Anarchic update news all over the world - 24.01.2018

Today's Topics:


   
1.  karakok: Aerial attack on AfrinApproved: 2enHaval, The
      invasion attempt initiated by the Turkish state against Afrin
      continued. Turkish warplanes have shelled the countryside of
      Afrin's Cindires district today. ---- Turkish troops and FSA
      gangs attacked the positions of YPG/YPJ and self-defense forces
      in several locations of Afrin and Shehba region last night. The
      attacks were repelled. ---- Unable to advance on the ground, the
      Turkish army has started airstrikes., According to reports,
      Turkish warplanes have shelled the countryside of Afrin's
      Cindires district on Saturday. No information is available yet
      regarding the results of the aerial bombardment.,
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=kq8hy1q3C7U,
      https://karakok.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/aerial-attack-on-afrin/
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Britain, Brighton SolFed march shows Youngs cannot ignore
      demands for safe living (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Ireland, derry anarchists: Anarchists March for Justice on
      Bloody Sunday (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Territorial struggles,
      In Aveyron, resist by widening the struggles by Al Aveyron (fr,
      it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  iwa-ait: Support Priama akcia union in the conflict with
      café Space Mania (ca) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  US, black rose fed: #DEFENDJ20 - FIGHT THE CHARGES, BUILD
      THE MOVEMENT! -- A Statement by the BRRN Anti-Criminalization
      Committee (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #279 - Migrants: The
      mountain, you win ! (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)

   
1.   karakok: Aerial attack on AfrinApproved: 2enHaval, The
      invasion attempt initiated by the Turkish state against Afrin
      continued. Turkish warplanes have shelled the countryside of
      Afrin's Cindires district today. ---- Turkish troops and FSA
      gangs attacked the positions of YPG/YPJ and self-defense forces
      in several locations of Afrin and Shehba region last night. The
      attacks were repelled. ---- Unable to advance on the ground, the
      Turkish army has started airstrikes., According to reports,
      Turkish warplanes have shelled the countryside of Afrin's
      Cindires district on Saturday. No information is available yet
      regarding the results of the aerial bombardment.,
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?                                                            time_continue=1&v=kq8hy1q3C7U,
      https://karakok.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/aerial-attack-on-              afrin/
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Britain, Brighton SolFed march shows Youngs cannot ignore
      demands for safe living (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Ireland, derry anarchists: Anarchists March for Justice on
      Bloody Sunday (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Territorial struggles,
      In Aveyron, resist by widening the struggles by Al Aveyron (fr,
      it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  iwa-ait: Support Priama akcia union in the conflict with
      café Space Mania (ca) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  US, black rose fed: #DEFENDJ20 - FIGHT THE CHARGES, BUILD
      THE MOVEMENT! -- A Statement by the BRRN Anti-Criminalization
      Committee (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #279 - Migrants: The
      mountain, you win ! (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1




The invasion attempt initiated by the Turkish state against Afrin continued. Turkish 
warplanes have shelled the countryside of Afrin's Cindires district today. ---- Turkish 
troops and FSA gangs attacked the positions of YPG/YPJ and self-defense forces in several 
locations of Afrin and Shehba region last night. The attacks were repelled. ---- Unable to 
advance on the ground, the Turkish army has started airstrikes.
According to reports, Turkish warplanes have shelled the countryside of Afrin's Cindires 
district on Saturday. No information is available yet regarding the results of the aerial 
bombardment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=kq8hy1q3C7U
https://karakok.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/aerial-attack-on-afrin/

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Message: 2





A 40-strong march to Youngs Estate Agents in Kemptown on Saturday 13th January 
demonstrated that tenants will not put up with their demands for repairs being ignored. 
Tenants demanding "Safe Conditions: No Evictions" showed they would continue to fight 
while the agency and landlord refuse to acknowledge the need for repairs and payment for 
works carried out. ---- Brighton Solfed is supporting two tenants who have been organising 
in regards to structural damp, presence of severe black mould and overall dilapidation 
issues dangerous to the tenants' health. These two separate properties are managed by 
Youngs. Both tenants are demanding compensation for such issues and one of them, who is 
still living in the property, is urgently requesting that a number of neglected and still 
unresolved problems are attended to by the agency. This tenant, on raising these concerns 
with Youngs' manager David Pay and the landlord Stephen Mitchell, was served with a 
Section 21 notice of eviction.

