Anarchistic update news all over the world - 9 April 2016
Today's 9 Topics:
1. cnt.es: CNT on the re-foundation of the IWA. CNT-E's XI
Congress agreements on internacionalism (ca) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Czech, afed.cz: Against the tide of religious fanatics --
Report on counteraction to the "National March for Life".
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Britain, SOLIDARITY FEDERATION: Jimmy's Still Does Not Pay,
Action Spreads (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #259 - feminism, Cologne,
it's not that New Year's Eve (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Turkey, sosyalsavas: Victory On The 45. Day Of Hunger
Strike! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Greece, International communication of Anarchist Political
Organization – Federation of Collectives/ APO (fr, it, pt)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. wsm.ie: Women given suspended sentence for using abortion
pills in northern Ireland - this law must be destroyed
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. Britain, SOLIDARITY FEDERATION: Library occupied by the
community in Lambeth, eviction notice served today
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
9. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #259 - Cologne godsend for
racist (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The CNT would like to announce and explain the agreements made during our December 2015
Congress with regards to the current International Workers’ Association (IWA). We believe
that it is necessary to explain our position on the drift of our international, so that
this internal situation can be made publically known in order to openly and quickly begin
the process of its re-foundation. ---- In the CNT we consider international solidarity to
be critical in this historical moment, marked by the global organization of capitalism. As
expected, the economic crisis has served as an excuse to accelerate the process of
dismantling the past achievements of the working class. While this phenomenon is not new,
it has sped up and intensified in recent years. We understand that a global intervention
is required to defend our interests, as workers, against this offensive of capitalism, a
world-wide extension of the class struggle following the parameters of anarcho-syndicalism
and revolutionary unionism. However, we also believe that this global effort needs to be
built upon the work of organization and struggle at the local level, carried out by
organizations grounded and present in their own territory. International solidarity flows
as an extension of these local struggles. To do the opposite would be putting the cart
before the horse.
Sadly, we have found sections in the current IWA to have very little commitment to union
work in their local context. Rather, they exert enormous efforts to monitor the activities
of other sections, larger or smaller, that do make this area a priority. Consequently,
over the past few years, the IWA has become inoperative as a vehicle to promote
anarcho-syndicalism and revolutionary unionism at an international level.
We insist, so that it can be clear, that this is not an issue of the size of the sections.
All of us are far smaller than we would like to be and than we should be. But there is an
enormous difference between the sections that dedicate their efforts to increase their
presence or relevance in their regions, experiment with new strategies, initiate and
develop labor conflicts, and have an impact, small as it may be, in their immediate
context, and those that go for years without union activities yet inquisitorially monitor
and criticize the activities of others, lest in their eagerness to build a viable
anarcho-syndicalist alternative commit some sin against the purity of the IWA.
For some time, due to these contradictions, the IWA has experienced a considerable
internal crisis that erupted with the expulsion of the German section, the FAU. This
decision, made unilaterally by the current general secretary on completely unjustifiable
motives, was ratified later in a special Congress in Oporto in 2014. At this congress it
became clear that due to the peculiar structure of the decision-making within the IWA, a
small group of sections, despite their scant presence in their own territories and total
lack of orientation towards union activity, could impose their criteria upon the rest of
the international. Since this congress, all attempts to address the situation have failed,
due to the unwillingness of the current secretary to engage in dialogue (a basic duty of
the office) and the complicity of a number of sections that only exist on the internet.
It is therefore evident that this IWA is unable to progress beyond offering the most basic
kind of solidarity in the occasional labor conflict. As valuable as this form of
international solidarity can be, and as much as we can appreciate it, the truth is that it
is ultimately always organized (as there is really no other way) at the local level. Thus
the current structure of the IWA is rendered effectively redundant. The contrast between
this reality of the IWA and its bureaucracy and infrastructure has reinforced the internal
conflicts and attempts at ideological control which we referred to previously. This is far
from the objectives we should aspire for in an international coordinating body. As a
result of these factors, we have reached the point where the internal situation prevents
any attempts to correct this drift, which makes it urgent that we reconsider both the
internal operation and the working program of the IWA.
