Today's 8 Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #258 (Feb) -
Neighbourhoods, The "community organizing" husked (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Greece, Bull Workers Counter # 104 from the SSC blog Athens.
(gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. edinburgh anarchists: SOLIDARITY ACTION – HIGH RIGGS JOB
CENTRE MON 14TH MARCH 3PM by Dave Mackay (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Alternative Libertaire Tract AL - Against the "work"
law: everything goes through the struggle (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. afed.cz: Brief report of a feminist Carnival Saturday
against fascism. [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Czech, afed - A3: When the fun stops [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. US, Seattle Solidarity Network Supports Camp Dearborn
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #258 (Feb) -
Neighbourhoods, The "community organizing" husked (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
For many activists, a question that often remains unanswered is: how to mobilize people?
How to develop frameworks for collective political consciousness? The research and trials
of community organizing, spanning over a hundred years, are a response to end this problem
(almost) insoluble. Proof by example in Grenoble. ---- In order to develop popular against
powers, the community organizing is a method of action and collective organization that
takes as its starting point the rulers and injustices experienced by people physically, to
pursue three objectives. ---- The first objective, which can be described as pragmatic and
reformist, is to view the world " as it is " and collectively undertake struggles in the
form of direct action to achieve improvements in the living conditions of classes (as
could a union, but on land ranging from housing to education through labor).
The second objective, which is a real dynamic of popular [education 1 ], will realize that
these struggles conducted and won collectively will help to overcome a feeling of
inevitability and real political exclusion. They will also be the development of class
consciousness framework based on a certain interpretation of social antagonisms.
The third objective pursues a revolutionary project: the aim is indeed to build a balance
of power by the collective organization of those whose only power is their number.
Introduced and theorized from the late 1930s by Saul Alinsky [ 2 ], the community
organizing comes from across the Atlantic [ 3 ]. One finds its principles in the struggles
of California farm workers around Cesar Chavez, and one can see parallels with the
analyzes of Freire [ 4 ]. In France, these methods have been developing since the late
2000s, in various modes.
On one side of the activists from-es or close neighborhoods are discovering the community
organizing on a trip to the United States in 2010. Convinced-es, they and they are trying
to implement this approach in France end up creating the Praxis Studio, one of the
activities is to train and support collective neighborhoods such as Stop ethnic profiling
[ 5 ], Zonzon 93 [ 6 ] and many others.
On the other hand, activists, social workers, disillusioned-es by the limits of their
previous practices, discover the thought of Saul Alinsky and interested. They and they
start to train with London Citizens [ 7 ] and create in Grenoble in 2010 the Echo association.
In 2012, Echo becomes a citizen Alliance [ 8 ], whose governance is ensured by its members
and not by the activists. This first trial in 2013 inspired the creation of the
association in Rennes If allied itself [ 9 ]. Today, an organization of the same type will
start in the Paris region [ 10 ]. Note that there is also an international organization,
the ReAct [ 11 ] (Network for transnational collective action), which aims to bring
together residents and wage earners against multinationals.
The Citizens Alliance in the Grenoble area, for its part, has recently changed its model,
leaving that charged by London Citizens, which was to be based primarily on existing
communities (associations, schools, cults, etc.). It is now implementing the model
practiced by Acorn [ 12 ], a very powerful organization in North America (up to 175 000
members in the United States in 2010, currently 70,000 members across Canada) whose method
is to go meet individually with people, which allows us to reach more remote from public
life and collective frameworks.
All of these projects can be compared to a Multi-Terrain revolutionary syndicalism, whose
base is not the company but the neighborhood. They are launched by people who seek to be
in the action and take practical measures in a materialistic and pragmatic approach,
convinced es that direct action is a powerful means of popular education, and the
denunciation of rulers can be truly effective in fighting effectively against acts they
generate.
These experiments are already producing results but are still at the experimental stage.
The terms vary (you translate "organization of citizens", "community organization", or
something else?), How to also do (individual memberships collective memberships both
no????): How to import France this Anglo-Saxon method requires experience, in order to
combine the best efficiency and democracy, radicalism and pragmatism. To be continued ...
At the Citizens Alliance in the Grenoble area, the work of the base is to go door-to-door.
When the board of the Alliance, made up exclusively of members, decides to go to meet the
inhabitants and inhabitants of a new district, he commissioned it to an organizer or an
organizer (this is how people who are designated working for the citizens Alliance). He or
she will then embark on a period of intensive door-to-door. For four hours each day, he
will knock on all the doors in the neighborhood.
The key in these individual meetings is based on the concerns of the people we encounter,
their practical problems and daily newspapers. The front door is radically materialistic,
and at this stage it is considered that all the anger is legitimate. If a person is angry,
it is because there is a sense of injustice, and there is no judgment to make on that anger.
