Today's 3 Topics:
1. QUEER ANARCHISTS MARCH IN TUCSON FOR KAYDEN CLARKE February
12, 2016 Submitted to It’s Going Down (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #257 (Jan) - Precarious:
What struggles and what adaptations? (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. afed.cz: Ukraine: a unified approach to work - When the
miners on the western and eastern Ukraine demanding payment, they
get a fist. [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Queer anarchists and others marched in Tucson in response to the murder of Kayden Clarke
by police in Mesa, AZ. Below is the text of a flyer distributed during the march. There
were no arrests, despite the fact that a fair amount of construction signage was dragged
into the street to obstruct police, which is something of an escalation for street actions
in Tucson. ---- The text for a flyer distributed to those on the street read: ---- We
Remember Kayden Clark, Killed by Arizona Police ---- Against the Police – Against
Capitalist Health Care ---- We Will Remember What They Try to Erase ---- Kayden Clarke was
a 24 year-old transgender man with Asperger’s and several mental health diagnoses killed
by police responding to a suicide call in Mesa, AZ, on Thursday, February 4th. Kayden’s
murder demonstrates the absolute inability of police to respond to mental health crises,
or anything else, as well as the constant, systemic violence directed towards transgender
people and towards those whose mental health needs are neglected and erased by this system.
No amount of training or reform can meaningfully reduce the level of violence inflicted by
police, nor change their core function. In fact, the day before Kayden’s murder, law
enforcement in Maricopa County held a training on non-lethal responses to mental health
crises – these trainings only serve to put makeup on our corpses. The police exist to
control and manage, through constant violence, populations deemed threatening or even
potentially threatening to the dominant social order – poor people, people of color, queer
and trans folks, indigenous communities, disabled people, neurodivergent people, and
especially those with more than one of these overlapping targets on our backs.
The violence of the state is not limited to its obvious manifestation in the police, but
extends also into a medical-industrial complex which is incapable of addressing the
complex medical and psychological needs that we all face. It is this entire society that
criminalizes and attacks those of us deemed marginal or expendable by the state,
heteropatriarchy, capital, colonialism and white supremacy.
The Police Don’t Keep Us Safe
Report from a local student newspaper here.
http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2016/02/demonstrators-take-to-the-streets-in-protest-for-transgender-man-killed-by-police
https://itsgoingdown.org/queer-anarchists-march-tucson-kayden-clarke/
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The labor market is divided into two poles: on the one hand, "stable", or CDI officials,
the other to the precarious livelihoods highly volatile and subject to the employer or
administrative arbitrariness. They suffer not only the joint operation to all wage
earners, but their very instability dual vulnerability. It is therefore necessary to
organize a specific intervention in this area. ---- The precariousness can be defined as a
socioeconomic position where access to resources (allowances, wages, income, housing,
energy ...) is uncertain in time, that is to say capable of interruption at any time, and
submitted the arbitrariness of authority, administrative (Pôle Emploi, CAF, etc.) or
hierarchical (public or private employers). This uncertainty strike all of life
deterioration friendly and family relations, stress mobility, degraded living standards
and development of a life project hampered the medium and long term ...
Who is precarious?
This definition applies of course to the same condition of wage earners. But we are
interested here in parts of the wage experiencing the highest level of uncertainty.
Quantify precisely the uncertainty is complicated. However here are some data on the
number of those affected. According to INSEE, just over 10% of wage earners would be
precarious in France - Temporary or permanent - or about 2.5 million people. If we exceed
that definition somewhat limited, there is much more precarious: obviously the unemployed
fall into this category. They are so close to 5 million people in addition to the legion
precarious. Nevertheless precariousness is not limited to these two categories, there are
also recipients of RSA, a fraction of the student world, and many independent workers.
Thus, the auto-entrepreneur status, adopted by nearly a million workers and workers in
France, is often a disguised wage labor ... without the rights that accompany it, such as
the right to unemployment benefits (ARE ). Furthermore, it is common for people to move
from one status to another: RSA to a CSD, then six months of unemployment before a return
to the RSA box or when a new CSD, complicating the calculation. If we add these
categories, it reached 10 million precarious, or not counted in the figures of the workforce.
Also, if insecurity affects all strata in theory of wage labor, in practice these are
workers whose status is lowest are precarious. Thus it is the workers and the most
affected women more than double the average precarious contracts, particularly through
part-time work. Economic insecurity are "related" consequences: fuel poverty, access to
care, housing, lack of mobility, social isolation ... So 3.5 million poorly housed in
France and 700 000 homeless are necessarily also take into account.
