#government repression

[alwaysbewoke]

[riotouseaterofflesh]

“Instead, We Became Millions”

In the face of brutal state repression, the general strike in Colombia has set crucial precedents for what it means to strike in the 21st century.

This is a 21st-century strike. In a country where the majority worked precarious jobs in an informal economy, now devastated by the pandemic and government restrictions, this strike is less about not going to work than about actively shutting everything down. Blockades have managed to halt commerce in many cities, but they serve a double role: these points are also where people gather and experiment with new ways of living together and caring for one another, outside of dictates of capitalism and the state.

Murals, dances, barricades, nurses, steaming pots of food, shields, and conversation between neighbors are all equally important to this uprising. Knowledge and skills have been shared between movements with decades of experience and young rebels on the front line. People combine courageous expressions of joy and care with an iron determination to fight.

There are tactical echoes from other revolts of the past few years—Hong Kong, Chile, the US—but the  horizontal organizing of the strike is significant: this represents a major break from Colombia’s past of centralized armed struggle and labor union movements. Popular assemblies have sprung up to handle decision-making; leaders are distrusted and ignored; people have little faith in the state.

[earlgraytay]

This is a chart that the Stasi in East Germany used to identify members of Youth Subcultures in the 80s. And while it’s equal parts hilarious and fucking horrifying...

The hilariously judgemental Goth kid is a Mood.

[mikeo56]

It's now terrorism to protest against arms manufacturers who blow up kids

It's also terrorism to give the impression you support the protesters

Arms manufacturers who blow up kids are delighted to hear that it is now officially TERRORISM to protest against them! Even better, it's terrorism to utter any words or wear any t-shirts or badges that might indicate your support for direct action. Truly, this is what the suffragettes and the civil rights movements fought for (heart emoji).

Head of the Ministry of Truth, Yvette Cooper, has ruled that you can't even mention the name of any direct action group that she has memory-holed. Splashing paint is now considered equivalent to flying planes into buildings because it's important for the law to be consistent.

Splashers, who have killed a staggering zero people and injured a sickening zero more, have been terrorising buildings owned by companies with body counts in the millions. All I can say is thank god Yvette Cooper is protecting the arms manufacturers! History will remember her kindly because any dissenting opinion will be memory-holed.

[thoughtlessarse]

Repressions grow in Algeria, is freedom of speech in danger?

The government, say its opponents, is even banning pro-Gaza protests, worried the spirit of the Hirak will rise again.

Since February 2019, Mustapha Bendjama, the editor of the daily newspaper Le Provincial, has been held by police forces and interrogated at least 35 times. In his hometown of Annaba in eastern Algeria, he has been under constant pressure from authorities due to what his allies say are his consistent challenges to government policies. In February, he was arrested at the newspaper’s headquarters in Annaba in connection with the escape of a noted dissident to France through Annaba and Tunisia, despite a ban on them leaving the country. Wider context Bendjama’s case is far from unique. Each day, the National Committee for the Liberation of Detainees (CNLD) – created in 2019 to monitor politically motivated detentions – announces new arrests, trials, releases and judicial procedures. There are so many that some prisoners end up lost within the system while others are so afraid that they and their families refuse to publicise their cases for fear of reprisals. According to human rights activist Zaki Hannache, there are currently 228 prisoners of conscience in Algeria, most of whom have been charged with “terrorism”. At least 1,200 people have been jailed since 2019 in connection with participation in the Hirak, Algeria’s nationwide pro-democracy protest movement, or because of criticism posted online, he said.

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[janchowk]

किसान होना यूपी में बना अपराध, समर्थन करने भर से पुलिस बता रही गुंडा

किसान होना यूपी में बना अपराध, समर्थन करने भर से पुलिस बता रही गुंडा

किसान आंदोलन का समर्थन करने वालों का उत्तर प्रदेश सरकार द्वारा दमन करने के खिलाफ़ इंडिया सिविल वाच ने हस्ताक्षर अभियान चलाया है। इस अभियान में अब तक देश-विदेश के विभिन्न क्षेत्रों के लोगों ने हस्ताक्षर किए हैं। उत्तर प्रदेश की योगी सरकार ने संगतिन किसान मजदूर संगठन की नेता और एनएपीएम संयोजक ऋचा सिंह को उनके सीतापुर आवास पर हाउस अरेस्ट कर दिया गया है। वह डायबिटीज समेत कई बीमारियों से ग्रसित होने…

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[sinattea]

The president vs Mexican Citizens?

Currently there is a situation in Mexico where a peaceful group is demanding the resignation of the president who has revealed himself a dictator.

They are camping in front of the government seat, at a public square (well, the half of that public square that was not blocked by the government), completely peacefully and simply demanding that the law and their rights as citizens be respected.

First, the government sent police forces to deny them access to the place where they meant to camp. They had to get TWO judicial orders to get their basic right to freely transit the country respected. Ever since, and RIGHT NOW, the government has been sending hordes of supporters (most likely paid, governments here tend to do that a lot) to harass them, these supporters are aggressive and disrespectful and potentially endangering the physical well-being of the peaceful protesters who want to stop the rise of a dictatorship.

It would be very different if they went to actually support the president, but no, they’re going specifically to target this group of peaceful protesters.

The government is using literally every resource in their midst to attack and discredit these peaceful protesters. It’s endless harassment online, across all media, and now in real life too. Websites, social media and online transmissions are constantly being monitored and knocked off, freedom of speech repressed like never before.

This group of peaceful protesters is called F R E N A, and they are being treated as less than mexican, as less than human. Whether you agree with them or not, the way this government is treating them is criminal.

Violence, deaths by covid, crime rates, corruption, economical instability... every single thing that was wrong before in this country is now worse tenfold. And now this government is not only allowing, but encouraging the confrontation between citizens while the country sinks further and further into a void of poverty, ignorance and repression.

Ever heard of the Sao Paulo Forum?? How it impulses the rise of dictatorships in Latin America??

This president and his political party belong to it!!

Please, PLEASE keep an eye on Mexico!!

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“For Protective Purposes: Premier Duplessis plans a ‘padlock act’ to curb Communist propaganda. Why stop at Communist propaganda?” Montreal Star, March 11, 1937. Page 10. Editorial cartoon satirizing and protesting the implementation of the ostensibly anti-Communist Padlock Law in Quebec.