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sábado, 22 de marzo de 2014

Spain- 22M "Marches of Dignity": Routes, columns, demonstrations, rallies. In formative coverage and Reporting.

[Es] Marchas de la Dignidad: Recorridos, columnas, movilizaciones, concentraciones 
You can see the route, arrival and  travel of different columns, as well as acts and scheduled after Saturday 22 concentrations. It is very clear that this does not end the 22M, but is the starting point of a process that should not stop until you leave.
Against the Troika and the debt. Scram then all!

For our fundamental rights and services
For bread, work and housing. For Dignity
                                        
MARCHES OF DIGNITY 22M AGENDA

SATURDAY 22 MARCH
 ANDALUCIA COLUMN
CNT is there
Out Getafe at 9.00 h . - Sports Victoria Kent - Avda Federica Montseny - Carretera Villaverde Alto 10.00 h - 10.30 h Alcocer Bridge . - Crossing Villaverde Bajo 11.00 h . - Avda Andalucia - Córdoba Avda 12.00 (12 Octubre) - Madrid River Bridge (Legazpi) 13.00 h -14.00 h (Dinner) - Paseo Delicias - Atocha 15.30 .


 ASTURIES, GALIZA - BIERZO , Cantabria , Castile and Leon COLUMNS

Out Aravaca ( CEIP Rosa Luxemburgo ) at 12:00 - Moncloa 13.00 . - Plaza España 13.30 . - Jacinto Benavente 14.45 h . - Arrival  Atocha at 15.00 h .

 CATALAN , ARAGON AND NAFARROA COLUMNOut of San Fernando de Henares at 10.00 Town Hall Square - Plaza de las Madres Coslada May at 10.30 h . - Parking Greece 12.00 h . - Paradise Park (San Blas ) 12.30 h . - Linear City 14.00 h . - Plaza Manuel Becerra 15.00 h . - Independence Square 15.30 . - Arrive 16.00 Atocha. ESTREMADURA COLUMNOutput Metro Carabanchel Alto at 11.00 h . - At 1230 h . Plaza de Porto - 13.30 h . - Puente de Toledo - Arrive Atocha at 15.00 h . Basque Country LA Rioja , BURGOS COLUMNExit Metro Station Manuel de Falla at 8.30 h . Alcobendas - At 1200 h Plaza de Castilla - Plaza de Isabel II Canal at 12.30 h . - Callao 14:15 .Sol - Jacinto Benavente 14.45 h . GALICIA COLUMNCheck to Chamartin train and exit at 13.30 to Plaza Castilla - Castellana - Atocha VALENCIÁ COUNTRY - MURCIA REGION COLUMNOutput Rivas - 9.00 h . - Check the Avenida Federico Garcia Lorca at 10.30 h . Vallecas neighborhood . - Arrive at the Red Square in Vallecas 12. 00 h . - Departure at 13.30 h . Avenida de Buenos Aires , Avenida de la Albufera and City of Barcelona - 15.00 h Arrival at Atocha .ABROAD COLUMNDeparture 14.00 h . Plaza de Lavapies, c / Valencia, c / Miguel Servet , 270 Glorieta Ambassadors skirting , Ronda de Valencia and Ronda de Atocha , ending in the aforementioned Emperor Charles V Square (Plaza de Atocha)DEMONSTRATION Atocha - COLÓN SQRDeparture 17.00 h . From Atocha Columbus . Banner header clinches Statue of Velazquez ( Prado) . Colón Sqr landed at about 19.00 h .where the main event will take place.

SUNDAY 23 MARCH
MEETING OPEN TO GROUPS AND PERSONS TO MAKE A RAIN OF IDEAS ON CONTINUITY 22M

MONDAY 24 MARCH

RALLY AROUND THE CAPITAL -11.30 H
2 Calle de Antonio Maura, Loyalty Square will border on its southern side , turn right on Paseo del Prado , we will turn right on Plaza Loyalty continue for a few meters turn left and take the side of Paseo del Prado, turn right on Calle Juan de Mena to Ruiz de Alarcón street to # 2 street Antonio Maura , 2, the tour described repeat it to 13:30 .


