#Anarchism from all over the #world - SUNDAY 16 AUGUST 2020

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Canada, Collectif Emma Goldman -[Interview] Mutual aid in
      Lebanon following the disaster (de, it, fr, pt) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 2.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #307 - International,
      Latin America: The virus decimates the working classes (de, it,
      fr, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Germany, AND, notraces: Protest continued at Tuesday, 11.
      August 2020 in Belarus (de) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Brazil. CAB, (On a prist who like libertarian communism): A
      note of regret - Pedro Casaldáliga (pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Poland, rozbrat: NEVER IN THE NEW HISTORY OF BELARUS HAS
      THERE BEEN SUCH A TOTAL MOBILIZATION OF PEOPLE 
      AGAINST THE
      DICTATOR - INTELLIGENCE [machine translation] 
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 6.  Bandeira Negra - Black flag: A spectrum rounds the planet -
      the spectrum of Anarchism. (pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1



As riots threaten to topple government control in the wake of the Beirut explosion Freedom talks to a Lebanese radical who is witnessing
another side of the event - society-wide, grassroots solidarity that has inspired them to become an anarchist. ---- The blast which
destroyed Beirut's docks and devastated the city on August 4th has instantaneously changed the face of Lebanese society, pushing an already
challenging situation into outright catastrophe. ---- The government has been widely condemned both for its long history of corrupt
incompetence and its failure to deal with the immediate aftermath of the explosion, with anger bursting into huge protests and riots over
the weekend. Ministries have been stormed, the headquarters of the hated Banking Association was torched, and tens of thousands of people
have filled Martyr's Square swearing "revenge" on the ruling class.

Hundreds have been injured as riot police attempt to gain control of the city, and effigies of political leaders from the government and
Hezbollah have been hanged and burned. In an effort to assuage the citizenry Prime Minister Hassan Diab is promising early elections, and
this likely won't be enough.

But while furious citizens are storming government buildings on the one hand there is an inevitably under-reported second reality on the
ground - as the State tries to save itself, the people of the city are saving each other.

A day after the explosion a Lebanese radical went to try and help in the city's ruined streets, and was inspired by the scenes. Writing
afterwards, they said:

"I went today with a bunch of comrades to help people on the streets to clean up the mess. What did I see? Only pure solidarity and mutual
aid. People helping each other, giving free food and water. Workers - plumbers, carpenters, etc... - proposed to offer their labour for
free. Immediately after the bombing, social media was flooded with posts saying "if anybody needs shelter, I have a place, please don't
hesitate" because 300,000 were homeless.

"What did the State do? Nothing. The cops were looking at us. A friend asked a policeman for help. ‘We're only following orders'. Yeah, fuck
you too. Not a single soldier, not a single policeman, not a single statesman has helped, people were helping themselves.

"This is it, I have become an anarchist."


In an interview with Freedom they went into more detail on the situation, and how the public's shattered faith in the State is driving a
wave of mutual aid.

Are you from Lebanon/Beirut? What was the immediate explosion and its aftermath like for you? How has your community been affected by it?

I'm from Lebanon, but I don't live in Beirut. I live next to Aleyh, so we were far enough from the blast. Nevertheless, the ground was
shaking, and seconds later, the blast occurred - my ears rang for 15 seconds. Immediately after the explosion, social media was flooded with
messages saying "if someone needs shelter, I have a place", "if someone needs food, I'm willing to help", "if you know a person that hasn't
been found please contact us". It was Kropotkin's Mutual Aid unfolding before me.

I am devastated, to be honest. I'm thinking that life was beautiful before the explosion, and trust me, it was beyond horrible even before
it, we really didn't need that. The entire community is angry at the rulers, except for some blind sheep who still follow them. However, the
tragedy made us realise that we do not need the government in order to govern ourselves: if solidarity among us was strong back in October[a
reference to last year's protests], it got even stronger on August 4th.


In the direct aftermath you wrote about how people immediately started to work in solidarity while the State did nothing. Can you go into a
bit more detail about what you saw in the first few days?

On the 5th, a day after the blast, a former school teacher, now a friend, sent a message to our WhatsApp group saying that help is needed in
Mar Mkhayel, Beirut. I grabbed my shovel and went with her and three other friends.

When we first arrived, the entire ground was blueish because of the glass. We walked a bit, arrived at a stand which was giving out free
food, juice, water, and their phone numbers in case we need help. A man immediately asked me if I needed anything. I told him that I'm fine.
I helped for two days: August 5th-6th.

I haven't seen a single intervention from the government to help us, I posted a picture on Reddit showing a policeman smoking a cigarette
while watching people cleaning up the mess, but that photo wasn't by me. I saw three police officers: one was cursing on his motorcycle, the
second was sitting doing nothing, the third was protecting the doors of a bank. The state did absolutely nothing to help us and is even
refusing foreign aid because it wouldn't go through the hands of the untrustworthy government.

