Anarchic update news all over the world - Part 1 - 25.03.2019

Today's Topics:

  
 1.  Britain, brighton solfed: Tenant's deposit of £450 returned
      after lengthy DPS dispute (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 2.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #292 - A hundred and
      twenty years ago - 1899: Hispano-American "splendid little war"
      (fr, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  avtonom Interview: Ringing cedar over the Ugra: how the
      Anastasians live without leaders [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Microphone - concentration against the East Med & mining
      pipeline, the tripartite Greece-Cyprus-Israel & the war
      preparation of the states of the region by Libertarian Initiative
      of Thessaloniki: [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  bangladesh asf: Global Capitalism, Empire, White Supremacy:
      The Mosque Shooting In Perspective (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1





A tenant organising with Brighton Solidarity Federation has had £450 of her deposit 
returned following erroneous deductions by The Property Shop. After a long and arduous 
process, the Deposit Protection Service (MyDeposits) found in favour of the tenant and 
demanded that a portion of her deposit, which had been withheld by the agency, be 
returned. ---- The tenant had moved out of her flat in mid-August 2018, on a date 
previously agreed with the agency, after finding somewhere else to stay. However, on doing 
so, she was told that she would be being charged a full month's rent for August (rather 
than being charged for the period of time she'd been living in the flat), and being 
charged £875 to replace the carpets in the property and for other other administrative 
costs. This came to a total deduction of £1,750. The tenant accepted the rent deduction, 
but wished to dispute £750 of the deductions from the £1,250 deposit.

The Property Shop was unwilling to provide any invoices for the replacement of the 
carpets, which the tenant suggested needed to be replaced because of various old pieces of 
furniture left in the flat by the landlord, which she'd asked to be removed several times 
and then eventually (on the advice of the agency) removed herself.

Because of the tenant's situation with work and family, a direct action campaign did not 
seem feasible here, and was not something they were willing to commit to. Given this and 
given the agency's apparent lack of interest in documenting their actions or in proving 
the tenant's liability for these costs, the tenant and SolFed decided that pursuing the 
claim through the DPS would be an effective means of getting some of the money back.

We collectively undertook to do so, not helped by the unwieldy MyDeposits interface, and 
sent the tenant's extensive evidence of communications with the agency to My Deposits in 
October 2018. In November 2018, MyDeposits responded, telling the tenant that the 
property's landlord had 20 days to make their own response to the process; in December, 
the tenant was told that the landlord had supplied their own proof, which she wasn't 
allowed to see or access, and that resolution of the dispute could take a further three 
months.

Eventually, on the 18th of January 2019, the tenant was told that the resolution had found 
in her favour and that a portion of the deduction made from her deposit would be returned.

This represents a victory for the tenant, and shows that agencies often fail to understand 
the legal environment they're working in and the processes they subject tenants to. From 
our point of view, it shows that it's possible to negotiate these processes for the good 
of tenants when neccesary.

On the other hand, it also shows why agencies are often so eager to resolve disputes via 
the DPS rather than via direct action - in total, it took this tenant almost five months 
to make a successful claim, which is obviously of no use to tenants who need the money as 
quickly as possible. So, when an agency says the DPS procedure only takes one month, it's 
not really the case; they respond to you within one month, but the entire process itself 
takes around four months. Direct action remains a faster way of fighting for better 
conditions.

http://www.brightonsolfed.org.uk/brighton/tenants-ps450-returned-after-lengthy-dps-dispute

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If since birth in the XVIII th century, the United States gradually became a major 
agricultural power, then in the second half of the XIX th century, a major industrial 
power, their international role, however, is still limited. And it will be necessary to 
wait for their intervention in the Spanish-American war of Cuba, in 1898, to see truly and 
on a large scale, their imperialist vocation. ---- Until the end of the XIX th , the 
relationship to the world of US nationals was defined in 1823 by the doctrine of President 
John Monroe. It enunciated the principle of the non-intervention of the United States in 
Europe, and their recognition on the American continent of the European colonies. On the 
other hand, according to this doctrine, the European states pledged not to extend their 
influence beyond their colonies.

 From the middle of the XIX th century, however, the United States gradually revise this 
isolationist doctrine. And it is especially towards the 1880s that they give a new, more 
interventionist definition: the territorial expansion on the American continent, even 
beyond, will be justified from the moment that the security and the interest of the United 
States require. This doctrine remains today the practical pretext for every US intervention.

Divine Mission
The nationalist revival relies largely on the theory of " manifest destiny ", dating back 
to the Puritans of the XVII th century New England, justifying the role of the US in the 
world in terms almost divine. Revived after the annexation of Texas in 1845, for John 
Sullivan, its author, the United States would defeat all those who would try to " oppose 
their policy or to obstruct their power, limit their size and prevent the realization of 
their manifest destiny, which is to spread on the continent to ensure the free development 
of millions of people who, each year, multiply ... " .

Social Darwinism also inspires a number of authors. According to this theory, very popular 
in the late XIX th century, natural selection would concern the people and some of them 
superior to others, would be made to dominate and to educate. Nationalists place Western 
civilization above all others, and the United States is in their eyes the most apt and the 
most logically " destined ", by their dynamic of progress, by their " moral integrity ", 
to spread their model of freedom and culture. The actions undertaken are thus illuminated 
by a " mission ", and are usually accompanied by a moral and idealistic discourse where 
wars are so many " crusades " In the name of a supposed " divine will ".

Relations with the United Kingdom - the former colonizer - remain complex and tense, but 
the two countries come together to defend some common values. The ultra-nationalism that 
is Jingoism in the United Kingdom, influences some American circles that share with 
Rudyard Kipling the idea of the " burden of the white man ". The " race " Anglo-Saxon 
should dominate the world to bring the model of freedom, democracy and progress that 
others do not know or to which they are not able, only, to access.

