Anarchic update news all over the world - 27.01.2018
Today's Topics:
1. Czech, afed: An important victory [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Ruptura Colectiva (RC): The Cacahuatepec Massacre, Guerrero:
First notes concerning an emergency that "nobody wants to see" by
Demián Revart (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Holand, vrije bond: Anarchist open evening - Work
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Anarchist Group Dortmund added to event (de) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Britain, glasgowa narchists: Glasgow Events Autonomy Update
Jan 8 2018 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Greece, ANNOUNCEMENT OF LIBERTATIA CONCERNING THEIR
IMPRESSION AND PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THESSALONIKI
STATION IN
THESSALONIKI by dwarf horse [APO] (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. US black rose fed: AN ORGANIZER WE NEED: FUNDRAISER FOR
LORENZO KOMBOA ERVIN By BRRN Social Media Team (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The social protest movement in France won. After a long and protracted struggle against
the construction of the airport in Notre-Dame-Des-Landes near Nantes, which would
devastate the environment, the government was forced to retreat. ---- On Wednesday,
January 17, 2018, the French Prime Minister announced the final rejection of the airport
construction plan. Victory has a great moral and activist meaning. It has shown that
resistance to state and capital can be successful. Perhaps the cowardly and helpless
bureaucratized unions, who have twice abandoned the struggle against the neo-liberal
reforms of the Labor Code, will also take the example. ---- The statement of activists
says: ---- Victory ---- Fifty years of fighting, ten years of protest occupation of the
planned construction zone. Memorable manifestations. Tens of thousands of people - from
the countryside, from the city, squatters, young and not so young, rave and well-ordered -
who go along the streets of Nantes or on Notre-Dame-Des-Landes. Laughter and crying ...
Meetings and festive nights ... Dozens of local committees. Threats, support ... and
finally - victory! The government officially rejects the airport project.
As for the occupied "protection zone", there is still a threat of partial eviction. The
media can break down to make a victory, and the government is trying to punish the fight
and show "hardness and authority" on the cameras, and it still repeats over all the
antennas. For example, he organizes police raids into the zone, as meaningless as dangerous.
But first for a long, long-lived time, he managed to beat the Governor of France! It's not
just Notre-Dame-Des-Landes ' success . It is a signal for all who fight everywhere. And
especially for the fight against devastating projects. Winning is possible! It is not
always the final victory in the hands of multinational corporations and their cops. That's
why this victory has a historical character!
On Wednesday, January 17, 2018, airport opponents gathered to celebrate victory at the
Prefecture of Nantes.
The struggle for farmers-squatters to remain in the occupied zone continues.
Resources:
http://zad.nadir.org/spip.php?article5034
http://www.aitrus.info/node/5061
http://www.leparisien.fr/societe/notre-dame-des-landes-les-forces-de-l-ordre-se-deploient-autour-de-la-zad-17-01-2018-7505064.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odt3-ujtbLE
https://www.facebook.com/Nantes.Revoltee/
We wrote:
https://www.afed.cz/text/5409/podporte-zad
https://www.afed.cz/text/3535/francie-rioty-po-protestech-proti-vystavbe-letiste
https://www.afed.cz/text/5825/francie-strety-s-policii-po-smrti-demonstranta
https://www.afed.cz/text/5838/francie-dalsi-demonstrace-proti-policejnimu-nasili
https://www.afed.cz/text/6335/francie-proti-letisti-a-na-podporu-zad
https://www.afed.cz/text/6380/francie-masovy-protest-proti-letisti
https://www.afed.cz/text/6539/francie-proti-letisti
https://www.afed.cz/text/6779/dulezite-vitezstvi
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Message: 2
Appropriate the chronicle for decipher the truths ---- Only one week has elapsed since
2018 and a new tragedy has been written in the massacres list of this republic of death
(giving continuity to the blood spilled in the events of Ayotzinapa, Tlatlaya,
Arantepakua, Nochixtlán, Ixmiquilpan and a endless more). ---- In the first early morning
hours of this Sunday, January 7, inhabitants of the Communal Goods of Cacahuatepec -in the
rural area of Acapulco, Guerrero- celebrated a dance in the context of the celebration of
the Patron Saint of La Concepción on the court of that community. At the edge of 3 hrs., a
young man broke into the command office of the Regional Coordinator of Community
Authorities - Community Police (CRAC-PC) to urinate in the building as a form of
aggression and provoke the "comunitarios", so he was detained into the command office for
committing that administrative fault. A few moments later, the young man managed to escape
through the back door, running towards the place where the celebration was taking place. A
group of comunitarios gone out to detain him, but were cowardly received by a group of
armed and hooded people who immediately opened fire indiscriminately against them, causing
the immediate death of Ulises García Morales -original of the Agua Caliente community- and
Eusebio Elasio Martínez -of the community of Huamuchitos-.