The people were helping themselves: every 15 minutes a citizen would come and ask me if I needed water. On the 6th, a man shouted from the
window of his car "our government is incompetent."

You mention you went with comrades, what sort of a radical left is there in the city and how has it been reacting to the situation?

There is an anarchist movement called ???? (Kafeh, meaning something like "struggle", my arabic isn't really good). They opened a communal
kitchen called Food Not Bombs on the stairs facing EDL[Electricité du Liban].

Now that the State has had time to mobilise itself, what are you seeing in terms of its reaction?

The Lebanese Armed Forces' primary missions include defending Lebanon and its citizens against external aggression, maintaining internal
stability and security, confronting threats against the country's vital interests, engaging in social development activities and undertaking
relief operations in coordination with public and humanitarian institutions. They're not letting rescue dogs near the port. Smells fishy, no
pun intended. If you want my opinion, I believe the soldiers, as well as policemen should remember that they are, first of all, citizens
like us, so it's for them that we're doing this, they're also concerned.

What is the feeling on the ground about the State's actions over the last few days?

Absolute hatred for the State. They're not listening to us, we've been asking them to resign for ten months, we're telling them we want
reforms. They're not moving a finger. Instead, they want to build a dam in Bisri despite massive opposition from the people. Not to mention
they refused foreign aid. This government is the very embodiment of kakistocracy.

So far the Lebanese "government" has refused:

Aid from Médecins sans frontières ( as it was apparently "not needed")
Help from a Dutch team with trained dogs to look. For the victims
Help from the UAE, who insisted on distributing the aid through their embassy after the scandal of the Kuwaiti aid being sold in the markets.
What opportunities do you think there might be to encourage community self-organisation in future?

I believe people are realising that the state is an illusion, an illegitimate coercive institution that exercises an arbitrary, irrational
limiting effect on the people and slowing its progress. We don't need it to govern ourselves. It's been four days (at the time of writing),
still no help from the government.

I also believe every one now should take a look at Rousseau's idea of the General Will as well as the ideas of prominent anarchist thinkers,
especially Kropotkin. While Mikhail Bakunin and Rudolf Rocker are also good, Kropotkin's Mutual Aid is a must-read in those times.

https://freedomnews.org.uk/interview-mutual-aid-in-lebanon-in-the-wake-of-disaster/

https://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2020/08/entretien-laide-mutuelle-au-liban-la.html

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The continent is the new epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic. The population is paying a heavy price for the health, economic and social
crisis and resistance is met with authoritarian and repressive measures from governments. ---- There have been more than 80,000 deaths from
the coronavirus in South America and the Caribbean since the start of an epidemic that arrived late on the continent, trade with China being
less than in Europe and the hot climate having been able to slow down the contaminations. Some measures obtained by the fight from the onset
of the crisis, such as the establishment of social minima, have also helped curb the spread of the virus, allowing the working classes to be
a little less exposed. But they have never been really sufficient, and without any substantial responses to the health and social problems
of working-class neighborhoods, it is once again those from below who are on the front line.

Slums on the front line
With nearly 50,000 deaths and 1 million cases, Brazil is by far the most bereaved country on the continent and is approaching the United
States in the global hierarchy of the pandemic. Chile and Argentina have experienced very worrying growth since the epidemic hit the most
disadvantaged neighborhoods. With more than 200,000 contaminations, Peru is the second most affected country on the continent, the
government delaying in putting in place social measures for the working classes, hotbeds of contaminations have developed throughout the
country and as elsewhere hunger. forced them out despite being in quarantine. The situation is worsening, while the continent still seems
far from having reached the supposed "  epidemic peak Which would suggest the downward wave, and that public health systems are already
unable to absorb the needs for ventilators and resuscitation beds. In the working-class neighborhoods, hunger is omnipresent, and the
possibilities to cope with it diminish as government decisions harden. Repression is being put in place and is falling on those who revolt
to demand real decisions and social policies. In Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, in the working-class neighborhoods which bring
together about 10 million inhabitants of the megalopolis, there is concern that contamination could extend to nearly 70% of the population.

Source: The Jakarta Post
Overcrowded, lacking or deprived of running water, the "  villas  " (slums) are the most affected. The Peronists in power have made the
choice of segregation by triggering a total isolation plan for neighborhoods where the virus is widely spread. The Villa Azul slum was thus
completely sealed off on May 25, surrounded by gates and guarded by soldiers preventing any entry and exit. Since the start of the epidemic,
activists from popular organizations have faced and found themselves exposed, largely to ensure the maintenance of comedor, popular
canteens, and many of them are already affected by the Covid. Two died, Ramona activist of "  La garganta Poderosa  " and Agustin Navarro of
the organization " Barrios de Pie  ". Our comrades of the autonomous FOB are leading a campaign with the slogans: "  No to militarization in
popular neighborhoods and shanty towns ! We want to eat for quarantine without hunger ! Health tests and vigilance ! Food and clean water !
". In Peru, health workers warn about the catastrophic state of the health system, patients are dying in hospital corridors without the
possibility of taking care of them.

