Today's Topics:
1. Britain, north eastanarchist group: Book Review: The Good
Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Russia, avtonom: Interview with anarchist Ekaterina Muranova
accused of "justifying terrorism" [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. anarchist communist group ACG: A Business Not a Party?
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Libertarian Communist Union Rennes: In support of Vincenzo
to demand his release, tomorrow tomorrow 11H in the Parliament of
Brittany! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Turkey, Yeryuzu postasi: Response from the We Want to Live
Together initiative to IMM and Esenyurt Municipality (tr)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Greece, [Thessaloniki] Occupied Liberties and Colleges
Freedom Festival By APO [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Note: This is a review of the first ‘The Good Immigrant' book, not ‘The Good Immigrant
USA'. ---- I stumbled upon this book when looking for more books by people of colour to
read. The book is a collection of 21 short stories by black, Asian and minority ethnic
writers (BAME), mainly first and second-generation immigrants, who have grown up in the UK
and details the difficulties they have experienced, and the racism and prejudice they have
faced here. The stories range from somewhat humorous anecdotes to a more sombre approach
to the subject matter, so there's a pretty broad mix of styles included. ---- A lot of the
stories focus on the idea of a ‘good' and ‘bad' immigrant and this idea that immigrants,
or basically, those who are non-white, have certain expectations pushed upon them by
society that white people just don't have to contend with. There is the idea that people
of colour must ‘prove' themselves in order to be accepted into ‘British culture' -
something which is problematic in itself and is steeped in a history of violence,
colonialism and xenophobia; many of the writers focus on the feeling of being unwanted by
the country they were born in, despite the huge contributions migrants have made here.
It also looks at just how ingrained institutional racism is in our everyday society. As a
white person from Sunderland, a rather homogenous city up in the North East of England, I
have to be honest and say it is something that isn't always on my radar and is something I
need to be more mindful of, including in my own interactions. This book was a rather stark
reminder of just how ingrained this is in our society and the horrendous consequences it
has on people's everyday lives.
There isn't a single focus in this book, there are discussions on being mixed race, what
it means to be black, the idea of the Asian ‘model minority', however within the diversity
and breadth of discussion there is a commonality in the way all these authors have been
treated in this country. Stand out essays for me were ‘A Guide To Being Black', ‘Airports
and Auditions', ‘The Ungrateful Country' and ‘Beyond Good Immigrants'.
I think it is important to mention that the writers in this book all know the author (as
she points out in the preface) and that they are all considered to be relatively
successful people within current society, which therefore means the demographic being
represented is somewhat limited. We still don't get to hear the voices of those who are
facing poverty, unemployment and unable to access the basic services they need. There are
some working-class voices in the book, although these seem to be fewer in number.
Considering the UK's horrific past of colonialism, our continuing onslaught of imperialism
around the globe and our ongoing battle against racism, this book is a great starting
point to try to understand and empathise what those around us routinely suffer through and
how we attempt to overcome these issues. It's 2019, and we've got a long way to go yet. I
recommend this book to everyone really, but especially white people, it's extremely
relevant and will probably leave you feeling a mixture of despair, shame and rage.
https://northeastanarchistgroup.org/2019/08/13/book-review-the-good-immigrant/
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Journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva, accused of "justifying terrorism" for the author's column
about Mikhail Zhlobitsky, met with anarchist Ekaterina Muranova, who is charged with the
same article for commenting on a contact. ---- Most of the criminal cases brought under
the article "Justification of Terrorism" after the explosion in the Arkhangelsk building
of the FSB on October 31, 2018, have still not reached the court. The state punishes
suspects in a different way - by adding their names to the list of existing terrorists and
extremists of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service. Among such "terrorists" is a young
mother, Ekaterina Muranova, from the city of Medvezhyegorsk in Karelia. Without money and
without work, she is locked in her town and is waiting for trial for a short comment on
VKontakte.
Medvezhyegorsk, where Ekaterina Muranova lives, is a small regional center in Karelia,
with only 14 thousand inhabitants. When on March 20, "masked guys" came to the house of
Katya's parents, where she lived with her young son, at six in the morning, no journalists
gathered at the entrance. All that terrible day Katya was alone.
"They came, brazenly broke into the house, began to search everything," she recalls. -
They say: "Do you have banned literature? Do you have explosive devices?" I say: "No.
Guys, look what you want, but I have nothing illegal." Everything is only in my head, my
thoughts were with me.