The comunitarios who achieved to repel the aggression, resorted to their shotguns to avoid
being killed, so a confrontation of a few minutes occurred that ended up taking the lives
of 8 people. For what the villagers narrate in their testimonies: "these armed people are
linked to the commissioner Florentino Melchor León and the gravel businessmen", adding to
the fact that "they were there as if they were the personal protection or private guard of
the aforementioned".
This, was clearly a planned act with all the purpose to unleash violence with weapons, as
well to achieve the liberation of two ex-military retained in the command office since the
New Year's Eve, because -as an infrarealist story- they entered armed in two cars to the
Communal Goods with the intention of murdering the CRAC-PC commander, Marco Antonio
Suástegui Muñoz.
After a few hours elapsed, approximately at 10 hrs., an operative of the State Police
initiated a ‘state of siege' with more of 200 effectives in the streets of the town to
stop ALL the members of the CRAC-PC project by government orders. One hour later, there
was another shooting by the operative in front of the Parish of La Concepción and the
command office, leaving as aftermath 3 more murdered comunitarios and the arrest of
another 30. At the moment, they have been transferred to the Procecution of Justice of
Acapulco, where -thanks to immediate photographs of people and solidarity activists- it
can be proven State Police have planted them weapons and narcotics, a governmental
maneuver already known in cases such as the arrests of the leaders of the self-defense
groups ("autodefensas") in Michoacán and the members of the CRAC-PC but from areas of
Tixtla and Ayutla de los Libres in the Costa Chica.
Photograph in which State Police conceal -threatening and intimidating the villagers- the
corpses of three comunitarios just after giving them the shot of grace.
Another point to detail is the attacks suffered by some journalists from Cuartoscuro,
Agencia AP and other media during the second shooting. The cops pushed them, beat them and
one of them the police snatched their cameras and taken off their SD archive memories[1].
In these facts, the journalist Bernardino Hernández -correspondent in already mentioned
media- had to be hospitalized because the lessons received.
During an "Encounter with Media" at noon of that January 7th and chaired by the
government's spokesman on security, Roberto Álvarez Heredia, the facts were distorted,
focusing on the reflectors in the well-known strategies of guilt and revictimization to
justify the happened massacre.
A woman with a crying gesture holds a stick for protect herself of the police.
Social networks are too bullets to avoid
What is the role of the mass media?
In the hegemonic media, much importance has been given to the role of comrade Marco
Antonio Suástegui Muñoz, spokesman for the Consejo de Ejidos y Comunidades Opositoras a la
Presa La Parota (CECOP) and commander of the CRAC-PC fraction in the zone, under the idea
that "he is responsible for everything" what these movements do and decide, when on the
contrary, the ethical principles of both social struggles are horizontality,
communitarianism and direct democracy -just as their local assemblies are carry out for
decision-making.
The Guerrero government has used all the mediatic resources it has had and for having to
criminalize the social resistance of ALL PEOPLE that make the CECOP, especially since the
year 2013 when the communities made the unanimous decision to join the Community Police
due the increasing levels in the threats of those interested in installing the
hydroelectric dam -at the moment, legally suspended in favor of the villagers- through the
sponsorship of thug groups.
