Today's Topics:
1. Poland, rozbrat, Trade Union Workers' Initiative - A picnic
under the city council in Poznan - we demand higher wages
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Greece, dwarf horse, APO: Women's Initiative Against
Patriarchy (gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Colombia: grupo Anarquía bifurcacion Bogotá: About us?
(ca) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. black rose fed: "¡QUE SE VAYAN TODOS!" - A NEW REBELLION IN
ARGENTINA? By comrades with Acción Socialista Libertaria (ASL),
Argentina (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Décembre - Climate
change: The scam of COP 23 (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
About 200 people, local government employees and institutions and institutions subject to
the city, demonstrated in Poznan, demanding higher wages. On the same day, a city council
session took place, during which the fate of the budget and, consequently, the hikes
themselves were decided. The picket was organized jointly by trade unions: Solidarnosc,
OPZZ, ZNP and Employee Initiative. Together, they represent the interest of 9,200
employees whose remuneration depends on the city's decision, or more precisely on the
president - Jacek Jaskowiak. There were, among others, representatives of Geopozu,
Raczynski Library, Nursery Teams, 8 Day Theater, Musical Theater, MOPR, Zamek Cultural
Center and many others. ---- Earlier on Monday, December 18, about 500 people came to the
city hall to hand a letter to the president, in which disappointment was expressed due to
the failure of pay talks. Unions have been demanding for a long time that during the term
of Jacek Jaskowiak, there will be increases in the amount of PLN 700 gross to the base of
remuneration. From this amount, employees have received PLN 300 so far. However, only the
increase of PLN 100 gross was planned for the last, fourth year of Jasiek's term. This
amount did not satisfy trade unions, which demand an increase of PLN 400 planned for 2018.
The city council has announced that it will add one million zlotys and one and a half
million to the planned increases due to savings made (if they occur), intended for people
whose earnings are the lowest (total of 1,700 posts). This applies to some cultural
institutions and care and educational centers. However, the unions still consider this
amount insufficient. The wages of many employees and employees oscillate around 2000 PLN
per hand, although they are also much lower.
Trade unions announce further protests in this matter.
http://www.rozbrat.org/informacje/poznan/4589-pikieta-pod-urzdem-miasta-w-poznaniu-damy-wyszych-pac
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Message: 2
AGAINST A STATE AND PATRIARCHIA ---- FOR MANAGEMENT AND ANARCHY ---- Patriarchy is one of
the foundations of the world of power and a key element of its social reproduction. As
women, in addition to the exploitation and oppression imposed in general at the bottom, we
are experiencing oppression also in the field of gender segregation, as yet another form
of repression stemming from the structure of the dominant system. The intensity of the
attack we receive at all levels can not therefore be different from what we accept in the
field of discrimination because of our gender or sexuality. ---- Modern events of
patriarchy are intensifying as the systemic crisis intensifies, the attack of the
sovereigns and the effort of ruling society. The countless recent examples are clear.
Going back a few years back in 2012, with the perplexity of seropositive women in a period
of zero tolerance and extermination of anybody remaining in the recent condemnation of a
22-year-old woman in Corinth who defended herself against her rapist, there are thousands
of daily examples of violence against women in different fields. The dozens of rapes,
humiliation and further assault on women fighters, repressive enterprises, special working
conditions of women, trafficking are just some of them,
The attack on women's femininity is so far an attempt to remind their feminine nature as
something that separates them from men and something that can be repressed and tortured
further by them. Gender suppression is not separated from all the other forms of
oppression that stem from the structure and operation of the dominant system.
The struggle of women to release them from the bonds of patriarchy is an integral part of
the struggle for the abolition of state and capitalist imposition. That is why we choose
to collectivize as women, to organize and to resist all together, with the workers, the
unemployed, the students, the students, to unite our voices and our action with a vision
of a society of equality, freedom and solidarity.
We are inspired by the 19th century American Black Workers' blacksmith's resistance, by
the organization and vigor of anarchist comrades in Spain in 1996, as well as by
contemporary examples of women's resistance in Chiapas, Turkey and Rotava, and we continue
the struggle against patriarchy, the state and capitalism ...
women's initiative against patriarchy
contact: every Tuesday 19: 00-22: 00 in the self-managed area On the Front (Patreos 87)
mail: enantiastinpatriarxia@gmail.com
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Message: 3
CONTINUING STRIKES OF FIGHT AND FREEDOM, THE ANARCHIST BIFURCATION GROUP ---- "If I will
not be myself, who will it be?! And if it is not now?! When?!" ---- The Anarchist
Bifurcation group is born from the need to expand the work that the Anarchist Black-Bogotá
Cross has been developing, after 9 years of work, to give a broader and more comprehensive
view of the problems and tactics-strategies of action against them. We believe it is
fundamental to follow our ideological cause from anarchism, but we see the vital need to
open new gaps and paths of action. ---- We define ourselves as anarchists to dry, that is,
we do not classify ourselves within any concrete tendency of the anarchic ideology, we
think that within the wide range that anarchism offers us there is a multiplicity of
experiences, postures and experiences that nourish us and They make come together. We
believe in anarchism not as a fevered and dead dogma, but as an idea tending to change, to
creation and to revolution. From here we aim to create an anarchism that is closer to our
needs, our daily life and our need to fight.
