Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Clashes rage in Cairo for fourth day
Public outrage over the Port Said massacre is boiling on the streets of Cairo. Protesters battled police forces for the fourth consecutive day demanding an immediate end to military rule. Cease fires were brokered by Islamists throughout the days of fighting, but simmering anger amongst the youth brought both sides to a head. Police forces respond with brute force, shooting directly into protesters. Defenseless against tear gas, rubber bullets and birdshot, Egyptians fighting toward the Interior Ministry remain defiant.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Info night & Documentary: Mayas from Guatemala defending their land
Documentary 'Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth'; round table with Maya-representative Mauro Cosojay, Guatemalan food and drinks.
A combined Noticias & Peace Brigades International event, in which the documentary 'Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth' will be the introduction to a discussion with Mauro Cosojay. Mauro is the representative of 12 indiginous Maya Ka-algo tribes from Guatemala, acompanied by PBI. He will tell about the struggle of the communities to block a quarry from the cement company Cementos Progreso from their living area. Since 2006, the communities have been demanding their right to participate in the decision making about the project, but instead, they have received various violent interventions in the community, mainly by the national police, the army and individuals allied to Cementos Progreso. Several community members are in prison, others have received dead threats. Non of the offenders has been judged. The case of the communities is an illustrive example of the reality shown in the documentary, in which the interests of indiginous Maya-communities conflict with those of transnational companies, exploiting the natural resources of the ground on which the Mayas have lived for centuries.
'The land doesn't belong to us, we belong to the land'
Program:
18:00 Typical food of Guatemala
20:00 Documentary: Heart of Sky
21:30 Debate with Mauri Cosajov representative of indigenous communities
Documentary "Inside the Secret Revolution" in Daraa city in Syria
"A BBC Documentary exposing the
Syrian regime brutality in Deraa, the ignition point
in the current popular uprising in Syria."
Permacultur Workshop
That was the invitation
Workshop Wednesday – Permacultuur
Woensdag 18 januari van 20:00 tot 22:00 uur verzorgt Arjan de Vries van
Resilient Culture een permacultuur workshop. Permacultuur is een
ontwerpmethode die oplossingen biedt voor de uitdagingen van deze tijd,
zoals: voedsel-, water- en energieproblematiek.
Aan de hand van praktijkvoorbeelden en verschillende filmpjes wordt de
basis van permacultuur uitgelegd. Vervolgens brengen we de theorie in de
praktijk door een ontwerpoefening. Tijdens deze oefening wordt gewerkt met
een permacultuur kaartspel dat op dit moment in ontwikkeling is. Een
primeur!
Voor de workshop wordt een vrijwillige donatie gevraagd.
...and a bit about Resilent Culture
De filosofie van Resilient Culture is gebaseerd op drie pijlers, namelijk: veerkrachtig omgaan met grondstoffen, het versterken van (het gebruik van) natuurlijke energiebronnen en het ontwikkelen van een gebalanceerde samenleving zowel in ecologisch, economisch en sociaal opzicht.
De pijlers vormen het beginpunt van waaruit ieder vraagstuk wordt bekeken en tegelijkertijd vormen zij de doelen waar integraal naartoe gewerkt wordt.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Solidarity Demo for Syria
Syria: more than 200 dead after 'massacre' in Homs
Observers claim deaths came after shelling by security forces on eve of UN vote on removal of Bashar al-Assad
- The Guardian, Saturday 4 February 2012
Houses apparently damaged during a military crackdown on protesters near Homs. This picture has been provided by unverified sources and distributed by Reuters
More than 200 people were reported to have been killed yesterday in the Syrian city of Homs as security forces continued their efforts to take back opposition-held areas on the eve of a vote by the UN security council on a much-disputed resolution on the country.
Hundreds more were killed in shelling of the city, according to the theBritish-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which cited witnesses.
Rami Abdulrahman, the head of the campaign group, said that women and children were among 217 people killed, many of them in the Khalidya district of the city.
"Syrian forces are shelling the district with mortars from several locations, some buildings are on fire. There are also buildings which got destroyed," Abdulrahman told Reuters.
The UN Security Council is expected to meet on Saturday morning to vote on a European-Arab draft resolution endorsing an Arab League plan calling for Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, to give up power, council members announced.
Britain's UN mission announced on Twitter that the meeting would take place at 9am, although diplomats told Reuters that it was unclear ifRussia, which has opposed significant council action on Syria since an uprising started there 11 months ago, would vote in favour of, abstain from or veto the resolution.
Russia, which threatened on Thursday to veto the text, had promised to submit suggestions for revising the draft on Friday. Diplomats said the drafters had received no proposals from the Russian delegation so far.
The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, spoke on Friday by telephone with the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, in an effort to overcome Russian opposition to any statement that explicitly calls for regime change or military intervention in Syria.
A spokesperson for Clinton said that she and Lavrov agreed to have US and Russian diplomats continue to work on a Syria resolution and were planning to meet for more talks in the German city of Munich, where both figures are attending a security conference.
Russia's deputy foreign minister, Gennady Gatilov, also said on Friday that Moscow could not support the resolution in its current form but he expressed optimism that an agreement could be reached, according to state news agency RIA Novosti.
The latest draft includes changes made by Arab and European negotiators to meet some of Russia's concerns. It calls for a "Syrian-led political transition," does not criticise arms sales to Syria and leaves out some of the details of what the Arab plan entails, such as Assad transferring power to a deputy. But the draft still says the council "fully supports" the Arab plan, language Moscow has said it dislikes.
Israel's deputy foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, meanwhile predicted on Friday that Assad will fall from power eventually but the process could be "long and bloody".
"Assad has no real challenge unfortunately from the international community as his case is being barred from discussion in the security council because of some members of the security council, and because he continues to get material, financial and military help from the ayatollahs in Iran and Hezbollah," he said.
Free Documentaries - links from www.occupyamsterdam.nl
Nice documentaries pasted from www.occupyamsterdam.nl
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