Anarchic update news all over the world - 22.02.2019

Today's Topics:

   
1.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #291 - Geothermal: Who
      pays the fractured pots ? (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Sindicato Único de Trabajadores Solidaridad Obrera --
      MEETING OF THE COORDINATOR ROJINEGRA IN MADRID 
      (ca)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Letter from the Zapatista Women to Women in Struggle Around
      the World (ca) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Czech, afed: Encourage the accused in the network case
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1





The heat extracted from the depths of the Earth's crust can provide abundant and 
relatively cheap energy. Problem: it is not renewable and the State organizes the impunity 
of the farmers in case of collateral damage due to the fraction of the grounds. ---- The 
geothermal resource in France is distributed unevenly over the territory. Heat extraction 
technologies differ depending on availability. While individual use is possible 
everywhere, this is not the case for an industrial operation reserved for large deposits. 
Extraction, deposits: the exploitation of geothermal energy is controlled by the Bureau of 
Geological and Mining Research (BRGM), manager of the subsoil in France. In fact, the 
state is the main financier of geothermal research, even if some particularly favored 
regions like Alsace invest a lot in this energy [1]when other regions focus only on 
specific sites.

Thus, in Alsace, the Soultz-sous-Forêts site is the first site in the world called EGS 
(Enhanced Geothermal System) - using what they call an "   injection of chemical 
stimulants   " - to have been connected to the electricity grid. Since 2008, it provides 
the equivalent of 1.5 MW of net generation on the electricity grid. [2]

Geothermal risk management
The strong point of geothermal energy is its high profitability: when the heat of the 
extracted water is sufficient, it can be used directly without conversion for heating. 
Otherwise its use through a heat pump is also a good performance ... at least in winter. 
The question is different in summer when geothermal energy is used for example to supply 
air conditioners.

The question of geothermal risk has already been mentioned in the 1980s when, following 
the oil shocks, the first installations were launched. It was then for the oil lobbies to 
cut short any alternative. Yet it was not a pure fantasy.

The main risk related to geothermal energy is a consequence of drilling, now supplemented 
by acid injection techniques in the rocks: the pressure increases considerably with the 
depth, it can occur a fracturing of the grounds resulting in a complete destructuration of 
the mother rock.

Obviously, the risk increases with the size of the installation. Regarding deep geothermal 
energy, the case study is hydraulic fracturing on a site near Basel (Switzerland) which 
caused in 2006 a small magnitude earthquake. The basement of a whole neighborhood and the 
foundations of more than 400 homes were fractured.

Even today it is difficult to assess the risks of this still experimental technology. To 
protect businesses, the State has set up a support fund for farmers, first to compensate 
for losses when drilling does not provide access to exploitable resources. For good 
measure, the possible damage related to the exploitation of the resource will not be 
supported by any private insurance, nor by a state fund.

As for the risks associated with individual installations, the causes may be multiple, but 
the most serious case identified is that of Lochwiller in Alsace in 2008. Two companies 
then drill 60 meters deep on a hill to feed the site. heating a house. Bad luck: the 
ground swells and causes a partial collapse of the hill. In 2019, the geological situation 
has still not stabilized and the village threatens to be buried. Faced with this disaster, 
installers are released from all liability by justice. The owners of this subdivision 
house are considered as drilling operators, and must pay for work on the catchment (work 
without technical solution). No financial solution is currently underway for fractured houses,

Energy transition or money trap ?
A number of projects have been and are still promising from the point of view of the 
energy transition, such as the capture of localized groundwater. The Paris area, which is 
well equipped, has a reliable network of more than 200,000 homes heated with hot water 
extracted from groundwater. Heating with geothermal energy is thus a very efficient system.

But like any energy resource, geothermal energy is gangrenous when investors seek to 
establish exploitation and distribution monopolies, and the state organizes their 
irresponsibility. And when deep geothermal energy seeks to exploit resources extracted 
from rocks close to the magma, it is difficult to qualify them as pockets of hot water 
that can be reached safely.

The example of the Strasbourg network, which should provide 80  % of the heat of the city, 
is done without guarantees of dismantling of the power stations or possible compensation.

