Anarchic update news all over the world - 9.03.2017

Today's Topics:

   

1.  wsm.ie: 8 reasons to 'Strike for Repeal' this 8th March
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

2.  Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland): The WSM are
      supporting and taking part in the ‘Strike 4 Repeal' events on
      March 8th (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

3.  Tract AL, March 6, 7 and 8: it is in the struggles that it
      happens! (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

4.  ucl-saguenay: Experience autonomous municipalities in the
      Syria war. -- The legacy of Omar Aziz and common Deraya by Leila
      Al-Shami. (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

5.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #269 - Morocco: COP22
      washes green (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] 

     (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1




The WSM are supporting and taking part in the ‘Strike for Repeal' events on March 8th, 
intended to demand the government stop stalling and introduce a referendum to repeal the 
hated 8th amendment that denies access to abortion.  We have been fighting Ireland's 
anti-abortion access laws since the 1980's, a period when they meant books and magazines 
were being banned because they had contact details for clinics in Britain.  We continue to 
demand that access to termination be an option to be decided on by a pregnant person as 
part of a free health service.  The 8th amendment should never have been introduced, the 
referendum to repeal it should be delayed no longer. ---- What follows are 8 of the 
reasons to take part in ‘Strike for Repeal' events near you next Wednesday.

1. World-Class Tyranny
Ireland has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world more so than places 
like Syria and Afghanistan. Only Malta is more restrictive within the EU.

2. Democracy & Equality
No woman of child-bearing age has been allowed to have a say in her reproductive 
rights.The last vote was in 1983. This country claims to be democratic yet denies women 
basic medical services and control of their bodies. In the Irish law a woman's life is 
equal to the foetus. This is not equality.

3. Exile
Up to 12 women a day travel abroad for an abortion but  not every woman can travel. 
Migrant women and asylum seekers, women with disabilities, minors and predominantly 
working-class women are discriminated against here. The abortion ban only increases class 
divides and helps to perpetuate the cycle of poverty.

4. Abortion Pills
The other option is to use abortion pills but it is illegal to obtain them, and 
increasingly pills are being seized by customs, women who take them are at risk of being 
reported to the police if they have complications or need follow up care.

5. Trans, Non-Binary, & Intersex people
Trans-Men, non-binary people and some inter-sex people need access to abortion too. For 
some trans men, being forced to carry a pregnancy to term (or at all) is in serious 
conflict with their identity as men and can be traumatic as it forces them to do something 
with their bodies that feels alien to them. Trans people are invisible in Irish law and 
their struggle for bodily autonomy is a part of the struggle for reproductive rights.

6. Rape
If a woman is raped in this country and is caught having an abortion she will do more time 
in prison than her rapist. A woman faces a jail sentence of 14 years if she has an 
abortion whereas the maximum jail term for rapists is 10 years. Women who are raped are 
not entitled to abortions and face the trauma of being blamed for assault by a patriarchal 
police which assumes that it's a woman's responsibility not to get raped (i.e. don't wear 
the wrong clothes, don't drink too much, don't go out alone, etc.)

7. Fatal Foetal Abnormality
A woman is not allowed to have an abortion in Ireland even in cases of Fatal Foetal 
Abnormality. Instead Ireland offers prenatal hospices where women can wait out their 
pregnancies as they wait for the foetus to slowly die inside them. Moreover, unless the 
pregnancy itself is a direct threat to the mother's life she may not have an abortion and 
can be refused treatment for other conditions if it threatens the health of the foetus. 
Pregnant women with cancer have been refused both abortion and chemotherapy at a doctor's 
prerogative.

8. Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Forcing a woman to carry a pregnancy against her will has been called ‘cruel, inhumane and 
degrading' by the UN Committee on Human Rights. Abortion is legal in Ireland only if there 
is a high risk of death to the woman. Suicide is grounds for an abortion but the woman has 
to be assessed by up to 6 doctors. These doctors have the power to decide if a woman will 
be allowed an abortion. These doctors must be HSE approved and this panel only includes 1 
psychiatrist. And the Ms.Y case has proven that the ‘protection of life' provision offers 
no protection at all to suicidal women.

http://www.wsm.ie/c/reasons-strike-repeal-8th-march

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Message: 2



Intended to demand the government stop stalling and introduce a referendum to repeal the 
hated 8th amendment that denies access to abortion. We have been fighting Ireland's 
anti-abortion access laws since the 1980's, a period when they meant books and magazines 
were being banned because they had contact details for clinics in Britain. We continue to 
demand that access to termination be an option to be decided on by a pregnant person as 
part of a free health service. The 8th amendment should never have been introduced, the 
referendum to repeal it should be delayed no longer. ---- What follows are 8 of the 
reasons to take part in ‘Strike for Repeal' events near you next Wednesday. ---- 1. 
World-Class Tyranny ---- Ireland has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the 
world more so than places like Syria and Afghanistan. Only Malta is more restrictive 
within the EU.

