Anarchic update news all over the world - 29.08.2017

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Norwey, Motmakt: It does not stop voting if you want to
      decide [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL spécial de juillet-aout -
      Bure: why is the state so determined to break the dispute ? by AL
      Nancy (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Ruptura Colectiva (RC): The Mapuche and a speech of terror /
      Ariel Petruccelli (ca, fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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This text is written by one of Motmakts members. Opposition has no leadership that speaks 
on behalf of the members and the views in this text are not necessarily representative of 
the vision of the entire organization. We encourage open discussion of political 
disagreements both inside and out. The text is written by Sonia ---- Each time it is 
approaching an election campaign, we will hear how undefeated the youth is in voting or 
engaging in politics in general. Public figures from politicians to celebrities go out 
with the call to become politically active by giving their voice. But does the myth of the 
undefeated youth vote with reality? ---- In 2016 came the report "Generation What? Young 
people and optimism. A pan-European view» which has mapped the attitudes of so-called 
Millenials (youths between the ages of 18 and 30) on democracy, prospects and community 
participation in 14 European countries.

Not surprisingly, the figures showed that, on average, more than half confirmed that they 
did not trust politicians who did not represent them and they believed that they are 
actually ready for a revolution. The countries where the youth had the greatest 
representation of these points were Greece, Spain and Italy.

What this revolution implies is not spoken but direct action was mentioned in the report 
as a preferred democratic tool rather than voting in the elections. The youth also 
participated in political activity through voluntary work, direct action and other 
activities based on cooperation, solidarity and self-government.

Here in Norway, the statistics look a little different, and according to the memorandum 
"Electoral participation in different age groups. Historical development and updated 
figures from the parliamentary elections 2013» At the previous parliamentary elections in 
2013, there was a statistically significant increase in voter participation among the 
youths in the 18 to 25 age group compared with the 2009 parliamentary elections. However, 
the participation of young people in Norway is almost 20% less compared with older groups.

Economic crisis and distrust of the democratic system

The youth in crisis-hungry countries are represented by those who least trust their 
politicians and thus do not want to be active in the election campaign. They do not want 
to have to choose between two subjects, they want to find new management models. The idea 
of a revolution is no wonder when the politicians in these countries have known to be 
loyal to the Troika and the IMF more than they are to their own people. That is, many 
countries act as oligarchies dressed as democracies.

When crises expire and affect so many people, self-organized solidarity moves as local 
support, which is highly politically targeted. This is not uncommon and it is a natural 
reaction we see appearing across the boundaries under various forms of organization to 
cover basic needs created by system failures. The mistakes are rising economic crises, 
high corruption among politicians, increased unemployment and thinner social networks 
combined, making people discover their own solutions.

The image of undefeated youth is far from real because democratic practice is more than 
voting.

In Norway, the political and economic picture is far more stable for the time being, but 
in recent years we have also seen an increase in participation in direct action as 
self-organized groups for food and clothing, trade union work, demonstrations, protests or 
signature campaigns to counter political decisions such as Has weakened the living 
conditions and rights of many people in the country. This is very much thanks to social 
media, where young people have the opportunity to exercise their political commitment
between the elections.

A special interesting book, "Ruthless Youth? New Engagement in An Old Democracy» By Guro 
Ødegård, just the myth of unmarried youth in Norway dies. It shows that "low trust in 
adult authorities contributes to oppositional attitudes. This type of opposition is 
important as it provides the basis for political mobilization. "At the same time, the 
author points out that" some paradoxes when political authorities take action to integrate 
youth into politics. Research shows, among other things, that political youth arenas 
initiated by adults, such as municipal youth councils, are, to a small extent, unable to 
include the forms of participation and themes outside the traditional party politics. One 
consequence is that political authorities listen to youth who adapt to the system, not 
those who challenge it. This places the risk of putting groups of socially disadvantaged 
young people on the sidelines of Norwegian politics.

Invitation to Vote, An Authoritarian Thought

So, if we continue to work on the conclusion of the book, it is necessary to ask ourselves 
a question: where ethical are calls to vote?
We must understand that non-voting can also indicate that they have lost confidence in the 
parliamentary system while at the same time engaging in other forms of political work. 
What about listening to how they would like to create a new democratic system based on 
direct democracy, solidarity, justice and good living conditions for all?
The attitude of pushing youngsters by playing the wrong conscience or trying to make them 
believe that by voting they have some political involvement is authoritarian and very 
little democratic.

Young people and other people of different age groups must not be encouraged to just that, 
but we can listen and facilitate their participation to become more active in creating 
other peaceful alternatives to political and social engagement. It is quite authoritarian 
to think that the youth must learn that indirect democracy is worked only through 
exercising the right of voting when there are other governance models for social and 
political organization that are more fair, environmentally friendly and engaging than 
putting their vote every four years.

