Today's Topics:
1. Borders are scratched into the body of the planet by
Rosinante anarcho-syndicalist Initiative (gr) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #255 (Nov) - Global
warming: They are the problem, invent the solution (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire Al St. Denis - Police state,
After the attacks and the intervention of Raid in Saint-Denis and
stigmatization of neighborhoods or reduction in our freedoms (fr,
it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Dordogne - ecology, "FLOP"
21, of 5 to 12 December in the Dordogne (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Alternative Libertaire CAL Alsace - COP21, from
global to local: (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - policy, Paris, 29
November: another account of events (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Britain, Glasgow anarchists Events from 06/12/2016
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. France, The de-federated CGA, meeting on November 28, 2015
of IAL_Grenoble (fr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
9. Greece, Seven years after - All to the streets (gr) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
10. Greece, Remember remember the 6th of December (gr) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Message: 1
Communication Anarchosyndicalist Initiative Rosinante on the situation in Idomeni - In
Greece-Macedonia border in Eidomeni takes a peculiar hostage situation, revealing both the
hypocrisy and heartlessness of the "Western democracies and open societies," and the role
of "First Time left "government that has chosen to move in the pathway which led itself as
a result of the strategy. - The EU had some time to "play" open to refugees, to people
that come from open war zones for which the EU It is partly responsible, especially when
people are able to spend with massive marches various Balkan borders and reach to northern
Europe. ---- Now tighten the straps again. Especially after the bloody events of Paris,
when closed borders and prevailed area emergency status and absolute militarization of
everyday life.
From the beginning, however, as much "tolerance" if supposedly showed, never challenged
the so-called European borders, strengthening the role of FRONTEX, the fences in Evros and
the so-called internal European borders, but mainly focused on the distinction between
economic migrants and war refugees, paying particular national characteristics in each
category. Syrians, Iraqis and later and Afghans as refugees and everyone else as illegal
immigrants, why not have the same legal rights apply, but known paranomopoiisi,
repression, deportation.
The Greek government followed the letter of European policy, griping only the reluctance
of some States to accept a percentage of refugees or the EU for lack of assistance or for
the pressure exerted on joint storage of the border with Turkey, as the latter affects the
strategic urban interest is also known and nationally. Otherwise the fence in Evros-shame
was never questioned by the current government, while the registration of people, the «hot
spot», the Amygdaleza adopted and remain as a management mechanisms (bureaucratic and
repressive) human flows to Europe.
Now, following and separation policy, both the EU applies, as much as the Balkan countries
such as Macedonia, suppresses the movement of Iranian refugees who have blocked rail
lines, resulting prevent the transfer of goods to the interior. Unfortunately, the policy
of "divide and rule" led to some mikrosygkrouseis between refugees, who recognize them as
such and the other, not let anyone, not the first to cross the border.
So the refugees and migrants who escaped from drowning, border guards and FRONTEX in the
Aegean, they experienced the abandonment or lack of support from the Greek Government in
Athens, come now face the next hurdle posed by Fortress Europe in their journey .
Repression, caging and their stacking in an outdoor "room" waiting without adequate
infrastructure and certainly inappropriate to live. Worse, the Greek state has mobilized
riot police to "shove" barely anyone left over from the criteria "refugee victim" and
constitutes an unnecessary immigrant to coach for Athens.
With background, then the closed borders and fences raise European countries, the Balkan
countries and to Greece in them, the death of a 22 year old Moroccan who came into contact
with electrified high-voltage cable in an attempt to cling to a wagon that will send off
the hostage in Idomeni only as an accident can not be described. The political choice
stacking lives in conditions that do not guarantee the integrity, the threat of
deportation back to the hell from which they left, are themselves a murderous practice.
Refugees and immigrants who are struggling with every means to escape from the warehouse
of souls Idomeni have every reason to rise up and to dismantle fences that keep them
captive. With them and the proletarians of European and Balkan countries, we have every
reason and interest to revolt with them against capital, a State borders and the police,
the wars that turn around us that were or will "burn" and us.
IMMEDIATE OPENING OF BORDER TO Idomeni AND EVERYWHERE
NOW tear down the fence in Evros / NO OTHER CHOKING THE AEGEAN
NO EXPULSION IMMIGRANT
NOT IN SEPARATION BETWEEN IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES
AGAINST REPRESSION AND Islamophobia
DECLARATION OF STRIKE AS Breaking down EVERY FRONTEX KI AGAINST GOVERNMENT AND EUROPEAN
SOLIDARITY EVERY KIND TO IMMIGRANTS / REFUGEES
Rosinante anarcho-syndicalist Initiative
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Message: 2
The capitalists, responsible for climate change, strive with blows of green washing to
make ecology-compatible with the current economic system. Yet only a reduced consumption
of resources and energy will get out of the ecological crisis, and only the mobilization
will be imposed, as in the upcoming COP21. ---- Global warming is a major problem of the
twenty-first century societies. But far from being reduced to an isolated problem, it is
both the link and the integral amplifier of a global crisis. Originally global warming are
massive emissions of greenhouse gas capitalist industrial companies but also their highly
consumptive and wasteful logic resources, raw materials and energy (water pollution, the
air and soil, deforestation , extractivism and intensive geological deregulation).
