#Anarchism from all over the #world - SATURDAY 9 AUGUST 2020

Today's Topics:

  
 1.  US, black rose fed New York City Statement: The Necessity of
      Abolishing the Police and Capitalism (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  i-f-a.org: Statement of Solidarity with Stop Bzdurom -
      Anarchist Federation (Britain) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Turkey, anarsist faaliyet: Suruc's Fight Justice Fight:
      Commemoration at the Grave of Vatan Budak (tr) 
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Die Plattform: In the Chilean region of Araucanía, a mob of
      racists and landowners cheered on by the spiritual arsonists (de)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  [Spain] Ecofeminism and social revolution By Elena Martínez
      -- ANA (pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  US, Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council - MACC: Our
      system (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Turkey, kadinlar sokakta: Women's Solidarity Keeps You
      Alive! (tr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1


In a time of political upheaval, pandemic, and protest our comrades in New York City have produced this statement. Download a PDF version of
this statement. ---- The explosive revolt following the murders of George Floyd, Raynard Brooks, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Loreal
Tsingine and Chantel Moore laid bare the collective anger that's been simmering just below the surface in a U.S. society  founded on white
supremacy and a capitalist system designed to enrich a very few haves at the expense of everyone else. The uprising was a revolt of the
Black and Brown people and the have-nots sickened by seeing the video of a Black man being slowly lynched, and tired of living day-to-day
with a dim future of precarious jobs, health and housing, unstable food, debt, a degrading climate, and a pandemic-induced depression. The
system has failed the have-nots. It's time to uproot it and replace it with a cooperative and democratic society.

The uprising has shifted the public conversation drastically. For example, three months ago the slogan ‘Defund the Police' was something
that had little circulation beyond anarchist and other radical circles. Today it's mainstream and painted on streets with the permission of
local authorities. Corporate politicians like Andrew Cuomo, hardly a ‘progressive', suddenly began speaking of ‘systemic racism' in the
police, health, housing and jobs.

The murders of Mr. Floyd and the others also set off an eruption of potentially revolutionary energy-and liberal overdrive. The revolt put a
big dent in the legitimacy of the police, and to a lesser extent, in the state and capitalism, in cities and towns as cops attacked marches
of peaceful protesters. Masses of people took over streets, confronted and fought cops, destroyed police property, and pulled down white
supremacist and colonialist statues. Aside from turning loose the cops, however, the authorities and their corporate allies spent more
energy working overtime to divert the militant anger into channels that wouldn't collapse the system. These efforts took three forms. First
was the attempt to drive a wedge in the marchers by differentiating the ‘peaceful' ones from the ‘thugs' and ‘looters'. However, the
authorities couldn't quite get together exactly who these ‘thugs' were: radical left ‘antifa' or white supremacist boogaloo boys? (These
same powers naturally ignored that the entire country was founded on looting of land from those who already lived here and the mass
kidnapping of people from Africa, not to mention the wholesale looting of wealth over the past twelve years by an assortment of banks, hedge
funds, private equity and other unaccountable institutions).

Second, the liberals and their friends have tried to narrow the issues to the police, ignoring jobs, health, housing, education, and
crushing levels of debt. Even ‘Defund the Police' got watered down, becoming instead proposals to ‘reimagine the police', whatever that's
supposed to mean, or transfer some functions over to other state bureaucracies. ‘Abolish the Police' turned into vague propositions to
reorganize the departments or replace one police force with another. The aforementioned Cuomo is a case in point. Walking back his fine
words about systemic racism, he has since told demonstrators after signing a weak ‘police reform' bill that ‘you don't need to protest'
anymore because ‘you've won'.

Third, the liberal ruling class is working feverishly to take advantage of the fact that, after marching for weeks, protesters are looking
for next steps. The liberals are happy to provide in the form of moving from ‘protest' to ‘politics'; that is, electoral politics, and the
Democratic Party in particular. Fortunately, polls show large distrust in politicians and electoral politics in general. However, whether
this sentiment can be cohered into blocs of militant activists will depend on the orientation and actions of revolutionary anarchists and
others who see the need for non-electoral direct action.

Black Rose/Rosa Negra of the New York Metropolitan Area also sees the need for protesters to discuss next steps. We are calling for
anarchists, anti-authoritarians, and revolutionaries to support the formation of Neighborhood Peoples' Assemblies, independent from all
political parties and candidates, across the city to discuss, coordinate and map out strategies to eliminate police terrorism, dismantle
jails, raise wages, and create housing and quality education and healthcare that masses of people can afford.

