Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Novembre - Book: Feminist
practice stories (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. al bruxelles: Daniel Guérin, "Fascism and Big Business" by
Matthijs (AL Montpellier) (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. US, Los Angeles: WE'VE COME OUT AND HIT THE STREETS AGAINST
TRUMP - NOW WHAT? -- A leaflet from our Los Angeles Black
Rose/Rosa Negra comrades. (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Poland, IP, Workers' Initiative: Speech at the demonstration
"For our freedom and yours - opposition to nationalism" --
Department: Mazowieckie (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. [US] There will be no peaceful transition By ANA
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. asj bonn: Final speech in court of Aserbaidschan comrade
Giyas Ibrahim (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Novembre - Education:
Feminist pedagogy against violence (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation], , (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - campaign against
violence against women (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
9. Greece, anarchist "restive horse" APO: Information from the
3 days of the Technical University in Patras (gr) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
10. Against Racism in Royal Oak: Solidarity with the Kids Under
Attack by S. First of May Anarchist Alliance (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
A book written twenty-two hands tackles the subject of sexual assaults by militant
environment. In exciting texts he explicitly feminist theoretical references that have
been useful to their fight. ---- The book's starting point is a sexual assault: at the
rally of a popular education network, a member was assaulted by another. Following this
attack, which is unfortunately part of the repeated history of "anti-capitalist groups,"
the eleven women of the writing group decided to politicize what is supposed to be a
"private matter". They chose to "make class" against male violence. They then held a
testimony and an analysis of the most useful, with all the complexity and demanding nature
of such an approach. ---- In a "position limit" like: what to do? Who is responsible?
guilty? a flattening Does it not risk weakening or discredit the network? should we call
the law? what are the respective stakes in the mix of network and single-sex
collective-writer? what are the structural and internal conditions to the network that
facilitated the aggression? What male resistors (ist) s are deployed against the
denunciation of violence? These are some questions, heavy implications, which the group
has faced.
The stories - almost 300 pages - are highly readable and without pretentious jargon.
Asides introduce the methods used in educ 'pop': the debate petals, mental training,
reading gifts, consciousness-raising investigation, etc. The authors show the points of
support that enabled them to gain strength; for example, the presence of allies outside
the network resources AVFT, equality issues, ASSPA. They give them a voice here in the
form of interviews. And within different parts, short autobiographical narratives
complement and explain the "why feminist? "Each participating Alexia M. Emilie Viard,
Marie C., Diane K., Annaïg Mesnil, Natasha R., Katia Storai, Cecilia G. Melo PG, Tiffanie
D., Audrey P.
The theoretical framework is that of materialist feminism, but some escaped, among others,
to Butler or Federici. And, through the story of the struggle, it is ultimately an
educational tool that is emerging, with summaries on the right, on enlightening texts, or
on key concepts - kind, materialism, intersectionality, etc. The book, which mixes
practical contribution, theory and experience, is particularly invigorating. Its strength
is to propose concrete and reflection tools replies.
So far, to my knowledge, there was no clean tool for popular education specifically about
feminism. This lack, developer, is now filled. The book is essential for educ networks
'pop', certainly, but also for all the activists left.
Yeun (friend of AL)
Collective, popular feminism & Education - Tales of a fight (too) common. Analyzes and
strategies for gender, editions The shotgun pellets, 2016. Order it for 20.60 euros
(checks payable to La Trouvaille): La Trouvaille, 11 Square de Galicia, apt 4293, 35200
Rennes.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Livre-La-pratique-feministe-en
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Message: 2
In November 2014, Libertalia editions emerged a new edition of Fascism and Big Business of
Daniel Guerin. This book, classic, had not been reissued decade. This edition which
follows those of Maspero and Syllepse, is the most comprehensive to date. It includes all
prefaces written by Guerin, and the postscript to the American edition. ---- This book
intends to give a materialistic reading of the phenomenon of fascism, beyond simple legal
explanations that see it as a form of absolute evil, but often do not go much further.
---- Guerin at a meeting of the Popular Front (1936) ---- Instead, Guerin, who has a
materialistic interpretation of history, due to the social situation of the country
fascism in Italy as German Nazism. So it is a very particular context which sees the
emergence of fascism. It arises due to labor unrest in both countries after the First
World War. The workers then take over factories and even entire regions. The industrial
employers, but also large landowners are forced numerous concessions that remain in their
craw. To counter this labor agitation, propaganda and parliamentary democracy are not
enough. Many militias are mounted. She suppress this agitation in blood (murder of Rosa
Luxembourg for example). It is from these militias are born fascist parties, which then
embarking on the conquest of power, and who take in 1922 in Italy and 1933 in Germany.
a materialistic reading
Fascism is not a political current from the ruling bourgeoisie, but by its mystique and
its positioning in the class struggle, he quickly has his support, particularly in heavy
industry (steel, mines ...) whose interests are directly threatened by strikes and whose
orders depend largely on the army and the war industry. On the other hand, groups from
light industry are more likely to compromise policy. The support and compromise of the
bourgeoisie with fascism, minus or obscured in most history books are here studied
meticulously, relying on Fournier and extensive documentation.
support of the bourgeoisie
However, fascism is not only supported by the bourgeoisie. It is also able to convince and
lead to population groups than the usual bourgeois politicians can no longer touch. By his
mystic and rhetoric, he manages to seduce the petty bourgeoisie, the middle class
(employees, middle management) particularly frightened by decommissioning, and portions of
the working class ...
