Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Septembre - Linky: If it's
free, it's you the product! (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Britain, Glasgow Events Glasgow Autonomy Update 14th
September 2016 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Poland, Anarchist Federation (rozbrat): Statement on the
attack on the police representative of the Roma community
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. September 17 - a new holiday patriots - rozbrat.org [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. MONTREAL’S 12TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ANARCHIST THEATRE
FESTIVAL SEEKS PLAYS! (fr) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Septembre -
Notre-Dame-des-Landes: Chassons Vinci Hedgerow (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. "Black and Red", Anarchist Political Organisation:
Antifascist CONCENTRATION-guard (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. Greece, Intervention by the ESE Ioannina in pre-congress
event SYRIZA (gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
9. Poland, A statement of Anarchist Federation section of
Poznanon on the Modern Party's program [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
10. Souther Africa, zabalaza: Where to now, Zimbabwe? Beyond the
"good" charismatic pastor. by Leroy Maisiri (ZACF)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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All French housing will soon be affected by the replacement - free - our traditional
meters with "smart" meters. pollution devices, connected meters are mainly direct access
to personal data which represent a huge market. ---- The "smart" meters will soon invade
our homes. This will start with electricity meters, the well known Linky (EDF), whose
establishment in France is estimated at 5 billion euros in 2020; Then come the gas meters
Gazpar (GrDF-Engie); and longer-term ones with water Consospy. All will be connected to
the Internet by radio, that is to say, wireless, and therefore to permanently searchable
distance, with any additional waves thereon, and thousands of new antennas.
Among the risks involved in these new meters connected, it is perhaps less known but more
dangerous forward: it is their ability to "spy" permanently living habits and consumption
of each and everyone, and accumulation of personal data that results. Indeed, the global
market of personal data is growing, it is the new "black gold" of the digital economy of
the twenty-first century. This data is the basis of the economic model of giants like
Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple, etc., because they allow to "target" the best
all consumers for any product or activity whatsoever. This data is collected continuously
in huge big data centers and specialized companies, data brokers (currently 270 in the
world), are in charge of world trade in personal data files on the basis of "customer
value life" (VVC). This value corresponds to the sum of the average expected profits on
the life of a typical customer. For the European Union, all the personal data of its
entire population has been estimated at EUR 315 billion in 2011 by the Boston Consulting
Group (BCG), and the estimate for 2020 reached 1000 billion light the growth of the
digital economy.
If the "value" of the basic data of an individual (age, gender, address) is only around
one euro on the world market, it does not hold true thinner profile data of consumers and
consumers. According to a BCG study in 2013, an individual currently living in Europe
"worth" on average 600 euro on the world market personal data exchange. Among the fine
data, notes: the origins, education level, marital status, number of children, occupation,
income, daily living habits, possession of smartphones, various consumption (tobacco,
alcohol, and therefore water, gas and electricity), interests, health problems, any
insomnia ...
No to Big Brother society
And everything is good to collect, to the point that, today, a semi-occult La Poste
participates service, reselling data, good corporate financial health. In this context,
the connected meters are a bargain and they will precede little future appliances "smart"
(that is to say also connected) as well as "smart" purchases (that is to say, chipped and
remote searchable, like the coffee packet of your favorite brand interrogated in your
closet by a retail giant).
Can we oppose these changes? In theory, no, for the simple reason that neither our nor our
electric meter gas meter not belong to us, they are the property of the municipality or
the community of municipalities. For water meters, they are rented us for prices read on
our bills and certainly minimal, but to millions of copies. The lessor is either the
company (private) delegated public service water (among the big three: Veolia, Suez
Engie-Saur) or the town in case of municipal governance. So that only a consideration at
the city level can prevent the replacement of our counters. In late July 2016, 230
municipalities have passed such deliberation (which for most, Caen, 110 and 000
inhabitants). A national decision of refusal as in Germany and Belgium may also do the
trick. True, voices such as the League of Human Rights are heard to ask the National Data
Processing and Liberties Commission (CNIL), French supervisory authority for personal data
protection, check the compliance "compliance package" proposed by EDF regarding the Linky;
and they demand a moratorium on the current deployment of Linky as concrete and effective
against-fires are not implemented. The "intelligence service" is an unhealthy trap, reject
monitoring and commodification of our lives.
Daniel warrior subscriber to gas and electricity
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Linky-Si-c-est-gratuit-c-est-vous
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Hi everyone, ---- This started as a short update, as first one in a while, but has turned
into a pretty long one! Lots on this month! ---- Enjoy! ---- ----- Public Meeting to
address Glasgow transport crisis: ---- Get Glasgow Moving! Building a citywide Public
Transport campaign ---- Thursday 15th September - 7pm ---- Renfield St Stephen's, 260 Bath
Street, Glasgow G2 4JP ---- https://www.facebook.com/events/225852114483359/ ---- Most
people in Glasgow rely on public transport to get around (only 49% of households have
cars), yet our public transport network is a total mess: ---- * Private bus companies
continue to cut our vital services and increase fares so that they're completely
unaffordable. ---- * Glasgow Subway (built in 1896) still only serves a tiny area of our
city and is the only underground in the whole world never to have been
extended:http://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/glasgowtube
* Our overground trains are operated by a company (Abellio) owned by the Dutch state (not
ours!)