EXPRESSION NOT PAY YOUR CRISIS -19.00 H

Paseo de la Castellana , 162, Ministry of Economy, we will move to the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration , continue along the Paseo de la Castellana surrounding the Glorieta de Cuzco , heading to the Paseo de la Castellana 67, Ministry of " Employment and Securitysocial " Ministry of Public Works and then by the Paseo de la Castellana and Paseo de Recoletos we will go to the Bank of Spain and followed No. 18-20 of the Paseo del Prado, Ministry of ' Health, Social Policy and Equality ," in all ministries and Bank of Spain make a short stop where aUTHORITIES bouquet will be heading to @ s @ s citizenship by PA .


                                        
                                            
COVERAGE


 TV
Publico TV- La Tuerka: 22M a partir de las 18h Público TV - La Tuerka

PRESS
Acampada Sol- 22M Retransmisión de las Marchas Indignadas #22M en Ágora Sol Radio – Radios Libres
La haine: 22M Sábado a partir de las 14hs: Seguimiento
Periodistas 22M- Periodistas del #22M

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 Marches 22M Legal Team

Colleagues who will coordinate the service, and the other lawyers, and who will contact the ICAM designation if the legal team Marches 22M shall be as follows :
Antonio Segura Hernández, Col. Nº 63.488.
Juan Moreno Redondo, Col. Nº 71.539
Ismael Sánchez Jiménez Col. Nº 116.908    
Raquel Libertad Jiménez Moreno Col. Nº110.674

                                                                                                     
           
FEAR CHANGE FROM SIDE !

RTVE news blackout on the  of 22-M Marches

The pro-government follows that began in TVE after the rise to power of the Popular Party and the series of desidnations and dismissals which consolidated control of the public entity is acquiring a new phase. The intent of the news Executives to create a contemporary journalists writing plubliser related, as happened in Telemadrid or Canal Nou, to end the dissension within TVE. According to the linguist Teun Van Dijk, control of the public media can be done in different ways, from the mandate on what to publish or not to forms of pressure who follows inconvenient editorial. But the best and most effective is the proper selection of personnel.
"If the media employ journalists who have similar ideologies and attitudes to theirs, then no kind of mind control you need: simply be consensus about what is interesting, what is news and how they should be treated different topics "
The proximity in speech of the government propaganda and that existing in TVE and other Mass Manipulation Media is once again evident in the zero coverage given to the March of Dignity until his arrival in Madrid. Concealing information is a tactic that manipulation mass media used to prevent, for example, the extent of a problem. Hide the fact that various columns of citizens are addressed from different points of Spain to converge in Madrid on 22M can prevent people who knew of the initiative to join the marches and so do most powerful protest against the government.

Professor Teun Van Dijk expressed the role of television in society as one of the leading exponents of the creation of a hegemonic discourse .
"If our speech can cause people to have their owns beliefs and thus indirectly control their actions, so that they respond to our best interests, we have successfully manipulated through written text or speech."
That is why the best way to prevent the march of Dignity acquire notoriety and people to join them, it is not attacking them, as this may cause a current of empathy and a sense of togetherness . Best to avoid the spread of the protest is to ignore it. The silence on the marches until they have reached there amadrid has caused many citizens who do not know of its existence, largely informed by the television, until they can no longer be part of them.

Spanish television made ​​no mention of the Marches of Dignity in the days before the arrival of the Colums to Madrid. On 19 and 20 March, the TVE silence on the protests has been absolute. No shortage flowery pieces on the arrival of spring, but none on arrival marching citizens  to Madrid to demonstrate for bread, work and housing.

The announcement of the death of Adolfo Suarez [ex-president] has served as an excuse for today underestimate any information on TVE arrival in Madrid of the Marches of Dignity , an excuse that it was not necessary in the days before and has cheated citizens of any information about the event that will culminate on 22 in Madrid.

The information you have given today , March 21 , the newscast of TVE on Dignity Marches were already in Madrid has been limited to a queue - speech - on images of 22 seconds. In it the presenter read the text on some images of the gear in which lay a few dozen people . The queues were preceded by a story about Bankia and then spoke of fraudulent EREs.

The mass manipulation media prefers kill Suarez tham cover the Marches of Dignity. #22M @DebatAlRojoVivo#EstoEs22M

Criminalization in other mass manipulation media
On the other hand , the silence  used bt TVE has been and supplemented with the usual criminalization of protest that other media have been used assiduously to insult the legitimate right of expression of citizens protesting against the government. Both "el ABC" and "la Razón" news papers have chosen this path that makes up the story of propaganda for the Government. First ignored, then criminalize. For ABC, the relevant about the marches was the existence of squatters and anti-systems that will provoke riots, while the main news for La Razón was the existence of lawyers to protect citizens in the event of problems in the demonstration. Which form part of a plo not clarified by the media.
What are planning? 22M is gathering attorneis for detainees
                                                                            


The international body says yes to the request of the organization of the march of Dignity to be present at the confluence of the columns in Madrid. On Tuesday will deliver a report about the development of mobilization.