The fascists in Italy and Germany, did not come to power by a coup or a revolution, it
would be national. These are the bourgeois elites, opening the doors of power. During the
great Fascist March on Rome in November 1922, it is the bus of the Government, who
accepted Mussolini as leader, which bring the Blackshirts, wedged 70 kilometers from Rome,
in the city. The same pattern is repeated in Germany, or Von Papen, supported by Prussian
elite, called Hitler to power. It must be said that these takeovers involved in a
particular context: in a crisis, while the bourgeois politicians of parliamentary
democracy are totally discredited. They are also involved in a context of heightened class
struggle: despite some agitation, the working class could not make the revolution, but
against it was sufficient for the bourgeoisie that it is considering the use fascism. It
is largely by default as the fascist regimes came to power.
It is also because of the failure of the labor organizations that fascism has its way.
This failure, which is a criticism leveled by Guerin communist parties but also the social
democratic parties, has several causes. The first is the division. So for two years in
Germany, the militia of the Communist Party prefer to attack the Social Democrats SPD
rather than the Nazi SA. It is also the refuge behind bourgeois legality and the refusal
to frontally attack the fascists in the street that is the cause of the defeat of the
workers' organizations. The German SPD is a powerful militia (the Brazen Front) able to
crush the SA, but refuses to attack the Nazis, preferring to rely on the police ...
Moreover, it is interesting to draw a parallel between the current situation and the
events described in the book Guerin. If Europe does not come out of a world war, it is in
a situation of economic crisis, even if it is more covert approaches to some extent from
that of 1929. The austerity policies alike as two drops water to those conducted
immediately after the 1929 crisis, and the bourgeois politicians is equally discredited,
while the far right is growing in all European countries. In this less violent period in
France, the National Front delegate the role to some militia factions neo fascists, but
the program is still similar to that of Hitler and Mussolini.
same solutions
In conclusion, we can say that if history does not repeat itself and that it has no
immutable laws, often, the same causes produce the same effects. The crisis and the
austerity that followed, have increased imperialist tensions, and the depletion of the
world working class has strengthened. In this context, the European extreme right, if she
abandoned the trappings of fascism 30 years, proposes to apply the same solutions, that is
to say, our crushing the service of a national capital.
In this context, no fate, history is not written in advance as we are reminded Guerin. It
must nevertheless take the measure of the danger and fight. We will end this article with
a quote from the book: "If fascism finally seized power, it is more by default than by a
revolutionary overthrow. The proletariat, only force capable of crushing fascism is
disarmed by his reformist leaders who tirelessly preached the "respect for law and order
and confidence in parliamentary action. These same leaders also fear almost as much a
workers' revolution that fascist coup " .
Daniel Guerin, Fascism and Big Business , Libertalia, 2014, 400 p., 20 euros.
AL, The Monthly, November 2014
https://albruxelles.wordpress.com/2016/11/14/daniel-guerin-fascisme-et-grand-capital/
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Message: 3
When we look around at the thousands of people marching with us, we can feel the power
that we hold. But we know that this isn't enough. In the coming years, our communities are
going to be under attack. We need to organize strong communities that can resist the
attacks and take the power back! When we leave this march, we need to go back into our
neighborhoods, workplaces, and schools and start organizing! ---- We've seen that relying
on politicians to solve our problems doesn't work. The Democratic Party is a big part of
the reason why we have Trump now, and why we risk seeing so many of the gains we fought
hard for taken away. We need to rely on ourselves. We need to build our own movements that
can build our power and lead the way to not just being on the defense and resisting
Trump's attacks, but to taking control of our neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces and
running them without bosses, police, or the government. We need to be creating assemblies
in our communities where we can start exercising some of our own power together.
We will also need to do a lot more to unify our movements and struggles. The challenge of
defeating Trump means that we can't just stay focused on our own campaigns or our own
backyards - we need to be reaching out to all other social movement organizations to see
how we can work together to support and defend each other. We should be taking time to
organize meetings between community organizations to plan what we can do together in the
coming months.
There are lots of organizations in the LA area that are already putting the long-term
day-to-day work into building our power against Trump. If you haven't already, you
should find an organization to get involved with. If you're a tenant, you can join the LA
Tenants Union. If you're a worker, you can join the Industrial Workers of the World. If
you're a high school student, you can join Schools LA Students Deserve. If you want to
fight for those in prison, you can join the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee.
There are plenty of other organizations that are fighting now for a future of freedom.
