AToday's Topics:
1. glasgowanarchists AF - Polyamory, Compulsory Monogamy and
Social Control. Glasgow, 26th January. Discussion
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - video, "Good people do
not be afraid, " return on the construction of the security
obsession (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Call to Action Against the Cardiff Arms Fair -- Come to
Cardiff on the 16th of March 2016 to take action against the
DPRTE arms fair at Cardiff Motorpoint Arena. (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Alternative Libertaire Tract AL - War, terrorism out
of gear (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. awsm.nz: The ‘Deserving’ Poor (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Fred Paton Centre, 19 Carrington Street, G4 9AJ ---- This talk explores how compulsory
monogamy became a social institution, drawing on the history of law, religion, and
biology. It will argue that monogamy was something forced on women, while men, for the
most part, remained free from its confines. It will also describe the role compulsory
monogamy has played in shaping and defining heteronormative relationships (where
heterosexuality and fixed genders are taken as the norm). ---- Whereas heterosexuality
binds women to men in general, monogamy binds women to specific men. In the same way that
heterosexuality is used to set apart ‘good women’ from ‘perverse’ ones, monogamy serves to
define all women who transgress its boundaries as loose. Thus, in the same ways in which
compulsory heterosexuality results in the dependency of women on men – physically,
economically and emotionally – compulsory monogamy makes women dependent on specific men.
The talk will then think about polyamory* as a non-monogamous alternative from a queer and
feminist perspective, and consider how it challenges the heteronormative discourse on
relationships. Polyamory offers more than just the possibility of participating in
multiple relationships, but also the potential for a new way to understand and think about
relationships.
https://www.facebook.com/events/923075707745991/
*Polyamory is a philosophy and lifestyle based around the forming and sustaining of
relationships with multiple partners in an open, honest and non-possessive way.
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This event is hosted by Glasgow AF. We ask that all those attending this event read the
brief introduction to our safer spaces policy here:https://afed.org.uk/about/safer-spaces/
https://glasgowanarchists.wordpress.com/2016/01/21/polyamory-compulsory-monogamy-and-social-control-glasgow-26th-january-discussion/
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Message: 2
[Video] Almost ten years after its implementation, reviewing the film in the current
context of the state of emergency is to measure deepening obsession with security and
return on the elements that have initiated, long dated. It is also reclaim critical
analysis to better consider the fight against an unjust state of affairs that is not
inevitable and that must be fought collectively. ---- This is a film of interviews Etienne
collective panic! Returning on the analysis of practices and security discourses of the
early 60s until the advent of a near obsession with security from 1997 to 2004, before the
'revolt suburbs "of 2005. ---- Ten years later, the review in the current context of a
state of emergency - deepening of initiated logic, seen in the film, long - brings a
welcome depth reflections. Terrorism is then the indispensable ally deployment foremost a
control policy that targets the "dangerous classes" - via stereotypical figures by the
power of young neighborhood, but also that of syndicated travailleur.euse.s .es who do not
let go mediatically ridiculed, or even caricaturés- zadistes aimed at reaffirming the
state, and ultimately, the power of the ruling class in control.
While for January 30 a national mobilization to build up to us to break the feeling of
helplessness in reclaiming we all work of critical analysis which this film is one: there
is no fate, but the progress of a security policy; suffered a fatality, but is a political
fight! fighting there!
Synopsis of the film:
The theme of the feeling of insecurity has occupied a place more and more central in the
media and political discourse, particularly during the last election campaign.
In parallel, under the Anglo-Saxon influence, repressive security policies and putting
civil liberties undermined made their entry in the administration of justice and the world
of the police. We wondered about why this outburst, and the value of the power
sub-adjacent to the advent of this almost "general obsession with security."
Our analysis of security discourses and practices extends from the early 60s until the
recent media blister and gave the floor to speakers who share the criticism of the
dominant discourse.
Good people, do not be afraid from s1gne we Vimeo.
go for loins, one can also cite the work of Mathieu Rigouste:
Read: Rigouste, The merchants of fear
Read: Rigouste, Police domination
Read: Rigouste, The Enemy Within
Read: Rigouste, The merchants of fear, the band Bauer and security ideology
- Photo: cc ArtAtacq
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Braves-gens-n-ayez-plus-peur
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Message: 3
According to its website, DPRTE (the Defense Procurement, Research, Technology and
Exportability exhibition) is the “UK’s Premier Defense Procurement Event” and is now being
hosted annually at Cardiff Motorpoint Arena. They hosted the arms fair in Cardiff for the
first time in October 2014, with exhibitors including BAE Systems, the world’s 3rd largest
arms producer. BAE has a very special relationship with the UK government & Saudi
dictatorship. ---- *BAE sells equipment to Saudi Arabia, which is being used in the
current bombardment of Yemen. ---- *BAE supplied the tactica armored vehicles, used by
Saudi Arabia, in 2011, to brutally crush pro-democracy protests in Bahrain. ---- *BAE
systems supplies Israel with the tools to wage war on the Palestinians, and provides
display units used to equip Israeli F-16 fighter jets.
