Anarchic update news all over the world - 23 December 2016

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Czech, afed.cz: Tour the Clinic [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Greece, Libertarian Thessaloniki Initiative (APO):
      Concentration in the courts against auctions | 14/12 (gr)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  anarkismo.net: Brazil: High school students show way forward
      for working class resistance by Jonathan Payn - ZACF, ILRIG
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  SACRAMENTO, CA: PEOPLE TAKE TO THE STREETS TO REMEMBER
      ANARCHIST MICHAEL ISRAEL, KILLED IN ROJAVA FIGHTING 
     ISIS December
      7, 2016 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  a-g freiburg: LET'S TAKE THE STREETS, LET'S TAKE THE NIGHT!
      DEMONSTRATION (de, fr, tr) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  class war - Support the Deliveroo couriers union: Donate
      now! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  US, Workers Solidarity Alliance WSA - ideas and action:
      Post-Election Statement (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  First of May Anarchist Alliance Detroit - Fighting the
      Alt-Right: Report and Analysis of Michigan State University
      protest by BD, member of First of May Anarchist Alliance
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
9.  LIBERTARIAS COLLECTION: BOOK "THE IDEA: PERSPECTIVES OF
      ANARCHIST WOMEN" (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
10.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL Novembre - Domestic
      violence: Shame must change sides! (fr, it, pt) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
11.  ucl-saguenay: Call for solidarity with the Algonquin Nation
      of Barriere Lake. by Collectif Emma Goldman (fr) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1



The series attempts to liquidate an island of freedom and autonomy Zizkov underwent 
another episode, in which you played a major role in the RIA officials. Unconcerned 
building owner Former pulmonary clinic OGRPA, in a dogged attempt to clobber this aberrant 
mládežníkum and their program of lectures, workshops, concerts and language courses, 
deliberately avoided the interests of the municipality, which could preserve the building, 
at least as a center-profit organizations, and shot her in the Administration Railway 
(SŽDC). Officers and officers of the RIA to the last moment refused to make any comment, 
and the first official statement even have stated that no project for the building of 
clinics planned. When Deputy Drmola of the RIA discovered that everything will not go as 
smoothly as you probably imagined, he began to escalate rhetoric and attack suddenly 
appeared a plan for the reconstruction of the building, from which it would become an 
office complex. As if they were already in Prague were few. The RIA is yet one of the 
largest property owners in the Czech Republic, moreover, has OGRPA in Prague plethora of 
empty buildings and more convenient. It is essential that the reconstruction of the 
building for office space is necessary rezoning. This can take two to three years. All 
circumstances indicate that there is not so much about the office, such as the destruction 
of the self-governing autonomous center project, which is some eyesore. Especially those 
who steadfastly wield Battalion ideology of private property and the alleged legality, 
even if no matter how topsy.

On Wednesday, December 14, officials advised the RIA his visit to the clinic building. 
Collective Clinics So on the eve of the plenum held a public on further action and called 
on his supporters to Wednesday morning together "welcome male and female employees RIA" 
who were allegedly preparing the first steps toward reconstruction. Finally, the common 
breakfast arrived nearly a hundred people, who subsequently enjoyed another program, such 
as screening on rebelce Pippi Long stocking. Perhaps desetihlavá official delegation, 
however, had long been useless. Reportedly unable to find tools. He stood in front of the 
media and above all overseen by vigilant police.

After ten, that an hour later, the delegation began the tour. Of them were employees of 
the RIA and external staff, the whole thing then Mr. Cermak from the legal department of 
the General Directorate of the RIA. Clinics gave them a collective synergy and building 
them passed. Delegations focused all interior spaces and garden, check electricity and 
water, and one group focused on fire safety. There had from the team clinics available 
documents, including a valid inspection of electrical wiring, fire extinguishers etc. The 
visit lasted less than two hours. According to Mr. Cermak after the visit representatives 
were surprised by the RIA real structural condition of the building, from which it is 
apparent that knew about it at the time he so much wanted. After years of decay can be a 
clinic in good condition, and not the maximum possible care voluntary collective of 
activists on how much of a difference. It is questionable whether the RIA after visiting 
the building re-evaluated their plans, particularly if prior to the commencement of 
reconstruction must take place rezoning, on which the RIA probably have not even requested.

https://www.afed.cz/text/6578/prohlidka-na-klinice

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Message: 2



Housing is a social good and not a commodity ---- Inside the lunar landscape of Greek 
reality, as formulated in the period of capitalist crisis, the right-left governments and 
the European Union, the social wealth bleeding campaign puts another purpose: housing. 
After the all-out attack the state and capital to work, agriculture, insurance, social 
liberties, the environment and social goods, raise their targeted one of the few remaining 
materials supports the working class and oppressed. ---- The antiasfalistiko bill passed 
by parliament, is another face of the new war which has declared the local and 
international capital to employees, self-employed, farmers, pensioners and by extension to 
all people who support with their incomes ( children, relatives with chronic diseases, 
etc.). After the new criminal bill in social security, is more evident than ever that an 
all-out counterattack class, in the fields of housing, insurance, health, leading to a 
concerted proletarian refusal of payment is necessary.

