There can never and will never be any real social change without women equally participating in this change. The zapatistas (men and women equally and from below) have done precisely this.
Orsetta Bellani 4/10/2014 Womens Revolutionary Law provides for access to political and military posts, fair wages, education, health, freedom from abuse and free choice of couples.
Fabiana wakes every morning at 4:30 a.m., like all the women in her community. She grinds the corn she boiled the night before until it becomes soft dough, from which she forms a few balls that once flattened and cooked on a griddle become tortillas. Fabiana, who is ethnically Tzotzil Maya, is 23 years old, with a husband and two children, and also a member of the support base for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).
She works at home almost all day, every day, while toting her youngest child. Her husband helps with some chores traditionally considered “women’s work,” like shelling corn or plucking poultry, and sometimes he takes care of the children while she cooks.
The following is a critique of the content of the above article and aims to open a discussion on the issue of social movements being incorporated within the system when they can not be defeated by physical (violent repression) means. Comments related to the subject are welcome and will be published as soon as possible.
MST is a 30 year old movement in Brazil. It has both class and social characteristics. It is a movement for people without land by the people without land. Brazil is the country with the largest percentage of the population having no access to land. Very counter-intuitive if you consider the vast area of jungle and unexplored forests created by the Amazon. This means that a very small group of people have converted all land to private status. This was done with a mechanism called IMF when the country first started going bankrupt 40 years ago.
This article nevertheless calls the MST movement agriculturists without land, which apart from being poorly written reveals a specific political value. What we can conclude from it is that land is perceived as means of production which utilizes specialized workers to produce for others. Something that as far as we can find about MST it is not. What is odd about the article and drew our attention is the term agriculturists, meaning agricultural workers, which if searched through the net it has not been used before in reference to MST.
This article barely scratches the surface of what neo-liberalism really is and how things will progress globally if we do not built sufficient resistance to the goals of neo-liberalism. Absolute dependence of life on the global market economic system and states bluntly acting as armies to enforce the rights of the corporations to which everyone will depend on for their survival. Total conquering of land, water, life. Absolute conversion of any human activity into a commodity or prohibition and repression of any other activity. Absolute social control through dependence on the most basic needs for survival, and war on any resistance and social organization from below. Those who resist will be branded terrorists from "corporate" media.
Some have been talking about this since the 70s and 80s and people thought of them as either conspiracy theorists or doomsday theorists, or science fiction addicts. Just because the truth about neo-liberalism can not absolutely and completely be explained with classic political theory on capitalism (predominantly Marxism) does not mean that it is not real. It is here. It is Nafta for North America, it is EEC for Europe, it is WTO, it is IMF, it is everywhere! Except for Chiapas that is. It is not happening there. Why? There are no easy answers and if they were you shouldn't trust them. Learn and decide for yourself. This is a static advise here in the institute. Do not even believe us. Gather information, do your own research, decide, then organize based on your informed beliefs. From below as they say in the caracoles.
Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S.
are quickly eroding as the nation transforms from the land of the free
into the land of the enslaved, but what I'm about to share with you
takes the assault on our freedoms to a whole new level. You may not be
aware of this, but many Western states, including Utah, Washington and
Colorado, have long outlawed individuals from collecting rainwater on
their own properties because, according to officials, that rain belongs
to someone else.
As bizarre as it sounds, laws restricting
property owners from "diverting" water that falls on their own homes and
land have been on the books for quite some time in many Western states.
Only recently, as droughts and renewed interest in water conservation
methods have become more common, have individuals and business owners
started butting heads with law enforcement over the practice of
collecting rainwater for personal use.
Farmers procure seeds from the trusted sources – government
agencies, agricultural universities and Research centers
Seed required for 1 acre of the cultivation is 5-8kg approximately
Treatment of Seed
1kg salt is diluted in 10 litres of water to prepare solution for
treatment of the seed
After this 8 to 10 kg of seeds poured in this solution, in this way
quality seeds are drowned within the solution and seeds which float on
the upper surface are thrown as waste
The left seeds are washed with the water for 3 to 4 times so that the
salt is completely washed out
The seeds, then are kept in the solution of 10 litres of water, 5
grams Emison and 2.5 grams of Agromycin or 1 gram of streptomycin for 24
hours
After this the seeds are spread in a small area with wet sacks on the
seeds to germinate and sacks are continuously watered or regular
intervals
Enough with theory and political food for thought, spring is springing up all around us (except for you poor folks way up north). It is time to leave the books and pencils (remember those?) and go out and do some work. If you procrastinate now by mid-fall you will be cursing yourselves for not starting out earlier. Some of the things we have been experimenting with (other than quinoa
and amaranth as evident throughout our site) is peppers. We eat many
different peppers in many different ways.
Hot peppers need some extra time to grow and produce their best so we start with them earlier. Depending on weather we may start indoors as the seeds need a certain warm temperature to germinate. Then we take the plants out once they pop up and make a temporary greenhouse out of PVC pipe and clear plastic. If you are in a sunny part of the world even if it is cold a small greenhouse sturdy enough to resist wind and just big enough to clear the plants before the temperature will warm up is sufficient. Here we found a good article with the same permaculture tendencies we have, about the tricks of planting chili peppers.
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Resistance and Sabotage !
This call-out is motivated by:
=> the call-out of the NoTAV movement at Val di Susa in Italy
calling for a national day (22 02 2014) of mobilisation and action, each one in their area, city, environment.
=> the call-out of the ZAD movement at Notre-dame-des-Landes in France
calling for a national manifestation in Nantes, France
This is a call-out for actions and manifestations on the 22 February 2014 !
A day of action and sabotage to abolish all those
megalomaniacs, devastating projects with the illusions of a durable
development, green capitalism, geo-engeenering !
A day of
action and sabotage to regain our freedom and rights to take decisions
about our own lives, our environment, our planet,( in a emancipated
manner), instead of those in position of global decision-making, who are
using the flag of democracy to impose their society of totalitarian
power.
A day of action and sabotage to bring to a halt the
destructions and exploitation of entire species, the waste of tons of
raw materials and natural resources everyday, justified by the term
’public interest’, while behind it there’s only money, profit and
capital.
A day of action and in solidarity with all those who
fight, and for all those that lost their freedom and especially all
those that are oppressed or imprisoned as "terrorists" or as simple
delinquents.
A day of action and convergence with all those
struggles heading for a different world, where life and common values
are worth more than money, competition and dominance.
No border ! No Nation ! No Pasaran ! No more BULLSHIT !
From the ZAD to Val Susa !
From Hambacher Forst to Square Taksim ?
From Calais to Lampedusa
Hambourg to Exarchia
From Heathrow to Atenco
From Valogne to Wendland
From Niscemi to Mayo
Monte Belo to Khimki
Fukushima to Tshernobyle
From prison to prison
