Anarchic update news all over the world - 29.07.2018

Today's Topics:

  
 1.  anarchist communist group ACG: Amazon Strikes on Prime Day
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  [Santos-SP] Chronicle about the launch of "Zine Anarco
      Feminist Insubmissas" By ANA (pt) [machine translation
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 3.  anarchist communist group ACG: Unrest in Panama
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Holand, Vrije Bond - Demonstration No Child on the Side for
      refugee children [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Amazon warehouse workers came out on strike against appalling conditions for three days 
from July 16th in Madrid. 96% of the workers came out on strike. Many of these are temps. 
On the second day of the strike, workers were brutally attacked by riot police in an 
unprovoked attack resulting in several beatings. ---- Meanwhile up to 3,000 workers at six 
  Amazon facilities came out on strike in Germany. Amazon workers in Poland started a work 
to rule, doing the bare minimum of work required. The strikes coincided with the Prime Day 
offer campaign of Amazon. Whilst Amazon workers are on low pay and work in appalling 
conditions with inadequate toilet and other facilities, it was announced that the head of 
Amazon Jeff Bezos is now the richest man in recorded history with over $150billion. He 
earns 140 times more than the average wage of his employees.

Demonstrations against the plight of Amazon workers took place in the United States whilst 
a consumer boycott also took place over the three days.

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2018/07/20/amazon-strikes-on-prime-day/

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The launch event of "Zine Anarco Feminista Insubmissas" took place on June 30, at the 
Cinemateca de Santos, São Paulo coast. ---- The event ---- To open with a golden key, the 
wonderful KamaKhya (Carla Riesco) presented us with a flaming artistic performance. 
Accompanied by Candy Carvalho, the dancers dominated the fire and our spirits with their 
presentation of tribal dance. KamaKhya ends the dance with a theatrical demonstration of 
violence against women and a very shocking speech about the ancestral rescue of the female 
force and a greeting to all who have already bled on this earth. ---- After the 
presentation of Carla and Candy, we had the presentation of the documentary about the 
teacher Mariaira, Maria Lacerda de Moura (" Maria Lacerda de Moura - Trajectory of a Rebel 
"), who tells the story of a great reference of Brazilian feminist thought of the century 
. XX. Maria Lacerda contributed much to the discussion of the oppression of the Church, 
the family and the State, on women in Brazil.

Concluding the event, we held a round of talks, opened by the presentation of the 
Collective Anarco Feminista Insubmissas - CAFI and the context of Zine's construction. 
Topics such as abortion and maternity, veganism, No Party School and pornography were well 
placed and discussed by participants at the event.

We also have the pictures of the great Beatrix Oliveira, one of the members of CAFI and 
responsible for the cover of Zine. The show featured engravings made using the xylographic 
technique, incredible pieces carved by the artist.

Throughout the event, the Banco de Veganos, the Solidarity Brewery and the Kids Space were 
in full swing. Besides the spaces of the collective, we had the bookstore of the 
Biblioteca Carlo Aldegheri and the sale of the Zines. All the amount collected was 
reversed to pay for the next production of Zine and the next activities.

The Zine

Zine Anarco Feminista is an independent production of CAFI. Built through the Periodic 
Group of Anarcho Feminist Studies, the publication deals with topics such as violence 
against women, abusive relationships, capitalist society and its extensions, black 
movement and anarchism, abortion and animal liberation, as well as a column of reports of 
violence and space of poetic expression.

Among the Zine content builders are Jully Vasconcellos (CAFI and NELCA-Núcleo de Estudios 
Liberarios Carlo Aldegheri), Rafaela Sellera, Giovana de Castro (CAFI), Carla Eiko (CAFI 
and NELCA), Denise Guerra (CAFI), Amanda Corrochano CAFI), Sil Teixeira (NELCA) and 
Fhoutine Marie (ABC Activism - Black Lagartixa House). On the cover, a print by Beatrix 
Oliveira (CAFI).

next events

The group is organizing two more launch events in two cities of Greater São Paulo. The 
first will take place at the headquarters of the Social Culture Center (CCS-SP), located 
at Rua General Jardim, 253 - Sala 22, São Paulo, on August 11 (Saturday), at 3 pm, in the 
same format as the Cinematheque of Santos.

The second will be held at the Casa da Lagartixa Preta (R. Alcides de Queirós, 161, Bairro 
Casa Branca, Santo André), on September 29 (Saturday), at 3:00 p.m.

