Anarchistic update news all over the world - 3 May 2016 Part 2 ~ CookingFood.Org

Anarchistic update news all over the world - 3 May 2016 Part 2


Today's 10 Topics:

1. ucl-saguenay: Occupied Palestine, "When medicine is polluted
by the Israeli occupation." by Collectif Emma Goldman (fr)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)

2. AUstralia, Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group MACG: May Day
2016 Statement (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)

3. France, Alternative Libertaire - public meeting, "The
decrease according libertarian communists" on May 6 in Perigueux
(fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)

4. iwa-ait.org: No Domination, No Authority; We struggle for
more on May Day (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)

5. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #260 - Juliette Rousseau
(Coordination 21): "It's ecology to make the step to popular
struggles" (fr, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)

6. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #260 - Extractivism:
Earth, this soon empty shell? (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)

7. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #261 May - Content +

Editorial (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)

8. ucl-saguenay: [Occupied Palestine] "When medicine is
polluted by the Israeli occupation." by Collective Emma Goldman
(fr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)

9. Greece, rocinante.gr: From Aleppo to Paris, the solidarity
of the order will win! Long live Labor Day! (gr) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)

10. Britain, a-f Welsh - HMP Berwyn: The coming super-jail in
North Wales by Yasmin Begum (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Text from the website CAPJPO - EuroPalestine. Link to original here
http://www.europalestine.com/spip.php?article11794 ---- Israeli doctors and medical staff
complicit in apartheid. The testimony of the Palestinian psychiatrist Samah Jabr.---- When
Hillary Clinton wrote a letter to the Israeli-American donor, Haim Saban, against the
popular and peaceful movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), she presented
the "Jewish State" as a "vibrant democracy in a dominated region by autocracy ... a
miracle of modern times - a vibrant flower in the middle of a desert. " For good measure,
she vowed that "we must ensure its development and protect." Unlike Clinton, however, we
Palestinians we suffer the effects of racism and discrimination that seep into the most
humane professions under the brutal Israeli military occupation.

(....)

Recent reports by hospitals across the country, especially in Jerusalem, suggest that it
is common to separate the Israeli Arab sick Jewish Israelis, especially new moms;
Palestinian Arab women are packed and received in conditions of lower quality. A member of
the Knesset, Bezalel Smotrich, bluntly tweeted: "It is only natural that my wife does not
want to be lying next to someone who has just given birth to a baby who could murder his
in twenty years."

As to medical officials, they either deny such reports, or they seek to justify the "Arab
women are happy to be assigned to recovery rooms six people because they like to talk,"
say some; "Jewish women need two rooms because they can not tolerate the Arab parties,"
say others. A Palestinian nurse observed that his Israeli colleagues in the delivery room
were comments such as "And here's another terrorist" after the birth of a Palestinian baby.

The cruel attitude of the Israeli medical personnel towards the Palestinians is both banal
and very old. It was twenty years ago, when my nephew was born, I remember going with my
mother and brother to visit my sister and see the baby. The hospital security staff
stopped us in the hall, claiming that it was not visiting hours; and at the same time, it
allowed Jewish Israelis to enter the maternity service. When my brother asked why he was
dismissed and pushed, still bruised and with broken glasses. This was at Shaare Zedek the
hospital, under the noses of doctors and nurses who remained silent.

The discriminatory practice Israeli hospitals pales in comparison to reports of medical
services from Israeli jails.

Palestinian political prisoners say that medical staff and torturers are allies in the
same mission to break their will. Many independent reports have verified such claims. The
prisoners reported that medical professionals check if they are fit to be tortured or to
recover, so they can continue to subject them to torture. After his release, a prisoner
told a medical prison staff had invented the story that he was suicidal in order to
justify having suspended in height, "to protect him against himself." The skull of another
man was fractured when a guard deliberately thrown to the ground; this prisoner was
"examined" by several doctors after the fact, even if none of them has given accurate
information about the incident or on his physical condition: some have ignored the severe
swelling and bruising around his eye; some said that the prisoner had fallen down the
stairs; some have reported as the result of a bee sting.

The force-feeding of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike is another medical practice
used for political purposes, violating medical ethics and human dignity in the process.
Legislation was passed in the Israeli parliament that authorizes the force-feeding of
hunger strikers. While the alleged principle of the law is "the sanctity of life," the
true motivation is to silence and undermine the will of the Palestinian prisoners in their
struggle for freedom from administrative detention (to be held without charge or trial).
Although there is no record of a single Palestinian prisoner died of a hunger strike,
there is documentation proving that five prisoners died due to a power force between 1970
and 1992 . These unfortunates were force-fed and killed by medical personnel.

