On Saturday in Athens, students, teachers and their supporters
participated in a massive march and rally with demands for free and
public education for all.
In contrast, the Ministry of Education has imposed deep austerity
measures on education and has drastically cut funding for schools. The
results of the draconian austerity policies have lead to multiple
closing or merging of schools, cutting programs, and the elimination of
bus service for school children.Clearly, austerity measures are slowly
destroying the culture and society and only serves the financial
interests of private colleges and schools.
Altogether we can fight for a better future for ourselves and our
children – a future with free quality education for all people.
...
Students protest against the government project "Athina" that wants to
unify and to cut off funding from the Public universities to benefit
private universities.
An 80-year-old granny have lived for 6 months without electricity when Greek Public Power Company (DEH) cut the power to her home due to an outstanding debt of 200 euro.
Her pension is just 150 euro, the woman told reporters of the civic movement “I don’t pay” and an activists group that illegally re-connected the power. An elderly living in modern Middle Ages in Patissia district of Athens, an area considered to be almost downtown.
Underlining that with her thin income she was unable to pay her debt to PPC, the woman explained how she lived in her one-bedroom home for a long period of time: No fridge, no heating, no shower, no light at night.
Greek democracy is in peril and much of the fault lies with the EU's hard stance
When those madcap Scandinavian satirists awarded the Nobel peace prize to the European Union,
they let everyone in on the joke by praising its commitment to
"reconciliation, democracy and human rights". If the committee's 2012
citation were anything other than a spoof, you would have read
denunciations of the rise of oppressive state power and neo-Nazism in
Greece from concerned Euro commissioners long before now.
The EU denounces threats to freedom of speech in Viktor Orbán's
Hungary with vigour. European politicians worry with good reason about
the fate of independent institutions that stand in the way of the
rabble-rousing regime. They notice the fascistic element in the new
Hungarian right's flirtations with antisemitic and anti-Roma hatreds and
its willingness to indulge the revanchist fantasy that Hungary can
regain the lands it lost after the First World War. On the fate of Greek
democracy there is silence, however, although there is much that
Europe's leaders might talk about.
You spot the pressure points of
a failing state by looking at what it censors. In the case of Greece,
the authorities' prosecution last week of Kostas Vaxevanis
showed that he had hit a pressure point with the accuracy of a doctor
sticking a needle into a nerve. While Greeks live with austerity without
end, while Greek GDP has shrunk by 4.5% in 2010 and 6.9% in 2011, and
will shrink by a predicted 6.5% this year and 4.5% in 2013, the list of
the names of 2,000 Greeks with bank accounts in Switzerland Vaxevanis
published, suggested that the well-connected were escaping the burdens
that fall on the masses.
"Instead of arresting the tax evaders and
the ministers who had the list in their hands," thundered Vaxevanis in a
call to arms that stirred the blood, "they're trying to arrest the
truth and freedom of the press."
His acquittal on privacy law
charges, though welcome, was less important than it appeared. It did not
mean that freedom of the press was secure in Greece. Even in good
times, independent journalism has rarely been a force in the land. Most
Greek TV stations and newspapers are owned by either the state or
plutocratic corporations, neither of which likes seeing corruption
exposed. The leftwing daily, Eleftherotypia, which for all its faults and flirtations with terrorism at least challenged the oligarchs, filed for bankruptcy last year.
Few
of the employees of the remaining Greek news organisations reject the
notion that they should keep quiet in the interests of holding on to
their pay cheques. The state is hounding too many of those who do. "We
still have freedom of expression recognised by the law at a theoretical
level," said Asteris Masouras, one of the free speech monitors at Global Voices.
"On a practical level, well..." And he proceeded to give me a list of
instances of menacing forces intimidating reporters that would go on
into the New Review section if I ran it in full.
Where to begin?
How about the self-defeating austerity policies the troika of the
European Central Bank, European Commission and International Monetary
Fund have forced on Greece? The authorities used an old warrant to
arrest Spiros Karatzaferis,
after the journalist threatened to reveal confidential emails, that
might have explained how the troika's alleged "rescue package" had
pushed the country into depression.
Police brutality is another
pressure point, undoubtedly. The Greek left makes persistent allegations
of collaboration between the supposed forces of law and order and the
thugs in the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn movement. The Guardian
ran reports that the police had beaten up anti-fascist demonstrators
after they had confronted Golden Dawn. Yes, I know leftists call
everyone "fascists" from headteachers to their mums and dads, but as
Golden Dawn is building a mass movement while marching under a swastika,
the term is correct on this occasion. The following day, Greek state TV
replaced Kostas Arvanitis and Marilena Katsimi, the presenters of its morning news show, after they told managers they planned to follow up the Guardian's
claims. Another state TV reporter, Christos Dantis, has joined the
ranks of the vanishing journalists. His editors assigned him to cover
the celebrations of the centenary of the liberation of Thessaloniki from
Ottoman rule. He was about to report on popular protests against the
presence of the Greek prime minister and president in Greece's second
city when his masters turned off the camera and cut to a more amenable
hack.