We rise up against political power, hierarchical relations and the current
exclusion-exploitation-alienation model that cross all the scenarios of life and prevent
us from living decently and freely. We see it necessary to generate an articulated
struggle that from various initiatives can be oriented to generate organization. That is
why we will begin to build from 3 axes of work: Propaganda-ideological diffusion,
Coyuntura and CNA (Anti-prison and anti-repressive).
Indomitable, we form this group in continuous development and we make a call to build
together. We think that we are not vanguard but that we are part of one of the many and
innumerable groups and individuals, seedbeds of freedom on the side of the barricade,
opposed to the defenders of the current society, a cannibal society, despotic and sick.
Between comings and goings, we persist in the path of struggle and freedom, we keep our
fist up. We will not hesitate to bite the hand of the executioner while others make an
effort to lick it to mitigate their own wounds.
Long live freedom!
Live anarchy! Bogotá, August 2011
https://grupobifurcacion.wordpress.com/quienessomos/
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Message: 4
These days people are gathering spontaneously in the streets of downtown La Plata and
Buenos Aires neighborhoods. People are taking the streets against the government and in
protest of another wave of attacks on social benefits. Moments like these bring flashbacks
to the days of December 2001, the year of the popular rebellion that rose up in the wake
of the financial collapse that rocked Argentina. This was the year when the people, the
masses, were fighting in the the streets, taking over factories and organizing
neighborhood assemblies against many of the direct effects of imperialism, the state, and
the capitalist system: their government, the impositions of the IMF (International
Monetary Fund), and their so-called "representatives" in different institutions.
Since the formation of right-wing coalition Cambiemos ("Let's Change) in 2015 which
successfully backed Argentinian businessman Mauricio Macri to become the president, the
idea of the country "going back to the 90's" (a period of neoliberal reforms) became
common in political debates, and once again, the specter of 2001 is haunting Argentina.
Prior to the rebellion
Many months passed and as misery and repression slowly but continuously kept growing, many
of us were wondering if something like this would actually take place, or at least, if the
the people would actually react against these measures. The climate seemed even more
contradictory when the streets were filled with protests against government's measures,
repression of the Mapuche people, and claiming justice for Santiago Maldonado but also
denouncing sectors involved in the protest, particularly local anarchist organizations and
individuals as being "infiltrators" because they were more likely to use violence against
the State and its forces (sometimes in good conditions, sometimes in bad conditions).
Meanwhile President Macri won the mid-term national elections of the legislature,
symbolically installing his coalition as a legitimized majority. Now the time of popular
resistance has come, or at least that's our impression in recent days.
"We will not allow another Hamburg"
On Wednesday December 13, during the protests against the WTO 11th Ministerial Conference
that took place in Buenos Aires, we saw the first major repression of the Cambiemos
period. We've had repression against protests in the past but they were mostly localized
to particular sectors of the movement and usually took place after the demonstrations
ended and the crowded were breaking up. The method used was to send in the police to hit
and arrest random people with some instances resisting the attacks. During the 13th we saw
hundreds of repressive forces ready to repel any kind of popular demonstration together
with many other measures, such as the use of deportations and censorship, designed to stop
any kind of resistance. This was the government's way to send an international message for
next year's G20 summit: "We will not allow another Hamburg".
All this military deployment happened again the next day, Thursday, December 14, as the
State called for an extraordinary session of the lower house of Congress to discuss and
vote on a "provisional reform," an austerity measure directed against the pension system
pushed for by the IMF.
Macri's neoliberal reforms
This "reform" is just another fancy name to make us work until 70 years old, making it
even harder to retire, and downgrading the amount of money people will receive. The
legislation "changes the formula used to calculate benefits by linking them to consumer
prices instead of tax income and wage hikes" which opens the gates for a process that
would destroy the current imperfect but sustainable social security program. This law is
not the only structural reform Cambiemos and Macri wants to impose on the people but part
of a "package of (neo-liberal) reforms" that push a free market model for healthcare,
workers rights and education and would significatively change the way the oppressed
classes live today.
