"la libertad nos une, la unión nos libera" Ibn Arabi, Murcia S XII

"la libertad nos une, la unión nos libera" Ibn Arabi, Murcia S XII _"Freedom unites us, unity frees us"

22.2.12

Financial Times: “Greece is the eurozone’s first colony”

from:

roarmag.org

by Jerome Roos on February 22, 2012

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When even the media paragon of free-market ideology argues that “Greece must default if it wants democracy,” you know something is profoundly wrong.

Here at ROAR, we usually don’t rely on the analyses brought forward by the mainstream media; in particular not those of the unreconstituted neoliberal intelligentsia at the Financial Times. But the latest article by financial analyst and EU expert Wolfgang Münchau deserves being disseminated widely. Arguing that “Greece must default if it wants democracy,” Münchau has just launched his most scathing critique of the EU’s approach to Greece yet:


Spanish police brutalize student protesters in Valencia

Spanish police brutalize student protesters in Valencia

by Jerome Roos on February 21, 2012
roarmag.org



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Conjuring up memories of Franco’s dictatorship, a peaceful student protest in Spain was violently disturbed by police assaults on harmless minors.

A peaceful protest against budget cuts in education in Valencia, Spain on Tuesday ended in bloody police repression. Conjuring up memories of Franco’s brutal dictatorship, squads of riot police violently assaulted a group of some 300 students, arresting at least 26 and leaving scores injured. YouTube footage displayed a policeman forcefully pushing two girls onto a car, while photos emerged of young kids with bloodied faces surrounded by riot police.


21.2.12

How to Film a Revolution - a tutorial - Occupy the Movie


Subido por el 27/12/2011
Please share. Big brother, we are watching you. Part of OCCUPY THE MOVIE, an indy film series aiming to be entirely funded by the 99%. Join us, become a crowd funding producer at: ‪http://www.indiegogo.com/OccupyTheMovie

An introductory tutorial for aspiring citizen journalists to consider before next entering the field. You are needed more than ever, to bring the people direct truth, taking out the middle man in the archaic mainstream media. Each camera is a new set of eyes we all share in near real time - no one can take this from us, so it is imperative we refine and develop new skills and strategies to capture the missteps of power. Let us know if you have any ideas for a follow up video about how to better film a revolution! Dedicated to the Citizen Journalist, who is just as important as the Protester in bringing about real change. Directed by Corey Ogilvie.


Follow the indy film series at:
WEB: http://www.OccupyTheMovie.com
FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/OccupyTheMovie
TWITTER: http://twitter.com/TheOccupyMovie

14.2.12

The Global Square: a call for coders to build the platform

The Global Square — a proposal launched on ROAR last year — is starting to take shape. Now we need coders to help us build the actual platform!


Call from our partners at WikiLeaks Central:
The Global Square (original proposal/project description here) aims to be the first massive decentralized social network in the history of the Internet. We are aware of the difficulties we must overcome, but we believe the Internet Community has reached a point where such an initiative is possible. It is possible because we are more united; censorship and repression have created stronger bonds between those who care about freedom and the free flow of information. How can we achieve this goal?


13.2.12

Gritos en el Cielo


http://lumination.fi/gritos/Gritos_es.html

Gritos en el cielo es una película documental de observación sobre un movimiento civil que nace en mayo de 2011 en Barcelona. El movimiento crea un nuevo espacio que desafía la pasividad de la sociedad mediante la ocupación de la plaza principal de la ciudad. A medida que el movimiento se hace más grande, el Estado y los medios de comunicación utilizan muchas maneras para tratar de desacreditar y detener al movimiento de un modo violento, pero ellos, los ciudadanos que conforman este movimiento, han decidido resistir pacíficamente para introducir un cambio de verdad. En la película seguimos muchos diálogos entre las personas, la policía, las ideologías, las fuerzas políticas y económicas, y el Estado.
La historia gira en torno a la Plaza de Cataluña, punto central del movimiento en Barcelona. Durante los meses que se mantuvo la plaza ocupada, se exigía una democracia real y la reformulación de las estructuras económicas y políticas.


GRITOS EN EL CIELO - SHOUTS IN THE SKY is an observational documentary film about a civil movement that was born in May 2011 in Barcelona. Through an occupation of the main square the movement creates a new space that challenged the passivity in the society. As the uprising grows bigger, the state and the media uses many ways to try to discredit and stop the movement violently, but the movement has determined to resist peacefully. In the film we follow many dialogues between people, police, ideologies, political and economical forces and the state. The story revolves around the center point of the occupation - Plaza Catalonya in Barcelona, which remained occupied for months to demand direct democracy and rethinking of economical and political structures.


el pressentiment

Ya ha empezado a circular la nueva publicación de Espai en Blanc: El
Pressentiment. Una hoja de agitación, de una sola cara, con la que hacer
pasar de mano en mano las ideas que aún no son nuestras pero que
necesitamos pensar. Imprímelo y pásalo... haz de tu impresora, si quieres,
un punto más de su red de distribución.

 http://elpressentiment.net

El Pressentiment es el arma con la que Espai en Blanc quiere intervenir en
el actual combate del pensamiento.
- En este combate se decide quién y cómo construye la realidad.
- Hoy la realidad se descompone y se hace imprevisible pero a la vez se
rehace sobre y contra nosotros.
- Nadie sabe qué pasará. Los discursos políticos son intercambiables. Sólo
los presentimientos tienen fuerza y permiten tomar una posición.
- Buscamos presentimientos valientes, insospechados, veraces... liberadores.
- El Pressentiment también eres tú: descárgalo, imprímelo, distribúyelo,
pásalo.

