Dear Friends, We are activists who got onto the topic of Choucha refugee camp through the Boats4People project. In Choucha the situation for refugees is increasingly getting worse -- that is what we want to indicate with a publicity and support campaign. In this mail, we want to inform you shortly about the situation in Choucha. We would kindly ask you to sign the open letter adressed to Ms Ursla Schulze Aboubacar, representative of UNHCR/Tunisia, that you find attached. This letter supports the protest of refugees in choucha, as we will explain in the next lines. Choucha? Since almost two years Choucha refugee camp exists close to the tunisian-libyan border. After UNHCR offered an asylum procedure to those fleeing the libyan conflict, almost 2000 people were able to travel via the resettlement programme to safe third countries. Up to date there are another 2000 persons remaining in Choucha. Many of those did not receive the refugee status and bewail numerous mistakes performed by UNHCR during their procedures. Others received the refugee status, but were refused to access the resettlement programme. Both affected groups lament their increasingly precarious situation in the refugee camp. From octobre 2012 on, rejected refugees are refused access to nutrition and medical support. All refugees living in Choucha are furthermore prohibited to move freely in Tunisia. The refugee camp is supposed to be closed around june 2013. What will happen to those without access to the resettlement programme remains unclear. The UNHCR is not offering any solution whatsoever. Engaging for a durable solution For this reason, many refugees of Choucha camp got together, developed common demands and decided to resist against their lack of prospects. Their recent demands are for example a verification of rejected asylum-cases, the resumption of supply for all of those remaining in Choucha as well as an enlargement of the resettlement programme. Some press conferences by supportive organisations as well as self organised protests in Choucha served as a forum for those demands untill now. Starting with the new year, many refugees of Choucha want to intensify their protest. The detailed plans are still being discussed – but beginning the new year the protest is going to start. Open letter to tunisian UNHCR We wrote an open letter to the Tunisian representative of UNHCR, Ms Ursula Schulze Aboubacar, which you find attached. This letter contains a critique of the humanitarian politics of ignorance, towards the already expressed demands of the refugees. The central message of the letter is, that we as activists and organisations in the field of migration know about the situation of those remaining in Choucha and to state clearly that we support the refugees demands. It is obviously of major importance that as many organisations and individuals as possible sign this letter! We need your signatures as fast as possible, because we are planning to send out the open letter to Ms Schulze Aboubacar in the first week of January. As the protest has not started yet, this letter is not meant to be published in a wider range. Nevertheless, feel free to circulate it and the information within solidary circles. In case you would like to further support the protest, please send us an e-mail. Also for further questions, contacts to the protesting refugees or other information, contact choucha@riseup.net.
maandag 31 december 2012
Protests in Choucha, Refugee Camp Tunisia: Support needed!
Today Videos: Solidarity from Vienna and Berlin Refugee Protest camps
Today Videos: Solidarity with Vienna's Refugee Protest camp and Oranienplatz Berlin >> http://thevoiceforum.org/node/3015 Solidarity with Vienna's Refugee Protestcamp from Oranienplatz Berlin - 29.12.2012 A solidarity message from Berlin to the Sisters and Brothers resisting in Vienna after the eviction of the Refugee Protestcamp of Sigmund-Freud-Park. Together we stand. The fight goes on. http://asylstrikeberlin.wordpress.com “We, the Refugees and Supporters of the Refugee-protest camp at the Oranienplatz Berlin Germany want to strongly point out our solidarity with our fellow Refugees and their Supporters in Vienna, who were victims of the brutal police operation in the early morning of 28.12.2012. The eviction of your Protest Camp was totally unjust, the way it was driven directly by the government and executed by their inner armed forces by bypassing the City Council. The sudden operation with no announcement or further negotiations together with the humiliating treatment of our fellow refugees as well as the arrest of some of them is by no means tolerable and will never be accepted. We strongly condemn the harassment and violation of human rights executed by the state police in the camp last night. Politically these kind of practices are aimed at keeping Refugees in isolation as part of the european post-colonialistic policies to keep all of us asylumseekers and migrants away from Europe. This must stop! We all here in Berlin feel strongly with YOU- the Refugees in Vienna! We wish you to have the power and courage to take the last nights eviction as no reason to give up the fight but in contrast to take to the streets even stronger! We send all our solidarity from our hearts to YOU! Together we stand! The struggle continues!” Endorse the International Statement of Solidarity from Refugee Protest in Vienna By pressteam on December 29, 2012 All our support and solidarity to the protest of migrants and asylum seekers in Vienna! The protest camp set up by asylumseekers in Vienna has been brutally evicted last night. It is part of a growing European movement of migrant struggles, that has recently seen similar protests in Berlin, Amsterdam and Calais, as well as Lesvos, Budapest and other places. They contest authoriatrian border regimes and the migration policies of the EU and its member states. Please spread this call via your lists and blogs, and email refugeeprotestvienna-solidarity@riseup.net to sign the statement (Subject: Solidarity Vienna)! https://refugeecampvienna.noblogs.org The protest camp On the 24th of November 2012, hundreds of migrants seeking asylum in Austria marched from the isolated and overcrowded government camp storing them to set up a protest camp in Vienna along with Austrian supporters. Their demands are: the right to work and stay in this prosperous European country, as qualified legal support and translation. Building their own and self-sustained protest camp, the protesters have created a vibrant space of participatory democracy, solidarity and mutual aid; an inspiring constituent process. They have shown what a truly open and cosmopolitan Europe might look like. The church occupation On the 18th of December, after weeks of building a strong movement and camp, and after weeks of being ignored by the government, they decided to move into the church that borders on the protest camp. When the asylumseekers sought refuge in the church the government could no longer ignore them. However, while the government has acknowledged the legitimacy of their demands, the talks have been fruitless as the government refused to take the necessary action to improve the situation. The hunger strike The days of Christmas, which so festively celebrate that Joseph and Maria found asylum in Bethlehem, have been a cold and inhospitable time for the protesters. As politicians joined their families, leaving the refugees with little more than vague promises of more talks, the refugees saw little other option but to enter into hunger strike. Meanwhile, migrants have come to Vienna from all over the country, to join this protest and affirm the importance of another kind of politics of migration and asylum. Their demands have been echoed and supported: we have heard the director of Caritas as well of different union leaders affirm the importance of giving migrants the right to work as they seek refuge. The eviction Today, on the 28th of December, in the dark of the night, a large number of police violently evicted the camp. The frame of the democracy and community that has been built up in the cold winter month running up to Christmas was razed to the ground within few hours. The politicians in charge have not only broken the talks, but chosen to penalize the act of protesting against the inhuman conditions that asylum seekers have to tolerate in Austria. Police registered the identity of everyone at the camp; people who were inside tents had to stand up in front of the tents, were photographed and filmed from all sides in most humiliating ways. The police now presses charges against 24, and two are said to be arrested because of lack of residence permit. But people are determined to continue the struggle, with the church filling with ever more refugees and transmigrants every day – even if the support of the church and Caritas is very reluctant, at times blocking access to the church. Freedom of movement and protest are human rights – we support the important cause of migrant struggles and the brave acts of civil disobedience in Vienna and everywhere in Europe! We demand that the Austrian Government guarantees the right to protest, also for non-Austrian citizens; stops any ongoing legal actions against people exercising their right to protest; stops all racist policing; resumes the negotiations with the asylumseekers, which this violent eviction was so clearly designed to interrupt. We repeat and stand fully behind the asylumseekers’ demands: 1.) Grundversorgung (basic support) for all asylumseekers, as long as they reside in Austria, irrespective of their legal status; 2) Free choice of their location of residence in Austria, and access to public housing for all asylum seekers residing in Austria – no transfers against the wishes of the people concerned; 3) Access to employment, educational institutions and social security for all migrants residing in Austria; 4) Stop all deportations to Hungary – stop all deportations associated with the Dublin Regulation 2; 5) Establishment of an independent authority for substantive review and appeal of all negative replies to asylum applications; 6) Recognition of socio-economic motives in addition to the previously recognized escape reasons Endorse the International Statement of Solidarity from Refugee Protest in Vienna http://refugeecampvienna.noblogs.org/ For the full list of demands, see: https://refugeecampvienna.noblogs.org/post/2012/11/25/bewegungsfreiheit-...