[The question is, What is to monitor whether hosts can not take action then? This is another make up using a useless organization that only serves for democratic face wash to feed media indoctrination]

It is not the first time that the OSCE is concerned with respect of rights and freedoms during demonstrations in our country. During the last "Surround the Congress" demostration, organized by the Platform 25-S under the slogan " Jaque al Rey ", on 28th September, the Government of Rajoy "invited to leave", put away, the six observers arguing that the government considered " unconstitutional, " said protest.

This reaction of the Spanish government did not like the Agency, which condemned the attitude of the government in a statement in which he warned that this "sudden opposition of the Spanish authorities "caused "some concern about the intentions" they might have during the protest.
"Like any member of the OSCE, Spain is committed to ensuring the right of assembly and the work of international observers " recall from organizing marches , a task "critical to ensure that freedoms are respected ," they add.
So, during the meeting next Tuesday , all violations of fundamental rights that occur will be reported .

The Government Delegation in Madrid, directed by Cristina Cifuentes, has deployed a military police presence than any previous organized to protest killers , and will feature 1,750 policemen branch from prodisturbios Unit included over 100 agents infiltrated .

martes, 11 de marzo de 2014

Solidarity: [photos] #22M Columns of Dignity Marches moving towards Madrid. CNT posture

Hundreds of people moving to Madrid in the 22M. Columns converge in Madrid against the Troika, cuts and due to the situation in the working class
Hundreds Thousands of people participate in the Marches of Dignity that are traveling across the state to merge on 22 March in Madrid with the slogans:


"No payment of the debts. Cuts no more. 
Troika governments Out. 
Bread, work and house for all "

The March are organized in Columns that come from Galiza, Asturias, Cantabria, La Rioja, Catalonia, Alcaniz, Navarre, Aragon, Castellon, Valencia, Alicante, Santa Pola, Murcia, Extremadura and Granada. The Cordoba one will add up next 14th.


March Map
North-east ColumnNorth-east ColumnNorth-east ColumnTorrelavega, Cantabria. North-est ColumnNorth-west ColumnNorth-west ColumnNorth-west ColumnNorth ColumnNorth ColumnAlicante. East ColumnAlicante. East ColumnValencia. East ColumnShouth ColumnShouth-east Column

With crystal clear. 22M: CNT on the way, CNT fighting
[We publish this statement filled with pride]
Marches Dignity should be a most massive and forceful step we are able to build, step it will be necessary to continue and where social movements and the more militant trade unionism should take center stage, moving towards the convening of a general strike with a real capacity to reverse pro working class policies that we are suffering .
The CNT will participate in this mobilization. We are confident that together we will be able to send a clear message to the political and economic powers as well as the leadership of the official scab Unions . This message is that social peace is over and that the rights and freedoms of plundering the workers will be not for free. The fight is on the street, and spreads. We hope this day will serve to awaken society, to join the protest and organize.
The CNT clearly states that do not share or support the clear electoral scope and political means that some actors 22M claim offer to the working class as a solution to their problems. We reject that are intended to harness the energies and hopes of change and redirect the struggle of people to vote impasse.
Neither the dignity and freedom will be negotiated for any new leader emerged from the polls in the system. We must be ourselves and no delegate to anyone who end up conquering new and greater rights. And to do that we can not bet again by means of the established power, because we will be betrayed as has historically occurred. Will only be possible to take the path of dignity when power resides in the assemblies, away from political and union hierarchical model of elections and parliaments, released and committees.
This path has left us absolutely clear that capitalism can not handle more layers of makeup or reforms and their disappearance is the only reasonable scenario. We must fight for a social revolution able to transform from the ground up this society based on inequality, the only way to regain our dignity.
We will meet on the streets on 22, but the fight must continue. From 22M, to the First of May, to the General strike. Drive forward a Unionism based on direct action, federalism, solidarity and self-management, a tool able to stand up to capitalism, to transform society: anarcho-syndicalism. The CNT can be your tool of struggle.

