Today's Topics:
1. Britain, brightonsolfed: STILL, A FEW PLACES LEFT ON SF
WORKPLACE ORGANISER TRAINING COURSE!!!
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #288 -
Notre-Dame-des-Landes, NDDL: great maneuvers around the former
ZAD (fr, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. US, black rose fed: LOVE AND FIRE: BOOTS RILEY ON ART,
LABOR, AND MASS MOVEMENTS (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. iwa-ait: Solidarity with the CNT Local Federation of Madrid
(ca, it) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Grupo anarquista Higinio Carrocera: Prostitution is
incompatible with a free society (ca) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The Solidarity Federation will be holding a workplace organiser training day in Manchester
on November 24th. The training is based on a direct action approach to organising rather
than looking to use employment laws to resolve workplace issues. No experience of
workplace organising is necessary and the training takes place in a fun and friendly
atmosphere. So if you are interested in organising your workplace, or just want to learn
about the organising process, this course is a great way to make a start.
THERE ARE STILL A FEW PLACES LEFT SO IF YOU WANT TO ATTEND THE COURSE EMAIL:
training@solfed.org.uk
http://www.brightonsolfed.org.uk/brighton/still-a-few-places-left-on-sf-workplace-organiser-training-course
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Message: 2
Now that the airport project is buried, a " steering committee " looks at the future of
the area and gives pride of place to people who have worked with AGO-Vinci. The
inhabitants and the defenders of the grove resist. ---- The Inter-communal Citizens
Association of the populations concerned by the airport project (Acipa) was a historical
association of the movement against the airport project at Notre-Dame-des-Landes. It
announced its dissolution in July 2018. Such a scuttling is regrettable and gives a bad
signal to those who fight, coupled with a feeling of waste. Although Acipa may have had
ambiguous positions during the expulsions in April, its logistical capacity has served the
movement well.
Some of its members have wanted to relaunch the adventure, creating this summer a new
association named: NDDL Continue together. Its purpose is to help sustain the
agricultural, forestry or handicraft projects of the inhabitants of the ZAD, especially
those that have given rise to a deposit in precarious occupancy convention (Cop). It also
wants to support the other struggles against big useless and imposed projects ; preserve
long-term biodiversity throughout the wetland ; and fight against the extension of
existing farms.
A steering committee acquired by the government
After the eviction operations in April and all the police violence that ensued, 42
agricultural projects were deposited at the prefecture. For the moment, only 15 projects
have signed a Cop, which corresponds to 170 hectares. Alternative Libertaire supports the
agro-ecological and innovative projects carried by the current occupants, who have
defended the land dearly against concrete.
The historic farmers, who are part of the struggle, occupy 370 hectares. They and they,
who have been precarious and threatened with evictions for years, are quite legitimate to
continue their activities.
Remain those who have collaborated with AGO-Vinci and the State in selling their land,
obtaining new ones through compensatory measures, while keeping the land use on the ZAD
and retaining the corresponding European aid. Once the fight against the airport won, they
have the gall to ask to recover the land they have not defended. It's called butter and pie !
No courage, no environmental reflection, total submission to the logic of profit. This
retrograde mink of agriculture must be fought !
On October 12, the steering committee met to decide on the future of the ZAD. This
steering committee is composed, in addition to the departmental direction of the
territories and the sea (DDTM) and the prefecture, the Chamber of Agriculture, the main
agricultural unions (FNSEA, Rural Coordination, Confédération paysanne), the Association
des farmers who have struggled, farmers who sold their land, private foresters and elected
officials from the communes concerned and the Department. The inhabitants of the ZAD and
the associations of protection of the grove were not invited.
This steering committee seems to be part of the government strategy focused on
productivist agriculture. The state discards leaving the general council to the maneuver.
Today it does not make any decision, no signing of leases and considers that it is urgent
to wait. At a time when the government is talking about an agro-ecological transition and
the fight against global warming, it is doing nothing to preserve the biodiversity of the
beautiful and rebel ZAD.
Stef and Vincent (AL Nantes)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?NDDL-grandes-manoeuvres-autour-de-l-ex-ZAD
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Message: 3
The Coup's 2012 album, also titled "Sorry to Bother You" (intended to be the film's
soundtrack, before the screenplay started getting the attention of various famous
musicians like Janelle Monáe, who ended up on the film's actual soundtrack) came with an
insert featuring this short treatise laying out Boots Riley's communist political praxis.
For much of the preceding year, he had become a prolific and influential social media
commentator on the trajectory of Occupy Oakland, which was almost certainly the largest
and most radical local manifestation of the occupy movement. This is a good summary of his
overall ideas at that time and the call for building mass movements still strikes a chord
with us today. -- By Boots Riley, The Coup
This is the time to build a mass movement that can eventually evolve into a revolutionary
movement that will get rid of Capitalism.
One of the key elements to this mass movement must be a radical, militant labor movement.
This means a movement of workers in production, retail, and service industries who are
willing to strike and shut down businesses as a means of negotiating economic change.