* And our bike hire is run by a private company (Nextbike GmbH) based in Germany...
Compare this to Edinburgh, where publicly-owned Lothian Buses are popular with residents
offering a comprehensive service and affordable fares.
And compare this to London, where publicly-owned Transport for London operate a
fully-integrated network with "Oystercard" smartcard tickets (in use since 2003) making it
so simple to change between buses, tubes, trains and bikes. They also have ambitious plans
for expansion over the coming decades:crossrail2.co.uk
Glasgow deserves better! Come and help build the citywide Public Transport campaign we
need to make it happen.
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Being GalGael
Thursday 15th September - 12 to 8pm - Friday 16th September - 11 to 3pm
Old Barn Dumbreck Stables, 82 Dumbreck Road, Pollok Country Park, Glasgow, G41 4SN
OUR Story DAYS
Story Gathering & Seeding
With next year being GalGael's TWENTIETH year - we've started something we've called Being
GalGael - taking some time to check in on a shared sense of who we are, what matters to us
and what kind of changes we're here to make.
So, what do we mean by Story Gathering & Seeding?
On THURSDAY 15th we'd love all of you who've been part of our story over the last 20 years
to join us in remembering the twists & turns with photos, things, articles (BYO), as we
create a timeline. And just gab about old times.
On FRIDAY 16th we're very much hoping more people can join us in sharing that story with
folk old and new, and for some banter to tease out the good stuff and explore the kind of
stories we want to seed for the next 20 years.
The format for both days, means you can pop in and stay for a short space of time or most
of the time and have still have a useful input. Join us for 1 or 2 days - whichever feels
relevant.
a wee bit more info...
Thurs 15th Sept - If you've been a part of our story over the last 20 years, we'd love you
to join us on THURSDAY remembering the highs and lows with photos, things, articles,
posters, and mementos. We're creating a timeline that'll help us share the story with
others and capture the learning, the touchstones, the principles. We also just want a
chance to gab about old times - share stories and memories, eat soup, belt out poetry and
warm our hearts round a fire. Pop in for any amount of time between 12 to 8 p.m. Soup at 6
p.m.
Fri 16th Sept - FRIDAY will shift focus as we share how that story with characters old and
new, and to work with that some more to galvanise and inspire our future story. We'd very
much love you to join us in spending some time - gathered around some pithy questions like
- ‘what is the great dream we're wrestling in to reality', ‘what are the big lessons?'. Or
just mull over the timeline and make your thoughts known in other ways such as writing on
the wall or adding a picture to the timeline. At the end of the two days we want to be in
a better place to say hello to the legacy we're co-creating over the years to come.
We've not had much time to get the word out - please help by letting others know it's on.
We realise it's quite short notice so will understand if you can't make it! And we'll be
attempting to cart the timeline back to Govan so you can add your bit later...
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Cultivate Kickstarter - Minibus Tour of Community Gardens
Friday 16th September - 11am - 3pm
The Concrete Gardens, 200 Balmore Road, G22 6LJ
Join us for a minibus tour starting from the Concrete Gardens at 11am and returning at
3pm. We will get a guided tour of the Hidden Gardens and Woodlands Gardens and another
garden to be confirmed. Get tips and inspiration from other growers.
Meet at the Concrete Gardens at 10:30am. Bring good shoes and waterproofs if it is raining.
Lunch will be provided.
Spaces limited. To book your place email wilde.alex@gmail.com
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Refuweegee's Good Food, Good Mood BBQ
Saturday 17th - 12-5pm
Kinning Park Complex, 43 Cornwall Street, G41 1BA
We would like you to help us celebrate our amazing city and all of the people within it,
by coming along to our world barbecue event, sponsored by the fabulous folks at Expat
Focus - expatfocus.com.
On the 17th September 2015, 100,000 people participated in the refugees welcome march in
London. This year there will be another march, to again show the government loud and clear
that we and the rest of the world are ready to welcome refugees. We are currently in talks
with a variety of organisations in the city to see how we can create a similar call to
action in Glasgow.
Meantime, we would like to ensure that there is a place for people to come together and
socialise, share food and stories and celebrate what we have achieved so far. There is
always plenty more to be done but we also believe there is plenty to celebrate. So please
join us for a festival style, family friendly day, sampling food from around the world in
the sunshine!
We'll have people taking charge of BBQs to share traditional foods from around the world -
with Iranian, Scottish, Syrian & Eritrean dishes confirmed, it's set to be a brilliant event.
We'll also have all the usual festival style event treats with music, facepaiting and of
course sunshine!
Come along, bring your friends and family and celebrate all of the amazing people who make
Glasgow by filling yer bellies!