Dignity, rebellion and social revolution!
The fight is on the street ,the 22M everyone to Madrid!
Hundreds of people march, thousands of people follow them.
No peace for us because the caste harass to crush and to finish enslave us completely.
No peace until we get rid of the parasitic caste and self organize our lives.
From tarcoteca encouragement and all the support we can. Your way is our way

Source: http://tarcoteca.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/solidaridad-fotos-22m-las-distintas.html
Original: http://www.lahaine.org/index.php?p=76009

miércoles, 26 de febrero de 2014

Chile: An undercover cop conducting arson attacks to incriminate Mapuche

Infiltrated Police Agent admits authorship of fire outrages in Araucania, Chile. Diario Uchile Journal 15.2.2014, Oriana Miranda via antimilitarista Grupo Tortuga

The declaration of a protected witness who confessed having infiltrated the Mapuche communities for fire attacks by police instructions, marked the trial of two minors charged under the anti-terrorism law, who were eventually acquitted.
The Oral Criminal Court unanimously acquitted Angol Marileo Luis and Patricio Queipul, accused of violence in the Araucanía in the case called "Quino Toll " in 2009 and tried under the Terrorism Act despite being under age at the time.

The Audience had already been acquitted seven adults, while both kids had remain in custody during the course of the investigation.

Under this view, Raúl Castro Antipán ,  protected prosecution witness, stated in court on tuesday. Confessed to having made four arson attacks and other qualified as " terrorist " acts when worked as undercover police agent, aiming Mapuche leaders to frame. "Castro Antipán told to judges have been infiltrated by police in the Mapuche movement and under this condition have committed crimes such as illegal possession of firearms, arson and assault to a toll ," explained the Jesuit priest Luis García Huidobro.

Between 2009 and 2011, with President Michelle Bachelet and Edmundo Pérez Yoma as Homeland Minister, thirty villagers were in prison because of the testimony of Raul Castro Antipán as "delator compensated " by the Chilean Terrorism Act, heir of Pinochet fascist dictatorship. Both Luis Patricio Marileo as Queipul have remained in Angol Prison for over a year, even after having as primary evidence of a crime they did not commit the words of this undercover agent working for police.

In this situation, the journalist and writer Pedro Cayuqueo said that "for many people in southern Chile is not news what's happening with this protected prosecution witness", impunity, detailing the history of trials in which Raúl Castro Antipán participated. "This guy already participated last year in a trial in Temuco, where he also was the trump card of the Office. With his testimony was intended to incriminate the Mapuche comrades were finally all acquitted. He now participating in a new trial not only realizes an irregularity that has to do with due process here in the south , but also poverty of evidences that account Prosecutor to try imprison commoners" accused.

In his view, there is clearly a political intention behind the persecution of Mapuche activists determined by the anti-terrorism law that has been challenged by various human rights organizations at national and international level . "The application of this law violates the due process and procedural guarantees of the Mapuche people. What more proof of that is palpable, for example, in this case the use of protected witnesses who are confessed criminals who benefit from the provisions of the Terrorism Act, for example, leniency, to be used as tools of persecution the community leaders. It is unfortunate that the prosecution has to resort confessed criminals to attempt to imprison the leaders and that is something that should draw the attention of the authorities  "he added . This confession corroborates the allegations raised for years by the Mapuche people, human rights organizations and civil society , on the use of undercover agents with the aim of provoking riots that allow the arrest of social leaders.
           
Release: Autonomous Community Temucuicui confession to undercover police agent

Conclusions
The Mapuche Chilean territory, like many other regions, it mattered little to the state. Away from civilization, left to fend for decades took important first when mining corporations laid their eyes on those distant lands. Suddenly the territory appreciated. Worth millions. There was only one problem, there was an Indian tribe that survived the extermination refused to leave those lands. Again the Criminal State, used to mass murder and torture after decades of fascist dictatoship, would clean the area undesirable for corporations. Started a new genocide, this no longer ideological, like Pinochet operation condor directly racist in true fascist style. With what is not told that the Mapuche people resist .

The corporacioenes beset for years the Mapuche territory as well underline in his writings. 'Mining Ventures Inc.' from China and 'A Grade Trading' from USA peseen exploitation rights. The Mapuche people is a cohesive and warlike people, who assert their rights. The usual tactics do not work with them, so corporations must resort to even more the dirty war to achieve its production goals.

After years of ups and sabotage police recognized in charge of the police to bring before this war of attrition. The police is the hand of the corporations as the state is the guarantor of their interests.