2. Democracy & Equality

No woman of child-bearing age has been allowed to have a say in her reproductive 
rights.The last vote was in 1983. This country claims to be democratic yet denies women 
basic medical services and control of their bodies. In the Irish law a woman's life is 
equal to the foetus. This is not equality.

3. Exile

Up to 12 women a day travel abroad for an abortion but not every woman can travel. Migrant 
women and asylum seekers, women with disabilities, minors and predominantly working-class 
women are discriminated against here. The abortion ban only increases class divides and 
helps to perpetuate the cycle of poverty.

4. Abortion Pills

The other option is to use abortion pills but it is illegal to obtain them, and 
increasingly pills are being seized by customs, women who take them are at risk of being 
reported to the police if they have complications or need follow up care.

5. Trans, Non-Binary, & Intersex people

Trans-Men, non-binary people and some inter-sex people need access to abortion too. For 
some trans men, being forced to carry a pregnancy to term (or at all) is in serious 
conflict with their identity as men and can be traumatic as it forces them to do something 
with their bodies that feels alien to them. Trans people are invisible in Irish law and 
their struggle for bodily autonomy is a part of the struggle for reproductive rights.

6. Rape

If a woman is raped in this country and is caught having an abortion she will do more time 
in prison than her rapist. A woman faces a jail sentence of 14 years if she has an 
abortion whereas the maximum jail term for rapists is 10 years. Women who are raped are 
not entitled to abortions and face the trauma of being blamed for assault by a patriarchal 
police which assumes that it's a woman's responsibility not to get raped (i.e. don't wear 
the wrong clothes, don't drink too much, don't go out alone, etc.)

7. Fatal Foetal Abnormality

A woman is not allowed to have an abortion in Ireland even in cases of Fatal Foetal 
Abnormality. Instead Ireland offers prenatal hospices where women can wait out their 
pregnancies as they wait for the foetus to slowly die inside them. Moreover, unless the 
pregnancy itself is a direct threat to the mother's life she may not have an abortion and 
can be refused treatment for other conditions if it threatens the health of the foetus. 
Pregnant women with cancer have been refused both abortion and chemotherapy at a doctor's 
prerogative.

8. Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Forcing a woman to carry a pregnancy against her will has been called ‘cruel, inhumane and 
degrading' by the UN Committee on Human Rights. Abortion is legal in Ireland only if there 
is a high risk of death to the woman. Suicide is grounds for an abortion but the woman has 
to be assessed by up to 6 doctors. These doctors have the power to decide if a woman will 
be allowed an abortion. These doctors must be HSE approved and this panel only includes 1 
psychiatrist. And the Ms.Y case has proven that the ‘protection of life' provision offers 
no protection at all to suicidal women.

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Message: 3



An unusual social unrest is maintained during the presidential campaign. No one has any 
illusions: no matter who is the winner, it will be necessary to strike hard to refuse the 
bad blows announced by the right or the bad hidden shots of the left ... and to regain 
ground for our rights Of workers! ---- Striking! ---- In many private companies, more or 
less prolonged disengagement supports the wage negotiations. Strikes and occupations 
continue against dismissals and closures. And in the public sector many strikes break out 
to obtain the means (budgets, staffing ...) to operate the establishments correctly. 
Employees in municipalities, particularly in former CPF townships in the Paris suburbs, 
have regularly experienced conflicts over the questioning of staff achievements.

March 6th: Pôle Emploi

At the call of a broad intersyndicale, strike to defend a work useful to applicants and 
job seekers: refusal of outsourcing, dematerialization to excess and requirement of hiring 
indispensable for a suitable reception of the unemployed and unemployed.

March 7: Health in Locomotive

The Health and Social sector, after a big day of strike in November, relaunches the 
machine with a national rise in Paris and appointments in the regions. Sectors in the 
civil service rallied to protest against the breakdown of the public service. At EDF and 
Air-France, the unions decided to seize the day as well.