However, this energy - qualified as renewable - draws heat to reject cold in the basement. 
This water is radioactive, and the exchange of fluid cool the subsoil. In the end the 
extraction period is not more than thirty years in the best case, for a reconstruction of 
the deposit estimated at one hundred and fifty years minimum. These estimates do not take 
into account the destruction of the source rock and the tonnes of acids injected, nor the 
radiological risk, which will ultimately be paid by residents.

Faced with geothermal energy, it is necessary to fight against capitalist concentration to 
promote collective management and reasoned projects: that energy remains in the hands of 
the people concerned, using controlled techniques in installations of moderate size and 
for a use of first local.

Nipple Reinette (AL Aveyron)

1. See geothermal article on Alsace.alternativelibertaire.org. 2. "   EGS pilot plant at 
Soultz-sous-Forêts, Alsace   ", Geothermie-perspectives.fr.

[1] "  Geothermal: Strasbourg, soon capital of green capitalism ? » , On 
Alsace.alternativelibertaire.org

[2] "  The EGS pilot plant at Soultz-sous-Forêts, Alsace  " , on Geothermie-perspectives.fr

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Geothermie-Qui-paie-les-pots-fractures

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Message: 2






During this weekend the Assembly of the RojiNegra Coordinator was developed in Madrid, of 
which Solidaridad Obrera participates with other anarcho-syndical centrals: ESE from 
Greece, IP from Poland, CNT-France, SAC from Sweden, USI from Italy, and CGT also since 
Spain. ---- For Solidaridad Obrera, one of the most remarkable events of this meeting has 
been the willingness, on the part of all the members of the RojiNegra Coordinator, to 
continue working within it, highlighting the validity, not only the principle of 
internationalism within the labor movement, but other principles such as solidarity or 
mutual support. ---- The campaigns proposed to be carried out by the Coordinator, such as 
support for Kurdistan or Palestine, campaigns against trade agreements (TTIP, CETA or 
TISA), the defense of public services ... are a faithful reflection of these principles 
and the need for the existence of international organizations that share ideals to fight 
against the most predatory neoliberalism.

The first joint action, which will be carried out by the Coordinator, will be a support 
and call to support all the mobilizations, strikes and actions to be held on March 8 to 
mark the day of the working woman.

To thank all the comrades for their assistance and contributions in this meeting and the 
CGT for its organization.

HEALTH AND INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY!

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Message: 3





Sister, compañera: We as Zapatista women send you our greetings as the women in struggle 
that we all are. ---- We have sad news for you today, which is that we are not going to be 
able to hold the Second International Encounter of Women in Struggle here in Zapatista 
territory in March of 2019. ---- Maybe you already know the reasons why, but if not, we're 
going to tell you a little about them here. ---- The new bad governments have said clearly 
that they are going to carry forward the megaprojects of the big capitalists, including 
their Mayan Train, their plan for the Tehuantepec Isthmus, and their massive commercial 
tree farms. They have also said that they'll allow the mining companies to come in, as 
well as agribusiness. On top of that, their agrarian plan is wholly oriented toward 
destroying us as originary peoples by converting our lands into commodities and thus 
picking up what Carlos Salinas de Gortari started but couldn't finish because we stopped 
him with our uprising.

All of these are projects of destruction, no matter how they try to disguise them with 
lies, no matter how many times they multiply their 30 million votes. The truth is that 
they are coming for everything now, coming full force against the originary peoples, their 
communities, lands, mountains, rivers, animals, plants, even their rocks. And they are not 
just going to try to destroy us Zapatista women, but all indigenous women-and all men for 
that matter, but here we're talking as and about women.

In their plans our lands will no longer be for us but for the tourists and their big 
hotels and fancy restaurants and all of the businesses that make it possible for the 
tourists to have these luxuries. They want to turn our lands into plantations for the 
production of lumber, fruit, and water, and into mines to extract gold, silver, uranium, 
and all of the minerals the capitalists are after. They want to turn us into their peons, 
into servants who sell our dignity for a few coins every month.

Those capitalists and the new bad governments who obey them think that what we want is 
money. They don't understand that what we want is freedom, that even the little that we 
have achieved has been through our struggle, without any attention, without photos and 
interviews, without books or referendum or polls, and without votes, museums, or lies. 
They don't understand that what they call "progress" is a lie, that they can't even 
provide safety for all of the women who continue to be beaten, raped, and murdered in 
their worlds, be they progressive or reactionary worlds.

