Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL September - Documentary:
I'm not your negro (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - International solidarity
against repression in Catalonia (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Czech, afed Love Catalonia, Hate Cops -- Prague expressed
its solidarity with the Catalan people. [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Soheil Arabi the anarchist prisoner in Iran
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. anarkismo.net: Solidarity with the strike in Catalonia!
Madrid against the repression of the Catalan people. by Several
Organisations (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. France, Alternative Libertaire AL September - Venezuela:
Trade unionism autonomous or domesticated by the State ? (fr, it,
pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. France, Alternative Libertaire - fascism, Harassed on one
side, betrayed on the other: courage, Sonia Nour ! by AL
Montreuil (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Clash October, October
10 against the sorting at the entrance in fac by Youth
Secretariat (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
9. awsm.nz: Don't Ask ASSK By Pink Panther (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
I'm not your Negro "(" I'm not your negro "), this sentence James Baldwin gives its
title to documentary film director Raoul Peck Haitian dedicated to him. And Baldwin goes
on: " Most whites I meet are not racist. But they must ask themselves why they need to
have a Negro. This is what is at stake in the work of Baldwin, an Afro-American author
who has been closely involved with the civil rights movement: exploring the racial
tensions and the unspoken stories of American society and preventing to reflect on real
collective emancipation. Peck undertakes to share with us this dazzling thought without
comment, but simply by putting in images the words of Baldwin. ---- The film is there to
make the spectators reflect, to make them think really, pointing the contradictions: you
are white and you say that you are not racist but then why do the " negroes " exist ?
Why are fictional works - many of which are featured in the documentary - so full of
racist violence and stereotypes ? But the challenge of the film is first and foremost to
address those who suffer and fight racist, colonial, segregationist systems, to encourage
them on the road of revolt.
It is to these more or less activist, more or less committed people that Raoul Peck
proposes to (re) discover Baldwin's luminous thought, which puts words clear and precise,
without detours, on realities that always speak 50 years later. Through a tangled array of
archival images that illustrate racial segregation, excerpts of films that unconsciously
show the daily reality, and passages of Baldwin's interviews on television, the speech
unfolds , relentless.
The voice-over reads an incomplete and unpublished work by the Afro-American writer, whose
project was to write about three figures of the civil rights movement murdered before
their 40th birthday: Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. The film thus begins
with the end and unfolds these three militant trajectories so important, so subversive,
that they were stopped net, by three successive assassinations. History, translated by
Baldwin's words, places the spectator and the spectator in the shoes of an
African-American or an African-American of the 1960s, suffering in his flesh humiliations,
accusations, suspicions, lynchings.
It is an important pedagogical work that Peck delivers here, for several reasons. First,
because Baldwin's thought is articulated with television and cinematographic archives,
which makes it possible to put words and images into perspective and to be all the more
impressed by the relevance of some and the violence of others. But also because the film
allows each and everyone to understand his own anger and seize Baldwin's sharp thought to
arm himself in the battle of ideas and militant struggles.
Adèle (AL Montreuil) and Ben (AL Paris-Nord-Est)
Raoul Peck, I'm not your negro, 2016, 93 m n .
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Documentaire-I-m-not-your-negro
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Message: 2
We express our solidarity with the Catalan people, who peacefully mobilized themselves in
a massive way to defend their right to decide their future. We strongly condemn the police
repression that did not hesitate to use force to try to prevent the referendum. ---- More
than 10,000 agents of the state security forces were deployed throughout Catalonia to try
to close the polling stations, requisition the ballot boxes and the ballot papers. 844
wounded by the police of the Spanish State who violently charged those who wanted to vote,
breaking the doors of the schools striking the elderly, children, even attacking the
police of the Mossos under the supervision of the Generalitat and to the Catalan
firefighters. ---- Faced with the repression of the Spanish state, the vote for the right
of self-determination of the Catalan people is exemplary. The will of a people can not be
stopped. Despite the deployment of the Guardia Civil, mobilization has protected many of
the polling stations, with more than three million voters, 770,000 of whom have not been
able to see their votes count more than 400 polling stations having been invaded by the
police and their urns stolen. Catalonia has demonstrated today that, against a State which
refuses to accept a referendum and to listen to the expression of a majority of the
population, the Spanish Constitution, the product of a compromise reached in 1978 with the
Francoists, is exceeded. This legal framework is used as an excuse to support, the
violation of fundamental rights and direct attacks on the freedom of the peoples of Spain.
