Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire - Aperitif debate, "Borders
murder" on 22 November in Chateaubriant by AL Nantes (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Novembre - international,
Chile: Annihilate the legacy of Pinochet (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Greece, provo.gr: Text on the occasion of the rape incident
in APO (gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Britain, class war: A proposal to demolish Parliament &
Buckingham Palace for social housing development
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Coordination of Anarchist Groups - Against male
violence, feminist solidarity! by CGA LYON (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
European migration policy is the cause each year of thousands of deaths at the border. Let
us continue to support this protectionist attitude of europe? What analyzes, which means
the fight we can give us to end this situation? ---- The militants of Alternative
Libertaire offer to exchange around this topic by sharing their thoughts libertarian
communists. ---- CHATEAUBRIANT ---- Tuesday, November 22, 2016, from 19:30 ---- Bar Plow,
28 rue de Couère ---- [See map on the site of AL Nantes]
the event on social networks to join and broadcast!
page of Alternative Libertaire Nantes on social networks
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Les-frontieres-assassinent-le-22
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Message: 2
For several months, two social magnitude of movements challenging the neoliberal model
imposed during the Chilean military dictatorship. One questions the retirement pension
fund, the other calls for free education at university. ---- Chile's pension system is
assured by pension fund administrators (AFP), companies whose goal is profit. These
private pension funds provide capital on the financial market for Chilean companies or
multinationals. At the expense of working people, the AFP generate profits from
retirement, the amount of which depends on the profitability of these funds, as
fluctuations in the financial market. This individual and neoliberal pension system was
imposed in 1981 by the privatization of Social Security, under the dictatorship of General
Pinochet. Indeed, the dictatorship established a military crackdown, police and judicial
fierce, challenging the fundamental rights of expression, assembly, organization of
working people and the general population.
Read also: Chile: pensions defense set fire to the powder
In this configuration, the movement of social resistance capacity has been greatly
reduced, leaving the field open to the Chicago Boys, these neoliberal economists trained
in the United States that have implemented the economic policies of privatization of the
economy with the help military. Incidentally, the military pensions, they do not work with
the model of the AFP but following the previous model, and is much higher.
The AFPs manage approximately $ 160 billion and pay a monthly pension of less than 240,000
Chilean pesos (about 300 euros per month for a cost of living roughly equivalent to that
of France). This system provides very low pensions and the pensions of workers who are
affiliated averaging 38% of the revenues they obtained during their working lives.
For workers, the situation is even worse, pensions representing only 28% of their income.
Women are therefore hardest hit. It is they who stop working at the birth of their child
and who then receive an even lower retirement. In capitalist extortion, adds the
patriarchal exploitation for the benefit of men.
Since July, the national coordination No Más AFP called for national demonstrations which
gathered up more than a million participants in a country of about 17 million inhabitants
and residents. This coordination claims, instead of the pension system managed by the AFP,
the establishment of a solidarity pension system, public and tripartite, that is to say
funded, bosses and workers workers. The movement gradually rises in conflict. After
calling the coordination No Más AFP in September to transfer his savings from riskier
pension funds to the safest, a general strike is scheduled for November 4. It will be an
opportunity to see if a true balance of power was built with the blocking of the economy
by the workers.
Attempts are currently underway to converge as the struggle of the movement against the
AFP with that of the student movement to free higher education. The current education
system has also been set up under Pinochet. It allowed the proliferation of private
universities and the reduction of state funding of public universities, which are
therefore no longer remained free. Many students and many students must go into debt to be
able to follow their studies and must also work together. Suffice to say that it is
impossible to study properly. The education system is disputed since the past six years
during which the student mobilization has been constant. Each year, general meetings,
demonstrations, strikes courses and occupations took place. The student movement fighting
for the free university, which was promised by the current Socialist President Michelle
Bachelet, but that still has not been achieved since the reform planned by the government
would only cover 14% of Students students.
This year, the mobilization started in April. In some universities the occupations lasted
several weeks. At the moment, the movement continues in some universities, such as the
north of Chile in Arica where the strike price is still current. The high school, high
school and several educational sectors, associations held es families and missing-es, and
indigenous associations have joined the student protests from fat mobilization. The
student movement during these events and these university occupations, is marked by a
confliction and significant repression both at police and judicial level. Indeed, the
"carabineros" gazent and bludgeon the student mobilization until even within universities.
