Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #271 - Interview,
Zerocalcare: "We wanted to popularize the Kurdish cause" (fr, it,
pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. anarkismo.net: Greece Against hyenas by anarchist collective
Oktana (gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #271 - Interview, Karim
Berrouka (Ludwig von 88): " accompanying causes, we do " (fr, it,
pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Alternative Libertaire - Aperitif debate, The
elected representatives represent only themselves ! May 3 in
Strasbourg (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. black rose fed: WHEN THE RIOT COPS ATTACK: REPRESSION AND
SOLIDARITY IN PORTLAND'S MAY DAY (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. 5Czech, afed: Good work? -- Report of black and red block,
which was part of a May Day demonstration in Prague "In the end
of a bad job" [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
On the occasion of his visit to Nantes, comrades of Alternative libertarian of Nantes met
him the author of Kobanê Calling, Zerocalcare (see alternative libertarian of October 2016
). ---- Alternative libertarian: What motivated you to be interested in Kurdistan and in
particular in Rojava ? ---- Zerocalcare: At the age of 16, I began to take an interest in
politics, and in particular to participate in the activities of the Italian social centers
[1], in Rome in particular. In the late 1990s, Öcalan came to Rome to seek political
asylum from Italy. On this occasion, thousands of European Kurds converged on Rome. The
Italian social centers took part in charge of the logistics (food, accommodation ..) of
the Kurds. At that time strong ties were created with the Kurdish cause. That is why, when
we saw the images of Kobané besieged With the Roman comrades of the social centers, we
wanted to popularize the Kurdish cause and resistance to Daech.
Are you still in touch with the different Kurdish comic characters ?
Zerocalcare: I'm still in touch with the comrades who were on the first trip and Ezel, the
second trip. Every week I attend meetings with the Kurdish community in Rome. There are
very often stays in Kurdistan, in particular in Rojava, organized by living Kurds in Italy
and Romans. So we have regular news. On the other hand it is very difficult to have
information of the people met there.
Excerpt from "Kobanê Calling"
How do you analyze the evolution of the military situation in Rojava ?
Zerocalcare: The situation is pretty bad in Rojava. Turkey's entry into the war and
Turkish direct intervention in the Rojava (Operation Euphrates Shield) marks the entry of
the most powerful enemy of the Kurds. On the spot the situation is changing rapidly. The
town of Manbij recently liberated by Kurdish forces is now being attacked by Turkish
forces and their moderate jihadist allies.
It appears that the Kurdish forces allied themselves for the occasion with the forces of
the Al-Assad regime to protect the city. The situation is complex: Russian and Americans
play different alliances and prepare the redrawing of the country.
Have you found a libertarian spirit in Rojava ?
Zerocalcare: Yes, there is indeed a libertarian spirit in Rojava but not necessarily as it
is understood in Europe. There are several ways of understanding the word libertarian. The
experience of Rojava is not without internal contradictions.
However, there is the desire to create a horizontal society, with the direct democracy of
the popular assemblies and the refusal of the delegation.
The Kurds try to put in place democratic confederalism by ensuring at each level of
decision at the institutional level (region and city), there will always be a mixed
assembly and an assembly of women. Similarly, in non-exclusively Kurdish areas, each
ethnic minority (Arab, Assyrian, Turkmen) is necessarily represented. Rojava has a social
contract in a charter that guarantees a number of rights and principles (feminism,
ecology, socialism, etc.)
Do you think that the Rojava experience can be perpetuated and developed ?
Zerocalcare: No international power has any interest in seeing the Rojava experience
develop. This region of the world is very strategic and arouses the envy of many states
(United States, Russia, Iran, Turkey ...). It is interesting to note that despite a
situation of war, the Kurds manage to set up another political system.
The Kurds have shown solid military experience. They are among the most active forces in
the region. What is crucial is the international recognition of the Rojava experience. If
the Kurdish experience is internationally recognized, they can not be ignored during the
redrawing of Syria after the war.
