Thursday 19 March 2015

"Walking Tall".

       So according to Chancellor Osborne, that aristocratic millionaire product of the Oxbridge sausage factory, Britain is “Walking Tall” again. What a wonderful sound-bite, what a load of crap. Britain is certainly a very rich country, Britain is certainly awash with wealth, Britain is the seventh richest country in the world, but sadly it is all stuffed in the bank accounts, off-shore and elsewhere, of his corrupt cabal of parasites.
      Britain, continues to produce a mass of wealth, yet it is one of the most unequal countries in the developed world. That wealth, that we the ordinary people create, is soon looted and plundered and syphoned up to feed an army of over fed, greedy parasites. The result being that in this very rich country, according to a recent report by Oxfam and Church Action On Poverty, for the year 2013/14, a staggering 20,247,042, meals were given out to people in food poverty, an increase of 54% on the previous year. “Walking Tall” Britain has millions living on the breadline. Most non-government organisations that deal with poverty in this country, agree that the increase in food poverty, among other results of poverty, are changes to the social security system, a punitive sanction regime, an increase in part-time work, zero hours contracts, years of stagnant incomes, and ever increasing living costs. All these factors make it increasingly difficult for families to put food on the table.
      In “Walking Tall” Britain, one in five people live below the poverty line, and in some of our many poorer areas, life expectancy is lower than in some developing countries. In the Calton district of Glasgow it is 59 years. While this struggle to pry a decent living out of this exploitative system goes on for the majority of us, the rich keep getting richer and the gap between the real people who create the wealth, and those rich parasites that plunder it, keeps getting wider.
      In 21st century Britain, where we are again “Walking Tall” many people, on a daily basis face, rising prices, unfair working conditions, benefit cuts, and reduced buying power, making food banks the only option open to them. With this standard of living in the 7th richest country in the world, aristocratic Osborne and his cabal of millionaire plunderers, are planning even more severe cuts in the coming years. Cuts that will of course, drastically affect you and I, but will add more swag to his band of millionaire parasites, who will, as they clink their champagne glasses, congratulate him on getting Britain, “Walking Tall” again.
Relaxing before a plundering raid.
     There are two Britains, there is the one that you and I, the real wealth creators inhabit, in poverty and struggle. Then there is the other Britain, inhabited by a band of worthless parasites, who by duplicity and deceit, rob us stinking, and they live in unimaginable wealth and splendour. It doesn't have to be that way. We could really be "Walking Tall", by ridding ourselves of this corrupt, unjust, exploitative system, and getting that band of plundering parasites off our backs for once and for all. Taking the abundant wealth of this country, that we created, and sharing it to see to the needs of all our people.
Completing their course in plundering.
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Wednesday 18 March 2015

That Babbling Brook Of Bullshit.

      I tend to refer to the mainstream media as, "that babbling brook of bullshit", and have refused interviews with journalists on several occasions. I see the mainstream media as an essential part of the establishment apparatus. A propaganda tool of the corporate world, and at all times, against the type of change to society that is necessary to break out of this vicious circle of capitalist exploitation. When anarchists talk to the media, they are putting their ideas and beliefs in a mincer, and having them served up in distorted misshapen unrecognisable minuscule portions. I fail to see how we can expect a social revolution to come via the mainstream media, they are firmly on the other side of the desire for a change, to a system of fairness and justice, built on the needs of the people. 
       We have to be our own media, we have to communicate via our communities and workplaces, report on, and be constructively critical of the real world we live in. We must ignore the filtered version of distorted sound-bites that is spewed out from that vast international corporate mouthpiece, whose only aim is to create a false reality, in which none of us actually live. It attempts to make the gross inequalities and injustices of the capitalist system acceptable, to make the public more amenable to the voracity of the parasites who hold the levers of power in this corrupt system. It will glorify war, honour the corporate plunder of the earth, and shine the spotlight of adoration on wealth and greed. Why should we even contemplate any form of association with something that is so hostile to our aims and desires? To see the world we live in, we must create a mainstream media blackout, in our lives, and talk to each other.

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Tuesday 17 March 2015

Cancer Care, For Profit!!


