Today's Topics:
1. US, Black Rose Rochester, Genesee River Rebellion: Nazis
Among US: Trump and the Far-Right (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire - Against racism, Manif for
Theo in Bobigny: another story by AL 93 , AL 94 North , AL
Montreuil , AL Paris North East (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Ruptura Colectiva (RC) - CRAC-PC: take the arms and the
destiny of our lives in Guerrero, Mexico (ca) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
"We have a wonderful opportunity here folks, that may never come again, at the right time.
Donald Trump's campaign statements, if nothing else, have shown that our views are not so
unpopular as the Political Correctness crowd have told everyone they are." ---- This isn't
all that uncommon a thing to hear right now. These same sort of statements are heard at
Trump rallies, by him and his supporters on the news, and all over social media. What
should make each and every person saying things like this uncomfortable is the source of
this quote. ---- That quote is from Rocky Suhayda, Chairman of the American Nazi Party.
Even more frightening: he isn't the only white supremacist or neo-nazi saying these
things. There are a whole load of genuine human garbage that see the Trump campaign as a
source of inspiration and opportunity for spreading a message of race war, white
superiority, and outright fascism.
There are two real threats here. First, that these organizations are growing their
membership and base of support. You heard that right, Nazis in the US are a growing force.
Second, that many of the ideas and policies that they encourage are finding their ways
into the mainstream without all the swastikas and less-than-popular images of outright racism.
Honestly, these are both the same problem - the growth of extremist right wing
organizations and the spread of white supremacist, authoritarian, and militaristic
ideology to an ever-growing segment of the US population. This problem can be seriously
dangerous at this moment, and shouldn't just be dismissed just because the morons of the
National Socialist Movement seem like, well, morons. Like syphilis, the white right can be
eradicated early, but will drive you insane if left untreated.
Why does this growth of support for these fringe characters deserve attention and
opposition? Because the current moment in US and world politics presents them with an
unsettling degree of political opportunity.
Rising wealth inequality is making a huge body of people in the United States and across
the globe fear for their future and the futures of their families and loved ones. At the
same time, the US is going through some major demographic changes, with expanding
non-white populations. Global economic dominance by the US is also on the decline.
Post-civil rights movement, we've also seen some successes for some Black people in
business, media, politics, etc.
In some of the more isolated and reactionary elements of the white population this has led
to two major phenomena: resentment at their perceived decline in status and fear for their
collective future in power. Of course, the absurdity here is that the basic structures of
institutionalized racism have barely been touched and remain largely in place. You can see
this in the lauded "14 words" of the white nationalist movement: "We must secure the
existence of our people and a future for white children."
This story of the victimized white race, and by extension the victimized United States
that needs to be made "great" again is really just people afraid of losing the benefits,
status, and power associated with generations of white supremacy. To many of the people
that most believe this narrative, it justifies all manner of horrors: extreme
authoritarianism, inhumane border controls, denying citizenship to immigrants, turning the
instruments of "law and order" (police and military) into mythical creatures capable of no
wrong, and imperialism to prevent the rise of other world powers. Sound familiar?
So how do these ideas go mainstream? It's really not that hard in a nation with such a
brutally racist history. Put out proposals that at their very core are based on racist
perceptions of the world, but avoid the out-in-the-open racist jargon.
It's not that Trump hates Mexicans, it's just that he thinks we should build a wall
between us and them to "protect our jobs." It's not that he hates people from the Middle
East, but he thinks we should impose a temporary ban on Muslims "for our safety." It's not
that he thinks Black people are criminals, just that we should take the racial profiling
of Stop-and-Frisk nationwide for "law and order." Nevermind that it's rich whites who are
actually hurting white workers. Nevermind that fear of terrorist refugees lacks any basis
in reality. Nevermind that Stop-and-Frisk led to increased abuse and criminalization of
Black youth in New York City and was declared unconstitutional.
