Today's Topics:
1. Greece, Organize the libertarian spirit of November, against
Capital and its representatives (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Czech, afed: Not pass! -- Report of protinacionalistické
demonstration on 17 November in Prague. [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. black rose fed: Richard turner and the criminalization of
racialized poverty (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. First of May Anarchist Alliance: Bite the Hand That Holds
the Leash By Patrick O'Donoghue (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Coordination of Anarchist Groups - Call popular
rally against fascism Saturday, November 26 at 15h place Colbert
by CGA LYON (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Communication Anarchosyndicalist Initiative Rosinante for the 43rd anniversary of the
uprising of the Polytechnic ---- Forty years after the uprising of November, the Greek
society is in the same position and facing the same challenge: Called to remind that
despite all the apparent immobility and consensus that serves the power, the collective
power of the oppressed remains this unpredictable and uncontrollable driving force that
creates cracks in the schemes precipitates any power, as strong and unshakeable if shows.
---- The November uprising was one of these grand moments of human history, societies that
are themselves in their subjects, violating certainties and rules and overcoming
mechanisms and bureaucracies. In November they attempted to slander the political parties
have when broke, tried to integrate the urban democracy in the early years of the "new
regime" tried to suppress again and again the State , attempted to the ownership of
several late 'exponents' of inside the path of decades. If all these fail, it is because
this is exactly the main property of libertarian rebellions that make the earth turns and
the world goes: to overcome slander, to avoid integration, to withstand the repression, to
overcome ownership efforts. The November remains for generations of people, the symbol of
defiance , of rebellion, the symbol for each brand new battle that gives the society in
spite of the times and of prevailing .
Forty years later, although the Greek society is facing an ever growing poverty,
unemployment, decline of rights, political and economic level, it is also because it gave
confidence in herself and handed unwise politicians and "saviors".
The era of delusion finished and finished hard. but gets there first exhausted all stocks
of the social movement who lived in Greece the first four years of crisis. Managed to
offer the Chapter the opportunity to achieve some victories is doubtful whether we
succeeded, without the contribution of a government, in the bosom of which had previously
fallen asleep social opposition.
The day before yesterday events, the SYRIZA-ANEL government to prohibit demonstrations to
thyrokollei prohibition for organizations offices and eventually attacked once again
demonstrators with batons, tear gas and stun - grenades, confirm the steady opposition of
each government and each state to society , even when it is going through days of glory.
Yet the social movement remains alive: we saw unfold in the solidarity movement to
refugees, to see to breathe pole out in workplace and social struggles that create small
splashes to lull required by Chapter.
The move has all the libertarian sensibility November. We need to add the social
organization in each area of repression, at work, in neighborhoods, in schools and in
schools and awareness of the need for independent social action without illusions about
reforming the Fund and the good intentions of those who rely on it.
Organize today our resistance, against precarity, poverty, the arbitrariness of capital
and employers, repression, racism and fascism, that the next outbreak to find us more
ready to defeat.
We honor the uprising of November, we build the libertarian organization of social resistance.
Preselection of Anarchosyndicalist Initiative Rosinante, 14.30 in pl. Klafthmonos
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Message: 2
Even this year on Nov. 17 was an opportunity for a number of public meetings. Politicians
put flowers and wreaths visible by chance and did not stay far behind their competitors.
Very peculiar is that for commercial reasons, the memorial archway at the National class
moved to the street. The biggest turnout had psychic events, evoking the spirit of Vaclav
Havel, among others, with flags of the EU and NATO. A much less numerous protest actions
were to be carried in the nationalist spirit and usually extol the current ruler of Castle
Zeman. Probably the only authentic alternative to that day, which was identified with
capitalism while militantly nationalist stand-mongering was the one convened Initiative No
Racism! ( INR ). ---- To this event registered a number of groups and individuals. You
could meet the anarchists, feminists, anti-fascists, socialists, greens, pirates ... The
meeting was elected the tenth in the square in front of Prague's main railway station. By
that time there were still only a few dozen demonstrators, but their number is constantly
growing, and finally to about 500 people who greeted about half past ten short
introductory speech of the organizers. Those in him nicely including commend solidarity
initiatives to support refugees, mainly - due to the venue - Hlavák Initiative. Followed
by an English translation.