The irresistible economic boom
The awareness of the " role " of the United States is partly explained by the magnitude 
and speed of its economic development. At the end of the XIX th century, they have become 
a major economic power. Their population reached 75 million in 1900, then 106 in 1920. 
They occupy a huge space, with multiple resources, and their territorial unit is 
symbolically achieved in 1869 with the completion of the transcontinental rail link, 
ensuring the control of the national space.

Agricultural power, they are also, and more, an industrial power. In 1913, industrial 
production accounted for 35.5% of world production, surpassing that of the United Kingdom, 
France and Germany combined. The trade balance, positive since 1894 remains uninterrupted 
until 1971, is significant of evolution. The products of agriculture are increasingly 
dominated by industrial goods: the United States sells kerosene, machine tools, 
agricultural machinery, manufactured cotton ... The big American trusts - Standard Oil, 
the US Steel , International Harvester - begin to enter the global market.

The place of the United States in the world, which is becoming economically prominent, has 
not yet been counterbalanced in international politics. For some of its leaders, a role 
must legitimately come back to him, in the very name of his new economic power. Their 
expansionary prospects are echoed by many businessmen, particularly from the East, as well 
as farmers, anxious to find outlets for ever-increasing surplus production.

During the splendid little war , Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders 
launch the decisive assault on the hills of San Juan Hill.
Another datum justifies the expansionist aims of the apostles of American imperialism; it 
is the stopping of the internal dynamics linked to the notion of " frontier ". In 1890, 
the conquest of the West ends and the " border " is declared closed: being completed, 
there is no more unpopulated land inside the American territory ! However, according to 
the American historian Frederik Jackson Turner, the " frontier ", this front, this 
uncertain space where wild life and civilized life mix, has forged the American character 
and even the " American democracy ". It has also constituted a " safety valve " with 
potential socio-economic turbulence.

The business community is divided. However, the social and economic context pushes them to 
support expansionist ideas. The economic depression of 1893-1897 resonates for many as a 
warning. Revolutionary syndicalism is progressing and alarming the American bourgeoisie. 
For her, democracy and its model are in danger. We must, therefore, find a way to curb the 
secondary effects of industrialization, that is to say the emergence of " dangerous 
classes " born of social misery inevitably linked to economic progress. The " frontier " 
offers no more prospects, it is outside that we must find solutions. Cuban events give him 
the opportunity ...

The spine of a chocolate lightning
The Spanish-American War of 1898 originated in a Cuban revolt against the Spanish 
government. The island of Cuba belongs since 1492 to the Crown of Spain. It is one of the 
last colonies of Madrid. It is the largest island in the Caribbean, with a very favorable 
position on international shipping routes. The United States has always been interested. 
American companies also operate there plantations of sugar, fruits, tobacco and ore. 
Investments exceed $ 50 million and trade with Cuba accounts for 7% of all US foreign trade.

In 1895, a revolt broke out, largely due to a 40% tax on sugar imports from the United 
States. For Cuban peasants misery increases even more, because sugar supplies 80% of the 
island's resources. In the face of the social crisis, Madrid refuses to give in to the 
insurgents. José Marti, already the hero of a first revolt (1868-1879), was killed on May 
19, 1895. The Spanish general Valeriano Weiler exerts a brutal repression: thousands of 
Cubans are imprisoned in concentration camps. 200,000 people die there.

The Americans take up the cause for the Cubans with fundraisers and the sending of arms to 
the rebels. Protestant associations support the intervention, but it is above all to a 
certain press, especially in the agricultural and conservative Midwest, that the essential 
role returns. These sensational yellowpapers (yellow press), call for the support of Cuban 
rebels. The most virulent journals are Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William 
Hearst's New York Journal . General Weyler is nicknamed the " butcher " , " the human 
hyena "... Each of the two dailies pulls 700,000 or 800,000 copies and does not hesitate 
to use " shock " photos , " scoops ", where veracity is often distorted.

Entry into the war is claimed as a " crusade ", under the Monroe doctrine, the principles 
of American democracy and the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race. If the business 
community fear a destabilization monetary and stock market, American annexationists argue 
that it is instead the non-intervention that would threaten their economic interests. The 
supporters of this one are gaining more and more influence.

The US victory and its consequences
President McKinley (1896-1901) finally succumbs to pressure from warmongers. A fortuitous 
event will force him to do it. On February 15, 1898, in the harbor of Havana, a battleship 
of the United States, Maine, is destroyed by a mysterious explosion. American public 
opinion believing in a Spanish attack is scandalized. The president's lack of reaction 
appears as an unbearable weakness. " McKinley has no more spine than a chocolate flash, " 
says Theodore Roosevelt, deputy secretary of the Navy.

The president takes into account the attitude of public opinion, Protestant organizations, 
political circles and even pro-war business circles. On April 29, he declared war on Spain.

The splendid little war , such is the expression used by John Hay, the American secretary 
of state in July 1905, to designate the Spanish-American war. In the United States the 
population ignites. Donations pour in: Helen Gould, one of the wealthiest Americans, 
offers her yacht and $ 100,000. More than 20,000 volunteers enlisted in the army, 
maintained in part by Wall Street bankers. Among these volunteers are the Rough Riders of 
Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, who launches the decisive assault on the hills of 
San Juan Hill.

On February 15, 1898, in the harbor of Havana, a battleship of the United States, Maine, 
is destroyed by a mysterious explosion. This event will push the US president to declare 
war on Spain on April 29.
However, it is at sea that decisive battles take place. In the Pacific, as early as 27 
April, Admiral George Dewey leaves Hong Kong and heads for the Philippines, another 
Spanish possession. The 1 st of May, its ships destroy the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay and 
make the blockade of the city. Previously, on July 3, the Spanish fleet of Cuba had been 
destroyed in the port of Santiago. December 10, 1898 is signed in Paris the peace treaty 
between Spain and the United States. Cuba becomes autonomous. As compensation, Madrid 
cedes to the United States Puerto Rico and the island of Guam, the largest of the Marianne 
Islands in the Pacific. Finally, the United States purchases the Philippines from Spain 
for $ 20 million.