Contact us if you're interested in taking your next step in this struggle together with us:
Email: losangeles@blackrosefed.org / Facebook: Black Rose / Rosa Negra - Los Angeles
http://www.blackrosefed.org/trump-now-what/
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Message: 4
November 11 Workers' Initiative supported the demonstration "For our freedom and yours -
opposition to nationalism." Approx. 5 000 people marched through Warsaw from Castle Square
to Square Warsaw Uprising. Below we publish the content of the speech Magdalena Chustecka
of the Working Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations delivered at the demonstration.
---- The participants of today's demonstration, friends, and friends, I greet all of you
warmly on behalf of the National Trade Union of Workers' Initiative. ---- I - as close to
250 million people in the world have experienced the situation of being a migrant. Many
weeks of settling securities abstract and mysterious Stars, contempt of some officials and
clerks, the difficulty in finding a job, housing, kindergartens, because there is always a
second that the other person with citizenship of the country. The privilege of citizenship
in the European Union saved me what experience most of the migrants / ek in the world -
fear of deportation before the operation "without papers", the fear of forced return to
places where we risk death, as in the case of refugees and refugees. Fear of poverty,
which is the first cause of economic migration, but - what needs to be strongly emphasized
- is one of the underlying causes of the armed conflict against which the fleeing refugees
and refugee.
Daily practices against public administration make up the institutional xenophobia -
suckling feature of modern states. Reinforces and reproduces it one of the most disgusting
virus in human history - the division between us and them, just based on an entry in the
passport under the heading "nationality". This division is extremely wrist neoliberal
governments.
"Divide and conquer" - this is a short manual labor:
1 - wmów people that the main feature that differentiates them is the fact of citizenship
- origin other than my country
2 - accept migrants, including refugees only in case we need to produce profits for
entrepreneurs and female entrepreneurs, only if they fill a niche in the workers there,
where local employees and workers do not want to work for the proposed rate or working
conditions.
2a - sort the migrants and migrant according to the needs of the free market. Toss them
like a sack of potatoes from one industry to another, accept only those segregated to the
needs of the market.
3 - in moments of so-called. crisis instigated migrants. Say, that they would take us to
work, consume benefits, threaten our culture. Anger at these nationalist movements, which
antysystemowoscia have nothing to do - implement the strategy after state. Of course, you
can always change the law to get rid of excess labor force, and the census citizenship
greatly simplifies things.
4. Operate the hypocrisy - once say that you accept migrants / threads in the name of
humanism and human rights, and once appeals to national identity and threats to their own
culture. Once so - once anyway - depending on the situation.
What, then, is our strategy? We - with our experience of exploitation in Poland or abroad,
we know that nothing annoy the neoliberal state with their nationalist militias solidarity
employee. Worker solidarity over divisions of nationality, gender, religion or lack of
religious beliefs, skin color or sexual orientation.
When work on the welcome I give a hand to my friends from Iran, France, Syria, Bangladesh
and Sweden I feel that I have with them a lot more in common than even Dominika Kulczyk -
one of the richest people among Poles. When we move together 100 kg loads and everyone is
attentive to another person, so no one squashed hand, I feel that differentiates us entry
under the heading "nationality" is a mistake. When together we organize in the workplace
and fight for a decent wage - create a much more stable and powerful than the so-called
community. national community. That is why I, together with my colleagues from the labor
movement will repeat - Thus, whether from abroad - one class - workers! We will repeat
this in all possible languages!
http://ww.ozzip.pl/teksty/informacje/mazowieckie/item/2191-przemowienie-z-demonstracji-za-wolnosc-nasza-i-wasza
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Message: 5
# Disrupt J20: Call for a bold mobilization against the opening of Donald Trump's mandate
on 20 January 2017. ---- On Friday, January 20, 2017, Donald Trump will open his US
president in office. We invite all people of good conscience to join us in sabotage the
ceremony. If Trump will even take the presidency, that is behind closed doors, showing the
true face of police state that Trump will preside. It must be clear to the world that the
vast majority of people in the United States do not support his presidency or has
consensus with your order. ---- Trump is tyranny, greed and misogyny. He is the symbol of
neo-Nazi and white nationalist, police murdering blacks, Latinos and poor daily racist
border agents and sadistic prison guards, the FBI and the NSA (National Security Agency),
cramping our phone and access our emails. It is the harbinger of climate disasters even
greater, more deportations, discrimination, and endless wars. He continues to deny the
existence of climate change, despite all the evidence, putting the future of the entire
human species at risk. The Ku Klux Klan, Vladimir Putin, Golden Dawn (Greek neo-Nazi
party), and the Islamic State celebrated their victory. If we let him assume the
presidency, we will be opening the doors to the future they envision.
The success of Trump confirms the failure of representative democracy. Instead of using
the democratic process as an alibi for inaction, we must show that no election could
legitimize their agenda. Neither the Democrats nor any other party or political will save
us - they only offer a weaker version of the same thing. If there are positive changes in
this society, we have to do them for ourselves, together, through direct action.
