Anarchic update news all over the world- Part 1 - 19/01/2017

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Turkey, anarsistfaaliyet - Devrimci Anarşist Faaliyet DAF:
      Comrade Umut Fırat is Not Alone (tr) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  federacao anarquista gaucha: Solidarity with Rafael Braga
      (pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Greece, ESE Athens, working counter-Bulletin #144 (gr)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Britain, glasgow anarchists: Jewellery & Capitalism; gender,
      class and the environment. Thurs 16th Feb (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  wsm.ie: Apollo House - well worth fighting for
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Greece, "Black & Red" APO - The poor, plebeian THE LAYERS,
      the exploited have nothing to lose MORE - GENERAL STRIKE 8/12
      (gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Britain, Consumed with emotion and reason - About the
      pitfalls motivations and possibilities of ethical consumption.
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  wsm.ie: Fascists fail to stir hate as Ballaghaderreen says
      welcome to refugees (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
9.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL - The elected
      representatives represent only themselves, on 18 January in
      Rennes by AL Rennes (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
10.  Call-participation in the course in the concentration camp
      of Greek By A.P.O. (gr) [machine translation] 
     (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1




“Yesterday, at a time when the tears have not dried and the rage is not settled yet for 
the cities burned down to rubble with tanks and bombing, hundreds of people killed, 
thousands of old, young, child, women and men wounded and unhoused; the images of the 
perpetrators taking medals are alive in our memories; when the tanks and planes which 
burned down the cities and killed the people targeted Ankara and Istanbul on July 15, 
yesterdays heros were declared traitors overnight. Thousands of people were stuffed into 
prisons, tens of thousands lost their jobs. The practice of reciprocal coups which is a 
manifestation of power struggle at the top of the state, revealed the dirty face of state. 
The relationships between the gangs, cult, sect that organized inside the state with their 
soldiers, police, allegedly independent judges from supreme court to chancery, prosecutors 
and all bureaucracy, and the 15 year old racist, nationalist, fundamentalist and sectarian 
government which used them for their power. However, the government started to organize 
its counter coup to cement its power despite being responsible for all that’s been lived, 
and boosted the process of assigning guardians and litem, to companies for change of 
capital, to newspapers and TV channels for change of idea, municipalities and parties for 
change of politics, and increased its oppression on all social opposition. While governing 
with delegated legislation, it is carrying the masses that it manipulated with war horns, 
and is about to turn all this geography into a sea of blood for its power, ambitions and 
madness. As a human, Revolutionary Anarchist, Conscientious/Total Objector, an individual 
who has been spending 23 years in a lit cell under the darkness of a dungeon, I see all 
entities of capitalist, statist, nationalist, fundamentalist, sectarian and patriarchal 
power structure are responsible for all this. I start hunger strike, to draw attention to 
all this, before and after, to emphasize that new forms of struggle and social opposition 
has to be organized, and to reflect my own political, moral and conscientious attitude.” 
Revolutionary Anarchist prisoner and Anarchist Meydan Newspaper writer Umut Fırat 
Suvariogullari, who was “transferred for exile” from Izmir Buca Prison to Izmir Yenisakran 
T Type Prison number 4, is on the 38. day of his hunger strike. Considering what has been 
lived in the place of oppression and cruelty, the prisons, the changes and events during 
the state of emergency are no surprise. Revolutionary Anarchist Umut Fırat, were searched 
naked during acceptance procedures, resisted because his body was touched without 
volition, and took communication punishment for resistance. Besides his Revolutionary 
Anarchist identity being ignored, he was placed with 19 persons in 14 person rooms, forced 
to sleep on torn beds with blood, forced to stay for years under holding cell conditions 
of police stations. Revolutionary prisoners continue to live under the conditions choked 
to bureaucracy and deprivation by the newly appointed during state of emergency, creating 
a prison inside prison, where open visits are twice a month and 45-50 minutes, petitions 
are ignored, repression and torture are continuous. The conditions that Revolutionary 
Anarchist prisoner Umut Fırat Suvariogullari is exposed today, are the conditions that all 
revolutionary prisoners are exposed during the state of emergency. Umut Fırat 
Suvariogullari, who is on the 38. day of the hunger strike to defend his Revolutionary 
Anarchist identity and create his sustainable living conditions, is continuing his 
struggle against all these conditions, becoming free with his struggle.

We salute his struggle!

Revolutionary hearts will destroy the cells!