The medicine is not only a profession to earn a living, it's a vocation. A vocation which
deals with human well-being in areas that go beyond mere physical health. Neutrality and
impartiality are fundamental principles of the code of ethics of the medical profession,
but we see some of our Israeli colleagues capitulate to popular bigotry, instead of
supporting the rights of patients when they are Palestinian. Israeli medical professionals
should support their Palestinian colleagues who are strafing in ambulances and Palestinian
patients who are arrested at checkpoints or who are obliged to work in exchange for a
health service. They should condemn the shelling of hospitals in Gaza and raids in
Palestinian hospitals in the occupied West Bank in order to remove the injured.

Disappointingly, however, the great majority, the Israeli medical community is not able to
perform any of these things. We see instead that the occupation erodes all ethical
considerations and that hatred of Palestinians outweighs the concerns and professional
behavior. There can be no "vibrant democracy" in a colonial system, Clinton; there is no
purity, or even medical professionalism in colonial domination. The Israeli military
occupation pollutes everything.

Samah Jabr is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Jerusalemite ,. She writes regularly on
mental health in occupied Palestine.

Translation: JPP for Friends of Jayyous

Source link here.
Published on 18 hours ago by Collectif Emma Goldman

http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.co.il/2016/04/palestine-occupee-quand-la-medecine-est.html

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Dear Comrades, The Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group distributed the following May Day
Statement at the 8 Hour Monument in Melbourne today and at the May Day Committee's march
that followed: ---- Chicago 1886 ---- On 1 May, workers in Chicago in the United States
went on strike for the 8 hour day. Three days later, a bomb went off at a workers’
demonstration. Seven police and four workers were killed, either by the bomb or the
following gunfire. In the outcry that followed, eight Anarchist union leaders were framed
and convicted for the crime. Four were executed. The campaign for the exoneration of the
Haymarket Martyrs and the release of the survivors gave birth to May Day, celebrated
around the world as a day of working class solidarity.

Melbourne 2016

The labour movement in Melbourne, though far declined from its former strength, has
neither totally given up the ghost nor been allowed quarter by its enemies. Unions
struggle for health and safety, against insecure work and against the use of temporary
work visas to undermine labour standards. The union campaigns, though, are undermined by
the conservatism and timidity of the union officials, their support for the Labor Party
and their nationalist focus on “Aussie jobs”, which interferes with building the necessary
solidarity between local workers and super-exploited migrant workers. Meanwhile, the
capitalists are proceeding with legislation to destroy the construction workers’ union
(CFMEU) and bring the entire union movement under close State supervision.

Abroad

Although workers’ struggle in Australia has been low key in recent years, events overseas
have been stepping up – for good and ill. China has become strike capital of the world and
workers in India continue to stage immense general strikes. The movements behind Jeremy
Corbyn in Britain and Bernie Sanders in the US (though the candidates themselves have no
answers) are evidence of a desire, particularly amongst young workers, to break away from
the current political establishment. Against this, however, stand other factors. Unions in
South Korea are under massive assault, while governments in Turkey and Thailand have
become increasingly violent and intolerant. Religious sectarianism deepens in West Asia
and North Africa (assisted in some countries by imperialist intervention). And Fascism,
that ghastly menace from the past, rises again across Europe and elsewhere, feeding off
both the failure of the European Union and the influx of refugees fleeing persecution and
imperialist war. Even in Europe, however, the mass struggle in France against anti-union
attacks on the labour code is a ray of light.

Communism

Time grows short, with the environmental disaster of climate change accelerating yearly
and international relations descending into ever more intractable imperialist wars. The
emerging struggles show that the working class is up to the task. We will rise up and
overthrow capitalism. We will create a stateless, classless society of libertarian
communism, where each contributes according to their ability and receives according to
their need. We will win – and be free.

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!

PO Box 5108 Brunswick North 3056
1 May 2016
https://www.melbacg.wordpress.com

https://melbacg.wordpress.com/2016/05/01/may-day-2016/

In Solidarity,

Ablokeimet
for MACG.

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Message: 3

Resource depletion, multiple pollution, waste accumulation, deforestation, climate
disruption, colonization, capitalism and ecological crisis: alternatives exist! We invite
you to come and discuss at a public meeting of Alternative Libertaire Dordogne. ----
Resource depletion, multiple pollution, waste accumulation, deforestation, climate
disruption ... Spurred by the industrial revolution and colonization two centuries of
uninterrupted economic growth have severely damaged the planet. ---- We are the first
generation in history to pass on to his descendants less favorable than that it has
received inheritance. A significant figure: globally, we consume in a year, in terms of
fossil energy that nature has accumulated in a million years! ---- Facing a dead end
capitalism and regulation impossible to put into place in this system, the solution lies
for us in a libertarian communist decay.

