Today's Topics:
1. US, WSA, ideas and action: What is Libertarian Socialism? by
Tom Wetzel (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. anarsist faaliyet: Nuriye Semih Not Alone - Nuriye Gulmen
and Semih Özakça's hunger actions 19o. day in Ankara
Courthouse. (tr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. US, black rose federation, Miami: SURVIVE AND ORGANIZE:
SOLIDARITY STATEMENT ON HURRICANE IRMA (ca, fr, it, pt)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Turkey: DAF Anarchists distributors of the magazine Meydan
jailed for six months (tr, pt) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Greece, anarchist collectivity Omikron72 APO - INTERNATIONAL
SOLIDARITY WITH N. Gülmen - S. Özakça in TURKEY (gr, tr)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. From Charlottesville to Melbourne: Unite to fight the far
right by Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group by ablokeimet
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Poland, rozbrat: The fight in the Bialowieza Primeval Forest
is getting stronger. The Poznan activist has been beaten [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. [USA] The 22nd Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair takes place this
Saturday By ANA (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
9. The Bristol Anarchist Bookfair 16-9-10 -- Bristol: Radicals
in print and film September 16, 2017 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Libertarian socialism is a current or tendency in the world socialist movement that first
became an organized tendency in the International Workingmen's Association of the
1860s-70s, based on various grassroots worker unions and the ideas of federalist
socialists like Michael Bakunin, and later influencing the various revolutionary
syndicalist unions in the period from the 1880s to the 1930s, and reaching its highest
form of expression in the worker's revolution in Spain in 1936-37, and the mass
expropriation of agricultural land and industry in Spain. A vast proportion of Spain's
economy was under direct worker management during the revolutionary period. ---- The word
libertarian in this case means a viewpoint that highly values positive liberty. Positive
liberty has two parts: ---- 1. Control over the decisions that affect you, being
self-governing. This is the idea of self-management.
2. Equal access to the real means to develop & sustain your abilities & capacities, so
that you can be effective in the control of your life & participation in social
self-management.
Libertarian socialism proposes to replace the corporations and the state with new economic
& political governance structures rooted in directly democratic assemblies, in workplaces
and neighborhoods. Different types of libertarian socialists place different emphasis on
either the workplace as the source of self-managed socialist commonwealth, or the
neighborhood, but many recognize both. But the idea is that the assemblies are sort of the
basic unit of economic and social self-management.
So a typical conception would be that the workers will self-manage the various industries
but the idea is that they should do so in the interests of the masses, the general
society. And thus there are various ideas for social accountability and overall
coordination, such as federations based on industry, geographic area, or both.
The idea generally is that extensive free public services would be provided in areas such
as health care, education, transit, child care and so on, which would be managed by the
people doing the work but in response to plans or requests from the general population.
The accountability to the general population or society is how "social ownership" gets
cashed out here. There have been a variety of different ideas by libertarian socialists
since the 19th century on the nature of overall social planning and coordination.
http://ideasandaction.info/2017/09/libertarian-socialism/
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Message: 2
Police attacked the pre-trial courtroom in front of a large number of lawyers, presidents
of bar associations, representatives and a press statement that they wanted to carry out
many revolutionary associations, including the Revolutionary Anarchist Activity. The
police, who could not tolerate the names of Nuriye and Semih, detained 39 people in places
and detained them. ---- Nuriye and Semih were prevented from coming to a meeting with the
pretext of making GBT at the entrance to the judiciary and not having even water bottles
in the courthouse, saying " Nuriye and Semih " was forbidden and detainees were held in
the corridors of the courthouse under the pretext of Ankara Gendarmerie Command "They do
not have enough staff. ---- As the trial continued, the police were attacked and detained
in and out of the courthouse. After the attacks of the police officers outside the
judiciary, the revolutionaries who were gathered in the Abdi Silk Park were also subjected
to police attack here. Revolutionaries who want to cry out the injustice of the state once
more at Yuksel Caddesi where they started the actions of Nuriye and Semih were gathered
here at 18.00. Just like it was the day before, the revolutionaries were once again
subjected to police attacks and detention.
We re-shout that Nuriye and Semih in the act of starvation are not alone, we will magnify
their resistance.