Leaving now aside any pretext, the recent enactment of prerequisites in late 2015 by the 
SYRIZA-ANEL government, paving the way for the advent and international finance capital 
against the house. Manage Red loans and real estate longer enter into international 
investment houses and funds, and in particular, as the guardian of the interests of 
debtors against the above companies, displayed by the Bank of Greece and the Banking Code 
of Conduct (!).

After 'legal drafting improvements "in November substantially slash whatever protections 
existed until now, the framework of the auctions protection afstiropoieitai dramatically 
timeouts remain unclear, while new abstract concepts are introduced as the" cooperative 
borrower. " Clarifications, definitions, reviews etc., Pass all the banking crisis. The 
government washes its hands, simply asking bankers to show understanding and grace (see. 
Dragasakis November statements). Queues of debtors in local courts late last December, for 
joining the relatively favorable settings Katseli Law, reveal the dimensions of the 
threat. The application for inclusion in the Act itself is a costly process with the 
required amount could rise to about 1000 euro. Even the claim to protect, handsomely paid.

 From 1/1 / 2016, the possibility of zero dose abolished for those who have no income or 
unable not only to pay their installments and to cope with daily expenses of their 
families. In addition, it opened the process of free sale and reducing the costs of 
auctioning. If that is the first auction prove fruitless, the second starts at half the 
market value of the property, and if he too is not completed, the third starts from zero 
starting price. Even if the property is auctioned at an amount lower than the commercial 
value and the loan amount, the borrower still owes the bank the remaining amount. And 
loses his home and still owes. In essence sought from borrowers repayment of the loan for 
the second time. And this at a time when many of the red loans have essentially paid to 
banks through taxes and bank recapitalization.

So if someone is unable to repay the banks the net profit will be marked "uncooperative" 
and the house will be coming under the hammer or alternatively, the loan can be passed 
into the hands of investment houses, who added convenience -as the banks do not expect 
necessarily to the repayment of the loan will convert the property to a financial product 
and gambling, multiplying their winnings. For us, the defense of the first housing and 
preventing evictions and auction, is practical and class terms defend the social good 
housing. Away from populist, radical Falsified fanfare, our policy framework for the fight 
against auctions, is class protection of all social assets, part of which is the 
dwelling-house.

The cancellation of an auction in the county court, shifts the process to two months after 
creating a first time, a temporary defense forefront of our class. Therefore, the presence 
of all of us in local courts is necessary. We must realize the need to pass from the 
defense of housing, to guarantee as good for all and all; the necessity of passing from 
defense to attack.

Starting from this position, and against all private and commercial exploitation of the 
dwelling use but put the tool of the occupation as a form of militant recovery of social 
wealth, to ensure housing for all the oppressed of the world, homeless / s, immigrants / 
only three, laborers / behavior shows, the ftochodiavolous of our time.

As Anarchist Federation, part of the exploited and oppressed, we fight with our class by 
any means. We will be there, the local courts, roads, neighborhoods, opposite to the 
judges, bank representatives and managers of investment funds, in physical confrontation 
if necessary with their uniformed protectors; with the poor, the unemployed, workers, the 
oppressed with the exploited against the state and capital.

Do not let anyone just opposite to bank gangs

Class counterattack, self-organization, solidarity

anarchist Federation

http://anarchist-federation.gr

info@anarchist-federation.gr

twitter: https://twitter.com/anarchistfedGr

fb: https://www.facebook.com/anarxikiomospondia2015/

In Thessaloniki, auctions are held every Wednesday at 15:30 in Thessaloniki courts. Until 
the definitive exclusion of primary housing and safeguard the housing as an inalienable 
right of our class, block in practice, as a means of pressure, each auction, what property 
they respect and whatever its use. Until then, we will not allow in all sorts of 
government and non predators to "do their job".

CONCENTRATION IN THE COURTS OF THESSALONIKI
WEDNESDAY 14/12 15:30

Libertarian Thessaloniki Initiative (member of the Anarchist Federation)
lib_thess@hotmail.com
libertasalonica.wordpress.com

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Message: 3



Reforms - an attack on the working class ---- "Autonomy and struggle: students and workers 
decide!" ---- In September 2016 the Brazilian government published a Provisional Measure 
(MP 746) outlining a reform in secondary education that would have devastating 
consequences for the education system, disproportionately affecting majority-black working 
class students. ---- Students responded with direct action and occupied schools in the 
state of Paraná, with occupations soon spreading to at least six other states. One month 
later 600 high schools in Paraná alone had been occupied to protest the government's 
attack on public education - which comes in the context of a broader attack on the working 
class through a Proposed Constitutional Amendment (PEC 241) that threatens to freeze 
public spending on health, education and social welfare until 2037.

