Solidarity with Rosia Montana

With so many struggles coming into public conscience these days Rosia Montana is also getting more well known and with good reason, being the biggest environmental issue of Europe since Cernobyl. In today's program on the 10th of October you can hear more about what happened in Romania during the 10 days of the Reclaim the fields camp but especially what happened during the direct action day on the 28th of September when the (dis)information office of the gold corporation was occupied by a handfull of people that managed to close it down for the day. There was no violent police intervention other than some pushing and shoving which makes you wonder if the direct actions could have went a bit further with squating some of the amazing local houses which are now abandoned. If activism was so simple everyone would do it on a daily basis so maybe we should, at least in Rosia Montana, Romania.

You can also hear about the nyleni forum that was presented outside the office of the corporation and on which you can read up more here: http://nyeleni2011.net

The local community of resistence in Rosia Montana is currently waiting the outcome of this outrageous disccussions going on in the Romanian parlament around the subject of whether the company will have the right to expropriate them or not. I will keep you updated of any developments but until than don't shy away from going into the streets to meet people that are faced with similar struggles closer to home. 15th of October is a day of worldwide direct action against big corporations and corupt governments (which ones aren't at this point?): http://www.occupytogether.org in which you can also take direct action just by going out into the streets and meeting other people from other walks of life. Take it from there. There is also the growing movement centered around establishing a free space in Luxembourg of which you can find out more at http://freespacelux.blogsport.de Briefly on the attempt to occupy an abanoned house on Friday, the 7th of October in Luxembourg city during the program.

I also dedicate this program to the struggle of this 95 braves that opposed the violent corridas in the south of France and that resited the blows of the violent corrida supporters as strongly as the Rosia Montana locals have been resisting blow after blow from the gold corporation for the last 12 years:
http://youtu.be/X_dP8_73KPM

Today's program can be downloaded and used as you see fit from here: http://dl.transfer.ro/Rosia_Montana_Program10oct-transfer_RO-10oct-ea9551.rar