Today's Topics:
1. avtonom: A rally of solidarity with repressed Belarusian
anarchists was held in Moscow [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
anarchists was held in Moscow [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL AL #310 -
Diagram of
the maintenance of order: change of balaclava (de, it, fr,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
the maintenance of order: change of balaclava (de, it, fr,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Czech, AFED: Mexico: Police dispersed anarcho-feminists with
sharp fire, Ongoing femicide and protests against it [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
sharp fire, Ongoing femicide and protests against it [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. cnt-sindikatua: The grapes of wrath by Gonzalo Mañes (ca)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
On November 15, another Sunday Chain of Solidarity took place in Moscow opposite
the Belarusian Embassy. Moscow anarchists and anarchists took part in it with
posters in support of the Belarusian anarchists Nikolai Dedok, Igor Olinevich,
Dmitry Dubovsky, Dmitry Rezanovich and Sergey Romanov, who became involved in
criminal cases, as well as Belarusian anarchists and anarchists sentenced to
administrative arrest. You can read more about repressions in Belarushere. ----
Participants and participants of the picket also staged a memorial in memory of
Roman Bondarenko and other protesters in Belarus killed by punishers, with
flowers and candles. Black balls were added to traditional red and white balls,
dark ones to red and white colors.
Photos
For 3 months now, in front of the Belarusian embassy in Moscow, rallies of
solidarity with protesters against the Lukashenka regime have been held. The mass
picket was initiated by the citizens and women of Belarus living in Moscow, who
came to vote in the presidential elections at the embassy on August 9. On August
10 and on all the following days, they came to the embassy again; many people
from Russia joined the actions. On August 12, "law enforcement officers" tried to
disperse a mass picket -in response, the participants and participants staged a
procession in the center of Moscow .
The Belarusian embassy is the only place in Moscow where the police had to put up
with a massive "unsanctioned" picket. It is practically impossible to
"coordinate" such actions with the capital's authorities, therefore, in ordinary
cases, people wishing to express their position have to queue from single
pickets, public gatherings or meetings with deputies. The absence of detentions
on shares of this format is not guaranteed. Participants and participants of the
mass picket in front of the Belarusian embassy were also detained more than once,
but this was of a point nature and did not affect the course of the action as a
whole. Even during the attempt to disperse on August 12, only 10 people out of
several hundred got into the paddy wagon. Sometimes "law enforcement officers"
find fault with the pickets and picketers about the distance between the posters
and check the documents.
In August and September, pro-Kremlin provocative organizations SERB and NOD
attended rallies of solidarity with protesters in Belarus from time to time.
There were also free "contracts" with posters like "Father, we are with you" or
against the conquest of Belarus by NATO - most often from members of various
Stalinist organizations.
Currently, the largest number of people come to the Belarusian embassy on
Sundays, starting at 4 pm. On Sunday Chains of Solidarity, pancakes and sweets
are usually handed out, with the approach of cold weather hot drinks began to be
present. Moscow anarchists and anarchists have taken part in solidarity actions
on Sundays and other days.
On October 16, the action of solidarity in front of the Belarusian Embassy in
Moscow marked the 100-day anniversary. The initiators and initiators intend to
continue them further. You can find out more about this ontheir telegram channel.
https://t.me/rb2020_msk
https://avtonom.org/news/v-moskve-proshla-akciya-solidarnosti-s-repressirovannymi-belarusskimi-anarhistami
------------------------------
Message: 2
On September 17, the Ministry of the Interior presented its new law enforcement
plan aimed at "adapting" the management of demonstrations in France! This new
doctrine wants to be "firmer with the perpetrators of violence", but also "more
protective for the demonstrators" ... which in police language amounts to
legitimizing more repression. ---- Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior
accused of sexual assault and whose protrusions openly flirt with the rhetoric of
the far right, has just unveiled a new pattern of maintaining order. We expected
a hard, violent and liberticidal device: we are not disappointed! Under the guise
of responding to the multiple denunciations of violence by the police, the new
text actually confirms increased police violence. Most of the new measures claim
to address specific criticisms of police violence. Systematically, these
responses are cosmetic, even the pretext for new liberticidal measures. A brief
overview.
The use of the LBD partly supervised
The extremely dangerous explosive grenades such as the DMG (de-encircling
grenade) and the GLI-F4 (with TNT) are deleted... But replaced by grenades just
as dangerous: the G2ML (with hexocire, explosive derived from C4) and the GENL
which is a new grenade of de-encirclement - of which the ministry promises that
it projects less "shards in height".