       Even before the greed monster TTIP, has been released from the bowels of corporate voracity, onto the general public, we are seeing the NHS being sliced and diced for the corporate friends of our millionaire cabal that sits in the Westminster Houses of Hypocrisy and Corruption. Within that cesspool of self interest, there are over 140 Lords with business interests in private healthcare, plus at least 80 MPs with similar interests, that would benefit from the privatisation of the NHS. How do you think they will be pushing the debate?
        The paid political liars that keep spouting, "The NHS is safe in our hands", have been laughing at us, as the clink their champagne glasses with their bosom buddies, the corporate leeches, while throwing NHS contracts around for favours.   
          Behind closed doors the biggest sell-off in the NHS has been rolling along, and now it is out in the open. Staffordshire was planning a £1.2bn sell-off of cancer and end-of-life care without proper patient consultation. But now a key leaked document reveals all:

--------Not only is this the first billion-pound NHS privatisation, it is the first time that it has been deemed acceptable to put care designed to meet the needs of our most vulnerable patients on sale.
Uniquely for a privatisation on anything of this scale, there has been no public consultation, simply a series of weak “engagement” events led by paid “patient champions”. For the past year unpaid patients have not been able to have their say. Thanks to the brave person who shared the documents, now they can.
       The background is this: Staffordshire commissioners want to hand the management of all care for cancer and end-of-life patients to a private company, a “prime provider” that will take responsibility for the delivery of care, subcontracting and performance management.-------
Read the full article HERE:
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Monday 16 March 2015

Spring Rising, 2015.

        Seeing as America is the biggest culprit in wars and foreign invasions, it is great to see this happening the US. What a pity it wasn't happening in every city across the planet. A bit late for that, but still time for a "Summer Rising".



Lafayette Park
(across from the White House).
Washington, D.C.
March on the Capitol to Demand:
END THE WARS: Iraq, Syria, Ukraine and beyond
NO SANCTIONS, NO NEW WARS:
Stop new threats of sanctions on Venezuela and Iran
BLACK AND BROWN LIVES MATTER; From Ferguson to Iraq, people of color are under attack by U.S. police and military. We demand an end to racist militarization and wars. We demand justice for the victims of racist brutality here and abroad. We also demand an end to the mass incarceration of millions of poor and working people, as well as freedom for all political prisoners including Mumia Abu Jamal, Leonard Peltier to Aafia Siddiqui and Rasmeh Odeh. 
RESISTANCE IS JUSTIFIED: From Palestine to Staten Island, Wisconsin to Ukraine, people are organizing to fight U.S. oppression and war. Its time to unite this resistance.
The international Action Center, FIST (Fight Imperialism, Stand Together), Solidarity Iran, and the United National Antiwar Coalition are amongst the growing coalition of organizations mobilizing for this major national anti-war action.
The International Action Center is organizing transportation from Baltimore, New York City, Durham, North Carolina, and Philadelphia to this important action. If you are interested in travelling with us to this important demonstration or learning more, contact Scott at thescott0730@gmail.com.
 Spring Rising; http://cindysheehanssoapbox.com/spring-rising-an-anti-war-intervention-in-dc.html was originally proposed by Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox and the Soapbox People's Network. It has been endorsed and will be supported by Amnesty International Charlottesville, the ANSWER CoalitionAntiwar.com, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, the Baltimore Pledge of ResistanceCenter on Conscience & War, Washington, DCBrooklyn for PeaceBrainerd Area Coalition for Peace (BACP),  Chelsea Neighbors United to End the War,  Citizens for Peace,  CND CYMRU,  CODEPINK, Courage to ResistFISTDC 9/11 Truth,  DC Metro Science for the PeopleDefending Dissent Foundation,  Frack Free Nation, the Granny Peace Brigade of New York CityInternational Action Center,  KnowDrones.comMaryland United for Peace and Justice, Metro DC Committee of Correspondence for Democracy and Ecosocialism, Labor Fightback Network,  Military Families Speak OutMinnesota Peace ActionNational Association Against Police Brutality, the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance, Ohio State Labor Party, the Network to Stop Drone Surveillance and WarfareThe No Fear Coalition, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,   Pax Christi Metro DC-Baltimore,  Peace Action in Staten Island, Peace Academy at LibertyPAX Christi USA,  Peace Action MontgomeryPeopleNow.orgPeace Fresno,Popular Resistance, Progressive Democrats of America,   Revolutionary Organization of Labor USA,  SOA Watch, Syracuse Peace CouncilTulsa Peace Fellowship,  United for Peace and Justice,  United National Antiwar CoalitionUpstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars,  US Foreign Policy Activist CooperativeVegans for NonviolenceUS Labor Against the WarVeterans For Peace,Veterans for Safe Access,
Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality, Voices for Creative Non-ViolenceWarIsACrime.org,  Washington Peace Center, Witness Against TortureWomen"s International League for Peace and Freedom,  World Beyond War, and World Can't WaitPax Christi Phoenix
For more details check out the Spring Rising Website: 
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Imperialism And Its Need For Political Theatre.