We invite you to come and discuss at a public meeting of Alternative Libertaire Dordogne
May 6 at 20:30 at the Labour Exchange Perigueux.

PERIGUEUX
May 6, 2016, at 8:30 p.m.

to the Labour Exchange
https://www.facebook.com/AlternativeLibertaire24/
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?La-decroissance-selon-les

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Message: 4

Traditionally on May Day, workers of the world receive best wishes in the struggle from
organizations all over the world. Many of them will remind them of the struggle for the
8-hour day, which led to the tragic events of 1886. This May Day, besides revolutionary
greetings, we'd like to begin with a few words about what else the people who lost their
lives after the Haymarket incident were fighting for. ---- The courtroom speeches of the
Haymarket martyrs were written down and show us that these were men of ideals that went
far beyond just the struggle for better working conditons. Louis Lingg explained that
”Anarchy means no domination or authority of one man over another”. ---- This idea is very
basic to the ideas of anarchism. That all people should be free and equal. But this
equality is not the pseudo-equality of the bourgeoise classes, who usually define this
word as a equal right to vote for an elected representative.

True equality, in our tradition, is expressed by the idea that divisions caused by wealth
or access to natural resources need to be destroyed and that restribution take place. That
“from each according to their ability, to each according to their need” be the ethic, not
the rule of the market or the idea that anybody deserves more due to the fact they were
born into a better position. True equality is also the idea that there are no hierarchies,
no person or group of people who dominates others. Historically, domination is supported
by factors such as inherited wealth, access to resources or living in a larger and
dominant group. An anarchist vision wishes to turn this all on its head. Therefore, we do
not accept the logic of the bourgeois democracies and we do not accept the current forms
of domination that we encounter.

Anarchosyndicalism is an idea which comes from the anarchist tradition. It sees the need
for workers' organizations to carry out a class struggle. But it is not limited to this
idea. Historically and today, anarchosyndicalism is also the struggle for libertarian
communism and a self-managed society which breaks down all hierarchies and is transformed
into a society of equals.

Before the term anarchosyndicalism came into use, an idea of such a revolutionary
syndicalist movement based on anarchist ideals had already long been born. The experiment
of the First International failed since the anarchists rejected the idea that the state
need to be transformed into a workers' state and that the Party play a role in the
revolutionary movement of the workers. The split which took place showed a permanent
conflict of the goals of our libertarian movements with those of the statists.

The experience of the First International showed that we need a federation of
organizations whose revolution is not that of the Party and the Workers' State, but the
revolution of the workers for their own self-management, in the framework of a libertarian
communist society. For this reason, a number of revolutionary unions refused to join in
with the Soviets and the proponents of Marxist-Leninist models in the early 20s and
instead formed the International Workers Association in 1922.

The revolutionary ideas of this association are still alive today. The IWA seeks to create
a model of society without the state. The statutes of the IWA say the following:

“...the goal of revolutionary unionism is not the conquest of political power, but the
abolition of all state functions in the life of society. Revolutionary unionism considers
that along with the disappearance of the monopoly of property, must come the disappearance
of the monopoly of domination; and that no form of State, however camouflaged, can ever be
an instrument for human liberation, but that on the contrary, it will always be the
creator of new monopolies and new privileges.”
…
“Revolutionary unionism has a two-fold function: to carry on the day-to-day revolutionary
struggle for the economic, social and intellectual advancement of the working class within
the limits of present-day society, and to educate the masses so that they will be ready to
independently manage the processes of production and distribution when the time comes to
take possession of all the elements of social life.”

In the years that anarchists have fought for this ideal, we have been subject to many
attacks, but also to many other tests of our convictions. The Haymarket martyrs met their
deaths defiantly, upholding their ideals to the end, as did thousands of our comrades who
died in struggle or at the repressive hands of the Bolsheviks, the fascists and the state.
We must never forget the passion with which these heros and heroines fought to live in a
society of free and equal persons.

We also must remember that along our path, we have many times been faced with temptations
to engage in “real politics” or possibilist methods. Some organizations abandoned the
principles of our federation to go in another direction. There have also been instances
where some have felt the need to work inside the state and some organizations have split
several times over this issue. Despite these trials and tribulations, the International
Workers Association maintains its revolutionary, anti-authoritarian character.