All kinds of cover and represive techniques and tactics has been applied to the Mapuche people, from institutional to paramilitaries. But in 2005 the Chilean Government approved the Terrorism Act , which seems to be made to suit the desires of corporations and the needs of their hounds, police, to legitimize repression. If already did what they wanted without explanation, was it necesary?

For those who do not know: the Mapuche people is characterized by a philosophy and ideology as close to anarchism could be considered a libertarian people.

jueves, 14 de noviembre de 2013

Spain: Monica and Francisco, comrades processed in Chilean Bombs Case, now charged in Mateo Morral Command Attacks

At 3 am on Wednesday November 13, 2013 Spanish police raided the home where Monica and Francisco lived, in addition to detein other 3 housemates.

The police, prosecutor, mass media and Homneland Ministers (both Chilean as Spanish) state that both partners have placed a bomb in the Basilic of Pilar, action vindicated by the "Mateo Morral Insurrectionary Command" on October 2, 2013 in Zaragoza, Spain.

To recall that both partners were prosecuted, imprisoned and faced one of the longest trials in Chilean procedural history in the "Bombs Case". Charged under anti-terrorism law for the crimes of terrorist conspiracy and explosive placement remained about nine months in maximum security prisons of the Chilean state, after being acquitted of conspiracy faced trial along with the other 3 partners for various crimes (terrorist artifact placement and terrorist financing) to finally be acquitted.

According to the information we have, both comrades will be in police custody until Friday 15 where they should declare before the judge of the National Audience (in charge of terrorism cases) Eloy Velasco, for offenses under Article 570 of the Criminal Code, anti-terrorism legislation with 15-20 years sentence.

Later that November 15 will be seen if the judge accepted the request for remand for both comrades. In parallel, different characters (each one more dire and sinister) take turns giving statement, celebrating the arrest and threatening to reopen the "Bombs Case" process.

From here we will transform these kilometers away in an insignificant obstacle, silence the voicesof  the masters that resonate from the two countries, we will walk ignoring the threats of decades and decades in prison for a hug of solidarity that is based far from the crackdowns ...

INTERNATIONALIST SOLIDARITY : NOW!

Monica Caballero and Francisco Solar : a la kalle !

http://publicacionrefractario.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/ultima-hora-espana-detienen-a-monica-y-francisco-companeros-anarquicos-acusados-del-atentado-explosivo-contra-basilica-del-pilar/

domingo, 3 de noviembre de 2013

Anarchist and antifascist sabotage Falange anniversary act in Madrid: No pasarán!


The Falange intended to carry out in the theater Figaro, next to the Plaza de Tirso de Molina, Madrid,  the celebration of its 80 year taint with the bloody history of hundreds of thousands people killed. Finally, and although Figaro Theatre managers tried to justify the presence of fascists in their space, the pressure exerted paid off, and the fascists had to pass on the sly the ceremony to TRYP Resort in Atocha Street.

The response of anarchists and other anti-fascists individuals was organized as fast as we could, due to the uncertainty throughout this week about the venue of the event. The night before the ceremony, Madrid Libertarian Youths drafted a rejection statement calling the fight against fascism in all its forms, stressing the need to fight also against capitalism and the state as institutions of which fascism is served to strengthen. Figaro theater nearby woke posters full of this statement and several painted showing the fascists were not welcome in our neighbourhood. The text, made ​​it clear that we can not forget that fascism has a role pressuring the State authorities to deepen racist and xenophobic policies, already inherent in any form of state. Fascism is and will always be a resource use by the ruling class to remain the power, either making use of fascism to stop the revolutionary forces, or showing the democratic dominance as submitting system necessary to contain totalitarianism.

Police protected at all times the hotel and its surroundings, identifying and retaining some anarchist and anti-fascist groups who tried to prevent the holding of the of praising fascist act.

Serve also this statement to warn those assisting the fascists and helping spread his message of racial hatred, authoritarian, sexist, homophobic, providing spaces are considered in the same ilk as these lunatics. Will face the consequences.