FB: CAFI - Anarco Feminist Collective Insubmissas

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Born into a rich family in Panama, Juan Carlos Varela is an entrepreneur who is fiercely 
in favour of the free market. He led his conservative Panamenista Party into the elections 
in 2009, but was then bought off by his rival Ricardo Martinelli, who offered him the 
vice-presidency if he stopped running against him. In 2014 he won the presidential 
election, coming in on promises to develop the economic infrastructure of Panama and to 
proceed with urban renovation in the free trade zone city of Colon. ---- There has been 
some economic growth in Panama in recent years, double the average for central America. 
However almost 27% of the population lives in poverty and almost 16% in extreme poverty. 
This is worse in the countryside. ---- In March of this year the urban masses in Colon 
told Varela what they thought of his "urban renovation" there, which they equated with 
social cleansing. They rioted. They were also fed up with the slow pace of renovating the 
sewers and water supply system, the decay of public schools and healthcare. A large march 
protested against all this and rioting then broke out with some buildings being burnt 
down. At the same time a two-day strike broke out in the port. As one local community 
organiser said: "what mainly motivates us is the perverse aim of Panamanian President Juan 
Carlos Varela to use our money to kick poor people out of the city and hand it over to the 
rich."

Things got worse for Varela on 16th July with announcement of 8.4% price rises in 
electricity. A 24-hour general strike broke out, backed by 18 different sectors of worker. 
Perhaps the most militant have been the building workers and the teachers. Building 
workers had already been out on a four-week strike demanding a 60% pay increase. The union 
leadership sabotaged the strike by stopping strike pay and ending the strike. However, the 
electricity hikes galvanised the building workers again. Anger against the union leader 
Saul Mendez surfaced and he was accused of being a thief and sell-out by angry workers.

Meanwhile 90% of the teachers walked out to join the strike. This followed strikes in 
March and April demanding the payment of unpaid benefits and an increase in the education 
budget.

In addition, workers at the sewage and water authority went out on indefinite strike, 
demanding the payment of unpaid benefits and a pay increase.

Simmering discontent at the privatisation of many industries is increasing, as workers' 
pay and benefits are driven down and more and more are in precarious work as a result, as 
many families have their water cut off for non-payment.

115 millionaires collectively own $16 billion whilst a fifth of the population live in 
poverty.

Throughout Latin America the tempo of the class struggle is increasing. Workers and 
peasants and the urban poor need to reject the politics of both the right and left 
parties, who falsely promise economic renewal and a struggle against corruption. They need 
to rely on only themselves and go on to build an autonomous mass movement that sweeps 
aside the union leaders and the politicians and confronts the rich minority and its servants.

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2018/07/20/unrest-in-panama/

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Lately there has been much to do about Trumps policies regarding refugee children, that 
separates children from their parents and puts them into prison. This policy is 
outrageous. But refugee children in the Netherlands get treated heartless and cruel by the 
authorities too. And like in the United States, this is a deliberate policy. To draw 
attention to the situation of refugee children, Geen Kind aan de Kant (No Child on the 
Side) organizes a demonstration in Katwijk on the 29th of September. ---- Some one 
thousand refugee children are living with their parents in so called ‘family locations.' 
The facilities in these family locations are harsh: very small rooms, very low living 
money, inadequate medical help, strict rules and absurd fines wherein families regularly 
get cut on their living money. The police regularly raids the family locations early in 
the morning to transfer families to the family prison in Camp Zeist, the last stage before 
deportation. In this way children grow up in a constant fear to get deported to a country 
that they barely know or don't know at all. On top of that, families regularly get 
transferred to other family locations. The Netherlands has thus developed an inhumane 
policy for refugee children that violates the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a 
daily basis.

To draw attention to the situation of refugee children, No Child on the Side is organizing 
a demonstration in Katwijk on the 29th of September. With this demonstration we want to 
fight for a just treatment of refugee children and put an end to police raids and the 
subsequent deportations. We demand an unconditional Children's Pardon, so that refugee 
children no longer get torn from the life here in the Netherlands, that they've build with 
so much effort. Above all we want to support families that are living in ‘family 
locations' and show them that they are not alone in their struggle.

The demonstration will take place in Katwijk on the 29th of September at 14:00. More 
information about the program and route will follow soon, but make sure to write down the 
date in your agenda!

Vrije Bond Secretariaat

https://www.vrijebond.org/demonstratie-geen-kind-aan-de-kant-voor-vluchtelingenkinderen/

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