#Worldwide Information Blogger #LucSchrijvers: Update: #anarchist information from all over the #world - WEDNESDAY 17 JUNE 2020

Today's Topics:

   
1.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #306 -International,
      Why the French army must leave the Sahel (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  North American Anarchist Studies Network NAASN - STATEMENT
      ON THE PROTESTS AGAINST POLICE VIOLENCE 
     (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  ait russia: The 83rd Yellow Vests Protest Act and Police
      Violence [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Greece, "Black & Red" APO: Gathering-March Saturday 13 June
      17:00 Venizelos Statue[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Greece, liberta salonica: Solidarity intervention under US
      consulate [VIDEO] [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  US, black rose fed: Panel: Panel: The Black Struggle Against
      Racial Violence (ca) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  US, WSA, ideas and action: The Conversation Has To Happen!
      by By Danielle Kulp (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 8.  Poland, rozbrat - Anarchist Federation section of Poznan:
      STATEMENT - AGAINST CUTTING DOWN TREES IN 
      SUCHY LAS[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Adding endlessly the "scalps" of jihadists, does that help West Africa to move towards a political and social solution to the conflicts that
tear it apart? No. On the other hand, Operation Barkhane secures Nigerien uranium and consolidates the tutelage of France over vassalized
and discredited governments. ---- Since 2013, France has been waging an "endless war" in the Sahel, mainly in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso.
Officially, it is a "war against terrorism", a magic formula that deceptively simplifies the complexity of conflicts in the region:
insubordination of stigmatized minorities (Tuareg or Fulani), competition for land between farmers and breeders, economic crisis and drug
trafficking[1]...
At the time, the Malian army collapsed in the face of the rebel offensive. Its structural corruption was common knowledge - a place for a
non-commissioned officer or a soldier bought 250,000 to 500,000 CFA francs[2]- and many soldiers were at the front almost without equipment,
because their officers had sold it contraband... As for the neighboring countries, which the UN had mandated to rescue Mali, they were slow
to move, and rather pressed Bamako to call Paris for help...

In southern Mali, we began to hope for French intervention, which will be widely applauded. Even anti-imperialist intellectuals like Samir
Amin saw the slightest harm in it and supported it[3].

In reality, calling for a French intervention was tantamount to being chained "to the neo-colonial chariot" for "along time yet", wrote
Alternative libertaire then[4]. But at the time, it was difficult to make this criticism heard, and the Malian diaspora in France boycotted
one of the only protest rallies against Serval, convened in front of Areva's headquarters by AL, LO and the NPA.

Seven years later, the climate is quite different. African opinions are increasingly hostile to French intervention, while other Westerners
are doing everything to stay away.

The Barkhane operation in the first half of 2020. Click to enlarge
Source: French Ministry of Defense
To raise French awareness of the issue, there are at least five good reasons to demand the withdrawal of tricolor troops from the Sahel.

1. Because it's an endless war
Rustic armed groups that strike and disappear, no front line, no clear military objective, still less political objective, civilian
populations caught in the crossfire and suspected on both sides of collaborating with "l ' enemy"... So many characteristics of a
counterinsurgency war that has become a"quagmire". Like the United States in Vietnam, like the USSR and then the United States in
Afghanistan, the French state knows that it is engaged in an unmanageable war. Only, like his predecessors, he does not know how to get out
of it.

Leaving the Sahel in these conditions is to admit seven years of war "for nothing". Staying there is perpetuating a macabre routine, where
the staff gives the impression of fulfilling its mission by making numbers - or "scalp" as he says with derision: here, 20 combatants killed
in a drone strike, there, 30 others sprayed by a Mirage 2000. They will be quickly replaced[5].

Jihadist leaders when the GSIM was founded in March 2017. In the center, the tutelary figure: Iyad ag Ghali, trained by the Libyan regime,
then Tuareg rebel leader, then government official in Bamako, then jihadist rebel. Left: Fulani preacher Ahmadou Koufa.
2. Because it delays a political solution
The pitiful withdrawal of French troops will come sooner or later, but in the meantime, their presence prevents other options than the "war
on terror" from being explored. It is the wish of a part of the Malian society, which thinks that the jihad is only the screen of a
rebellion whose springs are in reality social and political, and which it is necessary to negotiate while it is still time, that is to say
before international jihadists, survivors of Syria for example, come to make their hole in the Sahel and make any dialogue impossible[6].