NO STREET, NO NEIGHBORHOOD, NO BREATH FOR FASCIST

AGAINST FASCISM AND ALL AUTHORITY: SELF-ORGANIZATION, SOLIDARITY AND DIRECT ACTION

Statement stuck in the vicinity of Figaro Theatre:
THE FASCISTS ARE NOT WELCOME
NOT HERE OR ANYWHERE
80 years ago, the Falange fascist organization was founded in Madrid. The party, which developed his political theory around the national-unionist, soon showed its oppressive reactionary outlook. Its members served as vigilant shock troop against the revolutionary workers' movement in the 30's in Spain. There were many clashes that the working class hold with fascism while also beating against the bourgeoisie and the Republican state, which from its inception was another attempt to settle exploitation disguised as liberal regime.
What happened then, is well known. Falange was used as political channel for Catholic Church, bourgeoisie and the military in an attempt to shackle the working people by the year 36, after the clear signs of be able to definitely overcome the bourgeois order that kept them under the yoke of exploitation and oppression. Was thus, bourgeoisie who raised Spanish fascism, phalangism, and used it to plan a genocide and extermination of hundreds of thousands of workers, anarchists and other political forces, with the help of Italian Fascism and German Nazism .
The huge work of revolutionary transformation that took place in vast areas of Spain, where from July 19, 1936 was able to halt the military and fascists, was first betrayed by Republican leaders and left-wing bourgeois parties (beginning a violent persecution of anarchist militants and other workers who also saw the need for a social revolution to stop fascism), and was finally destroyed with the triumph of the fascist side in the contest. More than 40 years of death, exile and imprisonment would expect to hundreds of thousands of people, that never stop being a nuisance to the Franco regime and its pet-party: The Falange.
80 years later we have a "democratic" regime that continues with the exploitation and domination as in the so-called dictatorship, but with subtle forms.
Leveraging the context of capitalist crisis, fascism tries to rise and anchor its racist, homophobic and reactionary on society. While various States of the European Union exercised evident persecution to workers because of their skin color or origin, the old fascism tries to take its place.
Acts like the Falange 80th anniversary commemorating, in a working class neighborhood as Lavapies, and in presence of many workers from around the world, show that fascism tries again to take a place with the clear complicity of judges, police and entrepreneurs. Democracy and fascism are two sides of the same coin, different ways of practicing racism and dominion over people, but aim to keep the same capitalist system that engenders. State and Capital found in fascism and its racial hate messages a vigilante-killing force to strengthen both in the streets and at the level of discourse .

THE GOOD FALANGIST IS THE DEAD FALANGIST
AGAINST THE STATE, CAPITAL, FASCISM AND
ALL FORMS OF AUTHORITY : SELF-ORGANIZATION,
SOLIDARITY AND DIRECT ACTION
MADRID LIBERTARIAN YOUTHS-FIJL
http://juventudeslibertariasmadrid.wordpress.com/
Post translated to spanish: http://tarcoteca.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/fijl-madrid-breve-cronica-y-comentarios.html

domingo, 20 de octubre de 2013

Italian protesters take on police during mass march against austerity budget (PHOTOS)

Published time: October 19, 2013 19:29 

Edited time: October 20, 2013 01:40
A group of people clashes with policemen near the Economy minister during an anti-austerity protest on October 19, 2013 in Rome. (AFP Photo / Filippo Monteforte)
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Violence broke out between police and demonstrators in Rome on Saturday as tens of thousands took to the streets to protest Italy’s new budget.
Fifteen protesters were arrested and at least 20 police officers were injured, according to the Corriere della Sera newspaper. 
We are laying siege to the city!” chanted the crowd, as a small minority pelted the police and government buildings with water bottles and eggs. 
A group of protesters turned over garbage bins and set some of them on fire in front of the Economy Ministry. 
Members of the Guardia di Finanza protect themselves as they stand in front of the Economy minister during clashes on the sidelines of an anti-austerity protest on October 19, 2013 in Rome. (AFP Photo / Alberto Pizzoli)
Members of the Guardia di Finanza protect themselves as they stand in front of the Economy minister during clashes on the sidelines of an anti-austerity protest on October 19, 2013 in Rome. (AFP Photo / Alberto Pizzoli)

Police say they confiscated tear gas canisters and rocks from some of the radicals in the predominantly youthful crowd and found chains stashed away along the route of the march.

Organizers estimated that 70,000 people took part in the protest, while authorities placed the number closer to 50,000.