We wish all working people who hold these ideals in their hearts and in their deeds a
happy May Day!

http://www.iwa-ait.org/content/no-domination-no-authority-we-struggle-more-may-day

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Message: 5

Where is the movement for climate justice? Question to Juliette Rousseau, who was
coordinator of the Coalition 21, a set of over 130 NGOs, unions, collective, etc., who
prepared the protest movements at the COP21. ---- Alternative Libertaire: The 'climate
justice' is the slogan that united the opposition in hypocritical climate summit in
December[1]. All players top-cons, many gathered in the Coalition 21, also gave aim to
extend their claims, after the conference, in the form of a "climate justice movement."
What about today? ---- Juliette Rousseau: To explain the appearance and nature of the
movement must start with one of the starting points against top-Paris: March of peoples to
climate which took place on 21 September 2014, the date in several decentralized parts of
the world, but where New York has exceeded 300,000 protestors[2].

Exemplary manner for those who claim the social ecology, the head of the procession was
heavily occupied by the first victims of climate change, namely the popular classes. Which
ones? They called the frontline Communities, that is to say the first people (indigenous
people among the most disadvantaged in the world), but also the movements of impoverished
neighborhoods, often superimposed on these, racial movements, through some unions. Several
factors explain this context. Already, the US has been affected more than Europe by
climate due to runaway warming, such as the Sandy hurricane that leveled part of Queens in
New York, a popular area.

Then, the exploitation of shale gas, booming since 2009 with its procession of
expropriations, emphasized the social dimension of environmental struggles. From the
cities, the neighborhoods of movement and color and migrant movements include in their
analyzes of environmental claims, under the concept of "environmental racism"[3].

Finally, fireman professions, doctor, nurse, also suffered the brunt of Sandy, so the
union speech also moving in this direction. Therefore, these movements popular base
(called "grassroots") were expressed in the mobilization of 21 September, that larger NGOs
specifically environmentalists preparing their side with a year in advance. For example,
the display in the procession of New York affected neighborhoods was worked between
artists and residents and inhabitants, which has given to do so may be more obvious
political and social scope of the neighborhoods of the claims . Such was the exemplary
horizon, the spirit in which I saw the work of the coalition.

Did he top-expressed against this? What were the political currents in the presence? Is
the current suites show that such convergence is implanted after Paris?

Juliette Rousseau: Regarding the preparation of mobilisations, the coalition enjoyed a
good connection with US components of the march in September 2014, including the entire
educational work of NGOs carried out by grassroots movements US .

So there was no objection when we decided to go the collective side of migrants and people
together to make more classically anti-globalization campaigns, targeted at those
responsible for the ecological crisis or political choices and alternatives. But then we
still have a reality in France is that the overwhelming majority of the green movement, if
it considers that social justice and ecology must converge, it is nevertheless rather
thinking that the first should join the second. There is therefore a majority of activists
who question less of their privileges, and thus justice, or that ecology still not to
support the neighborhoods movements if they do not bear directly on ecological or
environmental issues.

Rather than saying "our struggles are also a priority and we must join those worn by
priority neighborhoods," we continue to believe that our specific environmental struggles
are our priority. Obviously, apart from the repression suffered by the ZAD, police
violence does not yet impactait so the Greens circles before the promulgation of the state
of emergency, so why care?

The core of the coalition were the big NGOs and associations (350.org, Attac, Greenpeace,
France Nature Environnement, Avaaz, Friends of the Earth ...), trade unions, faith groups,
etc. ; then representatives of alternatiba; and then gravitated towards international
autonomous forces, not bad coming from northern Europe such as Reclaim the Power Network
(GB), GroenFront (Netherlands), AYC (a European network of German party movement Ende
Gelände), and then actors climate Action camps. All these were big on direct action.

To answer the second question, no, we did not lead to a climate justice movement (we knew
the slogan rather kept the cast and it was necessary), that is to say it there is no
common agenda of mobilization or platform of demands. It's rather continues working networks.

What would be the top-balance against then?

Juliette Rousseau: We got other things: many movements emerge strengthened. There was also
the generalization of disobedience actions in the context of a coalition not necessarily
very radical at the base.

This is important, it has not seen since the state of emergency has prevented this action
but lead to 12 December, a collective labor (unions, English autonomous NGOs) had planned
a encirclement action Bourget, and got a real consensus for action that the coalition has
validated. Without the question of non-violence which somewhat noisy other spaces. The
disobedience trainings have attracted thousands of people. Similarly, participation in
Climate Games (International) showed that many people did not wait for the procession or
organization dictates their policy and have direct action rather funny with often true
about politics .

So now, the excitement of it all leaves traces in each group, although it has not a mass
movement. However it failed in my view to the emergence of a real movement on climate
justice in the sense of a broad movement with different components and enables a systemic
critique.

