Today's Topics:
1. Anarsist Kadinlar & Group Against Patriarchy (APO) -
Solidarity Messages To The Women Of The Struggle On March 8th By
A.P.O. (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. avtonom: March 8 picket line will take place in Moscow
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Vrije Bond Amsterdam - Rebel Cities (nl) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The first text was sent as a message of solidarity to our companions in Turkey, Anarsist Kadinlar (Anarchist Women). The second text was
sent to us by our comrades from Turkey to be published in Greece on the eve of March 8th. ---- 1) Solidarity message to the women of the
struggle on March 8th, Day of class memory, resistance and struggle ---- Comrades, ---- In Greece, since the summer, a widespread repressive
campaign against the anarchist movement, the squats, the self-organized housing structures for refugees and migrants, the world of
solidarity, social and class resistance is underway. This campaign is the spearhead of the state's and the bosses' attack to the plebeians
of society, aiming to their terrorization and subjugation, in order to impose uninterruptedly state and capitalist barbarity.
In the context of the state's sweeping repressive attack, repression is reminding us, the women of the struggle, that a special treatment is
reserved for us. Alongside the fierce beatings and the chemicals, the cops's attacks are targeting the women protesters, exerting sexist
violence with gestures and insults. The homophobic attacks by riot police squads in Athens, the sexual harassment and threats by the cops
who had camped in the neighborhood of Exarcheia, the brutal repression of women protesters and the sexist attacks and insults, the forced
undressing and torture of protesters during these last months is a view of the future they reserve for all of us. Patriarchal violence will
always be a weapon in the hands of repression to segregate the people from below and is still present as an integral part of state and
capitalist barbarism.
In this context, the state attack is targeting immigrants and refugees, men, women and children, all those who are trapped in the
concentration camps. The drownings, the deaths from the cold and the hardships, their mass imprisonment, constitute a constant crime against
humanity that similar can be found only in the darkest times of colonialism and the great wars. Women refugees, the most vulnerable of the
socially excluded, are the main recipients of intolerant rhetoric and capitalist exploitation.
This year, on the 8th of March, we will once again demonstrate as women who struggle alongside our comrades shouting: "AGAINST STATE
REPRESSION NO TRUCE - NO SURRENDER!". The bloody struggles of the women workers of the previous century show the way of resistance to modern
totalitarianism.
We salute women's struggles across the world: from Chiapas and Chile to Rojava and Turkey. As anarchist women, we stand with the words and
actions of the struggling women that meet in a heightened fist and a gaze of solidarity, which arms our determination to destroy every form
of human oppression, and to build together a world of equality, solidarity and freedom.
AGAINST STATE, CAPITAL AND PATRIARCHY
NO STEP BACK! NO PASARAN!
Group against patriarchy
Anarchist Political Organization Federation of Collectives
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Long live Women Solidarity, Long live Freedom
The international solidarity of women is encouraging us, giving us strength. This solidarity crossing the borders, prove one more time that,
no matter where we are, nothing can keep us away from our freedom.
The war conditions of Turkey bring about many cases in which the women are used as tool for the war. As seen in many wars throughout
history, women are forced to migrate from the lands that are looted by war in our geography. We're clearly wittness that how the war and the
migration effects women, nowadays.. Thousands of people waiting across the border of Turkey to get Europe. Many women faced with the
violence of state and torture.. While we, the women, are resisting the systematic violence on one hand, on the other hand, we are resisting
against the state politics which are trying to turn our bodies into tools of war.
While the state is fed by man violence, we are exposed to both state and male violence as women. We resist this violence in all areas of our
lives and we become free as we resist.
It is not easy to be a "woman". No matter where we were born... In the east or in the west, in a small town or in a big city, our lives
always have been difficult. What we have faced with was very similar with each other. Even if we were very different, even if we speak
different languages, even if we didn't exactly "look like" each other; we had a piece inside every one of us, that was "no different" from
each other. The same things were taught to us; that we are fragile or weak, that we were awkward and foolish, that we must be well-behaved
and obedient. We were all bounded hand and foot by patriarchy.
We started fight with the things that were "taught". We started to fight with manhood, with the ones who are trying to make us believe that
no other way is possible. We started to fight for ourselves, for our every one of us. As we hold each others hands, we become stronger,
braver, more awake, more conscious, more stubborn, more free...
As we fight with patriarchy, everyday we become more and more organised. We have seen that when we come together, nothing can keep us away
from our fight.
Anarchist Women (Turkey)
http://apo.squathost.com/anarsist-kadinlar
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Message: 2
On March 8, 2020, anarchist_ki and left-wing activists of Moscow will take to the street rally. The picket line will take place at 16
o'clock near the Kitai-Gorod metro station, exit 9 (near Slavyanskaya Square). The initiative to hold an action in this place belongs to the
Social Femtrantive, which we decided to join, because we failed to coordinate a rally in the center of Moscow with the city hall. There are
many reasons to go out. ---- Insecurity of women and children in situations of domestic and sexualized violence and the ensuing femicide.
Failure to comply even with the labor rights of workers existing in Russia, harassment by superiors, colleagues and clients. Problems with
the provision of medical care to patients, the necessary medicines for which were on the sanctions list, as well as among the "narcotic"
substances. Violations of the rights of drug users, the practical impossibility in the Russian conditions of treatment for addictions,
falsification of cases under the "narcotic" articles. The insecurity of prostituted women, who in Russia, unlike their clients, are also
subject to administrative responsibility. Invisibility of LGBT + problems with a high degree of intolerance and violence against them.
Endless wars in which mothers lose their children. Finally,
As anarchist and socialist, we believe that all these problems are generated by the systems of patriarchy and capitalism. And they will be
finally resolved only during the construction of a fundamentally new society in which there will be no place for inequality and discrimination.
But this is not a reason to sit back now. Practice shows that even in existing conditions, it is possible to create a movement that will
protect women and contribute to changing people's consciousness. And no one except you and me will create it.
Patriarchy and discrimination must be fought now!
https://avtonom.org/news/8-marta-v-moskve-proydet-piketnaya-ochered
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Message: 3
Hi comrades,
This month (March) the Vrije Bond Amsterdam reading group is on the 26th. We're going to finish David Harvey's Rebel Cities, reading the
second part this time. This part is more practical than the first part, and is all about the city, rather than the workplace, as the basis
of revolution.
The reading group starts at 19:00 in the Nieuwland (Pieter Nieuwlandstraat 93), but as always, you're welcome at 18:30 for dinner!
Everything is vegan, and it is nice if you could let us know beforehand if you're joining for dinner so we'll prepare enough. But you're
also welcome if you want to surprise us!
Have fun reading, -- The VBA reading group
https://www.vrijebond.org/vrije-bond-amsterdam-reading-group-rebel-cities/
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