The Health and Social sector, after a big day of strike in November, restarts the machine 
with a national rise in Paris on March 7.
Cc Hugues Léglise-Bataille 2010
March 8: women in struggle! International Day of Struggle

For women's rights and equality, March 8th resumes colors this year with calls to strike.

Do not wait for elections

After testing two Mitterrand governments, a Jospin government and a government in Holland, 
with or without green ministers and PCF, it is clear to everyone that the elections do not 
bring substantial improvements to the concerns of employees. Moreover, if the gains of 
1936 were obtained by a general strike under a left-wing government, the gains of 1968 
were wrested by a general strike under a right-wing government! What is decisive is not 
the government but the strike!

That is why we say to our comrades: do not lose too much energy in arguing on behalf of 
this or that candidate because it is the gathering in our unions of all the employees. To 
the general mobilization we must prepare.

Unlike the electoral parties that divide us without their differences being always clear, 
let us make our trade unions the pluralistic tool of all those who want to revolutionize 
the world and to put an end to capitalism through direct and concrete action From the 
daily social struggles in companies.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?6-7-et-8-mars-c-est-dans-les

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Message: 4



Deraya is a territory of the western suburbs of Damascus, a few kilometers from the 
presidential palace. The regime took over the area late August 2016 after intense bombing. 
This loss was a huge blow to the revolution, as the common Deraya had become a symbol, a 
model of liberation within the Syrian revolution. For five years, the entrance area was 
marked by Bashar portrait placed on the floor, he first had trampled before entering the 
free zone Deraya. The brigades of ASL manning the area had a reputation for being 
formidable specialists in urban warfare. We are told Syria that all segments of the 
rebellion wanted to partner with them for important battles. ---- Omar Aziz is a Syrian 
activist, died in detention in 2013, who developed the idea of common through the 
establishment of local committees in the territories liberated by the Free Syrian Army. In 
this regard he said, shortly before his arrest in 2012, "We did better than the Paris 
Commune, which has withstood 70 days. For a year and a half and we always take."

About the experience of Deraya and thought Omar Aziz we publish an article by Leila 
Al-Shami. The latter is the co-author, with Robin Yassin-Kassab, of " Burning Country: 
Syrian in war and revolution ", on which we dedicated an article. She is also co-founder 
of ICN-Tahrir, a network that works to link the anti-authoritarian struggles in the Middle 
East, North Africa and Europe.
"A revolution is an exceptional event that will alter the history of societies, while 
changing humanity itself. It is a rupture in time and space, where humans live between two 
periods: the period of power and the period of revolution. A revolution's victory, 
however, is ultimately achieving the independence of its time in order to move into a new 
era."
-Omar Aziz[1]

Omar Aziz was in his sixties when he returned to Syria in 2011. He'd been working for an 
information technology company in Saudi Arabia but now he wanted to participate in the 
uprising raging against the four-decade dictatorship of the Assad family. Together with 
other activists, Aziz began distributing humanitarian assistance to displaced families 
from the Damascus suburbs under attack by the regime. He was inspired by the ongoing 
protests in the face of regime bullets and tanks, yet believed that demonstrations alone 
were not enough to break the regime's dominance, and that revolutionary activity should 
permeate all aspects of people's lives.

Omar Aziz

Before his arrest on 20 November 2012, and death in prison in February 2013, he promoted 
local self-governance, horizontal organization, cooperation, solidarity and mutual aid as 
the means by which people could emancipate themselves from the tyranny of the state.

Writing in the eighth month of the revolution, when protests were still largely peaceful 
and communities still lived under the authority of the state, he argued that "the 
revolutionary movement remains separate from daily human activities." He continued: "there 
are ‘divisions of daily work' between day-to-day activities and revolutionary activities." 
The risk lies "in the absence of correlation between the spheres of daily life and the 
revolution itself."[2]

Aziz advocated the establishment of local councils to narrow this gap. In his vision the 
councils, made up of volunteers with experience in various fields, should have a number of 
responsibilities: finding safe houses for the displaced, organizing on behalf of detainees 
in the regime's prisons and providing support to their families. Aziz also believed that 
it was the role of the councils to promote human solidarity and cooperation by providing a 
forum in which people could collectively find solutions to the problems they face, and to 
build horizontal links between councils in different regions.

