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Act Out! Episode 14 – Occupy Venice & France

June 5, 2015 Eleanor Goldfield, www.occupy.com Resistance Report France, Homelessness, Los Angeles, Occupy, Strategy

By Eleanor Goldfield in Occupy - This week, we test our math skills in the name of systemic dumbshitedness. Then Occupy Venice shows us how to fight the power while helping the powerless: hosting a people's potluck every Sunday with locally sourced organic foods. Martin Kirk, founder and head strategist at /The Rules talks about breaking them, shifting paradigms and planned poverty. He talks strategy, Occupy Wall Steret and the role of scientific knowledge in campaigns. We ask the Internet, what are we? Oligarchy, plutocracy, oligarch-racy? Even after LA raises minimum wage to $15, too many folks remain homeless. And finally, France schools us on architectural design and food, but not in the ways you’d expect. Eleanor Goldfield performs spoken word for the movement, flipping the paradigms.

French Court Rules It Is Unconstitutional To Cut Off Water To Anybody

June 4, 2015 Sean Adl-Tabatabai, www.yournewswire.com Create! France, Human Rights, Law, Water

By Sean Adl-Tabatabai in Your News Wire - The Constitutional Council has validated Friday a total ban on water cuts introduced into French law in 2013 but contested by the Saur distributor. The Council “held that the interference with freedom of contract and freedom of enterprise resulting from the prohibition of interrupting the water supply is not manifestly disproportionate to the objective pursued by the legislature “he said in a decision published on its website . Saur company had filed a priority question of constitutionality (QPC) after being sued for a water cut performed on one of its customers in Picardy. The Constitutional Council “rejected the objections” of water dispenser, which denounced “a disproportionate interference with freedom of contract and freedom of enterprise.”

French Patriot Act For Invasive Surveillance

May 6, 2015 Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com Educate! Europe, France, Privacy, Surveillance

The French parliament has overwhelmingly approved sweeping new surveillance powers in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris in January that killed 17 people at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery in Paris. The new bill, which allows intelligence agencies to tap phones and emails without seeking permission from a judge, sparked protests from rights groups who claimed it would legalise highly intrusive surveillance methods without guarantees for individual freedom and privacy. Protesters for civil liberties groups launched a last-ditch campaign against the bill under the banner “24 hours before 1984” in reference to George Orwell’s dystopian novel about life under an all-knowing dictatorship. Groups including Amnesty International warned of “extremely large and intrusive powers” without judicial controls.

France: New Rooftops Must Be Covered In Plants, Solar Panels

March 23, 2015 Agence France Press, www.theguardian.com Create! Environment, France, Solar Energy

Rooftops on new buildings built in commercial zones in France must either be partially covered in plants or solar panels, under a law approved on Thursday. Green roofs have an isolating effect, helping reduce the amount of energy needed to heat a building in winter and cool it in summer. They also retain rainwater, thus helping reduce problems with runoff, while favouring biodiversity and giving birds a place to nest in the urban jungle, ecologists say. The law approved by parliament was more limited in scope than initial calls by French environmental activists to make green roofs that cover the entire surface mandatory on all new buildings.

Europe And US Divide Over Ukraine Escalation

February 8, 2015 Stephen Brown and Noah Barkin, www.reuters.com Educate! France, Germany, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

Germany's Angela Merkel said on Saturday that sending arms to help Ukraine fight pro-Russian separatists would not solve the crisis there, drawing sharp rebukes from U.S. politicians who accused Berlin of turning its back on an ally in distress. The heated exchanges at a security conference in Munich pointed to cracks in the transatlantic consensus on how to confront Russian President Vladimir Putin over a deepening conflict in eastern Ukraine that has killed more than 5,000. But she flatly rejected the notion that sending weapons to Kiev, an idea being considered by U.S. President Barack Obama, would help resolve the conflict. "I understand the debate but I believe that more weapons will not lead to the progressUkraine needs. I really doubt that," said the conservative German leader, who has led western efforts to try to resolve the crisis through negotiations and will travel to Washington on Sunday for talks with Obama. U.S. senators Lyndsey Graham and John McCain, both Republican hawks, were withering in their criticism of the German stance, which is supported by other big European countries like France. The French leader, Merkel, Poroshenko and Putin are due to hold a call on Sunday, before the chancellor travels to Washington. "If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war," Hollande said.

