Anarchic update news all over the world - 25.02.2019

Today's Topics:

   
1.  apoyo mutuo: SOLIDARITY WITH THE 6 OF ARGUMOSA (ca, it)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #291 - Cinema: Carracedo &
      Bahar, " The silence of others " (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  ag amsterdam: Book presentation: Wenüy, memory of Santiago
      Maldonado (nl) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  US, black rose fed: "IF YOU WANT A GENERAL STRIKE, ORGANIZE
      YOUR CO-WORKERS" Interview with Joe Burns 
     (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  anarchist communismt group ACG: Bin and care workers on
      strike in Birmingham (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Belarus, pramen: What does the anarchists of Belarus stand
      for? (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Greece, dirty horse [APO]:[Athens] Protest against mining,
      plundering and destruction of nature and society [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  yeryuzu postasi: Anarchists occupy the Court of Appeal in
      Greece [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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If fighting is a crime We are guilty! ---- Once again the criminal alliance between 
government, owners, police, lawyers and judges has been conspired to attack the resistance 
and life in the city of Madrid. While for months hundreds of neighbors and supporters have 
come together to fight the outrage that involves the colonization of our neighborhoods by 
vulture funds, the police, in an unprecedented device, has evicted through violence to 4 
families. Along the path of batons and blows have taken 6 colleagues detained. ---- The 
Blocks in Struggle declared by the Madrid Housing Movement are a focus of resistance 
against the commercialization and speculation in the popular neighborhoods. The block of 
Argumosa Street has become a symbol of this struggle. A symbol that repression tries to 
knock down to also knock down our spirits and hopes. It is thanks to the daily work of 
social movements that we can resist and not come down to these blows.

Those who today have evicted have preferred the repression of dialogue, the protection of 
the one who has who needs it and some tourist and rich neighborhoods in front of a 
community of affection and care that defends those who need it.

We will continue to build in our neighborhoods, challenging those who want to expel us and 
supporting all our fellow detainees.

Mutual Support - Libertarian Student Federation - CNT - Solidaridad Obrera

Atheneo Cooperativo Nosaltres - CGT Enseñanza UAM

https://apoyomutuo.net/solidaridad-con-las-6-de-argumosa/

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The documentary film The Silence of Others reveals the struggle of the victims of the 
Franco regime who continue to seek justice and reparation. ---- In 1977, two years after 
the death of Francisco Franco, in the urgency of the democratic transition, the Congress 
adopts in Spain the law of general amnesty which releases the political prisoners but also 
prohibits the judgment of the Francoist crimes. It will be commonly called " the pact of 
oblivion ". ---- The abuses committed under the dictatorship (1939-1975) and until the 
1980s such as disappearances, summary executions, mass graves, theft of babies, torture, 
were then passed over in silence. ---- But in recent years, following the Law of 
Historical Memory put in place in 2007 under the Zapatero government and after the story 
of " stolen babies " came out in 2010 , Spanish citizens (survivors of Francoism, 
relatives or relatives of disappeared, women victims of these thefts of children) seize 
the justice to 10,000 kilometers of the crimes committed, in Argentina, to break this so 
heavy silence and to condemn the guilty ones.

The camera spins six hours of over 450 hours of footage to present a film, intimate and 
direct style through this moving legal battle, which opens a gap and gives hope to the 
many people who suffered violently this dictatorship that reigned almost 40 years.

Pedro Almodovar sponsors this documentary directed by Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar, 
who received the Emmy Award for their first documentary " Made in LA ". This work, which 
has already won the public prize and the peace prize at the Berlinale in 2018, highlights 
the painful past that contemporary Spain still has a hard time coping with decades after 
the death of the dictator Franco and of his entry into a democratic regime.

Some figures: 120,000 missing ; 3,000 mass graves, a world record just behind Cambodia ; 
30,000 babies stolen for ideological and moral reasons (single mothers).

