#Worldwide Information Blogger #LucSchrijvers: Update: #anarchist information from all over the #world - FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2020

Today's Topics:

  
 1.  Chile: Faced with the militarization and precariousness that
      plagues our neighborhoods, the Anarchist Federation of Santiago
      declares (ca) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  US, black rose fed: Summer Agitational Posters
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Britain, Today in Class War Daily MONDAY 08 JUNE 2020
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  awsm.nz: Police abolition and other revolutionary lessons
      from Rojava by Hawzhin Azeez (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 5.  Greece, liberta salonica: Solidarity rally with anarchist
      comrade Irdi K .: Thursday 11/6, 09:00 at the Administrative
      Court of First Instance of [machine translation] Thessaloniki.
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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1- Since the arrival of Viruses in the Chilean region, the State and the government have managed a genocidal policy, where the profits of
large companies have been privileged over the lives of millions of people, which is why today We have the highest contagion figures per
million people on the planet, with an amount of contagion that exceeds 138,000 people, a question that has us among the 13 territories most
affected by the virus. Regarding mortality, according to government data, around 2,400 people have died (figures released on June 7),
however, it is noted that this figure is higher, since only those who have confirmation by examination of being positive cases, that is,

The government insists on blaming people for the existing health chaos, however it says nothing about years and years of precarious public
health policies, they say nothing about the lack of medical supplies, they say nothing about the collapse of the entire hospital network
public of the Chilean region, which year after year is evident in winter. Sebastián Piñera and Jaime Mañalich are assassins, who have played
with the lives of millions of people, without caring about death, hunger, fear and uncertainty that floods our populations, they are
criminals who have only protected the interests of the class dominant, while the government and the parties of order insist on their
repressive agenda, without any progress in health and sanitation.

2- This system of misery and injustice has condemned the lives of thousands of workers to feminized, racialized and migrant bodies. Hunger
and unemployment have strongly knocked on our doors, in the face of the pandemic and the measures of confinement. Among the most affected
are the informal workers who have been left without the possibility of bringing their livelihoods to their homes, and who in their
desperation for food and shelter have taken to the streets trying to survive, being strongly repressed by pacos and soldiers. Likewise,
those who had more stable jobs have been left in complete abandonment due to pro-government measures by the government. The Employment
Protection Law has favored the unjustified dismissal and job insecurity of hundreds of workers, a large number of whom are women, by large
companies and SMEs. This situation has occurred mainly in the retail and construction sectors, bringing the highest unemployment figures
nationwide for 35 years, representing a total of 469,284 unemployed, according to official figures. The effects of this situation that only
affects the marginalized and excluded: the oppressed class, countless protests have begun to live in our territories for weeks, along with
camps in front of the embassies of different countries where the migrants cry for help from the different genocidal states, which clearly
forgot about them. according to official figures. The effects of this situation that only affects the marginalized and excluded: the
oppressed class, countless protests have begun to live in our territories for weeks, along with camps in front of the embassies of different
countries where the migrants cry for help from the different genocidal states, which clearly forgot about them. according to official
figures. The effects of this situation that only affects the marginalized and excluded: the oppressed class, countless protests have begun
to live in our territories for weeks, along with camps in front of the embassies of different countries where the migrants cry for help from
the different genocidal states, which clearly forgot about them.

Faced with this complex situation, where once again the State, as a good apparatus of the bourgeois class, has aligned itself with the
business community, installing "save yourself who can" as an official discourse, while in the territories different embryos have been
organized community life to mitigate the effects of this problem, thus common pots, soup kitchens, self-managed supply networks have
emerged, buying together, etc. Faced with the indifference of the State, the peoples have responded with solidarity and mutual support,
reactivating our class memory, experiences that taught us in the most difficult years of our history that based on organization and
resistance, the oppressed can overcome all obstacles .

