Today's Topics:
1. US, Michigan: Against the Fascists on Saturday; Against
Deportations on Sunday. by BD, First of May Anarchist Alliance -
Detroit Collective (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. solidaridad obrera: NOTICE 592017 on WORLD PRIDE MADRID 2017
(ca, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Saturday September 2nd: Anarchist bookfair in Amsterdam
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Take the street, Social
Front: Gathering " Against Macron and its Orders!" (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
People in Michigan are under attack and fighting back. On Saturday, June 10, right-wingers
and white supremacists held an "anti-sharia" rally in Lansing. It seemed like it was more
oathkeepers and milita types than anything else. About 10-12 older white guys holding big
guns, protecting and defending 5-10 fascists and white supremacists and maybe another 5-10
Trump supporters and anti-Muslim bigots, including several women. About 30 in all. ----
About 200 people came out to oppose the racists and the fascists and in defense of Muslim
communities. Our side was multi-racial, multi-national and multi-gendered. Black and
Muslim and Women and Queer, and all of us together. A new group, Solidarity and Defense,
did plenty of good work in organizing for the counter demonstration and in reaching out to
immigrant and working class communities in Lansing, Detroit and other cities. Folks from
Lansing were in the lead at the demonstration with supporters coming from Detroit, Ann
Arbor, Flint, Grand Rapids and elsewhere. People came out from working class and immigrant
communities in Lansing; activists from Detroit Eviction Defense came out. There were
supporters from First of May Anarchist Alliance, Redneck Revolt, Revolutionary Communist
Party and Workers World Party. It was especially good to see folks from many cities in
Michigan, organizing and mobilizing together to oppose the fascists and in defense of
Muslim communities.
We need to build on the outreach from this mobilization and develop broader networks and
organizations. We need to coordinate statewide and build Solidarity and Defense throughout
the state. And we need more attention to defending our actions and our groups against the
racists and fascists.
We also need more attention to detail. We didn't realize until the morning of June 10th
that there would be another anti-sharia rally in Southfield, a suburb adjacent to Detroit
on the same day. The Detroit News reported that about 200 people lined 12 mile and
Southfield Road with anti-Muslim and Trump signs. These anti-Muslim bigots from West
Bloomfield, Allen Park, Sterling Heights and other areas were not opposed. We were right
to focus our forces in Lansing and to coordinate statewide, but we need better information
gathering and have to recognize that white supremacists, anti-Muslim bigots and fascists
are spreading their doctrines of fear, hate, scapegoating and violence among broader
sections of the population in this country.
Less than 24 hours later, in the early morning of Sunday, June 11, ICE agents and other
cops raided the homes of Chaldeans and Muslims from Iraq and other people from metro
Detroit in a series of deportation raids. More than 100 people were picked up from their
homes, and from churches and restaurants, and taken into detention. Some had misdemeanors
or other charges, many from years or even decades before. The U.S. government has reached
an agreement with the government in Iraq, where Iraq has agreed to accept Iraqis picked up
in the raids. And like other detainees from Detroit, they were to be sent to the private,
for-profit prison/detention center in Youngstown, Ohio. ICE and the feds have a contract
with the owners of that prison to house detainees and those picked up in ICE raids, so ICE
intends to keep up the deportation raids.
But what ICE and the government did not count on was the response of the Chaldean
community and the Muslim communities and those opposing attacks on our communities and the
families of those picked up in the raids. These folks showed up at the ICE detention
center on Jefferson in Detroit to demand the release of the detainees and to oppose the
transport of the detainees to Youngstown. Dozens of people, with Chaldean and Muslim
family members in the lead, mobilized to stop the bus, filled with their loved ones, from
leaving. The people blockaded the bus and held off the Detroit police and Homeland
Security cops for more than hour, before the bus finally headed out to Youngstown.
Chanting "Fuck the Police" and "Fuck Trump," people were united and fighting to stop the
deportations. This was a political resistance, as well as a physical resistance. The
police and ICE were not ready or prepared for this. We need to build the resistance.
