Today's 6 Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - policy, 49.3: The drop
of water to overflow the (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation]street!! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Britain, solfed.org: Doctors Without Borders and
precariousness of work (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. US, MAY DAY 2016 IN SEATTLE REPORTBACK (pt)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Chile, periodico-solidaridad: Each and everyone against
femicide: against violence against women, feminist organization
By Gema Ortega, a member of The Lump-Feminist Action Libertaria
(fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - policy, Paris: what was
said between the unions and the police commissioner (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Greece, rocinante.gr: The maids of O.SY. not alone! All / in
the Evelpidon Courts Thursday 12/5, at 13:00. (gr) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The government has decided to push through. Facing the risk of blockage of the labor law
in the National Assembly, Manuel Valls announced the use of 49.3, for passing the law
without parliamentary debate or vote. Faced with this contemptuous provocation, strengthen
the mobilization! ---- Since the election of Francois Hollande as President of the
Republic, governments that call themselves "left" continue to make gifts to the bosses
(National Interprofessional Agreement, responsibility pact, etc.). ---- With the labor law
, it is an additional step towards the widespread insecurity that the government wants to
take. ---- This outrageous attack labor law is unacceptable! This is what the massive
mobilizations (strikes, blockades, demonstrations) expressed in weeks. But faced with
popular protest and opposition of some of his own camp, Manuel Valls has finally announced
the recourse to Article 49.3 of the Constitution, even though the left denounced the
forced passage when it was who used the right!
Faced with this defiance of the population, faced with this claim a handful of politicians
can impose its will in an authoritarian manner, facing this latest attack on our rights
and our dignity, against the police violence that are trying to weaken the movement we
must strengthen the fight!
The use of 49.3 is not inevitable. Let us remember that in 2006 the De Villepin government
had passed the First Employment Contract (CPE) in the same way, before having to repeal
the law face the mobilizations of youth. Similarly, it is only by intensifying the fight
that we can obtain the withdrawal of labor law. Our workplaces, in our neighborhoods,
around the job center and CAF, the bistro, everywhere we must discuss, persuade and
motivate many people as possible to multiply strikes, blocking actions, debates. And if
possible build a renewable general strike!
The attacks against the social gains adds more commoditization of police repression. The
state of emergency will be extended until July, and the government took the opportunity to
prohibit gatherings, just as visibly encourages police violence and mass arrests that have
multiplied in recent weeks.
In this climate of increasingly unbreathable, take a breath of fresh air and freedom! Let
us show them that they are not all powerful and that they can not continue with impunity
to crush us! Everyone mobilized and everyone in the street until the withdrawal of the
labor law!
Alternative Libertaire, May 11, 2016
Photo: Vincent Nakash / AL Paris-Sud
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?49-3-La-goutte-d-eau-qui-doit
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Message: 2
The CNT (an anarcho-syndicalist union in Spain) workplace branch within Doctors Without
Borders (MSF) in Spain is fighting against the precariousness of the fundraising staff.
MSF has been including harsh clauses in their contracts and also has been discriminating
against migrant workers. ---- The fund-raising staff are subjected to punitive clauses of
performance. They ask the workers to achieve an unreasonable amount of new subscriptions.
80% of the staff have to face disciplinary actions monthly for not achieving the target
imposed by MSF. Lots of these disciplinary actions have ended in redundancies. Just in
Galicia (Northwest of Spain) the company has sacked more than 240 staff in the last two
years. ---- MSF has also discriminated against two foreign workers. The company had to
change the contracts of every worker in 2014. As the company was using temporary contracts
in an illegal way, it was forced to change everyone to permanent contracts. Everyone
except two foreign workers. The company argued to these workers "you are not going to use
the contract with MSF for residency in Spain" or "did not make them permanent contract for
prudence".
The workers are not going to accept more injustices, abuses, discrimination and union
repression.