The opening remarks came a fresh expression of feminist blocks in which there have been
several speakers also attended a choral cry. Their speech called for a fairer world and
another revolution. A revolution that will be feminist. "Feminism has no boundaries."
Before the march, sweetened while waiting music from a mobile sound system. The parade
carried the banner "Nationalism is not an alternative." Farther were displayed banners
with slogans such as "reciprocity rather than domination," "Against racist exclusion and
deportations," "nationalism there is no place", "Do not let the Nazis no chance", "Fight
fotress Europe", "Antinacionalismus - well-being for all" or "Anti-fascism belongs to the
streets." People also brought banners with different slogans, some miss a joke, for
instance. "More feminism, less debilismu" or "Police killed Jesus" (from anarchokrestanu
from the empty throne). And of course there flew the anarchist and anti-fascist banners.
The first stop was a march in front of the People's House, the seat of the governing
Social Democrats. Here came the speech of the Socialist Solidarity, which criticized the
capitalist system and noted the danger of populist demagogues how to use the frustration
of people calling for a strong national state. It is on the contrary necessary to show
alternatives without secretion of different groups of people. "If they will not let divide
the borders, we better world." Then he took the word of a representative of young green,
which had embarked populists, oligarchs and corporations, and among others. Pointed to the
necessity of overcoming capitalism. By popular stop in front of the house was completed
performances, during which he quoted a fascist and xenophobic statements by politicians.
People then responded bellowing and throwing balls brown paper whose color symbolizes the
level of political statements.
During the procession chanted anti-fascist and anti-capitalist passwords. From the sound
system, which was traveling in the rear of the procession, came the music, sometimes
interlaced with short speeches to the topic of the event.
About half a second, the procession stopped, this time before the Prague seat of the
European Commission Representation in Jungmann Street. Here came the speech of the Antifa
Vienna. This was followed by the information that the activists supporting the Kurdish
militias in the fight against the Islamic State providing a field hospital, Margaret
Všelichová and Miroslav Farkas, are now in Turkish custody.
That was only a short distance to the target demonstration on Jungmann Square, where a
speech activists of collective INR. "It's easier to spit on the bottom than to try to
reach the top, it is easier to reach for colorful faces until after the invisible hand of
the market." But that antifascist November 17 is definitely not over. On the contrary, one
could say that just started. Nearby, in the lower part of Wenceslas Square had just
gathering okamurovci. Great opportunity to disrupt the meeting. It eventually despite
police deployment and managed Okamura fans had the opportunity to hear clearly that they
were not welcome.
Shuffled police grievous, so in massive odds with the participation of various components,
including an anti-conflict team and dozens of secret, smlsla its classic bullshit on the
van, which provided sound during the event.
From thirty people started to gather in front of the Faculty of Law at the Curie Square
to try to prevent the announced march ultrapravicáku Jewish city. In the Letná park,
meanwhile paraded gathering about four hundred Orthodox Zemanovci, fart playing in the
militia, anti-Islamist and neo-Nazis. A hundred then the fourth afternoon marched through
Prague. Joined them and some participants 'leftist' event, with such talk. KSCM deputy
chairman Josef Skala or CSSD deputy Jaroslav Foldyna and fascist actions of the National
Democracy.
At that time, at Republic Square for nearly a hundred people chanted legal analysis Jiri
Montenegrin horrified, "how is it possible that someone cancels a law that foreigners can
not own our land." This block against Islamization on Palach Square instead of having to
listen to his speeches sound system directed from the windows of the Academy of Arts,
which put up the building as well as banners reading "bloc against bloc" or "Under Burkina
beach".
