Today's Topics:
1. Russia, avtonom: Strike against pension reform!
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Holand, vrijebond: [Turning the Tide 2020] Invitation to
plan a common uprising for climate justice and system change
16-18 November in Ostrava (CZ) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. alas barricadas: ORANGE and TRANSCOM announce collective
dismissal of more than 100 people in San Fernando de Henares (ca,
it) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Poland, WORKERS' INITIATIVE: Protest against the restaurant
"Wanda's Cuisine" - enough exploitation in gastronomy! [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. freedom news: One world, one humanity (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. black rosefed: A YEAR IN POPULAR POWER #1 - TEACHER STRIKES
AND #REDFORED (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. wsm.ie: 34 Frederick street occupied by housing campaigners
- popes visit protested by women only day (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. wsm.ie: Review - To Keep a Bird Singing, a novel by Kevin
Doyle (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
In early September, a new wave of shares is planned against raising the retirement age.
Anarchists are not supporters of the state even if it is "social", but we also take part
in the protests: because this is an obvious robbery of the people, and words about a
shortage of budget funds do not cost anything, while in Russia such a level of social
inequality and corruption as now. ---- Raising the retirement age is not supported by the
absolute majority of the population, because the shares promise to be interesting. Going
out on them, it will not be superfluous to have anarchist agitation. For example, you can
download and distribute a new leaflet from Antijob.net with a call for a general strike.
We are convinced that in our realities, if something is worth doing, then it is to this.
A set of agitation
Leaflet on A4 for sticking out
Leaflet for printing
https://avtonom.org/news/zabastovka-protiv-pensionnoy-reformy
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Message: 2
You are warmly invited to join our campaign and to attend our second meeting in Ostrava,
Czech Republic, on 16-18 November 2018, to plan a common uprising for climate justice and
system change escalating to 2020 and beyond. Read more below - and keep updated on our new
website! ---- It's up to us to turn the tide ---- At meetings in Amsterdam and Vienna,
people from various European grassroots groups agreed on the following plan: ---- After a
joint campaign-launch in early 2019, countless groups organize decentralized actions that
fit their regional context and are at the same time connected to the 2020 campaign. The
diversity of actions throughout the whole year becomes a call for a common uprising in
2020. ---- In 2020, Europe will see a wave of coordinated mass actions: People block
pipelines, harbours, airports, coal-mines, agro-industry, banks, arms factories and
borders, standing up for climate justice and system change. The actions of a multitude of
organizations and movements clearly belong to one campaign, amounting to a massive
non-violent uprising against an economic model that has many losers and that destroys the
very natural foundations life on Earth depends on.
The perspective of the mass actions fosters and strengthens new alliances. Local groups
are inspired because they share a bigger context and the goal of escalating to 2020. The
mass actions gain momentum throughout the year of decentralized actions. The expectation
that something big will happen spreads widely.....
Around the actions, people will gather in community halls and reclaim squares to hold
assemblies and to discuss what climate justice and system change can look like in practice.
This is a first outline - the details will be shaped by everybody involved... and you?
How can you contribute?
Discuss with your group if you want to join the campaign.
If you want to endorse our 2020 campaign, you are welcome to
Sign our call.
Send us a photograph and a short paragraph about your group and your struggle for the
website map.
In turn, we are happy if you spread and link our page.
Organize a discussion about the campaign at an activist event you attend!
And of course: Come to the meeting, discuss our logo, slogan and the demands that we will
use as an umbrella for a shared choreography for climate justice and system change.
Consider if you can host a mass action in 2020 and let us know!
If you cannot come to this meeting but still want to be part of the campaign - get in
touch! by2020we (at) riseup.net
Context:
The 2020 sessions will take place as part of a general Climate Justice Action Network
Meeting. There will be open spaces for other issues that need to be discussed within the
network.