The employment of the LDB is strictly supervised by a supervisor... But in
reality this was already the case for the CRS and the mobile gendarmerie, that is
to say the overwhelming majority of professional bodies responsible for
maintaining order. But above all, supervision is no longer necessary as soon as
the police are in a situation of self-defense - basically as soon as a projectile
flies in the direction of the police - they have free rein to draw the LBDs at
will! The police officers of the Bac, of sad reputation, will no longer be able
to be hooded and will have to wear a uniform... But in exchange, to "preserve"
the police, a ban on filming and broadcasting non-blurred images will be put in
place. Goodbye viral videos denouncing police abuses.
The hooded Bac units will no longer be deployed ... But the Brav-M system will be
generalized to the entire territory. The Brav-M are the same Bac policemen - but
on motorcycles and made anonymous no longer by a balaclava but by a full-face
motorcycle helmet. It is the return of the infamous voltigeurs, the very ones who
were dissolved after the assassination of Malik Oussekine, a student beaten to
death in 1986 when he was leaving a jazz club.
In addition, there are a few small liberticidal pearls. The new pattern indicates
that journalists will have to be hijacked by the police if they do not want to
become their target [1]. Finally, the role of intelligence and the prosecutor in
the management of demonstrations will be increased, in order to target
"radicalized demonstrators". We can assume that this measure will only strengthen
judicial repression and lead to preventive arrests of activists of the
"ultra-left" ...
The maintenance of order in France is part of a process of increased
brutalization, endorsed by this new scheme. Let us not forget the assassination
of Rémi Fraisse on the Zad du Testet as well as the extremely brutal repression
of the yellow vests and the movement against the labor law. What is the meaning
of this mutation? In the 1990s and 2000s, policing was based on crowd control,
often co-produced with certain trade union organizations, with a lower level of
violence [2]. Why change? As many historians and sociologists recall, the level
of violence in the demonstrations is not higher than before [3]...
It is not the violence of the demonstrators that has changed, but the way in
which the liberal "democracies" manage the protest. These regimes have never been
real democracies, because behind a democratic smokescreen it is in reality the
ruling class which establishes a dictatorship over the economy, fiercely defended
by the police. What is changing is that the appearances of democracy are fading
more and more. Rulers are less and less willing to give workers crumbs. In this
context, the development of security was the solution to control the protest and
illegalisms of the popular classes.
Since the 1970s, the security logic has been deployed in all spheres of society:
hardening of police violence, titanic development of mass surveillance ...
Antiterrorism constitutes the Trojan horse of the most liberticidal measures. It
is also the way of conceiving the political protest which evolves. From now on, a
liberal and progressive (and oh so Macronian) center is opposed to an
"illiberal", "populist" or even "radicalized" challenge .
It is this political context that explains the new pattern of policing.
Protesters are seen as political enemies, potentially insurgents, and treated as
such. It is in this perspective that we must understand the use of intelligence
services on "potentially radicalized demonstrators", as well as the use of
mutilating weapons. The logic is above all to hurt in order to terrify, just like
the traps where the demonstrators are saturated with tear gas with no possibility
of escape.
The state terrifies and proves uninhibited
Finally, this maintenance of order tends to show the true face of an increasingly
authoritarian regime. Police violence is to some extent effective: it drives many
people away from the streets, afraid of the risk of trauma, injury and arrest.
However, we must not lose hope: this maintenance of order helps to show the true
face of state violence and delegitimizes the regime in place. He is appearing
more and more for what he is: a bunch of low-level managers serving the biggest
bosses. To push through unpopular reforms, their only option is to send an
ultra-violent police force - gangrened by the extreme right - to beat up the
opponents. But let us not forget, by dint of treating the demonstrators as
dangerous insurgents, !