Ten minutes before five o'clock came the information that the march of Summer was due to
the possibility of blockade diverted and need to move to the Rudolfinum. People who
managed to create the fastest at the end of the bridge blockade Manesova sitting. Others
protidemonstrantum prevented the transfer of police cordons. At the moment, although
police managed unified approach antifascists crumble, but in the end it turned out to be
an advantage. Groups antifascists appeared decentrally at various places where he march
browse, regardless of how it police operatively changed route. Patriots So literally all
the time after crossing the river waiting complications, delays, blockades, active and
vocal resistance antifascists and passers-by who place themselves at random.
Although police were able to blockade by MANESUV remove the bridge, another was held only
a few dozen meters away and prevented from entering the Jewish quarter. Someone built
zemanovcum into the path individually, for which he could expect police protection.
Counteraction took place peacefully, on the side of the nationalists was familiar with
rage and some of it expressed quite aggressive behavior, racial slurs and various
vulgarities, others contented themselves with chants of "Long live Zeman" followed in
direct succession password pre-war fascist "Nothing but the nation" and the Nazis
favorites "Bohemia for the Czechs". Number complement mobile inconspicuous clusters
secret. Above all he watched a police helicopter and all kinds of police surveillance
technique in the streets.
After several tens of meters was deflected march Zemanovci in Krížovnické street blocked
again. The way prevented him from living chain and people chanting "they shall not pass!",
"Go home, make a mistake on a time" like. At half past six in the place began to converge
riot and plan intervention. From the police van came with a challenge to those present
after two words, however, it completely drowned out the horn of a police car, thereby
uncommitted onlookers quite fun. Thus, the nationalists were diverted again and
protidemonstranti kept longer in the police siege, stopped and checked a few of them to
ensure, among them A2larmu photographer and editor of The Referendum.
Nicnežnárodovci encountered opponents after a moment also at the Marian Square. And here,
finally, the police encircled a long time been holding several dozen protidemonstrantu.
Those, however, maintain a good mood. Stemmed mainly from a strong feeling that we have a
pretty miserable day this modern reincarnation fascists. Another unflattering welcome from
fascists expected Zeman fans on Bethlehem Square, where their actions numbering about
fifty most loyal ended.
We have always opposed the various forms of fascism and racism, and there is no reason for
not doing so in the future. I like to remind that under capitalism in 1989 necinkalo key
squares. Living there is certainly no prize. In the streets so we were mainly "for free
and solidary society", what was the second part of the name of an anti-fascist demonstration.
Related reports:
http://denikreferendum.cz/clanek/24122-17-listopad-2016-zive-postrehy-z-protestu
http://a2larm.cz/2016/11/17-listopad-vsechno-pri-starem/
http://denikreferendum.cz/clanek/24129-rozdeleny-17-listopad-spojil-k-veceru-boj-o-zidovske-mesto
http://denikreferendum.cz/clanek/24131-jak-jsem-slavil-17-listopad-v-policejnim-antonu
http://a2larm.cz/2016/11/fotoreport-kazdy-za-svou-svobodu/
https://www.afed.cz/text/6561/no-pasaran
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Message: 3
This past Wednesday morning, November 16, Richard Turner died in the street surrounded by
police officers. We do not know yet how he died, whether it was natural causes, a heart
attack, drug-related, the result of something the police did, or some other reason. What
we do know is that he "became unresponsive" as he lay in the street surrounded by police
officers. We do know that Richard Turner has been in and out of the criminal justice
system for years in Champaign County: that he struggled with mental health issues in a
county with no mental health facilities that are accessible to poor people, and that he
struggled with drug issues in a county with no detox center. We know that Champaign
County's go-to method for dealing with drug and mental health crises is the criminal
justice system rather than a community health system.
Community organizations such as Build Programs Not Jails (BPNJ) have been pressuring the
County Board about this for years, as the County Board has schemed every which way to put
public funds toward jail expansion and law enforcement rather than crucial services such
as mental health, drug treatment, and housing for formerly incarcerated and economically
marginalized people. The Urbana school board recently considered a proposal put forward by
the Housing Authority of Champaign County to evict people from public housing whose
children are absent from too many days of school. Again, this evidences a preference the
governing boards of this county have for resorting to punitive measures to control poor
communities; measures which only serve to increase people's likelihood to end up on the
streets or in jail. Last Tuesday evening, November 15, members of several community
organizations such as BPNJ, Black Lives Matter, Black Rose Anarchist Federation, the
Graduate Employment Organization, and the Independent Media Center among others, packed
the school board meeting to urge them not to pass the measure which would only serve to
further criminalize low-income families in Urbana.