     The following short statement by William Blum in Z Magazine, though 15 years old, it is still an accurate summary American foreign policy.
    The engine of American foreign policy has been fueled not by a devotion to any kind of morality, but rather by the necessity to serve other imperatives, which can be summarized as follows:
* making the world safe for American corporations;
* enhancing the financial statements of defense contractors at home who have contributed generously to members of congress;
* preventing the rise of any society that might serve as a successful example of an alternative to the capitalist model;
* extending political and economic hegemony over as wide an area as possible, as befits a "great power."
      This in the name of fighting a supposed moral crusade against what cold warriors convinced themselves, and the American people, was the existence of an evil International Communist Conspiracy, which in fact never existed, evil or not.

      He goes on to say that between 1945 and 1999 the US has intervened militarily in 70 countries. That I would say, is a world record.
        It is also true to say that all those interventions were carried out on the back of a lie. The American imperialists need a constant state of war, it is what their power and wealth is built on. In a recent article, John Pilger does an excellent job in clarifying this continual slaughter flagged up as a moral crusade but built on lies to further their power.
        This extract gives an insight to how modern Western, (US dominated) imperialism, with a cavalier attitude to bloodshed, carves up the world to its advantage.
      The "humanitarian war" against Libya drew on a model close to western liberal hearts, especially in the media. In 1999, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair sent Nato to bomb Serbia, because, they lied, the Serbs were committing "genocide" against ethnic Albanians in the secessionist province of Kosovo. David Scheffer, US ambassador-at-large for war crimes [sic], claimed that as many as "225,000 ethnic Albanian men aged between 14 and 59" might have been murdered. Both Clinton and Blair evoked the Holocaust and "the spirit of the Second World War". The West's heroic allies were the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), whose criminal record was set aside. The British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, told them to call him any time on his mobile phone.

      With the Nato bombing over, and much of Serbia's infrastructure in ruins, along with schools, hospitals, monasteries and the national TV station, international forensic teams descended upon Kosovo to exhume evidence of the "holocaust". The FBI failed to find a single mass grave and went home. The Spanish forensic team did the same, its leader angrily denouncing "a semantic pirouette by the war propaganda machines". A year later, a United Nations tribunal on Yugoslavia announced the final count of the dead in Kosovo: 2,788. This included combatants on both sides and Serbs and Roma murdered by the KLA. There was no genocide. The "holocaust" was a lie. The Nato attack had been fraudulent.
Read the full article HERE:
       We live in a fog of propaganda, spewed out by that babbling brook of bullshit, the mainstream media, and "information", in the form of smoke and mirrors, from the state and various corporate and political institutions. we are in a theatre, watching a carefully scripted play, reality is elsewhere, outside the political theatre of capitalist society.

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Tomorrow's World, fashioned By TTIP.