To bring about concrete solutions to these questions, the CNT proposes to begin a process
for the re-founding of an anarcho-syndicalist and revolutionary unionist international. To
this end we are preparing a series of conferences and contacts with those sections of the
IWA interested in a process of re-founding the International, and with other organizations
that, while not currently members of the IWA, are interested in participating in the
construction of a model for revolutionary unionism at the global level. These conferences
and contacts will have as their aim the organization of a congress to re-found a radical
unionist international.
As a first step for these conferences, the CNT makes the following proposals as an
organizational basis for the new IWA:
Composition
The sections of the IWA will be those groups that have at least 100 people affiliated and
request to be considered as such in a Congress of the IWA.
The Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiatives will be those groups that, while wanting to become
sections of the IWA, do not have a sufficient number of members. These groups will have a
voice but no vote, and they may become sections when they certify that they meet the
minimum membership and begin paying dues to the International. This step does not require
an agreement in a Congress, but must be reported in an organic assembly of the IWA.
“Friends of the IWA” are those groups that, regardless of their number of members, ask for
the status to be “Friends of the IWA.” Their status will remain the same as it is
currently and to become sections or anarcho-syndicalist initiatives they must submit a
subsequent request to a Congress.
Dues
Dues paid by member of Chapters of the IWA will be an amount no greater than 0.10 Euros
per member per month.
Voting System
Votes weighted according to membership.
100 to 500 1 vote
From 501-1000 2 votes
From 1001-5000 3 votes
From 5001-10000 4 votes
Above 10,000 5 votes
Legalization
Legalization of the International is necessary to defend against wrongful use of the
acronym by non-member unions attempting to benefit from the historic name of the IWA
without practicing anarcho-syndicalism or revolutionary unionism. The financial accounts
of the organization should no longer in the name of individuals and should be in the name
of the IWA itself, avoiding the need to rely blindly on the moral integrity of each
secretary that manages these funds.
Autonomy, openness, and dynamism
We believe that it is urgent to reverse the exclusionary dynamics of the IWA and the
politics of internal control between the sections and to work towards much more open and
flexible politics. Basing ourselves always in direct action as our means of struggle, we
must give ourselves the capacity to develop a wide range of international contacts with
workers organized in different sectors and struggles, which can only result in
strengthening our capacity for the international work of anarcho-syndicalism and
revolutionary unionism.
While it is often important to have more tightly focused international campaigns limited
to organizations in the International, it is essential to also have the ability to perform
open campaigns at the international level, which can engage with a diversity of
organizations and workers’ initiatives. This can only help strengthen the IWA.
The sections have the autonomy to have temporary relationships in the course of their
labor conflicts.
In international work we should always use the name of the Chapter next to the acronym for
the International (IWA-AIT). In this way we can limit the self-interested use of a
section’s name by outside groups. Any kind of external contact will be made with good
faith and maximum transparency.
Union Organizer Training
It is essential we work to develop plans and concrete materials for union organizer
trainings that can be shared between sections, taking into account the diversity of labor
laws and socio-economic realities in the world.
Trainings and exchanges of experiences
The CNT will promote the organization of conferences for active members about union
activity in the IWA, to be proposed in the appropriate assembly. These conferences will be
biannual based on discussion points submitted by the sections and will aim to discuss
different experiences of union activity in the workplace. Members of the IWA and any other
groups deemed appropriate will be invited. Apart from this, making use of their autonomy,
the CNT will promote such conferences openly when it seems appropriate.
The CNT will promote within the IWA the implementation of open action workshops based on
previous experiences, so that the IWA and its sections can be a driving force in the
global response against capitalism.
International expansion project
Along with maintaining the current strategies of contact with existing labor or social
organizations interested in belonging to the International, we propose to use the larger
union sections of the CNT active in international corporations as a means to expand our
conflicts on an international level. We suggest that other sections of the IWA can do the
same to the extent of their organizing capacity.
This entails coordination between the delegate of the union section of the CNT, the
secretariat of union activity, the secretariat of legal affairs, and the secretariat of
external affairs to initiate contact with workers in the same company in other countries.
