Για την “τρίτη πλατεία” δες αυτό το video:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCmrCQvD9Ow[/youtube]

Για το όριο του παγκόσμιου “δημοκρατικού κινήματος” δες εδώ

Για τις κατηγορίες της Tamarod από τον τύπο τους:

Tamarod has criticised Third Square, an initiative that opposes the military-led roadmap and the pro-Morsi protests, for what it alleges is an attempt to thwart the gains made by the 30 June uprising.

Tamarod spokesperson Mohamed Heikal accused Third Square of being “led by Islamists,” referring to former Muslim Brotherhood member and presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, whose Strong Egypt Party is heading the initiative.

“Third Square is another face of the Muslim Brotherhood,” he said, adding that the initiative is counterproductive because it is “fragmenting the Egyptian people” over the transitional roadmap.

Tamarod criticised Third Square for its attack on the military, claiming that the Egyptian people did not side with the police or the military by rising up against the Muslim Brotherhood.

“A revolution does not mean we have to be against state institutions, and we are not siding with any group but the Egyptian people,” Heikal said of Tamarod. “We stood up against military rule in the past years, but today the military has a strong and important role.”

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Από τον τύπο τους:

Brazilian riot police fired tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets to disperse extremist protesters who ransacked bank branches, shops and a car dealership in central Sao Paulo. A police spokesman told AFP that a total of 20 people were arrested during the clashes, which followed a peaceful march by 300 demonstrators against Sao Paulo state Governor Geraldo Alckmin. The protest, called on social media by the Black Bloc anarchist group, also demanded the demilitarization of the state police, who have been accused of using excessive force in previous disturbances.

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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MkWoOnRJBc[/youtube]

Η περίπτωση του Μπαγκλαντές είναι ενδεικτική για την κατεύθυνση που παίρνει η κρατική βία σε όλα τα κράτη, ανάλογα με τις ιδιαιτερότητες τους. Για το Μπαγκλαντές δες και εδώ

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usGUfud9CNk[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VM6sSrSzxg[/youtube]

Οι κατοικοι της  Weliweriya έκλεισαν το δρόμο διαμαρτυρόμενοι για το θάνατο ενός ανθρώπου που θεωρούν ότι οφείλεται στην μόλυνση ποσιμου νερού από παρακείμενο εργοστάσιο. Αρχικά εμφανίζεται η αστυνομία, η οποία αδυνατεί να ανοίξει το δρόμο και στη συνέχεια ο στρατός.

παλιότερο αυτοκόλλητο που ταιριάζει γάντι στο συνδιασμό της τεράστιας “εθνικής μας επιτυχίας” να “αυξήσουμε” τον τουρισμό, δουλεύοντας μαύρα με 300 ευρώ και του τελευταίου δολοφονικού αλισβερισιού πάμφτηνης εργασιακής δύναμης:

Αναδημοσιεύουμε από clandestina:

Τουλάχιστον 24 άνθρωποι έχασαν τη ζωή τους νωρίς το πρωί όταν ένα πλοιάριο φορτωμένο με μετανάστες χωρίς χαρτιά που κατά πάσα πιθανότητα είχε ως τελικό προορισμό την Ελλάδα βυθίστηκε στα ανοιχτά των τουρκικών ακτών, όπως μετέδωσε το τουρκικό ειδησεογραφικό πρακτορείο Dogan.
Γύρω στις 2 τα ξημερώματα η τουρκική ακτοφυλακή έλαβε σήμα έκτακτης ανάγκης από τον καπετάνιο του σκάφους ο οποίος ανέφερε ότι βυθιζόταν στα ανοιχτά του Εζίνε, στην επαρχία Τσανάκαλε. Σύμφωνα με τον καπετάνιο στο πλοιάριο επέβαιναν πάνω από 30 άτομα.
Σκάφη της ακτοφυλακής, ένα ελικόπτερο και ένα αεροσκάφος που έσπευσαν στην περιοχή εντόπισαν τα πτώματα 18 αρχικά και στη συνέχεια 24 ανθρώπων και κατάφεραν να ανασύρουν ζωντανούς από τη θάλασσα 12 μετανάστες χωρίς χαρτιά.
Σύμφωνα με τις τουρκικές αρχές, το πλοιάριο πιθανότατα είχε ως τελικό προορισμό τη Λέσβο.

Αναδημοσίευση από jadaliyya

We were on the edge of Tahrir Square on Wednesday 3 July when the army made its announcement. The square burst into jubilation. A member of our team checked his smartphone. He shouted over the din of drumbeats and squealing vuvuzelas: “Morsi’s gone. They’ve appointed the head of the constitutional court in his place and suspended the elections.”

We watched the celebrations. I looked around at the people I knew, with some of whom I had shared—what do I call it, the Tahrir of yore?—and the subsequent two-and-a-half years of anger, euphoria, exhaustion, triumph, dejection. Their faces were as expressionless as mine. The only emotion I could locate inside myself was fear—not of the political future, about which I no longer felt I understood a thing, and had lost my faith and footing in—but of the very next moment: how would we get back into the square?

After ten minutes, we could not put it off any more. We had to deliver food to the intervention teams posted around the square, and the celebrations would just get more massive and feverish as the night wore on. Our team formed a line and dove into the crowds, holding tightly onto one another and trying to protect each other from any onslaught of hands. I tried to be present—if not to enjoy the festivities, then at least to notice them—but all I could think of was cutting across this heaving sea. In a distant part of my mind I wondered about fear: is it an idea or a real understanding in the body? If I did not known what I did, would I be able to feel the exhilaration, to lose myself in the crowd as I had done before?

We reached the first intervention team and I flopped in their midst—an isle of safety in the square. This was not some slick special-forces unit in imposing uniform. It was a group of young women and women wearing white T-shirts with red lettering that said: “Anti-Sexual Harassment” and on the back, “A Square Safe for Everyone.”

It was my first day of volunteering with Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment/Assault (OpAntiSH). With everything I had heard about Tahrir lately, it was the last place I wanted to be. And yet—I no longer felt I had a place in the marches taking place all over the city; I could not stay home; and I could not turn my back on the one thing in the midst of all the madness that seemed to cleanly matter, to make sense.

I was trembling as I got out of the taxi by the Nile that afternoon and walked alone to our meeting point behind the square. As we gathered around in a circle to be briefed, a part of me was bewildered at the red nails of the girl standing next to me, at the smiles on people’s faces, when on mine tragedy must have been writ large—a sort of newcomer’s naiveté. I had not yet had time to recalibrate, to normalize.

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από τον τύπο τους:

The thousands of people who marched in protest of a new bill that would grant the New Zealand’s government sweeping spy powers, were misinformed, Prime Minister John Key has said playing down the nationwide protests.

The surveillance bill, which is expected to be passed in parliament, would allow New Zealand’s Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) free rein to listen in on citizens’ phone conversations.

Kiwis took to the streets on Saturday in 11 cities and towns in what has been dubbed as an “uphill battle” to stop the bill from going through.

Key, however, argued on Sunday that the turnout was “quite light” and insisting that those involved in the mass demonstrations were ill-informed or had a political agenda.

“At the risk of encouraging them to have more protests, I would have actually said those numbers were quite light – it wasn’t anything like what we saw for mining or anything else,” he told TVNZ’s Q&A program on Sunday.

“Secondly, a lot of people that would go along would be either A, politically aligned, or B, with the greatest of respect, misinformed,” he stressed.