We are going to remember that anarcho-syndicalism, too, has no borders.
http://www.solfed.org.uk/international/doctors-without-borders-and-precariousness-of-work
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Message: 3
For the fifth consecutive year in Seattle, May Day was celebrated and fought for by what
seemed to be nearly 200 angry people who seemed keen on keeping the streets and denying
police orders. At around 5:30pm, a group of about 30 bloc’d up anarchists and sympathizers
arrived at Westlake Plaza to join with a small crowd that was already gathering from the
day’s earlier permitted festivities of punk bands, Food Not Bombs and literature tables.
Banners were unfurled and used to create cover from the growing mass of cameras and
journalists so that protesters could share materials such as rocks, masks and flag-bats.
One rather large banner that lead the march for the day beautifully read “(A) WHOEVER THEY
VOTE FOR WE ARE UNGOVERNABLE (A)” while another black banner simply remained blank.
Over the next hour, different crews continued to arrive at Westlake and gather within the
ever growing circle of banners while multiple helicopters hovered above, journalists paced
around us itching to get juicy shots for their live feeds, and a massive mobilization of
police from all over Seattle and neighboring cities stood nearby waiting. At around
6:30pm, patience had been abandoned and without a word the flag-bats and metal poles
nearly in unison began to mark the time of departure, creating a metronome of sorts as
they were slowly banged on the ground. With the banners leading, the crowd made a move
North out of Westlake Plaza in an attempt to head East on Pine St. towards Capitol Hill.
The police were clearly prepared for the crowd to make this move, and we were met at the
end of the block with a thick line of police in riot-gear who were backed up by another
line of riot-cops for each street out of that intersection. Brave banner-holders pushed
against the line of cops, rocks were thrown, but our anger was not enough to push through
their lines and the pepper-spray that they used heavily in close-quarters throughout the
day. With some confusion, we turned around and moved through the North side of the plaza
and proceeded North-bound on 4th Ave, past the Westlake Center Starbucks, which received
at least a couple broken windows.
Then began the hours-long march through a gauntlet of riot cops on foot and bicycle that
steered the march up to the Belltown neighborhood just North of the downtown shopping
district, then re-directed the march in the opposite direction along a parallel street,
back through the shopping district of downtown Seattle and into the SoDo neighborhood,
largely vacant and industrial. This containment was actually what created most of the
conflicts between the marchers and the police. The police flanked the march with
bicycle-cops on either side of the street on sidewalks, easily able to keep up with those
of us on foot and have the final say on which direction the march would go. Behind us was
two formations of bicycle cops and cops in riot gear, who consistently changed positions
so as to relieve each other in chasing the march. Often times when the march would pause
in a block to either try to decide how to proceed or in an exchange of projectiles and
pepper spray with the police, a line of cops with batons or bikes would apply pressure
from behind and push the marchers into moving forward. As for the insane amount of police
following the march along the side-streets in countless vans and SUVs, only mainstream
news articles could give us an idea of the actual count. There are reports that Seattle
hired 1/3 more police this year than were deployed for May Day last year, and it showed.
Had the march successfully broken past any line of riot cops or gotten ahead of those
flanking us, there would have been countless more vans full of police eager for action for
us to contend with.
Despite their absurd numbers and aggressive street-tactics, or maybe because of those
things, anarchists and marchers alike responded with fearlessness and anger, managing to
injure police officers and attack symbols of capitalism throughout the downtown corridor.
Almost every time the police deployed pepper-spray, they were met with flying rocks, glass
bottles and lit flares. A video from a mainstream news source shows bicycle cops
attempting to push protesters away with a cloud of pepper-spray, only to be met with a
hail of rocks as they realized their brute force is not enough to stop anger. Another
video shows a police officer grimacing in pain as a large gash down his face runs with
blood, requiring stitches immediately. One police officer required hospitalization, while
reports run of another being bitten by one arrestee. Reports also run of at least one
unlit Molotov cocktail being thrown at the police. When the police would throw
flash-bangs, use pepper-spray, or countless other crowd-dispersal tactics, marchers took
that as an opportunity to strike back. As with last year’s May Day, we are witnessing a
strength and courage growing in those who choose to riot, especially given the fact that
this year’s turnout was markedly smaller than last year. On May Day in Seattle in 2012, a
single deployment of bicycle-cops sent an anti-capitalist march of hundreds scattering;
this year hundreds of police officers couldn’t pacify us; that is until we marched
ourselves straight to the Costco parking lot in the industrial district. By this time many
participants had peeled away from the march, and it was clear by sunset that things were over.