Do you see the comic as an effective militant tool to reach a wider audience and may be
younger ?
Zerocalcare: There are two different situations. In France, it is mainly people interested
in the Kurdish cause who read the comic. In Italy, I am a little more known and it is the
public who follows my blog and my comics who discovered the Kurdish cause through my
narrative.
I do not know if they will be more interested in the Kurdish issue once the comic book is
read. Nonetheless, comics can reach a wider audience than a geopolitical work.
Stef and Lulu (AL Nantes)
Zerocalcare, Kobanê Calling, Cambourakis, 270 pages, 23 euros.
The first 30 pages of the comic can be consulted on the website of the international mail
[1] Social center, or social center : occupied and self - managed political squats. Their
activists organize different actions (aid to refugees, anti-fascism, feminism ...). There
is a quarantine in Rome.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Zerocalcare-Nous-avons-eu-envie-de-populariser-la-cause-kurde
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Message: 2
We will be there if you try to evacuate Rosa Nera. Not only as partners alongside our
partners, but also as part of this place. To defend actively as a local society, our
freedom to organize ourselves and to fight against the lie, alienation, exploitation and
oppression. Against the "values" that upon which was built and continues to be built Crete
European Union, entrepreneurship and "growth." We will be there to defend our right to
demand a place free from the shackles of capital and mikroexousias. A society worthy of
sacrifice and toil of the people who built. ---- Recently we learned that discussed the
eviction Rosa Nera Chania to "exploited" by hotel group. ---- First, what "exploitation",
"investment" and "development" in the Cretan tourism industry?
Investments in the tourism sector is profit. Profit "the place"? No, it's profit in the
pockets of hoteliers, alleging overtime of hotel. Investments for the local establishment
of ND-PASOK-SYRIZA means mostra and political capital. They create an opportunity for MPs
and local officials to cut the paragontiliki coveted "red ribbons» ? why red ribbons bring
notoriously publicity and votes. The "investment" and "development" are but terms used by
one to build political careers and on the other to groom the institution's profitability
and terrorism in the slave markets of hotels on the island.
Is that "development" that "gives job" in maids, waiters etc. with 12-hour unpaid, zero
off "because we have a full house season," work on multiple posts, forced labor amid
injuries etc. It is the development of dead workers and hundreds of accidents in Crete. It
is development that want hoteliers Pancretan Association of Hotel Managers that respond to
the settlement of refugees on the island because it will hurt tourism. Development wants
Mr. Vamiedakis, Representative tourism consultant in the Region of Crete and owner of
tourism Treat Elounda Breeze, who terrorizes and sacks vindictive workers who ask their
accrued on business. For them, development means to feed crumbs for six months a year and
say thank you because at least you're not unemployed for the whole year.
What is and what is not the Squats
The Squatting is premises for the bosses but for the working class and the assemblies. Are
housing areas, not property, where the exploited and oppressed housing policies and social
needs. Is culture communities, with artistic and cultural activities that emerge from the
same local community rather than local government. On Squats will not amusements among
henchmen. To enter you need not invest in your wardrobe, no need to eat half of your
paycheck to drink a raki. Squats are the foci struggle of memory against forgetting. They
keep alive the anti-fascist history and defended locality. Is education spaces, not teach
myths about secret schools and illusions about democracy and its elections. Instead, study
and discuss with specific and non for society, the fights and the sciences. Is information
and information space not mintiakis Sroiter Evangelatou-type fiction and other officials
to press urinals. Here, the information does not come to order. Occupations end, they are
places of entertainment and not talking about the voyeurism of «Survivor». This
'entertainment' to offer the Alafouzos (SKAI, Kathimerini) and the mujahideen atsalakota
parrots of "We live Europe" who dare to speak of culture and youth. Instead we are talking
about a collective entertainment, where transmitter and receiver are the people an
entertainment socialize and educate. These are the Squats. It disperses seeds wind
resistance and grow where currents arrive. There are endemic species of any region but
grow where people take their lives in their hands.