Military threat in Brazil
In Brazil, the epidemic further exposes the authoritarian and militarist nature of the regime of Jair Bolsonaro and his supporters. The
far-right president is ready to do anything to prevent the implementation of  substantial social and health protection policies under the
guise of safeguarding the economy and openly " Covid-skeptic ", He is working to minimize the dangerousness of the virus and the extent of
the epidemic. In April, he sacked his Minister of Health Luiz Henrique Mandetta, who denounced attempts at intimidation aimed at forcing him
and his ministry to recognize chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as safe treatments against the virus. On June 11, he urged Facebook to
enter public hospitals to check and film the health situation, questioning the seriousness of the situation "  practically no one has lost
their life for lack of a ventilator or a bed in intensive care»And while nearly 40% of resuscitation beds are in private clinics. This call
was taken at word and followed by its supporters, including parliamentarians leading to intrusions, altercations and degradations in public
establishments. In early May, in Brasilia, a demonstration of health workers demanding more resources was violently attacked by far-right
activists. The emergency aid of 600 reals (100 euros or a little less than half of the minimum wage) that the government must release for
informal workers could concern at the height of the crisis up to 59  % Population.

In this context, while around thirty requests for dismissal have been filed by the parliamentary opposition against Bolsonaro, that judicial
inquiries are underway on the regularity of his election in 2019 and on the corruption of his entourage, the military, fully integrated into
his government, threaten a coup to preserve his power. Finally, we are witnessing the emergence of paramilitary forces to support the
regime. The 300 of Brazil (in reference to the film by Zack Snyder, reactionary peplum released in 2006), an armed militia of the extreme
right has held a camp since May in Brasilia in front of the headquarters of the country's institutions. Their spokesperson is a former
feminist activist within the Femen, Sarah Winter, now converted to Catholicism, fervent opponent of abortion and homosexuality, become the
muse of the toughest Bolsonarists. They denounce the Supreme Court and Congress, demand military intervention and claim to want "
exterminate the left  ". A resurgence of sinister memory on the South American continent, marked by decades of assassinations of union and
political activists.

Clément G and UCL International Commission

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Amerique-latine-Le-virus-decime-les-classes-populaires

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A short overview about the events happening during the day (Tuesday) that are known to us. ---- The day began with the information of
another dead person killed by the cops yesterday night. People brought first flowers to the place were he was murdered later flowers
appeared in different places in Minsk. ---- Requiem for this day. Minsk, Kalinovsky Street, 2 a.m., 11 August 2020
After last nights intense clashes with the police in several cities people continued to protest in various ways during the day, banner where
dropped, people gathered in public places, leaflets were spread around to call for strike and to call the military to stop support
Lukashenko regime and workers where striking.
Call for National strike
On Monday people were calling for a national strike. As the internet doesn't work leaflets were spread around to reach to the people. On
Tuesday, 11. August in different factories groups of people came together and agitated for strike. Workers of the Electrotechnical Plant in
Minsk «» published the following demands:

1) Immediately stop violence against peaceful unarmed citizens who have the right to peacefully express their political position!
2) Cease provocations to justify the actions of law enforcement officials.
3) Release people detained during past peaceful demonstrations.
4) Turn on the internet to avoid speculation and rumours.


People went on strike at Minsk Electrotechnical Plant.
People met spontaneously in Solidarity with the workers in front of the factory. But the riot police dispersed the people an detained at
least two people. Workers of the sugar plant in Zhabinka - completely stopped their work today and went also on strike. The workers gathered
and demanded to meet with the Chairman of the District Executive Committee to put forward their demands. Also individuals went on strike,
like those two who are working in the plant of semiconductor devices of JSC "Integral". The rest of the plant workers support the guys, but
they were concerned to join because of the pressure from their superiors.


Strike happened as well at the Institute of Chemistry of New Materials NAN of Belarus . Also RUE Belenergosetproject, Minsk called for
strike and 70 engineering and technical workers from several departments of the Minsk Tractor Factory  was joining the strike. At lunchtime,
the deputy director for ideological work came out and began to frighten them. But nobody believed him. Because nobody believes in
ideologists anymore. Also the 4th trolleybus park - drivers refused to go to work on the second shift after information about an injury to a
bus driver.

