Today's Topics:
1. fcs-villaverde cnt.es - Let's spread solidarity: it's time
to bury fascism (ca, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Britain, AFED, organise magazine: Bolivia: A Very Latin
American Coup | International (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #299 - Retreats:
We'll be right when we're dead! (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #299 - PMA: A law
that respects the patriarchal order (fr, it, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. anarkismo.net: Free West Papua by Melbourne Anarchist
Communist Group (MACG) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Czech, AFED: Occupational strike for climate -- High school
students also joined university students in direct action for
climate justice. [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Apparently, after the elections last Sunday, Spain has risen fascist. 52 openly
xenophobic, macho and homophobic (and ultra-liberal) deputies seem to confirm it and match
us to the rest of Europe. ---- The supposed and highly praised Spanish exception is over
and we enter fully into the reactionary wave that floods parliaments in Europe from
Hungary to Italy, we already have our Le Pen, Salvini or Akesson in the figure of Santiago
Abascal, a deserter of the very Catholic , conservative and vertebrate of the State,
Popular Party, founded by a collection of ministers of the fascist dictatorship and
parents of the Constitution of 78. Next to Abascal, an amalgam of marquises, real estate
developers, opportunists and descendants of the Spanish elites.
Capitalism, given the impossibility of controlling the next everlasting economic crisis of
the system, has chosen to dispense with its Democratic mask and return to its thugs to
discipline the workers. In Latin America we are seeing it with police brutality in Chile
and Ecuador or the control exercised by the oligarchies in Brazil and Bolivia. While in
Europe the fascist discourse has been normalized and accepted as it had not been seen for
years.
But let's not fool ourselves, fascism has not suddenly appeared as an art of magic. It is
a consequence of years of decades of neoliberal politics and complicity of third-party
social democracy. Fascism has been created in the construction of the fortress Europe that
has turned the Mediterranean into a common grave, in the Civil Guard firing exhausted
immigrants into the sea, in the banalization and justification of the murders and
aggressions at the hands of Nazi bands .
These days we remember Carlos Palomino, killed by a Nazi while attending an anti-fascist
demonstration and which was presented as a fight between gangs. We also remember Roger
Albert or Guillem Agulló or Lucrecia Pérez, of whom we also remember in anger these days
his murder at the hands of a group of Nazis led by a Civil Guard in which he was
recognized as the first racist murder.
It is noteworthy that the rise of explicit parliamentary fascism coincided with the ruling
of the Constitutional Court that supports the appropriate dismissal in case of justified
leave. Judgment that joins the refusal to repeal the labor reform and the possible
implementation of the Austrian backpack. It is as if the times themselves warned us of the
authoritarian capitalist offensive that comes to put order in the systemic and
institutional crisis of Spanish democracy.
The exhumation of the fascist dictator with almost honors as Head of State carried out by
a social democratic government more than forty years after the formal end of Franco, and
broadcast live on television, rather than restoring injuries and repairing injustices, is
a metaphor for the continuity of the regime in its most spectacular aspect, where the
police escorted a recognized fascist like Tejero and no one remembered the thousands of
antifascists who are buried in the monument to glory of a dictatorship that does not
finish leaving.
We live in a state in which more and more authoritarian and where capital is increasingly
difficult to exercise basic rights such as housing, where speculation, vulture funds and
evictions hit the working class, freedom of expression, association, health or decent
working conditions. Where women must also face a new patriarchal reaction that seeks to
eliminate their right to decide on the body, either on the conservative side by reducing
the right to abortion to a minimum, or on the neoliberal side that seeks to commercialize
their wombs being reduced to mere reproductive bodies.
The only way out of those who send has been an authoritarian closure from above on all
fronts: judicial, legislative and social. A closure that has come to criminalize the mere
fact of rescuing people drifting at sea or writing jokes on twitter.
Now we must add the strong presence of a fascist party that has had the support and
understanding of the media, institutions and businessmen, who have bleached and normalized
their discourse and their presence in public life, a party that has great presence among
state repressive forces.
