Today's Topics:
1. greece, rocinante: Solidarity will defeat-all / in the
solidarity march in conquest of Notaras (gr) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. wsm.ie: Dublin protest to Defend Rojava and oppose Turkish
invasion (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Britain, class war: #RightsNotGames Week of Action September 4-10th, with Disabled People Against Cuts (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Idonesia, anarkis.org: You Do not Hate Politics, You Hate
the State - BIMA SATRIA PUTRA [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Greece, Solidarity march in conquest Notaras 26 By A.P.O.
(gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The Nazi inspiration murderous attack on the middle of last week the refugee housing
occupation of Notaras is nothing more than the attempt of some racist worms to intervene
in a social scene for over a year has isolated entirely both themselves and the their
murderous beliefs. Cowardly attacks like this can not intimidate the solidarity movement
because the dynamics are much larger than the pathetic existences Nazi.
The solidarity movement to refugees is a big part of society, is a whole alive and active
organization which fights for the rights of refugees and resist the racist policies of the
Greek government and the European Union. It is a stream for a year grows despite all
antiprosfygikis voltage and some gas canisters is impossible to stop the momentum.
It is obvious that the attack was in Notaras found a large paved carpet by the Greek
government. The state repressive operations against the housing refugees squatting in
Thessaloniki and refugees residing in Piraeus were the summer show authoritarianism and
racism of the government and at the same time, the introduction of the social agenda of
the practice of violence against world solidarity. And if this process was something
separated in organizational and political level by themselves Nazis and conspiratorial
actions as against Notaras, this does not invalidate that ultimately these are two
procedures that complement and objectively work against refugees and solidarity movement.
Our response must be immediate and lasting. Despite all antiprosfygikis any racist
perception, refugees and locals / s Employees / s will live together, fight together, and
together we will crush the Nazis and racist policies.
The anarcho-syndicalist Initiative Rosinante calls and participates in solidarity
demonstration Notaras on Monday 29 August at 18:00 at Propylaea.
http://rocinante.gr/i-allilengii-tha-nikisi-olesi-stin-diadilosi-simparastasis-stin-katalipsi-tis-notara/
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Message: 2
August 31st outside the GPO in Dublin and over 100 people gather to protest at the Turkish
invasion of northern Syria. The invasion seems to be intended to stop the two sections of
Rojava linking up - a linkup would cut off ISIS from the Turkish border. ---- The
demonstration was called by Rojava Calling and Saoirse Jin groups. Saoirse is the Irish
word for Freedom and Jin the Kurdish word for women. There were speakers from the Kurdish
community, political organisations including the WSM and Sinn Fein and a trade union
speaker. You can hear most of these speeches in the video. ---- The protest happened at
rush hour in the city centre so thousands of people passed by. The text below is from a
leaflet that was distributed to the people passing.
--- Stop Turkeys war on Kurds ---
Today we are here to protest against the Turkish invasion of Syria, the attack on the YPG and
YPJ* forces by the Turkish army and its affiliated Jihadi partners, and to protest against
the hypocritical treatment of the Kurds by her western allies.
After taking Jarablus, Syria, in agreement with the Islamic State without firing a single
bullet, the Turkish army has engaged in airstrikes and shelling of civilian areas, killing
at least 45 in two villages south of Jarablus. Dozens of local fighters from the Jarablus
Military Council, affiliated with the SDF, have been taken prisoner and tortured in front
of cameras; most of them Arabs.
With its latest military foray Turkey, which has tried to camouflage its regional war on
Kurds by using the Islamic State as a pretext, is trying to prevent the conjoining of
Rojava's three cantons. Furthermore this is also an attempt to strengthen Sunni/Muslim
Brotherhood forces, which are ideologically aligned with the Turkish AKP government.
Through these proxies Erdogan hopes to revive his neo-Ottoman aspirations to have a say in
Syria's future and a longer-term influence in the Middle East and North Africa.
What is at stake though, as much as Kurds' gains, is the possibility of a progressive,
secular and democratic political line and system in the region. This is what Rojava
represents and this is why the Syrian regime, Iran, Russia and the USA have agreed to
Turkey's invasion.