The reform seeks to change the high school curriculum, making it more technical 
skills-focused and orienting it more towards the production of students as a labour supply 
for the market; as opposed to widening and deepening their knowledge base and developing 
their intellectual faculties. It would also open secondary education up to greater private 
sector involvement, including the outsourcing of high school teaching. Student protesters 
say it is an attempt by the ruling class to profit from public education and make 
employment and career opportunities more precarious, by restricting the type of education 
the working class has access to produce lessqualified workers with less capacity for 
critical thinking and social analysis.

The number of mandatory subjects would be slashed by half - art, sociology and philosophy, 
among others, would become optional - and students would select subject modules according 
to their professional interests. Students fear some schools would only offer technical 
courses and subjects that fall under "human sciences", for example, would be scrapped. 
Students wishing to study things other than the technical training offered at schools 
nearby would either have to go to faraway public schools or to expensive private schools. 
This would disadvantage students from working class families and shows a clear class bias, 
whereby those students whose families have the money can study whatever they want; and 
those that don't have to resign themselves to a future of underpaid precarious work.

The reforms would also increase the number of compulsory working hours from 800 hours per 
class per year to 1400.

However, MP 746 also recognises work experience, among others, as a possible way to 
achieve the required hours. Because working class students often already have to work 
part-time out of economic necessity this would lead to students working longer hours, for 
low wages and with limited workers' rights, in order both to make more money to support 
themselves financially but also to meet the compulsory hour requirement - while spending 
less time in a classroom receiving actual instruction and having less time to do homework etc.

However, in various struggles in 2015 and 2016 students in Brazil were able to defeat 
government attacks on education through mass resistance. There is thus hope to believe 
that students will be able to resist the current attack on their education and their future.

Key lessons

What lessons, then, does the Brazilian secondary student movement offer struggles elsewhere?

One of the movement's defining features - be it in struggles against the potential closure 
of 100 public schools in Sao Paulo in 2015, for better conditions at schools in Rio de 
Janeiro in February 2016, or the current struggle against MP 746 and PEC 241 - is the 
autonomous character it assumed in relation to political parties and mainstream student 
organisations. The students' struggles have been driven by the students themselves and 
they have defended the movement from attempts, by some student organisations and political 
parties, to harness it for their own interests.

High school students in Brazil show us a form of struggle that does not need or rely on 
the old bureaucratic and centralised structures of the traditional student movement and 
unions. By rejecting class reconciliation, maintaining their independence and relying on 
direct action and direct democracy the students have defended public education, won 
victories and could even galvanise other sectors into struggle against austerity and 
attacks on the working class. Whereas, like in South Africa, ordinary members of 
traditional unions and student organisations are often held back from engaging in 
meaningful strike and protest action because of their bureaucratisation and 
centralisation, participation in corporatist bargaining structures and relations with 
political parties, the students struggling in Brazil offer another way for working class 
organisation and resistance - one based on direct action, direct democracy, political 
independence and working class autonomy.

And it is in this way that a broader struggle of the working class should be built to 
confront the neoliberal onslaught - not only in Brazil but globally.

Published in "Workers World News", issue 102, December 2016

Related Link: http://ilrig.org

http://anarkismo.net/article/29859

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Message: 4


This past Sunday, friends, family and comrades of Michael Israel gathered in Sacramento to 
mourn his loss and share stories about his life. There were many tears, but also laughs as 
we shared our past experiences with Mike. After that we sang some songs together including 
Solidarity Forever, Joe Hill, and the Internationale. We concluded by lighting candles and 
marching down a central street, singing off and on. This was met positively by onlookers, 
several of whom expressed their condolences. We ended the march at a local bar and 
continued our reminiscing over drinks. ---- We're also raising money to support his 
family, every little bit helps. ---- Michael Israel was someone it was easy to get along 
with.  In his 27 years on earth, he touched many hearts. He was often called "a man of few 
words."  What this fails to convey is his committed style of listening and dialogue. He 
taught through learning, and was rarely one to scold or interrupt. He was genuinely 
interested in others, and that alone won him many friends.

He was not one to simply argue or express his opinion for it's own sake. He showed his 
convictions through commitment and action rather than idle talk. He sought out labor 
leaders and dedicated himself to helping with strikes. He was an early participant in 
Occupy Sacramento and the modern incarnation of the Sacramento IWW. Before leaving for 
Rojava, he worked at SEIU, but quit in frustration. He went because he dreamed of seeing a 
living social revolution, and he did. He fought against fascism in Syria and in 
Sacramento, but did not fetishize armed struggle. He did not flinch at the need to defend 
against oppressors, but knew that true freedom can only come through mutual understanding 
and respect, which bullets cannot bring.

