Anarchic update news all over the world- 30.08.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  wsm.ie: Stand 4 Truth - demanding accountability from
      catholic church during Papal visit (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  alas barricadas: [Argentina] Neither a senate nor a law will
      make us free by Gavroche (ca, it) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #285 - 1994: The French
      State complicit in the genocide in Rwanda (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  asr anarshism: On Monday, September 3, a march against the
      Islamic Republic regime in Athens, Greece [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Ireland, derry anarchists: STONEWALL Remembered: Foyle Pride
      2018 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Holand, vrije bond: CRASH! How to survive the housing
      crisis. (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1





As many as 10,000 people took part in the Stand for Truth rally yesterday, and marched in 
complete silence to the site of the last Magdalene Laundry to close on Sean MacDermott 
street[video].  In effect this was a counter protest to the Papal Rally taking place 
uptake road in the Phoenix park in the aftermath of Pope Francis pretending not to know 
about the institutions while talking to selected survivors.  In fact he met Philomena Lee 
in the Vatican in 2014, the Irish Times reporting at the time that afterwards, Ms Lee 
said: "I hope and believe that his Holiness Pope Francis joins me in the fight to help the 
thousands of mothers and children who need closure on their own stories."
Some 30,000 were confined in these institutions, most often for the ‘crime' of having 
child without being married.  Another 100,000 people were sent to other institutions run 
by the church like the industrial schools, yesterdays event also stood with them in 
demanding real accountability for the crimes that the church committed, and for the cover 
up that goes right to the top of the Catholic Church, including the current forgetful pope.

If the Papal visit was meant to help the recovery of a totally discredited catholic church 
it can be described as a disaster that only revealed how few practising catholics remain 
in Ireland.  During the previous Palpal visit in 1979 one million people attended the 
Papal rally in Dublin alone, yesterday saw barely 10% of that number attend and many of 
those were international tourists.  In '79 Papal bunting was everywhere, yesterday the 
council built estates bordering the park has almost no houses displaying any, our writer 
counted only two in an estate of 250 houses (and twice as many that still had Dublin GAA 
bunting up from the match a couple of weeks back).  On Saturday Dublin was brought to a 
halt so that the Pope could parade through the city, they said 100,000 were expected to 
view him.  In the event only about 15,000 lined the route and how many of them were in 
town anyway and finding themselves trapped by barriers decided they might as well watch 
the spectacle and post a selfie.

The Catholic Church which on the weekends evidence can now only claim to represent, at 
best,  10%  of the population still owns many of the schools, hospitals and community 
spaces in the country.  They have failed to pay significant compensation for the decades 
of abuse they subjected the 130,000 to.  It's high time the schools, hospitals and 
community spaces were taken into public ownership, without further compensation.

Author: Andrew N Flood

https://wsm.ie/c/stand-4-truth-papal-visit-dublin

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Text: Neither the land nor women are territory of conquest. Legal abortion for sovereignty 
to flourish over our new destinies ---- NOT A SENATE, NOR A LAW WILL MAKE US FREE ---- We 
are convinced that only struggle and organization gives us freedom. We do not want more 
deaths for clandestine abortions. What happened on August 8 showed the immensity of the 
feminist movement and the weakness and exhaustion of the parliament, of the "bourgeois 
representative" system. The pibas, cakes and trans males are going to keep aborting, we 
will continue accompanying so that it is as safe as possible, however, those "supposed 
representatives of the people" who earn hundreds of thousands of pesos -which only 
represent the businessmen- have coerced the possibility of legalizing abortion. Legalize 
the right to decide on our own bodies.

In the Congress we listened to electoral speeches, trying to take advantage of a few 
minutes of "fame" to win a couple of new votes, we heard how they laughed in our faces, 
how they denigrated us, how they lied, how they misinformed. We listened and we saw how a 
group of cynical people, totally oblivious to the reality of the working people, sat down 
- like in a tea party - to ramble and then choose to continue with the chains that they 
put in our wombs. What do they know about life and choosing them?