       Are we taking TTIP serious enough? Where is the noise? This is no ordinary piece of crap legislation, this is cementing the foundations of corporatism, this trashes completely any illusion of democracy that any naive individual my have been clinging to, this gives corporations power over elected governments. It will mean that those sitting in boardrooms of powerful profit driven corporations will determine the shape our society will take. Anything that stands in the way of their ability to rape and plunder the planet to maximise their profits and power, will be swept away. Anything in the public sector that could be turned to a profit, will be privatised. The full spectrum, from health, education, to public spaces and what we eat, all will be decided on the basis of profit. It paints a picture of a "Tomorrow's World" that will be unbearable and unsustainable.
 Tomorrow’s World!
See the fat cat’s grinning smile
as Corporate Capitalism runs amok,
Chasing profit as it goes
firing millions of ordinary folk.
Raping and polluting land after land,
starting bloody wars.
Toxic waste, sweat shop wages
and oil covered sea shores.
Where have all the flowers gone
beneath this ozone free sky?
To join the birds, to join the fox
on yonder plutonium field to die.
Mercury fish, strontium lamb
trees that never show a leaf,
radio active beaches, toxic streams
good lean BSE-antibiotic beef.
In a world of epidemic, plague and famine
it’s bottled water and chemical food.
Of course, it’s all tested on rats and mice
so you know its got to be good.
Beneath a sky that’s always black,
hurricane winds and endless drought,
its oxygen masks for the toxic air,
corporate profit’s what its all about.
This is an appeal from 38 Degrees:
Thanks for signing the petition to your local MP candidates.

      The more of us who sign, the more likely we can push all these candidates to realise that they must stand up to TTIP. Can you share the petition with your friends and family too? Just click the links below to share:
Facebook: https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/stop-ttip-scotland-facebook
Twitter: https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/stop-ttip-scotland-twitter
Or you can forward using the email text below.
      38 Degrees members are coming together in town centres across Scotland on Saturday the 28th March to collect signatures on big local petitions, calling on our MP candidates to stop TTIP. Will you join in and set up an street event in your local area? Just click the link below to get started:
http://election.38degrees.org.uk/?tinfo_id=4

Thanks for being involved,
Jen, Bex, Maddy & the 38 Degrees team

Hi,
Have a look at this:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/ttip-scotland-petition

    The text of the TTIP trade deal has been leaked, and it’s confirmed one of our biggest fears: our NHS in Scotland is at risk.
     And it’s not just the NHS. All our public services could be in the firing line from this dodgy trade deal - as well as food safety and environmental protections. We can stop TTIP, but we need to persuade our politicians to defend public services against big business.
    It’s now less than 60 days to the election. Hopeful new candidates are desperate to win votes - the perfect opportunity to push TTIP to the top of their agenda. To make that happen, every candidate from every party needs to know:  TTIP is a huge threat, and they must oppose it.
    With huge public petitions in every constituency, they won’t be able to ignore the issue. It just takes a couple of minutes. Will you sign the petition for your local area?
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/ttip-scotland-petition

Thanks,
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Saturday 14 March 2015

Paedophiles And The Corridors Of Power.

         When will we get to the bottom of this paedophilia cesspit, frequented by the high and the mighty? When will we demand an end to the cover-up of those in high places, protected by the all covering blanket of "national security", that is thrown around their vile abusive actions? As they say, there is no smoke without fire, time and time again these accusations come up, and time and time again, political and security services waffle, shunts it into the long grass. This story of paedophiles walking the corridors of power with impunity, has lingered for decades. Now and again some brave soul rises to point the finger, and then disappears into obscurity, stories float around figures in high places, nothing is cleared up, they go on their merry way, but the stories gain in number and longevity, and we are more or less lead to believe it is all the work of a few trouble makers. For these stories to have persisted for so long, against the highest and most powerful in the land, without it being cleared up thoroughly, points to a total ineptitude of our political class, and/or a cover-up of massive proportions. Perhaps this interesting article from A World To Win might help you make up your mind on which option to believe. I'm sure, that if enough of us got behind this abuse of people and power, we could destroy this cancer at the heart of the political charlatans, we could blow it wide open and force the naming and shaming of these brutal abusers, hiding behind the shield of a corrupt establishment.

      -----So for children and survivors the risks of telling the truth are overwhelming. Whistle-blowers face the same risks. One example goes back to the 1980s again. Journalist Don Hale tried to report a case of institutional child abuse in 1984. He was greeted with police harassment and a D-notice which invokes “national security” to block publication. Interestingly for a care home located in Bury, it was not the local police who swooped on Hale’s office. It was Special Branch. This indicates what is loosely termed “national security” was at stake. In the name of “national security” the gloves come off. What is emerging even in mainstream media is the involvement of Special Branch in the cover-up of Establishment paedophile rings. Police detectives have repeatedly revealed to Exaro website that for the past 30 years Special Branch has been warning individual officers off cases that might uncover Establishment paedophiles. Their careers were at stake, they were told. For civilians, their lives are at stake.  -------
Read the full article HERE:
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The End Of Privacy.