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Sleaford Mods - Invisible Britain: film screening + Q&A with Lisa Mckenzie and Paul Sng
Saturday 17th September 2016 - 6pm
Govanhill Baths, 99 Calder Street, G42 7RA
Sleaford Mods - Invisible Britains shows the most relevant and uncompromising British band
in years sticking two fingers up to the zeitgeist and articulating the rage and
desperation of those without a voice in austerity Britain.
The film follows Sleaford Mods on a tour of the UK in the run up to the 2015 General
Election, visiting the neglected, broken down and boarded up parts of the country that
many would prefer to ignore.
Part band doc, part look at the state of the nation, the documentary features individuals
and communities attempting to find hope among the ruins, against a blistering soundtrack
by Sleaford Mods.
Tickets: £5 / £2 concessions - http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2593670
* * *
Following the screening there will be a Q&A hosted by poet/activist Jim Monaghan with Lisa
McKenzie (author Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain) and Sleaford
Mods - Invisible Britain co-director Paul Sng.
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Workplace Organiser Training Session
Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th September
Glasgow Autonomous Space, Unit 11, 53 Kilbirnie Street, G5 8JD
Clydeside IWW will be hosting a Workplace Organiser Training Session over two days - 17th
and 18th September (11am to 6pm both days). The venue - Glasgow Autonomous Space* - will
be open from 10.30am to allow a prompt start. It is open to IWW Members in Scotland &
others on similar Lists who share our anti-capitalist vision.
Andy from Manchester who will deliver the Sessions writes: "The training has been
developed by IWW organisers over many years from direct experience. It is an absolutely
great way to familiarise yourself with basic organising skills.The training is designed to
incorporate your real-life work situation to make it as realistic as possible and help
tailor it to your needs. The point is to help you think through how to organise where you
work, but contains many skills useful to organising outside the workplace as well. The
tactics taught are based on successful organising work over the last decade worldwide, and
the training is constantly being adapted to incorporate the latest experiences of direct
action organising."
* A few places are available for non IWW members Please contactwestscotland@iww.org.uk to
reserve your place, which must be done in advance as course materials need to be printed off.
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Cultivate Event - Soil Health
Monday 19th September - 12pm-3pm
The Concrete Gardens, 200 Balmore Road, G22 6LJ
As part of the Cultivate programme the Concrete Garden are putting on a series of training
and networking sessions targeted at community groups who have a small growing space.
This session will cover what is soil and how can you care for it? Explore different ways
of making compost including looking at the Concrete Garden's hot box system.
We will also look at hygiene and keeping yourself safe in the garden.
Lunch will be served at 12pm followed by a practical session with Abi in the garden and
finishing up with a hot drink and chat .
To book your place email wilde.alex@gmail.com
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Walls (Glasgow Screening)
Thursday 22nd September a- 7:00-20:20pm
CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD
Join the UK's leading social change film festival for the Scottish premiere of a portrait
of division and common humanity.
More than 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the appetite for erecting barriers
between nations still remains: 41 walls currently divide communities, shutting out
dialogue, feeding mistrust and resentment. Seeking to understand their impact, this
stunning documentary focuses on individuals living on either side of the Spain/Morocco,
US/Mexico and South Africa/Zimbabwe borders.
Join us after the film for inspiring conversations and opportunities for creative,
effective personal action, with guests including Dr Sarah-Jane Cooper-Knock (Centre of
African Studies, University of Edinburgh).
For full event details and access to the film's trailer, go to http://bit.ly/Walls-CCA
TICKET PRICES: £6/£4.50 concs
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Free Pride: Bi Furious
Thursday 22nd September - 11pm-3am
The Art School, 20 Scott Street, G3 6PE
free pride presents: bi furious, a night celebrating bi, pan and non-mono identities!!
very often us bi+pan people are pushed out from mainstream gay nights and judged for not
being ‘queer enough.' this is a night to celebrate your identity, be who you want + get
with who you want without judgement, and have a dance to some amazing bi talent on the decks.
featuring Free Pride favourites Shugg, Etzali & Deep Brandy Album Cuts!
we are also VERY excited to have Joey Fourr bringing us their ‘wonk-pop 4 queer kids' all
the way from London
everyone is welcome so come down & boogie with us, pay what you can & have a good time!!
ACCESSIBILITY:
The Art School is a wheelchair accessible venue. Gender neutral toilets will be available
and a safer spaces policy will be in place on the night. If you have any other
accessibility needs please get in touch & we will do what we can to accommodate them!
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CHARITEA - With Haifa Zangana
Friday 23rd September - 6:30pm
Fred Paton Centre, 19 Carrington Street, G4 9AJ
We've all seen the news reels and sensational headlines, and we've all heard first hand
accounts from friends and family still caught up in the ongoing conflict in Iraq.
What we don't hear enough about is all the positive humanitarian work that is currently
ongoing inside the country to help rebuild valuable infrastructures which help the people
that are most in need.