For all the above and others that do not fit here, Squats housing and attract many people.
Their-state enemies, fascists, employers, police, mafia- know that we do not tell lies.
They can not deny it because they have eyes and see. See the hundreds of people who gather
every year in events and celebrations of the birthday of Rosa Nera and Occupation
Annunciation, the anarchist block the road, the actions and activities of
anti-authoritarian-libertarian community of Crete.
We will be there if you try to evacuate Rosa Nera. Not only as partners alongside our
partners, but also as part of this place. To defend actively as a local society, our
freedom to organize ourselves and to fight against the lie, alienation, exploitation and
oppression. Against the "values" that upon which was built and continues to be built Crete
European Union, entrepreneurship and "growth." We will be there to defend our right to
demand a place free from the shackles of capital and mikroexousias. A society worthy of
sacrifice and toil of the people who built.
HANDS OFF THE ROSANERA
anarchist collective Oktana
member of the Anarchist Federation
http://oktana.espivblogs.net
http://www.anarkismo.net/article/30239
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Message: 3
In 2016, the mythical punk group Ludwig von 88 reformed after fifteen years of absence.
Would it be possible for them to recover the freshness, the meek-foolishness and the taste
for disconnection that had sat their legend ? We were right not to believe ... ---- Well
what a slap. After a surprise triumph at Hellfest in July, the group chained fifteen dates
this fall, filling the halls of fans of the 1 st as the 25 th time in an atmosphere of
jubilant din worthy of the big time. ---- Now that the tour is over, everyone has gone
home. The bass player, Charlu, in Avignon. Bruno - also singer of Sergent Garcia -, in
Bilbao. The great master of machines, Jean-Mi, to his many other projects and
collaborations. And it is the singer, Karim Berrouka, who moved to Montreuil to talk
music, literature and politics with Alternative libertarian.
So this tour ?
Karim: Well crunching ! But the rooms were rather full, the atmosphere was good, it was
really fun. The hardest part was to go on two or three consecutive dates, interspersed
with trips piled up to 10 in a 9-seater bus. During a police check, we were kindly
remarked that we were overloaded of 600 kilos, with the gear ! So, for the following dates
we opted - I was against, eh - for the rental of a tourbus, these big coaches with two
floors, with bunks, in VIP mode. So here, in 2016, Ludwig travels like the Rolling Stones,
not bad ?
At the Trianon in Paris on 26 November 2016.
© Yann Lévy
What has changed in fifteen years ?
Karim: Well, that's it. Today, the universe of the spectacle is clearly less spontaneous
and spontaneous. I have memories of concerts in MJC, party halls, mounted by assos who
were doing the dismay. Today, everything seems so much more framed, more pro ! That was
one of the reasons we had to stop the concerts in 1999, because it started to swell, we
did not want to become a " rock band ". When you see the big festivals, this side
factory, quite expensive in addition, despite the impressive number of volunteers who work ...
Another trick that is more boring than it used to be is the vigilance of those entitled to
everything that is taken up or misappropriated. An anecdote: when we prepared the reissue
of our Sprint album , the editor warned us that we could not take back the cover of 1988,
because there was the Olympic rings, which would attract us Fucking ! [1]. When we think
we had released our album of covers [2] without asking anyone, and that nobody had asked
us anything. Ah yes ! Niagara. They had wanted to listen to our version of L'Amour à la plage.
And ?
Karim: And they just said " bof " (laughs). But neither the Beatles nor Sabrina nor
Mylène Farmer asked us for copyright. Neither Queen.
Too bad, they could have paid a few coffees with ...
Karim: One or two espressos, yes ! (Laughs) After, copyright, it can be good, of course.