While at this point we know little about how Richard Turner died, we can say with surety
that this punitive law enforcement system that treated his drug and mental health
struggles as law enforcement issues rather than community health issues failed him. Most
nauseating, local news outlets have been running stories about how much everyone loved
Richard Turner, a man this County left to panhandle in the streets, a man that frat boys
from the university used to take selfies with as a joke, a man that fraternity and
sorority brothers and sisters used to laughingly refer to as "Black Santa." Now these
scumbags are going to pretend that they not only liked, but loved him. A News-Gazette
article that came out Wednesday evening stated that "everybody loved Richie," but later in
that very same article notes that Turner's probation officer said "when Mr. Turner was in
drug court, officials there were unable to find any family locally who was willing to help
him." Local news website thetab.com referred to Turner as "our beloved campus icon," as
several over-privileged college students lamented how they will miss "Black Santa." What
in the hell did the campus ever do for Richard Turner that it can claim him as its own?
If, as the probation officer says, there was no family locally who was willing to help
him, and yet everyone was willing to treat him as a joke, as a mascot to take selfies
with, and as a criminal, then what kind of love is that?
In response to the shape the local reporting on the matter has taken, Black Rose
integrating member Tyler Camp of the Campus Union for Trans Equality and Support likened
the disingenuous community love for Turner to UIUC's racist "Chief" mascot:
"All of the articles I've seen reporting on the death of Richard Turner are incredibly
dehumanizing, calling him the campus icon in an equation of his life and personhood with
things such as the alma mater or ironically enough, the chief. If that doesn't point out
how dehumanizing it is to be called an icon I don't know what will. The white tears
"celebrating" his memory or the cutesy image of him as Black Santa are hypocritical enough
when poverty is so often demonized while the person is alive only for them to be missed
for the reminder of our (usually begrudging or uncomfortable) empathy once they've passed.
We have no right to claim empathy for this man. Our condolences are not comforting to
anyone but maybe our own conscience and I ask you to challenge your conscience in
believing that you can be comforted while millions of people remain in poverty due to
systemic violences of classism, racism, ableism, and white patriarchy. The fact that these
articles gloss over the police involvement in Turner's death make me highly suspicious
that the incident leading up to it was motivated by the criminalization of racialized
poverty. White tears are hypocritical, demeaning and outright oppressive when we are
complicit in and perpetuate these racist stereotypes of poverty and homelessness,
meanwhile failing to understand the systems that cause people like Turner to be surrounded
by police in their last moments. And as of right now due to the absolute shit media
reporting and obstruction of information in the police department we have no way of
knowing just how much the system has failed Turner in his death, further than the fact of
his homelessness which is a failure enough of our broken social welfare system."
If this community truly loves Turner the way it claims to, then it will seriously begin
the work of dismantling the cruel criminal justice system and replace it with needed
services, accessible to all, such as healthcare, including mental healthcare services,
housing for all with no strings attached, including for people who leave jail or prison
with little to no money and no address, and drug detox and treatment that is unconnected
to law enforcement and which treats drug addiction as a health issue rather than a law
enforcement issue. Regardless of how Turner died, he was killed by a heartless, racist,
and punitive social system.
http://www.blackrosefed.org/richard-turner-criminalization-racialized-poverty/
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Message: 4
"The thing to remember about people like Trump is that they offer false solutions and
scapegoats to real problems- like the Klan did and still does, like the Commission on
Public Safety did here in Minnesota during World War One, like the
anti-refugee/anti-immigrant crowd does in stirring up hate against Somalis and Hispanic
people in St Cloud and around the Twin Cities. The solutions Trump peddles don't work.