From the beginning, the president of Trump will be a disaster. # DisruptJ20 will be the
resistance of the beginning. We must take to the streets and protest, block, break,
intervene, rebel, and make more noise and confusion that the government could endure. The
parade should stop. You must delegitimize Trump and all that it represents. It's time to
defend ourselves, whom we love, and the world that sustains us as if our lives depended on
it - because they depend.
In Washington, DC
Washington will not be hospitable to the administration of Trump. Each corporation must
declare openly standing next to him, or next to the people who will suffer at their hands.
Thousands will converge and resist Trump regime. Save this date. Soon a website will
appear in more detail. # DisruptJ20
Around US
If you can not go to Washington, DC, on January 20, take the streets wherever you are. We
call our comrades to organize demonstrations and other actions for the night of 20
January. There is also a call for general strike. Organize a march in their school.
Workers: pick up sick leave and take the day off. No work, no school, no shopping, no
housework. # DisruptJ20
Around the world
If you live outside the US, can act on US embassies, borders, or other symbols of
neocolonial power. We not dedicated to "make America great again", dedicated to humanity
and the planet. # DisruptJ20
Spread the word. Join the fight. # DisruptJ20
Promotional video: https://vimeo.com/191197865
Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/disruptj20
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Message: 6
In Aserbaidschan a comrade of us, the Anarchist Giyahis Ibrahim, was imprisoned for a drug
related crime he did not commit. It is a usual means for secret services to fight enemies
of the state in Aserbaidschan. ---- Here you can read his final speech before the court.
---- FINAL SPEECH OF GIYAS IBRAHIM ---- I prepared a speech, but my written documents were
confiscated. ---- I am not going to defend myself with regard to the charges brought
against me. The crime I committed is as white as the graffiti spray I used. The real
reason why I am here is that I as a young student dared to protest against lies of
political system and nihilist mind existing in this state, the country that I belong to.
---- I didn't break any written law. In written laws, my deeds are not described as a
crime. What I broke is the non-written rules of the system. The system uses these
non-written rules to stay alive, to present injustice as justice, a slavery as freedom. If
you break the laws, that are written, the laws of the state, you may enjoy impunity if you
play the role in the existence of this system. Or if you are able to buy out, bribe those
who play that role. In this case you can enjoy impunity for breaking laws, but no way
you'd get away if you break non-written rules.
What is it? Breaking the non-written rules? As everyone knows, it applies to journalists
who expose the truth, or to politicians in opposition, a blogger, who rights his thoughts
in internet, peaceful protest of an activist, a citizen, who demands his rights. In shorts
words, you break the non-written rules, when you have a tongue, that listens to your
conscience.
If you have conscience you by default are the violator of the rule and you cannot get away
without punishment. I broke the same rule and joined the list of people who did the same.
But the irony is that you broke the non-written rule, but system accuses you of breaking
the written laws, brings up false charges and punishes you referring to the actual laws of
the state. Everyone knows it. By doing this they apparently show that they are ashamed to
refer to their non-written rules. However, every year they become even more blunt.
Probably, in the next stage, they will lose this shyness and will officially charge and
punish people for refusing to become slaves.
In fact, that would be better. Better for the prisoners of conscience, those who are
seeking truth. Because, in that case, we wouldn't bother refusing, proving that the drugs,
molotov cocktails and arms planted to our pockets and houses don't belong to us. We
wouldn't make additional effort to prove that our aim was not an unrest, but to speak out.
We wouldn't bother to say that our goal is not to topple someone who is stroke roots into
his seat, but to explain that those who are in official position have to go, when their
time has ran out. We would be charged with what we have actually done. Then we would
officially be citizens of totalitarian system. I don't know if this will happen or not, in
any case, I am the one who believes that I shouldn't be here. And I am here in so-called
justice court today only to hear your judgement as a prisoner of conscience.
Me, violating rules of system by protesting in some form as a man of conscience,
expressing this protest by writing a slogan on the monument, thus protesting the cult of
personality that system is using to sell it's lies as truth is presented by some people as
insult to the memory of someone who has died. In fact, no matter if this perception is
true or false, even if we wouldn't write on the monument, even if we would protest in some
other way, we would be here today, as people before us. What I am saying is, that your
fuss about someone's insulted memory, and us deserving even bigger punishment for doing
this doesn't mean anything to me. This are the words of those who carry cotton instead of
brains. Because when we protested by writing on that monument, we saw it not as a monument
to a particular person, but as a symbol of a personality cult, presented by the regime as
a demonstration of love to big brother. This is why we wrote a slogan on that monument.
And I want to repeat - it is ridiculous to say that we shouldnt have written on that
monument, or when people say go write on your own grandfather's grave. As I said, only
those who have something else instead of brains can react in such way. One of such people
was the chief of the pre-trial detention facility Azer Seyidov. He told me people would
lynch us for doing this. Does he really believe in what he says? Or does he mean the bunch
of cut-throats in the police station, when he said "people". But if people would really
lynch us for doing it, then by his logic we should be grateful to him and police. We
should thank them for arresting us and saving from being lynched.