Unchanged:
Content warning
The following paragraph includes description of violence and videos of police brutality

Police brutality and repressions
But also the security forces are not restless, during the whole day police were present in the city and chasing  and detaining random people.
The cops drove already yesterday in big Buses, usually used for public transport. In Minsk, some ambulances were seized by force and then
drove around the city and detained the protesters on Monday. In Brest medics were yesterday attacked and hindered at helping seriously
injured people by OMON (Bereitschaftspolizei). Some injured were brutally beaten up and some were detained. Medics needed a permission by
OMON officers. And the emergency number 103 did not accept calls from ordinary citizens, rather only from the police. Because of the brutal
assaults of the police a lot of people are in hospitals, even so no numbers are available on how many.

The police published for Sunday 3000 and for Monday 2000 detained people. Which means that by now are more than 5000 people imprisoned.
Taking in account that 40.000 people is the general amount of people belarussian prisons can fit in and the fact that prisons in Belarus are
already overcrowded, it becomes obvious that there is no space left. People are distributed in all kinds of prison and police stations.
People are treated with violence and torture. A lot of people are also reporting that people were put in buses, got beaten up and brought to
random places.

The morning after the protests in Kastrychnitskaya police department of Minsk.
Usually relatives are bringing clothes, sanitary products and books to the prisons. But people were waiting the whole day in front  of the
different facilities and didn´t get list of prisoners and information's  where to find relatives. You can find detailed information on
detainees on the website of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" (http://spring96.org/ru/news/98894).

Relatives gathering in front of the pretrial prison in Jodino.

Relatives in front of the pretrial prison Okrestin in Minsk.
The most wierd incidents of the day: Stuff from the city of Minsk was busy the whole day removing benches and things that are standing
around and could be used as barricades!!!

CALL for the EVENING
BELARUS! 19:00!
WE'RE BACK ON THE STREETS!
Yesterday Minsk showed the whole world that it's absolutely real to defeat numerous and armed forces of punishers! And the protest tactics,
in which law enforcers are scattered all over the city and have to constantly feverishly move in search of groups of peaceful protesters,
turned out to be the most successful. From now on, our tactics are as simple as possible.
DECENTRALISATION! BE LIKE WATER!
The security forces will obviously be ready to meet the demonstrators at some specific points. Especially on Independence Avenue in Minsk.
And this is their weakness.
STRATEGY!
? Get out of your houses, meet your neighbours and gather in small groups of up to 20 people.
? Don't stand on one point! Move towards the city centre in small groups, but do not go out into the central squares - the security forces
are ready for this. Take all the surrounding streets and the Road Block! PARALYSE THE CITY!
MINSK! AVOID THE SQUARES ON INDEPENDENCE AVENUE, AS WELL AS PUSHKINSKAYA AND RIGA.
DO NOT LET AMBULANCES PASS UNTIL YOU ARE SURE THAT THEY ARE REALLY MEDICAL!
? If there are not many of you, and law enforcement officers are attacking - run, regroup and appear elsewhere. There is no shame in
retreating! BE LIKE WATER!
? OUR PROTEST IS PEACEFUL! Do not attack the bandits in black first! Be ready to defend yourself and do not forget your protective
equipment: helmets, shields, tight goggles, gloves and gas masks/respirators. Don't forget to protect your body - thick glossy magazines or
books can be wrapped up for this purpose! They save you from rubber bullets. Try to disable equipment, not fascists!
Be ready to defend yourself against the provocations and violence of the Lukashists.
? OUR SLOGANS ARE SIMPLE!
ELECTIONS WITHOUT THE CUNNING!FREEDOM FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS!
We stand for freedom! For the end of a 26-year dictatorship!
Fascists in black uniform have already killed Belarusians who just wanted freedom, while dozens of peaceful demonstrators are in serious
condition in hospitals.
THEIR VICTIMS SHOULD NOT BE IN VAIN!

https://and.notraces.net/2020/08/12/protest-continued-at-tuesday-11-august-2020-in-belarus/#more-2853

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"Be what you are, speak what you believe, believe in what you preach, live what is proclaimed until the last consequences" -- Pedro
Casaldáliga ---- In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than 100 thousand deaths, on August 8, 2020, in São Paulo, in great
regret we lost Pedro Casaldáliga at the age of 92, the bishop emeritus of São Félix do Araguaia, in Mato Grosso. ---- Catalan, he arrived in
Brazil in January 1968, in the midst of the AI-5 military dictatorship, he learned from Brazil our people of resistance and popular
struggles and became Latin American. Since then he has never returned to Spain. He suffered threats and intimidation, but he always showed
firm conviction and followed his principles until his death. He fought in defense of the poor of the land, quilombolas, indigenous peoples,
peasants and peasants. He fought against slave labor, state violence, agribusiness. He built life projects alongside people and nature, he
defended a liberating and macro ecumenical spirituality.

Pedro Casaldáliga was a person who walked alongside the people, the oppressed, exploited, enslaved, dehumanized, raped and silenced people.
Pedro taught us that what unites us in solidarity and communion is the struggle to defend life. Of all lives. It is necessary to listen to
Pedro. Your testimony of resistance will not be forgotten.