It must be said that in France the climate is a prism that lends itself poorly to that
actually politicized. Again, you can mobilize climate quite broadly, alternatiba does it
very well, for example, but for now we almost broaden the issues slightly structuring for
our time: the state racism, Islamophobia the bankruptcy of the political system, the
overall rightward shift of the political class, etc. With this difficulty that emergency
dimension adjoining the climate crisis can quickly push you to consider that your struggle
is more important than the others, which in my opinion is a showstopper.

What do you think of how political organizations support the issue of climate justice?

Juliette Rousseau: They completely miss at least two issues: the fact that it is in
ecology do not to popular struggles and to it while developing a social ecology discourse
with these movements . The legacy of the French far left does not contain the necessity of
this convergence and suddenly she did not put there. And also the organizations believe
that all other movements have to go through them to politicize and act, while group from
the neighborhoods are changing and not escape their evil.

All this calls for a little innovation in how the traditional extreme left considering the
balance of power and the tools to lead them.

Interview by Mouchette (commission ecology)

[1] See Alternative Libertaire No. 255 and 257

[2] One hundred and fifty mobilizations in the world, and more than 5,000 people in Paris.
This is the largest gathering in the history of the theme.

[3] Cf. Razmig Keucheyan, Nature is a battlefield - Test of political ecology , Zones /
Discovery, March 2014, 203 pages, 16 euros.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Interview-de-Juliette-Rousseau-C

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Since the nineteenth century and the industrial revolution, a failover is made: our
companies have responded to the needs of industry raw materials by extracting ever more
natural resources, without any control. If we become aware that they are not infinite,
everything remains to be done to get out of a deadly logic. ---- There is talk of
extractivism when using unreasonable manner of natural resources. Irrational, that is to
say that the rate of exploitation of these resources exceeds that which they are renewed.
One can thus speak of extractivism to denote the production of oil or coal (which put tens
of millions of years to form). But we can also speak of extractivism when exploiting
forest outrageous manner without renewing them. ---- The definition also encompasses
extractivism tend to geographically separate the production of raw materials and their
processing. The extractivism is a concept intrinsically linked to colonialism and
imperialism: operate on the territory of other natural resources beyond a sustainable
limit. To summarize, this is the old idea that we could have infinite growth in a finite
world. This old idea is yet more relevant than ever.

Still more extractions

It looked at the transition to the twenty-first century, we would, willy-nilly, quickly
get out of the oil civilization, plastics and the car. Yes, peak oil ( peak oil )[1] was
announced, this time fatally, oil becomes increasingly scarce, it would extract less and
less. In fact, it is considered that took place in 2008 for conventional oil. But in fact
peak, there seems to be rather towards a plateau, with a drop in production, certainly,
but very slow. Including the exploitation of unconventional sources of oil (extra-heavy,
tar sands, oil shale ...) we never extract as much oil today, not counting the use of
other fossil resources, produce a lot of CO2!

But extractivism is not only about energy sources such as oil, coal or gas. The
manufacture of smartphones, televisions and other electronic devices always require more
minerals, including "rare earth", precious metals vital to the technology industry. Their
extraction is difficult and highly polluting: rejection of sulfuric acid, radioactive
elements, contamination of water and soil over many centuries. Demand is soaring,
especially the emerging market side (the country "emerged" them, do not ask for much less).

Pseudo-solutions of COP21

These resources are limited and we seriously began to worry about their sustainability.
Yet they are essential to advanced pseudo-solutions at the COP21 based on the sacrosanct
"green growth". And the metals are difficult to extract, the more we use chemicals and
extends the area of mines.

But rare earths are not the only precious metal that are popular. For example it is
estimated that we have already extracted two thirds of exploitable gold reserves. Then we
extracted in less than 100 tonnes per year in 1980, today there is 2500 tons per year. If
14% of the production is used in sectors like electronics and dentistry, the rest is used
primarily to ... simple jewelery and coins. The gold mining requires the use of cyanide,
responsible for significant environmental damage. One can also evoke tungsten, whose main
purpose is to shield the armament and aerospace. In France alone forty exclusive research
projects (PER) have been granted in recent years for gold and tungsten (see G in December
2015).

Given this unsustainable model, struggles arise. They are the antiextractiviste movement
(simply). In Latin America, it is women who have revived the fight against mining and his
misdeeds. The massive arrival of miners in a territory develops mechanically prostitution
and endangering the safety of women. Thus, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, women of the People
of Sarayaku revolted in 2004 against the CGC oil company[2]. They are driven movement
which helped expel the company of indigenous territories.

