(en) Brazil, Coletive Mineiro Popular Anarquista (COMPA) - Bulletin No. 5 - Our urgencies do not fit in the polls, only life changes with resistance and struggle! (pt)

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Published the fifth issue of the Bulletin of COMPA, written to address the issue of 
elections, their illusions and the need to build our program and emergency needs - 
housing, health, transportation, labor, land, rights - by our own hands, -direct action, 
autonomy, political independence and solidarity. Create Power to transform society 
according to our guidelines and our emergency room, never to be guided by the above, in 
elections or outside. ---- Below is the report in full, printed and distributed in Belo 
Horizonte and its metropolitan area, and in this link you can download the 
PDF.http://pt.scribd.com/doc/240794231/BOLETIM-DO-COMPA-N-5-Nossas-Urgencias-Nao-Cabem-Nas-Urnas-a-Vida-So-Muda-Com-Resitencia-E-Luta


BULLETIN OF COMPA

Mineiro Popular Anarquist Collective

Year II - No. 5
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September 2014

www.coletivocompa.org
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compabh@riseup.net

OUR EMERGENCY NOT FIT IN URNS, LIFE CHANGES ONLY WITH RESISTANCE AND FIGHT!

Hello mate, how are you? Imagine you were still the target of several political 
advertisements on the street or on TV. It's election time and so many political parties 
are vying for your vote and promising worlds and backgrounds to come or stay in power. 
Well, we're also doing a kind of political campaign, but different professional 
politicians Because we do not expect nor enrich and stay powerful at the expense of taxes 
on anyone. We just want to chat a bit with you. Can we?

At that time, too much money is spent on political campaigns millions in the streets 
and on TV. Often these campaigns are financed by companies that hope to profit from 
overpriced public works, diverting a lot of money and handing in quite dubious services. 
Do you remember the viaduct Peter I who fell? In the end, what remains is to choose the 
people with enormous difficulty that candidate who seems to be the least corrupt. Quite 
falsely call it democracy ... but is it really?

Interestingly, besides thousands of pamphlets that they distribute, just watching too many 
advertisements on TV, saying that now is the right time of the people participating in 
democracy by putting in our head that we can change if we vote right injustices, 
humiliations and violence that we suffer every day; put in our head that we will end 
corruption with the simple act of voting in the least worst candidate. What they do not 
say is how many elections need to be made to make it happen.

After almost 30 years can vote directly on candidates, not much has really changed. It is 
a fact that the last decade many of us out here can buy things they could not before: cell 
phone, better clothes, TV, car installments, financed a college ... But if you look well, 
actually we are sinking in eternal in credit card debt, with interest and blackmail of the 
big companies and banks, which are allied to the federal government and profit billion per 
year. What's more, only in recent months, hundreds of poor young people were killed by the 
Brazilian police, the biggest killer in the world. Workers such as the S?o Paulo subway 
strikers were fired and prosecuted for going on strike. Hundreds of Indians and landless 
rural workers were murdered at the behest of very rich farmers. Protesters were arrested 
and prosecuted for crimes they did not commit. All this with the name of democracy, and on 
a government that claims to be the trabalhadores.Os governments change, but the injustices 
remain.

And as for you, in your daily life, how do you think the health walks in your city? And 
public transportation always expensive and of poor quality? And public education for their 
children? And the quality of your work, where you spend your whole day?

Say that we have a democratic government, that "power emanates from the people", but still 
face the same obstacles that always marked our history: a deep inequality between a small 
group of wealthy and the rest of society, which are millions of poor, workers, black, 
black, women, unemployed ... that's us. Inequality maintained by a political class always 
in favor those rich and against our people. If during the military dictatorship, marked by 
torture and murder of those who fought against a corrupt and violent government, we could 
not choose our representatives today various old problems still exist and others even 
worse, even existing "democracy" where we can vote and even apply to us (the "democratic 
state of law")

Consider: what about the right to housing in a country where most people suffer from 
increasingly high rents? The right to housing does not exist where we have to choose 
between eating well or have own a home, or even just a decent rent. What about the fair 
face we have to do when you give, because immense Brazilian lands are at the service of 
soybean production for the profit of a millionaire landowner minority, which earns selling 
the product of our land? What about the hours we lost standing in crowded bus when we 
could be with our family, just because companies profit more that way? And the sleepless 
nights in PSUs, clinics, our low wages, humiliation of our bosses?
Is it really a democracy? Did something changed or will change only by changing governors 
and presidents?

We at COMPA think not. As Emma Goldman, the anarchist woman who lived there years ago says:

"If voting actually changed anything, it would certainly be prohibited. "Even the rich and 
powerful agree. And that is why both the TV and the electoral parties, with which the rich 
are connected, try to convince us that the urn is best place to exercise our power, still 
talking to strikes, demonstrations, occupations of housing and land are troublemakers and 
things that do not lead anywhere. Actually try to convince us but they can not fool us. 
That's why last year millions of people took to the streets across the country and now the 
occupation of abandoned land in BH provide housing for more than 25 thousand people. 
Politicians, businessmen and the media make this whole campaign against the demonstrations 
against the strikes against urban occupations around the country, precisely because people 
know that the fight is only able to make a change indeed, with his strength and the 
streets. It is the fear of the rich: they do not want no change, and they know that people 
making politics out of the polls, can in fact exercise the power they have and get the 
rights you deserve from their own efforts.

Therefore we call the people of that city, to be sympathetic to the fighters and the 
fighters of the people and you know it's only to fight that the people can be heard in 
fact, and not through elections.

Call, then, for any and all OTHER CAMPAIGN build a campaign that emerged in Mexico with 
the Zapatistas and proposing, basically, what we say here: our strength comes from the 
streets, our People's Power, and not the ballot box. We have a program of emergency to be 
created by our popular organization: health, education, transportation, job, housing, 
land, issue of women, blacks, the LGBTT community ... which can only be discussed, argued 
and won by our union, by our organization, for our luta.O program that really meets our 
demands will only arise in our own hands, and will only be achieved by ourselves. These 
elections will be discussing with you directly working warrior, a resident of occupation, 
attendant callcenter, unemployed, retired, a student who does not accept injustice, 
proposing to organize ourselves in the workplace, study and living, we participate in 
demonstrations, discuss with our colleagues and friends about the problems we face, seek 
solutions through our organization and we are sympathetic to those who seek.

Fighting is not a crime, democracy is on the streets, or is directly or not democracy is!

CREATE OUR PROGRAM FIGHTS AND EMERGENCIES, FAR THE ELECTIONS!

Crowded and expensive bus: profit guarantee for the businessman, who is allied with the 
mayor! MAKING PEOPLE POWER! GET OUR RIGHTS AND OUR STRENGTH REQUIREMENTS WITH THE STREETS!