May the earth be light, companion.
Pedro Casaldáliga lives!

We reproduce below a piece made with Pedro in 1998 and which remained unpublished until the day before his death. It was published here .

Did you have problems with TFP, the conservative Tradition Family and Property group?

Disputing the latifundio, we contested a very sensitive fiber from TFP, the property. I always remember a cartoon that came out at the time
with an Indian staring at the TFP flag. "Hey, TFP, are you going to defend my tradition, my family and my property too?" Furthermore, they
used the anti-communism flag at the time, which provided them with official coverage. Very conservative sectors of the Church thought that
the TFP was a providential institution. Then the CNBB took a stand to show that the TFP was not Catholic, it was outside the Church because
its attitudes were closed and ultra fundamentalist. ( In 1995 ) With the death of its founder, Plínio ( Corrêa de Oliveira ), TFP has very
little significance today.

With landless movements, are conflicts in the countryside more severe and frequent or less today?

It has an advantage. The actions of the MST made the debate on the right to land more public and made agrarian reform a certain national
awareness. Research that was done gave the MST a category of acquired right, backed by a majority. The media, willingly or unwillingly, had
to accept.

Rede Globo itself made a novel sympathetic to the MST.

Yes. One of the times I traveled through Central America, The King of Cattle was at its peak. In Venezuela, he spoke of Brazil and people
remembered the King of Cattle. The MST does not exist here in this region. For a very simple reason: they are smart, well organized, and
occupy land in areas closer to the big city, where it is easier to drain. In this region of Mato Grosso there is no MST. Landless people are
more spontaneous. There are land occupations not linked to the MST. It is a revolutionary movement, to a large extent, but at the same time
it is very realistic. It has combined utopia, enthusiasm, with technique. It is also concerned with quality education, which received a
UNESCO award, and the concern of communicating with the Jornal dos Sem Terra, electronic mails. It has come out in public opinion, in many
media. João Pedro Stédile, José Rainha. It's curious. Like it or not, a certain connection is made between the MST and the Zapatistas. They
are peasant movements, indigenous or not, that know how to act with a modern attitude and aggressiveness. With a public presence in the
media and a concern, greater solidarity. They don't just want land. They want democracy, health, education. They are not a party, but they
are very political, of course.

You have been called a "communist priest" for a long time. What do you think of communism?

Communism is one thing and communism is another thing, the ones that actually took place in history. Due to fundamentalism, bureaucracy or
because the world was divided in two, they became dictatorships. Communism or utopian socialism remains valid in the sense of a universal
fraternity, the means of production in the hands of the people, a democracy that was truly democratic, economic, social, political and
cultural. Today, the democracy that is spread around the world is only a formal democracy. I am very irritated to see that Clinton has the
greatest support in the history of the presidents of the United States, when, in my opinion, he is a man who would deserve a ban, an
impeachment, in spite of humanity. Its blockades, its actions, its bombs, the foreign democracy that the support canonizes.

For communists, is the Church the opium of the people?

There are religions, as politics have often been and capital as well, which are the opium of the people. They contributed since the
colonization to reach a certain conformism, a certain passivity, "god wants". From Constantine, the Church became Christianity, with a lot
of ties to power. Now, if there is anything clear in Jesus' life, it is his option for the poor, starting from his birth among the poor and
marginalized. Fortunately, in recent years, throughout Latin America, liberation theology, grassroots ecclesial communities, social
pastoralists, have corrected and in large part have been one of the most dynamic forces. There is a lot of church. Father Marcelo ( Rossi )
and Frei Betto fit .

Bishop of São Félix, you receive both employees and employers at the same mass. Is it easy to reconcile, choose the message?

We make a point of saying what needs to be said, of stimulating the conscience of some and others. The bosses practically don't even
participate in the mass. Today, in the São Félix region, in addition to the squatters, there are small landowners, small traders, employees,
who are a kind of medium subclass, many of them. Many gauchos, who have nothing rich, when they saw people talking about the poor's church,
were surprised, they were uncomfortable. You're rich? What's wrong with you? It has 100 hectares of land, but it came here from Rio Grande
do Sul because it barely survived. So you are poor. A little that mentality. Depleted. The people, the vast majority. We are in favor of the
vast majority. Unlike neoliberalism, which is in favor of the smallest minority. That is the difference. The big guys still don't live here.

Do poetry and church go together?

The Bible is extremely poetic. Isaiah is one of the greatest poets in history. God is the great poet. You know that a poet means "a doer,
one who does". And in the history of the Church there are great figures who were poets. Many saints. St. John of the Cross, for example. In
Catalonia, there are priests and religious recognized even for ( contributing to ) the restoration of Catalan. Poets, writers. And I'm also
more or less a poet.

More or less?