More Chaldeans live in metro Detroit than in any other area of the country. Chaldeans are
from Iraq and are Christian. Many have lived in the Detroit area for generations; many are
immigrants and refugees from Iraq from the 1980's, the 1990's (first Gulf War) and the
2000's and the U.S. war against Iraq. Christians in Iraq, in Egypt and other areas have
been targeted and attacked by ISIS and other forces in the region. Chaldean families in
Detroit are fearful that their loved ones will be targets for violence on deportation to
Iraq. Some in the Chaldean community, including some religious leaders and some business
leaders, have supported the U.S. war against Iraq, and some were and have been vocal
supporters of Trump. There have been divisions between some members of the Chaldean
community and some members of Muslim communities in metro Detroit.
But the deportation raids in Detroit on Sunday hit Chaldeans and Muslims; it targeted
people who can be deported to Iraq. And these deportation raids targeting people from Iraq
follow the raids in Southwest Detroit a few weeks ago, which targeted people from Mexico
and the Latinx community. All of our communities are under attack. An attack on the
Chaldean community, on Muslim communities, on Latinx communities is an attack on all of us
and on the working class. We have to break down all barriers and divisions and unite our
forces to oppose deportation raids and attacks on our families.
Some of the same folks who had been in Lansing on Saturday to oppose the fascists and
their anti-sharia rally were out in Detroit on Sunday to oppose the government deportation
raids and attacks on the Chaldean and Muslim communities. And some of the people from
Solidarity and Defense who helped build and organize the opposition to the anti-Muslim
bigots in Lansing helped to oppose the deportation raids and the ICE bus leaving from
Detroit on Sunday night. And people from Respuesta Rapida /Rapid Response Detroit (RRD)
joined in this struggle on Sunday night.
The working class and immigrant communities and people of color face serious attacks from
the fascists and the racists and from the government. The fascist rallies against Muslims
and for white supremacy and for "make America great again" help to build support for and
pave the way for the ICE raids on our Chaldean, Muslim and Latinx neighbors. And this
white supremacy and "white lives matter" crap doesn't make distinctions between Chaldeans
and Muslims or between Arabs and South Asians or among Latinx communities. And this white
supremacy is anti-Black at its core and attacks and threatens all people of color and
attacks and always has attacked Black people.
It's clear that we need to unite our forces both to oppose the fascists and racist attacks
and to oppose the government, the state, the police and ICE. Solidarity is a necessity. We
have to stand together and cannot allow ourselves to be divided. The working class and all
communities under attack must stand in solidarity. And we have to face the reality that we
are fighting the fascists and the government. We are fighting this whole system.
We have to organize; we have to fight. We have to defend our communities and our movement
and our meetings and our demonstrations from fascist and racist attacks. The various
groups and organizations and communities must be willing to develop united fronts for
defense, community self-defense organizations and groupings. We have to self-organize, and
we have to unite and coordinate our forces. And we have to organize rapid response
networks across the state and throughout the country to respond to government attacks and
deportation raids. Members of all communities must come out in defense of any communities
which are targeted. All of us: Chaldean, Muslim, Latinx, immigrant, Black and white must
join forces and fight together against the fascists and the government. An injury to one
is an injury to all.
And community members and organizations and anti-fascist groups and working class and
revolutionary organizations must be able to coordinate actions and cooperate in defense of
communities under attack. This is the broad united front against the fascists, against
racist attacks and against government attacks and deportation raids. Fascist movements are
growing; the threat is real. Government attacks are increasing and hitting broader
sections of the working class and our communities. We have to reach out to broader
sections of the working class. We have to stand united against attacks and be willing to
work together in defense of the working class, despite differences in approach and
different organizations and beliefs. The test now is who and what forces will stand
together and unite our forces in defense. And who and what forces will tell the truth. We
cannot defeat fascism and white supremacy, unless and until we overthrow and defeat the
capitalist system which gives us Trump and deportation raids and build up for war and
which gives us growing fascist movements and racist attacks on our communities.