We are the ones who put the body, those who spend cold, hunger, fear, humiliation, pain. 
We are the ones who carry the sword of "justice" - always patriarchal and bourgeois - on 
our heads, to be stigmatized, criminalized, persecuted. We are robbed of our lives in 
rooms full of dirt with whatever they have on hand to perform an abortion, after filling 
their pockets with the money we get, many times, taking the plate of food off the table. 
We mourn companions that the State murders by condemning us to hiding. We had to organize 
ourselves, by lung, to be able to accompany the pregnant people who want to decide about 
their body and their life. We are the ones that we have to gather from "a puchitos" and we 
juggle to charge a cell phone, one goes up, buy what is necessary and help the partner who 
wants to have an abortion. We are the ones who carry dozens of cases in our backs and 
collapse at times because we demand until our head explodes. We have to answer calls, give 
hugs and dry tears because hypocritical social condemnation weighs on the girls who want 
to decide what do they know from their comfortable seats?

They are only interested in maintaining the business of illegality that includes private 
practices, international medication traffic: 15 billion pesos a year, only in Argentina. 
And in that network are Laboratorios Beta (located in Buenos Aires), the only one that 
manufactures and markets Misoprostol, a giant that moves annually one billion pesos with 
that monopoly; the doctors who charge between 30 thousand and 50 thousand pesos to perform 
an abortion in a clinic; they only want to generate more money at the expense of our 
bodies. In addition to maintaining the power of the Church, that hypocritical institution, 
which is filled with money from the State and restricts the freedom to decide of pregnant 
women and people; but it does not say anything, but on the contrary, it guarantees that 
the priests violate children.

 From ASL we call, today more than ever, to redouble the political, financial and 
logistical support to the Councils and groups of dissident women and genders that 
accompany abortion cases. They are the ones who all over the country bring safe 
information about the use of Misoprostol and reduce the risks. In the same way, as health 
workers, we have only to commit ourselves to continue deepening the union organization in 
order to guarantee access to the Legal Interruptions of Pregnancy that exist today and now 
try to adjust them.

The streets are dying green increasingly, thousands of comrades went out to fight. The 
streets spoke, and socially the stigma is beginning to be erased. We must rethink what 
democracy we want, clearly this representative is no more, the institutions of this 
bourgeois democracy will never be on our side. Just as the State does not solve crises, it 
does not guarantee anyone's freedom either. We bet to create the direct democracy of the 
town, to build a true self-defense and to face us when the necessity demands it. We are no 
longer solxs, we are all together, we are millions.

Up those who fight!

-Action Socialist Libertarian

https://www.alasbarricadas.org/noticias/node/40585

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Message: 3





France has a heavy responsibility in the last genocide of the XX th century, but only now 
being brought to light, many politicians and magistrates working in this direction. ---- 
The attack against the presidential plane of Habyarimana on 6 April 1994 triggered the 
last genocide of the XX th century. Nearly one million victims, mostly Tutsis, die 
according to a political logic put in place several years before. France, which largely 
participated in Hutu / Tutsi cleavages [1], was aware of the massacres and yet delivered 
arms before and during the genocide, protected the genocidaires and declassified the 
archives drop by drop. As said François Mitterrand "  In these countries, genocide is not 
too important" !
Tutsis began to be stigmatized when Belgium introduced the identity card in 1931, to which 
the League of Nations had entrusted Rwanda with "  trusteeship  ". After decades of 
exclusion, arrests and massacres, Major Ntabakuse (commander of a Rwandan army unit) calls 
for the revenge of President Habyarimana, killed in the attack on his plane , killing Tutsis.

The French commander Grégoire de Saint-Quentin was present and probably made his round 
trips to the scene of the crash with Ntabakuse ; it was at this time that all the 
exhibits, missile debris and black boxes, in particular, were stolen and hidden by France. 
The genocide begins just an hour after the crash. Everything was ready: arms distribution, 
list of people to execute, massive propaganda, etc.

An obvious French implication
France delivered weapons until May 23 (Hubert Védrine, then secretary general of the 
Elysee, and Jean-Claude Urbano, vice-consul of France in Goma, justified these deliveries 
by stating that the contracts had been made before the embargo, decreed on May 17). 
Ambassador Marlaud forms the Rwandan interim government on April 8th at the French embassy 
(which will be closed on the 12th just after Marlaud himself burned all the archives) by 
not respecting at all the 1993 Arusha Accords: the 5 ministerial wallets promised to the 
Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), party Tutsi, for example, are non-existent. Of the 21 
ministers of this government, 16 will be charged with genocide by the International 
Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. French banks (BNP and Crédit Lyonnais) are giving loans to 
the Rwandan government of 6 million euros to buy weapons. These weapons will arrive at the 
Goma airport (in Zaire) which is controlled by the French ...