It is this legitimacy which makes possible mobilization: it is indeed the antithesis of
approaches which people are accustomed: on one side, the sphere of social work tends to
return the responsibility for the difficulties the person (do you handle well your budget?
you busy yourself well your child? etc.), and other political groups are stronger in
inappropriable scholars and electoral discourse to fight and get victories over small
concrete injustices.
popular self-education through action and collective
This first meeting is already in itself a moment of political consciousness. Indeed,
during a successful door-to-door, the organizer or the host will accompany the person
questioning her, so she searched the problem she talks ( "And also that is how ? before
and how was it? "), it searches and identifies the solution it wants to see implemented,
it identifies the structural cause of the problem.
This is called the "verticalization", as opposed to so-called horizontal anger aimed
neighbors, which do not have more power than us. All this so that it becomes aware of the
weight of social injustice in the fact that this problem is not resolved, she imagines the
number of people who live the same injustice and strength that would bring that number to
regroup, and finally she imagines how it might act collectively to change that.
When the Citizens Alliance launches into a new neighborhood, the goal is to quickly get
the commitment of a maximum of people. By becoming members, they will work with the
organizer or the host to communicate with their neighbors and neighboring dynamic
organization in progress. The organizer will thus look to the "put in motion" to more
quickly, so they are maximally themselves structuring their neighborhood. "Can we go see
all the neighbors you know? Do you have time to go see your side other tenants in your
rise to speak to them? "
Gradually, a group was formed. After 4 to 5 weeks, members will meet for group meetings.
From the first meeting, the organizer will propose modes (animation, decision making)
that will allow to acquire all democratic habits. These practices will then become the
culture of the group, will be appropriate for members, which will never be naive before
the false steps of institutional consultations.
We find these practices in neighborhood assemblies, which bring together 50 to 100
members. It is during these meetings that the members decide what actions to take priority.
cc Nicolas Moiroud
windows for all!
At the meeting of a neighborhood, the members decided to tackle the problem of dilapidated
and poorly insulated windows in some homes. This problem does not apply to all members,
but all agreed to treat all first. We treat others then. A letter has already been sent to
the landlord to request the replacement of the offending windows, but no response was
obtained. The Assembly therefore decided to take a pressing action the following week.
A group of five members is appointed by the Assembly to prepare the action. On the day,
blankets on their shoulders, many tenants are set at the local office of the landlord "was
cold in our apartments, so today we just warm up in your office," they said, claiming that
their windows are insulated. The local press is there to immortalize the scene. A manager
comes in, says he does not like the method, but listening to the claims and promises an
appointment before the weekend.
A spokesman for the group prepares the negotiation by role-playing with the organizer. The
Citizens Alliance will finally get the commitment of the donor to replace the emergency 75
most dilapidated windows. Such actions obviously seeks victories, but these victories,
they aim to encourage the members confidence in their ability to collectively intervene
and to voice their social interests in the public square.
While one side our society demonizes the conflict, accusing the troublemakers to prepare
the civil war, and on the other hand we can not count those that fatalism leads to the
submission or the disaffection, the community organizing believes in inclusive under
social conflict. Paradoxically, it is assuming to oppose the institutions that can take
its place in society.
Or feel part of a society is a prerequisite for the desire to want to change.
Starting with going door to door and take into account the anger of "most concerned", the
community organizing is to mobilize win victories by rolling back some of the many small
social injustices that they suffer. Through their experience in the Citizens Alliance and
participation in concrete actions, people are becoming aware of social conditioning and
structural inequalities they experience and live an alternative by practicing radically
democratic processes. The victories gradually allow to structure a mass organization and a
balance of power more favorable.
Adeline DL (AL Paris-Nord-Est)
[ 1 ] On the popular notion of education as we understand it, see the AL record No. 252 of
July-August 2015.
[ 2 ] Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) is considered the founder of community organizing.
[ 3 ] Read AL No. 252 July-August 2015: " The pragmatism of the Atlantic " by Julien Talpin.
[ 4 ] Brazilian pedagogue.
[ 5 ] Collective founded in 2011. stop control at the facies .
[ 6 ] Association based in Villepinte. Zonzon93
[ 7 ] Citizens UK is a grassroots organization based in the United Kingdom: citizensuk
[ 8 ] Citizens Alliance 38
[ 9 ] If allied itself
[ 10 ] Organize idf citizens
[ 11 ] ReAct
[ 12 ] Acorn USA, founded in 1970, was dissolved in 2010 following a smear campaign by the
tea party against him. Acorn . Canada Acorn: Acorn canada .
