Today's Topics:
1. International of Anarchist Federations: Anarchist first to
be killed fighting US concentration camps (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. el miliciano cnt-ait chiclana: Minister of Education of
Israel defends absurd conversion therapies against homosexuality
(ca, it) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Poland, WORKERS' INITIATIVE, ozzip.pl: Strike alert! -
Message of solidarity to all striking and protesting Amazon
workers in the world during the Prime Day 2019! (de)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Britain, anarchist communist group ACG: Against Immigration
Detention Camps, July 14, 2019ACG (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. ait-russia: "Hot Weekend" of France: the 35th act of "yellow
vests", "black vests" and the anniversary of the revolution
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
US anarchists paid tribute today to Will Van Spronsen, who was killed while carrying out a
raid against a migrant concentration camp in Tacoma, Washington State. Van Spronsen is
thought to be the first person killed attempting to take direct action against the US
deportation system, which for months has faced heavy criticism over its use of
concentration camps to break up families and detain migrant children.
The 69-year-old, known as an anti-fascist and campaigner against migrant detention, was
shot dead by four police officers as he attempted to set fire to deportation buses
stationed at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC), a few hours after a peaceful protest
against the facility had been held.
The private immigration prison, run by GEO on behalf of US Immigration and Customs Enfor
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Message: 2
Unfathomable mysteries, theologians will shout to us. Unbearable nonsense, we will answer
them. -- Mikhail Bakunin ---- Peretz, former chief rabbi of the Israeli army, is now
Israel's education minister. He did not cut a hair when he told the media that he had done
this "treatment" in the past and said it works. He also states that mixed marriages of
Jews, especially in the United States, are "like a second holocaust" ... He is already
slow to resign and his superiors dismiss him. ---- The Education Minister of Israel, Rafi
Peretz, affirms that the conversion therapy against homosexuality can have effective
results, after confessing that he himself gave in the past this controversial method that
tries to modify the sexual orientation of the people.
"I can tell you that I have a very deep knowledge of education and I did it," Peretz said
when asked in an interview on Channel 12 of Israeli News, the Haaretz newspaper reported.
For the Minister of Education, carrying out this type of therapy is possible, and, as he
specified, he carried it out with students. "First of all, I hugged them and said very
affectionate things to them: think, learn and look," explained the head of Education, when
asked how he advised a student who spoke to him about his sexual inclinations
Peretz, ex-Army chief of the Army Israeli and leader of the Jewish Home party, he has been
recently appointed minister in the acting Government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
and will be presented in the general elections on September 17 with the national-religious
coalition Unión de Partidos de Derechas.
His comments, which have generated great controversy in Israel, occur after affirming a
few days ago that mixed marriages of Jews, especially in the United States, are "like a
second holocaust," statements that received much criticism.
"Peretz does not deserve to be responsible for the future of our children," said the new
leader of the pacifist Meretz training, Nitzan Horowitz, the first openly gay politician
who heads an Israeli political party, and demanded that Netanyahu dismiss the head of
Education for his comments.
"Conversion therapy is a dangerous thing that leads young people to difficult situations,
to the point of (having) suicidal thoughts," said Horowitz. The umbrella organization that
brings together the various streams of the LGBT community (lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender) of Israel, the Aguda, also condemned the statements of Peretz, and said that
"Israeli children should not be exposed to the homophobic poison that emanates someone who
pretends to be dedicated to education and values. "
https://elmilicianocnt-aitchiclana.blogspot.com/2019/07/ministro-de-educacion-de-israel.html
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Message: 3
Amazon MSP warehouse workers together with Workers' Initative memeber from Poland together
in Minneapolis holding the Polish stickers "Stop feedbacks" against high rates ---- July
15 is the Prime Day, a summer sale peak at Amazon. At Amazon warehouses in Poland, this
means a 50-hour working week and possible new records of parcels sent to Germany in 24
hours. On that day, there will be protests, rallies and strikes in various parts of the
world. The first strike in Amazon warehouse in the USA, in Minneapolis, gives us all
courage. As warehouse workers, we feel solidarity hearing that this strike is supported by
workers and technicians from the Amazon headquarters in Seattle! The Amazon workers in
Germany we have learned to be consistent and stay strong. Many of them are unionized or
active in works councils and have been on strike on and off for more than 5 years. The
will go on strike again on July 15 and 16, and this time also Amazon workers in France!
Workers in Poland are part of this global movement fighting for workers' dignity: against
temporary employment, against the digital system of control and against poor wages.