Nuriye Semih Not Alone We welcome
hunger action
http://anarsistfaaliyet.org/sokak/nuriye-semih-yalniz-degildir
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Message: 3
Statement from the Miami local of Black Rose Anarchist Federation/Federación Anarquista
Rosa Negra ---- In the aftermath of the storm we write as South Florida begins the
recovery process. We wish to extend our thoughts of solidarity and well being to comrades
and people of the Caribbean - Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba and other
islands - who have been impacted by Hurricane Irma. We hope to extend our support to you.
---- Members of Black Rose/Rosa Negra - Miami write to say that all members and supporters
are so far safe and accounted for. Some sheltered with family to weather out the storm.
Others evacuated the state as part of the largest evacuation in US history, and were left
to fend for themselves, as officials were not prepared to handle an exodus of this scale.
We remind our friends and comrades that global climate change is a very real phenomenon
and one brought about by the ravenous demand of the capitalist system that places profit
above all else. Rising ocean temperatures are the fuel for monster hurricanes such as
Irma, the largest ever recorded storm in the Atlantic. Some might object to what seems
like politicizing a moment of destruction and loss of life but we remind everyone that
increasingly powerful and intense weather do not arise in a vacuum.
Locally there will be a need for grassroots relief efforts and community organization
around immediate needs. 75% of the Miami metropolitan area are without power. In addition,
there is a shortage of gasoline and limited internet/cell phone service available. Schools
are closed indefinitely, making it a burden for working class people who are being called
to go in to work but do not have power, child care or transportation. We note that
comrades in Houston report that unscrupulous landlords continue to demand rent despite
ongoing flooding or have stalled or refused to complete repairs in rental houses and
apartment buildings. We know that it is likely and need to be prepared for this to happen
here as well. The recovery process is, as always, a profit for the owners and a burden and
sacrifice for workers.
Currently, a grassroots effort is underway by Florida DSA and other local left
organizations to provide support for relief efforts across the state of Florida. We urge
you to support these efforts through donations and volunteering or if you have any
immediate needs you can contact them so they can also assist you.
We hope to participate and support in these and any other efforts that aim to bring
together anti-capitalist and autonomous perspectives that can organize assistance to all
the communities affected across borders in the Caribbean.
Volunteer: bit.ly.IrmaVolunteer
Donate: bit.ly/IrmaFundraiser
Need help? bit.ly/IrmaReliefRequest
http://blackrosefed.org/solidarity-statement-hurricane-irma/
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Message: 4
Repression against the team at Meydan anarchist magazine in Turkey took another twist on
Thursday after three members of the distribution team were jailed for six months each.
---- The three volunteers, Nergis Sen, Rifat Güven and Zeynel Çuhadar were taken into
custody (picture above) after the publication of Meydan Gazette issue 33, which called for
an anarchist celebration of May 1st, on the grounds of a State prohibition on the event by
President Erdogan's increasingly hardline regime. ---- The Turkish government has made
cracking down on dissenting left groups a priority amid memories of the 2013 Taksim Square
occupation and repression has significantly worsened since Erdogan crushed an attempted
coup last year. More than 200 people were detained during police repression of May 1st
protests this year in a brutal assault by riot police.
The jailings mark the second time Meydan has had its members imprisoned - late last year
editor Hüseyin Civan was sent down for a year and three months over an issue of the
gazette which was deemed to be too supportive of Kurdish revolutionaries fighting in
Rojava. The Meydan collective said in a statement today:
We are not going to give up our beliefs which include freedom and the fight for freedom.
We will not stop to write and publish our arguments and propaganda for the socialisation
of anarchism. Against the repressions, inquiries, custodies and imprisonments we will keep
on maintaining to resist, act and write.
A baby holding the offending issue 33 during a distro last year. "From the ashes of
Erdogan's failure a beautiful idea shall arise," the child was allegedly heard to gurgle.
