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international / arts and media Thursday June 16, 2011 - 19:39 by Oswald Bastable
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Introducing a new cultural website. After the death of England’s best-loved alcoholic gambling bigot, the queen mother, the Daily Mail rather ludicrously suggested that the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square should be given over permanently to a statue of her. The Guardian impishly proposed the potential responses of contemporary artists to the challenge. For Antony Gormley, we got ‘the angel of the south’: a steel sculpture of an old lady, complete with cane, handbag, absurd hat and enormous aeroplane wings. This is how one pictures the angel of contemporary culture. Her eyes stare at hordes of tourists, bemused consumers of Britain’s heritage industry. Her existence is a cheap trick, a grandiose prosthesis grafted onto a piece of idiotic kitsch. Nobody any more is quite sure if she is a serious endeavour or a mischievous joke; the work of a dedicated artisan or of an industry. Unlike Benjamin’s angel,* she does not want to stay behind but to take flight from this shabby existence. Unfortunately, she is riveted to the plinth. These rivets are what we call capitalism. ... read full story / add a comment 
J15-Catalan police used agent provocateurs in attempt to destroy M15 peaceful revolutionary movement
international / anti-capitalism Thursday June 16, 2011 - 09:02 by #SpanishRevolution
 16 comments (last - tuesday june 21, 2011 - 10:46) 17 images  3 video files
The M15 peaceful revolutionary movement in Spain has had profound success and has grown and still is growing. It has inspired similar things to happen in further afield, as Bob Dylan sang "The times they are a changin". Yesterday we saw on the streets of Barcelona, the second sinsister move by the Catalan state / region, the first being the well publicised extreme violent action by the Mossos (Catalan police) on M27. What we saw was the open use of "agents provocateurs" in an attempt to split the movement, discredit the movement, give fuel to those (politicians, media...) who wish to see this #SpanishRevolution come to a quick end. Well they have failed, their agents were caught on camera, watch the video, all is VERY VERY clear - Who are they real violent ones in this situation. M15 movement remains peaceful. We are winning. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday June 15, 2011 - 10:03 by #SpanishRevolution
12 comments (last - sunday june 19, 2011 - 13:20) 15 images 6 video files
helicopters, gunshots, lines of riot vans screaming around, police cordoned hi speed car cavalcade blocked in streets and turned away by protestors, old guys in the streets giving that sideways hand shake... A month into the #SpanishRevolution and things are really heating up. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday June 14, 2011 - 13:06 by abu ali
videos, photos and graphs on spanishrevolution ... read full story / add a comment
international / education Tuesday June 14, 2011 - 11:22 by Caz
ARK (Absolute Return for Kids) linked to LCE Architects, who ‘educate’ Libyan youth. Minutes from the Brent Youth Parliament meeting, 22 July 2008, relating to the ARK Academy in Brent, is distributed to LCE Architects, who build schools in Libya ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-capitalism Monday June 13, 2011 - 19:01 by Angry Dubliner
4 comments (last - friday june 17, 2011 - 13:16) 5 images
Banner drop ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Sunday June 12, 2011 - 12:52 by #Globalrevolution
5 comments (last - tuesday june 14, 2011 - 12:54) 14 images 5 video files
We are the outraged, the anonymous, the voiceless. We were there, silent but alert, watching. Not gazing upward at the powers that be, but looking from side to side for the right time to unite with each other. No political party, association or trade union represents us. Nor do we want them to, because each and every one of us speaks for her or himself. Together, we want to design and create a world where people and nature come first, before economic interests. We want to design and build the best possible world. Together we can and we will. Unafraid ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / miscellaneous Friday June 10, 2011 - 16:00 by Frank
12 comments (last - tuesday june 14, 2011 - 23:44) 13 images
Wednesday and Thursday saw a serious of occupations and actions against the drilling compound at Aghoos in Mayo as part of the ongoing campaign against Shell. The events culminated in an eight-hour lock-on and a nine hour occupation of machinery which stopped all work for the day. Over thirty people were involved in the events. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Friday June 10, 2011 - 10:22 by DD
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While in previous years the weather has been typically sunny and dry – apart from the unforgettable rain, cold and high winds of 1991 – it is sobering to remember that the original famine walk occurred in weather that would have been worse than that experienced this year, taking place in bitterly cold and hail storm conditions in March 1849. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday June 10, 2011 - 09:49 by abu ali
txts, videos, photos on south europe revolts ... read full story / add a comment
international / education Friday June 10, 2011 - 00:12 by Caz
ARK (Absolute Return for Kids) of the John Adam St Gang ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 06, 2011 - 10:48 by Costas A.
1 comment (last - thursday june 09, 2011 - 08:16) 1 image
Last night in Athens, took place the bigest gathering i ever witnesed myself in 37 years. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Saturday June 04, 2011 - 11:24 by Costas A.
Abuse of human rights!! ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / miscellaneous Thursday June 02, 2011 - 23:20 by Mick
1 comment (last - saturday june 04, 2011 - 10:31) 2 images
Join us on June 11th for the launch of the Campaign for the Old City Arts Building (COCAB). Our aim is to take back the Old City Arts building, 23-25 Mosse St (near Tara dart station) which has been abandoned for nearly a decade and is now part of the National Assets Management Agency (NAMA). We want the building to be opened up for use as an educational and cultural space, managed collectively by anyone who wants to take part, independent of private or state institutions. We also want to broaden this by demanding that the NAMA legislation be changed so that all disused NAMA buildings can be used by the citizens for social and cultural projects, social housing or (in the case of undeveloped land) community gardens. It is clear that the politics of ‘elected representatives’ has completely failed in the context of the crisis- only people power and direct action can bring real change. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 31, 2011 - 21:09 by Contrarian
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PA President Mahmoud Abbas tells Arab League Conference that future Palestinian state is to be Israeli free. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Sunday May 29, 2011 - 17:01 by Mick
2 comments (last - tuesday may 31, 2011 - 16:14) 1 image
It began on the 15th of May in the form of demonstrations across Spain with an estimated attendance of 150,000. This initial demonstration was organized by a new group called Real Democracy Now (RDN), a loosely organized collective which focused on expressing the feeling of outrage among the Spanish population without recourse to traditional left ideology. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday May 29, 2011 - 16:28 by Cormac Mac Gall
1 comment (last - saturday june 11, 2011 - 00:19)
The municipal elections in the Basque Country last week gave Bildu, a coalition of social democratic parties and Abertzale Left candidates, overwhelming victory, now having the majority of town councils of any party across the Basque Country and in one of its major cities, while coming first in one of the four southern (Spanish-ruled) provinces, second and third in another two. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / miscellaneous Sunday May 29, 2011 - 16:10 by party against the pipe
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Only a week to go before the Party Against the Pipe celebration of 10 years of resisting Shell in Mayo. There's loads to do and it's a great atmosphere on camp with everyone busily making it all come together. We need you! ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday May 28, 2011 - 10:14 by Basque Info
Basque Pro-independence Left becomes the elections' success ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday May 27, 2011 - 21:13 by maken
PLANNED ACTION: individuals to withdraw 155 euro from their bank account on 30 May 2011 http://www.democraciarealya.es/?page_id=88 ... read full story / add a comment |
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