*BAE is one of many companies at DPTRE which supplies weapons to Turkey. In 2015, people
in towns across Turkey’s Kurdish region have barricaded their city centers and declared
autonomy from the state. The Turkish army has responded by attacking residential areas
with tanks, combat helicopters and mortars, killing hundreds of people.
BAE are just one of over 80 exhibitors set to participate in the arms fair. Some are
giants of the international arms industry that might be expected; others have a more local
dimension, including the Welsh Assembly’s National Procurement Service and the University
of South Wales. Household business names like BT and Panasonic are also all over the
programme. It seems that a lot of people stand to make a lot of blood money out of the
various weapons and other technological approaches to waging warfare that will be displayed.
There has been active opposition to DPRTE since 2013. The arms fair had originally been
hosted at the UWE campus in Bristol, but was driven out by determined resistance; hence
the move to Cardiff. The protests involved a variety of actions, including blockading the
UWE north entrance, causing queues trailing back along the A4174.
Having relocated to Cardiff in 2014, South Wales Anarchists, Stop NATO Cymru and other
groups and individuals resolved to show the arms dealers that there is no welcome for them
in Wales either. Food Not Bombs Cardiff had a presence; people confronted the arms dealers
and tried to get inside; and three arms dealers were covered in red paint as they tried to
enter. Those arrested for this action had their charges dropped when it came to trial, due
to insufficient evidence.
We urge all that can to join the growing resistance in Cardiff, and in particular, to take
action against this arms fair and all those taking part in it on wednesday 16th March
2016. We know that when the richmake war, it’s the poor that die, and we won’t stand for
business people profiting from racist mass murder, displacement and torture.
Our website will be updated with news and information and you can contact us by email on:
stopcardiffarmsfair at riseup dot net
Stop the Cardiff Arms Fair / Na i Ffair Arfau Caerdydd suppourted by the Anarchist Action
Network, Smash EDO, Campaign Against the Arms Trade and South Wales Anarchists
https://southwalesanarchists.wordpress.com/2016/01/20/call-to-action-against-the-cardiff-arms-fair/
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Message: 4
After the horrific attacks of November 13, Holland and Valls adopted the formula for Bush
in 2001, "war on terror" + restriction of freedoms. A more dangerous reaction to the
French company for Daech. How, in fact, apart jihadism? ---- Support the progressive
forces in the Middle East ---- Afghanistan 2001, Iraq 2003 to 2014, Libya in 2011, Sahel
in 2012, Syria 2015 ... Fifteen years of "war on terror" bombers of the occupation troops,
drones, special forces ... hundreds of billions swallowed , for what? It's in the ruins of
bombed countries that jihadist leaders recruit people with nothing to lose. ----
Eradication of jihadism depends progressive forces organized in the Middle East and
Africa. Although they can sometimes benefit from external support, but the intervention of
foreign powers in a conflict poses many more problems than it solves. The end of military
interventionism will not be a panacea, but a prerequisite to the extinction of jihadism.
Western states are caught in fatal contradictions. On one hand, they lead a "war on
terror" endless. On the other they remain friends with Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey,
supporting jihadism covertly. They guarantee the impunity of Israeli colonialism, which is
nevertheless the cause of deep resentment. And to please Turkey, they still treat the PKK
(Kurdish revolutionary left) as "terrorist".
Yet the Kurdish left today is the best defense against Daech. It imposed military defeats
and opposes to it a political alternative with a draft democratic, secular, feminist and
environmentalist.
Leaflet in PDF for download
Halting the social disintegration
Our society is sick of capitalism, undermined by inequality, unemployment, poverty, for
discrimination against the Muslim population, people who do not have the right skin color
or not the right papers.
Among those that revolt, many (but not enough) are organized in associations, trade
unions, to act collectively on the situation. Only a tiny minority of desperate and
fanatical dream of murder ... It is among them that the leaders are looking to recruit
jihadists.