An institutional rise that will undoubtedly embolden all the most reactionary elements as
we have already seen in the increase in aggressions against migrants, women and the LGTBI
collective. Physical and verbal aggressions, threats and intimidations that have their
objective set on the most disadvantaged and disadvantaged in our society such as the
racialized working people, as well as the feminist movement and all other social movements.
For these reasons we join the call of the Antifascist Coordinator of Madrid , because we
must stop them, show that they will face us with our people, with the racialized, the
workers, the precarious.
We expect nothing from the institutions.
Fascism is not an opinion, it is a crime.
Madrid will be the tomb of fascism. Not pass!
https://fcs-villaverde.cnt.es/propaguemos-solidaridad-enterrar-fascismo/
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Message: 2
FACT. What just happened in Bolivia is a coup d'etat if we consider the dictionary
definiton which is "the sudden, violent overthrow of an existing government by a small
group. The chief prerequisite for a coup is control of all or part of the armed forces,
the police, and other military elements." ---- It is being said the former president Evo
Morales resigned so he was not overthrown. It is also said he committed fraud and that is
why he left. It is also said it is not a coup because Evo himself called it ‘civic and
police coup' as oppose to military cup. Wait. ---- This view is quite simplistic and does
not go deep into the history of Bolivia, how the elections were held, and votes counted,
and what was achieved in 13 years 9 months and who benefited and who did not, and who took
power, how and what has happened I Bolivian streets since then.
During what his opponents call ‘dictatorship', Evo Morales Ayma, the first Indigenous
president ever in Bolivia, and South America, reduced poverty from 35% to 15%, increased
the minimum wage 127%, and very importanly, nationalised natural resources including
natural gas and lithium, redistributed the lands among indigenous peasants, and made
healthcare universal and free. Also, Bolivia was named by the UN as free of illiteracy,
and unemployment levels fell.
Bolivia held elections on the 20th of October. After the count of the overall votes he was
declared victor with 47% against Carlos Mesa, right wing, with 36%. The latter immediately
challenged this supported by the Church, and the governments of the USA, Brazil, and
Argentina's soon to be ex president, Neo-liberal, Macri, with the complicity of the
American States Organisation (OEA) whose General Secretary, Luis Almeguer said in press
conference on 12th of November that what was happening in Bolivia was not a coup and the
military was not involved. All of this should should ring bells.
Evo Morales agreed to have international observers after his opponents accused him of
stealing the election. On 2th of October he called for a second election. In the streets,
there were clashes between supporters and police and opponents. Evo Morales was forced to
resign to avoid bloodshed and was offered political asylum by Mexico who sent a plane to
Paraguay for him which he boarded on the early hours 12th of November.
But that is not all that happened. During all this time, right-wing opposition gangs
kidnapped family members of cabinet ministers and forced them to resign, burnt Evo
Morales' sister's house, looted his own home, and burned the homes of some politicians
loyal to the regime, and Patricia Arce, mayor of Vinto, was attacked, asasulted and
publicly humiliated by an angry right wing mob. Ordinary people, mostly indigenous
supporters, were also attacked, and graffiti appeared saying ‘Indios out" and "Bolivia
free of "Indios" and the Wiphala flag, a symbol of unity of Original Nations has been
burned and taken from police officers uniforms.
The perpetrators of this coup, some alleged quite simplistically is the USA. The European
left forgetting that Latin American is a continent still colonised mentally and in all
aspects of life. We do have agency and reactionary and fascist powers of our own that do
not really need US support, even f they do look for it and they do get it.
That the CIA has backed every single coup in our continent since the 50's is a given,
however it is a fact that the plots come first from within. The USA usually provides
money, weapons and a blessing.
The perpetrators of this very Latin American Coup D'Etat, which started being arranged as
early as July 2019 , according to audio and documents seen by the new progressive elected
government of Argentina to be made public soon, are many.
