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Anarchic update news all over the world - 25.08.2017
Today's Topics:
1. Palestine-Israel, The Israeli army returned to the joint
struggle after its failure to put end to the weekly
demonstrations by its absence* (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Poland, INICJATYWA PRACOWNICZA - WORKERS' INITIATIVE:
Conference "Privatization - outsourcing and labor struggle in the
cultural sector" [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Czech, AFED, Bloody unnecessary festival - Report from this
year's anti-capital queer festival Alt * Pride [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Britain. solfed: Stop abuses in hospitality sector!
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Norwey, motmakt: Rape and Non-violence - Shon Meckfessels
"Non-Violence Is Not What It Used To Be" by Adrien W [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. federacion anarquista iberica FAI - in the face of the
attacks in Catalonia (ca, fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Bil'in, the symbol of the popular joint struggle of Palestinians, Israelis (with the
anarchists against the wall initiative), and internationals, was a site of a year long
experiment. The new war minister of Israel tried to extinguish the joint Friday demos by
"neglect". The harassments during the demos diminished (first end to the shooting and
later refraining from confronting the demos) but the night invasion to harass the village
continued. The number of participants diminished gradually but continued. The fact that
Bil'in was the only place Palestine could demonstrate without restriction was
unbearable... The experiment ended. The Israeli state force is back in the confronting of
demos and the shooting of tear gas resumed.
Bil'in
19-5-17 https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1235232593242737
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10212831408003152
12-5-17 https://www.facebook.com/Mohammed.Yasin.photography/posts/887134214759275
26-5-17 Friday; 8 Israelis and about dozen international activists joined about 20
Bil'iners in the 638th demo against occupation, settlers; and in solidarity with the
hunger striking prisoners. The Israeli armed forces refrained from "participation" keeping
Bil'in Friday demo the only place Palestinians can demonstrate with out being suppressed
or interrupted. We marched towards the gate in the wall and there converged for a while
before returning to the village.
The punishment come at weeks nights as the occupation forces invade the village and
activists homes as a routine harassment.
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10212960516230777
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1246644105434919
Friday 2-6-17; 8 Israelis and about dozen international activists joined the Bil'iners in
the 639th demo against occupation, settlers. The Bil'in Friday demo is still the only
place Palestinians can demonstrate with out being suppressed or interrupted. We marched
towards the gate in the wall and there converged for a while before returning to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1195992083843352
https://www.facebook.com/iyad.burnat/posts/1754258717921817
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1195992083843352
Friday 30-6-17, demonstration. 6 Israelis with the AAtW initiative and 4 internationals
joined the village activists in the 641st demo in the chain.
Bil'in, Friday 7-7-17, 7 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall, and two
international activists joined the village activists in the 642 demo against the
occupation and the settlers.
Friday 14-7-17, 8 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall, and two international
activists joined the village activists in the 643 demo against the occupation and the
settlers.
During the demo, the activists told the settlers who live behind the wall what we think on
them and their future.
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1234275463348347
Friday 21-7-17, 8 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall initiative, and one
international activist joined the village activists in the 644 demo against the occupation
and the settlers. During the lively demo, the activists used loud speakers to tell the
settlers who live behind the wall what we think on them and their future.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1240814619361098
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1240814846027742
Friday 28-7-17, Again a lively demo. (The 645 in the chain.) 5 Israeli with the
Anarchists Against the Wall initiative, with nearly the whole the village comity were
joined after a long absent with a delegation of the Israeli occupation soldiers. We did
our march, chanting and knocking on the gate of the wall, The Israeli delegation
compensated for their long absence with threats, sound grenades and tear gas canisters we
missed for more than half a year.
The ambulance team who were absent many weeks as no army participated had an accurate
guess: they came and helped us with the tear gas we were not used to.
After "enjoying" the tear gas for a while we returned to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1308450225920973
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1247302372045656
Friday 4-8-17, The 646 demo in the twelve and a half years chain. 8 Israelis with the
Anarchists Against the Wall initiative, and 5 international activists, joined the village
activists. We marched from the Abu Lamun oak grove to the gate in the wall expecting to
find there the Israeli occupation soldiers as in the week before. We did our march,
chanting prepared for the confrontation in the end of the march. We were really
disappointed not to see the soldiers in the new cages on the wall - on the two sides of
the gate. Knocking on the gate of the wall, did not help - the soldiers just were not
there. Few people used the megaphone to tell the settlers on the other side of the valley
what we think on them. After a while we returned to the village with mixed feelings.
11-8-17 As part of my 80th birthday party in Bil'in - 17 Israelis with the anarchists
against the wall initiative and a dozen of internationals joined the village activists and
guests from Ramallah in the 647th Friday demo against the occupation, the separation wall,
and the settlers. We converged at the Abu Lamun oak orchard at noon. We marched from there
to the gate in the separation wall - chanting. At the gate we converged for a long while
and then returned to the village to continue the party.