3- In this context, protests and mobilizations have arisen in different parts of the Chilean region, where neighborhoods and populations
have mobilized, denouncing hunger and the repression that plagues them. The popular learning from the social revolt, the territorial
organizations, some more and others less mature, have encouraged that, despite the pandemic, it is necessary to be on the street, mobilized,
and that this is the only tool we have to end the precariousness of life. and direct a revolutionary process from below. Popular
self-organization and the capacity for direct action that germinates in different territories chart the way for us to face this new
political cycle marked by the social, ecological and economic crisis that was already accumulating, but that in a context of pandemic,

We must pay attention to the response that the State has had in our territories since this crisis. This has responded with a very strong
repression and with miserable measures, such as the distribution of basic baskets, which were acquired from the SAIEH, CENCOSUD and WALLMART
groups, that is, while the dominadxs pay the costs of this crisis, the businessmen continue to fill their pockets with our needs. 2.5
million baskets were announced to be distributed among the poorest families but that specifically would only provide coverage of less than
40% of the most precarious class, these crumbs of the State have given rise to an aberrant media show and the opportunism of the politicians
and bureaucrats, who have come to our towns to deliver merchandise in boxes with their names and photographs. Our hunger, our misery, is for
them an opportunity to campaign politically. Of the foregoing, special analysis must be given to the mayor of territorial policy who,
through their client networks and welfare, have managed to manage the crisis through institutional channels, from the delivery of social
benefits, common pots and bonds in money, which works against the interests of our territorial policy of self-management and struggle. It is
urgent to mature our organizational experiences and give it a perspective that allows us to build and position a class, solidarity, feminist
and ecological territorial alternative, political projects that are in favor of resistance for life. special analysis must be given to the
mayor of territorial policy who, through their client networks and welfare, have managed to manage the crisis through institutional
channels, from the delivery of social benefits, common pots and cash bonuses, which It plays against the interests of our territorial policy
of self-management and fight. It is urgent to mature our organizational experiences and give it a perspective that allows us to build and
position a class, solidarity, feminist and ecological territorial alternative, political projects that are in favor of resistance for life.
special analysis must be given to the mayor of territorial policy who, through their client networks and welfare, have managed to manage the
crisis through institutional channels, from the delivery of social benefits, common pots and cash bonuses, which It plays against the
interests of our territorial policy of self-management and fight. It is urgent to mature our organizational experiences and give it a
perspective that allows us to build and position a class, solidarity, feminist and ecological territorial alternative, political projects
that are in favor of resistance for life. from the delivery of social benefits, common pots and cash bonuses, which works against the
interests of our territorial policy of self-management and struggle. It is urgent to mature our organizational experiences and give it a
perspective that allows us to build and position a class, solidarity, feminist and ecological territorial alternative, political projects
that are in favor of resistance for life. from the delivery of social benefits, common pots and cash bonuses, which works against the
interests of our territorial policy of self-management and struggle. It is urgent to mature our organizational experiences and give it a
perspective that allows us to build and position a class, solidarity, feminist and ecological territorial alternative, political projects
that are in favor of resistance for life.


4- The repressive measures adopted by the government intensify every day. Our neighborhoods and peripheral populations are devastated by
hordes of Black Berets, famous in this territory for the crimes they carried out during the Pinochet dictatorship. The army minions along
with the special forces of the pacos roam our streets repressing and instilling fear, their task is clear: on the one hand to protect
private property, the interests of the ruling class, and on the other hand to take charge of repressing settlers who organize rage with
barricades and stones, resisting this system of death and misery. We see with concern this repressive outpost of the State of Chile and its
domination in all territories throughout the Chilean region and Wallmapu,

The government seeks to push new repressive laws such as the Intelligence Law, which comes to directly attack the nuclei of popular
organization, criminalizing them and creating, as in past decades, the figure of the "internal enemy", transforming the National
Intelligence Agency in a new political and repressive police, such as DINA, the CNI and the Office. On the other hand, progress is also
being made in the Critical Infrastructure Law, which seeks to maintain strategic areas for the circulation of goods, strongly militarized in
any type of context, that is, to maintain endowments of the Armed Forces permanently on the streets.

