Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #269 - Culture, Strips:
Nuit noire sur Brest (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Libertarian syndicalism Grecia-Atenas: Stop the persecution
against the women cleaners in struggle! -- Our colleague Vaso
Gova, militant in the struggle of women cleaners is on trial on
March 13 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Against racism, For the
end of impunity and state violence, March 19 in Paris (fr, it,
pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. liberta salonica: INSTANT LICENCES TO K. GOURNA & D.
Koufodinas | anarchist Federation (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. liberta salonica: AO: Call in Lamia courts (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. wsm.ie: Irish Times publishes manipulative poll days ahead
of 8th of March ‘Strike for Repeal' actions (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
In September 1937, when the war broke out as a result of Franco's military coup in Spain,
a republican submarine surfaced in the harbor of Brest. ---- It is a singular and
remarkable story told by Damien Cuvilier, Bertrand Galic and Kris in their comic book Nuit
noire sur Brest. With such a title, one does not expect to follow the adventures of the
crew of a Spanish submarine in the middle of the Spanish Civil War. And yet this
historical episode is remembered by the authors and illustrator. In September 1937, when
the war broke out as a result of Franco's military coup in Spain, a republican submarine
surfaced in the harbor of Brest. ---- Kris had already visited Brest, his hometown. In A
man died, he had us plunged into the city in full reconstruction after World War II.
Brest, of which nothing remained, according to the words of Prévert, after the rains of
"iron, fire, steel and blood", is intact in this album.
The military port welcomes in a more or less constrained way this Spanish republican
submersible who needs repairs. The prefect was annoyed by the commander's request for
help, entangled that he was in the policy of "non-intervention" decided by the French
State against the coup d'état of the nationalist Franco. The Communists and the Brest
anarchists salute the arrival of this republican crew and the support in their fight which
is also theirs. This international solidarity of class will not be too much: a Francoist
operation is being prepared with the assistance of members of extreme right-wing French
parties.
History is told to us from the point of view of a mysterious man "in mission", whose
identity is hardly known. The characters take a step by step in this gallery composed of a
well-informed journalist, a republican crew and its commander, Mingua, who works in the
dance hall where newcomers come to party, and Rich men who plot for Franco by drinking the
Suze in a luxury hotel. It would not be complete without the evocation of the Breton
anarchist René Lochu and his comrades who organize the struggle against fascism.
Night in Brest brings us to visit the city of Breton under a sky more often sunny than
rainy. Seagulls fly over the harbor, oysters are the only meal on the menu of the local
bistro. This cartoon highlights the beauty and calm of a city that is about to be bruised,
destroyed. Its inhabitants and inhabitants will witness or actors and actresses of a
historical struggle that prefigures the Resistance. The "non-intervention" of the
democracies will not have saved the peace and opened a boulevard to fascism as we could
imagine at the time. The narrator begins by presenting himself as a man who loves black
"and his darkness without whom the light would have no reason to be". The comic book
concludes a record of the historian Patrick Gourlay on this episode. Light is made on an
episode of the Spanish war but also on an event of the anti-fascist struggle.
Lucie (AL Saint-Denis)
Damien Cuvilier, Bertrand Galic and Kris, Black Night on Brest, Futuropolis, 2016, 80
pages, 16 euros.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Bande-dessinee-Nuit-noire-sur
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Message: 2
On March 13 is put on trial the cleaner Vaso Gova after a complaint of a police officer.
The same policeman is already on trial for serious injuries against two women cleaners
Evangelia Alexakis and Vaso Gova attacked on July 10, 2014 during a peaceful protest of
fired cleaners to the Ministry of Finance. ---- Adding insult to injury, the officer of
riot police Tsokanaridis, against all the facts and testimonies of a dozen of
eyewitnesses, filed a case for "resisting authority and insulting" while he was arresting
the fired women cleaners who claimed back their job and her life. ---- The trial is a
challenge for the entire labor movement. It is a challenge because it seeks through
evident lies of the police to penalize the 2 years heroic struggle of the cleaners of
the Ministry of Finance after their victory and re-instatement in 2015.