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Le-community-organizing-decortique
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Message: 2
For the dismissal of colleague Sophia Press by "Frame" (Larissa store) a communication of
the Libertarian Syndicalist Union (ERC) Athens Sector Trade and Services says: Sophia
refused to accept the unfair dismissal. Appealed to the Labour Inspectorate and with the
operational organization of workers in the "Framework" claiming the reinstatement. We
support the struggle of redundant colleague andbusiness association. The rationale would
be a victory for all workers, especially for colleagues working with epifaleis terms and
terrorism of the bosses over their heads. Liked and being kicked, SAY THE BOSSES -
TERRORISM IS ... TO PSACHNEIS FOR JOB FOR US ALL IS CLEAR AND A BATTLE! ---- Illegal
dismissal and trade union persecution denounced by notice of the Association of Technical
Employees Heraklion Crete. The communication of the WAP Heraklion note the following: When
the employer thinks he is above the law ...
The audacity of these employers has surpassed all previous illegal fires and attempts to
criminalize trade union action: after blackmailed the female counterparts to throw the
child to continue working after they attempted to cheirodikisoun when claimed accrued, a
photographe left her for months unpaid in order to force to resign since threatened to sue
our union and journalists since the threatened for life if she went to a complaint to IKA,
since the they threatened that they could be the malign enough to never find work again
... and ends the communication: a paitoume reuptake female counterparts and withdraw any
complaint from an employer of PANTHEON coast! Massive performance Friday 11/3, 9:15
inspection!
Criminalize the trade union movement and the Syndicate Metal races Attica metalworkers
union crawl systematically in trials with engineered indictments, with particular
intensity in the last two year, it said in a statement of the TRADE UNION LABOUR / of all
METAL N. ATTICA WORKERS Shipbuilding / SMW INDUSTRY GREECE. And [adds the statement: This
is a dirty industry prosecutions against trade unionists that was set up by the employers
mechanisms VIPAS (industrial park Schistou) to terrorize the Syndicate and general workers
who raise the head and fight for their rights. In place of the prosecutor are contractors
companies, some of which have close contacts with the Nazi criminal organization " x
periods a Dyn". The lawsuits are not accidental. Neither the way nor the time of
persecution is random. Hundreds of lawsuits were the result of stubborn reaction of
employers, who did his best not to get into VIPAS, the union and the union action.
Call for Tuesday 08/03 at 7.30pm at the offices of WAP (Fokionos 11 and Ermou) for
organizing weekend against unemployment and precarity, address collectivity Attack
unemployment and precarity. The call is addressed to associations, labor collectives and
shapes, struggle committees, workers' clubs and neighborhood assemblies.
Against wars and xenophobia, we strengthen our militant solidarity to refugees. It said in
a call to collect relief items held on March 5, the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
PHARMACEUTICAL, MEDICAL PRODUCTS & ALLIED PROFESSIONALS .And the call went as follows: Our
enemy is war and not refugees. We are fighting against those who caused the uprooting and
defend refugees and their rights. The association also called a separate call to involve
all employees in the pharmaceutical industry, against the war and sympathized in any way
they can to refugees who are uprooted workers.
Still another worker was killed on time douleias.Prokeitai FOR A 52chrono worker killed in
mine "Black Stones" Halkidiki on Monday 29/2 from falling stone tumors. The lack of safety
measures of the company that manages the mine was reportedly the reason of atychimatos.I
company on the altar of profit besides ecological katastorfi causing in the region, in
addition criminals at the expense of workers.
New judicial "adventure" for workers and trade unionists of the Institute of Geology and
Mineral Exploration (IGME) for the mobilizations of past years against the closure of the
Institute. The new court date is set for Monday, February 29 and defendants facing similar
charges to previous trials. Recall that recently on 11/16/2015, union-workers IGME
sentenced to 6 months imprisonment with fabricated charges of disturbance of domestic
peace, and on the same charges were acquitted in three previous trials.
Two-hour strike on March 9 workers in supermarkets' Marinopoulos "have been announced.
They shall not be layoffs, not to cut back on wages and given away all allowances cut the
employers.
Continued abstinence until Wednesday, March 16, 2016, the lawyers decided. Lawyers react
to the new anti-insurance law. On March 15, will hold meeting to assess the developments
and then to determine their attitude. In continuation of abstention from work up to the
March 4 progressed after decision and engineers up to the March 3 notaries, when it is
expected to redefine their attitude.
Immobilized stayed Tuesday, March 1, subway trains, and electric tram due to employee work
stoppage. In symbolic occupation of MOF entry, made Wednesday 2/3 the noskomeiakoi doctors
and POEDIN. protest show at the Labour Ministry Tuesday, March 1 held and employees at
OTA. Employees in local government in this way expressed their opposition to the new
Insurance and especially for the Heavy and Unhealthy (BAE).
To organize the resistance in workplaces, neighborhoods, schools against state and
capital. Support - participation in protests against the new insurance. The memoranda and
bills abolished the barricades , said in a statement on the bill guillotine the Occupation
Mansion Kouvelis. For us, then, is clear. If the current struggle against the new
insurance does not enter into a framework anticapitalist and antikratiko away from
parliamentary illusions, even victorious prove will not ultimately nothing more than a
Pyrrhic victory and a step towards our future crash, says the announcement of Occupation
villa Kouvelis.