Carlos Mesa, the neo- liberal candidate to presidency, a privateer of course, but he is
not leading this. The real brain behind this is Luis Camacho, a multi millionare religious
fundamentalist which much to lose in a plurinational nation led by a socialist president.
His family profited from the sale of Bolivia's natural resources and health insurance. He
is also a fascist leader of the separatist Union Juvenil Crucenista,(UJC) whose young
members seems to have taken a leaf from the SS and Hitler Youth book. There are pictures
of them sieg heiling, in fact.
The role of the evangelical churches in this coup and the far right in the whole continent
must be mentioned too. The UJC are fanatics and there is now also an army of Christian
youth in Argentina with fascist leanings, too. The Catholic church, as they have done
historically in Latin America, are either keeping quiet or actively preaching to keep the
oligarchy in power.
Important to mention the fact that the coup happened just a week after Evo Morales stopped
a multimillion deal to exploit the country's lithium resources.
Camacho entered the Palace of Government as soon as Evo had resigned waving a flag, and
donning a bible. A sign of things to come. He has made speeches quoting the bible and has
vowed to bring it back to governmental circles.
In terms of the army involvement, the Chief of the Armed Forces, General Williams Kaliman
called for Evo to resign and after he did, the general gave a speech consecrating the army
to Jesus Christ. They have also attempted to bribe Evo Morales' security with 50 000
dollars to hand him in before he had to flee.
The army, too, have being asked by the police force to assist them in the streets to
control the thousands of people who support Evo and who have pledged to revolt if he is
not reinstated. I am talking about Indigenous organisations, Community leaders, Farmers
and doctors.
Contacts in Bolivia now have reported to me that their friends have been arrested or
attacked by young fascists or the police, with video evidence, and, oddly, they say a
large number of indigenous people out in the streets last night seem to have vanished.
There is also the fear of not knowing what side the neighbours are in or if they can leave
the house.
The resistence is huge and grassroots and Indigenous, and community organisations are
leading it. EveN doctors have taken to the streets. A the time of writing this, the
Bolivian Workers Central (COB),who reject the coup, has pledged to call for a general
strike and deploy all its affiliated workers to La Paz if consitunional order is not
restored in 24 hours (13th of November 23.00 GMT) . 20 provinces are, I am told, going to
La Paz to resist.
Unfortunately, today after midnight GMT, Jeanine Anez, a right wing senator proclaimed
herself president of Bolivia, clutching a bible, with NO elections but standing by her
side were Luis Camacho, and a leader of the UJC and was approved by the army, police and
the elite. No indigenous people around despite them being 62% of the population. It must
be stressed that this goes against articles 161, 169 and 420 that forbid this categorically.
Make no mistake. In words of Adriana Guzman, leader of Feminists of Abya Yala (The pre
colonial name for what is now South America in Guna language) "The coup d'etat in Bolivia
is racist, patriarchal, ecclesiastic and oligarch" A very Latin American coup, then.
Tais is a Mexican Native and activist based in London. She has been part of the student
and Indigenous movements in Mexico and has been involved in animal rights, Antifascism and
solidarity work in Ireland and the UK for many years.
http://organisemagazine.org.uk/2019/11/14/bolivia-a-very-latin-american-coup-international
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Message: 3
Macron and the CFDT stand together to defend the pension reform of High Commissioner
Delevoye. From PAYG Retirement to Points Retirement, what are the differences ? And if the
recipes of the system go down, is not it necessary to tighten the belt ? ---- Government
blitz started in the media, with the complicity of the CFDT, to make believe that the
retirement points would be a fair and inevitable reform. But in fact, what is point
retirement ? The current system is a defined benefit pay-as-you-go scheme, where the
contributions of active and active people pay pensions to retirees, and we know in advance
how much is going to be paid. For the general scheme, the pension is equal to 50% of the
average salary over the best 25 years, to which are added the supplementary schemes. On
average, the pension is equal to 70% of the last net salary.