The consequences of global warming would be disastrous: threat of extinction of many
animal and plant species involved in the overall balance, threat of collapse of the
agricultural production capacity, serious health threats. All these changes are
unprecedented dangers to human societies.
Fashion unsustainable Production
Faced with this, the currently dominant solutions such as green capitalism, sustainable
development, new deals ecological, consisting of the technological forward flight, the
green washing and financialisation of ecology, appear largely insufficient. They do not
question an unsustainable mode of production, predator and destroyer of life.
For further :
the AL record ecology
our leaflet "ecological emergency: out of capitalism! "
COP21: A peak of protest for the climate summit
The only way to survive the ecological crisis is the one that is to drastically reduce the
volume of global resources and energy consumption and refocus production towards what is
initially the most useful and most necessary to life human and social. This is therefore a
decrease.
This approach comes into contradiction with the growth and profitability imperatives
sources necessary for the difficult economic survival of capitalism.
Such a solution can not come or for the industrial or current heads of state, who have an
interest in defending capitalism. A state solution, necessarily authoritarian, also prove
disastrous for many parts of the population. First, to the working classes who would be
both economically crushed and exposed more than other ecological disasters. It would also
be disastrous for the millions of future refugee-es climate, forced to flee the conditions
become unbearable in their territories, and undergoing the same forms of repression that
the current it-s refugee-e-es (deportations, extraditions , confinement in camps and
detention centers, died in marine cemeteries).
For a decay can rhyme with welfare will require a clean break with the current economic
and political systems. It will do away with capitalism and the state authoritarianism.
Such a break can only come from a mass uprising of the people. By taking control of the
means of production, putting them together, and subjecting them to a direct democratic
management, they will be able to transform them, and use them according to their needs and
sustainability limits.
Floran (AL Marne)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Rechauffement-climatique-Ils-sont
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Message: 3
If the attacks in Paris have made One of the world's media, we forget - including France -
a popular area of Saint-Denis also been hit hard. And in the days that followed, the area
was still shaken by further violence: those of the police and social violence that
accompanies since November 13 the state of emergency, which affects those families who
have lost their homes, those of stigma and amalgams, they gag that stifles the activists
of the district. ---- Here the joint statement of associations, unions and neighborhood
organization that will not give arms and struggling in this difficult time. ---- On the
night of Friday 13 to Saturday, November 14, a series of bombings bloodied Paris and
Saint-Denis by nearly 130 dead. We strongly condemn these murderous attacks, we mourn the
dead, and we are in solidarity with the wounded-es and relatives of victims.
Wednesday, November 18, the city of Saint-Denis woke up under the onslaught of RAID to
call terrorists. Three people died. Thirty families have lost their homes and after a week
of extreme precariousness in a gym await yet support worthy of the name, that is to say a
relocation.
No to the reduction of public freedoms and the state of emergency!
These terrorist acts arouse anxiety and fear among us. We are to do with these wars that
we have not wanted and we all want to live in safety. Yet we refuse the extension of the
state of emergency that really means restricting our freedoms. No need for these measures
to investigate and arrest terrorists.
However, the state of emergency led to the ban to come together, to exercise our right to
express ourselves and claim. Thus, the demonstrations of solidarity with migrants, of COP
21 and against violence against women have been banned. Unacceptable arrests and
prosecutions are initiated against those who attempted to protest. Similarly, many view
searches and guards are made in a totally arbitrary, sometimes leading to smudging, and
obligations unfair to leave the French territory which we ask the cancellation.
Our neighborhoods are entitled to respect: no double penalty for neighborhoods
We do not accept the intervention of Raid at St. Denis leads to stigmatize our
neighborhoods and free speech racist and Islamophobic es capita on St. Denis. The
Muslim-do-s and-es immigrants have nothing to do with these terrorist acts. Similarly, it
is unacceptable to make migrants the scapegoats of these attacks. Yes, we must welcome
them. Simply because they and they are the first victims of Daech and authoritarian regime
of Bashar Assad.