Matt (UCL Montpellier)
Validate
[1] "The new pattern of policing undermines the freedom to inform", September 22,
2020, Liberation.fr
[2] "What is the maintenance of order", September 5, 2012, Tantquil.net
[3] "Have the protests ever been as violent as they are now, as the government
says ? », On Franceinter.fr
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Schema-du-maintien-de-l-ordre-changement-de-cagoule
------------------------------
Message: 3
Twenty-year-old Bianca Alejandrina Lorenzana Alvarado, known as Alexis among
friends, was murdered on November 7 in Cancún, Mexico. This is another vile act
of femicide. Her quartered body was found on November 9 in two garbage bags. Two
more murders of girls have been committed last weekend in Quintana Roo alone. On
the same day, a march against femicide was called. Two thousand angry women and
girls walked the streets of Cancun, the largest city in Quintana Roo, to the
Attorney General's office. The police, the courts and the state as such are
becoming the target of anger not only because of the laxity with which they
approach the systematic murder of women, but mainly because the repressive
elements of the state are all too often the perpetrators themselves.
When the procession arrived in front of the office building, it was already
carefully planted with steel barriers and chipboard. The militant protesters
began dismantling the barriers, throwing them in front of the building gate and
setting them on fire. The walls of the prosecutor's office were spray-painted
with calls for justice and the nickname of the last victim, Alexis. During this
event, the police opened live fire without warning. This is the state's response
to the protest against the mutilation and murder of young girls in a country
where 10 acts of femicide are committed every day, a country with the highest
levels of impunity for criminals across the continent and missing more than
70,000 people.
About a hundred police officers took part in the operation, and many were injured
after their insidious shooting, including two shot journalists. The protest in
Cancun is part of a growing feminist movement against patriarchy and femicide
throughout Mexico, across America, around the world.
We wrote:
https://www.afed.cz/text/7196/odpor-proti-fizlum-buji-iv-mexiku
https://www.afed.cz/text/7136/valka-proti-femicide-zacala
Source:
https://itsgoingdown.org/cancun-police-shoot-live-rounds-at-feminists-protesting-femicide/
https://www.afed.cz/text/7250/mexiko-policie-rozehnala-anarchofeministky-ostrou-palbou
------------------------------
Message: 4
Poverty frightens, terrifies, it also shames, this now that we live, addicted to
waste to tame its anguish, poverty that dominates our present and before which
the citizen, hence his terror, finds himself defenseless, wanting to convince
himself that the excluded who cluster in the queues of hunger and receive the
meager social aid, are solely responsible for their state, that no one with two
arms will lack opportunities to fill the pot and take shelter under a roof ...
and yet there they are the testimonies that deny it every day and of which anyone
can be an accidental notary. I remember, to name just one of many, the
adventures, banal for repeated, of a woman, the past fifty: it all began,
according to what I had, with marital disagreements that go sour every day a
little more,
And there is no vaccine against this pandemic, nor a mask to protect, and it
affects almost anyone, that in this new century the virus of misery has mutated
so much that even the once protected, the middle class, are also exposed, no one
is saved. Back at the dawn of the penultimate crisis, that of 2008, I remember
the arrival of the new poor to whom the trade entered quickly, and that if at
first they kept some shreds of their old modesty, soon everything was
self-confidence of the excluded, of the one who no longer expects anything,
feverishly rummaging through the rubbish bins or waiting for the supermarkets to
close to stock up on the leftovers of the day, scenes that, unfortunately, we
will witness again, each one on the side that chance or destiny reserves you.
There are two books born out of another crisis, and that deserve to be read, as a
mirror and memory of the present: one, the documentary essay by journalist James
Agee, illustrated by photographer Walker Evans, "Let us now praise famous men"
that responding to a commissioned by the magazine ... Fortune, they shared for
two months of the disastrous 36, the life of scarcity and dispossession of two
families of sharecroppers in the southern United States, still under the hangover
of the crisis of 29, leaving a lucid testimony of their world With enough modesty
so as not to penetrate at any time the naked intimacy that those families offered
them, emblem of the other America, that of the excluded.
There is another, this time a novel, "The Grapes of Wrath", referring to the same
time and geography, in which its author, John Steinbeck, draws with a master hand
a lucid and crude portrait of the long and endless march of the disinherited
towards the promised land, California, leaving behind the aftershocks of the
economic earthquake of 29, the misery in the very heart of opulence ... the
failure of the "American dream".