Freedom to choose and right to attend to your own premises

The reports on young people in Europe should be a point of thought for all. Being active 
in a democratic system with strong neoliberalist structures can mean that many people want 
to create a new democratic system considered as an alternative.

I believe that those who feel represented by existing political parties can vote for them, 
but people who do not feel represented by politicians or the current democratic system 
should not vote nor shall they be held responsible when the results of the election 
campaigns do not go beyond expectations. Everyone is going to get their political 
commitment expressed in the way they want, because it may be in these terms where we find 
the compensation for the existing democratic system.

I wish society could listen to those who do not want to vote. Both young and old, everyone 
certainly has good ideas about what kind of society they want to create with alternative 
political models.

https://motmakt.no/aktuelt/det-holder-ikke-%C3%A5-stemme-hvis-du-vil-med-%C3%A5-bestemme

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Another 30 injured on 15 August. Cigéo, the demoral project of an eternal trash is 
supposed to restore the technological blazon of a nuclear industry at bay. ---- On 
Tuesday, 15 August 2017, in Bure (Meuse), a demonstration of more than 800 people tried to 
reach an archaeological site dating back to the Neolithic era and hidden by the National 
Agency for Radioactive Waste (Andra). The fortnight of vans of mobile guards and the water 
cannon provoked the procession at the exit of the village of Saudron. Result: more than 30 
injured and 3 hospitalizations, one of which could lead to the amputation of several toes 
[1]. The State therefore decided not only to militarize the region, endangering the lives 
of opponents. ---- Tomatoes no nuclear waste ! ---- How did we get there ? A flashback is 
necessary. ---- For several years the opposition swells against the delirious project of a 
nuclear waste disposal site supposed to last hundreds of thousands of years on the Bure 
site [2].

Since the "  summer of emergency 2016  ", the attention of the opponents has been on the 
wood Lejuc. Andra began clearing to construct wells to evacuate the gases that would 
emerge from future buried barrels. The sale of this wood to Andra on 2 July 2015 by the 
municipal council of Mandres-en-Barrois was annulled by the court on 22 February 2017 on 
account of irregularities. It was narrowly reconfirmed by the municipal council on May 18, 
2017, but a new appeal was filed, supported by the network Sortir du nucléaire.

The wood was occupied by opponents in mid-June 2016, before being expelled. The Andra then 
illegally erected a wall 2 meters high to protect its works. A second occupation was 
organized in mid-July despite the strong repression of the mobile guards, sometimes backed 
by ... Andra's private militia ! [3]. Following the resignation of the director of Andra, 
and in the absence of the police, a crowd of 400 people shot down the wall [4]on August 
14, 2016. A nice move, added to legal remedies and occupations , Has borne fruit since the 
works of the wood Lejuc were declared illegal by the justice, Andra even to restore the 
forest [5].

On the action day of 18 February 2017, nearly 600 people reached the laboratory of Andra, 
protected by an important police force. The crowd dropped the laboratory grills despite 
the deafening grenades and deconcentration that injured about 20 people - two were 
hospitalized.

Last summer, from 11 to 13 August, the Bure'lesque Festival brought together over a 
thousand participants in a festive setting featuring lectures, screenings, debates, live 
performances and concerts.

Cigéo to mask the nuclear sinking

The struggle at Bure shows that Andra is ready to do everything possible to carry out its 
project, in defiance of the opinion of the populations and the ecological consequences. It 
is that behind the Andra, the whole French nuclear sector is putting on the culmination of 
the Cigéo project.

The French nuclear sector is sinking into an irremediable crisis [6]. Affected by the 
Uramin scandal in 2007 [7], Areva is unable to extricate itself from the EPR shipyards in 
Flamanville (Manche), Taishan (China) and Olkiluoto (Finland), and a fourth will be added 
to Hinckley Point in Great Britain, 'Be the ball too many. As for EDF, the cost of 
dismantling nuclear power plants - inescapable though always pushed back - is still 
unknown, and waste management is insoluble. For the Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe, who 
was Director of Public Affairs of Areva between 2007 and 2010, the Cigéo de Bure project 
must prove to the world market that the French sector, despite its difficulties, is still 
at the forefront of technology .

For an alternative to this system

 From the colonial plundering of the uranium mines of Niger to the creation of an eternal 
dustbin in Bure, to the sacrifice of the health of employees and local populations: the 
nuclear society is necessarily police and undemocratic !

The libertarian communist movement supports the struggle at Bure, at Flamanville and 
everywhere else. We need to popularize the need for total nuclear exit [8], primarily by 
reducing electricity consumption across the company and the development of renewable 
energy, distributed generation and under popular control To avoid recovery by the 
capitalists, as is already seen with the business of the giant wind turbines [9]. The 
question of the management of nuclear waste will arise after the cessation of their 
production.