Rojava's existence in this regard is a threat to the status quo and interests of all the
nation-states and governments in the Middle East and by extension those pillaging the
region. As an alternative model of governance Rojava has proven that people from different
ethnicities and religious groups can organise at the local level, live, produce and
struggle together without a centralised state, even during times of sectarian war. The
unity between Kurdish, Arab and Turkmens against Turkey's invasion is proof of this.
The Rojava region is the South-Western part of divided Kurdistan. It falls within the
borders of Syria. Rojava means ‘west' in Kurdish. Syrian Kurds have been heavily oppressed
by various Syrian regimes. The current Assad dynasty has denied Kurds basic human rights.
Many Kurds were not recognized as citizens and were not issued passports.
When the Arab Spring landed in Syria, the country collapsed in a bloody civil war in the
course of few years. In order to fight insurgency elsewhere, Syrian forces vacated key
Kurdish towns in the North of the country. Kurds quickly filled in the power vacuum and
organized themselves in excellent fighter units and set up local self-governing bodies.
The Rojava Revolution had begun!
Various Islamic Jihadi groups financed by Gulf States and Turkey were commandeered by the
masters to attack and destroy the territorial, political and military gains of the Kurds.
The Turkish government has been the sworn enemy of the Rojava revolution from the very
beginning. Turkey initially supported the AL-Qaida linked Al-Nusra front.
YPG and YPJ fought the Jihadis in a bloody battle, defeating and driving them from many
towns and villages. A splinter group was formed from the AL-Qaida, who came to be known as
ISIS, ISIL or the Islamic State. This barbaric, ruthless Jihadi group, was able with
foreign financial and military support to take towns, villages and military centres in
Iraq and Syria.
ISIS/DAESH attacked the Kurdish town of Kobani in the autumn of 2014, prompting US and
other Western allies to support the YPG militarily for the first time to great dismay of
Erdogan and the Turkish ruling party. YPG forces were able to defeat and drive ISIS from
most of Northern Syria.
Rojava leaders set up three cantons in Norther Syria and soon after united them, declaring
a Federal Kurdistan inside Syria. Erdogan was alarmed by this and feared a backlash in
Northern or Turkish Kurdistan. He set up a ‘red line' with Euphrates as the border.
Kurdish YPG forces were not to cross west of the Euphrates river. When the YPG did cross
the Euphrates and took the key Syrian town of Manbij from ISIS, Erdogan decided it was
time to go into action and ordered the Turkish army to cross into Syria, taking the border
town of Jarablus.
The Turkish government has never been troubled by the presence of IS at his borders and
never took military action to drive them from her borders. Only when YPG was able to drive
ISIS and other Jihadi groups from her borders, did Turkey decide to act militarily against
the YPG. Erdogan's problem is not the ISIS or other Jihadis but the Kurdish YPG. The
so-called Western Allies of the Rojava Kurds, US, France, Britain, Germany, all turned
their back to Turkey's incursion into Rojava in exchange for political compromises by the
Erdogan dictatorship.
*People's Protection Units/Women's Protection Units
http://www.wsm.ie/c/dublin-protest-defend-rojava-and-oppose-turkish-invasion
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Message: 3
At the end of last year the UK became the first country in the world to be investigated by
the United Nations for grave and systematic violations of Disabled people's rights. ----
This is as a direct result of the disproportionate impact of austerity on Disabled people
and ideological attacks waged by the Tory government that have seen Disabled people and
the poorest members of society hit by cut after cut after cut. ---- In 2012 DPAC in
partnership with UK Uncut were able to use the media interest around the London
Paralympics to draw attention to the disgraceful practices of Atos, one of the Paralympic
sponsors and the company responsible for carrying out the notorious Work Capability
Assessment that has caused so much harm and suffering. Two years later Atos pulled put of
the contract to run the WCA which had become unworkable due to the success of the campaign
against them.