So when, in April 2017 in Mali, a National Understanding Conference recommended the opening of negotiations with the two main Islamist
leaders, Ahmadou Koufa and Iyad Ag Ghali, Paris immediately prohibited the Malian government from going in this direction[7].

Rebelote in early 2020, when the Barkhane force declared that it would ignore any negotiations, and continue to strike at the terrorists[8].
The French guardianship therefore prevents the search for a political solution by the Malians themselves.

Paris turns a blind eye to the atrocities committed against the civilian population by its allies in the name of anti-terrorism.
Photo: army staff.
3. Because it probably makes the situation worse
Barkhane's murderous routine fuels the desire for revenge. And it will progress with the "collateral" victims who can only increase since in
December 2019, Barkhane cocked its missile drones. We saw it in another "endless war", that waged by Obama against Al-Qaeda in Pakistan and
Yemen between 2008 and 2016: out of 3,800 dead in 542 "targeted attacks" by drones, 8% were civilians killed by accident[9].

The motivations of penniless young people in the Sahel to join armed Islamism are diverse: the lure of gain (rapine and trafficking), of
power, the defense of a minority (Tuareg or Peuhl) mistreated by a Racist state and its soldiers ... The fundamentalist reference to Islam
provides a virtuous covering for this commitment. But with the French presence, we can add another, prestigious motive: the anti-colonial
combat against the "crusaders".

Jihadist attack zones and military bases (2015-2018). Click to enlarge
Source: IHS Markit
In March 2017, facing the adversary, four jihadist groups hitherto competing - Ansar Dine, AQMI-Sahel, Al-Mourabitoune and Katiba Macina -
thus unified within the Support Group for Islam and Muslims ( GSIM, affiliated with Al-Qaeda). One of the fears of some observers is that
the GSIM "goes upmarket" and becomes capable of projecting beyond its traditional area of action, for example by planning reprisal attacks
in France[10]. For the French population, who cares little about Operation Barkhane, the revival would be violent.

Read also: "Sahel: the long time of intertwined conflicts" , Alternative libertarian, June 2020.
4. Because it strengthens a criminal system
For many discredited and corrupt regimes, the "war on terror" is an alibi for obtaining the Western blessing. However, the definition of
"terrorism" can, as often, be vague and mixed with racism. The Tuareg and Fulani minorities, accused of sympathy for the jihadists, are
particularly victims. In Mali and Burkina Faso, since 2016, the civilian populations have in fact not only been victims of the jihadists,
but also of the regular army and militias which are subservient to it. Their crimes, summary executions and collective massacres amount to
hundreds of deaths[11]. Because it comes from allied states, the French government turns a blind eye to this kind of ... terrorism.

In general, the grid of the continent by the French army - more than 8,000 soldiers in 9 countries, in March 2020 - consolidates impunity.
Think of the sad dean of African autocrats, the Cameroonian Paul Biya (in power since ... 1982!), Or the Chadian Idriss Deby (in power since
1990). In February 2019, Paris saved him for the umpteenth time, when Barkhane deviated from his mission to bomb, in Chad, a column of
rebels who were not yet jihadists![12]

5. Because it is an imperialist intervention
Since independence, France has wanted to keep its influence in Africa. Basically, the French army is calibrated less for "defense" than for
being "projected" into distant theaters, according to the interests of the state and national capitalism. In March 2020, according to staff
figures, 41% of the personnel deployed were abroad[13]. It is an army of "external operations", that is to say an imperialist army.

Like Russia currently in Syria or the United States in Vietnam in the past, France claims to be a "guest power" in the Sahel by friendly
governments which have called on it for help. This rhetoric hardly masks its imperialist motivation. On the one hand, it must secure its
supply of Nigerian uranium. On the other hand, he must confirm that she is a reliable tutor, with whom to be reckoned. It is a decisive key
to preserving, in the face of American and Chinese competition, concessions and public markets in Africa.