The demonstration marched up St James' Street on saturday morning, with fellow tenants 
working in solidarity to show that the revenge eviction and continued failure to address 
the demands of tenants are unacceptable. We arrived at Youngs' at 11am, and for the next 
hour spoke to members of the public who showed support for the campaign.

The response from David Pay of Youngs included denigrating the tenant and shaming those 
who claim housing benefit, saying the tenant "never worked a day in his life." In response 
to the restatement of the demands for repairs, Youngs called the police. Evidently the 
concerns of tenants to make their homes safe places to live are not important to the 
agency, or the landlord.

Youngs have already missed a deadline to respond to the tenants' concerns and are utterly 
failing to acknowledge the magnitude of the problem. The mismanagement of deposit funds, 
encroaching mould which has caused and exacerbated illness, and collapsing ceilings are 
just some of the major problems inadequately addressed by the agency. They are choosing 
arrogantly to ignore the fact that their management has led to tenants living in 
conditions which are severely dangerous to their health. As such, the public campaign is 
intensifying.

There has already been mass-media interest in the dispute, especially the conduct of 
Youngs. Tenants have had contact with a BBC documentary team who are working to highlight 
the crisis in housing. Other Youngs tenants are coming forward to share their stories, to 
show that this is not an isolated problem.

The tenants are open to an amicable resolution to the dispute, yet Youngs and the landlord 
continue to treat these issues as something to be swept under the rug, and have yet to 
make any offer of compensation. If you want to show Youngs that their response is 
unacceptable, you can email david@youngsbrighton.com and attend the next demonstration on 
Saturday 27th January at 10.30am meeting at the corner of Manchester Street and St James's 
Street.

http://www.brightonsolfed.org.uk/brighton/brighton-solfed-march-shows-youngs-cannot-ignore-demands-for-safe-living

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Message: 3





Anarchists in Derry will once again be taking part in the annual Bloody Sunday March for 
Justice 2018 which takes place on Sunday 28th January in Derry. ---- This years theme 
marks the the 50th anniversary of RUC's brutal response to the NICRA (Northern Ireland 
Civil Rights Association) on Duke Street in Derry march back in 1968 which is widely 
regarded as what launched us into decades of violent conflict. In recognition of this 
historic event the theme of this years Bloody Sunday Commemorative events has been titled 
"We Shall Overcome". ---- As anarchists we call for all those who are interested in the 
struggle for social justice to participate in the events planned throughout the week 
leading up to the actual Bloody Sunday 'March for Justice'. To stand in solidarity with 
the courage and dignity of all of those Bloody Sunday families who march for justice, who 
defy state terror and exercise the right to protest around the world.

http://derryanarchists.blogspot.co.il/2018/01/anarchists-march-for-justice-on-bloody.html?m=1

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Message: 4





The territorial struggle against the mega-transformer to the 1000 wind turbines of 
Saint-Victor and Melvieu (Aveyron) takes a new turn [2] ---- This fight has been going on 
for over ten years. This duration is explained by the large number of appeals against this 
project. These remedies are now exhausted and operators are about to start work. ---- 
Several plaintiffs were successful in the courts, forcing RTE to opt for other wind 
turbine sites and wasting a lot of time in legal proceedings and trying to buy other 
owners by offering royalties against the provision of land to accommodate the wind 
turbines. ---- Amassada [1], a group of opponents who have owned some of the agricultural 
land coveted by RTE to install the transformer site, has taken the initiative to prevent 
the public inquiry. to take place last November.

In the wake, Amassada launched blocking actions on the Crassous wind turbine project, a 
hamlet near Saint-Affrique. Opponents are trying to expand their fight by multiplying the 
actions in Saint-Affrique.

December 2nd: walling RTE. A joint action of collectives against Bure, NDDL, Roybon ...
Repression
The state does not remain inactive. He first moved the public inquiry more than an hour 
away from there in the north of the department.

The site of Crassous was the subject of a ban on parking from the town hall PS 
Saint-Affrique. The Rodez Regional Court imitated it by impeding free movement around the 
site in order to prevent opponents, but also peasants and landowners from approaching the 
site of clearing of the land. forest to install industrial wind turbines.