His commander in the YPG said of him, "He was one of the rare people who really came here 
to work. You could count people like that on the fingers of one hand."

Some of the last things he expressed to those closest to him was his wish for people 
internationally to rally behind the Rojava Revolution, in both supporting it concretely as 
he did, and learning and applying it's lessons in our own communities.

We'll always miss you Mike.

You live on in all of us.

https://itsgoingdown.org/sacramento-ca-people-take-streets-remember-anarchist-michael-israel-killed-rojava-fighting-isis/

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Message: 5



For women*, girls*, lesbians*, transgender and intergender ---- The last couple of months 
every second news paper reported that women* and girls* are not feeling safe on the 
streets anymore and that the stock of pepper spray in the city is running out. As a result 
groups of white males are clustering in social networks in order to protect the alleged 
helpless women*. ---- At the moment the people who are held responsible for problems 
regarding sexism, homophobia, transphobia and violence against women* and girls*, are 
those who recently came to Germany. This circumstance results not only in our experiences 
- which some of us had to deal with throughout their entire life - being negated and 
denied but also all the fights being fought for decades now. ---- Hence we want to take 
back the streets and the night with you - all women*, girls*, lesbians, trans- and 
inter-people regardless of your origin, sexual orientation or religion! We want all of you 
to join, whether with or without handycap, with a fixed abode or not, regardless of your 
age or your income!

To liberate ourselves from nowadays bitter reality we need to unite our individual 
strengths and fight back!

Let´s gather at the 20th of December at 7 PM at the Augustinerplatz and make some noise 
while walking to the theatre, because our voices need to be heard eventually!
*If you need anything in order to participate - a translation for example - don´t be 
afraid to contact us and we will try to make your participation possible 
feministische-linke@riseup.net

http://www.ag-freiburg.org/cms/aufrufe/20-dezember-feministische-demo-fuer-flti-wir-nehmen-uns-die-strasse-wir-nehmen-uns-die-nacht

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Message: 6



Why you should support #IWGB: ---- "UPDATE: Deliveroo is victimizing one of our key 
activists: Ben Geraghty. Ben has been working for Deliveroo for over a year and has been 
at the forefront of the IWGB's attempts to gain union recognition through the courts in 
order to achieve "worker" status for Deliveroo drivers as well as win the first collective 
bargaining agreement in the so-called "gig economy". As part of this Ben has led a number 
of recruitment stalls in Camden where we have been signing up Deliveroo workers to the 
union and getting drivers to sign a petition stating they support union recognition of the 
IWGB..." ---- HOW TO MAKE A DONATION ---- On Monday, 5 December, 2016 Ben received an 
email from David Scott, the same Deliveroo manager who is handling Deliveroo's response to 
the tribunal claim, saying that Deliveroo was investigating an "incident" (the incident 
was Ben riding a co-worker's cargo bike up and down the block once, with the co-worker's 
permission).

Interestingly, the "incident" took place at an IWGB recruitment stall. (See the email 
below). The next day Ben tried to get work shifts at Deliveroo and was told there was no 
work currently available for him before Christmas. However it has come to our attention 
that Deliveroo has terminated Ben's contract without even telling him - see the picture 
from Deliveroo's internal system here.

This is trade union victimisation pure and simple and the IWGB will not tolerate it.

We need your help. We are a small union with little resources. We need to run an office, 
cover admin costs and to continue to support people like Ben. But we need your help. 
Please give whatever you can afford.

More info here
https://www.crowdpac.co.uk/campaigns/216/iwgb

http://www.classwarparty.org.uk/support-deliveroo-couriers-union-donate-now/

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Message: 7



This year eligible voters in the U.S. were faced with two choices for president from the 
two major parties which represent the interests of the capitalist class. Hillary Clinton, 
the center-right warhawk whose role in the Honduras coup was responsible for the death of 
environmental and indigenous rights activist Berta Caceres (1). And Donald Trump, the 
ruthless capitalist, right wing populist and celebrity who is known for excluding people 
of color from renting at his properties (2). Trump’s presidential win sent shockwaves 
throughout the U.S. since public polls generally favored Clinton and many folks believed 
he still could not possibly win, despite how far he had come to beat out his many 
competitors for the GOP nomination. ---- Already we are seeing extremely ill effects of 
Trump’s win in regards to the emboldening of reactionaries and neo-nazis, some of whom are 
increasingly attacking minorities (3) (4). Additionally, many establishment democrats 
along with Richard Trumpka, president of AFL-CIO, have since publicly expressed 
willingness to “work with” Trump (5). It’s becoming clear that the situation for the 
working class in the U.S. may be very dire for the next 4+ years.

Trump’s right wing populism resonated especially with the ultra-right and neo-nazis, many 
of whom publicly supported and campaigned for him. This is because they believe Trump’s 
rhetoric will work in favor of the interests of their own politics which center around 
race realism, ethnic nationalism, gender essentialism, social darwinism and conspiracy 
theory.  The reality is that Trump’s interests, like Hillary’s, center around the 
interests of the capitalist class they are both in, and these interests include ruthless 
domination and exploitation of the global working class.