Marco Antonio not only has received accusations to turn him into political prisoner among
June 17, 2014 and March 31, 2015; several local businessmen and their families began to
defame him on social networks, specifically on the Youtube channel "Desplazados Acapulco",
in which in the most stupid and right-wing way, he is "accused" of promoting the
displacement of inhabitants, when the territorial defense that has done along with the
CECOP have like main objective THE PRESERVATION OF THE HUMAN LIFE AND THE NATURE IN
CACAHUATEPEC[2].
In this channel a strongly aggressive and violent nuance is used against not only the
CECOP, but also against the lawyers and human rights defenders of "Tlachinollan", the
parents, mothers and normalist classmates of Ayotzinapa, as well as the organized teachers
in the CNTE (National Coordinator of Education Workers) and the CETEG (State Coordinator
of Education Workers of Guerrero).
It's not a gunmen conflict: It's the parasitic paramilitarism
It's not the first time that tears and blood are homologate in the soil of these
communities. At noon on Friday, June 9th, 2017, an armed commando riddled without
compassion an entire family on the Calle Ceiba. This armed assault provoked the death of
three women, a man, a 17-year-old boy and a baby of just four months. The Ministry of
Security of Guerrero also reported two minors aged 8 and 11, respectively, and a
one-year-old baby were injured[3].
The incursion of armed groups not legitimized by the villagers and comuneros that give
life this territoralization, in sooth took place from March 7th, 2017, so the bells of the
organization have touched once again to undertake joint actions and stop the violence that
is "commanded from the State government on behalf of a ‘citizen organization' of armed
businessmen."
Since March 7th, armed comandos have entered to Communal Goods of Cacahuatepec with the
aim of control the territory through the force.
As autonomous communication media, in Ruptura Colectiva (RC) we registered the following
incidents in March that led to speed up people's alertness in the face of armed groups: 1)
they beat Don "Cheto" from the community of El Rincón until shatter his nose; 2) they shot
a resident of Camposanto, wounded him and gave him a "levantón"; 3) in Oaxaquillas they
lifted a person, he was beaten and stripped of his money; and 4) they injured a person
just for carrying iguanas, arguing that it is a crime, but they do not realize that many
people live humbly from that work[4].
Violence is a pragmatic and logic schem
What is the reason for this permanent climate of violence and internal divisionism?
Simple: the logics of EXTRACTIVISTIC CAPITALISM, which in turn generates division in the
communities and ‘traditional' authorities, the formation of armed groups -one, legitimate
for the defense of natural resources and people, and others, for the violent intimidation
to the detriment of territorial defenders and any opposition action to extractivist
projects- and also, the internal decomposition through the increasing of drug sales,
extortion and degradation of young people by introducing them to the "world of easy money"
(as the main example, we have the young man who started the initial brawl during the early
morning hours).
We did not invent this, the proofs are documented:
- On last night Thursday, December 13th, in the community of Agua Caliente, an ex-member
of UPOEG (paramilitary group with high presence in Guerrero) named Ezequiel Reyes Morales
was arrested. When his backpack was checked, people found a short weapon and a lot of
marijuana amounts, so in the interrogation, the aforementioned claimed to engage in the
sale and distribution of drugs[5].
- Only a few days later, on December 17th, 11 more persons were presented before a
community assembly accused of car theft, robbery, intrafamily violence, sale and
consumption of drugs.
By unanimous decision, those in charge of developing the regulations of the CRAC-PC's
security and justice system to minor offenses, have begun with all these persons a
reeducation process to heal the damages at community level for their actions.
It was occurred in the detention of two armed men on New Year is yet more terrorific. In a
serie of public testimonies published in daily La Plaza, the exmilitary detainee who
responds to name Iván Soriano Leal (Alejandro Liborio López o Guillermo Marín Lopez,
because counts with 3 fake identifications) claimed that commissary of La Concepción
community, Antonio Morales Marcos, hired him to kill two of his familiars which own
several land hectares where it pretends to build parto of the hydroelectric dam "La
Parota", as well to kill Marco Antonio Suástegui[6].