If the FN decided to take over Houlala for a Blue-White-Red feast - pure speculation -
that would allow us to say no to them. But apart from that, if groups want to take back
Ludwig, let them do it. It always gives us pleasure that our work remains alive. No need
to send us an email to ask for permission - yes, it happens from time to time !
You think you're back to composing a little ? Back in the studio ?
Karim: We'll see, we'll see. Already, for that, we would have to spend a month together in
the same place. One would then see what would come out of it. And then in the studio ? Why
not. Certainly, we have a little thune ahead, but it is such a budget today ... We used to
have good plans. The first two albums of Ludwig, in 1986 and 1987, were recorded almost
clandoically, thanks to a buddy who worked at the prestigious studio of the Great Army. In
the daytime, one could meet Cabrel, Lavilliers ... and we could have gotten into it at
night ! Then we were at the Mix-It, held by former Metal Urbain, and then on a farm in
Anjou, where a buddy had set up a recording studio. Obviously, it all depends on your
requirement, But the technological advances make that today, you can already record stuff
quite by tinkering your home studio. We'll make a vinyl, well, people like it!
And politics in all this ?
Karim: We're all more or less extreme left, that's for sure ... and I would say we did not
betray our ideals ! We do not roll on gold, we work to live - all, more or less, as
technicians of the spectacle. I work as stage manager for concerts.
I still have a lot of sympathy for everything that is social and libertarian movement,
even if we have never been inserted anywhere, nor very militant. Not that I'm against the
idea, but let's say it's a little boring, people's inability to agree on important things
because of secondary divergences.
On the other hand, accompanying movements, causes, and so on. From the beginning, in 1986,
we played on a truck-tray in the midst of a youth protest against Devaquet, and a lot of
our songs carry political criticism - against war, the Olympic business, nuclear,
Colonialism, police violence ... Ludwig has always oscillated between relatively serious
texts and provocative delusions, and was never given in the " song to message ", but
contributed to a counterculture. It's not nothing. A lot of people come to politics
through music and counter-culture.
In any case, we have always kept a foot in this environment. A surprise concert was held
at the CICP on 27 November, and it is planned to play the CNT party at the Wandering Word
in May.
In Montreuil: Karim Berrouka and Mehdi Kabar
Cc Guillaume Davranche
A word, finally, on your last book . How did the idea come to you ?
Karim: I wanted to do something that takes the opposite of the usual zombie novel. Of
course, the pattern is classic of its kind - an epidemic of the undead ; A society
annihilated ; A group of survivors who face challenges. But I wanted to do something that
did not convey the reactive morality that is often found in this literature.
I worked at a time as Editor-Editor at Panini Comics, I've eaten hundreds of pages, and it
was still the same story. The " weak links " of the survivor group succumb first. As if
by chance it is the druggist, the lesbian ... A leader emerges and imposes a discipline
that will save the group. All that swells me.
Even in Walking Dead - the TV series, I did not read the comic - we find this tribal
atmosphere, this role of the leader. To go against the current, I wanted to make a story
with a group of survivors who, in fact, had nothing to do with saving society, and who
preferred to do anything. Hence these punks who walk around in Paris, do the cons, but
who, despite everything, at a time, try to create a free society ...
Interview by Guillaume and Mehdi (AL Montreuil)
NOT TO MISS
© Patrick Imbert
Charlu, Bruno, Karim and Jean-Mi put Ludwig von 88 on stage for about fifteen dates
between May and October in France, Switzerland and Belgium.
More information on www.lv88.fr
[1] Not false: read " Protection of Olympic marks " on Cnosf.francecolympique.com .
[2] Seventeen pellets to flip the tubes (1994).
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Karim-Berrouka-Ludwig-von-88-accompagner-des-causes-ca-on-fait
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Message: 4
The question is not so much whether or not to vote in the second round, but how to
organize collectively whatever the candidate who will come out: at 6:30 pm at the bar La
Perestroïka. ---- Last Sunday, the main artisan of the social regression laws of the
quinquennium Holland emerged at the head of the poll of the first round of the
presidential, closely followed by the representative of the main party of extreme right.