On an isolationist position, the United States spend, from this year 1898, in an 
interventionist and expansionist position, which inaugurates a constant throughout the XX 
th century until today: the same theoretical base " Manifest Destiny " to justify US 
imperialist aims ! From Roosevelt to Truman, from Reagan to Bush, from Obama to Trump, 
semantics uses the same terms: crusade, axis of good, axis of evil, mission. The times are 
changing, but the same certainty remains: God is on our side (God is on our side, Bob 
Dylan has made a song that illustrates this belief and the massacres perpetrated in his 
name). From there, everything is allowed, whatever the price.

Jérémie Berthuin (AL Gard)

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?1899-La-splendid-little-war-hispano-americaine

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Inspired by the ideas of Vladimir Megre about community life on family estates, some 
families began to leave the city and build their eco-settlements - they call themselves 
"Anastasians", named after the heroine of one of the books Megre. Especially for Avtonom, 
Ilyas Falkayev visited one of their settlements and was surprised to find there an 
"implicitly anarchist" community that does not accept leaders and leaders and all 
important issues are resolved by consensus or three fourths of the vote. ---- The flat 
land leaving to the horizon, the endless fields, the high banks of the stormy Ugra. 
Russian expanse. Here in the woodland hammers knock hammers and saws squeal. Anastasians 
are being built, more and more new houses are being built.

I am going to the settlement for the second time. I'm going to just talk. The first time I 
came here last summer with friends for honey. I was driving, thinking that I would see the 
zombie sectarians. But no. Herbalist Masha is a young woman, sane, sober, sensible. Sells 
tea of its own production, soap. For a long conversation - not a word of propaganda of 
their ideas. But he does not hide the secret, he responds readily to any inquiries. I was 
surprised to learn that there is no leader in the settlement, all issues are resolved by 
consensus or by three-fourths of the votes. Work initiative groups. The life style of the 
settlers is quite anarchist, although they are not aware of this. They have never heard of 
anarchist ideology. This is one of those "implicitly anarchist" communities that, in the 
opinion of the philosopher Simon Crichley, are of undoubted interest.

Masha gives me tea with gingerbread. I reach for the recorder and start asking questions.

- What do you have for teas on display on the shelf?

- Various. In addition to Ivan tea, cherry, currant, apple. This one is called "powder 
mix". Gunpowder is a small granulated willow tea. But to him still raspberry, apple, bird 
cherry, cherry, they give this flavor.

- How is all this packed?

- On the knee. Labels are printed on the printer. And packages do in Kondrovo. No need to 
go far.

- Where are you selling?

- In Moscow. In the shops of natural products and fairs.

- Only here you are engaged in tea?

- Basically, yes.

- And who else does what?

- There is a blacksmith. A unique person. With kids involved. The kids have nails forged 
there. Rare man. Handyman. He is invited to Moscow for various specialized holidays, he 
does all sorts of chain mail. So for some feature film ordered a hundred, no, a thousand 
arrows, quivers, lamps, other props. And he even gave the newsletter: "Guys, help, who 
needs work, now I will show-teach".

Soap make as many as three girls. I started, then did not have time, and the girls also 
began to make different soaps. Soap is made from NaOH - it is such a caustic alkali, 
bought in the shops of chemical equipment. And separately bought good oils, vegetable: 
palm, coconut, castor, olive, from wheat germ. From them are selected different recipes. 
Alkali with water is poured into a warm oil, mixed actively with a blender and quickly 
poured, because the jelly solidifies immediately. Month it stands, matures and becomes soap.

There is a gardener. Now, too, began to conduct seminars on every bedding, how to create a 
garden, a good greenhouse. He himself syroed. Honey produce. This year, some honey. Such a 
year, the bees themselves would have survived. One neighbor has twenty beehives, someone 
has fifty.

Clothes do handmade. Man's, female, elegant, front, with a hand-made heel. There are 
products from nettle. We have our own hives. Socks even knits from nettle. There are those 
who can weave. Embroiderer cross. There are different masters. Master Breath. He has his 
own yoga center in Moscow on the Arbat. He conducts his course there, and he shares this 
with us too. There is a master baker. Also conducts seminars.

And there are so many men who can build. Build yourself, build neighbors. There are not 
enough working hands.

- Many rent their former apartments?

- Few have left the apartment, all sold. We have immigrants from Germany, Greece, America, 
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan. Our all compatriots. Muscovites less than a third, I guess.

- It turns out, you can earn your own living here?

- There are those who work remotely. Computer scientists, programmers, IT specialists. 
Cartoons someone draws, gives lessons on Skype. Enough variety. Someone makes bread, 
someone furniture carved. Bear "Greek", he cuts peacocks on the gate. We have it all on 
the site. Olezhka site is responsible, Mishka for accounting, Inca for primary accounting, 
Yurka meets guests, I am in touch with the administration of the district or the public.

- Did they choose the load themselves or did someone decide for them?

- People took it upon themselves. And so our general meeting decides everything. There are 
a few more men who organized themselves in a council to resolve operational issues. Buy a 
lock, do something urgently. They gather once a week. We have a lot of questions. That 
surveying, and then we cadastral tax written out, insane money requested. We sued, we 
managed to reduce. Now, probably, we should get some money back. I have already ceased to 
follow, I do not go to all the meetings, I read the agenda. "Have you built a common 
house?" - "Nooo ..."

- What is a common house?

- This is a house where people gather for all kinds of holidays. We had once. Opposite me 
is just a common territory, a football field, a volleyball court, between them there was a 
large common house. As soon as we finished building it, the platbands were jailed, and now 
it burned at Shrovetide. The roof was insulated with straw, but the pipe was poorly 
insulated. And they somehow flooded something magically, the administration is 
approaching, and we have a nine by twelve fire there!

- The general meeting decides how many votes?

- Seventy-five percent on all issues. On receiving new people - one hundred percent.

- Who do not accept?