Comrade Umut Fırat is not alone!

http://anarsistfaaliyet.org/english/comrade-umut-firat-is-not-alone/

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Message: 2



Organized by the Committee for Freedom of Rafael Braga was held yesterday (12) in Porto 
Alegre a reporting public act and ma rchou the capital's streets in solidarity with Rafael 
and demanding his freedom. ---- Preceded by a leaflet in the democratic corner, the act 
marched until Largo Zumbi of the Palmares. The activity marked the anniversary of the 01 
year of his second arrest, occurred in a blatant forged by the PM of RJ while on parole. 
Other acts were carried out in different parts of the country. ---- To understand the 
situation Rafael visit: https://www.facebook.com/liberdaderafaelbragavieira/ ---- FOR THE 
FREEDOM OF RAFAEL BRAGA! ---- FOR THE END OF THE BLACK AND THE POOR PEOPLE'S WORM!
SOLIDARITY IS MORE THAN WRITING WORD!
https://federacaoanarquistagaucha.wordpress.com/2017/01/14/solidariedade-a-rafael-braga/

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Message: 3



Communication from the ERC Athens and Thessaloniki for the kidnapping and forced 
hospitalization 6chronou Victor-Lambrou psychiatric clinic. --- Here is unchanged text of 
the announcement: --- The Libertarian Syndicalist Union denounces the vindictive attitude 
of the state, as expressed by the kidnapping and ransom of 6chronou son of P. Roupa and 
Law. Maziotis. --- The Pola Roupa, Nikos Maziotis and Constantina Athanasopoulos are from 
Thursday, January 5th on hunger and thirst strike for the obvious: to give the 6chronos 
relatives of Rupa. --- With the abduction of her son 6chronou Pola Roupa and Nikos 
Maziotis, the first Left revives political Frederica when the time of the monarchy 
gathered in hellish -which euphemistically called "Paidoupoleis" - the children of 
communists and the Resistance fighters to the "reform nationally."

We believe that, at least challenging while Nazi scum move freely, a 6chrono child be 
detained. The left-right-wing coalition Syriza-ANEL responsible for obtaining new 
anti-labor measures, the state and the bosses are the only terrorists. Urgently required 
to meet the demand of the strikers hunger and thirst and to give their son to his mother 
and sister II. Roupa.

The Waiters Cooks Association and other employees of the catering industry calls on 
Monday, January 9, in the courts of Cadets will adjudicate 2 redundant workers from the 
shop B-BLUZ in Halandri. The communication-call the COP said: The bosses of this shop 
dismissal of two colleagues because it struck in the 48th general strike (7/8 May 2016 - 
days enactment of anti-insurance bill) and as requested by the Easter gift and whole their 
stamps. The club moved to dynamic interventions outside the shop demanding their immediate 
reinstatement and payment of all accrued. Oldest relevant updates (1) (2). Be taken back 
from an employer are null and vengeful dismissals of our colleagues - to now paid all 
accrued. We organize our class resistance within the workplace. The trade interests ahead!

Crime sheet prepared by the OAED for them "undisciplined" unemployed in the slave-trade 
objectives of the organization. We quote from an article in the ACTIVE-Site the UNEMPLOYED 
Highlights:
Refusal monitoring 'advisory service' program will result in penalties such as cutting 
unemployed allowance of 360 euros or deletion from the unemployment registers.
Even a contract one months the unemployed are obliged to accept it, otherwise it is 
compulsory cessation of unemployment benefit if they are subsidized or deletion from the 
register if they are not subsidized.

The unemployed person has no right to reject a job, nor the different training programs 
offered.

The unemployed throughout the duration of unemployment should demonstrate that looking for 
work and certainly furnishes the OAED the corresponding documents (proof of job 
applications, correspondence with employers, participation in competitions, interviews 
with employers, communication or collaboration with private or public employment agencies, 
publishing job search ads or responding to advertisements). Even if these prove 
unnecessary-dld not find work. And all this to prove to the Employment Agency with 
evidence that looking for a job.

The Board not only legitimizes the slave-trade, the "workers rental" companies, but 
pushing and unemployed to them.

The results of all of the above and based on those proposed by the Board of OAED are:
Cutting unemployment-deleting card from the unemployment registers.
Even more hassle (bureaucracy) for the unemployed.
Cutting benefits (ordinary or extraordinary).
Cut free travel with public transport.

