Anarchic update news all over the world - 8.08.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  [Japan]"August 6", Anarchist Meeting 2018 in Hiroshima By
      ANA (pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  US, WSA, ideas and action: Smash Patriarchy, Smash All
      Social Oppressions By Mike K. (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 3.  Holand, vrije bond: No child on the side: 5, 6, 13 and 14
      September information evenings (nl) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 4.  anarkismo.net - Call to Action: "Disarming Rheinmetall - war
      starts here" - anarchist communist event (ca, fr, gr, it)
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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The  Anarchist Studies Association of Hiroshima  will be organizing another edition of the 
"Anarchist Meeting of August 6". The anti-militarist event is supported by  the Kansai 
Anarchist Studies Association  and will bring together a wide range of people interested 
in anarchism from within and outside of Japan. ---- >> The programming of the "August 6" 
of 2018, Monday, is as follows: ---- *  07 hours:  distribution of leaflets in the 
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. ---- *  10 hours:  demonstration in the vicinity of the 
Genbaku Dome (Atomic Bomb Dome). ---- *  13 hours:  meeting in the city, conversation and 
debate: "The Strategy of Anarchism in the 21st Century". ---- *  After the meeting:  drink 
and eat somewhere in Hiroshima city. ---- kansaianarchismstudies.blogspot.com ---- note:

[1] At 8:15 am on August 6, 1945, the city of Hiroshima was hit by the first of the two 
atomic bombs dropped by the US military in Japan at the end of World War II. The attack on 
Hiroshima killed about 150,000 people instantly, and thousands suffered the consequences 
(especially from radiation) for many years. Currently, in the region near the site that 
was the epicenter of the bomb, there are several memorials in honor of the victims.

Related Items:

https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2014/08/28/japao-convite-to-o-6-de-agosto-encontro-anarquista-em-2015-em-hiroshima/

https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2014/08/07/japao-manifestacao-anti-abe-e-anti-guerra-em-toquio/

https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2014/07/02/japao-sob-antimilitarista-protection-of-populacao-governo-japones-muda-a-politica-de-defesa-do-pais/

anarchist-ana news agency

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Patriarchy isn't just an essential ingredient of "traditional family values"; it is 
explicitly required practice by most of the world's religions. The Abrahamic religions 
codify the social subordination of women based on religious mythology dating back to the 
bronze age, but like many things religious it has less to do with the supernatural than it 
does with confirming the right of domination by a male-dominated ruling class. ---- The 
evolving archeological record shows that pre-historic (pre-civilized) humanity had 
developed a highly complex, rich culture based on social egalitarianism. This egalitarian 
emerged during the hunter-gatherer period of human social evolution, but it continued 
well-after humanity had begun to live in sedentary communities.

It was the rise of market economics, with human slaves (especially female slaves) as 
valuable items of trade, which began the social degeneration of human society into one of 
class hierarchy and permanent inequality. The invention of the Patriarchy was a key part 
of the social decay of egalitarian society that ended with rise of what we call 
"civilization".

The oppression of women crosses class divisions and status, testimony to the important 
role that women played in the egalitarian majority of our pre-historic past. The 
destruction of the Patriarchy is a necessary step in the destruction of ALL social oppression.

http://ideasandaction.info/2018/08/smash-patriarchy-smash-social-oppressions/

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Lately there has been much to do about Trump's 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. ---- One of the most 
important things we do, is to make more people aware about the situation that 
refugeechildren in the Netherlands live in. We take the upcoming demonstration in Katwijk 
as an opportunity to organise several information evenings in different cities. We will 
talk about life in the family locations, the procedures, contacts with the DT&V, IND and 
COA etc. In some cases it will be possible for refugee children to talk about their story. 
Unfortunately we cannot split ourselves in a hundred people, so it is possible we cannot 
come to your town. If you would like an information evening to take place in your town 
before or after the demonstration in Katwijk, please invite us! We can help you set up 
your own information evening, provide materials or in some cases we can even come ourselves.

Emmen: Wednesday, September 5th,  20.00 - 21.00, Huize Spoorloos, Wilhelminastraat 33, Emmen

Den Haag: Thursday, September 6th, 18.00 - 21.00, De Samenscholing, Beatrijsstraat 12, Den 
Haag

Amersfoort: Thursday, September 13th, 19.00 - 21.00, de Rooie Cent, Hooglandseweg-Zuid 34, 
Amersfoort

Amsterdam: Friday, September 14th, 19:00 - 22:00, NieuwLand, Pieter Nieuwlandstraat 93A, 
Amsterdam

https://www.vrijebond.org/geen-kind-aan-de-kant-5-6-13-en-14-september-informatieavonden/

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Statement by a collective that is aiming to stop the weapon manufactur 'Rheinmetall'. 
Rheinmetall produces for example tanks that are used by turkey for their ethnic cleansing 
of rojava. War starts here and it is about us to do something against. ---- A protest camp 
just next to a Rheinmetall production area will take place from 29.08.2018 - 04.09.2018 in 
Germany in Unterlues. ---- German weapons are involved in killing on a global scale. With 
respect to arms exports, Germany is ranked fourth worldwide and even second in the EU. In 
the past ten years Rheinmetall managed to become one of the largest players in the 
munitions industry without causing an outcry. ---- With the help of subsidiaries overseas, 
Rheinmetall even succeeds in bypassing those few rules on arms exports that are in 
existence, leading to sales in war zones and crisis regions. The consequences are 
profitable and bloody at the same time: people are dying due to bombs that were produced 
by Rheinmetall in Italy. Against international law, Turkey is at war in Afrin, Northern 
Syria, with the help of Leopard 2 tanks. The Turkish NATO army annihilates societal 
structures which were pointing the way ahead in previous years concerning women's 
liberation, grassroots democracy, and ecology .

In partnership with this regime, Rheinmetall aims at building a munitions factory as well 
as producing tanks in Turkey. Moreover, Rheinmetall is building a factory for the Fox 
armored transport vehicle in Algeria. This list could be continued for quite some time.

We do not want to allow Rheinmetall to keep on killing people with their armaments any longer.

It is clear from the start that the discussion about export controls and human rights does 
not play any role in reality. German policy does not defend any moral values abroad but 
strives to sell German products, including military equipment. Although 80 % of the German 
population object to these arms exports, the ones responsible seem to be sparsely 
impressed. In the past, multiple protests against Rheinmetall have been executed already: 
for instance, camps and actions at Rheinmetall factories and at the German Army's Combat 
Training Centre (GÜZ) based in the Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide which is also run by the 
company. This year, we want to build on those with a demonstration, a peace camp, and 
various actions at Rheinmetall's production site in Unterlüß. Hereby, we collectively 
speak out against defense production and its direct consequences such as war, terror, 
forced migration, and poverty.

The activities surrounding the Anti-war Day on 1 September do not only signify our 
resistance against a defense contractor, but also our campaign for another world. We want 
to discuss the transition from a destructive industry to civil and ecological production 
instead. We want to stand up for peaceful and social cooperation instead of murder and 
fierce competition. We cannot bear a world full of discrimination and repression any longer.

Related Link: https://rheinmetallentwaffnen.noblogs.org/material/

https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31090

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