Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Ferns: What is a child ?
Workshop-Debate by AL Fougères (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Indonesia, Student Federation of Libertarian Salatiga --
Anarchist Solidarity towards Papua's National Liberation [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. awsm.nz: Traditional Values: Housing & Direct Action
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Santiago Maldonado was an anarchist By Matías Capelli (ca,
pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. US, black rose fed: UNBLOCK ROJAVA WINS VS. FACEBOOK
POLITICAL CENSORSHIP By BRRN Social Media Team
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
As adults, we all have a vision of what a child should be, what childhood is. We often
forget that children are people in their own right. Thinking of childhood is also thinking
about our interactions with them, the rights they can have, their needs to become critical
adults and emancipate: come and share !
This is the third meeting as part of the cycle of reflection and construction on Education
organized by Alternative Libertaire Fougères.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Fougeres-Qu-est-ce-qu-un-enfant-Atelier-Debat
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Message: 2
We are not in line with the idea of Papuan nationalism, for it only spews patrotic
rhetoric blessed over its narrow allegiance to the homeland. We are in line with universal
brotherhood, unlimited human solidarity and upholding freedom, equality and equality of
rights, and social justice throughout the surface of the earth. ---- We are not interested
in supporting the founding of the Federal Republic of West Papua, which merely replicates
elitist, hierarchical, centralized and oppressive political institutions. We support the
creation of an organized West Papua Confederation in a confederation of democratic direct
citizens as an egalitarian self-government alternative. We do not want our Papuan friends
to repeat the same mistake by re-colonizing our fellow Papuans by the establishment of
authority.
We oppose any possibility of any form of privatization or nationalization of the economy
for the future of the Papua Confederation. We support communal self-ownership with
communitarian principles.
A total liberation requires the destruction of all fetters from various aspects of life.
The national liberation of Papua should not only stop at the destruction of modern
Indonesian colonialism, but also apart from the economic pressures of capitalism,
impersonal political institutions, gender equality, local communities in accordance with
the ecological situation, and the destruction of both poor life and living poverty.
We insult all kinds of deradicalisation due to the reformist agenda of pro-democracy
activists and celebrity movements behind the masks of the discourse of equity development,
human rights enforcement and the nationalization of fake foreign assets. We fully support
passive resistance, civil disobedience, international solidarity as well as armed
rebellion as the main lane for holding a referendum for Papuan friends. An open civil war
is much better than a rotten peace!
LONG LIFE BLEND FLAG AND GOOD STARS!!
DESTROY COUNTRY, SUPPORT CONFEDERATION!!
https://www.facebook.com/federasimahasiswalibertariansalatiga/?hc_ref=ARRBtUTcNa8JGdiOW4j0tLNdwxn4o0DzDsLY0OuOqUg7mcjTp-_wX7Ze1nucoA4QrJw&fref=nf
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Message: 3
In the recent election, the issue of homelessness and the availability of affordable
housing, were prominent issues. The new government has its own ideas about how to deal
with this. They are motivated in part by a xenophobic approach to ‘foreign speculators'
snapping up properties and an ideological commitment to working with ‘social partners'
including the private construction companies and employers. Before just resigning
ourselves to this approach, it's worth remembering that the problem of housing is not a
new one in this country and that other methods exist for dealing with it. ---- There is a
tendency on the wider Left, here and internationally to run from the idea of ‘traditional
values'. The latter is an expression owned by the Right and most of their opponents have
been content with that. Perhaps a better approach is to ask the question...which
traditional values? Once upon a time, working people had ready access and inclination to
use a range of techniques they had developed themselves to deal with social and economic
problems. One of these was direct action, whereby people dealt with things themselves
rather than looking to outside authorities to seek remedies. Of course, success was not
always possible or long lasting but in today's environment, it's worth remembering that
self-empowerment by working people could have positive results. Here is an historical
example of direct action as applied to housing in Aotearoa during the early 1930's:
"In Auckland an Anti-Eviction League was formed, whose members occupied and barricaded
houses under threat of eviction, rallied neighbours for support, and prevented the
bailiffs gaining access. In a number of cases these tactics were successful in saving a
family's home, or at least gaining a respite. The climax of the campaign came in October
1931 at 21 Norfolk Street, Ponsonby, where 15 armed defenders faced the combined strength
of police and bailiffs.
The tenant of this house was a woman with five young children, who had been deserted by
her unemployed husband. After the rent had remained unpaid for 11 weeks, the landlord
obtained an eviction order, but members of the Anti-Eviction League took over the house,
nailed down the windows, and tied banners to the verandah posts reading ‘No work, No Rent'
and ‘Stop the Evictions'. A red flag was hoisted from the roof.