All of this is based on years of propaganda put out by folks now calling themselves the
Alt-Right to make these ideas seem less controversial. They've pushed for the development
of campus White Student Unions and White Studies programs that actively work to discredit
the very notion that institutional racism in the United States even exists despite its
many measurable outcomes.
One of the gateway ideas in these circles has been the opposition to "politically correct
culture". In an effort to look cool to a younger audience, they flaunt their refusal to
abide by new cultural standards of decency and respect that expect people to avoid
sounding racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. These ass-hats aim to look cool in their edgy
almost-racism and their bullshit assertions of masculinity. The millions they must have
poured into PR-firms trying to figure out how to make being a conservative, entitled,
young jackass look cool could probably end world hunger.
This trend isn't only happening in the United States. In Europe, the far-right is growing
as the absurdity of white fear and fragility spreads. The National Front in France, Golden
Dawn in Greece, the Alternative for Germany, the UK Independence Party and more have been
having electoral successes as their support grows.
In almost all of the cases in Europe, you see some of the same questions being asked. Is
this party racist? Are they fascists? The questions are asked with some hesitation, in
part because they've mostly made the same switch that Trump has made in the United States
- they've brought out all the racist policy and dropped the most vicious and obvious
racist propaganda.
What does the head of the National Socialist Movement in the US say about Trump, then?
"[Trump]has ‘opened doors' to our people... we can and should utilize the opportunity
provided to recruit, educate and organize all of these White men and women." He continues,
"Look, all of these thousands of Trump supporters would never attend some silly "movement"
event, much less join these costumed, ‘Hollywood Hate' style operations - but, look there
they are, out in public, embracing a huge chunk of our agenda, happy and proud to be
counted right on the TV screen."
So is Trump himself a white supremacist, raging-racist who can barely contain his
heil-hitlers while on stage? Probably. But who fucking cares? Even if he doesn't believe a
word of what he says, he's playing with racist-fire on top of a mountain of
inequality-kindling soaked in the gasoline of generations of racism and hatred in the US.
In the aftermath of Trump's caught-on-tape Ode to Sexual Assault, it does seem
increasingly unlikely that a President Trump is in our future.
Good. Then it's really no big deal. At the end of the day the valiantly anti-racist,
stalwart ally of the working class, and champion of world peace Hillary Clinton will be
the next president of the United States. Oh wait. In fact, there's plenty to show Clinton
and the ideology of the Democratic Party have helped get us where we are today,
superpredators and all. Trump and white supremacists have this opportunity because of the
Democratic Party's many failures.
From the 90's onward, she helped support the austerity that destroyed welfare and the
social safety net. She supported the privatization of prisons along with laws that led to
a very profitable and clearly racist mass incarceration problem. She had a George W.
Bush-like fervor for regime change from Honduras to Libya. Before and after the collapse
of the world economy, she's retained close partnerships with Goldman Sachs and other
architects of the inequality and stagnating livelihoods that so many of us are now
fighting against. There are real reasons why the ruling class across the political
spectrum are lining up behind Clinton in this election. She is likely to quietly safeguard
the interests of exploitation and world dominance, while treating us to subtler flavor of
white supremacy.
So what do we do to avoid the political rise of these assholes? There are a ton of
answers, but those of us in Black Rose typically put forward two major lines of thinking.
We need to actively support the movements and demands of communities of color combating
white supremacy and its on-the-ground consequences. That means standing alongside the
Black Lives Matter movement, supporting the national movement of incarcerated workers
going on strike against the prison system, and supporting immigrant and refugee movements.
People of color and white people both need to fight in their communities to support and
understand the demands of these groups.
We also need to develop a broader understanding of class and the common interest between
communities of color and the white working class. When white working people don't
understand capitalism and class, it's easy to reinforce a white supremacist position that
the cause of their economic woes are immigrants and people receiving social services. But
as they learn to identify the capitalist class that actually controls the economy as the
cause of their problems, they'll begin to understand the importance of standing alongside
the masses of Black and Latino people being exploited and oppressed by those same forces.