However, the French state, which claims to restore order in the Sahel, has an important responsibility in the current situation. In 2011, he
could not ignore - since it was the great fear of Chad, Niger, Mali or Algeria - that the destruction of the regime of Colonel Gaddafi, in
Libya, was likely to lead to a dissemination of armaments and "lost soldiers" in the Sahel, where Gaddafi had pulled the strings of
rebellion for more than twenty years.

In March 2020, 41% of the personnel deployed by the French army were abroad.
Photo: army staff.
Demystification
In the Sahel, the French state presents itself as a savior. The reality is that it does not save people and does not reduce violence. It
only saves uranium mines and its status as a suzerain state vis-à-vis vassalized governments. Its armed presence locks West Africa into
dependence, sometimes keeps it under the rule of demonetized dictators, removes the possibility of peace negotiations and, overall, prolongs
and aggravates an endless war.

Guillaume Davranche (UCL Montreuil)

Validate

[1]Eros Sana, "Mali: the real causes of war" , Bastamag, February 4, 2013.

[2]Aminata Traoré, Boubacar Boris Diop, La Gloire des imposteurs, Philippe Rey, 2014.

[3]Aminata Traoré, Boubacar Boris Diop, La Gloire des imposteurs, Philippe Rey, 2014.

[4]Libertarian alternative, "Mali: Areva is worth a war" , January 16, 2013.

[5]"" Barkhane "says he eliminates a hundred combatants per month in the Sahel" , Le Monde, March 11, 2020.

[6]What is happening, with the current rise of a GSIM competitor, the Islamic State in the Grand Sahara (EIGS)

[7]Moussa Bolly, "Paris prohibits Bamako from negotiating with Iyad" , Maliactu.net, April 14, 2017.

[8]Le Monde , March 11, 2020.

[9]"Obama's Final Drone Strike Data" , on Cfr.org.

[10]Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos, A lost war. France in the Sahel, JC Lattès, 2020.

[11]Human Rights Watch, "Atrocities committed in Burkina Faso in the name of security risk swelling the ranks of terrorists" , June 12, 2019
; HRW report on "atrocities committed against civilians in central Mali" , February 2020; "La Minusma accuses the Malian army of having
perpetrated 101 extrajudicial executions" , Malijet.com, May 4, 2020, etc.

[12]Thomas Noirot, "Chad: The French army out of control" , Survie, February 25, 2019.

[13]Infographic, Ministry of Defense , March 2020.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Pourquoi-l-armee-francaise-doit-quitter-le-Sahel

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NAASN: "We will ensure that these deaths were not in vain" ---- June 9, 2020 ---- The North American Anarchist Studies Network stands in
solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in condemning police murders and the violent repression of protests. ---- NAASN STATEMENT ON
THE PROTESTS AGAINST POLICE VIOLENCE ---- The North American Anarchist Studies Network condemns the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor,
Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, David McAtee, Nicholas Gibbs, Chantel Moore and the countless other Black, Indigenous and People of Color
(BIPOC) lives stolen by police violence and white supremacy. The long history of racist police brutality and murder has been facilitated by
a culture of impunity that encourages such violence.
We therefore stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement
and other anti-racist groups in condemning police murders and the
violent repression of protests, demanding and fighting for racial
justice and calling for long-overdue radical structural changes. These
include defunding, divesting from and abolishing police and prisons and
investing in community-led health, education and safety alternatives. As
anarchist scholars and activists, we also denounce the scapegoating of
anarchists and anti-fascists to delegitimize this movement for justice,
excuse further violence against protestors and criminalize dissent.

These and many other instances of flagrant abuse of police power are
stark examples of systemic injustice and racism. Police terrorize BIPOC
communities, LGBTQ+ communities, people with disabilities and poor and
unhoused people on a daily basis. The coercive threat of police violence
and imprisonment is omnipresent. Militarized police forces throughout
the globe enforce violently racist, ecologically destructive and white
supremacist systems of capitalism and settler-colonialism.

Because of the inherently violent and unjust nature of the system of
policing, we stand with organizations like MPD150 who demand that police
be held accountable, defunded and ultimately abolished. True justice is
not possible until the systems that beget injustice are dismantled.
Astronomical budgets for oppressive, militarized prison systems and
police forces should be diverted to communities in need. Instead of
devoting public funds to policing and imprisoning unhoused people, for
example, these funds should be used to make housing a human right.