These strikes must physically keep out scabs (replacement workers) in order to be
effective. This has to be done even when it is against the law. In order to do this
effectively, strike lines may have to be a combination of workers from those actual sites
along with community members who are willing to help in the strategy of shutting said
business down.
The thing that defines capitalism is the exploitation of labor. The wealth of the Ruling
Class- the 1%, if you will- is from our labor. The conflict between the ruling class and
the working class is at the point when work is done to make a commodity of service and the
profit is passed up to the 1%.
When we withhold our labor, we put them at a standstill. These types of struggles explain
the system to millions of people and show power in numbers. When the police come out to
stop a strike it is clear to everyone that they are on the side of the ruling class. We
also must be clear that while we're fighting for immediate change- higher pay and better
conditions, we must fight for a totally new system.
We must organize to keep people in their homes. This is already happening - there are
neighborhood assemblies that are declaring moratoriums on foreclosures. Neighborhoods are
declaring that they will mobilize to physically stop banks from foreclosing on homes in
their area. We need more of this. We need to stop renters from being evicted, too.
If you're a college student, the next frontier is free education for all. I don't know
what the first steps are- maybe it starts with stopping fee hikes, but I do know this: It
won't happen unless you make it happen. This is already going on all over the world-
Canada, Spain, South America. I salute those already involved. To those not yet involved-
the time is now.
Artists must be involved in this movement. Art is about engaging in life. The most engaged
with the world you will ever be is when you're changing it. We need music, visual art,
film, and theater made by people with an interest in changing the world around them.
We need visual representations of the campaigns that we're engaging in so that we have a
chance of getting to people through the noise of mainstream media and the noise of social
media. Yes, social media is a good tool- but the flow of it still mainly follows trends
created by mainstream media. We have to create real world media- as well as internet based
media- that might possibly offset the mainstream trends. I'm talking everything from
taking over corporate billboards with paint, to old-fashioned murals and wheat-pasted
posters, to hacking into electronic billboards- in order to publicize our own campaigns.
The main thing is- whether you're doing a mural, re-purposing a billboard, or
spray-painting a word or phrase on a wall: aesthetic and style is just as important as
content. If you make something that people WANT to look at, something that makes the place
more beautiful- most people will welcome what you're putting up. Practice your art,
especially if your purpose is to get a message across. This whole movement is to make the
world a more beautiful place, we can represent that visually.
It's here that I should say that a lot of the stuff I'm talking about doing with visual
art may be illegal, so only do it if you know the risk.
Lastly, we're only going to win if we work together, uniting around the broad ideas that
we can agree on. Smaller political differences need to be struggled with as we go. The
left in the U.S., since at least the 50s, has been plagued with the disease of breaking
into smaller and smaller, more politically correct groups. This hasn't helped build a mass
movement, and it hasn't helped build a revolution. If you think your Party or organization
or collective has the answer, help build this mass movement so that maybe there'll be way
more people who want to hear your analysis. The real thing that pulls movements apart is
not as much the actual political differences, as it is the way in which we talk to and
about each other. If people have criticisms of each other, bring it to them before talking
about it with everyone else. Doing things the other way around rallies people into teams
and often from that moment on, the working relationships are not the same. These are
things that one learns in a disciplined organization, but this isn't a disciplined
organization, it's a movement, and we're all learning as we go.
The Occupy Wall Street movement is not an identifiable organization. OWS is simply the
left working together. It's the idea that we can work together. If you opt out of that,
then you opt out of the hope to build the mass movement that's a necessary step toward
changing the whole system. If there is no OWS, then you still have the same people doing
work, but separated and not as powerful. Not on most people's radar. Why would anyone want
that? The Coup's last album was called Pick A Bigger Weapon. Well, OWS is the bigger
weapon- because what we had been doing so far as a fractured movement wasn't working. Many
people actually feel more comfortable going back to what they were already doing.
Changing the system is actually on the table, if we don't take it off the table ourselves.
We need the neighborhood campaigns and canvassing. We need work stoppages, strikes, and
blockades. We need to occupy public space. We need to occupy buildings. We need victories
that change people's lives in material ways. We need each other. We need a system in which
we democratically control the profit we create.
Let's do it.
We can win.
Love and Fire-
Boots
http://blackrosefed.org/boots-riley-love-art-labor-mass-movements/
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Message: 4
We would like to express our support for the CNT Local Federation of Madrid in their
struggle against attempts to disrupt their activity and evict them from their historic
premises. ---- The Local Federation was the largest in our former Spanish section but on
October 27, that organization purged its largest remaining concentration of
anarchosyndicalists, expelling more than 500 people from the organization now known as
CNT-CIT. While the issue was still being discussed during a regional plenary, a group of
people led by the regional Secretary attempted to take posession of the offices, changing
the locks and attacking two women. When this incident was reported to members of the
Federation, they recouperated the premises where they are carrying out their activity as
usual.
Two unions of this Federation, having collaborated against the rest of the comrades, are
now outside both expelled from CNT-CIT and are outside the Local Federation - the
Transportation Union and Graphics Arts.
