fralcon:

Spanish bloggers could face up to two years in jail for organizing street protests, according to draconian new laws proposed by the country’s interior minister.

Jorge Fernandez Diaz laid out the measures in parliament on Thursday; they would criminalize those caught organizing street protests that “seriously disturb the public peace.”

The change to the penal code — which sets a minimum jail term of two years — is intended to prevent the sort of violent rioting seen in cities across Spain, notably in Barcelona, where anti-capitalist groups are accused of stirring tensions during last month’s general strike.

According to Diaz, ”serious disturbances of public order and intent to organize violent demonstrations through social networking” would carry the same penalties as being involved in a criminal organization, London’s Daily Telegraph reported.

The proposed amendment has raised fears the government could stifle further protests and has evoked comparisons with Spain’s late fascist dictator, Generalissimo Francisco Franco.

Diaz added that the new laws would also give the authorities power to clamp down on the protests themselves, making it “an offense to breach authority using mass active or passive resistance against security forces and to include as a crime of assault any threatening or intimidating behavior.”

In a statement following Diaz’s announcement, the Interior Ministry said: “New measures are needed to combat the spiral of violence practiced by ‘anti-system’ groups using urban guerrilla warfare.”

The move echoes growing determination among European governments to punish those who use social media and instant messaging to organize and co-ordinate street protests.

In Britain, the Riots Communities and Victims Panel — set up to investigate last year’s civil unrest — concluded that social media had a large part to play in organizing and inciting violence.

But rather than advocate clamping down on social media, the panel suggested “viral silence may have as many dangers as viral noise.”

(via real-news)

Cette vidéo a été postée par AllOut.org. Elle a été tournée en protestation contre une loi passée en Russie qui interdit désormais de “parler, écrire, lire ou faire quoi que ce soit qui ferait référence aux Homosexuels ou LGBT en général”. Cette loi de censure a fait de ces comportements des crimes.
Alors  je vous propose d’aller jeter un œil à cette vidéo, de l’aimer et/ou de poster un commentaire pour montrer qu’il existe des gens attachés aux droits de l’Homme sur cette terre, de gens tolérants !
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

And this is what really got Dr. MLK killed.  (via black-culture)

THIS

(via killthemass)

…anti-poverty, anti-war, pro-Black and Brown unity agenda (re: “beyond vietnam”)

Now this is truth.

(via somepolitics)

They never show this side of MLK. Ever. They want us to believe being kind to our oppressors is the answer. It’s not.

(via dank-potion)

(via abokononist)

somepolitics:

Hundreds of Thousands March in Spain Against Reforms

(Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people protested across Spain Sunday against reforms to the labor market they fear will destroy workers’ rights and spending cuts they say are destroying the welfare state.

 

Organizers, including the two largest unions Comisiones Obreras and UGT, said as many as half a million people joined the protest in 57 towns and cities, although Spanish police gave no official estimate.

 

In Madrid, one of the largest protests since the economic crisis began almost five years ago filled the wide boulevards from the Atocha train station up to the central Sol square with loud but peaceful marchers of all ages.

 

“Contracts are getting worse every year. They say they want to invest in the future while cutting research budgets. They’re not looking to the future but to the next election with cuts dictated from Brussels,” university researcher Nacho Foche, 27, said.

 

Spain’s new conservative government began its four-year term in December with tax hikes and spending cuts worth around 15 billion euros ($19.74 billion) and must cut another around 40 billion to meet tough deficit targets set by the EU.

 

It has also passed reforms in the financial sector, which force banks to recognize property sector losses, and the labor market, which grant companies greater hiring and firing power, in an effort to appease nervous markets.

The euro zone’s fourth largest economy has been in the eye of storm of the debt crisis since the Socialist government racked up one of the bloc’s largest budget deficits, leaving investors concerned it had lost control of its finances.

UNEMPLOYMENT

The Socialists, trounced in November’s election over their perceived mishandling of the crisis, made sweeping cuts and reforms while the economy reeled from the fallout of a burst property bubble and collapsed domestic demand.

The conservative party says its own labor market reform, passed February 10, will give struggling companies more room to recover from the economic crisis and create jobs in a country where almost half of all young people are unemployed.

The reform has abolished severance pay worth 45 days for each year worked, a legal requirement that companies said made it prohibitively expensive to reduce the workforce in times of economic difficulties.

“When we designed this reform we were thinking in the people who are out of work, who see no future,” Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy told a party conference Sunday.

Spain has the highest unemployment rate in the developed world at 23 percent and many Spaniards fear granting businesses greater powers to lay off workers will prompt a wave of redundancies and new contracts without rights.

Rajoy was caught on camera in Brussels last month saying to his Finnish counterpart that he believed the labor reform would cause a general strike and, although the unions have not called for industrial action, many at the march in Madrid thought more should be done.

“There has to be a general strike. They said they were cutting workers rights to create more work. They’ve cut rights, but not said how they plan to create jobs,” teacher Alberto Carrillo, 48, said.

“Before we were privileged, but now we’re having trouble even paying our gas bills.”

(via abokononist)

bankruptingamerica:

Via ThinkProgress:

Back in November, hundreds of thousands of Americans took part in “Bank Transfer Day,” a day for those fed up with the actions of the nation’s biggest banks to move their money to a different institution. Initial estimates of the impact of Bank Transfer Day placed the…

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jayarrarr:

1. Post shit.
2. Take a deep breath. Pause. Exhale. Look around you as you exhale. See real things around you. Things you can touch. Touch them, if necessary, to prove to yourself you can touch them.
3. Walk outside. Run in forests. Swing on swings. Eat ice cream or whatever. Otherwise live life. Smile, laugh, have fun.
4. Come back inside and log on. Realize tumblr’s just another fucking website and it does not rule your fucking world.
5. Laugh.
6. Post more shit.