Police justify their existence by filling necessary social roles, from
responding to emergencies to guiding traffic. While violent and racist
police activities should cease to exist altogether, roles like emergency
response should be filled by accountable, unarmed, community-based and
democratic organizations.

As a transnational network of researchers and writers operating both
inside and outside the official system of higher education, we add our
voices to the call for all educational institutions to both divest from
local police and defund, disarm, and disband their own policing forces.
We call on all academics, faculty members and public intellectuals to
use their positions to both critique oppressive institutions and
organize to remove them from our communities.

As a community of scholars dedicated to the study of anarchism in North
America, we recognize the danger when president Trump and others blame
"anarchist thugs" and anti-fascist activists for instigating violence,
thus cynically deflecting attention from the white supremacist and
far-right violence he has encouraged and enabled.

Authoritarian leaders have long deployed the "bomb-throwing anarchist"
stereotype to delegitimize protest and justify police violence against
popular movements for social justice. Indeed, following World War I, the
American government fomented an anti-anarchist "red scare." This
reactionary period saw mob violence, beatings, arrests, censorship, mass
deportations of working-class activists and executions, including the
execution by electric chair of two immigrant radicals, Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Now, we see the same story begin to play out in the
United States as a fearful president threatens to suspend civil and
human rights to "dominate" the "rioting anarchists."

We call out such craven propaganda tactics for what they are: facile
attempts to distract the American public from the real sources of
violence, inequality and racism. We note in response that anarchists
have played useful and productive roles in almost every major horizontal
(non-electoral) social movement in modern North American history.

Rather than demonizing anarchists, we invite consideration of the wisdom
and insight to be found in non-hierarchical organizing methods and
radical political thought, including especially the long tradition of
radical Black political thought and practice, from Abolitionism to
Anti-Racist Action to Black feminism and beyond.

To end, we repeat the words Sacco and Vanzetti wrote shortly before the
State of Massachusetts killed them 93 years ago.

What I wish more than all in this last hour of agony is that our case
and our fate may be understood in their real being and serve as a
tremendous lesson to the forces of freedom, that our suffering and death
will not have been in vain.

- Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, 1927

Sacco and Vanzetti's words ring true for all others killed by police and
the prison system, who fill the history books of the USA and so many
other countries. Through movements for freedom, we learn from each
other's struggles and stand together against interlocking systems of
domination. We will ensure that these deaths were not in vain.

In solidarity through the endless struggle,

The North American Anarchist Studies Network, 2020

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The yellow vest movement in France, as part of the "83rd" regular "act" of protest, joined in mass protests against police violence. Despite
the ban of the authorities that did not allow 10 people to gather under the pretext of an epidemic, tens of thousands of people took to the
streets of Paris and other cities of the country. In the capital of France, it was a real huge human sea. ---- The organizer of the
demonstration in Paris was the True for Adam committee, but its holding was supported by many organizations and movements, including yellow
vests. Protesters marched on Republic Square and planned to march to the Opera Garnier, but the police did not allow the motorcade to start
moving from the square. Although the prefect of the Paris police Didier Lalman did not issue a special decree prohibiting the Saturday
rally, the rally was considered illegal even without it: the protesters did not file an application for the rally with the police, and the
state of emergency sanction prohibits gathering in public places for more than 10 person.

"The police prefecture decided to allow the protesters to remain in the Republic Square," the source said. The police said that for some
time they would not allow the motorcade to start moving, but they asked cafes, restaurants and shops that are on the alleged route of the
protesters to close their doors to customers. Then the police prefecture tweeted that the protesters could leave the square on any of the
streets except Saint-Martin boulevard, which was supposed to go through the march. However, according to eyewitnesses, Le Parisien reports
that the police did not allow the protesters to leave the protest
(https://www.revolutionpermanente.fr/Paris-Malgre-l-interdiction-de-manifester-la-mobilisation-s-amplifie-contre-les-violences;)

The gathering on the Republic Square was held initially in a calm atmosphere. However, the situation was aggravated by the far-right from
the "Identity Generation", who around 14.30 provocatively launched a banner in support of "victims of anti-white racism." In response, the
crowds began to chant "Down with the Fache!" The banner was torn and torn to pieces, the Nazis began to throw smoke bombs, but were thrown
out. Among the anti-fascist slogans sounded the slogans of "yellow vests."