In response to the workers 'gathering at the headquarters of the INDITEX group, on Monday 
morning 2/1 the s-workers in the trade sector, known for their workers' struggles 
collective standing, states: The working concentration is the continuation of the defense 
activities of 2/1 as per custom holidays in the trade sector, as a day traditionally the 
shops are closed. In the past weeks, preceded trips to workplaces and intervention at the 
headquarters of the group INDITEX attempting both to inform COLLEAGUES in commerce for the 
actual machinations of employers and also wanting to give a first collective response to 
the employer's macho . Already in the previous days, we recognized that the purpose of the 
working concentration had already been achieved by Thursday 29/12 when the INDITEX group 
ultimately forced to withdraw his declared for a month its intention to open its stores to 
2/1, which that dragged a number of other competing groups to trade in the same regular 
creating a framework of impunity and macho at the expense of workers' rights and 
achievements. Essentially through interventions and trips in the workplace (not only) 
railed to reverse what until then seemed given in many workplaces because many employers 
have already submitted program for staff at 2/1 while others, guided by "free market 
competition" held hostage thousands of colleagues without officially announce whether to 
keep open stores in 2/1. Together with the group INDITEX, the original decision revoked 
and the group H & M Friday 30/12, which determined largely and the non-operation of 
condominiums (GOLDEN HALL) that until recently advertised that on 2/1 would work . Of 
course, we recognize that our small forces managed to take a step forward in the working 
responses against the employer macho but nevertheless the intentions of employers would 
not stop to speak with heightened aggression and the next time. Already, the SYRIZA-ANEL 
government reopens wide conversation on "52 working Sundays to trade 'and only in early 
December legislated other 2 working Sundays in" discount period ".The what was gained and 
what was lost in this battle will again become a discussion and fermentation point within 
the workplace, through excursions and our interventions in the coming period. We invite 
COLLEAGUES in the trade sector, business and industry associations commercially exploit 
this positive experience enriching and reinforcing the battles to come. Already, Sunday, 
January 15th is the next stop for the eternal battles of Merchants and workers more 
broadly against the abolition of the Sunday holiday. Let's fill their workplaces with 
camaraderie, mutual support and coordination, let's fill the streets with strikers and 
demonstrators.

Left flabbergasted by 8 OTE cultural center workers when informed by the chairman and 
secretary of the cultural center that suddenly decided to lay off! The bosses of New Year 
OTE fired all employees of the Cultural Centre! Moreover they are told, until the morning 
Thursday, December 30, 11 to sign that they accept their dismissal otherwise deposit the 
compensation to the Deposits and Loans Fund and will lose money!!! In a statement on the 
matter, the RACE rally WORKERS OTE (ASE-OTE) stated inter alia: H insidious and bampesiki 
this action shows itself not only the ultimate point depression, corruption and 
degeneration has reached the employers' syndicalism but exceeds in arbitrariness, cruelty 
and vulgarity even the worst employer!

Protest in front of the Macedonia-Thrace Ministry and the Prime Minister's office in 
Thessaloniki made by employees in the group Karipidis (former Arvanitidi), Thursday, 
January 5. The protest of workers is part of the mobilizations carried out for several 
months demanding their accrued and calling for the preservation of jobs. Also workers in 
the enterprise 'Karipidis planning large mobilization in January. In racing readiness, 
they say they are workers in supermarkets 'Marinopoulos', in order to face all 
eventualities. Workers have not been paid to date to December, while the acquisition of 
supermarkets' Marinopoulos' the chain 'Sklavenitis "does not seem to have as a priority 
the repayment of amounts due to employees. The workers-who are unpaid and trapped in 
business games the two companies-except accrued claim not to lose his job no worker and 
not become any detrimental change in contracts in their rights.

Event (information-discussion) for matches in the immigrant detention center on Greek 
Monday, January 9 will be held at the Book Employees Association offices - Paper - Digital 
Media Attica (SYVCHPSA -Lontou 6 Exarchia). The SYVCHPSA invites COLLEAGUES, trade unions, 
the workers' collectives and around the world is experiencing exploitation and misery to 
actively support the struggles that are in and out of cells, both in Greek and everywhere, 
for dignity and freedom.

The presence of a doctor 24 hours a day and immediate protection measures for health and 
safety at work for all specialties, claiming workers in gondola, the hotel and the Mont 
Parnes casino. Workers denounced the employer's murder which took place on New Year's Eve 
in their workplace with a worker victim. This is because there was no occupational 
physician, who could save their colleague.

Mobilisation in Corinth on January 9 the workers have announced in Local Government. 
Workers oppose 42 contract dismissals made by the municipality in the previous period. 
Meanwhile gathering and march and symbolic occupation of the mayor's office, did Wednesday 
4/1, the 57 dismissed contract workers in the Municipality cleanliness Kassandra claiming 
the right to stable and permanent job.

Concentration at the offices of the Hellenic Association of Pharmaceutical Companies 
(SFEE) will perform Tuesday, January 10, workers at pharmaceutical companies seeking 
signing Collective Agreement. The offices of SFEE are: Agrinio 3 in Halandri and the 
merger is scheduled for 4 pm

With a 48-hour strike on 10/1 and 11/1 escalate the contractor workers at Larco 
mobilizations for the abolition of "slave" of contractors, claiming the signing permanent 
contracts with Larco for all those who are currently working with the contractors regime. 
Seeking the abolition of the slave of all contractors and integration of all employees in 
the company for an indefinite period, workers at Larco staged a two-hour strike Wednesday, 
January 4th.

