Anarchistic update news all over the world - 6 Mei 2016
Today's 5 Topics:
1. Communication from the AP Women's Group Rosinante to
liberate Sanae Taleb and the struggle of immigrant inmates (gr)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. US, Orange County's Anarchist Bookfair¹ - SANTA ANA, CA
COMMUNITY - is returning bigger and better! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Mail from a reader, On
"challenges" Philippe Corcuff (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. WSM activities: All the Dublin Anarchist BF 2016 video &
audio (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. wsm.ie: Dublin Kurdish Freedom Solidarity protests 2016 May
from #DABF (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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On 27.04.2016 announced the release of Sanae Taleb after 13 months struggles and
resistance to poor conditions of Greek detention center. The request is to stop the forced
confinement of migrants / mation by the State during consideration of asylum applications
and their full legitimacy. It may be that he won the bet of release until the examination
of the application, but remain in the air more than 50 inmates of. The situation for
migrants and migrant kept unchanged by the strict criteria for legitimacy and the lengthy
procedures for examining applications. ---- The story unfolds with Sanae to lead the
struggle of immigrant inmates and inspire others to support him. She worker black work
without social benefits, was arrested by the State and left his government in April '15
Non-possession of papers. Protest her arrest and thereby the sixth day the authorities to
proceed without the justification month extension of the encapsulation (after six months
is the maximum limit for inclusion matanastries / s undocumented) started abstention chow
(31/10) illegally expelled having initially shown promise for release. Antistathike this
monstrosity and the authorities took care to go back with blood, torn clothes and
accusations of defiance, resistance and damage of property, which tried to 31/05.
Continuous abstentions rations of Sanaa accompanied by other inmates. Their demands are:
'1. It is very cold inside, should we stay in our beds to keep warm.
2. We want freedom, why not give us what we want, when we ask for drugs the answer we get
are the government has no money. We want freedom to go out, in our homes.
3. No hot water to drink hot coffee, hot tea, we were told that the machine does not work.
4. Do not allow to take anything from the outside, from our visiting. When they bring the
food is very cold and we can not eat. Everything is cold and the bread is hard as stone.
We are women of the Greek section. We write this to you to know how tired we are. We
continue the hunger strike. We do not want to eat because we need our freedom "
** Within these living conditions around the end of March one immigrant expelled and was
preceded multiple complaints about the bleeding.
The EU agreement - Turkey and the absolute consensus of SYRIZA-ANEL government came to
seal separating refugee and immigrant / s not recognizing poverty as a form of social war,
making the intruders into our normalized society. This strengthens the power of many
ghosts loom in their lives and especially in the lives of immigrants. The ghosts they
represent their multiple oppressions as women, migrant workers and prisoners.
Primarily working in gendered defined tasks such as cleaning, child care and elderly
sexergatries, obliged to obey the so-called role of women in and out of their home. These
tasks usually belong to the black work defining the invisible immigrants social benefits
and in any labor claims against their bosses. Within this landscape they have yet to fight
against racism, social exclusion and their special treatment because they are immigrants
who do not meet very strict and meaningless criteria of each State and Capital. Finally,
if you keep not put them in miserable detention for indeterminate and unreasonable time.
The women's team Rosinante admires and welcomes the struggle of immigrant inmates who come
in front of the ghosts and fight against them. The release of Sanae is a breath but the
road is long.
-Freedom In enclosed immigrants.
-Aposyrsi All charges against Sanae Taleb.
-Full Legalization of all IMMIGRANT-ri-s.
-Full Labor rights of immigrant women.
Bottom o racism and patriarchy.
http://rocinante.gr/index.php/anakinosi-tis-omadas-ginekon-tis-a-p-rosinante-gia-tin-apeleftherosi-tis-sanae-taleb-ke-ton-agona-ton-egkliston-metanastrion/
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Fullerton College will conduct the FREE event and open to all public for a whole day in
this May 7 from 10 am to 20 hours. We invite activists, authors and publishers of our own
community and contributors to the meeting in Orange County. Our program includes
panelists, panel discussions, workshop presentations, food, music, poetry, books, books
and more books! ---- Lecturers involved: ---- Andrej Grubacic, author of "Wobblies &
Zapatistas" and "Living at the Edges of Capitalism (Living at the frontiers of
capitalism)," Michelle Cruz Gonzales, author of "The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in
the Female Punk Band (Rule Spitboy: tales of a woman in a punk band, "Paul Z. Simons,"
Lessons from Rojava "(Rojava Lessons). ---- Panels Included: ---- maternal love and
revolution: Love on the front lines. A new anthology in the policies of the mothers
participating publishers / life helping China Martens, Mai'a Williams, Fabiola Sandoval
and Panquetzani.
