Today's Topics:
1. [Turkey] Even forbidden, Meydan Gazetesi newspaper is on the
streets By ANA (tr, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. [Greece] Ioannina Libertarian Trade Union: Fascism crushes
on the street By ANA (gr, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. [Mexico] Anarchist Publication Fair By ANA (ca, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. wsm.ie: Thousands of children were starved to death in Tuam
and other state funded homes run by nuns in Ireland
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #269 - Spanish State:
Popular Resistance in La Cañada Real (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. colectivo libertario evora: (COLOMBIA) ANARCHIST
GROUP
OCCUPIES UNIVERSITY BUILDING AND APPEALS TO STUDENT
AND POPULAR
RESISTANCE (ca, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Even with the circulation banned by the Turkish government, activists from the Anarsist
Kadinlar Collective (Anarchist Women) took to the streets of Istanbul to distribute the
new edition (37) of the anarchist newspaper Meydan Gazetesi. In this issue, prepared
entirely by women, different themes are dealt with, in particular the International
Women's Day celebrated on March 8. ---- Recall that on December 22nd the editor of Meydan
Gazetesi, Hüseyin Civan, was sentenced to 1 year and 3 months imprisonment on charges of
"making propaganda for the methods of a terrorist organization, constituting coercion,
violence or threats through legitimation , Exaltation, or stimulation of the use of these
methods ". The authorities also banned the circulation of this newspaper.
More photos:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/meydangazetesi/photos/?tab=album&album_id=860372177436005
Meydangazetesi.org
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Message: 2
Text of the Ioannina Libertarian Trade Union Union on the repression of a demonstration
held a few days ago in the city, on the occasion of the celebration of a nationalist
event. ---- On 21 February , on the anniversary of the "liberation" of Ioannina, a
concentration of anti-fascists took place in the city center, where several local
figurines, members of the ruling party (Syriza) and neo-Nazi deputy Aurora Dourora
Christos Pappas , To pay homage to a monument. The presence of all these in common
reflects most clearly the ideological invention of the "national unity" they are building.
It is an ideological invention directed against the interests of the working class,
against the oppressed. The combative manifestation that has occurred expresses the anger
of all those who do not consent to the presence of the fascists, those who do not submit,
accepting the ideological invention of national liberation, those who experience the
consequences of capitalism. Of course, the fear of Power to such actions is obvious. The
Power contests only with violence, as it happened in this case.
Dozens of police officers, many in plain clothes, marched on demonstrators and detained
six people, four of whom were detained. One of the detainees was seriously injured and
taken to hospital two hours after his arrest! So anxious were the cops and so deep is
their fear of the fighters that they did not take the shackles from the wounded person
even when lying on the stretcher. In this city there are descendants of the collaborators
of the Nazis, uniformed or not. They were the ones who celebrated the "liberation", they
are the ones who defended the celebration of their feast, with or without collapsible
ssetetes.
During the last time the attitude of the government (Syriza-ANEL) favored the fascists.
They show the common presence of leftist and neo-Nazi deputies on the small island of
Kastelorizo, the "parental committees" in Oreókastro, and the omnipresence of the police
in Kavala. The intensification of repression in various places, with preventive detention,
arrests and beatings, in response to any resistance, in combination with the coordinated
propaganda of mass disinformation, constitute the new "leftist" field in which poverty is
imposed. Is accompanied by the escalation of police violence.
If they think that in this way they will be able to stop the social movement, its
conquests and its struggles, they are mistaken. We are willing to help you (understand
your misconception). Because they will understand what it means to try to retain the
antifascists, to protect the neo-Nazi scoria and the exploiters. They'll find out!
Smash the fascists and their protectors. Solidarity with the antifascists detained.
Ioannina Libertarian Union Union
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Message: 3
Criticism and debate must be present within the anarchist practices, which is why we
invite you to participate in the Anarchist Publication Fair to be held on March 11 in
Mexico City . ---- The Fair intends to become a meeting place and exchange of proposals
and reflections that allow to sharpen positions and anti-authoritarian practices. ----
Through these spaces we seek to contribute to continue advancing along the path of
building freedom and autonomy. ---- If you want to participate in any way, be it spreading
material or presenting a lecture or debate, write before February 24 to the post office:
---- Ceeda@outlook.com | Cna.mex@gmail.com ---- Wandering Circle of Anarchist Studies and
Discussion ---- Black Cross Anarchist Mexico ---- Anarchist Publication Fair ----
Saturday, March 11, from 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
The Mundano - Central Axis 130, 2nd. Floor, Mexico City.