In Peru, Máxima Acuña[3] has become a figure of antiextractiviste fight by refusing to
give his lands to the multinational Newmont and Yanacocha mining company. It prevents them
from achieving a massive gold and copper mine open pit covering 3000 hectares. Since 2012,
local committees to help resist facing the legal and physical pressure from his opponents.
The fight against the exploitation of shale gas also in full swing. Thus, in France, there
are a hundred local collectives opposed to permits and applications for oil and gas
exploration licenses. They also point to the danger that the agreement on free trade
transatlantic Tafta the Term legal option of refusing such permits. And last year was held
in the Creuse, the International Festival against mining. It included the activists
struggling Mexico, Brazil and Romania. Finally, mention should collectively Ende Gelände
(the end of the road) which advocates the coal mining stop and hold blocking a mine near
Berlin from 13 to 16 May.

These struggles are articulated with those against the concreting of agricultural areas
and against large and imposed unnecessary projects (GPII). These are new struggles, mixing
local and global issues, ethical and political. They take place on a field often distant
cities and political activist practices "traditional". Resource depletion pushes
capitalism to expand the scope of research, pushing for the expansion of struggles.

Eric (AL Auvergne)

[1] "Can we (and should we) always talk about peak oil? "To read on
www.avenir-sans-petrole.org

[2] "Feminism boost the fight against" extractivism "in Latin America," reading on
www.pressegauche.org

[3] "Máxima Acuña of Chaupe, Peruvian peasants to attack the mining giants' reading on
http://information.tv5monde.com

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Extractivisme-La-Terre-cette

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Message: 7

Social movement; labor law; Saint-Denis standing; Hospitality conflict; press; Take Eat
Easy; self-entrepreneurship; referendum in Notre-Dame-des-Landes; winter break; Folder
Grenoble; "Red-green" institutional; The newspaper Postilion; popular area; corruption;
Mayotte; Attacks in Belgium; Anarchists in Greece; circular economy; Voluntary
sterilization; The affair of the Haymarket Square ---- Editorial: The power in question
---- Focus: Social Movement ---- In May, accelerate to bring down the law ---- Saint-Denis
standing convergence at the service of action ---- to win, block everything ---- Struggles
---- Class War in palace ---- For lively social progress! ---- Social ---- Take Eat Easy,
delivery uberisée ---- From the self-entrepreneurship at the abolition of the wage ----
Notre-Dame-des-Landes: Referendum or not, no it is not! ---- No respite for the victims of
the street

Grenoble
The "red-green" institutional: an alternative?
Newspaper Interview Postillon: "There is much to report on the current town hall"
In the cities, nothing has changed
The corruption of power in action

International
Colonies: Social aid, WMD
Mayotte (French colony): "A locking climate and ras-le-bol"
Belgium: After the attacks, repression of State
Greece: Anarchists against the mafias

Ecology
Circular economy more green washing

Antipatriarcat
Voluntary Sterilization: It is up to women to decide!

Culture
Series: The Year 2016 collective surrealist Paris
Group Roman: The Boat Factory Kobayashi Takiji
Monograph: Works leaflets. A century of political actions and military Zvonimir Novak
test: nuclear Wrath. The post-disaster Takashi Imashuro

History
There are 130 years: The case of the Haymarket Square and we

Editorial: The power in question

Initiatives Night standing are heterogeneous in their dynamics and composition. Through
them is raised the difficult question of power. First: what can we deal with the current
policies?

The principle of convergence of struggles is posed in these gatherings. These offer a
framework for those who are isolated, are as precarious. But the risk is to encourage
desertion of where the class confrontation is built (business or school locations) in
favor of a confliction only symbolized by speeches about "the struggle" or "oligarchs".

Then the question of the reappropriation of politics is claimed. But this question is
relevant if it is extracted from a certain "self-segregation" and social modes of action
associated with it: the fascination with the verbal radicalism or university culture. As
the occupation of public places does not mean reappropriation.

To this we must intervene in areas where exercises the economic and police power of the
population: the neighborhoods whatsoever. Still builds a culture of healthy democratic
struggle. But as in any movement, the question that must guide us is: what will remain of
this? What points of no return that we managed to achieve?

Alternative Libertaire, April 28, 2016

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Edito-Le-pouvoir-en-question

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Message: 8

Text from the website CAPJPO - EuroPalestine. Link to original here. ---- Israeli doctors
and medical staff complicit in apartheid. The testimony of the Palestinian psychiatrist
Samah Jabr. ---- When Hillary Clinton wrote a letter to the Israeli-American donor, Haim
Saban, against the popular and peaceful movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
(BDS), she presented the "Jewish State" as a "vibrant democracy in a dominated region by
autocracy ... a miracle of modern times - a vibrant flower in the middle of a desert. "
For good measure, she vowed that "we must ensure its development and protect." Unlike
Clinton, however, we Palestinians we suffer the effects of racism and discrimination that
seep into the most humane professions under the brutal Israeli military occupation.

(....)