Control policy by the local community, moderated by Carolyn Torres of Chicanos States with
Michael Brown participation (Black Lives Matter Long Beach), Donna Acevedo (Anaheim
Community Coalition) and Jennifer Rojas (ACLU Community Liasion).
Publishers involved and organization:
PM Press, AK Press, Little Black Cart, Imix Books, Audey Thunders Clothing, Resistencia
Books, Entangled Roots Press, Groundwork Books Collective, Apparel OYE, Anarchist Black
Cross, Copwatch Santa Ana, Free Association of Anarchists, LA Catholic Worker and more!
workshops:
Exposing the power of the state, unable to society, outcasts: Decolonizing and claiming
"American" literature. A (gentle) anarchist critique of identity politics. We interrupt
this message: Tips to intervene in slave subservience of the media to the state, and more!
Our event thinks inclusion and space for children will be provided.
In The Spirit of Total Resistance,
The Orange County Anarchist Bookfair Collective
About the collective of anarchist fair Orange County:
We are a horizontally organized collective that came together to organize Orange County’s
first ever anarchist bookfair. Ours is an intersectional anarchism opposing all structures
of oppression. We are feminist, queer, gender non-conforming, indigenous, anti-capitalist
people of color. The collective actively creates another world within the very navel of
this otherwise rotting orange. We subvert popular assumptions of conservative Orange
County by unabashedly and daringly imagining a radical alternative. We work to create
safer spaces for critical engagement, reflection and accountability without the presence
of the state and those who mouth its oppressive tongue. We celebrate the local history of
resistance upon this stolen land. We take inspiration from Indigenous peoples fighting the
terror of Junipero Serra, the jailhouse cry of Modesta Avila, the Citrus Strike of 1932
and the spirit of Santa Ana’s Black and brown youth protesting police violence in 1969.
The collective wants to end all “isms” and phobias that perpetuate oppression in creating
a new reality where many realities exist together.
Your donations will assist with speaker's travel (mainly from Northern California),
logistical costs (items needed for day-of IE additional chairs, tables, mantainence fees,
waters, etc.), event and outreach materials (paper, flyers, supplies for children space
and activities, workshops, etc.).. ANYTHING you can donate is much appreciated. Thank you
for your support and we look forward to meeting you at THE SECOND ANNUAL ORANGE COUNTY
ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR.
Find us on Facebook at OC Anarchist Bookfair!!
In the Spirit of Total Resistance,
The OC Anarchist Bookfair Collective
https://www.gofundme.com/ocabf
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Message: 3
In Alternative Libertaire February 2016, Michael Löwy has dedicated the book libertarian
Challenges for the twenty-first century, Philip Corcuff, a full chronicle of amenity .
Reading this book to me, on the contrary, rather annoyed. ---- The author begins with an
autobiographical chapter detailing its trajectory (the PS to the FA, via the MDC, the
Greens, the LCR and the NPA) and made the choice - sometimes invasive - to write in the
first person singular in a succession of small almost independent studies from each other.
---- Throughout the pages, it rummages the side of Foucault, Holloway, Dewey, Michel
Onfray, Proudhon, Étienne Balibar ... the list is long. Here are weighed, then comparing
it pouts, it pecks, with a taste for metaphor (the blow pipe to be connected, the Marxist
and anarchist flint, rubbed, will sparks ...) and a overuse of buzzwords in the
intellectual sphere of the moment (the palm to "congruence" ).
All this has the appearance of a pleasant walk that accumulates layers of references,
citations and self-citations, strongly giving the feeling of a patchwork - the friend
Michael Löwy spoke indulgently of "eclecticism".
Some parts - like the one on media criticism - are well documented, but too often, the
author gives the impression to the filling recycling of previous productions. Risking the
incongruity. One example among many: why have inserted in the middle of the book, one of
his lectures on ... nîmoises the polar and songs of Alain Souchon, Casey and Keny Arkana?