ESE-Athens

http://ese.espivblogs.net/2017/01/07/7-1-17/

http://ainfos.ca/gr/ainfos02803.html

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Message: 4



Jewellery and Capitalism talk and discussion, Thursday 16th February 7-9pm at GAS
Jewellery is a universal form of adornment dating back tens of thousands of years. This 
talk presented by Maddie, a jeweller and anarchist, explores some of the history of 
jewellery; its socio-economic significance, how it relates to gender, class, the 
environment and how it has been used and adapted by over the ages. Prepare to learn a 
whole new side to jewellery; a vast global business based around mythology, sentiment, 
status, ownership, exploitation and extremely successful marketing.
https://glasgowanarchists.wordpress.com/2017/01/14/jewellery-capitalism-gender-class-and-the-environment-thurs-16th-feb/

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Message: 5



Yesterday hundreds of people turned out to support the imaginative action which is known 
to all as Apollo house. Apollo House is the single point of light that emerged from an 
otherwise dismal year, a centennial year of significance, which gave us so little to be 
proud of. Homelessness, in spite of being a significant symptom of all that is wrong in 
our society, is both ignored and tolerated. Fortunately the sight of the homeless masses 
did not get in the way of the centenary celebrations of what a great little republic we 
have grown up to be. ---- The actions of the Irish Housing Network and the alliance of 
supporters which has become known as Home Sweet Home, has taken over an ugly brutalist 
building and former dole office on Tara Street, and gave homeless people hope of a fresh 
start. What it has also done is shone a light on the inhumane bureaucratic approach of 
this to dealing with people who live on the streets. Getting people who have no bed for 
the night, to phone a free phone number in order to secure one for a single night, only to 
be thrown back out into the dark pre-dawn streets to do it all again the next day. Apollo 
House is the golden lamp that emerges from 2016 - and that's why it has touched the people 
of Ireland, and been so massively supported. It is an example of what this state should do 
to support the dispossessed, and would have been a far more fitting tribute than having 
parades or concerts.

This is what a state of Liberty in Ireland of 2017 has to say
‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,' get them to 
individually phone this free phone number, and I MAY give them a rolled up mattress in a 
communal dangerous space for one night.'

For the last couple of years the greatest gatherings of humanity at night in Dublin have 
all been around the soup kitchens on Grafton Street, College Green and the GPO. Occupying 
a building, turning it into a hostel, where you can give people the basic human dignity of 
shelter is apparently radical. How have we gotten to a point where this simple solution is 
immediately condemned by all authority and where the law, hand in glove with the State, 
moves swiftly to spit people back out onto the streets. It is a common story of greed, 
exploitation, a hierarchy of interests, and unfortunately for the homeless, they don't 
count. Literally, they are not counted, because that statistic, much like their existence, 
is inconvenient but necessary. It all is part of the ideology that is ever present but 
never spoken of.

If we turn the clock back only a few months, to October, within the space of two days, we 
can reveal what is the motivation of those who pull the levers. On the 10th of October, 
Cerberus, a US based private equity firm, (Vulture Capitalists to give them their proper 
title) picked up an impaired loan book from Ulster bank for an undisclosed sum. Amongst 
that loan book was 900 mortgages of owner occupied houses. Family homes to you and me. 95% 
of those homes are in arrears of two years or more, and all would be in court proceedings, 
or as the bank call it ‘legal proceedings.'
So what happens now? Well those people get taking to court, by the Cerberus and they'll 
have their houses taken back of them. That creates additional families who end up in 
emergency accommodation or worse still, adds to the growing numbers of homelessness.

The next day, on the 11th of October, Simon Coveney, the Minister for Housing, announces...
A 40% increase in homeless funding from €70m this year to €98m in 2017 will ensure that 
the increased demand for emergency homeless services is effectively addressed and will 
assist in supporting homeless households with long term and sustainable housing solutions. 
(Dept. Coveney announces transformational housing budget)

This is the government response to the crisis; to put more money into dealing with the 
symptom, rather than tackling the source of this disease, the repossession of family 
homes. The Central bank published that by the end of September 2016 the banks/lenders had 
repossessed 1,698 principal dwelling houses (Central Bank Statistical Release). When you 
strip it back from the jargon, it means that 4 family homes a day being repossessed 
according to Focus Ireland. The government response was to give more in relation to 
emergency accommodation because as a good friend points out, emergency accommodation 
measures are simply ‘good for the market.' Having a people in total fear of being 
homeless, causes people to pay more in rent, and the landlords grin and stuff their 
pockets. Interesting to note that our Minister for Housing is a landlord, and here we get 
to the crux of this. Having money invested in emergency homelessness, and the money that 
goes to hotels, bed and breakfasts, even to the services themselves, means that the market 
continues unimpeded by the social implications of the action. Good news for landlords, 
hotels, builders and business. It will continue to be bad news for tenants, mortgage 
defaulters; people. The ideologues, the neo-liberals, successive governments like to see 
the market continue unchecked. That is an ideological decision. It is not surprising that 
landlords, bondholders, hotel owners, make those decisions. Capitalism is full flow, 
untethered and people are damned into living with the consequences.