Their war is not ours
The attacks were sponsored by Daech, a reactionary political and military organization of
Salafist fascist inspiration. But how did this organization? The war and occupation of
Iraq undertaken by Western countries and the repression of the Syrian revolution by Assad,
served as ground for the development. In the war waged by the US and its allies in Iraq
and Syria meet today terrorist acts. And it is the civilian population, here as there, who
bear the brunt of this war mechanics. Since the beginning of the war, Syria knows an
average of 150 deaths a day.
Impossible to forget, also, the role of capitalism, when the financial and business
interests of Western countries contribute to the imbalance of the entire Middle East and
allegedly contradicts the humanist speeches of our leaders.
In this context, the French Government claims to wage a war against terrorism, but the
bombings in Syria and Iraq, with the "collateral damage" they cause, come primarily feed
the myth of the "clash of civilizations" and maintain spiral of war. Especially since, at
the same time, the government maintains cordial relations with Saudi Arabia and Turkey,
yet among the logistical support of Daech, and do not lift a finger to support the Kurdish
and Syrian revolutionaries who fight front line against Assad and Daech.
In these difficult times and to come out of these warlike logic, we must gather and build
unity in our neighborhoods, our businesses, our homes, our schools and our facs against
the war, against the reduction of public liberties against racism to another world.
Signatories: ACTIT (Cultural Association of immigrant workers from Turkey), Alternative
Libertaire, AMF Saint-Denis, Coordination of undocumented 93 Coordination of migrant
workers' hostels, CGA, Attiéké Social Center, Universal Collectif Paris 8 (Turkish and
Kurdish students ), Solidarity Committee with Political Prisoners, CGT Educ'Action
Saint-Denis, TOGETHER (Member of the Left Front), Anarchist Federation Henry Poulaille
Group, ICAD (International Committee Against Disappearances), League of Human Rights
Section St. -Denis Plain City, Postal code, MRAP, OCML-VP, Left Party (member of the Left
Front), Local Union Solidaires, students Solidaires Paris 8, South Education, Southern CT
Mayor of Saint-Denis, SKB (Union of Socialist Women Turkey).
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Apres-les-attentats-et-l
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Message: 4
One Saturday, December 12 of struggle and celebration!
Saturday, December 12 - PLACE OF THE OLD TOWN HALL, PERIGUEUX - 11:00, Rally "Emergency
Ecological: Get out Of Capitalism". Because the street belongs to those who fight, occupy
it! Let us show our solidarity with the demonstrators in Paris and elsewhere.
Saturday, December 12 9:00 p.m. - CLOSING EVENING AT THE BAR "THE TOQUES" A PERIGUEUX -
CONCERTS: PAUG PROJECT (song), Pierrot BLACK (popular song), PLUNK'S (French punk),
Spartacus (Mediterranean music) - FREE ENTRY (Artists remunerated hat)
more information ? dorgogne@alternativelibertaire.org
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?FLOP-21-en-Dordogne-du-5-au-12
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Message: 5
The wasteland Reichstett, as we speak. ---- The layout of the former wasteland Reichstett
(see "Green Capitalism: The fool's bargain of clearance") is accurate, it will be the "Eco
Park Rhine." ---- Another "eco-" project, France 3 enjoins us to find beautiful, all the
actors are there! Music maestro! ---- The conversion of the former Reichstett refinery is
accurate ---- After an overview on the oil storage site, used to speculate on the valuable
resource, program editor invites us to look beautiful views of industrial zone (IZ), with
some trees and a couple wandering as in a commercial street . It starts well, they take us
for idiots, like we ambled in and ZI! ---- Who will be the "eco" profiteers? ---- Then
three individuals representing a town, a city, a company and tell us all the good they
think this project. Obviously nobody is talking about the relevance of their excitement,
yet well calculated. In turn, each puts his argument:
Schuler, for mayor Reichstett talk of a windfall, you wonder its Common is undergoing
desertification. But when he talks about 2,000 jobs what is it? Indeed, the subject deals
with the next seven years, and the prognosis for 2000, 2030? Nothing of course ... Maybe
it is better to put everything in the same bag that weighs more! Is it a requalification
of refinery jobs? On precarious part-time? No matter, since it is an "eco" project, we
already have our dose of good conscience. New employees will colonize the ZAC 450 units
and pay the local taxes by blowing an additional 30 hectares of agricultural land in the town!
The metropolis is little better. In their expansionist frenzy, politicians want to fill
all the voids, to saturation. Reichstett, it's already too full. With the GCO which would
be wired to this specific place, we are entering a new area of the sanctuary of the car,
saying that ecology is here! Everything we dream what!
And now ... Brownfields, they speculate on that and allow all this shit to regenerate. Not
in the ecological sense, compost! But in the economic sense of perpetuating the domination
of capital over our territories.