Faced with this, the old moons on youth leadership by the school (supposed to provide a
"republican morality"), military service (some want to restore) or religion (with imams to
instill the "right dogma ") are vain, if allowed to continue ruining capitalism society. A
social question, there is no moral solution.
Militarize society? Surely not !
The "state of emergency" is a scam. It will be powerless to stop suicide bombers. However,
it reduces civil liberties and can be used to hinder the social protest.
Already, we see the scapegoats of this militaristic climate:
"bad French", which is binational threat of deprivation of nationality;
the neighborhoods, where police impunity trigger happy (the policeman who killed Amine
Bentounsi in 2012 was acquitted at trial on January 18);
the migrant.es fleeing war and poverty;
trade unionists who refuse to kowtow (eight workers at the Goodyear plant in Amiens were
sentenced to nine months in prison on January 12 for having sequestered rogue leaders in
2014);
the Muslim population who suffers "retaliation" racist since the attacks.
Reject this logic. Against Jihadism, against military interventionism, against the
militarization of society, for solidarity between workers' struggles and the struggles of
neighborhoods for the support of progressive forces in Africa and the Middle East.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Guerre-terrorisme-sortir-de-l
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Message: 5
The Kapiti Coast is located approximately 40 kilometres north of Wellington. Like most
places it has its fair share of problems. One of the biggest is the lack of low income and
emergency housing. While articles in the Kapiti Observer lament the number of elderly
people and single parents with children who are homeless the unfortunate reality is that
laws like the Resource Management Act have been used to thwart any housing development
that might advantage the poor. ---- The Resource Management Act was passed in 1993 with
the lofty aim of curbing environmentally destructive projects, unregulated urban
development and the unbridled exploitation of natural resources. While that sounded great
the reality has been very different. In a situation that has been mirrored in California
and elsewhere, resource management laws have mostly been used to prevent projects that
might benefit low income earners, such as low cost housing.
In 2014 a proposal was put forward by a developer to build nine three-story buildings
containing 49 two-bedroom apartments intended for low income earners in Awatea Ave in
Paraparaumu. It was opposed as a “ghetto” in the making. It was claimed the housing would
attract the wrong sort of people, the building development would impact negatively on
property values and would not fit in with the other mostly single storey properties on the
street. There were also concerns raised about traffic noise and disruption to the lives of
the locals. (stuff.co.nz – 20th November 2014)
If this wasn’t bad enough there is an attitude among some local councillors that people
are homeless through their own fault because of bad personal decisions: Cr Michael Scott
being among the most dismissive of the homeless on the Kapiti Coast (Kapiti Independent
News, December 14, 2015). It does not seem to occur to such councillors that people may be
forced to leave their homes due to losing their jobs, fleeing violent relationships or
landlords selling the homes they live in.
Blame for such situations rarely lies with a single person or organisation. Faceless
multinational companies or indifferent and out of touch local and central government
politicians must be held responsible to a large extent. However another uncomfortable
reality is some blame for the lack of emergency and low cost housing lies with local
residents. Ask these residents and they are sure to say that they don’t hate the elderly
or low income people. They just don’t want them in their neighbourhood, the Not In My
Backyard-Syndrome. The NIMBY attitude is that the poor should be in places like Cannons
Creek in Porirua, not Paraparaumu or other middle class neighbourhoods. It’s a sentiment
that is (if being generous) based on ignorance of the fact that most of the state housing
in Cannons Creek has either been sold to slumlords, social agencies or demolished.
Social housing – the new buzzword for what was once called state housing – has mostly gone
to church-based, tribal-based or disability groups. If you don’t live a lifestyle
compatible with a church group, belong to the right tribe or have a disability covered by
the social agency that owns the social housing you will be homeless. This is the reality
of social housing.
Increasingly, emergency or low income housing is no longer available for those who need it
unless the person can prove they are more disadvantaged, thus ‘more deserving’, than other
people who need such housing. That’s assuming there’s anywhere for these people to live in
the first place.
Many can see there is a critical shortage of emergency and low income housing and that
overcrowding and homelessness are now becoming serious problems nationwide. Nevertheless,
it seems that only those who fit certain narrow criteria can expect to get it. Where they
live will largely be dependent on whether they are pakeha, English speaking or otherwise
at least polite and ‘respectable’ enough not to impact upon property values. Housing is a
basic human need and the present situation in places like the Kapiti Coast shows that this
need isn’t being met due to a combination of government laws, private business interests,
reactionary attitudes and class-based hostility.