It is obviously forbidden anyone to love the intellectual banter, or even to make books.
What is more embarrassing is to entitle this libertarian Challenges for the XXI century.
In terms of "challenges", it boils down, in the last chapter, to an invitation to the FA
for that nuance its approach to the state elections and religions. I do not know how to
have seen the comrades of the FA, but I know how, as a reader of Alternative Libertaire, I
got it: as a sweet scam on merchandise.
Dedicating 95% to engage various thinkers ( "Marx / Wilde / Foucault / Onfray / Bourdieu"
titled one chapter), this book is not politics, but the politics. He hardly ask any
questions that may challenge the revolutionary movement or even the social movement on
practices, strategies or social project. Or so general and so allusive we can not identify
them some 'challenge' whatsoever.
The revolutionary minority must renounce militant meta-language, and become "multilingual"
we are told in conclusion. Certainly. What a discovery. This book shows that it is easier
said than done.
Guillaume Davranche (AL Montreuil)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Sur-les-defis-de-Philippe-Corcuff
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Here are 9 video and audio recordings from the Dublin anarchist bookfair. So whether you
were far away or were there but had to miss one session in order to attend another this is
your chance to catch up. ---- The video and audio description with a link to each follow.
We’d encourage you to spread any of them around that you find interesting by posting to
FB, Twitter etc (if Twitter include #DABF ). If you have a blog you can find embed code
at each of the links. ---- Finally if you’d like to make a donation to the costs of
putting on DABF (over 3,000 this year) there is a donation link at www.wsm.ie/bookfair
<http://www.wsm.ie/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=1491&qid=48279> under the
stall list.
#DABF 2016 Audio & Video
Video - Eyewitness Rojava Revolution - accounts from participants and Janet Biehl
In Northern Syria ISIS has been driven back by people fighting for a society based on
principles of direct democracy, gender equality, and sustainability. From the their
revolution in 2012 they have created a de facto autonomous region in which this ideas are
being implemented. At this opening session of the 2016 Dublin Anarchist Bookfair we heard
from eyewitnesses to the revolution including those from the region.
Watch the video at https://youtu.be/Ck585zuJnzA
Listen to the audio at
https://www.mixcloud.com/workerssolidarity/revolution-in-rojava-eyewitness-partipant-accounts-from-dublin-anarchist-bookfair/
Audio - Basic Income - the concept and the problems from an anarchist perspective
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in Basic Income. Basic Income is a
payment from the state to every resident on an individual basis, without any means test or
work requirement. Is Basic Income a progressive proposal or does it sound too good to be true?
Listen to the audio at
https://www.mixcloud.com/workerssolidarity/basic-income-the-concept-and-the-problems-from-an-anarchist-perspective/
Video - Remembering 1916 Together: Anarchist Perspectives
When it comes to remembering the 1916 Rising, why do conservative politicians and
historians want to convince us that it would have been better for us if Pearse and
Connolly had stayed at home? This panel attempts to think through the meaning of 1916 for
us today, and the politics at stake in how these events are remembered, forgotten, and
mis-remembered.
Watch the video at https://youtu.be/drnxXE8JwRM
Audio - Struggles against racism - Traveller, migrant, and direct provision perspectives
From Trump in the US to Pegida in Europe, the recent resurgence of right-wing and fascist
politics challenges all of us to develop stronger and stronger anti-racist social
movements. From casual, everyday racism to state policies of border enforcement, racism
comes in many forms in Ireland. In this panel we brought together a variety of activists
from migrant, Traveller, and refugee solidarity networks to discuss experiences of
challenging racism in everyday society and in state policy, and to share perspectives on
developing solidarity in the struggle for survival, recognition, and respect.
Listen to the audio at
https://www.mixcloud.com/workerssolidarity/struggles-against-racism-traveller-migrant-and-direct-provision-perspectives-dabf-2016-audio/
Video - Experiences of Feminist Struggle - past, present and global
This panel on Feminist struggles included
Elife Berk is an activist and member of the KJA (the Free Women's Congress).
Suzanne Lee is known for having an illegal abortion and once throwing eggs at Enda Kenny.
Claire Brophy research interests lie in contemporary Irish women's writing, cultural
theory, and feminist philosophy.