Who we are:
We are an open group of European grassroots activists who met at the CJA meeting in
Amsterdam (January 2018) and at the climate camp in Vienna (June 2018). We feel the need
to scale up our actions in response to accelerating climate change and global injustice.
For that, it appears important that our actions are expressed as complementary elements in
a common long-term escalation strategy - consisting of ongoing, inter-connected,
increasingly inclusive, massive and radical campaigns.
Practicalities:
The meeting will take place in Ostrava, Czech Republic, from November 16-18, 2018. There
will be group accommodation and food on a donation basis.
More information about place & time will follow.
Contact:
by2020we (at) riseup.net
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The call:
Turning the tide: Streaming together towards 2020
Let's join for a long-term escalation of action for climate justice and system change!
The Climate crisis is already upon us. The 1.5-degree target is a matter of life and death
for millions of people. Meeting it requires that industrialised States be on a reduction
pathway by 2020. Instead, States are still encouraging the extraction and use of fossil
fuels. And this is only one of the challenges we face.
For change to happen, our actions must scale up massively, and be seen as a common struggle.
Let's connect our diverse local struggles - against mines or pipelines, against plastic
production or agro-industry, against banks and borders. We are not fighting single issues
- together we are fighting the countless destructions threatening the environment, the
discriminations and inequalities produced by the capitalist system.
Let's join for a huge mobilization for climate justice and system change, culminating in a
massive uprising in 2020.
At the same time, we are laying the foundations of a new society based on caring for each
other and the planet. We are creating resilient networks in which we can grow and produce,
share and care.
System Change not Climate Change
2020we (at) riseup.net
People from various European climate justice groups
klimaatactivisme, milieu, tsjechië
Vrije Bond Secretariaat
https://www.vrijebond.org/turning-the-tide-2020-invitation-to-plan-a-common-uprising-for-climate-justice-and-system-change-16-18-november-in-ostrava-cz/
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Message: 3
The General Confederation of Labor (CGT) reports in this press release that more than 100
employees of the Orange Retention services and Orange Loyalty and Outbound Loyalty
departments will be dismissed at the end of September through dismissals for objective
reasons as announced today the Contact Center company Transcom Worldwide Spain, SL to its
Company Committee of Madrid. ---- The General Labor Confederation denounces in the first
place that in the middle of the football war, with all the telephone operators making
aggressive offers to keep their customers, this job slot is announced. Undoubtedly it is a
montage to justify that Orange transfers the calls that Transcom was managing to another
contact center company, who knows if in Seville, in Salamanca or in Oviedo, cities where
other providers of this multinational telephone have adjudicated departments of customer
service to other contact center companies.
On the other hand, CGT regrets that with all the contact center companies in record
profits in the last year this Swedish multinational has opted for the way of collective
dismissal to "flexibilize" its workforce. Undoubtedly, the collaboration provided by CCOO,
UGT and USO just one year ago, when another collective dismissal sent more than 200
Superlínea employees of Banco de Santander to the street, has encouraged Transcom to
invest in a new ERE to be more competitive. The desire for benefits from Orange and its
subcontractor will only cause more than 100 families to lose their jobs as of September 30.
The General Confederation of Labor has put all its means to work against this gross attack
on workers. His legal advice will use all its resources to prevent this outrage is carried
out and CGT will make various demonstrations in defense of jobs, which will announce in
the coming days.
To conclude, we inform that CGT will carry out a transparent and timely information policy
so that the workers are duly informed about the whole process, both of the business
positions and of the union positions that some try to keep secret.
State Federation of Transport and Communications (FETyC)
Federal Sector of Telemarketing - Federal Committee
http://alasbarricadas.org/noticias/node/40593
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Message: 4
We demand repayment of outstanding wages! Enough of breaking employee rights in
gastronomy! ---- On August 29 at 11 in Poznan at ul. Saint Martin 76, there will be a
protest against the head of the restaurant "Kuchnia Wandy" in Poznan and "Sugomi Sushi" in
Kamionki, whose former employees and employees accuse them of not paying their outstanding
wages, not concluding written contracts, not paying wages on time and intimidation. ----
Injured by the head of these restaurants, Marcin Slawinski, there may be at least 23
people. In fact, he made all staff decisions and deals with management in both
restaurants, although they formally employed employees of various economic entities.
