Today's Topics:
1. Czech, AFED: Votes from Notara 26 (V.) -- "We only have one
option - continue fighting" [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #302 - University:
Filing and sanctions, the tree that hides the forest (fr, it,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Idonesia: Don't let them feel alone (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. cgt aragon la rioja: FROM RESISTANCE TO NAZISM TO
PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY (ca) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #302 -
Antipatriarcat, Pedocrime: Separating the consent of the minor
(fr, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. vrije bond: [Utrecht] Rojava Everywhere (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. avtonom: Institutions of the Federal Penitentiary Service
picketed in Moscow demanding better medical care for
Ilya Romanov
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Part 5 of a series of interviews with people who are part of the Notara 26 Athens refugee squat. ---- 5. CheNo ---- When we got to Greece,
me and my two friends arrested us in a camp in Filakio. After ten days we were released and we went to Thessaloniki. We arrived at the
Diavata camp, but there they told us that they had no place for us, so we decided to try Athens. ---- We were in Victoria Square, two days
on the street. We were looking for accommodation, but we could not afford anything, all about 300 to 400 euros. But then a friend, an
anarchist from Iran, now living in Germany, told us about squats and the Exarchy. So we went to the Exarchy and happened to encounter
Notara. ---- When we got to the door, they told us they had room for one person, not all three. But they invited us inside for food. Then as
we left, they said, "Guys, sit down, we'll find a room for you."
When I was a student at Tabriz University in the northwest of Iran, I was more involved in political activities than before. I was a
bachelor, then I studied for a Master in Sustainable Management and Development. I was involved in various student associations and wrote in
student magazines. And even though I was not a member, I supported one of the parties connected to the Kurdish movement, which was illegal.
One day I and my friends called me from the University Security Department. They accused us of organizing a strike at the university and of
recruiting students to fight ISIS in Koban, Rojava. They said that if there was any strike or protest, even if we were not there, they would
blame us. They took away access to student services and took my room on the university campus.
Then one day a friend called me. He said I was looking for security forces at the university. At the same time, two of my friends I worked
with were arrested in Sanandaj. I decided to leave Iran that day and went to Turkey.
Turkey was the worst experience in my life. I escaped from Iran because I had no freedom there, and I found that the situation in Turkey was
even worse.
I continued my political activities in Turkey, coordinated two campaigns, and wrote articles on websites. I registered with UNHCR as an
asylum seeker, but the Turkish State prevented me from obtaining documents.
When in 2018 the responsibility for UNHCR refugee registration was transferred to Turkey, this meant that Turkey had received all my
personal data. As for the Kurd involved in the movement, it was very dangerous for me. At the same time, my other friends were arrested and
imprisoned and charged with the support of terrorist groups. Like many other people in similar situations, I decided to leave Turkey.
I'd like to put it that way. The first day I arrived here, after my experiences in Iran and Turkey, I was very careful. I stood aside,
gazing carefully from afar.
Then, as I learned more about the movement and the ideas that squat was working on and saw how it worked, I started to get more involved. I
met the people who helped out the solidarity squat and found that their political views were very close to mine. I found myself in a place
with a strong community life. I'm really happy to be part of this big family.
After two months of being here, the police began to stand and police their fascist attack on squats. I want to be part of a movement that
fights against it. I always try to participate in demonstrations, meetings, whatever kind of activities are taking place against these state
operations.
What does Notara mean to you?
In short: it means struggle and resistance. It means we will fight all things and problems together. Without hierarchy and inequality
between people, we can know the true meaning of humanity, what people really are. Notara is this thought, and the thought never dies.
And the future? The future is clear. We have only one option - to continue the fight.
