#Worldwide Information Blogger #LucSchrijvers: Update: #anarchist information from all over the #world - SUNDAY 14 JUNE 2020

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Holand, vrije bond: CALL OUT FOR PROTEST AT WORLD REFUGEE
      DAY (nl) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Britain, AFED, organis emagazine: DEAR WHITE PEOPLE AT BLACK
      LIVES MATTER PROTESTS (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  US, WSA ideas and action: We Support the Uprising -
      Statement by East Bay Group of Workers Solidarity Alliance
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  awsm.nz: The Anvil Vol 9 No 3 - JUSTICE FOR GEORGE FLOYD 7
      June 2020 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Greece, "Black & Red", APO: Solidarity rally on espiv |
      Wednesday 10 June 19:00 Tsimiski & Gounari [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1



In the name of stopping the spread of the virus, Europe has in fact created the unsanitary and unsafe conditions in which the virus thrives.
We call an end to the violence against migrants, to be replaced by the solidarity necessary to deal with this global crisis. We demand a
resumption of rescue at sea, adequate health provisions upon arrival, housing instead of detention, and support for struggling health
programs across the world. ---- On World Refugee Day (June 20th), at 14 hrs, we call for protests in as many cities as possible. Bring face
masks, megaphones, placards with slogans, and pink clothing[?]to show our shared solidarity. Remember that staying safe is also an act of
solidarity, so keep your safe distance to eachother. Take a picture or make a video and share it with us, so we can link up into a virtual
long-distance demonstration. Let us know if you plan to organize something, and we will add it to our list here.

In the following cities protests have already been announced. More information will follow!

ROTTERDAM: 14.00, Detentiecentrum Rotterdam, Portellabaan 7
AMSTERDAM: 14.00, location to be announced
TILBURG: 14.00, De Heuvel
AMERSFOORT: 14.00, Varkensmarkt
UTRECHT: 14.00, Ganzenmarkt
MIGRANTS HAVE BEEN MADE ESPECIALLY VULNERABLE
The pandemic has made it clear that our health is a collective responsibility. But the conditions in Europe's overcrowded refugee detention
centers show that Europe has abandoned this responsibility. In Rotterdam, migrants have been squeezed into cells, brought into close contact
with infected guards, while in Leiden, the emergency shelter for migrants is being closed. In Greece, the pandemic is ravaging through
refugee camps.

Migrants have been made especially vulnerable to the health crisis. Instead of providing adequate healthcare and housing for all,
authorities across Europe have used the emergency as an opportunity to increase xenophobia and escalate their attacks on migrants, often
violating the international laws they supposedly uphold. Many EU countries have suspended asylum procedures; Hungary has abolished
procedures outright. In Bosnia and Herzegovina hundreds of migrants living in improvised accommodations were violently arrested and
transported to the new EU-funded Lipa Camp.
It has become the norm for Italian, Maltese, Greek, and EU coast guards to refuse to carry out sea rescues. On April 10th, they ignored the
distress calls of a boat slowly filling up with water, left adrift on the sea for five days, leading to the deaths of thirteen people
fleeing torture and slavery in Libyan camps. Coast guards have taken to directly pushing migrant boats back into unsafe conditions. The
Maltese government has pushed migrant boats to Libya; the Greek government has kidnapped refugees from camps and forcibly sent them to
Turkey; Libyan militias supported by EU governments have deported migrants to Niger or abandoned them in the desert.

https://www.vrijebond.org/protesteer-tijdens-wereldvluchtelingendag-20-juni/

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Black Lives Matter protests have spread around the world, from major cities, to the kind of small towns that haven't had any protests in
years. White people have wanted to, and in many cases have been invited to, support the protests and join the struggle against white
supremacy. ---- However. There are different ways to do this, and some are a lot better than others. We've compiled a list of dos and don'ts
(or do's and don'ts) based on suggestions given to us (the white authors of this article) by black people, and other people of colour
involved in the BLM movement. Views are of course by no means universal, but there is a common thread of criticism that we hope this helps
to spread. ---- So my fellow white anarchists, white leftists, white accomplices, and even you, well meaning white liberal friend I haven't
spoken to since school, this list is for you.