"Radical man. Little boy"
Katya is an anarchist. "I'm interested in this topic from school," she says. Katya is 27
years old, with the exception of Romanian grandmother, all her ancestors are indigenous
Karelians. She was born in Medvezhyegorsk and lives here almost all her life, with a break
to study in St. Petersburg. Then Muranova was seriously interested in anarchism - together
with her friends they handed out leaflets and painted graffiti on the walls. After
returning to the city (locals call it Medgora - short for the Bear Mountain located there)
with her young son, she continued to read books and chat with like-minded people in chat
rooms, but nothing more.
On the morning of November 1, someone told her: "Misha blew himself up." Mikhail
Zhlobitsky, a 17-year-old anarchist , on October 31 at the entrance to the FSB
administration building in the Arkhangelsk Region, activated an improvised explosive
device and died. He explained his act in an anarchist chat: "The FSB fabricates cases and
tortures people ..." This suicide crime caused a wave of responses and comments , and
later a number of criminal cases were filtered out from it under Article 205.2 of the
Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - the justification of terrorism. Most of them are
for comments on social networks, mine is for the author's column . (A criminal case has
been opened against the author of this material, Svetlana Prokopieva, under the same
article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. - RS ).
"I was in complete shock from the suicide of Misha," recalls Muranova. - I went to
Telegram, our chat is common - and I see a message from him that an explosion will occur
in Arkhangelsk. He seemed to have left a suicide note. He didn't even say anything to parents.
They met Misha in one of the anarchist chats, began to communicate on Telegram - "a nice
young man." Katya says that she always scolded him for radical views: "I told him:" Misha,
it's so bad - you are too radical a person. "It was a typical teenage emotion, she said:
- He had such thoughts: "Guys, we must go, we must do something. We cannot just sit there
and look at all this." That is a radical person. Little boy.
Shortly after the explosion in one of the anarchist communities, VKontakte opened the wall
of memory of Zhlobitsky. One of the messages there was left by Ekaterina Muranova.
"I wrote that this man is a hero to me." Not in the sense that well done, he's all
perfect, no, but he gave his life for his ideas, "Katya explains. - In general, there are
few such people in the world now. And I wrote it all. And then, four months later, masked
guys came to me. They showed me a piece of paper, screenshots. And they said: "You are
accused of justifying terrorism."
"Something is written about you on the Internet"
Those who came to the search showed certificates of the Center "E" and brought witnesses.
They turned the whole house upside down, frightening Katya's parents and six-year-old
Vanya. They took away all electronic devices - tablets, phones - and for some reason,
another Internet connection agreement. Three hours later, Catherine was taken with them to
the local FSB for interrogation. When she refused to sign a confession, they got angry.
"They kept me for four hours in an enclosed office." That is, no one came to me. I sat
there alone. They didn't let me drink, go out or go in - nothing at all. They say: "If you
want p and sat, p and sai in your pants." Then the operas came up to me and said: "If you
were a man, you would have talked differently," says Katya. - They pumped the atmosphere
to such an extent that I even burst into tears.
She was released home only late in the evening.
- And my parents are ... old-fashioned people. They told me: "You write ... It's all from
the evil one." They reacted to this as if I were to blame for something, "Catherine sighs.
"And my parents don't understand me now, and my friends have turned their backs on me."
They say: "What the hell is going on there? Why are you doing this?"
Parents did not want to live under the same roof with the "criminal". For a while the
sister sheltered, but then she had to move to a rented apartment from her. Vanin's dad,
who stayed in St. Petersburg, also did not consider it necessary to participate: "Once we
wrote to him on VKontakte, he says like:" Something is being written about you on the
Internet ... "And, as usual, went into the sunset. "
To her surprise, they were supported by unfamiliar or completely alien people - distant
relatives in Finland, the godmother here in Karelia. Public organizations also joined the
Muranova's case - they called from Agora, OVD-Info, Open Editorial Board, and Human
Rights. Human rights activists found a lawyer for her.
- The farthest people who, it seemed to me, will never come to my aid, now contact me,
constantly call me and ask how are you. "I didn't even expect that there are such people,"
says Muranova. - They called me from Paris, from Belarus, from Ukraine, from Poland, from
the Czech Republic. The guys write to me: "Katerina, hold on! Maybe send you money?" It
seems to me that suddenly a man with a bouquet will run out and say that this is the
"Raffle" program. When I start to think about it, I start to drive, I feel unpleasant, I
feel bad. I am starting to think what a filthy government we have - about all this bad.
No, it's better not to think. I do not know what to do.
"Then I was afraid for a week that someone would come"
The criminal case froze after the search and the first interrogations. "Since March, when
it was discovered, it's all worth it. I've only been included in the list of existing
terrorists and extremists of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service, my number is 5716
..." says Katya.