It is not complicated to actually tackle this problem, but let us do that and not just 
pick up the tab for the symptoms whilst making rich people richer in the process.

Let me bullet point this for all

1. Build more houses
This is a straight forward proposition, which again the ideologues have a difficult time 
translating into action. We can only judge them by the fact that they managed a grand 
total of 334 social houses in 2015. (The Journal Fact check Feb 9th) And what I mean is 
actually build the houses, employ builders to do this job and complete homes for families 
who are on the social housing list. Not changing planning regulations so that we can 
attract private developers in to do the work for us so that we can then take a few houses 
off them at the end of their profitable venture and put them into the social housing stock!

2. Stop the banks from repossessing homes
This requires an understanding of history, but it is recent history. Between 2008 -2014, 
Ireland spent €60 Billon support our defunct banking system. (Dr. Julien Mercille -Chapter 
3 of the C&AG report 2014) and the interest yearly costs us €1 billon. Given that we know 
this, why are the same banks permitted to sell the impaired loans of family homes to 
capitalist firms so the vultures can make people homeless? See Ulster bank story: 10th 
Oct. referred to above.

The answer my friends, is ideological. Capitalism and the markets are allowed to continue 
unchecked. Sure there will be ‘collateral' damage, people will get made homeless, but in 
the short term the narrative is that we are in ‘recovery'. The markets and economy is 
recovering, and this we are told of is more importance. There is also a sinister unspoken 
moral judgement in the midst of this narrative; that the people who end up living on the 
streets have in some way brought this on themselves.

Within the ideology there is this reliance on the experts and we hear frequent calls to 
‘logic'. There are spin doctors busily weaving stories about the dangers of simple 
solutions to complex problems. The illustration of a complex problem is the fact that it 
appears totally illogical that buildings which are unoccupied and in the possession of the 
National Asset Management Agency, (us the people) have to be left abandoned when we have a 
growing army of homeless in the streets. That is the beauty of Apollo House, an action 
that cut through the Gordian knot, and showed us all the truth and the consequences of 
their non-interference with the market.

Apollo House is an example of when break through the wall of nonsense propaganda and 
expose Capitalism in all its ugly inhumane nature for the beast that it is. The cost of 
policies is homelessness, misery, addictions, and lives destroyed. Apollo house exposes 
these entrails and damage and make it visible. It screams that something has to be done, 
but it does something better. It does not ask permission, it was a call to action, and it 
brings with it the promise of a better future.

Apollo house is an example of people themselves putting in place a society, based on the 
needs people who have nothing. It is a living embodiment of how society should be run, in 
the interests of people, meeting their needs and progressing on towards reaching other 
goals. But the ideologues are determined to shut that down. We only win what we can hold 
onto, so Apollo house has to be fought for. If it shuts down more will appear, because the 
idea at the heart of this is that society has to be run in the interests of people. The 
days of feeding the beast of capital are numbered.

http://www.wsm.ie/c/apollo-house-worth-fighting

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Message: 6



No more pointless to overstate the obvious. All political management options in the 
context that we know have collapsed, because the whole system is bankrupt. Nothing to 
promise, no better day is not in sight for the poor. The parties simply alternate 
promoting even worse measures, while the sacrifices that workers do ever course is not 
enough. ---- Features and launched a general strike on December 8, the government now is 
the best ally of the EU Hawk and international organizations plunder and oppression of the 
people, engaged in new projects, which will complicate even more the workers' living 
conditions and the unemployed. In complete harmony and coordination with national policies 
in Greece Schauble, raises again the scarecrow of "leaving the euro" to achieve even more 
effective "reforms" aimed at the extermination of the poor and oppressed.

The Left that supposedly would express the hope is forever dead. Across Europe there is 
nowhere a formation with progressive and left attributes that have put even the slightest 
mound in the onslaught of the ruling. Instead, the center-left and the new left fully 
adhered ideologically and practically the chariot of modern totalitarianism, which impose 
worse conditions by force, with the blackmail of unemployment, by ensuring banks' role 
Panopticon audits, the protection of interests market, against any acquis labor forces.