Source:
https://stateless.noblogs.org/post/2019/12/01/voices-of-notara-part-5-we-have-only-one-choice-to-keep-fighting/
Previous parts:
https://www.afed.cz/text/7096/hlasy-z-notara-26-i
https://www.afed.cz/text/7097/hlasy-z-notara-26-ii
https: //www.afed.cz/text/7099/hlasy-z-notara-26-iii
https://www.afed.cz/text/7115/hlasy-z-notara-26-iv
https://www.afed.cz/text/7116/hlasy-z-notara-26-v
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Message: 2
In response to an attempt to block partials on January 7, the management of the University of Évry Val d'Essonne decided to exclude at least
15 students, before reversing its decision under pressure from the unions. A success that should not hide the excesses of certain
administrations. ---- On January 7, a small group of students from the University of Évry, including union members from the UNEF, tried to
mobilize their colleagues to boycott end-of-term partials, without success. The cause of their action: solidarity in the face of the current
social movement, but also the lack of accommodation put in place by the establishment in the face of the students' difficulties in
participating in partials during periods of social movement. Students living far from the university - already difficult to access in normal
times - testified that they had to get up in the middle of the night to join their exams, or to spend aberrant sums on hotel costs to access
the University. According to several of the people mobilized, students dissatisfied with the situation would have been advised to bring
sleeping bags and camp on site. While Parisian universities plan to change exam conditions, or even cancel them, the demands of students in
difficulty deserved at least to be listened to.
Instead, the activists who participated in the action received the following day a series of emails informing them of the decision of the
university presidency to prohibit them from entering the site for thirty days, pending of a possible disciplinary commission. A particularly
harsh sanction, possibly leading to all of the activists concerned being declared defective in their exams, and forced to reimburse their
scholarships, conditional on their regular attendance. A sanction made possible, according to activists, by the fact that certain university
employees decided to film and photograph them against their will, and to identify them later using the trombinoscopes of the 'university,
activists being retorted'we know the law better than you do, file a complaint against us if you are not happy "when they and they criticized
this device.
Combat such practices
The activists quickly managed to get in touch with other organizations, finding support notably from the UNEF, the CGT and Sud-Solidaires,
and the same day a rally took place under the windows of the presidency, in front of the Maupertuis building of the university, the trade
unionists promising to come back in numbers if the presidency is not resumed. An hour later, Jaurès Kounaté, president of the UNEF of Évry,
announces at the end of his meeting with the presidency that the sanctions are lifted, and that the presidency will not act.
However, this victory hides a reality which must alarm: in how many universities do administrative staff feel the right or the duty to carry
out such work of information on the students mobilized, even their own colleagues? Who conveyed to them the idea that it was possible to do
this? While reactionaries are obsessing themselves over and over about what is going on in higher education, and that another university,
that of Toulouse, is struck by a real affair of generalized political filing, it is urgent to talk about such practices, identify their
generalization, and combat them systematically.
Pandov Strochnis
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Universite-Fichage-et-sanctions-l-arbre-qui-cache-la-foret
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Message: 3
"According to the court's decision, our comrades (Supriadi, Anto, Haerul, Alif, Agus, and Faruddin) were sentenced to prison for 1 year and
6 months, they were charged under article 506 regarding actions against the law and article 170 regarding acts of violence/destruction
carried out jointly. Note: On September 26, They were arrested during the nationwide protests in Indonesia in September 2019.
Insurrectionary anarchists in Makassar claimed responsibility for blocking a highway and attacking state vehicles. Don't let them feel
alone, solidarity never stops, anywhere! Smash the state!"
https://www.facebook.com/groups/anarchistsworldwide/permalink/2905051306197534/
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Message: 4
On Friday, February 21 at 8:00 p.m., we will have the presence of Sara Katz and Pierre Stambul, children of Holocaust survivors and human
rights activists in the Palestinian House.
To tell us about his experience "From resistance against Nazism to solidarity with the Palestinian people ."