And although there are no vaccines or magic solutions to stop the accelerated
impoverishment of our societies that runs parallel to an accumulation of capital
in the hands of a handful, as never before, there are alternatives, as it wanted
to be, despite improvisation, his naivety, the lack of "professionalism", that
hint of citizen revolt that lit up 2011, later devoured by "realpolitik", and
that at least showed that underneath that scab of indifference, lassitude,
resignation that seems to cover him Everything, they are agitated and they still
live desires of resistance, utopia, struggle ... and at this point, my space is
running out, why not apply the advice of Bandrés when he said slyly that to reach
a lamppost sometimes you have to aim for the moon ... let's aim for the moon.
http://www.cnt-sindikatua.org/es/noticias/las-uvas-de-la-ira
------------------------------
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
On November 15, another Sunday Chain of Solidarity took place in Moscow opposite
the Belarusian Embassy. Moscow anarchists and anarchists took part in it with
posters in support of the Belarusian anarchists Nikolai Dedok, Igor Olinevich,
Dmitry Dubovsky, Dmitry Rezanovich and Sergey Romanov, who became involved in
criminal cases, as well as Belarusian anarchists and anarchists sentenced to
administrative arrest. You can read more about repressions in Belarushere. ----
Participants and participants of the picket also staged a memorial in memory of
Roman Bondarenko and other protesters in Belarus killed by punishers, with
flowers and candles. Black balls were added to traditional red and white balls,
dark ones to red and white colors.
Photos
For 3 months now, in front of the Belarusian embassy in Moscow, rallies of
solidarity with protesters against the Lukashenka regime have been held. The mass
picket was initiated by the citizens and women of Belarus living in Moscow, who
came to vote in the presidential elections at the embassy on August 9. On August
10 and on all the following days, they came to the embassy again; many people
from Russia joined the actions. On August 12, "law enforcement officers" tried to
disperse a mass picket -in response, the participants and participants staged a
procession in the center of Moscow .
The Belarusian embassy is the only place in Moscow where the police had to put up
with a massive "unsanctioned" picket. It is practically impossible to
"coordinate" such actions with the capital's authorities, therefore, in ordinary
cases, people wishing to express their position have to queue from single
pickets, public gatherings or meetings with deputies. The absence of detentions
on shares of this format is not guaranteed. Participants and participants of the
mass picket in front of the Belarusian embassy were also detained more than once,
but this was of a point nature and did not affect the course of the action as a
whole. Even during the attempt to disperse on August 12, only 10 people out of
several hundred got into the paddy wagon. Sometimes "law enforcement officers"
find fault with the pickets and picketers about the distance between the posters
and check the documents.
In August and September, pro-Kremlin provocative organizations SERB and NOD
attended rallies of solidarity with protesters in Belarus from time to time.
There were also free "contracts" with posters like "Father, we are with you" or
against the conquest of Belarus by NATO - most often from members of various
Stalinist organizations.
Currently, the largest number of people come to the Belarusian embassy on
Sundays, starting at 4 pm. On Sunday Chains of Solidarity, pancakes and sweets
are usually handed out, with the approach of cold weather hot drinks began to be
present. Moscow anarchists and anarchists have taken part in solidarity actions
on Sundays and other days.
On October 16, the action of solidarity in front of the Belarusian Embassy in
Moscow marked the 100-day anniversary. The initiators and initiators intend to
continue them further. You can find out more about this ontheir telegram channel.
https://t.me/rb2020_msk
https://avtonom.org/news/v-moskve-proshla-akciya-solidarnosti-s-repressirovannymi-belarusskimi-anarhistami
------------------------------
Message: 2
On September 17, the Ministry of the Interior presented its new law enforcement
plan aimed at "adapting" the management of demonstrations in France! This new
doctrine wants to be "firmer with the perpetrators of violence", but also "more
protective for the demonstrators" ... which in police language amounts to
legitimizing more repression. ---- Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior
accused of sexual assault and whose protrusions openly flirt with the rhetoric of
the far right, has just unveiled a new pattern of maintaining order. We expected
a hard, violent and liberticidal device: we are not disappointed! Under the guise
of responding to the multiple denunciations of violence by the police, the new
text actually confirms increased police violence. Most of the new measures claim
to address specific criticisms of police violence. Systematically, these
responses are cosmetic, even the pretext for new liberticidal measures. A brief
overview.
The use of the LBD partly supervised
The extremely dangerous explosive grenades such as the DMG (de-encircling
grenade) and the GLI-F4 (with TNT) are deleted... But replaced by grenades just
as dangerous: the G2ML (with hexocire, explosive derived from C4) and the GENL
which is a new grenade of de-encirclement - of which the ministry promises that
it projects less "shards in height".