Towards the revolutionary necessity for abolishing the police along with capitalism.
1. Defund, Disarm, Disband the NYPD - We are fighting for a world without police. The oppressor classes require police. They are enemies of
the masses of people, including Black, indigenous, and all others who are oppressed because of who their relationship to capitalism, white
supremacy and settler colonialism. All police should be disbanded in a social revolution. That said, as immediate steps toward that goal, we
demand to drastically slash the budget and the number of cops in the NYPD. Remove them from schools and hospitals. Disarm the department of
military-grade weapons and vehicles, including chemical agents and rubber bullets. Abolish the bloated PR and media relations section.
Disband the department without replacement by private security, metropolitan area forces, or a vast expansion of state social work
bureaucracy. Redirect police funds toward restorative justice initiatives and social programs controlled by democratic and cooperative
community organizations. Strong communities make the police obsolete.

2. Eject ICE from the Metro Area - ICE should never have been established. We demand to remove this intrinsically oppressive agency from the
metro area. Their overt cruelty has no place in our communities, and no place in our world. They cannot be given a safe haven to kidnap and
disappear entire families into concentration camps. Open all borders.

3. Dismantle All Prisons & Concentration Camps - We demand total abolition. Immediately release all non-violent prisoners. Immediately close
the concentration camps detaining immigrant children and their families. Invest in community-controlled systems of restorative justice to
deal with prisoners accused of violent crimes. Prisons do not prevent or solve violence. They cause, displace, and perpetuate it. The U.S.
legal system is wholly inadequate for dispensing justice. It instead deals injustice. We demand closure of Rikers Island and all jails in
the metro area under the direct guidance of democratic and cooperative community organizations. We need robust accountability structures in
our communities, not human cages.

4. Decommodify The Means to Survive - The freedom to work or starve is no freedom at all. Human survival cannot be a market commodity. We
are in the most resource abundant civilization in any stage of human history, and in one of the wealthiest places on Earth. Food, water,
health and shelter are basic human rights. Yet access to them is restricted to those who can pay. COVID19 has exposed the failure of a
profit-driven healthcare system in causing the needless deaths of thousands. We demand universal, comprehensive and accessible healthcare.
Rental housing leaves people precarious when they can't work. End predatory real estate development, speculation, and further privatization
of our housing stock. All sites where people live should be cooperative in nature, and people should be free to live where they wish. Access
to money should not be a barrier to people's basic needs.

5. Direct Democracy & Self Governance Now - We demand freedom. Truly emancipatory freedom that can never be offered by any government or
state agency. We have the ability to govern ourselves. We do not need politicians to do things for us. As such, we seek to establish a
directly democratic libertarian socialist society. Let's democratize all aspects of our lives, from the work that we do to places we live.
We also recognize that U.S. capitalism was built on land stolen from indigenous people. Indigenous people have a right to their territory,
their sacred sites and to self-determination. But a free and decolonial future will require organizing and struggle. We must organize at
work and in our neighborhoods. We achieve our demands through the formation of popular assemblies in our own neighborhoods where we decide
the fate of our communities together: actual democracy. All power to the people!

6. Revolution: Destroy Capitalism & The Settler Colonialist State - All of the demands above require the revolutionary overthrow of
capitalism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and the settler colonialist state. By the latter, we are referring to the colonialist tactics
of displacement, erasure and extermination. By putting as many settlers as possible onto lands occupied by indigenous peoples and laying
claim to those lands, colonizers set out to erase indigenous histories and exterminate their existence through killings, sterilization,
blood quantum laws and cultural obliteration. In solidarity with indigenous communities, we call for decolonization of the settler colonial
state through the abolition of whiteness ,and removing eurocentrist systems, ideas and practices from indigenous lands. The settler colonial
state is the fabric of life as we know it in the U.S. and nothing short of revolution can ensure its undoing. The police are the enforcers
of capitalist property laws and social relations. As long as private property, the state, and all other hierarchies intrinsic to capitalism
remain intact, the police will be necessary to maintain those relationships. At the same time, we cannot simply pull out the rug from
underneath our feet. Eliminating capitalism from our world will require a cooperative effort like we have never seen before. It is up to us
to build the consciousness, institutions, networks, and alternative economic models that we need in order to rid ourselves of the tyranny of
capitalist social relationships once and for all.