When 75 years have passed since the end of the Nazi atrocities, it is worth not forgetting the current Palestinian holocaust at the hands of
the Zionist state of "Israel
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Message: 5
The recent Matzneff cases but also Polanski or Ruggia highlight the need to better protect minors on the basis of a principle, however
simple and already applied in other countries: these and these cannot be consented to. intercourse with an adult. ---- A bill to fix the
minimum age below which the constraint is implicit was proposed in August 2018. Named presumption of non-consent, fixed at 15 years, this
measure was finally withdrawn from the law "strengthening the fight against sexual and gender-based violence"(law n ° 2018-703). ---- In
France, the law prohibits relations between minors of 15 years of age (which means less than 15 years in law) and adults, who are qualified
as sexual abuse. Sexual offense is classified as a crime (and not a crime) and is punished with a maximum of five years of imprisonment,
while the non-consensual relationship enters the field of sexual assault, which is punished with seven years maximum imprisonment. This
means that the French State on the one hand authorizes relations between minors (under 18), on the other hand provides a "buffer zone »,
Those over 15 years of age who may have consensual relationships with adults (provided that there is no position of authority for the adult:
ascendant, teacher, educator, trainer, etc.). To obtain recognition of rape, underage victims (like adults of course) must prove that the
reports took place under threat, surprise, violence or coercion. Very few judges use the "duress" test. However, the constraint can be
physical or moral, which in the latter case is easily understandable and imaginable in the case of an adult towards a child (all the more so
when he / she is placed under the authority of the adult in question).
In recent years, the notion of consent has been at the center of thinking when tackling the issue of sexual violence. However, this term is
problematic for more than one reason. For victims, it means that they have to prove that they did not agree. However, shouldn't we wonder
about the desire and desire of each and everyone rather than seeking possible consent ? How can we imagine that a woman or a minor who is
the victim of threats or psychological violence may be able to give informed consent if her aggressor asked her if she (or he) agrees or
consents to intercourse?
The consent in question
Considering that there should be a presumption of non-consent for minors under the age of 15, it should be pointless to investigate the
existence or absence of consent. A child who understands what is asked of him and can measure all aspects of it can be considered
consenting, which cannot be the case when it comes to sexual relations with an adult.
The culture of rape leads to legitimization, minimization and even the encouragement of sexual violence. In the case of pedocrime, this
culture of rape was particularly illustrated in the 1970s and 1980s. A time when in France, under the pretext of "sexual revolution", we
worship, we invite in the media, we listen to criminals assumed. Under the pretext of poetic, intellectual, literary or cinematographic
genius, we ignore consent, we want to separate the rapist from the artist.
Sexual violence is produced by patriarchy, the organized domination of men over women. However, it is necessary to establish a different
treatment of the issue of the consent of women and children. Already because to consider them identical would imply that women are not major
individuals. In a sexual relationship between adults, consent is sought. In a sexual relationship between an adult and a child there is no
consent possible.
Women, children, even violence ?
There is an urgent need for legislation to change and for adults to no longer be able to claim to have received the so-called consent of
their victims because of their inability to say no or defend themselves. The law must protect children, not child molesters.
Gaëlle (UCL Saint-Denis), Lucie (UCL Amiens)
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Pedocriminalite-Separer-le-consentement-du-mineur-e
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Message: 6
On February 23rd the comrades from the Internationalist Commune of Rojava and Make Rojava Green Again campaign will come to The Barricade to
talk about the current situation in Rojava, the role of internationalists in this revolution and the campaigns they've launched in the past
years (Make Rojava Green Again, Women Defend Rojava and Riseup4Rojava). For the occasion, we decided to organise a full day of talks and
music dedicated to the revolution in Rojava and to the ideas that are behind this revolution in the hope that this will also serve as an
occasion to reflect on how to put those ideas into practice here where we are. ---- Beside the talk from comrades from Make Rojava Green
Again, we will be joined by comrades from Social Ecology Liege that will talk about their attempts in putting into practice in Belgium the
ideas of Social Ecology. Moreover, Kurdish comrades will tell us about how Democratic Confederalism was born as an ideology in the Kurdistan
Workers' Party and how people have tried to put it into practice in Bakur (Northern Kurdistan).
