Anarchic update news all over the world - 13.08.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  ENCOUNTER OF THE ANARCHIST BOOK FAIR OF 
     SALAMANCA Saturday
      August 11, 2018. XI edition. (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Greece, Position of the Anarchist Political Organization on
      the devastating fires that have recently hit Attica by dwarf (gr)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Belaruss: Crackdown on non-state media in Belarus
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Bangladesh Anarcho Syndicalist Federation: 1500 tea-workers
      observed the strike., News by akmshihab (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Holand, vrije bond: Program Political Summer Days Appelscha
      (nl) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Right to abortion,
      solidarity with women in Argentina and around the world (fr, it,
      pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Programming of the eleventh book fair ---- This is the poster of this year's 2018 fair. On 
Saturday, August 11, we'll be waiting for you in the Plaza de Barcelona. In addition to 
the programmed events, you already know that there will be enough bookstores from several 
countries exhibiting. ---- DETAILED PROGRAMMING of the Meeting: ---- 11:30 Opening of the 
book fair in the Plaza de Barcelona. ---- 12:00 Talk: "Social education does not exist" , 
by Julio Rubio Gómez author of the book "Fourteenth assault".  ---- 14:00 Vegan dining 
room. ---- 17:00 Presentation of the book: "Neolithic Revolution: Origins of the State, 
Patriarchy and Social Inequality" by its author Raúl Cruz , from the editorial office of 
the magazine "Contrahistoria". ---- 19:00 Presentation of the book: "Nothing for granted, 
building free education from collective reflection" by the collective Wayra de Salamanca.

twenty-one:punk "Throw me stones and get me a hand".

22:00 Concert of "Garrula Cumbia" from Riolobos (Cáceres).

        All activities will be abroad in the Plaza de Barcelona. All acts are public and 
free.  We thank the CNT of Salamanca and the Anselmo Lorenzo Libertarian Studies 
Foundation for their collaboration and selfless help year after year for the book 
Encounter. Both are two great spaces and demands. Thank you very much compañer @ s. NOTE: 
Throughout the day there will be bookstores, distributors and collectives exhibiting their 
books and printed material, it is a complete BOOK FAIR.

http://encuentrosalamanca.blogspot.com/2018/07/programacion-de-la-undecima-feria-del.html#more

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DANGEROUS FIRE IS A STATE AND CAPITALISTIC CRIME ---- The frenzy and death behind the 
"growth" behind it,  the social anger over the bankrupt world of power ---- The events 
that we are watching over the last 24 hours in Attica are indeed shocking and cause 
sadness and anger to every person. The fires that broke out in many different places left 
behind a hundred dead people, thousands of burned acres of forest, and flattened entire 
areas and settlements, making the size of the environmental and social disaster 
incalculable. ---- From the very beginning, the state and the media are trying to present 
the image of the "national tragedy" resulting from an "asymmetrical threat" desiring to 
destabilize political and social life, while turning the terrible tragedy into a field of 
micropolitanist opposition to government around the management of the tragic results of 
the events. The crocodile tears poured can not in any way conceal the criminal 
responsibilities of the state apparatus and its antisocial role. As in the case of the 
devastating floods in Mandra, as well as ten years earlier in the murderous fires in Ilia 
and Evia.

The state, for decades, has sought to dissolve every form of social self-organization in 
relation to the elements of nature, but also in general, then replaced it, now expressing 
its weakness, inability or reluctance - because of its own interests nature, structure and 
orientation - to deal with the consequences of disasters, natural or man-made, leaving 
society to their harsh effects. At the same time, the continued underfunding of social 
care projects (fire-fighting, flood protection, anti-seismic works) combined with the 
waste of spending on military equipment in military equipment can only be characterized, 
particularly in a country that has been hit many times and is known their hazards.

In fact, the tragic events that shock us are not unfortunate incidents or deviations of 
the system, but inevitable and ever-escalating consequences that bring to the physical 
world and society the multitude of great and small interests that derive from the system 
itself and they support it.  Specifically, the Eastern region  Attica has become for more 
than thirty years a field of ruthless speculation because of the suffocating pressure for 
the continuous expansion of the Athenian metropolis promoted by central state policies and 
capital. In addition, as a privileged residential environment for the middle and upper 
classes, as well as a profitable area for the development of the tourism industry, it is 
an eldorado of construction, building, real estate and venture capital.