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1259802117462348
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1259801494129077&set=a.251868384922398.50041.100002977143527&type=3
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1259801494129077
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1266009763508250
https://www.facebook.com/Mohammed.Yasin.photography/posts/938273832978646
Ni'ilin
19-5-17 In Friday demo against the occupation and settlers, and in solidarity with the
hunger striking prisoners: Confrontations at the separation wall And the closure of a
street that serves the settlers. It resulted with arrest of a teenager and the injury of
several others in cases of suffocation and injuries by metal coated bullets.
16-6-17, Friday 16-6-17 demonstration against occupation, and settlers. 13 Israelis with
the anarchists against the wall initiative joined the village activists after the noon
prayer among the olive trees in the march towards the separation wall. There was the usual
burning of tiers and calling with loudspeaker to the near by settlers. After about an hour
we returned to the village.
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fscontent.fhfa1-1.fna.fbcdn.net%2Fv%2Ft34.0-12%2F19244445_1517952938277102_105576368_n.jpg%3Foh%3D57f22f8d5bf6043660b9647f1f911034%26oe%3D594675BC&h=ATNx8WAGokuQmv_gH_EYR_9MtniIhCtBlY9S2az69UrjygduTKtwPngqmkfudGz-Apz0xloA7k3HCKxNmq-hgFWJ7Nsn2OCkbOs5iqpNM4GLPQg8PBnCqi5wh0dtOgZoaUKUfw
23-6-17, Friday, Another demonstration against occupation, and settlers in the unbreakable
chain. 9 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall initiative joined the village
activists after the noon prayer among the olive trees in the march towards the separation
wall. There was the usual burning of tiers and calling with loudspeaker to the near by
settlers. The Israeli occupation army participated only with a buzzing Unmanned
hovercraft. After about an hour we returned to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1215001625275731
https://www.facebook.com/Akhdut/videos/1746724825352695/
Friday, 7-7-17 https://www.facebook.com/oqba.taha/posts/1532895503420447
14-7-17
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Friday 21-7-17, Hundreds of people from Ni'ilin came out after Friday prayers on the
ground with slogans condemning occupation and arrogance in Jerusalem, and some have
brought up the apartheid wall and have raised Palestinian flags and others. Burned rubber
tyres and some cut barbed wire from the concrete wall in the presence of a large number of
soldiers from the occupation army who chased the demonstrators and mobilized the so-called
border guards on the A Palestinian vehicle speaker and they were driving the car to the
street boss, and closed the road to young people and flooded the tear gas village as well
as in houses. The Village has been blocked in order to prevent people from coming and coming!
A boy wounded with real bullets in his foot
https://www.facebook.com/LunaDitLulu/posts/1920396764881007
https://www.facebook.com/Mohammed.Yasin.photography/posts/924093791063317
28.7.2017 israel pnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zshhRGAjyko&feature=youtu.be
4.8.2017 israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh5O7lEWTU4
11-8-17 On the anniversary of the departure of the free speech Mahmoud Darwish The march
of Ni'lin weekly west of the city of Ramallah against the wall and the looting of the land
after the prayer in the field away from the pleasures of life from air conditioners and
carpets of demonstrators swept the ground and promised the olive trees and chanted slogans
against the occupation and raised the Palestinian flags and ignited rubber tires, The army
of the occupation in order to arrest the demonstrators but revealed their belongings and
chased the boys in the fields after the clashes that took place there
israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_aE2AjvJS8&feature=youtu.be
https://www.facebook.com/Akhdut/posts/1814984975193346
18-8-17 https://www.facebook.com/LunaDitLulu/posts/1933498556904161
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1829979743686453
https://scontent.ftlv1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t34.0-12/20916115_1593922110680184_359326486_n.jpg?oh=30f0352836dc8f824677683912ca109e&oe=599A1EDA
Nabi Saleh
Friday 5.5.2017 David Reeb https://youtu.be/0vKU9LaJoiA
19-5-17 IOF attacks the demonstration and shots a lot of tear gas cannister and live
ammunition rubber bullets 4 Palestinian injuries
https://www.facebook.com/bassem.tamimi/posts/10211890143241287
David Reeb https://youtu.be/KRuEDuNYOzA
22-5-17 Hunger striking prisoners support demo: IOF attacks the demonstration in which 200
person and more participated one child shot in his legs by life bullets
https://www.facebook.com/bassem.tamimi/posts/10211916890629955
26-5-17 The Israeli occupation forces arrested the freedom fighter Miko Peled after
attacks the demonstration in Nabi Saleh today and shots a lot of tear gas cannister and
live ammunition rubber bullets and pepper spray in the face of people
https://www.facebook.com/bassem.tamimi/posts/10211952415598057
https://www.facebook.com/bassem.tamimi/videos/10211953420183171/
A long article: Fearless Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh defines popular protest -
http://mondoweiss.net/2017/05/fearless-palestinian-village
Friday 7.7.2017 The Israeli occupation forces attack the demonstration in Nabi Saleh today
and shots a lot of tear gas cannister and live ammunition rubber bullets the clashes
continue between freedom fighters and the IOF they declared that the village closed
military zone free Palestine
https://www.facebook.com/bassem.tamimi/posts/10212366679714401
21.7.2017 Nabi Saleh today IOF attacks the demonstration and shots a lot of tear gas
cannister and live ammunition rubber bullets the youth Yazen Tamimi wounded by life
bullets in his leg
28.7.2017 Clashes were taking place in Nabi_Saleh and Zionists forces kept shooting tear
gas, steal coated bullets and live ammo.