After some preliminary skirmishes with the bailiffs, a strong force of police arrived on
the scene. Using crowbars they broke down the front door and arrested the occupants who
surrendered their homemade weapons: wooden batons, iron bars and lengths of piping. The
bailiffs then entered and moved all the family's furniture into the street. A crowd of up
to 500, who had booed the police and cheered the anti-evictionists, now took up a
collection for the mother and her young children. ‘Never mind, we're not beaten yet', she
called out when a woman from Ponsonby Road offered her a temporary home" (From: Toil &
Trouble, Roth/Hammond (Auckland, 1981) p. 120)
The use of this old technique of direct action and a return to the traditional value of
solidarity amongst those of us at the bottom, is something just as valid today.
Also See:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/97942772/bailiffs-to-come-for-niki-rauti-whos-fought-for-a-year-to-stay-in-social-housing
https://www.facebook.com/THISHOMEISOCCUPIED/
http://www.awsm.nz/2017/11/14/traditional-values-housing-direct-action/
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Message: 4
With the discovery of the body of Santiago Maldonado and still more questions than
certainties about the circumstances of his death, inscribing his political identity where
it corresponds -in the tradition of vernacular anarchism- is also an act of justice. ----
It is. On Friday, October 20th, the news began to circulate that the body found in the
Chubut River on Tuesday the 17th was that of Santiago Maldonado . It is. Like all the news
that emanates of the case from its beginnings, the most sensible reaction was to take it
with tweezers, to doubt, to wait for the next movement. Until his brother Sergio confirmed
it at an impromptu press conference at the exit of the judicial morgue: it is Santiago. I
had recognized him for the tattoos, he said. Hours later there was a mobilization,
relatively spontaneous, that gathered in Plaza de Mayo thousands of people moved, desolate
and angry about the death of Maldonado. Some began to turn around the pyramid, while more
and more people arrived. The deconcentration towards the Congress area was faster than
expected. There was a rumor, as in all recent marches, that a peaceful and multitudinous
convocation could end with incidents. In the last weeks a consensus had been generated:
the groups of hooded men who broke into the end to rot were infiltrated by the security
forces, who acted with the aim of justifying a violent repression and corroding the
empathy towards Maldonado in the middle class that Follow the events through the media.
They had even circulated videos and photos that showed people who seemed to be the same
throwing stones with their faces half-closed and, immediately afterwards, with camperita
of the City Police arresting protesters. For the parameters of the post-truth that was
enough to be able to affirm: they are all infiltrated.
And it happened that Friday, October 20. Once in the Congress, when the crowd began to
deconcentrate by Rivadavia, Callao and Entre Ríos, it began to rot. A van from a left
party that accompanied his column was attacked by a group of hooded men. They hit the
glass and forced her to escape by flying through the crowd. Moment of tension, in the
middle of the duel. The insults began, what are you coming here to rot, what does the
truck of a party here, Santiago was an anarchist ... Among the fabrics of the hood
emanated insults in abundance: "Citizen mask!", "Flock!", " Santiago was an anarchist! "
Even a shrieked cry scolded, as if it were the worst insult imaginable, "Social Democrat!"
Maldonado was not in the Pu Lof as an idealist of the seventies, he was not a leftist or a
montonero, he was not a hippie, nor a Marxist or a Marxist. Maldonado was there for anarchist.
The first reaction, again, as everything that radiates this case, a turbulent river full
of operations, paranoia and rotten fish, was caution, distrust. Were they infiltrators?
Were they police or services acting as anarchists? There was something in the aspect, in
the way of speaking, of behaving, of these subjects; it gave all the impression that it
was real, authentic the overflow of fury, the hatred of those boys. The thing did not
happen to major, it did not happen to the body to body. But he left the question bouncing.
Investigating a little, one verifies that what was said shouting in front of Congress was
true. Santiago Maldonado was an anarchist, known as Brujo or Lechuga, close to anarcho
groups of La Plata, from the Guliay-Polié library. Maldonado was not in the Pu Lof as an
idealist of the seventies, he was not a leftist or a montonero, he was not a hippie, nor a
Marxist or a Marxist. Maldonado was there for anarchist. In fact, despite their
differences, for decades there has been an intense affinity between anarchism and the
Mapuche cause, based on two issues: the ignorance of the Argentine State and the recourse
to direct action. It had been that vital itinerary - that of an anarcho of the 21st
century - that had taken Maldonado to El Bolsón, the one that had led him to join the
fishermen's claims in Chiloé in 2016, to commit himself to the Mapuche cause without being
Mapuche. , to protest the arrest of Mapuche leader Facundo Jones Huala. Even some of the
tattoos thanks to which he was recognized by his relatives are anarchist symbols or passwords.
