Anarchistic update news all over the world - 10 April 2016
Today's 5 Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #259 - Emergency state,
Orleans always assigned to resistance (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Britain, solfed: Library occupied by the community in
Lambeth, eviction notice served today (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Britain, solfed: Resist the Mayor's austerity Cuts in
Bristol! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Greece, rocinante: Solidarity will win, the refugees I will
cross - Come to Victoria Square Saturday April 9 at 2pm, the
protest against the EU-Turkey agreement and expulsions (gr)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. International Anarchist Meeting – Istanbul, Izmir,
Eskisehir, Ankara (16-22. April 2016) (de) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
In Orleans in mid-December, a group of trade unions, associations and political
organizations was set up, determined to mobilize locally for lifting the state of
emergency. ---- On November 19, Alternative Libertaire Orleans took the initiative to
invite a largely unitary meeting for an exchange of views and consider possible joint
initiatives following the attacks in Paris and the establishment of the state of
emergency. ---- This first meeting uncorked on the decision to carry out a series of three
posters (against the state of emergency, against racist amalgam in support of the Kurdish
resistance) co-signed by AL, AF, JC, the NPA and the PG. These five organizations also
decided to propose again largely holding a public meeting on the defense of democratic and
trade union freedoms.
Solidaires and the FSU rebounded some time later on this proposal, incorporating the
self-employed. This commitment union structures was decisive for the enlargement of the
dynamic. Met these associations (solidarity with Palestine, anti-racist,... LDH), the
trade union side, the CGT éduc'action Loiret also participated in this enlargement policy
and LO side (then the PCF and EE-LV very recently).
AL Orleans had obviously decided to make investment in this unit under a priority.
Soon, more than twenty local organizations (26 at last count) ended up on the goal of
mobilizing for lifting the state of emergency. Three other claims are shared: restoring
full and complete right to demonstrate; stop searches and arbitrary assignments to
residence; the abandonment of the entrenchment of the state of emergency and the
deprivation of nationality.
The first public initiative of the collective Stop Orleans state of emergency has been
holding a public meeting with 150 participants. Highlighting the concrete implementation
of the state of emergency had chaired the selection of speakers: a lawyer who defended a
house arrest, a member of digital liberties association and our fellow Electra AL
Saint-Denis in "quality" in custody from 29 November.
Act and convince
For January 30, the group chartered a coach from Orleans. But it is the action organized
on February 3 before the Orleans courthouse which was a real act of public birth. After
ensuring a minimum presence to engage militant action (deploy a banner "Assigné.es
resistance"), it was announced the day ahead, and nearly 80 people gathered on appointed
day and decided to continue the action by a wild demonstration to the prefecture. A new
initiative, "Three hours against the state of emergency" was also scheduled for late February.
The discussions between the organizations that make up Stop Orleans emergency focus today
on how to get to convince beyond the ranks militants (while trying to mobilize the maximum
thereof) of the danger of the state emergency and its entrenchment. And for that act
towards the population is a necessity.
Théo Rival (AL Orléans)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Orleans-toujours-assigne-a
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Today an IPO eviction order was served on Carnegie Library in Lambeth, which has been
occupied since 1st April to stop it being closed down and turned into a commercial gym.
Milet Library on the deprived Angell Town Estate has also been closed down and Waterloo
Library and others are threatened. I visited the library on Sunday. ---- Walking from the
station you could have found your way just by following the “Save Our Library” posters
displayed in people’s windows. There were about thirty people occupying inside, including
lots of children, and about eighty supporters outside on the steps and the pavement. Cars
driving by constantly honked in support. People arrived carrying bags of food for the
occupiers which were passed through the barred gate. Council guards are securing the other
exits so occupiers can leave but no one can enter. The occupation was very cheerful and
upbeat, with small children reading books on the steps and someone came and requested a
book which was found, logged out, and passed through the gate to him by occupiers. At one
point all the occupiers came to the gate and the children led everyone in singing protest
songs.