Do you know why I say more or less? Because I think I had a vocation as a poet, and I could have been a good poet, but I have not dedicated
myself to poetry. I have released poetry, but I am not dedicated to poetry. If I dedicated myself to poetry and literature, it would
undermine my pastoral activity. I read poetry, of course, I like it, I do it, but I'm not a person dedicated to poetry. Furthermore, writing
in three languages dilutes. Those who write in three languages do not write well in any of them. You can write correctly in all three, but
you lose details, hues. I could never write a soap opera, which requires a lot of everyday language. My poetry could be much richer in words.

Four years from now, there will be his compulsory retirement. What are you going to do next? Will you dedicate yourself entirely to poetry?

I haven't thought about that. I want to stay very close to the people. That's what I can say. I don't want to leave Brazil. If I leave
Brazil, I don't want to leave Latin America. And if I leave Latin America, I would go to Africa.

Have you never returned to Catalonia or do you intend to return?

I'm a little radical. When I decided to go to the missions, still a young religious, I always made that choice. I'm going and I'm not coming
back. "Burn the ships!" Said the colonizer so that the conquistadors could not return to Spain. Now you have to stay in America. I also
burned the ships, in that sense. Not to come back. I'm much freer here, across the sea.

I once read an interview in which you commented that journalists asked you about all things, but never about your faith or whether you
believe in God. You believe in God?

Evidently so ( laughs ). But this question is also interesting for other reasons. You could ask, "in what God?" Because there is also a lot
of God out there. To some extent, each has his God. And it can be legitimate. I understand God and believe in God for what I am, for what I
have lived. It is a personal faith, a faith conditioned by my person. Now, for it to be the true God I want to believe in, it has to be a
merciful God, a God of life, a God of all cultures, of all peoples. A God who does not judge, saves. A God who is love. The highest
expression in the Bible is the expression of Saint John: "God is love".

When and how did you discover your religious vocation?

I am from a Catholic family. My father was a seminarian for two years, then he left, got married and had four children. My uncle, my
mother's brother, was a priest, Father Luís. The Spanish revolution, the red revolution, killed my uncle because he was from the Church, a
conservative. There, the communists persecuted us. Here, they chase us by communists. The vocation and the missions emerged, the ideal of
solidarity, radicalism. In Mato Grosso, I found my space.

How is a figure like Marcelo Rossi born?

The people are multitudinous by definition. On the other hand, the people, and especially the poor, bewildered, embittered, tense people,
are people who seek consolation, healing, relief. Marcelo Rossi was born in the middle of the media. Father Cícero, for example, excited the
crowds by comforting the crowds, stimulating confidence in God in the crowds. Imagine a Father Cícero with today's media. Marcelo Rossi came
at a time when religious effervescence is at its peak. After the famous death of God, it seems that God is back. So he is the son of an age,
within this charismatic climate, both in the Catholic and Protestant worlds. Brazil is also a country of typical effervescence. In all. The
great masses, on the other hand, may claim what the Church did not give. It is true that our masses were excessively Romanesque, cold. There
was no heat. Now, in my opinion, Father Marcelo Rossi has passed. He turned the celebration into a show. You can do a mass with the
participation of the people, with singing, a liturgical part. But Father Marcelo is very personal. Instead of announcing Jesus, he announces
Marcelo Rossi himself. And Jesus was a landless boy. He said that we will be judged for what we do for others. If the people who attend the
masses of Marcelo Rossi, in churches or on television, left with a desire to transform the world, solve problems of land, street children,
homeless people, great. But I don't see it that way. I think that elegance is always quite sober. And in religious worship there must be a
certain sobriety, within the joy and participation. In basic ecclesial communities and pilgrimages, there is always movement, participation,
even staging, which is appropriate. But above all, linking faith with life and celebration with struggle.

In São Paulo, Dom Paulo Evaristo, Cardinal Arns, left the archdiocese and was replaced by Dom Cláudio Hummes. Did the church back down?

You have to ask what we mean by the Church. It is evident that the current archbishop of São Paulo is not as committed to the popular cause,
to Latin America, to human rights and ecumenism as Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns. But the Church of São Paulo is also the communities of São
Paulo, the pastorals of São Paulo. And they have a certain freedom. Dom Cláudio Hummes is evidently more conservative, more linked to
movements that we call neoconservatives. But there is an important role of popular movements to which important sectors of the Church are
linked. We still have grassroots ecclesial communities. We have the Cry of the Excluded, we are preparing for a great campaign against
foreign debt, the laity are participating, the bishops are, thanks to God, less protagonists. Who talked about citizenship years ago? No
one. Today we talk about citizenship. In the Church, too, despite regrets, there is much more democracy today than it was thirty years ago.
Not long ago, a person from the community would not go up to the altar to read and, if he did, he would be speechless before the priest.