Today free, this subjetc simbolize all a batallion of hitmen and exmilitary, because the
fact of tie off a police operative and cover up a massacre of this magnitude just for
release him, it give us the idea about privileges and elite politics position that they
posses.
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As I have written -and thousands of times- La Parota hydroelectric project represents an
enormous booty of profits for the national businessmen class at the cost of the -illegal-
dispossession of water, land, air (of the life!) at the Communal Goods of Cacahuatepec,
having as its main privilege its location: the tourist empire of Acapulco. This is the
crux of everything happened (and the things that could happen if megaproject will not cancel).
With the predatory advance of the multinationals of mining -Guerrero, Puebla, Zacatecas,
Chiapas-, wind -Oaxaca-, hydroelectric dams -Morelos, Veracruz- and of transgenic crops
-Campeche, Yucatán, Quintana Roo-, as well with the approval of the called Law of
Biodiversity, the journey it is easier to plunder the resources of the most vulnerable and
forgotten populations, or what I prefer to call "the Acapulco that nobody sees" (or
rather, "that nobody wants to see)".
After a sunset, there looks the main sign that lead the way to Cacahuatepec.
Sources & critical notes
[1]"Denuncian periodistas que fueron agredidos por policías estatales. Por: Erick
Barrera", Agencia de Noticias Guerrero, January 7th, 2017.
(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1820665827945884&id=127901443889006&hc_location=ufi)
[2]"Desplazados Acapulco", created in July, 2015.
(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDR6p64ix9JYBWenHe6wkgQ/about)
[3]"Grupo paramilitar asesina a 6 personas y deja 3 menores heridos en Cacahuatepec,
Guerrero", Ruptura Colectiva (RC), June 9th, 2017.
(http://rupturacolectiva.com/grupo-paramilitar-asesina-a-6-personas-y-deja-3-menores-heridos-en-cacahuatepec-guerrero/)
[4]"Preparan resistencia en Cacahuatepec, Guerrero, ante la presencia de grupos
paramilitares y despojo del territorio", Ruptura Colectiva (RC), April 24th, 2017.
(http://rupturacolectiva.com/preparan-resistencia-en-cacahuatepec-guerrero-ante-la-presencia-de-grupos-paramilitares-y-despojo-del-territorio/)
[5]"Comunitarios de la CRAC-PC detienen a narcomenudista de la UPOEG con un arma y droga
en Cacahuatepec, Acapulco", Ruptura Colectiva (RC), December 19th, 2017.
(http://rupturacolectiva.com/comunitarios-de-la-crac-pc-detienen-a-narcomenudista-de-la-upoeg-con-un-arma-y-droga-en-cacahuatepec-acapulco/)
[6]"Durante el Año Nuevo, comando armado intenta asesinar a activista opositor a proyecto
hidroeléctrico en Acapulco; integrantes de la CRAC-PC detuvieron a los agresores", Ruptura
Colectiva (RC), January 1st, 2018.
(http://rupturacolectiva.com/durante-el-ano-nuevo-comando-armado-intenta-asesinar-a-activista-opositor-a-proyecto-hidroelectrico-en-acapulco-integrantes-de-la-crac-pc-detuvieron-a-los-agresores/)
http://rupturacolectiva.com/the-cacahuatepec-massacre-guerrero-first-notes-concerning-an-emergency-that-nobody-wants-to-see/
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Message: 3
For this month's open evening in Nijmegen, the AGN proposes to have a cosy and
constructive conversation over ‘work'. Important matter as it is the one thing we are
going to spend the better part of our life doing (if we don't do something about it soon).
Key questions might be (but are not limited to) what place has work in our lives? What
function has it in our material conditions of existence? Are we talking of work as a
separated activity? Or are we talking of occupations? What is the position of the Left
regarding wage labor now and has it changed over the years? What does Rihanna truly mean
when she sings "Just get ready for work, work, work, work, work, work"? ---- Many angles
can be taken, from a radical critique of wage labor to a right to be lazy, through
theories of emancipation through work. Where will the meanders of our arguments lead us
to? What will our free and audacious minds discover along this theoretical adventure of a
night?