Theresa O'Keefe researches and writes on feminist resistance
Watch the video at https://youtu.be/h5KfeZTM6hs
Audio - Rebuilding radical trade unions from below
In their present structure, are trade unions nothing more than an arm of the state and of
the bosses? Do unions function more to control workers rather than advance their
interests? Can the major unions be reformed from within, or should we start building new
ones? Are militant trade unionists ‘wreckers’, or the future of the labour movement?
Speakers from the Independent Workers Union (Ireland) and the Industrial Workers of the
World (Scotland) discussed the current state of organised labour and propose possible ways
to advance the interests of workers today.
Listen to the audio at
https://www.mixcloud.com/workerssolidarity/rebuilding-radical-trade-unions-from-below-audio-from-dabf-2016/
Video - Environmental crisis, environmental struggles with Janet Biehl
The environmental crisis represents ‘one of the gravest and most severe existential
threats to our species survival’.
Speakers:
Janet Biehl, a theorist and writer who has written on topics such as Social Ecology and
Libertarian Municipalism, Ecofeminism, and the dynamics and threats posed by ‘Ecofascism’.
Erjan Ayboga is an active member of the Mesopotamian Ecology Movement and was involved in
a campaign to oppose the damming of the Tigris river
Watch the video at https://youtu.be/ilXbKxYsg4Q
Audio - Bodily Autonomy at the Intersections
Sinéad Redmond is a pro-choice and maternity rights activist.
Eilís Ní Fhlannagáin has been active in radical trans women’s circles for the past two
decades.
Catriona is a sex worker who is currently involved in the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland,
but has been involved in other political campaigns in Ireland including sex workers rights
and migrant rights.
Listen to the audio at
https://www.mixcloud.com/workerssolidarity/bodily-autonomy-at-the-intersections-panel-at-dublin-anarchist-bookfair-2016/
Video - Community Resistance & Grassroots Activism
Recent years in Ireland have seen growing community based resistance to the imposition of
austerity programs: the introduction of regressive taxes such as the property tax and
water charges, and the homelessness crisis as a direct consequence.
Panel participants
- Brian Fagan, has participated in community organising, centring on resistance to
property taxes and Irish Water for the past three years.
- Mick O’Broin, an activist with the Dublin Tennant’s Association talked about the
politics of self-organising in the context of the crisis in the private rented sector.
- Aisling Hedderman is part of the North Dublin Bay Housing Crisis Community, a grassroots
community of parents and individuals directly affected by the housing crisis
Watch the video at https://youtu.be/jnmCucHTSlM
Every year we try and record as many of the panels as we can but generally we miss some
due to equipment failures or a shortage of people or because they are not suitable for
recording. The missing panels this year included
Challenging the Special Criminal Court
Drug Criminalisation: effects on society and autonomy
Getting organised for Anarchism with the WSM
Don't forget to share out any of the audios or videos you found interesting.
thanks
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Dublin saw a day of protests in solidarity with the Kurdish Freedom struggle today. The
video shows the protest at the GPO, site of the 1916 rebellion against British colonialism
100 years ago. During that rebellion British forces destroyed much of the center of Dublin
and murdered civilians much as the Turkish state has been doing in Bakur (SE Turkey) over
the last months. ---- https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3jnWxtlAlr4
---- On Saturday in Dublin we marked the massacre of North King Street when British forces
murdered 16 men and boys. Some 600 civilians have been killed by the Turkish state over
the last year. Yesterday the Turkish state passed a bill allowing for the persecution of
the radical left HDP party and its parliamentarians were physically assaulted in the
parliament by the government deputies. This highlights the refusal of the Turkish state to
allow any movement of peaceful reform.
The protests which included one at the Turkish embassy were against this situation but
also against the rotten deal the EU has struck with the Turkish state. The EU is giving
the Turkish state 6 billion euro, in return the Turkish state is accepting refugees
deported from the EU. It is also using force to stop refugees escaping Turkey, some have
already been shot dead on the land border and dingys have been rammed at sea. The EU is
pretending Turkey is a safe country to deport refugees to despite the fact it has been
murdering Kurdish civilians, threatening and arresting lawyers & journalists and is now
moving to ban the HDP.
http://www.wsm.ie/c/dublin-kurdish-freedom-solidarity-protests-2016may
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