Claims of only 7 people due to unpaid wages amount to at least PLN 100,000 These persons
sent out final pre-litigation requests, which have so far proved ineffective. Employees
have proofs in the form of min. list of attendance. The Labor Inspectorate notified by
them was forced to suspend control, because - according to PIP letters from April this
year. to the injured lawyer - the employer did not submit documents at the request of the
Labor Inspection necessary to establish the facts. PIP wrote:
In "Wanda's Kitchen" and "Sugomi Sushi" some worked on contracts of employment, others on
junk contracts, even though the basis of their employment should be a contract of
employment. Health insurance contributions were not always paid. Salaries were not paid
out on time very often, and arrears were repaid in installments - according to one of the
victims: "Each of us was afraid that he would not receive his pay for hard work. I worked
until mid-March 2018, and I received the last payday for January, in installments of PLN
500. " Employees also claim that they have paid the goods out of their own money, and the
company has a number of debts to numerous entities, including suppliers.
When some employees in March this year made a termination notice pursuant to art. 55 of
the Labor Code in the event of the employer committing a serious violation of the basic
duties to the employee, their former boss replied with intimidation and insults, and then
began to avoid contact with the injured, not paying the dues. The intimidation case was
reported to the police. There are other victims who do not want to demand overdue salaries
for fear of the boss.
We warn future employees against this employer (this also applies soon to the opening
restaurant "Spizarnia")! "Wanda's Cuisine" serves the old Polish black soup and
traditional Wielkopolska cuisine - through our protest we prove that we promote other
traditions in Greater Poland: places where workers' rights are trampled by a wide arch,
and we say to the bosses "stop exploitation" - and give them a black soup!
We demand immediate repayment of all debts!
We are calling for a boycott of the "Kuchnia Wandy" restaurant in Poznan and "Sugomi
Sushi" in Kamionki!
If you work in a kitchen, restaurant or bar, and your rights are broken, join us and start
working!
Nationwide Trade Union "Inicjatywa Pracownicza" Contact: ip@ozzip.pl - tel. 530 377 534 -
www.ozzip.pl
http://ozzip.pl/teksty/informacje/wielkopolskie/item/2407-protest-przed-restauracja-kuchnia-wandy-dosc-wyzysku-w-gastronomii
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Message: 5
Increasingly, we are trapped by militarised borders. Since the '80s and '90s, border
controls have become more and more brutal, inhumane and all-pervasive. The answer of the
capitalist-imperialist States to augmented migration has been to make it impossible for
most to travel legally, build detention centres for immigrants and to carry out more
deportations. ---- In the UK, the right to asylum has been destroyed through cuts in legal
aid, a "‘culture of disbelief", a media hate campaign against asylum seekers and other
migrants, and quotas of people to be deported, even to countries at war. Refused asylum
seekers lose all support, and are left homeless and destitute. ---- The idea of a "hostile
environment" is nothing new. Fortress Europe has shut itself against an imaginary
"invasion" by people of other races and religions. Invasions however did happen - the
invasion of Afghanistan after the September 11th 2001 attacks and that of Iraq (2003-2011)
by the US, UK and NATO killed and displaced millions of people, and caused a massive flow
of refugees.
The Arab Spring (2011) was followed by a long season of repression. In Libya,
concentration camps for migrants were built with Italian and European money following
accords with Ghaddafi to control immigration to Europe (since 2002). When NATO waged war
on Libya, many more boats arrived to Italy, and many more people drowned.
