Sápmi: roadblocks against Swedish mining plans

Roadblocks and other protests are going in the part of Sápmi (Lapland) under Swedish control, against the project by Beowulf Mining and the Swedish state to develop new mines in Sami land. At least six people have already been arrested.

They make a call for help because the police are employing themselves in full force with the goal of allowing the miner corporation to begin mining in five days.

They are also standing as human shields in the security perimeter so no explosives can be used (legally at least).

Reference in Swedish language: http://kolonierna.wordpress.com/

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

I don't know you but I can't help thinking in the movies of Pippi Langstrup and the two pathetic cops Kling and Klang. I just hope that reality for once gets close to fiction.

Sweden: fire at nuclear plant near Gothenburg

A fire at the Ringhals’ Reactor 1 began yesterday at nine in the morning and was extinguished an hour later. 

Research about the causes and effects of the fire is ongoing. 

The Ringhals' Reactor 1 was re-started on Tuesday after a shut down caused by a broken meter. 

Source: EneNews.

Sweden: riots continue for seventh night. Nazis go on progrom raids. Third police station torched

The fiery riots of Sweden continued for the seventh night, not just in some 15 different neighborhoods of Stockholm but also in Örebro, Linköping and Uppsala. In Älvsjö a police station was torched and other facilities such as libraries, schools and jewelries were also set ablaze. At least 18 people were arrested.

In Southern Stockholm Nazi groups organized vigilante gangs which were tolerated by police. No specific incidents are known yet.

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Sweden: sixth night of widespread riots

Popular riots in Stockholm and other Swedish cities continue for the sixth night (yesterday night, I don't yet have info for tonight). 

The confirmed collaboration of firefighters with police is now resulting in attacks against firefighters, who don't dare to approach the fires before police secures the area first. 

The number of burnt cars already reaches hundreds, several police stations have also been torched. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Sweden: riots continue in Stockholm for fourth night, also in Malmö

Some 30 cars burned are the result of yet another night of rioting in Stockholm. Some incidents were also registered in the southern city of Malmö. 

The violence began when, days ago, police killed an immigrant with alleged psychological problems who had barricaded himself in his apartment of Husby with his companion.

Swedish media have gathered reports by neighbors of this Stockholm suburb describing arbitrary and racist police attacks against anyone, including children and elderly people, along with continuous insults like "nigger", "rat", "monkey", etc. These reports have triggered an internal police investigation, it seems. 

After decades of being one of the most advanced welfare states on Earth, Sweden converted itself to savage Capitalism after the murder of the charismatic Olof Palme in the 1990s, producing the greatest growth of inequality in all the OECD. While still retaining one of the highest standards of life of Europe, youth unemployment and poverty have been growing quite brutally with most dramatic effects on the immigrant communities.

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Sweden: riots continue for the third day in Stockholm

The riots began three days ago, after police killed a man in what is perceived by many as murder with impunity (police officers claim he threatened them with a machete first).

Some eight people have been arrested since the riots began, but the arrests don't seem to help to calm down the mood, rather the opposite. 

Source: Euronews.

Sweden: Greenpeace drops object from air on nuclear reactor to prove utmost vulnerability

Greenpeace activists flew a praglider over a nuclear reactor in southern Sweden, dropping an object right on it without any consequences other than proving (again) how vulnerable these facilities are.

Source: EneNews.