There are many things to take into consideration when reflecting on this day for the
following year that will surely see more conflicts take to the streets, but perhaps
location is specifically worth focusing on here. Police had the entire district of
Westlake and Downtown Seattle on lock-down hours before the Anti-Capitalist March even
began, not to mention that the long and straight streets prove to be incredibly favorable
to police in containing protests. This coupled with the sheer numbers of cameras and the
interlocked surveillance systems in every alley and storefront made it incredibly
difficult to find concealed locations for anarchists to bloc up.
Another thing worth noting is the team of street-medics who made themselves quickly
available to move injured marchers out of the area of containment and toward safety and
medical treatment. The police were again eager to use “blast-balls” this year and copious
amounts of mace and pepper-spray, and the media showcased at least one picture of a
reporter with wounds inflicted by shrapnel from the blast-balls. There cannot be enough
importance placed on the presence of street-medics as they willingly put themselves into
dangerous situations to help those who step into violent confrontations with police.
The news-crews were all too present again this year, but with some increased tactical
awareness. Each news-crew seemed to be comprised of a cameraman, a reporter, and a large
security guard. They positioned themselves just on the edges of the black-bloc, close
enough to gather footage but too close to participants to carefully attack without hitting
others in bloc with projectiles. They largely stayed out of the way of the black bloc,
which may explain their relative safety at our hands throughout the afternoon. One
reporter however found the back of his shirt had been tagged with a circle-A at some point
of the march. The news-crews reported most of their injuries coming from the police’s
crowd-dispersal tactics; at one point near the end of the march, a line of bike-cops that
had been following the rear was seen nearly two blocks behind the last of the protesters
screaming “Move back!” at a line of cameramen who seemed to be holding their own line, and
then the police heavily used pepper-spray and even a couple flash-bangs to get rid of the
cameras.
In review, the police arrested 9 people and injured more. By the end of the week, it is
known that everyone arrested had been released, aside from one juvenile that we simply
will not know more about. The news-crews played their predictable roles but managed to
avoid most injuries at the hands of the black bloc. May Day this year seemed to be more
focused on violence against police, despite what the hounds of the media have tried to
postulate. While so-called writers from Seattle Weekly and The Stranger stress the need
for pacified protest and more digestible content, it is important to remember that anarchy
will not and does not fit into their political agenda.
Whoever they vote for, we are ungovernable. For a riotous tradition of May Day, and may
these struggles give us lessons to continue to take into the streets.
-some anarchists
https://itsgoingdown.org/may-day-2016-seattle-reportback/
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Message: 4
In recent weeks, several women have been killed by their male partners in our country.
These murders are no surprise and only come to confirm a phenomenon denounced many years
ago by the feminist movements under the heteropatriarchy being a woman is dangerous. ----
Chile is the fourth country with the highest rate of femicide in Latin America, according
to a prevalence study conducted in 2001 by the National Women's Service, 50.3% of married
women or unions, current or earlier, you ever lived violence from their partner. ---- The
femicide is a legal term , with political connotations that seeks to identify and denounce
the murders of women as a result of extreme violence, women killed simply because they are
women, occurring in both the private and the public, and which it has its origin in the
exploitation, oppression and discrimination that women and non - hegemonic identities live
. According to Marcela Lagarde (1), femicide occurs when the historical conditions of
domination and control, generate aggressive and hostile social practices that undermine
the integrity, development, health, freedom and lives of women, and imply that the women
are usable, expendable, disposable mistreatable.