A state of siege on the streets
However, the session on Thursday had to be suspended as the people were repressed with
such brutality that not even the hegemonic mass media could hide it. The streets of
downtown Buenos Aires seemed in a state of siege with people being shot, retirees being
attacked and many wounded. Even congressmen were gassed in front of the cameras, after the
session was suspended, the people kept going outside to defy the State's repressive forces.
After all this repression, the government announced another extraordinary session for
Monday, December 18 with continuing threats of bypassing the congress through use of a
Necessity and Urgency Decree, an executive order for special circumstances allowed by the
constitution. But this time we could see the social forces were even more prepared to
resist - raining stones on the police and unafraid of the barrages of tear gas and rubber
bullets. No matter how much the police attacked, the people would appear again and again,
refusing to disperse and give up the streets. The media had to repeat constantly that
there was a group of so-called "violents" alienated from the "real protesters" and
responsible for attacking the cops to make it believable. But this division did not exist
as images showed hundreds of protesters resisting police attacks with sticks and stones
and anything they could find. The repression lasted hours once again and people left the
streets in the afternoon but appeared again at night, this time though spontaneously and
not only in Buenos Aires but in many cities all around the country. It was a new
"cacelorazo," a form of demonstration featuring banging on pots and pans which became
popular during the 2001 economic collapse in Argentina.
A new unity, a new cacerolazo
The debate in congress lasted all night and after many fights, rigid votes and positions,
the measure was passed. But social movements and popular forces did not surrender. Through
this process of intense social conflict we have seen a clear advance in the radical
conscience of the people and, at least momentarily, as willing to directly confront the
forces of the State. At the same time, we see greater unity across political and social
lines, as comrades say: "When you're throwing rocks at the cops, no one asks if you're
anarcho, trot, or whatever." This is the unity in the struggle we need to build between
the oppressed. Repression did not stop us and the legitimation of the congress and other
State institutions will not stop us either. That is why, new cacerolazos are underway in
cities across the country. And that is why we shout once again: "¡Que se vayan todos!"
("They all must go!")
http://blackrosefed.org/a-new-rebellion-argentina/
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Message: 5
Climate conferences are following each other and greenhouse gas emissions are rising
steadily. Surprisingly, when we see the weight of the big polluters in the negotiations.
---- When they adopted the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),
governments knew that their commitments would not be enough to seriously tackle climate
change. The Kyoto Protocol, adopted in 1997, provided for a 5% reduction in global
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions between 2008 and 2012, extended to 2020 by the Doha
agreement. At that time, the scam of " CO2 quotas ", allowing developing countries to
resell their " rights to pollute ", already tainted the good will displayed. ----
Since the Paris agreements at the end of 2015, the states have set the goal of a maximum
temperature rise of 2 degrees maximum, 1.5 degrees at best. However, there is a gap
between commitments and imperatives, denounced in the latest report of the United Nations
Environment Program: " The commitments made by countries at the national level represent
only one third of the emissions reductions needed for the 2030 horizon to meet
objectives. " The last report of the World Meteorological Organization GHG reveals that
atmospheric CO2 concentrations " have increased at a record pace in 2016 ".The
international scientific platform Global Carbon Project estimates that CO2 emissions are
expected to increase by around 2% in 2017 to reach the colossal level of 36.8 billion
tonnes. In the face of this inconsistency, litigation has increased against governments
and polluting companies to reduce their CO2 emissions.
One of the reasons for the difficulty of moving forward is the large number of conflicts
of interest among COP23 participants. To start with, Miguel Arias Cañete, President of two
oil companies, is the Commissioner for Energy and Energy. climate action of the UNFCCC.
The Panama negotiator, also a member of the Ieta office, a corporation of banks and oil
tankers, finds himself coordinator of the market mechanisms for the G77 + China group,
representing all the developing countries at the convention of the 'UN.
Conflicts of interest
In addition, companies like BMW and Solvay are sponsoring COP23, like Suez and Engie for
COP 21.
The CAI (Corporate Accountability International) and several reports denounce the way in
which multinationals, and more particularly those of fossil fuels, have captured climate
negotiations. Industrialists influence the direction of the money dedicated to the fight
against global warming. Thus, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has opened the doors of its
working bodies to banks like HSBC or the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi. As a result, five
transnational banks now manage 75% of its funds, more than 50% of which is allocated to
privately supported projects.
These reports, along with contributions from five global organizations deeply concerned
about the disproportionate influence of corporate power, expose how the industries most
responsible for climate change, particularly the transnational fossil fuel corporations,
are blocking real progress in resolving th
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Changement-climatique-L-arnaque-de-la-COP-23
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