One injury with steal coated bullet in the face
Sarura
19-5-17 Sumud Freedom Camp
https://www.facebook.com/abu.sivan/media_set?set=a.10155353018592500.1073741867.658892499
TODAY 20-5-17: Palestinian activists broke in to the Ofer military court to hang flags and
draw graffiti of Marwan Barghouthi, West Bank.
https://www.facebook.com/Activestills/photos/a.10150851802582073.411001.286357017072/10154444859892073/?type=3
Qaddum
10-6-17
https://www.facebook.com/pg/AlMasira.KufurKaddom/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1818560924832619
Saturday 18/06/17 "I will not say their name because the Palestinians get arrested,
killed, humiliated at all ages, these two heroes are 7 AND 5 years old and defended their
land with all their determination" https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=773850079450202
6-23-2017 At least two weeks already that the police do not arrive to suppress the weekly
demonstrations in Kaddum village - only soldiers come. Before that came a combination of
policemen and soldiers. This week, as you can see in the video, there are few wounded
demonstrators. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tCukZShBOg
7-7-17 The weekly demonstration today of the village was the first demonstration in the
seventh year of protests in the village. Ended six years of protests on Friday and
Saturday to open the road, freedom of movement and the abolition of apartheid.
In the weekly demonstrations hundreds of participants; However, the Zionist forces, in the
form of the Zionist army and the police arrived in order not to allow people to walk the
village where they live. They had to prove again and again, like every week there is
occupation, there is apartheid.
Two weeks ago, one protester was injured by a rubber bullet in his hand and is still
suffering from broken bones. On Sunday, police arrested him, caps And four other village
children, aged around age 14 ~ 15. Anyone arrested, wounded in the leg by a rubber bullet
and can not walk without crutches. The arrests took place late at night, when the Zionist
forces broke into houses. We will continue to fight Zionism until freedom!
14-7-17 David Reeb https://youtu.be/MX2h-_IZxCk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqUdZnIu0Uc
Saturday 29/07/17, during the weekly peaceful demonstration of villagers, a captain and
his soldier shot everyone, by rubber bullet, among the affected Palestinians, the young
kaled shtewi 12 years and his father mourad, coordinator of the Village.
https://www.facebook.com/doudoune.blondy/media_set?set=a.797714773730399.1073741842.100004756504352&type=3
4-8-17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ige7j6YWyuk
Don't Say We didn't Know 550
on Saturday, April 29, 2017, 30 settler-colonists from Yitzhar descended upon the
neighbouring Palestinian village of 'Urif and stoned houses on the edges of the village.
Inhabitants attempted to chase their assailants away. Israeli soldiers who arrived did not
prevent the harassment and arrested none of the attackers. They fired tear-gas and rubber
coated ammunition at the villagers. The settler-colonists shattered house windows and
wounded the owner. The assault on Saturday was not the first to take place, and is not
likely to be last.
**
On Thursday, May 4, 2017, Israeli government agents escorted by police demolished a home
east of Tel Sheva (in the Negev). At Umm Batin (near the Israeli neighborhood of Omer)
they demolished a water reservoir and a fence.
Five families from Bat Sara'ia, near Tel Al Milh, were issued demolition orders for all
their homes and summoned for police interrogation.
Don’t Say We Didn’t Know 551
On May 4, 2017, agents of the Civil Administration and Mekoro – Israel Water Company –
came to the Palestinian village of Bardala, in the northern Palestinian Jordan Valley, and
cut water pipes that they claimed were illegally connected. Israeli soldiers hurled
tear-gas canisters at Palestinians protesting the disconnection of their pipes.
About 20 years ago, Mekorot drilled deep wells in the village and took over the local
water resources. Then the inhabitants were promised a supply of water. In the meantime the
village population grew and so did their needs, but Mekorot never agreed to enlarge their
water allotment. Therefore local farmers made ‘pirate’ connections to Mekorot pipes. The
estimate is that 200 dunams of farm produce have dried up as a result of the
pipe-disconnection.
***
On Wednesday, May 10, 2017, government agents escorted by police came to the Bedouin
village of Sa’awa (east of the town of Hura), and demolished eight residences.
Don’t Say We Didn’t Know 552
Wherever the Separation Barrier is erected inside the occupied territory of the West Bank,
this is done in violation of international law. All the regulations the Israeli army
implements restricting the Palestinian farmers’ access to their lands beyond this barrier
– are blatantly illegal.
In February 2017 the Israeli army stiffened the criteria for issuing entry permits to
farmers. Many of them have suffered heavy damages as a result.
Thus, for example, the permit held by R. and his family from Deir Al Ghusun (north of Tul
Karm) has become invalid since the end of April. All his efforts to obtain new permits to
reach his land have been in vain.
