Roque Dalton - Fusilemos la noche

ROQUE DALTON, FUSILEMOS LA NOCHE! from Witcraft Szenario on Vimeo.

http://www.roquedalton.at

ROQUE DALTON, FUSILEMOS LA NOCHE!

ROQUE DALTON, FUSILEMOS LA NOCHE!Documental de Tina Leisch | Austria, El Salvador, Cuba 2013 | 86 minutos,

Película documental sobre Roque Dalton
Roque Dalton (1935-1975) es el poeta más destacado de El Salvador. Su vida:  una novela de aventuras, su poesía; la explosión de chispas entre utopía política y entusiasmo, entre convicción revolucionaria y obsesión por las herejías. Sentenciado a muerte por las dictaduras salvadoreñas, por sus actividades subversivas, logró escapar dos veces de su ejecución. Su exilio lo vivió en México, Praga y sobre todo en Cuba, donde el gobierno revolucionario lo brindó condiciones de trabajo muy favorables. En el clima intelectual fecundo de la isla liberada él escribió la mayor parte de su obra.
Apoyó en levantar una de las primeras guerrillas en su país, el ejercito revolucionario del pueblo, ERP. Fue una fracción de su propia organización quien le asesinó, debajo de circunstancias hasta hoy poco claras.
Era pionero de una historiografía de izquierda e investigación cultural de su país. Hizo uso enfático de “Guanaquismos” (hábitos y dialectos salvadoreños). Disparó con agudeza anticapitalista contra una cultura de pop en proceso de globalización y criticó conceptos políticos de los partidos comunistas tradicionales con el machete bien afilado de su humor para desarrollar dentro del marco de los movimientos revolucionarios de América Latina nuevos conceptos de lucha y de liberación.
Nuestra película presenta los testimonios y recuerdos de sus amigos, familiares, amantes y compañeros de combate. En El Salvador, en Viena, en Praga en La Habana encontremos personas que nos leen y comentan poesías de Roque Dalton.  Tratemos de caminar cinematográficamente por los caminos daltonianos hacia una descolonización de las palabras, conciente que la descolonización no se ganará solo con palabras.

IDFA 2013 | Trailer | I, Afrikaner

http://www.iafrikanerfilm.com

Nearly 20 years after South Africa's democracy, I, Afrikaner: an intimate family saga filmed over a near decade. It's the story of four generations and their response to an ever-changing inner and outer landscape. Filmed over 9 years, I, AFRIKANER, is a challenging and intimate portrait of a filmmaker’s family trapped in an unsolvable conflict. 

Set in rural South Africa where land is a highly contentious issue and violence against white farmers is endemic, the film journeys into how four generations deal with change in a post Apartheid era. Her grandmother, who leaves the farm after an attack; her brother and sister-in-law as they push forward with the traditional Afrikaner dream of farming commercial land; and her young niece, whose post-Apartheid upbringing and views are tested when tragedy comes to the farm.

Hablemos de Agricultura con Nelson Alvarez Febles

Para más información sobre Nelson y su trabajo:
http://carmeloruiz.blogspot.com/search/label/Nelson%20Alvarez

Carmelo Ruiz: Are the GMO advocates playing fair?

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/bloggers/Are-the-Pro-GM-Debaters-Playing-Fair-20150320-0001.html

How independent are the “independent” experts that advocate for GM foods? Are they being secretly paid like some climate change “skeptics”? The activist group U.S. Right To Know (USRTK), decided to find out. On February 2015 USRTK filed a FOIA request for the e-mails and correspondence of public university professors that write for GMO Answers, a pro-GM advocacy web site set up by the Ketchum public relations agency. “We taxpayers deserve to know the details about when our taxpayer-paid employees front for private corporations and their slick PR firms,” said Gary Ruskin, the organization´s executive director.

Technology Of Books Has Changed, But Bookstores Are Hanging In There

http://www.npr.org/2015/05/28/408787099/the-technology-of-books-has-changed-but-bookstores-are-hanging-in

By Eric Weiner

Capitol Hill Books owner Jim Toole runs the front register of his used bookstore several days a week. He has banned several words from his store, including "awesome," "perfect" and "Amazon."

https://wikileaks.org/Murderous-spooks-drive-journalism.html

Murderous spooks drive journalism project to WikiLeaks

"I promise that I will kill everyone involved in your website. There is nowhere on this earth that you will be able to hide from me."