At the end of the day, that's the greatest tool we have against fascism, whether it's out
in the open or more discreet: an organized working class that stands against white
supremacy and capitalism.
http://riverrebellion.org/2017/01/04/nazis-among-us-trump-and-the-far-right/
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Message: 2
On Saturday, anger resulted in riot, but not only. The militants of the working-class
districts spoke, and it was worth hearing. ---- On Saturday, in several cities in France,
justice was expressed for Theo Luhaka, a resident of Aulnay, who was the victim of a
police rape that the State (Justice, the IGPN) is desperately trying to downplay by
presenting it as "Unintentional". ---- Several of these demonstrations gave rise to
clashes with the police. These clashes speak volumes about the rage against the police
insecurity that prevails in the suburbs, and the impunity of which it is systematically
covered. ---- But the media often retained only that: 37 people arrested in Bobigny, a
burnt RTL minivan ... They generally ignored the words of protestors and protestors, and
of the collectives who had organized these protests.
From the beginning the entrapment
In the Paris region, it was the collective Quoi ma gueule? Who had called for a rally at 4
pm in front of the Bobigny courthouse. At the appointed hour, 2,000 to 4,000 people were
present, a majority of young people, Balbygnians or neighbors, but also the oldest, and,
as we have seen, trade unionists (Solidaires, CGT), activists (MRAP, LDH, RESF ...) or
political organizations (AL, NPA, PCF, Ensemble ...). The crowd was gathered in front of
the building transformed into a bunker by the forces of "order" - weapons, helmets and
armor rigor. Later, the pandora flying on the Marie-Claire bridge[1], which overlooked the
demonstration, had to wipe some jets of projectiles and replicate by firing LBD into the
crowd. Further on, a team of the Anti-Criminality Brigade[2]stationed at the metro station
launches tear-gas grenades in turn at the gathering and on the neighboring buildings.
These police provocations, from the beginning, will not have prevented the meeting to be
held. On an improvised platform, the organizers of the gathering have passed the
microphone, for a series of spoken words generally borrowed from a requirement of dignity,
justice and assembly, and in favor of a politicization of the revolt.
A speech advocating union and collective action
It has often returned to the mouths of the activists of collective Quoi ma gueule?: "Show
them that we are intelligent, we are educated, we are not savages. "
Rapper Sofiane, very active and involved in the fight against police impunity , called for
unity beyond the barriers that some are trying to raise, taking the crowd to witness: "Eh,
today We're proving something! All the stuff that we see on the Internet, there, on "the
Whites, the Reunois, the Reubeus, tatata" ... Eh c'est KO, tout ça, c'est KO! "
Even tonality on the side of the mother of Theo, who spoke to call for union against
injustice and police impunity.
A militant of the collective for Adama Traore called not to rely solely on the action of
the lawyers to fight against the police violence but to participate in the
self-organization in the districts: "It is necessary that the working-class districts
Trust the people who militate at the bottom of their homes without being known ... "
An activist of the collective Solidarity women made the connection between the case Theo
and the repression of the social movement in the working-class districts.
Intervention also of Amal Bentounsi (of Urgence our police assassin, sister of Amine
Bentounsi killed in Noisy-le-Sec in 2012).
A communist youth activist stressed the political dimension of discrimination, police
insecurity and its impunity, explaining that the police were there to maintain "social
order" much more than "public order". But at the time, his plea that the police missions
were "redefined" fell a little flat ...
Political aberrations
More distant, the intervention of a person simply presenting himself as "an Aulnaysian",
who stammered a confused speech, which tended mainly to promote the former municipality PS
Aulnay-sous-Bois. It sent mediators to reign "calm in the districts" whereas with the
right, it was the police who created disturbances (malaise in the assistance). "What we
want is for the police to control us properly" (booing). And calling people to take the
ballot, etc. (New boos).
The speech was also spoken by a speaker who came to speak "as a Congolese", surrounded by
a flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and who spoke mainly of the DRC. Agaced,
people ended up chanting "We are all French! "
There were also slogans "We are all Bamboula! ", Referring to the abject salutation of a
police trade unionist on television a few days earlier.