(en) Coordination of Anarchist Groups (CGA) - Until the abolition of marriage ... Marriage for all! (fr)
Anti-patriarchy ---- Lille - GDALE ---- Until the abolition of marriage ... Marriage for all! ---- Heterosexuality is a single standard of life and the relationship between the individual ? e ? s standard defined by the capitalist system and patriarchy. It is one of the foundations of the system of domination that we face, which alienates some and oppress others. ---- Hope some and some had founded in changing the "political staff" at the head of the state, has quickly turned into real doubt as to the evolution of society in the relational and interpersonal, to name a few. The opening of the possibility of marriage to homosexual couples is the loincloth who would still have us believe that the Socialist Party has a policy on the left. More equality between individuals and individual liberty, it is conceivable that in a societal framework which will emancipatory is the real engine of the proposed changes, a society in which the various systems of domination were abolished. We are counting! System and h?t?ropatriarcal cissexiste * has again and again, every day, its symbolic violence, physical and sexual violence against women, lesbians, gays, bi ? e ? s, trans people and intersex. In this context, to earn the right to "marriage for everyone "and the right to adoption for same-sex couples will not end the situation of verbal and physical violence, suffered by individu.es that are cis * men not straight. Marriage remains an institution related to the patriarchal society and state that we reject. It is the foundation of the traditional nuclear family - a heterosexual couple and possibly their children, the basic unit of patriarchy. It is the formalization of the appropriation of women's bodies by men and the soil of gender-based violence and sexual abuse. "Marriage for All" is shown as a breakthrough that will allow lesbians and gay couples access to the same material benefits that straight couples. However, it will not get rid of homophobia. For several weeks, the public space is saturated hexagonal violently homophobic speech. Mobilization of 17 and 18 November scroll saw tens of thousands of people came to demonstrate against the bill opening marriage to gay couples. On November 17, a broad political coalition brought together everything that the country can hold family advocates, the extreme right to the left thinking well. On 18 November, a group of fascist factions and fractions came pouring his homophobia by force, batons and violence. Complicit silence accompanies these violent demonstrations and hateful. More generally, they fall in a reaffirmation virulent patriarchal order which is also accompanied by such attacks against the right to abortion. Marriage is an institution to be abolished. However, as long as it exists, it is important for us to be accessible to all. If we are in the street, it is neither to defend nor to beg the family to the U.S. State any form of recognition. If we are in the street, it is against all dominations induced heterosexist society whatsoever. * A person is a person whose cis social sex is the one assigned at birth. The system is cissexisme domination affirming cissexualit? as standard, from which the mechanisms of oppression experienced by trans people. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Event for the legal and social equality! Bastille 14h Anti-patriarchy Social Struggles Paris area EVENT FOR EQUALITY BETWEEN LEGAL AND SOCIAL TOU-TE-S, whatever our gender identity or our sexuality! Sunday, December 16 at 14h at Bastille We will be there to defend an anarchist point of view and distribute the flyer below. In addition, we note the presence of a radical procession was formed at the initiative of feminist organizations, LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bi and Trans), unions and libertarian organizations: it is very likely that you find the edge of it, rather than the socialist youth and their supporters. For us, it is of course no question of coming there to support the ruling party in a lot of popularity. What we want is that the state and the reactionaries of all stripes let us live our sexuality as we understand! (Text of the leaflet) Lesbians, gays, bis and trans: we want everything now! "What I think is that the basic idea must remain, for marriage, for couples and for life in general, that humanity is divided between men and women " (Lionel Jospin, PS, first ex- Minister, November 9, 2012 on Canal +) "Yes Family, No to homofolie" (Banner of homophobic head of the demonstration of 18 November) The right-wing fascist left to right-thinking (which include many president, ministers, MPs and other socialist careerists), homophobia is in full swing his last weeks in the streets and in the media. For us, anarchists, it goes without saying that a human being can not be considered inferior to another because of gender identity, sexuality, color of skin, nationality, language it- she speaks, beliefs or social origin. Defend equal rights for tou-te-s seems important and necessary. But that's not all: equal rights won by women after decades of fierce fighting was not enough to stop the oppressive situation in which they find themselves again. The patriarchal system still exerts its daily violence, symbolic, physical and sexual violence against women as a whole. Similarly, to earn the right to marriage or adoption for same-sex couples can not put an end to the daily violence, verbal and physical, that we experience when we dare say our life practices non-heterosexual . Capitalism, patriarchy and racist system with the heterosexual norm it carries, are systems of domination that oppress us and reinforce each other. When we do not have the money or the wrong color to go to places where we can feel safe, equal rights will not protect us. When we show you with our families, our friends or on the street with our friends or our sisters and we're rejected-and beat-es, equal rights will not protect us. Lesbians, gays, bis, trans or straight, to achieve equality, true, not just on paper, we know that we need to destroy capitalism, patriarchy and heterosexism, racist system of domination and State. We want to live our lives as we understand it: between men, between women, between men and women, only-e, two or more married-e or not, with or without children, under the same roof or not ... We want to unite for one night or for life, we love and we want where we want and when we want, in the way that seems appropriate. We want everything! We want the legal and social equality! We want the abolition of gender and the heterosexual norm! We want the sexual revolution, feminism, social and libertarian! CGA Paris region region-parisienne@cga.org | www.cga.org OLS 21b rue Voltaire Paris 7501 Paris | ols.samizdat.net & libertarian comrades
(en) France, Alternative Libertair #222 - Notre-Dame-des-Landes: Coup police force (fr)
Since October 16, enormous police resources are mobilized to evict activists squatting and farm dedicated to the future airport Notre-Dame-des-Landes. ---- JM Ayrault did not hesitate to grant the prefect important ways: CRS 600, 400 mobile guards, GIPN, helicopter, backhoe loaders, excavators ... all at the expense of the taxpayer who pays hotel accommodation in any of the cops region (between 500,000 and 1 million euros per week). Tuesday 16 at 6:30 am, with great fanfare tear gas and intimidation of any kind, the attack was launched against militants occupy and cultivate the area to defend (ZAD [ 1 ]) of Notre-Dame-des-Landes so, according to the prefect, " neutralize all stays illegal means . " About 150 200 people reside on the ZAD. Evictions have been anticipated, the resistance was organized: barricades on the roads, occupations roofs and trees ... And Nantes: daily demonstrations. A huge area of ??lawlessness Several squats were expelled or destroyed and reoccupied several other places can not be deported before October 27. The coup police should continue to criminalize activists and creating a huge area of lawlessness in the northern municipalities of Nantes (Notre-Dame-des-Landes, Vigneux-de-Bretagne, Fay-de-Bretagne ...) where people must undergo identity checks, interviews and searches of vehicles by 500 blue on site permanently. There have been arrests, police custody, school buses no longer go everywhere ... Everything is under police control. The State Service Vinci suspended most basic freedoms such as freedom of movement and freedom to manifest one. The event of 20 October 1500 was attended Nantes 2 000 people, many political organizations and trade unions (the Left Party, NPA, Alternative, AL, CNT, Conf?d?ration Paysanne, Partners, Fase, ACIPA) and elected [ 2 ] with an absence of telling which side of EELV in 2011, promised yet no agreement with the government of PS would be signed without removing the project. Expulsions ordered by Ayrault more involved in a struggle for housing - 300 people in the street - which led to the occupation of the "unique place" cultural mecca Nantes. The PS and Housing Minister Duflot, do not hesitate to expel additional 150 people before winter. The prefect pays more luxury to the prosecutor about " some objectionable writings of opponents calling for armed struggle and to intervene with violence in companies . " The PS also attacks the freedom of expression. Faced with this coup, the resistance must continue and organize to stop this catastrophic airport project! A manifestation of reoccupation will be held on November 17 at the ZAD and collections are organized to help the deportees. AL Nantes To follow the events on the ZAD: http://zad.nadir.org/ [ 1 ] Initially, the promoters of the airport to use the word ZAD Deferred Development Zone [ 2 ] ADECA Association elected officials questioning the relevance of the airport, in 1000, including 500 elected in Loire-Atlantiqu
(en) Rusga Libertarian / MT - CAB - Manifesto for life in defense of indigenous peoples (pt)
We are all Guarani-Kaiow?! We are all Maraiwatsede! ---- "The more neoliberal economic structures want to erase the presence of alternative indigenous peoples in our midst we should sympathize more with the presence and experience of these alternatives-root people, people-witnesses of heart unite our full solidarity to the struggles and hopes of indigenous peoples . The cause is all ours, all of the God of Life. "(Dom Pedro Casald?liga) ---- We citizens, citizens and entities Mato Grosso, through this manifesto, we raise our voices in defense of indigenous peoples because, as Don Pedro says "the cause is a cause entranhavelmente Indigenous OUR". Nowadays many native peoples in Brazil are subjected to an environment of brutality can be considered as survivors of genocide committed against them history for over 500 years, demonstrating - to the astonishment of the world (because we still need to wonder!) - That life human, in the XXI century, is not treated with the amount due and not with respect to their differences. Faced with so many injustices we experience daily lift our voices and condemn AS COLLECTIVE RIGHTS VIOLATIONS these people and, moreover, yell FOR THE LIVING WELL RE-STRENGTHEN to EXIST in a gesture of solidarity frank, without which our existence also loses meaning. emphasize that violations are committed against many people, but this time we came vehemently denounce the atrocities committed against two Brazilian indigenous peoples, the Guarani-Kaiow?e the Xavante (Indigenous Land Maraiwatsede). The genocide faced by the Guarani-Kaiow? of Mato Grosso do Sul is unacceptable! For the group of 170 Indians who survive on the edge of a river, surrounded by gunmen, expelled from their traditional lands where their ancestors are buried, where is planted their history, where ever experienced their culture, their spirituality ... today, not them more belongs. There are 50 men, 50 women and 70 children who collectively decided to stay and die if need be, die with all that is on earth belongs to them. The group, in a letter to all Brazilians, describes his plight food (only one meal per day) and violence against them, especially against their leaders - four deaths in a group of 170 people - two by suicide and two by beatings and shootings. On October 30, 2012, an appeal was accepted by the Funai justice, but the gunmen continue to intimidate and, while the process is not completed, the Guarani-Kaiow? are at the mercy, their children remain malnourished, continuing killings by gunfire , beatings and roadkill on highways that cross their territories. This systematic violence adds to the Brazilian government itself in its slowness in the process of study and demarcation of territories that have so often give in to pressure from landowners agribusiness. The situation, however, is not limited to one state. In Mato Grosso, the Xavante (people A'uwe Uptabi) that inhabit the Indigenous Land Maraiwatsede await eager for the intruders from their lands. The struggle of this people through their territory lasted more than half a century. Since the 1960s, when the territory was occupied by the Xavante Agricultural Sui?