Student demonstrations also include processions feminists, struggling, for example, the
right to abortion. Since a 1989 law inherited from the military dictatorship, abortion is
illegal without exception, even if the life of the mother is endangered. This leads women
to have abortions clandestinely in dangerous conditions, to escape controls that
patriarchal society wants to impose on their bodies and their decision.
Current social movements show opposition to the legacy of dictatorship, whose constitution
is still in force, which transformed Chile into a laboratory for neoliberal policies and
led to an authoritarian and conservative society. They also show that what has been
imposed in the blood can not be defeated by the struggle in building a relationship of
collective strength against the government and corporate power.
Quentin (AL Rennes)
- Images: cc Franck Gaudichaud
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Chili-Aneantir-l-heritage-de
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Message: 3
I walk I walk amid the city ---- always a wolf deaths here ---- Lyceum Lyceum will find
you ---- get my friends and hunt ---- On 2/10 the morning after a party in the
universities a girl and a boy were attacked by three men, who then raped the girl. ----
And a rape case * one heard, 'became buzz ". But not as patriarchal crime, as the
expression of brute gender violence who lives in the here and now, but as an exception to
the daily condition and isolated incident. The incidents of rape at times been "shocked
nationwide" are few and fit in glaring headlines that words like politician, priest,
immigrant spelled with capital letters. In the first two cases, the public seems to
gkremotsakizetai the clouds, while the latter is quick to condemn. We saw this happen in
the case of rape in Paros when the occasion him to Athens racist pogroms days led to the
murder of an immigrant. We saw it happening in Xanthi when public opinion was quick to
rule the Muslim identity of the perpetrator before finally emerge on the surface that was
genuine Greek Orthodox. The same pattern appears now, in the case of rape at the
Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki. But even in this case received nationwide scale
dimensions, the rape he never discussed as such. He remained a secondary narrative, an
incidental matter, condemned the scenes of-nologies nologies issues found another reason
to emerge in the public discourse, the main course, the identity of the offender as an
immigrant. Because when the rapist is not Greek racist rhetoric finds the opportunity to
exploit the experience of rape in its favor.
The headlines and titles of those days, they have not stopped since then, marching in blue
and white colors. The nationalistic use of incident takes enormous proportions, with
Islamophobic reason to play repeatedly. Why indeed "foreigners have in their culture to
rape". It is not just men who rape, "are immigrants who rape our women." In these cases,
it is no coincidence that a phenomenon such as rape sorting, both from other rapes and
other crimes, and finally interpreted either as a strategically thought-European conquest
process or as an essentialist expression of a culture that can not be reconciled with the
West. Expulsion and exclusion are inevitable solutions of this narrative. The myth of the
black rapist * 2 revives and continues today to make the treacherous work of racist
ideology. Conversely, of course, when the victim is a migrant, the Greek society rushes to
protect innocent children. Besides, the memories of the rape in Amarynthos Evia is still
fresh. So in Thessaloniki incident angered residents of the center and not even hesitated
to announce their disposal for setting bodyguard aiming immigrants. It was these same
people who have not drawn overspray when attempted rape in the narrow center two years
ago, succeeded each other and were themselves eskizan posters against rape culture, which
signed the then neighbors * 3 .
But whenever,, rapists part of the national trunk when Greek men, the designations in
their face limited to: psychopath, spotty dragon. Why alas, Greek and rapist is? There but
the psychology and medicine insist pathologikopoioun their rapists and criminals
misogynists convert patients eventually acquitted, we will insist: rapists is not breed
specific, everyday men. Rape is always power relation enforcement practice and misogyny.
An act that punishes and within patriarchy occurs as such. And it is doomed in most cases
remain in the dark. The cases of rapes reported or are known are minimal and those in
which the offender ordered in the end, even fewer. Why all this in place are used to lower
the head and n 'quickly avert his gaze. A ritual that is maintained with multiple
silences, which take the place of rational reasons. And the silence here 't be understood
as the absence of speech or act but as an act in itself, an act of silence. Are these
regulations silences one side to another, legitimizing rape and gender-based violence.
The conversation around this rape was not only there. The media seem to be particularly
concerned the 'if rape really happened. " As a key player institution of dominant
discourse rushed to cut and sew a rape definition to fit their measures. Distanced outset
rape of the lewd acts. Why the socially accepted definition of rape do not concern them.
