#G7 : une gestion policière dans le sillage de la crise des Gilets Jaunes ?
▻https://lemediapresse.fr/politique/g7-une-gestion-policiere-dans-le-sillage-de-la-crise-des-gilets-jaunes
C’est ce que confirme notre échange à #Biarritz avec le ministre de l’Intérieur Christophe #Castaner, en visite sous haute sécurité pour préparer le sommet des 24, 25 et 26 août 2019.
#Politique #Social #abertzale #ETA #G20 #Hambourg #Irun #Macron #Pays_Basque #Seattle
The story of Seattle’s rise to global rock supremacy in the late ’80s and early ’90s begins with Green River. Made up of Jeff Ament (bass), Mark Arm (guitar/vocals), Bruce Fairweather (guitar), Stone Gossard (guitar), and Alex Shumway (drums), the quintet put out three 12”s and a 7” single during its brief existence. Green River’s influence on Seattle’s music scene spread far and wide thanks to the members’ dispersion into bands including Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, and Love Battery, as well as the punk-glam-sludge-rock songs they left behind.
▻https://greenriver.bandcamp.com/track/unwind
How #Amazon Took Seattle’s Soul - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/opinion/how-amazon-took-seattles-soul.html
I live in the city that hit the Amazon jackpot, now the biggest company town in America. Long before the mad dash to land the second headquarters for the world’s largest online retailer, Amazon found us. Since then, we’ve been overwhelmed by a future we never had any say over.
With the passing of Thursday’s deadline for final bids, it’s been strange to watch nearly every city in the United States pimp itself out for the right to become HQ2 — and us. Tax breaks. Free land. Champagne in the drinking fountains. Anything!
In this pageant for prosperity, the desperation is understandable. Amazon’s offer to create 50,000 high-paying jobs and invest $5 billion in your town is a once-in-a-century, destiny-shaping event.
Amazon is not mining coal or cooking chemicals or offering minimum wage to hapless “associates.” The new jobs will pay $100,000 or more in salary and benefits. In #Seattle, Amazon employees are the kind of young, educated, mass-transit-taking, innovative types that municipal planners dream of.
So, if you’re lucky enough to land HQ2 — congrats! But be careful, all you urban suitors longing for a hip, creative class. You think you can shape Amazon? Not a chance. It will shape you. Well before Amazon disrupted books, music, television, furniture — everything — it disrupted Seattle.
At first, it was quirky in the Seattle way: Jeff Bezos, an oversize mailbox and his little online start-up. His thing was books, remember? How quaint. How retro. Almost any book, delivered to your doorstep, cheap. But soon, publishers came to see Amazon as the evil empire, bringing chaos to an industry that hadn’t changed much since Herman Melville’s day.
The prosperity bomb, as it’s called around here, came when Amazon took over what had been a clutter of parking lots and car dealers near downtown, and decided to build a very urban campus. This neighborhood had been proposed as a grand central city park, our own Champs-Élysées, with land gifted by Paul Allen, a Microsoft co-founder. But voters rejected it. I still remember an architect friend telling me that cities should grow “organically,” not by design.
Cities used to be tied to geography: a river, a port, the lee side of a mountain range. Boeing grew up here, in part, because of its proximity to spruce timber used to make early airplanes. And then, water turned the industrial engines that helped to win World War II.
The new era dawned with Microsoft, after the local boy Bill Gates returned with a fledgling company. From then on, the mark of a successful city was one that could cluster well-educated people in a cool place. “The Smartest Americans Are Heading West” was the headline in the recent listing of the Bloomberg Brain Concentration Index. This pattern is likely to continue, as my colleagues at the Upshot calculated in picking Denver to win the Amazon sweepstakes.
At the bottom of the brain index was Muskegon, Mich., a place I recently visited. I found the city lovely, with its lakeside setting, fine old houses and world-class museum. When I told a handful of Muskegonites about the problems in Seattle from the metastatic growth of Amazon, they were not sympathetic.
What comes with the title of being the fastest growing big city in the country, with having the nation’s hottest real estate market, is that the city no longer works for some people. For many others, the pace of change, not to mention the traffic, has been disorienting. The character of Seattle, a rain-loving communal shrug, has changed. Now we’re a city on amphetamines.
Amazon is secretive. And they haven’t been the best civic neighbor, late to the charity table. Yes, the company has poured $38 billion into the city’s economy. They have 40,000 employees here, who in turn attracted 50,000 other new jobs. They own or lease a fifth of all the class A office space.