Do take the time to look for black people organising demos in your area
Don't rush to call your own white organised demo

Do listen to black people speaking at the demonstrations
Don't take the stage to share your Very Important White Opinions™

Do make placards and banners using the slogans popular in BLM movements, especially local ones
Don't cover them in the branding of your political group as an advertising exercise

Do use the resources you have, and contact black groups to offer them, for example:
Do hand out bottles of water, PPE and food
Do offer to act as a street medic, cop watcher, or legal observer
Do help organise training so new black activists can do the above
Don't just show up and start selling your paper

Do call out your white friends for their racism and bad takes
Don't constantly argue ‘devils advocate' with your black friends

Do take a mask, and keep it on
Do take hand sanitizer, and use it
Do take spare PPE
Don't go if you've got a cough
Don't unnecessarily increase the risk of coronavirus

Don't start shouting ‘fuck the police' when no one else is
Do join in shouting ‘fuck the police' if groups of black people start it

Do give your money to black led groups and to individuals who need it
Do convince your group, union branch, workplace, to do likewise.
Don't tell all your black friends about it and then pause as if waiting for applause

Do offer to share legal advice, bust cards, or tips on dealing with protest policing if useful
Don't assume you know more than black protest organisers

Do put yourself between the police and the crowd, if you are able to tough it out or risk arrest
Don't try and start a fight with a so far placid group of cops to show how tough you are
Don't repeat the patronising narrative that riots can only be caused by white people ‘tricking' black people into them

Do go out of your way to share the speeches and stories that black people posted publicly from the demonstration you attended
Don't treat this as a photo opportunity, especially when your selfies may lead to criminal charges for others

Do realise you are going to fuck up, we all fuck up
Don't react defensively when someone points out you've fucked up

Don't come if you want to be the centre of attention
Don't think the important thing is how many new people you can add to your group
Don't assume this list is exhaustive, search for more
Don't get in an argument with black demonstrators about any of the above

Do realise this is a time to support a movement you don't control
Do come, when invited, and if you are prepared to follow the lead of black people in the crowd.

Our thanks to the people who help us to improve by using their time, experience, and critique.
If wish to add to this list, criticise it, or suggest we change it's wording, get in touch with us via social media or email.

http://afed.org.uk/dear-white-people-at-black-lives-matter-protests/

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Message: 3



The unprecedented scope of the uprising this past week reflects widespread discontent on various levels - and widespread disdain and
criticism for the racist and repressive role of the police as an institution in the USA. The immediate issue is yet another police murder of
a black man - the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis cops. But the protests have often mentioned other recent police killings of black
people. ---- We demand justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and the many other hundreds of black people murdered by
police in the past year. Since the point blank cop shooting of Oscar Grant in 2009, more than 200 people have been shot and killed by the
police here in the Bay Area - Mario Woods, Alan Blueford, Kenneth Harding Jr and others. Just in the last few days Vallejo police shot and
killed a young man on his knees with his hands raised. No cop in Vallejo has been disciplined for deadly force in the past decade despite
the many shootings by police.

The problem is very deeply entrenched in this country. The police have long been allowed a special legal immunity from prosecution and given
a free hand to keep the "lower orders" in their place. The first professional police force in the USA was created in the 1790s in
Charleston, South Carolina for the purpose of keeping slaves under control. In the north the first paid police forces arose with industrial
capitalism and a "dangerous" class of property-less wage-workers employed in the early factories - and subject to periodic unemployment and
food riots and strikes. Thus the police were set up with the dual role of protecting both white supremacy and class oppression.