Meanwhile, Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, is sending rockets into
space. Amazon workers in different countries have similar problems and demands. When we
demand "Make everyone blue!" - like in Minneapolis -, that means we want permanent
contracts. In Poland, we demand "Stop the rat race!", which is directed against the work
pressure. We have been supporting each other already for some time: We visit each other to
discuss common problems and actions, and since 2015 we have been organizing every half
year Cross-border Meetings of Amazon Workers. The next meeting will happen in Leipzig from
September 27 to 29, 2019 - and all Amazon workers are invited!
Amazon does not want to listen to the voice of the organized workers. Regardless of the
country, we hear the same slogan: "We prefer direct communication with our associates." We
heard the same banalities in talks with representatives of Amazon Poland. We know that
when we are one-on-one with HR or a manager, Amazon will use all kinds of legal tricks,
rely on our dependence on wage labor and regular income or put pressure on the weakest of
us to make everyone afraid to strive for change. Amazon's business model is based on the
labor of those who have few rights or opportunities around the world: agency workers,
workers from smaller towns and villages, migrants, and people with disabilities. Amazon
squeezes them and permanently hires and fires so that none of us can feel secure.
This has to change! We must show that we are not alone. Around 600,000 people currently
work in Amazon around the world. Some of us are active in trade unions, works councils,
collaborate with solidarity groups, or defend colleagues in court. Others are slowing down
work or going on sick-leave when the pace of work is unbearable. So we are not alone!
Instead of one-on-one with Amazon, we need to organize a critical mass that will stop
exploitation, the crazy speed of work and the insecure job situation, because it is us who
create the wealth that few benefit from!
In Poland, we continue to develop this movement by starting a strike referendum on July
15, 2019, on Prime Day. The decision to do so was made by the unions Inicjatywa
Pracownicza and Solidarnosc together after Amazon did not fulfill our demands during
negotiations and mediation since May 2019. Our demands are:
1. Decent wages for all employees. We demand an increase of the basic hourly rate to at
least PLN 25 after tax for the employees of level 1 (T1), equal wages in all Polish
warehouses; and regular collective negotiations on wages with the trade unions (today
Amazon do not negotiate the level of wages).
2. Fair employee evaluations. We demand a change of the work regulations including a stop
of feedbacks, the indefinite suspension of the procedure of dismissing workers for not
meeting rates, and negotiations on a new procedure with unions.
3. Stable employment. We demand direct employment, and end to employment through temporary
agencies and no more fixed-term contracts.
Amazon unilaterally broke off mediation despite our will to continue the talks as part of
the labor dispute. At the same time, Amazon informed us that they want to continue talks,
but outside the collective dispute. Amazon simply got scared of the formal options offered
by the collective labor dispute and of the fact that workers will want to use them all.
That is why from the very beginning Amazon tried to finish it as soon as possible. We will
not be fooled! We take the next step and, as part of the collective dispute, we are
organizing a strike ballot. Other workers already put up stickers in toilets or circulated
the slogan on the internet "We all go on sick leave!". If we stand in solidarity, use
creative forms of protest and mutual inspiration, we have a chance to make Amazon give in,
not just in one country, but throughout the world!
The strike ballot in Poland will start in the FC POZ1 on July 15 and continue on July 16
at WRO1 and WRO2 near Wroclaw, and on July 17 at SZZ1 near Szczecin and KTW1 in Sosnowiec
(Katowice). Workers will also be able to vote online. Due to the fact that 14.000
employees currently work for Amazon Poland, at the moment the ballot is planned to last
until September this year with the possibility of extending it. This gives us the
opportunity to be present in front of warehouses all over Poland in the coming months,
reach out to people and develop our struggle.
We wish all those who are planning protest actions on July 15 and in the upcoming days a
lot of courage and strength! It is us who, through our joint actions, are paving the way
for a new world, which is not governed by the cruel logic of profit but by the principle
of justice and solidarity beyond the separation into warehouses, professions and borders!
Inicjatywa Pracownicza/Worker's Initiative - union at Amazon Poland (14/07/2019)
http://ozzip.pl/english-news/item/2502-strike-alert-message-of-solidarity-to-all-striking-and-protesting-amazon-workers-in-the-world-during-the-prime-day-2019
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Message: 4
The fundamental idea of immigration is to leave one country and settle in another.
