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Posted on February 10, 2012

Prisoners in the Corcoran Administrative Segregation Unit (ASU) have been striking for periods of time since late December 2011. It’s likely that some number of prisoners have been striking for the last two weeks. As of February 9, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), disclosed that 30 men were still striking and a representative in the office said that prisoners had been intermittently striking for the last month. The CDCR has consistently misreported the numbers of prisoners on strike around California, and we’ve heard rumors of numbers anywhere from 50 to 200.

 

The Corcoran strikers are rallying around 11 demands which can be found in their December 30, 2011 statement.  The demands of the Corcoran strikers are somewhat different than those of the strikes sparked in Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit (SHU) this past summer and fall, which at one point included 12,000 prisoners in 13 prisons across California. Administrative Segregation Units are often used as holding places for prisoners in route to  SHU facilities, or who are waiting for release back into general population. Many prisoners in the various ASUs in California have been validated as gang members by CDCR and languish, sometimes for years, awaiting transfer to facilities such as Pelican Bay, where some prisoners have spent more than 20 years in solitary confinement.

Family members and others on the outside fear strikers may be experiencing serious medical issues and even death.   A prisoner at Corcoran, who remains unnamed due to fear of reprisal, stated in a letter received on February 5th, “On or about February 2nd or 3rd, 2012, an inmate has passed away due to not eating that has been going on over here in Corcoran ASU. Inmates are passing out and having other medical problems and it seems that this is not being taken seriously. There will be more casualties if this isn’t addressed or brought to light.”

While this death is unconfirmed, it raises concerns that the CDCR is failing take this hunger strike or the prisoners’ demands seriously. “The prisoners are making very reasonable and legitimate demands regarding basic human rights,” says Carol Strickman, a lawyer working on behalf of some hunger strikers in California, “For those of us on the outside, the slow pace of reform is frustrating.  For those people enduring barbarous conditions, the lack of meaningful improvement is unbearable.”

Últimas noticias sobre la huelga de hambre de Ezedine Eroussi y los estudiantes de Fes. Peligro de muerte inminente.

Atenas está ‘incendiada’ por las decenas de miles de manifestantes que salieron a las calles de la capital griega mientras el Parlamento del país debate las nuevas medidas de austeridad. Según los testigos, la Policía griega está empleando gases lacrimógenos y cañones de agua para disolver a la multitud.

Más de 30.000 de los griegos se concentraron en las afueras del Parlamento en rechazo a la implementación de las nuevas medidas. La gente ejerció presión para romper el cordón policial dispuesto en torno a la Asamblea Nacional. Por la protesta, se han desplegado unos 3.000 policías.

El Parlamento griego se ha reunido este domingo en sesión plenaria para discutir si aprueba o no el nuevo paquete económico exigido por la la Troika a cambio de un préstamo de 130.000 millones de euros (171.000 millones de dólares) que evite “la quiebra del país y su salida del euro”.

Gran parte del pueblo griego se opone a dichas medidas económicas, afirmando que atentan contra el bienestar financiero y social del país. La gente pide que los recortes se apliquen contra los bancos y otras entidades financieras, considerados los únicos responsables de la crisis económica.

L’idéologie du libre-échangisme est fortement contestée à la faveur de la crise, et c’est tant mieux. Depuis quinze ans, les règles commerciales et la mondialisation capitaliste ont permis, pour l’enrichissement d’une élite possédante, le nivellement social par le bas, la délocalisation des industries, la multiplication des transports de marchandises d’un bout à l’autre de la planète… provoquant une catastrophe sociale et écologique.

Spitalul general din Kilkis, Grecia, este acum sub controlul muncitorilor. Aceștia au declarat că problemele de lungă durată ale Sistemului Național de Sănătate (ESY) nu pot fi rezolvate.

La soberanía ha sido un instrumento de emancipación de los pueblos de África, que están empezando a trazar caminos de transformación en la mayoría de los países africanos, después de siglos de depredación por el comercio de esclavos, el colonialismo y el neocolonialismo. Los ataques temerarios contra la soberanía de los países africanos son, por lo tanto, equivalentes a infligir heridas nuevas en el destino de los pueblos de África.

Muchos, miles de niños, presidente ¡están armados!, unos para destrozarnos y destrozarse, piezas de la caverna del narcotráfico, expresión subterránea de la contrarrevolución sangrienta que luego se completa con la aviación de la OTAN. Otros, muy pocos desgraciadamente, toman un arma real o de juguete orgullosos de ser parte, aunque sea teatro, del ejército de liberación del pueblo. ¿Por esta última va preso Valentín y todos en La Piedrita?. Admitir su prisión es nuestra autoderrota, el triunfo del verdadero narcotráfico y los homicidas internos, derechistas y racistas hasta el odio que ven al poder del estado “poniéndoles el orden que necesitan”.

