Today's Topics:
1. Alternative libertaire Orléans: Today, the demonstration in
solidarity with the Kurdish and defence people of afrin brought
together more than 100 people in orléans. (fr)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Poland, rozbrat: Break the spiral of political repression!
The process of Poznan anarchist [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. London Anarchist Communists: RItzy Cinema Workers Strike
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. London Anarchist Communists: Solidarity With Lorenzo Komboa
Ervin (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. US, KOREATOWN POPULAR ASSEMBLY: SHUTTING
DOWN ICE, BUILDING
POPULAR POWER By Black Rosa/Rosa Negra LA and BRRN Social Media Team (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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As for alternative Libertarian Orleans, we considered this initiative to be one of our
priorities. ---- Our Kurdish comrades have again shown their dynamism.
And if a group of fifteen young turkish nationalists came to try to intimidate the
demonstrators at the end of the course, we did not give in to this provocation, we
collectively faced them to show our determination and ultimately it is They had to disperse.
We agreed to see us soon enough to continue building on orléans and the loiret the
necessary support for the Kurdish revolution and democratic confédéralisme, the only
feminist, progressive and secular alternative to erdogan and ISIS.
Kurdistan will live, Kurdistan will conquer!
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This Thursday, February 22 at 13 in room 1 in the District Court on ul. Mlynska in Poznan
will probably host the decisive hearing of a participant of the Poznan section of the
Anarchist Federation. The prosecutor's office accuses the anarchist of jointly and
comprehensively forcing a police officer to abandon a legal official activity by using
violence or an unlawful threat in order to force or refrain from legal service (paragraph
224. & 2 of the Penal Code). Police officers detained the anarchist on May 7, 2016, just
after the protest against police involvement in illegal evictions. The demonstration on 7
May took place under arrest at Mlynska, the contribution to which was the imprisonment of
another anarchist activist - Lukasz Bukowski was sent to prison because ... he had to
forcefully impede the duties of police officers,here , a video-relation about a broken
blockade of groundless eviction here ).
Both cases are the result of a spiral of repression being shot by the police. Anarchists
and anarchists involved in condominiums operate under constant, ever stronger pressure
from law enforcement agencies. The whole paradox is that the constant support for their
repression is unfounded, provocative and even illegal police interventions.
Lukasz Bukowski was arrested when he blocked eviction, which - as it was finally decided -
should not happen at all, and thus - in which the police should not assist. The protest,
which was supposed to publicize and criticize the social effects of police impunity
(tenant's family on the pavement, tenant activist in custody), police officers used to
make further criminal charges against their critics.
Tak jak w przypadku Lukasza, zarzuty karne wobec nastepnego anarchisty sprowokowala
policyjna interwencja, która nawet sad uznal wczesniej za niepotrzebna. Oskarzony
anarchista mial przeszkadzac tajnym policjantom (ubranym po cywilnemu), którzy scigali,
staranowali autem i napadli innego dzialacza, Antka z kolektywu Syrena w Warszawie pod
pretekstem... zniszczenia muru aresztu (dzialacz mial napisac na nim 'uwolnic Lukasza
Bukowskiego', szerszy kontekst tutaj). W efekcie interwencji zarzucono mu takze
zniszczenie radiowozu, który go staranowal. Po niezwykle drogiej ekspertyzie bieglych -
przekroczyla kosztem nawet zawyzone straty w radiowozie i murze aresztu, jednak okazala
sie bardzo krytyczna wobec zarzutów policji - prokuratura uznala, ze zaden z zarzutów nie
ma szans sie utrzymac. Nie skierowala wiec nawet sprawy do sadu, uznajac ze "czyn nie
zawieral znamion czynu zabronionego". Mimo ze - kolejny raz - angazujaca ogromne sily
policyjne akcja okazala sie kompletnym bublem, to anarchista który stanal na drodze tej
farsy, dzis staje przed sadem z wizja 3 lat wiezienia...
As if that was not enough, the police are now making new criminal charges for Antek, who
was recently acquitted in the Poznan case - in exchange for blocking wild evictions
assisted by the police, as a result of which the tenant suffered a fractured skull, the
police and the cleaner try to make Antek 12 years in prison (report of wild eviction here).
We are sure that the impunity of police and cleaners is directly translated into the
criminalization of tenants and anarchists. In order to stop the spiral of repression
against the background of social struggles and win these fights, one must break with the
reversal of guilt and hold the perpetrators of antisocial repression accountable. So far,
the courts do not do it - but anarchists do it, which the courts are glad to focus their
attention on.