This system has been largely undermined by the reforms of 1993, 2003 and 2010, which are
only beginning to feel the effects. But the goal of Delevoye's point retirement is to go
even further, maintaining a pay-as-you-go system, but with undefined benefits : we will
know how much we contribute, but not what we will be able to pay. final ! Part of the
salary will be converted into points based on a certain purchase value, and upon departure
these points will be converted into a pension, depending on a service value. Obviously,
the value of the point will vary each year. As Fillon very well explains «the point system
actually allows one thing, that no politician confesses. This makes it possible to reduce
the value of the points each year and thus to reduce the level of pensions " [1].
A mechanical decline in pensions
The CFDT, a supporter of the Delevoye reform, suggests that this can be determined each
year by the " social partners ". But the government is clear: it wants the system to
operate at a constant envelope, at 14% of GDP. However, the number of retirees will
increase by more than a third by 2050. Thus mechanically pensions can only decline. The "
social partners " can only organize the shortage. The 2015 Agirc-Arrco supplementary
pension reform, which works in points, is thus symbolic: rather than questioning the lack
of funding for these pensions, the CFDT, the GSC and the CFTC have preferred to lower
pensions by adjusting the value of the pension. point, and boast behind to have ' saved
pay-as-you-go pensions . "
Macron has been trying to save time by saying that the value of the point is not yet
fixed. Yet the Delevoye report, released in July, gives a value. This is calculated to
give a replacement rate of 70% of the last net salary, but only in the case of a career
with no salary progression or hole. Today, 70% is the average replacement rate in France,
despite periods of unemployment, maternity, especially because this rate is calculated on
the 25 best years, not on the entire career as for a point system. The first simulations
thus give, for real careers, falls of 20% to 30% of pensions. And again, it's for the
value of the current point, which will inevitably go down in the future.
Officials and special schemes stigmatized
Who will be affected ? Everyone ! As usual, the government stigmatizes officials and
special schemes. While it is obvious that they will be particularly impacted by the
reform, the most impacted will probably be the workers whose career is the most
fragmented: women who suffer more part-time, younger, more subject to periods of
unemployment, precariousness, later returning to the labor market, employees in hard-line
jobs who often have to stop working or are made redundant before having a full career,
etc. Even current retirees will be concerned because their pensions will be converted into
points and will fluctuate [2]. In the latest news, Macron speaks of a very evasive B plan,
in which the entry into force of the reform would be postponed to new generations of
entrants, probably only in the most mobilized professional sectors [3]. On the other hand,
as far as special diets are concerned, it must not be forgotten that they correspond to
very difficult occupations: coercion, night work or underground, etc. Incidentally, one
will note this quote from Delevoye: " the special regimes of uniforms (military, police
...) will be maintained ".
A permanent decrease in contributions
According to the Pension Advisory Council, the pension system will be in deficit by about
10 billion euros in 2022, from 100 to 120 billion euros in 2050, and " this difference is
linked to stable expenditure but revenues down . Clearly, it is not the sum of pensions
that increases, it is the contributions that decline. Thus, in 2013, all the various
exemptions from employers' social security contributions amounted to 33 billion euros [4].
The bosses pay almost no more contributions on wages between 1 and 1.6 Smic.
And these exemptions do not serve the bosses to hire, but instead encourage them to fatten
their shareholders. Thus, in 2018, the profits of the CAC40 were 87 billion euros, so much
money that could have been used to increase wages and, as a result, social contributions.
It is therefore not a demographic problem but a political one. There are more and more
retirees, but productivity is increasing and, as wages stagnate, the profits of the bosses
are increasing rather than being used to maintain and improve the current pension system.
This is a holdup in good standing.
The government was supposed to present its recommendations at the end of 2018 for a vote
in 2019. The movement of yellow vests passed by and the Delevoye report was only presented
in July 2019. Since then, Macron has announced a vote on reform after the municipal
elections of March 2020. The time may seem long until then, especially as the social
climate is rather agitated in this season. The inter-union CGT-FO-Solidaires-FSU-UNEF
calls for an interprofessional strike on December 5, and several structures have announced
their intention to continue the strike beyond.