The so called "refugee crisis", however, only gained general visibility in September 2015,
when the war in Syria and the invasion of Northern Iraq by Daesh (ISIS) resulted in the
destabilisation of the whole area and an even sharper increase in numbers of refugees. The
heart-breaking photo of little Aylan Kurdi lying lifeless on a beach shocked public
opinion and contributed to the birth of a large solidarity movement - which shows where
people's hearts are: despite so many years of relentless anti-immigrant propaganda, people
mobilised to help. Pity much of that beautiful solidarity movement was immediately
co-opted by charities, in Calais like in Lesvos, and led in a direction convenient to the
State.
Over 33,000 innocent men women and children have died in the Mediterranean since the
millennium. Italy has made new accords with Libya to stop immigrants, at the same time
hampering the NGOs' boats and criminalising the rescuers. Arrivals to Italy have more than
halved this year compared to the same period in 2017, "thanks" to the Libyan coastguard
bringing people back to hell, but deaths in the sea have gone up in proportion, two per
100, as the journey's conditions have become more dangerous. In Libya, black Africans are
being detained in inhumane conditions, women raped; people are tortured for ransom and
slave markets are flourishing, causing outrage worldwide.
But people migrating to Europe have been tortured and sold into slavery for years before
the public became aware of it. There are many more arrivals on the Greek islands, and more
arrivals also to Spain. 15,000-plus people are detained on the Greek islands at time of
writing, in appalling and overcrowded conditions. If they are refused asylum they can be
deported back to their countries or to Turkey, following accords with Erdogan, who has
built (with EU money) a wall hundreds of kilometres long at the Syrian border, where
Turkish soldiers shoot to kill.
Civilians are killed if they stay and if they flee. Thousands are stranded in appalling
conditions on the Balkan route, border police using extreme violence to stop them. The UK
is spending millions in taxpayer's money to secure the Calais border, where they built a
massive fence, and are paying the French police to harass and brutalise migrants.
In front of what is happening we cannot just stand by and watch. We must act in solidarity
with our brothers and sisters. We must connect with struggles for liberation, against
capitalism, for workers' rights, for housing, services and education, against racism and
fascism and against all prisons.
In the UK the Anti-Raids Network is empowering communities to successfully resist raids by
immigration officers and police.
French students are joining the workers on strike and sheltering migrants in occupied
university buildings. Belgian citizens are sheltering people from police raids in their
own homes - in Brussels alone a growing network of over 600 households has the capacity to
shelter every migrant sleeping out in that city!
We need to step away from the humanitarian/charitable frame: solidarity not charity! We
need a political movement that is transnational, migrant-led and supported by people with
residence rights. This is not a "humanitarian crisis", this it is the result of politics.
Mass migration is driven by imperialism, capitalist exploitation and climate change. We
are all under attack, we are all migrants, we are all affected and must fight for our own
lives. We must stand like one. United we stand, divided we fall!
Chiara Lauvergnac
antiraids.net
facebook.com/noborders1world
This article first appeared in the Summer edition of Freedom Journal
https://freedomnews.org.uk/one-world-one-humanity/
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Message: 6
Episode #1 - Teacher Strikes and #RedForEd ---- Enrique is a high school teacher in North
Carolina and participated in a series of actions that built up to a state-wide strike that
shut down most of public education in the state. He begins with broader political analysis
of the current political moment and goes into the details of how the organizing was done.
---- "A Year In Popular Power" is a four part YouTube series featuring members of Black
Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation (BRRN) speaking on their organizing work as examples
of building popular power. This was filmed as a panel event by the same name on August 3,
2018 in Los Angeles, CA which was held in conjunction with BRRN's 5th convention.