WSA stands with the global working class, oppressed and poor people throughout the world. 
At this time we especially express solidarity with working class and poor U.S. minorities 
who are now and will in the future face the wrath of reactionaries emboldened by Trump’s 
presidential win. We believe now is the time for the U.S. working class to organize and 
build strong grassroots militant organizations to protect themselves and each other, as 
well as to push for a positive alternative to capitalism. In addition, we are very 
interested in discussing the possibility of building coalitions and/or networks with 
like-minded U.S. organizations rooted in left libertarian intersectional class struggle.

In solidarity, for working class liberation,

Workers Solidarity Alliance

References

(1)http://www.salon.com/2016/06/23/honduran_soldier_says_activist_berta_caceres_was_killed_by_u_s_backed_coup_regime/

(2)http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/politics/donald-trump-housing-race.html?_r=0

(3) 
http://www.vice.com/read/muslim-women-have-been-attacked-at-multiple-colleges-since-trump-won-vgtrn

(4) 
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-president-supporters-attack-muslims-hijab-hispanics-lgbt-hate-crime-wave-us-election-a7410166.html

(5) http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/afl-cios-trumka-ready-to-work-with-trump/article/2607017

http://ideasandaction.info/2016/11/post-election-statement/

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Message: 8



Right wingers who want to attack women and put them back in the kitchen and to encourage 
rape culture, who want to attack Muslims in the streets and in their homes and where they 
worship, who want to build for fascism and war, are out and mobilizing. When Milo 
Yiannopoulos spoke at MSU this past week about 40-50 anti-fascists came out to attempt to 
shut down the event and 200-300, mainly students it appeared, came out to attend the event 
and did attend the event. ---- The anti-fascist forces seem to be stuck in an earlier 
time. For many of us who have been fighting the klan and Nazis and skinheads for years, it 
is time to update to fighting the alt right. This is no time to forget about the klan and 
Nazis, as the alt right strategy appears to be to combine middle class frenzy and fear 
with fascist forces and ideology.

The main slogan was: “No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist USA.” The Milo supporters, at times, 
returned a chant of “Fascist USA,” or the mindless “USA, USA, USA.” They also threw in a 
“commies go home” chant to show they were out of touch and wishing for old times. The 
anti-fascist forces, however, seemed stuck in tired chants and not in quite in touch with 
this new alt right. We need to update.

A “black bloc” Milo attempting to prank anti-Milo protest in East Lansing.
Milo appeared among his supporters outside, during the standoff, wearing a ski mask for a 
moment and carrying a “Milo Sucks” sign. One of Milo’s employees also wore a mask for a 
few seconds, carrying a sign saying “Fuck Raceism.” These were Milo’s lame attempts at 
humor, both fell flat, but when Milo announced himself to his supporters, some in the 
crowd went into a bit of frenzy.

Our smaller, anti-fascist group held off the larger group of Milo supporters for about an 
hour, blocking their entrance to the hall. Then the campus cops attacked the anti-fascist 
forces from behind, arrested seven and opened the way for Milo’s supporters to enter the hall.

A few things stand out. First Milo and his supporters did better mobilizing then the 
anti-fascist forces. There are many students at MSU who are anti-fascist, why didn’t more 
students turn out to oppose Milo speaking on campus? Our side has work to do on explaining 
the real dangers Trump and Milo and the developing fascist movements represent to all of 
us. It is important now for anti-fascist forces to be out and organizing on campuses and 
in cities and in all of our communities.

Most of all we need to understand that fighting and opposing the alt right is not the same 
as fighting the klan. Milo’s supporters are middle class white students being called out 
to attack women and Muslims and Black people.   Milo attempts to rely on hip fascist humor 
to gain support; he has made a name for himself by being a troll and attacking women using 
social media. Middle class white students supporting Milo and fascist ideas reminds us of 
Hitler’s rise to power in Germany and the support of middle class college students for the 
Nazis. Milo is calling for a war against Islam.

One of the middle class students waiting for Milo made a racist remark, and I said he was 
a middle class piece of shit. He corrected me and said he was upper middle class. He was 
afraid of being included with the regular middle class and no doubt horrified at the 
thought of being identified with the working classes, but where is he going? Somehow I 
assume he sees his future as being tied with gaining/maintaining the upper hand against 
working people, communities of color, women, Muslims, Latinos, and so on. He hopes that by 
allying himself with Milo and Trump and a developing fascist movement, he will carve out a 
space for himself and comfort for himself at the expense of people beneath him. He wants 
to join with Milo and Trump to be on top against the rest of us.