International journalist unions have repeatedly called for the re-establishment of a free
press in Turkey after the arrest of reporters nationwide over the last few years. The
International Federation of Journalists has said:
The Turkish authorities are now jailing journalists, shutting down radio and TV channels
and censoring internet in an attempt to silence criticism. 122 journalists are in jail and
over 150 media have been banned since mid-July. More than 2,500 journalists have lost
their jobs and arrest warrants have been issued for dozens of media workers. Some families
of journalists, who are in hiding or have fled, have been arrested to force them to surrender.
Media workers, journalists and press freedom campaigners all over the world have joined
protests calling for the release of all jailed journalists in Turkey. Press freedom is
essential for democracy, we demand Turkey sets the journalists free! Journalism is not a
crime.
Meydan regularly updates on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/meydangazetesi/ and
@MeydanGazetesi. Pics from Meydan
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Message: 5
AGAINST THE EMERGENCY REQUIREMENT IN TURKEY -- INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY WITH EDUCATIONAL
SURPRISES ---- On March 9, 2017, Turkish educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça began
a hunger strike, continuing their protest against their dismissal and stepping up their
fight against the emergency regime in Turkey . On the 76th day of the hunger strike, and
after their struggle has found a great social response, they are captured by Erdogan's
authoritarian regime and taken to prison, where to date, in full isolation at the prison
hospital, they continue their struggle. ---- The imprisonment of the two hunger strikers
is part of the totalitarian and authoritarian policy of Erdogan and his party (AKP). A
political " ... that it be established to the failed coup 15 th July, which organized a
portion of high-ranking military officers accused by the state of participating in
Guilen's movement.
From that moment on, Erdogan blames his political opponents for trying to overthrow him
and uses the failed coup to become the absolute ruler, a sultan. As such, he has on the
one hand to clean up the entire state of his opponents, leaving all the high-ranking army
staff, half the public sector, the judiciary and much of the police. On the other hand it
turns against the inner enemy, the pieces that struggle. It gives rise to its fans, along
with the gray wolves, to lint and attack in the neighborhoods and in the streets of the
left and anarchist fighters and organizations {...}. He begins massive imprisonment and
persecution of writers, journalists, and even social media users, many Turkish and Kurdish
militants from the Kurdish Democratic Party HDP, members of GRUP YURUM and anarchist
fighters ... "
(a snippet of the Huseyin Civan Announcement Announcement, editor-in-chief of the
Anarchist newspaper Meydan "January 2017)
On 14 September 2017, Ankara will host the trial of hunger education hunger strikers
Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça.
We, for our part, express our unreserved solidarity to those who face fear every day and
fight against the fascist state and the peasant of Turkey.
IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF NURIYE GULMEN AND SEMIH OZAKCA
SOLIDARITY TO WHO RESPONSES TO THE WORLD STATE AND CAPITAL DICTATORS
anarchist collectivity Omikron72
member of APO
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Message: 6
The Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group has endorsed the mobilisation called by the
Campaign Against Racism & Fascism against the "Make Victoria Safe Again" rally.
11:30 a.m. Sun 17 September --- State Library --- 328 Swanston St --- Melbourne 3000
See the following link for details:
https://www.facebook.com/events/157897641434932/
As it cannot be guaranteed that neither the police nor the Fascists will engage in
violence, please come prepared, be aware of your security and look after the safety of
yourselves & other comrades at the mobilisation and as you disperse.
https://melbacg.wordpress.com/2017/09/14/from-charlottesville-to-melbourne-unite-to-fight-the-far-right/
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Message: 7
The Forest Guard beat one of the Poznan activists associated with the Anarchist Federation
blocking the cut in the Bialowieza Forest. He was hospitalized. Below we publish his
account. ---- On Monday, September 11, the Court of Justice of the European Union held a
hearing on the issue of imposing sanctions on Poland for a cut in the Bialowieza Primeval
Forest. Judge Jan Szyszko stood before the court. All those who were in the Forest at that
time, and people observing this situation in the whole country, expected that this would
be a landmark day in the topic of the defense of the Forest. We hoped that Szyszko would
later recall and withdraw the harvesters together with the Forest Guard from the forest,
not wanting to pay all the costs of his plan to fight the bark, and indeed his pensive
ego, ordering him to fight the environmentalists. I want to win this fight at all costs so
as not to suffer another defeat like Rospuda. In order to do so, it draws the strength of
the Forest Guard from all the Regional Directorates of State Forests in the country,
But reality surprised us. Already on Tuesday morning, we found very active activity of
both tree cutting machines and tirers exporting them to the furthest corners of the
country, where due to their extremely low price they are converted into euro pallets. We
managed to block their Tuesday activities through a peaceful picket under the machines, so
they were forced to return to the base. After checking the area, it turned out that
hundreds of centuries-old spruces, centuries-old oaks, went under the saw. This is also
the area where we have heard the earl and the three-fingered woodpecker.