Just two weeks after its launch, Transparency Toolkit’s ICWatch project, which documentsmore than 100,000 job profiles associated with the US "intelligence community" has been rehoused at WikiLeaks due to death threats and DDoS attacks on its infrastructure.

The death threat quoted above, sent from a US intelligence analyst in Washington DC to the project on May 13, perhaps perfectly encapsulates why the US intelligence community (IC) needs to be kept under close observation.

Multitudes

MULTITUDES / CROWDS - Iemanja from Passaparola Films on Vimeo.

“Multitudes”: un largometraje que registra eventos populares del Uruguay, donde miles celebran el fenómeno de la mancomunión, movidos por la fe, la pasión, el desborde de los sentidos o la memoria colectiva.

Nuestro personaje es la multitud. Su voz, el sonido incidental, el hilo conductor de la película. 

“Multitudes”: Una fotografía imprescindible de una sociedad fragmentada y compleja, con sus elementos folclóricos propios y los componentes profundos que hacen de toda experiencia colectiva un hecho universal.

NPR on Puerto Rico's new farming movement

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/05/06/404649122/puerto-rico-is-sowing-a-new-generation-of-small-farmers?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150506

Puerto Rico Is Sowing A New Generation Of Small Farmers

Although it’s a tropical island, perhaps surprisingly, Puerto Rico produces very little of its own food. After decades of industrialization, the U.S. territory imports more than 80 percent of what’s consumed on the island. There are signs, though, the trend is changing.

One place you can see it is in Orocovis, a small town in Puerto Rico’s mountainous interior. At an elementary school there, Dalma Cartagena has for 15 years tended the seeds of an agricultural movement. Cartagena teaches agricultural science. It’s a special curriculum she developed that teaches children, from the third to the eighth grade, how to grow their own food.

Robots are coming

nprfreshair:

Attention White-Collar Workers: The Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs

From the self-checkout aisle of the grocery store to the sports section of the newspaper, robots and computer software are increasingly taking the place of humans in the workforce. Silicon Valley executive Martin Ford says that robots, once thought of as a threat to only manufacturing jobs, are poised to replace humans as teachers, journalists, lawyers and others in the service sector.

Rise of the Robots

Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

by Martin Ford

Hardcover, 334 pagespurchase

• digital culture
• nonfiction
• science & health
• business & economy

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More from Riseup on web browsing

https://help.riseup.net/en/better-web-browsing

Better Web Browsing

1. Choosing a web browser
2. Adjust your settings
   1. Disable third-party cookies
   2. Clear cookies on exit
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   4. Disable Java
   5. Change default search engine (optional)
3. Browser extensions
   1. Essential extensions
   2. Advanced extensions
   3. Harmful or not recommended
4. Verify Riseup’s certificate fingerprints

Choosing a web browser

All four major web browsers, Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Safari, have experienced severe security flaws in the recent past, so you should make sure you are using the most up-to-date version, whichever one you choose.

All four major browsers receive a failing grade in our Browser Privacy Scorecard. However, these browsers can be made much better by installing certain extensions (see below).

Alternately, the Tor project provides a modified version of Firefox adapted to be more secure and anonymous called Tor Browser.

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El PIP mete mano contra el glifo

Senadora PIP radica proyecto para prohibir el uso del glifosato para desyerbar en propiedad pública

El Capitolio. 18 de mayo de 2015.- Ante la denuncia de expertos y científicos del efecto adverso del glifosato  (mercadeado como “Roundup”)  en la salud de las personas y la abundante evidencia que lo vincula con enfermedades como el cáncer, y de la constancia sobre el uso indiscriminado de este potente y dañino químico en el país, la senadora del Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño (PIP), María de Lourdes Santiago Negrón, radicó el Proyecto del Senado 1339 para prohibir su uso por parte de entidades gubernamentales, de tal forma que el Estado no continúe actuando, a conciencia,  como un agente que contribuye  a la exposición de la ciudadanía a un probado elemento tóxico.