He argued that the councils should also coordinate the resistance to the state's takeover 
of land in cities and suburbs and the eviction of residents to make safe residential zones 
for government officials and army officers, shopping areas, and the implementation of 
other business plans in order to accommodate the wealthy.

A few months later, Aziz wrote a second paper.[3]The situation in Syria was changing 
rapidly. The state's brutal response to the protest movement led to the militarization of 
the revolution as people took up arms in self-defense. And land was beginning to be 
liberated. The community organizing the uprising had brought about inspired him, such as 
organizing food baskets and converting houses into field hospitals. Such acts, he 
believed, showed "the spirit of the Syrian people's resistance to the brutality of the 
regime, the systematic killing and destruction of community." He described how activists 
formed coordination committees at the beginning of the revolution to organize media 
coverage, document activities and record regime violations, and how they then expanded to 
include emergency aid and medical services. He believed that new relationships were being 
formed which enabled people to break free of the state's dominance, and he saw this as 
evidence of a transformation occurring in social relationships and values. For Aziz, this 
independence was the path towards liberation.

According to Muhammed Sami Al Kayyal, one of Aziz's comrades, "Omar Aziz stood for the 
complete break-up[of]the state in order to achieve collective liberation without waiting 
for regime change or for one ruling power to replace another. He believed that communities 
are capable of producing their own freedoms regardless of political vicissitudes."[4]Aziz 
recognized that the time of revolution was the moment the people themselves should claim 
autonomy and put in place as much of an alternative programme as possible. He again called 
for the establishment of local councils, this time highlighting more roles such as 
coordinating with relief activities, medical committees and educational initiatives. 
Building autonomous, self-governing communes throughout Syria, linked through a network of 
cooperation and mutual aid, organizing independently of the state, he believed a social 
revolution could be initiated.

Protest, Daraya, Syria, 2016: people form letters "SOS," sign reads "#Break Daraya Siege"
Omar Aziz helped found four local councils in the working-class suburbs of Damascus, 
before his arrest. One was in the predominantly agricultural town of Daraya. This town had 
a history of non-violent civil resistance, existing prior to the revolution with 
religious, not secular, roots.[5]Its activists followed in the tradition of liberal 
Islamist scholar Jawdat Said (1931-), who called for non-violent civil disobedience, 
democracy and the rights of women and minorities.

In Daraya, young men and women had organized campaigns against corruption as well as 
protests against the Israeli invasion of Jenin refugee camp in 2002 and the US invasion of 
Iraq in 2003. This protest, daringly organized without regime permission in a police 
state, led to the imprisonment of several activists.

When the revolution broke out in 2011, Daraya's youth from both Muslim and Christian 
backgrounds took to the streets calling for democracy and the downfall of the regime. They 
held flowers as a symbol of peace in the face of soldiers sent to shoot them. Many were 
rounded up, detained and tortured. In August 2012, the town was subjected to a horrific 
massacre; hundreds of men, women and children were slaughtered by regime troops. This 
brutality only increased the determination of the resistance. Three months later the 
regime was driven out by locals who had taken up arms in self-defense. The town was now 
completely in the hands of its residents, and Daraya's commune was born.

A Local Council was established on 17 October 2012, to manage the town's affairs and help 
the internally displaced and injured. Its 120 members chose executives by vote every six 
months, and the council head and deputy were chosen in public elections, some of the first 
free elections to have occurred in Syria in over four decades. The Council provided all 
essential services such as water and electricity to the approximately 8,000 residents who 
remained from a pre-uprising population of 80,000. It set up a relief office which 
operated a soup kitchen and tried to build self-sufficiency by growing crops which it 
distributed to residents. The council ran three primary schools (all other educational 
facilities were out of operation due to repeated aerial bombardment). A medical office 
supervised the only field hospital which provided for the sick and wounded. Daraya's 
autonomy was defended by a local Free Army brigade which was subject to the civil 
authority of the council.

Daraya represented the antithesis of the Assadist state. The people themselves built a 
society which was democratic and free. Alongside the activities of the council, a group of 
women founded Daraya's Free Women to organize protests and humanitarian assistance. They 
began producing and distributing an independent magazine called Enab Baladi[Grapes of my 
country]to challenge the regime's media monopoly and promote peaceful resistance to 
counter the state's sectarianism and violence. Activists built an underground library, a 
safe haven where people could go to read, learn and exchange ideas. Grafiti artist Abu 
Malik Al-Shami painted hope onto Daraya's bombed out walls.