Join us to raise awareness and much needed funds to help this work to continue! £15 a
ticket and in return you will be served delicious Iraqi food, live Iraqi Oud and poetry as
well as helping Iraqi Refugeeshttp://theiair.co.uk/en/about/
With us to give a talk on the evening will be Haifa Zangana who is a novelist, political
commentator and currently has a weekly column in Al-Quds newspaper as well as being a
regular contributor for The Guardian, Red Pepper, and Al-Ahram.
This is a ticketed event limted to 120 seats. Please reserve your seating through one of
the following hosts by texting IRAQ2016 with the number of seats to be reserved. £15 no kids.
Supported by Scottish Action for Refugees (SAFR)
All funds go to International Action for Iraqi Refugees
Vivian - 07540706747
Fayrouz - 07828310433
Wesun - 07545035341
Doors open 6.30pm.
SUPPORT REFUGEES. SUPPORT IRAQ. SUPPORT HUMANITY.
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The Junkyard Free Festival Presents The Eclectic Circus
Friday 23rd September to Sunday 25th September
203 Bell Street, G4 0TD
Roll up for a Bank Holiday extravaganza.....
The Junkyard Free Festival Returns September Weekend with The Eclectic Circus.
The festival site will be transformed into a Circus theme for the weekend, with more than
a few tricks up our sleeves.
Come see some of the best DJs and Live acts Glasgow has to offer. Plus there will be an
array of tasty street food and beverages to tantalize your taste buds. Circus performers,
comedy, face painters, tarot reading, punch&judy and a whole lot more. We will be
transforming the cave into a whole new world for you to experience. Think NEON lights and
carnival decor and get ready to be blown away!
Stay tuned as this one's gonna be quirky!
more.....
The festival is FREE and we welcome all, big and small, pets an all.
DJs and Live Acts will be announced shortly!
---->>>>FREE ENTRY<<<<----
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SQIFF 2016 - Scottish Queer International Film Festival
Thursday 29th September - Sunday 2nd October
CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD
From classic queer horror to brand new web series via documentaries on Madonna's dancers
and fierce trans-led political parties in the Philippines, the best short films from
around the world and right here in Scotland, workshops and masterclasses with top industry
professionals and two massive inclusive parties, SQIFF 2016 is bigger and better than
ever. Tickets start from just £4 (free for unemployed and asylum seekers) and all
workshops are free.
New for SQIFF 2016 - Festival Passes which will be on sale till 22nd September. Come to
everything at the festival including our Friday and Saturday night parties for just £40 /
£30 conc.
ACCESS: All venues have good access for wheelchairs and other mobility issues including
accessible toilets. All films screen with English subtitles or captions for D/deaf and
hard of hearing access. Selected screenings have a hearing loop or audio description
available. Selected intros, Q&As, and discussions have BSL interpretation. If you require
BSL interpretation for any events which don't already have it, email info@sqiff.org and
we'll book this for you. Most venues have gender neutral toilets. See listings at
www.sqiff.org for further access details or contact us with any questions.
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Psychiatry and Social Class
Thursday 29th September 7-9pm
Glasgow Autonomous Space, Unit 11, 53 Kilbirnie Street, G5 8JD
The diagnosis and treatments given to people of different social classes by psychiatrists
is a big subject and has been a continuing area of interest to mental health professionals
and researchers. This talk will introduce and explore some of the issues around class and
psychiatry from a working class perspective and will be followed by a group discussion.
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This event is hosted by Glasgow AF. We ask that all those attending this event read the
brief introduction to our safer spaces policy here:https://afed.org.uk/about/safer-spaces/
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The Occupation of the American Mind - Film Screening
Sunday 2nd October 2-4pm
Kinning Park Complex, 43 Cornwall Street, G41 1BA
"It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading
us, for so long that we are free from propaganda is one of the most
significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century." John Carey
"The Occupation of the American Mind"
Israel's Public Relations War in the United State.
Justifying the indefensible is about. Keep saying the same thing over
and over again till people believe it. While the carnage continues
behind a vale of propaganda. An important film everyone should see.
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An Anti-Colonial Menu
Sunday 2nd October 7-9pm
Kinning Park Complex, 43 Cornwall Street, G41 1BA
Culinary Legacies of Colonialism:
An Anti-Colonial Menu
Sun 2 Oct at 7pm, Kinning Park Complex, 43 Cornwall Street, Glasgow
£10 (includes film ticket and two course meal)
An Anti-Colonial Menu looks to discuss ancestral delicacies from the African continent
pre-colonial rule. This one off dine and view event looks to discuss the politics and
heritage of African cooking as one of the most diverse, yet least experienced, least
understood cuisines in the world, through the research of historical foods and lost
recipes from all of Africa - with the idea that the hangover of colonial rule also extends
its legacy within the everyday food experience.
This communal dining experience will be followed by the film Black Girl.
This event is brought to you by Black History Month, Soul Food Sisters, Aya Distribution,
Africa in Motion Film Festival, Küche and African Challenge Scotland.