“Es inconcebible que el Estado permita y sea uno de los principales promotores del uso de un herbicida -tan potente, que originalmente fue patentado como descalcificador para limpiar depósitos minerales en tuberías- al que se ha vinculado a problemas de salud como el cáncer, infertilidad, neurotoxicidad, problemas reproductivos, defectos de nacimiento, inflamación del cerebro asociada con el autismo y la enfermedad de Alzheimer, entre muchos otros”, declaró la Portavoz del PIP en el Senado.

Riseup's advice for more secure web browsing

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> Your web browser is not your friend: it allows your behavior to be tracked as you browse the web, often leaks personal information, and is a festering sore of endless security problems.
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> This is not by accident, but by design. Despite their marketing, the browser companies care more about making advertisers happy than your privacy or security.
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> For example, there was a huge debate in the 1990s [1] about the privacy implications of third-party cookies, which is why the official cookie technical specification required [2] that these type of "surveillance" cookies be disabled by default. Guess what? Nearly all browsers ignored this requirement under pressure from ad companies [3]. Fast-forward to 2010: after a Mozilla engineer disabled third-party cookies by default, advertisers became rabid and "coincidentally" Mozilla executives ordered the change reversed immediately [4]. After that, the browser companies quietly issued a new cookie standard which allowed third-party cookies to be enabled by default.
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> The cookie debacle is just one example. If any of the browser companies gave two shits about your security or privacy, then they would kill off foreign http-referers, Flash, Java applets, and third-party cookies (among many other obvious changes). Google has a very good browser security team, but their hands are tied by policy decisions that keep advertisers happy.
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> [3] Bruner, R. E. (1997, May). Advertisers win one in debate over “cookies”: Netscape move may settle sites concern over controversial targeting tool http://adage.com/article/news/advertisers-win-debate-cookies/405/
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Interview with Dan Chodorkoff on the founding of the Inst for Social Ecology

Political ecology blog

http://entitleblog.org/

Entitle blog is a collaborative writing effort that looks at the world through the lens of political ecology. For us, Political Ecology is a perspective that seeks to understand who is involved in, and who benefits or loses from, how our environment is produced and reproduced.

It was founded in 2014 by fellows of the European Network of Political Ecology (ENTITLE) as an outlet to share, reflect on and discuss research and activist experiences, observations, methodologies, news, events, publications, art, music and other themes and objects related to political ecology.

With this blog we hope to carry reflections about political ecology outside the confines of universities and academic publishing houses, in the spirit of

• improving accessibility to material on political ecology issues;
• giving space to stories that happen doing research, which usually escape from the “academic”, i.e. stories of us as researchers, activists, and of the people resisting;
• encouraging political ecology reflections on media (movies, books, fiction, novels, short stories, poems, comics, etc.) which even though they do not fall under the ‘academic radar’ inspire political ecology perspectives;
• communicating issues in a more timely fashion and to a wider public than the academic publishing process would allow;
• offering approachable commentaries on what we study, what we learn and what we observe around us as political ecology researchers and activist-scholars.
• both inspiring and contributing to radical thought, towards more egalitarian socio-ecological futures

Finally, through the blog we hope to encourage the growth of the ENTITLE network. We urge interested individuals and research/activist/writing/blogging collectives to get in touch with us, to attend one of our our courses and other events, and/or to link to our website and blog posts.

¡A la yunta!

Degrowth R&D

 

Research and actions to consume less and share more

Research & Degrowth, (R&D) is an academic association dedicated to research, awareness raising, and events organization around the topic of degrowth. R&D defines degrowth as a multi-level voluntary path towards reduction of production and consumption aiming at ecological sustainability, good life, liberty, and social justice. For R&D, degrowth is grounded in ecology, ecological economics, anthropology, psychology, and social sciences in general. In the degrowth process, R&D is concerned with democracy, international cooperation, and understanding as opposed to societal closure, fragmentation and authoritarianism.