Deporting Mexicans can't bring back jobs that got replaced by machines. Profiling Muslims
can't bring us security when the main domestic terror threat is white supremacists. You
can't reverse the stagnation of wages by busting unions. You can't stop outsourcing by
trying to stop other countries from developing." ---- The night Trump got elected, I did a
lot of soul searching, because the work I do as a revolutionary and an organizer involves,
a lot of the time, trying to help and support people who... probably voted for Trump.
The place I work is mostly white, with coworkers that, like me, come from rural and blue
collar backgrounds. It's a place of contradictions, where rants about the boss getting
rich off your labor comes as easily off of people's lips as rants about ‘welfare queens'
coded in the tired language of black bashing, where nobody likes a cop until the issue of
protesters and ‘thugs' comes up. It's a place where machismo is key and being "not PC" is
part of being a man. A number of my coworkers are in that strange, almost fabled breed of
voters who were excited about Sanders, then after he lost the primaries drifted towards
Trump- more didn't bother voting at all. It's a racially divided workplace, and the black
section, which has a union, is under attack from the company. Our section, mostly white,
is non-union, and so far hasn't gotten involved. Most aren't even aware of the contract
disputes; the two sections don't talk much.
I was sitting on leave, thinking about my work, and wondering how the hell I could bring
myself to go into work again and keep trying to talk to, and listen to, and support people
who were fine with throwing my Muslim and queer family members and friends, and our
immigrant and black coworkers, under the bus for a guy who made a lot of promises he can't
keep about making America great again. I knew, intellectually, why I had to- because after
decades of neoliberal policies by a Democratic Party that abandoned the Great Society
vision, of mechanization and outsourcing, of the Farm Crisis, and of the weakening of
unions and the left, has left a lot of rural and working class white people searching for
answers. I knew, intellectually, that if those answers don't come in the form of standing
with other exploited and marginalized people, they were going to come in the form of
blaming even more exploited and marginalized people, of buying into the far right. I knew,
from experience, that trying to approach anti-racism solely from a stance of guilt and
blame is usually counterproductive and feeds the same processes that drive people to
retreat into racism in the first place. I knew that I had to keep trying- but deep down in
my gut, I felt like I was betraying my friends who are facing worse dangers under a Trump
administration than I'm going to.
Then, the day after the election, a coworker of mine did something I hoped would happen
for a long time. The man is a classic Rust Belt populist. A laid off union ironworker
turned mariner, raised in a trailer park worrying about whether they'd have electricity
that month. He harbors a lot of racial resentment over what he feels like are his problems
not being acknowledged, being written off because of his relative white privilege. He
resents being blamed or made to feel guilty for racism- and in a process familiar to
anyone from my hometown, that defensiveness slowly turns into a defense of racism itself,
a way to way to reject the blame by rejecting the idea that anything was wrong in the
first place. This guy approached a queer coworker and an amazing organizer, and asked to
meet with him, a Mexican, and a known Black Lives Matter arrestee to talk about forming a
union. He insisted. He started talking organizing strategy. I got the news after work, in
a pho shop near the waterfront. I almost broke down. It was the best news I could have
hoped for. It gave me the strength to come into work ready to keep organizing.
The thing to remember about people like Trump is that they offer false solutions and
scapegoats to real problems- like the Klan did and still does, like the Commission on
Public Safety did here in Minnesota during World War One, like the
anti-refugee/anti-immigrant crowd does in stirring up hate against Somalis and Hispanic
people in St Cloud and around the Twin Cities. The solutions Trump peddles don't work.
Deporting Mexicans can't bring back jobs that got replaced by machines. Profiling Muslims
can't bring us security when the main domestic terror threat is white supremacists. You
can't reverse the stagnation of wages by busting unions. You can't stop outsourcing by
trying to stop other countries from developing.