With the participation of more than 400 comrades held Saturday, March 5, a demonstration
in Athens against the dismantling of social security and anti-social measures. The march
started from Monastiraki and moved on roads Athena Stage Fillelinon, Souris, Amalia
University (and ended at Propylaea). Throughout the duration of shared assemblies texts
and collectives, shouting antikratika-anticapitalist slogans (Blocking the insurance
against state and capitalism.
Occupation in line Pheias the Union of Greek Shipowners (EEE) in Piraeus held Wednesday,
March 2, unemployed sailors, members of the Panhellenic Union of Merchant Marine sailor
(Penn EN) in protest for t not unemployment in the sector.
Rally Wednesday, March 9 against the insurance monstrosity has GSEE announced. Moreover,
it has already taken a decision on a 48-hour Nationwide General Strike, when and if the
government proceeded to deposit the disputed bill in the House. You think ... awakened the
giant selfish?
The Panhellenic Federation of Railway assessing the situation, both the advancing
privatization and the continuous depreciation of the station and own railway decision to
proceed if a consecutive rallies and actions. Specifically gatherings will take place in
Thessaloniki and Athens on 15/3 and 22/3 respectively, and 3 hour work stoppages at 22/3
and 23/3, and strike at 28/3 with concentration outside HRADF. But will be other actions
that will be announced soon.
For us, however, the workers regardless of nationality, refugees and immigrants, victims
of war and poverty, is not managed state mechanisms and economic elite. We do not tolerate
human life depend on decisions of transnational institutions such as the EU and frontex,
the nation states, and needs of the economy. This notice states the Libertarian s
Initiative As Thessaloniki (CAT) which calls for progress in Kamara Thessaloniki Thursday,
March 10th. The communication of the CAT adds: Against each power, we now answer and
always with class solidarity. The weary, the barefoot of our time, the persecuted because
of wars and persecution of all authority and every state, refugees and migrants, are at
the heart of our solidarity. It's our class brothers, the most undervalued, underpaid and
insecure part of our class, prey on the teeth every small and big boss. It is our duty to
preserve his dignity and the free movement of all workers, erasing the boundary lines that
powers carved out for their nationals but not for goods of the bosses and demanding
immediate legalization of all migrants and immigrants. Always on the side of the weak,
oppressed, uprooted this world, regardless of color and religion, locals and "foreigners",
immigrants of yesteryear, immigrants of today and tomorrow we join hands, we raise our fists.
Finally , massive layoffs in the pharmaceutical company mylan. Fired about 80 people
according to new designs of "spare", in view of the acquisition of the mylan the
pharmaceutical company also abbot.
Tags: anarcho-syndicalism , ERC Athens
http://ese.espivblogs.net/2016/03/07/7-3-16/
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Message: 3
On Monday 29th Feb Edinburgh Claimants provided an accompanier for a claimant who had come
to us for support after being intimidated and bullied during interviews at High Riggs
Jobcentre. ---- Past experience at High Riggs where staff (up to management level) have
attempted to obstruct claimants being accompanied by making up arbitary rules, such as
that accompaniers need to show ID, led Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty to hold a
leafletting session outside in case solidarity was required. ---- When the claimant and
his accompanier attempted to enter, four G4S security guards blocked the way, physically
separated the claimant from his accompanier and asserted that the claimant had no right to
be accompanied. The four volunteers leafletting came to the door to insist on the
claimants rights and were physically assaulted and menaced by the security guards.
This is the latest in a catalogue of bullying, harrassment and denial of rights at High
Riggs stretching back over the last two years. It is vital that we don’t let them get away
with this any longer. The same claimant is being accompanied by the same volunteer at the
next signing date on MONDAY 14TH MARCH.
EDINBURGH COALITION AGAINST POVERTY ARE THEREFORE CALLING FOR A LARGE SCALE SOLIDARITY
ACTION AT HIGH RIGGS JOBCENTRE ON MONDAY 14TH MARCH AT 3PM.
THE RIGHT TO BE ACCOMPANIED AT APPOINTMENTS IS FUNDAMENTAL IN PROTECTING CLAIMANTS FROM
ISOLATION AND BULLYING. PLEASE COME ALONG TO HELP ASSERT THIS RIGHT.
High Riggs Jobcentre, 20 High Riggs, by Tollcross, Edinburgh EH3 9HU
https://edinburghanarchists.noflag.org.uk/2016/03/solidarity-action-high-riggs-job-centre-mon-14th-march-3pm/
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Message: 4
Valls and Macron El Khomri are well aware that the bill attacking the labor code very
wrong happening with youth and wage earners. But even if the government begins to show
signs of weakness, he'll have a big movement to bend and secure the withdrawal of the
bill. After the time of the petition, now is the time to mobilize and strike. ---- On
March 9, the Minister of Labour, Myriam El Khomri was to present a draft law written to
give more freedom to employers and less security for wage earners. With this tailored
law, payments received by wage earners unfairly dismissed es will be capped, companies can
lay off even if they make profit (they will just prove that their results are down) and
the cherry on the cake, Sunday work may be imposed by the referendum when unions have refused.