Europe's shift towards the extreme right is the next stage of totalitarianism expression. 
Regenerated by the dominance of capitalist ideology, ie the absolute personalization of 
without competition limits resulting in the expression of dozens of forms of social 
cannibalism, the extreme right is to gather political all elements of extending the scope 
of inequality: racism, anti-immigrant policies, inclusions young , camping societies, 
intolerance, nationalism. Unfortunately forget those who try to express these "values" 
that all nationalisms, everything comes to an end miriness, signaled by the generalized 
war among the poor, the death, the ultimate dissolution and pain.

Therefore the only way to resist the bleak future of complete disintegration of the labor 
and social gains, the overwhelming defeat of the collective consciousness is to fight 
through collectives exokommatikes and antierarchikes, antiracist and direct democratic, 
which will be set up in the communities, from small workplaces to universities and 
neighborhoods of the metropolis, with a view to their federalization under the joint 
project of libertarian communism, the basic condition that the claim of another society, 
economic equality and political freedom.

ALL IN GENERAL STRIKE - GATHER 8/12 10:00 CHAMBER

collectivity on Social Anarchism "Black & Red"
Member of Anarchist Political Organisation | TS

https://maurokokkino1936.wordpress.com/2017/01/10

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Message: 7



The ethical consumption can actually talk whenever, in relation to products and services 
that you take, actively take into account their impact on people, society, the environment 
and animals and their way of themselves. Ethical, or even responsible consumption in 
recent years quite often inflected term. In stores face a number of certificates and 
marking, which under this pigeon-hole can be included. There are eco-educational programs 
in this direction. ---- Nástraha neoliberalismu ---- But generally it has the promotion of 
responsible consumption of its pitfalls. Although on the one hand can bring their 
strengths, and when the anti-capitalist concept (see HERE ) even form one of the 
prerequisites for social change, on the other hand, can easily serve the neoliberal 
indoctrination. It is about forcing the idea that for poor social conditions, 
environmental degradation and other maladies actually not a system of political and 
economic elites. On the contrary, they considered consumerist demands of each individual. 
The system, in this case the "free market", they then just adapt and meet demand 
requirements. And those requirements is said to be as many different goods at the lowest 
prices. This means that each such individual should feel responsible for the condition of 
the world.

And this is how it works neoliberal system: cost, risk and liability transfers to 
individuals and society, while leaving profits on the capital side, ie the elites who 
actually have the final word. "Free market" is presented as a mere tool for consumers, 
from whom everything actually unfolds. But the reality is that it is really a tool, but in 
the hands of someone else entirely, which really brings bold profit.

It is only characteristic that appeals to the responsible consumption are directed mainly 
to the middle class. Jan Keller describes in his work, as is currently the greatest burden 
directed precisely to these layers, while the upper enjoying in tax havens. Many in the 
middle class gradually beaten like a choice and are often happy to pay extra for the more 
expensive "healthier" or "ethical" product, its "exception" then still confirming the 
choice aristocrat president and ultimately more wasteful.

Certainly, we should not be afraid to accept responsibility and risks, but equally, we 
should not be afraid to take your wealth, which assumes minority of those at the top at 
the expense of the rest of society.

responsible consumers

In one of the guides is responsible consumer is described as follows: When procuring goods 
and services reflects how and under what conditions the goods are manufactured, 
distributed and sold. Monitors environmental impacts on the lives of people and animals, 
which is the process of production and consumption directly affects them. Supports 
manufacturers, distributors and sellers who behave considerately to the environment, 
people and animals. Reducing its consumption of goods and services at a reasonable rate. 
It considers the purchase of each product and service.

I would venture to gouge especially the last point. Since that is because everything else 
depends: Contemplating.

It should be noted that even responsible consumption can have your "but" Why look at 
animals untested cream for wrinkles, when something like this is not necessary at all? Why 
think about how to buy a car with low fuel consumption, though it would be sufficient to 
communicate with someone from the neighborhood to carpool or organize a vigorous campaign 
to demand the strengthening of public transport? Why buy Fair Trade chocolate when you can 
get along without it, and it is really so "fair" to buy it in the supermarket 
transnational corporations? And then we could continue.

In life it is not to be just a totally principled. This does not mean, of course resign 
from his principles, and endeavor for ethical conduct. Often we hesitate compromise peace. 
It is not about that for her once lay, but, if possible, from time to time to rethink and 
move quite a bit further.

How about it?

If you thought ethical consumption sympathetic and do not know where to start, there is no 
problem to suggest a few areas on which emphasis. Eventually you will find that many 
things together directly related.