The Reichstett site is polluted? Okay ! But this is not a reason to let do anything. The
cleanup is an alibi, as well as those "eco" areas that multiply. When we look globally,
what remains is two highways (A35 and GCO), an "eco" sprawling industrial area, new "eco"
housing, expansion of "eco" commercial area of Mundolsheim some "eco" cornfields.
Reichstett is a central point of the Strasbourg capitalist development over the next 30
years. But Reichstett has an ecological label!
Published on 1 December 2015 by CAL Alsace
http://alsace.alternativelibertaire.org/spip.php?article753
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Message: 6
This is the backstage of Cop21. The images of the repression of the Republic Square, 29
November in Paris, toured the world. After the initial outrage against "thugs", the tide
has turned, the evidence fell, and part of public opinion has understood which side was
violence. It was time that Alternative Libertaire published a collective narrative of
events. Here it is. ---- The morning had begun, Republic Square, by leafleting, songs and
discussions to denounce the masquerade of the Cop 21. Several thousand people converged on
this place in a festive, colorful but determined: environmentalists, political ,
associations, trade unionists .... Despite the ban, we had hundreds, soon thousands to
speak again in the street. ---- Here clowns, there ecologists associations, a crowd of
onlookers and in the midst of it all, a improvised street meeting in the red and black
flags, which began to aggregate a few hundred people.
Intrigued, journalists from around the world, came to collect our word: a reporter Yonder
if I am, an Indian television, a Spanish radio, web-TV Marseille ... The Washington Post
has likely discovered words "socialization" and "self-management".
Around 13:30, while the influx continued on the Republic Square, we felt that the
atmosphere was warming. From mouth to mouth, a slogan began to be resumed in chorus: "If
one does not work, it will not work." We had to scroll, like what happened in many cities
of the world .
Meanwhile the police had begun to curl all access instead.
A demonstration of about a thousand people has begun a tour of the place de la République,
then a second round, while the SRC put themselves in combat gear.
Photo report: Benjamin / AL northeast Paris
Attempted escape
Avenue of the Republic, a passage seemed opened to let the procession pass. It has engaged
in a massive way avenue, determined but not aggressive. The slogans rang out: against the
state of emergency, against the ransacking of public freedoms. But after 50 meters:
blockage. Hordes of CRS, armored trucks who park across the road. The batons and tear gas
repress the more adventurous.
Intense when, on the avenue, the cry "Freedom! "Gushes in unison with hundreds breasts.
More than ever the protest ban appears for what it is: a bluff; unfairness; scandal.
Unable to move, it gradually turns back. Back to square one: Republic Square, whose exits
are blocked by the police, the subway entrances were soon condemned. More outcome.
The crowd resumed his walk around the square. In two thirds of the course, clashes broke
out, police distributes the tear gas, stun, tonfa strokes. The activists and militants of
different political organizations try to maintain a united procession and minimize panic.
But the fact is that the crowd is trapped. The vast majority ignores the significance of
the red flares that rise into the sky - the order of dispersion Respondent by law
enforcement. A dispersion impossible anyway, all the issues being fastened.
The memorial vandalized boots shots
A man injured by grenade fragments, another lack of fainting because of the gas. Soon, the
presence of police officers dressed as demonstrators is reported. In this moment of
extreme confusion, while the place is flooded with gas, people responded by throwing to
the police which came into their hands, including the memorial candles.
In reality, the devastation is mainly due to the police, and images of robocops trampling
flowers and candles to disperse a peaceful sit-in quickly went around the net.
Click to view the extract
Taranis News
At 14:30, the police managed to isolate and encircle a group of 300 people are present in
which activists and activists of AL, the NPA, the FA, CGA or Solidarity.
Later one second trap imprisons a larger group again. A total of between 800 and 1000
people who will be retained on the site for several hours. Some had just arrived. It
should be noted at the same time, a spontaneous rally at Barbès violently dispersed and
that many people here too are arrested.
The aim of the maneuver? Save the identities of those present and intimidate political and
trade union militant.es.
The week before, the police had already forwarded to the public prosecutor announced that
the identity of 58 people suspected of protesting in support migrant.es despite the ban.
This had led to summonses and police custody.
Caught in the net
Republic Square, the refusal to comply with this injunction is draconian collective.
Spontaneously, lines are formed. We stick together, over two or three rows, facing the
pandores, still chanting: "State of emergency, police state, we not remove our right to
protest! "In the back of the police, a crowd gathers and we applauded.
These are the paddy wagons arriving, including a bus.
Police pressure increases, the grip tightens, the demonstrators and protesters are
compressed by a shield wall. The most common feature: a robocop propped behind his shield;
a second behind him with a tonfa; behind again, with a third gas.