"The word sounds less trembling today than strange, as if an extinct animal were
mentioned. A heavy bird that could never fly or a mammal whose last specimen was sighted
decades ago, "Christian Ferrer wrote in Cabezas de tormenta .
Take, for example, this statement by Jones Huala: "Santiago was a hooded man, and I really
thank him from the bottom of my heart, because when those thirty days of unjust detention
were fulfilled, he came, accompanied, because they had repressed Bariloche He was one of
those who broke windows in the court of Esquel here and the comrade was fighting side by
side. It hurts me a lot that they lie about him. Why do not they say the ideas that the
partner had? The partner was an anarchist. If Santiago were here, he would be fighting in
the streets, on the barricades. "
Or this other posting that circulated through the networks: "It does not sound strange or
illogical for many to assume a position on Santiago through the lens of human rights
organizations. After all, it is a logic that the Government affirmed in recent years. What
happens to those who do not understand that for many Santiago was a partner and not a
poster or an image to accumulate with other martyrs and saints on the left. Not everyone
believes in the representative logic and processions authorized by leading figures in the
militant arena. Some have urgency - and indeed it is urgent - to question those who
disappear in all areas where they manifest themselves, and those murderers are always the
same: the State and the Capital. "
Or this statement: "Approximately at 10 o'clock in the morning of today, Friday 4/08/2017,
almost four days after the disappearance of compañero Santiago Maldonado (" Lechuga "), we
destroyed the house in the province of Chubut , in the putrid capital of the so-called
Argentine state. Although there are plenty of reasons, the anger begins to overflow and
overflow, but they go more than 72 hours and a companion does not appear, while Facundo
Jones Huala is still on hunger strike. We extend our solidarity to the Mapuche people and
expand our anger against all states, capital, authority and all their accomplices. Until
the Lettuce appears and until the chaos drops them! " Signed: "Anarchic expansive
individualities of chaos."
Maybe we are so unaccustomed to dealing with the really existing anarchism, that once we
come across it, we do not know how to recognize it. "The word sounds less trembling today
than strange, as if an extinct animal were mentioned. A heavy bird that could never fly or
a mammal whose last specimen was sighted decades ago, "Christian Ferrer wrote in Cabezas
de tormenta . That hooded guy, dressed in black, brandishing a stick, throwing a molotov,
is an anarchist or is it a disguised service? Are we not also reproducing the most rancid
common sense when taking for granted that they are infiltrated? This does not mean that
there are not, in a few cases, cases of infiltration, but what do the social-democratic
Doña Rosa we carry inside say that they are "infiltrators"? Infiltrated us, they could
retrude us. Infiltrated by this rotten system.
Maldonado family announcement 1/11/17
http://www.santiagomaldonado.com/comunicado-la-familia-todas-las-plazas/
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Message: 5
VICTORY! - Activists in solidarity with Rojava in the US won an important social media
victory today with the #UnblockRojava campaign which pressured Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) to
overturn the banning of at least six public Rojava solidarity pages along with over a
dozen personal Facebook accounts for individuals who were admins of the pages. The bans
occurred suddenly and without warning on Sunday, November 12 , effecting pages such as
"Friends of Rojava in North America," "Friends of Rojava" and the "Institute for Social
Ecology" were among those targeted. ---- This form of political censorship by Facebook is
believed to be related to an assumed operating agreement with the authoritarian government
of Turkey, which has a long record of repressing internal dissent. As reported by Public
Radio International in 2015, a secret document leaked by a disgruntled Facebook employee
revealed a number of very specific topics deemed as user violations related to Turkey and
themes of support for Rojava as violations. Examples included "insulting Ataturk, the
founding father of modern-day Turkey" and automatic account suspension for "depicting
fighters from the PKK," one of the groups fighting for freedom and autonomy which has been
called a terror group by Turkey and the US.
The use of public pressure by activists to overturn these recent bannings by Facebook are
an important victory against political censorship and to continue organizing efforts in
solidarity with the revolution underway in Rojava.
Recommended resources:
www.friendsofrojava.org
https://kurdishquestion.com/
http://blackrosefed.org/unblockrojava-victory/
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