These actions were monitored by a damming and filtering system set up by the gendarmerie. 
The goal was to identify identities to form files for possible prosecution.

This militarization of the site was done with the presence of 80 gendarmes to take care of 
25 activists.

The criminalization of the conflict started with 15 convocations to the gendarmerie of 
Saint-Affrique for a preliminary investigation with charges retained for "  theft and 
obstruction with assault with the freedom of work  " (sic).

The state wants to hit hard and fast to silence the emerging movements. It does not just 
strengthen its hold on the territory, it also communicates to try to demonize the 
opponents and thus intoxicating the opinion.

"  After Notre-Dame-des-Landes, these 50 development projects targeted by the zadistes  " 
, Le Figaro, January 5th.
For that he decided to set up a state of exception.

It is clear that the state of emergency has become the rule and that for the liberals, 
whatever their sensitivity (PS, LREM, LR), the rule of law and more broadly the liberal 
democracy are only fictions that it is a matter of calling into question as soon as 
political, economic and financial interests are at stake.

The context is all the more tense as everyone has in mind what is playing at Notre Dame 
des Landes. The state does not want there to be other ZAD in France and puts the means to 
try to contain, even to stifle the challenge where it manifests itself. He also 
anticipates a possible victory for NDDL and a possible redeployment of non-sedentary 
militant forces to other sites.

Another important stake of the fight, it is a laboratory proposing alternatives on 
collective grounds. This changes the relationship between populations, farmers, women 
farmers and opponents.

This does not mean that these alternatives will inevitably be anti-capitalist, but it 
opens up fields of possibility in which self-management and an emancipatory ecology can 
find their place.

Larzac, NDDL and why not Saint-Victor, citizenship and anticapitalism rub shoulders and 
feed on these struggles. The options are not the same. But the breeding ground is 
favorable for the partisans of a radical transformation of the society. It is up to us to 
be present, to weave links between territorial struggles, class struggle and more widely 
emancipatory struggles and to develop solidarity everywhere.

Reinette reinette, with AL Aveyron

[1] His blog: http://douze.noblogs.org

[2] See also "  Industrial wind, a business of networks  " , Alternative Libertaire, 
February 2017.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?En-Aveyron-resister-en-elargissant-les-luttes

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Message: 5





We would like to ask you to show solidarity with Mia, who is together with Priama akcia in 
conflict with Space Mania café. You can send a protest e-mail directly to the boss Viera 
Pierce, who refuses to pay owed money to her former worker Mia. The total owed sum is 
222.44 €. Since October 2017, Mia has been trying to get her unpaid wage, but her boss 
ignored her written requests as well as protest actions she organized together with her 
friend in front of the café. In December 2017 Priama akcia entered into the conflict 
concerning Mia's unpaid wage. The article contains all the background details a a template 
of a protest e-mail. ---- HOW TO SUPPORT THE CONFLICT ---- Contact e-mails of the boss: 
---- spacemania007@gmail.com, kreativnehracky30@gmail.com ---- Please, add our e-mail 
zvazpa (at) riseup.net as BCC. ---- E-mail template for organizations (for individuals, 
please change "we" to "I" and, in general, feel free to change the content as you wish):

Dear Ms. Pearce,

we were informed that our sister organization Priama akcia (IWA/AIT Slovakia) entered a 
conflict with Space Mania café over unpaid wages belonging to your ex-worker Mia.

Hereby, we express our support to Mia and Priama akcia union. We will support all their 
activities until you pay the owed wages in the amount of 222.44 €. We will also inform the 
public in this country about your practice.

We expect your reply to this e-mail.

SIGNATURE
ORGANIZATION
CITY, COUNTRY

More information about the conflict

Mia worked in the café from the end of August until the end of September 2017.

"I found the job on a Facebook page. Viera Pearce was looking for a waitress to work 
full-time or on a student-work contract. I called her and expressed my interest so we 
agreed to meet the next day. At the interview, she told me that I would receive a 
temporary contract and after October I would receive a full-time contract. She even told 
me I would earn 500 - 550 €/month. I was supposed to sign in at 9:40 or 9:45 (the cafe 
opens at 10:00), despite the fact that I used to be at the café an hour or more before 
10:00. I was employed as a waitress, but each day I also worked as a cleaner."

Mia felt that the trial period was going well. She liked her job and her boss told her 
several times that she was happy with her.