The cops escorted Milo into the hall through another entrance and then attacked the 
anti-fascist forces and opened the way for milo’s supporters to enter the hall. This 
frenzy of trying to gain advantage at someone else’s expense, this frenzy of hating women 
and Muslims, this frenzy of taking up white nationalism and war fever, these are the 
dangers. This is not the old time klan, these college students are so lame that they think 
it makes them hip to support Milo and to embrace or consider embracing fascism.

How do we organize against Milo and the middle class frenzy of some white college 
students? For starters, we fight and organize on the campuses. The attacks on women, the 
support for rape culture are real and dangerous. Milo and Trump and their middle class 
supporters encourage assaults on women and are urging attacks on Muslims as a build up to 
war. Our job is to organize community self defense, real self defense forces to defend 
against these attacks. Our self defense forces must include all of us: women, men, gay, 
straight, trans, Muslim, Latino, Black, white, all of us.

Our main organizing must be in working class communities and communities of color. I went 
to a demonstration in Roseville, Michigan last week. A young Muslim woman who had 
graduated from Roseville high school a few years ago called the demonstration because the 
vice president of the Roseville School Board is posting vicious attacks on Muslims as in 
all Muslims are terrorists and racist attacks on Black people. The demonstration at the 
school board meeting was small, about 25-30 people, majority Muslim but including Muslim, 
Black and white. It was not a radical demonstration; it was calling for this racist to be 
removed from the school board. What was important to me was that ordinary people saw the 
danger and the need to organize against these racist and anti-Muslim attacks. No one was 
wearing masks. People went into the school board meeting and some spoke out against the 
racist and called for his removal. The young Muslim woman who called the demonstration and 
her mother had appeared on local news broadcasts to explain why they were calling the 
demonstration to oppose these attacks. This takes courage, and there was no bravado, just 
determination.

To build the fight against fascism, we need to organize on the campuses and we need to 
organize in working class communities and schools and workplaces. These are the front 
lines. We need to organize united, working class defense against racist, misogynist and 
anti-Muslim attacks. We need to understand that this is not the same as past organizing 
against the klan, that Trump and the alt right are attempting to make fascist ideas and 
racist attacks mainstream and normal. We need to make defending against these attacks, 
uniting our forces to defeat the fascists, mainstream and normal.

These are difficult times. People are under attack. There is fear, and it is not 
unfounded. This is no time to run and hide. This is time to organize and fight. This is no 
time for handwringing. This is time for all hands on deck to fight and defeat the fascists.

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Message: 9



Again and again, the same question is heard: What is anarchy? What is anarchism based on? 
What does an anarchist believe in? Again and again, each response is impregnated with the 
individual seal, a variation of self-thinking, of self-view, which does not accept 
previous definitions, nor does it articulate its ideas on the basis of official books. To 
discover anarchy, one must reason freely, one has to let go of obedience. ---- However, of 
the set of answers that we find throughout the ages, it is the masculine pronouncement 
around the anarchism that the premium. In addition to this and as a reflection of a 
patriarchal society, the intellectual work of thousands of anarchist women has been 
relegated from the bibliographical sources, contributing to a process of forgetting their 
ideas, chores and proposals.

This is undoubtedly one of the main errors of anarchism in its current development. 
Dialogue with referents of the past falls automatically into male figures, extolled by 
their vast spread in our language during the last decades, restricting considerably to 
other voices of the field of ideas that constitute the anarchist thinking.

For this reason, we gather the perspectives of women over 17 anarchist anarchy, anarchism, 
the anarchists and the female anarchic feel , Juana Rouco Buela would say. No great 
prologues or scientific studies are necessary to glimpse the lucid message of anarchist 
women. Their voices, dispersed in the globe and spread over time, do not merit any 
chronological order or classification. Each of them has its own seal. They are alive, they 
sing with clarity to our violent and servile times.

Anarchists, in general, also cultivated literature. His prose stand out in the infinite 
flora of anarchy. A fruitful work, the crucible of his ideas is immense. The following 
pages bring together women from Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, the United States, 
United Kingdom, Italy and Spain, from various angles on anarchist sentiments, aesthetic 
thinking and action, libertarian ethics.

"The Idea: prospects for anarchist women" is the first volume of the Libertarian 
Collection . The next titles will cover other major themes that find common thread in 
these broad fields, namely, sexuality, free love, body, education, feminine emancipation, 
work and trade unions.

The book will be available from Thursday December 1, in the context of X to Fury Book, 
independent publishing fair to be held until Sunday 4 at the Centro Cultural GAM (Metro 
Universidad Catolica), Santiago de Chile.