So, it is not a random phenomenon - the entire mass of Penteli and Hymettus, at the foot 
of the mountains and the adjacent lowland and coastal areas - for the last thirty years, 
hundreds of fires that have transformed vast areas of forest into a skull place in order 
to achieve the declassification of entire areas from forestry, to be transformed into 
spaces of various uses and development of all kinds of entrepreneurship and to gradually 
integrate into the city plan. Within this treaty, the tragic events of Monday, July 23, 
2018, could have happened in a number of other cases in the past, as they are likely to be 
repeated in the future. This lethal fire was just one of the hundreds that have erupted in 
the wider region,

It is important here to note that the fire that has taken place, despite its speed of 
expansion, because of the strong western wind it has been in the region, is by no means an 
"asymmetrical threat", as the Prime Minister has unprepared to justify the size human 
tragedy, mimicking the ridiculous statement of Minister Polydoras in 2007 about "wind 
generos". This was because the direction of the air was steady, the direction of the fire 
predictable and the extent of the burnt area relatively limited.

The fire started from the foothills of Penteli in a low vegetation area since it had been 
rebuilt in the recent past, headed east to a forested area, burning most of the settlement 
Neos Voutzas leaving behind dead people and proceeding to a dense forest area towards Mati 
and the beach. A unique firewall on this route, where ground-based fire-fighting vehicles 
can intervene to halt the fire, is Marathonos Avenue. It was certain, from the very first 
moment of the fire, that if it is not possible to stop the fire on Marathon Avenue - 
either because of the state's fire extinguishing mechanism or due to exceptional weather 
conditions - then it will continue in a densely populated forest area with high traffic, 
threatening thousands of human lives. For this, it is inconceivable that since early in 
the afternoon it was known to the state staff that the fire was growing in inhabited areas 
and that there was no way to hinder it, since this was never attempted by fire-fighting 
instruments, but the same Staff did not make any effort to evacuate the village of Mati or 
to notify its inhabitants even at the last moment, for what would inevitably happen. In 
addition, no state effort has been made by state mechanisms to directly launch floating 
means to save hundreds of people heading to the sea to save themselves from the flames, 
only hours later and after many have been lost to it. and from early in the afternoon it 
was known to the state staff that the fire was growing in residential areas and that there 
was no way to halt its pursuit, since this was never attempted by firefighting, but the 
same staff did not make any effort to the evacuation of the settlement of Mati or the 
warning of its inhabitants, even at the last moment, for what would inevitably happen. In 
addition, no state effort has been made by state mechanisms to directly launch floating 
means to save hundreds of people heading to the sea to save themselves from the flames, 
only hours later and after many have been lost to it. and from early in the afternoon it 
was known to the state staff that the fire was growing in residential areas and that there 
was no way to halt its pursuit, since this was never attempted by firefighting, but the 
same staff did not make any effort to the evacuation of the settlement of Mati or the 
warning of its inhabitants, even at the last moment, for what would inevitably happen. In 
addition, no state effort has been made by state mechanisms to directly launch floating 
means to save hundreds of people heading to the sea to save themselves from the flames, 
only hours later and after many have been lost to it. but the same staff did not make any 
effort to evacuate the village of Mati or to notify its inhabitants even at the last 
moment for what would inevitably happen. In addition, no state effort has been made by 
state mechanisms to directly launch floating means to save hundreds of people heading to 
the sea to save themselves from the flames, only hours later and after many have been lost 
to it. but the same staff did not make any effort to evacuate the village of Mati or to 
notify its inhabitants even at the last moment for what would inevitably happen. In 
addition, no state effort has been made by state mechanisms to directly launch floating 
means to save hundreds of people heading to the sea to save themselves from the flames, 
only hours later and after many have been lost to it.