Ana Biose (friend of AL)

Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar, The silence of others , 1:35, release date on 
February 13, 2019

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Cinema-Carracedo-Bahar-Le-silence-des-autres

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Wenüy ---- For the rebellious memory of Santiago Maldonado By comrades from Argentina.
The presentation is in English, the book is in Spanish. ---- Monday 28 January 2019 ---- 
Start 19:30 presentation 20:00 ---- In the Anarchisitische Bilootheek - Bollox ---- 
Address: Eerste Schinkelstraat 14-16 Amsterdam ---- Two ways of struggle that crossed each 
other, the first of Santiago Maldona, kidnapped and murdered by the Argentine state, and 
the second battle, of the Mapuche population. The struggle of the Mapuche against the 
destruction of their habitat and identity. ---- We try to give an overview of the intense 
social struggle taking place in the regions of Argentine and Chilean state. ---- While 
capital and the state are trying to impoverish everyone and make the position of the 
proletariat even worse, where no difference is made between Argentines, Chileans, Mapuche, 
Qum, Wichi or migrants, the resistance is growing against it in various social movements 
that find each other and tires are strongly cited.

Indigenous movements, fighting against mining, deforestation, fracking and agribusiness, 
prisoners-strikes, the women's movement, giant urban manifestations against pension reform 
and breakdown of workers' rights, and the list goes on and on.
Echoes from 2001 vibrate to now.

This evening is organized by the:
Anarchist Group Amsterdam - Free Bond
http://agamsterdam.org

https://www.agamsterdam.org/boek-pesentatie-wenuy-herinnering-aan-santiago-maldonado/

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The following interview with Joe Burns, author of the important labor text Reviving The 
Strike, takes up the evergreen questions of the role of strikes and building a base within 
our workplaces. With the recent wave of teacher strikes these questions are back on the 
radar of the U.S. left but this interview from 2012 spoke to then-current discussions of 
how to move the left from fleeting activist mobilizations to building long term roots 
within the working class. ---- The "Build Power, Show Power" campaign, also referred to as 
"Occupy May 1st," was an effort initiated by groups within the anarchist milieu, some 
later coalescing into what became Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation, which sought 
to channel the numbers and energy of those radicalized by the Occupy movement towards a 
May 1st, 2012, General Strike. Ultimately the political temperature and activity in the 
wake of the Occupy movement cooled and contracted into a "post-Occupy lull" rather than 
heating and the campaign culminated in anti-capitalist themed rallies in a number of 
cities instead of hoped for strikes. But the effort wasn't without basis in 2012 given the 
widespread popularity of the general strike in the prior year - calls for a general strike 
electrified the wider left during the April 2011 Wisconsin uprising called for by members 
of the IWW and endorsed by local labor unions and the one-day general strike carried out 
in November 2011 by Occupy Oakland which resulted in shutting down the Port of Oakland and 
activists taking over the downtown core of the city.

With renewed discussions around the use of general strikes during the January 2019 federal 
government shutdown by the leader of the flight attendants union, Joe Burn's advice that 
we need to be organizing at our workplaces and building rank-and-file organizations are 
just as relevant then as they are now.

-Adam Weaver

Many in the Occupy movement have called for a general strike on May 1st but most Occupy 
activists aren't involved in labor organizations or organized in their workplaces. While 
General Assemblies may be somewhat effective institutions at reaching the agreement of 
assorted activists around future direct actions, workplace stoppages require the large 
scale participation of workers in decision-making structures. The interview below gives 
some organizing advice for those who have called the general strike. I hope that this 
interview will inspire Occupy activists to consider the difficult work ahead that is 
needed to build democracy in the workplace. We are the 99%!

-Camilo Viveiros, 2012

Camilo (CV): You've written this very important book Reviving the Strike that gives us a 
lot of insight about some of the challenges, but also the importance of strikes as a 
tactic. Thank you for your work promoting the increased use of the strike as a tool to use 
building working class power. In "Reviving the Strike" you argue that the labor movement 
must revive effective strikes based on the traditional tactics of labor- stopping 
production and workplace-based solidarity. As someone who sees the strike as a vital 
tactic to achieve economic justice I want to ask you a few questions.

Right now Occupy and other activists across the country have been agitating for a general 
strike on May 1st. Resolutions have been passed at General Assemblies around the country.

There are a lot of new activists that have joined the Occupy Movement, some never having 
had any organizing experience or labor organizing experience. Could you share some of the 
examples of creative ways that newer activists and established labor activists can think 
about this coming year, maybe toward next May 1st or toward the remote future of how 
people can embrace new creative strategies to organize toward strikes involving larger 
numbers of folks.