Program Schedule
14:30 Live Kurdish Music
15:30 Talk about Democratic Confederalism and Bakur from Kurdish comrades
16:45 Talk about Social Ecology in Belgium from Social Ecologie Liege
18:00 Talk about Internationalism and Rojava from Make Rojava Green Again
19:00 Dinner
ROJAVA EVERYWHERE
Seven years ago a revolution began in Rojava that was to radically change the lives of millions of people. The Kurds liberated themselves
from the dictatorship of the Assad regime and began to organize themselves in self-governed councils, communes and cooperatives. In
particular, the autonomous organization of women became the driving force behind the social revolution.
However, since October 2019, following the occupation of the Afrin canton two years ago, the Turkish State has started an invasion of the
territories of North-East Syria that puts the revolution under big threat. While the population of Rojava continues their struggle for
self-determination, women's liberation and radical democracy, defending itself against the attacks of jihadist gangs and the fascist Turkish
state, the representatives of hypocritical governments shake hands with the Turkish oppressors. While liquidation plans against the
revolution in Kurdistan and Syria are made in Ankara, the European, Russian and USA weapon industries become richer day by day as a direct
result of the wars in the Middle East. They make profits which cost millions of lives.
In this difficult times, it is necessary to show solidarity and do whatever we can to defend this revolution!
Supporting the revolution does not only mean joining in demonstrations or sending donations. It means also organizing the revolution where
we are, and being connected to our local struggles. Rojava needs us, but even more, we need Rojava. We need hope, faith, inspiration and new
perspectives in a collective struggle against oppression. In the Western world the authoritarian state and rightwing movements are
celebrating their comeback. Trump, Erdogan and Putin are removing the last masks of democracy. In the face of this developments, most
revolutionary movements stand frozen. Marginalized and without perspectives, scattered and estranged, the only role the system leaves for
them is to observe and criticize.
Rojava presents a way to overcome this dilemma: Learning from the Kurdish movement means to organize and spread the revolution.
For info about the Internationalist Commune of Rojava and their campaigns:
internationalistcommune.com
makerojavagreenagain.org
womendefendrojava.net
riseup4rojava.org
Talk about Social Ecology in Belgium
Social Ecology advocates a reconstructive and transformative outlook on social and environmental issues, it promotes a directly democratic,
confederal politics. It envisions a moral economy that moves beyond scarcity and hierarchy.
An international network is developing advocating for Social Ecology and even in cities like Brussels and Liege the movement is growing.
Comrades from Beligum are coming to tell us about what has been organised there and the attempts that have been made to try to put into
practice Social Ecology there.
Talk about Internationalism and Rojava
After the resistance of Kobane 2014 the Rojava revolution became known in the whole world. Many leftists started to get interested in Rojava
and the concept of "Democratic Confederalism". After this also more and more activists wanted to be part of the Revolution in Northern Syria
directly. They wanted to learn how the movement is organizing councils and cooperatives, to see how the movement is in reality combining the
three pillars of gender liberation, ecology and radical democracy.
Since 2014 internationalism in Rojava has developed a lot. Many different projects and campaigns emerged. We want to discuss the motivation
and experiences of activists who went to Rojava to join the campaign Make Rojava Green Again. A campaign focusing on supporting the
ecological part of the revolution, but also presenting it to the outside.
Talk about Democratic Confederalism and Bakur
PKK ideology from socialism to democratic confederalism: an attempt to build Democratic Confederalism in the region of Bakur.
When and where?