How many women have been murdered in those progressive or reactionary worlds while you 
have been reading these words, compañera, sister? Maybe you already know this but we'll 
tell you clearly here that in Zapatista territory, not a single woman has been murdered 
for many years. Imagine, and they call us backward, ignorant, and insignificant.

Maybe we don't know which feminism is the best one, maybe we don't say "cuerpa"[a 
feminization of "cuerpo," or body]or however it is you change words around, maybe we don't 
know what "gender equity" is or any of those other things with too many letters to count. 
In any case that concept of "gender equity" isn't even well-formulated because it only 
refers to women and men, and even we, supposedly ignorant and backward, know that there 
are those who are neither men nor women and who we call "others"[otroas]but who call 
themselves whatever they feel like. It hasn't been easy for them to earn the right to be 
what they are without having to hide because they are mocked, persecuted, abused, and 
murdered. Why should they be obligated to be men or women, to choose one side or the 
other? If they don't want to choose then they shouldn't be disrespected in that choice. 
How are we going to complain that we aren't respected as women if we don't respect these 
people? Maybe we think this way because we are just talking about what we have seen in 
other worlds and we don't know a lot about these things. What we do know is that we fought 
for our freedom and now we have to fight to defend it so that the painful history that our 
grandmothers suffered is not relived by our daughters and granddaughters.

We have to struggle so that we don't repeat history and return to a world where we only 
cook food and bear children, only to see them grow up into humiliation, disrespect, and death.

We didn't rise up in arms to return to the same thing.

We haven't been resisting for 25 years in order to end up serving tourists, bosses, and 
overseers.

We will not stop training ourselves to work in the fields of education, health, culture, 
and media; we will not stop being autonomous authorities in order to become hotel and 
restaurant employees, serving strangers for a few pesos. It doesn't even matter if it's a 
few pesos or a lot of pesos, what matters is that our dignity has no price.

Because that's what they want, compañera, sister, that we become slaves in our own lands, 
accepting a few handouts in exchange for letting them destroy the community.

Compañera, sister:

When you came to these mountains for the 2018 gathering, we saw that you looked at us with 
respect, maybe even admiration. Not everyone showed that respect-we know that some only 
came to criticize us and look down on us. But that doesn't matter-the world is big and 
full of different kinds of thinking and there are those who understand that not all of us 
can do the same thing and those who don't. We can respect that difference, compañera, 
sister, because that's not what the gathering was for, to see who would give us good 
reviews or bad reviews. It was to meet and understand each other as women who struggle.

Likewise, we do not want you to look at us now with pity or shame, as if we were servants 
taking orders delivered more or less politely or harshly, or as if we were vendors with 
whom to haggle over the price of artisanship or fruit and vegetables or whatever. Haggling 
is what capitalist women do, though of course when they go to the mall they don't haggle 
over the price; they pay whatever the capitalist asks in full and what's more, they do so 
happily.

No compañera, sister. We're going to fight with all our strength and everything we've got 
against these mega-projects. If these lands are conquered, it will be upon the blood of 
Zapatista women. That is what we have decided and that is what we intend to do.

It seems that these new bad governments think that since we're women, we're going to 
promptly lower our gaze and obey the boss and his new overseers. They think what we're 
looking for is a good boss and a good wage. That's not what we're looking for. What we 
want is freedom, a freedom nobody can give us because we have to win it ourselves through 
struggle, with our own blood.

Do you think that when the new bad government's forces-its paramilitaries, its national 
guard-come for us we are going to receive them with respect, gratitude, and happiness? 
Hell no. We will meet them with our struggle and then we'll see if they learn that 
Zapatista women don't give in, give up, or sell out.

Last year during the women's gathering we made a great effort to assure that you, 
compañera and sister, were happy and safe and joyful. We have, nevertheless, a sizable 
pile of complaints that you left with us: that the boards[that you slept on]were hard, 
that you didn't like the food, that meals were expensive, that this or that should or 
shouldn't have been this way or that way. But later we'll tell you more about our work in 
preparing the gathering and about the criticisms we received.

What we want to tell you now is that even with all the complaints and criticisms, you were 
safe here: there were no bad men or even good men looking at you or judging you. It was 
all women here, you can attest to that.