Joe Burns (JB): First of all, I think the fact that people are talking about this strike 
and the general strike is a good thing because it starts raising people's consciousness 
about where our real source of power is in society, which is ultimately working people 
have the power to stop production because working people are the ones who produce things 
of value in society. On the other hand, if you look back through history about how strikes 
happened, how in particular general strikes happened, what you'll find is that they're 
organized in the workplace by organizers organizing their co-workers. And that's really 
the key aspect here. If you look at how most general strikes in the United States have 
come about, it's because there's been strike activity in the local community, people have 
built bonds of solidarity. And then, let's say one Local goes out on strike, they put out 
an appeal for other Locals to help them, and then eventually it breaks out beyond the 
bounds of the dispute between just them and their employer and becomes a generalized 
dispute between all the workers in the city and the employers in the city. So it really 
happens as part of a process of solidarity being built step by step.

It hasn't really happened where people have put out a general call saying let's strike, 
let's do a general strike on this day.

One of the things that I focus on in my book, is the need to refocus on the strike. And to 
do that, that really takes workplace organizing in both union and non-union shops, where 
people go in and do the hard work of talking to their co-workers, forming an organization, 
and ultimately walking out together. I think it's scary to do, to strike, to ask people in 
these isolated workplaces to strike all by themselves makes it very difficult.

CV: What do you think it would take to actually organize, to bring back the capacity to 
have a general strike in the United States?

JB: In order to have a general strike I think we need to have a workers' movement that's 
based in the workplace. If you look at, in the early 1970's there's a good book called 
Rebel Rank and File that a number of folks edited and it's got articles. It's really about 
how the generation of 60's leftists, a lot of them went back into the workplaces and did 
organizing, and that in the early 70's there were tons of Wildcat strikes which aren't 
authorized by the union leadership. Some of them, like the Postal Strike of 1970 involved 
200,000 postal workers striking against the federal government, in an illegal strike. But 
that didn't happen just by itself, it happened because people went in to their workplaces 
and organized it. So, how are we going to get a general strike in this country? I think 
it's going to be because we redevelop a labor movement or a broader workers' movement 
that's based on the strike. I think the efforts of Occupy for the class-based sort of 
thinking will help in that. Ultimately, though, I think we need at some point to devote 
our attention to the workplace, because the workplace is the site of where the strike and 
struggle need to generate from.

CV: During the takeover of the capital building in Wisconsin some folks speculated that 
what should have happened is that public sector workers who were under attack should have 
gone on strike. But in some ways public sector workers are even more restricted around 
strike guidelines than private sector workers and so they have less right to strike. What 
are your thoughts around public sector workers who are really bearing a large brunt of the 
attack on labor over the last year, and what would the challenges be to building the 
solidarity necessary to consider strikes of public sector workers?

JB: I think what you find studying labor history is that even though strikes were illegal 
up until 1970, Hawaii became the first state to authorize a legal strike, regardless of 
that workers struck by the hundreds of thousands, public sector workers in the 1960's. And 
in fact the laws giving them the right to strike were done after the fact, and they were 
only passed because workers were striking anyway and legislatures decided to set up an 
orderly procedure to govern strikes. So what you find is hundreds of thousands of teachers 
striking throughout the 1960's, and that's really how public employees built their unions. 
And they did it in the face of injunctions, so a judge may order them back to work and 
start jailing leaders, but like in Washington state in a rural community all the teachers 
showed up together, everyone who was on strike, and told the judge to arrest them all. And 
the judge backed down because it didn't look good.

So that's really how we won our unions to begin with in the public sector, in the 1960's, 
so when you fast forward to today and look at strikes in the public sector, when you look 
at Wisconsin in particular, clearly the Wisconsin teachers is what really kicked off the 
whole Wisconsin battle. They organized calling in sick, and two-thirds of Madison teachers 
didn't show up to work and that's what really kind of fueled the beginning of the takeover 
of the capitol, along with the grad students and so forth. So it was based on a strike. 
Some people wanted that to expand into a general strike, but that really wasn't going to 
happen unless the people most involved which were the public employees, took the lead on 
that. And they chose, and made a strategic decision after four days to go back to work and 
fight by other means. I think that's the strategy that they wanted to do and that made 
sense for them.