But, in November 2012, the regime implemented a starvation siege trapping residents inside 
and stopping food and medical supplies from entering. Those who tried to flee or forage in 
surrounding land were shot by snipers. Poison gas, napalm, and over 9,000 barrel bombs 
were dropped on Daraya. The Local Council repeatedly called on the humanitarian community 
to fulfill its promises to break the siege: "We are being punished for daring to rise up 
peacefully for our freedom and dignity," one statement said. "There are no extremists like 
ISIS here or Nusra. Those defending our neighbourhoods are all locals, protecting the 
streets from a government that has tortured, gassed and bombed us and our 
families."[6]Women and children also held protests, recording and uploading them to the 
Web, calling on a deaf world to break the siege and end the regime's violence. By the 
summer of 2016, the situation had deteriorated. A Jordanian/U.S. arms embargo on the 
Southern Front, combined with pressure on the coalition of secular and democratic Free 
Army forces to back off on attacking the regime forces there, had freed up Assad's 
resources to intensify the assault on the town.[8]1 The last remaining hospital in Daraya 
was destroyed and agricultural land, the sole source of food, was seized and crops burned.

With a limited supply of weapons, no assistance from outside, facing starvation, the 
resistance in Daraya held out for four years against the state and its imperialist 
backers. But on 25 August 2016 the town fell to the regime. All residents, both civilians 
and fighters, were evacuated, perhaps permanently. Some civilians evacuated to the Syrian 
government controlled town of Harjalleh were arrested and are now in the regime's 
dungeons. Assadist troops celebrated their ‘victory' in an apocalyptic waste land of 
destroyed buildings, in a town empty of its people.

Omar Aziz didn't live to see Daraya's remarkable achievements. Nor was he able to witness 
other experiments in local self-organization, with varying degrees of success, across the 
country.

These local councils are not ideological but practical. Their first concern is to keep 
communities functioning in areas where the state has collapsed. They remain independent of 
political or religious directives, focusing instead on issues of immediate relevance such 
as service provision and food assistance. They work through the prism of their own culture 
and experience. As alternatives to state authoritarianism, their libertarian tendencies 
are undeniable.

By March 2016, it was estimated that there were 395 active councils in cities, towns and 
neighbourhoods, half of them concentrated in Aleppo and Idlib provinces.[7]This estimate 
was made a few months following Russia's military intervention to prop up the failing 
regime, which saw the loss of great swathes of liberated territory, placing these 
autonomous communities under threat. At the time of writing, other revolutionary suburbs 
around the capital are at risk of falling to the regime as a result of its "kneel or 
starve policy." So too is Al-Waer, the last remaining revolutionary stronghold in Homs. 
And the 300,000 residents of liberated eastern Aleppo are under siege once more.

These experiments in community democracy pose the greatest threat to all the states now 
involved in Syria (whether pro- or anti-regime) as well as to the extremist and 
authoritarian groups which seek power for themselves. This is why they are under such 
savage attack.

-September 2016

Leila Al Shami is co-author, with Robin Yassin-Kassab, of Burning Country: Syrians in 
Revolution and War. She lives in Scotland and blogs at leilashami.wordpress.com.

Endnotes

1. Omar Aziz, A Discussion Paper on Local Councils (2011) 
https://muqawameh.wordpress.com/2013/09/14/translated-quota-discussion-paper-on-local-councils-in-syriaquot-by-the-martyr-and-comrade-omar-aziz/

2. Ibid.

3. Omar Aziz, The formation of local councils in Syria, 2011 (in Arabic) 
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=143690742461532

4. cited in Budour Hassan, "Radical Lives: Omar Aziz" (2015) 
http://wire.novaramedia.com/2015/02/radical-lives-omar-aziz/

5. Mohja Kahf, "Water bottles & roses: Choosing non-violence in Daraya" (2011) 
http://www.mashallahnews.com/water-bottles-roses/

6. Letter written by a member of Daraya's Local Council. Cited at "The Syria Campaign" 
https://act.thesyriacampaign.org/sign/save-daraya?source=tw&referring_akid=.166567.9L5obO

7. Agnes Favier, "Local Governance Dynamics in Opposition-Controlled Areas in Syria" 
(2016) 
https://isqatannizam.wordpress.com/2016/07/09/local-governance-dynamics-in-opposition-controlled-areas-in-syria/

