Anarchic update news all over the world - 26 March 2017

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Greece, "Black & Red" APO: Do away with fascism AND THOSE
        WITH THE nourishes (gr) [machine translation] 
       (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Turkey, Devrimci Anarsist Faaliyet DAF: Kawa, fire of revolt
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Poland, rozbrat.org: Statement of the Wielkopolska
      Association of Tenants in the press materials about the immigrant
      communities of Roma of Romanian origin in Poznan.
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #270 - Biodiversity:
      Saving the forest and the wood industry (fr, it, pt) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  US, First of May Anarchist Alliance: Militarized Immigration
      Raid Detains 30-50 in Detroit (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  wsm.ie: How many took part in #Strike4Repeal and
      #March4Repeal - 8k and 11k (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1




Sunday 19/3 will find ourselves once again in the streets of our city to not let an inch 
of land to the fascists of the Sacred Band, which with the known trick-hide and announced 
the event organization but concealed the place where this takes place. ---- We of course 
will be there, making it even more resounding message that the struggle against fascism is 
a struggle for life itself. At a time when the Left government openly flock to official 
body fascism, at a time when attacks on the movement structures, locals and immigrants 
connections towards joint struggle for life and dignity, to our partners in social 
resistance, feeble, at the bottom, at plebs, in humans. ---- We will be on the streets to 
ensure that no one is alone against fascism and those to nourish, to ensure that these 
dregs will get the answer they deserve and will have a place only in the black pages of 
history with the sow hatred, along with their rulers who elevate their fascist political 
teammate and together complete the puzzle of barbarism. This set up and realized through 
the wire, through the racist poison through blockades, fear, idiotefsi, hatred for the 
other, the law wherever, wild instincts, politics of exclusion and death or this border 
and the camps or what is called a pogrom or what occurs with ftochopoiisi and 
impoverishment of the from below.

 From Oreokastro, in Thessaloniki and its neighborhoods from Kavala Komotini, from Xanthi 
in Veria, from Katerini in Athens in and out of the court of appeal and Sofia fight 
fascism and we will continue to fight it wherever and whenever They need to win life.

WE LIVE TOGETHER, WORK TOGETHER. Locals IMMIGRANTS crimp NAZI.

Concentration Sunday 19/3 at 11.30, Venizelos Statue, which will move where the fascists are

Collegiality for social anarchism "Black and Red", a member of the Anarchist Political 
Organisation

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Message: 2



The fire of revolt lit centuries ago by Kawa, is continuing to be flared up. Today is the 
day Kawa the Blacksmith confronted tyrant Dehaq and said "Hey the palace owner, I came 
here to fight with you for justice!". Today is the day of struggle and revolt, the day of 
freedom by resistance. Today is the day to grow the fire of revolt against the genocide 
attempts, massacres by chemical waeponsn, forced migration and politics of assimilation in 
the geography we live in, fighting the same struggle of justice in the path that Kawa 
took. Today is Newroz! ---- As Revolutionary Anarchist Action, we were in the fields for 
newroz flaring up the fire. The state politics of denial and destruction will neither put 
off the fire of revolt, not stop the halay dance of freedom. As long as the injustice 
continiues, the revolt will not end, Kawa's will not end.

Em Hemu Kawane Li Dijî Dehaqan!

We Are All Kawa Against Dehaqs!

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Message: 3




Greater Tenants Association wants to express strong opposition to the presentation of Roma 
of Romanian origin living in the street Lechicka in connection with emerging last week, 
information about the treatment of their animals. ---- By the way, stopping to explain the 
12 dogs belonging to residents of the barracks Street Lechicka, local media revealed a 
decidedly one-sided recognition of the case and clear journalistic misconduct. The texts 
on this issue the press completely ignored the voice of one of the parties, ie. Owners of 
animals or, more broadly Roma community, which has been branded articles. Media 
representatives often argue that the hearing of all the parties is one of the stalwarts of 
the canons of journalistic fairness, which in this case was broken.

There are also numerous inaccuracies and distortions about the number and status of animal 
health and the circumstances of their detention. The animals were not abused, starved and 
dehydrated, though it must be admitted that the housing conditions of some of them were 
probably wrong, what will determine the appropriate investigations and dog owners bear the 
due consequences. As he learns of the Poznan City Hall in a letter dated 17 March 2017 r .:

"In the opinion of the veterinarian of the shelter, who took the dogs, the animals were in 
good general condition, and their body weight was appropriate for the age (found slightly 
overweight). The dogs were dirty, but the state coat did not raise any major objections.