All the Greek journalists I spoke to emphasised that Athens
was not Beijing or Tehran, but they described how the liberal
certainties they once held now appeared flimsy. Helena Smith, our superb
Athens correspondent, says that she feels as if she is standing on
shifting sands. If the centrist coalition fails, and the troika's
punitive demands have condemned it to failure, then the left opposition
in Syrzia will probably take over. After that, Golden Dawn, maybe? No
one knows. Nothing is unthinkable in a climate of fear and hopelessness.
One
can say with certainty that old alliances between extreme political and
extreme religious movements are reviving. Hence, last month Christian
fanatics and neo-Nazis (and the difference between the two is fine)
protested against a "blasphemous" play with a homosexual theme in
Athens. The theatre's management duly pulled it. Greek television cut a
scene from Downton Abbey that featured a gay kiss. No one can explain why but a country that censors Downton Abbey on any grounds other than literary taste is in grave trouble.
British
Eurosceptics do not understand that the European Union once offered an
escape to a liberal future for the peoples of Europe. When I visited
Athens in the early 1980s, the old could remember fighting the Nazi
occupation and the young had grown up in and on occasion fought the
military dictatorship the colonels imposed. Joining the European Union
meant saying goodbye to all of that. Now poverty, fear, suppression and
state intimidation are back.
You can blame the corruption Greek
society tolerated. You can blame the bankers for the crash. But you must
also apportion blame to Europe's politicians and bureaucrats who
accepted Greece (and the rest of southern Europe) into a single currency
area that has put them at a permanent competitive disadvantage and
refused to write off debts Greece can never repay.
No wonder they
stay silent about the abuse of the human rights the Nobel prize
committee insisted European integration guaranteed. Greece is the
Eurocrats' very own Weimar on the Aegean. They helped build it.
The Greek movement against austerity measures "Den Plirono (i
dont pay) organised today a kiosk in Agioi Anargiroi region of Athens
to inform Greek people about the movement and its actions.
The “Save the homeland of Aristotle and the getaway to the Holy
Mountain” campaign calls for citizens all over the world to raise their
voice in condemnation against the development of mining activities and
the installation of gold extraction heavy industry, chemical byproducts
and toxic waste ponds in the holy land of the philosopher Aristotle,
which is the natural gate to the monastic community of the Holy
mountain.
In this unique environment, the Greek government has allocated 317000
acres of land to mining<!--more--> companies that aim to transform a highly valued
ecological paradise to a huge mining center. Their target is to create
numerous surface and underground mines, set up a sulfuric acid chemical
plant, dig for gold, silver, copper and other metals and use an ancient
forest ecosystem to place their toxic waste ponds.
If we allow this to happen, the result will be a non-reversible, of
the first magnitude economic, ecological and cultural disaster of the
area with our forests and rivers full of toxic waste, our sea
contaminated with heavy metals and the air we breathe fouled by
hazardous airborne particle dust while enormous reserves of water will
be drained.
People from the four corners of the globe that have suffered the
consequences of gold mining in their lands have the following advice to
offer: “The only solution to deal with the consequences of gold mining
is to stop it once and for all”.
With the “Save the homeland of Aristotle and the getaway to the Holy
Mountain” campaign, the citizens of the area ask for your signature to:
-stop cold any attempt to license further mining activities in our area.
-declassify the area as “mining” by state law.
-incorporate the area in environmental reconstruction programs to
address problems that have arisen from centuries of mining activity,
which will be an opportunity for long term employment for hundreds of
locals in contrast to the short term employment the mining industries
promise.
The golden heritage of the homeland of Aristotle and the Holy
mountain is ecumenical and must not be buried under millions of tons of
toxic waste due to our silence.
The Greek women of Skouries in Northern Greece stand up to the rioting police who have been dispatched by the Greek government to attack the local citizens with chemical weapons, beatings and arrests at the behest of a private multinational gold mining company.
Dr Dimitris Dalakoglou explains the social meltdown which took place in Greece between May 2010 & June 2012 that is on going. This film contains videos and photos shot on the streets, often containing violence and paints a portrait of widespread economic hardship endured by a cities inhabitants. This film is part of an ongoing research project, which looks at the rapid structural changes which Greece is undergoing.
