independentists, and even two puppeteers.
The Tenerife activist, Roberto Mesa, not only faces the imputation of a crime of insult to the Crown but also a crime of hatred to Spanish institutions and the security bodies of the State. As Cadena SER has learned, the National Police Body (CNP) had been investigating Mesa since 2007 due to its ‘contestatory’ activity on social networks.
Things looked black for Roberto, but then all the Canarian movements came to his rescue, picketing the police and then  the court.
Almost a hundred  Canarian, Spanish and South American social and political organizations – including Podemos, Izquierda Unida and Sí Se Puede –  signed a support manifesto for Roberto Mesa, which was read on Friday at a rally held at the gates of the Palace of Justice in La Laguna. Continue reading “Roberto wrote ‘Feed Royals to the Sharks’ on Facebook before his Arrest”
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