La noire de... (Black Girl) | Ousmane Sembène | Senegal/France 1966 | 1h5m | French with
English subtitles | 12
This recently and beautifully restored version of Black Girl is pioneering Senegalese
director Ousmane Sembène's first feature film, and is one of the first features by a
director from sub-Saharan Africa. The film tells the tragic story of Diouana, a young
Senegalese woman who finds work as a childminder for a French couple in Dakar. When the
couple return to the south of France, she goes with them, dreaming of a life of luxury and
fine clothes on the Côte d'Azur. However, things don't turn out as she planned. A very
moving and beautifully filmed portrayal of the gradual breakdown of a fragile, young
woman, this is a great opportunity to see one of the genuine classics of African cinema.
Tickets here -
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/culinary-legacies-of-colonialism-an-anti-colonial-menu-tickets-27330883408?aff=eac2
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On Tuesday, 2 August. Jon - from Romania Rom living in Poznan - asked for money staying at
the traffic lights drivers. He was detained by the police. In the police car taken away
his cup, which collected donations and blindfolded with a cloth. He heard also, if he
wants to beg, it will amount to Romania. The torturers took him and threw podpoznanskim in
the woods, picked up the money not the distance. ---- We know also other cases where the
police or municipal police extorted by threats from Roma money or begging for leaving /
entity whose peacefully demanded his fate. Representatives and representatives of the
community were repeatedly robbed, intimidated and blackmailed. The police (not only
Poznan) feel completely unpunished in contact with the Roma community of Romanian origin.
Officers use their low economic status and the fact that the exclusion from the labor
market and help system forces them to beg. Often they do not know the language and have
difficulty with reading and writing in Polish. In such a situation it is very easy to
steal and intimidate the Roma.
As Poznan Anarchist Federation oppose police violence and in solidarity with the victim.
We also promise that we will not leave this matter and will seek to punish the police
thugs. The days when they could with impunity prey on the weakest and most lonely, are
over. Demonstrated by the police institutional racism is unacceptable.
At the same time it is worth noting that the unlawful actions of the police continues to
worsen. Since the last time I protested Anarchist Federation (June 20 this year.) On
police abuses, and numerous unexplained circumstances of the death on police stations,
killed another person, this time at the police station in Zielona Gora. As we wrote in a
statement released in June, "Statistics dot. Police crime show that only 3.5 per cent. Of
the 16 thousand. Complaints of abuse by police prosecutors headed to court. Other
discontinue or refusing to open proceedings. These figures relate to extracting
confessions by the police, unlawful protect the interests of influential people and
ill-treatment of detainees. In the case of extracting confessions beaten statistics are
even worse: only 1.3 per cent. of cases ends in the indictment. "
http://www.rozbrat.org/dokumenty/kontrola-spoleczna/4470-owiadczenie-w-sprawie-napaci-policjantow-na-przedstawiciela-spoecznoci-romskiej
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History is a battleground. He knows that each of the politicians. For some time, the
Polish public space glorifies But attitudes that go beyond good taste. The glorification
of nationalism, racism, xenophobia becomes commonplace. ---- September 17th through the
streets of Poznan procession passed under the flags patriotic red and white. As this
procession: Front secondary school youth, which, like the "communism" was told, so he
goes. The orchestra, some soldiers. A further group of ONRowskich flags, carried by punks
whose ancestors Gani Jews and collaborated with the Nazis. They walked smiling, as if on
parade. They enjoyed probably, because in the next row followed the mayor Wisniewski,
deputy Dziuba, church notables, police and army officers, MPs and councilors, removed from
the position of the province governor Florek and many other politicians. Behind them a
banner: "From under the Soviet occupation in Brussels we got ...".
Excellently. If this is the official position of authority, it is even more so for us, the
residents, it is a call to fight not only for the alarm, but also in the power of the
representatives of ...
http://www.rozbrat.org/publicystyka/polityka/4479-17-wrzenia-nowe-wito-patriotow
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The Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival (MIATF), the only festival in the
world dedicated to anarchist theatre, is looking for plays, texts, monologues,
dance-theatre, puppet shows, mime, in English and French, on the theme of anarchism or any
subject pertaining to anarchism, i.e. against all forms of oppression including the State,
capitalism, war, capitalism, patriarchy, etc. We will also consider pieces exploring
ecological, social and economic justice, racism, feminism, poverty, class and gender
oppression from an anarchist perspective. We welcome work from anarchist and non-anarchist
writers. ---- The 2017 edition of the festival will take place on May 23-24. ---- Are you
interested in presenting your work during the festival? ---- Send us the application form
by November 7, 2016!
Form: http://anarchistetheatrefestival.com/
Contact: festivaltheatreanarchiste@yahoo.ca
https://www.facebook.com/Montreal-International-Anarchist-Theatre-Festival-250629612549
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Despite the favorable result at the airport of the June referendum, Opponents of the
project do not give up: after the success of the weekend of July 9, other appointments are
scheduled to oppose work the government announced will commence in October. ---- The
referendum of 26 June has not surprisingly given victory to supporters of the airport. We
must re-specify the scope of this consultation was defined according to different surveys
conducted by the government. Failure would have been highly likely in case of consultation
at national level, of the Great West and the region Pays de la Loire, the yes only
outweighed the Loire-Atlantique department.