The number of individual elements that contributed to the tragedy, such as the way of 
building, the absence of a district fire design and the evacuation and rescue design, 
mismanagement of traffic, state mechanisms, the criminal cover they provide to small and 
large private interests and their interference with them. However, in addition to the 
failed state-building plans and their even more failed implementation, the nightmarish 
events as developed and described above also highlight, in the most violent and obvious 
way, the deeply anti-social nature of the state which at a time of great social a crisis 
where thousands of human lives are threatened, has shown no reflective potential and 
reaction to the alarm and rescue of so many people. On the contrary, his inertia 
contributed to the disorientation, complacency and inactivity of the residents and 
visitors of the region in the face of the imminent destruction, with tragic consequences. 
And if this tragedy did not get even bigger, this is solely due to the self-action and 
solidarity developed by people who were faced with the fire and those who rushed to help. 
The state has remained at the very first moment a chilly, external and top observer of 
human drama, geared to managing the political cost of events, to masking and shifting 
responsibilities, and controlling the social anger that frightens the fools and the death 
it leaves behind the state-capitalist turmoil of development.

In the case of West Attica, the fire that occurred on 23/7 burning a large forest area and 
many houses in the village of Kineta and adjacent settlements, fortunately without human 
victims, had an obvious cause. The point where the fire occurred in Gerania Mountains and 
the forest land incinerated is the site that is planned to be converted into a bauxite 
mine by the Mytilineos group. In the past, a request for authorization was submitted by 
the Mining Company DELPHI - DISTOMON SA for an area of 50,000 acres in the Gerania 
Mountains, which was first rejected by the Regional Council for environmental and social 
reasons, one of the the forestry character of the area.

It is a real war against nature and society, which, like the war in general sweeping many 
regions of the world, is a constituent element of the system.

In an environment of wild class exploitation and attack on society and nature, destruction 
by fires is the result of the criminal policies of the state and of capital, of the very 
nature of the social and political world - a human being that is destructive to the 
natural world - and economic system that in the name of "development" and "profit" does 
not hesitate to destroy whole mountains, lakes and rivers to turn them into industrial 
zones, sink villages and scatter cancer to whether people, convert settlements into 
rubbish sites, plunder even the entire ecosystem. In this strategy, fires are a very 
common practice for desecrating and destroying the natural environment so that it can then 
be exploited and exploited through mines, casinos, maisonettes, tourism ... To emphasize 
that today the restructuring of the political and economic system is characterized by an 
unprecedented aggression towards society and nature, the key element of which is the giant 
enterprise of divesting public natural resources and land in private capital, from the 
Greek state under the EU's guardianship. and the IMF. the key element of which is the 
giant enterprise of the disposal of public natural resources and land in private capital, 
carried out by the Greek state under the custody of the EU. and the IMF. the key element 
of which is the giant enterprise of the disposal of public natural resources and land in 
private capital, carried out by the Greek state under the custody of the EU. and the IMF.

At the same time, the global environmental disaster, the dramatic climate changes and the 
way to deal with the "extreme" weather phenomena, highlight the overall bankruptcy of the 
entire political, economic, social and cultural system that is founded on social-class 
competition and hostility toward nature and societies. Typical is the case of the tragedy 
caused by Hurricane Katrina in N. Orléans in 2005, with more than 1800 dead people, mostly 
poor blacks - some of whom were murdered during the police and military control operations 
of the city - and hundreds of thousands of homeless people the result of state 
indifference and hostility towards them. As Republican MP Richardson Baker said cynically: 
"We have finally dispelled the issue of social housing in New Orleans. We could not do it, 
but God did. "  This catastrophe was" exploited "by the state for the definitive 
displacement of the largest number of the poor black inhabitants of the city and was an" 
opportunity "for capitalist development, rebuilding and the transformation of the city on 
the criteria of state control and the profitability of capital. " I believe we can start 
from the beginning. This white page provides us with some very great opportunities. " 
Joseph Canizar, a big businessman.

Accordingly, for the state-capitalist system, the fire that burned an area of about 12,000 
acres of forest and settled in eastern Attica leaving behind more than 90 dead people, as 
well as the fire in the Gerania Mountains and Kineta, are "opportunities" exploitation, 
"exploitation" and business development.