CV: With union density not at its peak what are the some of the opportunities for 
non-union organizations to use striking as a tactic? What are some of the lessons we can 
learn from the Wildcat strikes of the 70's, and how can we have enough flexibility to try 
to go beyond the stranglehold that Labor law has on workers' organizations right now?

JB: I think there's been a lot of good movement in recent years to look at different forms 
of worker organization beyond the traditional unions. So you've had workers' centers, 
you've had various alternative unions, the IWW and so forth, all looking at how do you 
organize particular groups of workers. The question that all of them eventually run into 
is, you can have your alternative form of organization but ultimately it's a question of 
power, and do you have the power to improve workers' lives. And to do that traditionally, 
that's been at the workplace the ability to strike or otherwise financially harm an 
employer. So I think part of what moving forward we'll see with the revival of the 
workers' movement in this country is a lot of coming together of these different forms of 
organizations, embracing tactics such as the strike. And really some of them are the best 
situated to do it, because they don't have the huge treasuries and buildings and 
conservative officials that you find in a lot of unions.

CV: So, what would your advice be to a non-union Occupy activist who maybe voted for a 
general strike during a general assembly, or who wants to see a general strike come to 
fruition at some point, what would your suggestions be for those activists that are out 
there who are seeing the need for this tactic to be embraced.

JB: I think go into your workplace. The strike and strike activity needs to be rooted in 
the workplaces, and if it's based on people outside of the workplace calling on people to 
engage in strike activity, that's not going to work. Not saying you need to just bury your 
head in some local place, you need to have a broader perspective and broader activism, but 
if you really want to see a general strike, go out and organize workers, your co-workers 
or however you want to do it to build forms of organization in the workplace.

This article was originally published at From Activism 2 Organizing.

Joe Burns is staff attorney and negotiator, with the Association of Flight Attendants/ 
Communications Workers of America and author of Reviving the Strike. 
http://www.revivingthestrike.org/

Camilo Viveiros has been an organizer for over 20 years with a focus on training, 
education, and strategy.

http://blackrosefed.org/joe-burns-interview-general-strike/

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Bin workers in Birmingham went out on strike on Tuesday February 19th and are due to 
strike again on Friday 22nd February. Up to now workers have been on a work to rule in 
response to treatment by Birmingham's Labour Council. The strikes will be for two days of 
the week for five weeks and involves 300 workers. ---- In 2017 the bin workers went out on 
strike for three months against the Labour council's plans to sack some workers and force 
them to reapply for lower paid jobs. The council was forced to back down but at the same 
time the trade unions accepted a deal with new conditions and longer hours. ---- Since 
then it has been revealed that the council struck sweetheart deals with members of the GMB 
union who did not join the strike, awarding them as much as £4,000. Those who had taken 
strike action were not offered this paydeal, effectively creating a blacklist.

  This Labour Council attempted to get a court injunction to stop the strike, using 
legislation passed by a Conservative government. At the same time they used an 
"alternative workforce" strike breaking group.

In response equal payments for all workers were demanded. The Labour Council responded by 
refusing holiday leave. At the same time they ran a hate campaign in the media against the 
bin workers.

Meanwhile care workers employed by the Council were due to strike on the weekend of 
February 23rd-24th. This is in response to the Council's plans to cut jobs and working 
hours. This would mean cuts of up to £4,100 a year for jobs that are already badly paid.

In addition to taking strike action, workers are leafletting in wards of councillors who 
backed the move, targeting the ward of the deputy council leader Brigid Jones this 
Saturday. The leafletting has met with much support from local residents.

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2019/02/21/bin-and-care-workers-on-strike-in-birmingham/

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What are the goals of the anarchists? ---- Some anarchists are focusing on social 
transformations, saying that the purpose of the movement is the abolition of the 
institutions of power and the replacement of their self-government structures. Others 
complement this idea, stressing the need to spread a new lifestyle and new values, 
corresponding to the anarchist ideal of a free and responsible person, actively involved 
in the management of their own life. The ideas of the new society and the "new man" for 
anarchists are closely connected. For their realization, there is a need to create 
horizontal relationships at all levels: from interpersonal interaction to ways of making 
decisions regarding millions of people.
In the economy, the realization of the principle of plane means the creation of networks 
of production and consumer cooperatives. These structures will allow both small and large 
producers to negotiate directly with consumers about the supply of the right species and 
the right amount of products. On the opinion of the anarchists, such an economic model 
will solve the problem of economic inequality and change the attitude to the environment, 
as it will not be aimed at maximization the profits of individual players but on the 
sustainable development. Some anarchists claim that such an economy does not exclude 
competition, but the latter will be shift in the area of quality of products and will not 
affect the economic welfare of the "losers" competition.