The discriminatory practice Israeli hospitals pales in comparison to reports of medical
services from Israeli jails.

Samah Jabr is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Jerusalemite ,. She writes regularly on
mental health in occupied Palestine.

Translation: JPP for Friends of Jayyous

Source link here.

http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.co.il/2016/04/palestine-occupee-quand-la-medecine-est.html

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Message: 9

In the flames of war and destruction, uprooting and refuge, in the middle of the long
journey of life between fences, barbed wire, stormy seas and misanthropy that when wearing
the State collars and when the fleece of fascist, in the heart of biggest economic crisis
of capital and one of the more cruel than by the attacks known to humanity, hundreds of
millions of workers around the world braces today their fist, diatranonontas their
decision not to give up the fight for a world of equality and justice, an world without
war and poverty, a world of solidarity and freedom, without classes and without
exploitation. ---- We raise with them the same punch and protest with them, with common
and our different flags, commemorating the uprising of May Day and every of our class
struggle for justice, life, freedom and equality.

Syria, Afghanistan, Kurdistan and Palestine where the struggle continues for the dignity
and life until the rebellious Paris workers and unemployed youth, Lesbos and Athens
fighting with the refugees, our class, large class of oppressed still carries a new world
through the hearts and to grow this world at all times, through every struggle, every
small and big fight for the removal of social inequality and injustice.

In Greece, the Labour Day is celebrated today in the solidarity movement to refugees , any
attempt to osmosis and the blending of local and refugee populations, the occupation of
the City Plaza Hotel as a beacon self-organized and internationalist direct action. Honors
the movement against the new barbaric attack that unleashes our security rights by the
Government in cooperation with international institutions of capital , which condemns
society to life hard labor for a pittance without care and without decent compensation.
Honored mainly in the union of these two movements, a great internationalist struggle
against Capital , its policies and its representatives.

The anarcho-syndicalist Initiative Rosinante calls all workers and all working in
demonstrations the next day against the insurance monstrosity of government, on the side
of refugees, for life and freedom.

-Zito The Labour Day! Long live the world proletariat!

-Anypochorita Alongside the economic and political refugees and the fight for open
borders, feeding, housing, asylum and full rights.

-Kamia Retreat from our insurance rights. Less work, work and care for all. No one at work
after 55. Under the insurance monstrosity of government.
-For Libertarian communism, a world without classes, without State, without poverty and
without exploitation.

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Message: 10

The UK government has recently unveiled plans for the opening of a new prison in Wrexham,
North Wales. It is following in the footsteps of American prison policy with the creation
of a supermax jail costing £250 million. The plan is for the new development to hold 2000
inmates. Perhaps significantly, the prison is proving to be unpopular for a range of good
reasons, including privatisation and structural discrimination. ---- According to a fact
file produced by the Prison Reform Trust, inmate numbers in the UK grew hugely from 1993
to 2014, indicating an overall growth of 91%. The prison population increased by around
40,000 people. Consequently, the prison system has been overcrowded since 1994 in the
United Kingdom and this is only getting worse. For example by the end of 2015, 70 of 117
prisons in England and Wales were overcrowded. Generally speaking, prisons are getting
bigger and prison sentences are getting longer. Interestingly, it also has a negative
effect on reducing reoffending in the prison population as a whole. In short, prisons are
growing, overcrowding is a huge issue and our prison population is the highest across all
of Western Europe.

It isn’t just the numbers that people are discussing it is other things too. According to
the Young Report published by Black Training and Enterprise Group (BTEG), there is a
greater disproportionality of black people in prison in the United Kingdom than in the
USA. Black people in prison represent 12.1% of the overall prison population despite
making up only 2.9% of people in the country overall. This is just a snapshot of the
racialised elements of the prison system. Despite making up only 10% of the UK’s
population, people of black and minority ethnic descent make up one quarter of all people
in prison.

The War on Terror marked a sharp rise in the incarceration of Muslims, which has increased
four-fold since 2002. This marks a new and dangerous period. Terrorism is a constantly
expanding narrative that’s highly racialised and oppressive against various types of axis.
The War on Terror has actively put higher numbers of people in prison in the United Kingdom.

There has been a general move towards the privatisation of institutions, and prisons are
not exempt from this. Neither are other formerly state run institutions, such as detention
centres.

Angela Davis in ‘Are Prisons Obsolete?’ writes that the term prison industrial complex was
“introduced by activists and scholars” in order to address the widely-held belief that
“increased levels of crime” were causing mounting prison populations. She writes that the
increase in the prison population is driven by systematic discrimination and the pursuit
of profit. The term was actually first coined by social historian Mike Davis in the early
1990s in his explanation of the Californian penal system.