We call for international solidarity to denounce the repression of the Rajoy government
and defend democracy. Faced with a democratic demand such as the right to
self-determination, the solution can never be repression and violence.
We may have debates about the validity of Catalonia's independence or about the limits of
the current process, but we share principles that lead us to say together:
We reaffirm our support for the democratic rights of the people of Catalonia.
We support the interprofessional strike organized by several trade union organizations to
defend the rights and demands of all workers in Catalonia.
We condemn the complicit silence of the French authorities and call on citizens,
democratic, trade union, political and associative organizations to join forces with the
people of Catalonia.
Against state violence
For Freedom and Democracy
For the right to self-determination of peoples
Gathering in front of the Spanish Embassy in Paris
22 avenue Marceau, Paris VIII e , metro Alma Marceau Tuesday, October 3 to 18 hours.
Similar initiatives will take place in front of the consulates of several French cities
First signatories: Solidarity Union, Colonial National Assembly, French National Assembly
(France), Emancipation, Kanaky Solidarity Collective, Democratic Kurdish Center of France
(CDKF), Associu Sulidarità (Corsica) - Pariggi, Corsica Internaziunalista, , NPA, PCOF,
Social Ecology, Together, Alternative Libertaire.
https://www.facebook.com/931845406882168/videos/1668365363230165/
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Solidarite-internationale-contre-la-repression-en-Catalogne
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Message: 3
When it came to a referendum on the independence of Catalonia, it can not be said that
anarchists and anarchists would occupy a clearly defined position. On the one hand, we
support the right to self-determination, on the other hand we are very skeptical for a
long time to be divided on the basis of the dubious category of the nation, let alone the
founding of new states. ---- However, when Catalonia attempted a referendum on 1 October,
although it was clear that the Spanish state would never recognize it, it was difficult to
preserve impartiality. The brutality that the police sent to suppress voting occupied the
polling station, invaded people, and ran demonstrations, shocked everyone who watched the
media. ---- Violent dragging of people from polling stations, firing rubber projectiles to
Barcelona demonstrators, photographs of bloodied people, and hundreds of increasing
numbers of wounded - all of which showed us the true nature of a Spanish state that has
never been able to cleanse from the heritage of the Cleopatra Frank regime. It is only
symptomatic that police brutality affected Catalonia with its history of a rebellious
region, where perhaps the most impressive attempt to build anarcho-communist society was
born about eighty years ago.
That this rebellion from Catalonia has not completely vanished is, fortunately, obvious.
Police violence immediately followed mass protests and the organization of a general
strike, the first of which was called by the CNT's anarcho-syndicalist unions.
We were by far the only one the Catalan bloody hit on October 1, so it is no surprise that
a brief protest in front of the Spanish Embassy in Prague was not in our direction, even
though we supported it as anarchists.
Tuesday is not a typical day for demonstrations, but around forty people from various
groups gathered in front of the Hradcanská embassy. We met Catalans, human rights
activists, Young Green and Socialists from SocSol, who organized the event. Although the
street was splitting from the embassy, the police were also watching police in the
civilian, mostly old acquaintances.
They could see the "work" of their colleagues on several dozen photos, which on the
sidewalk eloquently showed Sunday violence. In addition to the photos, demonstration
equipment included a variety of flags (most of which, of course, Catalan) and pickaxes of
all kinds. Some have called for democracy, others have wished freedom to all nations, and
vice versa, death to every state. The imaginary prize for the most authoritative
expression of solidarity with the inscription "Love Catalonia, Hate cops, Do gay stuff" is
in any case taken by the anarchoqueer QAS.