First and foremost, take care of yourself and treat yourself to a healthy diet. A healthy 
lifestyle can connect to vegetarianism (a diet free of animal carcasses) or straight 
veganism (diet without animal products). Not only you will benefit her own body, but will 
not participate in the suffering of livestock and meat industry support.

If you do not harm animals or otherwise, dispose of fur and leather products, do not use 
products tested on animals (especially in terms of cosmetics and drug products).

As for your health and for nature will undoubtedly much better to consume products from 
organic farming, ie. itself, which excludes the use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers 
and genetically modified organisms.

As much as possible, try to find raw materials that come from your neighborhood or a 
nearby region. Do you have the more so under the supervision and at the same time 
contribute to the development of their region. More we devote localization aspect in 
existence no. 1/2013 . In it we also pointed to the possibility of farmers' markets, 
bedýnkového purchases, self-supply, bezpenežních zones, sharing and creation of consumer 
cooperatives.

If you can not deny a treat from foreign counties, eg. Cocoa, coffee, tea or chocolate, 
you can opt for products marked with the logo of Fair Trade. The programs under this brand 
should ensure that the grower base material (very often a team) as it got "fair" and that 
paid in the acquisition are not being exploited eg. Child labor.

Even the way you travel, has a big influence. Individualistic car traffic is a major 
emitter of greenhouse gases, violates public space rozkouskovává landscape and thus 
reduces the life of many animals. Prefer walking, cycling and public transport use.

When respect for the environment is one of the most important aspects of energy 
management. Before discussing the question of what is produced, think about where could be 
saved. Moreover, it is worth bearing in mind that energy savings in the home are often 
also financial savings.

Well, the last area that I would at this very brief survey pointed out, is a waste. The 
question is not so much throwing waste in the correct bins, but rather the pursuit of its 
smallest production.

It goes without shopping

If we stay on the subject of waste, we can also mention the individual or group that 
converts waste back on utility matters. Called. dumpster diving is popularly said 
collection bins. Especially large supermarkets daily throw huge amounts of food that can 
still be used. So why leave them there? It often happens that you are immersed in a 
container and do not have a week to go shopping and still can divide friends. Some 
supermarkets such practice prevents disabling containers or pouring chemicals things.

In terms of strategy, which we can call in a neutral sense as parasitic. If it was not a 
waste, it would not work.

Another strategy that can be marked, it is called. Shoplifting, a petty theft in 
supermarkets. Basically it is a philosophy of moving things from places of surplus 
(corporate stores) into the seats shortages (needy). It should be noted that this strategy 
arouses strong controversy.

path goods

To take in hand a product, do not be afraid sometimes to think and imagine what was 
probably his way from the very beginning, ie. obtaining raw materials, through processing, 
labor, transportation and sales to your hands. Maybe they run out of context, which in the 
future will change your perspective on what you consume.

Do not be fooled appease certificates and advertising and PR firms that you will claim 
that their products comply with ethical standards and their purchase will benefit both 
nature and society. Often it's just green-painted capitalism, whose aim is to sell.

And especially to first consider whether you really need something or whether there is a 
better alternative. Do not just emotion, but also reason.

(The article used the Internet resources available on responsible consumption.)

Published in existence no. 2/2013 on "ethical consumption".

Related links afed.cz:
Ethical consumption
Localization
Create a consumer cooperative
few tips for aspiring guerrilla growers
LETS and Time Bank

sswarparty.org.uk/harrods-protest-six-arrested-cake-knocked/

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The small town of Ballaghaderreen recently found out that it would be welcoming some 82 
refugees in the near future.  About half of these are minors and most of those are under 
12 including 13 under the age of 4.  There were the predictable attempts by neo-nazis to 
whip up hate online and someone even distributed about 80 British fascist leaflets in the 
town.  But rather than hate taking hold the town held a standing room only welcoming 
meeting last Thursday.  We asked one of the organisers, Jessamine O Connor,  to tell us 
how this happened. ---- Solidarity Times: How did you hear the refugees would be coming to 
Ballaghaderreen? ---- Jessamine: News broke in Ballaghaderreen on Friday morning, through 
the national press, that the town would be receiving about 80 refugees at some unspecified 
date in the next few weeks. This was a shock, as it had apparently not been discussed with 
the local schools, doctors, or other service providers. The initial response was negative; 
many people were fearful, confused, and of course some were angry or simply racist. The 
atmosphere looked like it could go either way, and the radio seemed to be ramping it up 
with very aggressive coverage.

Solidarity Times: You decided to do something about that, how did you organise the meeting?