Only one way to find out...
We will try to facilitate the conversation with a short introduction, but this is meant to
be a lively, inclusive discussion!
It's going to take place at the legendary restaurant De Klinker right after the migrant
solidarity café Mulawan, call them to reserve a table if you want to indulge in some real
tasty food before we get down to ...work.
Also, no, Rihanna will not be discussed.
For tonight the evening will be in English
https://www.vrijebond.org/anarchist-open-evening-work/
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Message: 4
The second part of the anarchism round trip takes place on 27.01. from 15.00 clock in the
cafe Aufbruch, Hintere Schildstr. 18, held in Dortmund Hörde. Are you interested in
anarchist positions? Are you interested in anarchist organization and do you even live in
Hörde? Come over then! ---- invitation text ---- If you could change anything, what would
it be? Would you holiday for the rest of your life? Ensure that fossil fuels stop causing
climate change? Do you want ethically acceptable banks and politicians? Anyway, surely
nothing would be more unrealistic than leaving everything as it is and expecting different
results. ---- Our private financial and emotional struggles reflect global civil unrest
and disasters. We could spend all our time putting out fire after fire, but they all have
the same cause. Reforming piecemeal will not fix anything: we need to rethink everything
according to a different logic.
What is the idea behind the tour?
We want to organize at least one event in as many districts as possible in Dortmund. Of
course, we think it's good that there is a fairly stable left-wing radical and anarchist
movement in Dortmund's northern city. However, we consider it problematic when a large
part of our activities is limited to only a quarter. Ideally, if possible, we want to
build up Dortmund's viable anarchist local structures in all neighborhoods. Because it is
also clear that to carry the fight into other quarters works in the long term only with a
local anchorage. A key point of the anarchist idea is to form as decentralized as
possible, which is why an anchoring in many quarters is strategically necessary.
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Message: 5
Happy/solidarity-filled 2018 folks! ---- Just a reminder to send any events you would like
listed here to glasgowautonomyupdates@lists.riseup.net. There are over 800 subscribers to
this list, so if you're producing radical events in Glasgow, use this resource! This
week's update follows. ---- 1. Arabic-English Language Exchange ---- 2. Food Not Bombs
Organising Meeting ---- 3. Fuck Off Tory Cunts Court Case ---- 4. Anarchist Federation
Film showing: The Anti-Fascists ---- 5. Red and Black Song Club ---- 6. Celtic Connections
Free concerts heads up ---- 1. Arabic-English Language Exchange ---- Every Tuesday ----
Glasgow Autonomous Space, 53 Kilbirnie Street ---- 6-8pm ----
https://www.facebook.com/unitylanguageexchange/ ---- Come and join us for the Unity*
Arabic/English language exchange! It is a conversation class where people can learn Arabic
and Arabic speakers can learn/improve their English and get to know each other in a
supportive environment - an environment where English is not put on a pedestal and
everyone is learning.
The class started as a response to the limited spaces for people to study ESOL at college.
Many are on waiting lists for many many months, so we wanted to act together so people
could practice their English in the mean time. Anyone of any level can attend. We also
urgently need more English speakers!
An organisation called Arika has given us some money to provide travel expenses for those
that could not attend the class otherwise, but this money is running out. Please help if
you can: https://www.youcaring.com/people-who-couldn-t-attend-otherwise-601139Come on down!
*The Unity Centre has been open almost 10 years and offers unconditional support and
solidarity to asylum seekers and all other migrants http://unitycentreglasgow.org/
2. Food Not Bombs Organising Meeting
Wednesday, 10/1/18
Mono Cafe Bar, King Street, G1
5.30-7pm
Planning our next moves, and deciding the date of our first stall. Come along, bring your
ideas with you!
https://www.facebook.com/events/143561629765452/
3. Fuck Off Tory Cunts Court Case
Thursday, 11/1/18
Glasgow Sheriff Court
10am
David McHarg is on trial for displaying a ‘Fuck off you Tory cunts' poster on his window.