In conclusion, the solutions for defending life, humanity and nature from the threatened 
destruction and the perverse forms of destruction and death that the state-capitalist 
system places on them and point out the inevitable consequences of "progress" are not 
within the system, but to its destruction before pulling and destroying everything. The 
small but valuable struggles and resistances that emerge today (from Lefkimmi Corfu, 
Epirus and NE Chalkidiki to Agrafa and Acheloos and in many other regions) in front of the 
individual phenomena of the generalized destruction that spreads death, pollutes the 
earth, the air and the waters, burns the primordial forests and wipes out the wildlife, 
while simultaneously dissolving the local societies, they are mounds to prevent and delay 
this destruction and to defend those that can be saved, such as mountains ashes, coasts, 
rivers, lakes, animals and birds. But they must also become signs of a radical awakening 
and fields of deeper and conscious radical criticism and struggle against the state and 
capitalism that sweep the human society and the natural world.

At the same time, it is valuable to support those in need and to promote mutual aid as the 
most important human value, social self-organization as a practice that goes beyond the 
parasitic state, antisocial institutions and the hypocritical attitude of all sorts of 
political factors.

SOLIDARITY IN FIREPLACES IN ATTICA
NO CONFIDENCE IN THE STATE AND ITS MECHANISMS
COLLECTION - SOCIAL SELF-ORGANIZATION - SOLIDARITY IN ANY ASPECTS OF SOCIAL LIFE
RESISTANCE TO CRIMINAL STATE AND CAPITALIZING DEVELOPMENT
AGAINST NATURE LIFE LIFE FOR LIFE, LAND AND FREEDOM

Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectivities

August 2018

website: apo.squathost.com | email: anpolorg@gmail.com

https://ipposd.wordpress.com/

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Iryna Leushyna, chief editor of the non-governmental BelaPAN news agency, has been 
detained today, tut.by said. Her apartment has been searched and computer equipment 
seized. ---- Earlier, police detained several editors and journalists of independent media 
outlets tut.by and belapan.by. All of them are accused of illegal access to the paid 
services of the government-owned news agency BelTA (the accusation seems totally 
ridiculous provided the low quality of the content of BelTA and poor popularity of state 
media in Belarus). Tens of searches in offices of media and private houses of journalists 
occur. Many of detained were refused to see their advocates. Most of journalists were 
eventually released, including tut.by editors Hanna Kaltyhina and Halina Ulasik this 
afternoon. Maryna Zolatava, Hanna Yermachonak and Tatsiana Korovenkova were set free today 
at 11.00 am.

However, two journalists remain in custody.  It is expected that they will either be 
released or face formal charges.

The Belarusian authorities continue to be criticized for the unprecedented crackdown of 
independent media. The new wave of repression has been reportedly denounced by the EU's 
External Action Service.

The country's human rights organizations, including the Human Rights Center "Viasna", sent 
an urgent appeal to David Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and 
expression, and Harlem Désir, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, urging them to 
"react to the situation."

Deutsche Welle lodged a protest with the Belarusian ambassador to Germany calling to 
release their reporter Pauliuk Bykouski, who is still in the detention center.

Many analysts link up the crackdown on independent media with a upcoming presidential 
elections in Belarus, which president, Alexandr Lukashenko, stays in power for 24 years 
already.

https://pramen.io/en/2018/08/crackdown-on-non-state-media-in-belarus/

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Workers abstained from Tuesday morning without joining the work of 1500 tea-workers of 
three tea-gardens of Islampur Union, bounded by Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar. ---- Tea 
workers in the government-owned National Tea Company (NTC), Kurma, Baghachra and Kurungi 
tea-garden performed the abstinence. Workers abstained from joining an employee 
transferred to tea garden and demanding recruitment of educated children of educated 
unemployed workers in the job. ---- Rakhal Goyala, a Panchayat president of Baghachhra 
Tea-Bagan in the upazila, said that the controversial employee of National Tea Company's 
Patkhola tea-garden Abdul Kaiyum was transferred to Kurma tea garden. Angered among the 
general tea workers, due to joining the substitute Abdul Kaiyum Kurma tea garden. As a 
result, 1500 tea-workers registered with three tea gardens performed the workshop. At the 
same time, tea-workers demanded recruitment of children of educated unemployed 
tea-laborers of Kurma, Baghachra and Kurgani to the vacant posts.