It should be remembered that these laws come to add to the strong repressive agenda that the government has raised since the social
outbreak, in order to dismantle the popular organization, prohibit expressions of social protest, and extend the State of Permanent
Exception. That is why in the first days of the pandemic, the government received new cars that released water and released gases, and not
respirators or medical supplies, its priorities were clear.

5- Clara has been the position of the State and its neoliberal government vis-à-vis the economy, they have protected profits above people's
lives, all their battery of laws has gone to safeguard the interests of the bourgeoisie and therefore still precarious more our lives.
However, we want to mention an aspect that should not be neglected by the peoples in struggle and by the organizations that defend
territories. According to the latest data provided by the Central Bank, IMACEC (Monthly Indicator of Economic Activity), the economy fell by
14.81%, although mining activity only fell by 0.1%, this statistic allows us to visualize the scenario that is brewing in terms of the
economic revival that the bourgeoisie claims, This reactivation will necessarily go through a deepening of extractivism and the extension of
extractive projects in various territories, very serious are the resolutions of the National System of Environmental Impact Assessment
(SEIA) that have authorized 2.5% more extractive projects compared the previous year, and investment in this matter has doubled. The State
and the business community are going to justify the sacrifice of territories and ecosystems under the excuse of recovering jobs and the
normal functioning of the economy, that is why it seems necessary to us to generate this state of alert, in pursuit of the defense of our
bodies and territories. 5% more extractive projects compared to the previous year, and investment in this area has doubled. The State and
the business community are going to justify the sacrifice of territories and ecosystems under the excuse of recovering jobs and the normal
functioning of the economy, that is why it seems necessary to us to generate this state of alert, in pursuit of the defense of our bodies
and territories. 5% more extractive projects compared to the previous year, and investment in this area has doubled. The State and the
business community are going to justify the sacrifice of territories and ecosystems under the excuse of recovering jobs and the normal
functioning of the economy, that is why it seems necessary to us to generate this state of alert, in pursuit of the defense of our bodies
and territories.

6- From the traditional means of communication, from the various political parties, and from the government, the discourse of national unity
has been insisted, seeking through a nationalist discourse to put wet cloths on the situation we face, we want to be clear, the crisis that
we are living is a class conflict, and the points outlined above confirm this, the ruling class has condemned us to death, hunger and
misery, and thanks to ingenuity and popular initiative, we have been able to build for ourselves and our communities food supply and
security initiatives. All this call for unity is a dirty move that aims to validate the bustling National Agreement, which seeks to generate
a plan for economic revival and "social peace",

Political parties, class organizations of the bourgeoisie (CPC and SOFOFA), business foundations and NGOs have been invited to this National
Agreement, seeking, therefore, to design an economic plan, which will clearly come to further precarize our lives, strengthening property
private and corporate earnings. We already call for the rejection of this hunger agreement, this agreement that only reaffirms the genocidal
and ecocidal policy of the Chilean nation-state.

7- From organized anarchism we see fundamental today more than ever, to promote and put into practice the values antagonistic to those of
this system of domination. We call on the struggling communities to redouble organizational and solidarity efforts, and to multiply the
embryos of self-organization for the defense of life, common pots, soup kitchens, supply networks, community care networks, solidarity
economy initiatives and feminist, territorial assemblies, among others, many of them born in the heat of the struggles of the social revolt,
together with the memory and historical heritage of centuries of struggle by the dominated class. There is an urgent need to make
territorial organization more complex, trying to diversify and be as daring as possible, both in the areas of protest struggle and in those
of self-construction, since they are dialectical processes of social transformation. Regarding the activities of care and reproduction of
life historically relegated to feminized bodies, we believe it is necessary to problematize that it is in moments of greatest contradiction
between patriarchy, capital and life, where women are in danger of ending up managing the crisis As their bodies are real racks of
structural violence, it is therefore important not to romanticize their role in common pots or in supply initiatives, and to try to
socialize these tasks without distinction of gender. The crisis of care and social reproduction of the Life are an expression of the
systemic and structural crisis of the patriarchal and capitalist system of the world.