         We are moving ever closer to a society of total control, total surveillance. On top of countless thousands of CCTV cameras in all avenues of our life, we have a company in Sweden placing chips in the arms of employees, Glasgow's new experimental, mood and profiling surveillance system, and kids in schools useing palm or finger prints to access parts of the school. Do you honestly think that your life will be enhanced by your every movement, mood and conversation being monitored? Or is your welfare and well-being not on the list at all? 
This very interesting article from Politics in The Zeros:
Woo-hoo, little microscopic sensors will soon be everywhere, tracking us constantly, happily sending data back to motherships somewhere. This of course, will be done solely to help us all make informed decisions. So, no need to worry your silly little heads about, oh, businesses collaborating with governments and sending the data along to them or about what happens when these systems get hacked and exploited. Instead, let us behold our new surveillance society.
I recently wrote about Humanyze, a new startup that has created a smart employee badge to help track employee movements and social interactions throughout the day and correlate the data to company goals.
Humanyze, which doesn’t seem very human to me, monitors everything serfs employees say, including tone of voice, to insure they are being “loyal, plastic robots for a world that doesn’t care.” Whoops, how did that Frank Zappa lyric sneak into a discussion about the wonderfulness of your employer monitoring everything you do? my bad. “I’m sorry Bob, but you’ve been spending far too much time at the coffee maker and we’ve sent a message about this to your boss., and further, your tone of voice has been sarcastic and unhelpful lately.”
But wait, there’s more.
Oral B has a smart toothbrush. The toothbrush uses Bluetooth and a mobile app to capture data about your tooth brushing habits. It includes a timer to make sure you’re brushing for a full two minutes, and it maps your brushing so if you concentrate really hard on your bottom front and give short shrift to your upper molars, the app lets you know and gives you feedback.
Will it spend a nasty note to my dental insurance provider should I not properly brush my molars?
Cheaper sensors will fuel the age of smart everything, says TechCrunch, in a relentlessly perky article mentioning none of the downsides of such monitoring.
Who benefits from this? Hint, the consumer and the citizen are at the bottom of the list, after business and governments.
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Friday 13 March 2015

Comcast And Net Neutrality

     A massive battle to save net neutrality has been won, but the corporate power of Comcast is still attempting to reverse that victory. We won because of the massive response of ordinary people across the globe, their persistence and organisation was a tribute to people power, proving we can change the world, if we all come together. However we have to be ever vigilant and ready to resume the struggle.
Good news. This morning, the FCC released the full text of the historic new net neutrality rules, and now it’s clearer than ever that these rules will protect free speech, and that Comcast and their allies in Congress have been lying to you.
You can read them in full here -- but since it's 313 pages (of fiery, Comcast-slaying justice), we wanted to give you a quick rundown of what the rules do and don't do. But don't stop reading after the summary, because Comcast is already on the attack and there's more to do right now.
  • ISP’s and their friends in government can't block you from visiting a website. So you can visit any site that you want.
  • They can't slow down access to websites. So the sites you want to visit will come to you as quickly as the sites Comcast wishes you were visiting.
  • They can't speed up or make certain websites load faster. This is absolutely critical, because if they could speed up certain sites, that functionally means slowing down other sites.
  • They can’t get between you and any content, application, service, or anything else that you want to access online. That is explicitly one of the rules. Just in case the other rules don’t cover something.
  • There are no new taxes or fees anywhere in the rules, and there’s nothing limiting investment. At all. Period.
All of that is to say two simple, wonderful words: we won. And not only that, we won because of the work of people like you. Activism is mentioned time and again in the rules, and there’s barely an article written that doesn’t talk about it.
But the fight isn't over yet. Comcast has been scheming about how to use a corrupt Congress to kill net neutrality since before the FCC even voted on the rules. Last week, the House introduced a bill to kill the rules. Next week, there are three different hearings about them.
We can't let Comcast’s attacks get any traction -- these new rules do everything that the public fought for. Now we need to defend them and end this fight for good.
These rules are built on almost a decade of groundwork, but the last year is when we really kicked this fight into high gear. Check out our timeline of everything that happened over the last year, from camping out outside of the FCC, to some of the largest Internet protests in history.
Thanks for helping us win net neutrality -- and for helping us protect it.
Charlie, Tiffiniy, Holmes, Evan, Jeff, and everyone at Fight for the Future
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Anarchy In Rojava.