"She praised me several times. One night I was out with friends and we met her at a local 
bar. She even praised me in front of everyone and told them what a good worker I was."

At the end of September Mia received unexpected news.

"On the 26th of September I got a call from my boss, who said someone complained about me 
and that I'm to lock up and hand in my keys. This surprised me because no one was at the 
café so there was no one to complain. Everyone was saying how accomplished I was and so 
on. When I asked her who made the complaint, she stayed quiet and hung up. I texted her 
saying OK, I handed in my keys and I would like wages for my work. She replied that she 
would pay me on October 30th (it was in my contract that wages are paid on the 30th of the 
following month). I said okay."

Even though Mia was disappointed by her boss's behavior and was in a bad financial 
situation, she felt that even if she wanted her money earlier, her boss would not pay. 
Therefore she waited until October. On October 27th she received a text from her boss to 
come for her wages. However, on the spot she only received 70 €, after working for 20 
days. Her boss said the amount corresponds to 40 hours of work. When Mia objected that she 
worked more than 40 hours and asked to see the attendance sheet, her boss stated that she 
did not have it. She then demanded that Mia sign her paycheck immediately or she won't 
even receive the 70 €.

Mia decided to sign the paycheck so she would receive at least some money. Later that day 
she told her story to a friend who she knew would listen to her and support her. Together 
they tried to get in touch with the boss through text messages, phone, e-mail, but without 
success. However, they did not stop there and decided to organize direct protest actions.

Together they staged pickets in front of the café, which visibly upset her boss. They had 
to endure jeers and insults from the boss's husband who even filmed them. Still, they 
endured and showed up almost every day. The boss would regularly call the police and tell 
the officers that Mia was stealing from her when she was employed, even though the boss 
herself counted the money every day and everything was always in order. Furthermore, the 
boss complained that the two protesters were scaring children in the café and disturbing 
public order. Later she even threatened them with a criminal complaint. However, the 
boss's actions did not deter them from further protests.

INVOLVEMENT OF PRIAMA AKCIA

When Mia and her friend learned about the activities of Priama akcia, they approached us. 
We met and discussed the whole situation. It turned out that Mia had worked 123 hours and 
that she was entitled to more than just 70 €. She even had her whole attendance, as she 
kept her own record at home. She also had photos from the official attendance, which 
proved that Viera Pearce had no intention to obey the Labor Code which only allows 10 work 
hours per week on Mia's contract (Mia's work time exceeded 10 hours on her second day 
already!). Together we made a detailed calculation and decided that we would present it to 
the boss with a clearly stated demand.

On December 22nd, 2017 Mia, together with group of Priama akcia members and supporters, 
handed in her demand letter to the boss's husband (since the boss herself was not there). 
He acted as if the problem did not concern him, claimed that it was his wife's issue and 
refused to take the letter. We told him that we would leave the letter on the ground in 
front of the café and despite him acting like he didn't care, he immediately picked it up 
after we left. Suddenly, the same night, Mia's ex-boss came back to life and texted Mia 
with a proposal to come to an agreement. Her idea of an agreement was for Mia to meet with 
four lawyers of Space Mania! But this is not the way to go. Since the owed sum of 222.44 € 
was not paid by the deadline set in the letter, Priama akcia has entered into conflict 
with Space Mania and we will continue until Mia receives the money that belongs to her.

Thank zou for your solidarity!

Priama akcia

Slovak Section of the International Workers' Association (IWA/AIT)

http://www.iwa-ait.org/content/support-priama-akcia-union-conflict-cafe-space-mania

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On January 18th, two days before the one year anniversary of the J20 demonstrations, the 
Attorney's Office in Washington, DC dismissed all charges against 129 defendants who were 
arrested during the Inauguration Day protests last year. While this is a victory for 
friends, families, and defendants who showed support to fight the charges, of the 188 
remaining defendants, 59 of them still face up to 60 years in prison. ---- Targeting 
Militancy ---- The J20 cases have become a deliberate attempt by the state to label 
protestors as felons and agitators, and to vehemently punish collective dissent. According 
to a motion filed by the US Attorney's office, the government is channeling its efforts to 
prosecuting defendants who 1) engaged in identifiable acts of destruction/violence and 
assaultive conduct, 2) participated in the planning of violence and destruction, and 3) 
demonstrated an intentional use of the black bloc tactic. It is evident that the emphasis 
on the "black bloc" serves to foment public disapproval against militant direct action, 
but also against a specific tactic used by anarchists, revolutionary anti-capitalists and 
allies, and thus targets those on the left for specific politics. The association of black 
bloc with anarchism, and now the state's legal repression of this tactic, makes clear the 
state's intentions.