Local budgets throughout the USA are weighed down with vast budgets - for noise weapons and Humvee's and body armor and endless raises while
the sanctity given to the police budgets by the Chamber of Commerce types leads to less money for public services that can provide housing
and health care and education.

Even though police are often recruited from the working class, they are no more working class than are the supervisors and managers who
police us in the workplaces. Cops are supervisors of the streets. They are part of the bureaucratic control class that includes middle
managers, judges, prosecutors, corporate lawyers and military brass. Their job is to run the corporations and the state and keep everything
going for the benefit of the wealthy owning class at the top.

Part of their institutional position in the USA is their separation from any real civilian control. And the special privileges of police
unions exist to support the repressive role of the police. That's why police "unions" are allowed to negotiate over discipline and
participate in official investigations of police violence and illegality. This allows them to push back against periodic popular pressure on
politicians or police chiefs after the latest outrage. Police unions almost never show any solidarity towards other workers in struggle -
because they are an arm of the repressive system.

Workers can stand up to them - as bus drivers have done during this uprising, refusing to haul police or prisoners captured by the cops.
This is a position that has been backed up by locals of the Amalgamated Transit Union and the Transport Workers Union.

Abolition of the police is thus a revolutionary demand. An amazing aspect of the present moment is that some members of the Minneapolis city
council are now proposing to disband the Minneapolis Police Department. City councilman Steve Fletcher has described their city's police
department as "beyond reform" and a "protection racket." "Several of us on the council are working on finding out what it would take to
disband the Minneapolis Police Department and start fresh with a community-oriented, nonviolent public safety and outreach capacity," he says.

This uprising has achieved an amazing scope - large mass marches day after day, not only in big cities, but extending far out into suburbs -
such as Walnut Creek, Clayton and Santa Rosa here in the Bay Area. Not only big urban centers but protests in small towns out on the
prairies, such as Fargo North Dakota or places like Tyler, Texas.

A Morning Consult poll says that the protests are supported - either strongly or to some extent - by 54 percent of Americans. This is vastly
more support than achieved by the astro-turf, business-supported "re-open" protests to end shelter in place protections against the
pandemic. Those were only supported by 22 percent. According to another poll, three-fourths of Americans see the killing of George Floyd as
a sign of the underlying problem of racial injustice in USA.

This wide support - and the intensity of the moment - reflects a whole series of things coming together and bearing down on the working
class majority. In the midst of the pandemic millions have lost their employer-dependent health care, and more than 40 million have filed
for unemployment benefits under a creaky unemployment system - a third of those who have filed have not received any money yet. And racial
disparities are on display in the pandemic also: The deaths to black and Latino people have been far higher than among whites.

The more than 150 wildcat strikes in the past two months are another aspect to the current discontent - including many strikes over unsafe
working conditions such as lack of personal protective gear. And with people losing their income and not having money for food, rent strikes
are also on the rise. And meanwhile the Congress focuses on more billion dollar bailouts for business interests. Thus in this situation the
oppressive and wretched reality of present American institutions bears down on millions.

The multi-racial crowds of young people in the protests are there partly because they are fed up with the engrained racist patterns of
police violence and thus express solidarity with the victims of this violence. But it's also in their own interests to participate in this
uprising because multi-racial solidarity is needed for effective struggle for the changes that would benefit them. Many see their own dire
prospects and see the way they are treated as disposable by the Lords of Capital.

http://ideasandaction.info/2020/06/support-uprising-statement-east-bay-group-workers-solidarity-alliance/

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Message: 4



The United States is aflame with rage over the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May. A cop who had arrested him over a
minor crime knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, killing him. Starting in Minneapolis, demonstrations have spread nationwide, often
linking up with local grievances against police violence and racism. ---- George Floyd's murder didn't come out of the blue. Police in
Minneapolis and surrounding suburbs, like many others in the US, are key instruments for the violent imposition of the racist social order
that enables capitalism. Their anti-Black racism is infamous, inflicting countless daily humiliations and injustices. Even in the last few
years, it resulted in the murder of Jamar Clark in 2015 and Philando Castile in 2016. Both previous cases provoked angry mobilisations, but
the murderers of Clark were never charged and the cop who killed Castile was acquitted. Minneapolis police have enjoyed impunity when they
kill a Black man, while the quick arrest and conviction in 2017 of a Black Minneapolis cop for the murder of Justine Damond, a White woman,
stands in stark contrast.