Gregoire (UCL Orleans)
[1] Video of March 10, 2016, where François Fillon addresses bosses during a party at the
Concorde Foundation.
[2] See p. 25 of the Delevoye report.
[3] " Pension reform, a plan B is emerging ", Les Echos, October 16, 2019.
[4] According to Public Life, a government website.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Retraites-On-y-aura-droit-quand-on-sera-mort
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Message: 4
Filiation established at the notary and reaffirmed presence of a man in the process. The
opening of the PMA to female couples remains under the thumb of patriarchy. ---- The law
of bioethics was adopted by the National Assembly on October 15th. The Senate will
consider it in January. Access to medically assisted procreation (ART) is open to female
couples and single women. The health insurance will support the reimbursement of the
procedure as for heterosexual couples. The medical criterion of infertility is therefore
removed. In the case of heterosexual couples, the PMA with anonymous donor (the form of
PMA that will apply to lesbians) does not cure the infertile man, it is a social
arrangement to overcome his infertility, not medical treatment, even if the woman
concerned undergoes many medical manipulations. There is no reason not to apply this
arrangement to female couples.
A filiation established differently
In case of conception by PMA, heterosexual couples give their consent to a notary. In
their case, maternity results from childbirth, the presumption of paternity results from
marriage, or from voluntary recognition - as for a birth without help. For women and
couples of women, it will be different. Consent must also be given to a notary, as well as
recognition of anticipated joint parentage. The joint recognition is provided to the civil
status and registered in the birth certificate which therefore refers to the PMA. The
legislator has no doubt feared that without this mention to the civil status, we forget
that it is necessary to gamete males to make a human. Or he makes a concession to the
reactionaries of all kinds, balking at equality and not bringing women's couples into
common law. Straight couples keep the choice of silence on the design of their child, a
choice that women do not have anyway.
Nor is there a solution for the second filiation of children of lesbian couples born
before this law (third-party donor outside the medical setting, LDCs abroad). However,
this would be an opportunity to replace lengthy adoption procedures with maternity
recognition.
A reaffirmed presence of the man
The opening of the PMA to women without men goes hand in hand with the lifting of the
secrecy on the identity of sperm donors. History to restore the presence of man. Children
who wish (at their majority) will have access to either anonymous non-identifying elements
(health ...) or the identity of the donor. With respect to donations made before the law,
donors have the opportunity to authorize the disclosure of their identity. In addition,
the donor may request the number of children conceived with his or her donations, as well
as their gender and year of birth.
This is clearly not enough for the new rally of reactionaries, " March Kids ", which
fights for the preservation of a father's presence in all procreation. Their arguments
emphasize that a child needs a father and a mother, even though no study proves that
children who have not grown up in this configuration are more unhappy and unhappy than
others. They also forget to tell us about absent fathers, violent fathers, fathers who do
not pay alimony ... no importance, it is only necessary that the symbolic presence
remains, the patriarchy in its essence.
An obsession for genetic origins
The gift assigned to a person or a couple remains prohibited. A man can not donate sperm
for a chosen couple. A woman can not make a gamete donation for a PMA carried by her
partner. A trans woman lesbian couple can give his sperm for the PMA carried by his
girlfriend. This argument disappears however from the moment when the anonymity of the
donor is removed by the law.