PDF leaflet to download
Furthermore, employers have the option to extend the maximum working hours per day and per
week and propose agreements that allow them to reduce wages or increase the working time.
The mobilization grows
Faced with the mobilization raised by this text antisocial, the government shifted the
presentation of the bill to 24 March. This little maneuver politician had three goals:
salarié.es asleep anger, and of lycéen.nes Students';
to believe that he was willing to listen and change his plan;
negotiate with the unions more docile (I must say "responsible") to try to divide.
But even if the government is willing to throw some crumbs to the CFDT, it is under no
illusions about the outcome of these negotiations.
Given the statements of Valls, El Khomri or Macron, the bill to be presented on 24 will be
roughly the same, with the same gifts to the bosses and the same crap for wage earners.
The proof is that the Medef, the club bosses, actively defending the bill.
That's why we were 500,000 take to the streets on March 9 and that's why we will continue
to move us.
Fear has changed sides
On 17 March, it is the facs and colleges that call to mobilize. And from 17 to 31, there
will be different mobilization dates based on the professional sectors. But the next date
on which you have to put the package, it is March 31, interprofessional strike day.
What scares the government, it's a big movement like in 2006 against the CPE , with youth
(high school and facs) and wage earners in the street. That is why he is trying to put out
the flames and that is why he relies on the state of emergency to help us expressing
ourselves.
The condemnation of Goodyear trade unionists to nine months in prison shows that the
government hopes to silence dissent.
To strike to win
To successfully achieve the withdrawal of the El Khomri bill, we must speak the only
language the government understands: that of the balance of power.
The only solution is to show that we are able to block the economy by the strike. We must
fight against this policy to serve patrons. For the sharing of wealth and the decline of
working time, everything goes through the fight!
Photo: Mobilization against the Douai El Khomri law. cc AL Douai-Valenciennes.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Contre-la-loi-travail-tout-passe
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Message: 5
On Saturday 12 March, two in the afternoon gathered at the Republic Square in Prague about
60 feminists and feminists. At the microphone were several speakers who and who among
others emphasized that sexism can not be understood separately from fascism, racism and
other forms of oppression, and therefore it is not possible to wage a struggle against
them separately. While also not possible to ignore the struggle against capitalism. In
various speeches, speakers and speaker repeatedly positioned themselves against attempts
by fascists and xenophobes exploit the theme of feminism. ---- After the speeches, the
march passed the accompaniment of recorded music in carnival mood center of Prague.
Despite somewhat weaker participation was seen and heard and raised a number of (mostly
positive) reactions around. Significant initiatives were banners No Racism! "We need
feminism because oppression apologizes nature," a Feminist Society in the UK "feminism,
anti-racism" . There were also signs with Czech and English (suitable for location full of
tourists) slogans such. "Riots Not Diets" , "Feminism for women, not for the Nazis" or
"Say it load, say it queer" . Chanted the "alert - alert - antisexista" , "Feminism lives,
the struggle continues" , "Dirt and filth - sexism" and other passwords.
On Wenceslas Square, the procession finally received welcome from several opponents.
Probably it was a fascist, even though their shouting incoherent and spasmodic urge to
laugh without knowing what is actually allowed (perhaps his own despair), it was hardly
ever any deduce their attitude. While this group of clowns moment livened up the program,
speeches continued. Chants of the participants expressed their support for an autonomous
social center Clinic and the whole event ended with a performance rapper darkness.
Feminist "Carnival Against Fascism" was, among other things. Expressing support feminist
demonstration which took place the same day in Cologne.
http://www.afed.cz/text/6393/feminismus-zije
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Message: 6
The outcome of elections in the Slovak Republic is not pretty bride. Download, print,
etching the March issue of wall newspapers A3! ---- Hysteria before the elections, after
the election hysteria. How else? Once a person after a quarter century of local celebrated
capitalism says that if someone else Tyjátr seriously entertained. Someone sure: Those who
work for the election industry (it is the same as in showbiz). And then the podržtašky
overlords - that politicians and candidates for politics. For it is a chance to satisfy
vanity and lust of power and a little bag. The general prestige as such they certainly can
not, even if the occupation deputy example for us in the popularity ranking now progressed
from last place on the penultimate nice and so outstripped mission cleaners. For Maid,
however, is to see at least some work.