To achieve this, it is clear that the institutional path does not work: the law of energy 
transition, supposed to bring to 50  % the share of nuclear in the French electricity 
production causes no concrete act, even with cosmetic presence of An environmental 
minister in the government. Change will be imposed only through struggle.

Fred (AL Nancy)

[1] Joint Communiqué of medic teams Automedia and legal Bure Vmc.camp 17 August 2017. 
http://vmc.camp/2017/08/17/a-bure-la-prefecture-continue-sa-strategie 
-descalade-brutal-the-price-of-many-her-hurt-es-continue-the-support /

[2] "  Antinuclear: Bure en tension  ", Alternative libertarian, July-August 2016. 
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Antinucleaire-Bure-sous-tension

[3] "  In Mandres, Andra employs a militia of armed mercenaries, with the blessing of the 
gendarmerie  ", Vmc.camp, July 21, 2016. http://vmc.camp/2016/07/21/a-mandres 
-landra-use-a-militia-de-mercenaries-weapons-with-blessing-of-the-police /

[4] "  In the Bois Lejuc, the wall illegally built by Andra fell !  ", Leaving Nuclear 
Power, 14 August 2016. 
http://www.sortirdunucleaire.org/Dans-le-Bois-Lejuc-le-mur-construit-illegalement

[5] "  Nuclear waste in Bure: justice confirms the illegality of works in Lejuc wood  ", 
Le Monde, 22 May 2017. http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2017/05/22/ 
nuclear-waste-a-homespun-the-court-confirmed-the-illegality-of-work-in-the-wood-lejuc_5131997_3244.html

[6] "  Antinuclear energy redoubling  ", Alternative libertarian, September 2016. 
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Nucleaire-Les-antinucleaires

[7] "  Areva, the underside of a state scandal  ", Libération, 10 February 2016. 
http://www.liberation.fr/france/2016/02/10/areva-les-dessous-d-un -scandale-of-etat_1432481

[8] "  For a fastest possible exit from nuclear power  ", Federal Coordination of AL, 
September 2011. http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Motion-de-CF-For-une-out-the-

[9] "  Industrial wind: the wind is money  ", Alternative libertarian, November 2014. 
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Eolien-industriel-Le-vent-c-est-de

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Bure-pourquoi-l-Etat-tient-tant-a-briser-la-contestation

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While Santiago Maldonado is still missing (and everything suggests that the National 
Gendarmerie is involved in the event) and Facundo Jones Huala continues to spend his days 
in jail, government officials and tabloid journalists such as the ineffable Jorge Lanata 
are competing to install the idea Of a new public enemy: the Mapuche terrorist. ---- Old 
tunes are already being amplified, which, at least in the south, have a long history. But 
now the audience reaches the whole country. It is a good time, then, to clarify issues, 
refute nonsense and sit position. ---- Quiñe: take charge ---- Although it sounds in bad 
taste and few are willing to recognize it, Argentina is a colonial state. It undoubtedly 
exerts an internal colonialism, and occupies territories of native peoples robbed by the 
force of the arms in the late nineteenth century. This is not subject matter. It is not an 
interpretation: it is a purely objective description that no honest historian could 
reject. As a historian and as an Argentinean, I have an obligation to raise this 
uncomfortable truth (without making concessions, incidentally, to the sonseras of the 
post-truth, which is nothing other than the old relativism wrapped in new garments, but 
just as dull).

As for the claim that the Mapuche are actually Chilean, it can only be said that it lacks 
all historical relevance. The Mapuche inhabited a territory that extended to both sides of 
the mountain range of the Andes, from many time before the States of Chile and Argentina 
had existence. Roca's military campaign was a violent invasion aimed at appropriating the 
rich land of the Mapuche to the Argentine landowning class. A spoil, neither more nor less.

Epu: have we advanced?

Some will say that it is a good thing that the occupation, the dispossession and the 
ethnocide committed against the original peoples of the present Argentine territory is a 
disgrace, but that it is necessary to overcome the past and that, in the last years, its 
character has been legally recognized Of pre-existing peoples and favorable laws have been 
passed. In view of this, it must be said without fear that although there have been some 
improvements, the vast majority of the Mapuche population, Qom, Wichi, etc., continue to 
be poor, without territorial reparations, without autonomy, subject to state pressure And 
depriving them of their culture. Perhaps the public authorities or the Argentineans 
sincerely believe that progress has been made. But, in fact, we should ask them: are we 
sure that they will give us the reason?

Küla: The cards on the table

In my opinion, the Argentine State should be recognized as what it is: a plurinational and 
multicultural state. There are many inhabitants of the state territory who do not 
recognize themselves as Argentines, and are also descendants of people who inhabited it 
for centuries and even millennia.

