Month: October 2012

Categories
Social control and repression

3 people arrested after the L’H demonstration

Three people were arrested this morning at 4am in Hospitalet del Llobregat after the demonstration organised the day before in the same town. A solidarity gathering was organised at 9am in front of the Mossos d’Esquadra police station.

Update: first only two arrests were reported, now the number is three. The last one being a person who wasn’t even at the protest. All of them are still being held and will appear in court tomorrow morning, when two solidarity gatherings have been organised, one in front of the police station at 9am and another one in front of the town’s courthouse at 9:30am. Two of the detainees have reported tortures and a medical revision was denied. All of them from the CSO L’Astilla squat.

Update: The three comrades have been released with charges on public disorder.

Source: barcelona.indymedia.org

Categories
Social control and repression

4 comrades were arrested in Gran Canaria

On October 3, a demonstration had been called in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria by the popular assembly of Gran Canaria against the new austerity measures, the labour reform and the increasing poverty in the Canary islands. At the end of the protest police arrested 4 people, acussing them of burning trash bins during the course of the demonstration. During the arrest at least one of the comrades was brutally beaten by police, and there were attempts to humiliate her repeatedly. The detainees were released two days after the arrest and were charged with damages and public disorder and will have to appear in court every month until the trial.

Source: anarquistasgc.net

Categories
Capitalist crisis Speculation and squatting

Demonstration in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona): We’re taking back our dignity

We are fed up, fed up of the failure and the alienation of your education system, of dying in hospital queues, of banks always winning, of becoming homeless, of estate agents and city councils taking control of our neighbourhoods, of the torture happening inside your jails, of your state terrorism, of the deportation of our neighbours just for being from outside and poor, of living in order to work and working in order to live, of your mercenaries in uniform, of the acceptation of self-declared fascists inside your democratic system, proving all this is all a covered dictatorship.

That’s why we are TAKING BACK our hospitals and schools, our spaces, our houses, the solidarity, mutual aid, cooperativism, direct action, oru streets.

Let’s take back freedom, let’s take back the dignity

Rage assembly of L’H.

Source: barcelona.indymedia.org

Categories
Capitalist crisis Direct actions

Videos of the 26S general strike in Iruñea

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