On Wednesday, September 13, the situation was repeated and the machines once again went to
the place to finish the carnage of the trees. We decided to act. About 10 o'clock we
entered the forest passing a few blocking the entrance of the guards. We ran the forest
towards the point where the harvester and the forwarder were standing (in which the tree
was removed from the forest and placed in storage for further loading into the tiry). At
some point as a result of confusion I saw a gap between the guards and decided to use it
to reach the forwarder and pin it. Half a meter from the machine I was brutally knocked to
the ground by two guards, who almost knocked me down on the stacked stacks in the storage
yard after which I ran. I hit the head with one of them. Later they jumped on me and began
to shovel me into the ground with my shoes and knees. At all costs they wanted to take me
a tube that I had in hand. At first, they dropped me a camera so that nothing would be
registered. One twice hit my head with a trunk. Another pressed my thumbs around the jaw
and throat, causing pain to release the tube. They set levers on fingers, hands,
shoulders, and legs. All this took a few minutes. During this time they did not respond to
my requests to stop. Having determined that they would not be able to manage the four they
moved me on the path, pulling my chest across the lying trunks, where they threw face to
mud and nettles. One stood in my hand, on which I had a tube, the other put a very painful
lever on the shoulder, and the third knee pressed his head to the ground, so that I had
nothing to breathe. After a long time came another commander, whom ordered me to bring up
and brought lost while knocked me to the ground things: phone, camera, whose donation I
could not get any earlier. At my request was called ambulance, which took me to the
hospital. I was taken there by arm X-ray, head tomography, and hooked under the drip.
After a few hours I was pronounced with head injuries in the form of: head injuries and
wrist and hand injuries. Tomography showed subcutaneous hematoma / bony fracture on the
left frontal bone, and an uneven outline of the left frontal bone scales with uneven
plaque. At my request was called ambulance, which took me to the hospital. I was taken
there by arm X-ray, head tomography, and hooked under the drip. After a few hours I was
pronounced with head injuries in the form of: head injuries and wrist and hand injuries.
Tomography showed subcutaneous hematoma / bony fracture on the left frontal bone, and an
uneven outline of the left frontal bone scales with uneven plaque. At my request was
called ambulance, which took me to the hospital. I was taken there by arm X-ray, head
tomography, and hooked under the drip. After a few hours I was pronounced with head
injuries in the form of: head injuries and wrist and hand injuries. Tomography showed
subcutaneous hematoma / bony fracture on the left frontal bone, and an uneven outline of
the left frontal bone scales with uneven plaque.
Violence was affecting more people. People were handcuffed to a rope tied around trees,
tarraged on the ground, sexist cries were used against girls, etc. This is not the first
such situation. Already in previous actions I was in life-threatening situations. Once the
forest guards cut off the rope on which I hung on the tree at about 10 m. Another time the
forwarder operator tried to scour us when the four tried to block it. Since he did not
stop, I jumped on his mask while driving. After all, he did not stop and continued riding
violently turning the engine on the road and entering the branches to dump me. Only after
several hundred meters of "trips" I managed to safely jump to the ground. Another
participant in the protest had a knife cut, After one of the guards tried to cut off the
rope to which he was pinned. And that's all in recent weeks.
The forest guard is a completely unprepared formation for such situations. He has powers
like the police, armed with telescopic batons, gauntlets, pistols, but not prepared for
how to behave in a peaceful protest (and I recall that all shares are of such character).
This creates a threat to the health and life of the participants in the protest. It is
also evident that they are more and more in a hurry to cut and remove timber, which causes
more of them (even about 70 from all over Poland) are increasingly brutal and ruthless. By
the pride of one man on a stool - Cisse - one day in the Forest can come to a tragedy.