Anyone who can carry a child is not affected. Trans men who have kept their uterus and can
carry a child are excluded from the law if they change their marital status. Those who
give birth without medical help find themselves in inextricable situations. This is
probably the step too much for a society and policies not yet fully adapted to new ways of
life, sexuality and gender. The opening of the PMA falls within the broader framework of a
law on bioethics. Amendments have been tabled to prohibit mutilation without the need for
health of intersex children. But the only accepted amendment,
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?PMA-Une-loi-qui-respecte-l-ordre-patriarcal
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Message: 5
We recognise the right of the West Papuan people to self-determination and we call on the
working class in both Australia and Indonesia to join us in this. It is particularly
important for the working class movement in Indonesia to recognise the West Papuans' right
of self-determination, because this is the only way in which the question can be resolved
peacefully. ---- In response to small but co-ordinated West Papuan demonstrations across
the country in the middle of August this year, Right wing forces engaged in a provocation
against Papuan students in the Indonesian city of Surabaya. When the Papuans responded,
these Right wing forces accused the students of disrespecting the Indonesian flag and
stormed the students' dormitory, attacking them and engaging in racial slurs.
When the stories of this assault spread, the cities of West Papua erupted in rage. In
Manokwari, Jayapura and Sorong, government buildings were stormed and some torched. In
these and many other places, the Morning Star flag was raised. A protest against
anti-Melanesian racism became centred on the Papuans' core demand of independence.
The Indonesian Government was initially taken aback by the protests, particularly as they
arose in reaction to an instance of egregious racism. The raising of the Morning Star,
however, was a challenge that could not be left without a response. Many protestors were
shot, the military was greatly reinforced in West Papua and access to the Internet was
shut down. Dozens of people were murdered by security forces. Demonstrations died down
after about a month, but the issues remain.
Fundamentally, it is colonialism causing the problems in West Papua. The Indonesian State,
centred on the Javanese ruling elites, doesn't recognise the right of West Papua's people
to self-determination and instead insists on a unitary Indonesian national identity. From
the original take-over in 1962, through the "Act of Free Choice" conducted at gunpoint in
1969 and the decades of heavy military repression under Suharto's New Order regime until
the 1990s, the Papuans have been oppressed and their lands have been confiscated to make
way for migrants from Java and other Indonesian islands. Indonesia's Basic Forestry Act of
1967 states that "the rights of traditional law communities may not be allowed to stand in
the way of transmigration sites".
As Anarchists, we are opposed to all forms of nationalism. Instead, we demand workers'
revolution, but this does not translate into a simple opposition to the West Papuans'
demand for independence. This would be to side with the nationalism of the chauvinist
Indonesian State. Rather, we oppose all forms of national oppression, regardless of where
the capitalists draw their national boundaries. We are happy to let the location of these
boundaries be set by simple democratic methods. If the West Papuan people want
independence, they are entitled to it - and they will learn that their own capitalist
class is capable of being just as violent and corrupt as the Indonesian one.
The Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group therefore demands that the Indonesian military be
withdrawn from West Papua to stop the immediate abuses and that transmigration to West
Papua be ceased to prevent the underlying dispossession getting worse. We recognise the
right of the West Papuan people to self-determination and we call on the working class in
both Australia and Indonesia to join us in this. It is particularly important for the
working class movement in Indonesia to recognise the West Papuans' right of
self-determination, because this is the only way in which the question can be resolved
peacefully. The other road is armed struggle, with the backing of Australian imperialism -
something that would result in a sham independence and condemn the Papuans to
semi-colonial servitude for the benefit of Australian mining companies. Only the working
class can free West Papua.
TROOPS OUT NOW!
STOP TRANSMIGRATION!
SELF DETERMINATION FOR WEST PAPUA!
*Article from the current issue (Vol.8, No 5 - Sept.-Oct. 2019) of "The Anvil" Newsletter
of Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group (MACG).