Two worldviews
This consultation territory is completely illegitimate by the funding source (government,
Brittany and Pays de la Loire). It may be noted that the municipalities affected by the
project have overwhelmingly voted no, contradicting proaéroport whose main argument during
the campaign was to expel the ZAD.
The whole movement antiaéroport said on the evening of that consultation will continue the
fight.
8 to the weekend July 10, 2016 against large unnecessary projects on Zad was a great
success and mobilization remains strong. These days were an opportunity to discuss future
actions, strategies to adopt and the future of the Zad. It is striking when attending
these weekends mobilization is behind the fight of Notre-Dame-des-Landes two radically
different worldviews. opponents side there are the advocates of a world turned to the
environmental protection, the decay and alternative to intensive agriculture ... As
supporters of the project, it is money that prevails and nothing else ...
The government has repeatedly said: the work on the airport will begin in October. Faced
with this threat, the resistance is organized. training weekends will be held from
September 3. The training will be held from 11 am on Saturday morning up to 16 o'clock on
Sunday afternoon. Saturday will focus on the basics of preparation for action (work in
pairs, in peer groups, knowledge of rights, etc.), while Sunday will be an opportunity to
discover the Zad further through a race orientation.
In case of intervention of security forces, resistance operations are already provided on
site, it will relay through actions wherever possible and in all possible forms. The
various local committees have already planned actions in case of intervention.
A new mobilization weekend is already scheduled for October 8 and 9. The success of this
mobilization will weigh in the social and electoral news of the moment. While the delay in
starting the project weakens and discredits the project from another century.
Stef (AL Nantes)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Notre-Dame-des-Landes-Chassons
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Message: 7
Fascism is directed against the poor and oppressed of this world and to those who struggle
and resist exploitation regime. ---- Fascism although it is one, has many facets: the
assault battalions in the city center, the walls of Fortress Europe, the anthropokynigous
immigrants-refugees at the border or in the urban fabric, to the modern concentration
camps. ---- the thread that connects the murder of P. . Fyssas and Sachtzat Loukman, as
well as attacks on immigrants and the movement is common. ---- 2 days so before the
anniversary the murder of antifascist II. Fyssas, chief ASE intends to make its appearance
in our town. ---- Well we say no inch of land to the fascists. ---- We support the fascist
concentration; stewardship in Kamenik. ---- To crush fascism, to fight for life, freedom,
dignity. ---- Friday 16/9 18.00 Kamenik
Collegiality for social anarchism "Black and Red", a member of the Anarchist Political
Organisation -O.S-
https://maurokokkino1936.wordpress.com/2016/09/15/
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Message: 8
Dynamic intervention took place Monday afternoon 12/9 by members of the Libertarian Trade
Union Ioannina colleagues / compas and compañeras / s, against the pre-congress event
SYRIZA in Litharitsia park. About 35 people stood in front of the entrance of the building
which will become the event, shouting slogans and throwing leaflets. The executives of the
ruling party, tampourothikan inside, trying to respond to the accusation that focused.
There was an immediate mobilization of the police, with the parties and OPKE who failed to
approach eisodo.Oi focused withdrew structured around 7, sharing texts in the city market.
https://ese.espivblogs.net/2016/09/14/14-9-16/
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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:17:02 +0300
From: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
To: en <a-infos-en@ainfos.ca>
Subject: (en) Poland, A statement of Anarchist Federation section of
Poznanon on the Modern Party's program [machine translation]
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September 11 during a convention of - Modern - party program, lips of their leader Ryszard
Petru announced: "We will introduce legislation restricting or banning the activities of
organizations of a racist, chauvinist and widespread hatred of weaker and anarchist
organizations, occurring against the state and its institutions. We will defend the state
against extremism and populism of the left and right of the political spectrum." ----
Power, whatever it, is to himself that there is always against the people, especially
those who are not needed it for anything. Just as modern, it is shoulder to shoulder with
the developer, kamienicznikiem or exploitative employers, strengthen anti-social solutions
and most sweeping under the carpet the problems of those who would rather not feed the
electorate of one of the leading party. Anarchists but appear wherever the needs and
concerns of local communities are ignored, and together with them make an effort to give
people a real impact on the reality and the ability to decide their own destiny. We do
this by organizing grassroots movements in condominiums, movements against gentrification
and revitalization, labor, anti-military, through strikes, protests, demonstrations.
Regardless of party programs and established without our participation right.
The anarchist movement is against the state and its institutions. Looking at the political
scene, it is hardly surprising perhaps. State institutions, political parties and the
entire political system we are not in fact anything you need. No one is - in addition, of
course, those who are struggling to keep their neo-liberal status quo, they need to
maintain support in the form of the state. As Petru and its Modern.