- Well, that one girl-hippie was not accepted. It seemed that she wanted to be a leader. 
Such a strong very woman. She had her own vision of what a settlement should be. She, by 
the way, recently called. They from America first came to their home village near 
Smolensk. Then to us. Now your settlement is being organized. To her, someone from ours 
said in plain text: "Guys, you need to organize your own." So she was straight, in the 
forehead. Someone thought that she would somehow be disharmonious. One or two people were 
against it. Her husband is some kind of scientific American, some kind of advanced, 
something he is there in biotechnology, told me how to generate electricity out of 
nothing, such a sensible uncle. Recently, another woman was not accepted - maybe she 
didn't tell enough what she wanted to do, what to do.

- In general, there is an idea that there should be no bosses?

- No one was afraid that she would be the boss. There are no bosses here, everything is 
decided by the general meeting. But her worldview was already in conflict at the stage of 
dating.

- How many people do you have here?

- More than sixty families constantly winter. Not all accepted have moved, there are those 
who are under construction. There are those who have not moved, and I think it will not move.

- Do you have people of different religious views here?

- Yes, there are Muslims, Hare Krishnas.

- That is, your worldview does not concern religion?

- No, it does not.

- What concerns?

- We have a common idea - to live in a family estate. It is necessary to get acquainted 
and understand that the idea presented in the books "Ringing Cedar" is close to you (books 
of the ideologist of Anastasievtsev V.N. Megre - note "Avtonom") . The family estate is a 
plot of land of at least a hectare, which is settled in order for the clan to continue on 
it. Theoretically, it is indivisible, should not be taxed. Implies a healthy lifestyle. 
Ecovillages in other countries had an idea of a common, but there was no idea of a family 
estate, so that besides a common territory, there were also private plots. They entered 
the commune, left the commune. That is, you lived, worked, but you had nothing personal.

- Well, so this girl, probably, was close to the Anastasia idea?

- Of course, close. She's the closest. She wanted to live by the book. That everything was 
perfect. But we have lived here for ten years and we know that what is right is one thing, 
but how it turns out in life is quite another. Maybe there were some reasons. She 
communicated with forty families.

- Do you need to read the books?

- If you want, you just need to decide for yourself, do you go to this company? Because 
here people not only do not smoke, do not drink, they still create space for the race to 
continue, trees are planted, everything to feed you and your relatives.

- What are the rules of conduct for guests?

- If guests come to you who make barbecue or drink wine in your area, then you can. In 
your estate you are responsible for your guests. But in general, on the territory it is 
prohibited by the rules of residence. We ourselves have created the rules and must comply 
with them.

- It happens that someone is excluded?

- There was one little man who was difficult to cope with their old habits. But the 
question was taken to the meeting, and decided positively. He said: "Guys, I'm sorry, I 
will not do it again."

- In general, there were many who wished, who was not accepted?

"We have twenty unaccepted families, maybe even more." Some of our people said: "I spoke 
with him, I asked him, and I realized that he would not live here." Either he does not 
understand where he is going, or he has other goals - to run away from the city in a good 
warm company, so that he can sit here peacefully, but he himself will either not settle 
down, or he will be a summer resident. We have a rule - to live for two years after 
moving. Not everyone fulfilled this rule - there are such a couple of families. But I 
assure you how the free sites will end, the first item will be the exclusion of these people.

- And there are those who are not accepted, but settled next?

- Yes. The whole street is Happy. When you drove, saw the pointer. Half of those who are 
not accepted are there, and half have not even been accepted. Now they are our settlers. 
Participate in everything. The same blacksmith. Someone did not accept by mistake. And 
then they got accustomed, and participate even more actively than those settlers who did 
not accept them.

- What are the common responsibilities?

- Saturday and road Saturday and all sorts of. There are initiative groups. For example, 
for the holidays. Recently there was a big celebration of the Day of the Earth. They 
celebrated the whole day - round dances, dances, songs around the fire. There is a road 
group that monitors the condition of the roads, collects money, forms trips, orders cars, 
this is also a lot of work. Organize, for example, dumping that road last year. Roll out a 
thin layer, and now again in the holes, you always need to add something else. We have an 
electrical group, they want to supply us with transformers, and then we would pull the 
cable to them in an underground way. Previously used only solar panels. The sun is at a 
minimum, but somehow we survived here. They ran to the well ten times a day to supply 
milk, sour cream, and butter. And now he opened the fridge, spank it,

- And what does the refrigerator work from, solar panels?

- No, now we have electricity on the plot. We are close to the last post. Near the post is 
just the last plot in the property. This is five hundred rubles from the state. For five 
hundred rubles, they brought us electricity there. And now the good neighbor, who has 
fifteen kilowatts - he does not need so much - he shared with us five. And we still 
scattered them on ten people. They now have at least enough coverage.

"Legally, how is your design here?"

- We have a non-profit partnership, all in shared ownership. A person can be excluded for 
failure to do something, and then his section returns to the partnership, and is not 
resold to anyone. And he receives compensation according to the entry fee. We have people 
who honestly could not move and said that they would withdraw from the partnership. There 
are a few of them - one, two, three. Those who do not develop the estate, too, while ten 
people. But it is not so much. When we are already sixty, it doesn't matter that some 
Volodya doesn't come. We already have enough company. There would still have time for 
their holidays, creative gatherings. We have here a women's club, men's health club, and 
kindergarten, whatever you want ...

- What do you have with children's education?

- Someone in the village school is studying. We have forty kids there assigned. And there 
is a school too. Twelve kids there. Mainly focus on creative education. You can not be 
assigned anywhere, and then go and immediately pass the ninth grade exam.

- And do adult children, about sixteen or seventeen years old, continue to live here or dump?