**You can find this issue and more at http://melbacg.wordpress.com
Related Link: http://melbacg.wordpress.com
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31646
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Message: 6
On 12 and 13 November, the University's Climate Initiative announced an occupation strike
for climate at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. It was an event that
combined direct action with education, protest with self-organization. ---- The rich
program began on Tuesday at about 10 am with a public performance at Jan Palach Square,
where a statement to the strike was read, and subsequently moved to the adjacent faculty
building. The "Occupational strike for climate" banners on the facade and inside clearly
show what is happening in the building. The upcoming celebrations of November 17th are
covered by the banners "Remember is not enough. There are no anniversaries on the dead
planet, '' We have bare forests '' or 'Thanks for letting go extinct'. Otherwise, there
are signs on the walls and railings such as "The end of coal", "The future is now", "Coal,
oil, gas belongs to history", "We cannot remain silent. Fish Army "," Close Pocerady "and
more. The words on the pub tablecloth form the inscription "There is no Gambrinus on the
dead planet." But not just greening the current system is suggested by the slogans "System
change instead of climate change", "Tykache arrestors",
Many people supported the event. There was a huge interest in the lectures and the space
where they were held was literally crowded with people. Lectures were highly praised,
whether it was talking about strategies of antiekological tendencies or action training
(not only) at Ende Gelände. The occupation was dominated by a great atmosphere. One of
those present Anarchists she commented: "I recently experienced the occupied campus in
Paris." Otherwise, the place in the chillout zone were dismantling Occupying a cookbook ,
which in 2012 published by the University Press AF on the occasion of the student
protests, and in different places, then the current Anarchist newsletter number from
belowdedicated to the climate crisis. There are also two money boxes in which people can
contribute to food for strikers or faculty staff as an expression of solidarity with the
cleaners they may be adding to work.
In addition to the opening plenum, lectures were held in the corridors, including Bedrich
Moldan, Adam Borzic and Dana Kuchtová. We continued to talk about ecology under socialism
and capitalism, about the core, about the role of the social sciences in the time of the
climate crisis.
Some came in the evening to help those present to deal with a possible police
intervention. But nothing of the sort happened in the end and the original threat to the
faculty management proved to be false. This then de facto admitted that he could not
communicate with horizontally organized structures. And so it remained only in sight of
the summoned securitizer. The evening plenum agrees on rules that will apply overnight,
such as locking the front entrance, and tuning the program for the next day. And then
there are only free debates and sleeping bags.
Wednesday morning starts with morning plenary and continues with morning program of talks
and lectures. Arnošt Novák talks about autonomous politics in times of climatic collapse,
Matyáš Krížkovský and Ondrej Slacálek join the topic of social movements, and there will
be something about urban activism in Prague and permaculture. After the bastion at two in
the afternoon is the meeting in front of the Faculty of Arts and may start a demonstration
entitled "We do not want warming, but neither Winter". This number of hundreds of students
and chanting of different slogans ends at the Rector's Office in the Carolina building. On
the agenda is the second demand of the strike, namely the resignation of the rector of
Charles University Tomas Zima. For several reasons (for example, a contract with Home
Credit; allowing influence of Chinese interests; a tour for university money, which makes
its name before the presidential election;
The Rector waited with a well-chosen strategy not to make a bad name for repression before
November 17, which could further damage his reputation if he ran for president. So even
though there were police officers who were trying to do something, the demonstrators
welcomed and offered tea. He disagreed with the reasons why he should resign and then
left. But the students stayed, decorated the banners of the Rector's Office, even set up a
tent and continued the program of lectures and discussions. So they could hear a talk
about Syrian Rojava. The evening discussed the requirements that should be raised towards
Czech universities.
A night spent in the Rectorate passed and the occupation strike continued on Thursday, 14
November. In the afternoon, a press conference was held in front of the Rectorate, where
the requirements for universities were presented. The present call is the result of
cooperation between people from academia from Brno, Olomouc, Prague and other cities and
its consensual approval was the result of a plenary session that took place within the
occupation strike. Among the demands is that universities actively engage in pressure to
tackle the climate crisis, both towards the public and political representation, as well
as their own direction towards carbon neutrality. The call also urges universities not to
cooperate with actors involved in pollution and deepening social injustices.
The occupation strike continues at this point and will continue on the third night on
campus. Do not hesitate to support it. Collective photographs to support her came from
Oxford or Warsaw.
https://www.afed.cz/text/7067/okupacni-stavka-za-klima
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