But when I take from the other side, our little humor goes. The results of the election
reflects the state of society - and that is by far more than the poor. Slovakia's
demonstrated early March, when voters sent to parliament only undisguised fascist Kotleba,
but for example mobster Boris Kollar, who in some moments outstripping even the local
farmer Babis. Both were in a similar way to distance themselves from politicians (and
probably more Kollar rightly, because as we know, the Mafia organized crime, but the
policy only unorganized) and not the party, but a movement. This is called Kollárovo
family, according to him, traditional Slovak family. He himself founded it eight women and
nine children. But because Slovakia did not grow from the Muslim tradition, we have here
another similarity, with Czech Japanese, who urges Czechs to oversee the local national
purity. And so we could continue ...
Fringe fascist loudmouths there were always their own way, sometimes they managed to
odrenýma ears cross the threshold of eligibility, and sometimes it even reached. The rich
and the profiteers scrambling into politics, are already novodobejším trend. Why should
manage things from the sidelines, though they can also enjoy the limelight of political
circles. If we look at Eastern Europe the past two years from a broader perspective, we
can legitimately collected horror. Who waited after the fall of the Wall and the rapid
establishment of new political elites that his speed ahead of perhaps only economic
elites, the gradual cultivation of the political environment, waited in vain, and now
appears to stand with their mouths agape.
Fringe fascist loudmouths had not nearly as insignificant and marginal. Moreover, many of
them borrowed a considerable part of the political spectrum from left and right. Racism,
homophobia, xenophobia, denial of humanity and universality of human rights, it all
becomes outfit many a politician. Political elites 90s discredit their share of the
denationalization of all possible aspects of life, which should lead to rapid achievement
levels Westerners dream. Their failure waited patiently for the new ultra prophets who
throws crowd scapegoats to subsequently climbed to power. And it starts the race to the
bottom. Who nažene more fear? Who accompanied more logs on under the fire of hatred?
No matter which of these shots will eventually form the government. The result is obvious
- more oppression and lack of freedom. A love for the nation, will play those quislings
government elected fair elections will throw away from the apartment, not to the rent.
Play around as this winter warms people fleeing war at Europe's borders false idea of a
continent where human life has some value.
To the east is getting tough. The new Polish government of Law and Justice Party is
changing the constitutional order. He destroyed the independence of the Constitutional
Court, by subjecting the media to the Minister of Finance, crawling into people's privacy
and enforces obscurantist nationalist-Catholic morality. Inspired by orbánovském in
Hungary that Europe appeared forgotten advantages of barbed (now razor) wire. Slovak
Republic to the significant restriction of civil rights is already working in the
so-called. Counterterrorism package. Haunting external and internal enemies, namely States
serves to legitimize the oppression of their biggest enemy of its own population. Social
Democrat Fico in pre-election hysteria alongside refugees, who are almost Slovak, spit on
striking health workers and teachers ...
The fact that the "hard" fascists get into parliaments and their "soft" political Gemini
controls the government, does not mean that the refusal scarecrows past in a new guise
avoided. Exactly opposite. Against fascism must be fought immediately, otherwise it may be
too late.
A3 (March 2016) download HERE .
http://www.afed.cz/text/6390/a3-kdyz-prestava-sranda
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Message: 7
Nearly a month ago, the residents at the Nicklesville Dearborn encampment took a vote of
no confidence in the leadership of Scott Morrow from the Nicklesville 501c3 (as well as a
founding board member of the Low-Income Housing Institute and the organization SHARE,
which has worked with the houseless population here in Seattle for several decades now).
Immediately after the vote went through, services critical to the survival to the
encampment were cut off such as garbage pickup and food/water deliveries. About a week and
a half later, rather than an attempt to resolve the situation, the camp received an
ultimatum to either vote Morrow back into power by a specific date and time or face a camp
shutdown and subsequent eviction. In the face of this threat, the camp voted once more to
keep Morrow out of the camp and risk everything in order to try and find a solution that
would work for both the camp and City Hall’s agenda for addressing the issue of
houselessness here in Seattle. This final vote of no confidence was met with an
announcement that the camp was being shut down.
With the potential eviction looming overhead, the camp began reaching out to community
organizations such as SAFE and Seattle Solidarity Network. At our first meeting with the
camp, one of the things that immediately drew our attention was the level of organization
and commitment the residents had to maintaining the general code of conduct that they had
been operating under when they still had the support of Morrow, LIHI, and the religious
sponsor of the camp. Their determination to risk what little they had to their name stood
as a testament to their capabilities and desire to serve as a model for other transitional
encampments.
In response to the deadline given to them, the residents of Camp Dearborn decided to host
an “Open House/Move-In Day” event just hours before the camp was officially closed. This
event served a couple of purposes; it was an opportunity to invite the community into the
camp to see that they had been working hard to keep it in good shape and within compliance
of City regulations, a chance for community members to meet some of the residents and
personalize the issue of houselessness, and provided a chance for people to move in to the
camp to help hold the space in the event of an attempted eviction. With the help of
Seattle Solidarity Network, SAFE, and other organizers, about 100 community members turned
out for the event throughout the evening. It was a festive environment with music, stories
being shared, and a load of much-needed donations coming into the camp. When the midnight
deadline for camp closure rolled around, things got tense for a bit as police activity in
the area increased but they came and went and the camp remained. While the anxiety
lingered, one could not help but feel as if maybe the City had finally gotten the message
that the community would not allow these people to swept back out onto the streets.
