Anarchic update news all over the world - 21.02.2018

Today's Topics:

   1.  Alternative libertaire Orléans: Today, the demonstration in
      solidarity with the Kurdish and defence people of afrin brought
      together more than 100 people in orléans. (fr) 
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Poland, rozbrat: Break the spiral of political repression!
      The process of Poznan anarchist [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  London Anarchist Communists: RItzy Cinema Workers Strike
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  London Anarchist Communists: Solidarity With Lorenzo Komboa
      Ervin (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  US, KOREATOWN POPULAR ASSEMBLY: SHUTTING 
     DOWN ICE, BUILDING
      POPULAR POWER By Black Rosa/Rosa Negra LA and BRRN Social           Media Team (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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As for alternative Libertarian Orleans, we considered this initiative to be one of our 
priorities. ---- Our Kurdish comrades have again shown their dynamism.
And if a group of fifteen young turkish nationalists came to try to intimidate the 
demonstrators at the end of the course, we did not give in to this provocation, we 
collectively faced them to show our determination and ultimately it is They had to disperse.
We agreed to see us soon enough to continue building on orléans and the loiret the 
necessary support for the Kurdish revolution and democratic confédéralisme, the only 
feminist, progressive and secular alternative to erdogan and ISIS.
Kurdistan will live, Kurdistan will conquer!

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This Thursday, February 22 at 13 in room 1 in the District Court on ul. Mlynska in Poznan 
will probably host the decisive hearing of a participant of the Poznan section of the 
Anarchist Federation. The prosecutor's office accuses the anarchist of jointly and 
comprehensively forcing a police officer to abandon a legal official activity by using 
violence or an unlawful threat in order to force or refrain from legal service (paragraph 
224. & 2 of the Penal Code). Police officers detained the anarchist on May 7, 2016, just 
after the protest against police involvement in illegal evictions. The demonstration on 7 
May took place under arrest at Mlynska, the contribution to which was the imprisonment of 
another anarchist activist - Lukasz Bukowski was sent to prison because ... he had to 
forcefully impede the duties of police officers,here , a video-relation about a broken 
blockade of groundless eviction here ).

Both cases are the result of a spiral of repression being shot by the police. Anarchists 
and anarchists involved in condominiums operate under constant, ever stronger pressure 
from law enforcement agencies. The whole paradox is that the constant support for their 
repression is unfounded, provocative and even illegal police interventions.

Lukasz Bukowski was arrested when he blocked eviction, which - as it was finally decided - 
should not happen at all, and thus - in which the police should not assist. The protest, 
which was supposed to publicize and criticize the social effects of police impunity 
(tenant's family on the pavement, tenant activist in custody), police officers used to 
make further criminal charges against their critics.

Tak jak w przypadku Lukasza, zarzuty karne wobec nastepnego anarchisty sprowokowala 
policyjna interwencja, która nawet sad uznal wczesniej za niepotrzebna. Oskarzony 
anarchista mial przeszkadzac tajnym policjantom (ubranym po cywilnemu), którzy scigali, 
staranowali autem i napadli innego dzialacza, Antka z kolektywu Syrena w Warszawie pod 
pretekstem... zniszczenia muru aresztu (dzialacz mial napisac na nim 'uwolnic Lukasza 
Bukowskiego', szerszy kontekst tutaj). W efekcie interwencji zarzucono mu takze 
zniszczenie radiowozu, który go staranowal. Po niezwykle drogiej ekspertyzie bieglych - 
przekroczyla kosztem nawet zawyzone straty w radiowozie i murze aresztu, jednak okazala 
sie bardzo krytyczna wobec zarzutów policji - prokuratura uznala, ze zaden z zarzutów nie 
ma szans sie utrzymac. Nie skierowala wiec nawet sprawy do sadu, uznajac ze "czyn nie 
zawieral znamion czynu zabronionego". Mimo ze - kolejny raz - angazujaca ogromne sily 
policyjne akcja okazala sie kompletnym bublem, to anarchista który stanal na drodze tej 
farsy, dzis staje przed sadem z wizja 3 lat wiezienia...

As if that was not enough, the police are now making new criminal charges for Antek, who 
was recently acquitted in the Poznan case - in exchange for blocking wild evictions 
assisted by the police, as a result of which the tenant suffered a fractured skull, the 
police and the cleaner try to make Antek 12 years in prison (report of wild eviction here).

We are sure that the impunity of police and cleaners is directly translated into the 
criminalization of tenants and anarchists. In order to stop the spiral of repression 
against the background of social struggles and win these fights, one must break with the 
reversal of guilt and hold the perpetrators of antisocial repression accountable. So far, 
the courts do not do it - but anarchists do it, which the courts are glad to focus their 
attention on.

