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Zapatista News Summary for February 2015
Zapatista News Summary for February 2015
- Forced displacement of families, indigenous Tojolabales, from the community of Primero De Agostoin the municipality of Las Margaritas. Frayba denounce the forced displacement of 57 indigenous Tojolabales, including 12 minors, one newborn, 20 women and 25 men, residents of the community of Primero de Agosto, by members of the Historic Independent Central of Agricultural Workers and Peasants (CIOAC-H), who are protected in the region by the municipal government of Las Margaritas. The displaced people are now living in very unhealthy conditions in a camp on the side of the road, with very little food.
- A national and international brigade of observation in solidarity with San Sebastián Bachajón, convened by the Network against Repression and for Solidarity, visited the ejido in response to the serious risk of attack and displacement. They heard stories of the struggle in defence of their lands, documented problems, and shared the everyday work…
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Judge bans a Facebook page exposing paedophiles and awards £20,000 damages to convicted sex offender
So, you have to wonder, how much the judge drinks for lunch or how far he has his head up where the sun don’t shine to make such a silly and harmful decision.
An extraordinary ruling by a Northern Ireland judge will lead to a chilling effect on people using the internet to expose convicted paedophiles and give hope to sex offenders that they can make money from people and organisations attacking them for their crimes.
The Belfast case has been picked up by the excellent Inforrm blog which gives a detailed legal analysis of what happened from Lorna Skinner ,a barrister at Matrix Chambers.
The facts appear to be these. Joseph McCloskey set up a Facebook profile page called ” Keep Our Kids Safe from Predators 2 ” which posted information about a convicted sex offender called CG. A similar page was set up by RS the father of one of CG’s victims.
CG’s lawyers complained about the postings on both sites.
Inforrm says: ” Broadly speaking, each consisted of the publication of a photograph of CG together with information identifying him as…
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Dark Sky Alqueva – The First Starlight Tourism Destination in the World
Like the sky I grew up with in the Mojave desert and in Baja California – too strange that we have to create such a preserve – grin
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Eavesdropping
What a week!!
So, this week has been crazy!! After my post of the letter to the woman who tutted at me for using the disabled toilets went viral, the website has had over 2 million views and I have been in newspapers, websites, radio stations around the world and even had an appearance on BBC breakfast.
I have been on BBC Sheffield, BBC WM, BBC 5 live, Spin 1038, Rother FM and Hallam FM.
I made it over to Australia and appeared on both The Telegraph and News.com as well as countless smaller news outlets.
Lots of Danish and Swedish websites ran the story too. Plus too many sites than I can mention have shared, reblogged and discussed the story as well as the Metro and Huffington Post.
I have been in the Sheffield Star, daily Mail and the Mirror.
But please don’t think I’m bragging…
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