Today's Topics:
1. A-Radio Berlin Mediterranean 3: The self-organized refugee
squat Orfanotrofeio in Thessaloniki (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. wsm.ie: Emergency Protest Takes Place in Belfast in Favour
of Free, Safe and Legal Abortion Fionnghuala Nic Roibeaird
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Greece, Anarchosyndicalist Initiative Rosinante: The
capitalists and their government have no illusions! Why should
we? (gr) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Turkey, However, neither the state hide nor forgotten what
Hrant say: "We are living in hell, in heaven we aspire to turn
people ..." Hrant Dink by Karakök (tr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #256 (Dec) - Québec:
Sisterhood, feminism and anti-fascism (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Dear all, -- The following audio is a recording made by activists of the self-organized
refugee squat Orfanotrofeio in Thessaloniki, Greece. This material has been made available
to us by our comrades at Crna Luknja, the anarchist radio show at Radio Student in
Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. ---- The comrades of Orfanotrofeio tell about the
conditions that led to squatting this place in Thessaloniki in the beginning of last
December and about their struggle to keep the place despite of all obstacles. ---- You'll
find the audio (to listen online or download in different sizes) here:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/01/16/a-radio-in-english-mediterranean-3-the-self-organized-refugee-squat-orfanotrofeio-in-thessaloniki/
Length: 5:30 min
You can find other English and Spanish language audios here:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/englishcastellano/.
Among our last audios you can find:
* An interview with an activist of the Passe Livre movement in Sao
Paulo, Brazil:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/01/13/a-radio-in-english-brazil-the-passe-livre-movement-in-sao-paulo/
* Mediterranean 2: An interview with two anarchists working on the
refugee topic in Slovenia:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/01/12/a-radio-in-english-mediterranean-2-anarchists-in-slovenia-and-the-refugee-balkan-route/
* Northern Europe 3: An interview with two members of the new Anarchist
Federation in Finland, Alusta:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/01/05/a-radio-in-english-northern-europe-3-the-new-anarchist-federation-in-finland-alusta/
* Mediterranean 1: An interview with two activists of the occupied and
self-organized refugee center Notara26 in Athens, Greece:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/01/02/a-radio-in-english-mediterranean-1-the-occupied-refugee-center-notara26-in-athens/
* Northern Europe 2: An interview on the Anarchist Bookfair in Tallinn,
Estonia:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2015/12/18/a-radio-in-english-northern-europe-2-the-anarchist-bookfair-in-tallinn-estonia/
* Northern Europe 1: An audio on the countercultural Musta Pispala
festival in Tampere, Finland:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2015/11/23/a-radio-in-english-northern-europe-1-musta-pispala-festival-in-finland/
* Eastern Europe 5: An interview with Anarchist Black Cross Warsaw:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2015/11/19/a-radio-in-english-eastern-europe-5-anarchist-black-cross-warsaw/
* The documentation of a presentation about the topic "Undercover for
State and Capital":
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2015/11/04/a-radio-auf-englisch-audio-documentation-undercover-for-state-and-capital/
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Message: 2
Somewhere in the region of 70 people attended an emergency protest yesterday outside
Belfast City Hall. ---- Those present were protesting in favour of free, safe and legal
abortion on demand, as early as possible, as late as necessary. ---- The protest was
called by Alliance for Choice to keep the momentum up from the positive ruling the day
before that maintained that the North’s strict abortion laws are in “breach of human
rights” in the cases of rape, incest and fatal foetal abnormalities. ---- Among those who
spoke was Suzanne Lee who said “it [the new ruling] doesn’t help me, I stand here and I
face life in prison and that’s not good enough and it’s not acceptable. While we hear
these politicians say that they’re going to appeal this tiny tiny step that they have
taken, we can’t let it continue, we can’t go on. What we have to do is, we have to keep
breaking the law, provide abortion pills and make sure that anyone who wants an abortion
in this country can access it. What we need to demand is abortion on demand, which is not
a dirty phrase; it’s not a phrase that we should be ashamed of. It’s right to stand here
and to be angry, I have been angry for years now and we’re still not getting anywhere.
What we need to call for from this protest is free, safe and legal abortion on demand!”