Sunday, 23 February, 14:00
Book-Café The Barricade // ACU
Voorstraat 71
Utrecht
https://www.vrijebond.org/rojava-everywhere/
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Message: 7
On February 18 and 19, single pickets were held in Moscow in support of political prisoner anarchist Ilya Romanov, who suffered a stroke in
a Mordovian colony in October 2019. Ilya was placed in a prison hospital, but he was not provided with high-quality treatment, and doctors
refuse to use medical equipment for his rehabilitation. Ilya is partially paralyzed, difficulties with self-care are exacerbated by the lack
of his left hand. ---- On February 18, the action took place near the reception of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia. The rally was
attended by the wife and daughter of Ilya, representatives and representatives of anarchist groups, the Russian Socialist Movement, the
Worker Compass group and the Rotfront party.
At the very beginning of the rally, the wife of Ilya Larisa Romanova tried to file a letter with the demands of the protesters in the
picketed institution, but she was told that only one official who is currently absent can accept her.
During single pickets, the FSIN reception office was repeatedly guarded, as well as the security of the reception center of the Ministry of
Internal Affairs located in the same building. After the end of the action, its participants and participants went into the building all
together. Only after that they agreed to let Larisa Romanov into the right office and accepted the letter. She was also promised that she
would be received by the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service medical department - however, he would have his next appointment day only
in March.
Photo
On February 19, protesters picketed the FSIN Department of Health Care Organization (UOMSO). Representatives and representatives of
anarchist initiatives, the Working Compass, the Left Block and other sympathizers took part in the action.
One of the picketers tried to convey a letter with the demands of the protesters, but the institution promised to think whether to accept it
or not. Fortunately, closer to the end of the action, representatives and representatives of the human rights community came to the FSIN
medical department to participate in the round table. Among them were Valery Borshchev, a member of the Moscow Helsing Group, and Lyubov
Volkova, a member of the PMC, who took a letter to Ilya Romanov for transfer to UOMSO.
Photo
Even before the start of the second series of single pickets, Larisa Romanova received a call from the FSIN medical department and promised
to form an exit commission, which should go to the prisoner in the prison hospital and resolve issues related to the organization of
treatment and care.
On October 24, 2019, Ilya Romanova, who is serving another term in a Mordovian colony, was hospitalized with a stroke at the medical
correctional institution IK-21 in the village of Barashevo. The FSIN did not say anything to his relatives; the information appeared only on
October 28. If you believe what the hospital said to one of Ilya's lawyers, he was completely paralyzed. On November 1, the attending
physician informed Romanov's relatives that he had "confused" speech, "swallowing," he was given liquid food. The neuropathologist first
examined Ilya and made the appointment only on November 11, the attending physician compiled a list. After that, for a long time, lawyers
were not allowed to see Ilya in the prison hospital and refused to transfer medicines and care products.
On November 15, pickets were held in Moscow near Roszdravnadzor, as well as in Nizhny Novgorod , demanding medical assistance to Ilya
Romanov, after which officials of Roszdravnadzor promised to take up his case.
A day earlier, on November 14, the ex-wife of Ilya Larisa Romanova, reported that the European Court of Human Rights, in accordance with
rule 39 of the court ruling on emergency interim measures, before considering the merits, essentially sent a request to the Russian
authorities in connection with the refusal to provide medical assistance to the political prison. On November 21, the Justice Ministry
respondedThe ECHR that the lawyers Zaitsev and Kachanov allegedly received short-term permits for a meeting with Romanov, but they were
informed that, due to their state of health, the political prison could not be present at the meeting. On November 27, human rights activist
Sergei Maryin sent an objection to the ECHR to the government's response. He pointed out that in reality, in order to meet with the patient,
it is necessary to obtain two permissions - from the medical facility-21 for entering the colony and from the head physician of hospital No.
2 to directly see the prisoner. But the lawyers did not succeed in either.
Finally, on November 28, lawyer Roman Kachanov was admitted to Romanov. As it turned out, the political prisoner was paralyzed half of the
body and he hardly speaks. "We talked for about ten minutes, but basically, of course, I said. It is clear that he needs to restore his
speech, of course, he needs a speech therapist. Of course, there is no speech therapist in this institution. There are no other specialists.