-missu (the largest estate in the world at the time), these Indians were transferred to the Indigenous Land Mark, in southern Mato Grosso, and there remained about 40 years. Among the long and successive legal appeals, justice finally approved the disengagement plan of non-Indians who occupy that indigenous territory. It was determined that Maraiwatsede again be occupied by its first inhabitants: the Xavante people. We speak to us in favor of these people, because DOS is Maraiwatsede XAVANTE! Therefore, we demand that the Government of Brazil demonstrates the meaning of his existence and commitments to society in the Federal Constitution by taking concrete action to return to the Guarani-Kaiow?, the Xavante indigenous peoples and all Brazilians, the right to lead their lives, with dignity and autonomy in their traditional territories. We demand that the inalienable rights are met, unavailable and imprescriptible indigenous peoples. And to reaffirm our commitment to strengthen our cry: WE ALL INDIANS! WE ARE ALL GUARANI! WE ARE ALL XAVANTE! Sign this manifesto: Brazilian Association of Social Psychology MT - MT-ABRAPSO Popular Brazilian Association of Homeopathy - ABHP Association of Teachers of the Federal University of Mato Grosso - ADUFMAT Burnier Faith and Justice Center - CBFJ Youth Collective of Mato Grosso - CJMT Pastoral Land Commission - CPT - MT State Council of Defense of Human Rights - CDDPH / MT Indigenous Missionary Council - CIMI-MT Human Rights Office of the Prelature of S?o F?lix do Araguaia Forum for Human Rights and the Land of Mato Grosso - MT-FDHT Mato Grosso Forum for Environment and Development - FORMAD Working Group on Social Mobilization - GTMS Research Group Education and Social Movements - GPMSE Study Group Education & Merleau-Ponty - GEMPO Group security researcher in Environmental Education, Communication and the Arts - GPEA / UFMT Institute Caracol - iCaracol Public Health Institute - ISC / UFMT Institute Femina Human Race - INHURAFE Movement of Landless Workers - MST - MT Core Teresa Benguela - Psol Native Amazon Operation - Opan PET Knowledge Connections Platform-DhESCA Brazil, reporting environment Network Mato Grosso Environmental Education - REMTEA Popular Resistance - MT Swoop Libertarian Source: http://direitoshumanosmt.blogspot.com.br/2012/11/manifesto-pela-vida-em-defesa-dos-povos.html From: Anarchist Organisation especifista of Mato Grosso - Contact: rusgalibertariafao@riseup.net
(en) France, Coordination Groups Anarchistes CGA IAL #93 Fire crisis: A st Denis season evictions and class war knows no truce (fr)
Housing CGA ---- The financial crisis and the debt crisis reinforce deep and lasting crisis: the housing crisis. Fabricated by the owners, the state and municipalities, the traditional lever of capitalism to maintain operations, it should be noted that it has increased in the wake of attacks related to these crises. If popular cities are affected first, multiplying evictions of tenants, squatter-Artists may well become a reality for all. This is what happens in other neighboring countries where the attacks are linked to the crisis stronger: Spain, Greece, United States. ---- ST Denis renovation rhymes with expulsion ---- A Saint Denis, a town awash in work: target of urban renewal, the city signed in 2010 PNRQAD (National Plan for Redevelopment Districts Veterans Gradients). Combining state, municipalities, developers and it is a boon for hunting conducted in poor neighborhoods. Indeed, under the pretext of renovating houses and fight against health hazards, they displace, expel, expropriate and makes it impossible for former es-es capita access to new housing (too expensive, higher ceilings for social leases ). A St Denis where 34% of dwellings are unsafe in the center, the plan 150 1,200 demolitions and housing rehabilitation. Season expulsions knows no truce. A Saint Denis, prefecture and municipality continue to increase deportations of buildings. This was in an area near the station Charles Michel, buildings were expelled after the fire, another building in the neighborhood station is expelled. And when fire destroyed a building unsafe as wildfire, mayor and state in the blood mark their contempt for these tenants: no relocation, two nights after the torn social threat of occupation of the labor exchange . A fable racist against other examples of this type of drama. Indeed, a large part of the inhabitants-es were undocumented, and you always racialized-s (suffering racism). It will require the mobilization of stricken es themselves, still in shock that the mayor and the state are driven to find solutions. Fire: the tree that hides the forest What happened in St Denis at the time of fire, it is the tree that hides the forest, the epitome of this class war led to the poor. On the night of Saturday 8 to Sunday, September 9, a fire broke out at 39, rue Gabriel Peri, Saint-Denis, killing two people and leaving forty homeless people. Despite the announcement of the Minister C. Duflot immediate relocation of damaged-es, es some of capita-es of 39 do not even have emergency accommodation solution in the evening of 9 September (es some of them and of them were denied access to health care in hospitals, and without official paper of the municipality of Saint-Denis, to the social check-in Noisy-le-Sec-es have been forced to sleep outside ). The next night, emergency solutions are known, are for everyone until very late in the evening. A rally was held Tuesday, September 11 in front of the fire building, where capita-es and activists come together and decide to invest room the Labour Exchange to meet and consider the follow-up to the fight for relocation of capita-es. Therefore, activists, permanent es associations (DAL ...), sometimes close to the mayor in place, pose a strongly hierarchical control framework (tinged with paternalism latent) d?douanant mayor of responsibility and directing capita-es to bring their claims to the Department, when we know that the council has the ability to commandeer unoccupied. A demonstration is scheduled for tomorrow, news are written to organize the struggle and the balance of power in front of the town hall. Before the event, and in a context even harder, since a new person has succumbed to his injuries, capita-es decided to occupy the Basilica of Saint-Denis to put pressure on the mayor and the prefecture in order to their right to immediate and permanent relocation, Saint-Denis. After a night of occupation and negotiations with the prefect, the damaged-es are offered a solution that is not satisfactory: they will be hosted es, until 1 st October in a social hotel in Saint-Denis . The accommodations were extended but the struggle remains to be done! But what is unsafe? This is the slumlords who have full place in the city, it is the right of ownership and the laws that mark their unconditional support to the owners, it is the mayor who hardens the conditions for recognition of unsafe and leaves do slumlords. In the center, many slumlords are day and night for many tenants and sub-tenants. They leave rotting homes and extort every month tenants rents skyrocketing. Made from scratch, unhealthy is nothing inevitable. And the mayor will stop at nothing to save face! A mail delivered the day after the occupation of the Basilica of St Denis in all boxes of the city reported, "After the fire on the night of 8 to 9 September, which caused the death of two people, the entire municipality has mobilized alongside the victims and their families "(e" Absorb the slums private emergency "). "Mobilized"? Torn at first by mobilizing disaster: two nights office, a fee of 8 euros per day for four days proposed to es-stricken who had lost all their papers, and had no roof over their heads the aftermath of the tragedy. What lessons can we learn from this fight and what are the prospects for intervention are considered to be active, as anarchists in the struggle housing? -Exit the emergency is not involved in charity as support to damaged or es-es expelled, but as people are concerned, the problems of poor housing and / or deported. We are all concerned and all-es by housing policies that aim to make war on the poor pretext of fighting against unhealthy: they pay rent ruining, which is ill-housed-es, that we know the unhealthy -Exit the emergency is to act upstream of evictions to create class solidarities that are based on the interests of each person to organize his neighbor-e. -Exit the emergency is locate in a neighborhood, act locally through leaflets broadcasts through collages to make visible the presence of militants, to educate capita-es to subject, to create horizontal solidarities between the main and main-'re concerned. Group in the Paris region.
(en) Spain, Lights in the dark: CNT and CGT members on indefinite strike against redundancies in Catalunya
Members of the anarcho-syndicalist CNT union and CGT union have gone on indefinite strike and occupied their workplace at the IMESAPI lighting plant in Granollers, Catalunya, Spain, demanding an end to the redundancy plans which would see four of the 21 workers let go. ---- The workers ? now 23 days into their strike ? are responsible for maintaining the street lights throughout the small Catalan town, and therefore are of critical importance to the town council. IMESAPI itself is a part of the huge ACS conglomerate owned by Florentino P?rez, the multibillionaire engineering tycoon known internationally as the owner of Real Madrid FC. ---- Crucially, all of the workers at the Granollers plant belong to either the CNT or CGT unions, who have vowed to back the strike as long as it continues, unlike the mainstream Comisiones Obreras union, who signed off on similar redundancy packages at IMESAPI plants in Barcelona (which saw a failed strike) and Tenerife. Despite now finding themselves alone in their struggle, the IMESAPI strikers have been industrious: holding twice-weekly family demonstrations marching through the town to the town hall. The strikers' march through the town centre on 22 December was a cold bucket of water for shoppers on possibly the most important commercial day of the year. As their children - at the demonstration's head with a banner that said: ?FLORENTINO PEREZ, WHAT ABOUT OUR TOYS?? - filed past over the umpteen Nativity scenes and kitsch Christmas decorations, one could sense an evident contrast between the absurd myth of Christmas plenitude perpetuated by town councils and retail, and the real sense of festive lack being endured by many in crisis-hit Spain. Indeed, workers on the demonstration spoke of a lean Christmas, while many were worrying about their next mortgage payment. A further blow has been the cynicism of IMEPASI, who still haven't paid their workers their annual Christmas bonus, despite repeatedly promising to do so. They have also refused to open their books to the unions, who suspect financial irregularities on the part of their employers and claim that the new redundancy measures would make the remaining workers' jobs impossible. The strike and occupation continues and you can keep track of it on Facebook (in Catalan/Spanish): http://www.facebook.com/ImesapiGranollersEnHuelga Posted By Caiman del Barrio Dec 27
(en) France, Press the Anarchist Federation FA - Equality for all, to stop discrimination against gays and lesbians.