Sporadically, one or a protester is seized and torn from the arms of his comrades, and
dragged by police backwards, often with violence. Head to the paddy wagon. In total, over
300 people will be arrested. The majority will be placed in custody. The others will be
released, probably because the holding capacity in police arrived at saturation.
In cells: revolutionary university
The bulk of those arrested is directed to the police station in Paris 18e, which has large
cells of 20 seats. Men were separated from women, everyone is searched in the body, and
the cells are swiftly met. To cope with this unusual influx, it was necessary requisition
police, at home, enjoy the thought ... missed Sunday rest.
Chiaroscuro disaster, concrete benches ... custody is never funny. But when you also find
many, between "political" solidarity makes it all that more surmountable. From the paddy
wagon, it was singing loudly, while the revolutionary directory, sending it to the chain
valves, it invented slogans to turn the situation in derision.
At the police station, the atmosphere is more mixed. In a cell, the atmosphere is rather
studious - one inquires about our rights, we analyze the situation, the words are
organized tours for everyone to speak - in another, the choir continues, more rigolarde
and unleashed than ever.
In the evening, people came out in small groups and spread in different police stations in
the Paris region, in more cramped cells. We experienced the arbitrary and bureaucracy.
According cómicos, personal are correct and stick to their role of police officer; other
rather flirt with sadism and cases of punitive humiliation were reported to us.
After a sleepless night on the cold concrete, sometimes with no more than a thick cover
sheet, the vast majority held in custody will be released on 30 November, around 15:30.
All and all remain under threat of prosecution.
Facing the Cop21, despite the state of emergency from Alternative Libertaire is Vimeo.
Firefighters arsonists seeking to discard
Their wrong? That of expressing their views on the street. That of having denounced the
instrumentalisation of state of emergency by the government. He refused to have the ban on
demonstrations, rightly denounced by numerous voluntary organizations, trade union and
political.
Need we recall the many house arrests or searches to show the use made of this state of
emergency? Need we recall that on one side the government prevents the expression street
but on the other he allowed to proceed football matches, Christmas markets and other
gatherings mercantile? Security measures they concern only the protesters?
To justify this repression, an intense campaign of lies pours into the media by
politicians of all stripes.
It is with a tremor in her voice that Francois Hollande condemned "incidents" in the
Republic Square. His ministers, followed by a group of politicians from the National Front
in Europe-Ecology-The Greens have outbid denouncing the "excesses" and claim penalties.
Not surprising since only 6 of 925 parliamentarians voted against the curia preparing
this: the three-month extension of the state of emergency.
So these are those who fricotent with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, those who put out
the public freedoms, those who lead people in war, who allow themselves to give lessons?
We will not let ourselves lecturing by these firefighters and arsonists these liars. The
responsibility for what happened on Sunday in Paris is up to public authorities and the
police.
Alternative Libertaire on 1 December 2015
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Paris-29-novembre-un-autre-recit
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Message: 7
It might be some weather outside, but the events coming up this week look worth braving
the elements to get to. In addition to the info listed below there is also a bunch of
films taking place under the banner of the Scottish Queer International Film Festival
(SQUIFF) that are worth checking out: http://www.sqiff.org/events/ ---- We would also like
to give a shout-out for our friends at the Govan Community Bike Workshop on 18 Brighton
Place. They are looking for folks to head on down and lend a hand, not just with bike
repairs but also doing all the little things that keeps the shop running smoothly like
having a cuppa tea and talking with folks when things are busy. They are currently open
most Saturday’s from 10am – 5pm if you want to pop in and say hi.
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LUX Scotland Presents: Who Needs A Heart By Black Audio Film Collective
Sunday, December 6 at 6:45pm
GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB
This controversial film from Black Audio Film Collective is a parable of political
becoming and subjective transformation.
A record of life on the fringes between 1965-75, the film explores the forgotten history
of British Black Power through the fictional lives of a group of friends caught up in the
counter-cultural anti-hero, activist and charismatic social bandit Michael X.
Presented by LUX Scotland and introduced by Francis McKee (writer, curator and director of
CCA Glasgow , Glasgow)
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Letters for LGBT+ Prisoners
Sunday, December 6 at 4:00pm
Offshore, 3 Gibson Street, G12 8NU
We’d like to invite everyone to join us on the 6th of December to write holiday cards and
letters to LGBT+ prisoners. Queer and trans people are disproportionately likely to be
incarcerated, and are a very vulnerable and often isolated group in prisons. We’ll be
doing this through the holiday cards action of the organization Black and Pink, which
among its other work (for prison abolition and reform) aims to help support LGBT+ prisoners.