The employment of the LDB is strictly supervised by a supervisor... But in
reality this was already the case for the CRS and the mobile gendarmerie, that is
to say the overwhelming majority of professional bodies responsible for
maintaining order. But above all, supervision is no longer necessary as soon as
the police are in a situation of self-defense - basically as soon as a projectile
flies in the direction of the police - they have free rein to draw the LBDs at
will! The police officers of the Bac, of sad reputation, will no longer be able
to be hooded and will have to wear a uniform... But in exchange, to "preserve"
the police, a ban on filming and broadcasting non-blurred images will be put in
place. Goodbye viral videos denouncing police abuses.
The hooded Bac units will no longer be deployed ... But the Brav-M system will be
generalized to the entire territory. The Brav-M are the same Bac policemen - but
on motorcycles and made anonymous no longer by a balaclava but by a full-face
motorcycle helmet. It is the return of the infamous voltigeurs, the very ones who
were dissolved after the assassination of Malik Oussekine, a student beaten to
death in 1986 when he was leaving a jazz club.
In addition, there are a few small liberticidal pearls. The new pattern indicates
that journalists will have to be hijacked by the police if they do not want to
become their target [1]. Finally, the role of intelligence and the prosecutor in
the management of demonstrations will be increased, in order to target
"radicalized demonstrators". We can assume that this measure will only strengthen
judicial repression and lead to preventive arrests of activists of the
"ultra-left" ...
The maintenance of order in France is part of a process of increased
brutalization, endorsed by this new scheme. Let us not forget the assassination
of Rémi Fraisse on the Zad du Testet as well as the extremely brutal repression
of the yellow vests and the movement against the labor law. What is the meaning
of this mutation? In the 1990s and 2000s, policing was based on crowd control,
often co-produced with certain trade union organizations, with a lower level of
violence [2]. Why change? As many historians and sociologists recall, the level
of violence in the demonstrations is not higher than before [3]...
It is not the violence of the demonstrators that has changed, but the way in
which the liberal "democracies" manage the protest. These regimes have never been
real democracies, because behind a democratic smokescreen it is in reality the
ruling class which establishes a dictatorship over the economy, fiercely defended
by the police. What is changing is that the appearances of democracy are fading
more and more. Rulers are less and less willing to give workers crumbs. In this
context, the development of security was the solution to control the protest and
illegalisms of the popular classes.
Since the 1970s, the security logic has been deployed in all spheres of society:
hardening of police violence, titanic development of mass surveillance ...
Antiterrorism constitutes the Trojan horse of the most liberticidal measures. It
is also the way of conceiving the political protest which evolves. From now on, a
liberal and progressive (and oh so Macronian) center is opposed to an
"illiberal", "populist" or even "radicalized" challenge .
It is this political context that explains the new pattern of policing.
Protesters are seen as political enemies, potentially insurgents, and treated as
such. It is in this perspective that we must understand the use of intelligence
services on "potentially radicalized demonstrators", as well as the use of
mutilating weapons. The logic is above all to hurt in order to terrify, just like
the traps where the demonstrators are saturated with tear gas with no possibility
of escape.
The state terrifies and proves uninhibited
Finally, this maintenance of order tends to show the true face of an increasingly
authoritarian regime. Police violence is to some extent effective: it drives many
people away from the streets, afraid of the risk of trauma, injury and arrest.
However, we must not lose hope: this maintenance of order helps to show the true
face of state violence and delegitimizes the regime in place. He is appearing
more and more for what he is: a bunch of low-level managers serving the biggest
bosses. To push through unpopular reforms, their only option is to send an
ultra-violent police force - gangrened by the extreme right - to beat up the
opponents. But let us not forget, by dint of treating the demonstrators as
dangerous insurgents, !
Matt (UCL Montpellier)
Validate
[1] "The new pattern of policing undermines the freedom to inform", September 22,
2020, Liberation.fr
[2] "What is the maintenance of order", September 5, 2012, Tantquil.net
[3] "Have the protests ever been as violent as they are now, as the government
says ? », On Franceinter.fr
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Schema-du-maintien-de-l-ordre-changement-de-cagoule
------------------------------
Message: 3
Twenty-year-old Bianca Alejandrina Lorenzana Alvarado, known as Alexis among
friends, was murdered on November 7 in Cancún, Mexico. This is another vile act
of femicide. Her quartered body was found on November 9 in two garbage bags. Two
more murders of girls have been committed last weekend in Quintana Roo alone. On
the same day, a march against femicide was called. Two thousand angry women and
girls walked the streets of Cancun, the largest city in Quintana Roo, to the
Attorney General's office. The police, the courts and the state as such are
becoming the target of anger not only because of the laxity with which they
approach the systematic murder of women, but mainly because the repressive
elements of the state are all too often the perpetrators themselves.