- How do you know that you are in the registry?
- That was two months ago, at the end of May. We sat, ordered some things to the child
from the Internet. The text message came: "Your accounts are blocked. Goodbye." That's
all. I went to Yandex.Wallet - it's even blocked there. PayPal is blocked. Everywhere
where I had money, on all accounts - everything is blocked there. Then they sent me a
letter, by mail, officially: "You have been added to the list of extremists." My
investigator was on vacation. I called him and said: "So and so, they put me on this
list." "Yes, it can be. It's all official, we can't do anything."
- And how are you now?
Katya does not answer immediately.
- I still have a child with asthma, he has constant attacks. That is, I need to constantly
be with him, I can't go to work. I have a shop near the house, I went to them and said: "I
want to work." "Yes, we take you." And then it turned out that the salary has nowhere to
transfer. They say: "We have everything only through the bank, we cannot give you cash."
Here is such a thing.
- What do you live on?
- So far we have the " Anarchist Black Cross " (an autonomous anarchist organization that
supports repressed supporters. - RS ), they transfer 11 thousand rubles a month to us.
With this money we live.
"But we don't need it yet!" - Muranova catches herself. We need modest needs, she says,
she herself is a vegan. Textbooks, clothes for the kindergarten, where Vanya will start
going in the fall, have been stocked up.
"We have Bear Mountain here, here we go to it," says Katya. - We walk through the woods,
collect some mushrooms, berries. That is, I dedicate a small person to the natural world.
He likes it.
- Does Vanya know anything about your criminal case?
- No, now he has such an age that childhood and childhood. May a person live better in
ignorance. Then, after the search, he said that "scary uncles had come", then he was
afraid for another week that someone would come.
"Catherine, we are busy"
A small provincial Medvezhyegorsk is a rather depressing place: "The Soviet Union is so
thriving here that it's generally tin. It's almost a village." The only woman with
dreadlocks does not feel very comfortable here, and you can understand her unwillingness
to talk about her criminal case. She faces up to seven years in prison.
- Every dog here knows each other. Factories closed, absolutely all factories. We have
nothing, only shops, one hospital for the entire area. Live as you like. A forgotten place
by God, "Muranova describes.
Katya can't leave the city with her son; they took a written undertaking not to leave the
city. She has been waiting for a call from the investigator for the fourth month.
- I call the investigators, and they: "We are busy, doing other things. We will call you
back. Where are you in a hurry? Do you want to go to jail faster?"
"Do they treat you like a real criminal?"
- I have an investigator - a very good-natured uncle. I have no idea how he came to work
in the FSB. He is straight all "soul wide open". Such a positive, constantly some kind of
jokes-jokes at him.
- You asked the good uncle, does this business seem to him complete nonsense?
- Of course, I told them right away and said: "You are simply fighting the air." I say:
"Guys, you are not doing what you need at all. You invented enemies for yourself and
yourself are fighting your imaginary enemies." Even my father said that this bullshit is
complete, it should not be so. Dad immediately remembered the 37th year.
- How did you carried away with anarchism?
- It happened thanks to my late grandmother. She said: when she lived in Romania, German
soldiers came to her to take her brother to the front, and she took off her pants and
showed them f ** y. My grandmother had a rebel in life. The only adequate person. And then
I sit in history lessons, and they tell us: salt riots, potato riots. And it all got me so
interested: "Wow! People resisted the system. Something the person doesn't like - he went
and rebelled. Why can't I?" That's all. I was fired up with ideas: if everything in the
world is so imperfect, so unfair, then somehow we need to fight this.
- And what today is anarchism?
- This is freedom, probably moral, personal freedom for every person. As everyone says:
anarchy is chaos. This is not chaos, on the contrary, it is a cohesive system. First of
all, it is solidarity with each other. Everyone has the right to choose what to do, the
right to freedom. If we balance among ourselves, support each other, it will be cool and
cool, it seems to me. We should not have owners. We are not kittens, we are not puppies.
Every person is a person. And each person should have the right to his ideas,
opportunities to realize himself, not to drown his talents. We now have a lot of people in
the city drink too much, they do not find their realization. Unpromising.
- The criminal case did not force you to correct your beliefs?
"It's in my head, and it won't go anywhere, I hope." But today I'm actually a housewife -
I'm sitting at home, not bothering anyone, and then uncles come to me.
- What are you mentally preparing for?