The fight is nowhere near over, even when we achieve free, safe and legal abortion on
demand the fight will continue to ensure that every child brought into this world is
brought into a world free from all kinds of oppression.
The video footage of the protest below shows Suzanne and Fiona Nic Fheargais from People
Before Profit addressing the crowd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1UaoHhaOdA
http://www.wsm.ie/c/emergency-protest-belfast-favour-free-safe-legal-abortion-dec15
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Message: 3
Employees-s! ---- The new government's anti-labor attack and Capital, through the "reform"
in the already discredited and truncated security system, typically takes revanchist
storm. After the crash of the contracts, the mass flight of tens of thousands of
unemployed workers, the institutionalization of underemployment, reduce labor costs,
reached the appropriate framework, to get into now and the tombstone conquests of the
labor movement. Surpassing the previous 11 "reforms", draft committee of "wise" and
Giannitsis law and clicking on the law Loverdos, the government is putting forward the
most anti-labor antiasfalistiko crime. ---- Accelerating routed collapse of the insurance
is not, of course, to save the pensions, health benefits, but the profitability and
competitiveness of businesses. There is the viability of a dying system anyway, but to
come into play private insurance, as though trying to cheap tricks television to convince
us otherwise. The realization of the objective passes through the generalization and
intensity of exploitation of the working world.
The first phase of the attack include:
Reduction of main (contributory) pensions by up to 80% if we take into account the loss of
pay for the first classes to which it belongs and the majority of workers. Replacement
rates start at 38% and reach 10.5% for sectors guaranteeing pension to 4,500 stamps. In
this tip, they will add and national pension, which, under certain conditions, it reaches
384 euros and will not limit the state's obligation, in this, hence its guarantee! Talking
ie pensions of 450 euros.
Calculation of pensionable earnings with the average working life.
Integration of Funds with equation downwards grabbing their property.
Launching the abolition of supplementary.
Reduce off by 15%.
Increasing labor contributions.
Lower income criteria for each, thus losing the 70,000 beneficiaries.
Overturning the early retirement with hidden increases in age limits and reducing pension
and over 40% for the State.
Cuts in health, which means increasing direct and indirect labor symmetochis.- hitting the
wheel with clipping up to 50%
Loopholes for re exemptions for employers.
Do paramythiazontan us. They want the full depreciation of labor and the devaluation of
our lives. This is a strategic objective of capital in Greece and Europe. Before the
government also legislated ANEL- Syriza got the ok from SEV and secured the support of the
media
Let's dispel the myths!
The insurance was not granting the bourgeoisie, it was a little conquest of the labor
movement through bloody hard fights.
Capitalists knew well from the very constitution of the funds and the insurance system,
they consented to the creation of a large piggy bank that would constitute a basic source
of funding for them. This was always the Funds. The money of the working class which
encourages the development of capital to such an extent that the robbery of
thalassodaneion 80s or gaming the stock market, look like misdemeanors.
The tripartite funding, on which we based the structure and functioning of the insurance
institution, was never tripartite. Even when they gave employers and the State minimum
contributions to their funds, again with money of workers did. Our own wealth was, and
call the contributions. From our farm, goodwill and taxation came.
From the uninsured work, reducing our wages and stamps, unpaid overtime and increased
unemployment, employers gained and lost our funds. Let's let the crocodile tears. We put
enough back to increase profits and even in times of crisis.
If they are now questioning by reactionary standpoint insurance, let us amfisvitisoume
class. It is our duty!
To go directly to general assemblies in all workplaces, to mobilize the unions, the
workers' class-shapes, committees spaces. To organize the strike, the prospect of
escalation. To move the forearm of our requirements and demands. In the light of our
modern needs. There is no going back on unrealistic notions of achievable and realistic
targets. Realistic is only the overthrow of the operating system and the regaining of our
wealth produced.
Do not get no reinsurance transactions and antilabour nomos- Overthrow those who voted in
the last decades.
All the cost of insurance to employers and member-no labor participation.
Increase syntaxeon- reducing the retirement age.
Increases in misthous- reduction of working time.
Equal rights for non-production workers, to measure unemployment as working time.
Equal rights for immigrants.
Socialization business owe the funds and employees thereof; Confiscation of the property
of their owners.
Free health care.