On Monday afternoon, people gathered at a Chaldean Catholic Church in Southfield, little
more than a mile from where the anti-Muslim bigots held their "anti-sharia" rally on
Saturday. About 100 people came out to the church. These were Chaldeans and Muslims from
the blockade against the ICE buses and the deportation raids on Sunday, these were
families of those who are facing deportation and being held at the detention center in
Youngstown, and these were supporters from Repuesta Rapida Detroit/Rapid Response Detroit
(RRD), Solidarity and Defense, First of May Anarchist Alliance, Workers World/Peoples
Defense Network and BAMN (By Any Means Necessary). Folks from BAMN and RRD and Solidarity
and Defense and First of May Anarchist Alliance had been out to stand with the families
and the communities on Sunday in the struggle to stop the bus at the ICE center.
Several people spoke at the rally. Many people cried, because their loved ones had been
taken from their homes. Some of the Chaldean speakers talked about their anger and
frustration; some said they had even voted for Trump. But Chaldean women and Muslim women
took the lead and explained that now Chaldeans and Muslims must unite to fight the raids
and to fight Trump. And when the leader of the church showed up and said Chaldeans only
should come in the church to pray, Chaldean and Muslim women spoke out and said do not
follow him into that church to pray. These women, instead, said stand here, all of us
united, to fight these attacks. Do not go into the church and do not allow our forces to
be divided. The church leader had no one to lead. No one followed him. He sat down alone.
This is not the end; consciousness is changing. All of our communities have conservative
leaders who try to hold us back, whether pastors or priests or imams who urge people to
support Trump or be patriotic or don't rock the boat or business leaders who urge support
for the police and Republican or Democratic Party politicians. But at the Chaldean church
on Monday, following the deportation raids against Chaldean and Muslim communities on
Sunday, Muslim and Chaldean women stood together and understood that the conservative
church leaders and the community business leaders have no answers. These women understood
that the only way forward is in struggle and in uniting our communities and our forces to
oppose these attacks, to oppose these deportation raids. New forces are on the move; the
old misleaders should be left behind.
These attacks from the government and the fascists are hitting broad sections of our
communities and of the working class. On Saturday, the anti-sharia rally in Lansing
threatened to march into an immigrant community near the site of the march. But Solidarity
and Defense folks and others had been handing out flyers and talking with people in that
neighborhood in the days leading up to the fascist rally, urging people to oppose the
fascists and to resist. People in the neighborhood set up some of their own blockades on
Saturday, using caution tape and shopping carts, to defend their homes and their families
from the fascists. People joined the counterdemonstration, and others stayed on their
porches and kept watch. And when ICE attacked Chaldean and Muslim families in metro
Detroit on Sunday, families and supporters from the Chaldean and Muslim communities came
forward and were leaders in the fight against the raids and to stop the bus and to stand
for a united struggle at the Chaldean church on Monday.
As the attacks from the fascists and the government escalate and hit broader layers of the
working class and our communities, people face the truth. It's not hard to see to that we
need to unite our forces, reach out to our communities and build united, community
self-defense against these attacks. When the fascists or the government or ICE or the
police attack Muslims or Chaldeans or Latinx communities or Black communities or women or
anti-fascists or the LGBTQ community, they attack all of us. We stand together now. We
don't need any elites to tell us what to do. We need to rely on ourselves. For anarchists
and revolutionaries, this is the time to reach out to our communities and build united
struggles. This is the time to join with and participate in the developing struggles
against the fascists, against racist attacks and against ICE and government attacks. This
is the time to build community self -defense and to organize for revolution. Half measures
won't work. The government won't protect us; it is attacking us. We don't need protectors.
We need to fight together and convince more people that to defeat fascism and white
supremacy and deportation raids, we have to defeat and overthrow the entire system. We
need to bring down U.S. imperialism and white supremacy. We need to bring down the
billionaires who run the system and seize the wealth they have stolen from us. We need to
bring down the U.S.A. and replace it with the people organized, with our communities
standing together, with freedom for all people, without borders or walls or states
dividing us.