Protest Puts Pipeline On Canada’s Political Agenda

February 6, 2015 David Gray-Donald, www.rabble.ca Resist! Canada, Energy, France, Oil & Gas

TransCanada's Energy East pipeline has been catapulted to centre stage in Quebec. It wasn't on the public radar a year ago. But now, after a summer of energetic citizen mobilization against it, a phone survey in October indicated only 33 per cent of the population was in favour of the pipeline being built. Since then opposition has continued to mount. TransCanada's west to east project has been hitting the tender nerve of Quebec sovereignty, the complex concept of who has the authority to make decisions about what happens there. The Albertan company is planning to build 700km of the largest tar sands pipeline on the continent through the 'nation' of Quebec to get to the Atlantic for export.

Podcast: The Horrifying Truth About Police Use Of Flashbangs

January 28, 2015 Sara Afzal, www.propublica.org Educate! France, Wars and Militarism

When French special forces wanted to stun the hostage takers at the kosher supermarket in Paris, they threw flashbangs – modified grenades that emit a blinding flash of light and ear-piercing noise. But American police departments are tossing these same military-style devices into American homes routinely, with sometimes horrifying results, ProPublica's Julia Angwin says on the podcast. In her latest report, co-published with the Atlantic, Angwin details how the flash powder in these grenades burn at a temperature hotter than lava and have seriously injured or killed at least 50 Americans, including police officers, since 2000. Yet Angwin found no criminal convictions against police officers who harmed civilians with these devices.

Freedom Of Speech: France Arrests 54 For Offensive Speech

January 15, 2015 Lori Hinnant, www.AP.org Educate! Charlie Hebdo, France, Terrorism, Xenophobia

France ordered prosecutors around the country Wednesday to crack down on hate speech, anti-Semitism and glorifying terrorism, announcing that 54 people had been arrested for those offenses since the Paris terror attacks. The order came as Charlie Hebdo's defiant new issue sold out before dawn around Paris, with scuffles at kiosks over dwindling copies of the satirical newspaper fronting the Prophet Muhammad. Like many European countries, France has strong laws against hate speech and especially anti-Semitism in the wake of the Holocaust. In a message distributed to all French prosecutors and judges, the Justice Ministry laid out the legal basis for rounding up those who defend the Paris terror attacks as well as those responsible for racist or anti-Semitic words or acts.

A Message From The Dispossessed

January 13, 2015 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Educate! Charlie Hebdo, Colonialism, France

We have engineered the rage of the dispossessed. The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism. And rather than understand the roots of that rage and attempt to ameliorate it, we have built sophisticated mechanisms of security and surveillance, passed laws that permit the targeted assassinations and torture of the weak, and amassed modern armies and the machines of industrial warfare to dominate the world by force. This is not about justice. It is not about the war on terror. It is not about liberty or democracy. It is not about the freedom of expression. It is about the mad scramble by the privileged to survive at the expense of the poor. And the poor know it. Caught between two worlds, they drift, as the two brothers did, into aimlessness, petty crime and drugs.

I Am Ahmed

January 12, 2015 Jack Balkwill, http://luvnews.info Educate! France, Islam, Islamaphobia

"France will have more than 10,000 soldiers mobilized on home soil by Tuesday after 17 were killed in attacks carried out by Islamist militants in Paris last week, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Monday," begins a piece at Reuters this morning, as Western nations tighten security around the globe with veiled warnings of beware of Muslims dominating the discussion in the corporate press. Neglected by most of the corporate media is the story The Guardian puts forward "Since the terrorist attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the country's Muslim community, despite universally and repeatedly condemning the attack, has come under a wave of misguided 'reprisal' attacks." Indeed, Muslims are having difficulty in presenting the fact that it was a Muslim cop who was killed in the Paris attack while defending those who were ridiculing his faith, as shown in the tweet by a Muslim living in French Belgium used to illustrate this item, above.