When the procession arrived in front of the office building, it was already
carefully planted with steel barriers and chipboard. The militant protesters
began dismantling the barriers, throwing them in front of the building gate and
setting them on fire. The walls of the prosecutor's office were spray-painted
with calls for justice and the nickname of the last victim, Alexis. During this
event, the police opened live fire without warning. This is the state's response
to the protest against the mutilation and murder of young girls in a country
where 10 acts of femicide are committed every day, a country with the highest
levels of impunity for criminals across the continent and missing more than
70,000 people.
About a hundred police officers took part in the operation, and many were injured
after their insidious shooting, including two shot journalists. The protest in
Cancun is part of a growing feminist movement against patriarchy and femicide
throughout Mexico, across America, around the world.
We wrote:
https://www.afed.cz/text/7196/odpor-proti-fizlum-buji-iv-mexiku
https://www.afed.cz/text/7136/valka-proti-femicide-zacala
Source:
https://itsgoingdown.org/cancun-police-shoot-live-rounds-at-feminists-protesting-femicide/
https://www.afed.cz/text/7250/mexiko-policie-rozehnala-anarchofeministky-ostrou-palbou
------------------------------
Message: 4
Poverty frightens, terrifies, it also shames, this now that we live, addicted to
waste to tame its anguish, poverty that dominates our present and before which
the citizen, hence his terror, finds himself defenseless, wanting to convince
himself that the excluded who cluster in the queues of hunger and receive the
meager social aid, are solely responsible for their state, that no one with two
arms will lack opportunities to fill the pot and take shelter under a roof ...
and yet there they are the testimonies that deny it every day and of which anyone
can be an accidental notary. I remember, to name just one of many, the
adventures, banal for repeated, of a woman, the past fifty: it all began,
according to what I had, with marital disagreements that go sour every day a
little more,
And there is no vaccine against this pandemic, nor a mask to protect, and it
affects almost anyone, that in this new century the virus of misery has mutated
so much that even the once protected, the middle class, are also exposed, no one
is saved. Back at the dawn of the penultimate crisis, that of 2008, I remember
the arrival of the new poor to whom the trade entered quickly, and that if at
first they kept some shreds of their old modesty, soon everything was
self-confidence of the excluded, of the one who no longer expects anything,
feverishly rummaging through the rubbish bins or waiting for the supermarkets to
close to stock up on the leftovers of the day, scenes that, unfortunately, we
will witness again, each one on the side that chance or destiny reserves you.
There are two books born out of another crisis, and that deserve to be read, as a
mirror and memory of the present: one, the documentary essay by journalist James
Agee, illustrated by photographer Walker Evans, "Let us now praise famous men"
that responding to a commissioned by the magazine ... Fortune, they shared for
two months of the disastrous 36, the life of scarcity and dispossession of two
families of sharecroppers in the southern United States, still under the hangover
of the crisis of 29, leaving a lucid testimony of their world With enough modesty
so as not to penetrate at any time the naked intimacy that those families offered
them, emblem of the other America, that of the excluded.
There is another, this time a novel, "The Grapes of Wrath", referring to the same
time and geography, in which its author, John Steinbeck, draws with a master hand
a lucid and crude portrait of the long and endless march of the disinherited
towards the promised land, California, leaving behind the aftershocks of the
economic earthquake of 29, the misery in the very heart of opulence ... the
failure of the "American dream".
And although there are no vaccines or magic solutions to stop the accelerated
impoverishment of our societies that runs parallel to an accumulation of capital
in the hands of a handful, as never before, there are alternatives, as it wanted
to be, despite improvisation, his naivety, the lack of "professionalism", that
hint of citizen revolt that lit up 2011, later devoured by "realpolitik", and
that at least showed that underneath that scab of indifference, lassitude,
resignation that seems to cover him Everything, they are agitated and they still
live desires of resistance, utopia, struggle ... and at this point, my space is
running out, why not apply the advice of Bandrés when he said slyly that to reach
a lamppost sometimes you have to aim for the moon ... let's aim for the moon.
http://www.cnt-sindikatua.org/es/noticias/las-uvas-de-la-ira
------------------------------
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