Lo que aquí se está condenando, y tiene razón la derecha y las camadas de burócratas, es el pueblo en armas.

Για την απελευθέρωση της φαντασίας, την άμεση δημοκρατία, την ελευθερία --- Το ΟΥΛΑΛΟΥΜ είναι ένας αυτοδιαχειριζόμενος κοινωνικός χώρος που λειτουργεί στο κέντρο της Χαλκίδας (Μιαούλη & Γιαννίτση στη Σουβάλα). --- Το δημιουργήσαμε κάτοικοι από την πόλη με στόχο να κάνουμε πράξη μια άλλη αντίληψη για τον πολιτισμό, την κοινωνική οργάνωση και τη σχέση μας με τη φύση, που θα στέκεται στους αντίποδες της καπιταλιστικής βαρβαρότητας που ρημάζει τις ζωές μας. --- Ασφυκτιώντας μέσα στα κατεστημένα κοινωνικά πλαίσια δημιουργήσαμε ένα δημόσιο χώρο ανοικτό στην κοινωνία, επιδιώκοντας να βρεθούμε με άλλους ανθρώπους που προβληματίζονται και θέλουν να δράσουν τοπικά, έξω από τα καθιερωμένα ...

Το κτήριο του παλιού ορφανοτροφείου στην Α. Τούμπα, είναι κατειλημμένο από το 2006 από άτομα του αντιεξουσιαστικού χώρου. --- Από τότε μέχρι τώρα, το κτήριο έχει φιλοξενήσει διάφορες κοινωνικές δραστηριότητες όπως συλλογικές κουζίνες, συναυλίες αλληλεγγύης, αθλητικές δραστηριότητες και άλλα. --- Στις 31/1 κοινοποιείται σε ηλεκτρονικό μέσο της κυβέρνησης, η απόφαση του υπουργείου υγείας να παραχωρήσει το κατειλημμένο κτήριο του ορφανοτροφείου στην ιερά μητρόπολη Θεσσαλονίκης, για τη δημιουργία ιδρύματος για χρόνια πάσχοντες. --- Ενώ τον τελευταίο καιρό τέτοιου είδους ιδρύματα κλείνουν λόγω οικονομικών δυσκολιών (γιατί που θα πήγαιναν όλες αυτές οι δωρεές, στα ιδρύματα;), κάποιοι αντί να ...

Comunicado de prensa ante la reforma laboral aprobada por el gobierno del PP y que afectará negativamente a millones de trabajadores.

Health workers in Kilkis, Greece, have occupied their local hospital and have issued a statement saying it is now fully under workers control. -- The general hospital of Kilkis in Greece is now under workers control. The workers at the hospital have declared that the long-lasting problems of the National Health System (ESY) cannot be resolved. --- The workers have responded to the regimeâs acceleration of unpopular austerity measures by occupying the hospital and outing it under direct and complete control by the workers. All decisions will be made by a âworkers general assemblyâ. ---- The hospital has stated that. âThe government is not acquitted of its financial responsibilities, and if their demands are not met, they will turn to the local and wider community for support in every possible way to save the hospital defend free public healthcare, to overthrow the government and ...

L’année 2012 s’ouvre sur un approfondissement de la crise économique et politique qui frappe partout dans le monde. Le patronat, les élites politiques en campagne et les technocrates européens rivalisent d’ingéniosité pour trouver le meilleur moyen de faire payer les salarié-e-s. Dans ce contexte, quel est l’état des lieux des résistances et comment inverser le rapport de force pour de bon?

People self-organize and reaffirm that Conga NO VA ---- Today we have to defend fundamental issues such as water and natural resources and demand the cessation of legal and illegal mining activities and ensure that the popular will is imposed over line ministries militarized states of emergency and persecutions against fellow delegates criminalizaciones base of their communities. Tomorrow we will fight for more and advance towards true social self-management of resources by communities and self-determination of peoples to choose their ways of living and enable their own progress, far from the clutches of the state and capitalism. ---- A new stage of struggle and mobilization is presented to our people. This time is a decisive day in defense of life and all that that entails (water, natural resources, native lands, etc..) ...

Third austerity plan in 6 months! Sarkozy announced on January 29, the authority wants to increase the standard VAT rate by 1.6 points and relieve employers of family contributions. Among other austerity measures, this one is clearly a big check to the bosses. ---- Tout Va Increase! ---- The VAT increase is the rising prices, and the rest is a lie. For that price does not move, while taxes increase would require employers to reduce their margins, in brief, that 'they make less profit ... While there is no requirement to do so, they are not likely to tighten their belts of kindness. The Department of Finance estimates himself that this increase will cost on average € 260 per year per household. The passage of VAT at 21.2% occurs in areas of spending constraints (energy, transport, telecoms, clothing etc.) ie it concerns the basic commodities, which ...