Official military operations are equally scandalous. The Noroît operation, which aims to 
stop the RPF (from 4 October 1990), is illegal since France did not have a defense 
agreement with Rwanda. The Amaryllis operation (April 9 to 14, 1994, in the midst of 
genocide) allows to deliver weapons to the genocidaires and exfiltrate 120 close to 
Habyarimana. Finally, Operation Turquoise (22 June-22 August 1994), defined as " 
humanitarian operation in the sense of security  " according to Colonel François Luizet, 
will fight against the RPF, the only force that tries to stop the genocide. It allows 
Tutsis to be massacred, does not disarm the assassins, does not arrest genocide suspects 
and even helps them to flee to Zaire. White Kepi, a monthly from the Foreign Legion 
confirms:"  Beaten on the ground, the Rwandan army folds, in disorder, towards the"  safe 
humanitarian zone.  " The tactical headquarters of Operation Turquoise causes and 
organizes the evacuation of the Rwandan interim government to Zaire [2].

Indeed, the genocide will stop because of the escape of the killers in front of the RPF 
offensive.

Holism in action
The media describe the situation as "  interethnic massacres against a backdrop of civil 
war  ". However, atrocities are not committed by both sides, but only against Tutsis and 
opponents. Moreover, the phrase "  against the backdrop of civil war  " reverses the order 
of things. This is not the war that triggered the killings but the genocide that resulted 
in the resumption of fighting between the RPF and the Rwandan Armed Forces [3].

Alain Juppé, Minister of Foreign Affairs, maintains this ambiguity by asking "  that those 
responsible for these genocides be judged  " [4]. Why genocides in the plural ?

We know that to kill almost a million people in three months, to kill each other neighbors 
and families, you have to be prepared and organized. We know the supply of weapons, the 
massive propaganda of the free radio-television of the thousand hills (RTLM), established 
lists, etc.

So we see that genocide is not the product of a band of uncontrollable fanatics (as we 
still hear often) but of a totalitarian state. France even admitted that the "  Rwandan 
state was the authorizer of the genocide  " [5].

"  The survey  "
After the unlikely twists of the black box of the presidential plane (confused in New York 
with that of a Concorde, shown on TV but immediately unmasked as an antenna box !), Hidden 
clues and evidence to the Ministry of the Defense in Paris, the French State conducts a 
prosecution against the RPF.

Judge Bruguière, who was given the investigation open (only) on March 27, 1998, is 
convinced of the responsibility of the RPF in the attack. After an "  investigation  " 
where he does not ask for the analysis of the black box or to hear the commander De 
Saint-Quentin, he seeks in 2006 an arrest warrant against nine senior RPF officials (all 
very close to Kagame, current President of Rwanda), without having been to Rwanda once !

In 2007, the judges Marc Trévidic and Nathalie Poux take back the file and note many 
irregularities (unverified testimonies, false affirmations, false declarations, etc.)

In 2012, an international ballistic expertise (the first), requested by judges Poux and 
Trévidic, concluded that the missiles had left since Kanombe (stronghold of the 
presidential guard). Tactically, having emerged victorious from the Arusha Accords with 
five ministerial portfolios, the RPF had no interest in resuming hostilities.

Why were the investigation reports and exhibits never given to a judge ? Why is Judge 
Bruguière relying exclusively on testimonies, which proved to be false ?

Of the 37 criminal actions initiated since 1995, none are the work of a public prosecutor, 
but many victims and associations ! If France is struggling to prosecute the perpetrators 
of the genocide on its soil, it does not allow their extradition to Rwanda: the 
jurisprudence of the Court of Cassation has indeed ordered the systematic refusal of 
extradition of alleged genocide in Rwanda ( 21 refusal to date). All this ill will perhaps 
says a lot about French complicity.

Recent news
Despite the ballistic expertise, the training does not seem to be moving towards the trail 
of an attack by Hutu extremists. Judges Marc Trévédic and Nathalie Poux asked in November 
2014 to declassify the notes of the French secret services on the attack. The documents 
were released in September 2015 but not yet published.