This attitude reminds me the cliches of nowadays: We are lucky that it is you who is
beating us, thank you for stealing less than you could, or others would come and beat us
more, or steal more. Things that the detention facility chief says comes from the same logic.
As I said, I am not going to defend myself against the drug charges.
We feel humiliation when we see how Mirgafars (Mirgafar Seyidov - chief of the Baku Police
Department) and other people with sick mentality of "I am the king, I am the law", in fact
the slaves of the system, the cut-throats beat protesting mothers of soldiers in the
street by the order of those, who stand higher in the hierarchy. They beat people who try
to get their voice heard. This is what humiliates us. We feel degraded when the paid
bandits acting on the order of this mentality...
Judge: - Go back to the charges.
Giyas: - No, I am not going to speak about charges. This is my right. I have right to say
whatever I want. I told you in the beginning, I am not going to defend myself against the
drug charges. I can even sing if I want.
Judge: Sing if you can
Giyas: - Thank you. Let me finish first.
As I said, we feel degraded, when we see that slaves of this system, acting on the order
of those, higher in hierarchy of sick mind, invade Nardaran, the village that is the
symbol of poverty, the village that resembles rejection of the system's propaganda about
development. Invade and kill, beat, torture ruthlessly people, who dare to tell the
truth, to speak out, to protest, and those who are not killed are put in jails of the
system with similarly trumped up charges like in our case.
Judge: Nardaran is not your business
Giyas: No, everything in this country is my business. That is why I am here
Judge: Speak about the charges against you by law.
Giyas: If there would be a rule of law in this country I wouldn't be here.
Judge: And where would you be?
Giyas: The history will judge about it.
When the bandits in government's payroll invaded Nardaran, there were innocent, puny,
child-face youth against huge bodies of these savage thugs. And these cut-throats had all
the right to torture their own people to death. This is what humiliates us.
Judge: Get back to essence of your case
Giyas: This is the essence of my arrest
Judge: So what is your request to the jury?
Giyas: I want to finish my final speech with your permission
Bayram Mammadov and me and those who were arrested after us - when we understood that the
system is trying to turn us to their slaves, and when we realized what is the real reason
of our humiliation, we decided that it is important to be with people who are not afraid
to tell the truth, not afraid of arrests, we understood importance of being like them. And
because we understand this importance, we do not regret that we tried to be one of them.
Young people like us - and women and elderly, have done it before - they dared to tell the
truth, protest as they entitled to do, and they were arrested with trumped up charges just
like me and Bayram on May 10 2016.
The system aimed at showing that it can destroy those who are for truth, it can get away
with it's lies, however, as you see, the lesson, the regime was trying to teach, was in
vain. It didn't scare everyone. It didn't scare me and Bayram. This is why I am here
today. Our arrest will not horrify people. As long as there are people with conscience,
this kind of punishment cannot scare anyone.
I was threatened in the pre-trial detention facility. They said I put myself in this deep
well. Yes. We - me and Bayram Mammadov, those, before us - we did put ourselves into the
deep well. We did it in purpose. We did it in order to find a water in this well. The
water that will clean all the filth from our society. May be we'll be drawn in this well,
no problem, as long as we believe that this is needed to clean out the filth. This is why
we are here and we are not begging for acquittal. We are not asking one, as we know that
it is impossible. Those, who were arrested before me with trumped up charges, those who
are still under arrest and those who already freed - prisoners of conscience, they left
their hope outside, when they entered this building.
The essence of the situation is very clear to them, and me, and just like them, I left my
hope outside, before entering this building. Just like in the "Divine Comedy" of Dante, as
requested from those, entering the Hell. However, neither this court, nor the prison is a
hell for us. No it is not. The prison is like the uncomfortable place for rest for me, or
for others, who dared to tell the truth.
We will cope with these difficulties, and we are not afraid of this burden, no matter how
heavy is the conviction on paper. I would say we are happy to go to the places where these
good people, people of truth are kept for telling the truth.
Our hope is a belief to the truth, is a trust to what is right, is a wish of the freedom.
And we believe that the water, we'll find with this belief, will clean this filth and
wash it away to the dump of the history. My mother said here in the court that she cries
for help for her son. Off course she is a mother and she, like other mothers of the
prisoners of conscience may say that. But I want to say, that those who know that their
children are on the truth's side shouldn't cry. They shouldn't ask justice from injustice
system. They have to be cheerful and comfortable.
When you will issue a sentence for me, you will consider my final speech as well, I know
it. And this is why I am saying this. Mr Judge, when you make a decision on my case,
please go ahead and add your own initiative, your own effort. Mr Prosecutor probably
regrets that he requested only nine years for me. He could ask for twelve - the maximum
punishment for the charge. Honestly, his regret entertains me. In other words, Mr Judge,
don't hesitate when you decide about my case.
We believe in truth, so the prisons, tortures, insults and other things are not enough to
turn us to slaves. Thank you!