I want it all to stay like this: give a fine - and that's it
- To the fine. I hope that it will be a fine, as with Slavik Lukichev , Slavik and I
corresponded. He has the same trouble: he also reposted, commented on the same record. He
was given a 300 thousand fine, and everything worked out more or less.
- There is no hope for a complete justification, then?
- I really want to complain somewhere higher - to the ECHR, to the European Court. I want
all this not to remain like this: they gave a fine - and that's it. No, this is an
unpleasant situation for me. I want to fight.
https://avtonom.org/news/intervyu-s-anarhistkoy-ekaterinoy-muranovoy-obvinyaemoy-v-opravdanii-terrorizma
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Party leader Nigel Farage says that the Brexit Party is a business not a party... and that
it is a party (often in the same breath). ---- So which is it? Probably both and neither.
It is a business because it exists to make money through exploiting people (the members);
and it is a party because it is using organisation, money and the electoral system to try
to effect political change. ---- It has learnt from the Italian 5 Star party, being
populist and superficially radical ‘anti-establishment'. Organisationally, it is heavily
engaged with its members via the internet, giving them the illusion of control and being
listened to, but the policy is decided entirely by the leader. ---- Uniquely, it's a
political party with only one policy - the U.K leaving the European Union. Farage claims
that he left UKIP because it had been taken over by far right ‘thugs and extremists'
(funny how that always happens to him). He has consistently spouted anti-Muslim and
anti-immigrant rhetoric, saying he would ban migrants with HIV from entering the country,
would feel uncomfortable if ‘a group of Romanian men' moved in next door, and when he
hears people speaking a different language on the train. He has also described parts of
the UK as a ‘foreign land' (strangely that's not the gated communities of the rich he's
talking about). Sounds to us like he's pining for Apartheid South Africa.
Brexit Explained
What is Brexit concretely beyond leaving the EU? The truth is that it's a Trojan Horse for
a raft of unsavoury policies that professional Brexiteers want to bring in by stealth:
demolishing the welfare state, privatising the NHS, greater freedom for bosses and
landlords to exploit and pollute, a worsening of the ‘hostile environment' towards
immigration in the UK that led to the Windrush scandal, minimal rights for workers and
tenants, fewer rights for women and
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2019/08/10/a-business-not-a-party/
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Message: 4
Press release from UCL: ---- An Italian anti-capitalist activist was arrested and jailed
by the French police on Thursday in Brittany. He was sentenced in Italy to 12 years in
prison for taking part in demonstrations against the Genoa G8 in 2001. Demand his
immediate release. ---- A few months ago it was Bolsanero who delivered Cesare Batisti to
Salvini. Today it is the French state that delivers Vincenzo Vecchi. Help is between
repressive powers. ---- Vincenzo is now imprisoned and threatened with extradition for
taking part in protests against the Genoa G8 in 2001 and an anti-fascist demonstration in
Milan in 2006. Sentenced in 2012 by the Italian Court of Cassation, he decided to flee
this sentence totally unfair and revolting.
It should be recalled that in 2001 in Genoa, during the counter-summit of the G8, the
police murdered Carlo Giuliani and that she tortured activists in the Diaz school. These
crimes and violence were recognized in 2017 by the police chief himself and were
considered by Amnesty International as "the most serious violation of democratic rights in
a Western country since the Second World War". still not made and it is an Italian
militant refugee in Britain, who is accused of having broken windows 18 years ago who is
now imprisoned.
Is it a coincidence that this arrest comes just 15 days from the counter-summit that is
preparing for Biarritz against the G7? Is not this a message of intimidation sent to the
social movement at the dawn of a completely bunkerized summit or the repression announces
once again fierce?
The Libertarian Communist Union expresses its full solidarity with Vincenzo and calls to
join the rally that will take place in Rennes on Wednesday 14 August at 11am in front of
the Rennes Court of Appeal, as well as all the support initiatives that will be organized.
Freedom for Vincenzo! Justice for the victims of the Genoa G8!
Libertarian Communist Union, August 12, 2019
A support committee has been set up in the village of Vincenzo, to contact him:
comite.soutien.vincenzo@gmail.com
on the internet http://comite-soutien-vincenzo.org/
on Facebook Support Vincenzo
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In response to the increasing attacks on Syrian refugees, deportation practices and the
return of Syrians who were not registered in the city to Istanbul, Esenyurt Municipality
responded to the announcement of Esenyurt The return of Syrians started with the support
of IMM as. ---- In the announcement of Esenyurt The return of Syrians started with the
support of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Esenyurt of Esenyurt Municipality, Our
guests returning to their country will not return to Turkey for 5 years. "expressions were
used. ---- Tepki We want to live together gösteren, which reacts to the situation.