You have lived in São Félix do Araguaia for 30 years. Access is on a dirt road, sometimes impassable in the rainy season, but it is now
connected via the internet with the whole world. Does this technological globalization scare you?

No. She is there. The danger would be if we virtualized so much that we stopped being real. I have been playing in lectures with religious
who, before, religious had to be virtuous. Now it is enough that they are virtual. Virtual communication can carry this risk of losing real
contact a little. God's gift is another globalization. This globalization of the market, of profit, of capital, and this other globalization
of communication, of solidarity, the blessed globalization. Ultimately, humanity is one.

Unfortunately, conflicts, hatred still remain. The young people who set fire to the Galdino Indian in Brasília (1997) certainly surf the
internet.

We are all children of the same Father. The Bible presents us with the parable of Cain and Abel to tell us that, unfortunately, within a
single human family, there is and will be a brother who kills another brother. After showing the rebellion against God, pride, comes the
parable of the fight between brothers. They are the main sins, presumption and hatred. Hate that is greed, arrogance, explosion. The lack of
love.

You arrived in Brazil at a time when there were many political prisoners. Have you never been arrested?

Only under house arrest. At the time when all the pastoral agents were arrested, we stayed at home for several days, unable to leave. When
Sunday came, he said he needed to go to Mass. "Or is it going to be the captain who wants to celebrate Mass?" Then four policemen came out
escorting us to go to mass. When it was time to give peace, we went to the soldiers. The poor were left with a rifle, a machine gun, and did
not quite know what to do. At one of these masses, a woman handed the songbook to a soldier ( laughs ). Leaving, one of the soldiers leaned
against a fence crying. "Dom Pedro, I am a Catholic too, I didn't want to ... The superiors rule us".

http://cabanarquista.org/2020/08/11/nota-de-pesar-pedro-casaldaliga/

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Interview with Cyborg, a Belarusian activist who has been associated with the Przychodnia squat in Warsaw for 3 years. Cyborg briefly tells
about the recent events in Belarus and the stages of the revolt against the Lukashenka regime. ---- Published in Freedom Movement ----
Keywords Belarus Lukashenko repression human rights --------- The People's uprising in Belarus --------- IA. Here's an interview with
Cyborg, Belarusian activist based on Warsaw's Przychodnia squat for 3 years now. He talks briefly about last events and the revolt against
Lukashenko's regime. ---- Please start with a short introduction to the massive protest which has sparked in the last few days and why it
happened right now?

Cy. Lukashenko rules for 26 years now. Fair, democratic elections were held just once, in 1994 and then he won. Any next was a fraud. After
each one the opposition was going out on the streets, but there was no support from the entire society. The situation changed as we have
strong economic crisis. The fringe won with TV set. The propaganda doesn't work anymore.  A new generation without a soviet slave mentality
has grown up. A lot of people travel to Poland and to other European countries. They are experiencing the difference and they don't want
another 5 years of slavery. They're just fed up. In addition, at start protests were peaceful, but authorities started grinding it with full
force straight away. They opened fire the first night. First blood, first death at first night. Now people are forced to defend themselves.

IA. Do you think that cutting off the Internet paradoxically led masses on the streets?

Cy. I don't think people have nothing to do so they go on the streets because there's no Internet. It limited the communication and
coordination, indeed. People are trying to bypass that. They learn how to use VPN, and Psiphon app helps a lot. There's still problem with
speed but it's possible to text.

IA. There is info that some police/army units are joining the people. How common is that?

Cy. I know only 2-3 examples when policemen refused the crime of beating unarmed protestors. Yesterday one took off the helmet and went
away. Today two other gave up their job. These are the only examples I know. Others are situations when police lowered their shields and
didn't do anything, but it was because they were expecting backup from other cities. I don't know about examples of joining the people by
the police.

IA. What is the role of anarchist/antifascist movement?

Cy. I know that people from the movement are taking part in protests. Others are distributing info materials about self-organization, how to
behave in riots and in case of arrest. But it is not a key role in the revolt.

IA. What are the potential threats (political and economical) from Russia/EU that Belarus have to face in the nearest future?

Cy. I think UE will impose sanctions on Lukashenko and his entourage again. It happened after 2006, 2010 elections, but it didn't make the
regime milder as it didn't help with repressions towards citizens. Lukashenko's relation with Russia has never been worse. I think Putin
will exploit the situation and will make Lukashenko even more dependent.

IA. How the situation looks like right now?

Cy. There are riots in many cities. In Minsk people are trying to raise barricades. Police are using full force, they terrorize everyone
that is on the streets; they damage cars, beat and wound people; they don't let people gather in the neighborhoods; police shoot at the
windows from where people raise their shouts. Because jails are already overcrowded they can't detain people so they deliberately beat up
and wound people. They often shoot people that are lying on the ground after they have beaten them. People try to defend themselves; people
try to free those being captured by the police during protest. Sometimes they manage to chase off police squads. The situation is different
in each city. In Brest people are well organized and grouped. In Grodno they didn't succeed to gather. In small towns people often outnumber
the police so they can't be that brutal. Lukashenko assured the police that they would be legally protected and would gain immunity so
police and troop are extremely aggressive.