This emblematic fight, made world famous the workers struggles for jobs and dignity, in
devastated Greece against the austerity memorandum imposed by the troika and thr Greek
government. Obviously this struggle is an anathema for the State authorities because:
· It proved that workers can fight and win when they have people's solidarity at
their side.
· It humiliated the hated troika of the EU/EB/IMF and the governments that serve
it slavishly. It proved that they could not break the resistance of the working class
· it stopped the privatization of cleanliness in the Ministry of Finance.
· it is still an inspiration today to all the workers struggles.
The demands of cleaners struggle for dignity, against the expropriation of our lives are
more topical than ever. The austerity policies of memorandum by the previous coalition
governments of New Democracy and PASOK or those currently implemented by the government
SYRIZA/ ANEL, are directed against all the rights of workers, youth and pensioners.
Barbarism will be defeated.
We call on the workers and the unemployed, all labor collectives, trade unions,
self-organized spaces and left-wing political organizations, to support our initiative
and join us massively next Monday March 13 in the courts
Our demands are:
Stop the persecution of our colleague Vaso Gova! Stop the State repression against the
struggling cleaners.
We demand the punishment of the officer of the police repressive forces who wounded
Evangelia Alexakis and Vaso Gova.
Abolish the State repression special forces
Initiative for the vindication of the struggling women cleaners
http://dikaiosikatharistrion.b logspot.gr/
you can send support message to dikaiosi.katharistrion@gmail.com
https://ese.espivblogs.net/2017/03/02/02-03-2017-vas/
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Message: 3
In the wake of the Adama Traoré and Theo Luhaka affairs, many organizations are calling
for joining the March for Justice and Dignity. ---- One per month. It is, on average, the
number of fathers, brothers, sons that we lose because of the brutality of the forces of
order. A brutality that takes several forms: folding techniques that lead to asphyxiation
of the victims to punches, bullets or Taser which, in the worst cases, prove fatal. ----
Regularly for more than 40 years, ours are thus killed by the French State, in the hands
of those who are ironically called "guardians of peace". Regularly for more than 40 years,
it is the most abusive impunity and the campaigns of criminalization that respond to the
mobilizations of those who claim truth and justice for their dead. The police, judicial
and political persecution against the Traoré family, to whom we express our solidarity, is
proof of this. Every time, it's the same story.
The repression that targets us, we families of victims, has been accentuated under the
state of emergency. All abuses have become possible, with their lots of tragic
consequences. It is no longer the police that adapts to the law, it is the law that adapts
to the police ... And we are far from being the only ones to have been targeted by the
reinforcement of the security devices and the violence Of State. In 2015, the government
declared a real internal war: it traced the migrants and those who defended them, pursued
the traditional repression of "Blacks", "Arabs", "Rroms" and more generally of
lower-income neighborhoods, targeted the "Muslims" including searches, house arrest and
the closure of completely arbitrary mosques ... To this is added the social quagmire that
Valls and consors, Particularly in the context of mobilization against the labor law.
Faced with the resistance of the working-class neighborhoods and the social movement,
violence has been unleashed by touching previously protected categories.
The terrible attacks we have seen in 2015 and 2016 have reinforced the security arsenal as
they are the direct result of the war policy that France and its allies are leading
abroad. The French State, which still weighs all its weight on the peoples it dominates as
in Africa, extends this policy in the Middle East just as it ratifies the occupation of
Palestine. His "fight against terrorism" resembles a permanent aggression against innocent
people. It is, among other things, what fuels the humanitarian crisis of the refugees,
treated cynically as a potentially "terrorist" threat. It is the serpent that bites its tail:
We are all concerned!
The presidential campaign is not going to fix anything. On the contrary. Almost every new
statement is an insult to our struggles, our concerns and our urgencies.
Because we will not submit to the arbitrariness of power, Because the words "justice" and
"dignity" still make sense to us, Because we think it is essential to organize ourselves
together to fight against The war against the poor, the migrants, the descendants of the
colonized,
We call on all those who feel concerned by these issues to join us in all future
initiatives (see calendar at the bottom of the page) and to participate very widely in the
March for Justice and Dignity that will take place On Sunday, March 19, 2017 in Paris.