But median home prices have doubled in five years, to $700,000. This is not a good thing in a place where teachers and cops used to be able to afford a house with a water view.
Our shiny new megalopolis has spawned the inevitable political backlash. If you think there’s nothing more annoying than a Marxist with a bullhorn extolling a failed 19th-century economic theory, put that person on your City Council. So Seattle’s council now includes a socialist, Kshama Sawant, who wants “the public” to take over Amazon ownership. Other council members have proposed a tax on jobs. Try that proposal in Detroit.
As a Seattle native, I miss the old city, the lack of pretense, and dinner parties that didn’t turn into discussions of real estate porn. But I’m happy that wages have risen faster here than anywhere else in the country. I like the fresh energy. To the next Amazon lottery winner I would say, enjoy the boom — but be careful what you wish for.
Lire aussi dans le @mdiplo du mois de novembre, « Les “créatifs” se déchaînent à Seattle. Grandes villes et bons sentiments », par Benoît Bréville ▻https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2017/11/BREVILLE/58080
De Paris à Londres, de Sydney à Montréal, d’Amsterdam à New York, toutes les métropoles se veulent dynamiques, inclusives, innovantes, durables, créatives, connectées… Ainsi espèrent-elles attirer des « talents », ces jeunes diplômés à fort pouvoir d’achat qui, comme à Seattle, font le bonheur des entreprises et des promoteurs immobiliers.
En anglais en accès libre ▻https://mondediplo.com/2017/11/05seattle
Voir aussi le dernier blog de Morozov sur l’urbanisme Google ►https://blog.mondediplo.net/2017-11-03-Google-a-la-conquete-des-villes
Why the Right Can Kill Us Now
▻https://crimethinc.com/2017/08/12/one-dead-in-charlottesville-why-the-right-can-kill-us-now
Hurt Cobain III
▻http://www.swampdiggers.com/Mackned-Hurt-Cobain-III
Mackned a enfilé son vieux jean crado pour nous jouer quelques ballades sans espoirs à la guitare sèche. #Seattle Si le nom de Kurt Cobain a tendance à revenir régulièrement dans la bouche des rappeurs de tous bords ces dernières années (jusque dans nos contrées), c’est le plus souvent comme une simple métaphore du suicide, plutôt que pour exprimer un intérêt réel pour sa musique, ou sa personne. #Mackned est un rappeur originaire de Seattle que l’on pourrait qualifier, pour aller vite, d’emo (...)
/ #Chroniques, Mackned, #Goth_Boi_Clique, #Thraxxhouse, Seattle, #M.O.O.R_Gang, #Nacho_Picasso, #Key_Nyata, #cloud, #emo, #goth_rap, (...)
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Un militant des #IWW blessé par balle d’un coup de revolver à #Seattle
▻http://lahorde.samizdat.net/2017/01/25/un-militant-des-iww-blesse-par-balle-dun-coup-de-revolver-a-seattl
Le 20 janvier un militant antifasciste de l’IWW de Seattle est blessé par balle lors d’un rassemblement contre l’investiture de Trump à l’Université de Washington à Seattle. Blessé à l’abdomen, il est actuellement hospitalisé, ses jours ne sont pas en danger mais il a besoin de soutien. Nous publions une première traduction de l’appel à solidarité paru dans [&hellip
"Car, s’il y a deux ans, nous, intermittents, pouvions écrire « Nous ne voulons pas être sauvés », nous pouvons être certains désormais que nous ne nous sauverons pas seuls."
►http://www.cip-idf.org/article.php3?id_article=8162
#Coordination_des_Intermittents_et_Précaires #austérité #crise #dette #intermittence #Seattle #intermittents #étudiants #précaires #intérimaires #sans_papiers #auto-organisation #démocratie_directe
#Grèce #France #émancipation #droits_sociaux #loiTravail #loiTravaille #NuitDebout #grève #Unedic
Rebel Geeks - Steal From the Capitalists (2015)
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/rebel-geeks-steal-from-the-capitalists-2015
Evan “Rabble” Henshaw-Plath is a coder, activist, anarchist, and a hacker. He is also one of the original developers of Twitter.
Henshaw-Plath believes that, as a tech activist, his role is to...
Evan “Rabble” Henshaw-Plath is a coder, activist, anarchist, and a #hacker. He is also one of the original developers of #Twitter.
Henshaw-Plath believes that, as a tech activist, his role is to promote social justice, and he is eager to empower civil society to influence politics through the use of #software. He explains how TxTMob, a platform that enabled protesters to send text messages to large groups anonymously, formed the basis of Twitter.