But, for someone to be able to offer a scapegoat for a problem, there has to be a real
problem. My white coworkers know that for white working class people, our incomes are
stagnating, our drug addiction is rising, and our life expectancy is declining- as they
are for working class people of color. We know that industries that once defined the
character and culture of the blue collar American worker are phasing out, and taking the
towns built around those industries with them. We know that the discourse around rural and
working class whites is a discourse about ‘white trash', ‘rednecks', and ‘hicks', the
deplorables who represent everything ugly and backwards about America- often spoken by
wealthier whites from metro areas whose racism is more polite but also carries the clout
of greater economic and political power, the ability to lock people of color out of
housing and jobs while touting the benefits of a shallowly defined ‘multiculturalism'.
When Trump comes along and offers a solution, even a false one, even a racist one, people
in places like the Rust Belt and Appalachia bite. It's wrong- but who else is offering a
solution? The Democrats offer more ‘free trade' deals, and the Left isn't strong enough to
offer much of anything.
It's true that the white working class didn't elect Trump- at least, not on our own. The
white vote went for Trump across the income spectrum- and less people voted for him than
voted for Romney back in 2012. Still, the Rust Belt and rural areas, mostly white and
largely working class, were part of Trump's victory, delivering key votes in swing states
around the Great Lakes. Of the entire working class in America, only the white voters went
for Trump, joining with wealthier whites in an election with largely racial voting blocs.
In doing so, a lot of people chose to once more take on the role of attack dogs for white
supremacy, jumping at the task of "making America great again" without asking whose
America or what greatness is. Faced with a choice between glaringly corrupt neoliberalism
and glaringly racist paleo-conservatism, a lot of us chose Trump. Too many got suckered,
one more time, into maintaining a racist system that keeps us hooked on bullshit
non-solutions, that beats down the people of color in our own neighborhoods and workplaces
whose solidarity and mutual aid we need, and that degrades our humanity by making us
complicit in the oppression of our fellow people and turning us into the very thing so
many whites resent feeling guilty over.
I believe that working class white people can, and often do, and increasingly must,
realize that our enemies are not Mexicans, Muslims, and Blacks. The people who get rich
off of our work then invest that wealth in machines to replace us or move our jobs to a
country where union organizers get raped and murdered in the desert, are mostly wealthy
white guys. Ditto the people who own the companies that level mountains and pollute rivers
and groundwater, or who own the trailer parks or the tenement apartments or the banks that
foreclose people's houses. Ditto the people who cut taxes for the rich and defund social
services, then spend more and more on war and send our family members and friends off to
die in Afghanistan or Iraq. When poor white folk start realizing that our interests aren't
with a racist, capitalist power structure, and are with people of color who we work and
live alongside, and when we stop acting as attack dogs and start acting in solidarity,
that's when we can be part of making something great. That's why I'm going to keep
listening to, and talking to, and helping and relying on, these coworkers- because if
people hadn't listened to and talked to and worked with me, I'd probably think exactly
like they think today.
Let's betray white supremacy and the fat-cat whites who it made supreme. Let's steal our
communities from out of the mouth of fascism. Let's refuse to be attack dogs, and bite the
hand that holds that leash.
http://m1aa.org/?p=1307
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Message: 5
Neither the Croix Rousse, or elsewhere, the fascists have no place! ---- This Saturday,
November 19 Catholic fundamentalists and right-wing activists held a rally instead Colbert
with helmets and weapons in hand, while the latter was banned by the prefecture. ---- The
inhabitants and residents and transients were seen then block access to the popular Place
de la Croix Rousse. ---- Later in the afternoon, it's a group of armed fascists present at
this gathering that came without any police response attacking the bookstore Black
Feather, which was heavily damaged and bystanders injured. This attack is not an isolated
fact, it is part of the current rise in power of the extreme right and the multiplication
of attacks against minorities, activists ... ---- In Lyon there 'are no less than 4 local
fascists. From anywhere in France neo-Nazi groups and open local storefront with the
complacency of governments that let them be.
Coordination of Anarchist Groups of Lyon called living-es, political organizations, unions
and associations to mobilize progressives and solidarity against these attacks.
PEOPLE GATHERING Saturday, November 26 3:00 p.m. A PLACE COLBERT
To support us, please contact us at: soutienplumepoire@riseup.net
CGA LYON
http://cgalyon.ouvaton.org/spip.php?article215
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