\***
On Monday and Wednesday (May 15 and 17, 2017) government agents escorted by police
demolished homes of Bedouins in the Negev: two homes in Wadi Al Naam, a home in Tel Arad,
two homes and a shack in Hasham Zana, two homes in Sawawin, one home in Tel Al Maleh. In
Bir Hadaj a family was compelled to demolish six homes. On Wednesday a structure was
demolished in Um Batin, two homes and five sheep pens were demolished in Rahma, and – Al
Arakib was demolished once more.
Don't say we did not know 553
The practice of ‘administrative detention’ is a blatant contradiction of the principle of
fairness of the legal system.
On December 26, 2013, writer Ahmad Qtamash was released from administrative detention,
having spent seven years (accumulated) in prison! No sufficient evidence had been provided
to convict him in court.
Since his release, Qtamash has not been politically active. On May 17, 2017 the Israeli
military commander of the West Bank issued an order of administrative detention against
him for another three months.
***
On Wednesday and Thursday, May 24-25, 2017, government agents escorted by police
conducted demolitions in the Bedouin villages of the Negev. On Wednesday they demolished
two homes, destroyed fire wood and waste piles at Wadi Al Naam; In Dahiya, near the
Israeli locality of Beit Qama, they demolished a sheep pen and a horses’ stall, uprooted
olive tree saplings and destroyed a fence; in Sawawin, near Ar’ara, they destroyed a
dwelling. On the next day, at Humra, near Darijat, they demolished a sheep pen and a
temporary ranch; at Za’arura, near Kseife, they destroyed olive saplings and a dam; at
Gatamat, near ‘Ar’ara, they demolished a dwelling and a sheep pen.
Don’t Say We Didn’t Know 554
Ever since the 1980s, Palestinians of Sarura in the South Hebron Hills have suffered
assaults by settler-colonists of Ma’on and Havat Ma’on. In 1997 the last remaining Sarura
villagers left because of these assaults by the original Havat Ma’on settler-colonists.
Some of their lands were taken over by the same settler-colonists of Ma’on and Havat
Ma’on. The villagers continued to cultivate the remaining lands.
On May 19, 2017, Palestinian, Israeli and international non-violence activists put up the
Sumud camp at Sarura, in order to resettle the village with its original inhabitants. The
Israeli army sequestered property and demolished the camp three times, on May 20, 25 and
29, 2017.
Don't Say We Didn't Know 555
On Thursday night, June 1, 2017, a settler colonist most likely from the illegal outpost
in the Um Zuka nature reserve in the northern Occupied Palestinian Jordan Valley sabotaged
ten water containers and tore up the tarpaulins sheltering the sheep of a Palestinian
shepherd family situated west of the nature reserve. The settler colonist escaped.
Don't Say We Didn't Know 556
In the first report in Hebrew I made mistake, so I tuck it away from the English translation.
**
Israel used to refrain from demolitions of Negev Bedouin homes during the Ramadan month.
In recent years we have witnessed that Al Arqib was not part of this consideration.
Indeed, on Wednesday, June 14, 2017, Al Araqib was demolished again. The Israeli
authorities also demolished 2 sheep pens at Sawawin, south of road 25, and in Wadi Al Naam
they demolished a storehouse and the floor of a house which the family had demolished
itself. Earlier, on June 1, a fruit tree grove and a pile of firewood was destroyed in
Hasham Zana, south of road 25, and in Lakia a house was demolished.
Don't Say We Didn't Know 559
On Tuesday, July 18, 2017, Judge Ron Solkin of the Beer Sheva Magistrate Court, sentenced
three Bedouins who participated in a protest demonstration at Hura (held on November 30,
2013) to three years in prison and a fine of 25,000 shekels. Two others were sentenced to
six months service work, and a 15,000 shekels fine.
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On Thursday, July 20, 2017, government agents escorted by police came for a day of
demolitions of Bedouin houses in the Negev. They destroyed a house in Wadi Al Naam, a
house near Hura, and a house in Wadi Ghawin, near Mulda.
Don't say we did not know 560
On Saturday, July 27 2017, Odeh Nawajeh, age 17, from Ibzik near the town of Tayasir
in the Palestinian Jordan Valley, set out to shepherd his family's flock. And there he
met his death from an explosion of a shell left on the ground in the wake of military
training in the area.
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On Wednesday, July 26th, government officials accompanied by police arrived for a day
of demolitions among the Bedouins in the Negev. They demolished two homes near Segev
Shalom (Shaqib al-Salam). In Um Gabu, east of Tel Sheva, a home was demolished for the
ninth time and the family's belongings were confiscated. And at Rakhama, near Yeruham, a
boy's small chicken coop was demolished.
Don't Say We Didn't Know 561
Farmers from the Palestinian village Jaloud did not receive their permits to harvest their
wheat fields, located near the illegal settler outpost of Esh Kodesh. On Thursday, August
3, 2017, their application - filed in the month of May - was finally answered. Arriving at
their fields they were shocked to discover that nothing of theirs had remained.