Jessamine: It was a simple thing to ring around, get a few people on side and book a 
venue. We called a meeting for the Monday night, for those who wanted to welcome the 
refugees and help them when they got here. We stated at the outset that this meeting would 
only be to come up with ideas for how best to help the people when they arrived, and not 
to discuss the government's strategy of placing refugees in a small town -population about 
1800- which was recently named the most disadvantaged town in Connaught. We made it clear 
that we would not entertain any negative comments about refugees, or be hosting 
politicians on a soapbox.

Solidarity Times: Did you get a good response from people living in the town?
Jessamine: Interest in the meeting soared, thanks largely to the internet, and by the 
Monday we had already spoken to nearly every local and national radio station about our 
intention to warmly welcome Syrian people to town.

We held the event, under the title "Ballaghaderreen Welcomes Refugees" (to be clear!) in 
Spell's Rum+Black Music Club, and ten minutes in it was packed beyond capacity. I briefly 
restated our purpose, and reminded the media that there would be no drama or debate; that 
we were solely solution focused, and then Debbie Beirne facilitated. We had Jenny and 
Derek Graham (from No More Borders No More Tears) speaking about their experience of the 
refugee camps in Greece, and really positive contributions from members of the community, 
all offering to help in whatever way they could.

Solidarity Times: Whats going to happen next?

Jessamine: We passed around sheets for people to leave their contact details, and skills 
they might be able to volunteer at a later date. We were overwhelmed by the support, and 
counted over 100 names just there alone. We have been inundated with offers from further 
afield of practical assistance at different stages, and pledges of items and services if 
they are needed.

We are compiling a mini-directory for the new arrivals, of local businesses and 
individuals who can offer free services, and will be setting up a "Failte Isteach" 
conversational English class in the town before they arrive. This class will be for all 
residents of the area who want to improve their English, so will benefit members of our 
large Pakistani community and others, as well as the native volunteers.

Solidarity Times: What about people who want to find out more or even get involved?
Jessamine: We are a grassroots community group, with no political or religious 
affiliation, going under the name "Welcome To Roscommon" for now, and you can find us on 
facebook, or email  ballaghwelcome@gmail.com

Photo: Leah
http://www.wsm.ie/c/fascists-fail-ballaghaderreen-welcome-refugees

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Message: 9


Alternative libertarian Rennes invites you to an aperitif / debate on the theme: "The 
elected representatives only represent themselves", Wednesday, January 18 at 7:30 pm at 
the Amaryllis, 12, Jouaust crossroads, Lices bottom. ---- The Facebook event 
https://www.facebook.com/events/757130101111544/ ---- As presidential elections come 
closer in France in a highly secure and nationalist climate, the Collective for an 
Alternative Libertarian of Rennes intends to put on the table the possible alternatives to 
their masquerade to invent and really live democracy, in our neighborhoods and on Our 
workplaces. ---- "We criticize the illusory and lying character of" parliamentary 
democracy ", which masks the power of the capitalist mode of production over society. The 
possibility of choosing state leaders and legislators can not be dissociated from the 
hierarchical structure of The parliamentary system makes the citizen a passive elector who 
delegates his power to leaders who can not act against the essential interests of the 
capitalist classes.

Extract the Manifesto for a Libertarian Alternative : An anti-statist fight

Contact: rennes@alternativelibertaire.org

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Rennes-Apero-debat-les-elus-ne

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Message: 10



The last three years in the facilities of the old airport of Greek immigrants are 
imprisoned and children. The lack of health care, limited amounts of food and inhuman 
treatment by anthropofylakes are just some of those experienced by encapsulated within the 
concentration camp. Against the suffocating living conditions imposed by the state and 
capital increasingly more immigrants moving into struggle and resistance movements. By 
abstaining rations and hunger strike by refusing entry into the cells and the victorious 
struggle of Sanaa Taleb, against the forcible deportation, proves that from the over 
nothing obvious given and that to have even the minimum should claim them. ---- The Greek 
state with the voice of the Commander of the Detention Centre Immigrant Greek answers with 
a vengeance in many choose the road of rupture and resistance and not that of inertia, 
proceeding from September 2016 to ban visiting, further complicating creating links of 
solidarity and match between / bis locals / ies and migrant and leading inevitably to the 
marginalization of the latter. A move that is part of the broader anti-immigrant policy of 
the state, which is fully aligned with the strategy of transnational and supranational 
organizations (EU, NAT) West.

AGAINST THE BORDERS, WAR, THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND MODERN TOTALITARIANISM

SOLIDARITY TO REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS
COMMON FIGHTS FOR LIFE AND DIGNITY

Saturday, January 14, pl. Sourmenon 12m
support tomorrow's protest to the concentration camp of Greek and protest in the Assembly 
block of Anarchists on Social Class and Empowerment

Anarchist Collectives Omikron72 & Cycle Fotias- members FROM

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