The political cycle inaugurated with the social revolt is still open, the pandemic exacerbated the systemic crisis and along with it the
repressive action of the State, but also contrary to the organizational capacity of the peoples in struggle. This is why the main disputes
continue to occur at the level of subjectivities (the cultural, the senses, public opinion, what is said and spoken on the street) and the
political alternatives that we can generate in this scenario, where ours is the construction of revolutionary self-managed power of the
oppressed class. Our alternative must be capable of developing more legitimate and effective tactical repertoires than those of the State,
allowing us to ensure subsistence; political education processes in social spaces; of programmatic construction and the opening of a
territorial policy in a self-managed key, capable of defining political objectives together with forms of organization that allow the
territory to develop experiences of struggle and solution to practical problems of the territory, in order to mature the pillars of a
political and revolutionary program from below. Without the maturation of these territorial organizations, which is not possible outside of
the radical confrontation with state institutions, it will not be possible to abolish the effects of the current crisis, nor the challenges
that come with the social revolt and the current restitution situation. capable of defining political objectives together with forms of
organization that allow the territory to develop experiences of struggle and solution to practical problems of the territory, in order to
mature the pillars of a political and revolutionary program from below. Without the maturation of these territorial organizations, which is
not possible outside of the radical confrontation with state institutions, it will not be possible to abolish the effects of the current
crisis, nor the challenges that come with the social revolt and the current restitution situation. capable of defining political objectives
together with forms of organization that allow the territory to develop experiences of struggle and solution to practical problems of the
territory, in order to mature the pillars of a political and revolutionary program from below. Without the maturation of these territorial
organizations, which is not possible outside of the radical confrontation with state institutions, it will not be possible to abolish the
effects of the current crisis, nor the challenges that come with the social revolt and the current restitution situation.

 From the territories, our organizational efforts towards federalism and social self-management must be maturing. Every organizational
effort, associated with the basic needs of the territory (health, communications, education, supplies, patriarchal violence, community care,
community water management, etc.) that we can raise in the places where we live is a possibility to prefigure, in the building community
organized in resistance, the society we carry in our hearts.

Lastly, we know that these are fateful moments, but to the extent of the capacities and feelings, we call to support the collections and
activities generated for the support of the thousands of political prisoners who fill the State jails, who are living in situations of risk
and constant uncertainty.

IF THE STATE CONDEMNS US TO HUNGER AND DEATH!
OUR ANSWER IS ORGANIZATION FOR LIFE!
TO MULTIPLY SOLIDARITY AND MUTUAL SUPPORT!

TO MULTIPLY ORGANIZED COMMUNITIES!

FREEDOM TO LXS PRESXS POLITICXS!
TO ROOT ANARCHISM!

# AnarquismoOrganizado
# Covid19Chile
# CuarentenaconDignidad
# coronavirus # pandemic # strength # anarchy # Anarchism # Mañalichasesino # Piñeraasesino # Chiledespertó # HuelgaGeneral

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These posters are designed for quick and easy printing and are centered on social movement struggles that are currently ongoing in the U.S.
All of the posters are sized 11×17 inches.
For information on how to wheatpaste (also known as flyposting), consult the video at this link: How to Make Wheatpaste for Guerilla Street Art
Download link for "Defund the Police" poster.
Download link for "Capitalism Keeps Us Sick" poster.
Download link for "Demand PPE" poster.
Download Link for "Build the Tenants Movement" poster.

https://blackrosefed.org/summer-agitational-posters/

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Racists! Get in the Sea!  ---- Hear the Police Sing ---- Listen to Jericho
Amazing scenes: The Winston Churchill memorial was defaced in London, while in Bristol the Statue of slace trader Edward Colston was pulled
down As Black Lives Matters protestors topple one statue and deface Churchill memorial - while police stand by impotent before the people -
one protestor tells Class War Daily ... **** RACISTS! GET in the Sea!****
Yesterday, a mob of angry Bristolians finally knocked the statue of Edward Colston - one of the country's most prolific if little known
slave traders - off his city centre perch and unceremoniously dumped the ugly piece bronze junk in the city docks as an ecstatic crowd
cheered on.