       The latest video from The Stimulator at Submedia, is on what is happening in Rojava, among other things, plus a wee plug for AK Press.



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Thursday 12 March 2015

GLC, Athens Group Of Libertarian Communists.

       An interesting interview by A-radio Berlin, held in Paris with the Athens Group of Libertarian Communists (GLC). The interview is in English and covers Syriza, Golden Dawn and other matters relating to anarchist views in Greece. It is always good to get information from those involved.

Enjoy it HERE:

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Unite Against Fascism.


        The racist English Defence League (EDL) had planned a march in Brighton but the consistent opposition to this and previous marches has meant that the EDL have cancelled.  Here in Edinburgh we have planned protests by Pegida from Germany (Sat 21 March) and the home grown Scottish Defence League (Sat 14 March). Let us make the opposition so big, so loud and proud that they never come back again.
      Also on 21 March there is a national demonstration in Glasgow, part of worldwide protests with the theme “Stand Up To Racism and Fascism”.
       Make sure your voice is heard, please come on the following events:
14 MARCH SDL DEMONSTRATION IN EDINBURGH.
     Say no to the racist Scottish Defence League; meet 1.30 at the Scottish Parliament, foot of the Royal Mile.  Keep up to date by liking our Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/events/415161085309799/

21 MARCH PEGIDA
      There has been plenty of media coverage of the first ever march by the anti- Muslim group Pegida in Scotland (see links below). In Germany “Pegida” have built up to having thousands of people on their marches; we can’t afford to let them grow to that size here.
      They keep changing the time and location of their protest, the latest is that they will be at Wellington Statue, east end of Prince Street at 8pm. To keep up to date with the latest situation Like our Facebook event  page
https://www.facebook.com/events/439710179515899

21 MARCH; STAND UP TO RACISM & FASCISM NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION
    There has been a fantastic range of groups supporting this event, https://www.facebook.com/events/317044925169581
      Come along and join in the world wide protest on UN anti-racism day, March 21st.
Assemble 10.30 am, March & Rally 11 am, George Square, Glasgow.
We have a coach going to Glasgow so please get in touch to book a seat.
Email: StandUpToRacismScotland@gmail.com
Download printer friendly flyers and posters here:
A4 Poster:  http://goo.gl/cIWaiy
Double sided flyer:    http://goo.gl/Eb1b40
WE NEED YOU
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Glasgow, The Commons, Sharing.


       A worth while opportunity for you and the kids to get your hands dirty and feel good

Farmhouse Work Day 
This Saturday 14th. 10 till 4pm.
Community Garden Elder Park Govan.


https://commgood.wordpress.com/
Last day of the first phase tidy up this Saturday. Come along and sample Joeys fine broth soup. Last few Saturdays weather was a bit on the wet side but we still managed to get plenty done, rain or no. We are clearing a space at the entrance to the farm yard. The bit most people see as they walk/drive past. We want it to be child user friendly and are planning activities there. Come along for the crack, the soup or to push the wheel barrow, or the full package. From 10 till 4 
Project update coming soon.

https://commgood.wordpress.com/
 
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Wednesday 11 March 2015

Lest We forget, Fukushima Anniversary.

        And still the corporate Mafia and their minders the government, try to sell us nuclear power as a safe and economical power source, this in spite of Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, The cost and the ongoing costs of those three incidents could probably solve the world's energy problems by safe renewable means. 
       On 11 March 2011, the strongest earthquake in Japan's history caused a giant tsunami that killed more than 18,000 people along the country's north-east coast. It also triggered a triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that will take four decades to clean up at a cost of tens of billions of dollars. As Japan prepares to mark the fourth anniversary of the 3/11 disaster, the Guardian talks to key figures from the most critical days of the Fukushima crisis and to some of the tens of thousands forced to evacuate their irradiated communities and who continue to live in nuclear limbo

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The UK's Gulags.