8. Michael Karadjis, ‘US and Jordan demand Southern Front rebels stop fighting Assad, cut 
off "support"', January 2016 
https://mkaradjis.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/us-and-jordan-demand-southern-front-rebels-stop-fighting-assad-cut-off-support/

http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.co.il/2017/03/experiences-de-communes-autonomes-dans.html

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Message: 5




In November, the 22nd edition of the Climate Conference (Cop) was held in Marrakech. The 
opportunity for the Moroccan power to revive its ecological image and attract funds to 
turn the business of green capitalism. However, the social and climatic reality bears a 
different face than that of advertising posters. ---- For some years now, Morocco has had 
an enviable energy transition for an African country. This is reflected in an agrarian 
reform "Plan Maroc Vert" for "optimization" and industrialization of agricultural 
resources, a plantation of wind farms, a renewal of hydraulic structures such as dams for 
agriculture and production Electricity and the creation of the world's largest solar 
panel[1]park by Ouarzazate by 2050. ---- In sum, average student scores in rapid progress 
in energy. Except behind this beautiful setting hides a reality of an unheard of violence.

Spoliation of land

The "Green Morocco Plan", which seeks to realize agricultural efficiency, is in reality a 
large-scale privatization of State agricultural lands and collective lands of rural tribes 
and communities, in order to specialize Moroccan agriculture in exporting . Adding to this 
the corruption in the business world and the influence of the sprawling empire of Aziz 
Akhannouche, a hydrocarbon tycoon, the country's number one advertiser (which perfectly 
mutilates the media), and Minister of Agriculture in the The outgoing government, and this 
plan makes Morocco from below, indeed, green with rage of so much spoliation, waste and 
corruption.

As far as the wind farms are concerned, a large part will be installed in the Western 
Sahara, thus again flouting the Saharawi people's right to self-determination.

A few kilometers from Ouarzazate, the Noor solar power plant project is in rapid progress, 
with delivery of the first tranche Noor I. This project meets a European demand[2 ]. It is 
financed, inter alia, by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank. Moreover, on the 
ground, this project is realized by a spoliation of the collective lands of the local 
tribes, with a semblance of consultation: Mohamed VI announces the plan in October 2010, 
the first public consultation meeting takes place in November 2010. Example of green 
grabbing [3].

Solidarity Struggles

When the tartuffes of ecology and the emissaries of rapacious funds, paraded in the VIP 
salons of Marrakech to "discuss" the global climate future, peoples undergoing the 
violence of capitalism in all its colors count on solidarity to make heard Their voice.

Thus, one of the main events remains the counter-Cop22, which was organized 300 km south 
of Marrakech[4], around the struggle of the population of Imider, a village not far from 
which is one of the largest Of Africa. The disastrous management and merciless operation 
of this mine belong to the Metallurgical Society of Imiter (SMI), a subsidiary of the 
Managem company belonging to the empire of Mohamed VI.

This emblematic struggle led by the local population against the monopolization and 
pollution of water by the SMI, this for the extraction of minerals and its cleaning.

The counter-Cop22 saw a connection and exchanges between activists involved in the 
struggles against major projects of dispossession or pollution of lands and natural 
resources throughout the world. Indeed, the arrival of activists fighting the Dakota 
Access Pipeline (DAPL)[5]to this counter-Cop22 was a great moment of international 
solidarity. Faced with the gears of capitalism, the struggling peoples sow fertile sand 
grains.

Marouane Taharouri (AL Paris-Nord-Est)

[1]A project with the ambition to reach 11% of the world's electricity production in 2050

[2]The Desertec project, initiated by European business groups, included Noor in its plans 
to produce electricity in Africa for Europe. The conflicts between partners and the 
"problem" of energy dependence on Africa (Spain has refused to participate in the 
financing of the cable linking Morocco to Europe), have come to the end, for the moment , 
Of the Desertec project.

[3]Green grabbing covers the notion of dispossession of lands and natural resources by 
states and businesses for so-called environmental reasons.

[4]# 300kmSouth

[5]Controversial pipeline project in the United States, which has seen a strong 
mobilization driven by indigenous Indian communities, due to the route through ancestral 
lands and the highly devastating potential for the environment.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Maroc-La-COP22-lave-plus-vert

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