In this way they can encourage processes of organization and struggle that depart from
specific cases or objectives, and that with time can go beyond the limits of the company
and consolidate broader organizations that develop anarcho-syndicalism and revolutionary
unionism in all of their aspects.
Simplifying internal processes
It has become necessary to simplify our internal processes in order to make them clear and
unambiguous. The CNT is working on various concrete proposals in order to clarify the
functions and methodologies within the IWA.
The CNT will immediately begin reaching out to organize the conference that we have
announced, whose objective will be the preparation of a congress to re-found the IWA.
During this process of re-founding, and until it has gone into effect, the CNT will cease
to pay dues to the current IWA.
To conclude, all of the current sections of the IWA that wish to participate in this
project of re-founding are invited to be a part of it. We also welcome those
anarcho-syndicalist and revolutionary unions and organizations that wish to join towards
the construction of an alternative that contributes, through international solidarity, to
the growth and the implementation of strong local initiatives committed to practical and
concrete union activity, who stand against the most recent offensives of capitalism in
their regions. This process of re-founding the IWA will be open and transparent. We will
periodically provide information about the steps that are being taken, and we hope that we
will be joined by organizations from all over the world with whom we share the libertarian
spirit of anarcho-syndicalism and revolutionary unionism.
Long Live the IWA! Long Live Anarcho-syndicalism!
Long live the global struggle of the working class!
http://cnt.es/en/news/cnt-re-foundation-iwa-cnt-es-xi-congress-agreements-internacionalism
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Message: 2
So here it is. For many months they appear in the media flies Flood Warning religious
fanatics. One such invasive tsunami swept in Prague Saturday, April 2. Obscurantist
forcing their kids to wear their religious symbols of the city reaching the size fry
itself, sacred images and sweaty ecclesiastical authorities seething sulfur sinners.
Infidel dogs happened that day by all who have a different sexual orientation or gender
identity, as well as those who are willing to tolerate. Infidel dogs are also all those
who follow safe sex practices and family planning contraceptive use. And especially those
who support the right of women to decide about their own body. ---- If we leave the
wording of a popular local xenophobes, we can say that met in Prague under the patronage
of Cardinal Duka and the support of his castle twin Zeman few hundred bigoted Christians,
ultra-conservatives and nationalists that under a deluge Czech flags reiterated their
demand to ban abortion. The whole march was also openly homophobic and nationalistic
overtones.
Against the march appeared at the National Theatre a small group of feminists and
feminists with a sign , "My body, my choice" or "Safe sex is not a sin" to communicate
that, "in the background of the entire pro-life CR, however, many individuals and groups
that these good intentions underpin these values, among which certainly will not find
tolerance, solidarity and assistance, but insults, malice and hatred " . This assertion
was corroborated then many quotations. He later went on happening (pre-consciously futile)
attempt to give out between protesters and protester condoms.
Related link:
Family afternoon of discrimination
http://www.afed.cz/text/6405/proti-vlne-nabozenskych-fanatiku
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Message: 3
After three weeks of action, Jimmy's Restaurant (on the Brighton Marina) is still avoiding
their responsibilities. Three former workers are still campaigning to get their holiday
pay and their P45 documents and we keep receiving contacts of workers facing the same
situation. ---- From the beginning, the management of the restaurant has been denying any
responsibility and addressing us to the “Head Office” who, curiously enough, never answer
the phone or emails. ---- Moreover, last week we found out that the workers, having
received their payslips with their tax deductions, are not in the records of the HMRC as
having worked for Jimmy's. No explanation has been given by Jimmy's but we do hope that
this is a misunderstanding. ---- Due to the attitude of the company, SolFed has had no
choice but to open a public dispute. The workers, accompanied by members of SolFed, have
paid several visits to their former employer asking for what is theirs and informing the
customers and other workers about the dispute. The picketers received a lot of support
from their former collegues and from several customers, some of whom decided to turn back
and not collaborate with this dodgy bussiness.