Produced & Directed by Ross Domoney
Interview: Dimitris Dalakoglou
Filmed, Photographed & Edited by Ross Domoney
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ΚΑΛΕΣΜΑ ΓΙΑ ΑΛΛΗΛΕΓΓΎΗ ΕΝΑΝΤΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΚΛΕΙΣΙΜΟ ΤΗΣ ΟΙΚΟΚΟΙΝΟΤΗΤΑΣ CAN PIELLA ΣΤΗΝ ΒΑΡΚΕΛΩΝΗ. ΥΠΟΓΡΑΨΤΕ ΚΑΙ ΔΙΑΔΩΣΤΕ ΕΔΏ (http://bit.ly/SygwGf ΚΑΙ http://bit.ly/T5U5Ct)
THE SQUAT FARMHOUSE CAN PIELLA COULD BE EVICTED NEXT WEEK...
Can
Piella is a squat, a XVII century farmhouse located in the Barcelona
outskirts, occupied for 3 years, after being abandoned and inhabited
during the last 10 years. Tha farmhouse has been then rehabilited and the sourrounding field are now tilled.
Can Piella wants to build and to spread - by autonomy, collective
work, self-management - alternatives to the present model of
society, in order to contribute to the social change that will lead us
to a "better world, more altruistic, sustainable, ecological and
solidary with a a clear restatement of consumption and where relations
of domination will be a small imperfections and not the general trend".
As
we can read in their web site : "the project integrates the residents
of nearby towns, who wanted to start working the land collectively,
groups of critical thinking, research initiatives in alternative energy
systems, dens and leisure, among others". Can Piella is actually a space
for reflection, debate and community work.
Now this place
suffers an eviction threat: the Court has ordered that the occupies
leave the farmhouse October 15th, even if the owner is not going to give
any use to it. In this case the procedure to evict Can Paiella has
been started by an entreprise of the Real
Estate Group Alcazar. His former owner has been protagonist during
decades of several corruption investigations and accusation, and the
actual one - his first-born - seem do not have any idea of what Can
Piella is.
At the same time two petitions have started to stop the eviction. Everyone could sign it in the web site of Can Piella (http://www.canpiella.cat/ )
"The
problem recalls the evacuation Can Piella is a global problem in our
society that constantly confronts the myth of progress with a social
degenerates, in favor of a purely economistic"
Fifteen people arrested in Athens says they were subjected to what their lawyer describes as an Abu Ghraib-style humiliation
Fifteen anti-fascist protesters arrested in
Athens during a clash with supporters of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn
have said they were tortured in the Attica General Police Directorate
(GADA) – the Athens equivalent of Scotland Yard – and subjected to what
their lawyer describes as an Abu Ghraib-style humiliation.
Members
of a second group of 25 who were arrested after demonstrating in
support of their fellow anti-fascists the next day said they were beaten
and made to strip naked and bend over in front of officers and other
protesters inside the same police station. A protester shows his injuriesSeveral
of the protesters arrested after the first demonstration on Sunday 30
September told the Guardian they were slapped and hit by a police
officer while five or six others watched, were spat on and "used as
ashtrays" because they "stank", and were kept awake all night with
torches and lasers being shone in their eyes. Bruising on the protester's legSome
said they were burned on the arms with a cigarette lighter, and they
said police officers videoed them on their mobile phones and threatened
to post the pictures on the internet and give their home addresses to
Golden Dawn, which has a track record of political violence.
Golden
Dawn's popularity has surged since the June election, when it won 18
seats in parliament; it recently came third in several opinion polls,
behind the conservative New Democracy and the leftwing party Syriza.
Last month the Guardian reported
that victims of crime have been told by police officers to seek help
from Golden Dawn, who then felt obliged to make donations to the group.
One
of the two women among them said the officers used crude sexual insults
and pulled her head back by the hair when she tried to avoid being
filmed. The protesters said they were denied drinking water and access
to lawyers for 19 hours. "We were so thirsty we drank water from the
toilets," she said.
One man with a bleeding head wound and a
broken arm that he said had been sustained during his arrest alleged the
police continued to beat him in GADA and refused him medical treatment
until the next morning. Another said the police forced his legs apart
and kicked him in the testicles during the arrest.
"They spat on me and said we would die like our grandfathers in the civil war," he said.
A
third said he was hit on the spine with a Taser as he tried to run
away; the burn mark is still visible. "It's like an electric shock," he
said. "My legs were paralysed for a few minutes and I fell. They
handcuffed me behind my back and started hitting and kicking me in the
ribs and the head. Then they told me to stand up, but I couldn't, so
they pulled me up by the chain while standing on my shin. They kept
kicking and punching me for five blocks to the patrol car."