This statement was produced by the Black Rose/Rosa Negra - New York City Local. You can follow and contact them via Facebook or Twitter.

https://blackrosefed.org/nyc-statement-abolishing-police-capitalism/

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Message: 2



Original statement posted by AF, 4th August 2020: http://afed.org.uk/statement-of-solidarity-with-stop-bzdurom/ ---- The Anarchist
Federation would like to express solidarity with Polish collective Stop Bzdurom ("Stop Bullshit"). Stop Bzdurom is a radical, feminist queer
collective based in Polish capital Warsaw. They are on the forefront of the fight for queer rights in Poland: a country which took a sharp
turn towards anti-LGBTQ+ sentiments. The collective is known for organising a number of direct actions in the fight for queer rights and are
now facing repressions, persecution and possible prison sentences. You can find more info about it by following @stopbzdurom on twitter.
Freedom News also reported on it.
The AF believes Stop Bzdurom needs international solidarity and material support in this difficult situation. At present, the most pressing
issue is to help them to raise funds for legal defence. As such, the AF will be donating £250 to their fundraiser and are urging those who
are able to donate as much as they can. The link to the fundraiser is here.

The lives of queer people in Poland have never been easy and the community always faced high levels of bigotry, prejudice and
straightforward violence. The anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Poland are largely fuelled by the country's far-right government and the Catholic Church.

Recently, the president of the country Andrzej Duda has run (and won) an electoral campaign based primarily on scaremongering and
scapegoating of queer people, going as far as to publicly declare that LGBTQ+ people are "not people, but an ideology". The actions of
Polish government have horrifying impact on the lives of LGBTQ+ people. As internationalists, the AF wishes to declare their unconditional
solidarity and support to the Polish queer community We would like to invite other groups to support this statement too.

Original article posted 4th August 2020: http://afed.org.uk/statement-of-solidarity-with-stop-bzdurom/

http://www.i-f-a.org.gridhosted.co.uk/2020/08/05/statement-of-solidarity-with-stop-bzdurom-anarchist-federation-britain/

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Message: 3



On the death anniversary of our anarchist comrade Vatan Budak, who was injured in the Suruç Massacre and died in the hospital after 16 days,
we commemorated his grave. What you can not wear with your bombs; You will not be able to be beaten by detentions, arrests, pressures.
Suruç's fight is justice fight, we will make our 33 comrades live in this fight.
Suruç's Fight is Justice Fight

https://anarsistfaaliyet.org/sokak/surucun-kavgasi-adalet-kavgasi/

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Message: 4



...in government positions at night of Sunday attacked Indigenous Mapuche, who occupied urban buildings in solidarity with hunger striking
Mapuche prisoners. Cars were infected, several people injured, dozens of Mapuche were arrested. Once again, the colonial oppression, which
has been going on for 500 years, openly shows its murderous face.
Now it's time for limitless solidarity with Mapuche's anti-colonial struggle for its autonomy and territories! Fighting racism and fascism!
Freedom for all indigenous political prisoners!
Get up the fighting!
Info at: Federación Anarquista Santiago
https://www.facebook.com/DPlattform/posts/610890442958008

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Message: 5



In these days that I write, I finish planting my small vegetable garden and I observe the leaves of the tomatoes, the peppers, the zucchinis
and the chard, a little withered in the pots, as they stretch and green in the land when I water them. Concepts like food sovereignty,
ecofeminism, Rojava come to mind. These are strange days and watching this little garden and watching it grow, also helps me to better
endure this situation that seems to never end. It is like being attached to life, as if this little experience made me feel this bond so
important with the earth and with the rest of humanity more intensely.
The term Ecofeminism has been around for 44 years. And a woman who was also an anarchist created him: Françoise d'Eaubonne, daughter of an
Aragonese mother and French anarcho-syndicalist father, who in 1974 listed concern for the environment and equality between men and women as
the basis of a new society. French writer and thinker who in her book "  Feminism or death"  also introduces the term Phallocracy.
"Phallocracy is at the very basis of an order that can only murder Nature in the name of profit, if it is capitalist, and in the name of
progress, if it is socialist". No more, no less.

Ecofeminism is a global movement that links ecologism and feminism, denouncing oppression towards women and the exploitation of nature and
other animals as part of the same logic of patriarchal domination.

Ecology and feminism take on meaning within the framework of current becoming with impressive strength. Rojava's Social Revolution bases its
ideas on these principles. It is no longer so much a question of taking modes of production, but of radically changing them. In Rojava, it
is women who organize life. Cooperatives, communal gardens, educational experiences, new forms of organization are growing. Always from
respect for nature and the environment. They develop collective thinking in Jineology, the science of women.

Ynestra King, Murray Bookchin's institute companion, was the one who suggested the idea of this particular historical position of women
within this form of male domination by man. It develops Bookckin's ideas in an ecofeminist sense. He organized the first ecofeminist
conference in March 1980 called "Women and life on Earth", where the connections between feminism, militarization, the art of healing and
ecology were examined.