The proposed government legislation on the marriage of gays and lesbians led homophobic all sides to express themselves by pouring their hateful and sexist. Homophobia remains valid in France, where it is far from being a marginal phenomenon; proof: the suicide rate of young homosexuals is much higher than that of heterosexuals. Some are subject to "corrective rape" wipe suffer insults and rejection of their surroundings. ----Homophobes often confused, deliberately or not, homosexuality and pedophilia. In the first line, of course, waving fundamentalists of all religions and the minions of the extreme right which simplified view of sexuality is only the complementarity between men and women for reproduction. In parallel, their conception of gender relations is often rooted in a division of roles according to sex. However, we anarchists know that gender is a social construct that assigns roles to each gender normed, themselves based on the patriarchal model. Concerning marriage, no matter what you think of this institution, it is mainly a question of equal rights here. We are not talking about religious marriage - we have nothing to do - but civil marriage, which officials - or self-proclaimed - religions do not have to mingle. When people do not enjoy the same rights as others, it is discrimination. For too long in this country, people of another sexual orientation that the majority are the target of discrimination. The quality of education and affection children need not depend on the sex. Studies show that children are not disturbed because they live with same-sex parents. Make a link between disturbances in children and growing up with homosexual couples or lesbians is the ideological stance. Most of the time, this opinion is based on religious dogma. Moreover, this may impair the individual is a grow in a closed, folded on itself, regardless of its parents. Equality between individuals is the least we can require. It will be a vector of changing attitudes to finally all remaining patriarchy, sources of domination and violence disappear. Marriage for all, the right to adoption for homosexuals and medically assisted procreation lesbians are making progress, and this even if the institution of marriage is reproduction factor is a patriarchal model. Law or otherwise, without the struggles against homophobia, backward mentalities can still gaining ground. It is only expressing our solidarity and condemning all acts and demeaning speech that we can make them disappear. We denounce all about that prioritize people according to their gender or sexual orientation. We demand equality of rights for all people, here and around the world. Secretariat for External Relations of the Anarchist Federation.
(en) France, Alternative Libertair #222 - Nantes, European green capital: The ecological imposture (fr)
Perfect example of a green political propaganda, Nantes M?tropole was awarded the Trophy for green capital of Europe, while the Socialist mayor intends concreted 2000 hectares of agricultural land to build an airport in Notre-Dame-des -Landes. ---- The European Commission accepted the application of Nantes to be European Green Capital in 2013. The criteria are manifold: sustainable land use, nature and biodiversity, local air quality, noise pollution, waste management ... With the construction of the airport, the expropriation of peasants and therefore designed an urban development at the expense of the environment, ecosystems and populations, this trophy received by the city is the green or greenwashing propaganda. It represents an important policy issue for the mayor of Nantes and its airport project on the one hand and the other hand for the PS and its strategy of participatory democracy, to infiltrate and stifle protests. Stifle protests Jean-Marc Ayrault experiments and the limitations and benefits of this strategy at the local level to better apply nationally. To counter any resistance, the council has decided to release grants. There will be a call for proposals in the direction of citizen associations for the island of Nantes, headed by the Samoa - the development agency of the island of Nantes - including former President is nothing qu'Ayrault. Another trophy for the " Nantes, European green capital "for which the municipality has a budget of 150,000 euros and a price of 5000 euros for organizations whose projects are selected. The media will be present and the aim is to give the image of a metropolis green / green and make it a showcase of participatory democracy dear to PS. This is to forget that the black dot represents the airport Notre-Dame-des-Landes and Nantes presented as an innovative city in terms of democracy, since has priori Hamburg and Vitoria Gasteiz (Basque Country), the citizens were not associated with the dynamic " Green Capital "and the famous European label was perceived more as a scam. Collusion associations Differences exist between the various environmental organizations Nantes. On the one hand, those who want to participate in this call for project boasting to find a way to denounce the airport are often dependent on subsidies granted by Nantes M?tropole (up to one million per year and employees) . On the other hand, there are those who want to boycott "call citizen" by refusing to endorse the greenwashing . For those who question the construction of the airport, the challenge is to take this initiative to expose the greenwashing and highlight the hypocrisy of the mayor who presents himself as a model of sustainable development but concreted 2000 hectares of agricultural land 10 kilometers from Nantes. The call for project highlights the collusion between the Socialist mayor and a good part of the voluntary green Nantes which partly explains the weakness of the anti-airport city. The opposition center at the airport relies heavily on the agricultural sector and local residents directly affected (suburban communes, squatters ZAD). One of the challenges is to mobilize the population more strongly Nantes still somewhat concerned about this fight. Yet there is the historical example of the mobilization in 1997 against the proposed nuclear power plant book, near Nantes, which had been abandoned, reminding us that strength can continue to grow. Maud and Stephanie (AL Nantes)
(en) International CGA - - IAL #93 - Turkey: After the release of the comrades, the struggle continues! (fr)
"Model for Tunisia and Egypt," "potential ally against Syria," Turkey is the center of attention of the Western media. A few years ago, Turkey was the big bad wolf should not be accepted in the European Union, "because Turkey is not part of Europe" (version geography textbook from 19 th century), "because Europe is Christian" (version frankly fascist), "because Turkey does not respect human rights" (version kindly left but not too much of it ...). What has happened in the meantime? Turkey she turned "heaven on earth"?! No, the crisis is over there: the enlargement of the EU is no longer on the agenda (but rather to avoid the explosion) and emergency social concerns all countries, including including the richest. ---- In reality, while large French media praised the merits of Turkish democracy and its "moderate Islamism" as a model for plans to build after the popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, the reality is quite different. The AKP is a party popular in western countries for its economic liberalism. At the same time, it is also a conservative party that threatens women's rights, Kurds and ethnic and religious minorities (including halevis) or sexual minorities (LGBTT). Even if claims of political Islam, the AKP largely met expectations politician-not-s power in Europe and North America because it protects the interests of the economic and military power in the region . And among conservatives, we get along well, whatever the color of their flag! On the occasion of May 1 last, a procession was formed anarchist to display a radical rejection of the capitalist state policies and oppose the search for economic and social equality, freedom and practice of class solidarity . On this occasion, a few windows of banks and multinationals were shattered. The State's response was immediate and completely disproportionate: several alternative locations were raided and ransacked, 60 people were arrested and, following this, 15 of them (6 of which are not even in Istanbul! ) were imprisoned under the guise of anti-terrorism legislation (as proof? A book of Kropotkin, anarchist theorist, found at home!). They and they spent more than three months in deplorable conditions of confinement (isolation, conflict, overcrowding and lack of beds, non-compliance with diet). From the inside, and they have continued to fight collectively, including a hunger strike that has enabled them to improve their conditions of detention. Mobilization was also organized outside with their supporters. In Istanbul, a group is responsible for transmitting information to the anarchists and the world Istanbulites, to raise money and organize events around the prisons. Solidarity actions also took place around the world, including Germany, Switzerland and France (three rallies at the initiative of the CGA were held in Lyon, Lille and Paris). In Paris, a manifestation of a hundred people went to the Turkish Embassy to shout his anger and defend the freedom and the release of the anarchists and all political prisoners. It is thanks to the mobilization of locked-es and their supporters they could be released August 17-es. The ridiculous accusation of terrorism but fell 9 of them already have a trial date (25 January 2013) for damage to public goods. The fight is not over. Must organize solidarity to pay the costs of repression (lawyers, potential penalties etc..). We must support the comrades who were pressured to prevent them to express themselves and to resume their political activities. We must also continue the fight against repression in general, as there are still thousands of opposition-es (Kurdish students, communists, feminists ...) languishing in Turkish jails. Turkish state continues to pursue a policy of state terrorism, as evidenced by the massacre Roboski December 28, 2011, in which 34 people including 19 children were killed in a bombing. The activists are imprisoned-es, es tortured, assaulted es fascist thugs physically manipulated by the Turkish Government or by the forces of repression. Faced with this, beyond borders, Solidarity is our weapon! Group in the Paris region
Rusga Libert?ria/MT ? CAB - Analyze Election 2012 for capital Cuiab? - Vote Null is our choice! (pt)