Organized by the Anarchist Cross Marseille Saturday, February 11, 2012 FROM 7:30 p.m. Only the Problem, 46, 13001 Marseille street Consolat PRICE & FREE VEGAN On the morning of January 26, through much of Italy, the cops Italian politicians (Digos) in coordination with other body Police have arrested 39 Italian comrades and a French friend. ---- The police operation targeted social centers, squats and houses. The people were arrested on charges assault (including assault against police officers) in connection with events of 27 June and 3 July between Chiomonte Giaglione and, in Val di Susa. Of Valley residents and activists from across Europe had come there to defend the Free Republic of Maddalena and oppose the installation site for the realization of the line Turin-Lyon TGV (TAV). ...

Organized by the Anarchist Cross Marseille Saturday, February 11, 2012 FROM 7:30 p.m. Only the Problem, 46, 13001 Marseille street Consolat PRICE & FREE VEGAN On the morning of January 26, through much of Italy, the cops Italian politicians (Digos) in coordination with other body Police have arrested 39 Italian comrades and a French friend. ---- The police operation targeted social centers, squats and houses. The people were arrested on charges assault (including assault against police officers) in connection with events of 27 June and 3 July between Chiomonte Giaglione and, in Val di Susa. Of Valley residents and activists from across Europe had come there to defend the Free Republic of Maddalena and oppose the installation site for the realization of the line Turin-Lyon TGV (TAV). ...

Occupy ---- The Occupy movement continues to gain momentum; though its focus and – perhaps – its lack of the kinds of analysis which anarchists favour are similar in the United States to those shortcomings in the UK. Evictions and violence by the state against the Occupiers also continue. Indeed, by the end of November more than 5,000 people had been arrested in Occupy retaliations across the United States. ---- As a recent study found that over 17% of adults in the US over the age of 25 have no health insurance, protesters in Washington, D.C. took over a meeting at the Chamber of Commerce in mid-November; they disrupted a speech by healthcare giant, BlueCross BlueShield’s, CEO Scott Serota: “We are the 99 percent. And we are here because Scott Serota, CEO of Blue Cross, who makes more than $2.5 million per year, is an example of the 1 percent in the healthcare industry, who ...

Occupy ---- The Occupy movement continues to gain momentum; though its focus and – perhaps – its lack of the kinds of analysis which anarchists favour are similar in the United States to those shortcomings in the UK. Evictions and violence by the state against the Occupiers also continue. Indeed, by the end of November more than 5,000 people had been arrested in Occupy retaliations across the United States. ---- As a recent study found that over 17% of adults in the US over the age of 25 have no health insurance, protesters in Washington, D.C. took over a meeting at the Chamber of Commerce in mid-November; they disrupted a speech by healthcare giant, BlueCross BlueShield’s, CEO Scott Serota: “We are the 99 percent. And we are here because Scott Serota, CEO of Blue Cross, who makes more than $2.5 million per year, is an example of the 1 percent in the healthcare industry, who ...

Prologues, Anarchist Inspiration. ---- Place yourself in the Center of Events, Look at humans, what they're doing and Have been doing to others, themselves and Their Planet as Long as History recalls... Look closely and Tell me what you see and What you think of it, Look at all the Wars, look at Crime, Murders, Conspiracies, Disease, Hatred, Fear, Inequality, Poverty... Do you like what you see ? -- It is the Product of deep stretching of death's roots in the Lives of the Alive... It is the Product of humans' love for Money, Material, Image and Not each other... -- It is, Sadly, the product of Churches and Synagogues and Mosques going at Misdirected preaching, and Immoral Elitist fundamentalism .. -- It is, the Product of Fear, and it's Son... Capitalism... ---- It is not a Surprise that most of those that blindly follow and Glorify military Organizations And governmental ...

Prologues, Anarchist Inspiration. ---- Place yourself in the Center of Events, Look at humans, what they're doing and Have been doing to others, themselves and Their Planet as Long as History recalls... Look closely and Tell me what you see and What you think of it, Look at all the Wars, look at Crime, Murders, Conspiracies, Disease, Hatred, Fear, Inequality, Poverty... Do you like what you see ? -- It is the Product of deep stretching of death's roots in the Lives of the Alive... It is the Product of humans' love for Money, Material, Image and Not each other... -- It is, Sadly, the product of Churches and Synagogues and Mosques going at Misdirected preaching, and Immoral Elitist fundamentalism .. -- It is, the Product of Fear, and it's Son... Capitalism... ---- It is not a Surprise that most of those that blindly follow and Glorify military Organizations And governmental ...