Also the Indian activist Vandana Shiva, in " Who really feeds the world?" , addresses the concept of "food sovereignty" and bets on
exploring a model of agricultural justice and sustainability.

The right of the peoples to eat and decide what they want to produce, clashes radically with neoliberal policies that prioritize
international trade. The agricultural system does not seek to feed people, but to produce more. They did not contribute at all to the
eradication of hunger in the world. On the contrary, they increased people's dependence on agricultural imports, and reinforced the
industrialization of agriculture, thus risking the planet's genetic, cultural and environmental heritage, as well as our health.

The role of women in defense of the environment in places as emblematic as Latin America was fundamental. It could even be said that on this
side of the world a feminization of social struggles has taken place. The feminist movement in Argentina, or names like Bertha Cáceres, a
feminist and Honduran environmentalist, points high on the important role of Ecofeminism to organize itself in the face of the new world
order that will come.

The principles of social economy are designed to increase the resources of societies rather than exploit them, and the principles of
equality ensure that the revolution will be feminist or not.

However, this does not mean turning us into saviors of the world, nor returning to the primitive concept of the woman's homecoming, nor to a
motherhood mystique. Quite the contrary. We want to participate equally, building peace. It is the current socialization that inundates us
with gender roles: housework, care. There is nothing to prevent men from developing skills for these tasks with as much or more accuracy and
affection than any of us. It is only the discourse of power that adapts genders to their whim and according to their interests. If you want
to put the emphasis on the individual versus the collective, on competing instead of sharing and cooperating, but that is not the way.

Global warming and its consequences should make us react and get to work. We are looking for a vaccine that protects us from COVID-19, but
we are ending biodiversity, melting the poles, losing animal species and seeds, burning our forests and jungles, fumigating with pesticides,
annihilating all natural protections. Still exposed to new viruses and catastrophes of all kinds, patriarchal domination and consumer
capitalism are imposed, which exploit natural resources, animals and people without measure.

If we are going to collapse, sooner or later we will be in it. Either we abandon this model of dominance and exploitation or we will be
exposed to disaster. Take, for example, the tasks in which we spend our time. Long and unnecessary displacements that imply higher levels of
stress, high contamination and depletion of resources, programmed obsolescence, technological dependence, exacerbated consumption.

Ecofeminism proposes a reformulation of everything we understand by work and life. Today's day-to-day jobs are not meant to keep us alive or
with a better quality of life, quite the contrary, we are witnessing the degradation of life.

We cannot remain impassive. Anarchists know very well that if we organize ourselves we can conquer the impossible. We don't have to
demonstrate anything, just show it. The collectivities that emerged in 36 are an example of a Social Revolution that touched the world. Now
our eyes turn purple and feed on life. For this reason, among our messages, between our lines, this word also infiltrates, which, like so
many others, put Eco ahead. Ecofeminism. Ecology and Feminism. Two ingredients that show us a new horizon. As in Rojava. We just have to
take action.

Source: Jornal CNT nº 424, July-September 2020

Translation> Sol de Abril

anarchist news agency-ana

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Our system of commodified everything - housing, health care, food, utilities - is murderous. No one denies that it not only shortens, but
also claims the lives of the poorest, the most disempowered and the racialized. We respond to this organized death at a massive scale with
resignation. We defend the police as they take the lives of people of color with impunity. And we howl with outrage at those courageous
enough to protest and say enough is enough.
It's time to consider that perhaps the real violence is the violence of daily life. That the threat to social order is our own inhumane
system. That defending the status quo is the real risk to life and livelihood.
https://www.facebook.com/MACCnyc/posts/926984911146036

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Message: 7



When tens of thousands of women are being subjected to violence by men every day in the land we live in and at least one woman is murdered
with violence every day, the state discusses withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention by saying "it is not suitable for our family
building", "coming from the west" and "legitimizes homosexuality". ---- However, as we women do not be fooled by the state's promise, we
will not return from that word and allow us to attack women. ---- Now we are everywhere by saying "We are not used to violence, we do not
give up our lives". We are walking the streets that we have never abandoned, hand in hand, confidently. Our resistance extends from one
profile to another on social media, and is heard from one house to another at every door that knocks: "Women are on the street for their
lives, against the attacks of the state." Let it not be heard; We are on the street until the women who are attacking women wash the world
and women are free!

So before we say it is over, it won't be over.

We are in front of Kadikoy-Besiktas Pier on Wednesday, August 5 at 19.00.

http://kadinlarsokakta.org/2020/08/04/kadin-dayanismasi-yasatir/

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