---- ----
On Tuesday, August 1, 2017, government agents escorted by police destroyed Al Arakib yet
again. On Wednesday, August 2, 2017, at the Bedouin village of Bir Hadaj near Kibbutz
Revivim, they destroyed ten dwellings and three shigs (traditional gathering places).
Don't Say You Didn't Know 562
On Tuesday August 8, 2017 a water truck entered the Palestinian cave village of Pakhit in
the South Hebron Hills to provide water for the residents. When it left the village
Israeli soldiers stopped the truck and confiscated it, claiming that it had entered a
military zone.
---- ----
On Monday August 7, 2017, under threat by the authorities that they would destroy his
storehouse (600 square meters) and that he would pay the demolition costs, the owner of
the storehouse destroyed it himself. This occurred in the Negev Bedouin village of
Um-Namila, north of Rahat.
Don't say we didn't know 563
The road that leads from Highway 60 to the settlement of Negohot passes through the
Palestinian village of Hursa, west of Hebron. On July 25, 2017 Israeli soldiers took over
the roof of a house in the village under the procedure known as "straw widow"- which
allows them to take over a private home for security needs - ostensibly for 24 hours. The
purpose: to provide security for the construction of a guard tower next to the village's
public hall and near the school. For more than three weeks now the soldiers have been
"living" on the roof of the house.
---- ----
On Monday August 14, 2017 government officials accompanied by police demolished
Bedouin houses in the Negev – two homes in the village of Sawawin and two homes in the
neighboring village of Abu Tlul.
On Thursday August 17, 2017 they continued the demolitions, destroying one home (for
the fifth time this year) in Umm Gabo (east of Tel Sheva); in Wadi Guwain (south of Hura)
they destroyed a house, an animal pen, a fence and a canal; and in Al Bat (east of Hura)
they destroyed a fence and a canal.
For further information: amosg@shefayim.org.il
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* From my blog at: http://ilanisagainstwalls.blogspot.com
See at the blog previous reports about the joint struggles the Anarchists Against the Wall
take part in.
See also: Stories from the year 2100 - 50 years after the revolution
http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses.html
http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses-it.html
http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses-heb.html
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On 7-8 October at the Institute of Theater in Warsaw (Jazdów 1, 00-467 Warsaw) an
international trade union conference organized by the Red-Black Coordination
(international trade union network which belongs to the OZZ Employee Initiative) will be
held. Below is a brief description of the issues to be discussed during the meeting. ----
The culture industry, like all public services, is transforming throughout the world the
process of restructuring and deep changes in the field of labor relations: outsourcing of
part or all of the workplace is becoming more and more common; public institutions are
privatized (also by donating them to the management of NGOs); There is increasing pressure
on commercialization, limiting public funding, and changing the way it works in the design
direction. Cultural institutions - both non-governmental and public - are forced to reduce
their labor costs, constantly widen the sphere of unpaid work, commercialization of
business and dependence on private finance. The ideas of "New Public Management" and
"public-private partnerships", combined with the vision of "modern" ("dynamic",
"flexible", "using new technologies"), transform cultural institutions into working
relationships, destabilize them and make them more flexible. An authoritarian model of
managing all power into the hands of "professional managerial managers" who manage
institutions as if they were commercial entities.
In Poland, an attempt is made to subordinate the sphere of culture to the interests and
visions of the ruling camp: making it a tool of nationalist and conservative propaganda.
In this context, it is crucial to build a united response to these processes - both
locally, nationally and internationally. The conference "Privatization - outsourcing and
resistance in culture" is to serve as a tool for building this united response. The
initiator of the conference is the All-Poland Trade Union Worker Initiative and the
European Trade Unions which form part of the Red-Black Coordination. We want it to serve
the following purposes:
Exchange of practical experiences between trade unions and social movements in the
cultural sector;
Analysis and criticism of the employment situation in the cultural sector;
To initiate industry cooperation at international level
Thematic blocks:
Introduction - Situation of workers and workers in the cultural industry in selected
European countries
The conference will open the presentation of the general situation in the cultural sector
in the various European countries in which the trade union and social organizations
invited to the conference are active. Each organization will be asked to prepare a
10-minute speech on the general situation of the workers in the culture industry, the key
fights for workers and workers in the industry, and areas and topics where joint efforts
can be initiated at international level.
Outsourcing
The Bloc dedicated to the problem of the use of public cultural institutions by the
services of external companies and temporary employment agencies and the transfer of them
to the so-called. "Auxiliary / technical work" (cleaning, security, but also other posts -
museum informants, theater staff). The consequences of outsourcing include: weakening of
trade unions, wage cuts and the development of unstable employment forms, high staff
turnover, weakening of teamwork and solidarity among the staff of the institution.
Within this block we want to both analyze the phenomenon of subcontracting in the industry
as well as compare the experience of employee resistance against outsourcing.
Models for managing cultural institutions and the issue of employee participation in
management
The combination of "farmer" (authoritarian) management of cultural institutions with the
system of design work and the pressure for commercialization results in the creation of a
specific model of a cultural institution that exploits and depreciates workers and workers
in many different ways and introduces divisions between employees and workers. Workers and
technicians, permanent employees vs. temporary workers, civil law contractors). This
results in lowering the sense of security and teamwork, negatively affecting both the
employment relationship and the general condition of culture.