Against the hogra, against humiliation, against racism and police violence, against the
cowardly wars made on our behalf against peoples who have done us nothing.
Let us find hope, strength and unity in order to be together in the name of justice and
dignity.
Demonstration on 19 March 2017
Place de la Nation at 2 pm
Procession of the FUIQP to the March for the dignity of October 30, 2015.
Cc Photo library red / JMB
List of signatory organizations, collectives and individuals:
First signatory families:
Family of Lahoucine Ait Omghar - Family of Amine Bentounsi - Family of Hocine Bouras -
Family of Abdoulaye Camara - Family of Lamine Dieng - Family of Wissam El Yamni - Family
of Amadou Koumé - Family of Mourad Touat - Family of Ali Ziri - Family of Jean-Pierre
Ferrara - Family of Rémi Fraisse - Family of Babacar Gueye -
With the support of:
Truth and Justice Committee for Lamine Dieng - Truth and Justice Committee for Mamadou
Marega - Truth and Justice Committee for Abou Bakari Tandia - Truth and Justice Collective
for Babacar Gueye -
Collective signatures:
Action antifasciste Paris-Banlieue (AFA) - Alternative Libertaire (AL) - Assemblée
Citoyenne des Originaires de Turquie (ACORT) - Association Black is really beautiful -
Association contre le racisme (ACOR, Suisse) - Association citoyenneté active (Chauny) -
Association Égalité Toulouse Mirail - Association pour l'Intégration et l'Invention
Républicaines (AIIR) - Association Femmes plurielles - Association KÂLÎ - Association de
lutte contre l'islamophobie et les racismes (ALCIR 20eme) - Association des Travailleurs
Maghrébins de France (ATMF) - Assemblée des Blessés, des Familles et des Collectifs contre
les violences policières - ASTI Annonay - Brigade Anti Négrophobie (BAN) - Bruxelles
Panthères - Candidatura d'Unitat Popular (CUP - Països Catalans) - Cedetim/Ipam - Centre
d'études postcoloniales de Lyon - CGT-Culture Cité Nationale de l'Histoire de
l'Immigration - CISPM (Coalition Internationale des Sans-Papiers et Migrants) - Collectif
décolonial lyonnais - Collectif enseignant pour l'abrogation de la loi de 2004 (CEAL) -
Collectif Interquartiers 49 - Collectif James Baldwin - Collectif Parisien pour la
Protection des Jeunes et Mineurs Isolés Étrangers (CPMJIE) - Collectif Ni Guerres ni état
de guerre - Collectif 20ème solidaire avec les migrants - Comité Anarchiste Paris 7 -
Comité contre les violences policières à Pantin - Comité ZAD de Rennes - Convergence
Citoyenne Ivryenne (CCI) - Coopérative écologie sociale - CRI Rouge - CSP75 (Coordination
75 des Sans-Papiers) - D'ailleurs nous sommes d'ici" 67 (DNSI) - Désarmons-les! - DIEL
(Droits Ici Et Là-bas) - Emancipation Tendance intersyndicale - FASTI - Fédération SUD-PTT
- Fondation Frantz Fanon - Front antiraciste alsacien - FUIQP - FUIQP Saint Denis - FUIQP
Saint Etienne) - Historical materialism (Toronto) - Groupe anarchiste Alhambra - Groupe
Antifasciste Lyon et Environs - Identité plurielle - IJAN (Argentina) - IJAN International
- Islamic Human Right Commission (IHRC) - Les habitants des la ZAD de Notre Dame des
Landes - LKP - London Campaign Against Police and State (Grande-Bretagne) - Marche des
Femmes pour la Dignité (MAFED) - Mwasi - Organisation Communiste Libertaire (Paris) - New
socialists (Toronto) - Ontario Coalition Against Poverty - MDDM (Mouvement pour la Dignité
et les Droits des Maliens) - Nouveaux Cahiers du Socialisme (Montréal) - Nouveau Parti
Anticapitaliste (NPA) - NUS Black Students Campaign - Organisation de femmes Egalité -
Osons causer - Paris Against Trump - Paris Debout - Parti communiste des ouvriers de
France (PCOF) - Plateforme de la voix des prisonniers - Parti des Indigènes de la