This is confirmed by the legal definition, which until a few years included only vaginal
penetration. Not the lewd acts, not anal intercourse, and also included in the chapter of
crimes against sexual freedom. The woman is identified with the womb and only reproductive
capability is in need of protection. Titles such as "Young girl complained attack lewdness
in Aristotle 'encapsulate all the clichés that society plays in such cases. The girl was
raped there, do not even know it, we do not believe. She only complained. An experience
common ground while eterokathorizetai. For us, however, rape does not fit in legal
definitions or not, but must be defined in each case subjectively. We will define the same
when our limits are violated.
The rape took place at dawn on Aristotle and discussions around the space and time of the
incident found the spotlight. Suddenly the university seemed to assume an almost
metaphysical position in the public space. Be transformed into a place where the existence
sexoualikopoiimenis violence * 4 leaves the world with his mouth open. As if the
university is not coherent piece of the urban fabric, a social field in which our
existences are constantly called into question. But the discipline and control imposed by
the surveillance systems in our everyday life in the campus (Securitate university police)
do not create the condition that will make us feel safe. Fear of rape and abuse is always
there, to exclude us, supervise us, enacts us. Visibility and our security is a constant
struggle for us. But let us not forget that the private parking space is not consecrated,
but space in which the legitimate gendered violence can be just as present. Rape not stop
outside any doors or college or home. They happen every day in the streets in the dark
alleys and in the home, at work, behind closed doors "flawless families." And in most
cases, the perpetrator is a person familiar and nearby.
Rape is not a moment, an act piecemeal entered our bodies. For all of us the culture of
rape is a daily lived experience. It is mandatory smiles to let us quiet. You can do that
talking on mobile and clenched turnkey. Are psit- Psst the street and thinking whether to
get to the cranes. They are ashamed to say that in Kozaris your uncle. It is to endure the
peftoula colleague, boss, customer. It's the jerk in the area of the eyes and your
thinking. They are bunch of nothing, lads and the brave who download the windows of their
cars. It is not to believe. And it is the general framework within which take place
various forms of violence. Physical violence, psychological violence, verbal violence.
From small mothers read us fairy tales. Tales to reassure us, have obtained our sweets.
But fairy tales and to learn early on that within the pill comes along with the prince,
and tales to frighten us. They say that the tale of Little Red Riding Hood was nothing
other than a doctrine for women. A driver who put the conditions in which we can circulate
safely. Avoiding the dark alleys, threatening forests. We learned early on to throw
furtive glances behind our shoulders, not to talk to strangers, be careful. And if
something happens to us is not our fault than we. In the original version of the story of
the prostate hunter figure that appears to save the girl and the grandmother does not
exist. The wolf eats Little Red Riding Hood and the story ends there. The punishment of
the exemplary example to avoid for all of us.
Within Greek society the culture of rape is widespread. Men trained in schools,
universities, stadiums, in bars and brothels, they learn early to guard their privileges.
And to make something clear: for rape blame only the rapist. Never our fault, nor the
clothes you wore that night, nor the last time, or if we had been drinking. Not blame our
walking or our gaze not exuded confidence.
On the way home we want to be free, not brave.
In those our own and want us towards all, we insist, we insist to become collective our
denials ,, resist the absurdity of obviousness, to approach each other.
And then and now and forever struggle against rape culture.
purple Cafe
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* 1 The reason we choose to use repeatedly the term rape is not at all random, but deeply
political. Recognizing the power that produces and reproduces the language, and the
structural patriarchal and sexist this articulation, we must be particularly careful with
the words by which we describe the offense. Therefore, terms such as seduction, sexual
intercourse, generally lewd act, not to include in our vocabulary. Not only because they
replicate the culture of rape, but also because we believe that vent the experience of the
girl. Besides, the use of words works dialectically attitude finally get to rape. And the
word stop, indicates how we choose to be immutable.
* 2 see. angela davis text "Rape, racism and the myth of the black rapist" published in
the book entitled "Women, Race and Class" ( " Women, Race and Class"), 1981
* 3 "neighbors": signature of the poster against the culture of rape released in
Thessaloniki in 2015 in response to incidents of attacks against women in the city center.