Since then, the USA has observed a similar sharp spike in the over representation of
people of colour. Private companies have been increasingly buying up and investing in
private prisons as a complete industry. Therefore, there’s a veritable vested interest in
the continuation of the growth of the prisons overall.

A key component of the PIC is that crime and punishment are closely linked as concepts.
Instead of rehabilitation, the focus in prisons is punishment for having committed a
crime. The prison industrial complex focuses on the economic background of prisons and the
political structure. It largely seeks to exacerbate them in various manners in order to
keep a steady prison population. The complex plays heavily so much so into other factors
that little focus is on prisoners and effects to lessen reoffending in common society.
Economics and politics become irrevocably tied up with each other.

The vast majority of literature and books about the prison industrial complex have focused
on the USA. Nevertheless, the United Kingdom is working towards an American-style private
prison complex. This has seen a move towards huge super-jail prisons; the same type that
David Cameron is looking to build in North Wales.

A number of formerly run state institutions in the United Kingdom have been bought up by
private companies such as G4S and Serco. G4S has run the England-based Yarl’s Wood
detention centre for a number of years, proudly boasting of being “the first private
company to run a prison in the United Kingdom”. However, they have been accused of an
“endemic culture of sexual abuse”.

In 2014, HMP Oakwood, run by G4S, was home to full-scale prison riots. It was originally
described in the media as “concerted indiscipline”. G4S didn’t have the same duty of care
in reporting what was going on. Equally, a woman in a privately-run jail (also G4S) in
Peterborough had a miscarriage while being held there. She was repeatedly denied medical
treatment and “forced to clean up”. Whether or not this was one particular horrific
instance or an example of an endemic lack of training around health, G4S has
systematically failed prisoners and detainees on a number of occasions.

There are huge implications for the building of a super-jail style prison in North Wales.
The prison industrial complex is growing at a faster rate than ever before in the United
Kingdom. The complex is reliant on the over-representation of vulnerable people such as
people of colour, Muslims, women, and people from working class backgrounds.

In 2015, Michael Gove personally announced that there is a move to close prisons in London
such as Wandsworth and Royal Holloway. This is of course for a number of different
reasons, including the lucrative potential development of the land the prison sits on and
as another move towards private prisons. London is 40% BME, resulting in a situation where
a highly racialised prison population and working class prison population will undoubtedly
be moved out of the city. This has huge implications for working class families not only
from London, but from Wrexham too. It will displace pre-existing support networks and make
it harder for people to visit their families.

It is undoubtable that these prisoners will largely end up in super-jail prisons such as
Wrexham. The wave of gentrification is too strong for London councils to ignore prime and
premium property that can be sold at an extortionate rate to the detriment of working
class families and communities from the city.

There’s talk of the “prison economy” as corporations such as G4S and Serco are receiving
subsidies from the government which also profits from lowly-paid labour. Not only this,
prisoners are forced to commit to this labour in order to further reimburse the said
corporations. Due to this, private prisons have a vested interest in the non-successful
rehabilitation of prisoners in order to keep a young and working prison population. The
influx of a never-ending stream of workers being paid less than minimum wage will no doubt
force local businesses in the area to close. This also means that there will be less of a
focus on other forms of justice, such as transformative justice.

From an anarchist perspective, this means less of a vested interest in forms of
transformative justice that work to empower communities affected by crime. The growth of
private prisons has affected already vulnerable communities which are then expected to put
faith in these racist and classist systems. This works across ability, faith, race, class
and many other aspects. The state works actively to incarcerate people from working class
backgrounds and reorganise prisons further around state mechanisms. It is therefore
important to work towards a British anti-prison strategy that is anti-oppressive and
anarchist in nature.

Another angle on the prison economy is that a new prison will bring jobs, prosperity, job
security and business to the area. Various politicians have articulated that all jobs are
good jobs, and that in fact the area should probably be grateful for this opportunity.
Jobs in the prison industrial complex are not good for our communities; they force
participation in an inherently oppressive structure; they make the community reliant on
businesses with reputations like that of G4S; and these businesses have largely operated
with impunity.

The mental health rate of prison guards declines early on in their careers. This is made
worse by cuts to prison services and severe overpopulation in prisons. And none of the
money made in this prison will be reinvested in the local area.

Wales is not immune to the effects of the prison industrial complex. The endless stream of
money poured into private prisons and detention centres comes at a huge detriment to
everybody involved. Perhaps most importantly, this includes the money that will never be
spent on transformative justice, education or healthcare.

Author: Yasmin Begum is a Welsh-Pakistani writer and a graduate of SOAS, University of London

http://libcomgrp.weebly.com/weblog/hmp-berwyn-the-coming-super-jail-in-north-wales-by-yasmin-begum

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