Freiheit für Giyas Ibrahim!
http://asjbonn.blogsport.eu/2016/11/16/final-speech-of-giyas-ibrahim/
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Feminist pedagogy has developed practices to help female students to deal with violence at
school and outside school. ---- The school was characterized by the philosopher Michel
Foucault as a disciplinary institution. This leads to consider the school as a place where
abusive relationships are exacerbated: microviolence between teachers, students and
teachers, peer violence. Girls, more than boys, suffer violence between peers at school.
But these gendered school violence are only one aspect of a broader continuum of
gender-based violence in society ranging from sexist remark to physical and sexual
violence, which can lead to death of the victims. ---- Feminist pedagogy has been
especially developed in North America, but also in Spain, for example. It would also more
accurately speak of feminist pedagogy because it brings together different currents.
They propose to act on various levels against the sexual violence. This may involve in
particular through awareness work. This is done by a sociological analysis of these acts:
knowledge of sexual violence, marital, the cyber sex or violence in the classroom.
A second aspect may relate to work that aims to deconstruct gender stereotypes in society
and the hidden curriculum of gender in school. This example of deconstructing forms of
hegemonic masculinity that can promote violence against women, homosexual or transgender
people.
Empowerment of girls
A third dimension of this work may be to influence the classroom climate so as to make it
more inclusive, caring and "safe". Based on care, the teachers implement a framework in
which the remarks and sexist behavior will not be tolerated. They implement practices that
promote the speaking of girls as the existence of a dual listing in the speech turns. They
aim to prevent the creation of a macho language in the classroom, such as the fact that
boys interrupt girls when they speak.
A fourth dimension is to promote the empowerment of girls for their practice usually
usurped by the boys activities like football in the playground or, for example, by
training them to speak in a predominantly male group.
Some approaches of feminist pedagogy for example, have drawn criticism. For example, the
fact of asking teachers, mostly women, to have a caring attitude, based on care, could be
considered to contribute to lock them in a gender stereotype of the female teacher.
Irène (girlfriend AL)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Education-La-pedagogie-feministe
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Message: 8
In November, Alternative Libertaire launches a campaign against violence against women: to
inform, train, see, understand, discuss ... to roll back one of the most commonplace forms
of violence in today's society. ---- But in fact, what violence are we talking about?
Violence against women are all behaviors of psychological, physical and sexual abuse
brought against one or more women. ---- The types of violence: ---- Mobbing: repeated acts
(critics, humiliation, physical abuse ...) that aim to psychologically weaken the victim
and place it in a state of terror. ---- Sexual harassment: harassment aimed at obtaining
sexual relations with the victim. ---- Sexual assault: sexual relationship imposed by the
aggressor and not granted by the victim. ---- Rape: type of sexual assault characterized
by an act of sexual penetration.
Places and contexts of violence:
The street harassment: daily attacks experienced by most women in the public space (street
and public transport) and perpetuated by men. This can range from "heavy drag" and
repeated sexual assault.
Domestic violence: psychological, physical and sexual abuse suffered by domestic context.
Workplace violence: psychological, physical and sexual violence suffered in a professional
context
NUMBERS
In 2014, France, 134 women died at the hands of their spouses.
223,000 women aged 18 to 75 undergo annual physical and sexual violence by their partners
and 84,000 each year are victims of sexual violence or sexual abuse attempts.
1% of them say they have complained.
Nevertheless, in 2014, only 765 men were sentenced.
In France, men earn 23.5% more than women.
100% of women who use public transport there have been harassed.
ARTICLES
Against violence by men
Education: Feminist pedagogy against violence
Book: Feminist practice stories
What feminism decolonial?
Migrant: The path of the warrior
Laure Ignace (AVFT): "Do not doubt the word of the victims"
MEETINGS
A Montreuil (93) on 24 November at 19:30, evening debate in Tardigrade, 39 rue de la
Solidarité (subway Croix de Chavaux), with Adele Dorada (AL) and Nathalie Bonnet (SOUTH
Rai) on violence the women in the work.
A Paris Friday, November 25, 18:30 manifestation from Bastille.
Join Alternative Libertaire in antipatriarchal radical pole.
Upon arrival, Republic Square, participate in the activities "Feminists against patriarchy"!
In Nantes (44) on November 25 march at 17:30, starting Commerce.
In Rennes (35) on 25 November, not mixed event at 18.30, Opera Square.
A Lyon (69) on 25 November-sex event
At Clermont-Ferrand (63) on November 26 event at 14 hours before the County Council.
In Rennes (35) February 7, 2017, public meeting.
In Nantes (44) February 8, 2017, public meeting.
CAMPAIGN MATERIAL
special issue of Monthly G
Record 8 additional pages. 4 euros in good newsagents.
poster
Formats 40x62 cm and 62x80 cm. 5 euros per pack of 50 (free for groups G)
Sticker
Format 10x14 cm. 5 euros per pack of 100 (3.5 euros for groups G)
Argument 8 pages
3 euros per pack of 10 (free for groups G)
Leaflet
for the events of 25 November
Videomontage (right click, "Save link as")
To arrange a discussion: gender-based violence in several works of fiction and reality (38
minutes, 470MB download).
