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  • Venezuela: No concentration of power is ever revolutionary
    5 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    *As Chavez attempts to allow indefinite presidential reelections for himself by way of the approval of the Referendum for Constitutional amendment, anarchists publish this declaration, which is also the Editorial of El Libertario #55, January-February 2009 (now on line, in Spanish www.nodo50.org/ellibertario). During mid-December a large number of people working under temporary contracts in governmental offices lost their jobs due to orders “from above” that mandated a drastic reduction (…)

  • Icelandic TV program featuring PM forced off air
    2 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Icelandic TV program featuring PM forced off air
    By VALUR GUNNARSSON – 1 day ago
    REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — A nationally televised meeting between Iceland’s prime minister and other political leaders was forced off the air Wednesday night when angry protesters disrupted the broadcast.
    For more than two decades, the leaders of Iceland’s political parties have met every New Year’s Eve over champagne and spiced herring to talk about the year ahead on Iceland’s Channel 2 television.
    But (…)

  • Happy New Year 2009: Put all your Love, Wisdom and Truth into your first right foot step in the New Year.
    31 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Happy New Year 2009: Put all your Love, Wisdom and Truth into your first right foot step in the New Year. This will trigger very healthful energies for the whole year!
    "In a few hours it will be New Year, and tomorrow when you speak about today you will already be saying ‘last year’. Up until twenty-three hours, fifty-nine minutes and fifty-nine seconds, it will be ‘this year’, and as midnight strikes the new year will begin. One second, just one second, separates one year from the next! (…)

  • Video: Activists Urge Moratorium on Utility Shut-offs
    29 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Monday, Dec. 29, 2008, the “Maryland Coalition to Stop the BGE Rate Hikes,” called a press conference. It was held at noon at the historic New Shiloh Baptist Church, in Baltimore, MD. The activists urged Gov. Martin O’Malley; members of the state’s General Assembly; and BGE/Constellation, the utility conglomerate, to support “a moratorium on utility shuts-off from Jan. 1, 2009 through May 31, 2009.” In its press release, the advocacy group underscored: “Ten people have died across (…)

  • Understanding the origin of public insecurity
    25 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    * Article originally published in spanish language in El Libertario, Venezuela, # 54, September-October 2008, that analyzes and goes over the problem of criminal violence through its social impact on contemporary Venezuela.
    All opinion polls conducted in the country agree on one topic: the insecurity is the main problem for the citizens. The numbers of homicides and personal injuries place us, at present, as one of the most dangerous countries on the continent. This situation is (…)

  • Video: Declare Baltimore: “A Foreclosures and Evictions Free Zone!”
    23 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Dec. 23, 2008, activists held a press conference, at 12:30 PM, along with a picket line, in front of the Baltimore City’s Sheriff’s Office, at the main Court House, near the City Hall. They requested a halt, a moratorium, to all foreclosures and evictions in the city, and that the Sheriff’s Office follow the precedent established by the Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, and the Sheriff of Philadelphia, PA, in this regard. The rally, with the temperature hovering in the low 20s, was led by (…)

  • Rembetiko - An History of the Greek Blues (Hommage à Sotiria Tsili)
    21 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rembetiko: Music of the Outsiders
    A 52’ documentary made in around 1988. (English subtitles).
    Hommage à Sosso Tsili, Sociologue (1947-2000)
    Résistante grecque pendant le régime des colonels
    qui aurait participé à la révolte actuelle.
    Source: umbc.edu
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-26003899.html

  • Scorched Earth
    19 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Scorched Earth By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    There comes a point, as the car careens out of control down the icy highway, when we are no longer the driver but just the person holding onto the wheel. We try to do what’s right but the situation changes from instant to instant and it appears that our actions have little effect.
    The undercurrents of history, however, may appear to move in unseen channels, but still we can’t escape cause and effect. The film “Charlie (…)

  • US Committee to support the Tarnac 9
    2 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    U.S. Support Commitee for the Tarnac 9 Formed Sunday, November 30 2008 @ 04:53 PM CST Contributed by: Anonymous
    On November 11th 2008, French Anti-Terrorism Police arrested around twenty people in connection with five incidents in the preceding weeks in which electric train lines were shut down, causing delays.
    Nine of these were subsequently accused of “criminal association for the purposes of terrorist activity”, four of them were released on bail and five remain in custody. Because (…)

  • Regarding the events in India: The only question we should be asking ourselves, by Arundhati Roy
    27 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    In the following short video, Arundhati Roy, “an Indian writer and activist who won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and in 2002, the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize,” explains what occupies her thoughts during these unsettling times:
    “I think, the thing that I’m thinking the most about, the question that occupies me a lot these days is, what kind, what form of resistance is effective, and acceptable to us?
    “Because, I see all over and all around us, (…)