Something which does not sound in the least bit harmful. And yet, all over the west camps
are popping up - within which those people who wish to immigrate are being held. Countries
such as the US and the UK are imprisoning these people. ---- How is this allowed to
happen? ---- How can people sit around knowing that, people just like them are being held
in prisons and what amount in some cases to little more than concentration camps, for the
crime of stepping over an imaginary line (or as the nationalists like to call it, a
border)? Well unfortunately there are several reasons for this: racism, lack of solidarity
and fascism, to name but a few. It has become so bad that even when the horrific
conditions placed on refugees are revealed to the public, they are still deemed by some to
be undeserving of safety in this country. But perhaps we are being too kind - for to call
this country safe for immigrants and refugees is by the day becoming more false. With hate
crimes soaring, the way this country's state and elite has acted to those that want to
live here has been despicable, but predictable.
Racism
Britain (and England particularly) has a long and horrific history of racism, from its
participation in the slave trade, to the atrocities committed in the name of its empire.
Racial minorities have long been scapegoated as the source of all of society's problems.
But why is this? Well as you may have noticed from the constant attacks from The Daily
Mail or The Sun about the "swarms" coming to the UK, these resentments do not come from
everyday people - but from the rich and powerful. After all unless they have a vulnerable
minority to try and shift the blame onto for all the hardships in life, people might start
realising that it is indeed the rich and powerful who are to blame!
Solidarity
Unfortunately, although there are still marches against racism and effective callouts
against fascism, there is considerably less in the way of activity against the
incarceration of migrants. This needs to change. Now that the camps are already here, the
vast majority of the population remain silent. This state led breakdown has been in the
making over the last 50 years, but perhaps became most obviously disrupted in the 1980s
with the Thatcher government. Having brought off the south with excruciatingly short-term
economic boosts, Thatcherite policies were able to devastate the north and marginalise the
unions by restricting their power and dismantling British manufacturing and the mining
industry. From this free market approach, emerged gentrification and "yuppies" - someone
who has no issue treading on those around them to further themselves and soon to become
increasingly common around the UK . This self-serving mindset was fostered by Thatcherite
ideology with its constant spewing of propaganda along the lines "the poor are poor
because they don't work hard enough".
Fascism
Unfortunately variants of fascism are once again rearing their ugly head all across the
world, not least in the Americas with Trump and Brazil's Bolsonaro. Fascism means many
things, not least a state which builds camps and imprisons innocent people. But in the
context of why nothing is being done, fascism brings with it an obsession with authority -
a fascist mindset being one where there is a policeman in your head, meaning you have a
complete inability to disobey authority. This leads to the truly disturbing situation
whereas normal people will say immigrants deserve to be placed in horrific conditions on
the basis they broke the law (with them sometimes even agreeing the law is unjust!)
The situation is not a good one. But that does not mean we shouldn't fight against the
injustice that these camps represent. As anarchists we believe in a world without borders
and without prisons. Therefore, what these camps represent to us is abhorrent. We want a
world in which there is no racism, in which solidarity is everywhere and fascism nowhere.
How can we do this?
We must confront racist attitudes wherever we can find them. We must try and give as much
support to refugees and immigrants as we can and we must try and build a revolutionary
movement that will wipe borders and racism off the map of the world.
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2019/07/14/against-immigration-detention-camps/
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Message: 5
Last week's hot in France For three days, the 230th anniversary of the French Revolution
was greeted with a series of protests, including the seizure of the Pantheon in Paris, the
35th act of protest of the yellow vests and the barricade battles on the Champs-Elysées in
Paris, who seriously damaged the bravura officiousness of neoliberal President Macron.
---- Capture the Pantheon ---- About 700 protestors of migrants without French documents
and their supporters on July 12 briefly captured the historic Pantheon in the center of
Paris. They demanded talks with the prime minister to regulate their status. They chanted
"Black vests, black vests!" and "What do we want? Docs!". ---- The Parisian Black Vests
Migrant Association borrowed a name from the Yellow Vests movement. In a statement, the
organization stresses that its members want "documents and housing for everyone." They
describe themselves as "documentless, runaway and faceless of the French Republic." "We
don't want to negotiate any more with the Minister of the Interior and his officials; we
now want to talk with Prime Minister Edward Philip!" - they write.
The protesters were in the building for several hours, and then were evacuated without
resistance through the reverse. The police announced the arrest of 37 people.
Some left-minded lawyers and human rights activists came to the building to provide moral
support to the protesters. Black Vests have already organized a protest in support of
undocumented people. In June, they briefly occupied the headquarters of the Parisian Elior
Group, which organizes work on subcontracts. A month later, activists seized the terminal
2F of Charles de Gaulle Airport, protesting against the participation of Air France in the
deportation of undocumented migrants
(https://www.thelocal.fr/20190712/hundreds-of-migrants-occupy-pantheon-in-paris)
The 35th Protest Act of Yellow Vests
On July 13 and 14, the "yellow vests" for the 35th time took to the streets, crossroads,
roads and checkpoints of France. The actions of the movement took place in Amiens,
Besançon, Biarritz, Bordeaux, Givore, Carcassonne, Le Cannet-de-Mors, Lille, Lyon, Marsho,
Montpellier, Montasson, Morlais, Paris, Pussans, Remoulins, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Shaman,
Etampes. ..