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?AL-en-campagne-contre-les
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Message: 9
From morning Tuesday, November 15, there was the presence of the anarchist group "restive
horse" in the field of Annex -where occurred the uprising of November 1973 in Patras with
printed material Anarchist Political Organisation and kinematic bookstore. - In the
afternoon of the same day there was a call in the scheduled protest against Obama's visit
to Greece. - The march started from the Annex and having crossed the center of Patras,
went to the British Consulate. - The anarchist block formed, marched to central banner
"Against the modern state and capital dictatorship - Struggle for Global Social
Revolution." ---- The State US It is the leader of the western domination blocks having
the lead in establishing campaign of modern totalitarianism. The war in the capitalist
periphery, deepening of control and suppression within Western societies, the deepening of
the looting of the great social majority and the destruction of the natural world is the
result of the temporal aspirations -and unresolved contradictions synepagontai- of
kratikou- capitalist system.
Objectives and contradictions that produce deep and total discretion, as goes with policy;
the value of the bankruptcy. Demonstration in solidarity being stismazikes US workers
strikes for starvation wages in revolts against State murderous racist violence in the
struggles of prisoners against the prison industry and the mobilizations of immigrants
keep alive the resistance. Against war and modern totalitarianism, sending message
internationalist solidarity and global resistance to our social and class brothers all the
earth.
Intervention in Annex continued without interruption, and the next 2 days. On Wednesday
afternoon began the course by the Annex to the district court to block once again
conducting the auction. As every week, we were there for placing the resistor in each
field enforcement of state and capitalist barbarism. To demonstrate that the only way to
be able to respond to this attack we are experiencing is the path of social and class
struggles. The same workers, the unemployed, youth, natives and immigrants, knowing their
real needs, they have to take their lives into their own hands, organize and fight
collectively self-organized and adiamesolavita in any society and the workplace, in
schools and colleges, workplaces, neighborhoods and streets
the Thursday morning we participated in preventing brazenly representatives of Syriza from
lay a wreath at the Annex. After presenting political credentials to the head of the
western authoritarian bloc and the brutal repression of the anti-war demonstration in
Athens on Tuesday afternoon, they did not hesitate to wear the "pitch" their mask and
found the space race of the Annex. The political governance of Syriza - who came to power
by pressing on the social and class struggles of the last decade in order to diffuse
denervation social discontent, sowed frustration and fear, eased social and class reflexes
and hit the racing action. Peaked class looting, slandered vulgar and suppressed the
fierce resistance of the present without hesitation abusing simultaneously (and
trivializes) the fights yesterday. Driven home anyhow.
In the afternoon the weekend was completed with the established path to Temponera monument
involving many people.
As anarchist group "restive horse" participated in both the 3-day presence outside the
Annex, and in the course of November 17, realizing that is a special time of social-class
war, and day of crucial importance for the oppressed because it signifies the perpetual
effort of the rulers to the erased from social consciousness and to deconstruct the any
insurrectional of contents and on the other because for more than tesserisdekaeties, It is
a landmark moment for the social-class struggles, as manifested in Greece from the
restoration onward. Why against the logic that we want to give away the state propaganda
the insurrectionary events of the past, we will continue to consider springboard for
matches being prepared today for the mutinies of the future ...
AGAINST STATE AND Capitalist sepsis,
the local and supranational BOSSES
ORGANIZATION AND internationalist GAMES ON SOCIAL REVOLUTION
FOR aNARCHY AND libertarian communism
anarchist group "restive horse" - a member of the anarchist Political Organisation
More photos https://ipposd.wordpress.com/
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Message: 10
An M1 comrade and I went to a demonstration held in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak last
night, an action in response to that atrocious video that went viral showing white
children in a Royal Oak middle school chanting "build a wall" in the cafeteria,
antagonizing Latinx children (link to video here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxW1oid2oe8). We thought it was important to show up and
show our solidarity, to stand for these children - not just those in the Royal Oak area,
but all over this country. Racist assaults and threats have been occurring at an
accelerated rate amongst our very young as well as our adults since Donald Trump's victory
(Story Here
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/schools-report-racially-charged-incidents-election-43476177).
The assault on children is most disheartening; the experience of persistent racism at
such formative ages has lasting psychological and social affects like alienation, low
self-esteem, depression, and anxiety - not to mention the very real threat of physical
violence. This issue is especially personal for myself, not just as a person of color, but
as a person with a Muslim name and background who was in middle school in this country
when 9/11 occurred and thus had experienced a fair amount of racism as a child. It pains
me to no end to think of the duress those Latinx children in the Royal Oak middle school
are going through, having been in a similar position.
