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Different Faces of Dispossession: San Marcos Avilés

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Different Faces of Dispossession: San Marcos Avilés

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What happened in San Marcos Avilés?

sma-mujer-1024x683-300x200San Marcos Avilés is an indigenous Tseltal community in the municipality of Chilón, Chiapas, founded after the Zapatista insurgency of 1994. At that time, all of the residents were sympathizers of the autonomous project, although with the passage of time, several of them stopped supporting that movement, leaving a group made up of Support Bases for the Zapatista National Liberation Army (BAEZLN).

In 2010, the BAEZLN agreed to build an Autonomous School for their children. However, disagreement from a group belonging to the Mexican Green Party (PVEM), the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the National Action Party (PAN) provoked harassment towards the Zapatistas. In September of the same year, these threats were so severe that they caused the displacement of the community for more than a month in their efforts to avoid being attacked. In October…

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Ayotzinapa Students to meet with EZLN

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Ayotzinapa Students to meet with EZLN

By: Gabriela Coutiño

Thousands of Chiapanecos participated in the meeting with students and family members of the 43 disappeared of Ayotzinapa. Photo: Moysés Zúñiga Thousands of Chiapanecos participated in the meeting with students and family members of the 43 disappeared of Ayotzinapa. Photo: Moysés Zúñiga

The “Daniel Solís Gallardo” National Information Caravan, consisting of parents and relatives of the disappeared normalistas [1] in Iguala Guerrero, will hold a private meeting with comandantes of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) and members of the Good Government Juntas.

Omar García, a student at the Raúl Isidro Burgos Teachers College said that they arrived in Chiapas for the purpose of meeting with all the organizations and groups that have shown solidarity and accompaniment to their demand that the 43 students kidnapped and disappeared last September 26 are located.

“One of the objectives of the caravan is the meeting with the Zapatista National Liberation Army, which has carried out two public demonstrations in solidarity with the parents and students…

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“I swallowed a moon made of iron”. Xu Lizhi, Worker, Poet.

Hummus For Thought

Xu Lizhi (1990-2014). Source: LibCom Xu Lizhi (1990-2014). Source: LibCom

我咽下一枚铁做的月亮
I swallowed a moon made of iron
他们把它叫做螺丝
They refer to it as a nail
我咽下这工业的废水,失业的订单
I swallowed this industrial sewage, these unemployment documents
那些低于机台的青春早早夭亡
Youth stooped at machines die before their time
我咽下奔波,咽下流离失所
I swallowed the hustle and the destitution
咽下人行天桥,咽下长满水锈的生活
Swallowed pedestrian bridges, life covered in rust
我再咽不下了
I can’t swallow any more
所有我曾经咽下的现在都从喉咙汹涌而出
All that I’ve swallowed is now gushing out of my throat
在祖国的领土上铺成一首
Unfurling on the land of my ancestors
耻辱的诗
Into a disgraceful poem.

‘I swallowed a moon made of iron’ – 19 December 2013, translated by LibCom’s Nao


I came across the work of Xu Lizhi, and couldn’t stop reading. Xu was a worker at Foxconn, the company best known for producing products such as iPhone, BlackBerry, iPad, Kindle, Playstation 4, Xbox One and Wii U in, let’s say, ‘controversial’ working conditions.

That I put the word…

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Major crime against nature – ruining pierogis! Illinois Firm Recalls Pierogi Products Due To Misbranding and Undeclared Allergens

Kasia’s Deli Inc., a Chicago, IL. establishment, is recalling approximately 2,059 pounds of pierogi products due to misbranding and undeclared allergens, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The products contain wheat, soy, eggs, and milk, known allergens which are not declared on the product label.

The pierogi (dumplings) products were produced on various dates prior to September 19, 2014 and include lot numbers #4262 and below. The following products are subject to recall: [View Labels (PDF Only)]

11.5-oz. white plastic tray packages containing 6 pieces of “Polana Beef Pierogi” with product code 608.

11.5-oz. white plastic tray packages containing 12 pieces of “Polana Beef Pierogi” with product code 108.

14-oz. white plastic tray packages containing 6 pieces of “Polana Potato and Bacon Pierogi” with product code 630.

14-oz. white plastic tray packages containing 12 pieces of “Polana Potato and Bacon Pierogi” with product code 130.

14-oz. white plastic tray packages of “Polana Chicken Pierogi” with product code 126.

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No Job No Council House – The LB Barnet Plan (Affordable Rent Social Engineering)

WHAT IT MEANS IS NO JOB NO HOUSE

WHAT IT MEANS IS SOCIALLY CLEANSING BARNET OF THE ‘BENEFIT TENANT’

WHAT IT MEANS IS SOCIAL HOUSING IS DEAD

If one misguided council landlord does this then many others will and before you know it social housing is dead.

This is what the coalitions fundamentally misnamed affordable (sic, sic, fucking sic) rent model is in practise. It is Affordable Rent Social Engineering too or ARSE for short.

How to make accent marks on a computer

Macintosh (any program)

Accented characters are “hard wired” into the Macintosh Operating System. The following instructions will always work on a Mac in any program or application since they always remain part of the system software.

Symbols joined by a + need to be held down at the same time;

Symbols separated by a coma need to be hit in sequence, one after the other.

á

Option + E ,  A

é

Option + E ,  E

í

Option + E ,  I

ó

Option + E ,  O

ú

Option + E ,  U

É

Option + E ,  Shift + E

ñ

Option + N ,  N

Ñ

Option + N ,  Shift + N

¿

Option + Shift + ?

¡

Option + 1

ü

Option + U , U

 

Microsoft Word for Windows

 

The default keystrokes for accented characters are as follows:

Symbols joined by a + need to be held down at the same time;

Symbols separated by a coma need to be hit in sequence, one after the other.

á

Ctrl + ‘ , A

é

Ctrl + ‘ , E

í

Ctrl + ‘ , I

ó

Ctrl + ‘ , O

ú

Ctrl + ‘ , U

É

Ctrl + ‘ , Shift + E

ñ

Ctrl + Shift + ~, N

Ñ

Ctrl + Shift + ~, Shift + N

¿

Alt + Ctrl + Shift + ?

¡

Alt + Ctrl + Shift + !

ü

Ctrl + Shift + : , U

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