The objectification of women 's bodies is evident not only in the fetishistic use made of
these in the media and marketing, where a pair of breasts or thighs become a synecdoche of
male dominance. Not just talking about symbolic domain, we refer to the objectification of
women 's bodies , which motivates a man is created with the right to take your eyes a
woman in Coyhaique , which FEMICA discard the bodies of the murdered women. It may be
recalled the murder of Yuliana Aguirre, young Colombian 21 found dismembered and discarded
in trash bags on the banks of the Mapocho river , or the infamous cover of "The Fourth",
in which women are compared to a piece of meat available for male predator consumption (2).
Rita Segato (3) , indicates that this reaction hate unlinked when women exercise autonomy
over their body, or when accessing positions of authority or power, either economically or
politically, which have traditionally been occupied by men . it explains that hate crimes
are aimed at not necessarily the damage, but to establish dominance and power. in this
way, it is necessary to distinguish between the murders of women and femicide. In the
first, the gender of the victim is not part of the motivation for killing, for example, a
product of reckless behavior outrage. However, in femicide gender of the victim it is one
of the main causes that lead to murder.
Under defined by Jill Radford and Diana Russell (4), " femicide represents the end of a
continuum of anti-female terror that includes a wide variety of verbal and physical abuse
, such as rape, torture, sexual slavery ( particularly prostitution), incestuous or
extra-familial child sexual abuse, physical and emotional beatings, sexual harassment (by
phone, on the streets, in the office, and classroom), genital mutilation
(clitoridectomies, demerger, infibulations), operations unnecessary gynecological (free
hysterectomies), forced heterosexuality, forced sterilization, forced motherhood (by
criminalizing contraception and abortion), psychosurgery, denial of food to women in some
cultures, plastic surgery, and other mutilations in the name of beautification. Whenever
these forms of terrorism result in death, they become femicides. "
Femicide is not a crime of passion, not a single outburst is the most extreme
manifestation of patriarchal ideology. Patriarchy has been played for centuries by
education, religion and the state together, and despite the feminist struggle still very
much alive. it is precisely the state that has declared violence against women as a
private family problem for which has no responsibility because its primary role is to
treat women and men under an assumed principle of equality which operates only in the
public sphere. This state complicity with the patriarchal structure is what makes all
feminist struggle sterile base its actions and demands to the institutions. This does not
mean, that disputemos not control the resources that we have built ourselves, we demand
urgent policy not prevention and care of victims, but also fight for self - management of
our lives from all spheres.
Thus, as libertarian feminists we join the demand for the declaration of an alert Gender
Violence Against Women, understanding this mechanism emergency action aims to confront and
eradicate femicide in a given territory . But we are not satisfied with remedial measures,
or created by the same bureaucrats forever, but a gender alert that includes the mobilized
communities where sexist behavior are not naturalized; where neither alcohol, ignorance,
tradition justify sexism and where misogyny is eradicated forever. A truly revolutionary
project should not only contemplate action against male violence, but must be feminist and
build a new society where Todes, all and all are free.
notes:
(1) Lagarde, M. (2006). Femicide femicide . In: From the garden of Freud.Bogotá: National
University of Colombia
(2) "Chorizo I speared his wife with iron anticucho" published on 09.14.2015
Segato, R. (2006). What is femicide? Notes for an emerging debate. In: Anthropology
Series. Brasilia:. Unb
(4) Russell, D., & Radford, J. (2006). Femicide: A global perspective . Center for
Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Humanities, UNAM: Mexico DF
http://www.periodico-solidaridad.cl/2016/05/15/todxs-contra-el-femicidio-frente-a-la-violencia-machista-organizacion-feminista/
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Message: 5
By issuing a statement suggesting that the unions were collaborating with the police, the
Paris police prefecture has helped provoke clashes that marred the demonstration of May 12
A manipulation that has exasperated within Solidarity. A comrade testifies. ---- On 11 May
evening, social networks quivered a sensational news: the unions will work together, hand
in hand with the cops during the demonstration the next day. Where did the information?