Anarchist-ana news agency
https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2017/03/06/mexico-feira-da-publicacao-anarquista/
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Message: 4
It is emerging that thousands of children were starved to death in state funded homes run
by nuns in Ireland. The Daily Mail today carries a detailed report which quotes Philip
Redmond, a survivor of Sean Ross Abbey Hospital, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary where of the 167
babies born in 1942, there were 72 deaths. Mr Redmond says "As far as Bessborough is
concerned, there is little doubt in our minds that as many as 2,000 died while we believe
another 1,200 died in Sean Ross Abbey" This figures are to be added to the estimated 796
bodies found in a waste tank in the grounds of then Tuam home - see the earlier piece on
this page. ---- The nuns were apparently invited to set up these homes by Éamon de
Valera's government which along with other administrations waged a war on women in Ireland
after independence in order to impose a rigid catholic morality of the sort the so called
'pro-life' movement wants to retain today. On the one hand figures like the Bishop of Tuam
were removing & burning books with any sex education content from public libraries, as
well as those he consider favourable to unmarried mothers. On the other hand poor women
who gave birth outside marriage were having their children taken from them, many of whom
we now know died in these homes, and were themselves sent into the slavery of the
Magdeline laundries to provide free labour, in some cases for the rest of their lives.
The Mail reports that "As stillbirths were rarely recorded, the total of how many babies
died .. might never be known. The certificates researchers have seen so far make for
harrowing reading. Time and time again, the cause of death is described as ‘marasmus,
cardiac failure'. Marasmus is the result of chronic undernutrition, other characteristics
are diarrhoea, dry, loose skin and dry, brittle hair."
This story was published on the WSM Facebook page 31st May 2014 based on the reporting
that appeared in that mornings Daily Mail (a UK based tabloid). Because no Irish media
source ran with the story for several more days our post was shared over 1100 times and
attracted 147 commnets, some of them from survivors of these homes detailing their
experiences.
If you are feeling strong this morning (29th May 2015) Rabble published a must read
article yesterday on the 796 dead children found in a mass grave at the St.Mary's Mother
and Baby Home, Tuam. That's not a misprint, for the 40 years this institution operated at
least one child died a fortnight, a death rate that approached 10% of those in the home
per year! They ranged from 2 days (Thomas Duffy) to 9 years (Sheila Tuohy) old.
The home operated from 1921 to 1961 and this revelation shows what life was really like,
particularly for the poor, in the 'good old days' before feminism, effective contraception
and access to abortion. Women with unwanted pregnancies were forced to give birth and the
babies were sent to such homes to be killed through neglect unless they were
'lucky' and were fostered out. That is the only explanation for a death rate that suggests
that a child placed in the home at birth would only have a 50:50 chance of surviving five
years.
This system was ran by the same religious institutions that shamed and punished women who
had sex outside of marriage and which campaigned to keep contraception and abortion
illegal and inaccessible. They still continue to do so to this day, next time one of them
refers to themselves as pro-life remember the deaths behind their empty rhetoric.
From the Rabble article
"An Irish Mail on Sunday front page article on 25th May 2014, recounted a local health
board inspection report from April 16/17th 1944 which recorded 271 children and 61 single
mothers for a total of 333. The ‘Home' had capacity for 243.
The report continues listing children as ‘emaciated', ‘pot-bellied', ‘fragile' with ‘flesh
hanging loosely on limbs'. 31 children recorded in the ‘Sun room and balcony' were ‘poor,
emaciated and not thriving'."
Read on at http://www.rabble.ie/2014/05/28/the-septic-tank-full-of-secrets/
7th June 2014 - This week's ‘Westmeath Examiner' newspaper carries further revelations
about the existence of mass graves containing the bodies of dead babies and children, this
time referring to a plot in Castlepollard Co. Westmeath which contains the bodies of up to
500 babies.