Again we come to yet another electoral period, 07 October 2012 and the choice of who will be the next legitimate representative of "the people." Regionalism, belief, family and many other values ??that are placed throughout the training period, since the bonds created in society to formal education are used to demonstrate how "pure" and faithful follower of the customs of the majority of society.--Cuiaba, capital of Mato Grosso, as elsewhere, it also has very strong conservative traditions such moral sewn with a very strong regionalism rooted in a massive show of faith and are of great value for the majority of its voting body, so it is one of the initial tactics taken over by professional politicians in this election period. The stage is mounted and the circus in hopes of applause from the audience at the end of another show. So repeating the policy of " bread and circuses " . Again the games begin ... There are six candidates are in the election by the city of Cuiab?: Adolfo Grassi (PPL) without a coalition with other parties, Carlos Brito (PSD) coalition "Cuiabano Feeling" (PSD / PCdoB / CSDP / PRTB / PSC / PTN / PHS / PSL / PTC), William Maluf (PSDB) coalition "Cuiab? to You" (PSDB / PRP / PTdoB / PP / PMN / DEM), L?dio Cabral (PT) coalition "Cuiab?matogrossobrasil" (PMDB / PT), Mauro Mendes (PSB) coalition "A New Way to Cuiaba" (PDT / PR / PPS / PSB / PV) and Attorney Mauro (PSOL) without a coalition with other parties. Even with six candidates, the competition is fierce between two candidates, and these are two names that we'll get in this material, and Mauro Cabral L?dio Mendes. Mauro Mendes is a businessman, owner of Bimetal industry that is the largest in the capital and has also been president of Fiemt (Federation of Industries of Mato Grosso) since the beginning of his campaign speech that is by being an entrepreneur and owner of a large amount of financial capital has no reason to steal / divert public money that will be used for the progress of society cuiabana. Mendes is the third time since the disputed election in 2008 for mayor of Cuiab?, 2010 for the State Government of MT and now comes back to the race for mayor of the capital of Mato Grosso for the next four years, 2013-2016. L?dio Cabral is gazetted physician, professor of medicine at UNIC, a law student and a member of the group Gra?na that operates within the PT and was for two terms as a councilor in the Municipality of Cuiab?. The same was almost expelled from the party in 2008 for failing to support Carlos Abicalil in one of its electoral disputes, Abicalil CNB is part of the group that also operates within the party workers, the group Gra?na (L?dio group that is part ) sat down with the power to close CNB support and output candidate for mayor of Cuiab? for the next four years. There is information passed L?dio that such support could only be guaranteed by some benefits, which unfortunately we were not informed for current supportive of his candidacy. The two candidates who are seen as the biggest dispute in the numbers of votes have the same historical promises to improve society, but at no time was witnessed position contrary to all this privatization policy that has been introducing in the country. What is clear is this: the first candidate mentioned is a businessman and this is clearly advocating and implementing all the policies that will benefit your fellow entrepreneurs, the second candidate will do the same, justifying the following improvements implemented by the government since the PT their entry into the federal government. What people can expect from all this? Who will really benefit from all this? Pantanal Cup 2014, public-private alliance within the public agencies to provide free service to society and so many other things that will come back to this "great investment" profitable for the shareholders. The population is once again falling into the siren call back and only feel the weight of the whip after all this electoral process. Trust this process will have major consequences historically bankrupt with the start of the games world and more dramatically after this yields the "progress" that has been spat on street advertisements and television. Health, Education, Housing and the World Cup 2014. Cuiab? as other Brazilian cities also involves the same race urban works (road loops, transport, hotels, condominiums and cleaning the city putting far to the poor so they do not cause a vision enojadora for tourists), readjust the way management public health partnerships with PPP or via OS and there are rumors that there is also a project that will be used for education in the same way that is being imposed for health. Also the games are largely speculation of this whole process, there are several areas where the risk of going through expropriation in order to implement a "social eugenics" ( poor cleaning company that is not part of the value characteristics for progress society ) removing the peripheral population of their place of residence and that too mostly close to their workplaces. Within this speculative game the connivance of the judiciary and public defender on housing issues are magnified by the result of corruption, where those who can pay more concerned has won. Billions, millions and millions of dollars are being removed from public coffers and intended for that coveted football venture. Totally ignoring all mobilization which had in recent months across the country, where all categories of workers and students were claiming social rights and improvements in working conditions for civil servants in Brazil. The health here in the capital is increasingly precarious, until very method that can be expected to justify application of the PPP and the OS. The same practice has been used in other public bodies that were here in town and the most recent was SANECAP will privatize public company's capital which controlled the supply and treatment of water in Cuiab?. The federal government has already made an investment approaching the billions, or perhaps already surpassing, for education of professional qualification. Where institutions like SENAI, SEBRAC, CENAC and many others who work with this kind of "education" courses are opening fully geared so that they can create labor-destined from the construction work for the 2014 World Cup and during the period of his realization thereof. Money that could have been designed to improve the state of public education, higher education and federal government and also for the health sectors that are increasingly being harmed and harmful to society. To invest in the health and education of the population? A people without the ability to think critically about your reality and his poor health is a people easy to be overwhelmed and placed at the mercy of wills dominant. The popular struggle is the path of transformation that we choose ... Null vote and fight through the resistance organization forged in popular social movements, through the principle classist and combative by direct popular action guiding the construction of People's Power. We vote because we do not believe that Null representative democracy and participatory said, where the population participates only when you have to choose who will be their new oppressor and executioner. We believe in the direct pathway of representation, direct action and popular and federalism as a method of organizing society, voting will not be able to top that improvements to the bottom. We believe that it is through Popular Organization of society, so horizontal, classist and combative that we can change our reality and put an end to this class society sprouted massive inequality and exploitation of the oppressed people. Building an Other Campaign , organized under to pressure through direct action upon those is our role, as our urgencies do not fit in the polls! Standing shoulder-to-shoulder in social struggles is our role as anarchists with especifista method of organization, being present as much as possible in every form of anti-capitalist struggle always with north building a strong people who walk into the Popular Power. There's dead who peleia! Dream, Fight, Build Popular Power! Cuiab?, October 2012 ============================================ * Anarchist Organisation especifista of Mato Grosso - Contact: rusgalibertariafao@riseup.net
call-out for actions and donations - protest in CHOUCHA
[deutsch unten] Dear friends, as you might have learned from previous mails, refugees in choucha-camp/tunisia will start a protest in january, aiming at scandalising their bad situation and urging the responsible UNHCR to listen to their demands. Firstly, it would be great, if you could initiate solidarity-actions in your towns. It could be anything like rallies, demonstrations or information events - everything that could raise the attention to the protest is welcome! For further information and to get in contact with referees feel free to contact this email adress. Furthermore the protesting refugees are dependend on funding to be able to leave the camp, to network with supporters and for publicity work, which would make the protest heard in a broader public. Your donations are very welcome to make the protest possible and to make it public. Also small amounts will help! Please direct your donations to the following bank account: FFM Berlin Sparkasse der Stadt Berlin Account number: 61 00 24 264 Bank code: 100 500 00 Keyword: "Choucha" For further information, check: www.afrique-europe-interact.net www.voiceofchoucha.wordpress.com www.borderline-europe.de PS: Signatures for the open letter to Mrs. Aboubacar/UNHCR/Tunisia are still welcom! Just send you own name or the name of your organisation to choucha@riseup.net.
Liebe Freundinnen und Freunde, wie ihr wahrscheinlich schon aus einer der letzten Mails erfahren habt, werden Flüchtlinge in Choucha-Camp/Tunesien ab Januar einen Protest starten, um ihre durch den UNHCR verursachte Perspektivlosigkeit zu skandalisieren. Erstmal wäre es super, wenn ihr in den nächsten Wochen Solidaritätsveranstaltungen in euren Städten organisiseren würdet. Das kann von Kundgebungen und Demos über Informationsveranstaltungen alles sein, was euch in den Sinn kommt und auch hier den Protest in die Medien bringen könnte. Kontakt zu ReferentInnen und weitere Informationen könnt Ihr gerne über choucha@riseup.net erfragen. Außerdem brauchen die Flüchtlinge Geld, um das Flüchtlingslager zu verlassen, sich mit weiteren Organisationen zu vernetzen und Informationen über ihren Protest an die Öffentlichkeit zu bringen. Eure Spenden sind gefragt, um den Protest zu realisieren und ihm größtmögliche Öffentlichkeit zukommen zu lassen! Auch kleine Beträge helfen! Bitte schickt eure Spenden mit dem Stichwort "Choucha" an: FFM Berlin Sparkasse der Stadt Berlin Konto: 61 00 24 264 BLZ: 100 500 00 Stichwort: "Choucha" Weitere Informatiionen findet ihr unter: www.afrique-europe-interact.net www.voiceofchoucha.wordpress.com www.borderline-europe.de PS: Unterschriften für den offenen Brief an Frau Aboubacar/UNHCR/Tunesien sind weiter willkommen! Schickt einfach euren Namen oder den Namen eurer Organisation an choucha@riseup.net!