Within this block we want to answer the following questions: What alternative can we
propose for this model? How can employee participation in the management of cultural
institutions be a viable alternative? Can public cultural institutions become institutions
of common good?
The fight for labor rights in the design model of the work of the cultural sector
The dominant form of work in the cultural sector has become a design model destabilizing
the working conditions of the employees of culture and making them dependent on factors
that are beyond the control of employees - including the ideological decisions of
officials. The "self-employment culture" design model is not only appropriate for NGOs
working in the cultural sector, but also for public cultural institutions, which have
become largely 'project institutions' from the workplaces. More and more professional
categories in the cultural sector are forced to work under precarious conditions, without
permanent employment, and thus, under Polish conditions, without the possibility of
exercising labor rights guaranteed by the Labor Code without the possibility of fighting
for their labor rights using instruments available to full- In these struggles by trade
unions. The division into full-time and part-time workers adds a split between cultural
workers, undermining workers' struggles in the cultural sector.
During this block we would like to answer the following questions: What strategies should
we take for employee strikes in the culture sector design model? How can we widen the
front lines of creators and creators by incorporating more categories of professional
cultural precariat? How to broaden the catalog of the activities of the trade union
committees of the cultural sector with the demands of workers, including creators and
creators?
Unpaid Work and Volunteering as a Condition for the Neoliberal Cultural Industry -
Successes and Failures in the Fight for the Unpaid Workers and Workers Union
While the union of creators and creators and their struggle for salaries, although not
completed successfully, have been in Poland for several years, we still face the challenge
of the labor rights of those of the participants in the cultural field, who and who feed
the cultural sector. Work in the form of free internships and volunteering, and those who
only receive a small fee for their work. These processes, although long recognized and
criticized, take on a pathological dimension all the time - as to the scale of the
phenomenon as well as its extent. Although consciousness of exploitation is among the most
vulnerable to its form - students and students - it is still a challenge to align this
group of workers and workers.
During this block, we want to compare the different strategies of organizing and fighting
for the rights of employees who do not receive pay for their work.
Solidarity and cooperation above professional and industry divisions
Although trade union organizations are most often focused on their own problems (which
often result in "exclusivism" and separation from other workers' struggles), examples of
support and solidarity for struggles in other industries can be found: Solidarity speeches
about Amazona or the defense of school cleaners, courts and prosecutors, who also appeared
in the form and subject matter of works and artistic projects. Seeking connections,
community interests and building solidarity beyond professional and industry divisions is
one of the major challenges for trade unions.
Within this block we would like to discuss the possibility of building over-the-industry
alliances in the fight for labor rights.
The situation of workers and temporary workers in the culture - the struggle for social
security system for the precariat of culture
A few years ago, almost simultaneously in Poland and France, the cultural sector preacher
went to fight for access to the social security system - in France, fighting to tighten
access to unemployment insurance in Poland, demanding a pension scheme for creators and
creators.
During this block we want to compare these two mobilizations and to reflect on their
practical use at the moment.
Joint initiatives and further international cooperation - working discussion
The summing up of the conference will be a discussion on joint action plans on an
international scale. During this, we will try to answer the following questions: How can
the struggles discussed at the conference be strengthened by moving them to the
international level? To what extent can we postulate the postulates? How to incorporate
into our activities other grassroots trade unions from the "new" countries of the European
Union and from outside the Union, which ran out of conferences? How to counter divisions
and strengthen common postulates?
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Message: 3
Like every year, the LGBTQ + Pride Festival, a Prague-based pride festival, ranged between
August 7th and August 13th in Prague. Although this year's festival aimed at progressively
more outwardly with the title "Unnecessary Festival", parodent frequent argument of
cisheteronormativity advocates, its consumer dimension and congestion with corporate PR
remained at least as embarrassing. ---- That's why, last year, the queer team of
anti-authoritarian circles decided to create an alternative Alt * Pride festival, which
hosted the Clinic's Autonomous Social Center. After a successful last year focused on
various neglected themes, this year's organizing team decided to target more specifically.
Alt * Pride 2017 had the name "Eastern Queeropa" and asked how "queerness" is to the east
of the Czech Republic - where the situation of people who are not for any reason
patriarchal supremacy is very hard and dangerous.
Alt * Pride has grown up this incredible twenty-three events this year. These were
lectures, discussions, screenings, closed support groups and, of course, party and
critical black-and-white block on the "main" parade of pride. Because the description of
everything would go on a book, let's take a look at just a few actions that had a clear
political dimension and were about us as anarchists and anarchists.
The very first day Alt * Pride - on Wednesday 9th - opened a debate program with many
mysterious names called "Cisheteroanarchism?". Although some people may not have been
quite sure what to do, we met at the Clinic's garden around twenty. First of all, this was
a controversy by Marie Feryna (not only) with Susan Song's "Polyamory and queer anarchism:
endless possibilities of resistance", which came out a few years ago in Existence.