In April 2015, the Élysée and Matignon lifted protection on 83 other documents and 
promised to declassify everything to put an end to the controversy over France's policy in 
Rwanda. Several refusals of consultation are examined by the Commission for Access to 
Administrative Documents. We are still waiting for their opinion.

In November 2015, Survie, the FIDH and the LDH asked for an indictment for complicity in 
the genocide of two French senior officers, General Jacques Rosier and Vice Admiral Marin 
Gillier. They observed the massacres of abandoned Tutsis on the Bisesero hills. For the 
moment, the magistrates have not granted this request (they have only been heard as 
witnesses assisted) despite another complaint filed by six Tutsis survivors of the 
massacre. French soldiers are accused of murder, rape and ill-treatment.

Father Wenceslas Munyeshyaka was sentenced to life imprisonment by Rwandan courts. France 
refusing to extradite her, pronounced a dismissal on August 19, 2015. Survie appealed.

Former captain Pascal Simbikangwa is the first to be sentenced in France to 25 years 
imprisonment for genocide in 2014. This sentence was confirmed on December 3, 2016.

Thanks to the efforts of the Collective of Civil Parties for Rwanda (SCRC), Octavien 
Ngenzi was arrested in Mayotte while he was on the run for twenty years and Tito Barahira 
who was spending quiet days in Toulouse. Both are therefore appearing for genocide and 
crimes against humanity, in particular for the massacre of 3,500 Tutsi on April 13, 1994 
in the Kabarondo church. One was the former bourgmestre (mayor) and the other the 
burgomaster in office at the time of the genocide. They were sentenced to life 
imprisonment on July 6, 2016.

On October 31, 2016, the National Commission against Genocide (CNLG) released a list of 22 
French officers "  involved in the genocide as authors or accomplices  " with request for 
interrogations. Jean-Yves Le Drian replied: "  To say that the French army took part in 
the genocide is an unworthy lie that I will never tolerate  " ...

In December 2017, a report (which the French media did not mention) on the involvement of 
the French authorities in the genocide of Tutsis requested by Kigali was made public. It 
is a recognized and independent law firm that drafted it. It is overwhelming for 
French-African politics ; it confirms all the facts already established and even insists 
on the indifference of French cooperation in Rwanda to the various "  small  " genocides 
(1963 as well as those of the preparatory period 1990-1993). Rwanda immediately announced 
the forthcoming issuance of international arrest warrants against French officials. France 
will she end up being at the foot of the wall ?

Finally, on December 20, 2017, Judge Herbaut decided to close the investigation of the 
attack despite the non-identification of the perpetrators ...

Benoît (Friend of AL)

A GENOCIDE FRANÇAfrican
1931: introduction of the identity card with mention of the ethnic group, defined by Europe

1959: massacres of Tutsis

1962: independence of Rwanda. Economic cooperation agreements France / Rwanda

1973: Massacres of Tutsis. Habyarimana's coup

1975: Franco-Rwandan agreements for the formation of the gendarmerie

1990: RPF offensive. Beginning of the War. Operation Noroit

1992: massive imports of arms

1993: Arusha Peace Agreement

The 1994 genocide

April 6: Attack against Habyarimana's plane

Night of April 6 to 7: beginning of the genocide

April 8: Formation of the Rwandan Interim Government at the French Embassy

April 9 to 14: Operation Amaryllis

April 27: Bruno Delahaye, Edouard Balladur and Alain Juppé receive Jerome Bicamumpaka and 
Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, respectively Minister of Foreign Affairs of GIR and head of the 
CDR and founder of RTLM. Both will be charged with genocide

May 17: embargo on arms sales

June 22 to August 22: Operation Turquoise

June 28: UN concludes genocide

July 4: capture of the capital by the RPF

August: end of the genocide due to the escape of killers in Zaire, helped by France

November 8: UN establishes the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

Make justice

1995: filing of complaints against genocide suspects

1998: The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda sentences the prime minister of the 
GIR to life imprisonment. Beginning of  the  French " investigation ".

2004-2005: complaints filed by Tutsi victims targeting soldiers of Operation Turquoise

2006: arrest warrants against 9 senior RPF officials. Tensions between Paris and Kigali

2012: The first international ballistic investigation concludes that shots have been fired 
by the Kanombe presidential plane, a stronghold of Hutu extremist militants

2014: first trial of an alleged genocidaire in France

2016: two new convictions are handed down in France (where the majority of genocidaires 
have taken refuge)

[1] See article series in AL of April, May and June 2004.