Unable to leave the square, the demonstrators held a rally at it. The speakers co-branded racism and police terror. The audience chanted:
"Justice for Adama, justice for everyone!", "There is no justice - there is no peace", "The police are everywhere, there is no justice
anywhere" ... At about 5.25 pm the crowd began to disperse. Some of the protesters organized a "wild demonstration", trying to break through
to the street of Foburg du Temple. Police met them with stunning grenades and tear gas. Soon gas leaked to Republic Square, and protesters
tried to leave the square along Magenta Boulevard. In theory, it was open to passage, but in reality it was closed.

After a police provocation, street clashes began to boil. Smoke bombs, stones and bottles flew into the police and gendarmes; guards of the
capitalist order responded with tear gas. Activists of the "Black Block" forcefully threw back the police in the square. While leaving, the
police special forces lost the shield. It was reported that one of the policemen was injured.

At about 6 pm, the police demanded that the peacefully assembled people gather in the square to disperse, while pouring gas and hail of
grenades at the crowd. "Street doctors" assisted the victims. Under the pressure of gas, the demonstrators began to leave the square.
Relatives of Adama Traore called to sit on the ground, forming a giant "sit-in." The battles in the square did not stop even after the rally
at 18.20, in tear gas clubs, under a hail of police grenades and flying objects thrown at the police. The police tried to clear the area,
simultaneously urging everyone to disperse. At 18.50, Assa Traore spoke on the square, condemning the repression and suppression of the
peaceful manifestation, but urging everyone to leave the square. As people dispersed through Folburg-du-Temple, the battles continued, and
the Truth for Adam group several times called for stopping throwing stones at the police. But it was difficult to stop people indignant at
police provocations ... ( )

Other demonstrations against police violence were held by Marseille (from the Old Port), Montpellier (from Piazza Comedy), Nantes (from
Piazza Bouffet), Saint-Nazaire, Bordeaux (from Piazza Bourges - along with the "yellow vests"), and on June 14 in Strasbourg
(https://blogs.mediapart.fr/ceinna-coll/blog/140620/acte-83-lxxxiii-paris-13062020-contre-le-racisme-et-les-violences-policieres)

In Lyon, despite the ban, a protest rally brought together at least 2,000 people who had arrived at the Palais de Justice in 24 columns by 2
pm. Among the demonstrators who followed the call of the group "Truth and Justice for Mehdi" were "yellow vests." Mehdi is the name of a
young man who died after a police arrest. At the end of the rally, part of the protesters went to Bellecour Square, in a shopping area where
protests were prohibited. To disperse them, gas and water cannons were used. 5 people were detained
(https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/auvergne-rhone-alpes/rhone/lyon/contre-racisme-violences-policieres-manifestation-lyon-ce-samedi-13-juin-1841058.html)

In Toulouse at noon, defying the ban on demonstrations, dozens of people entered the central square of the Capitol and carried out a
surprise campaign, unfurling banners with the words: "Yes to a subsequent, more just peace," "10 unemployed for 10 who received minimum wage
compensation," "Masked, but mouth shut," etc. The rally was attended by "yellow vests", activists of the housing right movements, feminist
initiatives, groups of temporary workers, etc. (
https://www.gj-magazine.com/gj/refusons-de-la-fermer-action-surprise-place-du-capitole-a-toulouse-ce-samedi/)

In Amiens, at 14.00, dozens of protesters in yellow vests gathered in Otua Square, and then marched along the central streets of the city,
staging a rally in front of the Town Hall
(https://www.courrier-picard.fr/id91814/article/2020-06-13/une-quarantaine-de-gilets-jaunes-manifestent-amiens)