- Well, such an adult here we have one, Fedya. He is an earthen man, builds a house, works 
for his car here. He is not interested to go somewhere and learn. The rest is younger. 
Here is my Roly, for example. Ninth grade college. Entered already in Korolev on the 
designer-technique for the production of flying comic devices. Will live in a dorm. There 
is Sasha, Ivan's age, who wants computer technology. By the way, Sashka did not go to any 
school at all. He taught himself that he was interested. He came to the ninth grade, 
passed, and normally, his average mark was 4.2. Roly rested, he has 4.7. Virtually any 
college can enroll. Only four fours, the other fives.

- What holidays do you celebrate?

- Associated with the sun. In the winter - Kolyada, in the summer - Kupala. The 
organizational group writes to us either what needs to be prepared for the holiday, or 
what is already invited to the holiday. One part of the holiday here - round dances, the 
other part - on the river. Vasilisa is waiting for me every year, when will they throw a 
wheel into the water and start rafts. July 23 is the day of the earth, and September 22 is 
the autumnal equinox, a harvest festival. We arrange a large table, we lay, fruits, 
berries, all sorts of yummy. At the same table in the summer we hold master classes on the 
veranda. And in the winter ... just have a family on the street Happy. They built a large 
house six by nine, in the morning there is a kindergarten, and in the evenings we gather, 
hold master classes, experience sharing gatherings, and then we will gather on Women's 
Monday, dance and draw, discuss various topics. All last year, female yoga has been.

- General meeting how often?

- Once a month.

- Do initiative groups work all the time?

- At a time when they need. When a holiday, they, for example, prepare it. Or we have a 
health initiative group that monitors timely vaccination of animals and writes why this is 
necessary or "try not to get together, the rotovirus went through the settlement". The 
school group conducts various classes. Now I am on maternity leave, and when I could, I 
dive into painting. Children drew pictures. One of the daddies recently spent kayaking, 
the other holds a children's football camp. Someone comes up with interesting lessons - 
virtual travels in countries, or mathematics and Russian, but not according to the 
program. The immersion method allows you to complete the initial mathematics in a week.

- If your son, after studying at the Queen, does not want to come back here, is this normal?

- Of course, we came here, having received two educations. America, travel, work. I have 
an inyaz and economy, financial loan. I worked as an assistant to the financial director 
in "Akado". I came to Moscow and came, because I had a plot in the Tula region. We met 
with Vitalik, because he went to the settlement in some areas to watch, and I, too, and we 
accidentally got on one trip. And then he brought me here. We did not think then that we 
would live together. And here it is so magical. Pine trees were so small, with our growth, 
and everything was strewn with carpets, like carpets. Oh, what a blessing! I really liked 
the guys here. Then Acne made me an offer. I say: "We already have a plot there." And he: 
"I do not like it, let's better here." We were the sixth couple who entered the 
settlement. The first was just building the foundation. It was 2006. And now one hundred 
and twenty adults and one hundred and thirty children. When we are going to a holiday, 
there are not enough tables.

But if the son wants to start a family or thinks where he wants his children to start, he 
will probably remember where he grew up and what he loved, what values he had then, and 
maybe he would come. Or maybe he'll settle in another place. In this regard, we have no 
fanatics. We brought older children from the city, and for them it still has 
attractiveness, but for younger ones this way is more delicious. My Vasilisa, when she 
arrives in the city, except that: "Mom, I would have a bath". I: "Vasilisa, now there will 
be summer, a river, bathe there, as much as you like. In general, the bath is better. From 
a snowdrift to a bath, from a bath to a snowdrift. In the bathroom, could you do that? " 
We already have a shower with a water heater, just like a city shower. Water only need to 
bring.

The child has an energetic connection with his estate. We bury the placenta under the 
trees. The younger son Radomir was born here ten years ago. He goes to his tree, 
communicates with him. He has a generic oak tree, he has berries in front of him, he 
comes, he eats berries, plum grows there, smaller bushes. This year, clearing was carried 
out; he overlaid the oak with pebbles. Sand flowers flowed around. He goes to equip him. 
Vital'kina here the placenta is not buried, but it also has its own tree, cedar. Comes to 
him, sits down, communicates. Trees, unlike anything else, accumulate energy. If you 
suddenly get sick, you can go to the cedar. If something bothers you, you can go to your 
tree. I also have my own tree.

- How do you get acquainted?

- At the rally halves. We are not held in the settlement, but in other settlements. They 
have a tradition, an annual gathering of the halves. In the mailings it is given where in 
which settlement there will be such a holiday. Looking for a couple in an environment 
where there are common views and interests is much easier. When I worked in an office, I 
wouldn't even stutter about it. There is a common resource "Kedrovka", where the list 
includes future events - gatherings, festivals. In the near future, Zdravfest will be the 
largest festival, where the Anastasians participate, and Dobrozdravie from Moscow, they 
are in terms of raw food and vegetarianism.

- And how do officials treat the settlers?

- We are friends. The school has different commissions. They came to us. And we 
communicate with the local administration. The land is in our property, everything is 
legally competent. Of course, we are not registered here, there is no registration, but in 
Russia it is not always possible to register. We in Seny have a house for registration. 
Then I somehow registered foreigners. And for foreign citizens began to wool, "rubber" 
addresses and all that. The policeman called me: "Did eight foreigners come to you?" - 
"Yes, of course, these are volunteers" - "I understand, I understand, I just need to 
report. Could you bring them to the administration, we would take pictures of what they 
are here and put a tick. " Gathered, got into the car and arrived. He explained, bowed 
out: "I understand that these are foreigners from Finland, Spain, and not Tajiks."

- Are they also anastasians?

- I do not know about the Anastasian ideas, but Dasha sent them to collect brooms. In the 
framework of the exchange of experience.

- Do you have any restrictions on food here?

- There are no rules about food. But by itself, a healthy lifestyle implies vegetarianism. 
That is, those who still in the city refused meat come here. Eat dried fruits, vegetables, 
fruits. Now in the summer more than the, and in the winter grain. Soups, porridge. Bake 
bake themselves.

- That is, in general, there is no fanaticism?