zondag 30 december 2012
Today Videos: Solidarity from Vienna and Berlin Refugee Protest camps
Today Videos: Solidarity with Vienna's Refugee Protest camp and Oranienplatz Berlin >> http://thevoiceforum.org/node/3015 Solidarity with Vienna's Refugee Protestcamp from Oranienplatz Berlin - 29.12.2012 A solidarity message from Berlin to the Sisters and Brothers resisting in Vienna after the eviction of the Refugee Protestcamp of Sigmund-Freud-Park. Together we stand. The fight goes on. http://asylstrikeberlin.wordpress.com “We, the Refugees and Supporters of the Refugee-protest camp at the Oranienplatz Berlin Germany want to strongly point out our solidarity with our fellow Refugees and their Supporters in Vienna, who were victims of the brutal police operation in the early morning of 28.12.2012. The eviction of your Protest Camp was totally unjust, the way it was driven directly by the government and executed by their inner armed forces by bypassing the City Council. The sudden operation with no announcement or further negotiations together with the humiliating treatment of our fellow refugees as well as the arrest of some of them is by no means tolerable and will never be accepted. We strongly condemn the harassment and violation of human rights executed by the state police in the camp last night. Politically these kind of practices are aimed at keeping Refugees in isolation as part of the european post-colonialistic policies to keep all of us asylumseekers and migrants away from Europe. This must stop! We all here in Berlin feel strongly with YOU- the Refugees in Vienna! We wish you to have the power and courage to take the last nights eviction as no reason to give up the fight but in contrast to take to the streets even stronger! We send all our solidarity from our hearts to YOU! Together we stand! The struggle continues!” Endorse the International Statement of Solidarity from Refugee Protest in Vienna By pressteam on December 29, 2012 All our support and solidarity to the protest of migrants and asylum seekers in Vienna! The protest camp set up by asylumseekers in Vienna has been brutally evicted last night. It is part of a growing European movement of migrant struggles, that has recently seen similar protests in Berlin, Amsterdam and Calais, as well as Lesvos, Budapest and other places. They contest authoriatrian border regimes and the migration policies of the EU and its member states. Please spread this call via your lists and blogs, and email refugeeprotestvienna-solidarity@riseup.net to sign the statement (Subject: Solidarity Vienna)! https://refugeecampvienna.noblogs.org The protest camp On the 24th of November 2012, hundreds of migrants seeking asylum in Austria marched from the isolated and overcrowded government camp storing them to set up a protest camp in Vienna along with Austrian supporters. Their demands are: the right to work and stay in this prosperous European country, as qualified legal support and translation. Building their own and self-sustained protest camp, the protesters have created a vibrant space of participatory democracy, solidarity and mutual aid; an inspiring constituent process. They have shown what a truly open and cosmopolitan Europe might look like. The church occupation On the 18th of December, after weeks of building a strong movement and camp, and after weeks of being ignored by the government, they decided to move into the church that borders on the protest camp. When the asylumseekers sought refuge in the church the government could no longer ignore them. However, while the government has acknowledged the legitimacy of their demands, the talks have been fruitless as the government refused to take the necessary action to improve the situation. The hunger strike The days of Christmas, which so festively celebrate that Joseph and Maria found asylum in Bethlehem, have been a cold and inhospitable time for the protesters. As politicians joined their families, leaving the refugees with little more than vague promises of more talks, the refugees saw little other option but to enter into hunger strike. Meanwhile, migrants have come to Vienna from all over the country, to join this protest and affirm the importance of another kind of politics of migration and asylum. Their demands have been echoed and supported: we have heard the director of Caritas as well of different union leaders affirm the importance of giving migrants the right to work as they seek refuge. The eviction Today, on the 28th of December, in the dark of the night, a large number of police violently evicted the camp. The frame of the democracy and community that has been built up in the cold winter month running up to Christmas was razed to the ground within few hours. The politicians in charge have not only broken the talks, but chosen to penalize the act of protesting against the inhuman conditions that asylum seekers have to tolerate in Austria. Police registered the identity of everyone at the camp; people who were inside tents had to stand up in front of the tents, were photographed and filmed from all sides in most humiliating ways. The police now presses charges against 24, and two are said to be arrested because of lack of residence permit. But people are determined to continue the struggle, with the church filling with ever more refugees and transmigrants every day – even if the support of the church and Caritas is very reluctant, at times blocking access to the church. Freedom of movement and protest are human rights – we support the important cause of migrant struggles and the brave acts of civil disobedience in Vienna and everywhere in Europe! We demand that the Austrian Government guarantees the right to protest, also for non-Austrian citizens; stops any ongoing legal actions against people exercising their right to protest; stops all racist policing; resumes the negotiations with the asylumseekers, which this violent eviction was so clearly designed to interrupt. We repeat and stand fully behind the asylumseekers’ demands: 1.) Grundversorgung (basic support) for all asylumseekers, as long as they reside in Austria, irrespective of their legal status; 2) Free choice of their location of residence in Austria, and access to public housing for all asylum seekers residing in Austria – no transfers against the wishes of the people concerned; 3) Access to employment, educational institutions and social security for all migrants residing in Austria; 4) Stop all deportations to Hungary – stop all deportations associated with the Dublin Regulation 2; 5) Establishment of an independent authority for substantive review and appeal of all negative replies to asylum applications; 6) Recognition of socio-economic motives in addition to the previously recognized escape reasons Endorse the International Statement of Solidarity from Refugee Protest in Vienna http://refugeecampvienna.noblogs.org/ For the full list of demands, see: https://refugeecampvienna.noblogs.org/post/2012/11/25/bewegungsfreiheit-...
Refugee camp in Vienna evicted - please sign or send statement of solidarity
Ciao,
At the link below you can find the Italian translation of the international statement from Vienna, that could be useful for those who are willing to spread it and publish on their website.
In solidarity
Paola
Comunicato internazionale di solidarietà ai richiedenti asilo in lotta a Vienna!
Tutto il nostro supporto e la nostra solidarietà alla protesta dei migranti e dei richiedenti asilo di Vienna!
Il campo di protesta costruito dai richiedenti asilo di Vienna è stato brutalmente sgomberato l’altra notte. Esso è parte di un crescente movimento di lotta dei migranti in Europa, che ha visto di recente proteste simili a Berlino, Amsterdam, Calais, Lesbo, Budapest e altri luoghi. I migranti contestano il regime autoritario dei confini e le politiche delle migrazioni dell’Europa e degli altri Stati membri.
Chiediamo a tutti di diffondere questo appello nelle liste, nei blog e di scrivere a refugeeprotestvienna-solidarity@riseup.net (soggetto: Solidarity Vienna) per sottoscriverlo!
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Inviato: Venerdì 28 Dicembre 2012 22:21
Oggetto: [Action2-l] Refugee camp in Vienna evicted - please sign or send statement of solidarity
Please sign the following statement of solidarity with the refugee protesters of the evicted protest camp in Vienna.
The hungerstrikers among them are still in the church neighbouring the camp and will stay there as long as possible.
We want to put some friendly pressure on Austrian politics to finally react. Please sign the statement by sending your signature to
refugeeprotestvienna-solidarity@riseup.net, subject: solidarity Vienna.
From tomorrow early morning on you can also sign online.
Please spread the statement! We urgently need solidarity statements of persons, groups, the more and the more prominent, the better.
Thank you all,
Lisa/Vienna
All our support and solidarity to the protest of migrants and asylum seekers in Vienna!
The hungerstrikers among them are still in the church neighbouring the camp and will stay there as long as possible.
We want to put some friendly pressure on Austrian politics to finally react. Please sign the statement by sending your signature to
refugeeprotestvienna-solidarity@riseup.net, subject: solidarity Vienna.
From tomorrow early morning on you can also sign online.
Please spread the statement! We urgently need solidarity statements of persons, groups, the more and the more prominent, the better.
Thank you all,
Lisa/Vienna
All our support and solidarity to the protest of migrants and asylum seekers in Vienna!
The protest camp set up by asylumseekers in Vienna has been brutally evicted last night. It is part of a growing European movement of migrant struggles, that has recently seen similar protests in Berlin, Amsterdam and Calais, as well as Lesvos, Budapest and other places. They contest authoriatrian border regimes and the migration policies of the EU and its member states.
Please spread this call via your lists and blogs, and email refugeeprotestvienna-solidarity@riseup.net to sign the statement (subject: solidarity Vienna)!
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The protest camp
On the 24th of November 2012, hundreds of migrants seeking asylum in Austria marched from the isolated and overcrowded government camp storing them to set up a protest camp in Vienna along with Austrian supporters. Their demands are: the right to work and stay in this prosperous European country, as qualified legal support and translation. Building their own and self-sustained protest camp, the protesters have created a vibrant space of participatory democracy, solidarity and mutual aid; an inspiring constituent process. They have shown what a truly open and cosmopolitan Europe might look like.
The church occupation
On the 18th of December, after weeks of building a strong movement and camp, and after weeks of being ignored by the government, they decided to move into the church that borders on the protest camp. When the asylumseekers sought refuge in the church the government could no longer ignore them. However, while the government has acknowledged the legitimacy of their demands, the talks have been fruitless as the government refused to take the necessary action to improve the situation.
The hunger strike
The days of Christmas, which so festively celebrate that Joseph and Maria found asylum in Bethlehem, have been a cold and inhospitable time for the protesters. As politicians joined their families, leaving the refugees with little more than vague promises of more talks, the refugees saw little other option but to enter into hunger strike.
Meanwhile, migrants have come to Vienna from all over the country, to join this protest and affirm the importance of another kind of politics of migration and asylum. Their demands have been echoed and supported: we have heard the director of Caritas as well of different union leaders affirm the importance of giving migrants the right to work as they seek refuge.
The eviction
Today, on the 28th of December, in the dark of the night, a large number of police violently evicted the camp. The frame of the democracy and community that has been built up in the cold winter month running up to Christmas was razed to the ground within few hours.
The politicians in charge have not only broken the talks, but chosen to penalize the act of protesting against the inhuman conditions that asylum seekers have to tolerate in Austria. Police registered the identity of everyone at the camp; people who were inside tents had to stand up in front of the tents, were photographed and filmed from all sides in most humiliating ways. The police now presses charges against 24, and two are said to be arrested because of lack of residence permit.
But people are determined to continue the struggle, with the church filling with ever more refugees and transmigrants every day - even if the support of the church and Caritas is very reluctant, at times blocking access to the church. Freedom of movement and protest are human rights – we support the important cause of migrant struggles and the brave acts of civil disobedience in Vienna and everywhere in Europe!
We demand that the Austrian Government
- guarantees the right to protest, also for non-Austrian citizens;
- stops any ongoing legal actions against people exercising their right to protest;
- stops all racist policing;
- resumes the negotiations with the asylumseekers, which this violent eviction was so clearly designed to interrupt.