“Now around 288 millions people use Twitter every month sending over 500.000 million tweets a day”
À cause du côté hipster et faussement paradoxal du titre j’ai failli ne pas regarder ce #film #documentaire, un peu long à démarrer mais qui pose de très bonnes questions sur le #logiciel_libre et le sentiment d’échec qu’on a souvent devant des idées géniales qui ne mènent nulle part, pour être finalement récupérées par le commerce.
#histoire #WTO #Seattle #indymedia #P2P #Twitter #LEAP (►https://leap.se) #Chaos_Computer_Camp
“Can Henshaw-Plath convince the activists to steal from the capitalists in the name of efficacy, or is that a political compromise too far?”
Come ride with Malitia Malimob
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/09/come-ride-with-malitia-malimob
Africa is a Country ran a profile on #Somalia-via-Seattle rap duo Malitia Malimob two years ago. On the heals of the release of their latest album, #Seattle-based journalist Devon Leger sat.....
#MUSIC_PAGE #Africa_Rising #Afropolitans #East_Africa #hip_hop #immigration #USA
The Earthquake That Will Devastate Seattle - The New Yorker
▻http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one
The first sign that the Cascadia earthquake has begun will be a compressional wave, radiating outward from the fault line. Compressional waves are fast-moving, high-frequency waves, audible to dogs and certain other animals but experienced by humans only as a sudden jolt. They are not very harmful, but they are potentially very useful, since they travel fast enough to be detected by sensors thirty to ninety seconds ahead of other seismic waves. That is enough time for earthquake early-warning systems, such as those in use throughout Japan, to automatically perform a variety of lifesaving functions: shutting down railways and power plants, opening elevators and firehouse doors, alerting hospitals to halt surgeries, and triggering alarms so that the general public can take cover. The Pacific Northwest has no early-warning system. When the Cascadia earthquake begins, there will be, instead, a cacophony of barking dogs and a long, suspended, what-was-that moment before the surface waves arrive. Surface waves are slower, lower-frequency waves that move the ground both up and down and side to side: the shaking, starting in earnest.
Soon after that shaking begins, the electrical grid will fail, likely everywhere west of the Cascades and possibly well beyond. If it happens at night, the ensuing catastrophe will unfold in darkness. In theory, those who are at home when it hits should be safest; it is easy and relatively inexpensive to seismically safeguard a private dwelling. But, lulled into nonchalance by their seemingly benign environment, most people in the Pacific Northwest have not done so. That nonchalance will shatter instantly. So will everything made of glass.
#tremblement_de_terre #états-unis #catastrophe #impréparation — un article magnifiquement écrit
à propos des #films_de_catastrophe :
If you are so inclined, you can watch an earthquake destroy much of the West Coast this summer in Brad Peyton’s “San Andreas,” while, in neighboring theatres, the world threatens to succumb to Armageddon by other means: viruses, robots, resource scarcity, zombies, aliens, plague. As those movies attest, we excel at imagining future scenarios, including awful ones. But such apocalyptic visions are a form of escapism, not a moral summons, and still less a plan of action. Where we stumble is in conjuring up grim futures in a way that helps to avert them.
Rainworks
▻http://rain.works
Rainworks are positive messages and art that appear when it rains.
Their purpose: To make people smile on rainy days.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBwpON6HIR8
Ce serait du #native_advertising pour le spray que ça ne changerait pas grand chose aux #vidéos. L’artiste pose tellement bien à l’artiste et son « message » est tellement « positif » que c’est soit très naïf, soit très cynique. De l’#art_de_rue #météorologique pour faire de la #gentrification gentillette.
Mais on pourrait faire des messages bien plus intéressant.
Via ../mediateletipos.
Une sorte de #lithographie ou la pierre est remplacée par le bitume de la rue ?
The Art and Activism of #Gabriel_Teodoros
▻http://africasacountry.com/the-twin-pursuits-of-gabriel-teodoros
This past weekend I had the immense pleasure to sit alongside Gabriel Teodoros, Bocafloja, and Linda Guyse at a series of panels in (very cold) Wooster, Ohio, for Wooster College’s Africa.....
#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY ##BlackLivesMatter #Ethiopia #MUSIC #Seattle
Metropolis. Épisode 7
▻http://lundi.am/Metropolis-Episode-7
Septième épisode de Metropolis, film réalisé à Seattle, à propos de Seattle, contre Seattle.
