my Brazilian ‘Person of the Year’

Mayara Vivian is one of a protest movement that sparked off a mass rebellion in Brazil in 2013.

She’s 24 years old, studies geography at the University of Sao Paulo, has butterfly tattoos, and works nights as a waitress in a bar in the popular Vila Madalena neighbourhood of Sao Paulo.

She’s Mayara Vivian, and she’s my Brazil Person of the Year for 2013. Continue reading “my Brazilian ‘Person of the Year’”

Great precedent as UK Eviction Case Collapses

Another squatting case collapses on appeal at Crown Court – defendant acquitted

Resistance to s.144 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) 2012 that outlaws squatting in residential buildings is growing. Ultimately, the law may prove unworkable and unenforceable.

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Ten days ago, squatters occupied a residential council property in Southwark in protest at the sell-off of council houses and the criminalisation of squatting under s.144. Last week, a Brighton squatter was acquitted on appeal as the prosecution failed to prove he was living at the property. His two co-defendants had previously been acquitted on the same charge. Continue reading “Great precedent as UK Eviction Case Collapses”

Brasil: Se extiende la Rebelión Masiva/Giant Rebellion!

busfaredemo 17june santos Brasil: Cientos de miles de personas salen a las calles contra la subida de los transportes publicos y los gastos del Mundial

por Kaos. América Latina

Los sectores que vienen promoviendo protestas contra un fuerte aumento en las tarifas del transporte amenazaron el lunes con hacer movilizaciones más grandes todavía, lo que aliment temores de que se repita la brutal represión policial de los últimos días. Continue reading “Brasil: Se extiende la Rebelión Masiva/Giant Rebellion!”

Anti-Capitalists take streets: Turkey Frankfurt Portugal Spain Greece Ireland London..Blockupy

Anti-Capitalist protests held across Europe

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Turkey, Spain, Portugal… southern Europe erupts

All across southern Europe major demonstrations have erupted. Turkey, Portugal, Spain… Elsewhere, in Germany (Frankfurt) demonstrators protesting against the European Community Bank Continue reading “Anti-Capitalists take streets: Turkey Frankfurt Portugal Spain Greece Ireland London..Blockupy”

Turkey: Mega victory demos as killer police retreat

 

Police retreat as protesters rally in Istanbul square

 

After viciously attacking peaceful protestors for 36 hours with tear gas and pepper spray to hold onto the area, Turkish police retreat as thousands of protesters pour into Istanbul’s Taksim Square….

 

Police have started withdrawing from a main Istanbul square to allow in tens of thousands of protesters campaigning against the potential construction of a shopping centre in a park.

 

State-run Private Dogan news agency said officers removed barricades after brief scuffles with demonstrators who hurled fireworks at them.

 

Riot police in Istanbul have fought running battles with thousands of people who turned out to protect a park in the city’s central Taksim Square.

 

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Water cannon and tear gas were used as protesters tried to reach the square and the parliament building in the capital, Ankara.

 

It all started with a peaceful protest over plans to redevelop the Gezi Parka but it has become bigger than just an environmental protest. It is now a demonstration against the Islamist-rooted government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

 

First pictures, then videos of brutal police attacks on unarmed protesters in Istanbul caused the protests to spread to other cities, with riot police being deployed in Ankara overnight. Continue reading “Turkey: Mega victory demos as killer police retreat”

15M: outrage to mass rebellion: towards the Revolution!

maxresdefault‘From outrage to rebellion’, thousands of people take to the streets on the second anniversary of the 15-M
by Kaos.
The 15-M movement
is very much alive on the second anniversary of his birth ,in that has held marches in Madrid and another 20 Spanish cities under the motto “From outrage to rebellion: ‘Escrache’ the system ‘.
Follow it live on TV 
http://www.tomalatele.tv/web/?p=6715  y  http://bit.ly/Qa6Yv0t (the stream at the foot of the note)


Not only to commemorate his birthday, but to denounce the problems that the May 15, 2011 led to the so-called ‘indignados’ camps in dozens of Spanish cities are still present today. As usual in this movement, its philosophy that the street is of citizens leads them to not communicate officially to the authorities these marches, which will continue throughout the month of May. Continue reading “15M: outrage to mass rebellion: towards the Revolution!”

Serial of The Free Ch 43 ‘Clanners Way’

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ACT FOUR

Chapter Forty Three

Clanners Way

‘It was snowing red rose petals in Foxford Bridge’

Lucia and Barney narrating

‘Look Lucy look!’-

           

Me and Barney had lucked out. I never met Christy Peters but I loved his pad, he was Clan Orca, like a lot of mariners, and merchants. They still used money for trade, though not in their personal lives. Continue reading “Serial of The Free Ch 43 ‘Clanners Way’”