Well now it's not safe anymore, because capitalism is coming for us, for everything, and 
at any price. This assault is now possible because those in power feel that many people 
support them and will applaud them no matter what barbarities they carry out. What they're 
going to do is attack us and then check the polls to see if their ratings are still up, 
again and again until we have been annihilated.

Even as we write this letter, the paramilitary attacks have begun. They are the same 
groups as always-first they were associated with the PRI, then the PAN, then the PRD, then 
the PVEM, and now with MORENA.

So we are writing to tell you, compañera, sister, that we are not going to hold a women's 
gathering here, but you should do so in your lands, according to your times and ways. And 
although we won't attend, we will be thinking about you.

Compañera, sister:

Don't stop struggling. Even if the bad capitalists and their new bad governments get their 
way and annihilate us, you must keep struggling in your world. That's what we agreed in 
the gathering: that we would all struggle so that no woman in any corner of the world 
would be scared to be a woman.

Compañera, sister: your corner of the world is your corner in which to struggle, just like 
our struggle is here in Zapatista territory.

The new bad governments think that they will defeat us easily, that there are very few of 
us and that nobody from any other world supports us. But that's not the case, compañera, 
sister, because even if there is only one of us left, she's going to fight to defend our 
freedom.

We aren't scared, compañera, sister.

If we weren't scared 25 years ago when nobody even knew we existed, we certainly aren't 
going to be scared now that you have seen us-however you saw us, good or bad, but you saw us.

Compañera, hermana:

Take care of that little light that we gave you. Don't let it go out.

Even if our light here is extinguished by our blood, even if other lights go out in other 
places, take care of yours because even when times are difficult, we have to keep being 
what we are, and what we are is women who struggle.

That's all we wanted to say, compañera, sister. In summary, we're not going to hold a 
women's gathering here; we're not going to participate. If you hold a gathering in your 
world and anyone asks you where the Zapatistas are, and why didn't they come, tell them 
the truth: tell them that the Zapatista women are fighting in their corner of the world 
for their freedom.

That's all, compañeras, sisters, take care of yourselves. Maybe we won't see each other again.

Maybe they'll tell you not to bother thinking about the Zapatistas anymore because they no 
longer exist. Maybe they'll tell you that there aren't any more Zapatistas.

But just when you think that they're right, that we've been defeated, you'll see that we 
still see you and that one of us, without you even realizing it, has come close to you and 
whispered in your ear, only for you to hear: "Where is that little light that we gave you?"

 From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast,

The Zapatista Women

February 2019

http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2019/02/13/letter-from-the-zapatista-women-to-women-in-struggle-around-the-world

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Message: 4





We bring you an overview of the network and contacts contacts you can write to them. ---- 
We have written the Network several times (see overview below). The Russian repressive 
apparatus came up with the idea of paralyzing anarchist and anti-fascist movements in a 
process with a devised terrorist organization called by the Russian security apparatuses 
Network. Similarly, their Czech counterparts in the Fénix case have been tried in recent 
years by police infiltration. In our country, besides the doubtful preparation of the 
attack, the threats and the binding prosecution of the repressive component, they did not 
succeed any more. The Russians still have proven methods, including dust-torture and 
forced confessions. You can learn more about these practices, for example, in the document 
Network, which you can watch here with Czech subtitles .

Below we bring you a list of defendants in the network and contacts you can write to them, 
along with a few Russian sentences that you can write on a postcard or a letter - 
according to Russian law, only the Russian mail is delivered to closed people (!).

Julij Bojaršinov
Born on July 10, 1991 in St. Petersburg. He studied at the St. Petersburg ITMO University, 
at the Faculty of Physics and Engineering, and was involved in high-altitude work.
For five years, he was one of the organizers of the Non-monetary Zone in St. Petersburg, 
ie events where people wear and wherever they take away anything. He is a vegetarian, 
helped in shelters. He likes traveling and hiking, he is interested in popular science 
literature.
He was arrested on January 21, 2018. On April 11, he was accused of involvement in a 
terrorist organization. FSB's staff threatened him to worry him if he did not "speak". 
They eventually transferred him to the cell for 150 people, mostly accused of murder, rape 
and robbery.

https://www.afed.cz/text/6958/podporte-obvinene-v-kauze-sit

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