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Archives of Dissent exhibition
Displayed until December 6
The Old Hairdressers, 20 – 28 Renfield Lane, G2 6PH
Organising from below is the cornerstone of the Archive which draws from collections of
libertarian socialist activists in the west of Scotland. It is based in the Mitchell
Library and the archive is being digitised. The exhibition will feature a selection from
the archive.
Further Information
www.spiritofrevolt.info
E: info
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We Will Rise: Public meeting – building on the End Detention Weekend / Surround Dungavel –
ways forward
Sunday, December 6 at 4:00pm – 7:00pm
African Arts Centre, 286 Broomloan Road, G51 2JQ
MEETING – FOOD – MUSIC – CHILDCARE
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Queer Women in Love Trans-stravaganza: Bound and Netflix & Chips
Thursday, December 10 at 7:00pm – 9:30pm
Gilmorehill Centre, University of Glasgow, 9 University Avenue, G12 8QQ
Violet (Jennifer Tilly) longs to escape her relationship with her mafioso boyfriend Caesar
and seizes the chance when alluring ex-con Corky (Gina Gershon) comes along. Violet and
Corky enter into a clandestine affair and hatch a scheme to steal 2 million dollars of
mafia money. The first film directed by trans woman Lana Wachowski and her brother Andy,
Bound employed author and performer Susie Sexpert to choreograph its steamy sex scenes,
and drew inspiration from classical Hollywood director Billy Wilder in its noir crime
thriller approach to queer love.
Screening with short film Netflix & Chips, made by collective Lock Up Your Daughters
Filmmaking as part of the Glasgow 48 Hour Film Project. Star of Netflix & Chips, trans
filmmaker, and vlogger supreme Kate Adair will join us for a Q&A. Plus we’ll have an intro
to Bound by Glasgow University Film Studies lecturer Dr Allison Macleod.
Rated 18.
Entry by donation (pay what you can afford). Minimum £1 donation when booking online or
pay any amount on the door.
Gender neutral toilets. Films screening with subtitles for accessibility. Q&A and intro
BSL interpreted. The Andrew Stewart Cinema is wheelchair accessible. To reserve a place
for a wheelchair or for more info, contact SQIFF via helen or on 07735 273 245.
Part of SQIFF presents: Queer Women in Love, a season of films by and about lesbian,
bisexual, and queer women. Part of BFI LOVE, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.
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Ideal Mexico Xmas Party: Islam Chipsy & EEK, Happy Meals, Dick-50, Merlin Nova, George
Garthwaite
Thursday, December 10 at 8:00pm – 11:45pm
The Glue Factory, 22 Farnell Street, G4 9SE
Big end of year blowout featuring:
? ISLAM CHIPSY & EEK?
Happy Meals
Dick50
Merlin Nova
George Garthwaite
+ Ideal Mexico Kitchen AND DJs.
More Info below:
Islam Chipsy & EEK
Exploding out of Cairo, Egypt Islam Chipsy and his band EEK are a three-way force of
nature described by those who’ve been caught in the eye of their storm as one of the most
exciting live propositions on the planet. At the core of the group lies electro chaabi
keyboard pioneer Islam Chipsy, whose joyous, freewheeling sonic blitz warps the standard
oriental scale system into otherworldly shapes, as flanked by Islam Ta’ta’ and Khaled
Mando raining down a percussive maelstrom behind dual drum kits. Trailblazing large scale
festival appearances so far have included CTM, Trans Musicales de Rennes, Dour and Flow.
Happy Meals
Loved up multi-lingual analogue disco that makes words like ‘cosmic’ and ‘really really
great’ seem insufficient.
DICK-50
Conspicuous non-consumption since 2012.
Merlin Nova
Artist, performer, radio host, sometime milk maid, Merlin Nova is always a unclassifiable joy.
George Garthwaite
GSA’s favourite laconic poet, able to move through moods of joy, hilarity and melancholy
with just a few of those lovely (West) Yorkshire syllables.
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A Talk with James Kelman
Friday, December 11 at 10:30am – 12:00pm
Upstairs Community Room, Ibrox Library, 1 Midlock Street, G51 1SL
James Kelman, writer of short stories, novels and political commentary, gives a talk at
Ibrox Writers in Ibrox Library. Free event open to public. Tea/Coffee/Snacks at “half-time”.
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Tasty Futures (Exhibition)
On until Friday, December 11
Savoy Centre, 140 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3DH
Who will grow our food in the future? What new foods will be on the market in 20 years
time? Will 3D printers be a common kitchen appliance? How will technology disrupt the
restaurant business? And, perhaps more importantly, will all these changes be healthy for
ourselves and the environment?
Organised by Odd Studio, taking place in the Savoy Centre’s new Gallery Unit, as part of
The Only Way is Ethics festival. The exhibition will present the output from a set of
preceding workshops, showcasing the dioramas, and opening the debate to the general
public, regarding our values and habits in the present day.