The crowd outside on the steps, including the Carnegie librarians, explained to me how
important all the library functions were for people especially for people suffering under
austerity. People needed to access benefits online now and used the library computers to
do that. Families in hostels brought children to the library so they could read but also
because it was somewhere you could get out of the house without needing to spend money.
The library is housed in a beautiful old building which also has a small garden so the
children can run around.
The occupiers are still inside, look up SaveLambethLibraries or #carnegielibrary for more
information about defending the library.
http://www.solfed.org.uk/north-london/library-occupied-by-the-community-in-lambeth-eviction-notice-served-today
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George Ferguson, the elected Mayor of Bristol, is directly responsible for cuts to
services in this city - including services for children. He has halved the number of beds
at the Bush, a residential centre for disabled children. [1] Even though the council voted
to preserve funding - he pushed it through personally. This month the Hawkspring, a vital
service that helps families affected by drug addiction, almost closed after having its
funding from the council slashed. It only stayed open thanks to a charity stepping in to
help at the last minute. [2] This is all while having plenty of money for other things -
like massive pay-rises for council bosses [3], and £2.3 million a year on public relations
and marketing. [4]
Maybe if this one man is responsible, protests should be directed at him as well as the
council? We've protested in the streets and at council meetings - but the mayor owns a
chain of bars and cafés in the city that have been mostly untouched. Last year campaigners
against cuts to disabled kids' services organised a protest outside his home and business
- the Tobacco Factory. Bristol SolFed thinks this was a great idea - we've always found
picketing and communications blockades [5] far more effective than normal protests. We
have found a list of some more of the pies the mayor has got his finger in, which should
help anyone who wants to take this kind of action. We hope you find it useful...
List: http://pastebin.com/YfTAJ2ra
[1] facebook page for the campaign against cutting The Bush -
https://www.facebook.com/No-to-Cuts-to-the-Bush-Residential-Centre-for-Disabled-Children-605680162863622.
Debate between the mayor and one of the parents - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q5sRRX2ebA
[2] background from a Labour campaigner -
http://amandaramsay.co.uk/council-should-fund-hawkspring/
[3] http://thebristolian.net/2016/03/11/town-hall-fat-cats-attempt-wage-heist/
[4] http://thebristolian.net/2016/03/01/spin-watch/
[5] a "comms blockade" is where on a set day/time, lots of people call up a business at
once, fill their facebook with complaints, etc
http://www.solfed.org.uk/bristol/resist-the-mayors-cuts-in-bristol
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The Monday, April 4, 2016 will go down in history as a day of shame for Europe, Greece and
human rights. ---- In application of despicable agreement signed by the European Union
with Turkey, which violates the Geneva Convention and any postwar humanitarian acquis, 200
people "returned" to Turkey from Mytilene. Programming the Greek government is for a
corresponding number of expulsions daily. ---- Greece and left the government shall assume
responsibility for the signing and implementation of this barbarism, which provides
massive refugee expulsions and immigrants / mation and exchanges of people and restores
the separation of mobile populations into "legitimate" and "clandestine" . It bears all
responsibility for the thousands of dead Aegean result the safe passage of absence for
refugees.
The images of the persecuted by war and destruction people are driven against their will
in Turkey in boats accompanied each of them and a Robocop Frontex's wearing oxygen
mask-watch any and stuck poverty and apelpisia- and a distinctive armband with the EU flag
over the military uniform directly refers to the darkest periods of Europe, those who
hypocritically pretending to have left behind .
In boats of deportation, refugees not only accompany the anthropofylakes of Frontex. They
accompany and Europe racism, nationalism, repression, war, holocaust, colonialism, the
capital, poverty and exclusion.
In recent months, within the Greek society developed a rich and diverse movement of
solidarity to refugees, a movement that started from the material and moral assistance and
reached to the practical question of borders, fences and barbed wire. This movement now
needs to make a step ahead: Be converted to civil disobedience movement in shame
agreement, cancel the application, to prevent deportations .
Our class brothers, refugees are welcome here. Together we will live together and we start
we create a world without borders, without war and exploitation.