In the sphere of decision-making, anarchists advocate the organization of a step-by-step 
system of self-Government, where all basic powers will be in the hands If necessary, local 
assemblies will be able to guide their delegates to coordinate at the level of the area, 
city or whole region. At the same time, some anarchists believe that at the grass-roots 
level, it is possible to create organs with limited power powers, but they will have so 
little opportunities and so much controlled by local assemblies, which will not threaten a 
horizontal public structure.

For such a system to work, celebrate anarchists, it is necessary to spread a new culture 
based on equality, respect and pluralism. All divisions on racial, ethnic, gender and 
other grounds will not create hierarchies.

What methods implies anarchism to achieve its goals?

All anarchists agree that the ways of approaching anarchist ideal can be the most 
different and depend on a specific public-political situation. Anarchism involves a wide 
range of practices: from educational activities, symbolic street shares or publishing 
activities to the armed resistance of power.

Some anarchists believe that an important activity is the organization of alternative 
horizontal institutions meeting the needs of participants: Housing projects, production 
and consumer cooperatives, educational initiatives, etc. It is expected that the numerical 
growth of "Alternative Society" can lead to a conflict with power institutions, which will 
create Revolutionary situation.

Part of the anarchists among the ways of realizing social transformation is called active 
inclusion in existing social movements: Working, women, environmental, anti-racism and others.

All these methods and practices unites the principle of direct action, meaning that the 
oppressed to exercise their rights act on their own without resorting to the help of any 
representatives of the power and without creating a hierarchy in their movement. In other 
words, direct action is the alignment of goals and means.

What are the examples of the incarnation of undisciplined ideas in practice?

There is no example of the realization of the anarchist ideal, which would be absolute, 
and the mass and long-term. This has many reasons.

Some major attempts to create anarchist structures are forcibly are by the state. This was 
the case with agricultural communes and self-control industrial production in catalonia of 
the civil war in 1936-1939 and with the 1918-1921 mahnovskim experiment 
(http://www.makhno.ru/lit/book2.php).

Part of the projects to create an alternative society is born, integrated over time into 
the environment. For example, Israeli kibbutzim, the commune of Aurovilâ in India and the 
mondragon cooperative in Spain.

However, there are a number of examples of the realization of anarchist or close to 
anarchism experiments today. These are whole regions like the Mexican state of chiapas and 
the autonomous cantons of Syrian Kurdistan, many production and consumer cooperatives 
around the world, occupied by workers in 2001 in ARGENTINA FACTORIES (e.g. plant plant).

In the political sphere, the coordination of the world al´terglobalist movement, the 
"Occupy Wall Street" Movement, the "nuit debout" or "Yellow vests".

In the interest of what social groups changes offered by anarchists?

In the first place, in the interest of those social groups that experience at least one of 
the kind of structural oppression or do not have the possibility of equal participation in 
decision-making, which directly relate to the conditions of their And such, by the way, 
the vast majority of the population.

In the interest of employees who will finally be able to dispose of their labor, time and 
skills. Women who will become just people, not "second floor". men of lower and middle 
classes who will not die in wars for the interests of elite. People with special physical 
needs, for which there are resources and opportunities to create an inclusive environment. 
People suffering from pollution of the environment and the destruction of nature.

As a rule, anarchists imply that all these seem to be " narrow " and " individual " 
interests internally interrelated and can be included in the general project of social 
transformation.

The only group, any interests of which are infinitely far away from the anarchists, is a 
small economic and political elite, which has centred on the privileges and levers of the 
management of society

The massive anarchist transformation of society is a long and difficult process. But what 
specific changes of anarchists offer to commit already now?

When it comes to specific and relevant social transformations, many anarchists have 
already been hard to formulate a specific answer.

However, part of the respondents formulated clear and reasoned steps:

* Achieve Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of organizations. Here is the 
abolition of all laws related to "extremist activities". it will help bring back some part 
of society in political life

.* to empower local authorities with great powers. This will make power a more transparent 
and controlled society. In those areas where possible, it is necessary to convert these 
organs to local assemblies.