The camp still has a long ways to go in order to find a more permanent solution to their
situation but a lot of progress has been made since the alleged closing of the camp over a
week ago. They now have a willing financial sponsor of the camp through Patacara Community
Services, a great organization that has been critical in keeping the camp going since the
initial cut-off of services. Seattle Police Department has also come by the camp several
times to state their commitment to allowing for a solution to take place that does not
require any sort of sweep of the camp. Now it comes down to keeping things in order and
running smoothly at the camp while a religious sponsor and new location are found.
Seattle Solidarity will remain committed to assisting the residents of Camp Dearborn in
maintaining their right to self-management and resisting any attempts to evict them. If
you are interested in getting involved with this fight, feel free to visit the camp at
1010 S. Dearborn to see what you can do to help them maintain the camp. Food, water, and
firewood donations are always needed but as with any group, this is a diverse group of
people so speaking directly with them is always going to be the best way to help get their
needs met.
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Message: 8
For many activists, a question that often remains unanswered is: how to mobilize people?
How to develop frameworks for collective political consciousness? The research and trials
of community organizing, spanning over a hundred years, are a response to end this problem
(almost) insoluble. Proof by example in Grenoble. ---- In order to develop popular against
powers, the community organizing is a method of action and collective organization that
takes as its starting point the rulers and injustices experienced by people physically, to
pursue three objectives. ---- The first objective, which can be described as pragmatic and
reformist, is to view the world " as it is " and collectively undertake struggles in the
form of direct action to achieve improvements in the living conditions of classes (as
could a union, but on land ranging from housing to education through labor).
The second objective, which is a real dynamic of popular [education 1], will realize that
these struggles conducted and won collectively will help to overcome a feeling of
inevitability and real political exclusion. They will also be the development of class
consciousness framework based on a certain interpretation of social antagonisms.
The third objective pursues a revolutionary project: the aim is indeed to build a balance
of power by the collective organization of those whose only power is their number.
Introduced and theorized from the late 1930s by Saul Alinsky [2], the community organizing
comes from across the Atlantic [3]. One finds its principles in the struggles of
California farm workers around Cesar Chavez, and one can see parallels with the analyzes
of Freire [4]. In France, these methods have been developing since the late 2000s, in
various modes.
On one side of the activists from-es or close neighborhoods are discovering the community
organizing on a trip to the United States in 2010. Convinced-es, they and they are trying
to implement this approach in France end up creating the Praxis Studio, one of the
activities is to train and support collective neighborhoods such as Stop ethnic profiling
[5], Zonzon 93 [6]and many others.
On the other hand, activists, social workers, disillusioned-es by the limits of their
previous practices, discover the thought of Saul Alinsky and interested. They and they
start to train with London Citizens [7]and create in Grenoble in 2010 the Echo association.
In 2012, Echo becomes a citizen Alliance [8], whose governance is ensured by its members
and not by the activists. This first trial in 2013 inspired the creation of the
association in Rennes If allied itself [9]. Today, an organization of the same type will
start in the Paris region [10]. Note that there is also an international organization, the
ReAct [11](Network for transnational collective action), which aims to bring together
residents and wage earners against multinationals.
The Citizens Alliance in the Grenoble area, for its part, has recently changed its model,
leaving that charged by London Citizens, which was to be based primarily on existing
communities (associations, schools, cults, etc.). It is now implementing the model
practiced by Acorn [12], a very powerful organization in North America (up to 175 000
members in the United States in 2010, currently 70,000 members across Canada) whose method
is to go meet individually with people, which allows us to reach more remote from public
life and collective frameworks.
All of these projects can be compared to a Multi-Terrain revolutionary syndicalism, whose
base is not the company but the neighborhood. They are launched by people who seek to be
in the action and take practical measures in a materialistic and pragmatic approach,
convinced es that direct action is a powerful means of popular education, and the
denunciation of rulers can be truly effective in fighting effectively against acts they
generate.
These experiments are already producing results but are still at the experimental stage.
The terms vary (you translate "organization of citizens", "community organization", or
something else?), How to also do (individual memberships collective memberships both
no????): How to import France this Anglo-Saxon method requires experience, in order to
combine the best efficiency and democracy, radicalism and pragmatism. To be continued ...
At the Citizens Alliance in the Grenoble area, the work of the base is to go door-to-door.
When the board of the Alliance, made up exclusively of members, decides to go to meet the
inhabitants and inhabitants of a new district, he commissioned it to an organizer or an
organizer (this is how people who are designated working for the citizens Alliance). He or
she will then embark on a period of intensive door-to-door. For four hours each day, he
will knock on all the doors in the neighborhood.