Class War Scotland has called for a solidarity demonstration outside Glasgow Sheriff Court.
4. Anarchist Federation Film Showing: The Anti-Fascists
Thursday, 11/1/18
Glasgow Autonomous Space, 53 Kilbirnie Street
6-9pm
In 2014, left-wing activists and a group of neo-nazis clashed in the immigrant quarter of
the Swedish town of Malmö, leaving several wounded and one anti-fascist - Showan Shattack
- nearly dead. That same year, a violent gang of Fascists attacked an anti-Racist
demonstration in Stockholm. A fight broke out between them and the few members of
Anti-Fascist Action, which left one Fascist wounded, and one anti-fascist in jail. In this
context, a documentary crew set out examining the history and activities of the Swedish
anti-fascist movement, and its connections to the same one in Greece. Its successes and
failures have lessons for all of us.
Join us for tea and biscuits at GAS (we'll heat the upstairs room up ahead of time:-)) and
we'll watch the film and chat about it informally afterwards. Free, all welcome, donations
accepted.
www.afed.org.uk
5. Red and Black Song Club
Wednesday, 17/1/18
Glasgow Autonomous Space, 53 Kilbirnie Street
7-9pm
Glasgow libertarian left choir celebrating songs of working class struggle, anti-fascism
and resistance. Keeping the tradition of radical song alive.
https://www.facebook.com/redandblacksongclub/
6. Celtic Connections free concerts heads up
Daily, 19/1/18-4/2/18
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, top of Buchanan Street
5pm
Loads of Celtic Connections events are super expensive, but did you know that there is a
free concert every day, Danny Kyle's Open Stage, at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall at 5pm?
The Danny Kyle Open Stage is a series of concerts held over the course of the festival
that allows emerging musical talent to take part in Celtic Connections. From all the
performers on the Open Stage, six will be chosen to display their talents in a showcase
concert on the final night, and receive the opportunity to perform in support slots at
next year's festival.
Danny Kyle was a passionate supporter of Scottish traditional music, and campaigned
tirelessly for its revival in Scotland. His close friend Liz Clark comperes the concerts
in his memory, and the concerts have a reputation for drawing attention to acts that are
now household names, including Karine Polwart and Rura.
The final showcase will be held on Sunday 4 February. Check www.celticconnections.com for
more information and details.
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Message: 6
Today, on Sunday 21/1, around 13.30pm and shortly before the nationalist rally for
Macedonia, fascist groups that participated in it launched a series of attacks in occupied
areas. After they first attacked the "Social" school and were successfully repulsed, they
then approached our occupation, causing damage to the facade and the fence. These damages
were restored directly by members of our college, who then chose to support the
anti-nationalist concentration in Kamara. Around two hours later, a group of 60-70
fascists attacked our occupation with Molotov and flares, causing its arson. At that time
there was no world in the building, as it was in the concentration of Kamara. Throughout
the attack outside the occupation, they were both as insured as they were a bunch of MAT
stationed parachutes, who covered the attack without interfering. The neighborhood's
reaction must be mentioned, as people went out to the balconies shouting at the fascists,
who responded to bells and throwing flares. When the fascists tried to get back to school
again, the police kept the same attitude, covering the fascists and excluding their
comrades in the building.
Let the world not be fooled: these attacks and the arson of the building could not be done
without the "cover" of the rally for Macedonia. There they went and from there they
turned. All right-wing and neo-Nazi groups were calling there, but nobody cared about
this, offering them social legitimacy and public space to express themselves and act. We
know very well that all of this could not be done under other circumstances and that's why
each one should consider his attitude towards fascism. These actions by such sub-state
groups act as a complement to state repression against those who struggle and resist for
something better. Let's consider who benefits the burning of a building with more than a
century of history, which was in abandonment for decades. A building that we, as
anarchists, libertarian communists and rebels, decided to understand and maintain, on the
one hand, to cover the housing needs of proletarians, immigrants and people struck by the
state and capitalism and, on the other, to create a space for radical political
fermentation and promotion a new libertarian culture. It must be made clear that this is a
criminal act that could have a tragic account, that is dead. immigrants and people struck
by the state and capitalism and, on the other hand, to create a space for radical
political fermentation of individuals and the promotion of a new libertarian culture. It
must be made clear that this is a criminal act that could have a tragic account, that is
dead. immigrants and people struck by the state and capitalism and, on the other hand, to
create a space for radical political fermentation of individuals and the promotion of a
new libertarian culture. It must be made clear that this is a criminal act that could have
a tragic account, that is dead.