The protesters asked that their names not be published, for fear of reprisals from the police or Golden Dawn.
A
second group of protesters also said they were "tortured" at GADA. "We
all had to go past an officer who made us strip naked in the corridor,
bend over and open our back passage in front of everyone else who was
there," one of them told the Guardian. "He did whatever he wanted with
us – slapped us, hit us, told us not to look at him, not to sit
cross-legged. Other officers who came by did nothing.
"All we
could do was look at each other out of the corners of our eyes to give
each other courage. He had us there for more than two hours. He would
take phone calls on his mobile and say, 'I'm at work and I'm fucking
them, I'm fucking them up well'. In the end only four of us were
charged, with resisting arrest. It was a day out of the past, out of the
colonels' junta."
In response to the allegations, Christos
Manouras, press spokesman for the Hellenic police, said: "There was no
use of force by police officers against anyone in GADA. The Greek police
examine and investigate in depth every single report regarding the use
of violence by police officers; if there are any responsibilities
arising, the police take the imposed disciplinary action against the
officers responsible. There is no doubt that the Greek police always
respect human rights and don't use violence."
Sunday's protest was
called after a Tanzanian community centre was vandalised by a group of
80-100 people in a central Athens neighbourhood near Aghios Panteleimon,
a stronghold of Golden Dawn where there have been many violent attacks
on immigrants.
According to protesters, about 150 people rode
through the neighbourhood on motorcycles handing out leaflets. They said
the front of the parade encountered two or three men in black Golden
Dawn T-shirts, and a fight broke out. A large number of police
immediately swooped on them from the surrounding streets.
According
to Manouras: "During the motorcycle protest there were clashes between
demonstrators and local residents. The police intervened to prevent the
situation from deteriorating and restore public order. There might have
been some minor injuries, during the clashes between residents,
protesters and police."
Marina Daliani, a lawyer for one of the
Athens 15, said they had been charged with "disturbing the peace with
covered faces" (because they were wearing motorcycle helmets), and with
grievous bodily harm against two people. But, she said, no evidence of
such harm had so far been submitted. They have now been released on bail
of €3,000 (£2,400) each.
According to Charis Ladis, a lawyer for
another of the protesters, the sustained mistreatment of Greeks in
police custody has been rare until this year: "This case shows that a
page has been turned. Until now there was an assumption that someone who
was arrested, even violently, would be safe in custody. But these young
people have all said they lived through an interminable dark night.
Dimitris
Katsaris, a lawyer for four of the protesters, said his clients had
suffered Abu Ghraib-style humiliation, referring to the detention centre
where Iraqi detainees were tortured by US soldiers during the Iraq war.
"This is not just a case of police brutality of the kind you hear about
now and then in every European country. This is happening daily. We
have the pictures, we have the evidence of what happens to people
getting arrested protesting against the rise of the neo-Nazi party in
Greece. This is the new face of the police, with the collaboration of
the justice system."
One of the arrested protesters, a quiet man
in his 30s standing by himself, said: "Journalists here don't report
these things. You have to tell them what's happening here, in this
country that suffered so much from Nazism. No one will pay attention
unless you report these things abroad."the guardian:
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a global timelapse of our planet, constructed from Landsat satellite
imagery. The Amazon rainforest is shrinking at a rapid rate to provide
land for farming and raising cattle. Each frame of the timelapse map is
constructed from a year of Landsat satellite data, constituting an
annual 1.7-terapixel snapshot of the Earth at 30-meter resolution. The
Landsat program, managed by the USGS, has been acquiring images of the
Earth's surface since 1972. Landsat provides critical scientific
information about our changing planet.
Photos from today's voluntary blood donation movement of not paying
Many fellow fighter and friend of the movement not paying gathered
today in the morning and gave blood to enrich the blood bank of the
movement. The blood collected will be handled in the following (obvious)
logic: The blood has no national or racial composition. All
humans have the same blood and bottles collected during voluntary
donations granted to needing blood transfusion regardless of nation,
race, party, religion, social class, and so on. A bank without bankers who suck the blood of the people!
In this humorous pun, came agonists, happy mood offerings, unknown to our fellowmen. Such collective donations will be made by us and compete in other cities.
Today's donations was made to the General Hospital of Patissia, one
hospital, which is among the dozens that the Government Troika wants to
close.