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Raspberry Pi Day
Saturday, 12 December from 10:00am until 4:00pm
Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, John Anderson Building, 107 Rottenrow
East, G4 0NG
The Raspberry Pi day is an event for all levels of ability and involvement. Several talks
will be given during the day, covering the basics of the Raspberry Pi, as well as
programming and electronics applications.
There will also be a laboratory area, with Raspberry Pis for hands on, interactive
demonstrations and space for additional guest projects to be shared with those at the event.
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Eye witness report & film from the Frontline of the refugee crisis in Lesvos.
Wednesday, December 16 at 7:00pm
Boyd Orr room 513 (Lecture Theatre D), University of Glasgow
We are very lucky to be able to screen this short (25min) documentary shot this November
on one of the islands considered the front-line of the refugee crisis. Focusing on the
solidarity of ordinary people in the face of government-led racism and incompetence, this
film will show how the working class in Greece are defying the state and showing their
solidarity with refugees.
The director, Guy Smallman of Reelnews, will be travelling to Scotland fresh from the
press film screening and will be on hand to give a Q&A on his first-hand experiences. You
can check out his travel-blog for the project here: http://reelnews.co.uk/the-lesvos-blog/
This event is free to attend. There will be an opportunity to give a financial donations
to send to Lesvos, but it is just as important to come along and raise awareness.
Co-hosted by Glasgow Anarchist Federation and Glasgow University Anarchist Student Group.
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Living Room Lectures presents #1 ‘HIT-GIRL: IS SHE REALLY A FEMINIST ICON?’
Monday, December 14 at 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Contact us on livingroomlecture15 for location
The character ‘Hit-Girl’ in the 2010 movie ‘Kick-Ass’ based on the Marvel comic of the
same name, is an 11-year-old, vigilante superhero whom many argue is a feminist icon. Her
character challenges gender stereotypes, and provides viewers with a self-confident female
protagonist who is central to the plot, and is enjoyable to watch. Jane Goldman,
co-scriptwriter of the film has said, “’[Hit-Girl is] a feminist hero by token of the fact
that she pays no attention to gender stereotypes’” revealing tendencies towards the
inclusion of feminist ideologies within ‘Kick-Ass’ from its production team. This
presentation explores the potency of these ideologies as well as the possibility that
patriarchal ideologies also remain within the movie. The analysis will focus on three main
areas of discussion: the levels of agency Hit-Girl is afforded; the challenges she makes
to gender stereotypes via her skilled violence; and her appearance.
https://glasgowanarchists.wordpress.com/2015/12/05/glasgow-events-from-06122016/
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Message: 8
After meeting for the first time in Toulouse, June 6, groups of Carcassonne, Comminges
(Nosotros), Perpignan (GAPA) and Toulouse (GAAC), to which is assistant binding Grenoble,
have found November 29 in the pink city. Discussions focused on the follow-up to our
de-federation of the CGA, de-federation occurred during the first quarter of 2015. ---- -
We had decided in June to publish a digital newspaper: News & Analysis Libertarians. This
has now been done. The first delivery of IAL is visible " ----
http://infosetanalyseslibertaires.org" ---- - The discussions we have had rich and
extensive, have enabled us to succeed, unanimously, to the creation of Anarchist
Organization (OA) by defining a schedule of meetings that will take us to the beginning of
September 2016, a founding congress of the new grouping. Self-management in principle, OA,
activists anarchists split, will seek to develop, as far as possible, the broad outlines
of militant anarchism.
Our efforts disclosure of these generous ideas too often ignored and often caricatured,
among other things focus on anti-electioneering, the anti-statism, militant atheism,
anti-fascism, anti-capitalism and anti-patriarchy .
Using the concept of "class struggle" and our desire to be present-es within social and
societal struggles will not fight without caring at the same time against postmodern
theses and against the harmful effects that they produce in the current dispute and
organizations of the current societal order.
OA is sure to support ideas, information and proposals that oppose all forms of
domination, exploitation and power and all that begets the exploitation and misery, while
defending the idea of 'generalized self-management.
From now on, those who would be interested by our approach-es and who would participate
alongside us in its realization, can contact us.