Protests began in Minneapolis the day after the murder and gradually escalated as the news, including videos taken by witnesses, spread. As
well as growing, they got angrier. People reflected on the injustice of it, considered how it could have been them - or it could well be
next time - and remembered the failure of the capitalist law either to hold police murderers responsible or to prevent subsequent murders.
The increasingly violent police response to the demonstrations provoked growing resistance amongst Black people in Minneapolis and their
supporters. The highlight of the resistance so far has been the capture of the 3rd Precinct Police Station, which was torched after the cops
evacuated it.

By the weekend of 30 and 31 May, demonstrations had spread to hundreds of cities across the United States. A number of them were quite
militant. Police tactics varied considerably, all the way from symbolic solidarity with the demonstrators to unprovoked attacks on peaceful
assemblies or even passers-by, journalists or people observing from the front porch of their own homes. At some demonstrations, police did
both in quick succession. In Minneapolis, police were bent on revenge for losing their station. In Washington on Monday, Trump announced he
was calling in the military. As this article was being written, demonstrations were ongoing and the situation was still in flux.

Police violence in the US and the community rage against it cannot be divorced from the economic situation. Black people, economically
segregated into low income ghettos, suffer disproportionately from unemployment, precarious employment and poverty wages. The coronavirus
pandemic has caused mass unemployment in the US, far more than Australia (unemployment hit 14.7% in April there and will go higher in May).
Further, the economic response to the pandemic has concentrated on aid to corporations, not households. And the pandemic itself has killed
mainly Black and other minority people in the US. When universal moral outrage meets a generalised economic grievance, a social explosion is
the result. The murder of George Floyd provoked the outrage, but the coronavirus crash provided the grievance.

Here in Australia, Aboriginal people have similar stories of police violence and racism. The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in
Custody reported in 1987, but governments since then have cherry-picked the recommendations, ignoring the most important. And deaths have
continued. Joyce Clarke was shot by cops last year. So was Kumanjayi Walker. Cameron Doomadgee was bashed to death in 2004. Tanya Day died
in Castlemaine Police Station last year while in "protective custody". David Dungay was asphyxiated in gaol in 2015. His last words were "I
can't breathe." These, as well as Ms Dhu, Mr Ward, Wayne Fella Morrison and more are the result of the need to protect a capitalist system
built on genocide and dispossession. Australia, like the United States, is a crime scene.

The Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group believes it is the duty of Anarchists everywhere to join demonstrations against police brutality and
racism that are arranged locally and to help the affected communities defend themselves against police violence. And the affected
communities have the primary role in determining the issues and deciding the demands. In Australia, this means supporting indigenous
organisations engaged in struggle over deaths in custody. It is not the proper role of Anarchists to initiate violence at rallies on these
issues, but instead to do everything in our power to ensure that, when the police start it, they lose. Collectively, these thugs in blue
need to be taught a lesson. Individually, they need to be convinced to get honest jobs.

More, though, needs to be said. While demonstrations against racist police murder are totally justified, and their militant defence against
police attack is necessary, they are insufficient. We need a more effective way of striking back than to pit our bodies against their tear
gas, capsicum spray, riot gear and armoured vehicles. If this is the limit of our tactics, we will eventually be driven off the streets by
the weight of overwhelming violence. There is another way.