http://m1aa.org/?p=1475
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Message: 2
For Solidaridad Obrera, what has happened this last week in relation to the opening of the
Metro on the night of 1 to 2 July for the celebration of the World Pride Madrid 2017,
should lead us to a deep analysis. The themes of this draft can not and should not be done
in the limit of time nor in hot and much less with threats. The goal of all is to solve,
plan and ensure a good service, and especially when it is the first time that Metro faces
this situation. ---- At the 23rd meeting of the Monitoring Committee on 21 April, the
Bureau informed us in a "petit committee" that, at the request of the Regional Transport
Consortium of Madrid (CRTM), Metro would provide service during the morning of 1 to 2 July
for the celebration of the World Pride Madrid 2017. ---- As if it were an eyedropper, the
Director was tapping the information of the requirements of the CRTM: they would open all
the stations of the network except for Line 12, Light Rail and zones B. Train intervals
every 15 minutes. The stations would be covered by Metro personnel and a vigilante, in
addition to the necessary reinforcements at the stations near the scheduled events.
Solidaridad Obrera , from the beginning, clearly marked the conditions for entering into
an agreement: that it was only with volunteer personnel, without anyone being forced to
change their conditions of work and without prolongations of days, and that these
volunteers could Perform their work in the best possible safety. But we do not understand
for security that there are more or less vigilant or that police stations are full , but
that Metro is prepared to face any circumstance (massive influx, prolonged intervals
between trains, etc ...) leaving no worker or worker alone, And they are expected to have
the means and the capacity to take rapid and effective measures to avoid situations of
risk. We also emphasize the need to look after the service on the morning of the 2nd ,
when we anticipate that the influx from the six can be massive and be necessary to
establish a device to act in the event of any problem. For Solidaridad Obrera , this is
the price to open. Therefore, in the battle of the economic compensation we were not going
to enter, accepting the one that was proposed from the majority of the unions; That yes,
we proposed the possibility of including days in that compensation. This is the price to
open. Therefore, in the battle of the economic compensation we were not going to enter,
accepting the one that was proposed from the majority of the unions; That yes, we proposed
the possibility of including days in that compensation. This is the price to open.
Therefore, in the battle of the economic compensation we were not going to enter,
accepting the one that was proposed from the majority of the unions; That yes, we proposed
the possibility of including days in that compensation.
To obtain volunteer station staff, the Bureau issued a first notice on 4 May, which did
not have much impact and whose measures were unilaterally imposed by it. Under
unattractive conditions, this attempt to "recruit" volunteers failed. This setback put the
fear in the body of the Directorate, and also the rush to the possibility of not having
enough volunteer staff to carry forward the opening. He called on the Standing Committee,
the forum to reach an agreement, presenting a two-sided proposal, threatening to use the
"legal" means available to achieve its objective: to sign an agreement with the workers'
representatives in which the Schedule P and S stations to make N shift (22:00 to 6:00); It
will be possible to establish the irregular distribution of the day throughout the year.
In the absence of a pact, the company will be able to distribute irregularly throughout
the year ten percent of the working day.) Threatening to deregulate the day of all workers
and workers of stations, performing a day of 9 hours each shift , Including those of the
morning of day 2. It will be possible to establish the irregular distribution of the day
throughout the year. In the absence of a pact, the company may distribute irregularly
throughout the year ten percent of the working day.) Threatening to deregulate the day of
all workers and workers of stations, performing a day of 9 hours each shift , Including
those of the morning of day 2.
Faced with the coercion of choosing between shock or death, Solidaridad Obrera did not
agree to enter into this game, preferring imposition to all or negotiation to be covered
with volunteers only and exclusively, something that would only be achieved if it was
achieved that the Director included proposals Attractive for workers to sign up.
In the end, on the afternoon of yesterday, the 15th, we managed to include conditions that
we believe are sufficiently attractive to persuade station staff to volunteer to cover
this service.
But that this serves as a warning to seafarers, this type of actions can arise throughout
the year and we can find again with new constraints on the part of the Management, and
this is not permissible. Solidaridad Obrera is not going to enter into any negotiations
under these conditions, and will not allow the workers to be taken to any trap, forcing
them to choose in a General Assembly between scare or death ...