The key in these individual meetings is based on the concerns of the people we encounter,
their practical problems and daily newspapers. The front door is radically materialistic,
and at this stage it is considered that all the anger is legitimate. If a person is angry,
it is because there is a sense of injustice, and there is no judgment to make on that anger.
It is this legitimacy which makes possible mobilization: it is indeed the antithesis of
approaches which people are accustomed: on one side, the sphere of social work tends to
return the responsibility for the difficulties the person (do you handle well your budget?
you busy yourself well your child? etc.), and other political groups are stronger in
inappropriable scholars and electoral discourse to fight and get victories over small
concrete injustices.
popular self-education through action and collective
This first meeting is already in itself a moment of political consciousness. Indeed,
during a successful door-to-door, the organizer or the host will accompany the person
questioning her, so she searched the problem she talks ( "And also that is how ? before
and how was it? "), it searches and identifies the solution it wants to see implemented,
it identifies the structural cause of the problem.
This is called the "verticalization", as opposed to so-called horizontal anger aimed
neighbors, which do not have more power than us. All this so that it becomes aware of the
weight of social injustice in the fact that this problem is not resolved, she imagines the
number of people who live the same injustice and strength that would bring that number to
regroup, and finally she imagines how it might act collectively to change that.
When the Citizens Alliance launches into a new neighborhood, the goal is to quickly get
the commitment of a maximum of people. By becoming members, they will work with the
organizer or the host to communicate with their neighbors and neighboring dynamic
organization in progress. The organizer will thus look to the "put in motion" to more
quickly, so they are maximally themselves structuring their neighborhood. "Can we go see
all the neighbors you know? Do you have time to go see your side other tenants in your
rise to speak to them? "
Gradually, a group was formed. After 4 to 5 weeks, members will meet for group meetings.
From the first meeting, the organizer will propose modes (animation, decision making)
that will allow to acquire all democratic habits. These practices will then become the
culture of the group, will be appropriate for members, which will never be naive before
the false steps of institutional consultations.
We find these practices in neighborhood assemblies, which bring together 50 to 100
members. It is during these meetings that the members decide what actions to take priority.
cc Nicolas Moiroud
windows for all!
At the meeting of a neighborhood, the members decided to tackle the problem of dilapidated
and poorly insulated windows in some homes. This problem does not apply to all members,
but all agreed to treat all first. We treat others then. A letter has already been sent to
the landlord to request the replacement of the offending windows, but no response was
obtained. The Assembly therefore decided to take a pressing action the following week.
A group of five members is appointed by the Assembly to prepare the action. On the day,
blankets on their shoulders, many tenants are set at the local office of the landlord "was
cold in our apartments, so today we just warm up in your office," they said, claiming that
their windows are insulated. The local press is there to immortalize the scene. A manager
comes in, says he does not like the method, but listening to the claims and promises an
appointment before the weekend.
A spokesman for the group prepares the negotiation by role-playing with the organizer. The
Citizens Alliance will finally get the commitment of the donor to replace the emergency 75
most dilapidated windows. Such actions obviously seeks victories, but these victories,
they aim to encourage the members confidence in their ability to collectively intervene
and to voice their social interests in the public square.
While one side our society demonizes the conflict, accusing the troublemakers to prepare
the civil war, and on the other hand we can not count those that fatalism leads to the
submission or the disaffection, the community organizing believes in inclusive under
social conflict. Paradoxically, it is assuming to oppose the institutions that can take
its place in society.
Or feel part of a society is a prerequisite for the desire to want to change.
Starting with going door to door and take into account the anger of "most concerned", the
community organizing is to mobilize win victories by rolling back some of the many small
social injustices that they suffer. Through their experience in the Citizens Alliance and
participation in concrete actions, people are becoming aware of social conditioning and
structural inequalities they experience and live an alternative by practicing radically
democratic processes. The victories gradually allow to structure a mass organization and a
balance of power more favorable.
Adeline DL (AL Paris-Nord-Est)
[1]On the popular notion of education as we understand it, see the AL record No. 252 of
July-August 2015.
[2]Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) is considered the founder of community organizing.
[3]Read AL No. 252 July-August 2015: " The pragmatism of the Atlantic " by Julien Talpin.
[4]Brazilian pedagogue.
[5]Collective founded in 2011. stop control at the facies .
[6]Association based in Villepinte. Zonzon93
[7]Citizens UK is a grassroots organization based in the United Kingdom: citizensuk
[8]Citizens Alliance 38
[9]If allied itself
[10]Organize idf citizens
[11]ReAct
[12]Acorn USA, founded in 1970, was dissolved in 2010 following a smear campaign by the
tea party against him. Acorn . Canada Acorn: Acorn canada .
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