* castellano, catalán, inglés y euskera en la web.

Athens burns: has Greece entered its Argentina moment?

by Jerome Roos on February 13, 2012
thanks to www.roarmag.org 



Greece’s political establishment trembles as banks and government offices burn amid violent anti-austerity riots. Has the country finally reached a tipping point?

Exactly ten years ago, the crisis-ridden country of Argentina spiraled into a bout of social unrest that would eventually lead to the largest sovereign default in history. After three years of being forced to swallow the bitter pill of IMF-imposed austerity, a tipping point was finally reached: foreign creditors and neoliberal governments had pushed the people too far. They rose up in defiance and ousted five successive Presidents in the space of just three weeks.
With the incredible images of flame-engulfed buildings and policemen emerging out of Athens, it now looks like Greece may be headed down the same path. The country has become ungovernable. Even though a majority of traitors was found to pass yet another deeply unpopular austerity package through Parliament, this weekend’s violent protests indicate that the ‘Argentina moment’ may have arrived. The Greek people simply can’t take any more austerity.

5.2.12

Medidas legales contra los desahucios

       El banco  embarga la vivienda familiar y dependiendo del precio que dicho 
banco consiga en la subasta, el embargado sigue debiendo lo que el banco "cree 
oportuno" y de por vida. Cuando las subastas quedan vacías (que es lo que está 
pasando como norma) el banco se queda con la propiedad a menos del 50% de su 
valor. Continuando con el reclamo del 100% al embargado y pudiendo revender 
esa propiedad por el precio que ellos estimen oportuno con un 50% de 
margen... Una gran estafa vaya. 
        Hoy os vamos a explicar un "modelo legal", que un banco no te va a 
contar, pero nosotros si que lo vamos a hacer. 
       Método por el cual, se pierde de igual manera la "propiedad", pero, no te 
pueden echar de tu casa. 
       En cuanto una persona ve que no va a poder pagar su casa, automáticamente le 
hace un contrato de alquiler a su mujer/suegra/hijo/hermano o a quién se 
pueda, por el valor de 1€, 5€ o 10€, con una duración "indefinida"/50 años,
100 años. Cantidad únicamente simbólica. El contrato debe estar a nombre de 
alguien que no figure en la hipoteca. El contrato debe estar pasado por el 
registro de la propiedad. 
       En el momento del embargo, la propiedad figura en el registro a nombre del 
hipotecado, pero figura como una propiedad con inquilinos. 
       Resultado del embargo, la "titularidad de la propiedad" cambia, a nombre 
del banco. El domicilio continúa teniendo inquilinos. Con esta maniobra, 
perderíamos la propiedad, continuaríamos debiendo la hipoteca, pero, tendremos 
que pagar a nuestro nuevo "casero" por nuestro expiso 10€ al mes y de por 
vida.. 
        Ya que ellos, no dan soluciones, nosotros las buscamos. 
        Aquí teneis un gran arma, cuando "legalmente" no pueda seguir 
usándose, buscaremos más. 

Medidas de guerra para un tiempo de guerra. 

3.2.12

In defense of Foucault: the incessancy of resistance

by Simon Thorpe on February 1, 2012

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Revolution is entirely possible within Foucault’s theory; our task is to take on the challenge posed by his more honest account of power-as-social-relation.

By Simon Thorpe

The Incessancy of Resistance
I would like to suggest another way to go further toward a new economy of power relations, a way which is more empirical, more directly related to our present situation, and which implies more relations between theory and practice. It consists of taking the forms of resistance against different forms of power as a starting point.
(The opening lines of Foucault’s essay The Subject and Power)
In response to Jerome’s recent article, Foucault and the revolutionary self-castration of the Left, I primarily wish to address the claim made by Jerome that “Foucault’s philosophy precludes the possibility for revolutionary action,” a claim that is incorrect, though admittedly hinges on a more careful definition of revolution. There is one particular passage in The History of Sexuality (Volume 1, pages 95-96), that elucidates Foucault’s conception of resistance to power. It is available here or here.
Foucault’s attitude in The History of Sexuality is always activist. He constantly employs the language of association and opposition — ‘we must’, ‘ourselves’, etc., always set in offensive antagonism to the enemy, that which must be ‘thwarted’ — and resistance is regularly posed not just as possibility, but as inevitable and inherent to the system of power relations that he posits as a social relation per se.
Where there is power, there is resistance, and yet, or rather consequently, this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power.
(The History of Sexuality, Volume 1, p.95)