The newspaper quotes the Adoption Rights Now organisation as saying that between 2,800 and
3,000 babies were born in the Castlepollard Mother and Child Home between the time it was
founded in 1934 and when it closed in 1971. Of these "2,500 were adopted out and between
300 to 500 died although this figure could be higher (no one knows the actual numbers)".
Over the course of the past 2 weeks, the spotlight has begun to be focussed on up to 10
similar homes across the state. A story in the ‘Belfast Telegraph' on Thursday 5th June
says that about 35,000 women were incarcerated for differing periods of time in these 10
homes alone - for the crime of being pregnant. In at least 4 of these homes, mass graves
have been uncovered containing the bodies of up to 4,000 babies and children.
This story brings into focus the extent to which Irish society was - and remains to a
large degree - bound up in a moral bankruptcy propounded by the Catholic Church but also
promoted and espoused fully by the powers-that-be in secular society. It was a moralism
that was and remains about controlling the lives of the working class.
It was a moralism that for decades denied women access to contraception and that still
exalts the 'right to life' of a foetus but apparently has no qualms about the mass killing
of real live babies through malnutrition, starvation, denial of medical care, physical
abuse and who knows what else.
It was a moralism that holds up 'motherhood' as the ideal to which all women should aspire
but treated these mothers as chattels and slaves.
And it is a moralism that still controls patronage of the vast majority of primary schools
and a large proportion of our health service - and a moralism that by law is allowed to
sack an employee in those schools or hospitals that it controls if it deems them to have a
lifestyle that 'undermines their ethos'.
Surely it is the duty of every right thinking person to undermine an ethos that allowed
such horrors. Surely as a society we must use these latest revelations to get rid of this
moral bankruptcy and build a society based on justice and fairness.
Subject: Tuam babies, Catholic church
Author: Gregor Kerr, Andrew N Flood
http://www.wsm.ie/c/thousands-children-starved-death-tuam
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Message: 5
La Cañada Real, a mediaeval and stigmatized neighborhood, is the "neighborhood of 12,000
daily doses of heroin". It is also a working-class neighborhood with some 8,000 people
living and resisting. Between drug trafficking, violence of cartels, junkies and police,
but also the specter of doubtful games of real estate speculation, its population takes
its destiny in hand and organizes itself. ---- On December 16, 2016, in a pouring rain, a
thousand residents and inhabitants of the barrio obrero [1]of La Cañada Real, located on
the outskirts of Madrid, showed his anger at the doors of the county council of the
Iberian capital. At their side, members of associations from neighboring neighborhoods,
such as Vallecas, and militants of the March of Dignity. The demonstration followed a
first action on 16 November, when hundreds of people blocked the entrance to their
neighborhood, using barricades and inflamed tires.
A double stake justifies the mobilization of the associations of La Cañada Real. First,
the feeling of being kept out of all decisions regarding their future as a neighborhood,
despite the promises of the "progressive" electors of Podemos or IU.[2]The rumor, and
above all, of the upcoming destruction of 80 to 90% of housing, with the prospect of
setting up a macro-project real estate with luxury resorts, a golf course and various
shopping centers. A logic of destruction has begun since, according to one of the leaders
of the Neighborhood Association, Juan José Escribano, no fewer than 150 families have seen
their homes laid down in recent months.
When history stutters ...
This is not the first time the inhabitants have to show their teeth. In 2007, a major
urban action plan (PAU) was in the pipeline with the idea of making a clean sweep of the
neighborhood. We were, still, in full boom real estate in the Spanish state. But the
popular mobilization, and especially the crisis of 2008, put an end to this project. This
struggle had left gaping wounds in the collective consciousness of the barrio : many
pregnant women had lost their babies, due to police violence, a young man had lost an eye
following a shot by Flash-Ball, a 64-year-old man Testis for the same reason.
At the time, the same excuse was put forward by the municipal services and the
politicians: to put an end to this neighborhood as it is to fight drugs. An excuse full of
hypocrisy: if La Cañada Real is, alas for those who live there, the crossroads of addicts
to the heroine of the Iberian capital for twenty years, it is above all, Habit, the fact
of a political will. Concentrating and controlling traffic and consumption spaces in an
area several kilometers from the city center and the tourist districts of Madrid was and
remains the major concern.