Criticism has focused on the fact that anarchists and anarchists sometimes tend to treat
queerness as a weapon, and not as a conflict with a cisheter-normative society based on
their own identity. There are absurd situations where many and many may feel they are not
"administrative anarchists" when they are heterosexual and cisgender, they live with one
partner and are satisfied with it. The second point was the statement, That the anarchist
movement in its support for marginalized groups always does not always take enough thought
and can tend to appropriate foreign struggles instead of participating in a sometimes
acknowledged external position and trying to be an ally rather than a leader of struggle.
Although the event was initially conceived as a lecture, it quickly reversed the debate.
There were a few members of the Anarchist Federation on the site, to whom Marie addressed
several questions, although the above-mentioned translated article was, at the time,
mainly an inspiration for reflection and no collective opinion. It has also been noted
that problems can arise when nequeer anarchists try to help queers and unintentionally
push those who need a purely safe space with people of similar identity for their
organization.
The second debate we were engaging in gave us many names - "LGBTQ + and the radical left".
This was an open panel discussion, where, besides thirty to forty visitors and visitors,
an amazing moderator, Mary, a member of the Black Books infoshop, a member of the Empty
Throne group, and a member of the AF, among others, engaged in queer activism. Certain
concerns about the fact that the topic is too general were somewhat fulfilled. The debate
has long stood out as to whether the primary adversary is capitalism or patriarchy. The
consensus has not reached the point; Most discussing these two moths as junky vessels that
make up one whole hierarchy, alienation and oppression against which we stand. Other
questions related to the degree of accent that the progressive leftist queer movement
devoted to or should address. Here the answers varied, How they are engaged. More or less
the consensus was that the fight against patriarchy and the liberation of queer people
should be one of the priority anti-authoritarian topics. One of the main problems is the
occasional inability of the movement to create solid communities instead of random
clusters of revolutionary people. As has been said, it is necessary to reflect our
actions, not to neglect the oppression produced by the hierarchies in our own circles, and
to stand beside us not only as the opponents of the state but simply as people, friends or
lovers.
The very next morning morning, however, it emerged from theory to practice - the pride
parade, and with it our little black-and-pink block. After last year's blocking by the
police, he chose a less spectacular way to come to Wenceslas Square, where the procession
was formed, but it was still visible and heard. During the event, it grew to thirty
people, many of them carrying pickups, other megaphones and the front line of the banner
with the central slogan Alt * Pride "Do not adapt, change society!" Some were camouflaged,
but the police did not want to go into the usual buzzer, and so a few secret people with
an anti-conflict team were just curious about the block.
It was a loud chant to keep up. The words were "A-anti-anti-capitalist", "Left to homo /
transfobia", "Pride is a protest, not a business", or a police presence inspired by "Why
is the police on the fucking march" Peace - fuck the police!
An indirect and almost integral part of Prague Pride is a group of various bigot and Nazis
who try to moralize or even tragikomically distract the thirty thousand procession. For
the first group of obscure religious fanatics and advocates of "traditional values" (to
understand patriarchal oppression) the black-and-pink block has already hit the "horse".
The respondents apparently wanted to preach something, but the two megaphones had to be
confined to confusing gesture. There was also a brief, heated discussion during which our
police and the bigot shuddered to protect the group of bizarre homophobes.
The other outpours of the far right were not much more famous. One facial in the hood
showing the middle finger out of the window (and immediately overwhelmed by hundreds of
people) was, however, still less embarrassing than "natives" trying to peek at the
waterfront. Here was a typical mix of "decent Czechs" and neo-Nazis holding the inverse
flag and hysterically screaming rather absurd passwords. Our funny block of
"Alert-Alert-Anti-Fascist" and "These Fools" were motivated by some of the grotesque
attempts to attack the police line. In order for the embarrassment of their exit to be
completed, a little later a little confrontation with the two anti-fascists, in which the
famous racist Lucie Hašková lost the flag and reportedly had several signs of wailing in
the queer agenda. The police then took someone from each side.
The rest of the route has gone well and calm. After climbing to Letna where the procession
ended, the black-and-pink block scattered and everyone went through a flood of people and
stalls on their own. Of course there were tents and promotional materials of political
parties and corporations. Many of us and many of us did not have a mood, so we went back
to the clinic again in the next few hours, where the afterparty started as it suits and
belongs.
The whole Alt * Pride was in some ways indescribable. An indescribable degree of
solidarity, mutual thoughtfulness, countless deeply personal conversations, the atmosphere
of a night garden in the Clinic lit by small lamps, a breathtaking experience of queer
poetry, a concert of Mušnula, a glimmer of glitter ... All the echoes of the better and
free world we are in those days and nights Often in sight, and which, as classics say, we
behave in our hearts.
http://www.afed.cz/text/6738/zatracene-nezbytecny-festival
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Message: 4
hospitality hospitality industry anarcho-syndicalism anarcho-syndicalism today direct
action industry & sectors attacks on working class Liverpool workplace organising ----
Liverpool SolFed is organising a campaign against bad working conditions in the
hospitality sector. The hospitality industry, which includes workplaces like pubs,
restaurants, hotels, canteens, etc. has an important presence in the city and is well
known for abuses and exploitation. Our aim is to get willing workers of the sector
together to fight back against abuses and for better conditions. ---- We believe that as
workers we should defend ourselves collectively and spread a culture of solidarity among
workplaces - because problems at work are collective, not individual.