In Paris, new slogans were added to the common slogans against Macron: "Lobsters are
everywhere, justice is nowhere" and "De Ruge is behind the bars". They were a reaction to
media accusations against the Minister of the Environment and the former chairman of the
National Assembly, François de Rouge. "We want to express our indignation at the
president, who has appropriated all the power for himself, to the ministers who lacquered
wine at 500 euros ... Everything has to be reconsidered: work, pensions, school,
hospitals," explains Parisian pensioner, a former railway worker. He explains what comes
out on the demonstration from the very beginning.
Another retiree, Alain, says he came to "support people in difficult situations." He
assured that the movement will continue, despite the summer and a decrease in the number
of participants. There is not and cannot be a retreat, he stressed.
The demonstration took place on the route from the square of Salingrad to the square of
Mazas. During the march several minor clashes with the police took place. She let out tear
gas, in response to the police and gendarmes flew various items. For example, the guards
of the capitalist order reacted to the shouts of the protesters addressed to them: "Where
is Steve?". This is a man who disappeared after a police attack on a techno music festival
on the banks of the Loire. Later, the gas was again used on Menilmontan Boulevard and others.
The demonstrators attempted to storm Snverny (Lyon Station), where at that time there were
many passengers who were leaving the city. The protesters staged a stir at the station,
but the riot police came to the rescue quickly pushed the protesters out of the building,
using tear gas. After that, the "yellow vests" continued the march through the streets of
the French capital. Unrest, as usual, made anarchists, the TV channel "Russia 24". The
final destination of the route was Austerlitz Station, but the demonstration was scattered
earlier. Several people were detained for interrogation.
The usual scene of police brutality. Paris, July 13
Demonstrations were held in other cities. In Bordeaux, the protesters chanted "We also
want lobsters!", "De Ryuzhi, housing here is not free!". The same thing happened in
Toulouse, where on one of the banners one could read: "You eat lobsters, and poison us
with gas!"
(https://www.ouest-france.fr/societe/gilets-jaunes/gilets-jaunes-plusieurs-centaines-de-manifestants-paris-pour-le-35e-samedi-de-mobilisation-6443902;
https://www.jeanmarcmorandini.com/article-396626-gilets-jaunes-un-peu-plus-de-monde-que-les-semaines-precedentes-pour-la-manifestation-parisienne-avec-quelques-incidents.html;
https://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=3167893 )
the 14 th of July
In connection with the celebrations on the occasion of the Day of Bastille, the national
holiday of France, the authorities were forced to open the Champs Elysées to the public,
which were closed to mass meetings after violent protests of the "yellow vests" in March.
Although protest demonstrations are still banned, protesters also came on the day of the
230th anniversary of the French Revolution to "greet" those in power who rob the working
people, mock them, and meet indignation with gas, batons and gunshots from flashballs.
President Macron was booed by the crowd. The same thing happened to the prefect, who set
out to demonstrate that "everything is under control" by walking along the main road. Just
in case, he was tightly surrounded by a group of mobile police officers who did not allow
him to approach him ...
Behind the rows of onlookers, groups of protesters gradually began to fade, who just in
case did not wear vests. After the military parade, the protesters marched down the Champs
Elysées, chanting "Macron's resignation" and "Yellow vests!". They began to bring down to
the ground metal barriers installed to regulate movement on the Champs Elysees. The
activists of the "yellow vests" and "black block" felled the booths and a container with
garbage and set fire to them, erecting barricades near the Triumphal Arch. Again, as in
March, the Champs Elysees flamed. The police used gas to disperse the crowd, many of whom
were wearing masks and hoods. I also got to tourists and passersby ... During the
dispersal, there are seriously wounded.
But the protesters also suffered. In the video, distributed on the network, you can see
how riot policemen in heavy equipment kick, knock down and beat in retaliation for their
bullying.
Police announced the arrest of 175 people in Paris. They were placed in a place that the
network immediately dubbed "concentration camp"
(https://www.ladepeche.fr/2019/07/15/gilets-jaunes-incidents-apres-le-defile-sur-les-champs-elysees,8313393.php;
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/economie/transports/gilets-jaunes/paris-les-gilets-jaunes-ont-reussi-a-perturber-le-14-juillet_3536869.html)
https://aitrus.info/node/5297
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