Since then, the promises of rehabilitation of the district, spreading over several
communes, have succeeded one another. Without effect. Various municipalities had,
nevertheless, committed themselves to putting the hand to the purse to co-finance works of
electricity, water purification or even repair of the streets. The inhabitants are still
waiting. Yet the claim to be able to live decently, as proclaimed by the signs of the
demonstration on 16 December, is legitimate, such as the claim that the Cañados are "human
beings" and that they "have rights" .
A reality of human dignity that it is difficult to believe, however, the daily life is
full of injustices. The case of a Moroccan family, Abdul and Fatima and their two
children, who has seen his house destroyed three times by the bulldozers of the
municipality, not to mention the police brutality that accompanied these destruction. An
arbitrariness that made a great noise in Spain, the family having lodged a complaint
before the European Court, which also gave them reason by a judgment condemning these acts
as a "manifest violation of the right to private property".
Mutual aid and self-management
La Cañada Real has always been a neighborhood of the most disinherited. In the late 1960s,
peasant farmers who had recently arrived from poor provinces in the southern part of the
Peninsula found refuge there. With stumbling blocks, makeshift barracks grew like
mushrooms. Today, gypsies, sub-Saharans, Moroccans and Rumanians have been added. In this
climate of widespread misery, abandoned by the public authorities, the inhabitants and
inhabitants have no alternative but to organize and help each other.
Tensions between communities may exist. They are overwhelmed by mediation and discussion.
Young people of Moroccan origin and young gypsies played it Far West with its train of
dramas. It is the mothers of the two communities who, through their voluntarism, play the
link and reattach the pieces.
Young voluntary dentists offer every Thursday, care for their patients and patients, most
without social insurance, against a lump sum payment of 3 euros. The care is provided in
an adjoining room of the church of the worker priest Agustin, in the look of hard-rocker.
A food bank set up by the inhabitants ensures a distribution of nearly 5 tons of weekly
food. A self-managed huerta also contributes to filling the families' plates. In order to
help young single mothers, a self-managed crib has been set up.
Cristina, president of the neighborhood association Al Shorok testifies, on Radio Topo[3]:
"The self-managed reality of our neighborhood is born of the resourcefulness. When it
comes to repairing a street that becomes impracticable, because most of them are not
tarred, everyone is getting started. We will see the neighbors and neighbors to make a
quest and thus proceed to the purchase of materials. An appointment is set to clear and
clean the street. Each one brings its know-how. La Cañada is a working-class neighborhood.
We have all the building trades. So-and-so has electricity knowledge, he will make sure to
put the streetlights to safety standards. So-and-so is a mason, he will direct the work of
reinforcing the pavements. So-and-so plumber, he'll take care of the pipes. So-and-so has
a dump truck, it brings it back to clear the rubble and so on. "
A solidarity and a popular creativity, which give meaning to the neighborhood. A barrio
that will continue, tomorrow as yesterday and today, to live and resist.
Jérémie (AL Gard)
[1]Workers' Quarter.
[2]Izquierda Unida (IU), political coalition regrouping ecologists and the Spanish
Communist Party.
[3]Radio activist of the city of Saragossa (Aragon).
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Etat-espagnol-Resistance-populaire
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Message: 6
On the afternoon of 1 March, the clandestine group "Anarchists in Combat" occupied the P
building of the National Pedagogical University (UPN) in the city of Bogotá, Colombia,
appealing to the student community to resume the processes of autonomy and rebellion in
the discussions and Practices within and outside the institution. The hooded militants
painted a few slogans on the walls of the building and categorically repudiated the more
than 120 murders of community leaders and human rights defenders in just 14 months
nationwide, specifically in a context that mediates peace, forgetting the grave - And
cowards - paramilitary attacks against social fighters. ---- On 23 February, the "Festival
for Rebellion and Memory" was organized in the Darío Betancourt Square, which aimed to
strengthen the student imagination about the police attacks on students organized at the
UNP and, in turn, serving as a preparatory activity Of the national march against the
recent Police Code approved at the beginning of 2017. At the time of this Festival, a
helicopter flew over the university only a few meters high.
Here:
http://rupturacolectiva.com/group-clandestino-anarquistas-al-combate-hace-un-llamado-a-luchar-por-la-unutonomia-en-colombia/
https://colectivolibertarioevora.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/colombia-grupo-anarquista-ocupa-edificio-universitario-e-apela-a-resistencia-estudantil-e-popular/
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