In the city of Bar-le-Duc (capital of the Meuse department), a group of "yellow vests" gathered for a protest in the city center. "We are
here to try to protect our city," they said. The main topics they mentioned were plans to close the hospital and the situation of
small-scale trade in the city ( https://www.gj-magazine.com/gj/hopital-commerce-les-gilets-jaunes-alertent/ )

In Tampon, on the French island of Reunion, about a hundred "yellow vests" gathered at their traditional place of protest - the roundabout
in Azale, calling for the "convergence" of various themes of struggle and movements. 3 people were detained by the police
(https://www.linfo.re/la-reunion/societe/qg-des-azalees-les-gilets-jaunes-militent-toujours-pour-la-convergence-des-luttes)

https://aitrus.info/node/5501

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"There can be no capitalism without racism" Malcolm X ---- While in various parts of the world the anger against the state, capitalism and
the police is growing and triggering a series of social uprisings, various groups of nationalists such as the "Holy Corps" are trying to
appear in public, organizing "Makedonian pride" to defend themselves. just racism and promote racism, hatred for refugees and immigrants.
The real problem, however, is not primarily in these reserves of the system called in the vanguard, when the social and class movement
raises its stature and directly threatens their bosses. The root of racism and racial barbarism lies in the system that breeds these
notions: capitalism.
Anyone who believes that the above statement of Malcolm X has any "exaggeration" is making a serious mistake. An even bigger surprise will
be experienced by anyone who thinks that capitalism can continue its parasitic reproduction by beautifying itself, abandoning its racist
nature. This is because capitalism is the regime of increasing expulsion of the poor, the oppressed, the exploited. In its final phase, it
is throwing more and more people to the sidelines, sharpening its class character, in order to achieve even greater profits. Unemployment,
misery, poverty. To these are added war, police brutality, and constant oppression. George Floyd of this world is the poorest, wherever the
earth is.

In the United States, racism has equated African Americans with crime, and the state treats the poor as slaves. There, the difference in
skin color in relation to the class position creates a pool of locals who, however, can be treated like refugees and immigrants. As the
state treats the helpless people of Moria, Ritsona and the other "hosting centers" in Greece. Here we have concentration camps for
foreigners. We are discussing sending them to Xeronisia. In the United States, immigrants with US citizenship usually end up in one of the
country's thousands of prisons.

We have no illusions about the world of rulers. No government, no party, is going to break the racist abscess. No state can undo class
divisions. Only an independent society can, with self-organization and self-management, uproot the roots of racism and bourgeois class
domination. It is the society that abolishes the state that does not need the police. It is the society that is destroying the world of the
bosses that is dissolving the racist prejudices. It is the conscious proletariat and the insurgent masses that need and need to build this
society. And that is the only way to break racism. To overthrow the system that gives birth to him.

Anti-State - Class - International Solidarity with insurgents around the world

Against police barbarism, nationalist extremism and fascist "pride"

Anti-Fascist Gathering / March Saturday 13 June 17:00 Venizelos Statue

Local Coordination of Thessaloniki of the Anarchist Political Organization (Federation of Collectivities)

https://maurokokkino1936.wordpress.com/2020/06/11/

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As part of the propaganda of the anti-racist march of international solidarity that will take place in Thessaloniki on 13/06 at the Statue
of Venizelos at 17:00, an intervention was made in the shopping center Square opposite the American consulate with banners, T-shirts and
slogans. Rebellion and riots broke out in the United States over the assassination of George Floyd, which spread to many other cities around
the world. ---- We show our solidarity with the insurgents and resist racism, state terrorism and capitalism. ---- The cops have brought in
6 people who were released shortly after 20:00 ---- EVERYONE IN SATURDAY 13/06 at the ANTIRATSISTIC MOVEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL CHANGE at
17:00 at the statue of Venizelos
 From Minneapolis to Moria, racism, state terrorism and capitalism do not allow us to breathe.