We are not solicitors, legal advisors or union officials, nor we are trying to be. We are
a group of workers helping each other among equals. With this campaign we'll attempt to
organise and get the skills to face our workplace issues collectively.
We call on people working in hospitality in Liverpool to get involved. As a starting point
we have prepared a provisional list of demands to be discussed among those who want to
take part.
Don't just moan, organise!
http://www.solfed.org.uk/liverpool/stop-abuses-in-hospitality-sector
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Message: 5
Reading Shon Meckfessel's book "Non-Violence Is Not What It Used to Be" is like staring
into a long-awaited, almost perfect conversation about goals and means, tactics and
strategy in social movements. ---- Mecfessel draws as much on academic skills as on
activist experience to present sheer insights about violence, non-violence and civil
disobedience. The book does not have all the answers, but puts it all the right questions.
While the book mainly relates to the United States, there are many lessons that can be
transferred to Norwegian conditions. Especially when it comes to antifascism, there is a
lot to get. ---- The book is an adaptation of Shon's doctoral dissertation, something
unfortunately the undersigned thinks it carries a little too much of it. The questions
raised are important and the academic jargon, especially in the second half of the book,
can repel some readers who either fail to master English at an advanced level or who
simply do not like this kind of academic text.
The book's target group is primarily activists and others who are interested in
discussions about rebellion, riots and non-violence as strategies for social change. If
you are one of those who are mostly concerned with commenting on what other mud is doing
instead of doing something yourself, you can find something here. Shon Meckfessel's
motivation to write the book is done explicitly early. It stems from a frustration of the
tendency to talk about both "violent" and non-violent means as if they were "magic".
In "Non-Violence Is Not What It Used to Be" there are no abstract fundamental discussions
about whether the goal sanctifies the medium. Instead, it is discussed whether some
concrete means are acceptable to achieve any specific goals. If you have experienced the
same frustration as Shon, the book will be a fresh breath and a source of inspiration.
Most liberal floccles are fired shortly. But it's interesting to see others wasting more
time. A critical criticism of the idea that violence can be committed against property is
noted as a highlight here.
Non violence is not what it once was.
As the title indicates is one of the main points Meckfessel wishes that language and
rhetoric around non-violence has remained static over time, the conditions and
preconditions for activism have changed significantly.
In the absence of the opportunity to use the same methods as those associated with Martin
Luther King Jr. and The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, social movements have in
recent years been based on a strategy based on dialogue and co-operation with state power.
Markings take place far from those trying to influence and arrests are a
well-choreographed ritual. Ideally no one is bothered by a demonstration. Tactics such as
sit-ins (occupation) and blockage of traffic and traffic are not only referred to as
radical but too radical to be effective, despite the fact that these tactics were
non-violent icons as Martin Luther King and Ghandi won. In this way, "non-violence" as
previously was a militant strategy for how to claim claims in a conflict changed meaning
to mean "non-conflict."
What has changed?
The author's main findings in the book are that non-violent direct action was dependent on
factors such as a relatively new, large and relatively monolithic press force. By
utilizing state power's tendency to respond to their actions with spectacular police
brutality, the civil rights movement could form powerful narratives through mass media.
Another factor affecting both India and the United States was the movement's potentia
https://motmakt.no/aktuelt/oppr%C3%B8r-og-ikke-vold-anmeldelse-av-shon-meckfessels-non-violence-aint-what-it-used-be
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Message: 6
The FAI, in view of the events that took place on Thursday, 17 August in Barcelona and
Cambrils, can not but reject this type of attacks in which, once again, we have to suffer
workers and civil society. For this reason our most sincere support and condolences to
relatives and friends of the victims. ---- We can not ignore, and we must condemn, the
Spanish media, which, instead of being rigorous, give reliable information, truthful,
contrasted, and respect relatives and friends of the victims, are dedicated to frivolizar,
foment Sensationalism and fueling xenophobia and Islamophobia. ---- As in Charlottesville,
Tehran, Baghdad, London, Stockholm, Malawi, Hub, Manchester or Madrid, among other cities
on five continents, we are the poor, as we have been throughout history, Put the dead of
an imperialist war on a global scale at the service of the great multinationals, which are
fueling division, racial hatred, nationalism and fascism.
Against those who sow chaos with its imperialist policies and to encourage and nurture
fascism, racism and supremacism, we must continue practicing solidarity and mutual support
among the dispossessed, and continue to denounce the barbarism to which subjects us
Capitalism in the 21st century.
Anarchist Federation of the Iberian Peninsula
https://federacionanarquistaiberica.wordpress.com/2017/08/21/la-fai-ante-los-atentados-de-cataluna/
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