Hence we have no choice between the continuation of the uberization of society and an
assumed fascism which promises an intensification of the security and racist policies
already put in place by the previous rulers. ---- Faced with this blackmail, the question
is not so much whether to vote in the second round, but how to collectively organize the
candidate who will emerge from it.
Alternative Libertaire Alsace invites you to come and discuss it during a
aperitif debate
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 at 6:30 pm
At the bar La Perestroïka,
2 rue Thiergarten, Strasbourg
The FB Event
https://www.facebook.com/events/1472753456110069/
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Les-elus-ne-representent-qu-eux-memes-le-3-mai-a-Strasbourg
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Message: 5
Events like May Day are a temperature check for the collective hive mind of the left
reflecting on the year behind them. Because it is a tradition that skates back more than
a hundred years, it rarely stands out as the most pressing of days, mainly because it is
part of a regular organizing cycle. Good years or bad losses, May Day comes on the same
day. ---- In Portland, Oregon, it was the obvious confluences of forces, the ongoing
revolt happening in Trump's America, that helped to ignite the substantial growth around
its activities. How the Portland May Day Coalition planned for this year's event was
largely based around the practical work of the groups involved, how it tied into the
ongoing projects of the component organizations. The Portland Committee for the Human
Rights in the Philippines (PCHRP) held an earlier event in the day along with the Brown
Berets and Gabriella outlining the JustPeacePH project, supporting the peace talks
currently happening between the Government Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the
People's Democratic Government of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). They were
then leading the anti-imperialist contingent in the following march, linking together the
struggles against colonialism in the Global South and the increased victimization of
Latinx immigrants from the Southern U.S. border and the long-standing history of workplace
organizing that May Day signifies.
The Burgerville Workers Union was celebrating the anniversary of its break-out campaign,
one that went public in multiple shops a year ago, bringing with it one of the most
dynamic and persistent struggles seen from a direct union shop in the Pacific Northwest.
The showing from organized labor was large, as it usually is, and there was a clear
openness to the growing linkages between social movements as the possibility of nationwide
Right-to-Work and the further erosion of state programs lends urgency to an already dire
attack on working people.
You wouldn't hear about any of this, however, because what came next was a full-frontal
assault on the long-planned event, its organizers, and their neighbors.
From the march of almost a thousand people through the streets of the Southwest Downtown
district came the militarized invasion of hundreds of police, letting loose with explosive
weaponry and laying siege on a crowd comprised of families, people with disabilities, and
many raising their voices for the first time. From many photos from that afternoon it is
hard to see what happened, a haze that filled the gap between skyscrapers from the
canisters of "tear gas" that were fired with only seconds in between. When the police
forcefully rushed the crowd, which had already formally dispersed, they began a frightful
chase through the streets of the commercial and financial territories. It would be obtuse
to point out that the narrative that the police offered, which began even before the
actual force was felt as they took to Twitter to premeditate the media stories, was
dishonest. Instead, it showed a clear set of priorities, ones that double back on several
decades of crowd control, ones that had evolved to avoid the kind of escalation that was
doubled down on here.
The Cop in Our Heads
In Mike King's recent treatise on the repression of Occupy Oakland, When Riot Cops Are Not
Enough: The Policing and Repression of Occupy Oakland (Rutgers University Press, 2017), he
reflects on the way the repressive police measures evolved nationally to the more complex
web they have today. During the wave of confrontations starting the Civil Rights Movement
in the 1950s and the urban uprisings that rocked urban areas in the 1960s, police used
heavy handed dispersal tactics that were aggressive to forcefully put down that unrest.