* 4 The term sexoualikopoiimeni used here not by accident instead of the term sexual
violence because, as nicely explain and ex-breeds, the second "integrate this kind of
violence in the sexuality field where justified more easily under a patriarchal perception
and theory for sexuality as e.g. of Freud and emphasizes the guise of violent action of
the perpetrator, while the term sexoualikopoiimeni violence indicates that the victim this
act is nothing but violence. " From this perspective then, where the gender power is
experienced, where the oppression of the female subject experienced where masculinity
leaves violent signs, then talk about rape (terminal 119, "against the culture of rape!",
Third edition, Sept. 2008).
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* Poster stuck and the text distributed during the feminist march against rape culture, on
12/11 in Athens.
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Message: 4
If the Tories are worried about insufficient population density in Inner London, then
Architects for Social Housing (ASH) formally recommends building in the London Borough of
Westminster, which has a far lower density of residents (11,109 per km²) than in Tower
Hamlets (14,201 per km²), Hackney (13,850) and Lambeth (11,358), the boroughs whose
council estates the Housing Minister and his Chancellor want to replace with high-rise
deposit boxes for off-shore companies. ---- ASH is launching a petition to knock down
Downing Street, Whitehall, Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament (to start with)
and replace them with much needed council housing. ---- We recommend relocating Parliament
to Leicester, which in addition to being the geographical centre of England, and therefore
the ideal location for the Tories' Middle-England voters, is badly in need of the boost to
its economy that these company CEOs and hereditary millionaires will bring... Read the
full Architects for Social Housing (ASH) article here
https://architectsforsocialhousing.wordpress.com/2015/09/25/parliament-buckingham-estates-a-petition/
http://www.classwarparty.org.uk/brownfield-parliament-buckingham-estates-development-petition/
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Message: 5
November 25 takes place the day against male violence, denouncing the daily violence by
men against women. ---- November 20 takes place the day of remembrance trans (Transgender
Day of Remembrance), to commemorate the murdered trans people. ---- If these two days are
often presented completely disjointed manner, yet it seems that they meet tremendously.
Both originate from the murder of women: Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa Mirabal,
murdered 25 November 1960 by the dictator of the Dominican Republic Rafael Trujillo, for
the day against male violence; Rita Hester, murdered on 28 November 1998, and whose
murderer remains unknown, for the day of trans remember. The vast majority of murdered
trans people are women, most racialized, and almost all murderers are men; transphobic and
if the component is obviously present in these murders, they also have a misogynistic
character. Similarly, if male violence affects all women, they still hit more severely
those who combine other oppressions: trans women, racialized, proletarians, lesbians or
bisexuals, handies, etc.
Indeed, male violence is not the work of some violent individuals, but a way to keep
patriarchy, that is to say the domination of men over women. Lesbophobia, biphobia and
transphobia are not separable patriarchy, but are an integral part. They serve to fall
into line or eliminate the women who do not follow the patriarchal model. This assigns
individuals to the genre according to their birth sex and erect heterosexuality as the
norm. In this model, lesbians and trans women can not be considered as object of fantasy
for heterosexual men, or as monsters to eliminate or "correct" as not being "real women.
Male violence is not gratuitous or blind, but serve to maintain the exploitation of women
by men, domestic work (where household chores, education of children, emotional work,
etc., mainly accrue to women) appropriation of women's bodies by men (rape, sexual
assault, gender injunctions ...), wage differentials and precarious employment, etc.
The violence of men on women are everywhere: at home, in the street, at work, in
transport, school, doctor, etc. The violence killed every day, but these murders are
presented as "miscellaneous" rather than a systemic mechanism. Police and justice cover
these patriarchal violence: when women complain, they often find themselves ridiculed,
questioned, judged on their behavior or their clothes, and most of the time the
proceedings against the attackers do not succeed. Conversely, when women defend
themselves, they are sometimes condemned for failing to left.
Faced with male violence and patriarchy, it is urgent to develop feminist solidarity.
Feminist solidarities that include all women, and take into account other oppressions they
face, whether capitalism lesbophobia, transphobia, racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia,
the validisme, labor sex / prostitution, etc. Feminist solidarity to regain control over
our lives and our bodies, to gain confidence in ourselves, to learn to say no, to defend
ourselves and to fight to build together a world without oppression.
Yes, that motion in the handle, the bad days will end
and station for revenge when all women it will!
http://cgalyon.ouvaton.org/spip.php?article213
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