However, Jimmy's manageme
http://www.solfed.org.uk/brighton/jimmys-still-does-not-pay-action-spreads
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Message: 4
A text German comrades, following sexist and sexual assault of the night of New Year's Eve
in Cologne, and the racist outburst that followed. Read also the article in Alternative
Libertaire March , to take a step back and never forget that sexism, unlike the wealth is
shared among all of any social background, religion, nationality they are ... ---- The
assault on the night of New Year's Eve in Cologne have made headlines around the world.
The year 2016 began with violence against women of all nationalities and skin colors.
These events have become a symbol and a challenge for the different actors and social,
trade union and associations of the city. ---- The German government has used these
incidents to toughen laws against réfugié.es, and police conducted several raids on the
homes of asylum seekers. A focus has also been attacked by gangs of neo-Nazis with an
offensive grenade - which fortunately did not explode. The police reported arson.
Aggression towards immigré.es multiply. The movements of the right and extreme right took
the opportunity to organize an event where the watchword was the hatred of the foreigner.
The worst...
2004 deadly bomb loaded with nails by neo-Nazis in a street predominantly inhabited by
Turkish immigrant-es-that-s and Kurds. Initially, German police announced that it was the
Turkish mafia who sowed disorder.
2013: 5,000 racist hooligans through the city by threatening immigrant-es. Police were
much criticized for this at the scene, it did not intervene.
2015: a neo-Nazi activist - known in the city, and the police - stabbed the mayor of
Cologne Henriette Reker claiming racist motivations.
And best
But Cologne is also the cradle of democratic movements and a labor and trade union
movement strong enough since the 1970s 19,000 wage earners working alone at Ford, 12,000
are born-are of Turkish and Kurdish immigration . Among union-activists in the factory
there is a fringe-immigrant activists are who sympathize with a base unionism and
combative. Meetings have already been held between the militants and IG Metall Ford and
Solidaires Industrie recent years.
The year 1972 saw the first massive strike immigré.es workers at Ford with autonomous
strike committees for better working conditions and more decency, much like the strikes
for dignity in Poissy in 1982. these wildcat strikes symbolize the first working rebellion
in the history of immigration in Germany and they have marked up today salarié.es life in
the city and in the country.
And now?
Since 31 December, many meetings, public debates, neighborhood assemblies, women's
meetings are held.
The general orientation of the trade union and associations, women's groups, immigré.es
initiatives, artists and music groups, is the indignation against the violence suffered by
women everywhere, not just in the street but also in all social relations. They and they
want to engage more to live together against all who want to retrieve this event to
benefit their reactionary ideas.
WH and LB, Cologne, February 7, 2016
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Cologne-ce-n-est-pas-que-la-Saint
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Message: 5
Osman Evcan gained the victory from the determined struggle which he put his life against
the state inside the thick walls of prison which he is enclosed. Osman , got everything he
demanded through this hard period without surrendering to the state. Osman Evcan ended his
indefinite hunger strike which took 45 days against intimidation, torture and
extermination politics against prisoners and again he proved us that how he is right about
his call to raise struggle. He continued his resistance resolutely by choosing to die with
honor is the only reason why he’s demands are excepted. ---- The State’s “punishment”
system and their officials that made comrade Osman Evcan suffer hunger for 45 days and
tortured him are our enemies. The recognized demands of Osman Evcan are not a matter of
grace, instead that is the end of torturous practices. Torture is a state policy. He is
grateful to everyone who have held demonstrations, spoken up, and support for Osman
Evcan’s cause. Osman Evcan is now trying to get over the adverse effects of the hunger
strike process, and his present health condition is fine. We will share the message from
Osman Evcan soon.
With anarchist solidarity
ABC İstanbul
http://sosyalsavas.org/2016/04/aclik-grevinin-45-gununde-zafer-victory-on-the-45-day-of-hunger-strike/#more-29675
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Message: 6
Dear comrades, We are writing this email to inform you that the “Anarchist Political
Organization – Federation of Collectives” (APO) was founded in Greece after the conference
held in Athens in November 2015. The process of the dialogue leading to the conference
lasted 2.5 years and was completed in September 2015, when the draft statute of APO and
the call to the conference were published. ---- As anarchists, we stand for the
internationalist character and the global nature of revolutionary struggle. Fighting for a
world without states and bosses, without prisons and borders, without exploitation and
oppression, we consider that communication between the struggles from all over the world
necessary: to be able to listen the revolts and small or big moments of resistance against
authority, to learn about the ideas triggering these struggles or created within them, to
share actions, plans and analyses. We are aware that our resistance here is nothing more
but a small piece in the global mosaic of struggles, who seek a world of freedom, equality
and solidarity in the ruins of the existent. And this utopia cannot be restrained in
national borders. It will be either global or nothing.