République (PIR) - Pas sans Nous - Pas sans nous (Bouches du Rhônes) - Pride de nuit -
Réseau pour une gauche décoloniale - Revue Contretemps-Web - Le Seum collectif - Socialist
Project (Toronto) - SolidaritéS (Suisse ) - Sortir du colonialisme - Sud CT Mairie de
Saint Denis - SUD CT (93 Plaine Commune) - SUD (Collectivités Territoriales 93 - - Union
Antiraciste et Populaire de Toulouse - (UAPU31) - Union des Démocrates Musulmans de France
(UDMF) - Union locale SUD/Solidaires (St Denis) - Union Juive Française pour la Paix
(UJFP) - Union prolétarianne marxiste-léniniste (section de Paris) - Urgence Notre Police
Assassine (UNPA)
Individual signatures:
Hamé, from the group La Rumeur (artist) - Kery James (artist) - Youssoupha (artist) - Opal
Tometi (co-founder of Black Lives Matter and Executive Director of Black Alliance for Just
Immigration-BAJI) - Eli Domota (LKP) Medine (artist) - Boubacar Boris Diop (writer) -
And in alphabetical order:
Samuel Amara (humorist) - Sihame Assbague (anti-racist activist) - Djamel Attalah (walker
of 83) - Ludivine Bantigny (historian) - Elsa Bardeaux (Deputy Mayor of Villeneuve Saint
Georges youth and neighborhood life) - Benaili Mounia - Mohamed Benkhelouf (deputy mayor
of Aubervilliers) - Mohamed Ben Yakhlef, Insaf Chebaane, Omar Cheriguene (councilors of
Vileneuve Saint Georgges) - Judith Bernard (director of the Municipal Council of PG Juvisy
sur Orge) - Ben Amar Youssef In the stage) - Olivier Besancenot (NPA) - Djamel Blanchard
(co-president of NOT WITHOUT US) - Félix Boggio Éwanjé-Épée (periodical) - Ahmed Boubeker
(sociologist) - Rachid Bouchareb - Alima Boumediene Thiery (lawyer) - Houria Bouteldja
(PIR) - Pierre Cours-Salies (Sociologist, Professor Emeritus Paris 8,Member of Together!)
- Gerry Dambury (writer) - Christine Delphy (Feminist) - Rokhaya Diallo (author and
director) - Eva Doumbia (artist) - Mireille Fanon Mendès-France - Patrick Farbiaz François
Gèze (Editor) - Alain Gresh (journalist) - Nacira Guénif-Souilamas (sociologist) - Hadj
Chikh Haouaria (county councilor 13) - Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison (academic) - Franco
Lollia Maghani Marliere - Madjid Messaouden (elected St Denis 93) - René Monzat
(anti-racist activist) - Océane Rosemarie (actress) - Philippe Poutou (Spokesperson of the
NPA) - Saadane Sadgui Co-founder of JALB and MIB) - Catherine Samary (Activist
alterglobalist) - Maximilien Sanchez (advisor- Omar Slaouti (member of the collective Ali
Ziri), Odile Tobner (author of "Du racisme français") - Enzo Traverso (academic) -
Françoise Vergès (spokesperson of the CISPM) - Catherine Wihtol de Wenden (academic) -
Youkoff (Artist) - Marie-Christine Vergiat (MEP, Left Front) - Michaël Wamen (CGT Goodyear
Amiens, sentenced to 12 months suspended prison for defending his job) -Sentenced to 12
months suspended sentence for defending his job) - Catherine Wihtol de Wenden (academic) -
Youkoff (Artist) -Sentenced to 12 months suspended sentence for defending his job) -
Catherine Wihtol de Wenden (academic) - Youkoff (Artist) -
International signatures:
Professor, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, UC Berkeley-Pratibha Parmar,
Filmmaker & Associate Professor, Film. California College of Arts - Chela Sandoval,
Professor of Chicano and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara -
Inderpal Grewal, Professor, Yale University - Ruthie Wilson Gilmore, Center for Culture
and Politics, CUNY - Aadam Muuse (the NUS Black Students' Campaign) -
They also argue:
"We call for March 19 for Justice and Dignity because:
The legitimate demand for truth and justice brought by these victims of police violence
must be supported.