This September DPAC will be using the interest surrounding the 2016 Paralympic Games in
Rio to draw attention to the cumulative impact of the cuts on Disabled people that are
taking Disabled people's rights back decades with attacks in every area of our lives from
education to independent living to employment to income.
http://www.classwarparty.org.uk/dpac-rightsnotgames-week-action-september-4-10th/
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Message: 4
K ita witnessed that date, the white group (abstentions)[1]will continue to increase as
public distrust in politicians. Many people throw regret and looked at the past when
people were more community oriented[2]and a matter of public affairs. The decline of
community orientation and awareness of public affairs be the topic of grief commentators
from across the political spectrum. Liberals blame the unlimited power of corporations
over this slump. While American conservatives blame the centralized state, suggested to
decentralize the federal level. ---- But if we go back to the past, in ancient Greece, for
example, all adult males were directly involved in decisions relating to their community
face to face ( face to face ). They do not have to become activists and politicians to
make changes. They can still be a trader and occasionally come to a meeting of citizens to
take a decision. For example, if Greece should send an army against the Persian invasion
or not. This is the demos (people) and kratos (power) is actually, where everyone can get
involved directly in decision-making. Indeed, the model of democracy in Greece is not
perfect and could be better. Because the ancient Greek democracy does not accommodate the
voices of women, immigrants or slaves.
I do not need to take the example that is much like the ancient Greeks, because there are
some of you who are anti-westernized. In this archipelago, when the kingdom there and
making decisions that may affect many people there are in the hands of a few elite palace,
the spirit of democracy would appear on a local scale. The villages are far from the
center of the kingdom implement consensus culture that emphasizes the principle of
consensus ( consensus ), the decision is taken until it completely agree. Lots of things
to do for the community orientation and done with collective culture, we call mutual aid.
Aristotle, in the first book of the series Politica said that humans by nature are names
for the human species : creatures that live in the polis (city). Polis , in ancient Greece
was a city, and activities to take care of the policy is politics. All men should take
care and community-oriented life together through politics. Politics is not the place to
seize power as we see in countries today. But the politics of trying to be destroyed
through a long and arduous efforts and remaining still continue to be destroyed again. In
Europe, the political citizen was taken over by the kingdom, to seize church. When
politics by churches destroyed, the state took over and still trying to paralyze public
participation. The state also ruled distant places to come under control, removing any
autonomy that until today they enjoy.
State ( states ) in fact, structurally and professionally, apart from the general public.
He is stood on ordinary people, men and women. He runs the rule over the people and make
decisions that affect their lives. With its professional, manipulative and immoral, elite
and mass system under the guise of democracy, insulting the democratic ideal that often
they promised to call periodically to the 'electorate'. Far from empowering the people as
citizens, the state requires that the decommissioning of the general power of citizens.
Everything was done by mutual cooperation and then taken over by the state. This system
downgrades citizens into mere 'taxpayers', 'voters' and 'constituents'. As if they are too
young and stupid to manage public affairs. Residents are expected to work solely passively
and allow the elite to find the best path for them, with work using the money given to the
people through taxes. Behind such circumstances there must be logic and moral values that
force. It is a moral value that the mass of the public are considered too stupid to
understand anything.
On the other hand, the current community orientation toward individualism is getting
destroyed in the vortex of capitalistic culture. Realizing he had no public role anymore
because of all the public affairs taken care of the state, the individuals in the country
then still have to deal with life. Economic pressures force them to spend more of their
time in order to earn a living. Make them short of time to devote himself or socialize in
family life, especially in community affairs. Humans, in turn rooted nature as a political
creature, when too concerned with personal affairs among others.
Not only that, the state also mastered every inch of land of livelihood. Indigenous
peoples, which are de facto been occupying their ancestral land since the days of the
ancestors, deprived of their rights and marginalized. All of the land is considered
property of the state that emerged later, so that if the country wants to build
infrastructure in the public interest-that whereas in the interests of a particular
class-those with the heart to get rid of the people who live on it, damaging agricultural
lands productive and damaging biodiversity[3],
Those who are aware of it, then try to be politically active. Attempt to engage in public
affairs and register themselves as candidates in the general election. At first, each
candidate is not a 'bad guy', because most of them initially entered the field of public
service with idealistic motivations. However, the demands of a particular group and the
system pressure, they tried to deny the people. They became like that because they have
become part of the system of interaction of power that his orders had power over them.
Knowing that the system will kill idealism, some people choose to become the opposition
and refused entry into the system. They were critical of the measures taken and heroically
campaigned for a change. However, the desired change never materialized, because of the
state they hope to change the fact does not listen to them. Finally they gave up and hope
they are replaced by pessimism and apathy mass will be. Even if true, that change is
something that is very difficult. Rather than bother to make a change, better hand it over
to the state.
