A woman sits by her demolished home in Harare



About 200,000 people have been made homeless, the UN says

Police in Zimbabwe have fought running battles with residents of one of the oldest townships of the second city, as they demolished illegal structures.

The BBC's Themba Nkosi says that Makhokhoba in Bulawayo was the centre of resistance to colonial rule.

One woman stripped naked in protest after police destroyed her shack.

A police spokesman said that more than 20,000 structures had been destroyed and 30,000 arrested in the three-week nationwide operation.
I love this.  I love the Indian resistance.  I love the socialist control of natural resources for the people.  I love the resistance to corporations, and also to U.S. hegemony in the region, lately shown in the OAS's refusal to accept the US's nominee for head of the OAS (Organization of American States)...  In their refusal to kowtow to the US's demands for "democracy" (read: free market)...  Campesinos revolting, Zapatistas, Chavez, Uwe community suicide threat...

Viva la Revoluzione...

They say love it or leave it?  If I had my way, I'd speak Spanish fluently, and move to some place like Venezuala.  I'd love to contribute to the emerging socialist culture that's spreading there.

Source: IHT
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LA PAZ Indigenous protesters demanding the nationalization of the gas and oil industry took over seven oil fields belonging to British Petroleum and the Spanish company Repsol operating in eastern Bolivia, officials said here.
 
Guarani Indians took over four fields belonging to Repsol and located north of the eastern city of Santa Cruz and 900 kilometers, or 560 miles, east of La Paz, said Ronald Fessy, a spokesman for the group representing the 20 foreign energy concerns operating in Bolivia.
 
Other Guarani Indians took over three oil fields operated by British Petroleum, also in the area.
 
Protesters earlier took over a pipeline station on the border with Chile, cutting off crude exports to the far northern Chilean port of Arica.
 
In May, Bolivia's Congress passed a law increasing state royalties and taxes on oil and gas companies' revenues from 18 percent to 32 percent.
 
Opposition demonstrators, however, have brought much of the country to a virtual standstill amid their demands of full nationalization of the energy sector.
 
Bolivia has estimated natural gas reserves of 53 trillion cubic feet, or 1.9 trillion cubic meters, second only to Venezuela in South America, according to U.S. Energy Department figures.
 

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http://www.peacemakersguide.org/peace/Peacemakers/Sophie-Scholl.htm

In February 1943, three students from the White Rose, a resistance group in Munich, were arrested, sentenced to death and summarily beheaded. One of them was 21-year-old Sophie Scholl.

The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honor, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.

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