Los GMO, el glifosato y la marcha contra Monsanto, por Vilma Calderón

http://www.80grados.net/los-gmo-el-glifosato-y-la-marcha-contra-monsanto/

"En febrero del 2014, publiqué una columna en 80grados sobre los alimentos modificados genéticamente1. En ese artículo expliqué qué son los alimentos obtenidos a través de organismos modificados genéticamente (conocidos también por sus siglas en inglés como los GMO), el proceso de aprobación a través de la Administración de Drogas y Alimentos (FDA), los vínculos de la empresa Monsanto con el gobierno y sus agencias a través del “Revolving Door”, las dos técnicas principales de la biotecnología en la producción de las semillas alteradas y los efectos a la salud y a la agricultura sustentado por diversos estudios científicos. En esta columna quiero retomar el tema para añadir otros aspectos a la discusión y ampliar algunos de los ya presentados. Debido a que este tema es uno controvertible, me gustaría, en esta ocasión, centrarme en los puntos que, en mi opinión, tienen que ser aceptados y reconocidos por la mayoría de las personas, aún por aquellas que favorecen los alimentos transgénicos. Quiero discutir con profundidad el proceso a través del cual la Administración de Drogas y Alimentos aprobó los GMO, quién es Monsanto y cuál es su historial, si existe o no existe consenso científico sobre la seguridad de estos alimentos, qué dice y cuáles son las implicaciones del reciente informe de la Organización Mundial de la Salud sobre el glifosato (ingrediente principal del herbicida Round Up) y cuál es la situación de las compañías de biotecnología en Puerto Rico. Entiendo que de esta forma, podemos aunar esfuerzos para detener los productos, acciones e intereses que van a favor del beneficio económico, pero en detrimento de la salud. A continuación presento importantes aspectos sobre este sensitivo tema con dimensiones y consecuencias políticas, económicas y de salud pública."

Puerto Rico Wants To Grow Your Next Cup Of Specialty Coffee

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/05/13/404228117/puerto-rico-wants-to-grow-your-next-cup-of-specialty-coffee

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Elena Biamon and her husband, Miguel Sastre, have invested in this depulper and other equipment to process the coffee they grow.

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What is Political Ecology?

Recortes a agricultores y el mantengo ilegal a Monsanto, por Jessica Rodríguez Martín

http://www.noticel.com/blog/175512/recortes-a-agricultores-y-el-mantengo-ilegal-a-monsanto.html

"El Estado tiene la obligación de detener de inmediato este esquema ilegal y exigir la devolución de los millones pagados ilícitamente. Estos, al ser recobrados, tienen que ser destinados al Departamento de Agricultura y para el estímulo de agricultores puertorriqueños bona fide. De ello no ocurrir de manera inmediata, solo queda una interpretación posible. La misma que dio origen a que estas empresas llegaran a Puerto Rico en violación de todas las leyes ambientales y a nuestra Constitución."

El 23 contra Monsanto

Carmelo Ruiz: Weather modification, myths and facts

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/03/weather-modification-myths-and-facts/

The Lure of a Technofix for Climate Change

Weather Modification: Myths and Facts

by CARMELO RUIZ

It is a safe bet to say that all progressive readers have some familiarity with conspiracy theories about weather modification. These theories, that range from “chemtrails” to the HAARP project, propose that sinister government and corporate forces are altering local weather and the whole globe´s climate with purposes that range from warfare to climate change mitigation. The most extreme version of these theories holds that all of climate science is a fraud, including the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and that the bizarre and extreme weather observed all over the earth in recent years is not caused by the burning of fossil fuels but by weather modification technologies invented and used by an evil cabal of scientists and shady figures bent on world domination- an image straight out of an Austin Powers film. These theories, which are increasingly popular, play into right-wing anti-environmental themes. In a 2013 column, Canadian scientist and outspoken environmental activist David Suzuki likened belief in “chemtrails” to climate change denial.

Ni recortes ni IVA

Naomi Klein at Lannan

http://podcast.lannan.org/2015/05/04/naomi-klein-with-katharine-viner-29-april-2-015-audio/

Naomi Klein with Katharine Viner, 29 April 2 015 – Audio

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on April 29, 2015.

This event was part of the In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom lecture series.

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, fellow at The Nation Institute, and author of the international bestsellers The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. Her regular column for The Nation and The Guardian is distributed internationally by The New York Times Syndicate. In 2004 Klein won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism for her reporting from Iraq for Harper’s Magazine. The same year, she released The Take, a feature documentary about Argentina’s occupied factories, co-produced with Avi Lewis.