The banalization of speeches, racist acts and their structural character are unacceptable.
Democratic rights must be defended in the face of the state of emergency and of the
liberticidal measures that particularly affect those who suffer racism.
The reception of migrants in dignified conditions and the regularization of all the
undocumented must be opposed to the fortress Europe. "
ATTAC - DAL - Together! - SNPES PJJ of the FSU - UNEF - Union Syndicale Solidaires -
National Union of Social Assistants (SNUASFP FSU) - Permanent Revolution
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Pour-la-fin-de-l-impunite-et-des
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Message: 4
"The old world is dying and the new world struggling to be born. ---- Now is the time of
monsters' ---- Antonio Gramsci ---- The first left-government of this country, continuing
the policy of the neoliberal predecessors deprive militants Dimitris Koufodinas and Kostas
Gourna their right to leave. In the case of the former, the cause -grapta worded in
voulefma- is unrepentant attitude on the question of armed struggle. An eventual
renunciation of armed struggle from a rebel-like symbol is D.Koufontinas will
noimatodotouse as a victory for the urban block and a historic rematch for every reformist
voice still proclaims how is peaceful road to social liberation through reforms without
armed confrontation with capital, the state, supranational mechanisms (EU-IMF-NATO) and
all sorts of fascist crutches.
The "left" promised respecting the rights, decent living conditions inside the walls,
remove the terror law, and many others -and effectively connected with such tactics
ensured election votes from relatives and friendly around large portion prisoners, while
digesting a portion of movement that developed in previous years- has long shown its true
face: that of -anexartitis from chromatismous- power.
It is now apparent that this left, he applied the worst measures devaluation of our class
reduced more pensions and wages, cut all social benefits, agreed to the privatization of
everything, facilitated tax breaks for big capital, adopted anti-terrorism policy right,
gradually incorporating the agenda and the political rhetoric. She who previously spoke
about anti-terrorist hysteria, are pursuing policies traditionally imposed by the right,
which both shows and the inherently restricted character of the struggle for democratic
rights, and the other shows and the most incredulous that the state regardless Government
has continued and therefore as to the repressive approaches.
The political question respondents clearly both EO November 17 and the Revolutionary
Struggle is today as relevant as ever. With the oppressed, not with governments and the
state, with workers and unemployed and not in the capital and their lackeys, the
internationalist solidarity among peoples and not with war and imperialism. Putting the
spotlight organized and armed proletariat, as the only factor able to end the domination
of the bourgeoisie and its allies arbitration where either militarily as the 40s, either
financially as nowadays was and is there to ensure that the achievements of the local
bourgeoisie will not be lost.
So today is the urban strategy will seek more than ever -the same time that the working
class is experiencing the biggest attack in recent years- to dent the social supports and
popular sympathy in the face of both fighters. Moving coup state openly blackmailing even
filmmakers, academics, intellectuals - those who dare to speak in favor of the political
prisoners even from the standpoint of defending the "democratic rights". Prohibits plays,
seals faculties, gags and censors the solidarity movement for the release of fighters,
systematically sabotaging claiming the right to permit, among others.
Why the state does not only claim a monopoly on violence and enforcement. also claiming a
monopoly on thought production. Reclaims the antiparatethomenes on it voices have no step
in public space.
Because the critical challenge for the political system is not entitled to leave if
political prisoners D. Koufodinas and K. Gournas but if repudiate the action of the
organizations involved and "inevitably" violent transformation of capitalist society.
Beyond the reformist left Syriza, let considering who those who clustered around the
request not to grant licenses to which its two fighters. Gutter press like "Proto Thema"
right wing Th. Anastasiadis, the voice of business "Daily" of interlaced Bobola,
fireplaces sitting at the nape of the bottom for many years as Mitsotakides and Bakogiannides.