- There is no. Even about the book there. There are those who have not read everything. 
Or, say, the husband read, the wife said: "The husband read, this and that is there." Just 
reading a book is important for the person to understand whether it is close to him or 
not. Basically, everything is said in the first book. Raising children is key. Everyone 
here wants the next generation to be better than the previous ones.

- Is there a national moment? To not accept Buryat, Kalmyk or Tatar?

- There is no national. But they did not come to us even once. Just Tatars, for example, 
have their ancestral estates. In Bashkiria, a lot of settlements.

- And if any foreigner reads the translated book and turns out to be, for example, black 
or Chinese, can it be taken theoretically?

- Theoretically, they can. Maybe he will find a Russian wife. What are you asking for? Are 
racists there? I'm not racist. And all the rest you need to ask. There are more than a 
hundred people on the list.

- How many settlements in Russia, about three hundred?

- Yes. Already more even. In the south, a lot, some there are growing rapidly. The first 
families were visited there by businessmen, that is, people are enterprising, and here we 
have more and more spiritual people.

- Why is it not just a settlement, but an ecovillage?

- The ecological way of life is a respect for plants, animals, the environment. You go to 
an ordinary village.

- There is a Krishna dairy farm nearby. I understand that these Hare Krishnas also lived 
here initially?

- Max seems to be living here. Son, I often see him, he hangs out with mine. He was first 
a settler, and then became a Krishnaite. What to do with it.

- I stayed here and didn't get kicked out?

- No, not kicked out. And that to expel him, he does not bother us.

- You have said, there is a Muslim, he also became a Muslim here?

- No, he always was.

- Why was he a Muslim?

- Because he is a Tatar.

- You said no Tatars.

- I mean, there is no Kazan, but he came from Moscow. I did not know that he was a Muslim. 
Valerka and Valerka. And then it turned out, he does prayers.

- And how are prayers combined with the Anastasia doctrine?

- The idea of a family estate does not depend on religion, maybe the Chinese themselves 
can create a family estate. Anyone can equip your piece of land.

Interviewed by Ilyas Falkaev

Text prepared for the magazine "Autonom"

https://avtonom.org/pages/zvenyashchiy-kedr-nad-ugroy-kak-anastasievcy-zhivut-bez-liderov

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On March 20, the sixth tripartite summit between Greece, Israel and Cyprus in Jerusalem 
will be held, with the presence of Tsipra, Anastasiades, Netanyahu, and US Secretary of 
State Mike Pombeo, with key the subject of signing the agreement for the construction of 
the East Med gas pipeline, as well as ensuring "stability" in the Eastern Mediterranean. 
---- It is noteworthy that the meeting will eventually take place in Israel, and was 
initially scheduled to take place in Knossos, Crete. This extraordinary transfer is not 
accidental, especially if we take into account the presence of the American agent who 
wants to support the Israeli state and Netanyahu himself at a time when elections are 
being held in Israel (April 9) for scandals and corruption by the Israeli Prime Minister.

The cooperation between Greece and Israel concerns transnational agreements of an economic 
and military nature. A precursor to the agenda of these transnational agreements is the 
promotion of the East Med submarine pipeline, a $ 7 billion, 2,000-kilometer long 
pharaonic project linking the Israel-Cyprus EEZ gas fields and through Crete to the 
Peloponnese and from there to western Greece leading to Italy. The consultations on 
investment in the energy sector also do not miss the Euro-Asia Interconnector 
interconnection between Israel, Cyprus and Greece, which will transport electricity by 
submarine cable linking the isolated energy markets of Cyprus and of Israel with those of 
the EU.

Netanyahu said a few days ago that he would dispose of the Israeli Navy to protect the 
East Med pipeline. In some fields, the American company Noble Energy and the Greek 
Energean are active, so the pipeline agreement is a strategic goal of the utmost 
importance for the precursors of the respective urban classes. USA. they could only 
welcome the construction and operation of this pipeline as it is going to shed the Russian 
monopoly on the sale of natural gas to the EU countries. has, moreover, approved the 
construction of the East Med pipeline, joining it to projects of common interest, and now 
the signatures of the three states are just left. The construction of the pipeline, 
however, is further exacerbating geopolitical instabilities, intra-capitalist and 
transnational competition in the region due to the economic interest it generates and the 
reactions already caused by a number of countries such as Lebanon, France (through the 
multinational oil and gas company Total), Turkey, Russia, but also parts of the bourgeois 
arc of Italy (the 5-star Synod Movement). Euro-Atlantic imperialism is determined to arm 
the completion of this project by all means, defying the war clouds surrounding the wider 
region of the Eastern Mediterranean. The construction of the East Med pipeline will also 
involve the East Mediterranean Gas Forum along with issues of military upgrading of the 
Mediterranean states,

The Greek state - like any other state - does not dare to cooperate with totalitarian 
regimes, since everything is for it to promote the interests of the indigenous bourgeoisie 
and to coincide with the neo-liberal imperatives and alliances dictated by Euro-Atlantic 
imperialism. It is also part of the Greek-Israeli-Cyprus-Egypt axis under the auspices of 
NATO and energy planning. More recently, he had sold 300,000 armored missiles to the 
totalitarian regime of Saudi Arabia, which in co-operation with NATO bled Yemen, while 
feudal and exploitative exploitation relations prevailed within him. At that time, the 
debate in the House did not concern the atrocities that took place in the country, and how 
the reinforcement of the Saudi slaughterers would intensify it, but if ... the missiles 
are sold with or without an intermediary (!). The slogan "They are the Greek murderers of 
the peoples" has never been more relevant, especially if we take into account the 
strategic upgrade of the NATO base in Souda, the transfer of nuclear from Incirlik to 
Araxos and the upgrading of the F-16 aircraft that cost 1, 5 billion euros to add to the 
already huge amounts spent annually from the state budget and end up renewing the 
country's military equipment.