Animals showed no visible signs of ongoing disease process. One dog at the time of 
admission to the shelter vomited and had diarrhea. Test for parvovirosis not shown, 
however, the disease probably was the cause of the symptoms of stress. The next day 
vomiting ceased.

One of the dogs upon arrival at the shelter does not impose on the right leg - the study 
showed no fracture characteristics.

All dogs were in the shelter odpchlone, dewormed and vaccinated against viral diseases. "

In addition, media reports, applied the principle of collective responsibility in respect 
of members of the Roma community. They tried to introduce conditions for keeping dogs as a 
matter concerning the whole Roma community, while it concerns three of approx. 100 people 
(and not 50 like fell in one of the materials) are currently living in the street. 
Lechicka. Newspapers, however - including pointing to the ethnic origin owners - they have 
suggested that this is a problem all the inhabitants of the Roma settlements, at the same 
time - as we mentioned above - do not ask for their opinion on the matter.

The use of "ethnic criterion" in media reports is unacceptable behavior. This approach 
produces the matter under Articles wave of hateful and racist comments, which arise the 
way to present the subject. In our view, the purpose of articles - do not hesitate to 
emphasize this - was to stigmatize the entire Roma community. It is a mechanism that 
appear repeatedly in the Polish press writing about Roma. Earlier this approach 
problematic issues concerning the representatives of this group meant that Roma were 
exposed to direct physical violence and racist attacks. In other places (eg. Wrocław) 
happened the night trying to set fire to Roma settlements.

The living conditions of the dogs referred to in the press as a bad result also of the 
living conditions of the Roma people experiencing poverty and exclusion system. Obviously 
this is not tantamount to approval of mistreatment of animal parts (eg. Too short chain).
In our view, if we can consider stopping three dogs owners to explain justified, it is 
totally outrageous was the way to describe the case in the press and unleashing a media 
campaign against this group of inhabitants of Poznan.

http://www.rozbrat.org/dokumenty/lokalizm/4520-owiadczenie-wielkopolskiego-stowarzyszania-lokatorow-w-sprawie-materiaow-prasowych-na-temat-spoecznoci-imigrantow-romskich-pochodzenia-rumuskiego-w-poznaniu

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Message: 4




The forest is attacked on all continents, while it carries many ecological and economic 
benefits. It would still be necessary not to sacrifice it on the altar of the market. ---- 
The forest is the lung of the planet. However, deforestation is advancing, even in France, 
where the forest is delivered to pollution, without sufficient maintenance. No doubt there 
is not enough staff for Water and Forests, the NFB[1]? Yet photosynthesis is essential to 
the future of the living on earth, because trees release oxygen into the atmosphere. The 
forest is a biodiversity reserve, and plays an important role in the water cycle. 
Similarly, the wood industry is neglected, although France remains a well-endowed country 
in this field in Europe. Dead trees are becoming more and more numerous. Our oaks, our 
chestnut trees are surrounded by ivy which chokes them, lichens which attack their sap.

The sawmills close. The forestry sector is 400,000 jobs, but this number is decreasing. 
France sells oak logs to China and buys furniture from China. Are there no more carpenters 
and cabinet-makers? It is economically all the more absurd because competence exists here, 
but a short-sighted policy neglects it and ultimately destroys it.

As the metals disappear, oak is no longer replanted. Now the oak has served in the 
construction for millennia. It can still be used again, and wooden buildings begin to 
build again, with the advantage that wood is an excellent thermal insulation.

Oaks planted under Louis XIV

What will happen when there is no more metal? Hardwood will be essential. It takes two 
hundred years for an oak to grow. There is still a little left in the countryside of deep 
France. The two monumental oaks of the forest of Isle-Adam (Val-d'Oise) were planted under 
Louis XIV! It was Colbert who had planted oaks in France to develop the navy. The oak is 
one of the hardest woods, with a density of more than one tonne per cubic meter. So that 
xylophagous insects[2]can not attack it.

And wood suppliers to furniture in Asia are massaging teak, among others in Indonesia. 
Teak is a wood that is resistant to weather and monsoon rains. Here too the future is no 
longer assured. Brazil is deforesting. All Latin America sacrificed the forest to cattle 
breeding. However, meat production attacks the forest in two ways. First, fires are 
triggered to obtain grazing areas. Then, the forest is also sacrificed to create 
agricultural areas for feeding livestock.