The case of the two fighters but not the only one. It is the extreme application of the
special treatment reserved by the State to political opponents at the same time does not
recognize the identity of the political prisoner. The refusal of communist Dimitris
Koufodinas and anarchist Kostas Gourna with justifications fronimatikou character, is only
one corner in a frame captured exhausts 6chronou child members of Revolutionary Struggle
Nikos Maziotis and Pola Roupa, the unfounded persecution of anarchist communist Tasos
Theophilus, merciless hunting and bounty of M. Seisidis and 2 more partners for 600,000 euros.
We from our side as Anarchist Federation, the request for licenses to both fighters as
each request on persecuted by the state we address the social base, the people who share
the same problems, are experiencing joint exploitation. At bottom, the wide social
majority that at issue and concerns the struggle, revolutionary action and political
activists options like D. Koufodinas and K.. Gourna.
In the current context of the invasion of capital and the state, the revolutionary
movement must stand on the side of political prisoners and to break the exemption and
special treatment regime experienced. The importance of a victorious outcome of the
struggle for approval of two fighters is certainly an important legacy for all political
prisoners and the solidarity movement to them. A victory that can operate temporarily as a
mound in "anti" terrorist campaign, creating a major rift in the allowance exemption
status of political prisoners, were standing package / undergoing conversion against
monsters era, paving another path for the new world struggling to be born .
Break STATUS EXCEPTION WAS IMPOSED IN POLITICAL KRATOUMENOUS
INSTANT LICENCES ANARCHIST KOSTAS GOURNA AND communist Dimitris Koufodinas
Stand ADIALAKTA THE SIDE OF FIGHTERS, impose TO STATE retreat
anarchist Federation
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Message: 5
"Korkoneas" Grigoropoulos guilty notify ---- It's been eight years since the murder of 15
year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos and the legal part of the case is completed by the Court
of Appeal killer policemen Grigoropoulos and Saralioti. Eight years after the murder and
rebellion of December 2008 the man who pulled the trigger "opens his heart" in front of
the seat. Claiming no, he said, apologize 15- anarchists, it is obvious that for him the
murder was part of his duties. And he is right. They did what they paid for it. ---- No
one can know why he decided to complicate his position so that even the nondescript
lawyer, the Kougias, to flee in panic. We do not know whether the truth uttered the
Korkoneas originated from an inverted sense of dignity, or if it's a stupid complaint to
his employer, the state, which now overwhelms him. The really important thing here is that
the truth of Grigoropoulos just revealed what anarchists do not cease to cry out to the
oppressed and exploited parts of society: all of us we are at the heart of conflict,
either select the active participation or not, whether we join with state capital either
with our own interests.
The Korkoneas chose to become a soldier of the state and capital. And if one can find
"extenuating circumstances" for soldiers who kill when they send them to military battles
during their tenure, they certainly do not exist for soldiers who "presented" voluntarily
and paid for their permanent tenure. Apoprosopopoiontas the 15 year old and a focus on
"anti-authoritarians" clearly showed how policy was to act and how political the army that
belonged to the police. The error was that exceeded the "rules of engagement" of the
historical period in which we live and used instruments destined for much more exacerbated
conditions, conditions that threaten the system. Worse for him, he managed to act even
trigger such conditions. Error was well that he did not understand that they should be
much more important member of power by a cop in Exarchia to expect that his bosses would
cover him. The world of power is relentless. He stayed and probably will stay for many
more years in prison. But not because of murder. The real reason for his imprisonment is
none other than the "pernicious for the state / boss of duty exceeded".
The murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos by Grigoropoulos was not the first time he began to
speak of "inviolate of Exarchia". They talked about it before in 2008. And over the years
the cops have thrown several times shots in this historic race center. For the state, the
armed violence against the resistance is always an option. It could, that is, the murdered
was not the 15 year old but someone else. In this case, however, this option failed state.
From the class point of view, the Court of Appeal killer police would be immaterial. The
problem is that an "administrative court" go do laundry for principals of Grigoropoulos,
those ultimately who really protects the police. The power that these eight years has
waged the largest offensive in economic and political conditions in our class, gets the
Grigoropoulos his last service: in addition to the punishment of imprisonment, the load
and all the political responsibility. But what will change irrevocably lifers a cop? Will
cease to be "overrun" or the power will deny itself the right to cease to regard the
murder "overrun" when threatened its interests?