For regions requests: eleuterio@grupogomezrojas.org

http://www.eleuterio.grupogomezrojas.org/coleccion-libertarias-libro-la-idea-perspectivas-de-mujeres-anarquistas/

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Message: 10



In France, a woman dies every three days under the blows of her spouse. If it is so 
frequent, it is because it is not an accident, it is not a question of people, and above 
all, it does not happen to others. Spousal violence is a combination of psychological and 
physical abuse, verbal, physical and sexual abuse, which involves the killing of a woman 
as an autonomous person, with the risk of her actual killing. ---- What is conjugal 
violence? ---- Contrary to popular belief, marital violence does not mean beatings. Fall 
into the category of domestic violence: ----  verbal aggression: insults and abuse, ---- 
the psychological pressures: remarks and banned constant of controlling, humiliate, ---- 
intimidate, isolate (monitor or prevent contact with other people), denigrate and devalue. ..

  physical assault,

  sexual assault and marital rape.

This definition of conjugal violence was not invented by radical feminists - who 
nevertheless share it - but it is the one used by the first major survey carried out in 
France on this issue and commissioned by the government: violence against women in France 
(Enveff), which dates from 2000.

psychological abuse such as physical aim to establish the total domination of men over 
women in a tyrannical perspective, where everything contributes to a climate of terror. 
This climate of terror allows the submission and emotional and social isolation of the 
woman, to better control her. The object of man's anger can be important or futile, it 
does not matter, it is arbitrary, since it is above all to make live in fear.

How it works?

Domestic violence is still largely invisible in our society, only 16% of battered women 
file a complaint. Others refrain from doing so, often to protect their children, their 
reputation or fear. Spousal violence is based on a complex process where the psychological 
grip of the violent spouse undermines self-esteem and ability to act in the victims. There 
is often talk of the "cycle of conjugal violence", which is repeated continually: first 
the violence rises to a point of crisis, followed by regrets, promises and apologies, 
during an idyllic phase called "moon honey ". This is what makes it clear that many women 
keep hope instead of getting out of this situation. Yet violence always comes back cyclically.

Just as rape is favored by a "culture of rape" which legitimizes it, so too the dominant 
representations of love justify and trivialize conjugal violence. Among these 
representations are, on the one hand, those which present love as a sacrifice, a total 
gift of self and a surrender to the other; On the other hand, those who present love as a 
devastating passion that can lead to the destruction of the other. Yet, to love is not to 
destroy!

Contrary to common prejudice, the Enveff survey cited above has shown that marital 
violence crosses all social backgrounds and all socio-professional categories in equal 
parts. In other words, to believe that spousal violence only affects the poor is a matter 
of pure class contempt: it does not depend on the level of income or the level of the 
degree of the aggressors and assaults. 40% of cases of spousal violence occur in the 
couple during a first pregnancy when women are the most isolated (sick leave or maternity 
leave) or the most physically vulnerable.

The hetero couple, a revealer of inequalities?

When violence is as widespread as marital violence, it can not continue to be believed to 
be isolated. The majority of marital violence occurs in heterosexual couples of all social 
classes. The heterosexual couple or the heterosexual family is a social institution that 
reproduces the dominions present in the rest of society. Women have been raised since 
childhood in the idea that they can not live without men. Their education is entirely 
oriented towards the couple and the family, they are destined to take care of a man and a 
family. This is one of the reasons why today more than 80% of part-time work concerns 
women. On the contrary, men are driven from childhood to grow up without worrying about 
domestic economy. When a woman and a man settle together they are not already in a 
situation of equality since they have incorporated a whole series of sexist stereotypes.

Studies on the sharing of domestic tasks show the inequalities that still persist widely 
in heterosexual couples: women work more than men at home and perform the most invisible 
and least valued household tasks. Domestic work is a free work carried out by women that 
is appropriated by men.

Domestic violence, whether psychological or physical, is part of this system of 
exploitation of women. To take advantage of an individual, the farmer must destroy 
self-esteem and convince him that exploitation is natural. In some cases exploitation 
leads to violence. As long as women are regarded as dependent and inferior to men, men 
will continue to use their power of domination against them.

In short, conjugal violence does not come from individual stories. It's not because it's 
him, it's not because it's her. It's because it's a man, it's because it's a woman. Let us 
ask the question: Who benefits from crime? To a system of exploitation of women by men. 
This system is patriarchy.

VIOLENCE IN THE COUPLE

* In 2014, 118 women and 25 men were killed by their spouse or former spouse. * On average 
each year, an estimated 223,000 women between the ages of 18 and 75 are victims of spousal 
violence in its most serious forms (physical and / or sexual violence by their spouse or 
ex-spouse). * 143,000 children live in a home where a woman has reported being physically 
and / or sexually abused by her spouse or ex-spouse. * Over one year, from November 2014 
to October 2015, 82,635 acts of violence per spouse or ex-spouse were recorded by the 
security forces in metropolitan France. In 88% of the cases, the victim is a woman (72 873 
facts).

SEXUAL VIOLENCE

* On average, an estimated 84,000 women between the ages of 18 and 75 are victims of rape 
or attempted rape each year. In 90% of cases, the victim knows his aggressor. 10% of 
victims report having filed a complaint. * In 2014, 765 men and 6 women were convicted of 
rape on persons over 15 years of age.