The Greek state and the indigenous bourgeoisie are seeking, through such alliances and 
agreements, to receive as much as possible from the pie they share in their neighborhood. 
They are looking for Greece to become an energy hub for the transportation of natural gas 
in the EU. and to put the Greek bourgeoisie in a somewhat better position after the 
upheavals in the Middle-East inter-capitalist conflicts, but also in the derelict, broader 
region of the eastern Mediterranean. And that is what they seek to achieve through their 
ever-closer attachment to NATO. This is where Israel also has the role of a conservator of 
Euro-Atlantic imperialism in the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean, making it a 
powerful counterweight to its rivals (Russia, Syria, Iran, China and recently Turkey). 
However, relations between Greece and Israel are not limited to economic agreements. The 
Greek army is involved in exercises with Israel, either in bilateral agreements or through 
NATO, and has clearly (directly or indirectly) responsibility for the bloodshed occurring 
in the Middle East, as well as the brutal management of migrants who tend to leave the 
countries which the democratic West either directly flattens with military operations or 
contributes decisively to their political instability indirectly to serve their interests 
in the region (reinforcement of fundamentalism, coup d'état, civil conflict in etc.). The 
Greek army is involved in exercises with Israel, either in bilateral agreements or through 
NATO, and has clearly (directly or indirectly) responsibility for the bloodshed occurring 
in the Middle East, as well as the brutal management of migrants who tend to leave the 
countries which the democratic West either directly flattens with military operations or 
contributes decisively to their political instability indirectly to serve their interests 
in the region (reinforcement of fundamentalism, coup d'état, civil conflict in etc.). The 
Greek army is involved in exercises with Israel, either in bilateral agreements or through 
NATO, and has clearly (directly or indirectly) responsibility for the bloodshed occurring 
in the Middle East, as well as the brutal management of migrants who tend to leave the 
countries which the democratic West either directly flattens with military operations or 
contributes decisively to their political instability indirectly to serve their interests 
in the region (reinforcement of fundamentalism, coup d'état, civil conflict in etc.).

The state of Israel is presenting itself today as a beacon of democracy within the 
darkness of Middle Eastern fundamentalism. As a trusted and keen partner of the EU and 
North American imperialism in the Middle East. Only the civic compliments for the Israeli 
state are distant from the brutal, militarized reality of the Zionist regime. The Zionist 
regime founded the foundations of its territorial establishment after the Second World War 
in 1948, using in the most vulgar and adventurous way the anti-Semitism and barbarity of 
the holocaust experienced by the Jewish populations of Europe, eventually forming a state 
formation that consolidates in practice the three-legged "law-order-security" in the most 
militarized terms. In essence, it is an authoritarian regime of lasting emergency that 
applies apartheid to the detriment of the Palestinians, who, after having been displaced 
in military terms from the places they lived, are now also second-class citizens, since 
even the internationally recognized civil rights are being circumvented daily. On the 
other hand, Israel is attacking openly against its neighbors, conducting military 
operations that often end up in the possession of new territories. The war machine of 
extermination and the militarized "democracy" of Israel constitute, beyond demonstration 
of power and an experimental model for other bourgeois states, a potential, nightmarish 
image of the future. who after having been displaced in military terms from the places 
they lived, are now also second-class citizens with the law, since even internationally 
recognized civil rights are being abused daily. On the other hand, Israel is attacking 
openly against its neighbors, conducting military operations that often end up in the 
possession of new territories. The war machine of extermination and the militarized 
"democracy" of Israel constitute, beyond demonstration of power and an experimental model 
for other bourgeois states, a potential, nightmarish image of the future. who after having 
been displaced in military terms from the places they lived, are now also second-class 
citizens with the law, since even internationally recognized civil rights are being abused 
daily. On the other hand, Israel is attacking openly against its neighbors, conducting 
military operations that often end up in the possession of new territories. The war 
machine of extermination and the militarized "democracy" of Israel constitute, beyond 
demonstration of power and an experimental model for other bourgeois states, a potential, 
nightmarish image of the future. Israel is attacking openly against neighboring states by 
conducting military operations that often end up in the possession of new territories. The 
war machine of extermination and the militarized "democracy" of Israel constitute, beyond 
demonstration of power and an experimental model for other bourgeois states, a potential, 
nightmarish image of the future. Israel is attacking openly against neighboring states by 
conducting military operations that often end up in the possession of new territories. The 
war machine of extermination and the militarized "democracy" of Israel constitute, beyond 
demonstration of power and an experimental model for other bourgeois states, a potential, 
nightmarish image of the future.

As anarchists we support the unpretentious organization and counter-attack of the 
oppressed and the exploited for the destruction of the state and capitalism. We support 
the global social revolution that will rebuild the state to rectify instead a federal 
system of self-governing communities. We propose the removal of capitalist relations of 
production and private ownership and their replacement by self-management, the 
socialization of the means of production and the organization of production and 
distribution under the following conditions: from each according to its capabilities, to 
each according to his needs. This struggle does not know frontiers and national distinctions.

In the wars that are being carried out for the sake of power and capital, the proletarians 
are the ones who become northern in the canons of the sovereigns. War is a way to capital, 
so that it can emerge from the structural crisis of over-accumulation that capitalism 
itself gave birth, destroying stable and variable capital - through production and workers 
- creating new markets and conditions for profitability for capitalists . We have to 
realize that the oppressed and the hard of this world do not have to divide anything 
between us. Our common enemy is state and capital, not people who are in the same social 
and class position as we are. That is why our class and internationalist solidarity 
towards the oppressed and exploited of all countries,

AGAINST TRANSNATIONAL COMPETITIONS AND THE WAR PREPARATIONS OF THE AFFILIATES

DEVELOPMENT AND PROFITS OF CAPITALISTS DO NOT ACCOUNT THE LIVING OF EMPLOYEES AND EMPLOYEES

TO BLOCK EXTRACTIVE ACTIVITY AND ENERGY TRANSPORT PASSENGERS

FOREWORD FOR AN ANTI-POLITICAL ANTI-MILITARY MOVEMENT, ORGANIZED ON THE BASIS OF THE 
PROLETARIAN UNIT AND INTERNATIONAL, TAX SOLIDARITY