Anarchist Organization: oa@infosetanalyseslibertaires.org
The signatory groups:
(GAC) Carcassonne
(Nosotros) Comminges
(GAPA) Perpignan
(GAAC) Toulouse
(IAL) Grenoble
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Anarchist Group Albert Camus
Mel: groupe.albert.camus@gmail.com
36, rue Cugnaux 31300 Toulouse
Permanences Mardi 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Nosotros group
Mel: nosotros1936@yahoo.fr
Anarchist group Carcassonne
Mel: groupecarcassonne@gmail.com
Anarchist group Puig Antich
Mel: contact@groupe-puig-antich.info
Bookstore Infos: 2, rue Theodore Guiter in Perpignan (near the site of the Hairy)
Office hours: 15H to 19H Saturday
Anarchist and Libertarian Initiative
Mel: grenoble.ial@gmail.com
Links Paris region and Gers: write to OA
http://forum.anarchiste.free.fr/viewtopic.php?f=7&p=161296
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Message: 9
Seven years ago, on December 6, 2008, the young student Alexandros Grigoropoulos was
executed in cold blood by the cop Grigoropoulos. - The initial shock and sadness quickly
turns into screaming revenge that converts in a few days the rage in generalized uprising
that spreads like fire everywhere. - From Evros to Crete and Rhodes, the country ablaze by
insurgents; pupils, students, unemployed, workers, migrants. - Consciously or
instinctively, the insurgents turned against the old world. ---- A holding world,
unemployment, injustice, human power in man, worship of money; a world that as burns
afineiesto briefly utopia of self-institution of all aspects of daily life, the project of
self-organization, abolish the State and the power to emerge.
The anniversary of Alexis's murder, which both loidorithike from right and left, more so
was "honored" by today's "leftists" managers of state power does not belong to anyone
beyond themselves insurgents found along the streets of the match behind the barricades.
Those trying to demolish every ruler, across the length and breadth of parliament, no
matter if by yesterday spoke of "resistance." Not forgetting that any power will always
sets up monuments in the uprisings of yesterday and machine guns in the uprisings of today.
Today, seven years later, Greece Alexis Grigoropoulos, Paul Fyssas, the Sachtzat Loukman,
Tony asses, Christopher Marino, Michael Kaltezas of Koumis of Kanellopoulos and so many
others murdered by the state and para-state, is immersed in the greatest crisis in its
history, with no perspectives of returning to the era of fat cows Papandreou and Simitis,
who both reminisce the petty bourgeoisie. Today we see more clearly than ever that once
the capital of banking, financial, industrial, showing his teeth, using all arsenal,
politicians, cops, judges, prosecutors, journalists, fascists, to maintain and expand its
privileges at the expense of us all, all workers, unemployed, natives and immigrants.
In this context, our response can not be other than the daily conflict with this power
complex dexiaristero or aristerodexio. By occupations, strikes, by conflicts end. Our task
is to tear down the world of dominators and spineless nationals.
With the memory of Alexis and so many others engraved in our minds
until the classless society, communism and anarchy.
COURSE
December 6, 12:00 CHAMBER
Anarchist Federation
Region of Central Macedonia
Message: 10
The blood of rebellions always stays warm. The flame the smoldering as those highlighted
is still on track. - The uprising of December 2008 in Athens a sign of the emergence of
new forms of temporality was the moment when we experienced the most profound break with
the established regularity in the field of social time, both in the Greek territory and
worldwide. - The shock of the State validity foundations, the collapse of identities, the
emergence of free public space is apparently that rocked the western social imaginary in
all corners of the planet back, with varying consequences and bloody conflicts,
transmitted directly as information, as images and meanings through the world wide web.
---- They are the three points that define the scope of current social conflicts and
social reconstruction.
The modern European states regress and shielded faced with massive population movements.
The Gastarbeiter (the foreign worker) is past years, while the contemporary migration has
an installation status. Europe from the 1980s stubbornly refuses to open public space for
young people, placing them in a larger enclosure economic and political exclusion.
On the other hand, these same countries, the same time that frozen human rights, the "body
sense" them, opening the way to the absolute domination of capitalist enterprises on the
commons, through agreements such as TTIP.
The political system in all its dimensions is unable not only to manage the new reality,
but unable to understand. The collapse of identities not only leads to the contraction of
the traditional political formations and the crisis of political representation but even
in this monstrous and eerie Bataclan!
However, despite this bleak landscape mutations and painful social losses, people are
rediscovering the public space, attempting to recreate through social action outside
government custody beyond the oikonomokentrismo.
A common line now joins the movements and social activity of the people's assemblies in
Istanbul and struggles for the waters in Sea by anti-Gold movement of the autonomous
communities of Rozava the autonomous communities of Latin America, from social refuges
refugees in Italy "occupation Notara 26," a symbol of the huge solidarity movement for
refugees and migrants, a seed of new and open public space.
The flame smoldering in December, because those elected is still in the spotlight!
ALL IN MOBILIZATIONS ON 6 DECEMBER
We call on the progress of students at 2pm at Propylaea
We call in progress, December 6 at 17:00 at Propylaea.
Antiauthoritarian Movement Athens