Letter from the National Observatory of Violence to Women - November 2015

Are you a victim of domestic violence?

This self-test was carried out by the association Filactions . Obviously, each parameter 
taken in isolation does not necessarily reveal a situation of violence. However, if you 
answer yes 3 times or more, you are the victim of one or more forms of conjugal violence: 
physical, moral, psychological and / or economic. So you can ask the associations for 
help. It is based on the questionnaire for the Enveff survey (see article).

Over the past 12 months, did your spouse or friend:
1. prevented you from meeting or talking with friends or family members?
2. prevented you from talking to other men?
3. criticized, devalued what you were doing?
4. made unpleasant remarks about your physical appearance?
5. has imposed on you ways to dress, to style your hair or to behave in public?
6. Did not consider or despise your opinions, claimed to explain to you what you had to think?
A.In privacy;
B.to other persons.
7. demanded to know with whom and where you were?
8. stopped talking to you, totally refused to discuss?

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Violences-conjugales-La-honte-doit

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Message: 11


We relay the call by the Algonquin Nation of Barriere Lake that struggle against a mining 
project. Link to the original, here . ---- The Algonquin Nation of Barriere Lake has just 
learned that the Quebec government may grant, from Monday, December 19, 2016, permits that 
would enable the mining company Copper One to open mining roads and start mining boreholes 
in full heart of their traditional territory, despite his disagreement repeatedly 
expressed to the Government of Quebec in recent years. ---- In fact, the government had 
cooperated with the Nation in 2011 by suspending the claims of the Copper One company, the 
government reversed the decision earlier this year not even inform, consult or obtain the 
consent of the nation it which is contrary to respect for the most basic Aboriginal rights 
in Canada and abroad. This is also contrary to the respect of the negotiation process that 
was underway since 2015 between the Barriere Lake Nation and the Government of Quebec for 
an integrated co-management of land resources.

The Algonquin Nation of Barriere Lake is in favor of a responsible development of its 
territory, particularly via intelligent forestry, some hydroelectric development, hunting, 
fishing and other tourist activities, but it is totally opposed to mining, it considers 
incompatible with its lifestyle and its development visions - particularly because of the 
non-renewable nature of the resource and huge amounts of mining waste left behind for 
ever, in the territory.

The heart of the problem also lies in the fact that the Mining Act of Quebec, despite its 
reform in 2013, still does not respect the rights of Indigenous Nations in the field of 
information, consultation and consent before granting claims mining and execution of 
mineral exploration on the claimed territories.

Faced with this situation, the Algonquin Nation of Barriere Lake said now ready to 
undertake all necessary actions to prevent mining drilling begin, including any form of 
peaceful resistance in the field. Fearing the reactions of Copper One company, the police 
and the Government of Quebec to face their actions, Algonquin Nation appeals to solidarity 
and seeking the support of any person or organization for Quebec that the defense of 
indigenous rights priority.

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP:

1. Call or send an email now to the departments responsible in order to signify their 
disagreeing that any work of mine drilling be carried out on the territory of the Barriere 
Lake Algonquin Nation without their consent: ministre@mern.gouv.qc. ca, 
ministre@mddelcc.gouv.qc.ca, ministre.autochtones@mce.gouv.qc.ca, 
outaouais@mffp.gouv.qc.ca, carolyn.bennett@parl.gc.ca, 1-819-449- 3333, 1-800-363-7233, 
1-418-627-6254 p.5700.

2. Give the "Assistance Fund of legal defense" that the Nation of Barriere Lake wants to 
create to support their legal action. You can donate directly online or by check.

  3. Sign the petition to the National Assembly of Quebec online and send messages of 
solidarity: Facebook # LacBarrière #BarriereLake

  4. Stay tuned for a possible solidarity rally in Barriere Lake in January, 2017 (more 
information to follow)

For more information:

Site Internet: www.solidaritelacbarriere.blogspot.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BarriereLakeSolidarity

Petition: www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/exprimez-votre-opinion/petition/Petition-6379/index.html

Le Devoir: 
www.ledevoir.com/societe/actualites-en-societe/485180/lac-barriere-l-assaut-des-minieres

CBC: 
http://www.rcinet.ca/fr/2016/11/21/congres-quebec-mines-priorite-au-respect-des-droits-des-autochtones/

Echo Abitibien: 
www.lechoabitibien.ca/actualites/politique/2016/10/11/opposition-a-un-projet-minier-dans-la-reserve-la-verendrye.html

Press Conference in the National Assembly Michel Thusky (5: 45min)

Michel Thusky (Fr), Algonquin Nation of Barriere Lake: 819-215-0591

Norman Matchewan (En), Algonquin Nation of Barriere Lake: 819-441-8006

http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.co.il/2016/12/appel-la-solidarite-avec-la-nation.html

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