The anarcho-syndicalist Initiative and calls Rosinante participates in a demonstration for
the insurance Saturday 16/1 at 12, Omonia.
http://rocinante.gr/index.php/i-kapitalistes-ke-i-kivernisi-tous/
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Message: 4
Even if we were to consider that in the context of a history of the rulers; "Old Turkey" s
"New Turkey" had left a great heritage, spilling the blood of the killers of former child
mentality creates new anymore get back, we see that it has had to do the whole blood bath.
TC get a fleeting moment of history have lived disconnection, of the opinion that the
return on the underlying. Ruling may vary, even innovation rhetoric, the supply continuity
of the tradition of behavior imposed. His age (full of) a culture with devoting more time.
The consensus of the new with the old point will always be. Result: to reach another
fantasy given the arbitrary killing ... ---- revenge of the old state per se is a fight.
As the old rhetoric that it too far, devinip stops on their own narrow interest coverage
and oppose everything the audience to complain loudly that raises a rod and hate even
more. Hrant Dink, an Armenian, ready to hear the tapping of the Armenian blood, caressing
the feelings of a massacre and fascist mob mentality has brought. "I want to be governed
like" la, said "I directed my power payidar remains" s unity is the guarantee of the
massacre. Thus, the government itself is the cornerstone to collaborate with fascism
place. He's not allegiance, not to the path of death; one of the very mentality revealed
an assassination requested by the people. The government claims that the new move to live
more than a nonsense put forward does so.
...
The fascist ideology that contains almost all the dynamics, not all thoughts are on us
çöreklendir of living; others oppressed group under the dominant ideology. Hrant Dink as
someone else altogether. Somewhere, it refers to the sum of all of us. Just as in the eyes
of the Fascist Republic and re-producing it, others from across all of the money. Here it
is impossible not to be crushed. Peace can not be a case of self-protection on behalf of
the State apparatus, while the markets for power tool to destroy the field; itself does
not make it possible to perform someone else. You can not be wanted. Let's say we want to
create that under the old-new identity because of the conditions can not be kept alive ID
ancient to be rejected we Hrant Dink on the 1954, any day of September 15th, the
birthplace of the dead day until 19 January 2007 in Malatya toddler days from Istanbul
Osmanbey every step until it dropped to the sidewalk if we öldürülenl.
...
Now, the nation-state absolute ideal of a true "other foreigners" in which the 20th
century, beginning drawn dagger weapon 21 right kinds of time to the beginning of the
century, various Once created at (yeast) in the oppression of the nation's entire body,
mind, it should be capped on the ground with his heart. However Türk'lük d planting,
steadily continues in a way so proud of the way. Hrant Dink's death required a traitor ...
'Hrant Dink, an Armenian offspring.' life is obligatory to be chopped. The word is a
behavior seen in the sight of God reward him. It is an honor for bravery that police
located in the same square with a flag of the homeland sons, and the white beret pulled
the trigger a hero.
...
Hrant's voice was higher than the state's voice. What if everything he argued, was that
for us silence every fascist and his own. Being, it has surpassed the state's discourse.
The government has shut up sometimes. This situation has caught the eye of state
representing them both fascists. Which activates the state must meet the power, all the
dirty relations are organized in the past has been suspended for a moment before taking
are aimed at producing solution to this volume down. This is already the only point where
they can collectively come together as partners. Can we consider the potential of carrying
hate in your blood? These collaborators are not met substantially beyond such matters, are
each other's enemies. The assassination of invertebrate killer with lots of tools out in
partnership shows how to shorten every sound comes out. After the massacre slogans put
forward is to eliminate the state's own fault. Hrant is to forget the rhetoric.
However, they do state what is hidden, nor forgotten what he said Hrant. As Hrant orally
once rose as Tahir Elci said. This is nothing hidden behind the words. It showed they tell
the truth. Can not the truth at all costs, even if the departures. One of the places where
he grew up in a place that shaped the struggle is the truth ...
ISTANBUL INITIATIVE
ISTANBUL ANARCHIST INITIATIVE
https://karakok.wordpress.com/2016/01/20/oysa-ne-devletin-yaptiklari-gizlenir-ne-de-hrantin-soeyledikleri-unutulur/
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Message: 5
Sisterhood ("sisterhood" in French) is a Montreal-sex feminist collective of which, for
five years, campaigning for the militant anti-fascist milieu particularly gender-neutral
space. ---- AL: How the collective was it created, in what context and on what findings?