India, Indonesia, too, deforest. So much so that the tigers are approaching the cities, 
and the children who collect dead wood become their prey. In our old Europe, when we 
reforest, it is to plant thorns where before, there were hardwoods. Why? Pines grow 
faster, so they are more profitable, and therefore preferable from the point of view of 
short-sighted capitalism. Yes, but the wood produced is not the same. The density is not 
there. The quality either. The law of the markets is not effective to ensure a little 
future. Every year the forest area is reduced by an area equivalent to that of Greece.

It is necessary to correct the direction, mobilize the rural energies, give means to 
reverse the trend. With intensive agriculture, pesticides can also flow to forests. 
Therefore, it is important to return to a peasant and healthy agriculture.

FK Theys (AL Paris-Nord-Est)

[1]National Forestry Office, one of my sources to write this article. Other source: Le 
Monde diplomatique.

[2]Xylophages are tiny insects that are able to digest wood, the best known example: 
termites, but there are other varieties.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Biodiversite-Sauver-la-foret-et-la

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Message: 5




30-50 people were picked up by immigration in a raid on Saturday near Green & Lafayette in 
Detroit, Michigan. An armored personnel carrier was used as well as a mobile command 
center we were not able to photograph.  140 officers were involved in the operation and is 
being presented as the raiding of a chicken fighting investigation. More on that here 
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2017/03/19/detroit-cockfighting-ring/99382298/ 
---- The Armored Personnel Carriers on our streets are for intimidation and creating a 
sense of fear, while being presented as "law and order". It is unclear if authorities 
attempting to tie this to chicken fighting is part of a broader attempt to make the raids 
more acceptable. What is clear is that the extreme show of force (140 officers. wtf)  and 
militarized equipment give us a sense of what undocumented folks are up against.  We have 
a responsibility to stand with them against these attacks and attempts to paint this as a 
crackdown on "criminal activity".

http://m1aa.org/?p=1408

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Message: 6



The packed in nature of the #Strike4Repeal on O'Connell bridge made it impossible to do an 
actual count. So we've done the next best thing, used the area occupied to calculate how 
many people could have fitted into the space photos show was occupied.  We also did the 
same thing for the later #March4Repeal ---- In both cases we used a crowd counting app 
that allows you to draw out an area and then calculates how many people fit into that 
area.  With the bridge its complicated because the centre of the bridge is under 
reconstruction and was sealed off behind fences.  So the simple method we used above was 
to calculate how many people fitted into that area and subtract that from how many people 
would have fitted if it was also accessible.  This tells us that at peak crowd, a little 
after 13.00, up to 8,000 people turned out for #strike4choice

A similar calculation for the #March4Choice gives over 10,000 but as some people were also 
on Molesworth street we've added another 1000 to that figure to give 11,000.

These are huge numbers in themselves but in comparison with other demonstrations they are 
even more impressive.

Demonstration organisers have the habit of over estimating their crowds by a factor of two 
or more.  We've been doing these crowd size figures for the last few years and 
consistently found from water charges to anti-war marches organisers will generally claim 
a figure at least twice as big as what could have physically fitted into the space. Nobody 
ever does an actual count so once people start thinking a crowd that fills a particular 
space is X thousand that error gets established through repetition.

Youth Defence, as might be expected, lose all sense of reality and routinely claim figures 
7 and 8 times larger than what might fit.  If either of yesterdays demonstrations have 
been called by Youth Defence they'd have claimed there were 70 or 80 thousands on the 
streets.  More amusingly they do the opposite with pro-choice demonstrations so if you 
look at their 'figures' over the years for the exact same space they will claim it was 
'filled' by 70k at their event but by only 2k at a pro-choice one!

Doing this consistently has also revealed that media crowd estimates are never based on 
any attempt to actually count people or measure the space filled.  The Irish Times 
initially said hundreds of people were on the bridge and only updated that to thousands 
after an outcry.  Garda estimates tend to be no better, indeed as the official line is 
that they don't do counts its hard to know where claimed Garda estimated come from.  We 
rather suspect in some cases organisers go from cop to cop asking for a guess and then 
cite the biggest they get!

So in a lot of ways if the organisers had claimed 20,000 attended each event they'd have 
been making a guess that fits into the pattern.  Whatever the exact number the turn out 
was remarkable, particularly the 8,000 during the working day.

It's a very clear demonstration of the huge momentum behind the demand to Repeal the 8th 
Amendment and to do so now with no further stalling.

Subject: Strike4Repeal
Topics: Miscellaneous
Geography: Dublin
Multimedia: Images
Source: News alert
Type: News
Author: Andrew N Flood

http://www.wsm.ie/c/how-many-strike4repeal-march4repeal

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