While some would argue they are tame by today's standards, they were an outgrowth of the
institutionalized white supremacy that was holding on for dear life. Starting in the
1970s, police entered a new phase acknowledging that the "brute force" strategy they were
employing was only escalating and mobilizing increased opposition, and it began
radicalizing a generation of those injured in street fights. They began systems of
negotiation and compromise with protest movements, offering up permits for demonstrations.
This concept relied on the negotiating power of the state, and a large majority of
American social movements have been brought in on these agreements, usually accepting some
limitations in exchange for less direct police repression. A permit is much easier than
going through a mass crackdown on a simple street march, so why not?
The effect of this change was, by and large, for the police to transfer their authority of
containment from the station to the protesters themselves, turning the organizations and
leadership themselves into the acting agents of the state's boundaries. If protesters
were given legal leeway, they would then police themselves, and it could even hold a few
people in leadership roles accountable for the actions of participants. This can and does
have the effect of turning many in a project against other elements, where those engaging
in certain tactics are necessarily blamed for putting others at risk, all outlined in the
structures of the permitting system. This created a structure that, when mixed with a
moderated police presence, would both contain the social movements and make sure that the
effective repression came without social backlash. As the years went on and the war on
drugs, gangs, and poor people broadly took shape, the structure of police engagements
increased volatility across the board, until now the police that surround broad-based
political rallies look liked they are armed to "liberate" Fallujah.
Since centrist Democrat Ted Wheeler took the reigns of the Portland Mayor's office, he has
made the decisive move to crack down on the growing discontent in the city. The election
of Trump, the organized resistance to gentrification and displacement from housing
organizations, and the reaction to ongoing police killings of black and brown "suspects"
has led to a climate of resistance that is growing exponentially. This hit a fever pitch
in the days after the election where thousands flooded the streets, blocking every major
highway and shutting down businesses. The direct action taken by some protesters,
amounting to broken windows and other property destruction, was not out of bounds for the
city's history, nor was it maliciously interpersonal as the police department persisted.
Nonetheless, the police, under oversight from the mayor's office, went after suspects
aggressively, charging some with compounded multiple felonies in stacked cases that
shocked even the most jaded activists. In one case, a protester is facing upwards of
thirty-months in prison for some broken car and bank windows, using riot charges to
compound the offense and turn it into a veritable "anarchist scare." In another, they
tried to charge different broken windows as separate offenses so as to make the case
eligible for a state statute that allows excessive sentencing if the acts of property
destruction are seen as separate incidents.
Wheeler's actual approach seems to be done within an amnesia of institutional memory, the
lack of a known history. "Little Beirut," as Portland was named in the 1990s by George
H.W. Bush, has always had a long history of militant street protests and projects, from
the Earth First! and ELF campaigns of the 1990s to the more recent Black Lives Matter
insurgencies. For Wheeler to lean on the side of aggressive policing, especially in
situations where the police appear as the clear instigators, he is acting without a clear
understanding of the role of police in the escalation of confrontation. The police were
not there to quell unrest, they were the foundations of that unrest, and their presence,
violent victimization of protesters, and unwillingness to even own up to their own "let
them police themselves" idea has ended the specter of the police as an institutio
http://blackrosefed.org/riot-cops-attack-repression-solidarity-portlands-may-day/
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Message: 6
At the outset it must be acknowledged that the debate on the preparation of the anarchist
May Day on himself left a very long wait and everything was moved to five minutes to
twelve. Last year, after a brief stop right on an island unofficially joined the
anti-capitalist and anti-racist action wider coalition of groups, which attracted more
people. So this year we finally decided to join the initiative, which emerged from the
Prague activist environment, organize joint May Day, the official part'll also anarchists.
Under the action so next Anarchist Federation (AF) have signed the Young Greens (MZ) and
Socialist Solidarity (SocSol) as equal partners in this single alliance, whose central
theme became a requirement for the end of a bad job.