As ugly as that video and other attacks are, I cannot blame those racist children. I
believe we have to recognize that the perpetrators of this assault on Latinx children are
not actually other children, but adults who have influenced their children to be agents of
their own racism. Unfortunately, it will be the case that this influence will have lasting
effects, and the children of racists are themselves another sort of victim in all this,
having never had the agency to think otherwise. Moreover, I believe much of this racism
among children is the product of herd-mentality, where children join in on racist chants
in order to be included on the "winning" side. Either way, this phenomena needs to be
addressed, and we, as anti-racists of all stripes, need to stand up for and show our
solidarity with children under attack, and be visibly anti-racist role models for all
children in our communities.
We also felt it important to show our strength in whiter, wealthier suburbs like Royal Oak
because, frankly, these are the sorts of places where Trump supporters are present. We
thought it was necessary to show up in their own communities and face these people head on
- with the victory of Trump, they have consciously leveled a serious threat against us. We
must continue to respond with strength, because the resident opposition to Trump in such
areas are composed of "respectable" liberals who have already began to tone down their
opposition. As the Democratic Party begins to coalesce and unify around Trump in an
attempt to maintain the system's credibility, it is up to us radicals to give voice to the
very real disillusionment that they are attempting to suppress.
The Demonstration
The rally started at the Oakland Community College campus, about 5 blocks away from the
middle school. Immediately, it became clear that most of the demonstrators were liberals -
a mix of Sanders and Clinton supporters. They had terrible chants and signs (one guy even
had a sign that said "Tariffs = Less Jobs"), and there were clearly those who were
considered leaders who much of the crowd was gathered around. The crowd was mostly white,
but there was a little diversity in there - I couldn't tell how many people there were at
it peak, somewhere between 60-100. As they stood around, we began agitating to take the
streets and start marching to the middle school. Eventually our voices were heard, and the
crowd began following us into the streets, albeit reluctantly at first. They felt a little
safer knowing that we were in front - the "pet anarchists".
Throughout the demonstration, before and during the march, we saw that there were many
residents who supported us, honking their horns and waving from store windows. We also
experienced several trump supporters yelling things like "build a wall" from their cars to
us. As we marched, myself and two other anarchist comrades who were holding a banner were
approached by an oncoming car driven by a Trump supporter who refused to stop in front of
us. I doubt his intention was to actually run us over, but as he got inches away from we
banged our hands on his car as a matter of reflex. It was clear he was looking for a
fight. He got out of his car and tried to physically confront us three, but backed down
when some of the crowd came and surrounded us. He went back into his car and drove away.
As soon as he got back in his car, we realized that many of the liberals that surrounded
us weren't there to have our back, but to scold us about being respectful to these
fascists. It apparently did not matter that the guy was trying intimidate and provoke us
by rolling his car into us. He was clearly ready to try to brutalize us. In particular,
one liberal even put his hands on one of my comrades while trying to scold us. We verbally
pushed back on him, and things calmed down a little as we continued to march.
We marched up to the middle school, and I could tell that our comrades were feeling a
little down. We didn't feel like these people had our backs. As a person of color, I did
not feel like they had my back. I think due to racial and class make up of the crowd, they
did not quite appreciate how serious this all was. It almost seemed like these people
would be protesting the same way to president-elect Romney. I do not think its the same, I
cannot afford to. At the middle school, the demonstrators again surrounded around a few
key people it seemed, including someone from BAMN (By Any Means Necessary) and the Bernie
supporter who scolded us on respectability. In retrospect, I feel like I should have at
least went into that circle and said something, to offer a radical perspective, to share
my own childhood and adult experiences with racism, but my energy was low from my
experience with the liberals trying to police us. But I wonder if I should have engaged
with the crowd at that point anyway - perhaps we wouldn't have ended up losing steam like
we ended up doing.
We began marching back, and some of our comrades and I began to try to get back on the
streets. No one followed. We lost a lot of steam, and people were content just walking on
the sidewalk. The cops (and there was a large police presence, especially when we got to
the school) pressured us back on the sidewalk, and other liberal demonstrators on the
sidewalk urged us to do so too. We kind of gave up at that point, marched on the sidewalk
for a little while, and then we left.
Conclusion
Overall, I was encouraged that there was a rally to show solidarity for these kids in the
first place, but by the time we arrived at the middle school, I was disillusioned. I think
it was important for us to be out there, not just to show solidarity for those kids, but
because this was the type of place where there are a lot of Trump supporters, and we
needed to show our strength in there areas. However, this experience had brought several
things to light regarding our political climate and what we, as antifascists, are going to
have to deal with. We have to recognize the very real threat of violence from Trump
supporters who will not tolerate an anti-Trump demonstration in their own town, the
cowardice of liberals in the face of such violence, and the tendency for those same
liberals to try limit and contain our discontent into something manageable for the DNC.
This is a multi-theatre war, and we have to stay vigilant on multiple sides; at the same
time, we have to seriously explore how to engage with those liberals who are disillusioned
with electoral politics but don't quite know how to articulate that disillusionment
effectively and coherently. Such an effort requires care; it can be easy to alienate such
people out of our own frustration. Needless to say, we have our work cut out for us.
http://m1aa.org/?p=1291
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