---- The Sisterhood is a Montreal-sex group that was formed there about five years ago at
the initiative of a few girls in the radical militant anti-fascist milieu, but also from
the movements against-cultural (punk, skin, hardcore, hip hop, etc.) connected thereto. At
the time, the main finding was that although the middle advocated equality and solidarity
among all and all, it was admitted that there was still sexism. For example, we were often
relegated to secondary roles, if not downright set aside in certain actions or tasks.
Sexist jokes and judgments physically or women's sexuality were common, and women's issues
were generally addressed bit. On the other hand, we could benefit from the experience of
older activists and / or experienced, who had managed to get a place and we had bequeathed
a certain force.
The group has built gradually, over the experiences. At that time, there was this idea
that it was the girls to make their way without taking into account the real difficulties
that also included. Sometimes we felt we were given the responsibility for our own fate,
because we were not quite fonceuses not involved enough, not enough claimants, etc. It was
decided to impose itself by organizing together. "Do not release me, I'll take care" has
become a kind of slogan for us.
There also were many reactions to our organizational structure, single-sex. Some,
especially the guys do not understand our desire to organize this way, accusing us of
dividing the movement. Guys were disappointed to be "excluded" from our group because they
wanted to advocate on our side. Some have also told us that we were a social club that
spent her time gossiping, which shows the seriousness they accorded to our political
approach. Today, our single-sex is much better accepted and we have seen several positive
changes in the attitudes of our comrades.
Which lines have evolved past five years?
Rereading our writing and remembering our beginnings, we see how we evolved. At first, one
might say that one is not bad theorized. Although we already proclaim radical feminists,
we were not very worn on major intellectual discussions.
For us, the practice has often come before theory; we started to certain topics or ask
questions over the life situations (domestic violence, compared to the queer movement
against political violence, etc.). On some issues, we still do not have "official"
position because for us it's kind of against-productive extensively discuss issues on
which we do not intend to act in the short term. Then we could say that organize
themselves to us more aware of patriarchal oppression.
For example, we realized that there was much competition between girls created by the need
to make its own place in a male environment. We also took a lot of strength together,
enabling us to better respond to situations of injustice: thus we have denounced sexual
assaults that occurred in our communities, and implemented strategies to improve the
situation. Moreover, we do not claim that this is the result of our group only, but it
seems that the presence of women in the medium increased. While we remain a peer group, we
are more political than before. However, we can say that in five years, despite some
changes, we stayed pretty true to our original objectives. Although it was not always
easy, we continued our work in our environment and are cons-cultures that are associated,
as "macho" as they are, because that is what makes the essence of our group.
On intersectionality, which sometimes even raises questions in France, this is part of
your theoretical basis?
We fully endorse the concept of intersectionality, which means for us the importance of
understanding how the different oppressions feed and reinforce.
We have great admiration for women who are trying or have tried in the past to create
alliances between different struggles, be it black feminists who thought the issue of
"race" and gender relations, women unionists who highlighted the overlap between class and
gender, etc.
In a revolutionary perspective, we must think how our global struggle and ensure that it
is inclusive for all. In short, we can not, as a radical feminist, fighting for own mouth.
That said, this is easier said than done. If we have been quite active in the
anti-capitalist struggles and the struggles around work, we must admit that apart rather
symbolic support, we have not yet managed to create strong alliances with other groups
dominated es. That is why we must continue to ask these questions and consider our
privileges as white women, heterosexual or not disabled, etc.
You realize workshops on environment activist sexism, how's it going?
It's going pretty well. It is certain that people who attend have, in general, sensitivity
to our demands. As we try to have a more popular approach, our workshops are quite
accessible, which often gives rise to interesting exchanges. It is the fact of organizing
themselves into single-sex which has allowed us to gain confidence in us and then to be
able to organize these workshops. Besides, we conducted a series of conferences in France
and Germany, during the European tour of our comrades of sedition Action band last winter.
We noticed that everywhere, it is almost the same conclusions that come back,
demonstrating that women's oppression is a constant reality.
Interview by Clemence (AL Paris North East)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Quebec-Sisterhood-feminisme-et
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