The exclusion of the largest federation occurred just one week before a national plenary
which focused on the ratification of the creation of a new international formation known
as CIT, thus excluding the most important voices of those inside the organization who have
been critical of this.
We condemn these attacks on our comrades but hope that they will remain strong in the
desire to continue the struggle and work towards the renewal of the anarchosyndicalist
movement in Spain.
The comrades of the Local Federation of Madrid have shown international solidarity in so
many conflicts involving the Sections of the IWA and they can count on our support.
Long live anarchosyndicalism, internationalism and the CNT-AIT!
IWA Secretariat
https://iwa-ait.org/content/solidarity-cnt-local-federation-madrid
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Message: 5
(In response to Ruymán Rodríguez, from CNT Cataluña) ---- Ruymán Rodríguez, from CNT
Cataluña, has published an extensive article entitled "When the lumpen raises its voice",
in which it claims to defend the abolition of prostitution, but makes an ardent defense of
the creation of a union of prostitutes, which interprets as a gesture of emancipation of
the women themselves subjected to the prostitution system. ---- In line with the arguments
put forward by the regulators and proponents of the "lobby" proxeneta, Rodríguez believes
that the rejection of the creation of this union is a sign of "classism", a bourgeois
interference in the self-organization of women (points out that there is also men in the
market, but less) and that shows a paternal distrust in the capacity and agency of "the
lumpen".
In our opinion, it is precisely the opposite: it is classist to consider that women in
prostitution have another category, a special position (here defined as lumpen) that makes
acceptable to them what we would never support for ourselves. Women in prostitution are,
potentially, all women and also girls who are now growing up, in an increasingly
precarious world in which poverty threatens, above all, the female population.
The self-organization of whores is for us and we, anarchists, good news. That people who
suffer the same oppression create and strengthen ties, especially when they are
oppressions crossed by the degree of violence and misogyny that occurs in the
concentration camp that is the brothel, can not be but greeted as a good. In Spain,
associations such as Hetaira have been functioning for years and without any legal
problems. They are growing feminist platforms that integrate survivors of the prostitution
system, fraternities that serve to rise up against the oppressors, pimps and pimps. There
is, therefore, no problem with the free association of women in prostitution.
Yes, to defend that the form of association has to be recognized by the State as a
"union", which integrates "workers of a sector". Because what Rodríguez and the regulators
want to do with the excuse of the free organization of women is the recognition as "work"
of the oldest exploitation in the world, prostitution. It would be the only union in the
world whose creation is applauded as a breakthrough by the 'bosses' and the 'clientele', a
union supported with vehemence by parties that are not friends of the workers, such as
Citizens.
One might wonder: Everything that is done for money, in this world that enslaves humanity,
is work? Human work has two aspects: the expression of people's own creative force, which
through work transcend and benefit the whole community, and the creation of goods and
services that meet social needs. There are, then, creative and satisfactory works, and
other unpleasant but essential for the life of the communities. Is prostitution, sexual
servitude of women or men feminized for male satisfaction socially necessary? (Since the
demand is overwhelmingly male). Absolutely not. Women have been conquering, with much pain
and incompletely, the ownership of their bodies. Neither the State, nor the employer, nor
the Church, nor the man. The prostitution system guarantees all men, anywhere in the
world, access to the body of women, girls or other men in exchange for money. This
"democratic harem" is one of the oldest privileges of patriarchy, incompatible with the
free society that the anarchists defend.
In prostitution, what is for sale is not a service, it is a personal freedom, sexual
freedom. In exchange for a price, a generic sexual consent is given, often vitiated
consent, for addictions, previous sexual traumatizations and other violence. There is no
ideal pact of adult man to adult woman, they are successive men, many of them in gang or
fraternity, exercising their power and imposing their corporeity on women in vulnerable
situations.
On the other hand, the history of the 'unions' of prostitutes that have been legalized in
other countries shows that in many occasions they have been used to launder a criminal
business, parasitized by pimps, and have not served to improve the living conditions of
the prostitutes. women in the territories in which they have acted. As an example, I leave
this link about the International Union of Sex Workers. (
https://traductorasparaaboliciondelaprostitucion.weebly.com/blog/a-quien-representa-en-realidad-la-union-internacional-de-trabajo-sexual
)
Finally, good men, in this debate, should meditate ethically if they are authorized to
defend, albeit indirectly, an atrocious market that is sustained by the demand of the sex
to which they belong, and from which they benefit even though it is symbolically . All
men, puteros or not, walk symbolically on the shoulders of whores. Because prostitution
gives them the first lesson of who is the master here; Prostitution tells men: you are so
important that all these lives can be sacrificed to satisfy your desires. And to women:
you are so insignificant that you can be sacrificed for the satisfaction of another's desire.
I finish with a sentence of Delia Escudilla, survivor of prostitution: "women do not need
prostitution legalized, we need to extinguish the violence and poverty that pushes us to
it". Health and Anarchy.
https://grupoanarquistahc.wordpress.com/2018/10/16/la-prostitucion-es-incompatible-con-una-sociedad-libre/#more-1188
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