In addition to the organizers, the meeting was also attended by a Young Green member and
representatives of the Catalan community. They said that for them the question of
independence at the moment is out of the question, because what happened on Sunday is
inadmissible regardless of what one thinks of the idea of independent Catalan. There was
also a warning that such excesses of power could very quickly spread to the rest of
Europe. It is also worth mentioning the speech of Jan Májícek from Socialist Solidarity,
who supported the openly Catalan autonomy and, above all, called for international
solidarity and the search for alternatives to the present state of affairs.
In order for the action to be even more international, the Polish activist, who recalled
the recent anniversary of the beginning of the Black Protest against the anti-social and
anti-war policies of the ultra-conservative Polish government, There was also a smaller
symbolic expression of support for the fight of Polish women.
The evening had fallen, and so it was time to put the flowers to the embassy guarded by a
line of cops, to make a couple of pictures together, and gradually begin to break.
https://www.afed.cz/text/6751/love-catalonia-hate-cops
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Message: 4
Talking about the truth here is forbidden. I am an anarchist and for me "prohibited
prohibition" ---- I can not be silent when the innocent people are tormented by torture.
Here is Evin, (a large prison in Iran), where people are punished solely for expressions
of opinion ---- Do not tell me; remain silent, since under these circumstances "silence"
is a greater betrayal of humanity ---- My protest and hunger strike is not only because of
my miserable conditions in prison, but I hope that people can finally hear our voice from
prison. I also want the voice of freaking people like ---- Manochehr Mohammad Ali, Mahmoud
Beheshti Laneroodi, Ali Shariati, Yoosef Emadi, Arash Sadeghi, Soda Aghasar and other
friends ---- in the seventh tract of Evin Prison ---- People who are guilty in the court
just because they knew and said truth ---- We have been condemned in Iran by judges, who
are actually the most corrupt people in the world
Today is the third day of my daughter's school day, when I can not accompany her to
school, like all other parents, on her children's first day of school
I decided to go hungry because I no longer want my daughter to see me as a prisoner of
this prison
Sohail Arabi
Tract 7 of the Evin prison
Related links
Iran: Pasdaran abusing Soheil Arabi in the Ewin Prison
Soheil Arabi
In the death row because of a Facebook post
Amnesty International: death sentence for "insulting the Prophet
https://asranarshism.com/1396/07/07/hunger-strike-24/
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Message: 5
The unions and social organisations who support this manifest fully share the motives who
are at the start of the call for a General Strike in Catalonia: the continuous loss of
rights for the working class and the repressive situation with more than 800 wounded
people, some of them in heavy states and more than 40 arrests from different State police
corps. A loss of social and labor rights that can't be tolerated. ---- We clearly condemn
the moves of the State and defend the right for the Catalan population to express with
total freedom on subjects of any kind, might it be self-determination or another one. ----
This repressive situation goes way further than the sole Catalan political situation and
create a very concerning precedent about how the central Government tackles social
struggles: pretending to save the rule of law to smash our basic rights and freedoms.
We understand the means of repression we discovered this week-end from the central
government aren't a true answer - even a gross heirs-of-franquism-like one - to the
«Catalan sovereignty challenge».
We oppose the State repression because we already experienced it in a systematic and
continuous way in our very bodies, in the streets and our workplaces. Therefore, we also
want to denounce the repressive nature of the Generalitat de Catalunya which has
persecuted, beaten, arrested and sent to prison all those who refused to look on this
another side when civil and human rights were being smashed.
We do not forget the way the Mossos d'Escuadra kicked us out of the Plaza Catalunya,
arrested and prosecuted unionists for their participation in the demo which had circled
the Parliament when our social rights were cut. We do not forget the comrades who were
arrested and sentenced to prison with the massive police operations.
We also wish to signal with concern that the most rancid fascism is now taking to the
streets with the blessing of the current party in power and we can observe how the power
gives feed them with oxygen mask through the old patriotic excuse. Once again, calling the
fascist dog to protect the interests of the bourgeoisie.