The case, which is due to take place on February 22, is not the only one recently assumed
by anarchist activists and activists. Several people were also accused of participating in
women's protests and against the growing wave of nationalism and racism, and in defense of
the Bialowieza Forest etc.
http://www.rozbrat.org/informacje/poznan/4600-przerwa-spiral-politycznych-represji-proces-poznaskiego-anarchisty
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there's a week of strikes and pickets coming up at the Picturehouse Cinemas in London:
Picket lines - Saturday 17th: Hackney Picturehouse (17.30-20.30)
Sunday 18th: Picturehouse Central (17.30-20.30)
Monday 19th: DEMO at Picturehouse Head Office, Orange St (11.300-14.30)
Tuesday 20th: East Dulwich Picturehouse (10.45-14.00)
Wednesday 21st: Crouch End Picturehouse (17.30-20.30)
Thursday 22nd: Ritzy (17.30-20.30)
Friday 23rd: Picturehouse Central (17.30-20.30)
Please suppoirt the pickets and don't cross the picket lines
https://londonacg.blogspot.co.il/2018/02/ritzy-cinema-workers-strike.html
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ease consider making a donation to this fundraising campaign for longtime anarchist
political prisoner, theorist, and organizer LorenzoKom'boa Ervin. He has been going
through a lot as of lately, including financial difficulties, transportation issues,
health concerns and the medical expenses that come along with being type-2 diabetic. His
life's work has opened a path forward for anti-capitalist, anti-racist, and
anti-patriarchy organizing in geographies where the non-profit and academic industrial
complexes have largely co-opted the progressive-to-radical "Left." He needs to survive.
Please consider contributing to this fund." ---- Fundraiser call: ----
https://www.gofundme.com/Support-4-Lorenzo-Komboa-Ervin ---- Lorenzo is an outstanding
black anarchist in the USA. Please help this comrade.
https://londonacg.blogspot.co.il/2018/02/solidarity-with-lorenzo-komboa-ervin.html
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About 70 activists and community members surrounded and blocked an ICE van in front of
LA's Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles the evening of Thursday,
February 15. The action was called for by the Koreatown Popular Assembly 24 hours prior as
an emergency response to reports of ICE detaining over a 100 individuals across the city.
---- The mass escalation of raids by ICE are seen as part of the Trump regime's promised
targeting of "sanctuary" cities as punishment for not cooperating with immigration
authorities. This is why it is essential to organize a popular response and resistance to
targeted raids which are intended to strike fear in and demobilize immigrant communities.
Even the small act of blocking a single van with two officers inside shows that it's
possible to disrupt ICE's activity in Los Angeles and organizers are looking to expand
this tactic.
Koreatown Popular Assembly: Popular Power in Action
We first discussed the Koreatown Popular Assembly in our piece "Koreatown, LA Fights Back
on 7-Eleven ICE Raid," which reported on the group's Rapid Response Network that mobilized
together with other groups on January 18 to surround a neighborhood 7-Eleven and prevent
ICE from returning to the neighborhood to obtain documents from the store manager. While
the manager still met with agents elsewhere the mobilization successfully prevented ICE
from entering the neighborhood as a form of community intimidation. This kind of
mobilization is a form of counter intimidation to ICE and prevents "collateral arrests,"
an increasingly common tactic whereby ICE will ostensibly target a specific business or
individual but will question and detain any person they encounter. This is how "targeted
enforcement" by ICE in reality becomes broad sweeps targeting a whole neighborhood,
apartment building or workplace.
The response network was a formed exactly to address situations like these as a project by
the Koreatown Popular Assembly. When the nation-wide ICE raids on 7-Eleven happened the
week before, members of Rapid Response Network canvassed all the stores in the
neighborhood and encountered the Bengali workers who reported the prior raid and requested
support.
The network canvasses in the neighborhood with flyers in Korean, Spanish, Tagalog, Bengali
and English in the neighborhood and operates a 24 hour hotline to monitor reports of ICE
raids. With over a year of preparation and training the hotline is staffed with around 30
dispatchers who volunteer to do two to three 4-hour shifts a week. In turn the network has
trained nearly 100 first responders who are registered based on geographic areas and
dispatched with text messages via an open source software platform.
The beginnings of the Koreatown Popular Assembly stem from late 2016 when shortly after
Trump's election the National Day Labor Organizing Network, a network of non-profit
organizations, called for neighborhood based assemblies. But the Los Angeles based NGOs
lacked a clear vision of how to make these work or become something meaningful but also
didn't exert control over the direction.
Of the five or six assemblies across the city all of them died out. But in Koreatown
various organizers, which included members of LA Black Rose/Rosa Negra, pushed a vision of
the assembly of approximately 125 community members becoming a democratic expression of
the neighborhood. Through a process of several follow up meetings the assembly voted to
prioritize the creation of the Rapid Response Network and a campaign to push for sanctuary
schools. A planning committee of about 15 members was formed to meet regularly and
implement the decisions.
It is significant that these actions are not the efforts of stand alone activists or NGO
directed staff but a result of discussion, debate and decision making by a base of
everyday people choosing the priorities based on their immediate reality and needs. The
Koreatown Popular Assembly is still small and embryonic but stands out as an example of
how radicals can move beyond isolated projects and work to build popular power from below.
For more information about our perspective on fighting against Trump's white supremacist
immigration policy, see our statement "
http://blackrosefed.org/kpa-shut-down-ice/
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