* At least partly deprive the state of monopoly on violence. That is to legalize at least 
a traumatic weapon, soften or abolish articles on violence against security. This will 
make it possible to approach the problem of police violence, reduce the level of 
repression and, in the long term, bring back the society the opportunity to take care of its

What is the anarhiceskoe movement of Belarus?

Many anarchists say there is no anarchist movement in Belarus if under the movement to 
understand a certain mass force capable of influencing the socio-political situation. 
Instead, there are a number of activist groups, communities and individual people sharing 
anarchist beliefs and leading work to create a full-fledged movement. Among them: free 
food distribution "Food not Bombs" (https://vk.com/fnbminsk), Media Collective "Pramen´", 
"Anarchist Black Cross" Initiative (https://www.facebook.com/pages/ABC-Belarus/), 
Libertarian Library "FREE THOUGHT" (https://dumka.be/) and Really Free market Minsk 
(https://www.facebook.com/reallyfreemarketminsk/).

The main difference of anarchists from other political forces of Belarus is the lack of 
desire to get into power. Some anarchists see dishonesty and opacity that politicians use 
the discontent of some social groups or some social conflicts to " gain political glasses 
", which will eventually help them take a place in " big offices " and enjoy Such a level 
of life that will be unavailable to most of the ones with whom they are today, as it 
seems, together. The Anarchists, on the contrary, directly and openly declare their 
interests not different from the interests of the majority of the population.

How to join the anarchists of Belarus?

In General, it is necessary to meet some of the anarchists and engage in the work of one 
of the initiatives. For example, visiting open events like Food not bombs, or Freemarket. 
many anarchists note that it is difficult enough because the repression has to comply with 
a number of security measures.

In addition, it is possible to create an autonomous initiative or group, and the thinkers 
will be sure to contact.

Finally, the intention to join or help can be written by any of the above initiatives. For 
example, to mail pramen@riseup.net

Petro Fomašov for pramen. IO

https://pramen.io/en/2019/02/what-does-the-anarchists-of-belarus-stand-for/

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SELF-HARMONIZED ANTI-THERMAL DIRECT ACTION AGAINST UNDERWATER IN HYDROCARBONS EXTRACTS 
---- The giant design of the Greek state and large multinational companies for the 
exploration, extraction and transportation of hydrocarbons includes marine and land areas 
throughout the territory of Greece. ---- Specifically in 2014, the Greek Government 
granted the right to explore and exploit hydrocarbons in the Epirus land area by law, and 
in 2017 the Spanish contractor Repsol announced geophysical seismic surveys in the region, 
covering a total area of 4,200 km2. ---- In February 2018, four leases were signed with 
the French company Total, the Italian company Edison and Energean, by the competent 
Parliamentary Committee, concerning the granting of the right to prospect for and exploit 
hydrocarbons in Marine Area 2 in the Ionian Sea and land areas in Arta, in Preveza, in 
Aitoloakarnania and in the Northwest Peloponnese. The contracts for the Patraikos Gulf 
(ELPE, Edison) and "Land 2" west of Corfu (Total, ELPE and Edison) have also been 
ratified. While in September 2018 the contracts with Total, ExxonMobil and ELPE for the 
two marine "plots" south and southwest of Crete, as well as for marine block 10 in 
Kyparissiakos Gulf.

In Ekogean, the delimitation is completed and the start of the exploitation is expected, 
while in the area of Prinos-Kavalas there is the only exploitation for decades (Energean).

It is a giant plan of plundering the natural environment and society to serve the 
interests of local and global political and economic elites and the energy needs of the 
bankrupt state-capitalist way of organizing society with incalculable disastrous 
consequences on natural ecosystems and the possibility decent living of people in their 
places.

It should also be noted that in the world the conditions of wild exploitation of nature 
and society bring about a further deterioration in the life of both the human and the 
natural world as a whole by exhausting natural resources and reaching the limits of 
endangering the survival itself , as indirectly confessed by the government officials 
themselves, now talking about irreversible climate change and environmental crisis.