On the other hand, the summer period uncovers the urgent lack of personnel in all areas,
and before the late arrival of the future companions of stations , we will see again how
the displacements in stations will be the order of the day (thanks to A nefarious planning
of new incomes). We will also observe the clamorous lack of Electric Traction Engineers
that will hardly cover the service of the new new summer tables, where the problems of
half hours and transfers will resurface. It is necessary to continue demanding job
creation in order to provide the quality service that Madrid deserves ...
Madrid June 16, 2017
By Solidaridad Obrera
THE TRADE UNION BOARD
http://www.solidaridadobrera.org/2017/06/16/aviso-592017-world-pride-madrid-2017/
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Message: 3
The Anarchist Group Amsterdam and Paper Jam are organising an anarchist book fair. We are
doing this to build and anarchist movement that can resist the violence of capital and the
state. In a time of growing right-wing sentiment it is important to focus on building
anarchist infrastructures for an autonomous and militant movement. Anarchist book fairs
are an important part of this. They are the perfect place to meet new people and discuss
new ideas, to exchange new texts, action and propaganda materials. ---- It all started
fifteen years ago when the the Anarchist Group Amsterdam (AGA) decided to start a small
library in the Infocafe Bollox. This bar has been located for 30 years in De Binnenpret; a
once squatted, now legalized complex of buildings where nonetheless the struggles for
housing, against the state, and many other anti-authoritarian struggles continue. The
library has grown to an up-to-date collection of over a thousand books, zines, films and
documentaries that can all be used for free by anyone, as they should be. By running our
library and organising the anarchist book fair, we try to contribute to the struggle for
anarchy. Come and celebrate the 15th aniversary of the anarchist library! Come to the
anarchist book fair in Amsterdam!
There will be books, zines, clothing, buttons, publishers, distro's, workshops, films,
talks, vegan food and an evening programme with live music.
Location: De Binnenpret, 1e Schinkelstraat 14-16 Amsterdam. Free entry.
For info: Anarchist Group Amsterdam.
See http://boekenbeurs.agamsterdam.org or e-mail abfa@puscii.nl.
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Message: 4
Why give Macron a grace period ? No " grace " exists for the destruction of jobs and
wages, for the precarious and the unemployed, for the homeless and the undocumented ...
more than ever " on the march " for social regression ! Why wait for the sequel without
doing anything ? Why leave the place to the far right ? ---- President " a quarter " ?
Macron was certainly elected against Le Pen, but his program won, in the first round,
8,528,585 votes out of 35,737,724 votes cast. The program ? Less parliament, more
ordinances, less Labor Code, more Uber and precarious. Macron " a quarter " is in a
hurry, hence the procedure by ordinances. ---- The scenario of the first Macron order ?
Everything is ready for July. Its contents ? ---- 1 - the extension of priority to company
agreements. The El Khomri (Labor) law reserved them for working time. Employment, wages
and working conditions will be affected.
2 - the merger of the institutions representing the staff (EC, DP, CHSCT).
3 - the capping of damages in the event of unfair dismissal. A mortal blow to the
Prud'hommes, a guarantee offered to the employers to dismiss quickly.
The mechanics of the enabling law to govern by ordinances ?
1 - Organizing a simulacra of social dialogue with trade unions ;
2 - Then the order is made by the government. It must be empowered by Parliament, in
accordance with Article 38 of the Constitution. The Ordinances, which are treated as
regulations, come into force upon their ratification in Parliament.
Why does the Social Front call for the most united, most united mobilization ? Why should
this prospect be the basis for the unity of all trade union organizations ? The issue of
the first ordinance is decisive. If Macron has his hands free to legislate by ordinance,
he will go to the end of the destruction of all the social edifice built by struggles and
solidarity.
The Social Front, a fever of spring that should be extinguished by prescription Macron ?
April 22 and May 8 were successful. Trade unionists and associations, young and
precarious, all took the decision to overcome inertia, division, sectarianism. The
demonstration on 8 May raised the central question of the social response. The founding
call of the Social Front aimed to continue the fight against the Labor and repression law.
Everything confirms its future ...
Monday, June 19 at 6 pm
Everywhere in France, let us mobilize against Macron, his new labor law and his ordinances !
The Social Front
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alternative media but also activists and citizens building the convergence of struggles
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