Strikes and our mobilizations are not a response against the Spanish attack nor an act
against the Catalan people. They are made in unity and solidarity with our Catalan
brothers and sisters to defend the rights and freedoms which belong to everyone.
For all these reasons, we make a call to the workers of Madrid to take part in the
mobilizations to defend our rights and freedoms and particularly to massively take part in
the gathering to support the general strike of October, 3rd.
Because we are the working class and we want to decide everything, it's our turn to take
to the streets, it's our turn to fight!
CNT
Solidaridad Obrera
Plataforma sindical EMT
CGT
Movimiento Asambleario de Trabajadoras/es de Sanidad
Ecologistas en Acción
Federación Estudiantil Libertaria
Apoyo Mutuo
Translation (sorry for broken English): International Relations of the Coordination des
Groupes Anarchistes (CGA)
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/30560
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Message: 6
Chavism has suppressed the autonomous expression of social movements, forced to align
their agenda with that of the government. If social protest now overflows from these
frameworks, a true culture of independence remains to be built. ---- In 2003, in order to
compete with the Confederation of Workers of Venezuela (CTV), which was subservient to
employers, the State helped launch the National Union of Workers (UNT) ... creating a new
bureaucracy under its command. Pockets of dissent, however, exist within the UNT, like the
classical, unitary, revolutionary and autonomous current (C-CURA). He is active in the
powerful Petroleum Workers' Federation (FUTPV), which has 67,000 union members out of the
108,000 employees of PDVSA, the country's big oil company. In a recent interview with
Quintodia.net, José Bodas, secretary of the FUTPV, said that " the trade union bureaucracy
and technocracy of PDVSA defend each other in order to maintain their respective
privileges.[...]Having union leaders who are also members of the management of PDVSA does
not help.[...]Our current C-CURA calls for setting up basic committees and demanding
collective bargaining as well as the organization of elections within the FUTPV and the
basic unions. "
Beyond C-CURA, several grass-roots unions maintain a class practice ; they called for a
general strike on 26 and 27 August for a decent minimum wage for free health and education
rights and for the oil to become " 100% Venezuelan " . While it is clear that some work
stoppages are in fact remotely controlled by the employers' and reactionary forces, it
would be absurd to generalize as Maduro did when, in May 2013, he treated the struggling
trade unionists of the nationalized Sidor steelworks of " thugs " and "
anarcho-syndicalists " !
One can only adhere to what the Uruguayan sociologist Raúl Zibechi explained in the autumn
2016 in the review of the Spanish CGT Libre Pensamiento : " Those who like us think that
it is the basic social movements that transform the realities, and not governments, must
bet on the end of the hegemony of bolivarism for the simple reason that it prevents the
emergence of different political identities than those dictated by the
Chavismo-Antichavism polarization. " Zibechi called, more generally, to " complete
restoration of the autonomy and belligerency of social movements ... by functioning in a
self-managed way, rejecting mediations and placing our struggles on the electoral path,
refusing to be the footsteps of a political party ".
Abobora (AL 31)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Mouvements-sociaux-au-Venezuela-Syndicalisme-autonome-ou-domestique-par-l-Etat
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Message: 7
That the extreme right demands the head of an Afro-feminist and communist militant, is
usual. That his boss, the mayor PCF of La Courneuve, soaped the board, it is less. Shame
on him, and support her ! ---- Sonia Nour is a well-known Afro-feminist and communist
activist on the social network Facebook, where she regularly defends anti-social policies
and sexist or racist hypocrisies, with a certain taste for controversy. ---- In a post
published in the aftermath of the Marseille bombing, she dared to compare the media
treatment of jihadist killings with the silence surrounding patriarchal violence - in
France, a woman dies under the blows of her partner days or three days, on average. ----
The remark is pertinent, but Sonia Nour wrote a little too fast. And committed a fault in
qualifying the jihadist as a " martyr " without setting quotation marks. Yet for all
those who read it ordinarily, it is obvious that this is an awkwardness that does not
reflect his thought. This awkwardness - on which it will return later - will however cause
a scandal whose repercussions will have nothing virtual.