Many Bristolians described it
as "the best day of my life" and
expressed relief that this blatant
symbol of racism and capitalist
accumulation at whatever the
cost has now gone from sight
forever. Even the copper wheeled
out for the media, Avon and
Somerset's Supt Andy Bennett
said the statue "had caused the
black community a lot of angst
over the last few years and I
understand why it happened."

Pressure to do something about
the statue of Colston, a boss
at the Royal Africa Company
and later at Bristol's stillthriving and influential Society
of Merchant Venturers has
been building for years. But
civic authorities, specifically
the city council, the Church
of England and the Merchant
Venturers, have dragged their
feet, delivering ridiculous
excuses for Colston and
the continuing presence of
their offensive monument to
slavery in the heart of Bristol.

As recently as 2015 the
Bishop of Bristol told a
congregation of children
at Bristol Cathedral,
forced to attend a Colston
Commemoration as they
attend Merchant Venturer

schools in the city, that there's
"still some speculation on some
of the circumstances around his
business roots."
Total bollocks. Written records
tell us Colston was directly
responsible for the enslavement
of over 84,000 Africans
(including 12,000 children)
of whom over 19,000 died en
route to the Caribbean. What's
open to speculation in that?
Tempers over Colston flared
again last year in the city when
an effort by the city's black
elected mayor, Marvin Rees, to
get a ‘corrective plaque' placed
on the statue collapsed. The
original plaque drawn up by
local historians was handed to
shadowy council officials and
the Merchant Venturers and
gutted to the point where the
historians withdrew support and
the gutless Rees let the issue
go. It had become clear to most
Bristolians that the only way
to get rid of this stain on their
city was to remove the statue
themselves and this weekend
finally provided the opportunity.

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LISTEN TO JERICHO

"To win racial equality we need
the rage that ended slavery"
wrote Jericho Brown in the
Guardian on Friday.
"If you live in the US everything
you have is the result of or
in spite of violence. Peaceful
protest alone has never brought
progress, fairness or justice to
the black folk in the USA.
I do not mean to incite anyone
to riot. These rebels and rabble
rousers have something radical
in mind. They are not interested
in the middle ground, we know
that it was once considered crazy
to say "abolish slavery", and
we are ready to get called crazy
when we say abolish the police.
If you don't think the police are
the problem, then you think black
people are. If after everything
you've seen, you think that over
the last 100 years the problem of
police brutality is black people
then you're a racist."

After decades of meekly
requesting the powerful to
remove a tribute to horrific
brutality and slavery, Bristol
finally stood up and said no more.
Bigots far and wide tried to mask
their racism by condemning
property damage but not a one
could defend it's existence, the
sad reality is simple.They just
hate black people and they are
petrified of what happens when a
united working class say "abolish
the police". Maybe we are crazy,
maybe we are extremists. That's
just fine by us. Like Malcolm X
said "Extremism in the defence of
liberty if no vice, moderation in the
defence of freedom is no virtue".

Be crazy.
Be extreme.
Stand up and take the streets.
Defend freedom and fuck 12.
Solidarity to all those who are out
there, taking action and fighting
for a better world for us all.

https://classwar.world/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CW-Daily-44.pdf

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Democratic confederalism, the ideological framework organizing society in Rojava, outlines the features of a post-revolutionary justice
system. ---- Hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets across the United States and beyond in response to the police
killing of George Floyd. Protesters in Minneapolis, New York, Los Angeles and dozens of other cities demanding justice were met with extreme
police violence, leading to more deaths and numerous injuries. ---- The four cops responsible for the murder of Floyd have since been
charged, but only after days of riots and protests forced the justice system to act. Other cops have been fired or suspended in response to
their violent and criminal behavior towards peaceful protesters, but again, only after their actions were recorded on camera and caused a
major social outcry. Many more cases of police brutality are not recorded, with the vast majority of cops facing no retribution whatsoever
for their actions.