We now have a few days until the final decision of the TS, which foresters will certainly
try to use as much as possible. We in the Wilderness do everything in every field to stop
the cut. We will not do this without you. Organize everywhere pickets, actions,
demonstrations, benefits for the Forest Camp. We will not be able to win this battle
without raising it to the level of social protest. Do not make yourself believe that we
are acting against the local population, because our work (and the simultaneous operation
of machines in the woods) is increasingly against mucking (including local pimps). Come to
the Camp if you have time. On-site support is also needed. Join the Poznan team against
the Hunt (and others), operate locally. Any form of resistance against Shelly is important.
Let's continue on, showing that we will not let the ruins of endangered species be
destroyed. If we give them a win here, they will destroy the last traces of wildlife
everywhere, turning one third of the country (which is managed by the State Forests) into
an economic forest.
We do not forget the
whole wilderness of the National Park!
Jackdaw
http://www.rozbrat.org/informacje/krajowe/4563-walka-w-puszczy-biaowieskiej-si-zaostrza-pobito-poznaskiego-dziaacza
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The Bay Area Anarchist Fair will take place on September 16, 2017. More than 80 suppliers
have already confirmed their presence. This year will be our twenty-second birthday! ----
The Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair is an annual event for people interested and engaged in
radical work, to connect and learn through books and information tables, workshops,
discussions, knowledge sharing, movies and more! We have created an inclusive space to
introduce new people to anarchism, fueling productive dialogue between the various
political and anarchist traditions of different media, creating an opportunity to dissect
the movement's strengths, weaknesses, strategies and tactics. ---- In solidarity ... ----
22nd Anarchist Book Fair of Bay Area ---- Saturday, September 16, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:30
p.m. ---- Address: OMNI, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland, California.
More infos: bayareaanarchistbookfair.com
Related Content:
https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2016/03/25/eua-21-feira-do-livro-anarquista-de-bay-area/
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Message: 9
An entire weekend of radical politics is taking place in Bristol this weekend - and with a
film festival to follow in October the south-western city is setting a high bar for
radical culture this year. ---- The Bristol Anarchist Bookfair starts at 11am tomorrow and
with over 20 stalls and workshops, will cover issues from legal rights at demos, how to
take direct action and staying stable amid the stress of dissent, to fixing bikes and
climbing trees. ---- The venue is new and a little smaller than last year's, but will have
plenty of room for talks and fascinating stalls on all things anarchist at St Werburghs
Community Centre, Horley Road St Werburghs, Bristol ---- History ---- It will be followed
the very next day by an entire festival dedicated to Bristol's Radical History at M Shed,
running from 10.30am talks, walks, puppet shows and readings, films, bookstalls and
displays uncovering radical histories in Bristol, the South West and beyond.
From mutinous Bristolian soldiers to rebellious anarchist women, from Bristol's
underground networks of war resisters to its rioters of 1831 we promise a
‘history-from-below' approach, with speakers and performers eager to share authentic
glimpses of a hitherto undocumented past.
Two important anniversaries are also being celebrated at the Radical History Festival. It
is 800 years since the Charter of the Forest was signed granting rights, privileges and
protections for the commoner, something which has been central to recent and past
struggles to protect the nearby Forest of Dean. It is also 50 years since the
ground-breaking History Workshop project was founded, aimed at breaking down barriers
between universities and local historians and researching working class ‘history from below'.
Silver Screen
Then next month on October 13th-15th there will be the Bristol Radical Film Festival. The
festival was founded in 2011 to showcase a different kind of cinema; contemporary and
historical works of formally innovative, risk-taking, and/or overtly political left-wing
documentary and fiction filmmaking.
The full programme is here and promises a great selection of flicks to see, from short
stories and frontline reporting to features like Girl Power and Cradle Willl Rock.
All tickets are available from Party For The People and cost £6 for full price tickets, £4
for concessions. A festival pass, which gets you into all events, costs £30. Most of the
screenings will also have intros, panels or Q&As with them and organisers hope to make the
festival interactive (in an analog way).
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