Three hours after the publication of this note, Boris Le Lay, a notorious fascist troll ,
sounded the tocsin in the fachosphere. And called to write to the mayor of La Courneuve
(93), employer of Sonia Nour, to " demand his dismissal ".
Twenty-four hours later, the extreme right web was filled with articles that had been more
or less transplanted on top of each other to denounce an insult to " France, " and Sonia
Nour was bombarded with messages of insult, threats of death or rape - largely accompanied
by racist comments.
At first she answered with irony.
Then with annoyance.
Finally, she tried to use pedagogy.
But the stab in the back came from his " comrade " and employer. On 3 October, Gilles
Poux, PCF Mayor of La Courneuve, suspended Sonia Nour and summoned her to a disciplinary
council for her " excessively serious statements ... which minimize and trivialize acts
of terrorism " . Shame on this sad sire, otherwise unfavorably known for the brutality of
his policy towards the Roma .
Sonia Nour, who asked the CGT to defend her, received support from the CPF - even though
the leadership of the party is still silent.
Let it not disarm ; that she does not give up expressing herself. She will emerge from
this wretched affair with her head held high. The extreme right will soon get tired and
look for other outlets to its hatred. But the cowards who, on the left, have let it fall,
will bite their fingers long.
Guillaume Davranche (AL Montreuil), October 5, 2017
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Harcelee-d-un-cote-trahie-de-l-autre-courage-Sonia-Nour
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Message: 8
Macron has just signed the ordinances. They facilitate redundancies. We will have crap
contracts, and fewer ways to enforce our rights against our employer. And Macron also
wants to impose a selection at the entrance of the faculty: even with the bac all the
world will not be able to return to the university ! ---- Macron's anti-social orders
raise indignation. On 12 and 21 September, demonstrations were held throughout France and
since September 25, road and road workers have been on strike. In order to bend the
government, the strike must be extended to other sectors, but also the youth must be there
! It is up to us to encourage the rest of the working poor, unemployed and unemployed to
join the movement. ---- Studying is a right, not a privilege ---- The Macron government
attacks us directly: with the selection, the bac will not be enough to go back to university !
Yet it is a school-based youth right acquired since 1968, losing it would be a huge social
setback. Already many have found themselves without a fac this year. And the budget for
Higher Education and Research has been reduced by more than 300 million euros, while the
amphis are overloaded and one has to sit down the stairs to follow the course. Not to
mention the drop in Personal Housing Assistance (APL), which the government announces will
be more than 5 euros ... With Macron, either one will have the bac without being able to
enter the university, or one will be student .e in precarious conditions by cumulating
work at side.
Attacks like that, there is for everyone: let's take advantage of this day of
interprofessional mobilization so that it is the most unitary and convergent possible !
Let's join the teachers who will be heavily on strike in the lycées. By fighting each and
every one in his corner one will be eaten some and some !
Faced with these attacks, we must mobilize massively, demonstrating in the street,
supporting strikes and economic blockages.
Let us organize in our schools and in our lycées to fight back from October 10th !
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Le-10-octobre-contre-le-tri-a-l-entree-en-fac
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Message: 9
A refugee crisis is unfolding in Myanmar (or Burma). The Rohingya Muslims, who numbered
about two million people, have been forced to flee into neighbouring countries. Almost one
million of them have ended up in Bangladesh as refugees living in utter squalor. This is
because the Bangladesh government and other nation-states have left them to fend for
themselves. ---- The reasons for fleeing are Buddhist religious extremism against Muslims
and a military crackdown. According to an UN international tribunal the situation facing
the Rohingya is akin to genocide with torture, mass killings, levelling of villages, mass
incarceration and other acts. This has been reported by the BBC since August, but other
news outlets have largely ignored or downplayed the events in Myanmar until very recently.