The only thing you merely political participation in elections, and only then if you
choose. First of all, you see a variety of political advertising candidates, complete with
political jargon and narcissistic self picture. Then you are asked to go to the polls on
election day, and in the stall, you see a large sheet of paper with rows of images they
see, and you are forced to choose! When elected, they were awarded the position and work
on the basis of the mandate of the people. Tadaa! You are considered active in politics!
And many people were clapping because democracy has been executed.
Coming home from the polling place, you are back in work and public affairs entrusted to
the people you choose. This is democracy? No, this aristocratic form of government where
power is in the hands of a small group, the privileged or the ruling class. The decision
is in the hands of the representatives, representation constituencies. The decisions they
make the voice of the people, because they were elected by the people! Because they have
the coercive power of the state (force), the decisions they make can be applied when it is
also in everyone. And they are not ashamed to call 'democracy'. In fact, every decision
they make almost always side with the people and not by the popular vote.
We must realize that the only way to improve public participation is the monopoly of power
and hand it over to the people. If the turmoil continues, the more apolitical and in the
end, let the representatives sitting in the air-conditioned room to take care of our lives
for the sake of capitalists and their group. And unfortunately, many political blame for
this mess and do not want to be involved in these affairs. In fact, pinning the label
'political system is therefore rough mistake. According to Bookchin, a libertarian
socialist, this system should be more aptly named state ( statecraft ). Politics and state
should be strictly separated, because there are many other political form, in addition to
the state, empire, and theocracy highly monopolistic.
And if I am right, you actually hate the country, not politics. Unless you really do not
care any more business together, then you hate politics.
endnotes
[1]In Indonesia, Abstentions is a political movement for those who choose not to vote in
elections. In the New Order era, the movement campaigned by Arief Budiman.
[2]Community I do not mean like the community understood in Indonesia as an association or
a set that have the same activity or hobby, but rather a collection of people who are in
the same geographic location. Communities I mean almost the same as "citizens".
[3]In Indonesia, the country's sovereignty over the land can be seen on Law No.2 / 2012 on
Land Procurement for Development in the Public Interest.
Reference
Biehl, Janet. 2016. Politics of Social Ecology Munisipalisme Libertarian. Yogyakarta.
Leaves hours.
Chomsky, Noam. 2009. Political Power of Media. Yogyakarta. Pine.
Bertens, Kees. 1999. History of Greek Philosophy. Yogyakarta. Canisius.
http://anarkis.org/anda-tidak-benci-politik-anda-benci-negara/
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Message: 5
Call of the local coordination of Athens FROM the solidarity march in conquest Notaras 26.
---- Opposite the repressive approaches, the resistance is not bent and does not go away.
On state gangs and repression oppose the obstinacy of the fight, the syllogikopoiisi and
companionship. The slow death of a bankrupt system that does not have to offer rather than
fear and misery oppose the organization of the struggle for the Social Revolution for A
narchia and Communism. ---- SOLIDARITY with eligibility ROOF OF IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES
"NOTARA 26" WHO ACCEPTED murderous arson attack ---- HANDS FROM KATALIPSEIS AND SPACES OF
STRUGGLE ---- MARCH, MONDAY 29/8, 6pm, Propylaea ---- Athens Regional Coordination
FROM ---- Update - Photos from the solidarity march in conquest Notaras 26 and each race
area
http://apo.squathost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/14112005_329150914094606_392701295_n.jpg
In protest Monday August 29 called by the refugee housing occupation and immigrant Notara
26, after the murderous arson attack suffered by para-fascists, involving more than 2000
protesters including many refugees and immigrants.
Local Municipality Coordination Anarchist Political Organisation invited and participated
in the demonstration with banners that read SOLIDARITY with eligibility ROOF REFUGEES /
IMMIGRANTS NOTARA 26 DOWN THE DRIED FROM YOUR KATALIPSEIS AND EVERY SPACE RACE.
Opposite the repressive approaches and fascist attacks the resistance is not bent and does
not go away. State and para-state gangs and repression oppose the obstinacy of the fight,
the syllogikopoiisi and companionship. The slow death of a bankrupt system that does not
have to offer rather than fear and misery oppose the organization of the struggle for the
Social Revolution, to anarchy and communism.
COMMON locals GAMES AND IMMIGRANTS FOR LIFE AND DIGNITY