A common slogan heard at the protests is "No justice, no peace!," raising the essential question of how a political system founded on a
bloody history of white supremacy, capitalism and colonialism can ever provide true and meaningful justice. Some call for police reforms.
Others call for the redistribution of funds. Still others argue that abolishing the police is the best option, but many people - even on the
left - find it hard to imagine the viability of such a system.

PROTECTING THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Yet, a system of this kind already exists in Rojava, the autonomous self-administrative region of North Syria. In Rojava, Asayish (Internal
Security Forces) and HPC (Civil Defense Forces) forces work together in a symbiotic relationship to provide safety and security to the
community.

The Asayish work as traffic controllers, arrest criminals, protect victims of domestic violence, serve as security guards at main governing
buildings and control the movement of people and goods from one canton to another. The HPC in contrast, are people trained in basic security
who only patrol their own neighborhood. The purpose of both forces is explicitly to protect the people from outside threats such as
terrorist forces. It is always the HPC that protects a neighborhood, never the Asayish. The Asayish protects the city while the HPC protects
the community. Both organizations have a gender quota of at least 40 percent women, if not more.

Through this alternative method, the possibility of instituting hierarchies of power and authority are considerably reduced. The people are
protecting themselves. Security forces protect those who they live with and interact with daily in the neighborhood. This proximity ensures
that violations occur only rarely. When they do occur, the neighborhood communes immediately activate community mechanisms of justice, honor
and restoration.

The chances of one group establishing a monopoly over this process are further reduced by the encouragement of everyone in the community to
participate in a roster system. Anyone can volunteer. This explicitly includes the elderly, who have to take on more responsibility due to
the fact that most young men and women are fighting at the front lines in the war against ISIS. Particularly women are active in civil
protection. Nothing restores and empowers the soul of a traumatized, war-torn community more than seeing the matriarchs of a neighborhood
stand confidently at street corners wielding AK-47 rifles for the people's protection. These images do not inspire fear and terror; they
inspire communal confidence, pride, dignity, self-respect and belonging.

The social ecology of this system is protected by promoting women's participation, a deep respect for multiculturalism and recognizing the
sacredness of nature. It is not enough to create alternative institutions without significant educational efforts to undo patriarchal,
socio-political, economic and cultural hierarchies. This system is established through concerted efforts toward democratization, education
and unlearning within society. This is the only way that meaningful, long-term and organic change can occur.

In order to re-educate society, people in Rojava enter academies for one, two or even three months at a time. This is done on a volunteer
basis but also involves government institutions. For example, the Ministry of Education rosters groups of up to thirty teachers at a time to
enter academies. During this process, workers continue to be paid. Women with children can take their children along and have free childcare
as they spend weeks learning about civic duties, democratic rights, gender liberation, ecological sustainability, the history of capitalism
and more.

While at the academies, everyone participates in the daily cleaning, cooking and management of the education center. Such communal
co-existence is promoted as a conscious effort to re-organize and reformulate society. These people then return to their communities and
join the Asayish, the HPC, as well as the communes, cooperatives and local councils.

AGAINST ALL FORMS OF HIERARCHY
However, before the establishment of this system was possible, an alternative ideology needed to be developed that provided a blueprint for
an ideal, democratic society. Rojava's system is based on democratic confederalism, a theory developed by the Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan
and inspired by Murray Bookchin's social ecology.

One of the foundational values of democratic confederalism is an anti-hierarchical approach to communal structures and co-existence.
Essentially, for this anti-hierarchical system to work, it must be based on the active promotion of equality across ethnic, religious and
decision-making processes. This approach starts with the difficult task of promoting women's liberation and participation throughout the
public arena. A quota of 40 to 60 percent women's participation exists across all administrative and decision-making structures.

Rojava's co-chair system requires that all leadership positions are held by one male and one female. This system is based on the fundamental
recognition that political institutions with high degrees of women's participation tend to be more inclusive and democratic in nature.
According to Öcalan:

The extent to which society can be thoroughly transformed is determined by the extent of the transformation attained by women. Similarly,
the level of women's freedom and equality determines the freedom and equality of all sections of society. Thus, democratization of women is
decisive for the permanent establishment of democracy and secularism. For a democratic nation, women's freedom is of great importance too,
as liberated woman constitutes liberated society. Liberated society in turn constitutes democratic nation.