Police itself of course. ---- The prefect Michel Cadot is yet known for its approximate
knowingly disseminate information. ---- Unfortunately manipulation worked because the next
day, union processions had to suffer for a while insults and provocations ( "cops",
"collaborators" ...) of a group of manifestant.es who had obviously swallowed the police
communications. A height of the Invalides, the demonstrators who clashed SO CGT had the
same invectives at the mouth.
"A unilateral decision"
But what of the dark dealings Paris police prefecture has she been good theater, the eve
of the demonstration? A comrade from Solidarity says:
"Let me be clear, we were received by the prefect Cadot twice.
The first time was April 28, following the protest of Inter Ile (CGT, Solidaires, FSU,
UNEF) against repression and police violence. The Inter then met with the prefect to ask
for explanations on the deployment of security forces at demonstrations. On this occasion
we have denounced the methods of the cops (cut processions, do not let us go down the
path, gazer, be zealous ...) and said we would not make difference between "good" and
"bad" protesters. Of course, with shades according to unions, as noted by the prefect
himself: "You express yourself in different ways. "
The second time was going to file the course of the demonstration of May 12 There,
surprisingly, the prefecture services tell us that the prefect in person definitely wants
to see the Inter. Intrigued, we meet. Felt somewhat panicked by 49.3, fearing it causes an
explosion of violence. He says he wants to padlock the demo with cops, especially around
the procession of Solidarity. Obviously we refuse. He says while his men wish to go for
the "thugs" who were hiding in our processions. The CGT retorts that we are not police
auxiliaries.
In desperation, he informed us that his men will form an "inverted U" in front of the
square head. This is a unilateral decision, leaving no choice in the device.
The so-called "close relationship" mentioned at the end of the press is limited to a
liaison officer required each union, which tells us from time to time if it beforehand or
not - sort of traffic control that we is of little use, since well known, for ourselves,
if it forward or not ... the guy, it's clear the shit to speak to us, and you do not
become friends over the demo ... "
Conclusion: the prefecture said what she wanted to say, either to curry favor from the
Place Beauvau or throw suspicion on the unions. But we do not have to take her word. Or
circulate police gossip on social networking believer share a sensational revelation.
Following this clash, which made blessé.es from either side, it closes Ponder within trade
union organizations to avoid a repetition. In all cases, following this case, there are
chances that at least the CGT, FSU and Solidaires refuse to be in the same room as the
prefect ... to avoid any hint of manipulation!
Guillaume Davranche (AL Montreuil)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Paris-ce-qui-s-est-dit-entre-les
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Message: 6
6 the day goes on strike cleaners of O.SY. protesting the non-payment of their accrued and
full circumvent labor rights. Migrant women in their majority cleaners, do not stop the
fight that started a few months ago in the depot of Greek and via mobilizations in both
the contractor and the offices of O.SY., and to the depot to strike inclusive space,
remain to assert the obvious. ---- At the same time the contractor company, Link Up,
turning to civil justice, stochopoiontas working and demanding to declare the strike
illegal and abusive. The Athens Bar Association for his part, always operating with double
standards and always to the benefit of Capital offers no help at just struggle of cleaners
to set up their own club, leaving them prey to the appetites of their boss, since there
they can have legal representation and legal rights. Meanwhile, the DPS decided with
extremely fast reflexes to give exemption to permit lawyers Contractor company cleaners in
order to carry out the trial and to suppress the strike by cleaners.
None, however, not surprised by this bias of DPS. This is the same Association rushed also
give exemption authorized by their abstention lawyers trial of ASE, resulting in the
release of the murderer Roupakia. We remember him a little earlier to shamelessly calls
for a 'Yes' in the 2015 referendum, erasing clearly the class of stigma.
- Do not let the contractor company to TAMPER against women racers!
- Payment of unpaid salaries racers cleaners and full restoration of all their labor rights!
All and all, Thursday 12/5 in Evelpidon Courts, at 13:00, we stand in solidarity / the
just cause of cleaners of O.SY.
http://rocinante.gr/
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