Overcoming colonialism and the racism that informed it (present in daily life, as its 
victims know well, and as it persists in ignoring a large part of the population belonging 
to the majority ethnic group: that is, Argentina) And genuine interculturality. It 
presupposes a certain symmetry between the parties (now non-existent) and, of course, 
mutual respect. In order to wipe our honor away from the dirt of colonialism and racism 
still in force, we must seriously think of genuine paths of historical reparation that 
include economic, linguistic, cultural, political and territorial.

Meli: Resistance

Every oppressed or exploited group has the moral right to resist and rebel. And the 
colonizer lacks the legitimacy to rule on the forms of that resistance. Demanding an 
oppressed group to refrain from any kind of violence is to disarm it beforehand. This does 
not mean, however, that all type, form and degree of violence perpetrated by the oppressed 
must be accepted. Absolutely. The actions of political violence will have to be evaluated 
and judged in their concrete historicity.

Kechu: Terrorism?

Already circulates in Argentina the accusation that for decades is in Chile (another 
colonial state) currency: there are Mapuche terrorists. The statement lacks rigor, unless 
we call terrorism anything. At this point I would like to quote José Marimán, a lucid, 
rigorous and honest Mapuche intellectual: "I strongly emphasize the idea that the Mapuche 
are acting as terrorists, as some representatives of the elites and groups try to 
establish in the social political imaginary of power. Manifest that the actions imputed to 
the Mapuche of sabotage and affecting agricultural machinery, agricultural or forestry 
facilities, or trucks, do not move in the logic of a more / less accepted definition of 
terrorism. That is, consciously directed action towards a civilian population,
The vast majority of Mapuche fighting actions are peaceful, and in cases where some type 
of violence is used, as in Marimán, these are defensive actions that do not aim at the 
life of civilians ( Which could legitimately be termed terrorism) and are not actions 
against the armed and security forces (which could be considered as armed struggle). These 
are always attacks on property: simple forms of direct action or sabotage.
To present these actions as acts of terrorism (and to judge their perpetrators under such 
a figure, as usually happens in contexts of anti-colonial rebellion, as in both Chile and 
Argentina) is one more form of colonialism. Member of the dominant ethnic group would be 
classified as a simple crime or apologized as an act of madness). And colonialism, it is 
known, is based on violence and sooner or later produces counter-violence by the 
colonized. I have no problem in repudiating all forms of terrorism: ISIS and the USA. But, 
there is no Mapuche terrorism.

Kayu: diversities

Although it is obvious, it is worth repeating. The Mapuche world is a world as diverse as 
any other. There are Mapuches of right and left, rural and urban, essentialists and 
anti-essentialists, traditionalists and modernists (even postmodernists), authoritarian 
and democratic, spiritualists and materialists. Inside, different political projects 
flourish. Before speaking from prejudice and, above all, before embracing or condemning 
them en bloc, the right thing would be to know them, in their immense diversity. Their 
culture is a living culture, oppressed but vital. And like any culture, it changes, 
mutates, changes. To say that someone is not Mapuche because he does not speak Mapuzugun 
or because he lives in the city is simply not understanding anything at all.

Regle: secession, autonomy, state?

As Diana Lenton recently reminded us in an article of every recommendable point of view 
("The New Public Enemy", published in Amphibia) "in spite of the mistreatment received 
during centuries, and despite this internal diversity that makes possible all kinds of 
responses, There is evidence to date of the existence of a secessionist project - much 
less violent - among the Mapuche leaders on this side of the mountain range, just as 
officials began to shake overnight. " Besides, there is no other side. That is to say, 
there is not in all the Wallmapu, Mapuche territory on both sides of the Andes, no 
secessionist project. What is, at most and recognized in United Nations political-legal 
documents referring to Indigenous Peoples, are proposals for autonomy and self-government:
Pure: anti-capitalism?

Mapuche organizations that have resorted to and resort to sabotage and direct action - 
such as the Arauco-Malleco Coordinator (CAM) in Ngullumapu, Mapuche territory in Chile, or 
Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM) in Puelmapu, Mapuche territory in Argentina To wield a 
strong anti-capitalist discourse: its most immediate enemies, in fact, are the forestry 
corporations or the foreign latifundist Benetton. It would be wrong, however, to think 
that all Mapuche, or most, are anti-capitalist. They are not, at least not for now.

Aylla: Solidarity

The Mapuche cause calls for the solidarity of all honest men and women who condemn any 
form of oppression, whatever it may be and whoever commits it. Solidarity, without 
paternalism. Fighting side by side, free and equal, for a world that includes us all.
Pukem antü mew 2017, Newken waria, Puelmapu
(Winter 2017, city of Neuquén, Mapuche Territory in Argentina)

http://rupturacolectiva.com/los-mapuche-y-un-discurso-de-terror-ariel-petruccelli/

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