By Elena Loizidou
Five days in Athens. Five very varied days. I used to frequent Athens as a teenager with my parents. We were always transit visitors, en route to Kano, Nigeria where my late father used to work. Those visits where quick, two days in Athens, visiting ancient monuments, museums, tavernas, cafes, friends, and relatives. You see, post 1974 and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus a number of our refugee relatives and friends made their way to Greece and particularly Athens to begin again the reconstruction of their lives. Athens looked big, busy, exciting, expressive and glamorous through my youthful eyes. Athens looked like those old movies that Finos Film (Greek Production Company, 1943 – 77) used to make and exported to Cyprus and the Greek Diaspora. I am not Greek, I am Cypriot. I am a Greek Cypriot that grew up on Greek culture, and can speak, write and read Greek relatively well, at the expense of never getting to know Turkish culture or language. Let’s leave...
Members of the Greek "I Dont Pay" movement demostrate in
front of the 7th Periferal Hospital in the Patisia region of Athens, in
solidarity with the employees and people of Patisia arguing against the
goverments plan to close the hospital. Submitted by Giorgos Panagakis
When taken at the first court decision to stop the work of catastrophic dam Belo Monte, the Amazon, the world created a climate of optimism.
The news, however, the judgment of the Supreme Court of Brazil, came to dispel any illusion:
The judicial system is mounted with the class interests of the ruling class. And this is a global phenomenon. So let us have no illusions. The people that won the won the match on the road ...
The news:
The Brazilian Supreme Court yesterday issued a decision allowing the resumption of work on the Belo Monte dam, the third-largest such project currently under construction in the world, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon.
A preliminary decision by the President of the Supreme Court Aires Carlos Brito annulled the local federal court on August 14 to halt work on the ground that before the start of the project was not consulted the Indians who live in the area. The president accepted the position of Prosecutor Luis Inacio Adams, who represented the interests of the state, and found that ...
Pony
the Orangutan was found by the Orangutan Survival Foundation in a
"prostitute village" in Borneo, chained to a wall and lying on a
jizz-stained mattress. She was completely shaved and covered with
infected mosquito bites.
Apparently
she had been captured and was being shaved every other day to make her
nice and hairless for the men that paid to fuck her. Yes, an Orangutan
was being shaved and used as a prostitute...here is a close-up. If a man
walked near her, she would turn herself around, present herself, and
start gyrating and going through the motions. She was being used as a
sex slave. She was probably about six or seven years old when we rescued
her, but she had been held captive by a madam for a long time. The
madam refused to give up the animal because everyone loved Pony and she
was a big part of their income. They also thought Pony was lucky, as she
would pick winning lottery numbers. It took the Orangutan Survival
Foundation a year to rescue Pony from the godless savages because
whenever they showed up, the madame and the men of the "prostitute
village" would brandish their poison-dipped daggers in a threatening
fashion. Apparently Pony was quite the cash cow. The Orangutan Survival
Foundation finally raised the money to round up 35 policemen--Read,
hired mercenaries--with AK 47s--and they forced the madame and her
cutthroat townies under the threat of massacre to release Pony.This is a
true story. No one was charged for exploiting Pony.
All information and text comes from Save The Orangutan!
ΕΠΑΝΑΣΥΝΔΕΣΗ ΡΕΥΜΑΤΟΣ ΣΕ ΑΝΕΡΓΟ ΣΤΟ ΑΙΓΑΛΕΩ / I DON'T PAY MOVEMENT
http://kinimadenplirono.gr
Η
ΑΛΛΗΛΕΓΓΥΗ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΤΟ ΟΠΛΟ ΜΑΣ! ΚΑΝΕΝΑ ΣΠΙΤΙ ΧΩΡΙΣ ΡΕΥΜΑ! ΚΑΝΕΝΑΣ ΜΟΝΟΣ
ΤΟΥ ΣΤΗ ΚΡΙΣΗ! ΚΙΝΗΜΑ ΔΕΝ ΠΛΗΡΩΝΩ epitropes2010@gmail.com ...
Etika
Mondo's mind --> here you will see a guy from a group of activists
coming to the appartmeent of an unployed personne and repair electricity
network to get light. This operation is totally free and proves the
real solidarity in some greek spaces.
Haris's mind
--> This is a part of activism of movement "I don't pay" (may be the
name inspired by the Dario Fo's work "Non Si Paga! Non Si Paga! "). The
state cut the electricity of an unemployed who hasn't the money to pay
and the movement went and connected it again.
A World Without Water
The world is running out of its most precious resource. True Vision's timely film tells of the personal tragedies behind the mounting privatisation of water supplies.
More than a billion people across the globe don’t have access to safe water. Every day 3900 children die as a result of insufficient or unclean water supplies. The situation can only get worse as water gets evermore scarce.