We will try to send you updates on the situation in Greece (news, posters, initiatives)
and texts written by APO, as well as the contents of the bulletin we are publishing (Land
& Freedom), although translating from Greek is not always easy.
It would be very important to us if you could send us any news, updates and texts
yourselves. We will try to translate them not only for our own information but also for
Land and Freedom or for our site. At the moment we can translate from English, French,
German, Spanish and Italian.
In Solidarity,
Anarchist Political Organization – Federation of Collectives
Translation and International Communication Team
http://apo.squathost.com
anpolorg@gmail.com
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Message: 7
If someone were to tell you that in the modern day UK abortion is illegal you’d probably
laugh in their face at such a statement. You’d probably write it off as ridiculous and not
worth your time debating considering a simple google search will tell you that abortion
has been legal in the UK since 1967. It might then be a surprise for you to hear that just
yesterday a woman was handed a three month suspended sentence for two years for having an
abortion. ---- A 21-year-old Co. Down woman who was facing life imprisonment for having an
abortion through the use of pills obtained on the internet has been given a suspended
sentence. It is understood that after failing to raise the funds to have a legal abortion
in England she ordered the drugs, Mifepristone and Misoprostal in order to have the abortion
Despite being a part of the UK, the abortion laws in the North of Ireland are actually the
opposite of the rest of the UK’s. Here, we criminalise women and other people who have
abortions, or rather, we criminalise those who are too poor to travel to England to have a
legal abortion and are therefore forced to break the law and have an abortion at home.
The abortion law that operates in the North dates back to Victorian times (1861). The
Offences Against the Person Act states that if you take "any poison or other noxious
thing, or shall unlawfully use any instrument or other means whatsoever...with intent to
procure the miscarriage of any woman...shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted
thereof shall be liable . . . to be kept in penal servitude for life". The same is stated
if you help someone procure an abortion.
Nowadays, the “poison or other noxious thing” is otherwise known as Misoprostol and
Mifepristone and can be found on the World Health Organisation’s list of Essential Medicines.
So, if the law states that having an abortion here will land you in jail for the rest of
your life why was this woman handed such a, comparatively speaking, light sentence, what
does this case tell us?
The first glaringly obvious thing that this case tells us is that this law criminalises
poor women. The woman had attempted to raise the funds to travel to England to have a
legal abortion. When she was unable to gather the money she was forced to have the
abortion at home, something that a wealthier woman would not have to do. If she had the
means to travel the decision she made over her own body would never have been scrutinised
by the state or the media and she wouldn’t be forced to explain herself like a child.
Predominantly, however, this case tells us that direct action works. Six months prior to
this case being brought to our attention we were told of another woman who supplied her
daughter with the essential medicines in order to procure an abortion. This came despite
the fact that over 100 activists had signed a letter in 2013 admitting to either taking
the pills in order to have an abortion or supplying them to someone else who needed an
abortion. We could not understand then why, two years later, this woman was being targeted
and made a scapegoat of, so we released another letter in the wake of this, this time over
200 had signed it.
This led to media interviews, banner drops, and protests outside of police stations in
both Belfast and Derry where we read the names of those guilty of breaking the law outloud
and in front of the PSNI, with many of us who had signed it gathered there daring them to
arrest us.
We made a mockery of the law. We made it clear that if the police wished to criminalise
one woman for a crime that we had all committed then there can be no exception to the law,
we must be arrested as well. We invited the police to arrest us and plans were in motion
to hand ourselves in en masse.
We made it public knowledge that we were breaking the law and that we would continue to do
so until it is scrapped. We wanted every person of childbearing age to know that if they
need an abortion and are forced to have the procedure illegally we will support them both
in supply and in standing in solidarity with them when the law comes knocking.