Despite the tragic event, the execution of a fifteen-year-antiauthoritarian, nobody
expected what followed. The December revealed the existence of groundwater social rage
currents that nobody until then had not identify. In much more difficult since conditions
today, social peace seems to cover everything. But this is -as was then- misleading. What
we need to realize that workers and the unemployed -opote if they choose to fight back on
a mass scale; it is the act of Grigoropoulos is only part that exactly the job for which
the state has worked in the Grigoropoulos. This represented the push of the trigger by
Grigoropoulos Korkonea- -and anyone who is none other than the state.
The award of the law can not make the perpetrator. The state and the police can not hide
behind a "burnt paper" their agent.
It is the nature of the trial itself that we ought to question.
The Korkoneas is guilty of all of us are guilty of the law of our class position.
The state is guilty through it.
The state, however, tried and condemned only streets.
CONCENTRATION
March 7, 2017
9:00
Judicial Lamia mansion
anarchist Federation
anarchist-federation.gr
https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2017/03/03
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Message: 6
The Irish Times has yet again made an entirely cynical intervention in its bid to force
its agenda on the campaign to get rid of the hated 8th Amendment. This time in the form
of an opinion poll constructed to reinforce the idea that abortion is a constitutional
issue rather than a medical one. ---- Opinion polls using complex questions have become a
common method of political manipulation in our time. The method is simple, the questions
are used to frame the way the subject considers the issue and so direct the answer they
give. That directed answer is then presented as some ‘objective truth' discovered by the
person or group who framed the question. A poll that simply asks ‘Should women control
their own bodies' is liable to get one response, today's poll that instead gives a long
set of options around the degree women should be judged under law was designed to give
another.
The timing is significant, next Wednesday (March 8th) sees the ‘Strike for Repeal' action,
a sequence of protest, marches and other events across the country taking place during a
working day. The purpose of the day is to demonstrate the demand to end the delays and
introduce a bill to repeal the 8th amendment now. What serves better to undermine
confidence around that action than a poll designed to create uncertainty about such a
referendum and what should be in it. The poll is the latest in a long line of material
from the Irish Times that sets out to undermine the confidence of those fighting for
Repeal of the 8th referendum.
The poll questions were designed to encourage respondents to judge in which women should
be permitted to be allowed to control their own bodies. And this was put in the context
of writing these judgements into the constitution, a completely bizarre proposal except
for the fact that is the reality we already find ourselves in. No doubt the Irish Times
would spin this as them asking realistic and pragmatic questions but even this is a lie as
the judgements invited are neither.
Take the most obvious example, the largest number of respondents judged that those made
pregnant as a result of rape or incest should then be permitted bodily autonomy. Writing
this into the constitution would be the opposite of pragmatism. What would this look like
in practice? To put it bluntly, what proof of rape would have to be offered before a women
could access abortion?
The threat of suicide that allows abortion under the recent moderation of the law requires
that the person proves this to as many as 6 doctors. Given that precedent, and what we
know of Irish politicians and the judicial system, what process might they try and force
someone who had been raped to go through before allowing them access to abortion? How
long might that process take?
The reality is simple. Any law that restricts access to abortion opens the door for these
sort of judgement panels on the one hand and for the prosecution and jailing of women and
doctors on the other. That is what the ban is, it's not an abstract expression of an
opinion on whether abortion is right or wrong, it's a legal code that says women and
doctors will be jailed for 14 years for accessing abortion.
The 8th amendment has to go. Take part in the actions of next Wednesday's ‘Strike for
Repeal' to demand that happens sooner rather than later.
Words: Andrew Flood (follow Andrew on Twitter)
Subject: Strike4Repeal, Repeal 8th, Media
Topics: Gender
Geography: National
Source: News alert
Type: News
Author: Andrew N Flood
http://www.wsm.ie/c/irish-times-manipulative-poll-ahead-strike-repeal
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