The Roots Of Charlie Hebdo Attacks: Colonialism & War

January 11, 2015 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Colonialism, France, Imperialism, Terrorism, United States, Wars and Militarism

Understandably the government of France does not want to admit that its policies contribute to the anger of Muslims living in France and around the world. No one want to justify these mass killings, really they cannot be justified, but that does not mean we should not try to understand where this anger comes from. The roots run deep. Al Jazeera reports the killings are "rooted in generations of violence, hypocrisy and greed." Mark LeVine points out people do not want to face these truths because "The problem is that this system is hundreds of years old, implicates most everyone . . ." The roots are in French colonialism. Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern warns that we should not let these killings lead to another cycle of violence. The attacks on Muslims in France and the "war" comments of the Prime Minister sadly seem to be leading toward more violence. If history were faced would it not be obvious that this violence comes from violence. McGovern points out: “Carif Kouachi was previously known to the authorities, as he was convicted by a French court in 2008 of trying to travel to Iraq to fight in that country’s insurgent movement. Kouachi told the court that he wished to fight the American occupation after viewing images of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison.” The endless war on terror is itself terrorism, it "hardens the views on both sides" creating "extremists by the bucket-load." Rather than admit the true cause of non-state violence the politicians and the media that reports the government view blames the violence on Islamists, hate preachers and Muslim extremists -- rather than colonialism and war being the drivers of violence it is the Muslim faith. A false conclusion based on lies that will continue the cycle of violence

Will France Repeat US Mistakes After 9/11?

January 10, 2015 Ray McGovern, www.consortiumnews.com Educate! France, Religion, Xenophobia

The point here is that some media favorites are extremely well briefed partly because they are willing to promote what the powerful want to do and because they are careful not to bite the hands that feed them by criticizing the CIA or other national security agencies. Still fewer are inclined to point out basic structural faults — not to mention the crimes of recent years. So it is up to those of us who know something of intelligence and how structural faults, above-the-law mentality and flexible consciences can spell disaster — how reckless reactions to terrorist provocations can make matters worse by accelerating a truly vicious cycle and doing nothing to address the underlying causes that prompted the violence in the first place.

France: Council Removes Anti-Homeless Cages After Outcry

December 28, 2014 Staff, www.euronews.com Resist! France, Homelessness

The local council in the French city of Angouleme has backtracked on a decision to cage public benches to stop homeless people using them. The fences were put up on Christmas Eve sparking outrage that the move could be so lacking in Yuletide spirit While many shopkeepers had welcomed the cages, saying homeless people brought down the number of customers, locals had responded in solidarity. Two teenagers climbed inside the cages and refused to move out. One said: “we were quite outraged , like everybody, I think. And so we said to ourselves: we absolutely have to do something” The cages have been temporarily removed but the mayor of the right leaning UMP council, Xavier Bonnefont, said no final decision had yet been made. “We will continue to reflect on this in January with the shopkeepers and the residents of Champs de Mars square, in order to find a satisfactory solution,” he declared.

“Austerity Kills’: Five Thousand People Take To Paris Streets

November 17, 2014 Signs of the Time, www.sott.net Resist! Austerity, France, Protests

Thousands of people took to the streets of Paris on Saturday to protest against austerity and condemn French President Francois Hollande for betraying his voters. The demonstration gathered around 5,000 people, RT's Ilya Petrenko reported from the French capital. A variety of left-wing political forces occupied an entire street in downtown Paris for the rally. The majority of those who came voted for socialist Francois Hollande two years ago and now say they were betrayed by the president they put in power. They gathered to say 'no' to austerity and budget cuts, as well as Hollande's policies which have been dictated by EU authorities in Brussels.

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