Rojava's ideology attempts to subvert everything that we know about the state, peace, liberation and co-existence; it is explicitly against
hierarchies of all forms. Since the rise of the nation state in the 17th century, divided and colonized minorities have lived under
artificial and often authoritarian rule. This exclusionary, violent and hierarchical system teaches that diversity is the antithesis of
patriotism and national unity. Diversity must be sacrificed at the bloody alter of the nation state with its ideology of one language, one
flag, one identity and one national myth.

Through this system, the oppressed, dispossessed and stateless peoples have often come to believe that liberation can only be brought about
by having their own independent state. This process, however, naturally leads to the oppression of other minorities that fall within the
borders of that state. Through the radical grassroots model of democratic confederalism, an alternative blueprint emerges in which
primordial hatreds and long-established ethno-religious cleavages can be addressed. In Rojava, democratic confederalism unites a rich mosaic
of cultures and religions together into an enriched society that thrives on diversity rather than erasing it.

Many leftists have made the mistake of saying that democratic confederalism implies that all expressions of national identity should be
erased - that all Kurdish, Armenian, Assyrian, Yezidi and other "nationalisms" should not be expressed. This is a deeply Orientalist and
Eurocentric perspective. Asking a Yezidi to stop being Yezidi or a Kurd to stop being Kurdish would merely serve imperial and genocidal
forces established on the erasure of deeply oppressed minorities.

In contrast, in Rojava, democratic confederalism means that all cultures should live freely, expressing the rich beauty of their ancient
traditions and colors alongside one another. It means feeling pride in your identity while decentralized mechanisms of co-existence actively
dismantle hierarchies of power. It means explicit respect for multiculturalism, not asking colonized and oppressed ethno-religious
minorities to form alternative "citizenships" by denying all that they have fought to preserve throughout centuries of enforced
assimilation. Rojava asserts that diversity is the backbone of a democratic nation.

In practice, this means that education in Rojava is provided in the region's three most prevalent languages: Kurdish, Arabic and Syriac.
Street signs are trilangual. Minorities such as the Armenians are given extra decision-making capacity and extra seats in councils to ensure
that the rule of the majority does not come at the detriment of minorities. Previously destroyed churches are being actively rebuilt and
made visible, while multicultural festivals are promoted. Arts, culture, music and literature of different cultures are showcased side by
side. Diversity is promoted, supported, encouraged, celebrated rather than erased or feared.

In a democratic confederalist system, people are encouraged to participate in civil society so that people's interests and needs are
expressed through mechanisms other than through ethno-religious positions and preferences. This civic re-orientation only works when people
do not feel threatened because of their cultural identities. In this way, colonial alienation, fragmentation and anxieties are avoided while
new, interlinked avenues of belonging and political expression are created. Likewise, political and civic participation is encouraged and
expected. De-politicization, apathy and non-involvement are seen as the anti-thesis of a democratic society.
This system therefore re-creates the civic body along a psychology of liberation. It dismantles internalized hatred and oppression towards
the self and others and disassembles colonial and capitalist practices of Othering. It deconstructs, in the words of Eduardo Galeano, the
"nobodies." Nobodies are less than the Other; they are "nobody's children, owners of nothing...the no ones, the nobodied, running like
rabbits, dying through life, screwed every which way."

For any liberation ideology to be successful, it must recreate a Self, a somebody from those who have been subject to these forms of erasure.

Has Rojava dismantled all forms of racism or class structures or gender bias or other practices of discrimination? Certainly not. But it is
actively restructuring society so that it can avoid and eliminate all forms of oppression in the search for a truly democratic society. It
is important not to romanticize Rojava, to view it rationally to see how things work and consider what does not work or what amendments are
needed. Innovation is as essential to avoiding dogmatism in the achievement of a just and democratic society. In the words of Murray
Bookchin, "If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable."