The special economic problems of precarious are also reflected in their ability to fight
collectively. Instability, fragmentation and frequent changes of position are that
unionization is almost nonexistent. While in 2012, 9.4% of wage earners in CDI are union
members, this rate falls to 2% for workers with fixed-term contracts, and less than 1% for
the interim. As for unemployed workers, the numbers are so low that they are not quantifiable.
Four types of struggles
This precarious low union should question us about the possibilities of struggles. Less
integrated in the collective work of their companies, the status of these wage earners
makes them more vulnerable to anti-union repression: it is very easy not to renew a
fixed-term or not rehire or a temporary one. Similarly, it is more complicated to organize
face to institutions such as the employment center and Caf since the beneficiaries do not
rub shoulders every day and have few ways to create solidarity.
It would be absurd to oppose stable workers and precarious workers: their interests are
common. Nevertheless, the fight against insecurity requires a specific structure. We
distinguish four types of fight each requiring different means.
First the struggles of precarious workers in their workplaces (CSD or interim). Often
specific to their condition, they stated aim a tenure which often proves to be unstable.
Here are the unions involved and sometimes precarious organized into specific groups (eg
research). Then the struggles against social service providers - CAF, employment center,
and CPAM Crous - where the organization is done on the basis of the condition. There are
still national organizations such as the unemployed APEIS the MNCP, AC and CGT-Unemployed,
mostly in decline, but also a multitude of collective and autonomous struggles are
organizing locally .
These struggles must focus on living conditions: housing, health, etc. In France, where
poor housing is particularly widespread, they are of particular importance. A multitude of
groups involved on these issues until the DAL movement of squats, or group of inhabitants
and inhabitants, under a variety of forms. Finally, the fight against insecurity involves
recreating solidarity: soup kitchens, self-managed places, support groups and sharing,
community organizing ... The list is long and the initiatives in this direction more and
more numerous, particularly related to environmental issues , as in certain ZAD.
A commission for what?
Political organization Alternative Libertaire wonders about how to intervene in these
struggles, for us essential.
It's time to raise awareness of the worsening insecurity, the urgency to invest and
organize these struggles as appropriate to the social context. Neglecting this step or
drown in a wider struggle for wage labor unions with the sole strategy for us would be a
political mistake. Trade unionism is not the only case of branded unions, nor the only
thing to do. While it is essential for precarious to organize immediately to stabilize
their condition, it is also necessary to exceed the salary considerations only and include
the fight against insecurity in a much broader revolutionary perspective: the need
exceeded the value of work.
Precariousness Commission and direct solidarity with Alternative Libertaire
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Precaire-qu-elles-luttes-et-qu
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The ruling regimes to split and civil war ravaged Ukraine are completely united in one
thing, in the extreme reactionary policies against the working people. In territory
controlled by the Kiev government are bluntly weaponry used by Nazis against disgruntled
workers. In areas that came under the control of pro-Russian separatists in turn pays
wages only episodically against disgruntled employees and also the crackdown. ---- Miners
of Ukraine continuously for months seeking the payment of outstanding wages. Kiev Minister
of Energy and Coal Industry Demcišin promised that the miners will receive the money until
18 December 2015, as expected, he failed to comply word. In December, thus miners from
Novovolynsk three places blocked the road leading from Kiev to Warsaw and customs post on
the border with Poland. In January it was announced that the miners Lviv region, who
received 54% of money earned for November strike, blocking roads and border with Poland.
Due to suppression of protests hronických Department turned for help to the neo-Nazis. In
early February, the activists of the Right sector appeared on the shaft no. 1 in
Novovolynsk and in the office of the Director and in his presence they beat the boss of
the trade union committee. "People who came to the mine, they introduced themselves as
Right Sector, and called me to the principal's office. They asked who I was, and I told
them. Then he started hitting one of his hands over his head, his head on the table in the
ribs. Then he asked if I'm not going to complain about it, " he described the event later
beaten a trade unionist. The leader of the Right Sector Novovolynsk Faflej confirmed that
the shaft visited, the director of the event declined to comment. Chairman of the
Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine says that the people of the True sector are
linked to the minister himself.
The situation is no better in the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republic.
Enterprises Donbasantracit Luganskugol not regulated by the governments
východoukrajinských republics are not paid wages for about a year and a half. People
survive thanks to humanitarian aid. In private enterprises with wages paid, but much less
than in times of peace. Unions are trying to solve the situation, but even here it
happened that the chairman of the union came into management with the question, what is
the payrolls, and beat him for it.
Source:
http://www.aitrus.info/node/4561
http://www.afed.cz/text/6364/ukrajina-jednotne-pojeti-prace
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