A Flimsy Case

The list of those still facing felony charges include journalists, medics, and protesters. 
Since the inception of these trials the prosecution had no evidence tying any of the 
protesters with destruction. More than 200 participants were indicted on felony riot 
charges: inciting to riot, rioting, conspiracy to riot, and destruction of property. Along 
with these amorphous accusations, the prosecution handled their own investigation poorly 
with misconduct, shoddy evidence, and encroaching investigation tactics.

Controlling Dissent

We live in dangerous times and the repression coming out of the J20 trials has yet to 
fully reveal how the current administration seeks to and can control future dissent. We 
must continue channeling our organizing efforts to fight against a state that allows the 
Neo-Nazi who killed Heather Heyer to face less time than a group of protesters who may or 
may not have broken a handful of windows. We also note that as political disaffection and 
polarization grows, the legitimacy of the states wanes, and thus the will of the urge of 
the state to use repression can strengthen.

Building an Offensive Resistance

Defensive organizing takes precedence in this moment but we also need to build on the 
public momentum of these trials as they are happening in tandem with prison strikes and 
the backlash against the white supremacist violence of the police. We believe though that 
it is not only possible but essential to use this momentum towards an offensive strategy, 
which means not just holding our ground against repression but building larger struggles 
and social movements to beat back and disable the power of the state to commit violence in 
our daily lives.

The J20 trials are not just battles in a courtroom but a political battle over the 
narrative of resistance and repression. Building broad support within social struggles for 
J20 defendants is key. Packing the courts, raising funds, and events that raise public 
awareness are pivotal in the upcoming cases of the remaining 59 defendants. Let's continue 
our efforts in the struggle! Viva l@s que luchar!

http://blackrosefed.org/defendj20-fight-the-charges/

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Message: 7





In Briançon is currently an episode that could become a major humanitarian and political 
crisis. The city has become a place of passage for migrants from Italy. Given the climatic 
conditions and the infamous acts of the police who endanger the lives of these migrants, 
solidarity is organized. ---- Border town wedged between the mountains, Briançon and its 
surroundings have become a place of passage important migrants in recent months. This 
region has always been a place of transit, whether during periods of Italian immigration 
or even during the Kosovo war. But the most alarming today is the intensification of these 
passages by non-experienced people and weakened by their journey, linked to a dangerous 
anti-migratory policy, in an environment with climatic conditions becoming particularly 
hostile. Winter is settling and the mountain is becoming more and more dangerous for those 
who want to join France. Last year already two people were amputated hands and a part of 
the feet because of frostbite.

Police acting illegally

In addition to these hostile conditions, the police are illegally conducting crossings and 
abandoning minors or seeking asylum across the border. It also organizes ambushes that can 
have dramatic consequences. During the summer, two miners, taken by surprise and dazzled 
by the headlights of a policeman's van on the side of the mountain, fell 40 meters. One 
escaped with broken limbs, the other is still hospitalized in Grenoble after several 
months of coma.

Faced with this state of affairs, the local population is mobilizing. Host families, 
marauding, creation of a shelter, squats, fundraising, language courses, health centers 
and legal aid are set up by volunteers from the city and surrounding areas. The state does 
not take its responsibilities ? The Brianconnais and Birançonnaises take care of it. 
Indeed, faced with the lack of structures, the self-organization of different groups of 
people makes it possible to improve the reception conditions of migrant people.

What is being done in Briançon at the moment is a breath of fresh air and a lesson in 
organization and militant activities. By getting to an agreement between political groups, 
of anarchist tendencies or more moderate, the actions of solidarities multiply and 
diversify in order to answer the crucial stake of the reception of the migrants.

When one asks why so much solidarity, the answer is quite unanimous. In an environment 
such as the mountain, mutual aid and solidarity is almost cultural. For that, the mountain 
is beautiful.

Jack (Cal PNE)

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Migrants-La-montagne-ca-vous-gagne

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