        From Athens to Harmondsworth, solidarity with the hunger strikers and all prisoners in revolt.
       Prisons are the state's last resort before execution, though a number of state's have abolished official state murders, (executions), but prisons remain and become more brutal in there surveillance and isolation techniques. Degrade, humiliate, harass and repress, all strategies to control that are common in prisons across the world. The state will introduce whatever legislation it pleases to make something a “custodial” offence. In the case of many migrants, there has been no offence, no sentence, no defined term, just the indefinite custodial act, at the whim of the state apparatus. What is more repugnant, is the fact that lots of these hell-holes are run by private companies on a strictly for profit basis. The detainees are secondary to the profit, it is to the companies benefit to hold as many as possible, for as long as possible, for as cheaply as possible. A sure recipe for abuse and deteriorating conditions. As always, as conditions deteriorate, so the anger grows, and rightly so. However those unfortunate enough to be caught up the the state's repressive prison/detention Gulags, should not have to fight their battles alone from the inside. Their conditions, and justice, demand our solidarity. Without that solidarity the state will brutally crush any internal protests, all hidden from the public gaze, all behind high stone walls. An abundance of repression and brutality goes on on a daily basis behind those high stone walls. We can't be deaf and blind to their call for help.
      Tuesday evening 10 March. Rebellion is spreading across the UK’s “gulag archipelago” of migration prisons.
     Hunger strikes and yard occupations and other protests are now taking place in at least 6 UK detention centres. The protests started last week in Yarl’s Wood (Bedfordshire) and in the Harmondsworth and Colnbrook migration prison complex near Heathrow airport. (See previous reports here and here.)
     Today we heard that 50 people were on hunger strike in Tinsley House, with protests also at nearby Brook House, both inside the perimeter of Gatwick Airport. Hunger strike has also started at Moreton Hall (Nottinghamshire). There may well be others.
     In Harmondsworth, some prisoners have now been on hunger strike for a week (picture above from yesterday). See this video featuring interviews by phone with some of the people detained there. Also see the Detained Voices website which is receiving and spreading words from friends on the inside.
      Today there were due to be three mass deportation flights of prisoners from UK detention centres to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Albania. In particular, it is known that a number of people deported to Afghanistan recently, particularly from ethnic minorities, have been killed or imprisoned and tortured by state and para-state forces upon arrival in the country.
Full article and photos HERE:
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Tuesday 10 March 2015

Solidarity Has No Borders.

     Some facts and figures that don't get much, if any cover, from our babbling brook of bullshit, the mainstream media. Since 2007 there have been 1,644 attempted suicides within the walls of the UK detention centres, on top of that since 2000, there have been 19 deaths in those same detention centres. Those figures alone tell you that there is something rotten at the heart of the UK immigration detention system.
     So it comes as no surprise that there is trouble at Hamondsworth detention centre. Treat humans in an inhumane manner, and sooner or later there will be an explosion, people will only take so much. We must remember, solidarity has no borders.
This from Rabble:

Updates:
Resistance continues today at Harmondsworth and Colnbrook.Over 70 people detained have gathered in the courtyard to continue the protest.
Outside at 9am a group of people made a solidarity demonstration in support of the protests. They could hear people shouting ‘Freedom’ and ‘No Food’. The police were called to the protest and one person was pushed aggressively.
Guards and centre managers are asking detainees to go to their rooms and come to talk to the managers one-by-one or in pairs. Detainees have refused and ask the management/staff to come and listen to them in the yard.
Latest statements/testimonies from people inside today: Things are not right here:
https://detainedvoices.wordpress.com/
The detainees demands are as follows:
An end to:
• indefinite deprivation of liberty and human rights
• the use of “Detained Fast Track”
• bias and incompetence in case-handling by the Home Office
• unlawful forced removals
• stressful and degrading conditions which they describe as “mental torture” and which lead many to self-harm
• overcrowded accommodation “comparable to animal cages”
• refusals to return those who want to go back to their countries of origin
One person detained said today:
‘The protesters outside are really the energy for us’
Take action! Join the resistance!  A small group of people can make a lot of noise if they try outside the detention centres at Harmondsworth and Colnbrook! People are gathered in the courtyard and ask for us to go by and support.
For updates follow @AntiRaids or @followMFJ  or @detainedvoices
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