And now the classics: "Everyone hates the police", "Theo, Adama, Zyed and Bouna, do not
forget one does not forgive", "Police everywhere justice nowhere", "Cops, rapists, assassins".
A representative of the Anti-Bargobobia Brigade hammered that France would never be the
country of human rights as long as there was control over the facies and support for the
Franco-African. Before the rally started, he also called for a quiet, dignified and calm
march, before warning the police: "If they seek us, they will seek us; If they are calm,
we are calm. " We saw what it was.
Justice for Theo, Adama, and all the others!
Already, it is important to have in mind the anti-racist mobilization of March 19 , which
will take, with these events, a particular relief.
Guillaume (AL Montreuil), with Charpentier, Maud (AL Paris north-east), Clotilde (AL 93)
and Leo (AL 94 north)
"France will never be the country of human rights as long as there is control over the facies"
Cc Guillaume / AL Montreuil
OTHER EVENTS
In Montpellier, at the request of the General Assembly against the state of emergency, 200
people demonstrated across the city, and even invaded the SNCF station for about ten
minutes without the police showing the tip of his nose .
In Orléans, 70 people gathered for Theo, which is very encouraging because there were no
collective initiatives for Adama Traoré for example. Numerous and numerous were the
demonstrators to have moved spontaneously following a call on the social networks. There
were also activists from the Collectif Acide, Solidaires, FA, AL, JC, PCF, POI-D and NPA.
Speaking engagements and artistic interventions took place on the public road and future
appointments are Announced.
In Lorient, about forty people gathered for Théo, with AL and unbridled France (the
melenchonnists). Speaking in the street.
In Rouen, in parallel to an action in front of the store New Look against the union
repression in this sign, a rally took place at 4 pm in front of the town hall to demand
justice for Theo and Adama. Approximately 300 people, with NPA, JC, AL, Solidaires,
autonomous. Departure in protest in the stride.
In Nantes, 400 people at the start of the demonstration, behind a banner "that protects us
from the police?" The dozens of CRS present gathered their lot of jeers ("cops, rapists,
assassins", "everyone hates the police", "police everywhere, justice nowhere" ...). After
an hour and a half of walking downtown the demonstration dissolved without incident.
[1]Baptized in 2005, in memory of the Marie-Claire Chevalier case, which in 1972 marked
the struggle for the right to abortion.
[2]BAC: the most dangerous police force for the population. Read about them Didier
Fassin's investigation, La Force de l'ordre , Seuil, 2011.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Manif-pour-Theo-a-Bobigny-un-autre
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Message: 3
CRAC-PC, TAKE THE ARMS AND THE DESTINY OF OUR LIVES! ---- (DOCUMENTARY ABOUT CRAC-PC,
ARMED GROUP IN GUERRERO, MEXICO) Ruptura Colectiva (RC) ---- SUBTITLES IN ENGLISH: History
is written with the look and the despair screams, not only with the happening ink. CRAC-PC
(Regional Coordinator of Communitary Authorities - Communitarian Police) exists more
beyond of an organizative mechanism that have achieved sustancial changes in the life of
more of 153 communities, in 22 municipalities of Guerrero state, principally in the
regions of "La Montaña" y "Costa Chica", since October 1995. ---- The arms tired, the ever
alert look and the rifle -or a little gun- in the hands of more than 2,600 volunteers that
conform the CRAC-PC, it gives a total turn to the concept that we have of "police". For
this territories, the "comunitarios" (volunteers) become in guardians elected for his own
regional assemblies resguarding day by day, the dreams of their families and communities.
Audiovisual creation, methodology and praxis: Demián Revart
Ruptura Colectiva (RC) / Creative Commons / 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggGft3ZNtjM
http://rupturacolectiva.com/crac-pc-take-the-arms-and-the-destiny-of-our-lives-in-guerrero-mexico/
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