SR. RAJOY, USTED ESTÁ APLICANDO UN PROGRAMA OCULTO QUE NO FUE CONOCIDO POR EL ELECTORADO.SR. RAJOY LE EMPLAZO DESDE EL AYUNTAMIENTO QUE PRESIDO A CONVOCAR UN REFERENDUM EN ESPAÑA SOBRE SUS POLITICAS DE AJUSTE LE RECUERDO SR. RAJOY, QUE EN ESPAÑA NO SOBRAN CONCEJALES, NI CC.AA , SOBRA USTED Y TAMBIÉN LOS ESPECULADORES Y LOS CORRUPTOS. SR. PRESIDENTE:
A través de esta carta, vengo a plantearle el rechazo del
Ayuntamiento de Humilladero a sus políticas de recortes, a las
agresiones de su gobierno a la sanidad pública, a la enseñanza pública, a
las políticas sociales, al estado de las autonomías, a los
Ayuntamientos,…
Las políticas de su gobierno están desmantelando los derechos
sociales, los servicios púbicos y recortando las libertades democráticas
de los españoles, haciendo retroceder al país 35 años.
El equipo de gobierno que tengo el honor de presidir se encuentra
encerrado en las dependencias municipales para hacerle llegar a usted y a
su gobierno el malestar de a ciudadanía y su indignación ante las
medidas que pretenden cargar las consecuencias de la crisis sobre las
espaldas de los trabajadores y de las capas populares.
La Banca, Sr. Rajoy está recibiendo elevadas sumas de dinero público
avalado por el estado, en el solo caso de BANKIA, han entregado 23.000
millones de euros a tiempo que sus directivos son premiados con
contratos blindados.
Para su gobierno, Sr. Presidente, sobran concejales y autonomías en
España, sindicatos, sector público, instituciones democráticas.
No sobran para usted las subvenciones de la duquesa de Alba y a los
terratenientes andaluces que acaparan el 80% de las ayudas de la UE
No sobran banqueros- especuladores que arruinan entidades y blindan sus sueldos y pensiones multimillonarias
No sobran para usted las subvenciones de a la Iglesia Católica, más de diez mil millones de euros anuales.
No sobran los sueldos fabulosos (más de 140 mil euros) de los altos
cargos del Estado, Presidente del Consejo General del Poder Judicial,
del Tribunal Constitucional.
No sobran para usted el rey y los borbones que manejan con total
opacidad un presupuesto directo de 9 millones de euros anuales, al que
hay que sumar diversas partidas indirectas que suman más de 200 millones
de euros.
No sobran para usted los paraísos fiscales, la caja B del
capitalismo, el escondrijo de dinero negro y criminal que cuenta
con 3.500.000 sociedades tapadera que hay en los más de 60 paraísos
fiscales del mundo.
Los gobiernos dejan de ingresar más de 340 mil millones de euros.
No sobran para usted gastos militares de armamentos, el escudo
antimisiles de rota, la OTAN, única organización terrorista activa en
Europa (muertes de civiles en Afganistán, Irak, Libia.)
No sobran para usted ejemplos vergonzosos como el que protagonizan
los ex presidentes Felipe González y Aznar haciendo compatible sus
pensiones púbicas de más de 82 mil euros anuales, con las que reciben
por estar en os consejos de administración de gas natural y de Endesa de
más 120 mil euros.
No sobran para usted los fabulosos sueldos de los miembros de los
consejos de administración de las empresas del IBEX35. Donde más de 540
ejecutivos disponen de un sueldo medio superior al de 70 mil euristas.
No sobran para usted robos o atracos como el que cometen las
entidades financieras privadas al recibir préstamos del banco central
europeo, al 1% de interés y lo prestan al 6% al Ayuntamientos y
particulares.
No sobran para ustedes las subidas del IVA a los productos de
1ª necesidad, material escolar, la cultura, arruinando a pequeño y
mediano empresario.
No sobran para usted ordenes de desahucios y de viviendas ocupadas
por familias trabajadoras que quedan en el paro y en la
exclusión social, embargadas por los bancos.
No sobran para usted el 25% del fraude fiscal que hay en España.
Usted Señor Rajoy aplica una política criminal. Para usted lo que
sobra en España y hay que recortar es la ley dependencia, prestaciones
por desempleo, la paga extra de los empleados públicos (paga extra que
supone cuatro mil millones de euros).
La minería agoniza y no recibe los 200 millones de euros de su gobierno en cumplimiento del plan estratégico.
Usted hace pagar los medicamentos al pensionista y al jubilado, le
recuerdo que las cuantías medias de las pensiones en Humilladero no
superan los 600 euros.
Usted reduce las becas para los estudiantes
Usted amenaza con intervenir a las CCAA, recuperando el viejo eslogan franquista de una España grande y libre.