Her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, to be published in September, examines why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.

Bill Mckibben at Goddard College

Bill McKibben: “A Report from the Front Lines of the Climate Fight” from Goddard College on Vimeo.

Carmelo Ruiz: The CIA Reorganizes

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/bloggers/The-CIA-Reorganizes-20150414-0005.html

EXCERPTS:

The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is about to go through a major overhaul of its organizational structure, ending the separation between spies and analysts, while also creating a new cyberwarfare division. "Thousands of spies and CIA analysts will be reassigned to new posts, marking one of the most significant changes to the agency’s core structure in its 67-year history", according to The Intercept. Under the new model, spies and analysts will be integrated and assigned to 10 new mission centers that will specialize in issue areas such as terrorism, weapons proliferation, the Middle East and other areas with responsibility for espionage operations, intelligence analysis and covert actions. According to CIA director John Brennan, these mission centers “will bring the full range of operational, analytic, support, technical, and digital personnel and capabilities to bear on the nation’s most pressing security issues and interests.”

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Not everybody in the intelligence community is happy with the changes. Brennan's reorganization will further politicize the CIA and damage its credibility, according to Melvin Goodman, former CIA analyst and currently a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy. "CIA Director John Brennan is promoting a reorganization scheme at the Central Intelligence Agency that will make it more likely that intelligence analysis will be politicized to support the interests of the White House and senior policymakers."

Detroit agriculture

http://foodtank.com/news/2015/05/from-blight-to-beauty-10-urban-agriculture-projects-in-detroit

From Blight to Beauty: 10 Urban Agriculture Projects in Detroit

Detroit, once one of the most prosperous cities in the United States, has seen its population dwindle in recent decades as crime rates skyrocket and many of its neighborhoods fall into urban decay. In 2013, the City of Detroit filed for bankruptcy, becoming the largest municipal bankruptcy case in U.S. history. Now, in an effort to reclaim their land and revitalize their city, Detroiters have turned to urban farming. Food Tank is highlighting 10 of the city’s top urban agriculture projects.

My mini-reportaje on Albizu Campus for Telesur

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/50-years-since-Death-of-Puerto-Rican-Leader-Tortured-By-US-20150421-0036.html

Los Nuestros Rodolfo Walsh (parte1)

Operation Condor

Several defendants await the resumption of proceedings at the historic Condor trial in Buenos Aires in 2015. Among the 25 high-ranking officials originally charged were former Argentine presidents Jorge Videla (deceased) and Reynaldo Bignone (aged 87).

OPERATION CONDOR: National Security Archive Presents Trove of Declassified Documentation in Historic Trial in Argentina

Argentine Newspaper, Pagina 12, Highlights Evidence Presented by Archive Southern Cone Project Director Carlos Osorio

Documents given to Court Reveal Condor Precedents; Secret Summary of Inaugural Condor Meeting Introduced into Court for First Time

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 514
Posted - May 6, 2015

http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB514/

Los defensores de los transgénicos, ¿Juegan limpio?

http://bioseguridad.blogspot.com/2015/04/los-defensores-de-los-transgenicos.html

Por Carmelo Ruiz Marrero
10 de abril 2015

Los defensores de los transgénicos ridiculizan y le arrojan abuso verbal no solamente a quienes cuestionan si la tecnología es segura, sino también a quienes plantean la realidad de que no existe consenso científico en el asunto. ¿Por qué? Considerando el historial de manipulación corporativa de la opinión pública mediante expertos "independientes" quienes incidentalmente son financiados por las mismas industrias que defienden, no es injusto preguntar si algunas personas en el debate de los transgénicos están recibiendo paga. No es una preocupación irrazonable.

Scientific American, not so scientific

Robert Reich takes on the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Feria Aibonito

Al Jazeera on Cuba's health care

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/04/cuba-medical-magicians-150430073632978.html

Cuba's medical magicians

Havana has long used 'doctor diplomacy' around the globe, but those at home know best their healthcare miracles.

Robert Kennedy | 01 May 2015 06:14 GMT | Healthcare, Cuba, Latin America, United States

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A doctor walks a patient out after surgery at the Cuban Ophthalmology Institute in Havana [AP]