Episode #1: Teacher Strikes and #RedForEd in North Carolina
Episode #2: Organizing to Stop ICE Raids with the Koreatown Popular Assembly
Episode #3: Graduate Student Strikes with GEO Local 6300
Episode #4: Organizing in Fast Food with the Burgerville Workers Union
Don't miss our future videos! Subscribe to our channel. Be sure to click the bell icon so
you receive alerts.
http://blackrosefed.org/year-in-popular-power-1-teacher-strikes/
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Message: 7
After an injunction was obtained against the occupiers of the evicted house on Summerhill
they vacated it only to march to another vacant house at 34 Fredrick street and occupy
that. At the time of writing an injunction has again been granted but this time the
occupiers have said if there is sufficient support they intend to remain in occupation.
Since lunchtime today when the injunction came into effect dozens of people have been on
the pavement outside the occupation. ---- As the occupation of 34 North Frederick St.
passed the week mark, those occupying on Saturday 25th August were made up exclusively of
women and children. This was a deliberate action in response to the visit of Pope Francis
to Dublin.
One activist on site has this to say: "Today we remember the broad oppression of Roman
Catholic rule in Ireland, but in particular we commemorate the systematic oppression of
women and children, for decades, in Catholic-run institutions such as the Magdalene
Laundries. We also remember the role of the Irish State in defending Catholic rule, and
also in defending landlord rule today, continuing oppression in different forms."
The building was occupied last Friday with the purpose of drawing attention to Ireland's
severe housing crisis, following a first occupation in Summerhill.
It will be managed exclusively by women for the entire day.
This morning, after a 24hr social media silence, activists have dropped several banners
from the roof of the occupied building. The statement's emphasize the parallels between
the abuse and exploitation carried out by the Catholic church in Ireland and the inhumane
living conditions thousands of people endure under the housing crisis.
Activists are also wearing pieces of green cloth in solidarity with women fighting for
abortion rights in Argentina (the home country of pope Francis), where the Senate recently
voted against the legalisation of abortion.
https://wsm.ie/c/frederick-street-occupied-popes-visit-protested
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Message: 8
A man adrift in the doldrums of the last great crisis finds his stolen punk records.
Noelie Sullivan by simply reclaiming his discs sets off a chain of events which quickly
unravels his life and puts him and all who know him in danger. ---- What Kevin Doyle - a
founding member of the WSM - has done with this tale is lifted the rock on the old
machinations of the sick state that was Ireland. Under that rock there lies all sorts of
creeps, crawlers, and brokers who maintain their control over people through a web of
patronage, power and ultimately violence. So what happens when an individual just decides
that he won't take it anymore. ---- The novel takes us back to a time when Ireland is
effectively a theocracy, which is run in the interests of those in power by all the
institutions of church, and state working closely with each other. Noelie has been in
trouble and tangled with these people before, he has a history. But this time what he
uncovers is deeply disturbing and sets him on a path to lift the lid on that time and to
seek some form of justice, or it not that, then at least closure.
Effectively Noelie assembles a team of people who believe him, and therefore assist him in
his search. Something has changed. The time is right to do something about the past.
Perhaps it's the fact that he is both older and wiser having returned here from the United
States. Perhaps it is the fact that he is running out of options - like getting out again,
leaving would be admitting defeat for a second and possibly final time. He decides to
stand and fight his ground and break the omerta that exists by doggedly pursuing the truth
of what took place.
This story works on so many levels. Just as a straight up detective story, or for anyone
who has placed themselves on the left or within the protest movements, or from the point
of view of anyone who has lived in those times, and been ‘lifted' by the guards for
whatever reason they saw fit to do so. Culture is fluid, it is always moving, and To Keep
A Bird Singing - is a book of our time. It speaks of the murky origins of this republic,
of what we will continue to struggle to process. Noelie Sullivan takes on as his mission
some of the informal and formal powers that underpins our society. It is changing, and
collectively we are enabling and speeding up that change.
We have yet to tackle the structures, but this punks story is one that will resonate and
ring true for many. His journey is one that should be read by all who dream of better days
to come for this republic.
https://wsm.ie/c/review-keep-bird-singing-novel-by-kevin-doyle
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