IA. Please add anything you wish

Cy. There has never been such a massive mobilization against a dictator in the modern history of Belarus. 09.08.2020 was the critical point
for the country. It's hard to predict anything now. It is almost impossible to win with an enemy that is well trained and use any means
necessary. General strike could be a good weapon. Few factories and workplaces are on strike already. I hope the whole country will join in
upcoming days. Both authorities and the people compare the experience with Iran and Hong Kong. Police are using ambulances to bring their
forces as close to the protesters as possible. People are using lasers to blind the police so they can't shoot properly, setting up
barricades. They try to make their limited forces resist by constantly changing convergence points. They use apps like Telegram to
coordinate and inform each other. There is unprecedented solidarity among the people. The nation woke up. Now or never.

Polish:
https://www.rozbrat.org/informacje/ruch/4726-nigdy-w-nowej-historii-bialorusi-nie-bylo-takiej-totalnej-mobilizacji-ludzi-przeciwko-dyktatorowi-wywiad


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Anarchism and its variants, such as Anarchosindicalism and Revolutionary Trade Union, have a long history of 150 years of struggle. In the
late XIXth and early XXth century, governments from around the world gathered to fight the ´ ´ anarchist threat ". Today, in the st century,
anarchists are once again seen as threat. ---- For Donald Trump, Conservative President of the United States, federal agents must do ´ ´
cleaning up anarchists and agitators ". The country lives a series of demonstrations in response to racist police violence, which is being
responded authoritarianly by the government. Trump chose as a public enemy the ´ ´ radical leftist anarchists ", as he attacks on Twitter.
---- Another far-right government that started an anti-anarchist campaign is Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel. Target of a series of protests due
to corruption, Prime Minister and his party, Likud, blamed ´ ´ leftist anarchists ´ ´ for the demonstrations.

In Russia, the Putin government has initiated a series of arrests of anarchists and anti-fascists. Three people have been convicted of an
alleged conspiracy to overthrow the president, with strong evidence of fraud.

In Argentina, a group of anarchists were arrested in a demonstration by Santiago Maldonado (who appeared dead after a police operation). The
arrest of anarchists was even condemned by Vice President, Cristina Kirschner.

In France, India, Greece, Chile and around the world, Anarchism is placed as a major responsibility for violence, terrorism and vandalism.

It is not the capitalist system, which destroys labor rights, public services and social programs, condemning billions to economic slavery;
it is not the state, with its wars and police repressions, with slaughter, executions and mass surveillance; it is not the extreme
nationalist right and anti-immigrants, neo-Nazis, religious fundamentalists of all colors. The monster is anarchism.

This, however, reveals that this socialist ideology has been gaining strength for multitudes in all countries, who want a revolutionary out
of the bottom up, out of governments and forged elections.

"... don't you know that the prisons and dungeons of Italy, France, Spain, Portugal are filled with anarchists? That even in England, and
the United States, there are anarchists in forced labor? And in Germany, where the stupid reaction haunts you and your friends, it wasn't
the anarchists Landauer, D. Gumploviez, Grunan and others who suffered 18 months of seclusion?

Tomai, gentleman, anyone among my anarchist friends and you will see that they have all been ´ ´ caressed ´ ´ with prisons and deportations:
Cipriani sixteen years old, Louise Michel fourteen years, Borda five years, Kropotkin five years, Martin five years, Merlino, Malato, Faure,
Grave, Grave, Pouget, Reclus, Malatesta, Nicoll, all, absolutely all, suffered long years of imprisonment, deportation, exile (...)

Maybe you didn't know any of this? Admit it! But you know perfectly well that during the last twenty years the death penalty for political
cases in civilized countries has been applied only to anarchists. "

- Tcherkesoff, Warlaam

https://ithanarquista.wordpress.com/2020/07/25/warlaam-tcherkesoff-sejamos-justos-carta-ao-sr-liebknecht/

SOURCES:

https://www.istoedinheiro.com.br/agentes-federais-permanecerao-em-portland-ate-que-a-policia-limpe-de-anarquistas-diz-trump/

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.voanews.com/europe/clashes-health-worker-protest-paris-police-blame-anarchists%3famp

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-attack-on-exarchia-an-anarchist-refuge-in-athens/amp

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nationalheraldindia.com/amp/story/india%252Fmodi-invokes-caa-article-370-in-delhi-poll-rally-but-peoples-first-
choice-is-aap

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.dw.com/en/whats-behind-wealthy-chiles-deadly-protests/a-50917631

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