With this budget the government is continuing to hurt a country which is already on its knees,” said Piero Bernocchi, leader of the left-wing COBAS trade union that was behind the demonstration. 
“Even after austerity has proven to be disastrous, with debt rising, the economy crumbling, and unemployment soaring, they still continue with these policies. 
Thousands of people march during an anti-austerity protest on October 19, 2013 in Rome. (AFP Photo / Alberto Pizzoli)
Thousands of people march during an anti-austerity protest on October 19, 2013 in Rome. (AFP Photo / Alberto Pizzoli)

Earlier this week, Prime Minister Enrico Letta - who is presiding over a fractious Left-Right coalition - presented the 2014 budget that immediately came under a firestorm of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum.

Left-wingers criticized the document for freezing state sector pay and pensions, while right-wingers and businesses said it failed to stimulate growth with insufficient cuts to Italy’s oppressive corporate taxes.
People try to broke the windows of an Unicredit bank agency during an anti-austerity protest on October 19, 2013 in Rome. (AFP Photo / Alberto Pizzoli)
People try to broke the windows of an Unicredit bank agency during an anti-austerity protest on October 19, 2013 in Rome. (AFP Photo / Alberto Pizzoli)


Italy annually spends around 800 billion euro – a sum it cannot afford as it struggles with a recession that started more than two years ago. The latest budget aims to cut the deficit to 2.5 percent – still worse than most of Europe.

On Friday, a general strike paralyzed transport links in the country and forced the cancellation of flights in and out of Rome.

But Saturday’s protests weren’t just about pay. Some called for the government to abandon an expensive fast-train link with France. Others demanded that Italy provide more social housing. Many bemoaned the country’s treatment of immigrants, who have suffered several tragic incidents in recent months as they attempted to reach the coast of Italy.

Letta has gone on television to defend his government, but dissenters have not been placated and say that even bigger demonstrations will be staged next week. 

jueves, 17 de octubre de 2013

Noelia Cotela Riveiro letter, Kidnapped in state killing centers in Spain

NOELIA COTELO RIVEIRO LETTER, KIDNAPPED IN STATE KILLING CENTERS IN SPAIN
Posted by boletintokata on October 8, 2013

First it is remarkable to say that unfortunately I'm not "a tortured prisoner" I am "another tortured prisoner" in this supposedly rule of law and democratic country. From the dungeon where I am, in an isolation bunker, where I have spent six years locked up by the only fact of rebelling against the injustices and atrocities that the executioners make us here within to the ones with courage enough to reclaim, to uprise and make them hardly earn the bread they receive from the state for mistreating, violate our rights, physically and mentally torturing, or even killing with complete impunity.

Using the abstract term of "reinsertion" State keeps me 23 hours a day locked in a dungeon of three meters square. Having to go to a cage-like courtyard where barely get sun and, of course only because the outlawed FIES regime remains [Special Chase Inner Files, forbidden prisoner classification still in use in Spain]. Scattered from my family , my land and far away from my loved ones. This is the prison underworld of which no one speaks for fear of not being believed.

Doing a quick review of my stay in these killing centers I want to relate my passing through, and public denounce the facts that happens, here. C. P. Brieva Prison: the jail where reigns the inmates submission and prevails the word of the executioners. In this prison I have been tortured, have break me a wrist bone which took 30 days plaster, fruit of the usual daily beatings. It keeps me totally incommunicated (phone, parlor, meetings, and mail) as usual, even jailers reporting my mother in order to maintain my isolation. I have been handcuffed, mechanical restraint and stranded many times, after being tortured, and the night of 23th October 2012, after being handcuffed, I woke up to feel the hands of a state servant touching my body. How nobody do nothing? Because this rotten oppressive system encourages the perpetrators enjoy impunity. I'm still alive, but many brothers and comrades have been cruelly killed when "theoretically " serving sentences. Induction to suicide by restraining the oppressive jail regime; aggressions out of hand that kill us (after we appear hanged as if suicide) adulterous methadone to nullify (and clean way to kill us, "overdose"), humiliation, vexes and even vegan comrades die in prison for deny applying the "Terminal Illness patient release" Art.

C. P. Brieva , CP Picassent , C. P. Albolote ... death camps and slaughterhouses of the State. We are 75,000 prisoners in Spain, with too much pain, torture and suffering (as prisoners as relatives). so I want to call the bonds of solidarity that unite to urge and fight for the abolition of torture, the abolition of prisons and the FIES regime, and for anyone else have to live these experiences that marks for life. Let us join voices and fists in live or death to fight for our rights and our freedom.

AGAINST PRISON SOCIETY AND THEIR HIRED MURDERER! BY ANARCHY !

Noelia Cotelo Riveiro , CP Albolote in Granada