27 years remain an informal group, and so we plan to stay. Movements informal, which is
modern does not know, you can not outlaw. Just as you can not outlaw ideas, and people
disadvantaged and weaker, with whom identify themselves anarchists.
But we have better ideas - in our opinion consistent with the expectation humiliated and
ograbianej larger part of the population - to outlaw political parties led by the Modern,
and the present system of political rulers and the opposition cherlawej considered a mafia
system. Freedom - Equality - Mutual assistance
http://www.rozbrat.org/dokumenty/kontrola-spoleczna/4478-owiadczenie-w-sprawie-programu-partii-nowoczesna
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Message: 10
Pastor Evan Mawarire unwittingly began the #Thisflag movement in May 2016 by posting a
video online in which he expressed his frustration with the socio-economic and political
crisis in the country. ---- The last 4 months in Zimbabwe can surely be characterized as
an awakening of the Zimbabwean working class, as thousands of these citizens have taken to
the streets, responding to Pastor Evan Mawarire's call: "hatichatya" - we are not afraid.
This is certainly a historic time for Zimbabwe; a time of growing labour pains as the
country (hopefully) enters a process of rebirth towards a better and new Zimbabwe. ----
But before we can even begin to talk about a free Zimbabwe and how we would go about
getting that, we need to first have a clear and coherent class analysis of the Zimbabwean
social and political climate.
Understanding who we are fighting is essential. Zimbabwe without a doubt needs to rid
ourselves of the 92-year- old man who thinks the state house is his graveyard. But in the
same breath, we must rid itself of the oppressive state system altogether. Swapping a
vicious state capitalist manager with another is nowhere close to constituting progress.
Where to now, Zimbabwe? Beyond the "good" charismatic pastor.
by Leroy Maisiri (ZACF)
Recent events
36 years into independence and the people of Zimbabwe have again started chanting freedom
songs and calling for true and real emancipation. The working class of Zimbabwe is paying
for an economic crisis that is none of their making, but rather a structural crisis of the
global (largely state-based) capitalist system in an unholy marriage with the Mugabe
Dictatorship. In the last 4 months, the country has seen protest after protest as ordinary
citizens have taken to the streets in their thousands, despite being met by the repressive
hand of the state (in the form of a militarized police). At the heart of the protest
movement is a massive economic crisis that dates back to 2008, the climax of a severe
drought and crises in the supply of water, electricity and basic necessities. This year,
the country found itself paralysed in the face of a liquidity crisis, as severe shortages
of US Dollars spread across the country.
The last 4 months in Zimbabwe can surely be characterized as an awakening of the
Zimbabwean working class, as thousands of these citizens have taken to the streets,
responding to Pastor Evan Mawarire's call: "hatichatya" - we are not afraid. The #Thisflag
movement followed soon after. This is certainly a historic time for Zimbabwe; a time of
growing labour pains as the country (hopefully) enters a process of rebirth towards a
better and new Zimbabwe.
Pastor Evan Mawarire, a Baptist pastor, is indeed the architect of the movement and has
chosen throughout the process to remain "apolitical". Many have described him as
Zimbabwe's Martin Luther King Jr., who also eschewed party politics and focussed on
grassroots activism. He unwittingly began the movement in May 2016 by posting a video
online in which he expressed his frustration with the socio-economic and political crisis
in the country. The video expressed a strong poetic message that reflected the
frustrations of the country's 16 million Zimbabweans - and which in some ways resembled
the French cahiers[the list of grievances reflecting the thoughts of the French population
on the eve of the French Revolution]. Since then, the movement has grown and broken the
silence that once surrounded the status quo. Not surprisingly, the state has taken Pastor
Evan to court, initially for "inciting public violence". Just before the hearing, however,
the prosecution added more a serious charge: that he was "attempting to overthrow a
constitutionally elected government". It is reported that well over two thousand citizens
stood outside the courts waiting for the results of the hearing, praying, singing and
chanting for his release. He was found not guilty, but openly expressed fears that his
life was in danger, and that he was under continuous threats, with unidentified people
showing up at his home and offices. Not long afterwards, he left for South Africa to do a
few talks in different universities while preparing to get political asylum for himself
and his family in the United States.
Where to now?
Before we can even begin to talk about a free Zimbabwe and how we would go about getting
that, we need to first have a clear and coherent class analysis of the Zimbabwean social
and political climate. And this would paint the most vivid of pictures - of a class system
closely integrated with a predatory state. It is no secret that from the first day of
Independence the state has preoccupied itself with extracting wealth from its working
class citizens. Through violent exploitation, through corruption that knows no limits, the
country, and its people have been turned into unprotected prey for a power- and
wealth-hungry government.
The once-Marxist- turned-nationalist Zanu-PF government implemented Zimbabwe's 1991- 1995
structural adjustment programs soon after achieving independence. Armed with
neoliberalism, it has fast-tracked the decay of the country, bringing it to its knees
during the 2008 crisis. Since then, our people have been reduced to denizens - resident
aliens in our own homes. And, as social norms and values have eroded, as the lack of
purpose has set in, the whole country now finds itself in a state of anomie, a normless
country paralysed by instability, having to fend for itself against an alliance between
the predatory state and its cohort of capitalist owners.