The essential lesson of Rojava is that people are already actively building the alternative world others are still trying to imagine. It is
wounded and abandoned, but still breathing. And it does so despite lack of support from the international left, repeated invasions,
annexations, colonization, ethnic cleansing and the use of illegal chemical weapons against it by Turkey and its proxy terrorist forces.

The inhumanity and violence experienced by the Black community in the US is deeply shocking and traumatizing to anyone with a conscience and
to those who wish to build communities based upon mutual respect, humanity and cooperation. In order for such an alternative society to
emerge in places like the United States, the revolutions of people in the Third World must be considered more seriously, as well as actively
studied and emulated. Lessons must be learned, questions must be asked, ideas must be exchanged and innovative changes must be implemented
that fit the specific socio-political structures of a given society.

The entire social ecology of American society has been disrupted by mass poverty, vast income inequality, mass incarceration, lack of
healthcare and housing, ecological destruction and even poisoned drinking water. The arrest and incarceration of police officer Derek M.
Chauvin alongside the three other cops responsible for George Floyd's murder can act only as tokens toward "justice." Police brutality is
interwoven with multiple, intersecting layers of systematic violence, oppression and injustice. Nothing short of upending the entire system
founded on anti-Blackness can ever come close to true, lasting and effective justice.

As Kurds living across the Middle East, we watch as Black communities and allies throughout the United States rise up. We cheer their
revolutionary courage, their unwavering commitment to justice and their desire for freedom. Their cry for justice echoes in our own hearts
which are beating to the drum of freedom denied.

Although our chains may appear different, Kurds and Black Americans ultimately face the same oppressive system that continues to kill us and
impose countless forms of violence upon us. With Rojava, we are trying to show that an alternative world is possible. Now, solidarity must
become the bridge that unites us.

Hawzhin Azeez is a Kurdish academic, activist and poet. She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations.

Police abolition and other revolutionary lessons from Rojava

https://awsm.nz/?p=5489

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Message: 5



In the summer of 2019 (specifically in July), partner Irdi K., originally from Albania, in the formal process of renewing his residence
permit, a process that is mandatory every five years, so that he can stay in Greece (where he grew up). and has lived almost his entire
life), he was informed that the renewal process cannot proceed, because he is a public danger, due to his arrest and the attribution of
misdemeanor charges against him, because he participated in the course of December 6, 2014. ---- As is often the case, there has been
intense and brutal police repression along the way. Arrests, beatings, injuries and other incidents of police violence. Among those arrested
was Ardi K. After several adjournments, the partner was sentenced at first instance to 27 months. He did not deny his political identity as
an anarchist, but denied the allegations.

It is obviously a vengeful persecution of the comrade, cut and sewn to the measures of state repression, as the postponements, the
non-renewal of the residence permit, its characterization as public danger, the stretching or picking up of the laws themselves completed a
domino door. the renewal of his residence permit.

It is obvious that when you are an immigrant or come from an immigrant family and have political activity and identity, then not only are
the standard criteria that are more than enough to continue to stay in the country not taken into account, but they are rejected in a very
contemptuous and ironic way. by judges and prosecutors.

In the case of Irdi K., we are confronted with the fixed policy of the Greek state, which refuses to recognize full political rights for
first- or second-generation immigrants who have lived and worked in the country for decades, keeping them in a state of total insecurity.
Even more strongly, however, we are faced with the nightmarish reminder that in case you are an immigrant, then you are exempt from the
right to resist and any different choice beyond complete discipline gives the state the right to crush you through Kafkaesque persecution.

This treaty, however, has recipients and all the oppressed and exploited. Look at what you will suffer if you resist is the message ?????
Against this message we stand tall, we do not accept it and we will never accept it.

SOLIDARITY TO THE ANARCHIST COMPANION IRDI K.

Solidarity rally: Thursday 11/6, 09:00 at the Administrative Court of First Instance of Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki Freedom Initiative (member of the Anarchist Federation)

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