We repeat and stand fully behind the asylumseekers' demands:
1.) Grundversorgung (basic support) for all asylumseekers, as long as they reside in Austria, irrespective of their legal status;
2) Free choice of their location of residence in Austria, and access to public housing for all asylum seekers residing in Austria - no transfers against the wishes of the people concerned;
3) Access to employment, educational institutions and social security for all migrants residing in Austria;
4) Stop all deportations to Hungary - stop all deportations associated with the Dublin Regulation 2;
5) Establishment of an independent authority for substantive review and appeal of all negative replies to asylum applications;
6) Recognition of socio-economic motives in addition to the previously recognized escape reasons
For the full list of demands, see: https://refugeecampvienna.noblogs.org/post/2012/11/25/bewegungsfreiheit-fur-alle-fluchtlinge-we-will-rise/
(en) Rusga Libert?ria/MT ? CAB: Alberto "Pocho" Mechoso, for FREE! (pt)
The remains of Alberto "Pocho" Mechoso were found on Wednesday, May 23. Founder of the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation (FAU), especifista anarchist organization, "Pocho" was also syndicalist Workers Federation of Meat and active militant of the Popular Revolutionary Organization 33 East (OPR-33), the armed wing of FAU that supported the strikes and performed kidnapping of bosses and expropriations to finance the fight. -- In his last years of life, "Pocho" militated in Victory By Popular Party (PVP), an organization that dissolved the FAU inside. "Pocho" remained with other colleagues within the FAU PVP with intent to refound the organization especifista. Stuck in Buenos Aires on September 26, 1976, his body was found with seven others on the seabed, in barrels with cement. We recall that companion without even having known that is very dear to us. Your example will be present in our militant struggle, today and forever. Libertad o muerte! Ni olvido, ni perdon! Hasta siempre, Pocho! them that Luchan Arriba! Bruno, OASL We reproduce below a translation of a fragment of the book "Direct Action Anarchist: A History of FAU" and a letter written by "Pocho" before his escape to Argentina. Alberto "Pocho" Mechoso - Extract taken from the book "Direct Action Anarchist: A history of FAU" ALBERTO "Pocho" Mechoso, Anarchist And expropriator Born in Trinidad in the department of Flores. Ali did his first two years of school, then it would continue in Montevideo. Could not finish elementary school. Family workers who had insufficient income, learned to share the difficulties with his four brothers. The family, tired of a situation that did not offer any possibility of improvement, emigrated to Montevideo. It was a matter of trying his luck, like many neighbors who had already left for this adventure. The street Ansina, in Palermo neighborhood, where he was their first friendships montevideanas and immediately formed a group of friends. The eaves of the School Street Gaboto witnessed some punishments suffered by responding to teachers. It was quick and sharp for questioning about things he considered wrong. Cerro and La Teja were the neighborhoods that saw him grow. Three brothers became anarchists and libertarian in your home has become the subject of every day. Wondered, had sympathy, his rebellious spirit the approaching this ideology that demanded justice for the poor and not asked the knees. Later he worked in the meat industry and during a long strike eventually fired. Then marketer for a while along with some of his brothers. There was the FAU also had rather a Grouping Anarchist-Cerro and La Teja also Athenaeum Free-Cerro La Teja. Military Youth began in the Athenaeum. Already ran over half of the 1950s, this time the work was scarce. The economic crisis was beginning to hit strong at home workers. With a group of young people like him, friends and each other almost every libertarian supporters, began talking about finances to mount a cooperative work and donate a portion to the gleaming FAU. Finally decided to expropriate a Bank of the Paso del Molino La Caja Obrera. It was a careful job, studied in detail. They found a greater amount of money than expected. They made the donation and left the rest for the agreed purpose. This was, incidentally, the first bank in Uruguay expropriated. A year later was arrested linked to this episode. He was arrested six years: in Miguelete and Punta Carretas. Lia much in prison, for example: "Nationalism and Culture" Rocker, "Life and Thought of Malatesta" of Luiggi Fabbri, "The Revolution" of Landeur, novels. In a package, weekly received at least one book. "- How are these fighters, they follow the background?", Asked for a visit in mid-1959. He followed with great interest the Cuban process. He left prison with more political training and immediately made contact with FAU. Conversations began to define his post of militancy. Mauricio (Gatti) was the first to think that they would incorporate it into activities like armed. "Pocho" had quick reflexes, good treatment to accommodate people, youthful, rebellious and determined, all this made him a natural. He liked jokes, played with serious issues, made jokes about himself and engaged militancy. But this was accompanied by a profound faith in what he did and true respect for the work. It was good operations but did not underestimate anything, always wanted to analyze the details well. Finally, was the formation of OPR, a key part of any organizational work and also to encourage trust in comrades who were starting. Here poured his experience and his decision. Integrated as charge, the first operational team when it decided to face the armed activity in a specific and continuing. Performed at the beginning, with his team precursor, bank expropriations decided by the Organization and which were vital to the development of ongoing projects. After he served in various operations, including retention bourgeois. Aguilar was part of the [*] and his experience and steadiness were invaluable contributions to this body that was responsible for armed action of the Organization. Dropped arrested, was savagely tortured, resisted with uncommon integrity and alone staged a spectacular escape from a barracks. Recovered from cuts on hands and broken ribs, and FAU's decision, moved to Argentina. Ali was immediately reinstated activities. Captured, again suffered torture at Pozo de Orletti [illegal imprisonment]. Today is one of the companions who figure as missing. Pocho, his nickname audience, or Martin, his name battle, always kept their customs, their culture good man of the people. Neighborhood boy, good street, autodidact, reader, modest and with a deep sense of belonging to the lower, left an indelible mark. We know that (he shared it completely) are not the people themselves that produce the development and retention of an Organization. It is an amount of effort from many people that produces something fruitful. It is in this context that we point this contribution militant. However, it is certain that in March of this set is indispensable companions with exceptional contributions. "Pocho" and "Saint Romero" undoubtedly were example. [*] The OPR-33 was organized in "cells" or teams of 3 or 6 people, two or three of whom banded together to form units of work (operational, services or information). Aguilar was the body responsible for articulating these units. (NT) Text Translation: Khaled, Black Flag Anarchist Collective Alberto "Pocho" Mechoso - Today and Forever - Live the fighting!! ---------------------------------- Alberto M?ndez Mechoso (Pocho) 1936-1976 This letter was written after his stay in the 5th Artillery headquarters, barracks located next to the North Cemetery, which fled. "Pocho" disappeared in Argentina as militant FAU inside the sea militant who was the PVP 1976. Companions: From August 6 until now, I think I learned more, much more than I taught the 6 years I spent in Punta Carretas; seem to have learned much more than I have in 35 years of life. On one side is the experience within the Barracks, facing the executioners, compassionate hands of companions. Moreover what happened later, from the outside. The night after leak found myself on television. Required by Me "is bound to ..." and on either side of one line that really had passed. After new lists of demands. One was headed by my companion. Informed me that the house where she lived with my mother, with my partner and my children was closed in custody Joint Forces. I informed him that a military with several patents said that this house would only be returned if I surrender. And all that I live so intensely, are living it, one way or another, hundreds of thousands of Eastern [Uruguayans]. Many small separated from their parents because they are trapped or because they need to go elsewhere to seek work here that are not. There are many mothers who do not see their children or because they are being persecuted because they work from sunrise to sunset to help fill the pan. There are many women that the end of a working life does not have a roof where shelter because they can not pay with their pensions or miserable because the mind of the executioners rotten revenge on them the rebellion of the children with immense affection that they were able to create . And before all this, what other way do we have? Before all this, how worth living life? There is one way, there is only one way to live without shame: fighting. Helping to that rebellion extends everywhere, helping to unite and chased the man out of work, helping to make the "seditious" and exploited workers recognize themselves as companions, who are struggling to learn to face a common enemy. For all that, comrades, want me keep a place for everything ... I will not delay in returning. Liberty or Death. "Pocho" Text original em: http://federacionanarquistauruguaya.com.uy/2012/05/23/alberto-pocho-mechoso-hoy-y-siempre-arriba-los-que-luchan/ Translation: Khaled, Black Flag Anarchist Collective Retrieved on page: http://www.vermelhoenegro.co.cc/2012/05/alberto-pocho-mechoso-presente.html
en) France, Alternative Current OCL #225 - Portugal, Mobilization against austerity: When you lost all hope and patience ... (fr)
I learned the November 12 trip to Portugal Angela Merkel, not to go watch the Tagus or listen to fado in one of every least popular of Lisbon - which in itself would not have a greater impact the visit of any star in such circumstances - no, she went to distribute good and bad points to the politicos involved in the "killing" part of the Portuguese people. ---- These politicos to whom the German Federal Chancellor visited are on the lookout, and for them, the crowds, and the tightening of hands begin to nothing more than a distant memory. For these times, their main concern is also their own safety - avoid getting squished by the wrath of increasingly fierce they say the people govern.