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY IN THE PALESTINE / IDENTIFIED AND / OR ISRAELIC RESPONSIBLE

MICROPHONE CONCENTRATION:
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Analysis that situates recent white supremacist violence as a product of global capitalism 
and it's mechanisms of oppression. ---- As this is being written last night two New 
Zealand mosques were attacked by a white nationalist wearing army fatigues, carrying four 
fire arms as well as being armed with explosive devices. The attack was brutal, 49 people 
being killed and more injured, one man who was interviewed by ABC News had blood spatter 
on him while hiding. The gunmen live streamed his attack on the internet. Even the 
mainstream media is connecting this attack with wider trends of white supremacy, ABC 
reporting that the FBI (the same agency which was part of campaigns in the United States 
to repress liberation movements of people of color) shows that hate crimes went up in the 
US 17 percent in 2017 alone. They also report that "counterterrorism experts" know that 70 
percent of the terrorist attacks in the country in the last decade were carried out by 
white supremacists, or the far right (Sam Harris' head must be spinning). Unfortunately 
the mainstream media narrative here is not spotless. While ABC clearly shows that 
President Trump's assertion that white supremacy is only a problem with a few cooks to be 
demonstrably false, it fails to appreciate the bigger picture. On ABC's narrative white 
supremacy is simply a growing trend of hatred, rather than an overt tool used by the 
global political-economic system.

Racism is not simply an attitude, or a bigotry. It was born as and remains a system of 
social control. It is a societal hierarchy which gives social, political, and economic 
power to those who meet a socially constructed standard of "whiteness" and allocates this 
power away from people of color based on socially constructed criteria that portray said 
people as the "other". Racism has it's genesis in the historical moment when the 
capitalist economy, expanding out of Europe, had those who are today considered "white" 
conquer the lands of people of color, reducing these societies to colonies for naked 
economic exploitation and complete cultural and political control. This process always 
involved killing off huge swaths of indigenous populations and enslaving people of color 
as a source of free labor. To justify this domination the colonizers came up with a 
pseudo-identity, whiteness, in which they were ranked above people of color in terms of 
basic human value. The white was fully human, but those of color were not, they were 
something else, something different, which meant treating them differently was justified. 
Although formal colonialism was abolished after the second world war, colonialism as a 
system of power remains. The old colonial states are now the economically and 
geopoliticaly powerful countries, while the former colonies, even though they now have 
status as independent nations, are fully subordinate to the former geopolitically and 
economically. Formal colonialism set up a situation where the "core" countries could 
become so economically and geopolitically powerful that global politics and the global 
economy would always sideline the "peripheral", or semi-peripheral former colonies.

Since colonialism remains so does racism, this time, in modern western societies, under 
the veil of post-racial harmony. Sure white people control the vast amount of wealth and 
power, sure the state criminalizes people of color, sure people of color are still viewed 
as essentially different from white people, but it's impolite to express open racist views 
in public. So the ideological veil of progress (rather than it's actual existence in many 
instances) hangs over the reality of white supremacy in the 21st century. One of the most 
acute forms of racism today is Islamophobia. When this phrase is uttered many respond that 
"Islam is a religion, not a race, non-Arabs can be Muslims too!". All that this does is 
ignore the racialization of Islam in the west. Since 911 a clear picture of the Muslim as 
the Arab terrorist has been constructed by the United States and many other western 
societies. We have even been portraying Arabs as shady, unscrupulous, and even stupid 
characters in our films long before the events of 2001.

The reason white nationalism is on the rise and the reason they direct their hate toward 
Muslims is because the system they live in is a racist one. Without taking the blame off 
of individuals who make the choice to harm others, it is impossible for a racist system 
not to produce violent racists. The US and general western empire have been using 
Islamophobia to demolish middle-eastern countries, accrue resources, and thus maintain 
global power and economic superiority for over 20 years. Hate crimes against Muslims have 
spiked in the US since 911, and the government has even arrested, detained, and deported 
Muslims on an Islamophobic basis. While white nationalists are indeed our enemy, they are 
simply foot soldiers of the "final boss". We should remember that the gunmen of the recent 
shooting named President Trump as a force for "white identity", the president of the 
United States, capitalism's most powerful political agency. Colonialism, and it's modern 
incarnation, neocolonialism, and thus racism itself, are mechanisms of the capitalist system.

Formal colonialism spread capitalism throughout the world, using racism as the ideological 
justification, and neocolonialism holds the modern capitalist world order together, once 
again, using racism to accomplish this. Until we end racism, colonialism, and global 
capitalism horrendous violence such as this will continue. Multi-cultural capitalism is 
essentially an oxymoron because capitalism requires that labor is squeezed to produce more 
and more profits, this will always, and has always meant that some groups dominate others. 
The world we need to create is one without racial categorization, without "whiteness", 
without colonialism, and without capitalism. One where people meet each other as equals to 
cooperatively organize production, distribution, and societal affairs. One crucial way of 
working toward such a world is defending the marginalized here and now. Communities must 
come to the defense of people of color, develop a social struggle where people of color 
can exorcise autonomy in addressing their concerns, and a militant rank and file 
infrastructure that can defend communities of color from racist violence. The social 
revolution for a just society and the resistance against white nationalism begins with you.

Bibliography:

[url=ABC Report]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho1VqjRKvso[/url]

Colonization and Decolonization, Zig Zag

Reel Bad Arabs, Sut Jhally, Jeremy Earp, Jack Shaheen, 2006

[url=Episode of Documentary Series "Empire Files" On 
Islamophobia]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A3DQODh-oc[/url]

The Rise of the States-System: Sovereign Nation-States, Colonies, and the Interstate 
System, Immanuel Wallerstein

Lexicon: Colonialism, Institute For Anarchist Studies

http://www.bangladeshasf.org/news/global-capitalism-empire-white-supremacy-the-mosque-shooting-in-perspective/

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