Despite this persecution, the Western elites' Myanmar human rights poster child Aung San
Suu Kyi has been noteworthy for her silence. On September 26th, the Myanmar government
went so far as to say that no ethnic cleansing or genocide was happening, despite the
evidence to the contrary.
Given that she is in a position equivalent to Prime Minister, human rights groups have
called upon Aung San Suu Kyi to denounce the violence against the Rohingya community. She
has not only refused to condemn the persecution but resorted to the Trumpian tactic of
condemning all sides for the violence. In reality nearly all the carnage has been the
result of Buddhist extremists and the Myanmar military. What violence that has been by the
Rohingya, especially since late August 2017, has been in response to the aggression they
have experienced.
The Bangladeshi authorities have started to turn the Rohingya away with brute force for
the simple reason they can't cope with them. Bangladesh is one of world's poorest states
so it shouldn't come as a surprise they are not in a position to accept so many refugees.
But they still continue to come and, there's little in the way of help being offered
except for woefully inadequate assistance from poorly funded Muslim aid groups.
The elites in the West, many of whom were so vocal in their condemnation of the Myanmar
military rulers when they crushed pro-democracy groups in the 1980s and placed Aung San
Suu Kyi under house arrest, have been very quiet. Perhaps if the Rohingya were Buddhists
like the Tibetans or Christian they may have paid more attention.
Like the Rwandan genocide of 1994 the powers-that-be have looked on and said little about
the mass attacks on the Rohingya people. Like Rwanda, there were many warning signs of
what was going to unfold, especially with the emergence of radical Buddhist leaders urging
their followers to run the Muslims out of the country and to kill them. And, like the
Rwandan genocide, it's the countries that are least able to help them who have been stuck
with the burden of housing, clothing and feeding these people.
Countries light up iconic landmarks with the colours of countries when a handful of people
are killed by Islamic extremists but when Muslims are the victims, such as the Rohingya in
Myanmar and non-Sunni Muslims by Islamic State (and the Bosnian Muslims in the 1990s at
the hands of Bosnian Serbs), there is mostly silence. When bomb blasts kill hundreds of
Muslims in Afghanistan, Pakistan or Iraq landmarks don't get lit up.
The indifference towards the plight of the Rohingya Muslims is a reflection of the general
unresponsiveness - if not hostility - routinely displayed by the Western rulers when the
victims of genocide or persecution belong to a group that is often maligned as backward
and supportive of terrorism. This willfull blindness is one of the most powerful
recruitment tools used by groups like Islamic State to gain supporters. They exploit this
to highlight how little the elites care about the plight of Muslims when they are the
victims of persecution, terrorism or genocide. One only has to look at the decades of
callous inaction and apathy displayed towards, and vilification of, Palestinians since the
foundation of the State of Israel in 1948 to see how little Muslim lives are valued for
the most part. One can also point to the unconcern towards Muslim lives in the Bosnian
civil war (1992-1995), the Albanian Kosovo community for much of the 1990s and in the
on-going conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen. So ISIS aren't wrong about the problem,
though their recipe for dealing with it is one of ultra-authoritarian thuggery, so hardly
different to what the Rohingya have already suffered at other hands.
The Rohingya Muslims are just the latest group to be persecuted by the Myanmar regime.
Their history of attacking various ethnic groups is a long one yet there has been very
little publicity about these brutal persecutions. Even when there has been publicity and
international condemnation, virtually nothing is done. To a large extent the leadership of
countries that could do something, such as in India, China and the United States, choose
to do nothing because of geopolitical and economic considerations. It should also be clear
that asking their friendly lieutenants like Aung San Suu Kyi to do something isn't going
to work either. So on the face of it, things look bleak. The best that can be hoped for is
that civil society, non-governmental aid organisations and ordinary people across the
world learn of the condition the Rohingya are in and work together with them at the
grassroots to help, before state actors and malignant groups akin to ISIS fill the void
with their anti-human agendas.
http://www.awsm.nz/2017/10/09/dont-ask-assk/
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