---Wonder how, in any case, that feelings and about anti-German, still isolated to do day in Portugal? They are often a mixture of very bad taste and patriotism sovereignism, and we hear especially in the mouths of some Communist Party leaders - just read the speech of Jeronimo de Sousa, General Secretary, the party Party to notice: formulas as "patriotic policy" or "patriotic government" back repeatedly. But if you rather lend ear to ordinary mortals, comments are an expression of a different feeling, and imbued with a certain naivety - as evidence that the German ruling with stiffness behavior could have a role as an educator with local leaders, the population no longer considered as thieves - a term well suited to the current power holders but also to those who held yesterday. A brief history of the Portuguese austerity ... The first austerity measures (after the fact, you can almost be seen as a light aperitif) were announced and implemented in Portugal in May 2010. At that time the Socialist Party was in power with his Prime Minister Jose Socrates, it is an increase in VAT to all levels (the highest from 20% to 21%). At the same time approved an increase in the income tax of 1% for the lower tranches and 1.5% for others, and a surcharge of 1.5% for the companies most beneficiaries. Passos Coelho, then in opposition and now prime minister, after voting for these austerity measures, addresses Portuguese to apologize to them. All this is obviously not enough (and I think here measures advocated in France by M. Welsh!) in September of the same year, Mr. Socrates, who has very little of a Greek philosopher, returned to the charge and announced a reduction in the salaries of civil servants by 5% and VAT increase to 23% at this point in our history drama, no echo of crying or some excuse from Mr. Passos Coelho measures are approved, and nothing is settled. There must be a majority of Portuguese has not particularly benefited from the generosity of the regime vomit what they have not eaten! In March 2011, our socialist resigned Socrates and legislative elections are scheduled for June 5, 2011. Come out victorious parties PSD and CDS, which form a coalition: the Social Democratic Party (PSD), with 108 members, and the Democratic and Social Centre - People's Party (CDS-PP, composed of Christian Democrats and nostalgic monarchy), with 24 members in an Assembly consisting of a total 230 seats. And whoever is appointed Prime Minister is obviously other than Passos Coelho - precisely the man who, one day, apologized for the harsh measures approved. But what do you think happens? Of austerity, of course! Always austerity. On June 30, our man in the country announced the removal of half of the premium paid at the time of Christmas, and tries to justify this fact by the deplorable state of public accounts. And is it enough? Of course not, the limits of austerity are impenetrable! October 13, 2011, for fifteen minutes, additional measures are presented in Portuguese: for civil servants and pensioners who receive 1100 euros and more, are squarely and immediately removed the premiums for their 13th and 14th months for those affecting between 600 and 1100 euros, the deduction is phased and will come into force during the years 2012, 2013 and 2014. It seems that the Constitutional Court considers these measures to be unconstitutional, but it keeps for budgetary reasons regarding 2012. Here we must take into account the fact that the Portuguese minimum wage is currently 485 euros: the addition of an amount equivalent to two months of additional wage does not really favored them, as some insinuate ... Also at the same time are also announced, to meet the requirements of the "troika", the obligation to work half an hour more each day in the private sector and the removal of four holidays (two of them being religious, he had the approval of the Vatican), and a further increase of VAT to certain goods or services located at an intermediate scale. All these measures obviously trigger several large demonstrations in Lisbon, where workers and employees from several parts of the country come together to do this, but it does not seem to shake the certainties of power and a clique who seem see the application of this harshness the reason for his own survival. And ... "solutions" to the current crisis And here are the steps that will cause the biggest demonstration that Portugal has seen since May 1974, shortly after the revolution known as the "eyes" on September 7, the government advocates a radical change in the Unified Social Tax (1) . The TSU is the percentage of expenses shown on a payslip: share of workers is then 11% and 23.75% of the employers, the idea of leadership is to climb the workers and 18% lowering the bosses to 18%. An idea, I think, which aimed to improve the competitiveness of enterprises, and at the same time to scrounge a few sous. September 15, at the call of some thirty civil society personalities who accuse the State of promote unemployment, precariousness and inequality, demonstrations took place in a large number of cities in Portugal, and even to some embassies and consulates abroad. Are estimated to have gathered more than a million demonstrators, which is about 10% of the population. The slogan was "What emerges Troika, we regain control of our lives" - a message very nice compared to what I've seen on a lot of signs, where the crudest insults against political generally reflected the degree of anger. Our unspeakable leaders accustomed to more restraint on the part of the population, the shock is terrible and the measures are promptly thrown out. But the story does not end, the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund are there to remind us. To lighten the mood, I tell you the desires of a character ridiculous ridiculous Mr. Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, one day in July, during one of the rare moments when he must leave the cartoons on TV and start thinking, is that the Portuguese have become couch potatoes and unable to move and he therefore urges ... from working abroad! A wonderful solution that seems set a whole bunch of problems, draining the country of its inhabitants, so that only scammers, thieves and profiteers of all kinds who made ??his fortune have the right to stay there, they will go with some boys look at where the price of labor is very cheap. How can he open his mouth to recommend an exodus, this gentleman, while we are talking about a country where the population growth rate is 1.3 children per woman - and this is certainly not the current circumstances will make him reach the replacement level of generations? Back to the litany of austerity measures. TSU reform failed, we must present an alternative, the Minister of Finance Vitor Gaspar splint and it immediately finds the solution: we will use the income tax (IRS) by reducing the number of slices from eight to five and increasing the average fee of 9.8% to 13.2%. Measures frenzy continues thus: before we had time to understand one another is set up - all in order to reap the maximum tax. But this time, the Minister Vitor Gaspar, sacrilege! also claims to pay the rich: impose cars and other large displacement yachts, financial transactions, investment properties high, etc.. I hope that the Minister is not becoming "communist", under the influence of his cousin Francisco Lou?? - original Trotskyite and founder of BE (Left Block) with 8 elected at the Assembly? While unemployment now exceeds 15%, the memorandum states that the troika wage increase (in fact, the minimum wage) is justified only if the economic development and labor market pressure to allow Portugal to become competitive and if everything continues to move towards the desired objective, which is to see the cost of labor in Shanghai and Shenzhen exceed hers in a few years! Even before all this stuff measures, however, the regulation of the labor market had completely exploded, and find a job with a permanent contract fell within the feat. The families of the lower middle class and even the working class, who have sent their children to the University by making the most of the time, many sacrifices are forced then to meet their needs for very long. One of the fascinating things in our democracies, it is the perfect irresponsibility of our leaders in the bankruptcy and collapse of everything they have undertaken for decades: nothing is ever as it works it works, and after should not come to hold them accountable - it is not their fault, never their fault! But they find an excuse - the difficult international context, the crisis or whatever you want - it would be too easy, and it certainly is not me who will give them absolution. The union side, no surprise Finally, a few words about the general strike and the demonstration that took place on Wednesday 14 November. The CGTP - the largest union Portuguese, founded in 1970 and close to the PC (16 members) - organized for the third time in a year a general strike followed in the very public, transport, port services, etc. . This plant does not like anarchists, Trotskyists nor, nor those who believe that without bureaucrats and egalitarian society is possible, and she does not overflow, but times are tough, and in Lisbon demonstration ended in front of the Parliament, with severe clashes between demonstrators and police for more than two hours. The bombing of all kinds of objects made ??by the demonstrators provoked repression by the cops with dogs and sticks, it resulted in seven arrests and 48 injured. According to the police spokesman, it is the cops who suffered from throwing stones, the ones with the wounded ... but maybe not arrested? As the fight began when protesters remained in place, it is easy to imagine the blows that brought the police on anything that moves, in fact. We can see from the pictures many people face bloodied. Later, Young said: "We are outraged, and it was for them to see that we have lost all hope, but what we have patience. ' But if the CGTP not like overflow or groups who do not share his views, she does not want the police to attack the workers and encart?s doing picketed bus depots, this happened in three or four places. Carlos also Arm?nio, Secretary General, he said that such actions were unacceptable, and that sought to limit the right to strike, which proved that the executive was desperate. The events and the repression that took place in Parliament, however, he was not heard anything ... EL Insert Menu of the day, the large market background privatization The Constitution established after April 25, 1974 spoke of a society undergoing irreversible socialism and nationalization. In 1989, when is the Prime Minister (1986-1995) the current President of the Republic (there since 2006, it does not legislate or govern, but is living proof of a certain masochism on the part of the electorate!), the Constitution was amended and the irreversibility of nationalization abolished therefore privatization are required for the fix. According to the policy discourse, this will allow the creation of large groups of healthy competition, inevitably, going to benefit consumers in many other wonders ... It was during this period that the land is restored to the Alentejo former owners, with strong compensation. Portugal joined the EEC in 1986, the money comes in waves, but requirements accompany this "generosity": the destruction of countless industries, including fisheries, agriculture, forestry, etc.. Compensation are proposed for lifting or dropping of all that is not to the taste of the EEC. I do not describe the tsunami of corruption of all kinds that accompanied the boom years, the confusion between private and collective pistons, well-paid jobs for politicians and their friends - should all pages of this journal extra to go around ... The socialists in power from 1995 to 2002 are not left out, and communion exactly the same political line. From 2002 to 2004, the country was ruled by one who is now the President of the European Commission, and in another life was a militant Maoist MRPP, I mean Dur?o Barroso. It remained only two years at the helm of power, before resigning to go to Brussels. He built football stadiums for Euro 2004, and in 2003 the same rehashed lies that Blair and the Americans to defend shamelessly intervention in Iraq. He advocated the privatization of absolutely everything - from water to the air we breathe. The EU has loved it. Today is the big clearance sale, you have to return the money, then everything is for sale. Among the buyers, if there is still more or less from "classic" - as Vinci, candidate among others to buy (ANA Airports and Air Navigation) - Two new investors with many money and a lot of appetite in recent years came on the market: China and Angola. The first is in the lead with 6 or 7 billion investment and the China Three Gorges, the State Grid or oil Sinopec acquired significant shares of all that is related to renewable energy and other fuels and their operating ports ... and soon - very important for Chinese ports, with the expansion of the Panama Canal ... The former Portuguese colony, Angola, whose owner is President Jos? Eduardo dos Santos, also in his shop Portugal. This is especially the eldest daughter of President Isabel dos Santos is in charge. The richest woman in sub-Saharan Africa is increasingly a major owners of Portugal holding interposed: Santoro (banks), no Kento (multimedia), Esperanza (energy and petroleum) and this ... likely to continue for some time, given the rate of growth of Angola. This woman has spent $ 4 million for her wedding in Luanda, in a country where 58% of the population has no access to drinking water!
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