Climat : que faire d’ici 2015 et la COP21 ? Enjeux et perspectives.
Alors que la Conférence de l’ONU sur le changement climatique de Lima (Pérou) débute ce lundi 1er décembre, et dans la perspective de celle de Paris-Le Bourget fin 2015, voici quelques éléments d’analyse et quelques propositions sur l’état des négociations et les dynamiques en cours au sein de la société civile. Pour débattre.
▻http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/maxime-combes/251114/climat-que-faire-dici-2015-et-la-cop21-enjeux-et-perspectives
#accord
#alternatiba
#Blockadia
#chine
#Climat
#Cochabamba
#Cop21
#Dernier mot
#Etats-unis
#france
#Hollande
#ONU
#Paris2015
#Seattle
#Transition
Constitution et lobby : Fusillade en Californie : Deux policiers tués, deux blessés, le suspect arrêté - Une fusillade mortelle dans un lycée près de Seattle - Deuxième amendement de la Constitution des États-Unis - Le lobby : NRA (National Rifle Association). Où sont les assassins ; dont ces parents offrant des armes...
▻http://www.20minutes.fr/monde/1467955-20141025-fusillade-californie-deux-policiers-tues-deux-blesses-sus
▻http://news.abidjan.net/h/513411.html
▻http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuxi%C3%A8me_amendement_de_la_Constitution_des_%C3%89tats-Unis
▻http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association
#californie #seattle #nra #usa #constitution #lobby
Mentionné dans : Pin-up clock = ▻http://oxymoron-fractal.blogspot.fr/2014/10/pin-up-clock.html
Police Break Bad: 1999 WTO Seattle protests
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/police-break-bad-1999-wto-seattle-protests
The World Trade Organization (WTO) held its Third Ministerial Conference in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Tens of thousands of protesters managed to halt the summit with nonviolent...
Kshama #Sawant, la nouvelle voix des travailleurs américains
▻http://terrainsdeluttes.ouvaton.org/?p=3037
L’élection de Kshama Sawant au conseil municipal de #Seattle a fait les gros titres à travers le monde entier. Pourquoi donc cette victoire inattendue aux élections municipale d’une ville située sur la côte ouest, surtout célèbre pour le personnage de série Frasier Crane, a-t-elle autant attiré l’attention des médias ? Mêmes …
#Nos_enquêtes #S'organiser #alternatives_politiques #Minneapolis #Occupy #USA
If a tree falls - #documentaire sur les (soi-disant) « éco-terroristes » de l’Earth Liberation Front
▻http://www.ifatreefallsfilm.com/film.html
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In December 2005, Daniel McGowan was arrested by Federal agents in a nationwide sweep of radical environmentalists involved with the Earth Liberation Front— a group the FBI has called America’s “number one domestic terrorism threat.”
▻http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QAGxy85R380
#environnement #black_bloc #seattle anti-#terrorisme #répression #anarchie #film #militer
Le trailer est déjà impressionnant, on se reparle après avoir visionné le film...
cc @tout_le_monde
retour en prison pour Daniel McGowan, qui a eu le tort de s’exprimer sur le « petit Guantanamo » où il était détenu
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/127761
(voir aussi le documentaire sur Anonymous ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/93766 ) #militer
#Juifs nord-américains offusqués par des #pubs israéliennes
Des pubs incitant les juifs #américains à s’installer en #Israël, et un #Rabbin fait retirer des sapins dans l’#aéroport de #Seattle-Tacoma (#Washington).
Effectivement, Israël, s’est tellement « déshumanisé » que le fait d’être juif n’est plus une particularité « culturelle » de l’espèce humaine, mais l’affirmation d’une espèce différente, celle du « peuple élu » par rapport au reste de l’humanité. On est pas loin de l’affirmation de la race aryenne d’Adolf Hitler.
Il est important que les juifs de la diaspora s’affirment face à l’intransigeance de plus en plus paranoïaque d’Israël. Il en va de l’identité juive et de sa valeur et de ses apports dans l’histoire de l’humanité.
Israël n’est plus le pays des juifs, il est devenu le pays de certains juifs et d’un gouvernement d’extrême droite qui ne voit plus qu’à travers le filtre de ce qui lui est adjacent.
Salut...
C’est de la paranoïa à grande échelle, l’alliance extrême/sionisme est vérifiée ▻http://goo.gl/zZy1Z JE PEUX METTRE DES LIENS de prix Nobel, de chef d’Etats, de discours (genre de Mandéla et autres) grande figures de l’humanité... EN FRANCE le crif...