Free Social Space School

Freedom Initiative of Thessaloniki

Anarchist collectivism from the east

https://youtu.be/g017DhKWnrs

https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2020/06/12

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How can we understand the situation of the United States through a libertarian socialist lens? ---- We present a Spanish language
conversation between comrades from the United States and South America. Following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police,
uprisings arose across the U.S. demanding justice and denouncing the systematic murder of people of African descent. This revolt is
happening now in the framework of a pandemic where the U.S. is facing the highest number of cases as well as massive of unemployment. ----
Participants:
Pablo - Solidaridad (Santiago, Chile)
Lorena - Acción Socialista Libertaria (Santa Cruz, CA)
Servio - Black Rose/Rosa Negra (Rhode Island)
Pedro - Black Rose/Rosa Negra (Oakland, CA)
Miguel - Black Rose/Rosa Negra (Seattle, WA)
Ambar - Black Rose/Rosa Negra (Miami, FL)

https://blackrosefed.org/panel-lucha-negra-contra-violencia-racial/

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In many American households people are wringing their hands and wondering, "what's going on?" They see the fires, the damage, the looting,
and wonder how the death of one man, George Floyd, could cause all of this. Maybe some of them are a little more up on the news cycle, and
they know the tragedy of Breonna Taylor's death.Or how Amy Cooper, when requested to leash her dog in the Ramble in NYC's Central Park, told
former Marvel editor and avid bird watcher Christian Cooper (no relation) that she was going to call the cops and "tell them that an African
American man is threatening me and my dog," as she strangled said dog.They might agree that these videos are tragic, they might have voted
for Democrats, but they think that "rioting and protesting like this isn't the way" or "this isn't something Martin Luther King would have
agreed with" and "the looting drowns out any positive message that was to be had." Maybe this picture of the average American is your
liberal uncle, your coworker, your well-meaning friend who shuts down at the first sign of confrontation.
As working class radicals, we know that it is not just this handful of incidents, but decades of violence against Black bodies in the form
of laws, policies, unspoke

http://ideasandaction.info/2020/06/conversation-happen/

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Message: 8



Today (6.05) at 6:00 a group of ten activists associated with the "Green Wave" initiative and the Poznan Anarchist Federation conducted a
direct civil disobedience action, organizing a blockade of felling trees located at Mlodziezowa Street in Suchy Las. In this way they want
to thwart the possibility of continuing the felling, which without the consent of the residents and the commune began yesterday. Activists
came to support the fight of the inhabitants of Dry Forest against the total felling of 65-year-old linden avenue. Yesterday almost all
possibilities of legislative blocking of felling and a few weeks' protest of the inhabitants proved to be ineffective.

Department: Country
Keywords Dry forest Lipa sector Ecology Green wave
We would like to remind you that as part of the activities undertaken in recent weeks, the inhabitants have submitted to the commune head
Grzegorz Wojter a petition against the logging, which was signed by 1,000 people.
Wojtera ignored the petition, further accelerated the start of the cut from Thursday to Tuesday! What's more, he declared that he also did
not intend to delay the felling in any way, despite the fact that it was not until May 11 that an extraordinary session of the commune
council was to be held, during which residents and councilors would be able to get acquainted with the project for the reconstruction of
Mlodziezowa Street for the first time. According to residents, it can be renovated in a way that also assumes the protection of greenery in
this place and is not associated with felling.

At this point, the last option that we have to stop work related to felling and to support the local community is to put pressure on the
Poznan staroste to block the decisions taken (as a person holding a clerical position superior to the head of the commune head).

 From the morning, being strapped to the trees, we demand that the starost come to the place and express a public declaration by him - which
side is he advocating and whose interests are more important to him; whether its actions are going to protect and represent the inhabitants
of Suchy Las, or the private arbitrary head of the mayor, of which even the councilors did not know. We demand the immediate cessation of
work, leaving the lime trees still uncut and changing the road plan so that it takes into account the leaving of trees.

The trees we are fighting for were planted 60 years ago by primary school students located at the end of Mlodziezowa street. They have an
additional sentimental value for the local community. They provide protection against the sun on hot days, natural tools to fight smog and
global warming. Their presence also allows to preserve water in the ground, which is of great importance in the current drought in Poland.
At the same time, it should be remembered that due to climate change and drought, new compensation plantings may not be accepted, which is
why it is so important to leave and protect even a few uncut trees!

Green Wave
Anarchist Federation Poznan section

https://www.rozbrat.org/informacje/krajowe/4720-oswiadczenie-przeciwko-wycince-drzew-w-suchym-lesie

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