There are no drugs. Those drugs that they sent him to him, according to the convicts, they give him. But I don't know how it really happens
there, " Kachanov said . The lawyer learned from other patients that Romanov was not looked after by orderlies, but by convicts helping
hospital staff.
On December 4, the commission of the medical unit-13 of the FSIN issued a decision on the absence of a serious illness from Romanov that
impeded detention. Despite the fact that stroke and its consequences are included in the list of diseases due to which release should follow.
On February 13, 2020, the Zubovo-Polyansky District Court of Mordovia was supposed to consider the request of the defense attorneys to
activate (release for health reasons) Ilya. The case was transferred to another, Temnikovsky District Court. When the consideration begins,
and whether Ilya will live to see it, is currently unknown.
On the same day, Romanov's defenders were returned with medical equipment previously transferred by their relatives for massage and
ultrasound therapy for paralyzed limbs. Both procedures are shown in all standards of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation on
the treatment of strokes. Overseers said that Ilya allegedly does not need this technique.
Actual information on Ilya Romanov
How to help Ilya
Ilya Romanov actively participated in the anarchist and leftist movement of Russia since the late eighties . In 2002, he was arrested in
Ukraine in the so-called "case of the Odessa Komsomol members " , also known as the "torture case". He was accused of arms trafficking and
terrorism - preparing an improvised bomb explosion near the building of the Security Service of Ukraine in protest against the police
brutally dispersed a street camp on Maidan in October 2002. At the trial, Romanov did not plead guilty, in protest, he spent hunger strikes
in the pre-trial detention center and opened his veins at a court session. He was sentenced to 10 years.
After his release from a Ukrainian prison, Ilya returned to Russia, to his native city of Nizhny Novgorod. In October 2013, a makeshift
firecracker exploded in the hands of Romanov, which, in his own words, he was going to test at night in a deserted park on Osharskaya
Street. Anarchist was detained right in the hospital; he was charged with illicit trafficking in explosives and, after some time, with
attempted assassination. The case was conducted by FSB investigators - according to their version, Romanov wanted to carry out a terrorist
attack in front of the building of the regional military registration and enlistment office, which is nearby. In February 2015, Romanov was
added another charge - in public calls for terrorism. Claims were caused by an interview in 2012, which he gave to Ukrainian Internet radio
immediately after his release from the Ukrainian colony.In August 2015, the court sentenced him to ten years in a maximum security colony,
convicted under part 1 of article 222 of the Criminal Code (illegal traffic in explosives), part 3 of article 30, part 1 of article 205 of
the Criminal Code (attempted terrorist attack) and part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code (public justification of terrorism). The
Supreme Court later reduced the sentence to nine years in prison.
The last criminal case against Ilya Romanov was opened in May 2017 after a search of his ward in a medical correctional institution in the
Mordovian village of Barashevo (the very one where he is lying now!). Then the investigators seized the phone from him, from which Romanov
allegedly posted on Facebook a video with jihadists and records of occult rituals with a voodoo doll named Vladimir. The anarchist denies
blame. The main witness for the prosecution in this case, prisoner Sergey Zhuravlev, who was in the same ward of the prison hospital with
Romanov, admitted during the trial that he was working with the FSB operative Yegor Mitochkin. On October 26, 2018, the Volga District
Military Court in Samara sentenced Ilya to five and a half years imprisonment in the case of calls for terrorism (article 205.2 of the
Criminal Code). The sentence was partially added to the term that Romanov did not serve in the previous case.
From now on, Ilya Romanov, if he is not released for health reasons, should serve a little less than 6 years.
https://avtonom.org/news/aktivisty-piketiruyut-fsin-s-trebovaniem-uluchsheniya-medicinskoy-pomoshchi-ile-romanovu
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