[2] Képi Blanc, n ° 549, October 1994, after France at the heart of the Tutsi genocide, 
Jacques Morel, March 2010.

[3] Charlie Hebdo, September 9, 2009.

[4] "   Intervene in Rwanda  ", Alain Juppé, Libération, June 16, 1994.

[5] Paul Quilès, Pierre Brana, Bernard Cazeneuve, Investigation of the Rwandan tragedy 
1990-1994, information report to the National Assembly, December 15, 1998.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?1994-L-Etat-francais-complice-du-genocide-au-Rwanda

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The gathering of opponents of the Islamic Republic's regime at the intersection of the 
streets: Kheisisa-Kut-e Khaki and then the march to the regime's embassy on Monday, 
September 3 in Athens, Greece at 17:00 ---- We demand the overthrow of the regime of the 
Islamic Republic, and we will fight for this in the hands of the fighting and freedom 
fighters in Iran. ---- The Islamic Republic's regime's interference in Syria, Afghanistan, 
Iraq, Yemen and other parts of the world must be stopped and we condemn it. ---- Based on 
the disgraceful history of this regime, it has been proved to us that the regime of the 
Islamic Republic is a cruel and warlike regime in which we see the existence of political 
prisoners, the violation of the rights of religious minorities, women and LGBT people.

It has been proven to us clearly that any attempt to reform this regime means putting the 
blood of the fighters and the suffering of the past on people in Iran, and then we can not 
make any correction impossible and we will betray it.

Facebook iTunes address "march against the regime of the Islamic Republic"

https://asranarshism.com/1397/05/27/demonstration-and-marching/

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This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Derry's Foyle Pride week which hosted a 
series of commemorations events from talks to exhibitions. But in commemorating Pride it 
is vital that all of us take time out to remember the history of Pride celebrations, its 
origins and how radical LGBTQ activists made attempts to challenge a world that refused to 
recognise any form of sexual freedom. ---- In particular the Stonewall riots which took 
place in New York and how the police and groups of lesbian, gay, bi and transgender people 
clashed in a series of early morning confrontations back in June 28, 1969. That date, just 
as the name of Stonewall, became synonymous with what was to be a watershed for the 
worldwide LGBTQ movement who for the first time stood up and actively resisted police and 
state oppression head on.

Here in Derry, Foyle Pride has to be the only independent, cross-community based driven 
LGBTQ festivals in the entire island of Ireland which stands alone in its long held 
radical ethos of refusing both corporate funding and any participation of the police, no 
matter how hard they try to 'normalise' the celebrations. For this alone the Foyle Pride 
committee deserve a high-five from each and everyone of us, as people gathered to 
celebrate 25 years of organising Pride in the city viewed as the birth place of the civil 
rights movement. As ever the route of the Foyle Pride Parade followed in the foot steps of 
the original Civil Rights March back in 1968 which this year marks its 50th anniversary.

It was equally important that members of the Industrial Workers of the World in Derry took 
part in this years celebrations in solidarity with the LGBTQ community, standing with 
fellow workers in highlighting the call that an injury to one is an injury to all.
http://derryanarchists.blogspot.com/2018/08/stonewall-remembered-foyle-pride-2018.html

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A workshop and event on mutual aid, direct action and self-organisation. ---- Each year 
new people enter Utrechts housing crisis. Young people are living on sofa's, in hostels or 
are subleasing too expensive rooms. While housing is a key human right it becomes 
precarious, temporary and unaccesible. 70% of the 18 to 24 year old pay more than 40% of 
their income to rent. Something has gotta change. ---- How to survive the housing crisis? 
Come to Crash! an event organised by Bond Precaire Woonvormen in cooperation with We Want 
Woonruimte. We will investigate what we could do together. ---- An interactive event on 
mutual aid, direct action and self-organisation. With live music from Dave Mochilero y su 
Candelas. ---- Location: ACU, Voorstraat 71, Utrecht ---- Doors open: 15:30 ---- Start 
Crash!: 16:00 ---- End of event: 18:30 ---- Live Music! during the event. ---- Food by 
Barricoons kitchen: 19:00

Language: English with live Dutch translation.
Entrance: Free

https://www.vrijebond.org/workshop-bpw-crash-how-to-survive-the-housing-crisis-utrecht/

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