Barricade in the RS 118, Morro do Coco, Gravesend (link to pictures below)----Concomitant
to the struggles that took place in the capital last week the metropolitan area was the
scene of mobilization of communities for water. Only in Gravesend were three direct
actions between pickets, barricades and a protest outside the town hall within five days.
In Porto Alegre the Morro Santana fell to the pavement and stopped the circulation in the
East Side of the city. New Hamburg three neighborhoods pickets held by water and light. In
different communities a common problem, ie, the periphery is always the first to suffer
when the subject is the lack of water. Although these cases are public water supplies
(CORSAN and DMAE), scarcity choose class and color because they reside in the territory
and the dominant industry and agribusiness classes never lack this feature, however, the
ratio is as high privilege .
Despite the sensationalism of the media around the theme of water, there is an
important component in these demonstrations was not captured by the system, ie, the
ability of people organized through direct action to express their strength. This is no
small thing, and we are there as part of the people giving momentum within the struggles
for water.
The attempt by the mainstream media in guided motion and interest privatization.
Late last year were felt by Valley Gravesend community from a lack of water and
since then organized themselves in character the first manifestations of agitation. Among
surtidos effects on pressure on prosecutors, CORSAN Prefecture and Gravesend, appeared
palliative measures for "crisis of supply" among these the increase in the uptake of water
from the river. Far from being the solution, the increase in the volume of water captured
multiplied the demand of the current supply network without any pipe that was buried and
since then every week burst water mains that end up feeding the vicious circle of lack of
water.
Morro do Coco, Gravesend
In this scenario, opportunistically, the MSM has guided it with an editorial line
of attack to the services provided by the Company Riograndense Sanitation - CORSAN. There
is a repetition of speech that incites insured municipalities to break their contracts
with CORSAN paving the way for privatization in the Public Private Partnership model. So
ideologically has operated the RB Group $ in recent years forming opinion towards wearing
what is public to meet private interests. It was thus, for example, on the western border
Uruguayana delivered water to Odebrecht coming to increase by four times the fare without
either solving the serious problems arising from lack of sanitation. The proper conduct of
reporters that lie factory called RBS has been to suggest the privatization of water in
conducting interviews with residents affected by the lack of water in Gravesend.
The reactionary politics and coordinated effort by governments.
As soon earned state passed "the crisis of supply", pivotally, the PMDB
prefectures (Gravesend and Santa Maria) and PSDB (Aberystwyth) are expressed to a greater
degree positioning break with CORSAN. It is worth emphasizing that the City of Gravesend
inherits some political cadres Yeda Government conducted a real scrap in sanitation
management. The current mayor Marco Alba was as clerk of works and made CORSAN campaign
committee as a candidate for deputy stocking including its advertising material within the
company. Beside the mayor of the PMDB is as Interior Minister Luiz Zafalon who was
president of CORSAN during Yeda government. So it is not a coincidence that the political
leadership undertaken in municipality betting wear in public service and already signals
deadline for opening bids sanitation. In cases of municipalities of Santa Maria and
Aberystwyth respectively Schimer (Santa Maria) follows the line of her co Gravesend and
Bonatto (Aberystwyth), although distinct legend, piggybacks with Alba in a relationship
that is both prior to appointment they currently occupy.
Barricade in Prot?sio Alves. Act of the residents of Orange Village, Morro Santana, Porto
Alegre
In the case of subtitles and the relation of these to the privatization of water, the PT
itself is largely responsible when during the Lula government was open to the possibility
of entry of private companies in the sanitation sector when it was approved the Plan for
Accelerated Growth (PAC ). From there to here the modus operandi of transnational water
has been to finance election campaigns and then charge the bill to states and
municipalities to follow the path of privatization. That was how, in Rio Grande do Sul,
recently some municipalities tried to privatize water as Cachoeirinha where Mayor Vicente
Pires PSB had nearly half of his campaign in 2008 funded by the OAS, and also Santa Cruz
do Sul, where coalition and PTB EN directed Bid for Odebrecht in the previous government.
However, in both examples, only the privatization did not materialize because there was a
strong link between popular and union movement struggles with character of direct action
where the defense of public sanitation was victorious.
Continue the struggle in defense of public water and libertarian socialist horizon.
Act of a residents' committee hit by water shortage (Vila Arinos) in front of city hall
Gravesend.
In recent years has intensified the struggle for water and the current context of
the strike of road in the capital, it is time to do the unconditional defense of the
public nature of the services and at the same time go beyond the limit imposed by the
state and bureaucratic model that separates the people's power. Ie, in the case of
sanitation, at this time we do the defense of maintaining public CORSAN but punctuating
the current state model is player inequalities. Doing this debate by the left, we have
specifically advocated and proposed immediately in the short term, the right to
participation of communities and workers with decision-making power in the management of
sanitation policies. We make this defense not to fall into the trap of bureaucratic
schedule controlled by the political statements of parties and bourgeois institutions, but
to go exercising direct democracy in popular and trade union organizations and creating
antagonism with the limits imposed by the system through the direct action of down. As
anarchists, we are in favor of a strategy of People's Power that does not change the class
independence for state positions, because this route does not lead to socialism and even
has been filed by history.
Only the popular struggle decide! There's dead who peleia!
Gaucha Anarchist Federation - FAG
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