If someone is afraid that this step had fallen under the spell of Trotskyists, anarchists,
political parties or otherwise defined authoritarians can be calm. Nothing of the sort has
taken place or in preparation for, or during the event. Besides the joint reformist
requirement to improve the lives of workers here and now we can fully express anarchist
requirement for the whole system work. It's nothing new, just as we have discussed in
previous years in support of the strikers or in union activities. If someone came to the
iron heel of authoritarianism, then they were young supporters of the social democratic
ideas which official participation at the event reportedly vetoed their leadership.
Hopefully it'll be a lesson begins with greater vigor in the fight against right-wing
Social Democrats, which is represented by a lover of firearms and foreigners opponent
Chovanec whose activities color the orange side brown.
With Palacáku ...
May Day demonstration was convened at 14.00 on Prague's Palacky Square. That there will be
something happening, he gave way before embarked know reams of secret police, where there
was a good thirty. Especially the one led blue mohawk on his head. Basis of free
collection of bourgeois democracy, we therefore have. Subsequently added a van with sound,
presentation stands and organizing groups distro AF. And of course participants, and
participants in the event, which was distributed at a special bulletin May Day anarchistek
and anarchists .
At half past three began with the first batch of speeches. The first to speak at the
invitation of idealiste.cz whose activists unofficially contributed to organizing the
event, Jirí Dienstbier. They were secretly filmed as a full extremist, Senator nesenátor.
From the dissident years, his father is but maybe a practice used. One can, however,
wondered if it was on it once Chovanec pulls to the side of the road clean brown wing.
Dienstbier talked about the pressure casualization and job insecurity both now and in the
future in connection with the advent of new technologies. According to him, still it makes
sense politically conceived first of May, to meet and seek a good job and a place to live
in dignity. If dignified conditions can not build a company, it can have a bad end, as the
tendency towards xenophobia, hatred even more marginalized, risk of post-fascism and
nationalism. Nationalism can not ever lead to good ends. According to Dienstbier it is
necessary to stress that the company is developing an equitable way. So many of his words.
But as we've written, this pressure should start in their own cliques.
Then they took the word of three spokeswoman for Initiative 365 women, who spoke about the
position of women in relation to work. It is necessary to reconsider how we perceive
traditional gender roles as women, inter alia, the burden of unpaid housework. Further
specifically mentioned poor conditions of women workers in the garment industry. Karl
Máchová reminded that in the early days of Czechoslovakia, lived nearby and support
textile workers in the struggle for better conditions. Highlighted the problem of working
poverty in the Czech Republic as one of the biggest problems today, because "human life
has more sense than udrít to death." Your input finished shouting: "Death to the patriarchy!"
MZ speech also gave presentations more speakers. They touched upon the issue prekarizované
work. We are told that we live in the best possible time, we have said a lot of
opportunities that were previously people never dreamed we like to be flexible. But the
reality is different. The emphasis on performance goes hand in hand with worsening working
conditions. MZ spoke out against the politicians who rail against the unemployed,
including many bigwigs KSCM and CSSD. Another problem is the discrimination against Roma,
who do not have equal access to work. New scapegoat is then the migrants. For billions of
Babis and Kellner, which uses tax havens, the misery of others. Only together can we
defeat capital, fascism and neo-liberalism.
The last contribution of this block was greeting "young trade unionists' Association of
New trade unions, which have declared that they want to build on past struggles of workers
and build a company that is not predatory.
... along the waterfront ...
At the invitation of the organizers was formed a front of the procession with a banner,
"The end of a bad job" on which were signed by the three organizing groups. Formed also
advised anarchist block over which fluttered black-and-red flags and a banner in front
dominated him, "Good job? 100% for themselves and the community 0% for the state and
capital. "
So about 250 people set off on the march shortly after river bank Vltava (the name of the
first republic minister let him be a reminder that asocial reforms can bring about a
radical reaction), we passed the National Theater and Žofín turned on the Legion Bridge.