Satya Narayan Kurki, Madamohan Teli, Babul Mia said that the tea-garden tea-worker has 8 
vacant posts in this tea garden. Although they worked on the basis of daily wages for a 
number of years, these vacancies are not being recruited. However, a controversial 
employee of another tea garden has been appointed to the Kurma tea garden. So, a 
work-break is being conducted in consultation with ordinary tea-workers.

Chief Manager of Kurma tea garden Shafiqur Rahman said that the company has transferred 
the potkhola tea-garden employee Abdul Kaiyum to Kurma. The authorities will decide 
according to the rules of the company, who will be appointed in vacant posts or who will 
be appointed. As a local manager, I have nothing to do.

Kamalganj Upazila Executive Officer Mohammad Mahmudul Haque said, I do not know this 
incident. The garden authorities did not tell me anything.

http://www.bangladeshasf.org/news

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Tomorrow, Friday 10 August, the Political Summer Days will start on the Camping grounds 
until Freedom Reflection in Appelscha. The program is now completely known. Enough to do, 
in a beautiful environment, so pack up your tent and sleeping bag and come too. ---- 
Program: ---- - Friday evening (after dinner) 20.00 to 22.00 theme Education (strikes and 
solidarity) ---- - After the discussion: film ---- - Saturday morning (after breakfast) 
11.00-13.00 theme Migration, about the current migration policy and the resistance against 
it (No Border Camp 2019 and No Border Netwerk) ---- - Saturday lunch (after lunch) 2.30 pm 
- 3.30 pm Book review by Paper Jam: " Anarchism - an introduction "; the book published by 
Tommy Ryan (in collaboration with the Vrije Bond) is an analysis of anarchism in the past 
and present and discusses strategies for the future.

- Saturday afternoon (16.30-18.30) workshop of the Vrije Bond on anarchist structure

- After the dinner movie

- Sunday morning (after breakfast) 11.00 to 13.00 hours discussion about the new action 
consensus of Code Red. In the penultimate Outside Order there was an article with 
criticism of the Code Red organization. Recently, Code Rood has made a decision about the 
action consensus for the action at the end of August. A number of people will explain 
about that.

There is also room enough to bring in and discuss other inspiring matters. There will be 
stands (distro) from Paper Jam and the Free Bond and of course there will also be second 
hand books ready to be taken.

A contribution will be requested (on a donation basis) for the food / drink and the stay. 
If you want to come then it is convenient to report via mikkie (at) antenna.nl. The 
overnight stay will be done in the camping mode, namely in your own sleeping bag and tent! 
For the route you can check out the website of the Pinksterlanddagen. Click here for more 
information about the campsite.

Until then!

Anarchism , Appelscha , summer days anarchists

Free Bond Secretariat

https://www.vrijebond.org/programma-politieke-zomer-dagen-appelscha/

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Today is a day of defeat for Argentine women and all the women of the world. The local 
Senate voted against the law authorizing abortion. The weight of reactionaries of all 
kinds and of the Catholic Church has crushed the right to justice and freedom. By what 
right do men have an opinion on which concerns the belly of women ? By what right do 
religions imprison women in the violence of clandestine abortions ? ---- The slogan of the 
opponents was "Save both lives". We all know that women's lives do not matter to them and 
that this slogan is only hypocrisy. Clandestine abortions kill. ---- Libertarian 
Alternative shares the pain and affirms its full solidarity with Argentine women and all 
the women of the world deprived of the right to abort safely by the disgusting of men in 
power and religions. ---- The fight goes on, everywhere, all the time.

Libertarian Alternative , August 9, 2018

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Droit-a-l-avortement-solidarite-avec-les-femmes-d-Argentine-et-du-monde-entier

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