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Free Turkey: Saturday Night at Gezi Park (*recommended)

 

Saturday Night at Gezi Park

by selana019

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In #globalrevolution on 8 June 2013 at 22:17

 

Taksim, via radical.com.tr

 

Istanbul, June 8

Dear people,

Picture this. It’s actually pretty cinematographic. A dungeon with screens. A table with a bottle of coke, a bag of crisps. And a drowsy editor, monitoring the situation. The editor is me. I see one of the screens lighten up. I look and I don’t believe it. I tap on the screen to see if it goes away. It doesn’t. I turn on the sound, and I say: “What the hell. It’s revolution.” Continue reading “Free Turkey: Saturday Night at Gezi Park (*recommended)”

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….

By Guldenay Sonumut in IstanbulRiot police use tear gas to disperse the crowd during an anti-government protest at Taksim Square in central Istanbul

 

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.

 

turkish spring

 

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”

Barcelona: 32 flats Occupied for Evicted Mortgage Victims

The Spanish debt spiral is still climbing. All social services are being destroyed or sold off to help pay the interest on gigantic grants to save the Banks after the collapse of their capitalist scams.  But the debt keeps rising.

With evictions still running near 500 a day and popular anti-eviction laws rejected by the government, community groups are beginning mass occupations.

stop evictions

A building in Torre Baró district  of NOU BARRIS has been occupied for evicted families or because they live in extreme precariousness
The property is owned by a subsidiary of the Barcelona County Council and has been empty a long time.
Photo: @ XaviUrbano… R.T.  # habitatgepertothom  Continue reading “Barcelona: 32 flats Occupied for Evicted Mortgage Victims”

Montreal police arrest 447 at May Day

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International Workers Day rally yields unlawful assembly fines for participants

Montreal police arrested 447 people last night during a May Day demonstration in Montreal organized by a group called the Anti-Capitalist Convergence, or CLAC.

Those arrested at the demonstration that coincided with International Workers’ Day were released over the course of the night and handed a $637 fine for unlawful assembly.

The noisy, colourful rally Wednesday was almost festive when it began early on the unseasonably warm evening.

Restaurant patrons watched from outdoor terraces as drummers, musicians and chanting, flag-waving demonstrators gathered in Place Jacques-Cartier.

However, police declared the gathering illegal shortly after it started under the controversial Montreal public order bylaw P-6. The bylaw makes it illegal to participate in an assembly with a face obscured by a scarf, hood or mask, and requires protesters to disclose to police in advance the location and itinerary of their demonstration.

Police said they issued a dispersal order, and also confirmed criminal acts, which consisted mainly of wielding sticks and throwing billiard balls at officers, were performed.

“It was getting dangerous for peace and safety and the public order,” said police Sgt. Jean-Bruno Latour.

Dozens of demonstrators tried to make their way to the march’s destination, a private club known by its street number, 357c.

Witnesses at Quebec’s inquiry into corruption in the construction industry have referred to the club in testimony as a meeting place for entrepreneurs, high-level bureaucrats and politicians to discuss business.

However, the demonstrators never reached the club.

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Hundreds of police encircled the protesters at the intersection of de la Commune Street and St-Sulpice Street. They herded — and in some cases, physically carried— those detained into awaiting buses.

The CLAC denounced the police intervention, saying they used disproportionate force against protesters.

Latour could not say if anyone would face criminal charges.

reblogged  from  CBC

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#ItalianRevolution: ‘false govt must be brought down’

In #globalrevolution 

Italian Revolution

Dear people,

Imagine, in the UK, 2013, John Major returning to be prime minister. It sounds a bit ridiculous, doesn’t it? Especially if you hypothesise him leading a government of the Conservatives and Labour combined. But in Italy, something like this is likely to happen.

Follow the livestream:

After striking a deal with Berlusconi over the presidency of the republic the Italian ‘Labour’ party is about to jump in bed with the media tycoon’s private political party and nominate Giovanni Amato as prime minister. Amato has already been prime minister of Italy in the 1990s. Continue reading “#ItalianRevolution: ‘false govt must be brought down’”

anti-Thatcher Street parties: joy as tyrant dies


  1. 4738482400 BARRICADE STREET AT THATCHER PARTY IN BRISTOL

    Chelsea Road in Easton barricaded all evening as 400 dance on Thatcher’s grave while in Lichfield the town is treated to magnificent firework display………….more to come…………but don’t miss out on Saturday 6pm Trafalgar Square…..the biggest rent-a-mob in history.

    ‘When former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell wrote a positive tribute to the ‘First Lady of girl power’ on Twitter she received so much abuse she felt the need to delete it. She later tweeted to her 203,000 followers: ‘I’m sorry if I offended u. X’

    DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD HAS ENTERED THE TOP 40

    OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAPolice make arrests at Thatcher death street parties in Bristol and Brixton
    The Guardian ‎- 10 hours ago
    Officers injured during public disorder as hundreds turn out across cities in Britain to celebrate former prime minister’s death.

    Margaret Thatcher ‘unabashedly racist’ – Australia FM

    A man walks by a display of the Sydney tabloid newspaper the Daily Telegraph marking the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in Sydney on Tuesday

    Australia’s Foreign Minister Bob Carr has described comments made by Baroness Thatcher as “unabashedly racist”.

    In a conversation with her “in her retirement”, Mr Carr said the former UK prime minister had warned Australia against Asian immigration.

    She said “if we allowed too much of it we’d see the natives of the land, the European settlers, overtaken by migrants”, he said.

    The Independent‎ – 3 hours ago
    The Guardian Blogs (blog)‎ – 7 hours agoGlasgow party
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I Can’t Believe I Still Have to Protest This Shit

de allysonthefeminist

protest this shitHow true is this? I find it ridiculous that we’re still fighting the same issues.

1. Reproductive RIGHTS. Abortion and contraception aren’t going anywhere. Get the fuck over it. Random thought, why are condoms never a part of the debate? It’s always about contraception women use.

2. Rape is rape. No means no. The rapist is the ONLY person to blame. And no, the body cannot shut down rape babies.

3. Same-sex couples will be able to get married all over the US. There’s no stopping it. GET USED TO IT!

4. Women deserve the same pay as men. Period.

5. Fucking pass VAWA already. ALL women deserve to be protected. Stop being assholes. Yeah, I’m looking at you Cantor.

Thanks for reading my rant!

http://www.google.com/ig?source=gama&hl=es#m_290