Quisiera decirle señor presidente llegado a este punto, que nuestro
ayuntamiento apoyo la autonomía plena en el proceso del 28 de febrero y
no toleraremos que su gobierno intervenga, secuestre, anule la autonomía
conquistada constitucionalmente con unidad, votos y sangre.
El Ayuntamiento de Humilladero se declara insumiso a su gobierno que
aplica un programa oculto, que no conoció el electorado, por lo que le
exijo como alcaldesa de Humilladero:
La convocatoria de un referéndum para que la ciudadanía se pronuncie sobre este nuevo programa de ajustes o
La convocatoria de elecciones generales anticipadas
No se restablece la legitimidad democrática si el pueblo no ejerce su
derecho a través de las urnas, usted representa la legalidad pero no a
legitimidad.
Señor presidente le comunico que desde esta alcaldía instaremos a
todos los ayuntamientos y a la sociedad a pedir un referéndum, porque en
España el que sobra es usted.
Se despide atentamente. Dª Noelia Rodríguez Casino Sra Alcaldesa – Presidenta del Ayuntamiento de Humilladero. Fuente
Big victory for the movements, the Constitutional Court blocks the privatization of water and local public services.
Today, 20th July, the Constitutional Court has given back the voice of the Italian citizens and the democracy of our country.
It does so by declaring unconstitutional, therefore inadmissible,
Article 4 of the Decree Law 138 of August 13, 2011, by which, the
Berlusconi government, stomped on the referendum result and
re-introduced the privatization of local public services. This ruling
also blocks all subsequent amendments, including those of the Monti
government.
The ruling clearly explains that the referendum was violated by
Article 4 and declares that the law passed by the Berlusconi government
violated Article 75 of the Constitution. It confirms what we stated a
year ago, that the measure would reintroduce the privatization of public
services and trample on the will of citizens.
The ruling strongly confirms the citizens’ will expressed on 12 and
13 June 2011 and is a warning to the Monti government and all future
powers who speculate on the commons. After the extraordinary referendum
victory built from bottom up, today made clear once and for all that
what 27 million Italians have chosen has to be respected: water and
public services should be public. Si scrive acqua, si legge democrazia! (It is written water, but is read as democracy!)
Els protestants han convidat els vehicles a passar sense pagar
durant uns 15 minuts, fins que els Mossos d'Esquadraels han fet marxar
ACN
Barcelona
| Actualitzada el 01/08/2012 14:44
Uns bombers conviden els vehicles a passar sense pagar pel peatge de l'AP7 a Martorell, aquest dimecres al migdia. / ACN
Una cinquantena de bombers de la Generalitat, de Barcelona i
d'Aena -els tres cossos que hi ha a Catalunya- han obert poc després
d'aquest migdia diverses barreres del peatge de l'AP-7 a Martorell en
sentit Barcelona, en una acció que ha tingut el suport dels sindicats.
Durant poc més de 15 minuts han convidat els vehicles a passar per les
barreres obertes sense pagar. Així han volgut mostrar el seu
"descontent amb les polítiques d'aquest país de retallada de drets dels
treballadors, no només dels treballadors públics, en benefici només
d'unes minories riques i dels bancs". La protesta ha acabat quan els
Mossos han tallat el trànsit i els bombers han marxat per evitar
càrregues.
Els bombers han arribat poc després del migdia al
peatge de Martorell, han obert algunes barreres, han ocupat tota la via
que ocupen els carrils en sentit Barcelona de l'autopista i han
convidat els vehicles - principalment cotxes i camions de càrrega - a
passar sense pagar, inclús amb un cartell on s'hi podia llegir 'gratis'
La
protesta ha durat poc més de quinze minuts, que és el temps que han
donat als bombers per enretirar-se els efectius de Mossos d'Esquadra que
han acudit a la zona. Hi havia agents de seguretat ciutadana, de
trànsit, i dues furgonetes d'ARRO. Els agents han acabat tallant el
trànsit i llavors ha estat quan els bombers s'han enretirat, temerosos
d'una càrrega dels efectius d'ARRO.
Finalment, la protesta ha
acabat sense incidents. El responsable del dispositiu policial, però, ha
avançat a l'ACN que els mossos han pres les matrícules dels
protestants i que podrien obrir denúncies administratives per
participar en una protesta no autoritzada i per caminar per l'autopista
sense permís. Ha descartat, però, imputar als bombers d'atemptat
contra l'autoritat perquè s'han acabat retirant per voluntat pròpia. "Ens han encomanat defensar el ciutadà i això és una part de la nostra defensa" "Som
conscients de la nostra posició privilegiada davant dels milions
d'aturats, dels que treballen en precari, dels desnonats, dels joves que
cerquen feina o dels que reben pensions ridícules", declara el
manifest amb què els bombers protestants han explicat la seva protesta.