@EsenyurtBLDYS @istanbulbld should not support unlawful deportation practices and should
not be a partner in this crime.
Recently, Syrian refugees have been massively detained under various pretexts, many of
whom have been deported by forcibly signing the zorla Voluntary Return "document. We want
to live together, the report prepared by the Initiative revealed that the refugees were
voluntarily returned to the areas where jihadist gangs were dominated by voluntary
repatriation and abuse.
http://www.yeryuzupostasi.org/2019/08/12/birlikte-yasamak-istiyoruz-inisiyatifinden-ibb-ve-esenyurt-belediyesine-sinir-disi-tepkisi/
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Liberty Festival of Occupied Areas and Collectibles ---- 4 DAYS FOR ANARCHISM AND
LIBERTARIAN COMMUNISM ---- September 3-6, 2019 ---- The world designed by the rulers has
no vision of a different social institution for a perverse life. They want us to stop
fighting forever, to think about smiling. The world of modern state-capitalist
totalitarianism is a world of increasing exclusion of excluded strata, barbaric
exploitation of workers, and a constant state of emergency to curtail freedom. ---- The
new government that emerged after the July 7th elections is trying to capitalize on the
right-wing agenda everything that the left-wing government has generously delivered over
the past. It is clear that the new management will try to take advantage of whatever
popular consensus it has gained to move even more vigorously on the path it has taken:
from Moria to closed camps, from NGOs to cops, from evacuations to the Orphanage, Niki,
the University reigns in 2015 and the evacuations of refugee squads in the new attacks on
Notary, Dream and the political outposts of the anarchist struggle, from drugmaking to
batsmanship and back again.
All the previous time, and especially in Thessaloniki, the promotion of nationalist,
fascist and interstate reservations on squares and sidewalks was attempted openly. The
anti-fascist movement has fought dozens of battles against them, especially in the period
since the January 21 rally, to bring them back to their holes, but we must not worry.
The state may soon incorporate all repressive tactics in the near future, but fascists can
always be found behind the back of the police. After all, it is this police-paramilitary
combination that has managed to ignite the occupation of Libertatia.
It is up to us to completely reverse the climate that was temporarily created in the city
as a result of the revival of nationalism, racism and darkness on the occasion of the
Macedonian revival, sending their bodies once and for all to the dustbin of History. To
show in practice that ultimately the state and the statesmen did nothing. As long as the
enormous and particularly demanding process of 'Rebuild Libertatia' is pursued, our aim is
to defend the occupation politically, the most important condition for its success, as
well as the financial support of the project.
The Liberty Festival of Occupied Spaces and Collectibles
The organization of the Freedom Festival of Occupied Areas and Collections aims to create
a public and open political and cultural space for meeting, communication and fermentation
between the social and class struggles developed from below and the intervention of
anarchist and libertarian media.
The themes on which the festival's political events and presentations will take place
cover a wide range of student resistance and struggles of indigenous people in Latin
America, up to women's emancipation, the fight against war and nationalism, but also
acquaintance with new libertarian publishing ventures and their significant contribution,
which enriches our understanding based on the experiences of struggle from previous
kinetic attempts to resist and overthrow it. Rato and capital. Events repeatedly
intertwined with the past in order to stand up to the dystopian present of modern
totalitarianism.
We choose the festival to be occupied on campus as well, aiming both at the actual defense
and social support of the occupied areas, which have already been put on the forefront of
state repression, as well as the defense of social asylum and conquest. has once again
been targeted by the state. They try to impose a graveyard silence on all social sites. We
also have to give our own answers, and these are also unfolded, fermented and expressed in
the open processes of our communities, in our events and celebrations, in our protests and
debates.
We aim to create a space where as many people as possible can come into contact with the
struggle of anarchists for a society of equality and freedom through discussions and
briefings, book presentations, photography and documentary exhibitions, theatrical
performances and concerts.
In this way, we will have the opportunity to create yet another terrain where anarchists'
perceptions, practices, proposals, positions and struggles will be raised on a number of
issues that run the political and social reality of our time. A public dialogue where we
will have the opportunity to get to know and present experiences of struggle and political
conclusions from resistance that unleashes social liberation.
Occupation "Libertatia", Occupation "Mundo Nuevo", collectivism for "Libertatia"
liberalism, collectivism for "Black & Red" Social Anarchism, Anarchist student group
"Ataxia", Women Initiative against Patriarchate, Eleutherios
* Full program and poster will be announced soon.
http://apo.squathost.com
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