If the state had have handed this woman a non-suspended prison sentence we would be left
with no choice but to hand ourselves in for equal treatment and they would be left with no
option but to prosecute us. The prison service currently does not have the capacity to
take in over 200 people (the overwhelming majority being women). Women would literately be
bursting out of prison cells. Even the misogynistic state knows that it is cheaper in this
case not to adhere to the laws surrounding punishment.
With abortion activism we already know the importance of direct action: if someone needs
an abortion we make sure they get it by any means necessary. This case has proven that
mass direct action used as a tool of solidarity is highly effective.
We should take this case as a sign that the only thing that will change this law is a
continuance of direct action; in openly defying their law, in making it entirely
unworkable. With local assembly elections only a month away we are hearing cries for
people to vote in a pro-choice candidate with some even ludicrously stating that this is
the only way the law will change. As it stands there is only one pro-choice MLA in
Stormont and this ruling was nothing to do with their existence.
This case also highlights what we already knew about the mainstream media; it answers to
the state alone. Every northern Irish outlet that reported on this case placed a massive
emphasis on the “male foetus” and showed no regard to the woman in question, just as the
law does. All reports failed to mention that if she lived a few miles across the water no
law would have been broken. They went into great detail over the abortion itself without a
second thought that this is a highly personal decision that is not up for discussion by
vulture journalists.
We should take this case a sign of encouragement that a change is going to come and that
we are responsible for this. The fact still remains, however, that this woman has a
criminal record, another woman is still to stand trial and there is nothing to suggest
that the state will not single out a woman and target her again.
There is still a case for us to hand ourselves in to protect this other woman and to
remove this woman’s criminal record. Further to this, handing ourselves in would highlight
the unworkability of the law, it would lay bare the hypocrisy of the UK government and
would pressure the state to scrap it.
Until the law allows for a free and legal abortion you can have a safe abortion through
the use of pills. If you are in need of an abortion please visit womenhelp.org,
womenonweb.org or abortionsupport.org.uk. If you can afford to please consider donating to
the Abortion Support Network as well.
Author: Fionnghuala Nic Roibeaird
http://www.wsm.ie/c/women-suspended-sentence-abortion-pills-northern-ireland
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Message: 8
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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Message: 9
Ordinary Patriarchate in Germany: men assaulted women. Other men protested: foreigners
come snatch their victims arms. concrete illustration of an instrumentalization of
feminism for racist purposes. ---- In Cologne, the night of the New Year, hundreds of men
assaulted hundreds of women a lot of touching, a lot of robberies, rapes also complaints
have accumulated in the first days of January. The attackers are young men, mostly from
North Africa. It is not known if there was consultation. ---- Godsend for the racists.
Migrants would be unable to adapt to our social norms of respect for women. Questioning of
asylum, expulsions easier, martial postures and about manly, policies rushed to attack
migrants. ---- What is it for real? group of men assaulted women isolated. Migrants are
mostly men, young and alone: in 2014, 67% of migrants and migrant-es arrived in Germany
were men; according to latest statistics from the High Commissioner for the United Nations
Refugee Agency (UNHCR), among the 487,000 refugees arrived in Europe by the Mediterranean
in 2015 included 66% men against 13% women and 18% children.
selective indignation
From here or elsewhere, men abusing women. Especially when they are in groups. French
military violence in Africa. Students from all countries in the evenings watered. The
football supporters too. German feminist organizing on-site reception of women victims of
sexual violence at the Oktoberfest in Munich. An Internet search on "gang rape" takes us
in all countries, cities and districts ... As to street harassment, words and actions,
more recent feminist campaigns have exposed its reality.
Other men (and some women) have spread on equality values of our societies, where women
are so respected. In France, 1 in 10 women will be raped or was between 50,000 and 75,000
women are each year; 100% of women were victims of street harassment. And you do not hear
all these men, who should protest every day, and even several times a day. The males
harass political ...
Once again, violence against women is instrumentalised racism of service.
Christine (AL-Sarthe Orne)
Photo: Attenzione-photo.com
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Cologne-pain-benit-pour-racistes
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