Bus drivers in Minneapolis and New York have refused to transport police to demonstrations or to transport arrested demonstrators to police
stations. The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers issued a statement condemning the murder of George Floyd, as has the Atwood Centre, which
organises Amazon warehouse workers locally. These actions are the tip of the iceberg of workers' power: the ability of workers to take
action in the workplace that cuts off the flow of profits or directly deprives police of the ability to use murderous violence. This needs
to be built on.

The most effective response to racist cop terror is the action of organised workers. Murder by police should be responded to by a one-day
general strike by all workers in the city concerned, organised through their local labour council (the day of the funeral would be an
obvious occasion). All unions should have standing policies of non-cooperation with the police at demonstrations and the supply of tear gas,
capsicum spray and other instruments of chemical warfare should be banned when police are engaged in violent suppression of a protest
movement. And lastly, all police "unions" should be kicked out of the labour movement.

Why should workers do this? It's not just because it's morally right. The fight against racism is also in the clear material interests of
the working class. To be able to win even the simplest bread and butter issue, workers need solidarity. The working class needs to be able
to unite. Racism, though, is the number one weapon the capitalists use to divide the working class. White workers in the US might have
relative privilege over Black workers, but racism has weakened working class organisation so much that real wages are virtually unchanged
since the 1970s. The racism of white workers benefits the bosses, not themselves.

To achieve a principled stand against police violence, battle needs to be waged against the craven bureaucrats who preside over the current
labour movement. In the US, they are a subordinate part of the Democratic Party, while here in Australia, they are the key backers of the
Labor Party. In both countries they have, for most practical purposes, given up the use of the strike. Instead they have waged ever more
pathetic and unsuccessful campaigns via other means. Their poisonous politics of class collaboration have resulted in decades of job
destruction, erosion of conditions and, now, wage cuts. They are no more fit to win on bread and butter issues than they are to fight
against racism.

The main task of Anarchists, therefore, is the same as always. We need to build rank and file organisation in the workplace and turn the
union movement into fighting organisations. While our duty at the moment is to join the front lines defending indigenous people here and
Black communities in the US, we must remain aware that our victory can only be achieved on another field. The fight against racism can only
be won in the workplace. And the fight against racism will only be won when the working class make a revolution against capitalism.

STRIKE AGAINST POLICE VIOLENCE
STRIKE FOR A WORLD WITHOUT POLICE

JUSTICE FOR GEORGE FLOYD

https://awsm.nz/?p=5486

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Message: 5



On Thursday 21/5, following an order from the rector of Panteion, the espiv.net server is automatically shut down. The immediate consequence
of this decision was to "lose" a large part of cinematographic material, texts, brochures and books, all of which are essentially the public
expression of many political groups, collectives, neighborhood assemblies and primary trade unions. ---- According to the rectory, the
reason for this action was a complaint about copyright infringement, which concerned book titles that were uploaded to one of the 850 blogs
hosted by this particular server. ---- This repressive action is another attempt by the state to silence its political opponents and is part
of its ongoing effort to suppress and undermine any social and class resistance. After all, the recent vote by the Spanish state of
law-silence, of a total legislation with censorship content. Many times such initiatives of other states concerning laws with repressive
content are adopted by the Greek state.

Immigrants and migrants fighting against the miserable living conditions imposed on them, in Moria, Ritsona and elsewhere, by the occupied
territories, by the struggles of prisoners and local communities fighting against the destruction of their place and looting of the natural
environment, everywhere in the world the oppressed and the oppressed are confronted with the state repression that attempts to impose itself
in all fields.

Against repression, against the state and its mechanisms, we stand in solidarity with the cinematic structure of espiv and we demand its
immediate reopening.

SOLIDARITY OUR WEAPON
MICROPHONICAL / SOLIDARITY CONCENTRATION IN ESPIV | WEDNESDAY 10/6 19:00 TSIMISKI WITH GOUNARI

Collectivity for Social Anarchism "Black & Red" | member of the Anarchist Political Organization

https://maurokokkino1936.wordpress.com/2020/06/09/

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