These attacks will not stop us in the struggle against state, capital, and fascism. No
attack is going to terrify us, nor is it going to make the good fortune of any fascist,
but with our own conscience and stubbornness for a society of equality and freedom, we
will continue to fight for our ideals.
PHASE THREATS WILL NOT BE REMEDIALS
TO EXCLUDE DEFENSE TO THE PHASE THREAT
FOR ANARCHY AND FREEDOM OF COMMUNICATION
Libertatia, a collective for libertarian communism
https://ipposd.wordpress.com/
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Message: 7
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin is a former member of the Black Panther Party and wrote the seminal
text "Anarchism and the Black Revolution" while incarcerated as a political prisoner. His
writings, which first circulated in the 1990s, continue to inspire many anarchists today.
But most importantly his on-the-ground community organizing in the South, work with
prisoners, and role in the first Anarchist People of Color conference in 2013 remain
examples for all that are committed to liberation movements. ---- Please consider a
donation to support Lorenzo as he grapples with health issues and to allow him to continue
his organizing work. If you are interested in his writings we recommend "Why I Became An
Anarchist" or the full text of his book "Anarchism and the Black Revolution" which can be
found in Black Anarchism: A Reader published by Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation.
Support Lorenzo Ervin Kom'boa Fundraising Appeal
Please consider making a donation to this fundraising campaign for longtime anarchist
political prisoner, theorist, and organizer Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin. He has been going
through a lot as of lately, including financial difficulties, transportation issues,
health concerns and the medical expenses that come along with being type-2 diabetic. His
life's work has opened a path forward for anti-capitalist, anti-racist, and
anti-patriarchy organizing in geographies where the non-profit and academic industrial
complexes have largely co-opted the progressive-to-radical "Left." He needs to survive.
Please consider contributing to this fund.
White supremacy must be abolished within leftist political movements throughout the
"global North." This internal racism needs to be placed at the center of our analyses and
movement-building practices, and completely smashed. Moreover, white revolutionaries need
to take up arms behind, with, and alongside grassroots movements that already exist in
Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities. This is happening in small pockets, but it
needs to happen on a mass scale and Lorenzo's writing shows us the way.
I was introduced to his work via Facebook during the early stages of "Occupy." First, I
read the his sharp criticism of white anti-racism in the "Progressive Plantation: Racism
Within White Radical Social Change Groups," and much later I began picking up "Anarchism
and the Black Revolution: The Idea of Black Autonomy." These texts, among other writings
of his, are invaluable for those genuinely interested in developing autonomous
revolutionary movements that do not reinscribe white supremacist capitalist
hetero-patriarchy. These books have been circulating once again as the new Black protest
movement has ebbed and flowed over the past several years, and the "Progressive
Plantation" should be required reading for antifascists whose organizing is gaining
visibility in the political mainstream.
To quote a recent post of his: "I have been thinking about my life now more than ever, the
older I get. I don't know about you, but after "life" in prison, then organizing for 50
years with various movements, fighting the KKK in Tennessee, Georgia, and other places,
existing in poverty for most of my life, and just generally working to help someone else
instead of just myself, there is not much more that I fear, but a lot that I wish I could
still do." Please consider contributing something - even if only a few dollars - to this
campaign. Thank you for taking the time to read this. If you have the means to help a
comrade in need, your support is deeply appreciated. #Solidarity (link)
https://www.gofundme.com/Support-4-Lorenzo-Komboa-Ervin
http://blackrosefed.org/komboa/
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