This ruling elite - an alliance of state managers and capitalists - has been sending the
working class to the slaughterhouse in droves. The most recent blow to the working class
that passed as legislation was the Supreme Court ruling of 16 July 2015 that gave
employers the right to terminate worker's contracts without having to offer severance
packages. In less than three weeks since that hearing, a staggering number of 20-25000
workers have been fired, and this number has grown by thousands since then.
It is then our most prudent task to arm ourselves with a holistic conceptualisation of the
state and class. The anarchist approach explains how the state itself is a fertilizer of
the class system, creating and giving space to a minority rulership.
Appreciating this is half the fight. Understanding who we are fighting is essential.
Zimbabwe without a doubt needs to rid ourselves of the 92-year- old man who thinks the
state house is his graveyard. But in the same breath, we must rid itself of the oppressive
state system altogether. Swapping a vicious state capitalist manager with another is
nowhere close to constituting progress.
The state ruling class needs to accumulate capital to be able to keep arming its military
and growing its coercive power (which has been an interesting and heated area of
contestation recently, as the state found itself unable to pay the military.) Our current
system - of capitalism and the state - allows for this unholy marriage of money and power,
by allowing for both to be concentrated in the hands of the few. As anarchism shows us,
the state is a highly centralised apparatus of power, monopolising the forces of coercion
and administration. Attempting to use this machine of power for our own ends, by handing
it over to another small elite to operate, would ultimately mean re-creating another
vicious, capitalist Zimbabwe. In other words, the critique goes beyond Mugabe or Zanu-PF.
The critique exposes the inherently oppressive structures that exist in society, fuelled
as they are, by the very nature of the state itself.
The emergence and blossoming of the #Thisflag movement, and its source of inspiration -
Pastor Evan Mawarire - is the beginning of a new chapter of hope in this library of
struggle; an important and sacrosanct step as we slowly begin to carve ourselves a way
forward. The #Thisflag movement has become the uniting factor within the working class of
Zimbabwe, combining the interests of the long-term unemployed, the unemployed graduates
and the rest of the broader population. The movement has done more than just inspire; it
has ignited a significant amount of hope as fuel for the struggle. This is the essential
step towards reconfiguring Zimbabwe's tomorrow today: building pillars like the #ThisFlag
movement that stand as structures of counter-power that can be used to oppose and replace
the state and capitalism.
A call!
For me, the movement could certainly represent the untainted seeds of a new society; a
society founded on solidarity, equality, grassroots democracy, free of all forms of
oppression. The movement unconsciously represents the anarchist understanding that the
only way to overthrow a bloodlust regime like the one that exists in the country today is
through struggle from below. I, therefore, urge for a more conscious critique, developing
this already existing understanding of how to struggle which does not build the movement
around one person.
Fellow citizens of Zimbabwe, I urge you to avoid the "Moses syndrome": it is a trap. No
truly successful movement of the working class can ever be built around an individual.
Moses himself did not enter the Promised Land in the end. Zimbabweans, we must become our
own overseers, by watching that the current predatory state is not simply replaced by
another opportunistic regime, bringing with it the same forms of oppression that we are
currently fighting. Secondly, we have to have a clear understanding that, moving forward,
the direction the movement takes is up to us as a collective, and that only as collective
can we dismantle this system. The #Thisflag movement must quickly outgrow its dependence
on one man's word, and collectively start to rebuild a credible left, with a mass-based
left politics, discourse, movement and alternative for the people.
Having briefly met the ‘good pastor' during the talk he gave at Rhodes University
recently, it became clear that he saw his role as simply creating the spark, but that
moving forward it would be up to the ordinary citizen to go beyond rhetoric and develop a
deeper political awareness. This kind of awareness should include an appreciation of the
fact that the state of Zimbabwe, like all states, has - and always will - usurp the
legitimate means of coercion. Nowhere has this been more apparent than in Zimbabwe, where
militarized police go about beating anything that moves or breathes (or, especially,
fights against injustice). It has also been brutally obvious by the thousands of
protestors that are detained in prisons without due process. Combined with this coercive
power, the state usurps the means of administration (which we have also blatantly
witnessed in the most recent Supreme Court ruling). At the front lines, we must arm
ourselves not only with the flag (or better, the black flag of anarchism!) but with a
clear understanding of the class system at work in Zimbabwe, and a clear understanding
that it is only through bottom-up, mass movements that we will even have a chance of
creating effective change.
This is a call for the #Thisflag movement: to disrupt the system continuously,
relentlessly and completely, and to lead itself, for itself, and by itself as a movement
of all oppressed people in Zimbabwe.
https://zabalaza.net/2016/09/17/where-to-now-zimbabwe-beyond-the-good-charismatic-pastor/