The energy industry and the transformation of a place into a hydrocarbon production area 
has only promised pollution and pollution of land, water and air, the rise of social and 
class inequalities, and the risk to societies of transnational conflict. The statements of 
RIS Minister Giorgos Stathakis that: "The developments of recent years allow us to be 
optimistic that Greece, besides an energy transport node, will become a producer, taking 
advantage of the comparative advantages of the country: the geographic position and the 
richness of the subsoil" mark the deepest involvement of the country in the military 
condition of the geostrategy of natural resources and their transport. Particularly within 
the global fluid geopolitical environment that is being formed today, in a situation of 
global crisis of the political and economic system of power and especially in the critical 
region of the Eastern Mediterranean.

These plans add to an unprecedented aggression towards society and nature, which has 
evolved in recent years in Greek reality, with the backdrop of the restructuring of the 
political and economic system, in the name of state-capitalist development, which in 
"times of crisis "Appears as a matter of national interest.

A restructuring with features of a generalized operation of the disposal of public natural 
resources and lands in private capital carried out by the Greek state under the EU's 
guardianship. and the IMF. and evolves alongside the modernization of the legal framework. 
Like the law of the Ministry of Economy and Finance "Fast Track" and hundreds of other 
bills and ministerial decisions to remove any institutional commitments to date to exploit 
and commercialize the natural environment, such as forest protection, the public character 
of the seashore, the obligation to submit environmental studies to major construction 
projects, etc. In addition, regarding the exploration and extraction of hydrocarbons, the 
RIS Minister announced that "The revision of the existing legal framework is being 
promoted, in order to improve and complement it, in order to respond to the new data 
dictated by the international interest, drastically reducing bureaucracy and activating 
the Hellenic Hydrocarbon Management Company" .

Thus, in addition to the major criminal projects currently under way, such as the Acheloos 
Dams and the open gold mines in Halkidiki, a series of other disastrous nature and local 
planning societies are already announced and attempted in many places in the country. Such 
as the installation of wind farms in all mountainous complexes, the giant solar 
photovoltaic industrial zone program, the construction of hundreds of Y / D dams in a 
multitude of rivers and torrents, the delivery of innumerable natural habitats in the 
tourism industry, hydrocarbon mining in marine and land on the whole territory of the 
Greek territory, etc. Antisocial and destructive for nature, which will be the pinnacle of 
state and capitalist propaganda and aggression,

For our part, not expecting anything essential from their institutions and mediators, and 
being deeply aware that rational assignment and trust in the left, as in any other 
government, leads to the resignation and defeat of social struggles, we organize down our 
resistances by setting up embankments in the pursuit of state and capital in order to 
consolidate the bonds of solidarity and companionship of the contestants and to synthesize 
their principles and positions in the direction of a more comprehensive choice rupture 
with the power and the requirements of antisocial. We support local resistance initiatives 
that are essential to the dynamics and development of the struggle,

 From Acheloos, Halkidiki, Agrafa, Epirus and elsewhere the state and capitalist aggression

AGAINST NATURE AND SOCIETY THE GAME OF LOVE FOR FREEDOM AND FREEDOM

CONCENTRATION - PATHIA

Thursday 21 February 2019, Propylaea, 6 pm

https://ipposd.wordpress.com/2019/02/22

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In Greece, a group of anarchists occupied the Appeal Court building in central Athens. The 
action was carried out for solidarity with the anarchist prisoner Spiro Hristodoulou, who 
has been on hunger strike for 38 days. ---- According to the Newspaper Newspaper, a group 
of 30 anarchists found the building of the Court of Appeal of Athens. The anarchists who 
exceeded the security measures went up to the seventh floor of the building. In the course 
of their actions, the anarchists shouted slogans containing messages of solidarity with 
their friends who were detained and handed out a leaflet to the residents. ---- 
Non-violent action ended with the anarchists' own initiative. ---- After the action, 14 of 
the anarchists were reportedly detained by the police.

The hunger strike of the anarchist prisoner Spiro Hristodoulou enters 38 days, while his 
health condition deteriorates day by day. Hristodoulou's lawyer, who has been on a hunger 
strike since January 14, has demanded the consolidation of the foreseen penalties and the 
transfer of his client to Athens for health checks. But this response has remained 
unanswered until now.

http://www.yeryuzupostasi.org/2019/02/21/yunanistanda-anarsistler-temyiz-mahkemesi-binasini-isgal-etti-basti/

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