We call on each human solidarity, mobilized against the implementation of the agreement
and against any expulsion.
We call on trade unions, labor organizations and movements and the entire labor movement
to organize solidarity initiatives for refugees, going to rallies and integrating the
demands of the refugees to their union claims.
The anarcho-syndicalist Initiative participates and calls the protest organized by
refugees together with the Solidarity Initiative in Economic and Political Refugees,
Saturday April 9 at 2pm, in Victoria Square towards the Greek Parliament and European
Union offices .
Athens will remain a European capital of solidarity and refugees.
Solidarity would win. The refugees will spend!
-At SHAME OF THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND TURKEY
-KAMIA EXPULSION REFUGEE OR IMMIGRANT / RIAS - DIRECT PROCEDURES FOR ASYLUM IN WHICH / RU
THE REQUEST
-free MOVEMENT FOR ALL REFUGEES IN KI OUTSIDE THE BORDERS AND WITHIN THE CITIES - NO
CLOSED CENTER RESERVATION
-Full RIGHTS FEEDING, HOUSING AND HOSPITAL CARE FOR REFUGEES
-On The FRACHTIS Ebro AND OF SYRMATOPLEGAMTA EIDOMENIS - OUT FRONTEX AND THE NATO BORDERS
Anarchosyndicalist INITIATIVE ROSINANTE
http://rocinante.gr/index.php/i-allilengii-tha-nikisi-i-prosfiges-tha-perasoun-olesi-stin-platia-viktorias-to-savvato-9-apriliou-stis-2mm-sti-diadilosi-enantia-sti-simfonia-ee-tourkias-ke-tis-apelasis/
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Message: 5
The Anarchist Movement, Solidarity with refugees, Anti-Racism, Anti-Capitalism and
Antimilitarism in Europe ---- Anarchists from Zurich (Switzerland) will tell us from their
activities and projects in different cities of Turkey. On the other hand, we will share
our activities, projects and struggles as anarchists who live in Turkey. As part of this
antinational meeting, we’d like to exchange our experiences, emotions and thoughts by
means of mutual questions, answers and discussions. We are looking forward to any
participation of comrades and friends in Istanbul, Izmir, Eskisehir and Ankara. It may
help us to promote an anarchist position in different struggles and areas, to connect
different regions with each other and to support mutual aid.
The comrades from Zurich are taking place in different contexts. Topics discussed will be:
the anarchist movement in Switzerland and Europe, Solidarity with refugees, Anti-Racism,
Anti-Capitalism, Antimilitarism and Solidarity with prisoners. At the same time we will
present projects, activities and experiences from Turkey and Kurdistan. With the aim of
better networking and elaboration of a common perspective, the meeting will be held in 4
different cities.
Antinational solidarity!
Contact: audioslave@riseup.net
—
Some of the presented groups and projects from Europe:
* Fermento (Anarchist library in Zurich)
* Dissonanz (Anarchist newspaper)
* Kernstrasse (Squat)
* Struggle against the „Bundeslager“
* Karakök Autonome and FdA (Forum of German-speaking Anarchists)
* Printing collective A4 (anarchist printshop in Zurich)
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Timetable:
Istanbul, 16. April 2016, Saturday
Place: Infial – Bülbül mah.Turan cad.No:36A Tarlabas?-Beyoglu
Time: 17:00
—
Izmir -19. April 2016, Tuesday
Place: Basmane Kap?lar -1270 sok. No: 8/A
Time: 19:00
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Eskisehir – 20. April 2016, Wednesday
Place: Tutmayan Projeler Müzesi -Istiklal mah. Sirinyer sok. 10/3
Time: 19:00
Anarchist Initiative Eskisehir
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Ankara -22. April 2016, Friday
Place: Tayfa Kitabevi – Mesrutiyet mah. Selanik cad. 82/32 K?z?lay
Anarchist Initiative Ankara
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http://sosyalsavas.org/2016/04/internationales-anarchistisches-treffen-istanbul-izmir-eskisehir-ankara-16-22-april-2016/#more-29688