The case, which is due to take place on February 22, is not the only one recently assumed 
by anarchist activists and activists. Several people were also accused of participating in 
women's protests and against the growing wave of nationalism and racism, and in defense of 
the Bialowieza Forest etc.

http://www.rozbrat.org/informacje/poznan/4600-przerwa-spiral-politycznych-represji-proces-poznaskiego-anarchisty

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there's a week of strikes and pickets coming up at the Picturehouse Cinemas in London: 
Picket lines -  Saturday 17th: Hackney Picturehouse (17.30-20.30)
  Sunday 18th: Picturehouse Central (17.30-20.30)
Monday 19th: DEMO at Picturehouse Head Office, Orange St  (11.300-14.30)
Tuesday 20th: East Dulwich  Picturehouse (10.45-14.00)
  Wednesday 21st: Crouch End Picturehouse  (17.30-20.30)
  Thursday 22nd: Ritzy (17.30-20.30)
  Friday 23rd: Picturehouse Central (17.30-20.30)
Please suppoirt the pickets and don't cross the picket lines
https://londonacg.blogspot.co.il/2018/02/ritzy-cinema-workers-strike.html

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ease consider making a donation to this fundraising campaign for longtime anarchist 
political prisoner, theorist, and organizer LorenzoKom'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." ---- Fundraiser call: ---- 
https://www.gofundme.com/Support-4-Lorenzo-Komboa-Ervin ---- Lorenzo is an outstanding 
black anarchist in the USA. Please help this comrade.
https://londonacg.blogspot.co.il/2018/02/solidarity-with-lorenzo-komboa-ervin.html

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About 70 activists and community members surrounded and blocked an ICE van in front of 
LA's Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles the evening of Thursday, 
February 15. The action was called for by the Koreatown Popular Assembly 24 hours prior as 
an emergency response to reports of ICE detaining over a 100 individuals across the city. 
---- The mass escalation of raids by ICE are seen as part of the Trump regime's promised 
targeting of "sanctuary" cities as punishment for not cooperating with immigration 
authorities. This is why it is essential to organize a popular response and resistance to 
targeted raids which are intended to strike fear in and demobilize immigrant communities. 
Even the small act of blocking a single van with two officers inside shows that it's 
possible to disrupt ICE's activity in Los Angeles and organizers are looking to expand 
this tactic.

Koreatown Popular Assembly: Popular Power in Action

We first discussed the Koreatown Popular Assembly in our piece "Koreatown, LA Fights Back 
on 7-Eleven ICE Raid," which reported on the group's Rapid Response Network that mobilized 
together with other groups on January 18 to surround a neighborhood 7-Eleven and prevent 
ICE from returning to the neighborhood to obtain documents from the store manager. While 
the manager still met with agents elsewhere the mobilization successfully prevented ICE 
from entering the neighborhood as a form of community intimidation. This kind of 
mobilization is a form of counter intimidation to ICE and prevents "collateral arrests," 
an increasingly common tactic whereby ICE will ostensibly target a specific business or 
individual but will question and detain any person they encounter. This is how "targeted 
enforcement" by ICE in reality becomes broad sweeps targeting a whole neighborhood, 
apartment building or workplace.

The response network was a formed exactly to address situations like these as a project by 
the Koreatown Popular Assembly. When the nation-wide ICE raids on 7-Eleven happened the 
week before, members of Rapid Response Network canvassed all the stores in the 
neighborhood and encountered the Bengali workers who reported the prior raid and requested 
support.

The network canvasses in the neighborhood with flyers in Korean, Spanish, Tagalog, Bengali 
and English in the neighborhood and operates a 24 hour hotline to monitor reports of ICE 
raids. With over a year of preparation and training the hotline is staffed with around 30 
dispatchers who volunteer to do two to three 4-hour shifts a week. In turn the network has 
trained nearly 100 first responders who are registered based on geographic areas and 
dispatched with text messages via an open source software platform.

The beginnings of the Koreatown Popular Assembly stem from late 2016  when shortly after 
Trump's election the National Day Labor Organizing Network, a network of non-profit 
organizations, called for neighborhood based assemblies. But the Los Angeles based NGOs 
lacked a clear vision of how to make these work or become something meaningful but also 
didn't exert control over the direction.

Of the five or six assemblies across the city all of them died out. But in Koreatown 
various organizers, which included members of LA Black Rose/Rosa Negra, pushed a vision of 
the assembly of approximately 125 community members becoming a democratic expression of 
the neighborhood. Through a process of several follow up meetings the assembly voted to 
prioritize the creation of the Rapid Response Network and a campaign to push for sanctuary 
schools. A planning committee of about 15 members was formed to meet regularly and 
implement the decisions.

It is significant that these actions are not the efforts of stand alone activists or NGO 
directed staff but a result of discussion, debate and decision making by a base of 
everyday people choosing the priorities based on their immediate reality and needs. The 
Koreatown Popular Assembly is still small and embryonic but stands out as an example of 
how radicals can move beyond isolated projects and work to build popular power from below.

For more information about our perspective on fighting against Trump's white supremacist 
immigration policy, see our statement "

http://blackrosefed.org/kpa-shut-down-ice/

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