"I ens sentim en deute amb tots ells", afegeix un escrit que compta
amb les signatures de sindicats com CCOO, la UGT, o CATAC.
O,
segons ha explicat un dels bombers que han aixecat les barreres, que ha
optat per l'anonimat, "el que ens ha encomanat és defensar el ciutadà i
això és una part més de la nostra defensa; estem farts de l'agressió
continua a la ciutadania i hem pensat que és hora de sortir al carrer i
defensar tothom".
"Han intentat enfrontar la resta de ciutadans
als treballadors públics amb la intenció de desmantellar tot allò que
es pugui privatitzar per obtenir-ne beneficis", declara el manifest. I
per això el bomber ha declarat que la seva intenció no era només
protestar contra les retallades dels drets dels treballadors públics,
sinó de tots els empleats.
I han decidit fer-ho aixecant
barreres dels peatges, ha afegit aquest bombers, "perquè la gent que
avui sortosament pot sortir de vacances pensi en tots aquells que estan
a l'atur o la misèria i no podran sortir de vacances". "Tallar
carreteres és una cosa que molesta profundament a la societat i hem
pensat que més que tallar-la, intentem alliberar els peatges i potser
la gent ens hop agrairà", ha afegit, tot indicant que "tots sabem que
els peatges estan controlats per grans empreses que potser els
molestarà una mica que la gent protesti". Amb tot, aquest bombers ha
matisat que la seva protesta no es tracta d'una part de la campanya
#novullpagar. També a Maçanet
Altres
bombers han protagonitzat una aixecada de barreres similar a un altre
peatge de l'AP7, el de Maçanet, segons els protestants de Martorell.
-the factory is located in Aspropyrgos, near Athens
On July 28th the workers of the Greek Steelworks (Elliniki Halivourgia) decided to suspend their strike.
During today’s strike assembly, out of 150 factory workers present, 107 voted in favor of the suspension, 14 voted against, and the rest did not vote.
Protesters take part in a
march organized by student movement Yo Soy 132 against Mexico's
president-elect Enrique Pena Nieto in Monterrey July 22, 2012.
(Reuters/Daniel Becerri)
At least 32,000 protesters marched through Mexico City on Sunday to
protest the “imposition” of the new president. They accuse
president-elect Enrique Pena Nieto, a member of the old ruling party, of
electoral fraud.
Protesters have dubbed the country’s TV giant Televisa a “factory of
lies.” Demonstrators marching through to capital claimed that Nieto’s
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) won the election by vote-buying
and an aggressive PR campaign through major media outlets such as
Televisa, which they claim was well paid for positive coverage of
Nieto’s presidential campaign.
Enrique Pena Nieto, 46, won the
election with 38.2 per cent of the vote against 31.6 per cent for the
leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Nieto’s victory brought
the Institutional Revolutionary Party back to power after being in the
opposition for 12 years.
The ruling President Felipe Calderon of the conservative National Action Party came in third.
Opponents of the victorious candidate demanded urgent domestic reforms.
The
PRI in turn accuses the losing leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez
Obrador of "disqualifying the entire electoral process with lies."
Televisa has also denied all allegations.
The last presidential
election in Mexico in 2006 also ended with the defeat of Andres Manuel
Lopez Obrador, who narrowly lost to the ruling conservative president.
In 2006 Obrador organized hundreds of thousands of his supporters to
rally in downtown Mexico City for weeks. This time, however, Obrador
announced that his victory is evident and he has no intention of calling
his supporters to the streets.
According to local
authorities, the demonstration on Sunday gathered 32,000 people whereas
the protesters claim their number was twice as large. The latest
demonstration is the second of it since the July 1 elections. The first
rally on July 7 gathered 50,000 protesters.
The final results of
the elections are left to be certified in September by the Federal
Electoral Tribunal. Some political movements have urged its supporters
to disregard the inauguration of the new Mexican president set for
December 1.
The Institutional Revolutionary Party at one time
ruled Mexico for a 71-year stretch. Those years, party critics say, were
marked with corruption, nepotism and multiple cases of voter fraud.
China is poised to make a dramatic intervention in Britain's energy future by offering to invest billions of pounds in building a series of new nuclear power stations.
Officials from China's nuclear industry have been in high-level talks with ministers and officials at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) this week about a plan that could eventually involve up to five different reactors being built at a total cost of £35bn....
Police protecting the
factory from the workers, who were on strike for 9 months. Politicians,
Media and Police attack steel strikers with brutal violence, lies and
disinformation. Except of messages of solidarity, strikers need our
presence by their side. Solidarity in action!