During that time, within the anarchist block chanted slogans like "Against the State
capital. For a free government "and" Viva anarchy "The whole procession then resonated
slogans" A-anti-anti-capitalists "or" Our weapon is solidarity. " Thus we have the noise
finally, after thirty arrived at Shooter's Island, instead of the traditional blue-collar
and since the early 90s also anarchist first maypoles. At the site, the event joined by
other groups of anarchists.
... to Gunny
At the memorial plaques from the first of May 1890, without delay began with the next
block speeches.
Speaker spoke for Anarchist Federation under the name Vilemína Körber. And why pseudonym
and why is this? We do not go to public meetings to make a name, we do not present
ourselves as individuals, but our thoughts. Moreover, we are inspired by the Zapatista
tradition of acceptance names of the dead comrades, who can live on. And who knows, it was
the anarchist Vilém Körber, who headed the organization of May Day 1890.
Vilemína first brought greetings from friends of SAF, which at that time held a small May
Day event in Duchcov, and then read the speech for AF in the introduction saying that
"work dictated relations of inequality and domination must be removed along with the state
and capitalism." He explains why it is for us first of May important: "We remember the
past struggle that cost many victims; struggle for dignified life and to strengthen
workers' rights. And just as our predecessors relate to the future, the vision of a free
and self-governing society without oppression, discrimination and exploitation. His
presence here and now show the existing capitalist order that he was not going to give in
without resistance to endure social inequalities and give up their dreams. "In the long
line of those killed, executed, impoverished or imprisoned workers who had the courage to
keep silent and to show to favor names anarchists executed November 11, 1887 in connection
with the Chicago events. In conclusion he stated that "today we are facing a process that
concocted repressive regime folder. In 1890 the organization of the first May Day workers'
rally in Prague right on an island participated in a so-called Social Democrats. Neodvislí
socialists, anarchists, therefore. Today, the Social Democrats at the helm, but defends
private property, antisocial access to refugees and foreign workers and criminalizes
anarchist activists and activists. "The speech was met with perhaps the greatest response
and followed him mighty chant:" Resistance lives, the struggle continues! "
Meanwhile, establish a telephone connection with our friend Igor cobblers that the
prohibition to participate in the anarchist events and during a forced stay in the police
station. Igor in his entry requirement complications of the struggle for workers' rights.
Extending rights is our real goal. After all, we do not want crumbs of cake, we want the
whole bakery. In addition, work in today's system can never be ethical. It is also not
possible to negotiate on an equal footing with politicians or corporations, it is the same
like trying to negotiate with the Nazis and cops. When we become privileged dangerous,
strike against us. Iniquitous, picked up the repression that they have to defend the
interests of the privileged. Likewise, the illusion of freedom of speech in the era of
mass media. In addition, all the cops recorded and whenever they are used against us. Law
applies differently to those who have the privilege and the others. Instead of the rights
we fight for liberation.
After completion of the call through the crowd echoing chants of "Igor we will not give
up." As the last speaker spoke in Jan Májícek for SocSol on the subject of robotics and
automation of work. He recalled that technology is neither good nor bad, it depends on who
controls them. Do not stop progress and new technologies affect all, it is just a matter
of how we treat.
After the official end of the assembly followed Picnic comfort that complement stalls with
individual groups of materials and distro AF, which was fairly decent interest. In
addition, they organized several people who were distributing anarchist newsletters
between incoming and outgoing participants May Day celebration CSSD, which took place in
the latter part of the island. With a large black-and-red banner at the entrance to the
island were anarchist newsboys and kamelotky not be overlooked. It handed out to
absolutely everything, a few hundred copies. I must say that the leaflets was great
interest and discussion was not an emergency. And it would not be the first of May to the
Gunny had not played some of his songs, our befriended songwriter and added a few texts
set to music by Franta Gellner.
https://www.afed.cz/text/6664/dobra-prace
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